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U.S. net farm income is forecast to be $58.9 billion in 2006, down from $73.8 billion in 2005, but slightly above the 10-year average of $57.2 billion, according to a report from USDA's Economic Research Service.
The primary reasons for the anticipated decline are a drop in the value of livestock production and direct government payments combined with an increase in the cost of purchased inputs.
Net cash income is forecast to be $66.6 billion in 2006, a decline from the high levels achieved in 2004 and 2005. Family farm operator household income is expected to decline 0.9 percent in 2006, as the decrease in farm income more than offsets an increase in off-farm income.
Farms are expected to contribute $107.6 billion in net value-added to the U.S. economy in 2006, substantially down from the 2004 peak year of $128.9 billion. Net value added is the sum of net farm income and payments made to agriculture's stakeholders (lenders, hired labor, and nonoperator landlords).
The value of production in the U.S. farm sector is forecast to be $279.5 billion in 2006, up $4.1 billion over 2005 and well above the 10-year average of $237 billion.
The value of crop production is projected to be up $7.1 billion over 2005, primarily from higher projected corn prices and stronger sales of vegetables, fruits and nuts, and greenhouse/nursery products.
The value of livestock production is expected to be down $4.7 billion from 2005, but still $18.9 billion above the 10-year average. Farm gate prices for most major livestock products are expected to fall from 2005, with milk prices declining the most.
Total direct government payments are expected to be $16.5 billion in 2006, down from the $24.3 billion for 2005. This payment total is nearly 4 percent below the five-year average. Payments under the direct and counter-cyclical program in 2006 are estimated at $5.2 billion, less than a 1 percent increase from 2005.
Total production expenses in 2006 are forecast to rise $11 billion (5 percent) to a record $237.3 billion. The percentage change is less than in 2005, but continues the increase in total production expenses that has occurred in each of the last four years. Since a decrease in 2002, total expenses in current dollars will have risen $43.8 billion (22.7 percent). Through October 2006, prices paid overall for crop sector inputs had risen faster than for livestock sector inputs.
Farm sector equity is expected to rise by about 7 percent in 2006, as the value of farm assets continues to rise more rapidly than farm debt, driven mostly by increases in farmland values. Debt-to-asset and debt-to-equity ratios continue to improve in 2006, compared with the first half of this decade and average performance over the past four decades.
Average farm household income is expected to decline 0.9 percent in 2006 to $80,703, with the decrease in farm income more than offsetting the increase in off-farm income. For every year since 1996, average income for farm households has exceeded average U.S. household income; during 1996-2005, the average difference was 15.2 percent.


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This paper presents a frequency-domain spectral element model for the symmetric laminated composite plates which have finite dimensions in two orthogonal directions, i.e., in the x- and y-directions. The spectral element model is developed by using two methods in combination: the splitting of original boundary conditions and the so-called super spectral element method in which both the Kantorovich method-based finite strip element method and the frequency-domain waveguide method are utilized. The present spectral element model has nodes (or degrees of freedom (DOFs)) only on four edges of a finite element, i.e., no nodes inside the finite element. Accordingly the total number of DOFs used in the dynamic analysis can be drastically decreased to lead to a significant decrease of the computation cost, when compared with the standard finite element method (FEM). The high accuracy of the present spectral element model is verified in due course by the comparison with the results by two solution methods: the exact theory available in the literature and the standard finite element model developed in this study.
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If you couldn't drop everything and fly to Monza this weekend to drool over vintage racecars, this video is the next best thing.
From vintage GT40s, to Lolas and Elvas as well as a spectacular 1970 Ferrari GTB/4 Daytona, the Historical Intereurope Cup brought out a unique variety of amazing race cars from the 1960s and early 1970s.
The beautiful noise combined with the glorious sight of these racers tearing up the track is compelling on a computer screen far away from Monza.
Although we'd love to be there to see the spectacle ourselves, what we really want is the chance to drift a vintage GT40 out of Ascari ourselves.
Hat tip to BtheD19, Formula J treble World Champion!


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One major item on the City's agenda is finding a replacement for Ward One City Councilor Holly Harper who resigned at the council's last meeting.
The Augusta City Council is facing a significant agenda for a holiday week meeting.
One major item on the agenda is finding a replacement for Ward One City Councilor Holly Harper who resigned at the council's last meeting.
No names of potential candidates have been released.
Monday's meeting will also feature some of the final discussion about the project to replace the dam and spillway at the city lake.
City officials and engineers completed a substantial completion walkthrough on November 6 and identified areas of concern that will be corrected or completed within 30 days so that the city is able to accept the project as complete.
The project began in December of 2011 when the city and MKEC started draining the lake.
The governing body will also consider purchasing a pickup truck for the electric department and a planning a sanitary sewer line television inspection service.
A measure to increase the sewer rates for Augusta residents.
Currently, the minimum monthly charge for residential customers is $7. The proposal before the council Monday night would increase that minimum monthly charge to $9.50.
The memo from City Manager Bill Keefer to the governing body said that the city's ten-year old water treatment plant is requiring more maintenance than in the past and a second person is needed in the sewer department.
The proposed increase would cover those costs and others the department incurs.
The council will also discuss a letter from the Attorney General's office about a possible Kansas Open Meetings Act violation in July. The Augusta Gazette brought the issue to the Attorney General's office after an impromptu executive session was called at the governing body's July 16, 2012 meeting.
The governing body was not found to be in substantial violation of KOMA, however there were some technical issues that the council and city staff have been asked to address.
The governing body will also consider planning work sessions for Dec. 10, 2012 and Jan. 14, 2013. The December meeting would be for the purpose of reviewing Main Street Building Codes. The January meeting would be to discuss water system improvements.


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In her four years of professional racing, 21-year-old female Motocross star Ashley Fiolek has achieved many milestones. The racing sensation made headlines when she became the first female to be signed to the American Honda Racing factory team. She is a three-time AMA WMX Women's Motocross Champion, plus a two-time X Games gold medalist. And what makes Fiolek's rise to the top even more remarkable is that she has achieved all this despite being born deaf.
"If my story can inspire one person to follow their dreams and never give up, no matter what the boundaries are, then it's all worth it. I wouldn't want to change any part of my story," Fiolek said.
Joining American Honda Racing in 2009, Fiolek made headlines when she took home the Women's Supercross gold medal at her X Games debut. Demonstrating it wasn't beginner's luck, Fiolek backed up her stellar result the following year by taking the gold again in 2010.
"The X Games is an amazing event," said Fiolek. "Everything about the competition is exciting. It brings some of the top extreme sports athletes from across the globe to Los Angeles for a week of extreme competition. I'm really proud to be among the select few athletes to have won X Games gold. Training for the Women's Supercross competition also gives me the chance to work one-on-one with Supercross legend Jeremy McGrath, which is really exciting. He's taught me a lot about Supercross racing."
For 2012, Fiolek's sights are firmly set on defending her WMX title after regaining the number one plate in 2011.
"My focus this year is to defend my WMX title. After a lot of hard work and preparation, I was able to win it back last year, and I am determined to keep it. I haven't really changed things up too much compared to last year, but I have been working really hard with my trainer during the off-season. I do a lot of strength training and cardio, like rowing, cycling, the elliptical and CrossFit. I receive so much support from everyone involved at Team Honda Muscle Milk, and they do an awesome job preparing my race bike; it's incredibly fast. There's definitely no shortage of people on hand to help me at each race, and there is no better way for me to repay the team than to win another title."
Fiolek's success both on and off the track has generated a lot of media attention, and her dominance has single-handedly elevated the profile of women's motocross racing. Fiolek was featured in the April 2012 issue of Vogue magazine. The four-page article gave an inside look at how Fiolek, has overcome her disability in a high-speed sport that puts a premium on the sense of hearing, and also offered insight into how it feels to be a female in a male-dominated sport. She also added book author to her list of career achievements with the release of her inspirational memoir, Kicking Up Dirt, in 2010—a story about determination, deafness and daring to dream.
Fiolek has also become a well-respected leader in the deaf community and gives back by hosting events at local deaf schools and community centers to show special needs children that dreams can come true no matter what the circumstances. Her story is so inspirational that American Honda featured her in a short film that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. As a result of being a three-time women's champ, Fiolek has developed a strong following of fans over the years and has become a role model to many young women.
"It is a huge honor to be in Vogue magazine," said Fiolek. "To be in a magazine that is not related to the motocross industry is a great opportunity for me. I love being able to leave an impact on people, and if I can expose more women to motocross through the magazine then that is an accomplishment in itself. It was a great experience, and I hope to be involved in more things like this in the future."
"My success has not come easy, and my family has made some big sacrifices in order for me to follow my dreams. We are one big team, so when I win, they win. However, everything we've accomplished together so far hasn't been without its share of frustration. There have been some really tense moments and times when I wondered if it is all worth it. But it's the instances where fans tell me that I've inspired them to follow their dreams or I'm standing on the podium holding up the number one plate that all the hard work becomes worth it," said Fiolek.
Although Fiolek has achieved so much in her short professional career, she still has another goal in her sights: to be the first woman to qualify alongside the men in a 250-class Motocross race.
"I really want to qualify with the boys," said Fiolek. "I've come close a few times now, but I'm determined to add first woman to qualify for the 250 Motocross class to my list of career accomplishments. That would be very cool."
With the support of Team Honda Muscle Milk coupled with the level of talent and determination Fiolek has shown throughout her racing career, one thing is for sure—Fiolek will be a force to be reckoned with in the 2012 WMX competition.
1st AMA/WMX Women's National Motocross Championship
2nd AMA/WMX Women's National Motocross Championship
Winner X Games Women's Supercross gold medal
1st AMA/WMX Women's National Motocross Championship
Winner X Games Women's Supercross gold medal
1st AMA-WMX Women's National Motocross Championship
2nd GNC International Final, Women's 99-250F Pro
1st Lake Whitney Spring Classic, Women's 99-250cc 12+ Amateur
1st GNC International Final, Women's 99-250F n/p
1st World Mini Grand Prix, Girls 65-85cc
5th WMA Steel City National
6th AMA-WMA Drill Tech Women's Cup
2007 Xtremey Award, Most Inspirational Athlete
1st Lake Whitney Spring Classic, Girls 12-15 85-105cc
1st GNC International Final, Women's 99cc and up (250 max)
1st NMA National Championships—Women's 125-250cc, Girls 65-85cc
AMA Winter National Olympics—1st Women's Supercross 99cc and up, 3rd Women's Motocross 99cc and up
AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships—11th Boys 85 Mod 14-15, 14th Women's 99cc-250cc
1st GNC International Final, Women's 99cc and up (450 max)
1st Branson MX National Championship, Girls 12-15
7th AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships, Women's 99cc and up
No. 1 Woman/Girl Amateur Racer of the Year, Amateur MX magazine
Champion* AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships, Girls 9-13
1st AMA Winter National Olympics, Supercross Girls 9-13
1st AMA Winter National Olympics, Motocross Girls 9-13
AMA Youth Motocrosser of the Year
AMA Youth Rider of the Year
AMA Winter National Olympics, Thor MX Outstanding Achievement award
*First deaf person to win an AMA National Championship


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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the University of Virginia recently initiated a pilot program to help physician assistants and nursing educators jointly develop common training materials on genomic medicine. The materials will be freely available on a Web site that helps both professions achieve competence in the emerging field of genomic medicine. The $100,000 project will help physician assistants and nursing educators develop and review educational information in the arena of genetics and genomics.
Because the required educational content for the two groups is very similar, physician assistant and nursing communities have widely adopted structured competencies for genetics and genomics education. The new project relies on these similarities to create a shared, integrated learning and content management system on the Internet that will permit educators from the two professional groups to post competencies, compare overlaps and populate the site with educational materials.
"Most healthcare provider groups have very similar core educational needs in genetics and genomics," said Greg Feero, M.D., Ph.D., who is the Senior Advisor to the NHGRI Director for Genomic Medicine and chief of the institute's Genomic Healthcare Branch. "These needs can be better addressed through this collaborative effort." The educational resources offered on the new site will be mapped to genetic competencies in a way that helps the students improve in specific subjects.
The Web site will also help educators quickly identify materials helpful in teaching a specific competency, as well as resources and tests to measure whether the student has learned the information.
"This resource is more than just a catalog of PowerPoint slides," said principal investigator John Voss, M.D., director of education, Institute for Quality & Patient Safety at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville. The repository will help educators learn from each other as they create and share new teaching material on genetics and genomics. Eventually, the site will allow the user to follow and rate posted materials producing a shared educational resource that is primarily self producing. The site will be free with open access to the public.
Groups supporting the project include the Physician Assistant Education Association, the American Academy of Physician Assistants, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), the National League for Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, the National Society of Genetic Counselors, as well as the National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics.
"This collaboration helps educators from different professions cross germinate ideas regarding competencies and share teaching and learning tools for genetics," said Connie Goldgar, PA-C, M.S., director of graduate studies, Utah Physician Assistant Program, University of Utah School of Medicine.
While aimed at helping students learn genomic medicine, the Web site is also intended to help educators collaborate in the development of educational content. That collaboration should help ensure that the materials are current and accurate.
"The Web site can serve as a model for the inter-professional training we need to implement in providing best care to our patients," said Dr. Fay Raines, president of AACN. "This resource will be invaluable to nursing school faculty who are working to integrate genetics and genomics content into their curricula, thereby preparing students to provide higher quality patient care."
If the pilot program proves successful, partnerships will be expanded to primary care physician groups and then eventually to all healthcare providers that utilize competency-based approaches to educate their members.
The pilot project is at the end of its planning stages and is scheduled to launch in 2009. For more information about the program, contact Jean Jenkins at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Last Reviewed: February 26, 2012


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Opinion: President Kirchner's Grab for the Supreme Court
Can Argentina's independent media survive president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's power play? WSJ's 'The Americas' columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady discusses. Photo: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... the Argentine history investors badly you should see what they've been doing to journalists are tells about is Mary Anastasia O'Grady are America's columnist Mary I'm trying to ... come up with the analogy we're talking earlier ... what's the what's happening in Argentina maybe this is sort of like the Obama administration decided to shut down Fox News and the silence of broadcast voice what what's ... the deal was that of Argentina ... there are some Palau that that look like that and in fact I'm there also are asking the Supreme Court and leaning on the president's Supreme Court to make a ruling in their favor ... there are some parallels to this country ... in that time ... one of them just to look ... at the significance of ... Christina teacher president of Argentina our readers know or is the person who has been refusing to pay her bills around the world but ... domestically ... she has us ... in the theological problem or at least and maybe that's not fair bit is just a free press in the color in group a and ... and ... she has some pressures of judges to ... rule against the sky ... actively and both Mrs teacher and her husband before her he was he was president before her ... I have both tried to consolidate power ... and the reasoning tend to do that is because they look around the South American continent may say well it worked for what Chavez he was elected and never left off recently died ... I it's worked in Bolivia it's worked in Ecuador in the north and Central America Nicaragua ... and out this model which is basically that you get elected and then you dismantle the institutions ... that would ... check your your your power ... I is it seems like a pretty standard recipe and ... she has made a lot of progress because both her and her husband ... were granted special emergency powers because of the crisis in Argentina they use that to consolidate power by ... she has a problem right now she wants to run for third term ... so far Congress has told me she can't do that ... she's going into midterm elections on October twenty seven ... and she's in a very weak position ... so what is she doing she's leaning on the Supreme Court to try to get the court to rule in your favor ... on and media law that would basically ... we're move all indeed it ... would basically iam ... de fund or are you on the finances of the Korean group ... which is the only television station ... that ... is available to give an opposition pointed you in the range so what drove and what she seeking is a force divestiture of this company's cable systems which allow them to have an independent voice and a profitable independent voice that can not they can push back again yet I mean if if they lose the cable network they're also going to be weak and in all the other things they do their broadcast license for on news ... I've been on this and they also have that at a newspaper ... and some of the great the weekend and and and it's the only thing she's done against the independent media her government has her Ras journalists their seven journalists that are taking their complaints to be an American human rights Commission ... because the and these are these are prominent journalists in Argentina is to say that the government has been harassing them ... and ah she is also the government also organized a moratorium so that Ed private sector would not advertise in newspapers that criticize her ... so the media is under a lot of Prussia in New Britain about the of the ... lot of pressure of mobs are caressing judges to go along I get I gather it's a in other various techniques for her to shut down the media ways is simply that does ... sees or grab a have been an outlet with another way she's been pursuing is pressure judges ... to ... get all the neighborhood Rawlings was essentially dismantle this on ... what is I guess they just about the only ... um non non compliant media outlet is unfair are there others that are the that's pretty much fair because their other private sector I've media outlets but ... many of them depend on the government's spending money advertising with them so that if you don't comply you don't get the advertising money but I think it's ... something ounces is a very important which is the of the media ... you have the Supreme Court which should defend the rights of the media ... and in that case you bring her husband basically ... of lead and momentum ... pressure judges that ... I he didn't like to resign from the court ... including judges that he likes ... of these is they basically have control of the court but right now it's a seven I just ask what ... and I'm it's not clear how the court to rule on this media law but I mean my point is that ... this is a crucial moment for the Argentine Republic because if they most this ruling ... I they will ... lose the free press in Argentina and her odds of ... being able to ... ask ... you you no further abuse of ... her powers as president will grab a tissue or even a public criticism for Spirit thanks for ...


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Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) is an exciting investment destination with total FDI capital reached 40 billion USD. With many advantages in economic development and business environment, foreign investors have been coming to set up business in Ho Chi Minh City.
Mr Dinh La Thang, Party Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has met group of United States (US) investors led by Mr Howard Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald Financial Group come to explore investment opportunities in HCMC.
Highly appreciated the US investors have chosen HCMC to invest in Financial Tower project, Mr Dinh La Thang committed that the city would create the most favorable conditions for US businesses as well as other international investors, bringing benefits to the enterprise and also the city.
At the same time, the city desires Cantor Fitzgerald Group and US investors will soon implement the Financial Tower project in Thu Thiem urban area, bringing Thu Thiem into a financial center in the region, attracting more investors and large financial corporations of the US and the world.
The city also believes that with the visit of US President Barack Obama to Vietnam, a new wave of investment from US will increase rapidly, especially when the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement takes effect.
With its dynamic, HCMC is training human resources to be able to meet the needs of development and investment.
According to Cantor Fitzgerald Group, the reason for choosing Vietnam as investment destination was calculated very carefully, because Vietnam is an important destination for the circulation of financial flows in Southeast Asia in the coming time. Moreover, Ho Chi Minh City is a vibrant and dynamic place with strong entrepreneurship, especially among the young.
With great financial strength, the Cantor Fitzgerald Group wants to invest and along with HCMC to grow prosperously.


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Too wild, wet and windy to race in Key West
22 January 2008
Key West, Florida - The first day of scheduled racing for the Melges 24 fleet in Key West, Florida at ACURA Key West 2008 presented by Nautica produced everything else but. With incredible windy, wild conditions prevailing from the crack of dawn until the attempt at a first race, the fleet was excited to get the week started — as was the race committee.
An on land postponement greeted sailors first thing, then around 11:30 a.m. the signal was made for teams to travel out to the race course. The wind was howling sustaining around 20-25 knots and gusting well into the 30's. The day was set to be interesting as conditions were quite severe. Accompanying the wind were nauseous 8-10 ft seas, swells and angry chop as well as over cast skies and patches of light rain. With forty-six teams growing ever so anxious, nothing ever seemed to get settled resulting in the race committee abandoning all races for the day.
Racing will continue on Tuesday with once again what appears to potentially be as treacherous a forecast. Winds are still expected to be on the up-and-up and more rain than today.
ACURA Key West is known for its world-class race committee work, optimum conditions and top-knotch rivalry. Each year, Premiere Racing features a very diversified International Team Competition. Teams of three — a Melges 24, Melges 32 and Farr 40 from various country origins are paired against one another — Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain (2), Italy, Scandinavia, Switzerland, USA (3 — East Coast, Great Lakes and West Coast). Among the Melges 24s selected are class newcomer Hank Wissenz on 'The Rodent' from Canada; Benoit Charon on 'Tresvalles.com' from France; Bent Dietrich on 'Kleine Rainbow' from Germany; Tony Wetherall on 'Cujo' and John Pollard on 'Xcellent' from the UK; Lasse Kjus on 'NOR724' from Norway; Flavio Favini helming for Franco Rossini on 'Blu Moon'; Riccardo Simoneschi on 'Fratelli Giacomel Audi' from Italy; and Othmar Mueller Von Blumencron on 'Gannet', Brian Porter on 'Full Throttle' and Dave Ullman on 'Pegasus 505'. Stay tuned to www.premire-racing.com for full information and results on International Team Competition.
Of the 46 competing teams in Key West fourteen successfully qualified for Corinthian competition — all American with the exception of one boat from the UK — Martin Wedge on 'Eric'. Since 2006, the U.S. Melges 24 Class has chosen to spotlight these amazing competitors in this very special editorial column. Corinthian's are the bread and butter of the fleet and this is their moment to shine. The amatuer entries are as follows:
- Richard Mallison, Speedmon
- Bruce Ayres, Monsoon
- Mark Beck, Risky Business
- Dave Brede, 12happythoughts
- Argyle Campbell, Rock n'Roll
- Loren Colehan, Lounge Act
- Chris Johnson, Wiggleroom
- Tom Kassberg, Flygfisk
- Guy Mossman, Riot Act
- Gary Schwarting, Obsession
- Hank Wissenz, The Rodent
- Martin Wedge, Eric
- Othmar Mueller Von Blumencron, Gannet
- Kelly Gough/Shawn Grisham, Bulls Eye
The Melges 24 is designed by Reichel Pugh (www.reichel-pugh.com) and considered the most unique one design Sportboat in the world as well as one of the fastest-growing classes of high performance yachts. For more information visit the U.S. Melges 24 Class Association (USMCA, www.usmelges24.com) and the International Melges 24 Class Association (IMCA, www.melges24.com) on the web.
For more information or press photos, please contact:
Joy Dunigan
U.S. Melges 24 Class Association
Press Officer | Class Communications Director
+1 (912) 398-5776


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Outlet prices are just around the corner
Roger Button
By ROGER BUTTON
Businews Columnist
Lisa Fazzone has opened Jealous Orchard, 207 S. Nokomis Ave., to sell designer clothing at outlet prices. Shop for your home, yourself, work or a girlfriend, as she sells wallets, purses, Yankee Candles and inspired designer jewelry.
In the store you will find hand-painted furniture from a local artisan; greeting cards; and women's fashions, including sweaters, jeans, khakis, capris, shirts and everyday wear in sizes from petite to regular, and some larger sizes as well.


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Years ago, when I was applying for a job at a local nonprofit, one of the members of the hiring committee pulled out a column I had written for this newspaper and asked me if I really believed that we lived in a rape culture. "Well, yes," I stammered, "men rape women in order to demonstrate how easily women can be controlled." I tried to tie my analysis of rape to the social justice concerns of the non-profit. "The threat of rape is not unlike the threat of nuclear weapons," I suggested. "A man doesn't have to actually rape for the weapon to have its desired effect. Women just have to know that he can rape and they'll back off." The interviewer couldn't see the connection. "What about your work with volunteers?" asked another member of the committee, vainly attempting to steer the conversation in a different direction. Suffice it to say, I didn't get the job.
The term "rape culture" is vague by design. Feminists use it to open up a conversation about sexualized violence that doesn't put the onus on victims to educate the rest of us. When the conversation is about rape culture and not specific acts of rape, it is less easy to blame the individual victim or excuse the individual perpetrator. "Let's look at how our society allows for aggressive intrusion on those with less power," is a very different conversation than "How could she let that happen?" With the former, there's some hope that we might form different social habits. In the latter, we're constrained to talk about a past event.
The downside of using a term like "rape culture" is that it raises the specter of criminal prosecution. In the last twenty years, the consequences attached to a conviction for a sex crime have outpaced the consequences attached to a conviction for homicide. Sex offenders are placed on registries, are prohibited from living near schools, are banned from participating in many re-entry programs. Once a man is labeled a sex offender, he is banished to the periphery of civil rights. News reports describe a cluster of sex-offenders living in a hotel in Iowa, just off the highway, the only place that conformed to their conditions of release. In one part of Florida, the only spot on the map that complied with probation requirements was under an overpass outside of town.
For those of us working in coeducation, the problem of rape and its consequences presents a very difficult challenge. On the one hand, young women want to talk about the problem of sexualized violence without having to talk about a traumatic experience. On the other hand, young men don't want to acknowledge any yearning that might banish them to life on the outside of town. The very idea that there is a rape culture is essential to one group and threatening to the other. "Don't make us talk about rape in concrete terms," says one group. "Don't accuse of something that will ruin our lives," responds the other.
Rather than tackle this problem directly, some colleges have taken to hiring outside help. Hamilton College, for instance, required all first-year males to attend a program named "She Fears You," presented by an expert on diversity. This got the attention of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which warned the freshman that they would be "pressed to acknowledge their personal complicity in a 'rape culture' on Hamilton's campus and to change their 'rape-supportive' beliefs."
FIRE's argument against "She Fears You" was based on the fundamental principle of the assumption of innocence. Why assume that all male first-years are potential rapists? Why treat them as if they are in need of reform? "Rape culture", says FIRE, hasn't been proved. If Hamilton does have a rape culture, shouldn't that be listed in their admissions material so that women can choose to go somewhere else? According to FIRE, efforts to address sexualized violence need to happen on a case-by-case basis, after the fact, and not through some mandated intervention by the administration.
Personally, I still find the term helpful, if for no other reason than it makes us aware that our most intimate relationships can easily become very, very harmful. "Rape culture" reminds students on these college campuses, with tended lawns and quiet reading rooms, that sex and sexuality comprise a terrain with as many land mines as lovely views. Most importantly, "rape culture" tells all of us that the space between us, the place where culture makes its home, needs our attention.
That said, I don't think we improve the space between us through prosecution or indoctrination. Indeed, one might make the argument that rape culture harms women by turning them into victims and men by turning them into perpetrators. In that sense, "rape culture," as a concept, need not work for women at the expense of men. Under the vagueness of the term, men could talk about the threat of being prosecuted without having to expose a specific humiliating incident.
At Hamilton, when it became clear that the identification cards would not be swiped and that attendance was, in effect, optional, a mass exodus ensued. That moment made visible the ways that rape culture asserts itself on public discussions: the women were never invited, and most of the men left on principle.
"Rape culture" is an intellectual tool that can help us see how our lives are diminished by violent relationships. When it starts being used as a weapon to bludgeon one another, it loses its transformational quality. But if young men and women were to gather together to study the effect rape culture has on human development, they might discover how all of them are terribly harmed. Once the common harm is better understood, there's a chance they might find a common solution. There's nothing like the recognition of commonality to make rape, and nuclear weapons, a thing of the past.
Schools: Hamilton College Cases: Hamilton College: Thought Reform of 'Pro-Rape' Male Freshmen


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This morning on the NPR radio program Weekend Edition, Susan Stamberg interviews lexicographer Sol Steinmetz. (No transcript yet, but this link will take you to the audio, as well as a description.)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor … d=89195654
Stamberg asks about words people "misuse," giving the example of disinterested and uninterested. Steinmetz points out that the meanings of the two words used to be opposite what they are now – that is, uninterested used to mean "impartial," while disinterested meant "with no interest" (at least according to Steinmetz). He also points out that since dis and un mean essentially the same thing, there is neither logical nor historical reason to call those users who reverse the current standard meaning "wrong." As Steinmetz says, "There's no reason why people shouldn't use one instead of another to imply negativity."
Stamberg insists, though, "That's not correct." When Steinmetz rather diplomatically suggests, "Critics will always criticize," Stamberg suggests that the "critics" are correct and that the deluded non-standard speakers "will misunderstand what they've written."
Of course we all have our pet-peeves – I myself have been known to suggest, or at least feel, that impact should not be used as a verb despite my professed non-prescriptivist values. I thought Steinmetz was quite diplomatic in not aligning with Stamberg's need to judge, while still not overtly disagreeing with her.
I guess I'm a rehabilitated prescriptivist, but I still have numerous pet-peeves. I can now chuckle at all kinds of linguistic slippage that used to stick in my craw. Speaking of impact, I had trouble keeping a straight face the first time a professional cohort advised me; "You need to dialog with them today." Later on I thought, "Why not? I monolog with myself all the time!" Also, disinterested and uninterested reminds me that the words flammable and inflammable have identical meanings. The first time I saw the word inflammable, I naively thought it to mean fireproof. What's up with that? Chad, I think you might be onto something.
I'm totally prescriptivist along idiosyncratic lines: If I like it, it's in. If I don't, I think it's wrong.
(well, not really wrong, but I scorn it)
In reality, I have prescriptivist leanings but bow to the idea that language is a democracy, and words only have true meanings if the two people using them (speaker & hearer/writer & reader) agree on what they mean. And so I mourn the lost of clarity that comes when "disinterested" slips into "uninterested," and vice versa.
I also have different standards for the hoi polloi, and those who would claim to be experts in the clear usage of language. I would never correct someone who used "uninterested" to mean "having no stake in the outcome," but I would expect an editor, a professional writer, a wordsmith, to use the word "disinterested."
(I love "monologing" and have no problem w/ "dialoging.")
People on the forum who know me as a fire-breathing descriptivist might be surprised to see what I do to students' papers. I think a lot of the "rules" are silly, but I also know that a lot of people out in the real world consider violations of them a useful measure of a writer's intelligence or prudence or propriety—or something. I therefore feel I need to prepare my students for that first reader of a grad school application who might consider a split infinitive a grievous error. So I'm in the weird position of enforcing principles I don't believe in. I explain this to a certain extent, but I find that too much explanation in this regard starts feeling a bit metaphysical.
But that grad school example wasn't necessarily hypothetical. The admin. for the grad. dept. of a prestigious English program once told me that they typically got 600 applications for fewer than 20 positions each year. I asked how they started narrowing down the field. She replied that anything with a significant typo or grammatical error went straight into the trash. Well, I thought, this IS an English department. Still, her answer made me really uneasy—I was willing to bet that some of the disqualifying "errors" would be things I personally considered non-erroneous.
Yes, but many of those things that you consider non-erroneous are still things that many people say are bad form.
And surely a student's ability to find the common norms and decide when to conform to them is also an indicator of the level of care and effort they'll put into their studies?
The Hatfield descriptivists and McCoy prescriptivists pursue their feuds from one academic mountaintop to another. This forum, I would think, qualifies as neutral ground. If the prescriptivists had their way, eggcorns and all of their vile spawn would be nosed out and hared from the county, and we would have nothing to talk about. If the descriptivists eliminated the prescriptivists, our beloved eggcorns, which work by violating historical standards, would be whistles to a deaf hound.
I deplore, of course, the customs that lead families to fight. But I need the hooch they are truckin' down the mountain.
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kem, you are the master of the bon mot!
Feeling quite combobulated.
Neutral ground? With two of our three founders regular posters on Language Log? And Chris Waigl is neutral in regard to prescriptivism?! You gotta be kiddin me….
If the descriptivists eliminated the prescriptivists, our beloved eggcorns, which work by violating historical standards, would be whistles to a deaf hound.
Gimme a break.
TootsNYC wrote:
And surely a student's ability to find the common norms and decide when to conform to them is also an indicator of the level of care and effort they'll put into their studies?
I'm not trying to be merely contrarian in this post and the last one, but I really strongly disagree—at least in regard to students and their writing. (I think it's possible I'd feel differently if I were editing the raw products of professional writers rather than those of students.)
Sure, there's a tendency for papers with excellent arguments and exposition to have good presentation. And there's a tendency for papers with terrible arguments and exposition to have poor presentation. But beyond the identification of that general tendency, all bets are off.
I once had a student whose papers were consistently picture-perfect in regards to grammar and punctuation. But he never did anything but recount what had happened in the plot of the narrative he was writing about—no thesis, just plot summary. He seemed to ignore the techniques we discussed in class and the examples I gave him in office hours. He cared about the correct placement of the comma, but I couldn't really tell whether he cared about his studies in general. He was pretty unusual, admittedly, but essays with boring arguments and good proofreading aren't unusual at all.
And very interesting papers with casual proofreading aren't unusual either. In fact, I often find that some students who've gotten really usefully excited about the ideas they're writing about have so many different things whizzing around in their brains that they have trouble getting everything to fit together on the page—and presentation suffers. And on the other hand, some students who appear to be going through the motions also seem to think, "Well, I should at least get the punctuation right…." They aren't spending a lot of time really thinking hard about the topic, so they've got a little more time to double-check things. (And please don't misunderstand me—most students probably don't fit either description.)
I try to be patient with the students who fall into both camps, and occasionally I have real success in 14 weeks in showing someone that a marriage of analysis and presentation is an ideal worth working towards. But my experiences don't at all indicate to me that a student's level of concern for the norms is a good indicator of their intellectual curiosity or devotion to learning. They're apprentices, and part of what they're learning is as much about priorities and balance as it is about proofreading or interpretation. Most of them are almost certainly still working on getting those things right when they're applying to grad schools. And "priorities" and "balance" are two concepts I end up thinking about when I think about people turned away from a graduate program because of a typo.
TootsNYC wrote:
[...] I also have different standards for the hoi polloi [...]
I am a slightly reformed prescriptivist / late-evolving descriptivist, but I wonder at your use of "the" before "hoi polloi" – which of itself means "the many" / "the masses" / "the people". I do see / hear "the hoi polloi" now and then, but consider it suboptimal. "Hoi polloi" stands alone for me.
Gordon Balfour Haynes, professional verbivore, Australia
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
Here's the entry on "hoi polloi" from Paul Brians' Common Errors in English, a well-known American usage website:
Hoi polloi is Greek for "the common people," but it is often misused to mean "the upper class" (does "hoi" make speakers think of "high" or "hoity-toity"?). Some urge that since "hoi" is the article "the hoi polloi" is redundant; but the general rule is that articles such as "the" and "a" in foreign language phrases cease to function as such in place names, brands, and catch phrases except for some of the most familiar ones in French and Spanish, where everyone recognizes "la"—for instance—as meaning "the." "The El Nino" is redundant, but "the hoi polloi" is standard English.
The MWDEU editors have a somewhat different take, but I think they ultimately agree, more or less, with Brians, admitting "hoi polloi" without the article as a possibility but favoring the version with "the." They write
Hoi polloi without the is certainly standard, but it sometimes has an unidiomatic ring to it (Bernstein 1977 [his Do's, Don'ts & Maybes of English Usage] describes it as "clumsy").
For me, naked "hoi polloi" just feels, well, naked.
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Probably been discussed here somewhere already, but for many hoi polloi means "the muckety-mucks, the up-and-ups, the elite". —D'oh, somehow skipped that you'd just quoted Brians' on that….Yes, I think hoity-toity is somehow involved.
I've always wondered what the singular form was — can you speak of a ho pollos ?? (Yes, an indefinite article besides the definite one, but anyway!)
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In Classical and Hellenistic Greek the singular is ho polus in the masc. nominative. Polus is just an ordinary adjective in Greek-it takes the gender, case and number of the noun it modifies. Polus frequently modifies singular nouns. When it does, we can't translate it with the English word "many," of course, since "many" in English can only modify a plural noun. The translation of the singular adjective would have to be something like "great," "large," "long," or "strong," depending on the context.
Like most Greek adjectives, polus can be used substantively, without the noun it replaces. So yes, it would not be unusual to see ho polus, he polle, to polu (masc, fem, neut singular) in Greek. When the masc. plural, polloi, is used substantively, with the meaning "many (people)," it is often used without the article. Those who lifted it in the nineteenth century to make an English idiom could have said "the polloi" just as correctly as "the hoi polloi." By bringing over the Greek article along with the substantized adjective they stoked the fires of prescriptivism.
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I kind of like "the polloi."
kem, I've complimented your writing before (you have come up with some beautifully worded truisms that I've commented on). And you know Greek, too! I appreciate your contributions to the forum and invariably learn something from them.
Feeling quite combobulated.
I always think "hoi polloi" sounds sort of onomatopoeic.
And I do know what you mean, Pat, about people w/ perfect mechanisms and no depth. I have always considered my undergrad degree to be a teeny bit cheapened bcs I graduated w/ someone like that—and unfortunately he was not capable of even understanding why his 1-page, perfectly punctuated story was not worthy of consideration as an "in-depth feature article."
So, yes, I can see.
But surely, on an application, which is such a one-shot, they'd avoid the most egregious problems?
I'll admit—I hire copyeditors, not thinkers, so those standards work well for me.
ho polus would mean something like "the numerous one" —"great" or "strong" or "strict" come up as translations when the word refers to emotions or qualities like anger, suffering, wisdom or self-control. When referring to a person it appears to have meant "the prolific/profuse one" (Clement—"Do not be polus in speech, do not gossip"). I was trying to invent a bastardized back-formation to mean "a man of the people, a plebe, one of the polloi". (fwiw)
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we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
I see what you are getting at, David. Calling what you are looking for a "bastardized back-formation" is exactly right. Hoi polloi has taken on a life of its own in English, wandering through semantic deserts where no Greek would ever have gone. I think the expression may have wandered too far away from its fons et origo to tap the source a second time. But if you want to try something grammatically sound on your erudite friends, you could refer to "eis ton pollon," one of the polloi.
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Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich (the main lexicon I have available at the moment) gives 'the many' (people, or whatever) , 'the majority', 'most people, the crowd', as meanings for substantive (nominal) hoi polloi (as opposed to singulars, ta polla 'many things', and so forth. The standard English meanings aren't terribly far from that.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Thinking about hoi polloi again. It's English pronunciation is a good indication that it is a late borrowing. The majority of Greek loanwords in English arrived in twelfth through sixteenth centuries. European scholars in that period learned their Greek from Greek teaching masters who came from Greece or the Greek colonies and who pronounced their Greek in a way that is close to modern Greek. This is why, for example, loanwords deriving from Greek words that have an upsilon usually pronounce the letter transcribing the upsilon with a short i sound (The word "physics," with its short i sound for the "y," is derived from the Greek word for nature, "phusis." The native Greek teachers of the medieval/early Renaissance periods would have pronounced that word "fis-is" or "fee-sis."). Late Renaissance scholars, arguing that classical Greek was pronounced in a different way than sixteenth century Greek, came up with artificial pronunciations systems for classical Greek. The so-called "Erasmian pronunciation" eventually became the standard pronunciation for the classroom Greek of English Enlightenment scholarship. These English classical scholars would have pronounced hoi polloi as "hoy pahloy." Which is why we pronounce the late loanword the same way. In modern Greek, and presumably in the Greek of the early Renaissance, the phrase is/was pronounced "hee pohlee." If we had borrowed hoi polloi in the sixteenth century, we would probably not pronounce the loanword the way we do.
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kem wrote:
Thinking about hoi polloi again. It's English pronunciation . . . In modern Greek, and presumably in the Greek of the early Renaissance, the phrase is/was pronounced "hee pohlee." If we had borrowed hoi polloi in the sixteenth century, we would probably not pronounce the loanword the way we do.
Do you know, I don't think I've ever heard that term—only read it. The only pronunciation of it I've encountered was in my own head.
But you know, "hee pohlee" is sort of onomatopoeic, too.
The standard English meanings aren't terribly far from that.
Perhaps I'm not that familiar with the English phrase "hoi polloi." To me it has always had a distinctly negative connotation. Something like "the rabble." The word "polloi" in Classical and Hellenistic Greek did not usually have a negative connotation. In the lingo of Athenian politics, for example, the "polloi" were the democratic majority, who were often opposed by the "oligoi", the power hungry elite.
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Yes, I recognize that negative tinge. B-A-G lists hoi polloi as occurring "W. a connotation of disapproval most people, the crowd " in Socrates, Epistles 6, 2 (maybe Socrates', maybe not?), St. Paul (2 Cor 2.17), Dio Chrysostom, Epictetus, Plutarch, and a handful of others.
But the negativeness is (in my English, anyway) more a tinge than a central specification. Perhaps it is still there in the modern meaning "the up-and-ups", but I sense it may have turned around there: the "hoi polloi" are the special ones (whether that is meant facetiously or not), viewed rather positively. And of course many political theories do see the masses/proletariat/polloi as virtuous and the oligoi as, as you called them, the (negatively viewed) power-hungry ones.
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we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Interesting discussion of "hoi polloi". Thanks, folks – food for thought.
Many of the comments made re the (mis-)application of the term also apply to Australian usage. One of my observations is that those in Oz who (mis-)use it to mean "the nobs" / "hoity-toity" almost invariably precede it with "the", but when I hear or read the term as used by more informed folk (defined by the meaning/s they attach to it) "the" is generally missing.
Perhaps this difference is real – or perhaps I have selective hearing / vision.
Apologies if I've upset anyone with my diversion.
Gordon Balfour Haynes, professional verbivore, Australia
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
Verbivore wrote
One of my observations is that those in Oz who (mis-)use it to mean "the nobs" / "hoity-toity" almost invariably precede it with "the", but when I hear or read the term as used by more informed folk (defined by the meaning/s they attach to it) "the" is generally missing.
I almost never see/hear "hoi polloi" without the article, so I can't speak to this from experience. But Verbivore's observation seems reasonable to me—it sounds like a case of duelling misconceptions. Those unfamiliar with Greek and the Greek meaning of "hoi polloi" are likely to be familiar only with the "the hoi polloi" form of the idiom because it's so much more widespread. And they're also far more likely to get the meaning of the phrase wrong than those who've studied Greek. And those familiar with Greek are probably more likely to believe erroneously that "the hoi polloi" is incorrect in English—which leads them to choose the rarer form of the phrase.


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Someone on Facebook recently asked a very interesting question, which was apparently asked at the third party presidential debate: If you could make one amendment to the Constitution, what would it be? Let me offer a couple of different possibilities.
Option one: Replace the 9th Amendment with one that is much more explicit, by enshrining strict scrutiny into the constitution as the sole judicial standard for all enumerated and unenumerated rights. That would mean that the individual is presume to have the right to take any action until and unless the government can show a compelling state interest in preventing them from doing it and that they have adopted the least restrictive means of doing so. This would certainly maximize individual liberty.
Option two: Public financing of campaigns along with specific prohibitions on contributions and the purchase of campaign commercials. I could see this working a number of different ways, but it would probably have to be written fairly broadly. For example, each candidate that gets 5% of the registered voters in the relevant area (district, for state and federal representatives; states, for senators and governors; the whole nation for presidents), they qualify for public financing. All qualified candidates get equal financing and every TV and radio station (those that use public airwaves) within the relevant districts must provide a certain amount of time to the candidates to debate the issues in the few months before a vote.The fact is that the influence of vast amounts of money in our political system is what is preventing us from solving most of our other problems. It's what forces legislators to care more about whether a bill or amendment benefits their wealthiest contributors rather than whether it benefits the country as a whole. And until we solve that problem, we'll continue to have most others.


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Taliban Spokesman Accidentally Copies Mailing List On Press Release Email
from the oops dept
"Why is my grandson trying to help me find love? I'm 200 years old."
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Well, funny story: it turns out that one of the few things we freedom-loving folks in the States have in common with our Taliban enemies is an amusing incapacity to check to whom we're sending our emails. Take a look at the oops Taliban spokesperson, Qari Yousef Ahmedi, made when he accidentally CC'd, rather than BCC'd, the Taliban's mailing list on a press release email this past Saturday.
In a Dilbert-esque faux pas, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference. He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on his mailing list. The names were disclosed in an email by Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, an official Taliban spokesperson, on Saturday. The email was a press release he received from the account of Zabihullah Mujahid, another Taliban spokesperson. Ahmedi then forwarded Mujahid's email to the full Taliban mailing list, but rather than using the BCC function, or blind carbon copy which keeps email addresses private, Ahmedi made the addresses public.I'm sure years from now, when the CIA has once again employed the Taliban to fight on our behalf against the Chinese-Australian-Alien Alliance, we'll all look back on this and have a nice laugh, but there's no understating that this is a massive screw up. Sure, most of the folks on the distribution list were journalists, but exposing their names that way, particularly for those that are working within Afghanistan, isn't a good thing. Besides that, not all the people who were exposed were journalists.
[The list] also includes an address appearing to belong to a provincial governor, an Afghan legislator, several academics and activists, an l Afghan consultative committee, and a representative of Gulbuddein Hekmatar, an Afghan warlord whose outlawed group Hezb-i-Islami is believed to be behind several attacks against coalition troops.Somehow I don't see this making the Taliban brass very happy. And Senator Joe Lieberman wants internet services to block Taliban messages? Why? Let them keep making these kind of mistakes.


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Denver Nuggets' Jordan Hamilton impressive at summer league
Can Jordan Hamilton crack the Nuggets' rotation next season?
That's the hope – and the way he's playing in summer league is helping his cause.
The Nuggets won their first game on Tuesday, thanks to a splendid effort from the small forward Hamilton, who scored a game-high 21 points on 9-for-14 shooting against the Knicks. He also committed just two turnovers in nearly 33 minutes and corralled eight rebounds, three offensive.
"I'm just trying to show more of an all-around game," Hamilton said by phone. "Most people look at me as a scorer, but I feel I'm a lot more than that – I look to pass, rebound, make the right plays.
"Last year, some of the coaches were stressing rebounding to me. Me helping the team with rebounding, that's an aspect of the game I can add to the Nuggets."
Hamilton has put up big scoring numbers in all three of Denver's games so far (the Nuggets play Thursday and Friday, as well). He scored 18 points in the two previous games, though wasn't as efficient as Tuesday, still shooting 6-for-15 against Dallas and 7-for-15 against Golden State.
Hamilton said he has lost 19 pounds this summer, bringing the 6-7 wing to 220 pounds.
"I just want to get faster and quicker – I feel more explosive when I'm lighter," he said. "So it'll help me get up and down the court."
So will he play come November? The Nuggets are currently loaded with depth, notably Wilson Chandler, Corey Brewer and even Andre Miller can play some shooting guard. But Hamilton can shoot the 3 – Denver was sixth-worst in the NBA last season in 3-point shooting percentage – so he could possibly steal 10-15 minutes per game at shooting guard or small forward.
Hamilton said he will spend the bulk of the summer in Denver, working out with the team's coaches and strength coaches. He turns 22 on October 6.


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Between her weekly radio show, DJ'ing in clubs and being a mum of three, a stroller for this busy entrepreneur had to feature great design, stability and a compact fold. "The Bugaboo Bee is really suitable for public transport in Tokyo; I use the bus, taxi, and trains all the time and spaces are pretty small and tight here."
This stroller really reduces the stress of taking a baby around and it has a cool and cute design too!"
Rinko is already practicing her DJ skills (left) and two more happy customers (right).
Aside from exposing her kids to different music styles through family-friendly parties, Nyoro also wants to teach her daughters the more traditional side of Japanese culture in the form Sado, the Japanese tea ceremony. "I studied Sado until high school and want to start teaching my girls soon. It effects many things in day-to-day life such as the feeling or gratitude and respect, the changing of the seasons, how to walk on tatami (Japanese floor mat), etc."
The changing of the seasons and Nyoro's kids wearing traditional Japanese dress.
Nyoro's own kids, Rinko (4), Rigo (7), and Riku (8), have now outgrown the stroller, but luckily it won't be out of sight: "I was using the Bugaboo Bee until last year and now that I have a new-born nephew, my sister-in-law is using it."
Any tips for other urban parents looking for a stroller?
Nyoro: "Look for a stroller with stable wheels that is easy to push with one hand, such as the Bugaboo Bee."
~ Arigato Nyoro!
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Fitness Instructors Are the New Deejays
People who go to boutique fitness clubs are increasingly choosing their classes by the music played there, and the music industry is taking notice. WSJ's Katie Rosman and mashup artist Scott Melker join Lunch Break with details. Photo: Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 16, 2010) -- In need of a critical win to snap a two-game losing streak and keep pace in the Atlantic Sun Conference regular season race, the ETSU men's basketball team welcomes league foe Florida Gulf Coast into the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center Saturday for a 4 p.m. showdown.
The Bucs, who are 8-9 overall, 4-2 in A-Sun play, remain just one game out of first place in the loss column, and are hoping to get back on track with a crucial two-game road swing through Nashville waiting next week.
For more on Saturday's game, click on the game notebook above or read the game notes below:
Buc bits
Still in the thick of the Atlantic Sun Conference title hunt, the ETSU men's basketball team returns to action Saturday against Florida Gulf Coast with hopes of ending a recent two game losing streak ... The Bucs dropped the first game of this weekend's homestand 54-52 to Stetson Thursday night ... The Bucs, 8-9 overall, 4-2 in league play, are tied for third in the league standings, but are just one game back in the loss column ... ETSU is currently 5-2 inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center this season, but is just 3-7 on the road this year ... Preseason All Atlantic Sun Conference pick Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) remains doubtful for the FGCU game after having missed the Bucs last eight contests, and is likely headed toward a medical redshirt season ... In Smith's absence, junior forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston) and junior guard Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) have stepped up their games � In fact, Hubbard has posted double-doubles in eight of his last 16 games ... When he was picked A-Sun Player of the Week on Nov. ,30, he posted a career best 32-point effort against the Razorbacks and a game-high 25-point effort in the victory over UNF ... Meanwhile, Tubbs posted a career best 29 points against CofC and 21 against Arkansas, to go with nine rebounds ... Currently, Hubbard and Tubbs lead the team in scoring, with Hubbard averaging 14.3 points per game, and Tubbs pitching in 12.9 a contest.
The series against Florida Gulf Coast
The Bucs and Eagles have met just three times, with FGCU just joining the Atlantic Sun Conference in 2007-08 ... ETSU holds a 2-1 edge in the series, having won games in Johnson City and Fort Myers, Fla. ... The two teams split their meetings a year ago, with ETSU winning the last game 102-78 back on Feb. 7.
Last time against Florida Gulf Coast
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 7, 2009) - Well aware that they were facing one of only two teams to beat them in Atlantic Sun Conference play this season, the ETSU Buccaneers produced their best offensive game of the season and rolled to a 102-78 win over Florida Gulf Coast in front of 4,045 fans at Memorial Center ... The win avenged a 64-61 loss to the Eagles earlier this season, and moved the Bucs to 17-6 overall, 11-2 in A-Sun play. With Jacksonville's 72-71 loss to Mercer earlier in the day, ETSU now holds sole possession of first place in the conference standings ... ETSU's "Big Three" - seniors Courtney Pigram (Memphis) and Kevin Tiggs (Memphis), and junior Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) - were certainly on their game in this contest. Smith collected his third straight double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds, while Tiggs posted a game high 29 points on 9-of-12 shooting. Pigram finished with 27 points, moving his career scoring clip to 1,874 and overtaking former ETSU great Calvin Talford for fourth place on the all-time scoring list ... The first half did not start out in a good way for the Buccanners, as the Eagles used some pinpoint 3-point shooting to shred the ETSU man-to-man defense and build a 23-15 lead with 13 minutes left in the half. However, from there the Bucs changed to a 2-3 zone and clamped down defensively, allowing just one field goal over the next six minutes and kicking up the offense on a 21-4 run that ended with the Bucs holding a 36-27 advantage ... ETSU didn't let up at that point, outscoring FGCU 16-8 the rest of the half to post its best offensive first half of the year and lead 52-35 at the break. In the first 20 minutes, the Bucs shot 57 percent from the field and were 58 percent from 3-point range, while holding the Eagles to just 27 percent shooting. The Bucs outrebounded FGCU 24-18 in the first half. ... The second half was more of the same for the Bucs, as ETSU posted another 50 points in 20 minutes of play and shot 48 percent from the field. Ultimately, the Bucs out-rebounded FGCU 47-38 and forced 17 turnovers by the Eagles.
Last time out
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 14, 2010) - For the third time in five seasons, the ETSU men's basketball team looked on as the Stetson Hatters came into the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center and left with an Atlantic Sun Conference victory ... The Buccaneers relinquished an 11-point halftime lead in front of 4,003 fans at the Mini-Dome, as Stetson went 10-of-25 from 3-point range to manage the 54-52 victory Thursday night. ETSU had a shot at the end to tie the game as Stetson's A.J. Smith missed the front end of a one-and-one, but junior forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston) went coast-to-coast only to have his layup attempt fall short at the buzzer ... ETSU led by eight 27-19 at the break, and though the game was not the up-and-down type that the Bucs would enjoy, they still held a somewhat comfortable lead. ... However, after a Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) 3-pointer found the bottom of the net to open the second half and make it 30-19 in favor of ETSU, Stetson went on a 19-5 run over the next nine minutes to take a 38-35 lead. The Bucs responded to regain the edge at 43-40, but back-to-back 3-pointers by Mark Lohuis and Brandon Williams made it 46-43 with just over six minutes left on the clock. ... ETSU tied the game at 46, but from there was never able to take the lead again. Even so, the Bucs did have a pair of opportunities to tie the game, as freshman guard Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) went to the line for a one-and-one with 21 seconds left and the game at 52-50 in favor of the Hatters. He missed the front end, however, and after a pair of makes by Smith that put the score at 54-50, the Bucs final score of the game came on a layup by junior forward Micah Williams (Manchester) with seven seconds left ... Stetson, which improved to 4-11, 2-5, was led by 12 points apiece from Lohuis and Williams, while Smith and Ridge Graham finished with 10 apiece. Meanwhile, the Bucs got a game high 13 from Micah Williams, while Tubbs finished with 12.
New-look zone defense powers win streak
Since developing a new, attacking-style zone defense, the Buccaneers have won three of their last five games ... The stats back up the zone's effectiveness, especially while winning three straight games from Dec. 21 to Jan. 9, as ETSU has held opponents to 35 percent shooting from the floor and just 59.3 points per game ... In addition, the Bucs are also outrebounding opponents by more than seven boards a game in that stretch.
Smith status still in doubt
Though he has played in four games this season and most recently scored a season high 14 points against UAB (12/4), senior guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) continues to battle nagging injuries ... This has left his status for the rest of the year in doubt, and in fact, he is likely headed toward a medical redshirt season.
Williams bringing more offense
to the table
Junior guard Micah Williams (Manchester) has worked his way into the starting lineup thanks mainly to back-to-back strong efforts on the offensive end ... Against North Georgia, Williams posted a career high 22 points in leading the Bucs to the win, and he followed that effort with an 18-point night against Murray State ... He has scored in double figures in seven of his last eight games ... Currently, Williams is one of three Bucs averaging double figures scoring this year with 10.8 points per game.
Hubbard steps up game, averaging near double-double
Much has been written and reported about junior forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston) and his efforts to improve his offensive game, and those strides have led to some solid numbers ... Already considered one of the best defenders in the A-Sun, Hubbard posted a 32-point and 10-rebound effort in the win over Arkansas and dropped in another game-high 26 in the win over UNF ... He currently leads the Bucs with 14.3 points per game and 8.5 rebounds a contest ... while he has posted double-doubles in eight of the last 15 games, his efforts began to pay off on the offensive end against Chattanooga back on Nov. 17 ... Setting career bests for points (26) and rebounds (13), Hubbard collected his first career double-double against the Mocs ... In addition, he hit his first 3-point shot in three seasons with the Bucs, and didn't stop there -- ultimately finishing with four long-range bombs on the night.
Record setting night from the arc for Bucs
Hitting on 11-of-14 shots from 3-point range against Arkansas, the Bucs put their name in a multiple of record books ... First, those numbers set a new school record for 3-point field goal percentage in a game with a 78.6 percent mark, breaking the previous record of 66.7 percent which had been done three times previously ... In addition, it was the best shooting effort in the "nation" this season for teams taking more than 10 shots in a game ... And it was the best percentage by a team in the A-Sun since Nov. 28, 1999 when UCF was 11-of-14 in a game against South Carolina state.
Home Sweet Dome
Since the 1996-97 season, the Buccaneers are an amazing 134-41 inside Memorial Center, good for a winning percentage of 77 percent ... The Bucs had won five straight at Memorial Center during the 2006-07 season before a loss to Belmont (1/2) ... The Bucs then rattled off 10 straight at home to stand at 15-1 on the Memorial Center floor that season, but fell to Belmont in the championship of the A-Sun Tourney... In 2007-08, the Bucs were 11-2 at Memorial Center ... In 2008-09, the Bucs were again 11-2 at home ... This season, ETSU is 4-2 in the Dome and 1-0 in Brooks Gym.
Sollazzo to honor Coy with number change
When ETSU's rising sophomore forward Seth Coy (Montgomery, Ind.) was tragically killed in a car accident this summer, it left the entire Buccaneer community with a deep sense of loss ... As is often the case, those that are left to mourn have looked for ways to remember the Bucs' 6-foot-11 "Gentle Giant." ... For sophomore guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa), who was Coy's roommate, the answer was simple ... Changing his jersey number from No. 20 to Coy's No. 43, Sollazzo will play the 2009-10 season to honor his friend and have that memory with him each night.
Big questions surround Bucs entering 2009-10
With the loss of seniors Courtney Pigram and Kevin Tiggs -- one of the most dynamic offensive duos in the country -- the Bucs have a lot of questions to answer on the offenisve end of the floor this season ... Having averaged 78.1 points a game a year ago, which ranked 21st nationally in all of Division I play -- ETSU has lost 44.0 of those points to graduation when one includes now departed senior Greg Hamlin in that trio ... In addition to the losses on offensive, the Bucs' 13-man roster includes just eight players who have experienced actual floor time in college ... The other five players are either true freshmen, redshirt freshmen or walk-ons.


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The Ravens pulled out a thrilling win over the the Lions 18-16 on this 61-yard field goal from Justin Tucker with 43 seconds left. Tucker hit six field goals on the night, provided all of the Ravens offense. Tucker has now made 33 field goals in a row.
On the 61-yarder, Tucker told Lisa Salters that it was just another kick, "one, two, three." As for his game as a whole? "My fantasy team is benefiting from it as well."


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A Rivalry Worth Taking Serious
Good Afternoon Cowboy fans,
If you're a Philadelphia Eagles fan, there's nothing worse and nothing better than the Dallas Cowboys' being good. When Philadelphia and Dallas meet it is usually a very hard contest full of drama, excitement and some fun along the way. This rivalry has been dating back several years and has had its share of unusual cast of characters.
In the late 1980s, legendary coach Buddy Ryan was very successful in what Ryan liked to call "wiping the smirk off Tom Landry's face", when the Eagles sort of dominated the series in Landry's last few seasons. Then there was the first half of this decade when the Eagles won 9 out 10 games against our Cowboys and made the Eagles a hated rival in the NFC East. All it really proved though was that "bandwagon" fans ran out to buy Eagle jerseys and that Andy Reid may have been a little better head coach than Dave Campo was.
For a rivalry to truly be a rivalry worth the name, it requires an opponent worthy of respect and maybe a little fear. Well let me tell you, the "boys" are there once again. As I look back over the decades between these two teams, I remind myself of some good times, some bad times, and rather funny times. Like the time Buddy Ryan was accused of putting out a "on the field hit" on certain Cowboy stars to gain an unfair advantage. Of course let us not forget our beloved T.O. (Terrell Owens) when he was an Eagle and performed some of the best
end zone celebration antics ever witnessed in Texas Stadium. This was indeed not pleasing or delightful to the Cowboy's faithful. Who would have ever thought a few short years later, T.O. would become an elite member of "America's team".
Over the years the regular season has brought some unforgettable matchups, but few have shaped up any bigger in advance than Monday nights' showdown at the soon to be doomed Texas Stadium. After week 1 of the 2008-2009 campaign has come and gone, both the Cowboy's and Eagle's first games seemed to be a Sunday walk in the park. So, Cowboys fans get ready because the hated Eagles are coming to "Big D" this Monday ready to play and for both teams the real season and division kicks into high gear. For the fans, the drama has already begun. The on-going, sometimes called soap opera that takes place at Valley Ranch with all its compelling characters like Tony Romo, T.O., and let us not forget a guy
named "Pacman". Not to mention our hero Jerry Jones, I think we carry into this game a little extra edge. Even though it's early in this young season, in this writer's opinion, I think this will be a statement game to the Eagles that the Cowboys are defending NFC East champs.
The Eagles, if they can pick up where they left off before McNabb's run of injuries, have a chance to see the championship light, but to do that, they must first get past the Cowboys. The Cowboys are a confident bunch and a very experienced bunch. After all, there is a reason why they won 13 games last year.
Now I will say, McNabb certainly looked like his best self in Sunday's dismantling of the St. Louis Rams, but after all it was the Rams which we all know have not been to the Super Bowl since Moses went up the mountain with his 13 inch color T.V. to get better reception. We will know a lot more in a few days when McNabb and company come to town. They should not come in brimming with confidence and "cockiness", because they will leave Texas giving their soul to God and their asses' to the Cowboys! This Cowboy's team is no joking matter and is once again the kind of rival worth taking serious.


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Las Vegas Culinary Hot Spots
With the opening of Joel Robuchon at the Mansion, and a plethora of upscale venues throughout the Valley, 2007 has to be called the greatest year ever for Las Vegas restaurants.
Joel Robuchon and his more casual L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon, next door, are really wonderful, and for more Three Michelin star dining, there is France's legendary Guy Savoy at Caesars Palace. The Big Apple's Mario Batali is now open to further enhance the Vegas dining mystique, causing the ever-trenchant Robin Leach to trumpets this town as "the greatest dining destination in the world."
Emeril emerged bloodied, but unbowed, from Hurricane Katrina, and in addition to his steakhouse, there is Emeril's Fish House at the MGM in which to experience his special brand of American cuisine. It all adds up to a hot experience for anyone so inclined visiting Sin City.
Max's Top 10
1. Social House at Treasure Island*
2. Cafe Martorano at the Rio*
3. Stack at the Mirage
4. Guy Savoy at Ceasars Palace
5. L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon at MGM
6. Sensi at the Bellagio
7. B&B at the Venetian
8. Delmonico's at the Venetian
9. Lotus of Siam, 953 E. Sahara Avenue
10. Bradley Ogden at Ceasars Palace


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Thomas Robson's curator insight, May 20, 2014 1:34 PM
This article details the correlation between population size of a city and the earning potential of it's citizens. Human progress, to a large degree, has depended on the continual expansion of social networks, which enable faster sharing and shaping of ideas. And humanity's greatest social innovation remains the city. As our cities grow larger, the synapses that connect them—people with exceptional social skills—are becoming ever more essential to economic growth."The bars on this map show three types of job skills—analytic, social, and physical. The height of each bar is a measure of the average mix of skill within a given city's labor force—the higher the bar, the more advanced the skill level within that city."
The fact that the article call them all city is an example of Urban Hierarchy, a theory discussed in our AP Human Geography Urban Unit. This article does not touch on any of the zone models we learned in our unit. The article is able to show through this map that the more analytic jobs there are in a cities Central Business District the higher the average pay the city has. (As evidenced by New York and Boston being much higher then say Albuquerque).
Wyatt Fratnz's curator insight, May 27, 2015 1:59 AM
This article investigates the possibilities of the progression of the city of Detroit, despite all the negative connotations. They show us the math behind it's decreasing populations along with it's past expansion, what's behind it and the urban sprawl of it all.
This is a great real-world example of uneven development, zones of abandonment, disamenity, and gentrification. It goes to show how all of these factors afflict with the city as a whole.


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It's pretty much a guarantee that Apple will release a new version of iTunes to coincide with this Saturday's iPad launch, and now MacRumors has a source claiming it will be iTunes 9.1 and contain iPad support, integration of ePub for iBooks management, Genius Mix enhancements, and bitrate conversion.
According to the source, the existing "Audiobooks" entry in the iTunes Source list will be replaced with a broader "Books" section. A similar change will made to the sources for managing content on connected devices such as iPhones, iPods, and iPads. The revamped "Books" section for connected devices will reportedly display all book content compatible with a given device for easy content management.
The bitrate conversion, which would previously automagically make 128-bit AAC files for iPod shuffle is said to be rolled out across devices in this new version.
Will we see it before Saturday? Apple would be wise to spread out the server load for this and the iPad App Store launch, so we certainly hope so!


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Q: How often do the members in the S&P 500 change?
A: Critics of market indexes like to point out that these market measures constantly change. The Standard & Poor's 500 of today is very different from the one of last year or two years ago.
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Indexes are evolving like the markets that they measure. The organizations that maintain indexes are constantly tweaking them, removing companies that no longer represent the markets they're intend to track. That's by design.
For instance, this year there have been five companies added (and the same number removed) from the S&P 500. Most recently, on June 6, General Motors took over for H.J. Heinz. On May 16, S&P announced it would be adding Kansas City Southern to the S&P 500 to replace Dean Foods.
But Heinz wasn't removed because it was a dog. It's being taken private. Dean Foods wasn't yanked because it was a laggard, and S&P wanted it out. The deletion was due to Dean's decision to spin off part of its stake in WhiteWave, a maker of plant-based foods. That spinoff would reduce the market value of Dean Foods, making Dean more of a midsize company than a large one. The S&P 500 is designed to track the value of large U.S. companies. Kansas City Southern's market value is $12.2 billion, vs. Dean Foods' $2.0 billion.
Indexes do change, but those changes are designed to make the indexes reflect the value of the stock market.


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