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	BabelStone: The Rules for Long S
		I haven't checked enough books to be sure about the usage of short s before 'b' or 'k', but all of the books I checked that were published during the second half of the 18th century consistently used long s before both 'b' and 'k' (but kept to short s before 'f').
		Quite why short s should be required before 'b' or 'k' in the first place is a complete mystery to me (avoiding long s next to 'f' makes sense as 'ſ' and 'f' are so similar in shape), so it is perhaps not surprising that this rule dropped out of favour during the 18th century.
		The German eszett is a long s followed by a z.
	babelstone.blogspot.com /2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html (789 words)

	The Straight Dope: Why did 18th-cent. writers use F inftead of S?
		What you take to be an f is actually the so-called long s, also known as the medial s, to be differentiated from the terminal or short or round s, which we regard today as the conventional form.
		As one might deduce from the nomenclature, the long/medial s was supposed to be used in the middle of a word, while the terminal s was used to finish one off.
		You'll notice that the long f, though not the long s, persists in many serif fonts in the type style we now call italic, although the long s was used in so-called roman (i.e., non-slanty) fonts as well.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a1_110.html (509 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An alternative form of s, Å¿, called the s">long s or medial s, was used at the beginning or in the middle of the word; the modern form, the short or terminal s, was used at the end of the word.
		The use of the long s died out by the beginning of the 19th century, largely to prevent confusion with the minuscule f.
		In chess, S is sometimes used as a symbol for the knight, to reduce confusion over which of N and K stand for 'knight' and 'king'.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=s (1058 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Long s (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The long or medial s (ſ) is a form of the minuscule letter s that was formerly used when the s occurred within or at the beginning of the word, for example ſinfulneſs ("sinfulness").
		The medial s was subject to confusion with the minuscule f, sometimes even having an f-like nub appended to its middle.
		The medial s is represented in Unicode by the hexadecimal value 17F, and may be represented in HTML as
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/lo/Long_s (191 words)

	The History of s
		The modern letter s is derived from a variant appearing mainly in Gothic scripts, although derived from old majuscule forms, while the tall s persisted right through the medieval period and beyond.
		The long s in the formal script known as known as insular half uncial is relatively short, sits on the baseline, and has a crossbar.
		The 14th century Gothic rotunda version of the long s is the same as the Caroline minuscule form, and has a rounded from of the short s closed in the lower loop.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /scripts/letters/historys.htm (1035 words)

	Louisiana Secretary of State/Louisiana Gov.Pg.60-HUEY P.LONG
		Huey Long, and his followers for 30 years after his death, pushed for an unprecedented expansion of governmental services in education, transportation and health.
		His detractors opposed Long's methods of controlling the legislature and his demagogic methods of appealing to the masses.
		Long's single-minded use of power not only strengthened the executive branch, it helped him achieve his goals.
	www.sec.state.la.us /60.htm (506 words)

	LONG S, ROUND S. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
		LONG S, ROUND S. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.
		Long s is one form of the letter s that was used in printing and writing English both here and abroad until the end of the eighteenth century.
		In contrast, the s we now use everywhere was then used at the ends of words and called a round s.
	www.bartleby.com /68/9/3709.html (144 words)

	Sarah Long, M.S.
		Long is one of two full-time population biologists of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association’s Population Management Center (PMC) in Chicago.
		Her primary duties for the PMC are conducting genetic and demographic analyses and preparing breeding and transfer plans for various species held in zoos across the country.
		In addition, she conducts research in applied population biology, focusing on improving the methodology of population management and collaborating on the development of population management software.
	www.lpzoo.com /conservation/who_we_are/s_long.php (233 words)

	Long & Foster Real Estate
		Long and Foster has financing for your home purchase covered with our mortgage company Prosperity Mortgage.
		Long and Foster has a presence in seven states and the District of Columbia.
		At Long and Foster, helping you search through all of the real estate listings in our area is just the beginning.
	longandfoster.com (193 words)

	Basketball's Long(s) reign at North Catholic High School (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dave Long, 54, and his wife, Christine, have six children, and Dave saw the possibility of this family basketball outing a few years ago.
		Dave Long is the oldest of eight children, and his nephews and nieces have been making noise in sports in the northern suburbs for a number of years.
		Dave Long and his family live in Ross, but he knew his kids would be attending North Catholic, where he was a longtime assistant to Don Graham before taking over as head coach almost a decade ago.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/07013/753511-361.stm (707 words)

	About Me
		The Long Tail is a powerlaw that isn't cruelly cut off by bottlenecks in distribution such as limited shelf space and available channels.
		The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail.
		Although the phrase "The Long Tail" is trademarked, this blog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	www.thelongtail.com /about.html (1456 words)

	Welcome to Long John Silver's
		Long John Silver's President Steve Davis sent a personal letter to NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, congratulating NASA on their discovery.
		Long John Silver's, Inc. based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world's most popular quick-service seafood chain specializing in a variety of seafood items including batter-dipped fish, chicken, shrimp and hushpuppies.
		Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, Long John Silver's, Inc. was founded in 1969 in response to growing consumer demand for quick-service seafood.
	www.ljsilvers.com /press/freeshrimp.htm (530 words)

	Jimmy Long (Site not responding. Last check: )
		s support for integration and stacking the House Rules Committee to insure the passage of civil rights legislation; Governor Jimmie Davis and segregation; liberalism of Earl Long; assisting Gillis in his 1963 run for governor; reasons for Speedy Long
		s election to Congress in 1964; accusations by Speedy and other politicians that Gillis was a
		s charisma; importance of education to the Long family; Gillis
	www.lib.lsu.edu /special/williams/abstracts/gillis/longjimmy.htm (165 words)

	Torture's Long Shadow
		These czars were hardly bleeding-heart liberals, but long experience in the use of these "interrogation" practices in Russia had taught them that once condoned, torture will destroy their security apparatus.
		As someone who has been on the receiving end of the "treatment" under discussion, let me tell you that trying to make a distinction between torture and CID techniques is ridiculous.
		Long gone are the days when a torturer needed the nasty-looking tools displayed in the Tower of London.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121700018.html (1655 words)

	Social Security Online History Pages
		He earned the enmity of his fellow Senators due to his frequent use of the filibuster to make some "point of principle" about which he was especially passionate, and due to his not infrequent habit of casting aspersions on the character of his fellow Senators.
		As long as all the people working can produce enough of automobiles, radios, homes, schools, and theaters for everyone to have that kind of comfort and convenience, then let us all have work to do and have that much of heaven on earth.
		Roosevelt considers that either HUEY LONG or his share-our-wealth plan is so popular or so good that he must either imitate or counterfeit it for his own sake, then he knows that the genuine plan is considered sound enough, good enough, and popular enough to justify his imitation or counterfeit.
	www.ssa.gov /history/longsen.html (15269 words)

	Stephanie Lyn Long
		Minocha R, Minocha SC and Long S. Monitoring environmental stress in forest trees using biochemical and physiological markers.
		Minocha R and Long S. Effects of aluminum on organic acid metabolism and secretion by red spruce cell suspension cultures and the reversal of Al effects on growth and polyamine metabolism by exogenous organic acids.
		Minocha R and Long S. Simultaneous separation and quantitation of amino acids and polyamines of forest tree tissues and cell cultures within a single high-performance liquid chromatography run using dansyl derivatization.
	www.fs.fed.us /ne/durham/4505/people/stefcv.html (669 words)

	Rumsfeld Offers Strategies for Current War - washingtonpost.com
		The speech, which aides said was titled "The Long War," came on the eve of the Pentagon's release of its Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), which sets out plans for how the U.S. military will address major security challenges 20 years into the future.
		One of the toughest battles facing the United States, Rumsfeld said yesterday, is recognizing the seriousness of the terrorist threat and the immediacy of fighting the nation's enemies.
		Military leaders and officials in the Bush administration have taken to calling the global war on terrorism the "long war," which defense experts say is a recognition that there is no end in sight.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/02/AR2006020202296.html (1163 words)

	Social Security Online
		Huey Long was Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1930.
		Huey Long was the determined enemy of Wall Street, bankers and big business and he was also a determined enemy of the Roosevelt administration because he saw it as too beholden to these powerful forces.
		A high-school dropout who taught himself law and got a law degree in only one year of study, Long was confident he would become President of the United States in 1936.
	www.ssa.gov /history/hlong1.html (298 words)

	The Long Tail
		There is a long tail because the more specialized a language is to a domain, the better it fits to solve problems for that domain.
		IODA, who famously have the "obligatory Long Tail slide" as part of their investor presentation, have released a library of music with pre-cleared rights for podcasts, blogging, Internet radio and the like.
		Traditionally, the long tail has been used to describe the number of support personnel (the tail) required to support combat troops (the tooth).
	longtail.typepad.com /the_long_tail (12046 words)

	The Long Tail
		Nathanial Talbott, in a long meditation on software that goes from rails (iron variety) to Rails (the programming language), makes an interesting analogy: "The transcontinental railroad was to the real estate of inland America as iTunes is to the music marketplace of today.
		There is a long tail because the more specialized a language is to a domain, the better it fits to solve problems for that domain.
		Traditionally, the long tail has been used to describe the number of support personnel (the tail) required to support combat troops (the tooth).
	www.thelongtail.com (13289 words)

	IUP vs Seton Hill (Mar 23, 2006)
		Harness, J advanced to second on a wild pitch; Long, S advanced to third on a wild pitch.
		Gumpf, S hit into double play ss to 2b to 1b; Whitfield, B out on the play.
		Long, S advanced to third on a passed ball.
	www.iup.edu /varsitysports/sports/base/2006/game20.htm (1040 words)

	P.W. Long Biography - AOL Music
		P.W. Long first surfaced as the vocalist for the Michigan-based Wig (appearing only on the 7" Just Obscene and the indie release Lying Next to You), billing himself as Preston Cleveland.
		After the single's release in 1991, Long left to form the disastrously named Nigger Lover, eventually changing the name to N.L. Mule before finally deciding on the more succinct Mule.
		A performance at the Shellac-curated All Tomorrow's Parties in England in 2001 was Long's only major public appearance until the tour for his 2003 album, Remembered (released under the simplified moniker P.W. Long).
	music.aol.com /artist/pw-long/99286/biography (200 words)

	Long prison term for Lowe's wi-fi hacker
		The hackers used the wireless network to route through Lowe's corporate data center in North Carolina and connect to the local networks at stores in Kansas, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Dakota, Florida, and two stores in California.
		At two of the stores -- in Long Beach, California and Gainseville, Florida -- they modified a proprietary piece of software called "tcpcredit" that Lowe's uses to process credit card transactions, building in a virtual wiretap that would store customer's credit card numbers where the hackers could retrieve them later.
		With credit for time served and good behavior, Salcedo will be eligible for release in the fall of 2011.
	www.securityfocus.com /news/10138 (853 words)

	Stephen P. Long, Crop Sciences, U of I
		Farage, P.K. and Long, S.P. (1999) The effects of ozone fumigation during leaf development on photosynthesis in wheat and pea: An in vivo analysis.
		Farage, P.K., McKee, I.F. and Long, S.P. Acclimation of photosynthesis to elevated CO in wheat: Dependence on nitrogen.
		Nie, G.-Y., Hendrix, D., Webber, A.N. and Long, S.P. Free-air CO enrichment effects on the expression of photosynthetic genes and accumulation of carbohydrate in Wheat.
	cropsci.uiuc.edu /faculty/long/index.cfm (970 words)

	Dan's Long-Awaited Photo Tutorial-ish Thing
		If you don't mind your camera not being very far off a solid surface then your camera support can be as simple as a bag of beans, but a tripod is pretty much essential for proper positioning flexibility.
		A general rule of thumb is that you shouldn't try to hand-hold a shutter speed that's slower than one divided by the 35mm-equivalent focal length of your lens.
		Small aperture settings are necessary for good product photography because smaller apertures give you more depth of field - a larger range of distances from the lens in which things will be acceptably sharp, for a given focus setting.
	www.dansdata.com /phototute.htm (4619 words)

	Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"A Very Long Engagement" tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancée, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
		Although Jeunet relies heavily on Audrey Tautou's performance, it is ultimately his one of a kind visual style that emotionally ties the viewer.
		This said, the latter portion of 'Long Engagement' feels very rushed and isn't treated to the same elegance that so well defines the first half.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0344510 (479 words)

	What's Wrong With Long-Term Investing (Tradecraft) \| SmartMoney.com
		Saying it's a tough market is just an excuse, and unlike investors who are "in it for the long haul," I don't see any compelling evidence that owning stocks for long periods of time is the best way to achieve that return.
		What the long haul speaks to isn't the merits of stocks as an asset class, but the mathematical effects of compound interest over time.
		The point of the long haul isn't that stocks will go up over time, but that even low levels of return will eventually create wealth as a result of consistent compounding.
	www.smartmoney.com /tradecraft/index.cfm?story=20010222 (891 words)

	5.01: Features
		He has also sparked director Stanley Kubrick's imagination with the short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long." First published in Harper's Bazaar in 1969 and later anthologized, this tale of humanity in an age of intelligent machines and of the aching loneliness endemic in an overpopulated future is the inspiration behind Kubrick's ongoing AI project.
		David sat by the long window of his nursery, wrestling with paper and pencil.
		Artificial sunlight was growing long and golden across the lawn - and David and Teddy were staring through the window at them.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/5.01/ffsupertoys_pr.html (2496 words)

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