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Em Kettner, installation view of "Sick Joke," 2022. Photo: Charles Benton, Courtesy the artist and Chapter NY, New York
Em Kettner
December 6, 2022 by Chris Murtha
Em Kettner's porcelain sculptures are hardly precious, despite their diminutive scale and delicate materials. The cartoonish characters that populate her work instead offer a wryly humorous, irreverent, and at times sultry take on disability. "Sick Joke," the title of her current exhibition (on view through December 10, 2022), is further evidence of her lighthearted approach. Presented in Chapter NY's "side room," the small show is split between two distinct but related bodies of new work: spindly porcelain and woven cloth figurines that assume positions of vulnerability, support, and intimacy; and a series of illustrated tiles that address how the sick and disabled are scrutinized and put on display. Drawing on personal experiences with muscular dystrophy, Kettner upends patronizing perceptions of disability and embraces the complexity and benefits of dependency.
The artist assembles her serpentine figurines using deftly woven cotton and silk garments to clothe and bind together separate or broken porcelain fragments. More than portraits of particular people, these works function as three-dimensional studies of actions and performances. All limbs, and no torsos, the figures just barely resemble human bodies, and they are as likely to feature extra heads and appendages as they are to be missing parts. Though the twisting forms appear wiry and malleable, they are fixed, suspended in moments of motion or respite. The gangly bodies rarely stand; instead, they sit, recline, and crawl, often finding support and stability in the steps and subtle dimples of their wooden bases. As the rippling body of The Straggler (all works 2022) climbs on hands and knees to the upper level of a stepped pedestal, it is steadied by impressions in the wood. The Golden Spokes (autumn wheelchair), a hybridized figure on two wheels, trails behind, at rest in two grooved tracks. The bed, as a site of rest, convalescence, and physical intimacy, has been one of Kettner's central motifs. The Comedians' Bed, included here, has arms for bedposts and a bedspread interwoven with tangled bodies. Like the wheelchair, it exemplifies the merging of bodies and their supportive apparatuses.
Kettner's characters take more unambiguously human (and gendered) form in the series of tiles, which she has embedded into five wooden handrails installed low on the walls. Arranged serially, like the frames of a comic strip, the two-inch-square tiles portray vignettes in narrative arcs that conflate comedic and erotic performance with medical observation. The distinction between displaying oneself and being put on display is muddled. Across the four tiles of Handrail (The Cabaret), a solitary woman cloaked in a bedsheet performs on a circular stage and bares all to a gasping crowd of indistinguishable male doctors, whose surgical headlamps echo the shape of her hair bun. In Handrail (The House Call), two of the lecherous doctor-types, one clutching a clipboard in his gloved hands, watch over a sleeping woman. If we "read" the railings sequentially, the same woman is later, in Handrail (The Climb), made to crawl up a flight of stairs under close supervision. The women in Kettner's images may or may not need assistance, medical or otherwise; they are nevertheless subjected to an audience of goggling eyes and pointing fingers.
The railings, which are made of sturdy and handsomely grained ash, provide a framework for the tiles, but they are also functional. Ostensibly, they give viewers an opportunity to shift their weight (and burden) to a more solid structure, here the gallery walls. Throughout the exhibition, Kettner makes us acutely aware of how she chose to present her sculptures. Arranging her works on low and tiered pedestals, she accommodates viewers of varying heights and eye levels. The ideal vantage point for many of these works might be that of someone in a wheelchair, like the hybrid body in The Golden Spokes. Kettner encourages everyone else to lean in or crouch down, to compromise their stability and stature by submitting themselves to this miniature world. Basically, "able-bodied" viewers are asked to adopt positions and perspectives of vulnerability, and to understand that the need for support is common to us all.


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Q: Unity built game not starting After installing the localization package in the game and performing the build, when the .exe game file is opened, the game is not launching (only the windows task bar shows not responding). I also have the previous builds for the same game and they are launching without problems. The problem arises with the current build after installing the locatlization package.
While building the game, Unity did not show any kind of error!
Here is the screenshot for reference!

A: I got similar issue but not for localization package. In my case, version of package and version of Unity didnt match thats why I got that error so I turned back my Unity version as same as the package itself.

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Training for non-Copa del Rey players
Sergio, Iniesta, Suárez, Messi, Jordi Alba, André Gomes and Umtiti exercise as normal, while Mascherano continues his recovery programme
11:30AM Wednesday 29 Nov
There is Copa del Rey action at the Camp Nou this evening, with a 7.30pm CET kick-off against Murcia (full details here). But even so, there was still activity on the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper training ground for the players that manager Ernesto Valverde has decided to rest for a fixture that the 3-0 lead from the first leg has turned into a relative formality.
So Sergio Busquets, Andrés Iniesta, Luis Suárez, Leo Messi, Jordi Alba, André Gomes and Samuel Umtiti will all be sitting out the game, and are instead focusing their attentions on Saturday's home league match against Celta Vigo (1.30pm CET).
The players were also joined on a cold but sunny morning by Javier Mascherano, who has been struggling with a right hamstring injury sustained in Argentina's friendly against Nigeria last November 14.

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Registrations for this event will close at 3pm Friday 26th. Any bookings made after this will be added to a waiting list.
Join the Chamber for a networking lunch at Trenderway Farm, near Looe. Owned by husband and wife Yaron and Jacquie it is a venue known for its friendly and relaxed atmostphere.


The Angels can't do a thing with the Kansas City Royals. The Royals swept the Angels in three games in the American League Division Series in October 2014, and Kansas City on Sunday again brought out the broom with a 9-2 victory over the Angels before 37,060 at Angel Stadium.
The Royals are 6-0 this season, the Angels 2-4.
When Albert Pujols doubled to left-center with Trout coming home because center fielder Lorenzo Cain bobbled the ball, Ventura got in Trout's face after Trout scored. Trout got right back in Ventura's grill and the benches and bullpens emptied.
Trout wasn't sure what riled up Ventura.
Ventura (2-0) left after one more batter with a calf injury, but got the win by throwing 5 2/3 innings and allowing two runs on four hits and striking out seven.
The Angels scored first on a home run by Pujols in the first inning off Ventura, who was heating his fastball to 100 mph. It was No. 522 for Pujols, who moved past Willie McCovey, Ted Williams and Frank Thomas into 18th place on the all-time list.
A four-run second-inning by the Royals off Angels starting and losing pitcher C.J. Wilson (1-1) included four hits – one of them a two-run double off the top of the left-center field wall by Alcides Escobar – as well as a fielding error by third baseman David Freese.
The Royals added two more runs off Wilson in the top of the fifth on a two-run double by Alex Rios. Wilson allowed six earned runs in 5 2/3 innings.
"Obviously, we were really fired up to try to salvage a win out of this series and we weren't able to do it," Wilson said. "Albert got us off to a good start and then I just wasn't able to put some of the guys away that I had count-advantage on and I made a couple of bad pitches.
The Royals had 14 hits, the Angels only five.


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This year's Leeds Festival held at Bramham Park may have had a super amount of rain, but that didn't stop the headliners from entertaining.
Leeds Festival 2013 may not have brought with it the best weather of the year, with torrential downpours and heavy flooding putting a damper (pardon the pun) on everyone's camping weekend, but the line-up was enough to put a smile on everyone's mud spattered face!
Biffy Clyro drew in a rapturous audience on the Friday and Green Day had a smaller but dedicated audience on Saturday, but that was nothing compared to Eminem's fantastic closing performance which drew the biggest audience of the whole weekend. Other bands had a few surprises up their sleeves, with Fall Out Boy managing to get Foxes up on stage to perform their collaborative track 'Just One Yesterday' (Pete Wentz' favourite song from their new album) and The Lumineers taking crowd participation to a new level by playing in the middle of their audience.
The NME/BBC Radio 1 Stage was a popular tent all three days with Bastille rendering it absolutely packed on Saturday and Jake Bugg and Haim becoming two of the Stage's highlights on Sunday and Friday respectively.
The flooding on Thursday night (August 22nd 2013) caused the Relentless Stage to be closed as well as the Silent Disco, and many bands lost out on the few viewers they had already secured due to people preferring not to make the effort in such weather, but all in all spirits were generally high and we are most certainly looking forward to next year.


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In the 70's I attended John F. Kennedy H.S. There I studied Drama and English, although I wished I had studied Drama a bit more. Anyhow, we were studying poetry and we were instructed to write a paper discussing a poem: Invictus. I have been enamored with this poem and its relationship to how I view life and the awesomeness that life experiences bring to you as a person, if you are open to the learning.
I have since shortened the lessons in this poem to Carpe Diem! Which translated from Latin means Seize the Day!


Description View of the Forsyth Building on the corner of Forsyth Street and Luckie Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
Notes The Forsyth Building was designed by architect A. Ten Eyck Brown on the corner of Luckie and Forsyth Street in 1910 and was demolished in 1977.


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PART XXPolitical Contributions
Contents of Receipts
2000 (1) Every official receipt issued by a particular person who is a registered agent of a registered party or an electoral district agent of a registered association, to an individual who makes a monetary contribution to the registered party or registered association, as the case may be, shall contain a statement that it is an official receipt for income tax purposes and shall, in a manner that cannot readily be altered, show clearly
(a) the name of the registered party or registered association, as the case may be;
(b) the serial number of the receipt;
(c) the name of the particular person, as recorded in the registry maintained by the Chief Electoral Officer under section 374 or 403.08 of the Canada Elections Act ;
(d) the date on which the receipt is issued;
(e) the date on which the monetary contribution is received;
(f) the individual's name and address;
(g) the amount of the monetary contribution;
(h) a description of the advantage, if any, in respect of the monetary contribution and the amount of that advantage; and
(i) the eligible amount of the monetary contribution.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), every official receipt issued by an official agent of a candidate to an individual who makes a monetary contribution to the candidate shall contain a statement that it is an official receipt for income tax purposes and shall, in a manner that cannot readily be altered, show clearly
(a) the name of the candidate, as it appears in the candidate's nomination papers;
(c) the name of the official agent;
(f) the polling day;
(g) the individual's name and address;
(h) the amount of the monetary contribution;
(i) a description of the advantage, if any, in respect of the monetary contribution and the amount of that advantage; and
(j) the eligible amount of the monetary contribution.
(3) The information required by paragraph (2)(f) may be shown by use of a code on an official receipt form issued by the Chief Electoral Officer, provided that the Minister is advised of the meaning of the code used.
(4) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), an official receipt issued to replace an official receipt previously issued shall show clearly that it replaces the original receipt and, in addition to its own serial number, shall show the serial number of the receipt originally issued.
(5) A spoiled official receipt form shall be marked "cancelled" and, together with its duplicate, shall be filed by the electoral district agent, the official agent or the registered agent, as the case may be, together with the information return required to be filed with the Minister under subsection 230.1(2) of the Act.
(6) An official receipt form on which any of the following is incorrectly or illegibly entered is to be regarded as spoiled:
(a) the date on which the monetary contribution is received;
(b) the amount of the monetary contribution;
(c) a description of the advantage, if any, in respect of the monetary contribution and the amount of that advantage; and
(d) the eligible amount of the monetary contribution.
2013, c. 34, s. 388
2001 [Repealed, 2013, c. 34, s. 389]
2002 (1) The following definitions apply in this Part.
Chief Electoral Officer means the person named as chief electoral officer or substitute chief electoral officer under section 13 or 14 of the Canada Elections Act . (directeur général des élections)
nomination paper
nomination paper means, in respect of a candidate, a nomination paper filed in respect of the candidate under the Canada Elections Act , with the corrections, if any, made under that Act to the nomination paper after its filing. (acte de candidature)
official receipt
official receipt means a receipt issued for the purposes of subsection 127(3) of the Act containing the information that is required under that subsection. (reçu officiel)
official receipt form
official receipt form means
(a) in the case of an official receipt issued by an electoral district agent or a registered agent under subsection 2000(1), any printed form that an electoral district agent or a registered agent, as the case may be, has that is capable of being completed, or that originally was intended to be completed, as an official receipt of the electoral district agent or registered agent; and
(b) in the case of an official receipt issued by an official agent under subsection 2000(2), the official form prescribed under section 477 of the Canada Elections Act . (formulaire de reçu officiel)
(2) In this Part, official agent,polling day and registered agent have the meanings assigned to them by the Canada Elections Act .
PART XXIElections in Respect of Surpluses
Reduction of Tax-Paid Undistributed Surplus on Hand or 1971 Capital Surplus on Hand
2100 Any election under subsection 83(1) of the Act in respect of a dividend payable before 1979 by a Canadian corporation shall be made by filing with the Minister the following documents:
(a) the form prescribed by the Minister;
(b) where the directors of the corporation are legally entitled to administer the affairs of the corporation, a certified copy of their resolution authorizing the election to be made;
(c) where the directors of the corporation are not legally entitled to administer the affairs of the corporation, a certified copy of the authorization of the making of the election by the person or persons legally entitled to administer the affairs of the corporation;
(d) where paragraph (e) is not applicable, schedules showing the computation of the amount, immediately before the election, of the corporation's
(i) tax-paid undistributed surplus on hand, if any,
(ii) 1971 capital surplus on hand, if any, and
(iii) 1971 undistributed income on hand, if any; and
(e) where subsection 83(3) of the Act is applicable, schedules showing the computation of the amount, immediately before the dividend became payable, of the corporation's
(iii) 1971 undistributed income on hand, if any.
SOR/88-165, s. 11
Capital Dividends and Life Insurance Capital Dividends Payable by Private Corporations
2101 Any election under subsection 83(2) of the Act in respect of a dividend payable by a private corporation shall be made by filing with the Minister the following documents:
(d) where the election has been made under subsection 83(2) of the Act and paragraph (e) is not applicable, schedules showing the computation of the amount, immediately before the election, of the corporation's
(i) capital dividend account, and
(ii) 1971 undistributed income on hand, if any, if the dividend was payable on or prior to March 31, 1977; and
(e) where the election has been made under subsection 83(2) of the Act and subsection 83(3) of the Act is applicable, schedules showing the computation of the amount, immediately before the dividend became payable, of the corporation's
(ii) 1971 undistributed income on hand, if any, if the dividend was payable on or prior to March 31, 1977.
(f) and (g) [Repealed, SOR/88-165, s. 12]


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Continuing to build on Love & Others stellar reputation Après dips back into original craftsmanship with a sentimental offering for listening, for dancing, for loving as our track of the week. TUUUUUNNEE ALERT!!
Bruno Browning is a Las Vegas-based resident DJ / Producer and also the label boss of independent house label, Soul Supplement. Bruno is also a resident DJ at Las Vegas underground night Nacho House Sundays at Tacos & Beer where you can always find a great line up of local LV dj house music talent!
Soul Supplement Records was founded in 2006. Their goal was to create a Las Vegas sound. In May 2006, Soul Supplement released their first 12″ titled Lessons, and quickly followed it up in 2007 with their second 12″ release, Light. Although 2007 would sadly mark the last of Soul Supplement's vinyl releases, the change in format has provided for a more consistent release schedule as well as the release of bonus mixes that might not have made it onto a vinyl release due to space limitations. Early on, Soul Supplement production relied mostly on hardware and was very reluctant in embracing the use of a lot of software in their music process. Their opinions eventually changed as a result of experimenting with hundreds of different software/hardware combinations and studio setups. After countless different studio configurations, the Soul Supplement team found that they could create their best sounds by combining their favorite analog gear with today's premiere production software. Blending these two different systems has helped Soulsupplement Records to create their own unique sound.


If the Hackney Empire is the Christmas panto destination for Londoners, Sleeping Beauty is the pantomime, the original festive classic with a story we all know; a princess pricks her finger on a spinning wheel at the hands of a wicked witch and sleeps for a hundred years until true love's kiss awakens her from her slumber. It's not the only version of the story on stage this winter with another panto and a ballet up in lights, but it might just be the best.
All the features are there. There's a wicked witch played to perfection by Hackney regular Sharon D Clarke, a princess with a voice that would light up the Wembley Stadium let alone Hackney Empire in Alexia Khadime (most famous as Elphaba in Wicked), an oh-so-camp nanny played by Guys and Dolls' Gavin Spokes, a pair of lovable sidekicks and, of course, the dashing Prince Gabriel.
As is typical in most pantomimes, the first Act introduces our characters, but it's the second which everyone waits for. After the adults, who made up the majority of the audience, have had another tipple, the music ramps up, the set doubles in garishness and audience participation is hitched up a scale or five.
The appearance of a giant goblin-come-troll figure, a giant dragon with bright red eyes and a moving neon jungle proved set spectaculars, and since the grown-up jokes will have rolled over their heads, it's these features which will stun and mystify the little ones.
But whilst most pantomimes are comprised mainly of a smorgasbord of Carry On jokes which makes us question how this form of entertainment has even survived, the Hackney Empire's Sleeping Beauty offers something a little different.
Set against the rivalry of a medieval Britain with borders drawn high between 'Westminsteria' and 'Hackneytonia', Brexit and the fear of the Other hasn't been forgotten. We are reminded that only in embracing difference, in this case the 'Magicals', can we overcome our evils. There are a few invasive references to Brexit and Donald Trump, which might have the potential to raise a few eyebrows if the show wasn't playing to a London audience, and if they didn't do it so well.
Yet what's so refreshing about the Empire's production of the classic fairytale is it's fresh perspective. Our Princess Tahlia (nee Aurora) is not a damsel in distress but wishes instead to drop 'the Beautiful' from her title and prove herself as a worthy ruler. Rather than being rescued by fair and gallant prince, it is she who rescues him from the clutches of the evil witch, in an example of gender role-reversal which has been a motif of this year's hottest stage productions.
All in all, this is a production that the adults will find just as entertaining, if not more, than the children. The songs are set to familiar tunes, the dance moves are outlandish, the jokes are outrageous, the costumes are baffling and the Hackney Empire's winning duo Susie McKenna and Steve Edis have once again pulled out all the stops to create a family-friendly, if tongue-in-cheek, Christmas Panto.
Click here to find out more about 2016's Christmas Panto season.


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A Limited-Capacity Minimax Theorem for Non-Convex Games or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Mixed-Nash and Love Neural Nets
Gauthier Gidel, David Balduzzi, Wojciech Czarnecki, Marta Garnelo, Yoram Bachrach
Proceedings of The 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR 130:2548-2556, 2021.
Adversarial training, a special case of multi-objective optimization, is an increasingly prevalent machine learning technique: some of its most notable applications include GAN-based generative modeling and self-play techniques in reinforcement learning which have been applied to complex games such as Go or Poker. In practice, a \emph{single} pair of networks is typically trained in order to find an approximate equilibrium of a highly nonconcave-nonconvex adversarial problem. However, while a classic result in game theory states such an equilibrium exists in concave-convex games, there is no analogous guarantee if the payoff is nonconcave-nonconvex. Our main contribution is to provide an approximate minimax theorem for a large class of games where the players pick neural networks including WGAN, StarCraft II and Blotto Game. Our findings rely on the fact that despite being nonconcave-nonconvex with respect to the neural networks parameters, these games are concave-convex with respect to the actual models (e.g., functions or distributions) represented by these neural networks.
@InProceedings{pmlr-v130-gidel21a, title = { A Limited-Capacity Minimax Theorem for Non-Convex Games or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Mixed-Nash and Love Neural Nets }, author = {Gidel, Gauthier and Balduzzi, David and Czarnecki, Wojciech and Garnelo, Marta and Bachrach, Yoram}, booktitle = {Proceedings of The 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics}, pages = {2548--2556}, year = {2021}, editor = {Banerjee, Arindam and Fukumizu, Kenji}, volume = {130}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, month = {13--15 Apr}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v130/gidel21a/gidel21a.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v130/gidel21a.html}, abstract = { Adversarial training, a special case of multi-objective optimization, is an increasingly prevalent machine learning technique: some of its most notable applications include GAN-based generative modeling and self-play techniques in reinforcement learning which have been applied to complex games such as Go or Poker. In practice, a \emph{single} pair of networks is typically trained in order to find an approximate equilibrium of a highly nonconcave-nonconvex adversarial problem. However, while a classic result in game theory states such an equilibrium exists in concave-convex games, there is no analogous guarantee if the payoff is nonconcave-nonconvex. Our main contribution is to provide an approximate minimax theorem for a large class of games where the players pick neural networks including WGAN, StarCraft II and Blotto Game. Our findings rely on the fact that despite being nonconcave-nonconvex with respect to the neural networks parameters, these games are concave-convex with respect to the actual models (e.g., functions or distributions) represented by these neural networks. } }
%0 Conference Paper %T A Limited-Capacity Minimax Theorem for Non-Convex Games or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Mixed-Nash and Love Neural Nets %A Gauthier Gidel %A David Balduzzi %A Wojciech Czarnecki %A Marta Garnelo %A Yoram Bachrach %B Proceedings of The 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 2021 %E Arindam Banerjee %E Kenji Fukumizu	%F pmlr-v130-gidel21a %I PMLR %P 2548--2556 %U https://proceedings.mlr.press/v130/gidel21a.html %V 130 %X Adversarial training, a special case of multi-objective optimization, is an increasingly prevalent machine learning technique: some of its most notable applications include GAN-based generative modeling and self-play techniques in reinforcement learning which have been applied to complex games such as Go or Poker. In practice, a \emph{single} pair of networks is typically trained in order to find an approximate equilibrium of a highly nonconcave-nonconvex adversarial problem. However, while a classic result in game theory states such an equilibrium exists in concave-convex games, there is no analogous guarantee if the payoff is nonconcave-nonconvex. Our main contribution is to provide an approximate minimax theorem for a large class of games where the players pick neural networks including WGAN, StarCraft II and Blotto Game. Our findings rely on the fact that despite being nonconcave-nonconvex with respect to the neural networks parameters, these games are concave-convex with respect to the actual models (e.g., functions or distributions) represented by these neural networks.
Gidel, G., Balduzzi, D., Czarnecki, W., Garnelo, M. & Bachrach, Y.. (2021). A Limited-Capacity Minimax Theorem for Non-Convex Games or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Mixed-Nash and Love Neural Nets . Proceedings of The 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 130:2548-2556 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v130/gidel21a.html.
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Q: Can a single schema.ini definition cover multiple files I have defined a schema.ini file for a CSV file, but I have multiple CSVs which I would like to use the same definition for as they are a sequence.
I.e
File0.csv
File1.csv
File2.csv
File.etc.csv

My schema would be something like:
[File*.csv]
Format=Delimited(,)
ColNameHeader=True
col1="Brand Code" Text
col2=Description Text
col3="Display Sequence" Text

A: As far as I can tell this isn't possible
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In fact it's posible, you can do it in this way.
[file1.csv]
FORMAT = Delimited(#)
ColNameHeader = True
MaxScanRows=10
Col1=...
Col2=...
ColN=...

[File2.csv]
FORMAT = Delimited(#)
ColNameHeader = True
MaxScanRows=10
Col1=...
Col2=...
ColN=...

Regards!

A: You can define and write the schema in your module/sub routine according to file format that want to be uploaded. This module/sub routine must be run/call to create schema before you run upload..
(my sample is using VB6)
Note : - Filenametxt is File name that want to be uploaded
IntFileHandleLog = FreeFile
Open App.Path & "schema.ini" For Output As #IntFileHandleLog
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "[" & FileNameTxt & "]"
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "Format=FixedLength"
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "MaxScanRows = 0"
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "CharacterSet = OEM"
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "Col1=" & """" & "Name" & """" & "Text Width 20"
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "Col2=" & """" & "PHONE_NUM" & """" & " Text Width 30"
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "Col3=" & """" & "PHONE_TYPE" & """" & " Text Width 20"
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "col4=" & """" & "UserName" & """" & " Text Width 20"
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "col5=" & """" & "A_STAT" & """" & " Text Width 10"
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "col6=" & """" & "B_STAT" & """" & " Text Width 10"
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "col7=" & """" & "RETRY" & """" & "integer width 2"
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "col8=" & """" & "Birth_Date" & """" & " double width 14"
Print #IntFileHandleLog, "Col9=" & """" & "Joint_Date" & """" & " double width 14"
Close #IntFileHandleLog


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Cotton Gins A Profitable Season Expected
By Erin Williams • Photography by Austin Britt
Throughout history, the Mississippi Delta has always been synonymous with one word: cotton. With snow-white cotton fields stretching as far as the eye could see, there was no doubt about it, cotton was king. In 1975, it wasn't uncommon to see a cotton gin every four or five miles; now, that same area might only find a gin every sixty miles.
For numerous decades, the bulk of cotton in Mississippi was grown in the Delta areas along the Mississippi River due to the advantages of having shallow wells available for irrigation. A shift slowly took place when- due to low price per pound, high overhead costs, and fluctuating imports to other countries- cotton production saw a decline. Now some might wonder if cotton has been dethroned. However, if you asked local gins around the area, they'd beg to differ.
"If you just looked at the few gins now compared to fifty years ago, you'd have a more grim outlook on cotton than what is really accurate," says Haywood Wilson, general manager of Cowart Gin. "While there are less farmers growing cotton than fifty years ago, it's not dead- not by a longshot. At that time there were more gins that did smaller yearly amounts. Now, it's consolidated some as operators realized that more volume is needed to pay the bills so gins had to spread out."
Although cotton production has ebbed and flowed throughout the years wheeling through cycles of high and low prices, some young people choosing not to return to the family farm to continue the operation, and advancements in technology and crop management, growers are currently bullish on cotton and believe the future of the crop is stable.
"Up until last year, we saw cotton acreage shrinking up as corn prices increased; now that has changed and cotton prices are up," says Murry McClintok, president of Tunica Gin. "Even though we've always had a base of farmers grow cotton since the gin began over forty years ago, we've seen those farmers increase their acreage and that's encouraging."
Because of this belief and some farmers choosing to convert other existing commodity acreage to cotton and increase their growing yields, main cotton gainers around the area are gearing up for a good 2018 ginning season.
Aaron Litwiller, manager of the state-of-the-art Bogue Chitto Gin in East Mississippi, echoed this sentiment. "Cotton is very sustainable and very consumer-friendly and I think it will continue to have its fair market share for years to come," says Litwiller. "More and more people are finding out about synthetics and petroleum being found in the ground water from people washing synthetic fibers over time. The more information gets out, the better cotton will continue to do. There's a reason cotton has remained a top commodity in the South and we continue to remain bullish on that."
With prime cotton season upon us, gins are preparing to work at full speed from October until January. While the nuts and bolts of cotton gins today are the same as they were when operating some fiftyplus years ago, technology and automated machinery has changed the amount of hand-labor needed. Current technology has allowed for sharp increases year after year in total output of cotton baled per season. Now, according to many area gins, they will have a farmer that's been growing cotton for thirty to forty years bring a module in and walk out amazed at the amount of cotton they will get back versus years ago.
"So much has changed from decades ago," says Litwiller. "Now, we don't really touch the cotton from the time it comes to the gin until it comes out of the other end. It's very minimal compared to how it used to be. I believe technology will continue to change and get better year after year in increasing the amount of cotton we are able to get back for our farmers."
Although automation of gin equipment has increased efficiency, sometimes those upgrades can be unaffordable for gin operators. For example, the costs associated with upgrading and doing major renovations to the infrastructure of existing gins can be just as expensive as building a new gin. Automation aside, hand labor is still key to running a gin and, for many area gins, finding the right amount of labor needed is a big challenge.
"Cotton is primarily a two-and-a-half to three-month season for us at the gin," said Wilson, who's been involved with the cotton industry and ginning since 1975. "It's twelve-hour days, six or seven days of the week; only for a couple of months out of the year. It's hard to find skilled laborers that are free or willing to work those long, hard days for just a season. Finding labor is one of the biggest challenges for gins year after year. I don't know any that would say otherwise."
Like other area gins, Cowart Gin saw a record year last year with double the bales of cotton produced than the year before. This is in part to the price of grain falling and the price of cotton increasing, as well as cotton appearing less risky than the current trading uncertainty of soybeans.
"In about 2007 we were doing pretty good and in the 20,000 bales per year range but then the market fell out because cotton couldn't compete with the returns from other commodities like grain and corn," says Wilson. "However, a couple of years ago, we started to see the prices of cotton rise and other commodities fall so now there are more farmers back to producing cotton. When farmer's numbers go up and they make more money, we make more money. It's a domino effect."
Litwiller echoes this when he says that ten to fifteen percent of the bales produced by the Bogue Chitto Gin in the last couple of years have been from new producers or those who used to raise cotton, got out of it for a little while, and now are back. This year alone, they are expecting to bale around 125,000 bales.
"We've seen a lot of producers around the state up their cotton acreage and that's encouraging for any gin," says Litwiller. "However, your highest highs are always fielded by your lowest lows."
Just like for farmers, sometimes the amount of cotton baled at gins is totally out of operator's control. In farming, even with current good cotton commodity prices, unpredictability is always a part of the game.
"It's always something, whether that's too much rain one year and too little rain the next year or a new pest to worry about," says Wilson. "But cotton farmers are resilient. To be able to grow cotton is an art and, just like these gins, it's a part our heritage here. Cotton isn't just an industry, it's a community."
Contributing to that community, cotton generates an economic impact that isn't easily replaced by other commodities.
"Cotton provides a lot of jobs and resources for the local economy," says McClintok. "Corn is typically loaded up and shipped off somewhere else but cotton benefits the farmers who grow it, the warehouses where it is houses, and the gins. It creates local jobs and that's a big asset."
While the remaining cotton gins may look and operate a little differently today than the days when they were so prevalent in the Delta, the goal of these gins to produce a good, quality product that brings cotton farmers top dollar has remained the same year after year. If these gainers have anything to say about, that's one thing that will always stay the same.


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Archive for the month "May, 2018"
So where was I?
Aah yes, the Special Army Train had just arrived at our station at 12 noon. Check the first part here to get yourself up to speed (pun not intended).
The special Army train pulled up at the platform at the opposite end of the station — a platform which was not in use for other passenger or long-distance trains.
"Bas! Four more hours," I thought about the departure time — that's the time Major Sa'ab had said it will take to load the train.
Hashtag Husband Wale Jhooth!
Our entire Unit was moving from a field location to a semi-metro peace location, remember? Unit property and men were being transported via a special green-coloured Army train, with the officers, their families and Jawans being the only ones aboard.
It had a special train number and is managed by the railways only for the purpose of moving Armymen and Fauji property around the country — no, it does not show up on IRCTC website.
So, once the train arrived, Major Sa'ab, other officers, JCOs and ORs immediately got busy with 'planning' the next move. Planning is very important in fauj. Not just in war, but in loading a train as well.
I came back to the guest room. As per my calculations, taking into account time taken for loading, lunchtime and tea time, we should be good to go by 1800 hours!
Nope! It seemed more like 1,800 hours before we managed to leave the station at around midnight. Here's why…
I am sure that by 6pm the train was loaded, but then some paperwork had to be taken care of. It is, afterall, a sarkari matter. We lost a couple of hours to that.
It was dinner time by then, so why miss a chance of a readymade meal in the transit camp mess? And once the beer bottles were opened, it became obvious to me and CO Memsahib (we were the only two ladies left now) that the officers will delay our departure further by an hour.
Hashtag Madira Sevan Train Schedule Ke Liye Haanikarak Hai!
We had waited for 5-6 days for this 'son of a train' to come, so a few more hours' delay in departure is nothing! After dinner we went to the station, but were asked to wait for sometime at the platform. It was a small small station, only local trains stopped here.
So, you can imagine the kind of infrastructure they would have in place — which was nil.
There was no electricity, so CO Memsahib and I sat in dark, covered in three layers of Odomos cream to protect ourselves from mosquitoes.
It drizzled for 3-4 minutes, but we had honestly run out of fucks to give.
Once inside the train, we were thrilled to find that an entire coach had been alotted to officers and families. The bachelors took up one end of the coach, Major Sa'ab and I took up a middle compartment to give them (and us) ample privacy, and then after two empty compartments, the First Family of the unit set up camp.
It was May and the AC was a welcome blast. I was however, not so thrilled to know that the jawans were housed in sleeper compartments, with no AC.
Major Sa'ab assured me that the men were all rough-n-tough, and have seen worse. They will survive the heat as long as they got a place (and time) to sleep, he said.
Hashtag Ab Kya Hua?
So where was the hold-up now? Why the hell weren't we moving?
We asked a young officer and turned out the delay was because of something I would have never imagined!
The senior officers didn't like the order in which the train was laid out, and so they were busy ordering rearrangment of the coaches. The open coach was moved next to the officer's coach; the pantry was positioned differently; jawans coaches were distributed throughout the train; ye coach idhar, wo coach idhar…. and it went on for another 2-3 hours.
You see, moving the coaches of a train is not like moving lego bricks — an engine had to be attached to everything that had to be moved and then "shunting" was done, which involved moving that coach to a different track, then making space for it on the original track, and then bringing it back to it's rightful position.
Oh the whims some faujis have!
Hashtag Fauji Choooos
We hooted and clapped and congratulated each other the moment the train started. "Hurrraaaayyyyy!"
The officers, the ladies and the 8-year-old daughter of CO were all gathered on the open coach, taking in the cool breeze of the countryside. We chatted for sometime and decided to catch some sleep.
I had other things to worry about — high on that list being my leave which would end in two days. I had taken almost a week off from work, but we had wasted 5 days waiting for the train to arrive at our departure point.
I asked Major Sa'ab, "Ye train kab tak pahunchegi?"
"Bass yaar, dedh dino me (one and half days)."
"All this while you have been telling me that special army trains are known to take 5 days for a journey, and now you are saying that it will end in dedh din?" I fumed.
"Arre, see… we are already behind schedule, so I don't think the train will go that slow. We'll reach in time for your office, don't worry," Major Sa'ab assured me.
A helpful tip for all Army Wives here: Uparwale se zyada bharosa Murphy's Law me rakho. Because:
Source: https://imgur.com/gallery/p1GtO
So, I had made up my mind to get off at the next city which had an airport, and catch a flight back to our destination — so that I do not overshoot my leave. Lady luck was on my side this time, since the next such stop would be New Delhi.
Next day, Major Sa'ab woke me up at 7am.
I am on leave, which means I owe to it the "vacation gods" to not wake up before noon.
Major Sa'ab said breakfast will be here soon. I said I don't want breakfast, lemme sleep.
In return, I got "that" stare from Major Sa'ab which is used by officers — in peace stations — to tell their wives that "Ab tum apni marzi ki maalkin nahin ho, ab Unit ke taur tareekon se bhi chalna padega."
Welcome to peace postings — I thought. And woke up. And tried to make sense of this world. And hurled a few curses (mann-hi-mann) at Major Sa'ab. And had breakfast.
Jaanu ko phone pe "OK Report" bhi toh deni hai.
We all tried to find things to keep us occupied. The young officers were ecstatic on being in full mobile network and internet connectivity. Remember they were posted at a remote border location where one bar of mobile network called for celebrations.
We sat for sometime on the open coach and saw fields and rivers pass by. It was sunny, but the wind didn't let us feel the heat.
The open coach! This is what makes this train extra special.
In typical fauji fashion, at around 11, some snacks were served with chai. Then came soup. By lunchtime, I had already forgotten what it's like to travel in a regular train — this one was so so so different.
Lunch was served at the bachelors' end of the coach. My eyes popped out when I saw the elaborate set-up for lunch.
On one of the side berths, a camo print cover was laid out. And then there were the bowls and platters with the Unit crest, filled with food. All army wives know how food is served in officer's mess, right? It was the exact same setting.
Plates, spoons, forks, napkins, and then 2 types of sabjis to choose from, a plateful of green salad… I really really wanted to laugh and roll my eyes at this typical "faujipanti". It was all new to me… you see, I was expecting packed lunch boxes, like they serve in Duranto Express.
Lunch laid out in the Special Army Train
You can take a fauji out of the fauji area, but you cannot take the faujiness out of him!
Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. We passed a station named Phillaur. It might seem like a useless piece of info for you, but at that time, it got us all excited because Anushka Sharma starrer "Phillauri" had just released.
Phillaur station
The usual snack breaks were followed on the train as welll, like evening tea, soup, pakodas, etc. Dinner was an equally elaborate affair.
The train had to stop at a small village station in the evening, probably waiting for some other important train to pass and clear the tracks for us. The officers ordered the men to get down and run the entire length of the platform twice.
"The boys have to be kept occupied. They are used to physical activity everyday. We can't let them sleep all day in the train. They have to be kept active na," was Major Sa'ab's explaination.
Train pe toh baksh do unko. This was my layman's reaction.
In addition to men stretching their limbs, there were three dogs on board who had to be taken out on small walks.
These three well-trained German Shephards were part of the unit property, and were faithful companions who had stayed with the men at the field location.
So we had men, women, children, pigeons (see Part 1) and now dogs on this Special Army Train!
A young officer on attachment with Major Sa'ab's Unit was excited about the entire journey because the train was to pass through his village and the CO had accepted his special request for a halt there.
Had the train been as per schedule, we would have reached his village in the evening of Day 1. The officer was, from what he told us, a ladla of his village and his family wanted to meet the officers and the jawans of their son's Unit.
They had arranged for Chai, Samosa and Mithai for everyone at the station — yes, for everyone single person on that train.
Apparently a group of halwais were busy making the snacks for us at his village, which was to be transported to the station as soon as news of train's arrival came.
Since we were woefully behind schedule, we could not reach his village on Day 1. He was a little upset, since some food had gone stale because of the heat. We hadn't even reached New Delhi and his village the train's next halt after the Capital.
At around 1 am that night, the train pulled up at snails pace at the Tughlakabad Railway Station, where I had to bid the special Army train a hasty goodbye.
I was leaving the journey midway since all my leaves were wasted in just waiting for it. My plan was to catch a flight from New Delhi, and resume work the next day.
On my way to the airport, I checked all popular travel websites for fares of early morning flights. Baap re… I realised what a bomb I would have to spend, but eventually remembered that being a family member of a fauji, I can get some cheeky discount from www.udchalo.com.
This website (if you don't already know about it) gives awesome airfare deals to Armed Forces personnels and their family members (provided you have a dependent card).
So that night, I found that fares here were quite low compared to other websites, so I immediately started the booking process, but my dagabaz phone network vanished the moment I hit "Pay".
I got a msg from my bank that money has been deducted, but didn't get a booking confirmation.
Hashtag Lag Gaye!
I had reached New Delhi airport by that time, so I checked with the airlines who told me that they don't have me on their flying list.
At that time, the UdChalo team did not have a 24×7 customer care service, so I panicked a little. I had to book that same ticket again, but thankfully the next day I got a mail from the folks at UdChalo that my erroneously deducted money will be refunded.
Hashtag Mera Piya Ghar Aya!
I reached my destination safe and sound, and three days — YES THREE DAYS — later, on Akshaya Tritiya, the special Army train arrived at our new peace station.
I missed half of the train journey, but the look of awe on my colleagues and friends' faces when I told them about the experience was worth the trouble.
Hopefully, when the Unit moves to their next location, I would be able to enjoy the full journey, in full fauji tashan!
Tab tak ke liye, namashkaar!
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was a stage of the Japanese language following Early Middle Japanese and preceding Early Modern Japanese. It was a period of transition in which the language shed many of its archaic features and became closer to its modern form.

The period spanned roughly 500 years from the 12th century to the 16th century and is customarily divided into Early and Late periods. Politically, the first half of Late Middle Japanese was the end of the Heian period, known as Insei and the Kamakura period. The second half of Late Middle Japanese was the Muromachi period.

Background
The late 12th century was a time of transition from the aristocratic society of nobles in the Heian period to the feudal society of the warrior class. Accompanying that change, the political center moved with the establishment of various shogunates in the east.

Various new Buddhist movements began and literacy increased because of their spread.

In the mid-16th century, Portuguese Christian missionaries arrived in Japan. They introduced western concepts and technology but also shared their language. Various Portuguese loanwords entered the language.

In an attempt to spread their religion, the Portuguese missionaries studied and learned Japanese. They created a number of linguistic grammars such as the ''Arte da Lingoa de Iapam'' and dictionaries like the Nippo Jisho and even translated some Japanese literature. Those resources have proven extremely valuable in the study of Late Middle Japanese.

Phonology

Vowels
There were five vowels: /i, e, a, o, u/.

 /i/:
 /e/: , ?
 /a/:
 /o/: , ?
 /u/:

Initially, /e/ and /o/ were realized with semivowels  and , respectively, a result of earlier mergers inherited from Early Middle Japanese. However, it is unclear debated as to how they were realized when they were preceded by a consonant.

In addition, there were two types of long o:  and . The vowel sequence /au/ contracted into , and /ou/ and /eu/ contracted into  and , respectively:
/hayaku/ "quickly" > /hayau/:  >  >
/omou/ "think":  >

Consonants
Late Middle Japanese had the following consonants:

In addition were two phonemes: /N/ and /Q/. "Before a pause, /N/ is a uvular ; it assimilates to the place of articulation of a following stop, affricate, or nasal." "/Q/ becomes a phonetic copy of a following obstruent."

/s, z/, /t, d/, /n/, /h, b/, /p/, /m/, and /r/ could be palatalized.

Labialized consonants /kw, gw/ appeared during Early Middle Japanese. Labialized consonants before -i and -e merged with their non-labial counterparts. Specifically:
/kwi/ > /ki/
/gwi/ > /gi/
/kwe/ > /ke/
/gwe/ > /ge/

The distinction between /ka/ and /kwa/ remained.

The sibilants /s, z/ were palatalized before /i/ and /e/ and had the following distribution:
/sa, za/:
/si, zi/:
/su, zu/:
/se, ze/:
/so, zo/:

João Rodrigues noted in Arte da Lingoa de Iapam that the eastern dialects were known for realizing /se/ as , rather than . Note that /se, ze/ has become  in Modern Japanese but retained  for /si, zi/.

/t/ and /d/ were distinguished from the sibilants in all positions but undergo affrication before /i, u/:
/ti, di/:
/tu, du/:

Prenasalization
Voiced stops and fricatives were prenasalized:
/g/:
/z/:
/d/:
/b/:

João Rodrigues made that observation in Arte da Lingoa de Iapam. In addition, the Korean text Ch'ŏphae Sinŏ spelled [...] b, d, z, g with the Hangul letter sequences -mp-, -nt-, -nz-, -ngk-" indicating prenasalization.

The effects of prenasalization may also be seen in the transcription of words such as muma < /uma/ "horse" and mube < /ube/ "truly".

/h/ and /p/
Proto-Japanese contained , but by Old Japanese, it had become . Late Middle Japanese reintroduced , which contrasted with  and so was treated as a new phoneme. In Early Modern Japanese,  became  in many dialects, as it still is.  is found in mimetic words, such as pinpin and patto, as well as in Chinese loanwords such as sanpai and nippon.

Medial /ɸ/ became  before /a/. Before all other vowels, it became silent:
/-ɸa/:
/-ɸi/:
/-ɸu/:
/-ɸe/:
/-ɸo/:

Glides
/w/ had the following distribution:
/wa/:
/wi/:
/we/:
/wo/:

The prior merger between /o/ and /wo/ into  during Early Middle Japanese continued into Late Middle Japanese, with /e/ and /we/ merging into  by the 12th century.

/y/ had the following distribution:
/ya/:
/yu/:
/ye/:
/yo/:

Various mergers, /e/, /we/ and /ye/ made all realized as  and thus indistinguishable.

Syllable structure
Traditionally, syllables were of (C)V structure and so there was no need to distinguish between syllables and morae. However, Chinese loanwords introduced a new type of sound that could end in -m, -n, or -t. That structure is the syllable (C)V(C). The mora is based on the traditional (C)V structure.

The final syllables -m and -n were initially distinguished; but by the end of the Early period, both had merged into /N/.

Medial gemination
The final syllables -m, -n, -t before a vowel or a glide underwent gemination and became the consonant clusters -mm-, -nn-, and -tt-.

-m > -mm-:
samwi > sammi "third rank"

-n > -nn-:
ten'wau > tennau >  "Emperor of Japan"
kwan'on > kwannon "Guanyin"
kon'ya > konnya "tonight"

-t > -tt-:
set'in > settin 雪隠 "toilet"
konnitwa > konnitta "as for today"
but'on > button "blessing of Buddha"

Onbin

 are a type of sporadic sound changes and "were not automatic or exceptionless,"  and their exact causes are still debated. They also appear in earlier stages of the language but were particularly prevalent throughout Late Middle Japanese and had a great effect on its verbal and adjectival morphology.

Verbs:
yom- "read": /yomite/ > /yoNde/
kuh- "eat": /kuhite/ > /kuute/  :: /kuQte/

The kuh- example had two possible outcomes. The former was particular of the western dialects, and the latter was particular of the eastern dialects.

Adjectives:
/hayaku/ "quickly" > /hayau/: [ɸajaku] > [ɸajau] > [ɸajɔː]
/kataki/ "hard" > /katai/

In both words, the medial velar -k- became silent by elision.

Morphology
A number of archaic grammatical forms were lost and made the language closer to its modern form.

One of the most prominent developments was the replacement of the conclusive form by the attributive, which has a number of effects:
It was instrumental in changing from bigrade to monograde verbs.
It caused a chain of events in the two adjectival classes that eventually resulted in both merging into one.
It weakened the  system.
The verb ar- "be", which was once irregular, began to regularize as a quadrigrade.

Verbs
Late Middle Japanese inherited all nine verbal conjugations from Early Middle Japanese:

However, throughout the period, bigrade verbs gradually changed into monogrades. The process was completed by Early Modern Japanese, partly a result of the merger of the conclusive and attributive forms.

Adjectives
There were two types of adjectives: regular adjectives and adjectival nouns.

Regular adjectives
The regular adjective was traditionally subdivided into two types: those whose adverbial form ends in -ku and those whose ends in –siku:

There were three notable changes that eventually collapsed the two-way distinction into one:
In Early Middle Japanese, the -siku conclusive develops a -sisi form.
The conclusive and attributive forms merged.
In Late Middle Japanese, adjectival suffix -ki was reduced to -i

While the grammatical distinction between the two classes has disappeared, the historic distinction was used to explain certain present forms of -shii adjectives, notably the euphonic changes (音便) that occur in polite form of adjectives (when they are followed by ござる gozaru 'to be' or 存じる zonjiru 'to know').

Adjectival nouns
There were two classes of adjectival nouns inherited from Early Middle Japanese: -nar and -tar.

The most prominent development was the reduction of attributive -naru to -na. When the conclusive and attributive merged, they both share the new -na. The tar- type becomes more archaic and was continually reduced in distribution. In Modern Japanese, a few naru-adjectives and taru-adjectives remain as fossils.

Hypothetical
The realis base developed into the hypothetical. The realis described something that had already occurred. That usage began to fade and resulted in the use of the hypothetical for events that have not already occurred. Note that Modern Japanese has only a hypothetical and has lost this realis base.

Imperative
The imperative traditionally ended either with no suffix or with -yo. During Late Middle Japanese, -i was attached to lower bigrade, k-irregular, and s-irregular verbs:
kure + i: kurei "give me"
ko + i: koi "come"
se + i: sei "do"

João Rodrigues Tçuzu noted in Arte da Lingoa de Iapam that -yo could be replaced with -ro, as in miyo > miro "look." Note that the eastern dialects of Old Japanese in the 8th century also contained the -ro imperative, which is the standard imperative in Modern Japanese.

Tense and aspect
The tense and aspect systems underwent radical changes. The perfective n-, t-, and r- and the past k-/s- and ker- became obsolete and were replaced by tar- which developed from the perfective aspect into a common past tense. It eventually became ta-, the modern past tense.

Particles
The new case particle de was developed from ni te.

The conjectured suffix -mu underwent a number of phonological changes: mu > m > N > ũ. Combining with the vowel from the irrealis base to which it attached, it then became a long vowel, sometimes with -y- preceding it.

See also
Glossary of Japanese words of Portuguese origin

Notes

References

 Frellesvig, Bjarke (2010). A history of the Japanese language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .

Japanese language
Archaic Japanese language
Japanese, 1

Languages attested from the 12th century


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Вот уже несколько лет, как польский писатель Станислав покинул родину и поселился в Париже. Он давно не пишет, не знакомится с новыми людьми (из-за замкнутого характера, а также коммунистического прошлого) и безмерно раздражает нынешнего мужа своей бывшей жены Барбары, в доме которого занимает маленькую комнатку под крышей. Однажды Станислав взбирается на стол, чтобы заменить перегоревшую лампочку, и случайно устраивает небольшой пожар и обесточивает весь дом. Анри, муж Барбары, и его друг Жак решают, что несчастный польский эмигрант хотел покончить с собой из-за беспросветности своего существования в условиях западного общества потребления. Чтобы как-то подбодрить Станислава, они решают опубликовать сборник его произведений. Знакомый издатель, однако, согласен пойти на это при одном условии: если Станислав в знак протеста сожжёт себя в Риме во время выступления Папы и тем самым получит мировую известность. Анри и Жак начинают действовать, в то время как поляк вовсе не хочет умирать...

В ролях
 Андре Дюссолье — Жак
 Пьер Ардити — Анри
 Иржи Менцель — Станислав
 Анна Романтовская — Барбара
 Морис Бенишу — Арнольд
 Карло Брандт
 Хенрик Биста — Янек
 Кьяра Казелли — дочь Луиджи
 Ян Тадеуш Станиславский — Питчик
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Marc Broussard - Hurricane Heart
(From an interview with client Marc Broussard)
I wrote with a lot of people who I have never written with before for this record. However, there was one particular song that we cut for this record that I wrote years ago with guy called Sean McConnell. And Sean then proved to me that he was one of the most prolific writers I had ever seen in his ability to take broad concepts that are thrown at him and compile them into amazing lyrics.
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Piano music by Roger Bourland
Roger Bourland, ca. 1975
Preludes Book I (1973-4)
Papillions du printemps
Stabilis
Whyte Minuet
Locria
New Mexican Ninths
ECS Publishing (available through J.W. Pepper) $10.45
[audio:https://rogerbourland.com/v2/assets/Preludes.Book.1.mp3]
Stella Matsoukian, piano
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Ides Book I (1974); 7:00
Birds of night
Arrangement I
Hazes
Yelton Rhodes Music; YR1056; $8.00
[audio:https://rogerbourland.com/v2/assets/IdesBk1.mp3]
Glenn Holmer, piano
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Ides Book II (1975); 9:30
Arrangement II
Laminar
Ides of March
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Janet Shimon, piano
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Ides Book III (1977); 10:00
Cascacia
Kescha
Schubert II
Nones II
Robert Rowe, piano
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Five Miniatures (2000)
Maestoso
Slow and ponderous
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[audio:https://rogerbourland.com/v2/assets/five.miniatures.mp3]
HoJun Lee, piano
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The King, in a most rich embroidered suit and cloak, looked most noble. Wadlow, the vintner, at the Devil; in Fleetstreet, did lead a fine company of soldiers, all young comely men, in white doublets. There followed the Vice-Chamberlain, Sir G. Carteret, a company of men all like Turks; but I know not yet what they are for.
The streets all gravelled, and the houses hung with carpets before them, made brave show, and the ladies out of the windows, one of which over against us I took much notice of, and spoke of her, which made good sport among us.
So glorious was the show with gold and silver, that we were not able to look at it, our eyes at last being so much overcome with it.
Both the King and the Duke of York took notice of us, as he saw us at the window.
The show being ended, Mr. Young did give us a dinner, at which we were very merry, and pleased above imagination at what we have seen. Sir W. Batten going home, he and I called and drunk some mum and laid our wager about my Lady Faulconbridge's name, which he says not to be Mary, and so I won above 20s.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 22 April 1661.


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<?php

namespace Twig\TokenParser;

use Twig\Node\FlushNode;
use Twig\Node\Node;
use Twig\Token;

/**
 * Flushes the output to the client.
 *
 * @see flush()
 *
 * @internal
 */
final class FlushTokenParser extends AbstractTokenParser
{
    public function parse(Token $token): Node
    {
        $this->parser->getStream()->expect(/* Token::BLOCK_END_TYPE */ 3);

        return new FlushNode($token->getLine(), $this->getTag());
    }

    public function getTag(): string
    {
        return 'flush';
    }
}