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2013 – Shortlisted Nominees and Winners

The Honour Roll

Katie Davies

Most Uplifting Member of Staff Award

Dave Dawkins
Giuseppe Vatalaro
Rob Wilson

The Individual Contribution Award

Margot Black
Anish Kundu
Louise Paramore

The Most Helpful Member of Staff Award

Duncan Bloy
Ellen Christopher
Denise Davies
Angharad Naylor

Campaign of the Year

School of Healthcare Studies
School of Mathematics
School of Law

The Sustainability Award

Jane Henderson for staff

Megan Prideaux for students

The Most Effective Member of Staff

Martin Coyle
Glen Sweeney
Luke Sloan

The Most Innovative Member of Staff

Ralph Fevre
Rebecca Price-Davies
Steve Whitcombe

School Rep Co-ordinator of the Year

Rachel Taylor Swann
Keren Williamson
Rob Wilson

Personal Tutor of the Year

Gary Attard
Rob Thomas
Carole Tucker

Student-Staff Panel of the Year

School of Mathematics Undergraduate SSP
School of Pharmacy Undergraduate SSP
School of Social Sciences Undergraduate SSP

The Endsleigh Employability Award

Helen McNally
Elliot Pill
Janet Williams

Student Academic Rep of the Year
James Hunns
Sheatha Latif
Ollie Wannell

The Enriching Student Life Award

Kathryn Foot
Louise Hughes
Sarah Williamson

College of the Year

Biomedical and Life Sciences

The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Commitment to the Student Experience

Sarah Williamson

Winners of the Enriching Student Life Awards 2013

The Honour Roll
Winner – Katie Davies

The Honour Roll is one of the University’s and Student Unions most prestigious Awards.  This special award is given to a student who has achieved outstanding achievements alongside their studies, and in doing so has not only improved the university experience for fellow students but has also made an impact in the Local Community.

The winner of this award has overcome personal difficulties to volunteer for the local Samaritans, a local Rainbows group, volunteered her time to support care-leavers at the University through our monitoring programme and at summer schools, working for the children’s charity of Barnardos and more recently been working as a domiciliary carer within the local community – all alongside studying a Psychology degree.

We are very proud to have students who are so passionate about helping others, at Cardiff University and are delighted to award the Honour Roll to an outstanding student this year, Kate Davies.

Most Uplifting Member of Staff Award
Winner – Giuseppe Vatalaro – School of European Languages, Translation and Politics

Giuseppe has undoubtedly made every lecture interesting and thoroughly enjoyable, not only due to his natural ability to make lectures both easy to follow as well as rewarding, but also due to the uplifting attitude he has, that is constantly present when teaching, as well as around the university.  This attitude encourages positivity from his students, regardless of the difficulty of the module, and therefore transforms the learning experience. On top of this, he is always more than willing to give his time to ensure students understand and, as a result, enables them to improve in their knowledge of the Italian language or culture, as well as grow in the belief that they are able to do well.  Any queries were always quickly answered and well explained and helped students to feel reassured, and therefore also encouraged students to try and give of their best. Without a doubt, Giuseppe is an excellent lecturer and member of staff.

The Individual Contribution Award
Winner – Louise Paramore

Louise is a final year Medic student, who is always more than keen to get involved in the activities of the medical school despite the high demands of her course.  Louise is now a 5th year medic based in North Wales but still makes every effort to attend student-staff panel meetings, whether it means travelling back to Cardiff or connecting via video link.  This shows her true dedication to ensure that the student voice is heard.  Her Student Rep Co-ordinator says that ‘Over the 5 years of the course Louise has been reliable, professional and a good voice for the students, helping to contribute to many changes, both operational and academic. The medical school is currently designing and implementing a new curriculum (C21) and Louise has been one of the main student contributors to this operation.’  For a medic student with a substantial workload, the effort Louise gives to the student voice is outstanding, and we’re told that she is still doing exceptionally well in her course despite these added commitments!

The Most Helpful Member of Staff Award
Winner – Denise Davies – School of Healthcare Studies

Denise is a consent help and goes above and beyond her role and student expectations, always putting the students first.  Nothing is too much trouble for Denise whatever the request she can be depended upon to attend to any requests or find out more information.  Everything she does is with a smile.  The students are confident that the information she gives is in line with procedure and she is always approachable.  She is the link that is needed between students lecturers and the University.

Campaign of the Year

Winner – School of Mathematics

Following the first College Forum where Speak Week was discussed, the Student-Staff Panel Chair took the concept back to their SSP where they agreed to hold their very own Speak Week stall through Speak Week.  Every single representative and even some students from their subject based society took it in turns to man the stall throughout the week which gathered a significant amount of feedback from students in their School. They were the only School to host their own stall throughout the week, and it was refreshing to see so many staff supporting their campaign.  The dedication shown by the School of Mathematics to a campaign week that was a brand new concept to Cardiff University Students’ Union was outstanding and it helped the Students’ Union raise awareness of the campaign and encourage even more students to ‘Speak up’ and ‘Have their say’.

The Sustainability Award
Winner – Jane Henderson for staff
Winner - Megan Prideaux for students

New for 2013, the Sustainability Awards have been created to promote innovation and excellence in sustainable practices, academic work or community engagement by recognising and honouring those students and staff that are exemplars in the field. The achievements of those nominated have worked tirelessly to raise awareness of environmental issues and build a more sustainable world.

The winner of the University Staff Member award goes to Professor Jane Henderson, who has inspired students through bring debates and questions to the classroom as a senior lecturer of conservation. This drive and focus on sustainability gives students the confidence to develop their own ideas, resulting in high impact publications and awards her students have received. Outside the University she is also active in the community within the Federation of Welsh Museums and Steering Group for the Government supported Museum Strategy for Wales where she has championed sustainability.

The Winner of the Student Sustainability Award goes to Megan Prideaux who has been volunteering her time to help the local Cardiff community and spread the message of sustainability. This student took on the role of Project Coordinator for the Environmental Champions group working with the local Council, fair-trade projects, litter picks, river/beach cleans and encouraging recycling in the local community.

The Most Effective Member of Staff
Winner – Luke Sloan – School of Social Sciences

Luke has entirely restructured a module in order to make learning more effective and to prepare second year students better for dissertations.  This has helped understanding and interest from students improve enormously and thus means that they’re all a lot more confident with the material.  More importantly, Luke is always available to clear up concerns or to respond to queries.  He is also reflexive in the way he approaches problems.  He organised a ‘Festival of Social Science’ at the beginning of the year which allowed students access too many different researchers.  This really broadened their horizons and allowed them to actually take part in some research!

Luke has raised the enjoyability of research methods!  A stereotypically boring module really became much more interesting.  Luke really cares about his students and wants them to do well so really tailors his lectures and seminars to make sure they have full understanding.

The Most Innovative Member of Staff
Winner – Ralph Fevre – School of Social Sciences

Professor Fevre trialled the implementation of a new lecture structure, prioritising student involvement through reflexive teaching methods.  Despite the practical implications and structural difficulties, the aim of improving teaching methods for student benefit was clear.  As a consequence of the lecture and seminar format students engaged quickly and enthusiastically with course materials.  Professor Fevre’s commitment clearly extended beyond the lecture theatre. The book which accompanies the module is written from the student perspective and applies the situational dilemmas of contemporary students to Social Theory.  There was an open dialogue throughout the trial of the new lecture style.  Students were encouraged to be active participants in the module rather than passive recipients of established social theory.  Professor Fevre demonstrates a genuine concern for improving both teaching methods and student comprehension.

Student Rep Co-Ordinator of the Year
Winner – Keren Williamson

Keren has worked hard to create a strong Student Voice within the School this year.  Healthcare has a wide range of different subjects, all of which have their own Student-Staff Panel.  Collating names of these different programmes of representatives and arranging training for the different groups of students will have created a lot of extra work for her but Keren was amazing through the whole process.

The School of Healthcare studies has seen significant changes over the last few months and Keren has made a conscious effort to unify how the School addresses issues related to this across the programmes.  Keren has ensured that all programmes address School wide issues by arranging additional meetings with Programme Reps, and has now decided to hold regular ‘Reps Round Table’ events, even supplying them with lunch for these meetings!

Personal Tutor of the Year
Winner – Rob Thomas – School of Biosciences

Rob has helped students with their personal circumstances pointing them in the right direction and helping them with their studies and revision.  Rob has also taken a lot of time to get to know his students personally.  They meet up for tutorial meetings or individual meetings once every two weeks at the maximum.

Rob invites his students to join his bird ringing group that he runs every month for them to gain experience and share his love for his job, which is very inspiring.  He even asks them to invite their friends to come along as he likes to get students involved with his work including his new Cardiff website.

Rob deserves this award because of the effort he puts into his work, even other students are noticing his efforts as they see their tutors every month or if they have a problem.

Student-Staff Panel of the Year
Winner – School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

The School of Pharmaceutical Sciences have a professional yet friendly student-staff panel that works together to ensure the student voice is listened to and acted upon.  They have a supportive Student Rep Co-ordinator who aids them in improving communication within the School.  The Chair and deputy Chair work hard to ensure students are democratically elected within the School, something that is still a rarity in many others.  They also attend sessions to help first year students, for example at the end of the first term the chair talked to first years to tell them what to expect from exams.  The Minutes from their meetings demonstrate a professional approach, ensuring that all issues from the previous meetings have been addressed.  Students are encouraged to send emails to the panel if they aren’t able to attend or are unable to talk to other representatives.  We argue that this Student-Staff Panel is a model example of what a Student-Staff Panel should look like, with an excellent balance or student engagement and staff support.

The Endsleigh Employability Award
Winner – Elliot Pill – School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

Elliot is the course leader for the Masters in International Public Relations and Global Communications Management.  He adapts the structure of the course on a yearly basis, based on the feedback from current students and professionals who hire these students.

Elliot invites professionals from the industry to come in and talk to the group on a weekly basis.  This means that the students are getting the opportunity to meet experts in various fields regularly.  The time spent with these professionals is invaluable, and can often lead to internships exclusively offered to his class.

Student Academic Rep of the Year
Winner – Ollie Wannell

Ollie is a final year Law and Politics student who is a representative for Law.  A previous Student-Staff Panel Chair, he has been active in being a Student Academic Rep throughout his time here at Cardiff.  A fellow rep nominated Ollie, saying ‘He’s been so good for the last three years’ listing a range of projects from promotion of the rep system, creating a survey to encourage the School to implement lecture capture, student rep surgeries and has campaigned to keep a range of modules within the Schools.  He has also set up a Sibling Scheme through the Law Society.  He has also attended a range of conferences this year with regards to the Student Voice, Chairing a debate at our own Student Academic Rep conference and presenting at a Higher Education Academy conference.

The Enriching Student Life Award
Winner – Kathryn Foot – Careers and Employability

Kath has put an incredible amount of time and effort into ensuring that every student receives the help and support they need. She is always enthusiastic and determined to enable students to reach the best of their potential.  Kath deserves this award because she has gone above and beyond to help and develop so many students at Cardiff University. She is a genuinely kind and caring person who will always go out of her way to help a student in whatever way she can.

Kath has given countless students endless advice on employability throughout the year and has always been willing to check CVs, covering letters and application forms.  She has made an effort to get to know every single student on the Cardiff Award programme and helped students to develop invaluable skills as a result.  Kath has greatly improved the student experience by making sure that students make the most of all opportunities available and use whatever experience they have to sell themselves to employers.

College of the Year
Winner – Biomedical and Life Sciences

The College of Biomedical and Life Sciences has shown outstanding commitment to support their students through Student-Staff Panels and there has been excellent support from their Student Rep Co-ordinators and a wide range of staff in the College.  They are leading the way in demonstrating the importance of the student voice and the impact it has on the student experience.

The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Commitment to the Student Experience
Winner – Sarah Williamson

This award recognises those individuals who go above and beyond their role to champion the Cardiff experience, those who bring student engagement to the heart of the University’s work, and those who are on the front line of making the student experience here a ‘byword for excellence’.  The winner of the award this year is Dr Sarah Williamson, Head of Education in Registry and Academic Services, for her commitment to partnership with students and the instrumental role she has played in developing strong links between the University and the Students’ Union.  Sarah has been a pioneer for the University in the ways in which she has involved Students as Partners in University business.


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Dear LUG:

I am not subscribed at the moment, as I am about to go out on an extended
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I was cleaning my R8 when I discovered a huge goober in the optics of the
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Chocolate-Filled Phyllo Triangles

These triangles are like a crunchy pain au chocolat, with phyllo replacing the traditional yeasted dough. If you wish, you can dab a little raspberry jam on top of the chocolate before you fold each triangle. The triangles are best served the day they are made. If they have cooled completely before you are ready to serve them, reheat them in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 8 minutes, until crisp and warm.–Emily Luchetti

Chocolate-Filled Phyllo Triangles Recipe

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  • 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 8 sheets phyllo, thawed, if frozen
  • 4 ounces (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter

  • 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  • 2. Break up 4 ounces of the chocolate into 1/2-ounce pieces. In a food processor, finely grind the remaining 2 ounces chocolate with the sugar.
  • 3. Lay a stack of 8 sheets of phyllo on a work surface. Remove 1 sheet and place it lengthwise in front of you. Keep the remaining sheets covered with a damp towel. Brush the sheet with some of the melted butter. Sprinkle it evenly with 1 1/2 tablespoons of the chocolate-sugar mixture. Place a second sheet of phyllo on top, brush it with butter, and sprinkle it with 1 1/2 tablespoons of the chocolate-sugar mixture. Add 2 more sheets in the same manner, brushing each with butter and topping each with the chocolate-sugar mixture.
  • 4. Cut the filled stack of phyllo sheets lengthwise into 4 even strips. Starting at the left end of 1 strip, place a 1/2-ounce piece of chocolate 2 inches from the edge. Fold the end of the phyllo diagonally over the chocolate, enclosing the chocolate completely and creating a 3-inch triangle; the bottom edge of the strip should now be even with the left side of the strip. Next, fold the bottom of the triangle up, so that it meets the straight edge evenly. Now fold again on the diagonal, so that the left edge is even with the right side. Repeat this folding pattern, alternating the direction with each fold, until you reach the end of the strip. Repeat with the remaining 3 strips, to make 3 more triangles. Place the triangles on the prepared baking sheet.
  • 5. Make 4 more chocolate-filled triangles in the same manner, using the remaining phyllo sheets, melted butter, chocolate-sugar mixture, and chocolate pieces. Add the triangles to the baking sheet. If there is any butter left over, brush it on top of the triangles.
  • 6. Bake the triangles until golden brown, about 15 minutes. Serve warm.
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Chief Seattle’s Letter and Ecosystems are the topics in this great lesson

Language Arts, Science, Social Studies

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Title – Chief Seattle’s Letter
By – Christine Singley
Subject – Social Studies, Science, Language Arts
Grade Level – 5-6

School: Meigs Magnet
Date: June 2000
Grade Level: 5-6
Duration: one-two class periods

Goals: Analyze the letter from Chief Seattle. How is this message like the information we are learning in the textbook about ecosystems?

Students will make connections between the letter written by Seattle and the content of the textbook regarding ecosystems. They will present these relationships in the form of identification of analogies or metaphors and writing their own to describe the text.
Students analyzing various text to obtain the same information helps them become discerning readers. It is good to show students how different types of written work can teach science concepts.

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Materials: “Chief Seattle’s Letter”, taken from: Prentice Hall Literature, Copper, 1991. There are various versions of this beautiful speech. I also like Brother Eagle, Sister Sky by Susan Jeffers.

Step 1-
The students have already been reading about the various ecosystems of the world from the textbook. They have read about the way that certain actions can impact the organisms within an ecosystem and upset the delicate balance. What happens in one ecosystem will impact the ecosystems connected to it.
The students are to read Seattle’s speech and identify statements to support how he obviously feels about the nature and the environment. See if students can find parallels to the text.

Step Two- Have students identify analogies used by Chief Seattle. See if students can create their own analogies or metaphors to describe the environment in much the same way as Seattle did.

You may determine how many analogies or metaphors you want the students to identify and create. I usually have students work in small groups to produce a group product. I require the students to find and write at five-ten metaphors.

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Saturday, November 16, 2013

Denver 5 - Western Michigan 3 FINAL

The University of Denver finally found production from their forward lines on Saturday night at Magness Arena.  DU's forwards exploded for four goals in just six minutes of the second period to break open a tight game.  The result was a 5-3 victory over Western Michigan.

Boonetown said...

Moore intercepting their lazy pass in front of the net was beautiful. Reminded me of Connor James. I hope Trevor has that kind of talent.

It was nice to see some scoring from the forwards for a change.

The energy seemed flat until the scoring explosion in the second period.

Nice win guys.

Twister said...

No doubt a nice comeback win for DU last night. If that had been a football game, it would have been a "tale of two halves." I thought DU came out of the gates flat and sluggish. Several turnovers, very little offensive flow or pressure, and a lot of time spent chasing WMU's forwards who had the puck. Then Western takes the 5-minute major, DU scores a couple of goals, and there is life. After that I thought the Pios played well.

This team may not have the elite top-end talent that we have seen in years past, but there are more than enough good players who, when they put their minds to, can do a lot of good things.

Nincompoop said...

I can't wait for Trevor Moore's proverbial "Break Out" sophomore year next season. This is going to be exciting. Hoping for the Broncos to lose big tonight, then get a huge win tomorrow. Did anyone notice how many Derek Lalonde and Dave Carle - coached guys there are on the Broncos? They've got a pipeline going under the lake. And one kid....obviously with high IQ...transferred FROM North Dakota to Western Mich! Love it.


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The Room 2003 ★★★★½

This movie fascinates me. It’s bad on so many levels, and yet you can’t look away (except, somewhat ironically, during the soft-porn parts). It might be a great exercise to focus on some scenes and try to figure out what went wrong there. Just bad acting? Weird choices in the editing room? Some profound, but honest misunderstanding of the rules of cinema-making?

This is a movie that’s ultimately logic-agnostic, but maybe in some other universe where logic operates differently it’d be a masterpiece?

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Resuscitating My Soul
The soul is dead. The significant events, good (white circles) as well as bad start to pull the soul out of the hole it was buried(the black figure in the lower left corner). The soul starts its fly(the black lines) as a spacecraft propelled by the gravitational forces of other souls and circumstances. It has sometimes a setback (a black line in the center toward the black circle). It is slowly moving to the door( the  partial rectangle in the upper right corner). The door is the portal to the next level, the happy one.

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Rightwing Koch brothers also bankrolling union busting crusade in Michigan

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s plan to bust public sector unions and replace local control with centralized power in Lansing with this army of unelected and all-powerful emergency financial managers (EFM) has ties to the same union busting effort in Wisconsin.

Mother Jones magazine did a piece on the EFM bills Snyder signed into law earlier this month that gives an EFM, after just two days of training, the power to void union contracts, run a school district, fire the elected boards and councils, call for millage elections, disincorporate or dissolve the municipal government and kill collective bargaining.

Last month Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was pranked when he thought he was talking to conservative billionaire David Koch, one of the Koch brothers who has bankrolled teabaggers and is financing the current union-busting movement, on the phone when he was really talking to a liberal blogger that showed Walker’s so-called “budget repair bill” was just a ploy to bust unions. The Mother Jones article shows that the Koch brothers are also behind the effort in Michigan. Like Walker, Snyder is creating budget deficits by taking away money from school districts and local governments with a $1.8 billion gift to businesses, allowing more EFMs to be needed.

The article says that since 2005, the rightwing Michigan think tank “Mackinac Center for Public Policy has urged reforms to Michigan law giving more power and protection to emergency financial managers.” “…In January, the free-market-loving center published four recommendations, including granting emergency managers the power to override elected officials (such as a mayor or school board member) and toss out union contracts. All four ended up in Snyder's legislation.”

The think tank has a history of union-busting and support for privatization, especially going after teacher unions. The article goes on to say that “the Mackinac Center does not disclose its donors. But a review of tax records shows that the group's funders include the charitable foundations of the nation's largest corporations and a host of wealthy conservative and libertarian benefactors. Between 2002 and 2009, the Mackinac Center's donors included the Charles G. Koch Foundation ($69,151), founded by the chairman and CEO of Koch Industries, who, with his brother, David, is a major backer of conservative causes,” including the union busting efforts in Wisconsin and funding teabaggers.

kevins said...

One question. Are you sure about the fact that EFMs can fire an elected board? I think that was indeed part of the original legislation, but I keep hearing that section was removed or changed.

I seriously don't know, and I wondered if you have any insight.

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brad said...

Why is the union pensions tied up in Koch industries? They invest in his companies. If its all true as you claim it is, I find that funny too. You have a domestic terrorist trying to destroy wall street and he is of the unions and then you have union pensions tied into wall street AND koch industries.

The said...

I see the Koch Bros gave Harry Reid $30,000

Communications guru said...

Pension boards only invest in one industry? They are free to invest in companies like Koch Industries, but I would rather see them invest in more honest companies. Many people and boards who invested in Wall Street and companies like Enron lost millions. It seems kind of funny to me that American businesses earned record profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter of 2010, according to a Commerce Department report, yet we are cutting things like Heard Start and Planned Parenthood. It makes no sense.

The only domestic terrorist I know of are Timothy McVeigh and other right-wingers like Scott Roeder.

Communications guru said...

Corporations routinely play both sides, but they don’t get Democrats to do their bidding like the Koch Brothers got Scott Walker and other anti-middle class Republicans to jump.

brad said...

Damn those Koch brothers donating to Dems.


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The John Stern Homestead

Hinrich, Joyce. "The John Stern Homestead." Herald, 19 December 2008, 1.

Reprinted with permission of  Joyce Hinrich, Mott, North Dakota.

John Stern was born May 2, 1882 in Bessarabia, Russia, part of the Russian Steppes country. The Russian Steppes is a semi-arid area much like our Great Plains and agricultural was the chief industry. John’s Uncle Andreas Stern was the first from the Stern family to immigrate to the new country in 1892, following many others which is recorded in history as the first “wave” of immigrants to the Dakotas in 1880’s. Stories of cheap or free farmland and jobs in areas where their countrymen has already settled brought forth a second “wave” of immigrants from Russia in the 1900’s.

So it was that in 1902, at the age of twenty and as part of the second “wave” of immigrants into America, John’s adventure into the new world began. Like others before him, he was seeking the opportunity for free land and to settle among those with similar religious beliefs and regional ties from Russia. To qualify for free land in Hettinger County at that time, and become a homesteader, you had to be twenty one years of age, a citizen of the United States (or declare intentions to become one), have twenty two dollars for 160 acres of land and an affidavit with a $12.00 fee for proof of intentions.

Upon arriving in America, he headed for North Dakota as did his uncle before him. In 1904 he filed for citizenship in Stark County and in 1905 he chose land two miles east of Mott, which had an artesian spring on it and filed his claim. The town of Mott was just coming into it’s own as well. W.H. Brown, owner of the Wm. H. Brown Land Company had just begun to build a small hotel (Hotel Brown) and was putting up the Mott Supply building. The population was about three hundred strong.

The first days on his land, John lived under an overturned wagon box, while building a 16 x 18 foot sod shack. Upon completion of the sod shack, he married Fredricka Roth of Glen Ullin and in the spring of 1906 they began to build the homestead which still stands today. Stones were hauled in from the hills on the southern part of their acreage and lumber brought in by horse drawn wagon from Glen Ullin, some fifty miles away. Mortar was made by John and Fredicka as they did in Russia, from clay, manure, straw and water and mixed by hand.

The first year of building the homestead, the weather turned on them in the spring, raining almost every day from May through the middle of June. All this rain left him without much profit out of his first crop of wheat and small grain, but in early fall, all the increased moisture made a wonderful crop of prairie hay for feeding stock. Mother Nature continued to touch John and Fredricka with a heavy hand. Winter that year was unusually snowy. The heavy snows started in December and did not let up until February. But the building of the homestead continued through rain and heavy winter snows and the homestead was completed in 1907.

By 1907 Mott was growing and adding churches to their community and John and Fredricka became very active in the community. John helped build the Christ Lutheran Church and served as Treasurer for six years. He was also precinct committee officer for some twenty years.

Fredricka sadly lost the first three infants born on the homestead and their burial plot still stands today behind the homestead marked by three home-made wooden crosses. (Mott had no cemetery until 1923). Six more children were born to the couple; Herbert, Christian, Marie, Helen, Adolph and Reinhold. Herbert was lost in 1923 and was buried in the then newly developed Mott Cemetery.

The family continued to work hard and grew strong, farming wheat and small grains on the land and raising a few head of cattle. The artesian spring provided a continuous source of good water for the homestead but it also brought the Northern Pacific Railroad near their homestead in 1910. The railroad acquired access to the spring and daily stopped by the farm to water their engines. As the Stern children grew older, only Reinhold, the youngest son, stayed and worked on the farm with his father, and continued to do so until the depression years. As the depression worsened and a drought hit the county, Hettinger county farmers were loosing their farms through the inability to make mortgage and tax payments. Reinhold and John, determined not to loose the homestead, worked other jobs to make extra income. Reinhold finally had to leave the farm, joining the Civilian Conservation Corp. earning thirty dollars per month. He would send all but five dollars a month back to the homestead. In the meantime, John was breaking horses and hauling sheep’s wool for his neighbors and drove school bus for extra income as well as working his crops and stock. The depression lifted to some degree in the late thirties, and slowly but surely posterity returned to the rural areas. Electricity came to the homestead in 1938.

More favorable weather improved crop yields in the 1940’s and again the Stern family pressed on and prospered. Reinhold took a wife in 1940 and started married life living with his parents on the homestead. With more commodities to sell, Hettinger county farmers benefited even more from the higher prices stimulated by the American entry into World War II. Within a span of five years, the farm debt in the sate dropped markedly; at the war’s end in 1945, North Dakota residents had accumulated the largest per capita bank deposits in the nation. As the history goes, John died in 1957 and Fredricka passed in 1968. A poem written in the form of a reverie by Mrs. Harry Day entitled “Our Homestead” shows how these hard working people felt about their homesteads:

When at eve the sun is setting
And its golden rays descend
On our shanty on the prairie
Like a good old trusty friend
Here we gather all so happy
In our shanty on the claim
Warm in summer, cold in winter
But safe from storm and rain.

The poem has ten other very descriptive verses about homesteading and ends with “But we are happy and contented, on these prairies wide and free”.

Memories of a grandson, Jim Stern of Mott:

Jim tells this fun childhood memory. “We went to the Lutheran Church in West Mott every Sunday. Dad and I would pick up Gramma and Grandpa at the homestead for church every Sunday morning and it was my job to get Gramma out of the house and into the car for which I was paid a quarter”.

Stern Homestead
Members of the Mott Gallery board tour the site with Jim Stern
Stern children grave.
Stern home westside, cupols are to pitch hay up for storage
This shows the storage area and original rock walls
More storage area and original rock walls

Window shows how thick the walls were. There is an etched "1947" in this area. Sterns believe that is when the stucco coating was applied.

Inside the middle section is the stairway to the sleeping loft, and also the hay storage area.
Jim Stern checks out an old family trunk in the sleeping loft.
Inside the living area.
This shows some of the interior wall construction
Walls were covered with wainscoting and wallpaper. Every space was used for storage.
An old calendar still hangs on the wall. Fredricka Stern lived in the house through the mid 1960's.
Lace and colorful valances brightened up the home on the prairie.
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TITLE: Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic
SUBTITLE: Diachrony and Synchrony
SERIES TITLE: Studies in Semitic Language and Linguistics 64
YEAR: 2012

David Wilmsen, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, The American
University of Beirut

This is a collection of papers read at the Second Conference of the
Association internationale pour l’étude du moyen arabe et des variétés mixtes
de l’arabe (AIMA), held at the University of Amsterdam in 2007. It comprises
seventeen chapters, including the introduction, five of which are in French. A
release concentrating on Middle Arabic from a major scholarly publishing house
heralds the remarkable activity in the field of Middle Arabic studies over the
last ten years. An initial conference convened in 2004 at the Université
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Association, a third conference having been held at the Università degli Studi
di Firenze in 2010. In addition to those major events, two smaller workshops
have met, one in Cairo and one in Oslo, the latter in 2010. This type of
Arabic has been under study since the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century, growing into a sub-field of Arabic studies in its own right, owing
largely to the many publications and exhaustive work of Joshua Blau since his
1965 work on Judeo-Arabic.

This type of Arabic constitutes medieval Arabic texts, largely written by
writers from minority populations composing works for use in their own
communities in the Arab Muslim world of the day; these were writers who were
not so firmly committed to the unforgiving rules of Classical Arabic as to
expurgate all colloquialisms from their work. They were certainly not all
Jews; Blau himself published a three-volume work of Christian writers (1966).
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prophet of Islam, writing in a time before the codified rules of Arabic
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considered stigmatized vernacular features.

Introduction: Middle and Mixed Arabic, A new trend in Arabic studies
Johannes den Heijer

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approach within in the field of Middle Arabic studies, situating the volume’s
contributions into their broader context. More than a mere summation of the
contents, his is a theoretical manifesto in its own right, by itself one of
the book’s most valuable contributions. In it, the author reviews all relevant
perspectives on the study of Middle Arabic texts: the value of Middle Arabic
to a diachronic approach to Arabic dialect history and reconstruction; its
position in questions of a standardization of the norms of Arabic writing; the
literary and cultural contexts in which its texts appear, including the
confessional identities of their authors and the religious communities in
which they appear; the contact between Arabic and other languages as
manifested in such texts, especially, but not limited to Hebrew; the concern
over transmission of these texts in their original manuscripts and their
redactions by medieval editors; the construction of systematic tools and
reference systems, such as databases and corpora, for use in analysing Middle
Arabic; and finally, a prefiguring of directions and prospects in the study of
Middle Arabic.

Chapter 2: Moyen Arabe et variétés mixtes de l’Arabe: Premier essai de
bibliographie supplément no. 1
Jérôme Lentin

An entry better left to the end of the volume, this is a bibliographical
supplement to that appearing in the first AIMA conference volume that Lentin
co-authored (Lentin et Grand’Henry 2008). A full twenty pages in length, this
includes relevant titles that have appeared since that volume’s publication

Chapter 3: Some Remarks about Middle Arabic and Saʿdiyya Gaon’s Arabic
Translation of the Pentateuch in Manuscripts of Jewish, Samarian, Coptic
Christian, and Muslim Provenance
Berend Jan Dikken

A review of different text traditions of Saʿdiyya’s Arabic Pentateuch, of
which no autograph exists, but to which, according to Blau, the Yemenite
Jewish manuscripts are the closest. Coptic manuscripts are very close to these
but display far fewer Middle Arabic features. Those features thus become
indispensable to an understanding of history of the transmission of Saʿdiyya’s
Arabic Pentateuch.

Chapter 4: Linguistic and Cultural Features of an Iraqi Judeo-Arabic Text of
the Qiṣaṣ al-ʾAnbiyyāʾ Genre
Lutz Edzard

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published in Baghdad in 1924, mingling Jewish and Muslim religious motives,
legends, and narrative techniques.

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Grégoire de Nazianze?
Jacques Grand’Henry

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41, one produced in a Syro-Lebanese variety of Middle Arabic and one in an
Egyptian-Sinaitic variety. The second being a translation -- into Arabic -- of
the Arabic of the first, the genuinely Egyptian-Sinaitic Middle Arabic and the
reduplications of a Syro-Lebanese style are difficult to distinguish. There
are, however, recognizable features of a clear Egyptian-Sinaitic style.
Reluctant to conclude therefrom that there were two types of Middle Arabic,
Grand’Henry maintains that there is but one Near Eastern Middle Arabic with
different sub-standards.

Chapter 6: Présentation du livre Le Conte du Portefaix et des trois jeunes
femmes, dans le manuscrit de Gannand (XIVe-XVe siècles)
Bruno Halflants

A presentation of a translation of one long tale in the Thousand and One
Nights, demonstrating a few of the salient features of that collection of
stories in an attempt to produce a grammar of Middle Arabic.

Chapter 7: Judeo-Arabic as a Mixed Language
Benjamin Hary

An examination of literal translations of Hebrew and Aramaic religious sacred
texts into Judeo-Arabic, their translators adhering to a long tradition of
verbatim translation, thereby accessing the pedagogical purposes of
word-for-word translations and reinforcing the Jewish identity of the readers
of those texts.

Chapter 8: The Story of Zayd and Kaḥlāʾ -- A folk story in a Judaeo-Arabic
Rachel Hasson Kenat

A rare instance of a Muslim folktale being adopted into Jewish society and
subsequently abandoned by Muslim society, found in seven different manuscript
versions, the copying errors and errors in textual tradition throughout giving
an indication that the manuscripts of the story have been copied from Arabic
script into Hebrew characters.

Chapter 9: Towards an inventory of Middle and Mixed Arabic features: The
inscriptions of Deir Mar Musa (Syria) as a case study
Johannes den Heijer

A brief case study of some practical and methodological issues in inventorying
a Middle Arabic text, focusing on common and widespread features, those being
in the domains of orthography and phonetics, morphology and syntax, and to a
lesser extent the lexical and cultural features of the text. Even here, a
limited study such as this cannot describe any such text adequately, and a
comprehensive and complete inventory of the phenomena involved would likely be
best undertaken with digitized texts, something still in the future. For now,
the only solution is to concentrate on smaller, more manageable texts.

Chapter 10: Qui est Arabophone? Les variétés de l’Arabe dans la définition
d’une compétence native
Amr Hilmy Ibrahim

The only contribution from a native speaker of Arabic, Hilmy’s paper exhibits
their oftentimes bemused perplexity at the sheer variety to be found in
Arabic, even in its written forms. As if to demonstrate this, he adduces a
phrase seen on a signboard in Tunisia that could be understood in
wryly-amusing alternates by Arabic speakers from elsewhere in the Arabophone
world, whereupon he asks, “Comment donc la même langue, produite avec les
mêmes mots, dans la même construction et le même niveau du langue, peut-elle
prendre deuz sens aussi différents?” (p. 178).

Chapter 11: Perspectives ecdotiques pour textes en moyen arabe: L’exemple des
traités théologiques de Sulaym al-Ġazzī
Paolo La Spisa

La Spisa adopts what he calls a neo-Lachmannian approach to interpreting and
editing with the hope of outlining a method for producing authoritative
critical editions of Middle Arabic texts. He maintains that all manuscript
witnesses must be taken into account, and, using the approach now used in
Romance philology ‘criticism of forms’ and ‘criticism of variants’, he
demonstrates how more reliable readings can be arrived at by comparing

Chapter 12: Normes Orthographiques en moyen arabe: Sur la notation du
vocalisme bref
Jérôme Lentin

Lentin compiles a list of orthographic features common to many medieval texts,
the likes of which researchers are likely to find even in edited and published
texts of the writing from earlier eras.

Chapter 13: Playing the same game? Notes on comparing spoken contemporary
mixed Arabic and (pre)modern written middle Arabic
Gunvor Mejdell

Demonstrates that Middle Arabic texts do, indeed, exhibit features similar to
those of modern spoken varieties. Nevertheless, the two types of data are not
completely similar, nor are the approaches to the data. This is hardly
surprising, as “the nature of the two sets of data -- one in written mode and
graphic representation, the other spoken mode and phonetic representation ...
provides different kinds of linguistic information” (p. 237).

Chapter 14: Middle Arabic in Moshe Darʿī’s Judaeo-Arabic poems
Arie Schippers

Analysis of a Karaite Jewish poet. While it claims to analyse linguistic
features, it is more of a straight literary analysis of metre and rhyme,
albeit, as the author maintains, as they interact with the grammar. But here,
by grammar is meant classical norms of grammar.

Chapter 15: Written Judeo-Arabic: Colloquial versus Middle Arabic
Yosi Tobin

Tobin advises that medieval Judeo-Arabic is purely a written form he calls
medieval Judeo-Arabic or MWJA, largely composed using Hebrew characters and
shared by Jewish scholars in the medieval Arabo-Islamic world. This he opposes
to spoken Judeo-Arabic, an important distinction to make, for, as Tobin points
out, while MWJA is attested over a period of a few hundreds of years between
the tenth and fifteenth centuries, spoken Judeo-Arabic enjoyed a lifespan of
perhaps a millennium and a half.

Chapter 16: Yefet ben ʿEli’s commentary on the Book of Zechariah
Kees de Vreugd

This is a critical translation of passages from a work in the Karaite
tradition of Abū Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Lāwī al-Baṣrī, known as Yefet ben ʿEli. His
name and his apparent origin indicate that he must have known Arabic as well
as Hebrew, and both are faithfully reproduced in de Vreugd’s contribution with
translation and commentary.

Chapter 17: Damascus Arabic according to the Compendo of Lucas Caballero
Otto Zwartjes and Manfred Woidich

An eighteenth-century missionary grammar of Damascus Arabic composed by
Spanish Franciscans in Damascus, this work is a tally of some of the more
conspicuous features of the dialect of the day. The authors add the crucial
proviso, one that must always be kept in mind when considering any older
written representation of a dialect, the question of dialect type: “the
varieties of Arabic spoken in Levantine towns such as Damascus and Aleppo
differ depending on religious affiliations, ... it is quite probable that [the
authors] in fact used their fellow Christians as their teachers ...
accordingly, we have to take into account that some of the deviating features
could be due to the impact of the other dialects” (p. 308). The same can be
said for any Middle Arabic or indeed mixed Arabic text.

In true dialectologist style, the authors spend a large amount of their space
(11 pages) in addressing vowels, especially where those show differences in
the expected vowel configurations as they now obtain in the modern dialects(s)
of Damascus, noting also that, in the manuscript they are consulting, Arabic
entries are vocalized but not in a systematic manner. This, of course, is a
difficulty in deciphering almost any Arabic manuscript. Compounding this is
that “the author often tries to indicate both the classical and the colloquial
pronunciation by writing several vowel signs on one word” (p. 309). As the
authors point out, the admixture of standard Arabic orthography and dialectal
features renders this a work of “mixed” Arabic. Nevertheless, as a document
produced by non-native writers of Arabic, it cannot be classified as a work of
Middle Arabic.

The volume begins by resolving one confusing matter that the very term “Middle
Arabic” had engendered, one not yet resolved by the time the 2004 conference
on the theme had convened. Whereas, as the author of the enormously useful
introduction writes, the first conference, “witnessed a vivid debate on the
adequacy of the terms ‘Middle Arabic’ and ‘Mixed Arabic’”, in succeeding
conferences, the situation had changed: “In general, specialists in the field
no longer seem to adhere to the old habit of using the term ‘Middle Arabic’ as
an exclusively chronological device for describing a postulated intermediate
phase between Old Arabic (often incorrectly identified with Classical Arabic)
and the modern Arabic dialects” (p. 6).

This accounts for the term ‘Mixed Arabic’ in the title. At one time, Middle
Arabic was posed as a stage in a chronological sequence proceeding from a
hypothetical Old Arabic -- often associated with the Arabic of pre-Islamic
poetry and the Quran; Middle Arabic; and Neo-Arabic, that is, the modern
spoken Arabic vernaculars, implying stages of development analogous to Old
English, Middle English, and Modern English. While this was often taken
implicitly, Blau poses it specifically (1966: 26; 2002: 9); but even Blau
(2002: 18) has begun to retreat from it. His reason must be that even he
acknowledges that Middle Arabic shares many features of texts written in the
modern period. Writing about Middle Arabic more than a decade ago, Versteegh
had already recognized this (Versteegh 1997: 114).

It has been customary when dealing with such texts from the modern era,
whether spoken or written, neither fully colloquial nor completely adhering to
the canonical rules of writing, to refer to them as “mixed”. The uneasy
consensus reached by AIMA conferees about what to label such texts is evident
in the very title of the book under review: Middle Arabic is mixed Arabic, and
it does not represent a historical stage in the development of the dialects.

Nevertheless, this recognition has not led to much study of variation in and
dialect influences on writing styles (for an exception, see Wilmsen 2010).
Instead, much literature in Arabic sociolinguistics is directed at the manner
in which speakers with varying degrees of success or skill imitate such
written norms in speaking. It would seem that far more interesting, and to a
study of Middle and Mixed Arabic more germane, is the variation in modern
writing styles and, where it happens, its deviation from the codified norms of
Arabic writing. As such, Mejdell’s closing observation in her contribution
should point the way to future studies of mixed styles: “recent years have
witnessed an explosion in the use of more colloquial-oriented styles in print
-- in parts of the press, and in youth magazines. Above all, the new
electronic media provide arenas for new written practices -- unedited and
uncontrolled by language authorities, literary as well as purely
communicative” (p. 244-5). This is a linguistic phenomenon truly worth
documenting in real time.

Medieval Middle Arabic texts are valuable to linguistics precisely because
they give evidence of the remarkable continuity and stability of the spoken
dialects of Arabic over a period of one thousand years. As such, both the
terms ‘Middle Arabic’ and ‘Mixed Arabic’ are misleading and have outlived
their usefulness. The charge to be put to conferees in their upcoming
colloquia is to seek a different term for their object of study. Indeed, den
Heijer recognizes this in his introduction to the volume (p. 8).

Two types of reader may be interested Middle Arabic studies, and, therefore,
this volume: historical linguists and readers from the modern religious
confessions whose medieval forebears produced the texts. Consequently, some
contributions are of historical interest, but not of great interest to
linguistics. For example, Schippers’ comments about “grammar” do not bear
upon linguistics as such. That medieval writers might produce such solecisms
as he documents, probably unwittingly for lack of attention more than for lack
of knowledge of the rules of classical Arabic, does not add any new
revelations about dialect development. Instead, Schippers’ analysis is of
interest for its cultural implications: “The audience to which the poet
directed himself was acquainted with the regular Classical Arabic poetry, and,
at the same time, its members are supposed to like the deviations from the
Classical language which give the poetry a special, perhaps ‘Judaeo-Arabic’,
flavour” (p. 263).

Similarly, de Vreugd’s text is itself a linguistic curiosity with the Hebrew
script interpolated with passages of punctiliously correct Arabic. For that
reason alone, it is of little interest to historical linguistics. The same
might be said for Kenat’s contribution: it is an interesting historical
document, but its value to a linguistic accounting of the development of
Arabic dialects is relatively small.

On the other hand, the implications of Tobin’s views to linguistics, although
also largely historical in perspective, are immense. Tobin embraces the
possibility that Judeo-Arabic existed before Islam. Recent linguistic work
(al-Jallad 2012) corroborates that Arabic speakers have been living in the
Fertile Crescent for centuries, perhaps as many as fifteen, before any Muslim
spoke a word of Arabic. In the multiethnic, multilingual polities of the day,
there were likely Jews who spoke Arabic either as a native or second language.

That being the case, from the perspective of historical dialectology, it is
not clear how Grand’Henry can justify his conclusion that Middle Arabic
constituted a single type. Living dialects constitute variable types, why
cannot literary dialects do the same? More likely, his texts represent, as he
also concludes, “deux styles d’écriture des copistes et deux styles de
révision textuelle à l’intérieure d’un cadre linguistique relativement stable
qui maintient pour nos textes du XIe au XIXe siècle” (p. 111).

Meanwhile, as historical dialectology of Arabic does indeed rely upon texts of
all types, den Heijer’s, La Spisa’s, and Lentin’s contributions are welcome
references for scholars of all manner of medieval Arabic writings, not simply
texts classified as Middle Arabic.

For theoretical and applied linguistics, Hilmy brings forth an observation,
well worth keeping in mind in speculations about language acquisition: native
speakers of Arabic develop as part of their language competence the ability to
recognize and understand many widely diverse regional variants. For his part,
Hary presents a detailed schematic of the interpretive aspect of translation,
constituting a model of the “black box” of the process of translation, so
named because it is impossible to observe.

The papers collected here represent the best of the conference volume genre,
comprising a sharing of findings in an ongoing research enterprise with the
broader scholarly community. The contributors are all active scholars in the
field, most with long publication records.

The conclusion that Zwartjes and Woidich reach is a suitable ending for the
entire work, adumbrating many of the concerns that continue to face
researchers into Arabic manuscripts of any kind and certainly those of what is
still called Middle Arabic:

“Further thorough study, in particular with respect to scribal habits, will
certainly reveal more details and lead to a better understanding ... For the
time being, however, we cannot tell with reasonable certainty whether we have
to assume here the influence of the standard variety or another Arabic dialect
... Alternatively, it may be that this description represents an older stage
of linguistic development, namely a kind of pre-modern ... Arabic. [The
question is]: how reliable is the data from [whichever] century ... ? To find
the answers to these questions and to obtain a more complete picture of the
problems at hand, it is extremely important to carefully investigate this and
similar works …” (p. 329).

Blau, Joshua, 1965. The Emergence and Linguistic Background of Judeo-Arabic: A
Study of the origins of Middle Arabic. Leiden: Brill.

Blau, Joshua. 1966. A Grammar of Christian Arabic: Based mainly on
South-Palestinian texts from the first millennium. Louvain: Corpus Scritorum
Christianorum Orientalium, Secretariat

Blau, Joshua. 2002. A Handbook of Early Middle Arabic. Jerusalem: Max
Schloessinger Memorial Foundation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

al-Jallad, Ahmad. 2012. Ancient Levantine Arabic: A reconstruction based on
the earliest sources and the modern dialects. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard

Lentin, Jérôme et Grand’Henry, Jacques (eds.). 2008. Moyen arabe et variétés
mixtes de l’arabe à travers l’histoire. Actes du premier colloque
international (Louvain-la-Neuve, 10 -- 14 mai 2004). Louvain-la-Neuve:
Institute Orientaliste de Louvain (Publications de l’Institute Orientaliste de
Louvain 58).

Versteegh, Kees. 1997. The Arabic Language. New York: Columbia University

Wilmsen, David. 2010. “Dialects of Written Arabic: Syntactic differences in
the treatment of object pronouns in the Arabic of Egyptian and Levantine
newspapers,” Arabica 57/1: 99-128.

David Wilmsen is associate professor of Arabic at The American University of
Beirut. His most recent published works have to do with the many
manifestations in speech and in writing of the Arabic nota accusativi, or
object pronoun, and its variable use cross dialectically. He is currently
completing a comprehensive diachronic study of indefinites, interrogatives,
and negators in western Arabic dialects.
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