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De La Hoya: After Malignaggi, I See Broner Going To 140
By Luis Sandoval
Golden Boy has made everyone aware of their 140lb tourney that will begin on April 27th when Danny Garcia takes on Zab Judah and the second part will be May 18th when Lamont Peterson faces hard hitting Lucas Matthysse. The winners of each fight will be scheduled to fight each other while Amir Khan will fight the last man standing according to Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer.
One fighter who might get thrown into the mix is Adrien Broner who is jumping up two weight classes to fight Paulie Malignaggi for the WBA Welterweight championship. BoxingScene caught up with Golden Boy President Oscar De La Hoya who said only because Broner is fighting at 147 this fight, it doesn't mean he won't come back down.
"Yes, absolutely. Look, the fact that Adrien Broner is moving up to 147 and challenging Paulie Malignaggi – who is a live dog, don't count him out, it's a tough fight for Broner - but the fact that he's doing that it doesn't mean he's not wanting to fight the best at 140. I can see Broner going after a title and I don't know what's going to happen against Paulie Malignaggi but [I can see him] coming back to 140" De La Hoya would tell BoxingScene.
Many didn't like the idea of Broner skipping the Junior Welterweight division which houses opponents who would be considered real threats to Adrien who is being groomed as boxing's next big superstar. While Broner will be fighting for a Welterweight title, De La Hoya sees him coming back down to take on the best possible opposition.
"Broner, he wants to fight the best. He wants to fight the best and he's going to fight the best. There's no doubt about it. He just wants to make news, skip a couple weight classes and challenge a champion there. So do I see Broner going back down to 140? Yes, absolutely" said De La Hoya.
You can follow Luis Sandoval on Twitter @Truewest007. You can also tune in to BoxingScene Radio, Boxingscene's official audio show every Tuesday from 6-8PM PST with hosts Ernest Gabion, Luis Sandoval, and Ryan Burton.
Just like Mayweather, wait for all these guys to beat each other up and get past their good years before he faces them.Comment by BabyFaceAssasin on 04-05-2013
[QUOTE=retnuocllup;13215807]cause Khan would never last in the tournament[/QUOTE] Lmao!!!!^^^^Comment by 4Corners on 04-05-2013
I honestly see Broner fighting Khan in the fall, if he wins against Paulie.Comment by Joey_Torreo on 04-05-2013
I would definitely want him to stick around at 140 and maybe fight the winner of the whole tourney. The winner, whoever it may be, vs broner would be a great fight. Can you imagine broner vs matthysse/ Peterson/ KahnComment by Michael Paine on 04-05-2013
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2009: The year Remington sold its ten-millionth model 870 12-guage shot gun, the same model James Holmes used to begin his killing spree in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater.
100: Bullet capacity of the drum magazine of the Smith and Wesson M&P 15, the second weapon Holmes used. The gun, which is basically a semi-automatic version of the fully-automatic, military assault rifle called an M16, jammed.
18: Number of seconds he could have shot all 100 bullets if the gun had not jammed.
Robert J. "Bob" Englert, 80, of Lisbon, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family Sunday, July 22, 2012, at Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House in Hiawatha. Memorial Services were held July 26 at Morgan Funeral Home, Mount Vernon. Burial followed at the Lisbon Cemetery.
Bob was born in Iowa City to Raymond C. and Mary J. (Mattes) Englert on Sept. 2, 1931. He graduated from St. Patrick's High School in Iowa City. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict from 1952 until 1954. On Oct. 14, 1954, he married Joyce A. Bohr at St. John's Catholic Church, Lisbon.
Dale E. Lytle, 81, of Solon, passed away Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids. Celebration of Life Service will be held Aug. 5 at the Hiawatha Community Center from 5 until 11 p.m.
Dale was born to Matt and Gladys Lytle on Oct. 7, 1930, in Brookings, S.D. He served his country in the US Army and was sent to Japan for occupational duty from 1948 until 1950 and in Korea from 1950 until 1951. He married Vivian Coughlin on Oct. 7, 1951. He owned Webb's Transmission Service for 27 years and retired in 1992. He worked part-time for Car Colors for eight years.
Frances Agnes Reed, 92, of Cedar Rapids, died Monday, July 23, 2012, at Living Center West. Services were held July 26 at St. Patrick Catholic Church by the Rev. Ivan Nienhaus.
Frances was born Dec. 9, 1919, in Holbrook, the daughter of Francis and Agnes (Kelly) Driscoll and graduated from St. Patrick High School. She married Donald Reed on July 3, 1941, in Cedar Rapids. She was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church.
Local survivors include her son, Paul of Swisher.
Instead of flowers memorials may be directed to Essence of Life Hospice, 3207 220th Trl., Amana, IA 52203.
Randy L. Rotzinger, 55, of North Liberty, died peacefully at his home on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. A gathering of family and friends to celebrate Randy's life will be held from 3 until 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 1, at Lensing Funeral Home, 605 Kirkwood Ave., Iowa City. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed to The Randy Rotzinger Memorial Fund.
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Mildred Gladys Smith, 93, of Cedar Rapids, died Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at Rock Ridge Care Center, Shellsburg. Services were held July 27 at Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Cedar Rapids. Burial was at Linwood Cemetery, Cedar Rapids.
Mildred was born Jan. 2, 1919, near Belle Plaine, daughter of Charles and Julia Sikir. She lived in the area until moving to Cedar Rapids with her husband, Emory Smith. Mildred retired after 45 years with Smulekoff's.
Local survivors include her granddaughter, Kelly (Alex) Pelzel of North Liberty.
Irene Marie Stallman, 76, of Cedar Rapids, died Sunday, July 22, 2012, at Manor Care Health Services following a courageous battle with cancer and diabetes. Services were held July 26 at St. Michael Catholic Church, Norway, by the Rev. Craig Steimel. Burial was at St. Michael Cemetery.
Local survivors include her sister Mary Jane (Larry) Ockenfels of Swisher, and her brother, Marvin (Deanna) Stallman of Ely.
Stephanie "Stevie" Truelson, 51, of Solon, passed away Thursday, July 19, 2012, at the Solon Care Center after an extended illness. A Memorial Gathering was held July 26 at Pinicon Ridge Park in Central City at Plains Camp Ground.
Mary Jo Wilford of Cranford, N.J., formerly of Cedar Rapids, passed away at her home on Saturday, July 14, 2012.
Mary was born Oct. 29, 1938, to Herman and Agnes Gutmann of Lisbon.
Mary was an active member of the community she loved and resided in, Cranford, N.J.
She will be remembered as a loyal friend, activist, arts patron, mother, and Nana.
Local survivors include a daughter, Laura (Alan) Fisher of Solon and a son, Joe (Kristen) Wilford of Swisher.
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I think it's about time to talk some football.
After one of the hottest summers I can remember, I'm really looking forward to the cool October Saturday afternoons at Kinnick.
Media day is Monday, Aug. 6, so the next five weeks I'll break down the schedule, talk about the offense, defense and special teams.
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Research shows that creativity rises with ceiling height. Smith professor Oliver Schlake considered this when designing a new course that challenges participants to develop retail products for outdoor enthusiasts. Rather than staying indoors confined below a 10-foot ceiling, Schlake takes his undergraduate students into the forests around Washington, D.C., to test and refine their prototypes under the open sky.
Why do we commonly think of the family and the capitalist market as mutually exclusive domains? Many see the family as the realm of love and intimacy and the market as the realm of self-interested individuals. But in fact, the two have always been deeply inter-related.
Notes from Smith alumni.
Female managers often underestimate their value when negotiating raises and promotions, Smith School Vice Dean Joyce Russell told participants Oct. 10, 2014, during the keynote address at the National Association of Women MBAs Conference and Career Fair near Washington, D.C.
Marketing and sales executive Andrea Brody '87 discovered her interest in consumer behavior during a Smith School class project. To complete the assignment Brody took her sister to a shopping mall and observed her reaction to in-store advertisements.


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text: magic squares, an nX n matrix that is filled with the numbers 1,2,3... n^2 is a magic square if the sum of the element in each down, in each column, and in the two diagonals is the same value. write a program that reads in 16 values from the keyboard and testes whether they form a magic square when put into a 4 x 4 array. you need to test two features: 1. does each of the number 1,2 ..., 16 occur in the user input? 2. when the numbers are put into a square, are the sums of the rows, columns and diagnol equal to each other?


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Gay Veteran talks to Mitt Romney
Being a military veteran myself (US) and having worked alongside gay men and women, I 100% agree with the veteran. and as much as I hate to just 'stir the hate pot', I really wanted to share this with some people.
Military are stereotypically known for being Republican; but now that more than 50% of the military is African American, and the 'don't ask don't tell' has been repealed (meaning you can be in the armed forces and be gay and not get in trouble), I can't see Mitt Romney getting a huge military vote.
For those who don't know, a military marriage (man/woman), the wife will get benefits if the man dies. The children can use the GI Bill (paying for college and housing) as can the wife. Also, they'll get life insurance if the husband dies. To top it off, if a husband is stationed abroad, the wife and kids (depending where) are allowed to be brought over and the fmaily is given an extra compensation (more money than a single military man) to compensate.
Since a gay marriage is not recognized by the military, none of that is applicable to two men or wommen married. As well; if a military man is in the hosital, the gay husband won't be allowed to visit him since he is not a family memeber, no do they honor him as a significant other.
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completely right. the fact that in 2012 gay marriage is even an issue worth discussing is ludicrous.
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mitt romney just comes off as such a scumbag lol
but like kizza said, its fucking ridiculous
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'A man and a woman and a man and a man should be treated equal.'
2012, I agree. Romney probably doesn't care, but he has/had to waive the Conservative Banner to have gotten the Republican Nomination.
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Like everyone else said, it makes no sense that gay rights are still an issue in this age. But it is not surprising that is. Conservatives are always going to have a problem with it.
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I have a soft spot for the man and I don't know why (I think he's kinda hot, but still).
I can at least respect the fact that he is by far one of the more rational Republican politicians in respects to LGBT rights, though I do believe his positions are strange. He supports anti-discriminatory legislation for the LGBT community and adoption rights for same-sex couples. He is even in favor of extending some marriage benefits to domestic partnerships, but is a proponent for the traditional heterosexual marriage and opposes same-sex marriage and civil unions. At one point, he supported the now repealed "don't ask, don't tell" policy. This honestly doesn't seem consistent with his self-proclaimed "pro-gay" stance (he emphasized that he supported gay rights in an interview with Piers Morgan), though I do agree with NearStark in that Romney is merely prescribing to the agenda of the Republican Party.
With that being said, this won't make me want to vote for him. I do also wonder why LGBT rights is such a polarizing issue in this country at this day and age.
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Mentioning Western Europe or any other part of the world doing these things just pushes Conservatives further away from the notion. It's the same reason elected officials don't bring up other country's ability to pass such legislation, it's a guaranteed method to completely piss off a surprisingly large section of legislators AND voters.
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I'm a veteran, too. I completely disagree with the repeal of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" rule and believe that marriage is solely between a man and a woman. I'm not religious either, so don't get me started on that Bible thumping bullshit. I'm not old school in the least. The simple fact of the matter is that many straight people in COMBAT ARMS not some supply, transportation or orderly room bullshit do not want homosexual males around them during downtime and on deployments. It's fucking uncomfortable, period.
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MANNING, S.C. (AP) — The Natural Resources Department has arrested a man in a Lake Marion boat crash last month that killed a University of South Carolina student.
Twenty-one-year-old Hailey Joanne Bordeaux of Sumter died in the crash after the boat she was hit by another boat on the lake July 4.
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The sheriff said the preliminary investigation shows that Holloway and a friend had gone to meet an acquaintance when Mack ran to their vehicle and began firing.
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Skip to comments.Nicaragua shaken by second earthquake (6.6)
Posted on 04/12/2014 2:59:53 PM PDT by Lorianne
Just as residents of Managua were clearing up the damage from an earthquake on Thursday, a second earthquake struck Nicaragua on Friday.
Measuring 6.6 on the richter scale it could be felt as far away in San Jose in Costa Rica.
The epicentre was 24 km south of Granada near the Pacific coast, the depth of it suggested that a tsunami was unlikely.
The government had evacuated buildings and schools were closed on Friday as thousands of aftershocks continued to rattle the country, which helped avoid many injuries when the second quake struck.
The government raised the number of those injured in Thursdays quake from 23 to 200 and one person was reported to have died.
What the hell's going on. Even my atheist brother is getting nervous.
Central America is a volcanic area, very earthquake- (and eruption- and mudslide- ) prone, just like the rest of the Pacific Coast. Nothing is going on except what has always gone on in those regions.
Plate tectonics. God's way of making atheists nervous.
Earthquakes are old stuff for me.
Earthquakes are judged by intensity as well as time. There can be some REAL scary ones that only last 5 seconds, but for THOSE, first there's a huge CRACK!!, then the rumble.
Again, if it's bad'un, there are more but smaller tremors. There may be several, each getting smaller and shorter.
BAD ONE: Huge cracking sound, loud rumble then the house shakes, rattles and rolls. Our home is built on shale, so we never get much damage. The very WORST one left a small crack in the living room ceiling and my glass of water fell on the carpet.
***In THIS state there are rigorous building codes, so all our homes are built of wood and concrete because they BEND. Bricks (1906) do NOT bend; they crumble. So, with wood and concrete buildings we shake, rattle and roll but end up with MINIMAL damage. This is 2014 A.D. so not much happens.
MINOR one: small rumble and I first think--large truck rumbling by outside. No truck, OH, an earthquake. By that time, it's over. I usually feel NO aftershocks with the minor ones.
GOOD points: Earthquakes are unpredictable. We don't have the weather people screaming TWISTER A-COMIN'! The anticipation of a twister is not very nice to endure either. We don't need storm shelters, a la Wizard of Oz.
BAD points: For earthquakes in third world
sewers countries it's a mess. The few wealthy, powerful and connected families control banks, military, land and politics and these powerful families don't give a damn. THEY are always safe because their ruined estates were better built with superior materials and can be abandoned for a while until they are rebuilt.
SIDE NOTE: I was watching the folks of Santa Barbara after their huge quake then FIRESTORM. The "folks" watching were moaning, groaning and crying....from their YACHTS off shore. I felt so sorry for them for two seconds.
They were exactly like the wealthy of the third world sewers: their mansions would be rebuilt; and they were.
He should be nervous all the time.
Good one.
The atheists who live on the West Coast aren't nervous because their homes, like mine, are built with wood and/or concrete, which BEND. Thus, their homes aren't damaged at all....state construction laws. Even the poorest are safe.
But for the rest of the atheists....TREMBLE, fools!!
So true.
However, in Central America the poor always suffer because their shacks are always destroyed because of poor construction. The wealthy never suffer because their homes are better built AND they can move to another one of their homes, say, in the Virgin Islands or Mexico, while their C.A. home is rebuilt.
What else is new?
My daughter is in missions right on the lake. She said the water was a movin'
Importantly, there is right now some back and forth between Nicaragua and the Solomon Islands, with both of them getting pounded.
I would suspect that both storms are a direct result of those huge ones in Chile.
I agree, and what we're saying about the Pacific Rim is true about every seismically-active part of the world. I was addressing the implication that seismic activity in Nicaragua (or elsewhere) is worse than it has been in the past.
The value of natural-disaster losses is increasing, but that doesn't mean there's a trend in the severity of hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. It just means that higher-value buildings are in place in the relevant geographic regions.
Nothing new, past or present. Its geography and climate decide its past, present and future. I went down there for a vacation a few years ago. It was gorgeous.
The literature seems to think that this latest spate was "more of the same." I think the country and the rest of C.A. are doomed because of their greedy third world government corruption. Again, since it's a classic case of nothing new they simply await more of the same, from both their geography and government.
That's certainly within the realm of possibility. Within the span of recorded history, we've seen seismically-active parts of the world go from light populations, to dense-population civilizations, and back to depopulation. It's the circle of life, Geology category.
Geology is part of the question, but politics, economics, culture is another big part. One could say that all civilization is the interaction of natural forces (rain, earthquake, soil, volcano) with human forces (war, economics, agriculture, religion.)
Sigh. It really is a pleasure to read your posts, T-c.
Clear, lucid and to the point!
Thank you! I read a lot, and listen to "Teaching Company" lectures on my CD player in the kitchen, and then I think about it.
History is very big picture, and geology is an even bigger one, even if you're a Creationist.
You could say, "Hurricanes in the Carolinas are worse than they ever have been!!! OMG, the Apocalypse and/or Global Warming!!!" Or, you could say, "Financial losses due to hurricanes in the Carolinas are higher than they have ever been, due to high-value real estate development in areas known for meteorologic and geologic instability."
If people used pure reason in deciding where to settle, weather and geology would be much smaller factors. But people don't, and haven't historically, and we can't reasonably expect them to start at any future time.
"I think the country and the rest of C.A. are doomed because of their greedy third world government corruption."
Having done business in both Nicaragua and California I can assure you Nicaragua is much friendlier toward investment and business operations than the state of California. Despite its socialist rhetoric, the Daniel Ortega led Sandinista government strongly encourages job producing foreign investment. Government officials charged with development work diligently to clear roadblocks and cut any red tape that gets in the way of production or exporting products. Government officials never asked for bribes or favors during my five years setting up factories there. In addition there were none of the shakedowns by tort lawyers and unions I've experienced in California and many other states in the United States.
In fact, the Nicaraguan factories I was involved with had employee unions. The union leaders had a very realistic approach to wages and work rules. The union never intervened to prevent the firing of a problem employee and it never engaged in deliberate work slowdowns or other manipulative tactics. The union was supportive of the incentive pay system and agreed to changes in factory configuration and work rules that increased productivity. The only hint of corruption I experienced during my work in Nicaragua was one traffic stop for speeding where the driver of the vehicle handed the policeman a US $20 bill to avoid a ticket. I never felt unsafe moving around the country or walking on the street in either cities or small villages.
During the same period of time I was involved with factories in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Honduras. In those countries petty crime was rampant. Kidnapping for ransom and murder was a problem in both El Salvador and Honduras. Corruption of government officials was also an obstacle to business in these three countries. In El Salvador and Honduras I had to travel with armed body guards.
Nicaragua is the poorest country in Central America. Its people have a very strong and positive work ethic and value the opportunity to work. From what I've seen government officials in Nicaragua work hard to bring investment and jobs to the country. The legal system protects property rights and business interests. It is my assessment the Nicaraguan people are much better off under Sandinista administration than prior "pro US" governments. Crime, violence and corruption is also lower in Nicaragua than other countries in the region. Due to its low cost of living and relative safety, the country is becoming an attractive retirement location for Americans and Europeans.
One thing I've learned doing business around the world over the past 40 years is the situation on the ground is often very different than one perceives from afar. There is no substitute for first hand observation.
Financial losses ...
Consider the financial losses that would occur if a real major quake struck in/near the Panama Canal Zone and wrecked some of the locks. ...Shipping would revert to having to sail around the Southern tip of South America to transit between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
I could NEVER figure this out. After all the storms, flooding and mayhem, people moved RIGHT back onto the EVER-flooding Mississippi. Why?!?! They aren't stupid.
I think that the US government finally had to step in and say: no more building on the banks of the flood zone.
?!?! Sad to see such
stupidity foolishness in supposedly such an educated populace.
What was reported under those circumstances would depend, in large part, on what was insured. They have to get numbers for "financial loss due to Event X" from somewhere, and it's heavily dependent on insurance liability.
I don't know to what extent any kind of insurance coverage would indemnify losses due to an event such as loss of Panama Canal function. It might even be different depending on whether the disruption was due to natural forces or political events. Insurance companies try to cover the less-likely outcomes!
I try to tell him that....
When did they start fracking in Nicaragua?
It's that damned canal the Chinese are digging!
Then there's The 3 Little Pigs . . . .
That's an interesting economic question, and the issues are different for different areas. For instance, why do people insist on living in the Mississippi flood plain? Why do people live in the Ganges Delta, Bangladesh?
Two reasons: Flood plain/delta land is fertile for agriculture, and rivers are cheap transportation for large volumes of goods.
Why do people live near volcanoes? Volcanic soil is fertile; Hawai'i, for example, or Central America, or Naples. Vulcanism tends to correlate with coastal terrain, such as on the Pacific coast, resulting in commercial adventage.
People make the calculations about the risks and returns, to some extent. Not every individual - most are born in their native location and stay there, dealing with whatever falls on them. But in the big picture, the economic gains and losses are calculated. However, insurance and especially government involvement spreads the costs and reduces the financial risk for those who choose to live and invest in disaster-prone areas.
Coastal recreation development is a little different. There are no agricultural or trade advantages to living on the Atlantic barrier islands such as North Carolina's Outer Banks. Tourism development on the coasts really didn't take off until there was government money for disaster relief. "Back in the day," there were beach resorts and vacation houses, but the values were kept down because the owner took a loss if it blew away or flooded out.
Then the government got involved and skewed the economics, as has also happened with flood-plain development, only more so.
We lived in Nicaragua in 2005. We had a 5.9 and a 6.3 while we were there. They have numerous active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.
There is always the urban-suburban-rural choice too.
I prefer urban because the city has always been my home and it has the things I love--sports, culture and MY city, the ocean.
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It's a hot mess, in my opinion. Honestly, the commericalism surrounding the holidays is enough to sicken anyone. My husband and I try to keep our Christmases simple and traditional. Sure, there are presents, some toys, some clothes for the kids...but we're more about the tradition of it all. I remember when I started working fulltime...no kids, no boyfriend...just me and my friends. I used to have the greatest attitude about Christmas, I would spoil everyone. Now I get so irritated because it's crammed down our throats for 3 months straight that I have no joy in Christmas shopping anymore.
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One son - Bobby
One dachshund - Rambo
You know what is even weirder? I went into a Walmart on other side of town today and they had 6 isles.. 2 for swimming/pools, 2 for Halloween and 2 for Christmas, back to back to back. How odd!
Where I work, we were sold out of Halloween merchandise in the beginning of October and did not order any more. The Christmas merchandise went up at the end of September. Ridiculous.
Mainstream Mom to my stepdaughter B (9), Irish Twin toddlers F (3) and M (2), and Hope born 6/13/13
Ya know....i agree.....and as for the T- moble commercial......who approved of that? and what person seriously hears "walking in a 4-G wonderland"? i sure as hell dont......everyone i know says it sounds like something else......ack!!!!
"Ria, please dont play in the dog dish"
I applaud Nordstrom stores for refusing to decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving has taken place. Smart marketing on their part, and I love it. Thanks, Nordstrom!


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Saturday, August 6, 2016
Marrow Beached
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Monday, May 30, 2016
Friday, May 20, 2016
First (Non-Self) Citation.
|Extract from Sardamov's (2015: 92) "Out of Touch: The Analytic Misconstrual of Social Knowledge."
Rather than my first non-self citation coming from one of my academic publications it was actually a post on this blog that managed to attract some attention. I don't mind that the sentence is embedded in a sequence of text that I don't think is a reasonable approximation of something I have argued. But you can judge that for yourself. I'm just miffed that someone cited something I wrote.
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Thursday, January 7, 2016
Sailing Marrow.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods.
Sailing from Coal Point to Croudace Bay:
Another day at Port Stephen heads:
And earlier in the same day as the first video, sailing from Dora Creek up toward Pulbah Island:
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Theorising Digital Society: Symposium
|Panel Discussion: Evelyn Honeywill, Nicola Johnson and myself. Chaired by Deborah Lupton
I attended a symposium convened by Deborah Lupton, Theorizing Digital Society, on Monday held at the University of Canberra. The twitter hashtag was #TDS15 for those who'd like to engage in the conversation around the symposium. Here is a collection of the tweets so far. There were a number of very interesting talks presented on the day. I particularly enjoyed the opening keynote speech by Susan Halford on the continuing importance of social theory in the world of big data and web science. Evelyn Honeywill's paper on network character and broader psycho-social dynamics of social media and Jean Burgess and Ariadna Matamoro's paper on issue-networks and mapping techniques applied to the #gamergate controversy were also highlights for me. My paper applied Legitimation Code Theory to the knowledge practices of climate sceptics bloggers and their framing of the 'climategate' controversy. The presentation deviated from the abstract in one key respect, I decided that it would be more fruitful to apply the theoretical tools to a small preliminary case study than merely arguing from the existing literature for their efficacy. Here is the title and abstract in any case:
Title: Theorizing Digital Social Networksand the Problem of Knowledge-Blindness: The Case of the Climate ScepticBlogosphere.
Title: Theorizing Digital Social Networksand the Problem of Knowledge-Blindness: The Case of the Climate ScepticBlogosphere.
Abstract: Rogers and Marres (2000) saw the World Wide Web as an important site for the discussion of science and technology. Networks of issue based websites were argued to constitute socio-epistemic networks. Linking patterns between sites on climate change indicated a politics of association and a hierarchy of credibility. Sites with the URL extension .org linked up the hierarchy to .gov; but .gov did not engage in reciprocal linking practices. Replicating the traditional hierarchy of credibility between official and non-official sources of information. Recent events have demonstrated the ability of digital social networks to disrupt traditional hierarchies of credibility. In 2009 emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit were published on four climate scepticism blogs and lead to a public controversy that strengthened the counter-movement against action on climate change. The role of blogs in the 'climategate' controversy spurred the growth of literature concerned with the dynamics of climate scepticism on digital social networks. This paper examines this emerging literature and identifies the need to combine social network theory and conceptualizations of knowledge practice to better understand counter-movements and the disruption of traditional hierarchies of credibility on digital social networks.
Rogers, R. and N. Marres (2000). "Landscaping Climate Change: A Mapping Technique for Understanding Science and Technology Debates on the World Wide Web." Public Understanding of Science 9(2): 141-163.
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Friday, June 12, 2015
Presentation at the first Legitimation Code Theory Colloquium.
|Post-conference, mostly Sydney people.
Title: 'Different Types of Legitimacy': University Students' Recognition of the Organizing principles of Knowledge.
This paper employs the Specialization dimension of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) and aspects of grammatical metaphor (agentive construction, nominalization and technicality) from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to understand how University students perceive the legitimacy of knowledge. There is an emergent literature that employs concepts from LCT to examine knowledge structures and redress the problem of knowledge-blindness in the sociology of education and beyond. There is also a problem of knower-blindness where "the study of knowers' dispositions has been a longstanding area of relative neglect by code sociology and social realism" (Maton, 2014, p. 210). This paper contributes to the visibility of knowers by presenting preliminary research conducted into University students' perceptions of knowledge (Toll, 2014).
Theoretical framework.
Maton's (2014: 29) concept of Specialization codes provides a means to conceptualize knowledge practices and the basis of legitimate knowledge within different social fields of practice. Specialisation codes conceptualize knowledge practices along two dimensions, "epistemic relations" (ER) and "social relations" (SR) recognising that knowledge practices entail both a statement about the nature of things and statements by someone who claims to know (Maton 2014: 29). From Systemic Functional Linguistics, features of grammatical metaphor (agentive construction, nominalization and technicality) were drawn upon to model the textual production of Specialization Codes. Nominalization and technicality organize texts to place distance between the author and the statement, foregrounding the known (ER+); while agentive construction foregrounds the knower (SR+) (Eggins, 1994; Martin, 1993).
Sixteen semi-structured interviews with University students were conducted. Participants were drawn from a number of degree courses were represented, from Science and Engineering (4), combined Arts and Science (2) and Humanities, Law, and Social Science (10) degrees at various stages of completion ranging from 2nd year undergraduate to post-graduate masters students. Each participant was given three sets of stimulus material that were constructed to show different Specialization Codes in context. The first set of stimulus material, 'text and author', comprised two text modified from Eggins (1994) that exemplified agentive language (a mother talking about her baby) and nominalization (a written text on the causes of infant's distress). The second part, 'agreement scenario', had an interviewer and interviewee discussing an economic sector employing clashing specialization codes. The final scenario, 'teacher and student', had a teacher engaging a student in a discussion of social media and social capital exhibiting a clash in specialization codes, technicality and non-technical language in a pedagogic context. The interview schedule was designed to elicit students' perceptions of knowledge practices and test if Specialization Codes were recognized as organizing knowledge.
Results and discussion.
Students recognized the different Specialization Codes which they deemed to confer profit relative to their employed context. The legitimacy of knowledge was not completely captured by specialization codes, as demonstrated by student responses to the argument scenario. This suggests that sociologists need to consider both the epistemological and axiological dispositions of knowers. Students in science and students in arts, social science, and humanities degree-courses had divergent conception of what types of knowledge practice were legitimate in pedagogic contexts; indicating that different types of knowers are attracted to and developed in these fields of higher education. Both groups of students viewed knowledge claims as irreducible to social power alone, and demonstrated a prioritising principle by discerning what knowledge claims are powerful and when. These results correspond to Holland's (1981) study on social class and 'orientations of meaning' and middle class primary school students' recognition of what coding orientations matched the dominant code. Further investigation of knowers can overcome knower-blindness and provide insight into how different groups engage with knowledge practices.
Eggins, S. (1994), An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics, London: Pinter Publishers.
Holland, J. (1981), "Social class and changes in orientation to meaning", Sociology, 15(1), p. 1-18.
Martin, J.R. (1993), "Life as A Noun", Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power, J.R. Martin and M.A.K. Halliday (Ed), London: Flamer Press.
Maton, K. (2014), Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a Realist Sociology of Education, London: Routledge.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014
USYD Sociologists at TASA Conference 2014.
Mathew Toll is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. He completed his BA (hons) in 2012. His current research is in digital sociology and the sociology of knowledge, looking at the deficit model of public understanding of science, political deliberation and knowledge formation online.
Abstract: Sociologists often view the authority of knowledge as a reflection of social power. Educational research mirrors with theories that treat knowledge as primarily "knowledge of the powerful" (Young 2009:13). This study employed conceptual tools from Legitimation Code Theory (Maton 2014) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (Eggins 1994; Martin 1993) to explore university student's perceptions of knowledge claims and if knowledge is deemed to be shaped both by social relations and epistemic relations. Sixteen semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2012 for an honours research project with participants from four Sydney based Universities. Results indicated that students perceive knowledge to have its own organizing principles, its legitimacy and power not reducible to who have the social power to claim knowledge.
|Alex 'talking back' to the settler state.
Alexander Page is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. He completed a BSocSc Hons. (First Class) with a thesis titled "Indigenous Peoples and the Settler-State in Twenty First Century Australia" in 2012. His research focused on the dynamic between the Australian Settler-State and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander activists/advocates in the regional city of Townsville, North Queensland. His current research embodies urban Aboriginal approaches to service delivery as resistance and reflexivity to the structures constructed by Australian governmentality. This project seeks to understand the role of Indigenous institutions and organisations as mediators; between state expectation and control on the one hand, and the needs of community on the other. Understanding such inter-relationships reveals the dynamics of power existing vertically and horizontally between the state, community organisations and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population of Blacktown, Western-Sydney. His blog can be found here.
Title: Taking on the Australian Settler-State: Sociology for Social Justice and Critical Indigenous Research Paradigm.
Abstract: The positioning of sociology as a critical response to the continued unfolding of colonisation in Australia could not be more vital. The current climate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander politics demands that we take on the modern Settler-State and enduring structures of marginalisation with Indigenous peoples. This paper seeks to provide the reader with some theoretical foundations of a sociology for social justice. Using structures of the Australian Settler-State as the focus of the critique, this paper outlines a paradigm of a critical Indigenous research methodology to challenge state practice. It calls for continued assessment within the contemporary political arena of the Abbott Coalition Government. Such a research paradigm seeks to: critique structures by talking back to power; foster hope for alternate futures by highlighting the possibilities for change through community agency; and aims for research outcomes which provide practical value for Indigenous peoples and their communities in the self-determination movement. Sociologists have the unique research tools, the passion for social justice, and the prime position to speak back to power in a continued effort to change the world for the better.
Jessica Richards' research interests broadly focus on the sociology of sport, with a particular emphasis on sport fandom and spatial geography. After graduating from the University of Sydney with a B.A (First Class Hons), she was awarded an Australian Post-Graduate Award to pursue further study in the field of the sociology of sport. Following work experience at a research agency, Jessica is now working full-time on her PhD, and is currently living between England and Australia. In Australia, she tutors in the Sociology and Social Policy department at the University of Sydney. In England, Jessica works as an Honorary PhD Student in the Management School at the University of Liverpool. Twitter: @j_richo1990
Title: 'Beers, Balls and Banter': The Maintenance of Gender Boundaries in Sporting Spaces.
Abstract: This paper argues that sports stadiums are inherently gendered spaces that celebrate and protect physical and cultural representations of masculinity. Although sports stadiums are often read as uncontested or innocent places, this paper considers how they are physically and socially constructed, rather than a void or empty 'stage' on which actors perform. Drawing on ethnographic data generated from participant observation and semi-structured interviews collected during observations on Everton football club during the 2012-2014 seasons of Premier League football, this paper explores how the physical and social environment influences and encourages various types of sports fans behaviour within particular locations. It draws its theoretical support from the work of Cohen and his symbolic construction of the 'boundary', where the powerful symbolism and collective identity of sport means that it has the potential to reinforce feelings of belonging, providing a source of stability and community. However, at the same time it is these symbolic and collective principals that also have the ability to segregate, exclude, and marginalise. Additionally, the boundaries that surfaced remained tied to wider issues, including how both sports communities internalised the debates surrounding authentic and inauthentic 'types' of fandom and sport culture. The importance of physical sporting spaces in maintaining and legitimising the social, cultural, and masculine histories of the localised community and sports team it represents are the focus of this paper. However, whilst sporting spaces reproduce and reinforce normative gendered discourses, this paper also considers how they can also create space for counter hegemonic and resistant practices.
Daniel HedlundJorquera is a PhD Candidate from the University of Stockholm who is a visiting postgraduate researcher at the University of Sydney.
Title: Legislators' Perceptions about Unaccompanied Minors.
Abstract: This study forms part of a larger PhD thesis project about perceptions about unaccompanied refugee minors in the asylum process in Sweden. The findings of this qualitative interview study is that chronological age becomes a key sign for how legislators understand the life situation, needs and best interests of unaccompanied refugee minors. Age was central for a legitimate asylum claim. Legislators' strong differentiation between how to understand adolescents contributes to varying accounts interchanging between suspicion and protection. Contrary perceptions about unaccompanied minors depict them as either innocent or potentially threatening. Also, the findings from this study suggests that that the moralizing welfare ideology of the past is still present in political discourse and social planning, construing unaccompanied minors as an ambivalent category between civilization and savagery. The findings from this study indicate that legislators enact reforms of importance for unaccompanied children without considering them as agents of their own future, with their own motives and reasons to seek asylum.Thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke 2006) was used in order to identify and analyse patterns in the interview data. The theoretical understanding of the identified themes and their meanings was informed by Willig's (2012) insights on interpretation in qualitative analysis, with regards to how the findings were conceptualized and communicated, in particular interpretative phenomenology.
Natalia Maystorovich Chulio is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. She completed her B Socio-Legal (hons) in 2012 and a BA in 2004. Her research interests include humanitarian and human rights law; transitional justice; the archaeological recovery of mass graves; and the capacity of social movements to elicit social, political and legal change as they seek justice for victims. Her focus is on socio-legal research and qualitative methods in an attempt to merge her political and social interests with a scholarship which may enact social change. Since 2012 she has worked with the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (ARMH – Association for the Recovery of Historic Memory) in an attempt to draw attention to the difficulties experienced by victims and their relatives in the recuperation of their missing.
Abstract: The local exhumation movement to recover, identify and rebury victims of the Spanish Civil War and Franco Dictatorship has emerged as a challenge to the prevailing dominant discourses regarding the defeated victims. The bodily recovery of victims and the public testimonies told at the gravesites provide stark imagery while incorporating a historical context of the past, which remains socially; politically; institutionally and legally silenced for almost 80 years. This movement, initially a grass roots operation, commenced in response to the Spanish states failure to provide the necessary institutional and legal support to investigate past political crimes. The social movements have utilised transitional justice discourses and mechanisms to challenge the states choice of impunity to manage the transition to democracy. This has forced symbolic and legal changes, however, the recent global financial crisis coupled with a change in government to Partido Popular has severely hindered the expansion of the movement. Given the contentious and disputed nature of the period, those undertaking the exhumation of mass graves encounter varying responses from support to outright hostility and institutional impediments. This has been the experience of groups such as 'ARMH, in attempts to recuperate the missing and their personal histories during interactions with the social, political, institutional and legal fields. How successful has ARMH been in challenging the official narrative of the past?
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Thursday, October 30, 2014
First Paper.
I've managed to get my first conference paper through the peer-review process and I'll be speaking at the Australian Sociological Associations annual conference hosted at the University of Adelaide this November in the sociology of education stream. The paper is a condensed and sharpened version of my honours thesis. The abstract is as follows:
"Sociologists often view the authority of knowledge as a reflection of social power. Educational research mirrors with theories that treat knowledge as primarily "knowledge of the powerful" (Young 2009:13). This study employed conceptual tools from Legitimation Code Theory (Maton 2014) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (Eggins 1994; Martin 1993) to explore university student's perceptions of knowledge claims and if knowledge is deemed to be shaped both by social relations and epistemic relations. Sixteen semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2012 for an honours research project with participants from four Sydney based Universities. Results indicated that students perceive knowledge to have its own organizing principles, its legitimacy and power not reducible to who has the social power to claim knowledge."
The citation will end up being something like this:
Toll, M. (2014), "Discerning Knowers: Exploring University Students' Perceptions of Knowledge Claims", The Australian Sociological Association Conference Proceedings, University of South Australia, Adelaide, November 24- 27.
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
Is there no alternative?
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Sociology as Disembodiment.
|A view from my desk, notice spatial disorganization and inspirational quotes.
Fellow PhD candidate, Alexander Page, over at his new blog 'Sociology as Self-Defence' has written a blog post on sociology as embodiment and elaborated for us what he thinks constitutes a good sociologist and how he endeavours to embody that normative standard. I thought I'd write a parallel post on what I think about the practice of sociology and how I employ my time as a first year PhD candidate.
Throughout my undergraduate degree I'd too receive the same snide remarks about the economic value of doing a B.A. and majoring in sociology (all my sibling went into the physical and medical sciences, and I cop the periodic jibes about who is going to be the real doctor). I didn't respond that I wanted to be a professional activist, which, even though I'm aware of thesis eleven, sounds a little too vanguardist, as if you should prioritize political ideals over the pursuit of an unclouded understanding; rather, I responded that I wanted to be an academic and researcher and struggled to list alternative career plans. The normative idea of a good sociologist I hold is someone who is motivated by a desire to understand the social and cultural formations and unravel the infinity of threads that inform our current situation. I'm not naïve enough to imagine that social scientists maintain a perfectly disinterested search for truth and aren't, at least sub-consciously, guided by extra-scientific and normative considerations.
Early sociologists of knowledge, particularly Karl Mannheim, had examined how social location influenced the formation of peoples' understandings and ideologies and demonstrated that individuals cannot be 'unbiased', thought is always thought from a particular social standpoint. Though Karl Popper argued that when sociologists of knowledge applied this approach to science they fundamentally misunderstand their object of study because they failed to recognize that science is an inter-subjective project of an epistemic community and not the project of lone scientists. In effect, Popper argued sociologists failed to understand the sociality of science and how this helps knowledge building.
Now, personally, I'm well aware that my choice of research topic stems from deeply personal concerns. Yet, I believe that objectivity and progression within an intellectual discipline is not achieved by individual participants crafting a view from nowhere, but a relative objectivity is achieved through mutual criticism and a desire to kick the ball forward and put together a better understanding of an object of study. The sociologist might try to embody sociology, but sociology is a disembodied project irreducible to the sociologist.
As I haven't been published academically, I haven't been subjected to a formal peer-review or PhD review board for that matter. I'm still in the process of refining my research question and rationale, reading as much of the research and theoretical literature that has been written on the discourse around climate change and the internet as possible. But I look forward to being able to contribute something to our collective understanding (and, perhaps, help deal with an important social problem). My view right now would seem to undermine the 'epistemic community', inter-subjective, disembodied ideal of sociology I've been pushing:
|Desk in post-grad centre, Fisher Library.
But than, this is the start of the process, gathering up the previous sociological accounts of the object of study to identify a gap and formulate a new conjecture that might help us gain more explanatory power.
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