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There is no love lost between Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate, and that will play out on the center stage of reality television every Wednesday night in the coming weeks.
Already a trailblazer in the world of women's mixed martial arts — and women's sports as a whole, for that matter — Rousey, the Ultimate Fighting Championship women's bantamweight champion, and arch nemesis Tate will headline "The Ultimate Fighter 18," which premieres Wednesday night at 7 p.m. on Fox Sports 1.
With Rousey and Tate serving as the long-running show's first-ever female coaches, the series will also feature another first in that it will showcase female fighters, along with male fighters fighting in separate 135-pound tournaments. But leading up to the airing, there has been much ado about the Rousey-Tate feud, producing fireworks aplenty during the tapings — which concluded the first week of July.
"Wait 'til you see the season," UFC President Dana White said July 30 at the UFC's World Tour press conference in Los Angeles. "It's nonstop, it's never-ending, it's crazy."
While those involved in the show are bound to secrecy, one spoiler alert for the first episode has long been public, as Rousey was stunned to find out she would be coaching against Tate rather than Cat Zingano. Zingano defeated Tate to earn a title shot against Rousey in December and a spot coaching against her on the show. However, Zingano suffered a knee injury just before taping began and Tate replaced her. Thus, the histrionics began from the moment filming started, as Rousey and Tate have been rivals for more than a year dating back to their time in Strikeforce when the two eventually clashed with Rousey wrestling away the company's 135-pound strap.
"It was challenging in a lot of ways," Tate said in July. "Obviously, Ronda Rousey and I, we're not the best of friends. Dealing with each other every single day was challenging in itself for both her and I. But we did it and made the best of it. I think it's gonna be one helluva season."
As aforementioned, details aren't readily available, but nobody involved seems shy about conveying how badly the rivalry between the fighters and their camps boiled while cameras were rolling.
"I can't blame Ronda for not liking her," Glendale Fighting Club trainer Edmond Tarverdyan said, "and I don't like her either."
Tarverdyan, Rousey's head coach, led Rousey's coaching staff, which included UFC fighter Manny Gamburyan, wrestling coach and former MMA fighter Andy Dermenjian and Marina Shafir, a former judo standout like Rousey and a current undefeated amateur MMA fighter.
"It's gonna be [expletive deleted] crazy. It's gonna be epic," Gamburyan said. "I can't wait to watch it."
Gamburyan got his start in the UFC coming off the fifth season of "The Ultimate Fighter," in which he advanced to the finals. He wasn't the only former contestant to take up a coaching spot, though, as Tate's boyfriend and current UFC fighter Bryan Caraway is on board.
Caraway has been at the forefront of plenty of the ill will in the feud, going on a Twitter rant before the rivals' first bout in March of 2012 in which he unleashed some outlandish comments, including that if Rousey, "wants to challenge a man I'll knock her teeth down (sic) her throat the (sic) break her arm!" Since then, Caraway has become a controversial figure and the subject of plenty of smack talk from Rousey and her camp.
"Her and her boyfriend are all nice in front of the cameras. But they do a lot of things behind the scenes. … They're two-faced people," Tarverdyan said. "When they got into 'The Ultimate Fighter,' they knew they didn't even deserve to be there. That's why they were being so nice."
Rousey, and her camp, might not come off so nice, however.
"It maybe shows Ronda being not so nice," Tarverdyan said. "I don't know how they're gonna show us.
"We're crazy against them, because they were very disrespectful."
In seasons past, coaches such as Ken Shamrock, Matt Hughes and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, among others, have come off in a rather unflattering light after their respective seasons aired.
Rousey hasn't hesitated to admit she might not come off in the best light, thus, her current stay in Bulgaria during the filming of "The Expendables 3," in which she co-stars, could be perfect timing.
"I'm happy I'm gonna be out of the country while it's playing so hopefully it blows over a lot more by the time I get back," Rousey said in July in Los Angeles. "It's just gonna show a lot that that was not really my best environment for me to be in. I was focusing way more on being the best coach that I possibly could and if you ask anybody on my team, they will say that they were completely happy with how I was as a coach and that's all I really care about. How I came off personally wasn't really my biggest goal. Miesha might come off better, her hair might look a little better, but my athletes love me more and that's all I care about."
Always loyal, Gamburyan, Rousey's longtime friend and training partner, said, to the contrary, that the UFC titlist handled it as such.
"She handled it like a champion, 100%," Gamburyan said.
During a recent media scrum, White said it's only natural to be a bit worried about how one will be perceived after taping a reality TV show.
"She's being overly critical of herself," White said in a recent interview. "You have these girls, ya know, Miesha's not saying it publicly, but Miesha … is nervous about it, too. When the season's over, you start thinking back.
"[Rousey's] never been on TV before in that kind of situation. It freaks you out."
Either way, it promises for intriguing television.
"All of it is entertaining," said Tarverdyan of the fights and the drama outside of the cage. "It was exciting."
With Rousey taking the lead this season and Gamburyan back, it's not the first time a fighter with Glendale ties has been on the show. Gamburyan was on the show in the fifth season, followed by Roman Mitichyan in the sixth season and teammates Sako Chivitchian and Sevak Magakian were in the 12th installment.
Tate and Rousey got their start as rivals leading up to their initial championship tilt in March of 2012.
Then the Strikeforce women's 135-pound champion, Tate took offense to Rousey, a former two-time United States Olympian in judo and a 2008 bronze medalist, getting a title shot after just four fights — all of them at 145 pounds — due in large part to Rousey's brash talk and good looks, according to Tate. Rousey, as usual, made no apologies, saying that women's MMA needed a little shaking up. What followed was a cavalcade of trash talk, a weigh-in dust-up and a much-hyped title bout March 3, 2012 in which Rousey continued her undefeated start with a championship victory via armbar submission.
White later said the bout convinced him to bring women's MMA into the UFC for the first time, which culminated with Rousey defending her newly christened UFC title against Liz Carmouche on Feb. 23 in the first-ever women's bout in company history.
Rousey (7-0) and Tate (13-4) are set to renew their rivalry inside the caged confines of the octagon one more time Dec. 28 at UFC 168 in Las Vegas.
Until then, "The Ultimate Fighter" — in addition to introducing the world to a stable of new male and female 135-pound fighters — will serve as a vehicle to build up the championship tilt. And by all accounts, there will be plenty of build-up to talk about.
"It's gonna be great for the fans, great for the UFC," Gamburyan said. "You guys have to watch it. There's a lot to talk about, but I can't talk about it."


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How do you remove this blasted thing? I've un-bolted everything I can find that would hold it on and it still won't budge. I'm about ready to get out the sawzall and go cave man on it.
I'm usually good at taking things apart, it's re-assembly where I normally fail.
Please help. Pictures a big plus.
There are stove bolts to remove, and the seat base panel is removed, there are spot welds on the rear panel that go to the upright angle supports, drill out the spot welds or chisel them apart.
Just keep at it.
Thank you Mr. Treace.
I figured it was just bolted on and that my usual incompetence and mechanical ineptitude were the problems.
Lots more to this than I thought but it needs to come out.
Thanks again, that was a big help.

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Lady Gaga Is Having Versace Design Costumes for U.S. Born This Way Ball Dates
Lady Gaga is in the midst of her Born This Way Ball world tour and from all accounts, it's been quite the spectacle. She will bring the trek to North America and her home country of the U.S. beginning in January, so she will bring the live heat to take the wintery chill off.
Gaga has revealed that she and the Haus of Gaga will be incorporating big changes into North American leg. The 'ARTPOP' songstress tweeted, in coy fashion, that she will be working with Versace for the costumes on the tour. Now that is a collabo between fashion greats.
She posted: "THE BORN THIS WAY BALL is getting a face-lift for America. I heard rumors @VERSACE IS CUSTOM DESIGNING ALL THE CLOTHES AND NEW LOOKS."
Gaga was seen in a vintage Versace creation earlier this year and she was hanging out with Donatella (and posing topless), so her association with the high-end, haute brand is certainly long-standing. So naturally, we're not surprised that she will be teaming up with the Versace to create some stunning outfits.
Bring it, Haus of Gaga, like only you can.
Watch the Lady Gaga 'Born This Way' Video


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If cotton prices have, in fact, bottomed out and begun what many hope will be a return to profitability, U.S. cotton producers may owe a debt of gratitude to "friends" in some rather unlikely places.
The U.S. cotton program gets some of the credit for prices changing course, but actions by the governments of China, India and Pakistan have also played a role in stopping last fall's downward spiral of cotton prices, according to veteran market analyst Ed Jernigan.
"For all of the bad news we've had, it appears that for now, at least on the futures level, cotton prices have bottomed," said Jernigan, managing director of FCStone Asia.
Speaking at the Cotton Economic Outlook Symposium at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences, Jernigan said so many reports of bad news were floating around the cotton and financial markets toward the end of last November that some market participants were questioning how much more of that commodity they could handle.
"As you know, these events did not happen, and things have actually improved since that moment in time," he said. "The large Chinese mill everyone was concerned about did not go bankrupt. Those rumors were false, and it is actually making money. The Chinese did not lay down or back out of some contracts, and shipments have actually picked back up to Pakistan.
"So the world did not come to an end, and prices have begun to rally. The second thing that has happened is that four major government efforts are under way to support prices, something which has never happened before in the history of the cotton business."
The first of those is the U.S. cotton loan program, which supports U.S. prices when prices drop below the Commodity Credit Corp. loan rate, which they did last fall. The second is China's National Cotton Reserve Corp., which buys cotton when the government believes prices are too low and sells cotton when it believes prices are too high.
"Its job basically is to stabilize prices," said Jernigan, who has traveled extensively in China and Southeast Asia and speaks frequently at merchant and manufacturers' seminars throughout that part of the textile world.
"The Chinese farmer has been devastated by cotton," he said. "Last year (2007), he received 6 yuan per kilogram for his seed cotton when he brought it to the gin, so he was very excited about planting cotton in 2008. It looked like a very profitable crop. They've done a good job of improving technology. He expected he would get 7 yuan a kilogram this year."
That did not happen because of the economic slowdown that has reduced demand for textile products. Analysts who were forecasting 2008-09 Chinese cotton consumption as high as 55 million bales (Jernigan was predicting 52 million) have cut their estimates to 45 million bales.
"This has been an earth-shattering event," said Jernigan. "What it's all related back to is that over the past three or four years when China's cotton consumption was booming and the rest of the world was booming, there was a rapid expansion in textile mill capacity. Basically, more mills have been put in place than the demand warranted.
"We've been expecting that at some point there would be a rationalization of this excess capacity. We thought it would happen over several years, but it's all happened in about six months time. Now as much as one-third of China's mills are not operating or have gone bankrupt. Others have changed their operating schedules."
As a result of the slowdown, prices received by China's cotton farmers have ranged from a low of 4.5 yuan per kilogram to a high of 5.2 yuan, causing widespread panic about how to stabilize cotton prices in China.
Chinese growers do not have direct government loans as U.S. farmers do; they only have the National Cotton Reserve Corp. The latter has been conducting a gin modernization program that has given it more clout when it comes to buying cotton.
"When prices began falling, the National Cotton Reserve Corp. said they would buy cotton at substantially above the market price but only market-sized bales HVI-classed and produced by the gin," he said. "They bought a couple of hundred thousand tons. That didn't work. They decided to buy a million tons and took the total up to 1.3 million.
"That did not stabilize the price so they bought another 1.5 million bales. Put that together and eventually more than a third of the Chinese crop will be placed in the state reserve and be held by the government until prices reach a level where they want to release that cotton back into the marketplace."
In India, the government has raised the minimum support price that can be paid to cotton farmers. The MSP has never been much of a factor in Indian cotton prices, but the Cotton Corp. of India vowed that the 2008 crop would be different.
"They got the commitment from the government, which was going into an election, to spend the money to support the farmer," said Jernigan. They changed the price based on their calculation of what it costs to grow cotton in India and to offer a small profit. So they raised the minimum support price higher than it's ever been before (by 33 to 40 percent)."
This year the Cotton Corp. will buy at least the third of the Indian crop and sell it into the market for export. "But they're in no rush to do so because they've been well-financed by the government," he said. "Last year, when they had a record crop, the price went down to where Indian cotton was the most competitive in the world. Now U.S. cotton is the most competitive because of the way our marketing loan program works."
The Trading Corp. of Pakistan has also launched a program of buying seed cotton to help stop the fall in cotton prices in that country.
"So all these factors together — the actions in the United States, China, India and Pakistan — have helped the cotton market bottom and have put a floor under world prices," he said. "So it's not all gloom and doom for cotton at this point."
Nevertheless, Jernigan predicted U.S. cotton acres will decline again in 2009 given the higher returns growers experienced with corn and soybeans in 2008 compared to cotton. "We're not trying to put an exact number on it today. Soybean prices have rallied, closing over $10.30 yesterday. It's a moving target, but obviously cotton acres will be down."
The most encouraging news for U.S. growers may be that cotton acres will also be down sharply in China this coming year because of the economic train wreck that hit Chinese cotton producers in 2008.
"Many Chinese farmers rent land from their neighbors to develop a little economy of scale," he said. "Those farmers who did that in 2008 lost money on cotton. You can imagine how dramatic that is because they have to pay land rent and for extra labor."
A recent survey by the National Cotton Marketing Service shows that cotton planting will be down 17 percent in China in 2009. At the same time, cotton will be going into the reserve so the supply will tighten dramatically over the next 12 months.
India, which is believed to have produced a crop of 31.5 million bales in 2008, will "probably remain the cotton king for the moment because the government's minimum support program will encourage farmers to grow cotton," he noted.
"Supplies will be tightening dramatically throughout 2009. It does appear that because of the four government support programs in place around the world prices have bottomed. They may not go anywhere too fast. But, while the rest of the economy may not improve until 2010, with cotton prices we probably have seen our lows for now."


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Acceptability Judgments
James Myers
Acceptability judgments are reports of a speaker's or signer's subjective sense of the well-formedness, nativeness, or naturalness of (novel) linguistic forms. Their value comes in providing data about the nature of the human capacity to generalize beyond linguistic forms previously encountered in language comprehension. For this reason, acceptability judgments are often also called grammaticality judgments (particularly in syntax), although unlike the theory-dependent notion of grammaticality, acceptability is accessible to consciousness. While acceptability judgments have been used to test grammatical claims since ancient times, they became particularly prominent with the birth of generative syntax. Today they are also widely used in other linguistic schools (e.g., cognitive linguistics) and other linguistic domains (pragmatics, semantics, morphology, and phonology), and have been applied in a typologically diverse range of languages. As psychological responses to linguistic stimuli, acceptability judgments are experimental data. Their value thus depends on the validity of the experimental procedures, which, in their traditional version (where theoreticians elicit judgments from themselves or a few colleagues), have been criticized as overly informal and biased. Traditional responses to such criticisms have been supplemented in recent years by laboratory experiments that use formal psycholinguistic methods to collect and quantify judgments from nonlinguists under controlled conditions. Such formal experiments have played an increasingly influential role in theoretical linguistics, being used to justify subtle judgment claims or new grammatical models that incorporate gradience or lexical influences. They have also been used to probe the cognitive processes giving rise to the sense of acceptability itself, the central finding being that acceptability reflects processing ease. Exploring what this finding means will require not only further empirical work on the acceptability judgment process, but also theoretical work on the nature of grammar.
The Acquisition of Color Words
Katie Wagner and David Barner
Human experience of color results from a complex interplay of perceptual and linguistic systems. At the lowest level of perception, the human visual system transforms the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum into a rich, continuous three-dimensional experience of color. Despite our ability to perceptually discriminate millions of different color shades, most languages categorize color into a number of discrete color categories. While the meanings of color words are constrained by perception, perception does not fully define them. Once color words are acquired, they may in turn influence our memory and processing speed for color, although it is unlikely that language influences the lowest levels of color perception.
One approach to examining the relationship between perception and language in forming our experience of color is to study children as they acquire color language. Children produce color words in speech for many months before acquiring adult meanings for color words. Research in this area has focused on whether children's difficulties stem from (a) an inability to identify color properties as a likely candidate for word meanings, or alternatively (b) inductive learning of language-specific color word boundaries. Lending plausibility to the first account, there is evidence that children more readily attend to object traits like shape, rather than color, as likely candidates for word meanings. However, recent evidence has found that children have meanings for some color words before they begin to produce them in speech, indicating that in fact, they may be able to successfully identify color as a candidate for word meaning early in the color word learning process. There is also evidence that prelinguistic infants, like adults, perceive color categorically. While these perceptual categories likely constrain the meanings that children consider, they cannot fully define color word meanings because languages vary in both the number and location of color word boundaries. Recent evidence suggests that the delay in color word acquisition primarily stems from an inductive process of refining these boundaries.
Acquisition of Pragmatics
Myrto Grigoroglou and Anna Papafragou
To become competent communicators, children need to learn that what a speaker means often goes beyond the literal meaning of what the speaker says. The acquisition of pragmatics as a field is the study of how children learn to bridge the gap between the semantic meaning of words and structures and the intended meaning of an utterance. Of interest is whether young children are capable of reasoning about others' intentions and how this ability develops over time.
For a long period, estimates of children's pragmatic sophistication were mostly pessimistic: early work on a number of phenomena showed that very young communicators were egocentric, oblivious to other interlocutors' intentions, and overall insensitive to subtle pragmatic aspects of interpretation. Recent years have seen major shifts in the study of children's pragmatic development. Novel methods and more fine-grained theoretical approaches have led to a reconsideration of older findings on how children acquire pragmatics across a number of phenomena and have produced a wealth of new evidence and theories.
Three areas that have generated a considerable body of developmental work on pragmatics include reference (the relation between words or phrases and entities in the world), implicature (a type of inferred meaning that arises when a speaker violates conversational rules), and metaphor (a case of figurative language). Findings from these three domains suggest that children actively use pragmatic reasoning to delimit potential referents for newly encountered words, can take into account the perspective of a communicative partner, and are sensitive to some aspects of implicated and metaphorical meaning. Nevertheless, children's success with pragmatic communication is fragile and task-dependent.
Franz Rainer
Blocking can be defined as the non-occurrence of some linguistic form, whose existence could be expected on general grounds, due to the existence of a rival form. *Oxes, for example, is blocked by oxen, *stealer by thief. Although blocking is closely associated with morphology, in reality the competing "forms" can not only be morphemes or words, but can also be syntactic units. In German, for example, the compound Rotwein 'red wine' blocks the phrasal unit *roter Wein (in the relevant sense), just as the phrasal unit rote Rübe 'beetroot; lit. red beet' blocks the compound *Rotrübe. In these examples, one crucial factor determining blocking is synonymy; speakers apparently have a deep-rooted presumption against synonyms. Whether homonymy can also lead to a similar avoidance strategy, is still controversial. But even if homonymy blocking exists, it certainly is much less systematic than synonymy blocking.
In all the examples mentioned above, it is a word stored in the mental lexicon that blocks a rival formation. However, besides such cases of lexical blocking, one can observe blocking among productive patterns. Dutch has three suffixes for deriving agent nouns from verbal bases, -er, -der, and -aar. Of these three suffixes, the first one is the default choice, while -der and -aar are chosen in very specific phonological environments: as Geert Booij describes in The Morphology of Dutch (2002), "the suffix -aar occurs after stems ending in a coronal sonorant consonant preceded by schwa, and -der occurs after stems ending in /r/" (p. 122). Contrary to lexical blocking, the effect of this kind of pattern blocking does not depend on words stored in the mental lexicon and their token frequency but on abstract features (in the case at hand, phonological features).
Blocking was first recognized by the Indian grammarian Pāṇini in the 5th or 4th century
Child Phonology
Yvan Rose
Child phonology refers to virtually every phonetic and phonological phenomenon observable in the speech productions of children, including babbles. This includes qualitative and quantitative aspects of babbled utterances as well as all behaviors such as the deletion or modification of the sounds and syllables contained in the adult (target) forms that the child is trying to reproduce in his or her spoken utterances. This research is also increasingly concerned with issues in speech perception, a field of investigation that has traditionally followed its own course; it is only recently that the two fields have started to converge. The recent history of research on child phonology, the theoretical approaches and debates surrounding it, as well as the research methods and resources that have been employed to address these issues empirically, parallel the evolution of phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics as general fields of investigation. Child phonology contributes important observations, often organized in terms of developmental time periods, which can extend from the child's earliest babbles to the stage when he or she masters the sounds, sound combinations, and suprasegmental properties of the ambient (target) language. Central debates within the field of child phonology concern the nature and origins of phonological representations as well as the ways in which they are acquired by children. Since the mid-1900s, the most central approaches to these questions have tended to fall on each side of the general divide between generative vs. functionalist (usage-based) approaches to phonology. Traditionally, generative approaches have embraced a universal stance on phonological primitives and their organization within hierarchical phonological representations, assumed to be innately available as part of the human language faculty. In contrast to this, functionalist approaches have utilized flatter (non-hierarchical) representational models and rejected nativist claims about the origin of phonological constructs. Since the beginning of the 1990s, this divide has been blurred significantly, both through the elaboration of constraint-based frameworks that incorporate phonetic evidence, from both speech perception and production, as part of accounts of phonological patterning, and through the formulation of emergentist approaches to phonological representation. Within this context, while controversies remain concerning the nature of phonological representations, debates are fueled by new outlooks on factors that might affect their emergence, including the types of learning mechanisms involved, the nature of the evidence available to the learner (e.g., perceptual, articulatory, and distributional), as well as the extent to which the learner can abstract away from this evidence. In parallel, recent advances in computer-assisted research methods and data availability, especially within the context of the PhonBank project, offer researchers unprecedented support for large-scale investigations of child language corpora. This combination of theoretical and methodological advances provides new and fertile grounds for research on child phonology and related implications for phonological theory.
Children's Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge
Rosalind Thornton
Children's acquisition of language is an amazing feat. Children master the syntax, the sentence structure of their language, through exposure and interaction with caregivers and others but, notably, with no formal tuition. How children come to be in command of the syntax of their language has been a topic of vigorous debate since Chomsky argued against Skinner's claim that language is 'verbal behavior.' Chomsky argued that knowledge of language cannot be learned through experience alone but is guided by a genetic component. This language component, known as 'Universal Grammar,' is composed of abstract linguistic knowledge and a computational system that is special to language. The computational mechanisms of Universal Grammar give even young children the capacity to form hierarchical syntactic representations for the sentences they hear and produce. The abstract knowledge of language guides children's hypotheses as they interact with the language input in their environment, ensuring they progress toward the adult grammar. An alternative school of thought denies the existence of a dedicated language component, arguing that knowledge of syntax is learned entirely through interactions with speakers of the language. Such 'usage-based' linguistic theories assume that language learning employs the same learning mechanisms that are used by other cognitive systems. Usage-based accounts of language development view children's earliest productions as rote-learned phrases that lack internal structure. Knowledge of linguistic structure emerges gradually and in a piecemeal fashion, with frequency playing a large role in the order of emergence for different syntactic structures.
Computational Phonology
Jane Chandlee and Jeffrey Heinz
Computational phonology studies the nature of the computations necessary and sufficient for characterizing phonological knowledge. As a field it is informed by the theories of computation and phonology.
The computational nature of phonological knowledge is important because at a fundamental level it is about the psychological nature of memory as it pertains to phonological knowledge. Different types of phonological knowledge can be characterized as computational problems, and the solutions to these problems reveal their computational nature. In contrast to syntactic knowledge, there is clear evidence that phonological knowledge is computationally bounded to the so-called regular classes of sets and relations. These classes have multiple mathematical characterizations in terms of logic, automata, and algebra with significant implications for the nature of memory. In fact, there is evidence that phonological knowledge is bounded by particular subregular classes, with more restrictive logical, automata-theoretic, and algebraic characterizations, and thus by weaker models of memory.
Connectionism in Linguistic Theory
Xiaowei Zhao
Connectionism is an important theoretical framework for the study of human cognition and behavior. Also known as Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) or Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), connectionism advocates that learning, representation, and processing of information in mind are parallel, distributed, and interactive in nature. It argues for the emergence of human cognition as the outcome of large networks of interactive processing units operating simultaneously. Inspired by findings from neural science and artificial intelligence, connectionism is a powerful computational tool, and it has had profound impact on many areas of research, including linguistics. Since the beginning of connectionism, many connectionist models have been developed to account for a wide range of important linguistic phenomena observed in monolingual research, such as speech perception, speech production, semantic representation, and early lexical development in children. Recently, the application of connectionism to bilingual research has also gathered momentum. Connectionist models are often precise in the specification of modeling parameters and flexible in the manipulation of relevant variables in the model to address relevant theoretical questions, therefore they can provide significant advantages in testing mechanisms underlying language processes.
Defectiveness in Morphology
Antonio Fábregas
Morphological defectiveness refers to situations where one or more paradigmatic forms of a lexeme are not realized, without plausible syntactic, semantic, or phonological causes. The phenomenon tends to be associated with low-frequency lexemes and loanwords. Typically, defectiveness is gradient, lexeme-specific, and sensitive to the internal structure of paradigms.
The existence of defectiveness is a challenge to acquisition models and morphological theories where there are elsewhere operations to materialize items. For this reason, defectiveness has become a rich field of research in recent years, with distinct approaches that view it as an item-specific idiosyncrasy, as an epiphenomenal result of rule competition, or as a normal morphological alternation within a paradigmatic space.
Direct Perception of Speech
Carol A. Fowler
The theory of speech perception as direct derives from a general direct-realist account of perception. A realist stance on perception is that perceiving enables occupants of an ecological niche to know its component layouts, objects, animals, and events. "Direct" perception means that perceivers are in unmediated contact with their niche (mediated neither by internally generated representations of the environment nor by inferences made on the basis of fragmentary input to the perceptual systems). Direct perception is possible because energy arrays that have been causally structured by niche components and that are available to perceivers specify (i.e., stand in 1:1 relation to) components of the niche. Typically, perception is multi-modal; that is, perception of the environment depends on specifying information present in, or even spanning, multiple energy arrays.
Applied to speech perception, the theory begins with the observation that speech perception involves the same perceptual systems that, in a direct-realist theory, enable direct perception of the environment. Most notably, the auditory system supports speech perception, but also the visual system, and sometimes other perceptual systems. Perception of language forms (consonants, vowels, word forms) can be direct if the forms lawfully cause specifying patterning in the energy arrays available to perceivers. In Articulatory Phonology, the primitive language forms (constituting consonants and vowels) are linguistically significant gestures of the vocal tract, which cause patterning in air and on the face. Descriptions are provided of informational patterning in acoustic and other energy arrays. Evidence is next reviewed that speech perceivers make use of acoustic and cross modal information about the phonetic gestures constituting consonants and vowels to perceive the gestures.
Significant problems arise for the viability of a theory of direct perception of speech. One is the "inverse problem," the difficulty of recovering vocal tract shapes or actions from acoustic input. Two other problems arise because speakers coarticulate when they speak. That is, they temporally overlap production of serially nearby consonants and vowels so that there are no discrete segments in the acoustic signal corresponding to the discrete consonants and vowels that talkers intend to convey (the "segmentation problem"), and there is massive context-sensitivity in acoustic (and optical and other modalities) patterning (the "invariance problem"). The present article suggests solutions to these problems.
The article also reviews signatures of a direct mode of speech perception, including that perceivers use cross-modal speech information when it is available and exhibit various indications of perception-production linkages, such as rapid imitation and a disposition to converge in dialect with interlocutors.
An underdeveloped domain within the theory concerns the very important role of longer- and shorter-term learning in speech perception. Infants develop language-specific modes of attention to acoustic speech signals (and optical information for speech), and adult listeners attune to novel dialects or foreign accents. Moreover, listeners make use of lexical knowledge and statistical properties of the language in speech perception. Some progress has been made in incorporating infant learning into a theory of direct perception of speech, but much less progress has been made in the other areas.
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SEATTLE -- The Seattle Mariners have finalized a $1.5 million, one-year contract with catcher Kelly Shoppach, providing a needed backup to expected starter Jesus Montero.
Seattle announced the deal Thursday. To make room on the 40-man roster, Seattle designated for assignment reliever Shawn Kelley, who just last week agreed to a 1-year, $935,000 deal with the team to avoid arbitration. Seattle has 10 days to trade or release Kelley, or to send him outright to the minors if he clear waivers.
Shoppach played for Boston and the New York Mets last season, appearing in 76 games. The 32-year-old also has a relationship with Seattle manager Eric Wedge, having played for him in Cleveland for parts of four seasons from 2006-09. Montero and Shoppach are the only two catchers on Seattle's 40-man roster.
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Wabash finished second out of 11 teams Saturday at the DePauw University Outdoor Track and Field Invitational. Jake Waterman and Daniel Ambrosio captured individual titles for the Little Giants.
Waterman (left) took first place in the 1500-meter run, finishing the race with a time of 4:07.93. Teammate Donavan White took second place, crossing the finish line in 4:08.50
Ambrosio won the javelin throw one week after claiming North Coast Athletic Conference Men's Field Athlete of the Week honors. The junior took first place in the event with a mark of 51.51 meters (169 feet).
John Haley took second place in the 400-meter dash with a time of 50.06. Wes Chamblee celebrated his return to the track after a serious knee injury suffered in the first game of the fall football season by taking third place with a time of 50.35. Billy Rosson added a second place finish in the 400 hurdles, finishing in 55.93.
Matt Scheller took second place in the hammer throw with a mark of 49.66 meters (162 feet, 11 inches). He was also fourth in the shot put with a mark of 15.05 meters (49 feet, 0.75 inches). Wabash also added a second place finish in the 400-meter relay (43.50).
Justin Allen captured third place in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 15:38.90. Trevor Young was third in the pole vault after clearing 4.45 meters (14 feet, 7.25 inches). Patrick Posthauer scored a fifth place finish in the 110-meter hurdles (15.15).
Vincennes won the meet with a total of 154 points, with Wabash in second by scoring 122 points. Indiana Wesleyan took third place (120), followed by Taylor (89.5), Rose-Hulman (85), and Illinois Wesleyan (63). Case Western Reserve (32), DePauw (31), St. Francis (17), Manchester (15.5), and Mount St. Joseph (8) completed the team scoring.


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FORT COLLINS, Colo.—Twenty-eight residents facing eviction from their Fort Morgan mobile home park are asking a court to allow them to stay.
In court documents filed Tuesday, residents at Wayward Wind Mobile Home Park claim the owners are trying to evict them to avoid fixing problems with drinking water at the park.
In documents filed in Larimer County District Court, residents allege water from their tap is contaminated and they've been forced to rely on bottled water or jugs filled at a nearby gas station.
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Halloween is a fun tradition, but often times the excitement of the evening can cause children and adults to forget about being safe.
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•Tell your children to stay out of the street while walking.
•Choose a costume that is brightly colored and easy to see in the dark. Carefully inspect all food and candy before letting your child eat it (when in doubt, throw it out). Trick or Treater's: Carry a flashlight. •Stay on sidewalks. Cross the street at intersections, never run out from behind a parked car. Stay in familiar neighborhoods.
•Make sure your costume fits you well. Only approach houses that are well lit. Walk from house to house, don't run. Never take shortcuts, such as alleyways or empty fields. Don't eat anything until your parents have had a chance to inspect it.
Children should also know the basics, such as their phone number and address in case of an emergency, and how to react if a stranger tries to approach them.
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In mid-December 2011, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) surprised the energy markets by deciding to increase oil production with a new output target of 30 million barrels a day. Bloomberg reported that crude oil for January declined $5.19, or 5.2%. On Dec. 14, March crude oil fell $5.11 to $95.37 — up from $76.53 on Sept. 4, but at the time on a short-term downtrend.
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Lifetime Achievement Award: Julie Andrews
In addition to the GRAMMY Awards, The Recording Academy presents Special Merit Awards recognizing contributions of significance to the recording field, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Award and Technical GRAMMY Award. Each year, The Academy invites friends and colleagues of Special Merit Awards recipients to pay tribute to the honorees' career accomplishments, while also adding colorful anecdotes and personal accounts. In the days leading up to the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards, GRAMMY.com will present the tributes to the 12 Special Merit Awards recipients for 2011.
Julie and I met for the first time in 1960, when mutual friends of ours brought Julie to see me in an off-Broadway show I was doing, "Once Upon A Mattress." She had already done "My Fair Lady," and I was pretty much in awe. After the show that night, we all went to a restaurant where we had Chinese and those poor guys who were with us didn't have a prayer. Julie and I never stopped yapping. It was as if I had found my long-lost twin, and some evil being had stolen her at birth and stuck her over there, somewhere in England. That evening kicked off what was to be (so far) a 50-year relationship…professional, and best of all…personal.
We did our first television special in 1962. We began calling each other "Chum." During our rehearsal breaks, we talked about the men in our lives and our careers and our futures.
In the '70s, we did another special, and during our rehearsal breaks we talked about our husbands, our children and schools.
Then we got together for yet another special in the '80s, and during those rehearsal breaks we talked about hot flashes, hormones and "vit"-amins.
If we ever do another one, we'll most likely be delving into the mysteries of Metamucil.
Julie has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild, she won a GRAMMY in 1964 for her work in the classic Mary Poppins (for which she also won a best actress Oscar), and she has won three Tony Awards. She has earned her renown as a singer, actress and one of the greatest all-around entertainers with whom I've had the pleasure of working. In addition to Mary Poppins, her classic works include The Sound Of Music and Victor Victoria, both of which she made her own on film and on Broadway.
This Life Achievement Award is so very much deserved. Julie has constantly given us her all. And her "all" is awe-inspiring. Her talent is unsurpassed. She's a consummate actress, and her voice is a gift from the gods. She is a great "Dame" in every good sense of the word.
Congratulations, Chum.
(Entertainer Carol Burnett won an Emmy Award in 1963 for her performance in "Julie And Carol At Carnegie Hall." Her hit variety show, "The Carol Burnett Show," ran from 1967–1978. She earned her first GRAMMY nomination this year in the Best Spoken Word category for This Time Together: Laughter And Reflection.)
The Lifetime Achievement Award, established in 1962, is presented by vote of The Recording Academy's National Trustees to performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording. To view a complete list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Roy Haynes, Juilliard String Quartet, The Kingston Trio, Dolly Parton, Ramones, George Beverly Shea
Trustees Award: Al Bell, Wilma Cozart Fine, Bruce Lundvall
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This whole Team Johnny against Team Teddy rivalry is a matchmaker's dream, as we are served up another set of matches featuring opposing participants. Also, Daniel Bryan gets bullied and Zack Ryder tries to figure out women –- or at least one woman in Eve.
World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan opens Friday night by having AJ wax poetic in the ring about what it's like to be his girlfriend. She lists his best qualities, gets a little heck from him for calling him Danny, and is coerced by Bryan into saying what a great lover he is.
Bryan's Wrestlemania opponent, Sheamus, joins them in the ring and refutes her points. He also takes a cue from The Rock and persuades the fans to start a "Danny" chant, much to Bryan's irritation.
Match #1 – Mark Henry vs. R-Truth
An early headbutt tips the scales in Henry's favour, and the strongman keeps the pressure on for most of the match. R-Truth creates a small opening with some spinning heel-kicks, but takes a gamble with a leap off the top and lands in a World's Strongest Slam.
Winner via pinfall: Mark Henry
After the break, Zack Ryder is in Teddy Long's office clamouring for a spot on Team Teddy, upping the ante by offering Hornswoggle as a mascot and The Great Khali as a super-sized Broski. Long breaks down and puts them all on the roster.
Match #2 – Brie Bella (w/ Nikki) vs. AJ (w/ Daniel Bryan)
In a veritable rematch from last week's tilt against Nikki, AJ takes advantage of the Bellas bumping into each other on the apron as Nikki tries to run interference, rolling up Brie for the win.
Winner via pinfall: AJ
After the match, some cracks show up in the Bellas' armour. Apparently, they don't agree on everything, including Brie favouring Team Johnny as opposed to Nikki's support for Teddy. Stay tuned for the decline and fall of the Bella Empire.
Match #3 – Zack Ryder (w/ Hornswoggle) vs. Jack Swagger (w/ Vickie Guerrero)
Swagger rolls Ryder around like a gator before Ryder, somewhat surprisingly, overpowers and outruns him. The Broski Boot doesn't produce a win, but neither does the Swagger Bomb. As Hornswoggle chases Guerrero up onto the apron, Ryder hits a Rough Ryder on the distracted Swagger to end a stiffly choreographed match.
Winner via pinfall: Zack Ryder
Matt Striker stops Cody Rhodes in the hallway during an "Earlier Today" segment. A pre-recorded interview during a pre-recorded program ... as Neo would say: "Whoa". Oh, and Rhodes insists that Big Show will embarrass himself on April Fools' Day.
Match #4 – Big Show vs. Kane
The big guys are going for speed tonight, trading blows evenly and knocking each other down with a double-clothesline. Kane makes a big red mistake by leaping off the top right into a chokeslam, but Cody Rhodes slides into the ring before Big Show can follow up.
Winner via disqualification: Big Show
Big Show chases Rhodes into the crowd, conveniently leaving Kane unattended for Randy Orton to slip in and RKO his current nemesis.
Match #5 – Brodus Clay vs. Heath Slater
Slater actually brings Clay to his knees, and then to his belly with a kick to the noggin, but the Funkasaurus machine rolls on with a well-delivered splash in the middle of the ring.
Winner via pinfall: Brodus Clay
Backstage, a jubilant Zack Ryder bumps into Eve, who keeps playing games with his heart, cancels their dinner date, and leaves him completely befuddled.
Match #6 – The Great Khali (w/ Teddy Long) vs. Dolph Ziggler (w/ David Otunga & John Laurinaitis)
Ziggler takes his chops early on before dropkicking Khali in the knees to bring him down. When Khali gets back to his feet, Ziggler leaps up to clamp on a sleeper hold, and Laurinaitis rings the bell and calls the match.
Winner via submission: Dolph Ziggler
Wait, Long gets on the mic and re-starts the match. Ziggler refuses to get back in the ring, so...
Winner via count-out: The Great Khali
Kofi Kingston and Santino Marella rush down the ramp, getting Ziggler back into the ring for a knock-out chop.
Match #7 – The Miz & Daniel Bryan (w/ AJ) vs. Sheamus & CM Punk
Punk and Sheamus are acting like a veteran tag team, but Sheamus soon ends up on the floor where Bryan sneaks in a dropkick to the face. Punk gets a hot tag but fares no better until he clocks Miz in the back of the head with a boot.
Bryan tags in to try and stop Punk from tagging, but Sheamus gets what he wants and enters the ring with the champ ... for a few seconds. Bryan tags out, leaving Miz in line for a Brogue Kick.
Winners via pinfall: CM Punk & Sheamus
Dave Hillhouse wants to see Team Teddy, Team Johnny, Team Bring It, Team Jacob, Team Edward, and Team Extreme all duke it out at this year's Survivor Series. What teams have I missed?


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FurZo wrote:The Carter ordeal takes the cake on bad trades for the Warriors. The way I see it, not only would Carter comming to Oaktown strengthen the team and put up high numbers, it also would have enrichend the Warriors Franchise as a whole, therefore increasing the appeal of other players wanting to come to Golden State and increasing championship contendability.
In the end, this is basketball and a business. Unfortunately GS concentrated on the business aspect for too long and made some bad decision along the way. The good news is the managment appears to be on track and has the goal of creating a marketable successful team rather than a quick buck. Everything comes in time.
Carter didn't really get people to go to toronto, in fact TMAC was there and wanted to leave... i don't see Carter turning around the franchise, but it would have gotten them some recognition, but who knows.. there were some bigger wastes of drafts, jamison is a solid player, but Vonteego, fuller, Smith.... at least when they didn't get carter, they got some Value in Antawn.


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If you're interested in buying a pickup for towing, you've come to the right place. We've listed the top pickups for towing, and we've ranked them by their towing capacities. Keep in mind these are maximum capacities; some trucks listed may tow a little less, depending on bed, cab and engine choices.
The recently updated RAM 3500 is the current towing capacity leader. With the truck's 6.7-liter Cummins diesel engine and the right drivetrain, Chrysler says the RAM 3500 can tow a whopping 30,000 pounds. That's well ahead of rivals such as the F-350 Super Duty, and the Silverado and Sierra 3500 HD. In addition to its engine, the RAM's immense capability comes from a high-strength steel frame and a newly upgraded transmission. The RAM 3500 also offers a helpful rearview camera on the roof to help line it up with a trailer.
Chevrolet Silverado 3500 HD/GMC Sierra 3500 HD
In the right configuration, the heavy-duty Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra twins can tow more than 23,000 pounds. That's with the trucks' available 6.6-liter turbodiesel engine, which makes more than 700 lb-ft of torque. Like the RAM 3500, the heavy-duty Silverado and Sierra also boast a high-strength steel frame that gives them a payload capacity of 7,222 pounds. A heavy-duty Alison transmission makes it possible to pull the immense weight.
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Ford F-350
Ford's enormous F-350 Super Duty pickup can tow a whopping 22,800 pounds in 2-wheel-drive, regular cab guise. Of course, that's assuming you go with the truck's immense 6.7-liter turbodiesel V8, which makes 400 horsepower and an enormous 800 lb-ft of torque. Ford's heavy-duty TorqShift 6-speed automatic helps handle the load, as does a strong chassis designed with heavy trailers in mind.
Ford F-150
Among the regular-duty pickups, Ford's popular F-150 is the king of towing. In the right configuration, its 3.5-liter turbocharged EcoBoost V6 can tow up to 11,300 pounds, which is more than rivals from General Motors, Chrysler, Nissan and Toyota. And while it may seem strange that a V6 leads the pack among towing capacities, Ford's EcoBoost engine is no ordinary V6. With 365 hp and 420 lb-ft of torque, towing is no problem -- and since it's smaller and lighter than rival engines, it also gets great gas mileage.
Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra 1500
We're not sure how much the all-new, light-duty Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra will be able to tow. But the outgoing models came in just shy of the F-150, boasting a towing capacity of around 11,000 pounds. That figure comes with the truck's muscular 6.2-liter V8, which makes more than 400 hp and nearly 420 lb-ft of torque. We think the new Silverado and Sierra will offer even better towing capabilities than the outgoing model.
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Nissan Titan
When properly equipped, the Nissan Titan offers a substantial 9,500-lb tow rating. That figure is for the Titan King Cab, which boasts an extended cab and the model's standard 5.6-liter V8. The engine, which is mated to a standard 5-speed automatic, produces 317 hp and 385 lb-ft of torque. Of course, unlocking the truck's towing potential also involves springing for the towing package, which includes a temperature gauge, a tow hitch, a transmission cooler and a tow/haul mode that helps with trailer braking.
The RAM 1500 can tow around 9,200 pounds, placing it in the middle of the light-duty pickup game as far as towing capacity. But with a newly revised interior -- and its smooth Hemi V8 -- we would strongly recommend the RAM to drivers who aren't necessarily looking to tow large amounts. The RAM also offers a unique style thanks to its crossbar grille and muscular hood lines.
Toyota Tundra
Toyota's full-size Tundra pickup is rated to tow 8,100 pounds in its top-level trim. That's the 2013 Tundra CrewMax, which is the only Tundra available with the brand's towing package. The package includes upgraded suspension, along with an improved electrical system and increased cooling. The truck also boasts a hefty engine: Toyota's i-Force V8, which produces 381 hp and more than 400 lb-ft of torque. A 6-speed automatic transmission is standard.
What it means to you: If you're looking to tow, our list of the top pickups for towing should help you find a truck that meets your needs.


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"Web Therapy" (Showtime, Tuesdays). Lisa Kudrow's Skype-framed talking-heads comedy, which began on the Web in 2008, embarks upon its third Showtime season this week. Created by Kudrow -- who plays online therapist Fiona Wallice, a character as far from Phoebe Buffay as might be imagined -- with Don Roos, who directs, and Dan Bucatinsky, who plays Fiona's assistant, it's a testament to what can be made from a low-overhead idea in able hands. There is a coherent ongoing narrative (crafted by the three creators, and improvised upon by the actors) that this year finds a manuscript Fiona has written being turned into a Broadway musical, while her mother -- played by Lily Tomlin, born to splash around in this pool -- is setting up a rival service, Net Therapy. The new season will include appearances by Steve Carell, Billy Crystal, Chelsea Handler, Megan Mullally, Sara Gilbert, Meg Ryan and Matt LeBlanc, who appears as an online gambling addict, bringing to three the number of "Friends" co-stars that have appeared on Kudrow's show. (It's up to you now, Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston.) There is a sense of celebrity playtime (a growing modality in modern comedy) that recalls Alexandra Wentworth's "Head Case" or, for that matter, "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist," though in those shrink-coms the celebrities played themselves (or "themselves"). As Fiona, more distracted by her own problems than interested in those of her clients (or friends or relatives), Kudrow draws herself up and inward, pinching herself into a sort of tower of haughteur -- with whom we nevertheless sympathize: Those people are crazy.
"NTSF:SD:SUV::" and "Childrens Hospital" (Adult Swim, Thursdays). Mock-heroic cousin comedies split a TV half-hour with episodes that last roughly 11 minutes, or about the length of a cartoon. (Brevity = soul of wit.) Created by Paul Scheer ("Human Giant"), who also stars, "NTSF:SD:SUV::" (for "National Terrorist Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle::") parodies TV procedurals and action films; its roots are in "Get Smart!," "The Naked Gun" and "Sledge Hammer," but its heroes-as-idiots approach is completely consonant with the Adult Swim brand. In this third season, Karen Gillan, who was Amy Pond on "Doctor Who," joins the cast (which already includes Martin Starr and Kate Mulgrew, barking orders like, "I want you to find everyone in the United States with the initials V.B.!") as a tech expert. (Ed Helms plays the helpless "Robocop"-cyborg she amusedly tortures in at least one episode this season, possibly under the impression that he "can't feel pain," or possibly not.) In tonight's premiere, "Comic-Con Air," deadly conventioneers (one played by Summer Glau, "Firefly" fans, wearing glasses) get loose on a plane, occasioning lines such as "Get ready for your complimentary beat-down." Rob Corddry's "Childrens Hospital," now in its fifth season, does the same thing to medical dramas, although in a weird framing device the actors also play actors who play the doctors. Its cast includes Lake Bell, Ken Marino, Megan Mullally -- weren't we just talking about her? (we were) -- Henry Winkler, who is becoming the Fred Willard of his generation, and creator Corddry as a pediatrician in scary clown makeup, though that character might be dead. Maybe. Or maybe not. Or maybe a little of each. There will be a trip to Japan.
"High Tech, Low Life" (PBS, Monday). Steve Maing's documentary film concerns two Chinese bloggers, working from disparate points of view to the same end. His heroes are the twentysomething Zhou Shuguang, who calls himself Zola, and the 57-year-old Zhang Shihe, a.k.a. Tiger Temple. Maing sets their tales on parallel tracks, as Zola on his motorbike and Tiger Temple on his bicycle travel the country, meeting people and recording them, posting stories that contradict the official picture and finally earn the wrath of the authorities. (Each manages surreptitiously to film their harassment.) But where Beijing resident Tiger Temple is a bit of an old hippie, dedicated to improving the lot of country people -- he is a believer in real, not enforced, community -- small-town kid Zola begins as an incidental muckraker, more interested in Internet celebrity as a way out of the conventional future his parents see for him; censorship is something that gets in his own way. It all connects, though, and in the course of the film he gains a little wisdom (and meets Tiger Trap). (In one scene, he watches a "Simpsons" cartoon, in which the family visits China, on his laptop: a sign in Tiananmen Square reads, "On This Site in 1989, Nothing Happened.") All the while, Maing's own camera captures the busy, rich and revealing life around them, with interested openness and visual intelligence -- a consistent quality of the films presented by "POV," which has been rocking my summer weekly.
"Sinbad" (Syfy, Saturdays). In the good old Saturday spirit (and, indeed, scheduling) of Sam Raimi's 20th-century "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" and "Xena, Warrior Princess" and more lately of his "Legend of the Seeker" and the 2006 BBC "Robin Hood," comes this British import about the well-known Arabian (or possibly Persian) sailor. He was the subject as well of a mid-'90s Canadian series, the "Hercules"-inspired "The Adventures of Sinbad," whose take on the character and the milieu might be termed "excessively Caucasian"; our sense of racial aptness has evolved since then, along with the special effects. I make no claims of brilliance, but it doesn't need them; neither cheap nor especially cheesy, it is just as diverting as it needs to be, with a (mostly) young, hot and multiracial cast, traveling about facing this challenge and that, like a medieval supernatural "Road Rules," on a boat. The series was not a success, I might add; a second season was not commissioned. But we laugh at such trivial matters.


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Susana Ms Heide 11/5/2004 5:31:22 PMYou've created a very serene effect! Well thought out set-up and presentation! #185801
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Michelle R. Kovach 12/19/2004 8:19:52 PMCongratulations on your win Randy! Again one of my favorites! Nice to see you now have a gallery to display your beautiful images! Congrats!
Randy L. Morgan 12/20/2004 3:36:23 AMThanks again Michelle! Take Care, and have a wonderful Christmas.
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After lengthy closed-door negotiations, a bipartisan group of senators plans to submit legislation to enact a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws on Tuesday. The controversial proposal would grant most of the 11 million people here illegally a path to citizenship and give thousands of deported individuals a chance to return, but would also adopt some of the toughest immigration enforcement measures in the history of the United States.
Those include appropriating billions of dollars to meet an ambitious goal to monitor the full breadth of the border with Mexico and stop 90 percent of illegal crossings. The money would be used to operate drones over the most heavily trafficked sections, hire thousands more border patrol agents, and continue to build and reinforce border fences _ in some places three layers deep, according to a comprehensive Senate policy backgrounder obtained by McClatchy.
The bill, expected to run just under a thousand pages, includes a host of measures. It would authorize National Guard deployment along the Southern border and give more money to local law enforcement agencies on the border.
For businesses, it would set up a special card program for agricultural workers, create a new visa for foreign entrepreneurs, welcome more workers with advanced degrees and scientific backgrounds, and set up a merit-based points system for yet other immigrants.
It also would impose restrictions on new family visas, restricting the green-card category for married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens to only those under 31 years of age, for example, and eventually ending visa availability for siblings.
The so-called "Gang of Eight" senators' conservative leader, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, said the legislation would accomplish three main objectives: updating the legal immigration system, increasing enforcement and dealing with those immigrants now in the country illegally.
According to a person familiar with the negotiations, bipartisan gang members Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will meet with President Barack Obama on Tuesday at the White House to discuss the agreement. The bipartisan team also had planned a morning press conference, but McCain announced via twitter the conference was cancelled out of respect for victims of Monday's bombings in Boston.
The other senators in the group are Democrats Richard Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Michael Bennet of Colorado and Republicans Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona.
The Senate bill will stir strong emotions on both sides of the immigration debate. Conservative groups already have called the yet to be released legislation "amnesty" while civil liberties groups will likely claim the proposal would violate privacy rights because of mandatory worker verification systems, such as E-Verify, and requirements that immigrants carry "biometric green cards."
Agriculture workers and young people brought into the country illegally as children would be eligible for an expedited path to citizenship. The vast majority of those here illegally who arrived in the country by Dec. 31, 2011, would be eligible to apply for temporary legal status that would allow them to live and work legally in the country.
But according to the details of the proposal, they would not be able to apply for green cards and start the citizenship process until several border security and enforcement conditions are in place. Those include finishing most of the border security fence, implementing a mandatory worker verification system and developing a process that identifies each time an immigrant enters and exits the country.
Once those parameters are met, immigrants who had been in the country for at least 10 years would be able to apply for green cards provided they paid all their back taxes, held steady employment and demonstrated a working knowledge of English.
Some individuals deported prior to Dec. 31, 2011, for minor infractions would be eligible to apply to return if they're the parent or spouse of a U.S. citizen, permanent resident or young person granted expedited status because they were brought here illegally as a child.
According to details of the plan, the legislation would eliminate thousands of "diversity visas" under a program that grants visas through a worldwide lottery, a move immigration advocates are sure to oppose.
Advocates are also likely to balk at the reduced emphasis on family connections and the greater emphasis placed on future immigrants' education and skills.
But the senators argue the revamped immigration system must focus more on people who can help improve the economy.
The new merit-based system, which would initially account for 120,000 visas, would award points to future immigrants based on their education, skills and time in the country, among other considerations. Some categories of employment immigrant visas for those who are deemed to have "extraordinary ability" in the sciences, arts, education, athletics, medicine and other areas, would be exempt from numerical limits.
"We're going to go to an economic immigration system with a family component," Graham said last week. "There'll be a family component but no more chain migration."
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are scheduled to hold their first public hearing on the legislation on Friday. A second hearing is expected on Monday.


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text: Some scientists have said that pigs wallow in mud because they lack sweat glands and need an alternate way to stay cool. However, one researcher thinks it may be the other way around: maybe they "did not evolve functional sweat glands like other ungulates because they liked wallowing so much." They may have retained the behavior from their water-loving relatives, such as whales. Also, here is an adorable pig who wears rubber boots because she is afraid of mud.


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Announcement: This Week at the Senchai Libraries
Saluting a new month and week.Everything from the letters of John and Abigail to Captain Ahab's epic confrontation with The White Whale. In between, a boy's journey and more from a medal-winner. Join us at Holly Kai Park in #secondlife, and on our properties in #kitely, live in voice.
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~ at 2 pm: IN THE WORDS OF JOHN & ABIGAIL ADAMS with Caledonia Skytower and Kayden Oconnell. Selections from the early American couple's letters from their courtship in 1762, and continue up until July 3rd, 1776, at Kultivate Magazine's Fundraiser, benefiting "Homes For Our Troops."
~ at 7 pm: W.H. Canaway's A BOY TEN FEET TALL Begins with Gyro Muggins
**TUESDAY, July 4th: U.S. Independence Day - Seanchai Dark
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yellow anemone is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to temperate zones.
yellow anemone is closely related to Pulsatilla and Hepatica, some botanists even include both of these genera within Anemone.
yellow anemone are perennials that have basal leaves with long leaf-stems that can be upright or prostrate. Leaves are simple or compound with lobed, parted, or undivided leaf blades. The leaf margins are toothed or entire.
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text: On my travels I found myself in a fine hotel in Central Milan. I came in about Midnight the previous night from London (courtesy the atrocious service of Easy-Jet*). At 6.15AM I was up for my morning meeting - via a fast-train to Bologna. My shirt was clean courtesy the expensive London laundry. I just wanted an ironing board to press out the wrinkles. There was not one in the room - so I rang reception. I asked them to bring one up. They said "impossible" which I found peculiar. An ironing board is a pretty standard service in a 4 star business hotel. Then they explained that they could not get one before 7.30 (which was just before my train left). I said this was a bad fail for a business hotel. Then they said something that was so stereotypical Italian it left me breathless. They told me it would be against the law to bring an ironing board to my room before 7.30 am. I told this to my Bologna business contact and he scoffed. Of course somewhere in the 10 million lines of Italian code there is - of course - something that talks about ironing boards. Dysfunctional government (at least by the standards of OECD countries) is an iconic feature of Italy - but this was not government as a problem - it was government as an excuse. At least Easy-Jet don't blame the government for their bad - even rude - service. John *If anyone knows why European discount carriers are so horrible but Southwest (surely a similar model) is so pleasant (at least in a relative sense) let me know. In the USA I will fly Southwest in preference to any other airline. In Europe I am learning to avoid the discount airlines.


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Dads Sing 'Part of Your World' From 'The Little Mermaid'
The singing dads in this video have clearly each raised at least one 'The Little Mermaid' fan. Otherwise, how would all the words to the movie's classic song 'Part of Your World' come so easily to them?
Being a father means you're going to end up seeing a lot of movies you wouldn't otherwise put on your Netflix queue. And if your kid takes a shine to a particular film, you're definitely going to see it more than once! It takes a special dad to turn those repeat viewings into a something cheerful and constructive. In this case, firefighters, cops, Marines, doctors, barbers, and construction workers all do their best to belt out the lyrics to Ariel's theme song. The whole thing's a promo for Life of Dad, which is a new social media site for fathers.
Not only is the video charming, but it goes out of its way to establish that the singing dads actually have day jobs, which is a nice touch (it's not like the freeloading Ariel could say the same).


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A trio of Southeastern attackers topped double-digit kills in the match, but it was not enough as the Savage Storm fell 3-0 to Central Oklahoma in a Tuesday night matchup against the former in-state rival.
SE dropped the first set 25-23, set two 25-19 and the closing set 25-20. The loss drops the Storm to 2-18 overall on the season as the squad will now hit the road for the first of a three-match Great American Conference road swing that begins Oct. 12 at Southern Arkansas in Magnolia, Ark.
Megan Kunkel led the way with 13 kills on the night while hitting .278, but it was a surging Ariel Sanders who set a personal season-best with 11 kills on the evening with a .240 hitting percentage.
Emily Gentle also added 11 kills, eclipsing the double-digit kills mark for the 10th time this season and third time in-a-row.
Madelynne Cera and Marina Dias split the assists almost evenly in their fourth set since moving to a dual setter system. Cera led the way with 15 assists while Dias was right behind with 14.
Cera and Dias each chipped in a pair of kills as well, with Dias adding eight digs and Cera pitching in two.
Taylor Benner led the back-row defense for the Storm with 14 digs to pace a group of three defenders with double-digit dig marks.
Joining Benner were Gentle who added 13 digs and Kunkel who chipped in 12.
At the net, Jasmine Everage turned in three blocks on the night, while Cera added two.
SE jumped out to an early 6-2 lead in the opening set and would hold the advantage for most of the set until a 4-0 run triggered a 10-4 run that would leave the teams tied at 20-20. The Storm would then connect on the next two points, but UCO would finish on a 5-1 run to cap the 25-23 set win.
The Bronchos used a pair of four-point runs in the set to pull away and lead by as much as 21-13. SE would mount a 5-1 run to close that gap to 22-18, but UCO would score three of the final four points to win the set 25-19.
The third set was a back-and-forth affair until a 9-2 run left the Storm trailing 19-12. SE would again mount a comeback, however, scoring seven of the next 10 points to cut the deficit to 22-19.
UCO would then hit back-to-back points and hold on for the 25-20 win in the clincher.


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SEMA is back and bigger than ever! Drifting up front, Global Rally Cross in the gold lot, celebrities a plenty and every hall packed to the gills. People from around the world made sure they were apart of this year, and we made sure to bring something they could talk about on the plane ride home. We brought out three, yes three, project cars we've been working on for the past 6 months.
First was our BUILT from eBay Porsche Rally car project. We teamed up with GSR Autosport to realize our G1Design rendering to which we proceeded to source all of our parts through eBay Motors. Miraculously we were able to accomplish the build in a very short time span. The fruits of our labor were well received by the crowd during the cars public debut at SEMA outside near the drifting course.
Our second project was built with Volkswagen. We got ahold of their new turbo beetle and gave it even more attitude as a military grade surf cruiser. Complete with a one off roof rack to transport your surfboard and even a large water tank system for instant shower capabilities. To make sure the car had the right attitude, the car was painted in canteen green with white body panel inserts, with matching black and green 19"x8.5" Fuchs wheels on all four corners.
Last, but certainly not least, we decided to mix things up a bit and throw our European design style at the new Ford Focus ST. We teamed up with LTMotorwerks in El Monte, CA to make sure our car received the right amount of European influence from some of the best in the business. The ST was stripped down, rear fenders pulled, 18" Privat Kup wheels tucked with H&R Ultralow coilovers and re-sprayed Porsche Grey Black (a GT3 RS exclusive color). But this hot hatch wouldn't be worth talking about if we didn't bring some power upgrades into the equation. FSWerks provided an intake and 3" downpipe back exhaust system. Inside we hooked the car up with some brilliant recaro carbon fiber bucket seats trimmed in black leather with grey suede inserts.


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Hello89 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
A networking group for the marketing, advertising and creative industries
REFERENCE: See http://www.annemiles.com.au for the mother site of my business. I'd like to keep the colour complimentary and in keeping with the main site. Keep colours to Black, Yellow, White and Grey please (not necessarily all of them if you wish but no more)
See the reference from http://www.BusinessChicks.com.au and logo attached. What I like about this is that it is a mix of business-like and feminine. I'd like mine to be a balance of business-like and creativity or innovation.
I don't particularly mind if the I has some light bulb treatment in it or the design goes that far into fun. I'm not saying it should either as a simple type treatment would work well. This may give you more freedom and ideas though if you know I'm open to it.
The events will be for marketing and advertising professionals to lunch together or attend seminars and learn the latest in industry thought leadership - the best and latest ideas in a social setting.
They're highly savvy and used to working with creativity and design. They'll be picky about the design having relevance to the business concept and being excellent typography. The business does have a male skew however I don't want to be overtly masculine.
The word Ideas is an acronym for Innovation and Development for Executives Advancing and Socialising although I don't wish to have that in the main logo as a slogan. I feel that using the word IDEAS as CAPS helps tie this in however.
The Business Chicks logo shows how a logo works with a slogan and I'd like to do the same kind of thing please. My slogan is:
A national network for marketing, advertising and creative professionals. I know that's fairly long.
In the beginning it will be Sydney and Australian Capital Cities but eventually could be international.
I will be doing a simple website and electronic documents at first on my own. I have Indesign although not comfortable using it so would like the logo to be supplied as the Indesign file and also as a JPEG on white and also a version on black please.
Let me know if there is anything else you'd like to know. Thanks. Anne
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