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What is corpus linguistics?
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Corpus linguistics provide an extremely powerful tool for the analysis of natural language and can provide tremendous insights as to how language use varies in different situations such us spoken versus written, or formal versus casual conversation.
An empirical approach to linguistic analysis is one based on naturally occurring spoken or written data as opposed to an approach that gives priority to introspection.
As a result of these advances, there are typically four features that are seen as characteristic of corpus-based analyses of language
A corpus refers to a large principled collection of natural texts. The use of natural texts means that language has been collected from naturally occurring sources rather than from surveys or questionnaires.
For example, if the research focus is to characterize the language used in business letters, the researcher would need to collect a representative sample of business letters. After considering the task of representing all of the various types of business and various kinds of correspondence that are included in the category of 'business letters' the researcher might decide to focus on how small business communicate with each other. Now, the researcher can set about the task of contacting small businesses and collecting inter-office communication.
Corpus Design and Compilation
Because such a wide range of corpora is accessible to individual teachers and researchers, it is not necessary for those interested in corpus linguistics and its applications to build their own corpus. It is also important to know how corpora are designed and compiled in order to evaluate existing corpora and understand what sorts of analysis they are best suited for.
General corpora are designed to be quite large, for example BNC, designed in 1990s, contains 100 million words, and the American National Corpus, which is in the planning stages, is attempting to replicate the BNC's model.
A general corpus is designed is designed to be balanced and include language samples from a wide range of registers or genres, including both fiction and nonfiction in all their diversity.
Because written texts are vastly easier and cheaper to compile than transcript of speech, very few of the large corpora are balanced in terms of speech and writing. The compilers of the BNC had originally planned to include equal amounts of speech and writing and eventually settled for a spoken component of ten million words, or ten percent of the total.
Specialized corpora, those designed with more specific research goals in mind, may be the most crucial growth area for corpus linguistics, as researchers increasingly recognize the importance of register-specific descriptions and investigations of language.
Specialized corpus focuses on a particular spoke or written variety of language. It includes historical corpora and the Archer corpora, and corpora of newspaper writing, fiction or academic prose.
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It is essential that the overall design of the corpus reflects the issues being explored. For example, if a researcher is interested in comparing patterns of language found in spoken and written discourse, the corpus has to encompass a range of possible spoken and written texts, so that the information derived from the corpus accurately reflects the variation possible in the patterns being compared across the two registers.
All these issues must be weighed when deciding how much of each category(genre topic, speaker type, etc.) to include. It is possible that certain aspects of all of these categories will be important for creating a balanced representative corpus. However, striving for representativeness in too many categories would necessitate an enormous corpus in order for each category to be meaningful. Once the categories and target number of texts and words from each category have been decided upon, it is important to incorporate a method of randomizing the texts or speakers and speech situations in order to avoid sampling bias on the part of the compilers.
In thinking about the research goals of a corpus, compilers must bear in mind the intended distribution of the corpus.
Of course no corpus can be everything to everyone; the point is that in creating more widely distributed resources, it is worthwhile to think about potential future users during the design phase. Many of the decisions made about the design of a corpus have to do with practical considerations of funding and time.
Corpus Complication
Materials for a written corpus may be:
-Other types of documents readily available on the web that may comprise small specialized corpora or sub-sections of larger corpora include. E.g. government document. - In relying exclusively on electronically produced texts there is a danger, therefore; it is possible that the format itself engenders particular linguistic characteristics that differentiate the language of electronic texts from that of texts produced for print.
2-Spoken corpus
This usually involves informing speakers or copyright owners about the purposes of the corpus, how and to whom it will be available?
Word lists derived from corpora can be useful for vocabulary instruction and test development.
Words and grammatical structures that seem synonymous often have strong patterns of association or preferences for use with certain structures.
Markup: it is the use of codes to provide additional information about the origins, authors, speakers, structure or contents of texts.
In a spoken corpus, turns and speakers are almost always identified and coded, but there are a number of other features that may be encoded as well, including, for example, contextual events or paralinguistic features.
The information that may be encoded in header includes, for spoken corpora, demographic information about the speakers (such as gender, social class, occupation, age, native language or dialect), when and where the event took place, relationships among the participants and so forth. For written corpora, demographic information about the author(s) as well as title and publication details may be encoded in a header.
For both spoken and written corpora, headers sometimes include classification of the text into categories, such as register, genre, topic domain, discourse mode or formality.
Annotation: there are a number of different kinds of linguistic processing or annotation that can be carried out to make the corpus a more powerful resource.
Prosodic and phonetic annotation: they are other types of annotation which are not uncommon and synactic parsing which is much less common, and used especially, though not exclusively, by comutational linfuistics.
1-A tagged corpus allows researchers to explore and answer different types of questions.

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The Huskies had a 1-1 homestand against the Los Angeles schools, dropping their game against UCLA 91-82 and defeating USC 82-75. C.J. Wilcox had 24 points against the Trojans in his last game at Hec Ed Pavilion, while Andrew Andrews contributed 19 points. With the win against USC, the UW was able to bring its conference record to 9-9.
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The Huskies went 1-1 against the Bay Area schools this week, beating Stanford 64-60 and losing to Cal 72-59. The loss to the Golden Bears was Washington's first home conference loss of the season, dropping its record to 14-12, 6-7 Pac-12.
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The Washington men's basketball team took care of business at home against both Oregon schools. In the 80-76 win over Oregon, C.J. Wilcox led the way for the UW as he scored 23 points including the clinching three-pointer in the final minute of the game. Nigel Williams-Goss poured in 32 points in the next game against the Beavers, setting a new career high as the Huskies pulled out the 87-81 victory.
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Baby & Me Book 1
Posted in Manga Reviews on February 21, 2006 by Johannaby Marimo Ragawa; adaptation by Lance Caselman
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For every girl who's ever dreamed of having a real life baby doll, here's the story of a female-less family. Takuya's mother has passed away, and his dad needs him to take care of his baby brother.
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Each of the boys have their own ways of dealing with their grief. The baby acts out when he sees a child with its mother. Dad is already being set up with new potential wives, regardless of whether he's ready. Takuya wants his mother back because he misses his childhood, his previous life with less responsibilities. He's also jealous of the way the baby can show his feelings while he can't. Everyone's concerned about the youngster while expecting him to cope on his own.
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Yes, I know it was two months ago, but I finally got around to putting together my trip report from this trip. The crowds were insane, as you could imagine. Some of the waits were just ridiculous. What on earth would make people want to wait a half hour for Dumbo?
Day 1: Disneyland: Thursday 11/24
Star Tours: The Adventure Continues-9/10
I ended up getting the Stormtroopers, Hoth, Leia, and the Death Star. The ride is great, just as amazing as I hoped it would be. I wouldnt go as far as saying it was better than the original, but it came really close.
Space Mountain- 9/10
Just as great as I remembered. The one thing I noticed was that the supports were pretty visible at some points. I dont know if thats always been the case, or if the same is the case at WDW, but it did take a little bit away from the ride. Other than that, though, its great.
Astro Blasters 7/10
An enjoyable shooting ride. Not the best, or the most high tech, but still enjoyable. It stopped twice, though, but I guess it definitely helped my score .
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Snow Whites Scary Adventure 6.5/10
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Pinocchios Daring Journey 6/10
Okay. Not great, but okay.
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A true classic. A great, enjoyable ride. As we went on it after it had gotten dark out, my family was convinced that the loading area was actually outside, and didnt believe otherwise until I pointed out the Blue Bayou, which they knew was inside. They also thought that the first Jack was actually an actor, not an animatronic, it looked that good. The only thing that was annoying was this 8 or so year old boy in the row behind us, that talked the entire time, mainly about the ride. I must say, the drops aren't as surprising when you have someone behind you saying I think this is the drop, I think the drop is coming up, the drop is gonna be soon, Isnt there a drop?.
Haunted Mansion Holiday 9/10
Ive never ridden the original HM, and Ive never seen Nightmare before Christmas, but it was pretty fun. I have to say though, the most fun things in the ride were things that are in the normal HM, such as the ballroom scene and the Hitchhiking Ghost effect, which in this version is gifts instead of ghosts.
Fantasmic 7/10
An okay show. Not great, but enjoyable. The new dragon they have at DL looks great.
Peter Pans Flight 7.5/10
A fun ride. The overhead suspension instead of a track makes it even more fun than a normal dark ride of that type, but not worth the 1 1/2+ hour waits I saw.
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Looks like the big freeze is back and we are heading for a very cold weekend indeed. As much as I love snow I am quite over it and really want Spring to kick in. I am craving for longer days, blossoms and in general the good feel factor that comes with the season. Have a lovely weekend and I hope you have exciting plans, I'll be busy with the Heart Home team editing away for the Spring issue...Yay!
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"The Effects of Nanoparticles on Selective Gas Permeability of Thin Film Membranes Using Supercritical Fluid"
In their research, Allyson Ho and Alex Thachara explored ways to improve, modify and control the porosity of polymer thin films. The applications for this technology are many: gas masks which filter out large molecules, viruses and bacteria while allowing free flow of oxygen and carbon dioxide, specialized food wrappings, as well as specialized permeable bandages for burns. Such devices could for instance prevent airborne pathogens such as SARS from infecting people and provide preventative measures against bio-terrorism.
Ms. Ho and Mr. Thachara combined two techniques to modify the permeability of very thin polymer films made from polystyrene and poly (methyl methacrylate). They added assorted nanoparticles, then subjected the films to treatment in high pressure, super-critical carbon dioxide – pressure greater than 1,073 pounds per square inch and at temperatures greater than 31.3 celsius. Both these treatments affect the porosity. Ms Ho and Mr. Thachara carefully controlled and measured the resulting oxygen permeability of their films after a combination of these treatments. Their mentors were Luckner John Jerome and Dr. Miriam Rafailovich.
Fluent in Mandarin, Ms. Ho, a junior, enjoys swimming and arts and crafts. She is a member of the Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS), Youth Expanding Service (YES) and Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE). She received semi-finalist honors in the 2003 Siemens Westinghouse Competition and honorable mention at the 2004 Exxon Mobile Texas Science and Engineering Fair. Ms. Ho's sister, Madelyn, was a national finalist in the 2002-03 Siemens Westinghouse Competition.
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Thanks to generous donations from hundreds of individuals and organizations, more than 4,600 children receiving services from the DHS Office of Children, Youth and Families (CYF) received a gift during the holiday season.
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One thing troubled Andreu, though, and it wasn't Enstice's allegations of incomplete police work. "The thing that I don't like is, after [the paramedics] rolled him over, the gun was still in his hand," Andreu says. "Normally the gun falls out because of recoil." But that's not conclusive evidence, according to Andreu: "If it's not a suicide, and I think it could very well be, they'll never know unless the guy confesses."
For years Evans and Bober have wondered what really happened that day. "It got around really fast -- everybody has a radio," Evans recalls. "They said that he committed suicide, and I just said, 'No way.'"
Bober knew Berkofsky for twenty years. They'd worked together at the World Trade Center in New York, and their families were close: "Our kids were born at about the same time, we both came down here from New York. It was, you know, one of those things."
Bober has been skeptical of the investigation into his friend's death since the day it happened. "I think they did a horrible job," he says. "They wrapped the whole thing up in about ten hours. They came to my house that night and told me my friend committed suicide. That's it. They were done."
Berkofsky never told Bober about the problems at work, but Evans was pulled into the dispute before the shooting. "At the time, I was a steward with the union and Ruth Casal came to me with a complaint," she recounts. "Ruth is very smart and good at the computer, but she wasn't the hardest worker and she was pregnant. Marrero-Colon spent a lot of time watching her."
The ex-military man was preoccupied with Casal's performance. According to interviews conducted by Miami-Dade homicide detectives and Marrero-Colon's own words to police the day of the incident, he was a man who felt his standards were generally higher than others. His supervisor, Diane Georges, told police that in November 1998 a union member approached her about Marrero-Colon. According to police reports: "[Georges] was told that Marrero-Colon was coming in to work early and working while not getting paid overtime. She stated that he would monitor other workers, often commenting on whether they would work up to 'Customs Service standards.'"
Three things about Casal set Marrero-Colon off: He believed she wasn't working hard enough, he thought her removal of footwear in the office was unprofessional, and he spotted her putting her stocking feet on the desk, a serious breach of office etiquette.
In early December Casal met with Georges and requested a transfer. She liked the work and she liked all her other co-workers, but Marrero-Colon was making her life miserable. A few hours later, as Georges was trying to figure out what to do about the situation, she received a startling phone call. According to police reports: "Later that day Georges stated that she received a call from Inspector Marrero-Colon questioning her as to the whereabouts of Ruth Casal. After speaking to Inspector Marrero-Colon, Georges then realized that all the reports about his behavior were just confirmed by the phone call."
Everyone around Marrero-Colon, including Berkofsky, told him to cool down and not act like a supervisor, but the messages went unheeded. Even a reprimand from Georges and the threat of harassment claims couldn't convince Marrero-Colon that he was in the wrong.
From the second police interview:
Marrero-Colon: "The union representatives -- they compiled all of that information and they told me that she maybe can press some charges on me as harassment because I was not a supervisor to, I guess, overlook of the workload in the office and quality."
Police: "They said that you weren't a supervisor and you could not oversee her work. Is that what they told you?"
Marrero-Colon: "That's what they mentioned to me, yes."
Police: "How did you respond to that?"
Marrero-Colon: "I respond that I had a high grade of standards and that if I was going to be working in that office, I expected that each and every one of us share the same amount of work."
Marrero-Colon's eventual response was to stop speaking to everyone at the office, except when he had to. Nothing was resolved, and finally, on January 6, Berkofsky asked supervisor Diane Georges to pay a visit to the Free Zone office.
That morning, before Georges arrived, senior inspector Lorraine Kennedy asked Marrero-Colon what he thought of her job performance. Marrero-Colon didn't know it at the time, but Kennedy had formally complained about him to Georges. Kennedy had a history with Marrero-Colon: Shortly after he was assigned to the Miami Free Zone in 1997, he questioned Kennedy's authority to sign certain documents. Kennedy was proven correct but was angry at Marrero-Colon for challenging her. She told police that after a meeting with supervisors, who backed her up and told him he was wrong, Marrero-Colon approached her in the office and "cruelly told her that he knew what was wrong with her, and continued to state, 'I know what you need.'" Kennedy said Marrero-Colon taunted her until she cried, then never bothered her again.


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N.O. Mayor Unveils Proposed 2014 City Budget
The mayor of New Orleans presented his proposed 2014 city budget to the City Council Tuesday.
Mitch Landrieu's proposing a $500 million spending plan that includes enough money for the NOPD to put more cops on the streets.
"We heard from the community that we need more police officers on the beat. Last year with the leadership of Council President Clarkson we funded two new recruit classes. This year we will go further. We will fully fund five new recruit classes which will train 150 new police officers," Landrieu said.
In prepared remarks, the mayor said the proposed budget protects public safety, increasing the budgets of Police, Fire and EMS.
But Landrieu's proposed budget contains no money to pay for the federal consent decree mandating major reforms and improvements at Orleans Parish Prison.
The mayor also said, "If we are ordered to pay a $17.5 million judgment to the Fire Pension Board, it will have devastating consequences for our budget."
Final approval of the budget is in the hands of the City Council, so changes to it are possible. The City Charter mandates that a balanced budget be approved for the city by December 1.


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One of my favorites along with Pyrat and a local brew - Bardenay
Did you have a chance to try Pyrat before Patron took it over?
Pyrat is delicious as well. I guess I didn't realize Patron had acquired......Like a good zin or cab or whatever.... I used to be thrifty but now I freely spend what it takes on rum or wine..You get what you pay for..... I've earned it damnit!! Bob
No, I actually did not know that Patron took it over - what's the story?
IMO, it was one of the truly great rums before Patron took over. Now it is simply good.
and living within a few hours of outstanding Washington wineries,
That's a shame - I have it neat, and still think it is a great spirit, and I can only imagine what it was before. The irony for me is that rum is my favorite spirit, but I need to be careful - I appear to have a sensitivity that causes my corneas to swell, according to my ophthalmologist.
What a coincidence, I have a sensitivity that causes my levator palpebrae superioris to relax.
Small world - I spent some of my formative years in Houston and Galveston
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Ryan Stokes to head National Library board
PUBLISHED: 21 Jun 2012 00:05:08 | UPDATED: 22 Jun 2012 04:16:50PUBLISHED: 21 Jun 2012 PRINT EDITION: 21 Jun 2012Ryan Stokes believes one of the obligations of the library is to retain 'the physical heritage'. Photo: Louie Douvis
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His father was chairman of the National Gallery of Australia for five years in the late 1990s and has bought and donated Victoria Cross medals to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Now Ryan Stokes is following in Kerry's footsteps, becoming chairman of another flagship cultural institution, the National Library of Australia. He is on the board of the Perth International Arts Festival, but this is his first step up to leading a not-for-profit cultural organisation.
The appointment of the 36-year-old for a three-year term from next month represents generational change for the library. Mr Stokes replaces 66-year-old Jim Spigelman, who was chairman of the library council for two years and is now chairman of the ABC.
It also suggests the son has absorbed some of the interest in art and historical objects of his father.
Kerry Stokes has one of the broadest and most eclectic private collections in the country, ranging from Aboriginal and western art to maps, manuscripts and books. In 2009, four of his rare Dutch navigational charts went on show at the National Library.
Ryan Stokes will add to the library experience in the digital space, as chairman of wireless broadband provider Vividwireless (which Seven Group Holdings sold to Optus this month for $230 million), and in media and business more generally, as a director of Seven Group Holdings and chief executive of private Stokes company Australian Capital Equity.
That experience with new technologies will be useful when libraries worldwide are grappling with the need to better use technology, including putting more of their collections online.
The National Library has led the charge in digitising its collection; its Trove online search portal attracts an average of 50,000 users a day and features, among other things, 7 million newspaper pages. But it still has less than 2 per cent of the 10 million items in its collection online.
"The next step is probably how to continue to broaden its reach and relevance in a digital age," Ryan Stokes said.
Debate is raging in library circles worldwide about whether such moves will make books redundant, and cause libraries to dispose of some of their holdings. But Mr Stokes is not in favour of such radical steps.
"I think one of the obligations of the library is to retain the physical heritage," he said.
The director-general of the library council, Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, said Mr Stokes came with "a really strong interest in the collection of Australian history" and that he "gets" the digital challenges ahead.
"He will be terrific as we think about staying at the forefront of that work," she said.
Heading a cultural institution can be tricky; during Kerry Stokes's time at the National Gallery its then director Brian Kennedy came in for fierce criticism from some quarters.
Has his father given him any tips on how to handle such positions? No, Mr Stokes says with a laugh.
"He will leave me to my own devices, I guess."
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Kakatiya dynasty
Kakatiya dynasty | |||||
Capital | Orugallu (Warangal) | ||||
Languages | Telugu | ||||
Religion | Hinduism | ||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||
History | |||||
- | Established | 1083 | |||
- | Disestablished | 1323 |
The Kakatiya dynasty was a South Indian dynasty that ruled most of the Telugu speaking lands covered by current day Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, India from 1083 CE to 1323 CE,[1] with Orugallu, now Warangal, as its capital. Shaivite Hindu in kingdom, it was one of the great Telugu empires that lasted for centuries until the conquest by the Delhi Sultanate.
Notable rulers[edit]
Kakatiyas were Durjayas.
Rudrama Devi[edit]
The most prominent ruler in this dynasty was Rani Rudrama Devi 1262–1289 CE, one of the few queens in Indian history. She was born as Rudramba to Ganapathideva who had no sons. She was formally designated as a son through the ancient Putrika ceremony and given the male name of Rudradeva and declared the Queen. Rudramadevi was married to Veerabhadra, Eastern Chalukyan prince of Nidadavolu.[2] Despite initial misgivings by some of her generals who resented a female ruler, she suppressed the internal rebellions and external incursions. An able fighter and ruler Rudramba defended the kingdom from the cholas and the Yadavs, earning their respect. She remains one of the few symbols of female power in South India.
Rudrama died in November 1289 when in battle with Ambadeva, a rebel Kayastha chief. she was succeeded by her grandson, Prataparudra, whom she had adopted as her son and heir on the advice of her father, Ganapatideva.[citation needed]
Demise of the dynasty[edit]
The conquest of the Deccan by the Delhi Sultanate began in 1296 when Alauddin Khilji, the son-in-law and commander of the sultan, Jalaluddin, raided and plundered Devagiri.[3][page needed] Khilji subsequently murdered the sultan and took his place as head of the sultanate.
The glory and wealth of the Kakatiya kingdom attracted the attention of Khilji. The first foray into the Telugu kingdom was made in 1303 and was a disaster due to the resistance of the Kakatiya army in the battle at Upparapalli.[4] A second attempt was made in 1309 by Malik Kafur; he managed to capture the forts of Siripur and Hanumakonda and then Warangal fort was taken after a prolonged siege.[5] Kafur indulged in murder and mayhem around Warangal and this prompted Prataparudra to make a pact and offer an enormous amount of tribute.[citation needed]
Prataparudra asserted his independence in 1320 when there was a change of power in Delhi. The Khilji dynasty ended and Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq ascended the Delhi throne. In 1323, Tughlaq sent his son, Ulugh Khan, to defeat the defiant Kakatiya king. Khan's raid was repulsed but he returned a month later with a larger and determined army. The unprepared and battle-weary army of Warangal was finally defeated, and Prataparudra was taken prisoner. He committed suicide by drowning himself in the Narmada River while being taken to Delhi.[citation needed]
The fall of the Kakatiya dynasty resulted in disarray and brought their former lands under regional principalities. Later Kamma Kings Musunuri Nayaks, who served as army chiefs for the Kakatiya kingdom, united the various Telugu clans and recovered Warangal from the Delhi Sultanate and ruled for half a century.[6] New Principalities arose out of the ruins of the Kakatiya empire that played an important role in the Telugu literature, the primary one being the Vijayanagara Empire.[7][8]
List of Kakatiya Rulers[edit]
The following is a list of rulers of the Kakatiya dynasty.[9] It should be noted that dates are lacking for Kakatiya kings prior to Gunda IV, who is first mentioned in the Mangallu grant of the Eastern Chalukya prince Danarnava in 956 CE. This is the earliest recorded date of a Kakatiya king. Based on average lifespans, it can be surmised that Venna, the founder of the Kakatiya dynasty, lived about the late 8th or early 9th century.
Ruler | Reign |
Venna | |
Gunda I | |
Gunda II | |
Gunda III | |
Erra | |
Gunda IV | c.956 - 995 CE |
Beta I | c.996 - 1051 CE |
Prola I | c.1052 - 1076 CE |
Beta II | c.1076 - 1108 CE |
Durgaraja | c.1108 - 1106 CE |
Prola II | c.1116 - 1157 CE |
Rudra Deva | c.1158 - 1195 CE |
Maha Deva | c.1195 - 1199 CE |
Ganapathi Deva | c.1199 - 1262 CE |
Rudrama Devi | 1262 - 1289 CE |
Prataparudra | 1289-1323 CE |
Image Gallery[edit]
Kakatiya Kala Thoranam (Warangal Gate) and Ruins
A replica of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. The diamond was originally owned by the Kakatiya dynasty
See also[edit]
- ^ Gribble, J.D.B., History of the Deccan, 1896, Luzac and Co., London
- ^ Kolluru Suryanarayana. History of the Minor Chāḷukya Families in Medieval Āndhradēśa.
- ^ Ventakaramanayya, N. (1942). The Early Muslim Expansion in South India.
- ^ Kulke, H.; Rothermund, D. (1998). A History of India. Routledge. p. 160. ISBN 0-415-15482-0.
- ^ Eaton, Richard M. (2005). A Social History of the Deccan: 1300-1761. Cambridge University Press. pp. 16–20. ISBN 0-521-25484-1.
- ^ Talbot, Austin Cynthia (2001). Pre-colonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra. Oxford University Press. pp. 177–182. ISBN 9780198031239.
- ^ Bhujanga, Chenchiah (1988). A History of Telugu Literature (Reprinted ed.). Asian Educational Services. pp. 24, 25. ISBN 978-81-206-0313-4.
- ^ Sriramamurti, P. (1972). Contribution of Andhra to Sanskrit literature. Andhra University. p. 60.
- ^ Sastry, P.V. Parabhrama (1978). The Kakatiyas of Warangal. Hyderabad: Government of Andhra Pradesh. p. 36.
External links[edit]
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Middle kingdoms of India | ||||||
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Northwestern India | Indo-Gangetic Plain | Central India | Southern India | ||
Western Gangetic Plain | Northern India
(Central Gangetic Plain) |
Northeastern India | ||||
Culture | Late Vedic Period | Late Vedic Period
(Brahmin ideology)[a] |
Late Vedic Period
(Kshatriya/Shramanic culture)[b] |
Pre-history | ||
6th century BC | Gandhara | Kuru-Panchala | Magadha | Adivasi (tribes) | ||
Culture | Persian-Greek influences | "Second Urbanisation"
Rise of Shramana movements |
Pre-history | |||
5th century BC | (Persian rule) | Shishunaga dynasty | Adivasi (tribes) | |||
4th century BC | (Greek conquests) | |||||
Culture | Spread of Buddhism | Pre-history | Sangam period (300 BC – AD 200) |
3rd century BC | Maurya Empire | Early Cholas
46 other small kingdoms in Ancient Thamizhagam |
Culture | Preclassical Hinduism[c] - "Hindu Synthesis"[d] (ca. 200 BC - AD300)[e][f] Epics - Puranas - Ramayana - Mahabharata - Bhagavad Gita - Brahma Sutras - Smarta Tradition Mahayana Buddhism |
Sangam period
(continued) |
2nd century BC | Indo-Greek Kingdom | Sunga Empire | Adivasi (tribes) | Early Cholas
46 other small kingdoms in Ancient Thamizhagam |
1st century BC | Yona | Maha-Meghavahana Dynasty | ||||
1st century AD | Kuninda Kingdom | |||||
2nd century | Pahlava | Varman dynasty | ||||
3rd century | Kushan Empire | Western Satraps | Kamarupa kingdom | Kalabhras dynasty | ||
Culture | "Golden Age of Hinduism"(ca. AD 320-650)[g] Puranas Co-existence of Hinduism and Buddhism |
4th century | Gupta Empire | Kalabhras dynasty | ||||
5th century | Maitraka | Adivasi (tribes) | Kalabhras dynasty | |||
6th century | Kalabhras dynasty | |||||
Culture | Late-Classical Hinduism (ca. AD 650-1100)[h] Advaita Vedanta - Tantra Decline of Buddhism in India |
7th century | Indo-Sassanids | Vakataka dynasty, Harsha | Mlechchha dynasty | Adivasi (tribes) | Pandyan Kingdom(Under Kalabhras) | |
8th century | Kidarite Kingdom | Pandyan Kingdom | ||||
9th century | Indo-Hephthalites (Huna) | Gurjara-Pratihara | Pandyan Kingdom | |||
10th century | Pala dynasty | Medieval Cholas | ||||
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That's about all you need to know really. Here, clearly, were the prime ingredients in a recipe for self-destruction. And sure enough, even as they sent a string of hits into the English Top 10, the Kinks were coming apart at the seams, establishing themselves as their own worst enemy and probably the most combustible band of the Sixties -- if not all time. Verbal and physical confrontations -- with each other, with their managers, with concert promoters, with disc jockeys -- were as much a staple of the band's repertoire as "All Day and All of the Night" and "Tired of Waiting for You." No wonder Ray Davies and company were written off almost from the start.
And yet, 32 years and many personnel changes later, the Kinks still haven't flamed out. Even more astonishingly, the Davies brothers seem to be aging with remarkable grace, particularly when compared with many other members of the pop world's ever-growing 40-plus set. A new double-CD of 29 mostly live tracks, To the Bone (Guardian), includes some extraordinary reworkings of both familiar and unfamiliar selections from the band's vast catalogue.
As for 52-year-old frontman Ray Davies, his latest self-reinvention has come in the form of a small solo show that evolved out of the publication of his book X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography in 1994. Giving readings in small bookshops, Davies found he liked these intimate venues and crafted a mix of old hits, new songs, and spoken remembrances into a performance he originally titled 20th Century Man, and currently calls simply Storyteller, that's now playing halls and theaters across America.
And for a guy whose creative output has been almost singularly shaped by his own considerable fear and self-loathing, Davies sounds rather well-adjusted about the way things have turned out. Critical response has been warm, and Davies seems almost relieved to be holding center stage in smaller, quieter venues.
"The whole thing with touring in the conventional sense is to cram as many people as possible into one place in one day, and then get out of there," he says now. "But this show is a building process. The first night you always get, you know, the fans. Then after that, when we're doing a run somewhere, you get people who aren't so familiar with you and new people who are just curious. And then reviews come out, and we get the people who've heard about the show."
And for Davies, that search for new listeners, a different audience, is still paramount. The Kinks, for example, "couldn't have played Stockbridge in Massachusetts. I did that last week, and that was amazing. I loved that. It was more of a theater audience. We had people who had probably hardly ever heard of the Kinks. I look forward to playing out in the Midwest, where people wouldn't normally come to this sort of show. Get into the little nooks and crannies, rather than just go for the places that've got the big ice rinks."
Despite all this, Storyteller is less a distancing from what the Kinks achieved than a full-on embrace of it. As in X-Ray, the primary subject matter is the band's Sixties incarnation -- and near-incineration. And why not? The band was at ground zero of the total remaking of pop music. To quote from critic Jon Savage (author of 1984's The Kinks: The Official Biography), the Kinks and a handful of other British bands in the mid-Sixties took "the coded sexual and social assertiveness of black R&B and invested it with a white neuroticism and a superhuman drive, replacing the often subtle rhythms of the originals with monolithic blocks of sound."
To the Bone, which also relies much more on highlights from the band's original heyday than its Low Budget "Destroyer""Come Dancing" resurrection in the late Seventies and early Eighties, makes for an interesting counterpoint to Storyteller. About half the tunes here are from a 1994 acoustic set performed for friends and fans at the band's Konk studios in North London. Most of the others are highlights from what were in all likelihood the band's final tours through the arena circuit.
The Konk set, frankly, is much more interesting. (Did we need another version of a big crowd singing along with "Lola"? I don't think so.) It's impossible to listen to these clean, tight renditions of such unheralded tunes as "Apeman," "The Village Green Preservation Society," "Muswell Hillbillies," "See My Friends," and "Do You Remember Walter?" and not be speechless at Davies' biting, trenchant songwriting skills -- and how little recognition he's ever gotten for them. And of the two new studio offerings, the title track and "Animal," the latter makes a convincing case that he still knows how to look back in angst.


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Prizes are awarded yearly to photographers and visual artists whose works are considered to be of exceptional artistic and humanistic merit.The visual art judge is Jonathan Frazier. Jonathan is a regional artist, known locally for his pen-and-ink architectural renderings, and more broadly for his vibrantly colored oil paintings.
Much of his art work is influenced by his mindset as a performing musician, and much of his music is in turn influenced by his experience as a visual artist. He studied at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, then transferred to Kutztown University where he received his BFA with a studio concentration in painting. His work has been featured in Art of the State and in various juried shows including Lebanon Valley College, The Pennsylvania State Museum, the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, and Philadelphia Sketch Club. He has had solo shows at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center in Frederick MD, the Montpelier Center near Richmond VA, and the many commercial galleries that represent his work, including Gallery at Second in Harrisburg, the 2nd Floor Gallery in Mechanicsburg, and Gallery 30 in Gettysburg.


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Phillip Steinberg was arrested Wednesday night on charges of armed robbery after trying to rob Village Pizza at 4070 Deltona Blvd, according to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office.
Steinberg, 22, wore a black ski mask and brandished a black knife. The clerk working the register thought Steinberg was joking and refused to hand over any cash, according to the report.
The man left the restaurant, pulling off the ski mask on his way out of the door before getting in his car and driving away. A Village Pizza employee saw Steinberg's face, and a passing motorist noticed the strange situation and followed the silver car.
The driver called 911 and followed the car to Painters Street. Deputies saw a man putting the silver Mitsubishi's tag back on. The man explained that a friend had borrowed his car to go to the liquor store and said that someone who looked like him had just robbed Village Pizza.
Not wanting to be mistaken for the robber, the car's owner took off the license plate.
Steinberg's friend allowed deputies to search his car, and they found the knife and ski mask inside it, as well as a pair of gloves in the backyard. Steinberg was identified by the employee and booked on $50,000 bond.
Steinberg, however, had his bond status changed to no bond due to a violation of his felony probation for intimidating a witness, according to jail records.
"Law enforcement typically discourages robbery victims from resisting the criminal's demand for money," Sheriff Al Nienhuis said Thursday. "Although this robbery had a happy ending, the situation could have escalated quickly."
The sheriff and responding deputies said they wanted to thank the motorist — who wanted to remain anonymous — who followed Steinberg. The suspect was apprehended just 12 minutes after the 911 call was placed.


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So, today one of my friends came up to me and told me some interesting news. (Quick note: French Class Girl does indeed know him, so it's not like he was a total creepo or anything.)
Him: A bunch of girls were playing with FCG's hair, so I went up and touched a piece to see what all the fuss was about.
Me: WHAT?
Him: It felt AMAZING!
Me: ...WHAT?
Him: She was loving it when the girls were doing it and seemed to enjoy it a little less when I did it. She asked them to do it harder. It sounded like she was having sex or something.
Me: Well, of course!
Him: I think you should go up to her and touch it today.
Me: NO! SHE'D LOVE THAT!
Him: But it feels amazing! Really, really amazing!
Well, in French class today, FCG asked me if her hair looked okay. I was sitting like, right next to her, so, uh... I... I'm really ashamed to admit this, but I, um, at my friend's request, I kind of... touched a piece. YES, I, SUPER DUCK, TOUCHED FRENCH CLASS GIRL'S HAIR FOR TWO WHOLE SECONDS! I am so ashamed. Soooo ashamed. And my friend was right; it didn't feel bad at all! UGH!
Oh, our freakazoid has made progress! She went from "I HATE ALL GAYS!" last week to "I guess I can kind of see why two really pretty girls would want to date each other" today! Ooooh~! She also told me all about her "98% lesbian friend." I can't help but wonder if she is actually referring to herself. Of course, I'd think she was more like 112% lesbian, but a 98 is still an A, you know? She also told me about the kind of girl she'd be attracted to if she was "gonna be gay." Quite unfortunately, I fit the criteria fairly well. Why? Just why? She made me come over to her and listen to this. Is this her way of saying she's attracted to me or something? She has called me cute before... OH NO! NO! NO! NOOOO! When I said I wanted girls to like me, I did NOT mean HER!
I got a bonus point and a smiley face on my history homework. Holy shit. I got a 6 out of 5! I never get full credit on anything in that class, let alone extra credit! I am going to frame that freaking piece of paper! Hahaha! Seriously, the homework is like, impossible. Oh, my mom freaked out on me today because I abused the word "like." I apparently said it 6 times in one sentence. I was not aware that I had this problem.
HOLY SHIT! I just realized my birthday is in like, two weeks. I reeeeeally wish I hadn't waited a little while to get my permit; it would be nice to be able to get my actual driver's license on my birthday. At least I already have my car, though! I really don't want anything for my birthday. I already got my present. It was that car. Unfortunately, my grandmother does not understand this and keeps straight-up nagging me to think of something I want. The only thing I don't have that I want is a girlfriend, and I don't think she can buy me that. Well, I guess she could buy me a prostitute, but that would be soooo awkward to ask for! She does this to me every year at my birthday and Christmas, and there hasn't been much I've wanted since I was 12 or so. It annoys me so much. The fact that my birthday and Christmas are only a little less than 2 months apart makes it even worse. I know she just wants to help, but "I don't want anything" means "I don't want anything!" Last year she actually said, "If you don't give me any ideas, I WILL go to Walmart and buy you some $5 junk I know you'll hate just for the sake of buying something."
Anyway, I'm about go to out to eat with my grandma. Apparently my grandpa is being a whiny asshole, and she is displeased. I'm sure she'll be in an... interesting... mood.
You love her!! You are falling under her spell!!! First you touch her hair...next her lady parts!! All you two need is one drunken night together!!! I am convinced!!
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I don't need company in the company of you. I don't need love, your love will do. And I've got you and you've got me and this is all you need. I don't need air, I don't need to breathe. I don't need rest, I don't have time to sleep.
Haha. You shouldn't have touched her hair, next thing you know you'll be under her thrall and you'll suddenly think she's the most amazing person ever like all of these other girls seem to...
Pfff. Nobody has asked me what I want for my birthday... And while I don't want anyone to waste their money/time on me, I kind of wish they'd ask... Haha. >_>
Also, your birthday is really close to mine, give or take a couple of years. I thought I'd mention this. :P
:( I really regret touching it. I was secretly hoping it would feel nasty and gross, but it was all soft and nice instead...
I don't mind if she asks once or twice. I only mind when she asks incessantly and threatens to buy me $5 junk she knows I won't use. D:
According to your profile, we are 2 years and 5 days apart! That's pretty cool! :3 I'm exactly 4 days older than one of my best friends.
Haha, silly.
I wonder how she does that, most people, when their hair gets touched a lot it becomes nasty and oily. Maybe she has magic hair.
Honestly, I'll probably be the same way when I'm a grandparent. "WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY? TELL ME OR I'LL BUY YOU SOMETHING YOU DON'T LIKE." XD; Though I can understand why that'd be annoying.
Sounds like she's already making moves on you. Good luck with that. Don't forget to keep your sanity.
If your really desperate, go for it. I would (maybe)
* Like what Shaggy said "it wasn't me"*
I'm pretty desperate, but I'm not THAT desperate, I don't think...
well there you have it. Your having doubts.
* Like what Shaggy said "it wasn't me"*
(sorry, just got off the phone with my friend who uses about as much yiddish in one sentance as jerry lewis does in 3 acts....)
*btw, "the bitch pains me till i burst" is what i said for the title, and it makes more sence in yiddish, i promise...*
@SD: love the bear pic! and i wouldn't freak out over this, cuz, yes, she may like you, and yes, she may be coming to terms with this, but this doesn't nesicerily mean that you have a future with her... so, if you are having those (flash-forward: SD, sitting in a tralier park, on the front porth of a camper;smokin' a malbaro, and drinkin' a beer, while FCG, is in the yard hangin laundry on the line and a few young'n's are runnin' round and wrasslin' on the mud in the yard like they tend to do when their mama's ain't watchin...)kinda thoughts, don't! it's not a gerentee, a distinct possibility but not a gerentee!....so, don't freak out yet...wait until FCG, makes a move at least, then you'll have a reason to freak....
"to live a day alone, only THAT would be torture! An hour without you, only THAT would be death!" ~gomez and morticia addams
"look at him! i would kill for him! i would die for him! either way what bliss!"~gomez addams
I love the implication that dating her would turn me into a hilbilly. Hahaha! Oh, I really don't want to imagine that...
and i think that yes you would be missing your teeth but all not just some, and it wouldn't matter any way cus...
"I jus' got's me sum o' them-thar fancy store-bought choppers and got-dang but don' them sunsabitch's look good?"
lol..sorry couldn't resist...here's hopin' that you never have to turn into a clampett...and if you do, here's hopin' that you're even richer than jed and more beautiful than ellie mae! (and here's hopin' that you'll let me fill the role of 'granny/grampy clampett')
"to live a day alone, only THAT would be torture! An hour without you, only THAT would be death!" ~gomez and morticia addams
"look at him! i would kill for him! i would die for him! either way what bliss!"~gomez addams
It's actually REALLY easy to imagine FCG as a hillbilly... Just knock a couple of her teeth out and get her to wear the proper clothing, and you're all set! I'd have to work on the accent, though, and hobbies and general way of life... Oh, and we'd both need more hillbillyish names and some hillbilly grammar lessons. But I can imagine hillbilly FCG like, PERFECTLY.
well, if you'll entrust me with y'all's real names i'll run 'em through the 'clampett-izer' and get back with it's suggestions....and if you need help with the hillbilly grammour and all ask me, i've got it down perfectly....my gramma is one of those who actually "makes medicene" in her backyard...(yes, my gramma has a still, and yes i'm being truthful....)
"to live a day alone, only THAT would be torture! An hour without you, only THAT would be death!" ~gomez and morticia addams
"look at him! i would kill for him! i would die for him! either way what bliss!"~gomez addams
i am displeased with you.
You're so beautiful, you made me forget my pick up line. ;)
Awww, I am sorry. :( Is it because I touched her hair?
...with me? or SD? cuz if it's me, i'm sorry....if you tell me what i did, i'll fix it...
"to live a day alone, only THAT would be torture! An hour without you, only THAT would be death!" ~gomez and morticia addams
"look at him! i would kill for him! i would die for him! either way what bliss!"~gomez addams
You're so beautiful, you made me forget my pick up line. ;)
Theoretically, what would make you desperate enough to hit FCG? (hit= hook up with, eheh)
For the past few years everytime somebody asks me what I want for Christmas/my birthday/ random occasion I've thought "hot girlfriend" in my head, but then I always say something lame like "gift card". ...
If we were stranded on an island alone together for a really long time, maybe.
I wish they made gift cards to buy hot girlfriends...


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The Advertiser reports there were a total of 270 arrests for the school year, with 92 arrests for disturbing the peace by fighting and 69 arrests for simple battery.
Officers attribute the reduction in arrest to programs instituted and the improved relationship between the students and officers working on the campus.
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If you've received a Notice of Deficiency from the IRS, the short answer to the question is hire a tax attorney immediately. A Notice of Deficiency results after the IRS has examined (audited) your return and determined you owe additional taxes. The Notice of Deficiency allows you to go to the Tax Court and tells you the procedure to follow. You have a limited amount of time to respond before forfeiting your rights. If you don't respond within the prescribed time, the IRS will send you a bill for the additional tax due. You have 90 days from the date this notice is mailed to you to file a petition with the Tax Court (or 150 days if the notice is addressed to you outside the United States). The last date to file your petition will be entered on the notice of deficiency issued to you by the IRS. If you discuss your case with the IRS during the 90-day period (150-day period), the discussion will not extend the period in which you may file a petition with the Tax Court. The court will schedule your case for trial at a location convenient to you. You may represent yourself before the Tax Court, or you may be represented by anyone permitted to practice before that court.
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beyond ecocide toward deep sustainability: stories from a small Irish forest
"Out beyond ideas, there is a forest…… meet me there." cf 2012
screen reel 2008-12...: the hollywood diaries (2012).
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Part of cathy's practice is experimental filmmaking and writing, she has also been involved in transforming national irish forest policy. her small forest 'hollywood' is now listed as the smallest close-to-nature permanent forest on the new university college dublin/coford database. see more at ecoartfilm.com
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4. The Beltones
There's something infinitely sad about a Beltones' song, is it the whiskey-soured vocals of Bill McFadden or the skid row poetry that always propelled them beyond the Stiff Little Fingers comparisons? One of the more underappreciated gems to come out of Florida in the '90s.
TKO Records recently got their heads out of their asses and have released their debut LP On Deaf Ears (the CD being catalog number 18) on vinyl, 16 years after the fact. However, the limited edition splatter version sort of justifies the time lapse. Sort of.
3. New Found Glory
New Found Glory, love them or hate them, broke out of South Florida, and for the last 17 years have been at it with their brand of punk rock most will liken to the shopping mall crowd.
Whatever your take is on them, they're a known Florida band which is sometimes rare for those who deserve the accolade more. Their recent woes with guitarist Steve Klein's accusations of pederasty have marred the band's image significantly with plenty of vitriol hurled at them and Klein.
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In December, Ohio State University suspended five of its football players for violating the rules governing intercollegiate athletics by exchanging their Buckeye memorabilia for various forms of payment, including the handiwork of a local Columbus tattoo parlor. Over the next few months, the digging of media outlets near and far pried open a capacious vault of misdeeds: the "gear scheme," as it came to be called, involved not just a few players during a single season, but dozens of players over the better part of a decade; in that time, a number of scholarship athletes had also received sweetheart deals at a local auto outlet; and head coach Jim Tressel had hidden incriminating evidence of these transgressions from his superiors for more than eight months.
Punishment ensued. Ohio State, a perennial power in college football for more than half a century, forfeited its entire 2010 Sugar Bowl championship season; Tressel, regarded by many as a paragon of coaching integrity, was forced to resign; and Terrelle Pryor, the team's star quarterback who was at the center of the scandal, abruptly left school to try his luck in the National Football League.
In many ways, the chaos in Columbus is just the latest in a seemingly endless series of scandals in big-time college sports. Over the last three decades, investigative sports reporters have excavated dozens of episodes of rule-breaking in football and men's basketball programs, from Southern Methodist University's "Ponygate" affair in the 1980s to the pay-for-play shenanigans at the University of Washington in the 1990s to agent tampering at the University of Southern California in the aughts. As this issue went to press, Yahoo Sports blew the lid off the latest installment, at the University of Miami, which, based on initial reports, may eclipse all other scandals in terms of scale and audacity. Off-field trouble, once a side project of the beat, has become the defining story of college athletics. Anyone who doubts it need only scan the header of espn.com's homepage, which on many days reads like the abstract of a criminal indictment.
The cumulative reportage of a relatively small group of sports journalists on what might be called the Scandal Beat constitutes a compelling case for the unenforceability of the NCAA's bylaws. In the process of building that case, these reporters have delivered an impressive perp walk of bogeymen: scurrilous agents, meddling boosters, selfish teenage athletes, badly behaved coaches. In many ways it has been a wildly successful display of watchdog journalism, and it helped establish the idea that sports is something that can and should be subjected to the same journalistic scrutiny as other institutions in our society—and that the sports desk could be more than just the "Toy Department," as it had been derisively tagged by newsroom colleagues.
But the success of this work also belies a deeper problem with the coverage of college sports. The Scandal Beat exists as a kind of closed loop: a report of rules violations, an investigation, sanctions, dismissals, vows to do better, and then on to the next case of corruption where the cycle is repeated. The reporting, intentionally or not, promotes the idea that the corruption that plagues the NCAA is the problem, rather than merely a symptom of a system that is fundamentally broken. The Scandal Beat, with its drama and spectacular falls from grace, is much less adept at managing the next step: a robust discussion, prominently and persistently conducted, of why these scandals keep happening and what can be done to prevent them.
Despite its familiar feel, the OSU implosion seemed to represent a significant milepost in the national conversation about big-time college sports—if not a moment of truth, then at least a moment for truth. The fact that the conflagration had claimed a member of college football royalty, combined with the contemporaneous cascade of other scandals—including those that currently smolder at Auburn, Oregon, Boise State, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Oklahoma—appears to have opened the door to the possibility of finally starting that deeper discussion. In August, a summit of university leaders, convened by NCAA President Mark Emmert, agreed to raise educational standards for incoming freshmen and streamline the association's bloated rule book. Summit participants vowed to address in the coming months the issue of athletes' financial needs, but Emmert reiterated his opposition to paying students. Meanwhile, a class-action lawsuit filed against the NCAA by former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon, which challenges the non-compensation of college athletes, is slated to go to trial in early 2013.