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Latin 884.lat.332 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 7:16 AM

Question: What Do the Latin Tenses Mean? http://ljsheehan.livejournal.com/

A reader trying to teach himself Latin asked:

What I am trying to find are the meanings for all the other tenses [beyond the Present]. I am new at this and I am tying to make it a little easier for me to understand.

He had designed a chart for the paradigms and was trying to insert English translations for all the forms. This might be a good exercise for other Latin students. In my explanation below I

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depression 5663.9io Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

Saturday, October 18, 2008 - 8:46 PM

Commentary No. 243, Oct. 15, 2008

"The Depression: A Long-Term View"

The depression has started. Journalists are still coyly enquiring of economists whether or not we may be entering a mere recession. Don't believe it for a minute. We are already at the beginning of a full-blown worldwide depression with extensive unemployment almost everywhere. It may take the form of a classic nominal deflation, with all its negative consequences for ordinary people. Or it might take the form, a bit less

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Monday, October 13, 2008 - 8:36 AM

Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . There's more than one way for people living at extremely high altitudes to adapt to so-called thin air. Biologically, there must be at least three ways, according to a report in an upcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://louisbjbsheehan.blogspot.com

A team led by Cynthia M. Beall of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland obtained blood samples and medical data from 236 Ethiopian villagers living more than 2 miles

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Friday, October 10, 2008 - 12:51 PM

A combination of peer pressure, gender stereotyping and low expectations contributes to turning potentially gifted kids — especially girls — away from mathematics, wasting a precious national resource, a new study suggests.

The study, by cancer biochemist Janet Mertz of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her collaborators, appears in the November Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

Mertz’s team tallied the participants in top international competitions for

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Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 9:24 AM

Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Palm readers take note: A team of Canadian psychologists suggests that part of understanding sexual orientation may be close at hand.
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The clue isn't in the bend of the love line or length of the ring finger. It's in which hand you present to the palmist.

The psychologists combined the results of 20 previous studies, both published and unpublished, comparing rates of right-handedness in a total of 23,410 homosexual and