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[Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society, 1988/1 p20-22 later designated J7]
[Thomas R Hofmann : see Journals, Newsletter, Bulletins.]
International Requirements for Spelling Reform.
Thomas R Hofmann
Thomas Hofmann is a Professor of English in the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Hokuriku University, Japan), as well as teaching linguistics at Kanazawa University. His recent book 10 Voyages in the Realms of Meaning [1] is popular in Japan. He has been long active in questions of spelling reform. An earlier version of this paper was submitted in absentia to the Simplified Spelling Society's 5th International Conference, July 1987.
Spelling reform: why & how?For the last few hundred years, there has been a growing desire to reform the spelling of English, sometimes stronger & sometimes weaker. One reason is that greater portions of the people are expected to be able to read & write, & that the irregularities & conflicting aspects of standard English spelling cause serious problems for children & undoubtedly slow their education. Also, there are slow but unavoidable changes in the pronunciation of any language from generation to generation, so if its writing is based on pronunciation, but does not change, there is an ever increasing disparity between spelling & pronunciation, until eventually 'die dam breaks' & an entirely new system of spelling is adopted.
Many interested people have proposed changes, often specialists of language (e.g. O Jespersen), literature (e.g. G B Shaw), or education (e.g. G Dewey), or merely people who have suffered from the system as it stands. Sometimes the proposals are for radical change, as in Shaw's new alphabet, based on the belief that the dam must break soon. Others propose only minor, but planned, changes hoping that by letting some water over the dam in a controlled fashion [2], we will be able to relieve the pressure slowly, & keep as much continuity as possible in our written language, often fearing a complete break with the past. I will argue here that only this latter way is possible, from the present uses of English as well as from a more modern understanding of what language is & how it changes, with som additional notes on how its changes can be encouraged & guided.
In this last 50 years, English has become effectively the world language, a fact that is beneficial to the whole world as well as to people whose native language is English. However, it means that far more people that ever before devote much time & energy to learning it, with its archaic & haphazard orthography. This is annoying to many native English speaking peoples at least, for its inefficiency as well as its potential for increasing errors in communication. Nevertheless, this international character of modem English places definite limitations on the types of change that ar now possible.
Basic assumption: success as criterion.In any proposal for spelling reform, success is the most critical thing: a reform without success might as well not hav been proposed. This can not be said too loudly or too often by anyone who is serious about wanting to actually get som reform. Even a perfect system or merely an ideal reform is only somthing to fill magazine pages or books with unless it has a chance of success. It will only take people's energy & time arguing about it, drawing them away from reforms that would be more likely to succeed, though perhaps less perfect.
For practical people who want to see improvement in our spelling, then, I think they must look first at the chances of success of a reform, & only if it is, conceivable in 10 or 50 or 100 years, will they bother about how good it is, & whether it can be made better. From this perspective, then, I want to consider what is possible, that is, what has a chance of succeeding, in the present era where English is used in many countries.
Limits.I am convinced that no thoro-going reform of spelling is possible for English at the present, with its present blush of success as the world language, & also because many different countries use it as a native language.
Rather, the only hope with any promise of success seems to lie in a series of small reforms that will take root & be adopted by other countries-reforms that make the present system more logical & remove at the same time som of the more confusing aspects of English spelling. Such reforms can be resisted only on the grounds of etymology (which few care about), or simple dislike of change. Yet with every such reform that is successful, i.e. it becomes the new standard & is preferred by most people under 30 years old, then the pressure for further reform, as well as the number of further proposals, will multiply.
Successful reforms.As language is only a convention or agreement, existing in the form it does only because its users agree that it does (& because they do it by habit), a writing system can be modified quite radically if a strong government forces it on a people who ar willing to change. Thus Turkey changed from the Arabic script to a roman alphabet in very few years, as Korea has largely abandoned kanji ('Chinese' characters) in the last few decades in favor of the native script, or Vietnamese not so long ago. Less than radical changes can be effected quickly & easily by authoritarian governments, as in both Russia & China after their revolutions.
Factors that favor systematic reforms can be gleaned from these examples:
1. an authoritarian government
2. a largely illiterate populace
3. a shift of political power away from the literate classes.
These ar not conditions we can expect in English-speaking countries in the near future. It appears, indeed, that nowhere, at no time, has a systematic reform of more than 1 or 2 spelling patterns been successful, in any democratic country. [3] Obviously we cannot advocate dictatorships for the sake of spelling reform.
Moreover, even if we had dictatorships in the English speaking countries & illiterate populations that could look forward to a change, each country would undoubtedly choose to make different reforms. First, each country has identifiable differences in pronunciation, tho these ar not very significant. However, & 2nd, ther ar strong forces of nationalism that will lead many to want a distinctive brand of writing for their own country, as the US did partly to cut its ties with England & partly to make, more profits for its publishers. Even where overt nationalism & publishers' interests ar absent, it is easy to imagine a general feeling, for example in Australia, that ther is no need to write the way Brits write, if the UK alone makes a revision. And predictably ther will be a movement in Scotland (as well as other countries), to hav their own distinctive variety.
In contrast to this, Dutch has successfully pursued a series of reforms over many decades, in spite of being a national language in 3 countries (Netherlands, Belgium & South Africa [4]), multitudes of dialects, literate people & democratic governments. English, used in many more countries, has successfully reformed the spellings of many individual words (e.g. show, draft, jail [Am.]), but few systematic changes like <-our> to <-or> in colour &c) because they became associated with nationalistic feelings. The 'American spellings' wer successful in the US because of nationalism, but wer unsuccessful in the rest of the English world for precisely the same reason. The minor differences that resulted hav encouraged som (especially the French) to distinguish the 'American language' from the English language.
Because of the forces of nationalism, then, as well as a lack of a single authoritarian government over all the English-speaking nations, many reforms will hav the effect of splitting English into a family of languages, as Latin was split into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese & French. This excludes many reforms (especially for the vowels that ar pronounced differently in different regions, tho <-augh> & <-ough> should go, as well as nearly all thoro-going reforms.
English as the world language.For fear of sabotaging the status of English as the world language (in spite of its atrocious spelling), we must & the people will resist any reform that might not be adopted in both major centers of English, namely the USA & England.
English is the world language today largely because it is the native language of so many people & so much money & so much science. If som extensive reform wer adopted on one side of the Atlantic Ocean that was refused on the other, neither variety would be so predominant over other countries of the world, & scientists in Japan would not be half so likely to publish their work in English, for far less people would read it - they might as well publish in Japanese, far easier for them, & still hav nearly as many people read it. The French & the Russians the same. Today, anyone, in any field, from commerce to politics, to science or sports, who wants to talk to the world, must do it in English. As a result, any world-class action is in English, & all aspiring people must learn English - even the Russian government. We & our children hav an advantage from this, for we don't hav to learn Russian or Japanese. True, English spelling is difficult, but the whole world is better off if it does not change too rapidly, for it saves everybody the need of learning several foreign languages.
If, on the other hand, ther wer 2 Englishes (as the French continually try to suggest), this whole structure will collapse like a house of cards. They would be 2 languages among many others, & we should hav to return to learning foreign languages (learning our horrible spelling is easier than that). Learning to read the other varieties of English might be easier than learning our present system of spelling, but we should also hav to learn Russian or Spanish or perhaps both, & Japanese for som purposes.
Practical reformers & practical people seem to sense this disadvantage inherent in reforms that might not be acceptable to all the English nations. Altho our present spelling is quite troublesome ther is considerable advantage to the whole world in not changing it too fast or in a way that splits the English nations into 2 or more ways of writing.
When?If the only reforms that can be successful while English is both very dominant in the world, yet split among many nations, ar small limited reforms, then we cannot hope to see a really rational spelling system in common use in our lifetimes. But we can make a start that will be followed by others if it is successful. My feeling is that altho it is a long journey, & one which may never be finished, we must start, & that means taking a 1st step, as small as it may be.
A note of hope, however. Linguistics has discovered in the last 20 years that altho languages change their pronunciation in simple & systematic ways over hundreds of years, the pronunciation changes 1st in one word, & then in an other, & so on thru the vocabulary, over several lifetimes. Over the centuries, a language changes in a systematic way, but only by changing one word, then an other, then an other, & so on. Ther ar powerful forces at work here, for nobody guides or pushes these changes, but the people as a mass keep at them until they ar complete. If we fight these forces, we ar bound to lose, but if we can harness them, they will do our work for us.
In fact, all the successful reforms of English spelling hav also been of this nature, word by word [5]. Thus we may suspect that the most immediate success would be for small groups of especially difficult spellings to be replaced by systematic spellings.
How?How to go about it? Because English is a rather democratic language, I once believed that the only way to go was to begin using a reform & encourage others to use it too. Precious little success hav I had, & the same result was obtained for reforms put into practice by the major educator G Dewey (spelling <-ive> as <-iv>), & a major Chicago newspaper (spelling freight as frate &c). Others hav advocated systematic reforms that touch nearly every word, & som make the language unrecognizable. They hav seldom gained adherents, & it is now more generally accepted that to be successful, a change must maintain the readability of present writing. I would now like to suggest a new, more promising way.
Suppose that a small reform (preferably as a list of 10 or so words, each obviously in need of reform) wer given legal sanction as being equivalent to the present-day standard forms for all laws &- government affairs in the US, & that these forms should be used in all governmental documents if & when the British Parliament approves the same list. We can see this (or vice versa, as the case may be) standing a serious chance of success of being approved on both sides of the Atlantic-within 3 or 4 years!
Law is a serious stumbling-block for reform. If ther is no enabling legislation to define the new forms as equivalent to the old ones, lawyers and law-makers must refuse to use a reformed word for fear that som sharp lawyer might argue that it is meaningless in som contract or business agreement, or to hav som other meaning (based for example on som Old English word). Without such legislation, then, a reform cannot be used in business correspondence, on traffic tickets, on road signs, & in short for anything that has financial consequences in daily life. This could condemn a reform to be a toy for personal letters & maybe som literature (especially comic books). Even newspapers might be sued for libel by misconstruing a reformed word! However, enabling legislation of this sort should not be hard to come by; the US has had laws allowing the use of metric measures for many years.
Once a reform is adopted by both the UK & US governments, it will soon be common in all English speaking countries, with the rest of the world following quickly. If a government uses an identifiable style, that alone accounts for much usage, &- the organizations that deal with the government will quickly fall into line. With a major government's adoption, even just legal sanction, dictionaries will begin including it, & if it is used & a good reform, people will fall into its use in private & public communication almost without noticing it. It will indeed be hard to resist.
Recap.Beginning from the position that it is worse than pointless to propose a reform that has no (significant) chance of success, I hav argued that any reform that will divide English into 2 or more camps has little chance of success for that reason alone. And if in spite of such resistance, a reform that split English wer adopted, then English would lose much of its status & use as a world language. We should not only hav to learn the other way(s) of writing English, but also the foreign languages that non-English people would use when they no longer hav English to write in, but must choose between American & British. This will be worse for us, as well as for non-English people, than learning our present atrocious spelling.
Instead, I argue that a short list of reformed spellings for words that ar universally seen as troublesom for everyone (e.g. laugh, laughter, cough & the like) should be proposed to parliaments, 1st as legal equivalents, & later as the forms to be used in governmental work, providing that the same list is adopted on both sides of the Atlantic. This will guarantee that English retains its status as the world language, & it matches closely the way that languages change naturally. Being a small change, ther can hardly be an easier pill to swallow, & being both small & well-defined, publishers & writers will find it easy to conform to. Further, it is the only kind of reform that has had notable success in democratic countries yet.
With one small success, the pent-up pressure for reform in English spelling will rise in all English countries, & the march to a better spelling system will hav begun. As much fun as it may be to plan a journey, no trip can begin without taking a 1st step, so I hope that we will be able to compromise on a short list of words that can be reformed similarly in all countries, that all people can be convinced need reforming.
In short, I believe that the time for grand schemes & plans is past, & to get any reform at all, we must settle on a small but realistic plans that will succeed.
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[2] One such moderate reform, DUE or Drop Useless E's, [See leaflet Tough & Pamflet 13] would revise systematically the spellings of all words that end in <e> where the <e> does not indicate the correct (modern) pronunciation, as are is not pronounced like care but like car, & should therfore be spelled as ar. In the remainder of this discussion, partly as a demonstration, I apply it to are, were, there, have & some, making ar, wer, ther, hav & som, as well as adopting the short, informal & phonetic (the so-called 'American') spellings of though, through & thorough, making tho, thru & thoro respectively.
[3] Japan might be seen as exceptional, for it reformed its phonetic writing & limited the use of kanji after having lost the Pacific War. Altho it was under US occupation, the occupation authorities apparently stopped encouraging reform after they discovered that illiteracy in Japan was significantly lower than in the US. That is, altho the 1st factor is true, it was more or less irrelevant in this case. More significant was the general feeling of failure of the old ways, & thus the willingness to change. This case might motivate a 4th factor: 'general desire to abandon the old ways'. This was surely contributory to other radical changes, such as in China & Russia after their revolutions.
[4] The South African variety, Afrikaans, is felt by its speakers to be a separate language, & becomes more so when it rejects the reforms in the Netherlands & its Belgian variety, Flemish.
[5] The change of <-ick> to <-ic> might seem to be an exception, but properly speaking, it was only a single suffix that was changed. More technically, we should state this fact as 'morpheme by morpheme'. Thus the British scholars wer replacing <-our> endings (not a suffix) by <-or> until the American rebels did it systematically, & blocked further reform in loyal areas.
Ref 1. [See Journal, Newsletter, Anthology, Bulletin articles, about G B Shaw.
Ref 2. [See Journal, Anthology and Bulletin articles, by Godfrey Dewey.
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Discussion in 'Off The Beaten Track' started by Seerek, Jan 7, 2010.
Is NBC moving Jay Leno back to 11:30?
Wow, that was fast...
That's just bullshit. Conan is 10x funnier than Jay has ever been.
This was a bad idea from the start, and it's no surprise it's not working. It was a move done by NBC because it filled a lot of holes in their lineup, and because it was cheap. So now they have more problems on their hands than they solved.
Sounds like one hot mess!
Johnny Carson, as you know... or maybe you don't know, maybe you don't care......
I like both Jay and Conan, but I'm not going to watch whoever is on later, at least not during the school year...
Conan may be funnier (agreed), but I believe his ratings are no where near Jay's. I believe Jay regularly beat Dave Letterman, too. Who is also way funnier.
Well, it's a mess as it is. However, Conan will probably get mad and quit if Jay is given the 11:30 back. However, Conan is a lesser personality, so he will be bumped back, regardless of whether or not we like him better. Personally, I'm with Dave.
Leno is old-school. Conan will attract the younger audiences. I think Conan is a better investment long term.
I like Conan way better than Jay as well. Conan isn't as good at 11:30 as he was at 12:30, but still funnier than Jay, IMO. I've always found Jay annoying and he goes for the most obvious jokes and repeats them over and over again.
And that's why Jay is more popular with the general audience, I'd bet.
Not that it's necessarily a elitism thing. The day is long, and laughs shouldn't be hard to come by at the end of it.
Craig Ferguson is the best of all of them.
As I recall, Leno had a very bumpy first season too...Letterman beat him all the time back then.
Can't stand Leno, love Conan, and I think it would be awful if this happened.
So, Leno FAILS at 10 and affiliates bitch and moan so Conan is the one who loses out? I just don't understand. Leno is the king of mediocrity. BOOO.
(Just to expand on my earlier post).
Letterman had higher ratings at first. Leno substituted on the Tonight Show a million times before the gig was his, so viewers weren't as fascinated with Leno as a result. A few months into it (1993?), it settled into the pattern that Leno usually got higher ratings (he's in L.A., so his show gets the superstars first) but Letterman had a younger audience (the demographic age advertisers lurve). I believe Letterman was able to sell advertising time at a higher rate as a result.
Which is why NBC decided to keep O'Brien under contract....not lose him to another network..and decided who would replace Leno almost a decade before it happened .
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I find the talk/comedy shows on cable tv more interesting, anyway.
Conan is more popular with younger audiences, there are many other edgier late night shows on cable for that timeframe. I believe that the 11:30 ET or 10:30 CST is a slightly older population who either turn to Letterman or CNN for late night TV since Leno left late night. Who will probably tune back in with Leno at that time.
Conan repeats jokes and banter too, just is more insulting and bitter about it. And there is usually nothing funny about it.
Personally, I prefer Chelsea Lately, she is edgy, funny and brings in others to help her.
I'm one who prefers Leno, but to be honest I don't watch him at the 10 p.m. slot. I'm usually watching something else or busy so I forget that he is on. I will sometimes be flipping channels and find him on at that time. However, I don't set out to watch him then like I did at 11:30.
I've never liked Conan, who I just don't appreciate. I know there are those who do though.
Maybe it's a personal thing, but I tried to watch Conan's monologue. Just couldn't get into it. Same with Ferguson. But I do love their talk with guests. Gotta give Carson and McMahon credit when imitations of them have become common stock among comedians. Their banter is a trademark! "How __ is it?" "It was so __..."
Heck yeah! Even my parents think he's hilarious! What I like about Craig and Conan is how random they are.. I'm a huge fan of random humour. Conan reminds me of my best guy friend from highschool.. same sense of humour.
NBC confirms: Jay out at 10 p.m. slot beginning February 12
The most likely scenario is putting Jay at 12:05 a.m. (after the Olympics are over) and Conan starting at 12:35, but it's not yet confirmed.
Everybody keeps talking about how this affects Conan. But what about Jimmy Fallon? Will Jimmy be unemployed because of Leno?
Depends on what they do with Conan. I think people care more about Conan because he has been in place longer and should be treated as a valuable property by NBC - it will be quite a slam to him to put him back as 12:35am IMO. Jimmy Fallon's only been on the job for a few months, and I haven't heard anything about his show's ratings - only that it's so-so entertainment. I don't think it would have much impact to replace Jimmy Fallon - except to Fallon himself, of course.
If they're really looking to kick O'Brien back to 12:35, I hope he bolts for another network. That's really shady.
ITA. For some reason that I can't explain, his yodeling shark puppet makes me laugh so hard I actually disturb the neighbors.
And ITA. I start laughing with anticipation when he takes the stage. There's something about him I can't put into words.
Per this, the plan is to keep Leno, O'Brien and Fallon, only giving Leno a half hour (just a monologue?) and moving O'Brien and Fallon 30 minutes later for each. I still think Conan would be smart to shop around and see if another network will give him a better 11:30pm deal.
I thought this was interesting:
Doesn't look like they're asking Fallon's opinion on it - which makes sense given his newness in the talk show game.
I've never been able to tolerate Conan - reminds me of too many frat boys I've known. I much prefer Jay, but always have found other channels to watch at 10pm. I will be happy to see him back where he rightfully belongs.
My opinion, the original switch was a "New Coke" moment. No one wanted it or needed it. I too, feel sorry for Jimmy Fallon, not that I'm up watching him, as he's proabably going to be the sacrificial lamb.
It's unfortunate that they feel the need to "demote" Jay to monologue-only.
He handles guests better than any of the others.
NBC should admit that this was a hare-brained idea; and return to the old-schedule, with generous "incentives", if necessary.
It is ridiculous that they don't seem to have had a "contingency plan" in place to address the possible failure of the "grand experiment".
I actually think Fallon's new show is a better fit for 10:30 than Conan. Visually it's just a much brighter show. Conan's set is too blue and too dark and just feel's like late night. If I were Conan I'd just retire from late night and go back to writing or look into other opportunities if they tried to shove my show back a half hour.
Jay could retire from television tomorrow and I wouldn't miss him. I wouldn't even notice his absence.
Well, they're saying the plan is for Jay's 35 at 11:30, Conan an hour at midnight, and then Fallon because that is the path of least resistance, fewer lawsuits. We'll see where all of this falls when the dust settles. The shame of it is that they want everyone to agree to the switch right away, when Conan and Fallon should be allowed time to shop around.
I want to thank NBC for this.
This just sucks - Leno is the one who made noise about retiring. Plans were made, Conan was named successor, and then Leno changes his mind? Wah wah...he should have stuck to retiring and doing something else.
Sorry, but this sucks for Conan and I wouldn't blame him if he's pissed. If he jumps ship, so do I.
Not defending Leno or NBC at all, but something had to be done to satisfy the affiliates; they count on a big audience for their 11 p.m. newscasts and something had to be done. I'm surprised the "experiment" lasted this long, frankly.
The good news is that NBC is calling for more scripted dramas/comedies/dramedies. Which hopefully, it they are good and are successes, becomes a trend. So we will see fewer stupid reality shows and lame talk shows.
I'm just happy that Leno is no longer clogging up prime time.
Craig Fergusson is the best, imho. He even had a hilarious clip talking about the whole situation, culminating with "but we were the worst at the same time, every day of the week." Love him, and hope he moves on to bigger and better things in the future.
Conan would be great on Comedy, I bet. When he, Colbert and Stewart did their writers' strike bit, I was impressed. It seemed to fit. He could be the non-political hour.
I agree 100%. The promising Southland was bumped from the network to make room for Jay. I was suddenly glad none of my favourite shows were on NBC. What happened to the peacock? Didn't they rule evening television once upon a time? Wasn't Friends on here? Wasn't it a slightly edgy, more mature option to Disney's ABC?
I've never heard Conan likened to a frat boy. I wish I'd gone to your post secondary institution, then, as the frat boys I've known weren't that clever. But it does show that Conan's not the general audience pleaser NBC hoped he'd be, which I'm not too surprised about.
I thought TNT picked up Southland. I hope so, 'cause I lurve Regina King; she deserves a good show.
I have to agree with this post. Jay's monologue is good, but so are his interviews.
IMO, NBC is trying to "have it's cake and eat it too"! So if Conan could not deliver the ratings they needed, then just let him go (and pay the contract penalty) or put him back in his old slot (and pay the contract penalty).
This sounds like one of those ridiculous comprimises where trying to make everyone happy and actually no one is happy. I doubt Jay will be happy just doing monologues, I doubt Conan wants to start later, and the public ratings support Jay more than Conan, so changing him to monologue only is not likely to make them happy either. Sounds like everyone loses. JMO.
They did.
It's really interesting seeing the various reactions from different internet-scapes. All of the younger generation-based (like my age and younger) forums and blogs I've seen are all, "Bump Leno! Keep Conan!" while it's completely the opposite for older-skewing places.
Now if only they could figure out a good time slot to take advantage of that...
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Fastest Redskins Debate, Version 2.012Posted by on April 2, 2012 – 5:14 pm
During the darkest hours of last offseason's lockout, Redskins receivers Anthony Armstrong and Brandon Banks livened up the debate with a playful Twitter war of who would be faster in a foot race.
While the race was never consummated (due to concerns of injuries), the merit of each competitor was debated back and forth, 140 characters at a time. Banks is traditionally thought of as the team's speedster, but special teams coordinator Danny Smith has clocked Armstrong at a sub-4.2 on kickoff coverage.
Whichever man is faster, we may never know–but other Redskins receivers threw their hats in the ring this afternoon, declaring their shot at the title of 'The Fastest Redskin.'
Here's a Twitter recap between Brandon Banks (@SpeedyBanks16), Niles Paul (@Niles_Paul) and Terrence Austin (@Terrence_Austin), with their respective merits:
It started with an admission of weight gain from Paul–a number that he then rationalized as a product of his workouts. Paul filled the role as a reserve receiver, returner, gunner, coverage specialist, running back and tight end last year:
Y'all would judge me if I told y'all how much a weigh right now—
Niles Paul (@Niles_Paul) April 02, 2012
I promise it's all healthy weight though, when I train I tend to put on weight…—
Niles Paul (@Niles_Paul) April 02, 2012
Austin guessed that Paul had ballooned from his listed weight of 224 up to 240, which was approximately six pounds over the correct number. Seeing his opportunity to take a stab at Austin, Paul fired away this boast:
@Terrence_Austin I would lol crazy part is I feel more explosive than ever though! & I'm still faster than you & @speedybanks16—
Niles Paul (@Niles_Paul) April 02, 2012
And shots were officially fired in this Twitter-galactic battle. It should be noted that all three players have spent time in the return game, so all are considered to have game-changing speed and elusiveness. Going back to their respective Combine performances, Banks ran a 4.43, Austin ran a 4.58, and Paul ran a 4.51.
And here's the subsequent stream posturing and smack talk among the three:
@Terrence_Austin @niles_paul this is a dreeeaaaaamm—
Brandon Banks (@speedybanks16) April 02, 2012
@Terrence_Austin @speedybanks16 Ay man, I don't like all this doubt. We can race 15 yards, 100 bucks says I'd win lol—
Niles Paul (@Niles_Paul) April 02, 2012
@Terrence_Austin @niles_paul lol u don't have a chance—
Brandon Banks (@speedybanks16) April 02, 2012
Now that pride was a factor for all three men, a gentleman's agreement was in order. A Twitter-iffic handshake, if you will:
@Niles_Paul @speedybanks16 lol run dat—
Terrence Austin (@Terrence_Austin) April 02, 2012
@Niles_Paul @terrence_austin BET!!!—
Brandon Banks (@speedybanks16) April 02, 2012
And the rest of the conversation devolved into "I bet you're slower than's," and rationalizing the different contestant's testimonials of speed.
Paul finally squashed all debate, cementing a date for his teammates to race when the team reassembles in the middle of April:
@Terrence_Austin @speedybanks16 Enough talk lol I'll see you fellas in Mid April & we will settle this. I like my 100 in 1's though—
Niles Paul (@Niles_Paul) April 02, 2012
With the start of offseason activities only two weeks away, who would win a race for the title of 'The Fastest Redskins?' As a followup question, does it even matter?
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By Rick on Apr 2, 2012 | Reply
There's nothing NP can't do if he beats you you will never live it down but if you beat him give him a rematch and it's a wrap he just won't loose sorry I've seen it b4! It is what it is It is who he is!
By Spitfire71 on Apr 2, 2012 | Reply
240? Good lord. Paulsen might be out of a job as a reserve TE if Paul keeps that up. o_O
By 007 on Apr 3, 2012 | Reply
We re-sign FLETCHER and we're a winner.
Here's today's current mock
Round 1 [002] QB ROBERT GRIFFIN III Baylor
Round 3 [069] OT BOBBY MASSIE Mississippi State
Round 4 [102] LB JAMES-MICHAEL JOHNSON Nevada
Round 4 [109] RB CHRIS POLK Washington
Round 5 [141] FS AARON HENRY Wisconsin
Round 6 [173] OG JOE LOONEY Wake Forest
Round 7 [213] FB CODY JOHNSON Texas
AARON CORP QB Richmond
LANCE DUNBAR RB North Texas State
LONNIE EDWARDS OG Texas Tech
MIKE RYAN OT Connecticut
By James Gallagher on Apr 3, 2012 | Reply
It doesn't really matter to me who's the fastest but I will say this, I love to see the camaraderie between all these guys, its little stuff like this that can pull a team together, forging a trust and friendship between eachother where when times are tough on the field they can relie on and pull from eachothers strengths and make things happen.
You wouldn't have seen this pre shanahan era imo
By Lavar56 on Apr 3, 2012 | Reply
Hmm trick question. Who is the fastest Redskins player… last year, right now or when the season starts. If it is when the the season starts, my guess would be that one or two could be eliminated from the poll. Therefore, I would have to cast my vote for Paul.
By ImproperRedskin on Apr 3, 2012 | Reply
Interesting theory, taking a fullback in the seventh. Don't know a thing about him, though. I'll have to check it out.


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Another local historian, Bob Holdgreve, lives just across the road from me. He is also my second cousin. Bob and his wife, Donna (VonderEmbse), have three daughters and seven grandchildren. Cindy Kastoff and Maria Powley live in Ft. Wayne. Chrissy Elwer and her husband are both teachers. They reside near Delphos.
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From 8 March 1877 – Two large wolves, one black and the other gray, were killed by a Paulding County man recently.
From the Herald in 1877 – The citizens of Paulding are trying to have a plank road laid to Charloe. It would be a good improvement.
There are many types of scrapbooking. Some call them themes. I'm thankful to my mother for getting me started in the hobby when I was in junior high. Some of the unusual items in my scrapbooks from the early 1940s include war ration stamps, old sales tax stamps, a V-Mail Christmas card and letter that Mom receive from her cousin, serving in the WACS in Australia during World War II.
During the past week, I paged through my old tattered and torn scrapbooks. My favorite is from 1951, which includes our marriage certificate, invitation, all the beautiful wedding cards that came with the gifts and the newspaper clipping. It was especially touching when I found the road map from our honeymoon and the post cards and other memorabilia. We visited Niagara Falls and several of the New England States in Hups' 1950 Studebaker Champion Convertible. That was a car way ahead of it's time.
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We are a Christ-centered, caring, diverse family of faith called by God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to carry out Christ's mission in our community and throughout the world. We believe that God is at work in the life of every person, whom he created, and is doing something special in the communities around the Grand Coulee Dam. Our church family seeks to participate in the work God is doing, and in the process, grow in our relationship with Him.
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Family and friends have set up a benefit fund and arranged the funeral for a man who died protecting a friend.
Police say 36-year-old Timothy Lamont James was fatally shot in an apartment while trying to stop a woman's boyfriend from assaulting her last Wednesday.
According to the arrest warrant, 31-year-old Misti Lynn Wilcox and a woman identified as Michelle were at an apartment in the Mission Apartment complex with James, who was asleep in another room.
Police say Michelle began arguing on the phone with her boyfriend, 36-year-old Ebedmelech Lemuel Henry.
A few minutes later, they say Henry and another person came to the door. Michelle let them in and instantly Henry began assaulting Michelle.
Police say James woke up and tried to stop the attack when Henry began to hit James.
Wilcox said she and Michelle ran into the kitchen when they heard three gunshots come from the bedroom.
Henry and the unidentified person ran out of the complex and fled in a white Cadillac.
Police responded to the scene and found James had been shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS.
Police were able to locate Henry later Wednesday afternoon near 77th and Frankford.
He is in custody and charged with murder. Police say they have still not located the second person who was with Henry.
If you are interested in making a donation, you may do so at any City Bank location under Timothy Lamont James Memorial Fund.
James' funeral will take place Wednesday, July 31 at 1 p.m. at College Ave. Baptist Church in Levelland.
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Trioscapes have released their sophomore album worldwide on Metal Blade Records! After the album's first week of release, it has landed on the Billboard Current Traditional Jazz albums chart at #4.Read More
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Hookers and Blow is excited to add longtime friend and world renowned stand-up comic DON JAMIESON (VH1's THAT METAL SHOW) as the 'Master of Ceremonies' for their upcoming East Coast dates.Read More
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Birmingham extreme metal miscreants and recent Metal Blade signees, ANAAL NATHRAKH, are pleased to infect the masses with their anticipated new full-length this Fall title 'Desideratum'.Read More
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In addition to releasing their thirteenth full-length album, 'A Skeletal Domain,' the death metal icons will also be releasing their official autobiography on September 16th, 'Bible of Butchery The Official Biography'Read More
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Progressive powerhouse Between the Buried and Me will be releasing 'Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium' next month on Metal Blade Records.Read More
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The Pima County Regional Bomb Squad is responding to a northwest-side home after an explosion in a garage around noon today.
The Northwest Fire District responded to a 911 call from someone inside the residence near West Horizon Hills Drive and North Galaxy Road.
According to Pima County Sheriff's deputies, there was a report of an explosion in the garage and that the resident was possibly mixing chemical to make homemade exploding targets.
After firefighters left, Pima County Sheriff's deputies awaited a search warrant to look into what caused the explosion and if any threat remained.
After the homeowner was served with the warrant, the bomb squad decided to wait and send in a robot to ensure no member of the squad would be harmed by unstable substances.
There was minimal damage to property in the garage and no one was injured.
KOLD News 13's JD Wallace said he saw the bomb squad remove a container from the home where the explosion occurred. The robot used also carried something out of the home.
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Last Update: August 11, 2014
In 1971, laws and regulations governing the certification of potable water treatment facility operation were enacted. They establish the level at which water treatment facilities should be manned; the minimum qualifications for testing at each of the five grade levels; and criteria for the renewal and revocation of certificates. They apply to a program consisting of ~13,000 certified water treatment operators. In 1998, the US EPA released Guidelines for the Certification and Recertification of Operators of Community and Nontransient Noncommunity Public Water Systems. Based on these guidelines, state regulations governing the certification of potable water treatment operators were revised to include distribution operators at five grade levels, effective January 2001. For more, see the California Operator Certification Program Annual Report (2012) (PDF).
Scroll to the bottom of this page for information about certification, the application and exam process, and continuing education and training.
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On July 1, 2014 the Drinking Water Program moved from CDPH to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB). Find out more at http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/drinkingwater/index.shtml. This transfer includes the Drinking Water Treatment & Distribution System Operator Certification Program -- for information on how this transfer may affect the program, please review the Frequently Asked Questions (PDF).
Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, sites for both Distribution and Treatment exams have been limited to the following locations: Fresno, Los Angeles, Redding, Sacramento, San Jose, San Bernardino, San Diego and Vallejo. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Water Treatment - Exam and Certification Requirements:
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(916) 449-5629
Water Distribution - Exam and Certifcation Requirements:
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(916) 449-5628
Certificate Renewal - Continuing Education:
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Issuance of New T1, T2 or D1, D2 Certificates:
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Operator Mailing Lists:
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We may call it search engine optimization and you may call it search engine optimisation, but despite the different spellings, SEO is still SEO around the world and the basics always remain constant. However, SEO Moves strives for and delivers much more than the basics. With this unique Australian approach, SEO Moves knows that Australian companies are targeting a base that needs search engine optimisation focused on Google.com.au. With that target and knowledge in mind, we understand the needs of our Australian clients and have consistently helped them rank higher on Google.com.au as well as the US based Google.com.
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Early Thursday morning, Elijah Dukes was arrested again. This time, he was pulled over for a traffic violation with a bad driver's license, and upon apprehension, he attempted to eat a bag of pot while neglecting to remove the blunt that was tucked behind his ear. For our moral outrage to actually mean something, let's take a moment to separate what's morally outrageous about his track record from what isn't. Smoking pot isn't (perhaps you disagree). Driving with pot in your system probably isn't. Driving with a suspended license, from a certain perspective, is. Bailing on one's children and failing to pay child support, despite having plenty of money in your bank account to do so, is. Threatening to kill a woman and her children is. Hitting a woman is.
"Look, honey, a sportswriter is issuing moral judgment! Wake the children!" I'll stop for a bit, and instead reflect on the sad history he's probably making.
Dukes' career in Major League Baseball is probably in the books. If it is, the last position player to match the "final season" criteria set by his final season (25 years of age or younger, at least 107 games played, an OPS+ of at least 93) is Tony Horton, who wrapped up his career in 1970. One has to flip all the way back to World War II era (Benny McCoy) to find the next-most recent example.
If we remove the OPS+ requirement, the most recent example is that of Mike Darr, and for a reason I was fearful of coming across. Darr died in a car accident in 2002.
We aren't even five years removed from Dukes' first Major League at-bat, which resulted in a solo home run. At that instant, his slugging percentage was just as easily expressed through letters: "four." The classic "homer in first at-bat" joke is that the player may as well just retire, that it's all downhill from here. Some of these players end up having long, rewarding careers. Some do not. Not one -- at least in recent history -- has seen his career fall off a cliff like Dukes' has.
Don't sleep on how good Dukes really was. He played half a season as a 24-year-old and scratched together a 127 OPS+. If we run through the list of other 24-year-olds in recent history to have done that, we find almost nothing but marquee names: Hanley Ramirez, Ryan Braun, Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, et cetera.
It could have been a lot of fun. We could have seen him on either the Rays, a perennially competitive and interesting team, or the Nationals, a team that figures to be one of the more intriguing of the 2010s. Maybe Dukes could have become a Nick Markakis-caliber fielder.
As I write this, it's afternoon on the East Coast. He's been locked up for around 12 hours. I wonder whether someone has sprung Elijah Dukes yet, or if the judge has decided to keep him. I wonder whether he's thinking about of these things. One can only count the ceiling tiles for so long. There aren't very many to count.
Maybe you consider it a fool's errand to try to get inside the head of a shitty guy -- and, yes, it's tough for me to deny that he's a shitty guy -- but remember that our actions are functions of ourselves, which in turn are, in part, functions of our histories. Elijah Dukes' history is one of abject poverty, one in which his father was jailed for murder, and one in which he ascended the ranks to become a talented, famous person with a lot of money.
That would disorient the Hell out of me. It might make me a shitty guy, too. I'm rooting for Elijah Dukes, in spite of all the rotten things he's done and all the stupid and disappointing things he continues to do and not do. His story and Josh Hamilton's aren't entirely appropriate comparisons, for several reasons, but I want him to make the comeback Josh Hamilton made.
Failing that, I hope he figures himself out, because if life is indeed "for" anything, it isn't for oscillating between prison and the troubles outside it.


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Third-year FIU Law students Natalie Marcell and Bryan Belenson recently finished as semi-finalists in the American Bar Association (ABA) National Negotiation Finals in Dallas. As in prior years, the competition involved over 200 teams from over 110 law schools from the United States and Canada.
Coached by Amanda Braun, Marcell and Belenson earned their trip to the national finals by winning the ABA Southeast Regional Negotiation Competition in November 2012. The top three teams from the Southeast Region (Florida International University College of Law, University of Georgia School of Law, and Stetson University College of Law) were all invited to the national finals.
This year's finals challenged teams to resolve a small business ventures dispute and negotiate an agreement based on the facts about the situation and their client's confidential information.


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Astros might have interest in Big Unit
Veteran left-hander was stellar in previous Houston stint
LAS VEGAS -- The Astros may be interested in free-agent lefty Randy Johnson, whose brief tenure with the Astros occurred 10 years ago and lasted just over two months.
According to a report in the East Valley Tribune, Houston and the Los Angeles Angels have joined the list of teams which have expressed interest in Johnson after meeting with Johnson's agents at the Bellagio.
The Dodgers, Giants, Athletics, Rangers, Brewers and Cubs are also believed to have touched base with Johnson's represenatives before the Winter Meetings began, according to the report.
The article also indicates that one source said Johnson's name had yet to come up in the Astros' internal discussions.
The 45-year-old Johnson was traded to Houston minutes before the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline in 1998 but signed with the Diamondbacks that winter. Johnson was 11-10 with a 3.91 ERA over 30 starts in '08.
Alyson Footer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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My $1,000 Face: The Truth Behind Expensive Beauty Products
My Experiment
The first time I used my new tube of lip treatment I panicked. I'd given it one gentle squeeze and what looked like six gallons of balm exploded from the applicator's tiny hole. That was impossible, obviously, since the tube held just .35 ounce. But it looked as though six gallons -- or at least the entire .35 ounce -- had gushed onto the tips of my fingers, where it clearly didn't belong.
If I'd been using my old lip balm I wouldn't have cared. What was $3.95 down the drain? But this was Kinerase Lip Treatment, a blend of kinetin, collagen boosters, grape-seed oil, and white-tea extract, ingredients that would give me a "younger-looking smile" by plumping my lips and reducing the wrinkles around my mouth, which were starting to look like fault lines.
And it cost $38.
"Help!" I yelled as I frantically grabbed a Dixie cup and dropped the tube in it, desperate to salvage every last drop.
My husband, Thad, rushed into the bathroom as if he expected to find me on fire. "What?" he asked.
"Look!" I said, pointing to the cup. "How am I ever going to get that back in the tube?"
"This is honestly what you're freaking out about?"
"Thad, this is very serious." This luxury lip treatment was the first step of my Grand Age-Fighting Experiment, "grand" because that's roughly what my new arsenal of beauty products cost: $1,000. Did my face need that much help? Not really -- I still get carded every now and then when I buy certain over- the-counter cold medicines. But that didn't change the reality of my situation: I am an overscheduled, very under-moisturized mother of two little girls who has spent most of her 37 years ignoring her face.
The neglect was starting to show. If I stared at myself in the mirror long enough I began to see scary things: thinner lips, lines at the corners of my eyes, the lack of anything resembling a glow. I had to do something about this -- and fast.
That something would be an experiment. I would trade in my favorite drugstore products for the uber-expensive ones celebrities use and find out if the investment and fuss were worth it. Luckily, Ladies' Home Journal agreed to fund my "research," since no sane woman could rationalize spending that much money on her beauty routine these days. But that has never stopped me (or any other woman) from wondering whether luxury skincare products are really any better than stuff you can buy at the local drugstore.
Which was why I was gingerly squeezing the tube of Kinerase Lip Treatment just above the spill on my fingers, praying the reverse suction would force it back inside. It actually worked. Phew! I applied a few drops, covering every millimeter of my lips and the surrounding skin, just as the directions said.
I turned to face Thad. "Do I look younger?" I asked.
"You look like an insane person," he said.
"Yes, but do I look like a younger insane person?"
"Not quite yet."