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Stellar EMC fails to impress investors . . . again
Maybe the Hulk can help?
EMC did its usual double-digit thing during the fourth quarter.
The storage maker knocked revenue higher by 19 per cent to $3.83bn. It also kicked net income 35 per cent higher to $525.7m. Oh, and, EMC generated $712m in cash during the quarter - a 78 per cent year-over-year hike. What else can you ask for?
Well, apparently quite a bit more because EMC's already rather deflated share price has tumbled more than seven per cent on the fourth quarter showing.
EMC's Joe Tucci may have been responsible for the investor spooking. During a conference call, he warned about 2008, saying that "the economic environment will for sure be more challenging and uncertain than the year before".
The company's virtualization entity, VMware, added to EMC's woes yesterday by disclosing, for the first time, that it won't double revenues every year ad infinitum. Apparently, many investors were shocked that VMware's revenue miracle appears set to come to an end next year on just - blech - 50 per cent growth and ripped off more than 30 per cent of VMware's share price during today's trading.
Turning back to big pappa EMC, investors found the vendor reporting a 19 per cent rise in fiscal 2007 revenue to $13.23bn and a 47 per net income jump to $1.67bn.
But full-year figures are for cowards and sick toddlers.
In the fourth quarter, EMC's systems revenue rose 15 per cent, while software and maintenance revenue rose 20 per cent. Services revenue also grew 27 per cent year-over-year.
Later this year, EMC will try to fatten all of these pies via new high-end hardware and software. Tucci, for example, hinted once again at EMC's "Maui" software, which is expected to be a super-duper clustered file system and then some capable of doing battle against Isilon, Panasas and others. In addition, it will ship "Hulk" - a set of clustered storage boxes capable of running the Maui software. And then you'll find the usual services behind this high-end gear.
"2008 will mark EMC's entry into the Web 2.0 market," Tucci said, meaning this as a good thing. Some customers are already testing the Hulk, and all customers should "ook for us to announce an OS later this year." Hello, Maui.
Maui and Hulk appear to be EMC's response to the push around what are technically known as huge ass data centers by service providers, national labs and the like.
One of the best executive bloggers out there, EMC's Chuck Hollis, has hinted quite a bit about EMC's intentions with this high-end gear.
We're routinely encountering new requirements where terms like "gigabyte" and "terabyte" are not useful, the discussion starts at "many petabytes" and goes up from there.
We tend to think of all this stuff sitting in a data center somewhere, but for this model, it just doesn't work. Nobody can afford a single data center that's large enough to put all this stuff into (no, not even Google). More importantly, no one can afford the network pipes that'll be needed in a single place to feed everything into, or out of.
No, what you'll need is the ability to place these devices in locations around the world, and have them operate as a single entity: a single global name space, and -- more importantly -- the ability to ingest content from anywhere, and move content to popular places depending on traffic and interest.
Presenting storage as blocks (e.g. LUNs) won't scale. Presenting storage as files won't scale. You'll need an object-oriented approach with rich sematics -- nothing else will work at this uber-massive scale.
Know something more about Maui and Hulk? Do write. We're intrigued.
Looking ahead, EMC sees revenue growth of 13 per cent for 2008, putting it at $15bn. ®

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The rest of the story is here."Alan Eldridge (AlanE) passed away on 6 June 2003 in Denver, Colorado, USA, apparently the result of a self-induced overdose.
"Born on 15 December 1961, Alan moved from Iowa to New York City some 15 years ago to make a life for himself as a first rate Unix programmer. Recently, however, his professional and personal life was severely disrupted, and as a result, Alan moved to Denver to start anew.
"A member of the KDE on FreeBSD Core Team, both a FreeBSD and KDE committer and maintainer of numerous FreeBSD ports, Alan will be sorely missed by all those of us who knew him personally, by those who knew him only through his work and, indeed, by the entire FreeBSD and KDE communities at large..."
It seemed the man had a lot of problems and was hard to get along with, Whatever the reason, it is still very sad to see an important contributor to the open source community die like that. May he rest in peace.


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Warhead wrote:Yeah, 1980's space Lego was a great time. I'll try and set up some photo's of the guys... many have been changed into Immortals or Maniacs ...and then when my son got his hands on them they were changed into the sum of their parts but I'll see what I can do. No promises.
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But I will tell you this: Kobe's all over this tournament. When I was over there on Sunday to see Spain and Greece, a spy who was down near the court said the only American player who came by the arena to scout was Kobe, who stayed for about a half before heading out.
A Chinese fan on some board said that right after the game vs Angola, Kobe also stayed to watch the next game (irrc it's Argentina), about 3 quaters. Quite a scouting. James, who never saw these teames play after the defeat, said Kobe would share what he saw with Team USA. That's good for the team.


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News > Movies
Movie Violence Might Temper the Real Thing
""The study's premise strikes me as somewhat goofy,' said Melissa Henson, senior director of programs at the Parents Television Council, a media watchdog... 'I'd hate for people to walk away with the message that, 'Oh, I ought to send my son to watch violent movies so they won't go out and drink or do drugs and commit violent crime...'" READ MORE >
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Taking Science on Faith
Unlike biologists, who get tarred with the brush of Creationism at the slightest mention of the G-word, physicists have been free to bring God into their speculation. Here, physicist Paul Davies explains the obvious: that both religion and science are confronted with mysteries that can't be reduced to theories or empirical investigation.… READ MORE >
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Why Benedict XVI Is So Cautious with the Letter of the 138 Muslims
Few observers are more hardnosed and skeptical about dialogue with Islam than Sandro Magister. Sometimes he goes overboard, but here he's probably right to contrast the fawning response by 300 Christian scholars to the Muslim "letter of the 138" to the Pope's more toughminded, nuanced stance. How many apologies for… READ MORE >
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Now that embryonic stem cell research may no longer require the destruction of human life, is it just a coinicidence that the NY Times is emphasizing how far scientists still have to go to develop successful treatments? READ MORE >
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Bob Guccione Jr. finds his way back to church
"For Gooch, an erstwhile altar boy who describes himself as 'a lazy but devout Catholic,' science is incomplete without the contemplation of faith. 'I have no trouble whatsoever accommodating, side by side, the ideas of multiple universes and the Immaculate Conception...'" READ MORE >
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Dancer watch
For the first time, the Dancer model is clothed in diamonds right the way through to its distinctive intermediate bracelet links. A discreet gem-setting technique serves to preserve their distinctive aesthetic, making a subtle contrast with the polished and satin-brushed finish on a construction that retains its inimitable style and suppleness.
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Watch product type: Watch
Metal: Rose gold
Metal weight (gr): 104.7
Strap type: Gem set, Gold
Strap buckle: Integrated clasp
Wrist size: 195 mm (max), 135 mm (min)
Case shape: Round
Case diameter: 38 mm
Case thickness: 6.9 mm
Dial material: Fine stones
Dial finishing: Gem set
Index: Batons
Waterproofness: 03 ATM
Specificities: Sapphire case back
Movement: Hand-wound mechanical
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Functions: Minutes, Hours
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Frequency (vph): 21,600
Frequency (Hz): 3
Diameter (lines): 9.00
Diameter (mm): 20.5
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Scratch for Fedora
Scratch is an educational programming environment which makes it easy to create games, animations, and art. It's open source and would be a great addition to Fedora.
- Name: Matthew Miller
- Email: mattdm at fedoraproject dot org
Current status
- Targeted release: [[Releases/19> | Fedora 19 ]]
- Last updated: January 16, 2013
- Percentage of completion: 80%
Detailed Description
Read more about Scratch at http://scratch.mit.edu. Previous versions were not open source, but this one is. We've also worked with upstream to resolve issues around licensing and proprietary media formats.
Benefit to Fedora
Scratch is great for kids, and for creators of all ages. Its inclusion will help promote Fedora as a "maker" distribution.
We're largely done: the package is in the last stages of review, and issues around mp3s and licensing complications have been resolved. Additionally, the Squeak VM (which Scratch runs on) has been updated to the latest version, fixing a number of problems.
A few bugs remain in the current package, including an issue with full screen mode and a crash when using the camera. These should be resolved before the program is presented as a feature.
How To Test
Run Scratch. Download demo code from http://scratch.mit.edu and observe that it works.
It's expected that most testers will be interested in the Scratch language; writing programs and trying features are good tests.
User Experience
Scratch will be available.
Nothing depends on Scratch, but Scratch depends on Squeak VM. Some of the bugs may need to be fixed there rather than in Scratch.
Contingency Plan
I'd like to see Scratch through the review process in any case. The most likely contingency is that it's packaged but still has bugs, in which case we'll leave it available but document those bugs. In the worst case, we just don't ship it.
There is a wealth of documentation at http://scratch.mit.edu/
There is also a popular new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure! (http://nostarch.com/scratch)
Release Notes
Fedora 19 includes Scratch, the graphical programming environment from the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, animations, music, and art.
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FCC-funded 'telemedicine' project connects rural health-care facilitiesBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 27. 2012 7:46PM
Rural health-care facilities in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont will soon have better access to the expertise of professionals in urban hospitals and universities throughout Northern New England, thanks to a "telemedicine" project funded by the Federal Communications Commission that has been five years in the making.
FairPoint Communications announced Tuesday it was awarded a four-year contract worth more than $16 million to boost the broadband capabilities of the New England Telehealth Consortium, a three-state network of more than 400 hospitals, behavioral health sites and community health centers.
The New England consortium received the largest award granted by the FCC under the Rural Health Care Pilot Program. NETC members will receive upgrades and improvements to their broadband capabilities and connections, while paying only 15 percent of the up-front cost.
The Rural Health Care Pilot Program was established in 2006 to create a nationwide broadband network of health-care sites, subsidized at up to 85 percent. The 400-plus health-care sites throughout Northern New England came together to apply for the program, and founded the New England Telehealth Consortium.
In late 2007, NETC was funded at $24.6 million to build a broadband health-care network, including Internet2 access and fiber optic technology, to improve the efficiency of health care in the three-state region.
Vendors providing services and equipment to build the NETC network include FairPoint, Oxford Networks, segTEL, Cogent, Internet2, Paetec, Cisco and Hughesnet. The Fairpoint contract for $16 million announced on Tuesday takes up the lion's share of the $24.6 million program.
According to Jeff Allen, executive vice president of sales for FairPoint, much of the work the company has done to upgrade Internet service for all customers will benefit the NETC program, although NETC has unique needs for speed and connectivity.
"If you're going to send X-rays and other tests back and forth from one hospital to another, the level of speed to get the quality you need is much greater than two people sending a text message back and forth," he said.
FairPoint will service a four-year agreement to connect all NETC members to data centers in Bangor, Maine, and Lebanon through dedicated carrier ethernet service, providing much faster speeds than conventional Internet. Sites that do not have fiber optic Internet connections will have them added.
The first NETC members were connected to the NETC network, "NETCloud" on Nov. 19. The president of the consortium, Brian Thibeau, chief administrative officer of Penquis, a community action agency serving four communities in central Maine, agreed to let NETC use the four Penquis locations as beta sites.
"The beta site testing is going well and the implementation team is currently working on installing 65 NETC sites that have indicated they would like an early installation," according to a consortium newsletter.
"What they really want to be able to do is connect to one and another so they can share information and do remote diagnostics and other procedures," Allen said.
Even though the program is primarily designed to help smaller health-care facilities access the expertise at larger hospitals and medical centers, the network offers benefits to all members.
"It's not just the small going to the large," Allen said. "That's one of the applications and the one that jumps out at people, especially with some of the issues that have existed in the past, where the health-care quality in the rural areas is not as good as in some of the larger locations, but it really benefits the smaller and larger facilities."


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Growers are always asking us when is the best time to top dress winter wheat in this region. We have been working with timing studies since the mid 1980s, and we reviewed our research trials to try to make some sense out of the numbers.
We found data on 14 studies from 1987 to 2003. Over that period, we have compared an early application (early February) to a late application (early March) to measure the optimum timing for grain yield. After summarizing the data, we found in some years, timing did not make very much difference – the early February applications made almost as much as the early March applications. Other years, the late application made 8 or 9 bushels more than the early ones.
We assembled rainfall data over the same period (courtesy of Maynard Cheek), and found a common denominator. Years with very wet springtime conditions in March and April favored the March applications. Later applications during those years produced 8 or 9 bushels more than the early February applications. On the other hand, in years where March and April rainfall was less than normal, there was very little difference in grain yield between the early and late applications.
We believe this can be explained by nitrogen loss through denitrification and surface runoff. Denitrification is simply the loss of nitrogen in a gaseous form to the atmosphere. It is the most common form of loss in heavy soils with a low water infiltration rate. Most of our Blackland and transitional Blackland soils have water infiltration rates of less than 0.2 inch per hour. The top few inches of soil quickly become saturated during a heavy rain.
Warm, saturated soils create ideal conditions for a number of facultative anaerobes, bacteria that operate in the absence of oxygen, which can use the oxygen off the nitrate ion and release the nitrogen back into the atmosphere. This is called "denitrification," and can at times reach 10 pounds of nitrogen per acre per day. Heavy water runoff during this time can carry soluble nitrogen away from fields and into waterways. We do not see these types of nitrogen losses in drier years, which likely explains why there is little difference between the early and late nitrogen applications.
How should a producer use this information to maximize profits? None of us have the benefit of a crystal ball so we cannot determine the wet years ahead of time. Over the past 20 years, we have been well served by targeting mid February to begin topdressing our wheat and hope to be finished by the first week in March. In research plots, we have produced as much wheat by topdressing in mid March (often past jointing) as we have in early March.
James Swart is an Extension IPM specialist, and Don Reid, professor and agronomist, at Texas A&M-Commerce.


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Well, It seems to me that a alot of the newbs that sign up for AO don't know any programming languages. So i decided i'd attempt to teach them Qbasic. Here goes nothing.
Well, lets start with the BASIC's {rimshot}. BASIC (standing for Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a system developed at Dartmouth College in 1964. It was meant to be a very simple language to learn and also one that would be easy to translate. Furthermore, the designers wished it to be a stepping-stone for students to learn on of the more powerful languages such as FORTRAN or ALGOL.
Just as a note, you have to have windows to use Qbasic, so *nix and Mac owner, you can still learn basic, just not here. The first thing to do is to get the Qbasic interpreter. Now I was going to write up the complicted procedure of getting it through the Windows OS CD, but I think Ill just upload the files. Check at da bottom Download those files to C:/Windows/command and them open up an MS-DOS prompt or command prompt if you have XP. Type qbasic and a blue screen should come up with a box in front of it that says Welcome to MS-DOS Qbasic. Hit escape, and you should be brought through to a blue screen. This is where you Type your program in.
Ok, the first thing that you do before I start about the commands theres two that you NEED to know. The first is cls . This command clears the screen, and is (almost) always put in the first line of the program. The second need to know command is end
This command (go figure) ends the program, and always goes at the end. Even if you have more instructions after end, the computer stops reading there.
The first command to get you started is print. Print prints whatever else is on the line that is inside the quotation marks. An example in use would be:
PRINT This sentence prints.
When you run the program, it prints (without the quotation marks) This sentence prints. Simple, eh? Just as a note, there is also another command that does the same thing, only with a few changes. This command is write. It is used just like print, except that instead of printing without the quotation marks, write prints with the quotation marks. Okay, now that you have your first program, you have to run it. Hit SHIFT + F5 or go to Run -> Start. Well, thats it for print and write.
Next, you need to know how to input data in to the program. First, print your question. Then on the next line type INPUT whateveryouwantyourvariablecalled$. If your variable is just a number, you can get rid of the $ sign at the end. Heres an example of the use:
PRINT Hello, how are you today?
INPUT howareyou$
Now, what good is putting data in to your program if you cant get an output from it? To put your variable in to the printed string you would do
PRINT Well, Im feeling + howareyou$ + too!
So the program will be as follows:
PRINT Hello, how are you today?
INPUT howareyou$
PRINT Well, Im feeling + howareyou$ + too!
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KCPD seeks witnesses to crash on Wednesday
2 pedestrians injured in crash
KCPD seeks witnesses to crash on Wednesday
2 pedestrians injured in crash
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
Kansas City police are asking anyone who witnessed a serious crash near 13th and Oak streets Wednesday afternoon to give them a call.
The wreck happened just after 1 p.m. Two pedestrians were injured when two cars collided.
"During the subsequent investigation, detectives have reviewed several surveillance videos in the area and have determined that several motorists and pedestrians may have witnessed the crash," police said in a news release.
Investigators ask anyone who saw the accident to call the Traffic Investigation Section at 816-482-8190 or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.


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Dwight S. Smith, 60
Dwight S. Smith, 60, of Intrepid Lane in Jamestown, died at home last Friday, Nov. 20, after a determined and dignified battle with cancer. He was the husband of Judith (Hortman) Smith.
Born in Montclair, N.J. on May 30, 1949, Dwight was the son of Audrey (Hawthorne) Smith of Soamesville, Maine, and the late Stoddart Smith. In addition to his wife and mother, Dwight leaves his daughters, Jana Magarian, and her husband, Christopher, of Jamestown and Lauren Melucci and her husband, David, of Warwick. "Granddad" will be greatly missed by his beloved grandchildren, Callum, Audrey and Katherine Magarian, and Stella and Zoe Melucci.
Dwight is also survived by his two brothers, Phillip Smith and Mark Smith, both of whom reside in Maine, and his father and mother in-law, William and Barbara Hortman, of South Carolina.
Dwight was raised in Delaware and received his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Maine, and subsequently, his Master's degree from Rhode Island College.
Dwight, an art educator in the Portsmouth School Department for 34 years, dynamically mentored the creative lives of school children of all ages. Having taught at Portsmouth Middle School and Portsmouth Elementary Schools, Dwight finished an exemplary teaching career at Portsmouth High School as chairperson of the Fine Arts Department.
In his retirement, Dwight continued to have a substantial impact on the art community. He was the cartoonist for the Jamestown Press, an active member of the Conanicut Island Art Association and a frequent exhibitor at galleries and in the area. Most recently, Dwight launched a new career as the lead designer for Hypnartic Artwork, a company that produces kinetic garden sculpture. His commitment to the arts included a long tenure in the Boys and Men's Choir of Emmanuel Church and an ongoing interest in the beauty of his natural surroundings.
In addition to an enthusiasm for travel, Dwight was an avid tennis player and golfer.
A memorial service to celebrate Dwight's life will be held today, Wednesday, Nov. 25, in the Memorial Funeral Home at 375 Broadway in Newport. Calling hours will be held in the funeral home from 2 to 5 p.m. A service will follow immediately thereafter.
Please omit flowers. Information about donations in Dwight's honor and directions can be found at www.memorialfuneralhome. com.


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Shui-Yin Lo, PhD, a senior researcher at American Technolo gies Group and a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, notes, "These water clusters or ice crystals remain stable at high temperatures, and what's intriguing is that the ice crystals still exist with varying fluctuation after repeated dilutions."
The uses of very small doses of substances to promote sig nificant biological or chemical activity is not new to science or medicine. Hormesis is the modern scientific field that studies the effects of extremely small doses of otherwise toxic sub stances to stimulate growth or healing. Hundreds of studies from a variety of scientific fields have confirmed this phenomena, and
the journal, Health Physics, even devoted an entire issue to this phenomena (May, 1987).
Also, one of the most popular alternative therapies in the world today is homeopathic medicine, a system of using extremely small doses of plant, mineral, chemical, or animals substances. Homeopathy has been derided by conventional physicians and scien tists since its inception in the early 1800s because they incor rectly assumed that homeopathic doses of medicines were too small to have a significant biological or clinical effect. Despite
this antagonism, homeopathy has persisted and even has consist ently grown on every continent in the world today.
Dana Ullman, M.P.H., author of The Consumer's Guide to Homeopathy (Tarcher/Putnam, 1996) and numerous others and a leading spokesperson for the field, notes, "This new research confirms the existence of IE crystals and suggests that there may be something 'there' in homeopathic medicines after all. Many physicians and scientists have ignored homeopathy simply because they couldn't explain it. While we still don't know precisely how these IE crystals work in the body, at least we can now verify that homeopathic medicines are biologically active. This is a landmark discovery, both for homeopathy and for science."
The new research by Dr. S. Lo and the various other scientists who have confirmed it seems to verify the experiences of two centuries of homeopathic physicians. Dr. Lo notes, "There
seems to be something unique in water that undergoes extreme dilution, and we now have the laboratory evidence and even the photographic evidence to verify it."
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American Grand Strategy and Political Economy Theory
Kevin Narizny
Nearly everything a state does has distributional consequences, including grand strategy. Societal groups with different stakes in the international economy and defense spending often have conflicting strategic priorities, and these groups pursue their parochial interests by supporting the nomination and election of like-minded politicians. Thus, grand strategy is a product of political economy. An overview of American foreign policy over the last several decades illustrates this logic. In the 1980s, the Democratic and Republican coalitions had conflicting interests over the international economy, so the two parties diverged on grand strategy. The recovery of the Rust Belt in the 1990s and 2000s, however, brought increasing convergence. Political discourse over foreign policy was fiercely partisan, but, with the notable exception of George W. Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003, the two parties shared essentially the same view of America's role in the world. The disastrous outcome in Iraq led the Bush administration back to the middle ground in its second term, and Obama followed the same course. In contrast, the election of Donald Trump augurs change. Trump's electoral coalition consists of a different balance of interests in the international economy than that of past Republican presidents, so he is likely to pursue different strategic priorities.
Authenticity and Sustainability in Responsible Tourism
Jane Carnaffan
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Please check back later for the full article.
Tourism is important in debates on change and development because it is arguably the world's largest industry, a major driver of economic growth, and a high priority in developing countries' plans for economic development.
Discourses of responsible tourism claim to address the concerns surrounding mass, packaged tourism: principally, the lack of environmental and cultural authenticity and sustainability. Responsible tourism promises to fulfill tourists' desires to experience authenticity while having positive economic and social impacts. Proponents of this kind of tourism claim that, by creating a demand for these "goods," communities can protect and revive pristine environments and authentic cultures.
Authenticity plays an important role in the sustainable development discourse implicit in responsible tourism. However, there are tensions between authenticity, sustainability, and neo-liberal development whose historical trajectories can be traced from the 1970s to the present; from a rejection of market-led economic growth to delivering sustainability through market mechanisms. Critics have noted that the neo-liberalization of every aspect of development has been integral to the political agenda of global governance by institutions such as the World Bank. In short, by integrating sustainable development into neo-liberal mechanisms, alternatives to dominant market-led development are denied.
Tourism plays a major part in these debates because conceptualizations of authenticity have followed a similar path: from imaginations of pre-contact, harmonious idylls; to creation of "value-added" products; to conservation of natural environments; and preservation and revival of traditional cultures for tourist consumption. The turn away from modernization development paradigms and towards cultural revival is politically fraught. Whereas traditional cultures, admired by the West for their environmental sustainability and social cohesion, existed largely outside of global markets, under global neo-liberal regimes, cultural revival is delivered through market forces. Moreover, delivering cultural revival through tourism often de-politicizes highly contentious issues. This is particularly pertinent in Latin America, where the continent has been experiencing a "left turn" in formal politics, including indigenous cosmovisions in new constitutions.
Finally, debates on authenticity, sustainable development and tourism, and especially responsible tourism, are key to understandings of current political approaches to development.
The Balance of Power in World Politics
Randall L. Schweller
The balance of power—a notoriously slippery, murky, and protean term, endlessly debated and variously defined—is the core theory of international politics within the realist perspective. A "balance of power" system is one in which the power held and exercised by states within the system is checked and balanced by the power of others. Thus, as a nation's power grows to the point that it menaces other powerful states, a counter-balancing coalition emerges to restrain the rising power, such that any bid for world hegemony will be self-defeating. The minimum requirements for a balance of power system include the existence of at least two or more actors of roughly equal strength, states seeking to survive and preserve their autonomy, alliance flexibility, and the ability to resort to war if need be.
At its essence, balance of power is a type of international order. Theorists disagree, however, about the normal operation of the balance of power. Structural realists describe an "automatic version" of the theory, whereby system balance is a spontaneously generated, self-regulating, and entirely unintended outcome of states pursuing their narrow self-interests. Earlier versions of balance of power were more consistent with a "semi-automatic" version of the theory, which requires a "balancer" state throwing its weight on one side of the scale or the other, depending on which is lighter, to regulate the system. The British School's discussion of balance of power depicts a "manually operated" system, wherein the process of equilibrium is a function of human contrivance, with emphasis on the skill of diplomats and statesmen, a sense of community of nations, of shared responsibility, and a desire and need to preserve the balance of power system.
As one would expect of a theory that made its appearance in the mid-16th century, balance of power is not without its critics. Liberals claim that globalization, democratic peace, and international institutions have fundamentally transformed international relations, moving it out of the realm of power politics. Constructivists claim that balance of power theory's focus on material forces misses the central role played by ideational factors such as norms and identities in the construction of threats and alliances. Realists, themselves, wonder why no global balance of power has materialized since the end of the Cold War.
Basic Income
Simon Birnbaum
The idea that states should provide a means-tested guaranteed minimum income for citizens who are unable to meet their basic needs is widely shared and has been a central component in the evolution of social citizenship rights in existing welfare states. However, an increasing number of activists and scholars defend the more radical option of establishing a universal basic income, that is, an unconditional income paid to all members of society on an individual basis without any means test or work requirement. Indeed, some political philosophers have argued that basic income is one of the most important reforms in the development of a just and democratic society, comparable to other milestones in the history of citizenship rights, such as universal suffrage or even the abolishment of slavery. Basic income or similar ideas, such as a basic capital or a negative income tax, have been advanced in many versions since the 18th century in different parts of the world and under a great variety of names. However, while these were previously often isolated and disconnected initiatives, basic income has more recently become the object of an increasingly cumulative research effort to shed light on the many aspects of this idea. It has also inspired policy developments and given rise to experiments and pilot projects in several countries.
Capitalist Peace Theory: A Critical Appraisal
Gerald Schneider
Capitalist peace theory (CPT) has gained considerable attention in international relations theory and the conflict literature. Its proponents maintain that a capitalist organization of an economy pacifies states internally and externally. They portray CPT either as a complement or as a substitute to other liberal explanations such as the democratic peace thesis. They, however, disagree about the facet of capitalism that is supposed to reduce the risk of political violence. Key contributions have identified three main drivers of the capitalist peace phenomenon: the fiscal constraints that a laissez-faire regimen puts on potentially aggressive governments, the mollifying norms that a capitalist organization creates; and the increased ability of capitalist governments to signal their intentions effectively in a confrontation with an adversary. Defining capitalism narrowly through the freedom entrepreneurs enjoy domestically, this article evaluates the key causal mechanisms and empirical evidence that have been advanced in support of these competing claims. The article argues that CPT needs to be based on a narrow definition of capitalism and that it should scrutinize motives and constraints of the main actors more deeply. Future contributions to the CPT literature should also pay close attention to classic theories of capitalism, which all considered individual risk taking and the dramatic changes between booms and busts to be key constitutive features of this form of economic governance. Finally, empirical tests of the proposed causal mechanism should rely on data sets in which capitalists appear as actors and not as "structures." If the literature takes these objections seriously, CPT could establish itself as central theory of peace and war in two respects. First, it could serve as an antidote to the theory of imperialism and other "critical" approaches that see in capitalism a source of conflict rather than of peace. Second, it could become an important complement to commercial liberalism that stresses the external openness rather than the internal freedoms as an economic cause of peace and that particularly sees trade and foreign direct investment as pacifying forces.
Central Banks
Alex Cukierman
The first CBs were private institutions that were given a monopoly over the issuance of currency by government in return for help in financing the budget and adherence to the rules of the gold standard. Under this standard the price of gold in terms of currency was fixed and the CB could issue or retire domestic currency only in line with gold inflows or outflows. Due to the scarcity of gold this system assured price stability as long as it functioned. Wars and depressions led to the replacement of the gold standard by the more flexible gold exchange standard. Along with restrictions on international capital flows this standard became a major pillar of the post–WWII Bretton Woods system. Under this system the U.S. dollar (USD) was pegged to gold, and other countries' exchange rates were pegged to the USD. In many developing economies CBs functioned as governmental development banks.
Following the world inflation of the 1970s and the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, eradication of inflation gradually became the explicit number one priority of CBs. The hyperinflationary experiences of the first half of the 20th century, which were mainly caused by over-utilization of the printing press to finance budgetary expenditures, convinced policymakers in developed economies, following Germany's lead, that the conduct of monetary policy should be delegated to instrument independent CBs, that governments should be prohibited from borrowing from them, and that the main goal of the CB should be price stability. During the late 1980s and the 1990s numerous CBs obtained instrument independence and started to operate on inflation targeting systems. Under this system the CB is expected to use interest rate policy to deliver a low inflation rate in the long run and to stabilize fluctuations in economic activity in the short and medium terms. In parallel the fixed exchange rates of the Bretton Woods system were replaced by flexible rates or dirty floats. The conjunction of more flexible rates and IT effectively moved the control over exchange rates from governments to CBs.
The global financial crisis reminded policymakers that, of all public institutions, the CB has a comparative advantage in swiftly preventing the crisis from becoming a generalized panic that would seriously cripple the financial system. The crisis precipitated the financial stability motive into the forefront of CBs' policy concerns and revived the explicit recognition of the lender of last resort function of the CB in the face of shocks to the financial system. Although the financial stability objective appeared in CBs' charters, along with the price stability objective, also prior to the crisis, the crisis highlighted the critical importance of the supervisory and regulatory functions of CBs and other regulators. An important lesson from the crisis was that micro-prudential supervision and regulation should be supplemented with macro-prudential regulation and that the CB is the choice institution to perform this function. The crisis led CBs of major developed economies to reduce their policy rates to zero (and even to negative values in some cases) and to engage in large-scale asset purchases that bloat their balance sheets to this day. It also induced CBs of small open economies to supplement their interest rate policies with occasional foreign exchange interventions.
Comparative and International Political Economy and the Global Financial Crisis
Alison Johnston
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and subsequent European Debt Crisis had wide-sweeping consequences for global economic and political stability. Yet while these twin crises have prompted soul searching within the economics profession, international political economy (IPE) has been relatively ineffective in accounting for variation in crisis exposure across the developed world. The GFC and European Debt Crisis present the opportunity to link IPE and comparative political economy (CPE) together in the study of international economic and financial turmoil. While the GFC was prompted by the inter-connectedness of global financial markets, its instigators were largely domestic in nature and were reflective of negative externalities that stemmed from unsustainable national policies, especially those related to financial regulation and household debt accumulation. Many in IPE take an "outward looking in" approach to the examination of international economic developments and domestic politics; analysis rests on how the former impacts the latter. The GFC and European Debt Crisis, however, demonstrate the importance of a (CPE-based) "inward looking out" approach, analyzing how unique policy and political features (and failures) of individual nation states can unleash economic and financial instability at the global level amidst deepened economic and financial integration. IPE not only needs to grant greater attention to variation in domestic politics and policies in a time of closely integrated financial markets, but also should acknowledge the impact of a wider array of actors beyond banks and financial institutions (specifically more domestically rooted actors like households) on cross-national variation in the consumption of foreign credit.
Comparative Political Regimes: Consensus and Majoritarian Democracy
Matthijs Bogaards
Ever since Aristotle, the comparative study of political regimes and their performance has relied on classifications and typologies. The study of democracy today has been influenced heavily by Arend Lijphart's typology of consensus versus majoritarian democracy. Scholars have applied it to more than 100 countries and sought to demonstrate its impact on no less than 70 dependent variables. This paper summarizes our knowledge about the origins, functioning, and consequences of two basic types of democracy: those that concentrate power and those that share and divide power. In doing so, it will review the experience of established democracies and question the applicability of received wisdom to new democracies.
Dead Ends and New Paths in the Study of Economic Voting
Timothy Hellwig and Dani M. Marinova
Connections between the economy and vote are commonly invoked to evaluate political accountability in representative democracies. A principal motivation for studying economic voting lies in its value as a gauge of whether democracy works or not. In recent years, however, researchers have cast doubt on the assertion that economic conditions influence voters' evaluations of political incumbents.
Criticisms hail from several directions. Some, adopting a cross-national perspective, cite the instability problem as evidence against economic voting's existence. That is, variance in the economy-vote relationship across different national contexts is sufficiently large so as to undermine claims that the economy registers a systematic effect. Other critics charge that the electorate lacks sufficient knowledge to incorporate economic conditions in their decisions at the polls. Still others remind us not to mistake correlation for causation. They charge that the voters' perceptions of how well the economy is performing are viewed through a pre-existing partisan lens. All told, these and other reservations cast doubt on the use of economic voting as a means to evaluate accountability and, in turn, democratic performance.
These charges against the fidelity of economic voting require further examination. Rather than join a growing chorus of observers concluding that the economic vote is a chimera, this piece posits that recent critiques should push us to reconceive rather than discredit economic voting. Recent work in psychology and behavioral economics provides a basis for constructive and meaningful reinterpretations of the economy's influence on voter decisions. These new directions include an emphasis on framing effects—be it on the part of strategic elites or from the media, an emphasis on what voters know about the economy, and a wider consideration of just which "economy" matters to which set of voters. While many in number, each of these new directions advance understanding by embodying deeper conceptions of voters and elected officials.
The Domestic Politics of International Cooperation
Christina J. Schneider
How does domestic politics affect international cooperation? Even though classic work on international relations already acknowledges the central role of domestic politics in international relations, the first generation of scholarly work on international cooperation focused almost exclusively on the international sources of cooperation. Theories that explicitly link domestic politics and international cooperation did not take a more prominent place in the scholarly work on international cooperation until the late 1980s.
Recent research analyzes how interests and institutions at the domestic level affect the cooperation of governments at the international level. The analysis is structured along a political economy model, which emphasizes the decision making calculus of office-motivated political leaders who find themselves under pressure by different societal groups interested in promoting or hindering international cooperation. These pressures are conveyed, constrained, and calibrated by domestic institutions, which provide an important context for policy making, and in particular for the choice to cooperate at the international level. This standard political economy model of domestic politics is embedded within models of international cooperation, which entail decisions by governments about (a) whether to cooperate (and to comply with international agreements), (b) how to distribute the gains and costs from cooperation, (c) and how to design cooperation as to maximize the likelihood that the public good will be provided.
Domestic politics is significant to explain all aspects of international cooperation. The likelihood that governments engage in international cooperation does not only depend on international factors, but is also and sometimes predominantly driven by the demands of societal groups and variations in institutional structures across countries. Domestic factors can explain how governments behave in distributive negotiations, whether they can achieve advantageous deals, and if negotiations succeed to produce an international collective action. They also contribute to our understanding about whether and how governments comply with international agreements, and consequently, how the design of international institutions affects government compliance. More recently, scholars have become interested in the democratic responsiveness of governments when they cooperate at the international level. Whereas research is still sparse, emerging evidence points to responsive conduct of governments particularly when international cooperation is politicized at the national level.
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Noosa, along with Port Douglas, are my two favourite holiday destinations. The weather is warm, the scenery is breathtaking, the beaches are pristine, stylish shops and restaurants are in abundance and they are only a short plane ride away. When we go, it's just the two of us, so we stay at the Sheraton at both places but if you are looking for some larger, stylish accommodation to fit the whole family then 180 Degrees in Noosa just might be the perfect answer. This penthouse apartment is located in prime position on Hastings Street and is graced with spectacular views overlooking Main Beach with Fraser Island in the distance.
Working alongside Brisbane architecture firm DM2, Melbourne based interior designers Sanders & King oversaw the interior fitout and remodelling of what was once a very tired, eighties apartment. Set out over 5 split levels, Sanders & King worked with the architects to open up the interior spaces by adding a new open tread staircase to allow natural light to penetrate from above and a clean fresh new palette of finishes for a more contemporary, coastal feel. The brief was to create a family holiday home with a sense of modern luxury without being too precious. High quality finishes, designer furniture and Italian lighting have been used throughout. There are multiple bedrooms, bathrooms, living spaces and outdoor seating areas ensures that 2 large families can be accommodated here with ease. The hillside pool on the top level is the icing on the cake - it flows on from the kids lounge area, which will keep the kids entertained for hours on end!
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For decades, Olympics fans have loathed two words: "tape" and "delay." But this summer, things will be different: For the first time, NBC will stream live video of the London Games, online and via mobile.
If you think that decision is overdue, you're not alone. Sports Business Daily media reporter John Ourand says he is shocked it has taken this long for the network to put live video of all Olympic events online.
"I'm surprised it didn't happen four years ago, or even eight years ago," Ourand tells Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep.
"People are watching video online," he says. "And people also are rejecting tape-delayed broadcasts — which is what NBC had done" in previous years.
For the 2012 London Games, NBC plans to stream video of all 302 Olympic events, allowing online viewers to choose what they want to watch. Fans will have options for watching broad highlights, or following one discipline's events.
The network will also release apps to allow live video and other features on tablets and smartphones. It's a far cry from the years the network spent cloistering the most popular events into a prime-time package that aired hours later.
But that doesn't mean NBC will be giving open access to just anyone who wants to watch the Olympics online. To get full access, you must be a cable or satellite subscriber. And you'll need a user ID and password from your TV provider to log in, according to a guide posted last week on NBC's video site.
That could be bad news for anyone who's gone "off the grid" by rejecting cable and satellite subscriber plans, who may be forced to find other options to watch favorite events live. And the network still plans to save most of its interviews and features for prime time.
Ourand says that for NBC, the lure of advertising revenue is only one reason to try to control access to its online Olympic content. He points to the network's widely available cable channels — USA, CNBC and MSNBC.
"One of the reasons that they're widely distributed is because they carry that Olympic programming," he says. "And cable operators didn't want to do without that programming."
As Ourand tells Inskeep, "TV is still driving the bus here. There's a cliche in the media business: 'Digital dimes for TV dollars.' And that's still in effect here."
Even so, Ourand says that NBC's online coverage, which will be hosted at the network's newly relaunched Olympics site, signals a new approach at the network — and in the sports media.
"What ESPN and other networks have found is that, when you broadcast things live online, it doesn't erode the broadcast at all," he says. "In fact, it draws a lot of people to want to see it on their hi-def TVs in their living rooms."
Ourand says that NBC received a vivid demonstration of how hard it is to keep sports fans from watching an event live online during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when sprinter Usain Bolt turned in an electrifying world-record performance in the 100-meter dash.
"People watched it online, via foreign websites, via pirated websites — and NBC didn't get any of that," says Ourand, who recalls watching the race on the BBC's website.
Despite that burst of online interest during the event, the network's programming didn't suffer. Ourand says that "the rating for Usain Bolt for NBC on prime time was still very good" — something he attributes to buzz about Bolt's record, as well as fans' desire to watch the race on large high-definition televisions, even if they'd seen it earlier on a computer.
The Bolt race seems to have been a big moment for NBC, which had previously been unwilling to put many high-profile events online as they happened.
"They were so worried," Ourand says. "They wanted to protect their TV rights, and they wanted to protect advertisers who were advertising on TV, and they didn't want to dilute the viewers."
Another thing that'll be different about this year's Olympics is the timing of the men's 100-meter sprint final. If Bolt repeats his gold-medal performance of four years ago, he would do so on Aug. 5, a Sunday. That means that here in the U.S., the race would start around 4:50 p.m. EDT.
For the privilege to broadcast this summer's London Olympics, NBC paid more than $1 billion, 1.18 billion to be exact. As part of the deal, the network gets the right to stream the entire Olympic Games, every event, live, online. It's going to be the first time American viewers will be able to see all the games live, rather than have the network tape-delay games for prime time broadcast.
We're going to talk about this with John Ourand. He's the media reporter at Sports Business Daily. Welcome to the program.
JOHN OURAND: Thank you.
INSKEEP: It is 2012. You surprised this didn't happen sooner?
OURAND: Oh, very surprised. I'm surprised it didn't happen four years ago, or even eight years ago. It's established that people are watching video online. And people also are rejecting tape-delayed broadcasts, which is what NBC had done two years ago, four years ago, six years ago and eight years ago.
INSKEEP: Well, NBC must have noticed people being unhappy about this. Why did they resist?
OURAND: They resisted because they were worried that by putting everything out online, it could potentially dilute the audience of their primetime program. And if they dilute that audience, all of a sudden the ad rates are going to go down and they're going to get less viewers for the primetime. And that's really what drives this whole deal.
INSKEEP: What showed them that there might be a different way to go here?
OURAND: Four years ago, in Beijing, Usain Bolt had a thrilling race where he set the world record in the 100-meter dash. That was seen on pirated sites almost instantaneously. You could go to any sports blog and you would have been able to see video of Usain Bolt.
INSKEEP: Well, when this Bolt race went around the world, went to America, did it actually hurt NBC then or help them?
OURAND: There is a belief now in the sports media industry that it did help them because it helped market it. And so people said, wow, I saw that on a grainy video on some sports blog on my little computer screen. I want to be able to sit there on my hi-def TV in my den and really watch it in perfect quality.
INSKEEP: Oh, so the thought is that this may actually drive more primetime viewers or at least not cost any?
OURAND: That's what other networks are finding. They're finding that sports ratings are increasing, even as there's more video that's being made live online.
INSKEEP: You know, this is a biennial story or quadrennial story, depending on the way you think of it. But it is often pointed out that as much as NBC pays for the Olympics, it doesn't seem like they necessarily make that money back. It's a money loser. Is that actually correct, and are we missing something here?
OURAND: Well, it's difficult to say, actually. NBC did say that they lost $223 million on the Vancouver Olympics. And when Fox and ESPN bid on the most recent Olympic Games, they bid about a billion dollars in total less than NBC bid. And they said that where they bid, they could just barely make a profit.
But it's more than just ad sales that people are looking at it. If you look at NBC, they have a whole stream of cable networks - like USA, CNBC, MSNBC - that carry Olympic programming. And all of those networks are very widely distributed. And one of the reasons that they're widely distributed is they carry that Olympic programming, and cable operators didn't want to do without that programming.
INSKEEP: So can you imagine a future in which the streaming of the Olympic Games actually would become bigger than the broadcast of the Olympic Games?
OURAND: Well, in a future of, you know, 40, 50 years from now?
OURAND: Absolutely. I don't see it happening really - TV is what drives the biggest audience.
INSKEEP: We talk about the Web all the time, but TV is what people watch.
OURAND: Absolutely. The digital is getting closer to TV, but if that continues...
INSKEEP: Sure.
OURAND: ...in 2030, 2040, you could see that. But who knows how we'll be watching anything in 2030 and 2040.
INSKEEP: John Ourand of Sports Business Daily, thanks for coming by.
OURAND: Really had fun, thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Six recruiting rules in need of change
Rivals.com analysts each selected an NCAA football recruiting rule most in need of alterations at the very least and, at the most extreme, is worthy of being tossed on the bonfire. Here's an analysis of six rules that need to be changed.
Written offers
Rule 220.127.116.11: Prior to August 1 of a prospective student-athlete's senior year in high school, an institution shall not provide a written offer of athletically related financial aid or indicate in writing to the prospective student-athlete that an athletically related grant-in-aid will be offered by the institution. On or after August 1 of a prospective student-athlete's senior year in high school, an institution may indicate in writing to a prospective student-athlete that an athletically related grant-in-aid will be offered by the institution; however, the institution may not permit the prospective student-athlete to sign a form indicating his or her acceptance of such an award before the initial signing date in that sport in the National Letter of Intent program.
The NCAA's reasoning here: Over the years, a culture has developed in which prospective student-athletes are receiving letters from coaches at the beginning of their junior year in high school that, essentially, offer scholarships. Although they are not able to sign a National Letter of Intent until their senior year in high school, many prospective student-athletes view the early scholarship offer letters they receive as binding agreements. This proposal will eliminate the confusion such letters create with prospective student-athletes.
Let's be honest, this rule was not put into place to stop the confusion of recruits receiving written offers in September of their junior seasons as it explains in their rationale. In all my years of covering recruiting, I have never had a prospect tell me he received a written offer and deemed it as a binding agreement. This rule was put in place, misguidedly I might add, to slow down the recruiting process.
Starting in the early 2000s, early commitments became more common but it wasn't until 2004-06 when early verbals became as normal as later decisions. And with that, of course, came many de-commitments as players made early decisions, continued to be recruited by other schools, took visits and changed their minds. In an effort to slow the process down and stop as many de-commitments, the NCAA decided to delay written offers from Sept. 1 of a player's junior season to Aug. 1 of his senior year. However, it has clearly been ineffective in slowing things down as early commitments are probably more common than ever, de-commitments are still happening often and teams are already focusing on the next year's class by the time they are sending written offers to their current commitments.
Wayne (N.J.) Wayne Hills head coach Chris Olsen had two sons, Greg Olsen and Christian Olsen, go through the process prior to the new rule and another son, Kevin Olsen, who is a current junior affected by the new rule.
"For me it's not a big deal because I've been around long enough and I know how the process works," he said. "So for Kevin to have just verbal offers right now doesn't bother me because we know the process really well and know schools won't lie to him about verbal offers. But as a coach and if I was a parent going through this the first time, the rule would confuse me and make things much harder. If I had a written offer from a school during the junior year I would feel much more comfortable as a parent and it would allow me to plan accordingly. For example, I'd know which schools were truly interested by the written offer so I could plan unofficial trips there or trips to their camps as opposed to other schools that didn't put it in writing. Now anyone can say 'you have an offer' but it's harder to tell who is serious about it and who isn't. With that piece of paper, even if it wasn't binding until signing day, I would have some proof of true interest.
"I don't think it's a huge deal, but I guess I don't understand what the NCAA is trying to do here. If it's an attempt to make things less confusing I don't think it works and if they are trying to slow things down, that isn't working either. Kevin could commit to any school right now with a verbal offer, he doesn't need a piece of paper and you see early commitments all over the place. I think what really needs to happen is for an early signing period to be put in place. That way if a player knows he wants to commit and sign, he can do so and you won't have to worry about so many de-commitments."
Baltimore (Md.) Gilman head coach Biff Poggi, who also had two sons, Jim Poggi and Sam Poggi, go through the process prior to the new rules and has another son, Henry Poggi, who is a junior, agrees with Olsen.
"I think the new rule is a major disadvantage to parents trying to make one of the biggest decisions in their children's lives," said Poggi. "It's not slowing things down, I think it's just making college coaches more cavalier with their offers. It's made things even more of a feeding frenzy around the process.
"If the rationale is to avoid confusion that comes with early written offers, that's ridiculous. We have sent more than 100 kids to college and not one of them has ever confused a written offer as a binding agreement. The rule was likely put in place to slow the process down and to avoid de-commitments but it hasn't worked. The only thing that will do that is an early signing period."
- Mike Farrell
Coach-prospect contact
Rule 13.02.5.2: An evaluation period is a period of time when it is permissible for authorized athletics department staff members to be involved in off-campus activities designed to assess the academic qualifications and playing ability of prospective student-athletes. No in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts shall be made with the prospective student-athlete during an evaluation period.
Rule 13.02.4: A contact is any face-to-face encounter between a prospective student-athlete or the prospective student-athlete's parents, relatives or legal guardians and an institutional staff member or athletics representative during which any dialogue occurs in excess of an exchange of a greeting. Any such face-to-face encounter that is prearranged (e.g., staff member positions himself or herself in a location where contact is possible) or that takes place on the grounds of the prospective student-athlete's educational institution or at the site of organized competition or practice involving the prospective student-athlete or the prospective student-athlete's high school, preparatory school, two-year college or all-star team shall be considered a contact, regardless of whether any conversation occurs. ...
There are issues with these two similar rules on multiple levels.
For starters, as most coaches and prospects will tell you, recruiting is about relationships. By not allowing a coach who is already on campus (often coming from hours away) to chat with a prospect, even if only for a minute or two, it limits the amount of quality face time for both, something that is key to each in accessing whether or not they might be a good fit.
Another problem is that some college coaches follow the rule and some, shall we say, bend it. Additionally, there are high school coaches who either don't know the rule, understand the rule, or simply don't abide by it. In this day and age, high school coaches are under great pressure to help their athletes land scholarships. Because of that, a high school coach may feel obligated to encourage contact between a college coach and a player in hopes of bettering a prospect's opportunities.
Why not allow brief "contact" during the spring evaluation period? There must be some regulations, however, because prospects shouldn't regularly miss class to chat with college coaches. Perhaps a limited - and specific amount of time - could be set aside to allow for contact.
"We have schools come all the way from the West Coast to get information about kids but they can't talk to them," Todd Wofford, head coach at Lawrencevile (Ga.) Central Gwinnett, said. "It doesn't make sense for a school like Stanford or UCLA to come all the way to Georgia and not be able to talk. Right now, it's just so the kid can see their face. That means a lot, but at the same time the kid would like to talk to the coach."
- Keith Niebuhr
Text messaging
Rule 184.108.40.206: Division I coaches are prohibited from sending text messages to prospects. If a prospect sends a text message to a coach, the coach should not respond. Coaches should educate prospects on the text messaging prohibition to avoid future violations.
On Aug. 1, 2007, the NCAA enacted a ban that eliminated all text messages from coaches to recruits. The primary reason for the creation of the new legislation, as stated by Division I vice president David Berst at the time of the rules creation, was the abuse of the use of texts by coaches urging prospective student-athletes to call coaches.
Some prospects, as well as their parents and coaches, had complained about coaches that abused the use of text messaging but the complaints were far outweighed by the benefits of instant, short communication between prospects and recruiters. Also, in a day and age where unlimited data plans and unlimited text messaging were not prevalent, the use of texting did prove to be a fiscal issue for some.
The rule did not eliminate the ability for a prospect to text a coach, but the coach is not allowed to respond in a text. This has led to instances of secondary violations where coaches responded to texts asking who was sending the text, not realizing they were illegally communicating with a prospective student-athlete. Numerous schools have had to report secondary violations over the past four years involving text messages sent to prospects or their parents. Some of the schools that have violated the rules include Alabama, Georgia, Missouri and Texas Tech, to name a few.
Fast forward to present day and the topic of text messaging is once again on the NCAA Rules Committee's agenda. The NCAA is considering a proposal that would again permit coaches to send text messages to recruits or their parents at permitted time periods. The proposal that has been submitted would allow all forms of electronic correspondence, including e-mails and texts, to be sent to recruits or their parents beginning when phone contact is allowed in that sport.
Plain and simple, the rules need to change and text messaging needs to be permitted. Text messaging, and similar forms of correspondence, are how the average high school junior and senior prefers to communicate. Also, it allows for quicker, more efficient communication between the prospective student-athlete and the school pursuing their services. Also, as compared to four years ago, it is far easier to be able to afford to communicate in such a manner as technology has evolved.
As is the case with anything and everything involving the NCAA, rules will likely exist if texting returns. That will prove difficult to enforce depending on the depth of the rules that are cooked up. Ultimately though, the ability for a prospective student-athlete to speak with a coach via text, and to hear from a school via text, is something that should and needs to be allowed.
Orlando (Fla.) Edgewater four-star wide receiver Alton Howard, who is being recruited heavily by Tennessee and UCF, is in support of lifting the ban.
"We would be able to conversate more and we would be able to do a lot of catching up instead of picking a specific time or day to call them," Howard said.
Same goes for Miami (Fla.) Coral Reef three-star defensive back Vernon Davis, a Miami commitment.
"If a college was able to text recruits they can keep in touch more instead of waiting for a call or if you call them and don't get an answer," Davis said.
Land O'Lakes (Fla.) tight end Kent Taylor, considered Rivals.com's No. 1 tight end in the nation, also sees the simple benefit to prospects already stretched thin.
"It would make it much easier to communicate quickly," Taylor said.
- Chris Nee
Letter of intent restrictions
Rule 13.9.2: A member institution may not participate in an institutional or conference athletics letter-of-intent program or issue an institutional or conference financial aid agreement that involves a signing date that precedes the initial regular (as opposed to early) signing date for the National Letter of Intent program in the same sport. However, an institution may permit a prospective student-athlete to sign an institutional or conference letter of intent during the National Letter of Intent early signing period in the applicable sport.
Even a decade ago, college football recruiting was seemingly at full throttle for about four or five months while put on the backburner the rest of the year. Recruitniks often suffered withdrawals the day after National Signing Day, knowing they would not have much news to follow for quite some time.
However, things have changed drastically. Schools are taking commitments from players that have not even started their junior season. They are also having "junior days" on campus the weekend after signing day and pushing for as many early commitments as possible. What used to happen in January of the players' senior year has now been pushed up to the preceding February. The rules for signing the national letter-of-intent have not changed though.
Whereas basketball recruiting has an early signing period - this year's runs from Nov. 9 to Nov. 16 - football simply has one - always beginning on the first Wednesday in February. With many prospects committed even before their senior season begins, a lot of college coaches, high school coaches and players would like to see football adopt a similar approach.
"We have these kids committed for months and months," one Big 12 assistant coach said. "We have most of our class filled out by September. They know where they want to go. Why can't they sign with us then? Other schools come in late in the process and try to get them on official visits. Sometimes the kids even go but they don't usually switch. It would save us a lot of worry to have an early period.
"The dirty little secret is that it would also cause us a lot less grief by not having to try to sway the kids from other schools. Like I said, they rarely switch but our bosses and the fans want us to go all-out after the top-ranked kids. We spend a lot of time doing that - time that could be better spent on the few remaining uncommitted kids. That should be our focus. We should just let the committed ones sign in September or even early December, right after their seasons."
- Brian Perroni
Official visits
Rule 220.127.116.11.1: A prospective student-athlete may not be provided an expense-paid visit earlier than the opening day of classes of the prospective student-athlete's senior year in high school.
The NCAA has been slow to react to the changing landscape of the college football recruiting picture. Withholding official visits from recruits until the start of their senior years is one such rule that's time has long since passed.
Consider that by the start of September more than 60 percent of the prospects in the Rivals250 had already made commitments to college programs. That means the majority of the top prospects in the country have already done the research and seen what they needed to on the recruiting trail without the assistance of a single official visit.
There are five months between the start of a prospect's senior season and National Signing Day. Those five months also involve at least nine weeks of weekend football games. If a recruit also plays for his high school basketball, wrestling or hockey teams then they are involved in a sport for the entire duration of the five months they are allowed to take official visits.
Derek Spearman anticipated the burden his son, three-star linebacker Ike Spearman, would have to bear were he to schedule official visits during his high school football season, so Spearman spent the time and money over the summer to travel with his son around to the different college campuses.
"You're talking about a large financial endeavor," Spearman noted. "All of that is coming off the parent's dime until it is time for them to take official visits. It would be a lot easier if I could take a look at, say UCLA, on their dime instead of on my dime."
Spearman and his wife had the means to invest in their son's future, but how many families do not have that luxury? Traveling around the country involves a major expenditure of time and money, but waiting until the fall or winter could mean fewer opportunities.
With the recruiting timeline starting earlier every year, college programs are closing out scholarships before the start of fall. Prospects are in a race to claim a scholarship offer before others at their position, and under the current NCAA rules those without the means to travel extensively pre-senior year are being discriminated against.
- Josh Helmholdt
Scouting of camps
Rule 188.8.131.52.4: In bowl subdivision football, all live athletics evaluations shall be limited to: (a) Regularly scheduled high school, preparatory school and two-year college contests and practices; (b) Regular scholastic activities involving prospective student-athletes enrolled only at the institution at which the regular scholastic activities occur; and (c) Events that are organized and conducted solely by the applicable state high school athletics association, state preparatory school association or state or national junior college athletics association.
Independent football camps commence soon after the high school season is finished and it's an invaluable resource for evaluation but college coaches have been barred from such events for a handful of years.
When the NCAA clamped down on college coaches attending football camps it gave three main reasons - quality of life for coaches, maintaining control of the recruiting process and fair competition - but coaches and others argue that seeing players in camps, combines and even 7-on-7 settings would give them a more thorough analysis of players.
"The best way to evaluate a prospect is to be able to work with them in person at summer camp," said Dave Emerick, Arizona's director of on-campus recruiting.
"Due to financial considerations, it is not always feasible for prospects to attend summer camps at all the schools that are recruiting him. Being able to attend combines would allow college coaches to evaluate a higher number of quality prospects than what they would ordinarily get to at their summer camps."
Allowing coaches back on the road - even during limited windows - would be beneficial because it would give each coach a more thorough understanding of a prospect's ability and also to the player himself, since often prospects fly under the radar unless they actually camp at each school during the summer.
Emerick believes it would be most beneficial to smaller schools with limited budgets in areas that are not easily accessible.
"It would be especially beneficial for schools that are in remote locations to be able to attend combines," Emerick said. "Every year, a higher number of recruits attend camps in cities that are more centrally located than schools in cities that are harder to get to. If everyone were allowed to attend combines this would obviously be of great benefit to schools where it is difficult to get in a large number of summer campers on their campus."
College basketball coaches used to be on the road during the spring and summer. It was cut to just the summer but it still gives the coaches ample time to recruit, evaluate and possibly find a player that had been underappreciated. College football coaches, who deal with so many more prospects, should be afforded the same opportunity.
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Dr. Paul R.G. Cunningham, dean of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, gave an overview of professionalism in medicine during the second annual Jose G. Albernaz Golden Apple Distinguished Lecture held Dec. 3.
Sponsored by the ECU Medical & Health Sciences Foundation, the endowed lecture series honoring the pioneering neurosurgeon was created through an initial gift from his son, Dr. Marcus Albernaz, a surgeon with Eastern Carolina ENT-Head & Neck Surgery of Greenville.
Cunningham said the call for professionalism in medicine goes back 20 years, when the American Board of Medical Specialties began looking at general competencies for physicians including patient care, medical knowledge, interpersonal skills, practice-based learning and professionalism.
In 1998, the American Association of Medical Colleges conducted a study on professionalism and found close to 90 percent offered some type of formal instruction on the topic.
Why is it needed? Cunningham shared a letter to a newspaper editor in New York. A man had driven his wife to a doctor's appointment 50 miles from their home, only to be told when he arrived that the appointment had been cancelled and he would need to bring his wife back the next day.
The American Medical Association joined in 2003 in recommending that professionalism be included in medical school training. Topics include honesty, integrity, selflessness, and ethical and moral standards.
"Most of these things I would take for granted," Cunningham said. Being a professional is part of being a leader, he said.
Part of ECU's mission is to distinguish itself by training and preparing leaders for the state and nation.
In Brody's 29-county service area in eastern North Carolina, there are high rates of uninsured people with heart disease, HIV, gonorrhea and cancer. "We have ample opportunity for leadership in our mission at the Brody School of Medicine," Cunningham said.
He challenged medical students to be their "best selves" and to display a high level of professionalism.
The elder Albernaz, whose contributions to his field were written about in the June 2002 issue of The Journal of Neurosurgery, was born in Brazil and attended the Federal University Medical School in the city of Belo Horizonte. He then traveled to Chicago to study neurology and neurosurgery. He returned to Brazil, where he was that country's first American-trained neurosurgeon. In time, he became chairman of neurology and neurosurgery at the Federal University Medical School, started a modern medical residency program there in neurosurgery and helped found the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery.
In 1968, Albernaz came to the United States to work as a professor at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. There, Albernaz was twice awarded the Golden Apple Award for his dedication to students.
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Herbert L. Nanny, Age 73
Herbert L. Nanny, 73, of Gosport, passed away October 27, 2010 at Franklin Meadows in Franklin, Indiana. He was born April 17, 1937 in Monroe County to Jeff and Vadna (Fore) Nanny. He was a 1955 graduate of Spencer High School. Mr. Nanny was a supervisor at Indianapolis Rubber Company until its closing and then worked at Firestone in Indianapolis until his retirement. He enjoyed watching racing and helping in the pits, tinkering and woodworking. Mr. Nanny was a member of the Brownsburg Christian Church where he was a member of the Hill Toppers; he attended the Shiloh Wesley Methodist Church and was formerly a member of the Owen Valley Volunteer Fire Department.
He is survived by a son, Mike (Karen) Nanny of Gosport; five daughters, Terri (Bill) Newby, Macy (Buddy) Cunningham, Faith (Anthony) Dayhuff, all of Spencer, Cheryl (Jamie) Johnson of Brownsburg and Beth (Pat) Zimmer of Indianapolis; 18 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a brother, Charles Nanny of Gosport.
Mr. Nanny was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Nancy Nanny in June 1982; his second wife, Dorothy Nanny in September 2010; and two brothers, Joe Nanny and Nicholas Nanny.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, October 30, 2010 at Shiloh Wesley Chapel Methodist Church. Josh Cunningham will officiate. Burial will follow at Chambersville Cemetery. Friends may call at the church from 11 a.m. until time of service.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer Association.
West & Parrish & Pedigo Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Online condolences may be made to the family at: www.westparrishpedigo. com.
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