tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57961736442564569372024-03-13T20:45:42.777-07:00Abraham Lincolns BlogData Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796173644256456937.post-47594161622905817102012-05-05T01:03:00.001-07:002012-08-08T01:05:10.896-07:00The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln<object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YXyshykSu_0?version=3&hl=uk_UA&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YXyshykSu_0?version=3&hl=uk_UA&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>Data Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796173644256456937.post-86317531218362833242012-04-04T01:02:00.001-07:002012-08-08T01:05:24.061-07:00Abraham Lincoln (Part 3)<object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YXyshykSu_0?version=3&hl=uk_UA&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YXyshykSu_0?version=3&hl=uk_UA&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>Data Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796173644256456937.post-23687889011635307602012-03-03T01:01:00.001-08:002012-08-08T01:05:27.324-07:00Abraham Lincoln (Part 2)<object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d91IpWAM2cE?version=3&hl=uk_UA&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d91IpWAM2cE?version=3&hl=uk_UA&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>Data Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796173644256456937.post-83038206624519945912012-02-02T01:00:00.001-08:002012-08-08T01:05:32.092-07:00Abraham Lincoln (Part 1)<object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m2lp_bXY7Ek?version=3&hl=uk_UA&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m2lp_bXY7Ek?version=3&hl=uk_UA&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>Data Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796173644256456937.post-24546291446281267362012-01-01T00:52:00.000-08:002012-08-08T00:53:44.559-07:00After Smoking Tobacco. . .Several made resolutions to stop smoking. Now would be a time when the urge to say, "To hell with it, I gotta have a cigarette.!" would be getting stronger, so I am doing my best to show what happens when you mess up your body by smoking. If you get an aneurysm you get it fixed or you die. This is a descending aorta aneurysm being repaired (that's when the aorta blows up like a balloon and if it breaks you are 'instantly' dead). It can be repaired if it is caught before it breaks. There is no pain – it is either found by a determined doctor or it breaks and you are dead.<br />
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If the doctor finds your aneurysm it must be repaired. It is a nasty operation. But, if you want to live you gotta pay a monumental price in agony and dollars to make it to whatever birthday you hope to reach (Recovering from this surgery is agony even with a Demerol drip in your spine).<br />
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After surgery I had breathing problems so I had to go to a lung specialist—thinking cancer. I was stunned—the lung specialist told me that only about 2% of smokers get lung cancer. The biggest killer, he told my wife and I, is heart disease; and that is what happened to me. And, the bottom half of both lungs were shot—from smoking. The top half was still working—I was lucky. Since I quit smoking before surgery and had no plans to resume, the lung doctor thought I might live something of a normal life. I didn't get out of the lung doctor's office "Scott-free."<br />
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I also have "emphysema with an asthma component" and I can't walk around the block in cold weather because I can't get my breath. I can suck on three different inhalers and take medicine and hope I make it and then die of old age. I am on oxygen all the time now and unable to do much for myself.<br />
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Smoking. Ah yes. I tell my wife all the time, "God, I wish I never started smoking."<br />
I am telling you all of this just so you can stop smoking now and have a better future than you will if you continue on smoking tobacco.Data Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796173644256456937.post-52698686787106601922011-11-11T00:54:00.002-08:002012-08-08T00:55:12.956-07:00Women's Boxer ShortsI really think ladies should be required to wear boxer shorts just like those that men wear. Why? Well, I remember a couple of years ago when we flew to Florida for my son's Grand Opening for his new studio in West Palm Beach, Florida, that I saw a hairy frog.<br />
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We stayed in a luxury hotel in the city where my son lives, and lots of big spenders, like me and oldladylincoln, stay there. You can tell who we are as we don't spend money at the local restaurants, because we eat the breakfast put-out by the hotel each morning. Yummy!<br />
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We were waiting for our son to come and pick us up in his Hummer (forgot the name of his vehicle that looks like something used in Iraq but it has a nicer paint job) — I saw this older gentleman sitting there in the lobby wearing beautiful white shorts. He was real tan like a Hershey Kiss.<br />
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Well, it was a clear mistake to notice him because he crossed his legs — his legs, up high, were snow white — cool whip white: The legs of his starched white shorts gaped open, and as God is my judge I saw a big old hairy frog staring at me from a briar patch — it looked like a frog in a briar patch!<br />
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I stood up because the sight gagged me. My wife asked if I was OK — I told her I swallowed spit; but I didn't tell my wife about the frog — I asked her to come outside and we walked out without ever looking back. She never saw the frog — I hope she didn't.<br />
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NOTE: That's why I would like for ladies to wear shorts like men "should" wear. Understand, I don't expect to see a lady's frog, but I wouldn't want to see a toad either.Data Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796173644256456937.post-47095621708428452132011-11-11T00:54:00.000-08:002012-08-08T00:54:32.008-07:00Church and religionSometimes I go to the Gordon Methodist Church in Gordon, Ohio to get something to eat at their twice-a-year ice cream social. We often wait in the church until the cafeteria has empty seats for us to sit down. In the church are stained glass windows with the names of now dead members. Tommy Rice is there. If you are about 75 years old and live in the village you would know who he was. I know because I heard him every morning of my life until he retired. He was the village blacksmith. Gordon Methodist Church is no different from other churches, with empty pews. Outside church doors everywhere lurk some bad people who could do with a bit of preaching and the good folks inside should give their seats up for some of them next Sunday.Data Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796173644256456937.post-45045172547196609442011-02-02T00:55:00.000-08:002012-08-08T00:56:25.131-07:00Abe in the Wall Street JournalMeg Cox, the Wall Street Journal reported who interviewed me said that among all the people in the world involved in this new pastime, my name kept popping up. This person who went by the moniker, “Abraham Lincoln.” More curious than anything, she called and asked to speak to, you guessed it, “Abraham Lincoln.” My wife, Pat, replied, “May I ask who is calling?” “Meg Cox, from The Wall Street Journal,” she answered. Pat mouthed the words, ‘Wall Street Journal,’ and handed me the phone.<br />
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“Hello, this is Abraham Lincoln,” hesitantly. That began my only conversation with the reporter from that famous publication.<br />
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When the story appeared in print; the phone calls began, starting with the East Coast and working throughout the Time Zones to California. The problem was: We didn’t have a telephone number listed and my daughter, “A. Lincoln” did.<br />
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Jerry Leiber, the local postmaster, was stunned to see my name in The Wall Street Journal. When I walked into the post office he was all smiles and said nice things about me in front of customers. Among the comments I still remember is, “Abraham is the only businessman in this area to make the front page of The Wall Street Journal.”<br />
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I didn’t really consider myself a businessman since I had no store front and employed no people. My wife, Pat, worked with me in the business but I would not count her as an employee. She owned half of the stock in the company and was my equal in more ways than one—she ran it.<br />
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The article was on page 1 in the newspaper and was long enough to be continued on an inside page. My name wasn’t even in the first part, which is a good thing, but it was in the last couple of paragraphs. There it told about my new company, “Calligrafree,” and the supplies we sold, and my role in the promotion of scribes around the world.<br />
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That was about it. But the fact is that the last thing you read is really what you remember when you read a newspaper. And if the last paragraphs have unique information of some kind then it is sure to be remembered and the first parts are forgotten. Newspaper publishers and editors and journalism schools have yet to figure that out.<br />
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One of the things in that story is something I still remember—Hula Hoops and Pet Rocks. I am old enough to remember seeing Pet Rocks in the most exclusive department store we had—Rikes, at the then new, Salem Mall.<br />
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Rikes and everyone else sold those gaudy plastic hoops called, “hulu hoops.” People tried to look cool swiveling their hips to make the hoop go round but it was not to last very long. And like “A Lump of Coal” in a draw string sack lots of stores also sold at that time, the whole business went out of business, leaving people with lumps of coal, stones and plastic rings.<br />
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One of the persons interviewed for the article, besides me, was a man from Chicago who was then dabbling in writing with a quill feather, said something like – Calligraphy would last like Hula Hoops and Pet Rocks.<br />
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When I read that part, it jarred my brains because I was hoping this calligraphy business would put my kids through school; or, buy shoes, bread and butter and pay the school property tax.<br />
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I built a new office behind my house using proceeds from a couple of books I wrote for Grumbacher in England. That was in 1981 and I am sitting in it today (February 2011) typing this on an iMac computer.<br />
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But that wasn’t the end of it. Since people all over the world knew me, some business people wanted to cash in on it and asked me to do a television show for them. And I agreed to do that. I flew to West Palm Beach, Florida and in 7 days complete 13 television shows – each show lasted ½ hour.<br />
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But, in the end, my world of calligraphy came down like the other fads, hulu hoops and pet rocks, and is showing no signs of ever coming back. I lost my enthusiasm for calligraphy primarily because the people who did the TV series for 13 weeks bought my company. And I was not allowed to compete for 5 years. I got sick of it and had a garage sale to get rid of our inventory.Data Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796173644256456937.post-2454188831207221742010-09-28T05:07:00.000-07:002012-12-31T05:09:43.949-08:00Disruptive Technology; Telephony; Innovation, What Do They Mean?<img border="0" height="212" src="http://www.98togo.com/Portals/121593/images/have%20someone%20call%20me.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" />
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Disruptive Technology; Disruptive Telephony or Disruptive Innovation: Understand them ...<br />
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You might have noticed now-a-days these jugglery of words getting popular: disruptive technology; disruptive telephony; disruptive innovation or such ....<br />
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Are they only the 'fashion use' of English language by the clever Western writers or they have some sense behind too? Who coined them??<br />
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Well the answer is that yes, they are the words or set of words having some neat sense behind them and Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen has coined them!<br />
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Why Disruptive technology; disruptive telephony; disruptive innovation?<br />
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Clayton M. Christensen coined the term 'DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY' to describe that ...<br />
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... how the modern age cutting edge new technologies are unexpectedly displacing an age old established or old or rather conservative technologies.<br />
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For Example: Now-a-days popular VoIP or voice over internet protocol (like Skype etc.) internet telephony is very fast replacing the old wired PSTN or land line phones (cell phones are also doing the same) ... thus VoIP could be said as disruptive telephony!<br />
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Sustaining technology versus disruptive technology<br />
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Actually in the year 1997 Clayton's best selling book, "The Innovator's Dilemma," divided the new technology into two separate categories, viz.: sustaining and disruptive.<br />
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Unlike the disruptive technology, the sustaining tech or innovation does not open the vistas for the new value networks or new markets, but it always tends to evolve along on the lines of existing ones with better values.<br />
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Image: <a href="http://rustudent.com/">http://rustudent.com/</a> Data Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796173644256456937.post-42568183817944662702010-05-23T10:37:00.000-07:002012-08-13T10:39:01.721-07:00Complex sentence with nominal clauses1. A subject clause may be introduced by the conjunctions that, if, whether, because, either...or, etc. or the conjunctive words who, what, which, where, how, why, wherever, etc.. Complex sentences with subject clauses may be of two patterns:<br />
a) When a subject clause precedes the predicate of the main clause: What I want is for you to build me a house.<br />
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b) When a subject clause is in final position, the usual place of the subject being occupied by the formal introductory it: It was lucky that she agreed to undertake the job.<br />
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2. A predicative clause may be introduced by the conjunctions that, whether, as, as if, as though, because, lest, etc. or the conjunctive words who, whoever, which, where, when, how, why, etc.:<br />
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It was as though our last meeting was forgotten.<br />
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A predicative clause has a fixed position in the sentence ― it always follows a link verb: to be, to seem, to appear, to feel, to look, to sound, etc., with which it forms a compound nominal predicate: It appears he hasn’t been there.<br />
Note 1. Predicative clauses introduced by the conjunctions as, as if, as though should not be confused with adverbial clauses of comparison introduced by the same conjunctions. A predicative clause immediately follows the link verb. Compare the following sentences:<br />
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It seems that there is no cure (a predicative clause).<br />
It seems evident that there is no cure (a subject clause).<br />
Note 2. If both the subject and the predicative are expressed by clauses the principal clause consists only of a link verb: What he says is that he goes away.<br />
3. An object clause may be introduced by the conjunctions that, if, whether, lest, etc. or the conjunctive words who, whoever, what, where, when, why, how, etc.He asked me if I wanted to stay.<br />
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An object clause may either follow or precede the main clause: What she thinks it would be impossible to say.<br />
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Object clauses may be used after adjectives expressing feeling, perception, desire, assurance: afraid, glad, happy, certain, sure, sorry, pleased, desirous, anxious, aware, etc.: He was glad that no one was at home.<br />
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Note: Like subject clauses, object clauses may be preceded by the formal it: I like it when people are nice to me.<br />
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An object clause may be joined to the main clause by the prepositions after, about, before, for, of, beyond, etc.: I want to be paid for what I do.<br />
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I am glad to tell that I am taking now also this course: <a href="http://waucondastore.com/category/text-linguistics/">http://waucondastore.com/category/text-linguistics/</a>. Sounds like a lot of fun to me.Data Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796173644256456937.post-55689279427729063312008-08-13T10:35:00.000-07:002012-08-13T10:36:15.468-07:00The complex sentence with attributiveAtC serve as an attribute to a noun (pronoun) in the PC. The noun is called the antecedent of the clause. Attributive relative clauses qualify the antecedent, and attributive appositive clauses disclose its meaning. AR restrictive C restricts the meaning of the A, so it can't be removed without destroying the meaning of the sentence, not separated by a comma (All that I want from you…). <br />
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Introduced by: 1) The relative pronouns "who, whose, which, that, as"; 2) The relative adverbs "where, when"; 3) Asyndetically. <br />
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AR non-restrictive C gives some additional information about the A without restricting it, often separated by a comma (Mary, who is a friend of mine, is…). Introduced by: 1) The relative pronouns "who, which"; 2) The relative adverbs "where, when". The A of the continuative clause (which is a variant of ARNRC) is not one word but a whole clause (Her father was not at home, which was a relief to them). <br />
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AAC disclose the meaning of the A, which is expressed by an abstract noun; it's not separated from the PC by a comma (She had the idea that he's the one for her). Introduced chiefly by the conjunction "that", occasionally by the conjunction "whether" or by adverbs "how, why".<br />
Data Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796173644256456937.post-69426832759180095502008-01-01T10:31:00.000-08:002012-08-13T10:34:50.985-07:00Complex sentences with adverbial clausesI reached my morphology section (<a href="http://uastudent.com/category/english/english-grammar/english-morphology/">http://uastudent.com/category/english/english-grammar/english-morphology/</a>) in the course I am taking and here is some stuff for you.<br />
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AdC perform the function of an AM, it can modify a verb, an adjective or an adverb in the PC. They are joined to the PC by means of subordinating conjunctions. An AdC may precede, interrupt (commas are used in both cases) or follow the PC (no commas are used). AdC of time shows the time of the action expressed in the PC. <br />
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Introduced by the conjunctions "when, while, whenever, as, till, until, as soon as, as long as, since, after, before, now that" (We moved here when I was 16) and constructions "scarcely… when, hardly… when, no sooner… than" (Hardly had they entered the room, when a rain began). AdC of place shows the place of the action expressed in the PC. Introduced by the conjunctions "where, wherever" (I looked where she pointed). <br />
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AdC of cause (reason) shows the cause of the action expressed in the PC. Introduced by the conjunctions "as, because, since, for fear (that)" (in official style also "on the ground that, for the reason that, etc.") (She was so nice because her daughter loved him). AdC of purpose state the purpose of the action expressed in the PC. Introduced by the conjunctions "that, in order that, so that, lest, etc." (She phoned so that she could hear him). AdC of condition state the condition which is necessary for the realization of the action expressed in the PC. Introduced by the conjunctions "if, unless, suppose, in case, on condition that, provided, etc." (I'll come if you call me) or joined asyndetically (with inversion in the subordinate clause) (Should you call me today, I'll come). <br />
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AdC of concession denotes the presence of some obstacle which nevertheless doesn't hinder the action expressed in the PC. Introduced by the conjunctions and connectives "though, although, as, no matter how, however, whoever, whatever, whichever" (in official style also "notwithstanding that, in spite of the fact that") (I liked the trip though it was very cold). AdC of result denote the result of the action expressed in the PC. AdC of pure result are introduced by the conjunction "so that" and usually separated from the PC by a comma (The night has come, so that it became really dark), AdC of result with an additional meaning of degree are introduced by the conjunction "that" (the adverb "so" or the demonstrative pronoun "such" then are found in the PC) and are not separated from the PC by a comma (He is so happy that he couldn't say a word). <br />
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AdC of manner characterize in a general way the action expressed in the PC, the idea of comparison is often implied. Introduced by the conjunction "as" (She did exactly as he had told her). AdC of comparison denote an action with which the action of the PC is compared. Introduced by the conjunctions "than, as, as… as, not so… as, as if, as though" (She ate as fast as she could).Data Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08686784867357306744noreply@blogger.com