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0 and 100 are the same point in the south-west corner of this diagram.
Proceed to count from 1 to 99 in an overall clockwise direction with some twists and turns.
Enjoy! I just made this up last night!!
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Nice one, John! Thanks
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What do you call it?
There are 5 squares, each square has 4 sides which have 5 points each. Except the squares aren't really squares, and the sides aren't really sides.
So its a Not-quite-squari-nor-sidi-agon
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My Dad thinks it looks like the floor diagram to a nursing home.
I'm not sure if the those are couches or beds.
I didn't ask him.
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I think it looks like lines and numbers on a piece of paper. I guess well just have to agree to disagree.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
Here's another one, I drew it so small I can't fit in all the numbers!
The monochrome *.bmp is smaller than a JPEG, but the system won't take it onto the forum.
1K vs. 4K.
Oh... Hold on... a *.PNG is even smaller, let's try that.
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Here is another
way to think
about the
number 100.
Here are 100 boxes
in a pattern i like since
i can see it in my head
if i'm not doing cartwheels
at the same time!
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Here's another 100
You can visualize them as a 1x1x1 cube plus a
2x2x2 cube plus a 3x3x3 cube plus a 4x4x4 cube
and count all the blocks up and you get 100.
1 + 8 + 27 + 64 = 100
64 = 4 x 4 x 4
27 = 3 x 3 x 3
8 = 2 x 2 x 2
1 = 1 x 1 x 1
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"Antiques Roadshow," PBS's most watched prime-time series, returns for its 18th season tomorrow at 8 p.m. on WGBH Channel 2 with highlights from last summer's visit to Boise, Idaho, where one of the highest valued finds of the season was discovered.
It was a painting of an Italian landscape by the Hudson River artist Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-80) that had been inherited and relegated to the owner's basement. It was appraised at $300,000.
Among the other treasures found in the Gem State were a first edition of the Book of Mormon, a 1955 Picasso Madoura ceramic plate, and a 1974 end table signed by George Nakashima (1905-90), the master woodworker and furniture designer.
The Book of Mormon, which was valued at $75,000-$100,000, had descended in the owner's family since 1863; the Picasso plate, valued at $10,000-$15,000, had hung for years above the kitchen stove collecting grease; and the end table, valued at $20,000-$25,000, had been purchased for $200 from Nakashima.
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Silver that descended in the Brown family of Rhode Island, whose forbear Nicholas Brown Jr. was the namesake patron of Brown University, is among the highlights of Skinner's European Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction Saturday at 10 a.m. at its Boston gallery.
Highlighting the sterling silver are a Tiffany six-piece tea and coffee service and a 146-piece Gorham flatware service in the Old Medici pattern. Each has a $3,000-$5,000 estimate.
The tea and coffee service with an "SAB" monogram and inscribed on the underside "A Wedding Gift to Sophia Augusta Brown From her Mother October 7th 1885" was given to Sophia (1867-1947 ) when she married William Watts Sherman (1842-1912), a New York businessman with a home in Newport that is now a National Historic Landmark. Her parents were John Carter Brown II (1797-1874), whose library formed the basis of the John Carter Brown Library at the university, and Sophia Augusta Browne Brown (1825-1909).
Among the top offerings from other consignors are an 18th-19th-century 63-inch-high mirror, probably from South America, its fruitwood frame carved with a shell above a cartouche hung with fruit; a 1902 miniature 3¼-
inch-high stoneware Wally Bird jar and cover by the Martin Brothers of England; and a 11¾-inch-tall circa 1920 Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre vase. Each has a $6,000-$8,000 estimate.
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Tiffany lamps and bronzes were the top sellers at last month's auctions of 20th-century decorative arts and design.
At Sotheby's sales of Important 20th-Century Design, Important Tiffany Lamps, and "Visionaries: The Yurcik Collection," which grossed $10.3 million, it was a "Wisteria" leaded glass lamp that brought the top price of $1,565,000, an auction record for a Tiffany Studios "Wisteria" table lamp. The estimate was $600,000-$800,000.
Topping the 20th-Century Design sale was "L'enlevement d'Europe," the French artist Claude Lalanne's (1924-) monumental bronze of Europa, the mythological Greek princess, being abducted on a bull by Zeus to the continent known today as Europe. Sculpted in 1990, the 7-foot-wide and nearly 7-foot-high bronze sold for $485,000 against a $250,000-$350,000 estimate
A circa 1903 armchair, a rare example of the unadorned, rectilinear furniture designed by Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) and made in his Craftsman workshops in Eastwood, N.Y., brought the third-highest price of $245,000 against an estimate of $220,000-$280,000.
The modern and contemporary art collection of Joseph and Sheila Yurcik of New York saw works by Paul Evans (1931-87) bring four of the 11 top prices. His "Sculpture Front" wall panel, the collection's top seller, set an auction record for the artist when it sold for $269,000 against a $100,000-$150,000 estimate.
This also was the estimate for a 1980 free-form buckeye maple burl and American black walnut coffee table by George Nakashima that brought $197,000, the collection's second-highest price. Four other works by Nakashima were among the top 11 lots.
. . .
Christie's Important 20th-Century Decorative Art & Design and Magnificent Tiffany Auction, which grossed $5.8 million, was led by the 1909 "Elephant d'Asie en Marche (Grande Mo-dèle)" by the Italian sculptor Rembandt Bugatti (1885-1916).
The patinated bronze of an Asian elephant was executed in two sizes. This larger 17-inch-high, 27-inch-wide version sold for $725,000 against a $300,000-$500,000 estimate.
The top-selling furniture was a circa 1930 desk by the French designer Armand-Albert Rateau (1882-1938) that brought $413,000 against a $120,000-
$180,000 estimate.
Three quartz lamps by the French designer Jean-Michel Frank (1895-1941) were among the 10 top sellers with a circa 1931-32 lamp bringing the auction's fourth-highest price of $317,000 and setting an auction record for the artist.
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Three Tiffany Studios lamps were among the 10 top sellers at Skinner's 20th Century Design Auction with a circa 1910 "Dogwood" table lamp bringing the auction's top price of $57,600.
The other two were "Bamboo" table lamps that sold for $46,800 (estimate $30,000-$50,000) and $19,680 (estimate $20,000-$30,000) for the lamp whose mosaic glass shade had several cracks.
Soaring above its $8,000-$10,000 estimate was a sideboard from the estate of Joan Sonnabend, which brought the auction's third-highest price of $39,600. Reportedly the Boston artist Judy Kensley McKie (1944-) was commissioned in 1984 to design the 9-foot sideboard with animal, bug, and plant carvings for the dining room at the Sonnabend residence on Beacon Hill. Joan Sonnabend died in 2011, three years after the death of her husband, Roger, the Sonesta Hotel executive.
Other offerings that soared above their estimates were a 12½-inch Merrimac pottery vase made in Newburyport around 1897-1908 and "Kiss of Peace," a 29-by-21-inch framed watercolor and ink on paper by the Russian-American artist Nikolay Moltchanov (1959-). The vase sold for $7,500 (estimate was $800-$1,200) and the 1997 painting for $10,200 ($500-$700 estimate).Virginia Bohlin can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Correction: The highlights of "Antiques Roadshow's" season premiere last week were from last summer's visit to Boise, Idaho, not last season's.

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ALGONQUIN – More than two and a half years after he was accused of fatally shooting his father, an Algonquin teen is expected to enter a guilty but mentally ill plea to second-degree murder.
David W. Szalonek, now 19, was 16 when he shot 51-year-old Brian Szalonek in the head with a shotgun Feb. 8, 2010, in their Algonquin home.
The younger Szalonek has Asperger syndrome, which is a form of autism, defense attorney Brian Telander said. About six months before the shooting, Szalonek spent six weeks at an Alexian Brothers hospital for psychiatric care.
Telander said he and prosecutors have discussed the plea agreement but still are working on a specific sentence.
"I presented the state with an extensive mitigation package, which includes the mental disabilities that [David Szalonek] is suffering from," Telander said.
He said he expects the case to be resolved by the next scheduled court date Nov. 14.
Because of his age at the time of the shooting, Szalonek was housed in a juvenile detention facility. When he turned 18, he was moved into the adult section of the Kane County Jail. His bond is set at $2.5 million.
If Szalonek were to go to trial and be convicted of first-degree murder, he would face a minimum of 20 years in prison. A second-degree murder conviction would mean a sentencing range between four and 20 years, as well as day-for-day credit for time served.
Second-degree murder, according to Illinois law, means that the person is provoked and acts under "a sudden and intense passion," but negligently or accidentally kills. A person is also guilty of second-degree murder if he or she believes that the circumstances would justify the killing.
The home on Westbourne Parkway where the shooting happened is in the Kane County portion of the village. Algonquin police investigated, but the case is being handled in Kane County Circuit Court.
According to a search warrant, police were dispatched to the Szaloneks' home at 7:45 p.m. David Szalonek was found a short time later at a home about a five-minute drive away.
Szalonek allegedly told a young woman at that home that he had killed his father.
McHenry County court records show that Szalonek's mother, Jerilyn Szalonek, twice sought orders of protection and accused her husband of physical violence dating to 1987. She also alleged that he withheld financial assistance to her and her three children, according to her February 2004 petition for an order of protection.
Algonquin teen to plead guilty in '10 killing of dad
ALGONQUIN – More than two and a half years after he was accused of fatally shooting his father, an Algonquin teen is expected to enter a guilty but mentally ill plea to second-degree murder.


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Probably my favourite lefty to watch - makes Sanga look positively average when in full flow.
Probably my favourite lefty to watch - makes Sanga look positively average when in full flow.
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I really feel that Onions has been hard done by. I mean, he averaged about 15 with the ball last season and he can't get a game ahead of an obviously out-of-form Bresnan? Not like they would miss his batting either.
Well that went well......
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I'm starting to worrying it might be time to stick a fork in Bres as a serious test bowler. Since he came back from the protracted elbow issue(s) he's really, really lost pace.
Winter of 10/11 he was up around and above 85mph but now he appears to be struggling to get to 80mph even. Prior up to the sticks was the final proof how much he's regressed.
As nice as the extra batting is, not when it's at the expense of more penetrative bowling, ta. I imagine Broad and Swann compare pretty favourably with any 8s & 9s we've ever had anyway.
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Yeah, Bresnan was really down on pace today, even MrPrez is probably quicker than him.
To be fair to Bresnan he did completely outbowl Onions in the warmup matches and he's only playing because of Finn's injury anyway.
I love how people judge a small difference in stats as being 'completely outbowling' someone, after Onions has utterly dominated in County Championship for a while now.
Also what's the point in all our staff if Bresnan is bowling at no sort of pace and they still pick him?
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We also know at least one straight-forward catch was dropped off Onions, then you have things like bad calls, bad luck. That sort of difference is not remotely significant statistically - let alone with all the other things like bowling against better batsmen etc.
A whole season - that means something. Some warm-up games in different conditions and situations mean next to nothing unless you're watching them.
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Chandrabhaga sea beach is in Puri district of Odisha. 3 kms from the Konark sun temple, Chandrabhaga sea beach is known for its giant waves and golden sand. It has quiet surroundings, Chandrabhaga sea beach is one of the finest beaches in India!
Orissa is a fascinating land of palm fringed beaches, majestic temples and sanctuaries to name a few! Based on the eastern coast of Indian peninsula, Orissa or Odisha to be more precise is a popular tourist attraction, both national and international. Surrounded by Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, Odisha is divided into coastal, west, south and central regions. With more than 485 kilometers of coastline, Orissa's a silver beach is one of the key attractions luring beach lovers across the world.
Bhubaneswar is the capital city and one of the main economic and religious centers in eastern India. Bhubaneswar-Puri-Konark belt is considered as the golden triangle of the state. Home of world famous monuments, temples, brackish water lagoons and mangrove wetlands, festivals, textiles and artists and craftsmen, Odisha attract large number of travelers every year!
Mainly a tribal belt, the coastal region of Orissa is the hub of tourism. The western belt mainly has hills and forests. Besides, this section of Orissa has largest numbers of iron ore mines and different mineral based industries.
With scorching heat on summers, Odisha experiences mild weather from October till March and are the ideal months to explore this place!
Flavorful cuisines, Odisha people love to have food with minimum spice and oil. Main course followed by a dessert is what average Oriyas have as their staple meal. Rice is the staple food and mustard oil is the main medium of cooking. An authentic Odia breakfast comprises poha, pithas and puffed rice. Rice, dal, one or two vegetable preparations, fried stuffs and a delicious fish curry defines a typical Odia lunch.
Dalma is a famous dish which is made of vegetables and dal. Sag bhaja, kukuda torkari (gravy chicken), dahi began; chingudi torkari (prawn curry) and khajuri khata (chutney made of dates and tomatoes) are some of the lip-smacking local delicacies of this region.
Jackfruit, papaya and plantains are the common ingredients of Oriya cuisines. A mix of five spices like fenugreek, kalonji, mustard, aniseed and cumin are the frequently used flavors in Oriya cuisines. When it comes to sweet dishes, Oriyas love a generous amount. Cottage cheese is a common ingredient of most of the dessert items in Orissa. Chenna podapitha, malpua and rasgulla are the predominant local desserts of this place.
Orissa has several sacred places which make this region a fountain head of many popular festivals like rath yatra, chandan yatra and many more. Some of the greatest events of this enchanting landscape are:
Puri Rath Yatra: This famous chariot festival takes place in the month of June/July. Also known as Car Festival, this celebration is dedicated to Lord Jagannath, incarnation of Lord Vishnu and the main deity of this region. The wooden images of Lord Jagannath, Balaram and Subhadra are put into the three huge chariots dedicated solely to them and participate in a procession thereby.
Chandan Yatra: This celebration starts from Akshay Tritiya and continues for twenty one days. Sandalwood paste is an important ingredient of this festival. During this time the deities are taken out of the temple and partake in a 21 days festival by roaming around in boats and touring on Narendra pond. After returning to the pond the deities take a bath with sandalwood paste.
Kalinga Mahotsav: This is a carnival to pay homage to the bloody war of Kalinga. It's a martial dance festival that showcases the victory of peace over conflict through different musical and dance performances. This event is organized on 10th and 11th of January every year.
Puri Beach Festival: Swargadwar Beach is the venue of this celebration. Organized by the Orissa Tourism and Hotel and Restaurant association, Puri Beach Festival is an amalgamation of various folk and classical dances along with sand art and exclusive handicrafts display.
Orissa Tourist Festival: Ekamra Utsav, Shreekshetra Utsav, Rajarani Music Festival, Mukteshwar Dance Festival etc. mark the illustrious Orissa tourist festival. These mixtures of different colorful performances make this tourist festival a must watch for any vacationer!
Konark Dance Festival: Eminent names in classical dance participate in this vibrant five day event which starts from 1st Dec and continues till 5th Dec. The Sun temple, UNESCO World Heritage Site is the venue of this extravaganza!
The state known for its golden past, Orissa is a state with rich cultural heritage and has evolved time and again making its artistic skills truly exquisite! The humongous Jagannath Temple and its world famous structural art form, different Buddhist monasteries and Jaina caves, prominent sand art and World heritage site of Konark Sun Temple and its eroticism and ancient paintings and folklore mark the deep entrenched cultural legacy of Orissa.
Dance, music and nataka are associated with Oriya culture from time immemorial. Odissi is the traditional dance form of this place that originated from Devadasi practice. Besides, chhau, ghoomra, danda, animal mask dance and kedu are some of the other conventional dance forms of this state.
In terms of handicrafts, appliqué work, Dokra, silver filigree, stone carving, decorative horn craft and local lacquer work deserves special mention!
Places like Lingaraj Temple, Museum of Tribal Arts and Artifacts, Barabati Fort, Sun Temple, Archaeological Site Museum and many such attractions distributed throughout Orissa actually makes a traveler fully aware of its culture and deep seated traditions!
Besides appliqué works, there are other art forms that reflects creativity and dexterity of the artists of this region.
Decorative horn craft is a traditional art form used is manufacturing combs, pen stands, flower vases and other articles of daily necessity.
Brass and bell metal ware is a conventional handicraft used in creating bangles, various utensils, pots, lamps, figurines of horses and elephants and different items of home décor.
Sand sculpture is yet another famous handicraft mainly done in Puri beach. Also handloom weaving of Orissa is an equally eminent handiwork and Sambalpuri saree deserves a special mention.
There are emporiums and shopping malls in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack from where one can easily pick any of these skilled handiworks.
Oriya is the principal spoken language of this state. There are people who speak Dravidian and Munda as well. People also understand and speak Hindi. English comes next to them.
By Train: Puri is the nearest railhead and Bhubaneswar is the nearest major rail head to Chandrabhaga. Puri station is 33 kms from Chandrabhaga.
By Air: Bhubaneswar is the nearest airport. It has flights to almost all the major cities in India including Delhi, Varanasi, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and lot more places.GET DIRECTION
The beach many food stalls selling snacks and tea.
From October till March are the suitable months to explore this beach place!
Besides waves and sands, Chandrabhaga beach is ideal for walking and just lazing around. Also there is an adjacent lighthouse. Watching sunrise and sunset at Chandrabhaga sea beach is a memorable experience! It's opened from 4 to 5 pm every day. In the Magha month,Chandrabhaga beach organizes seven day fair.
Konark sun temple: This 13 th century AD temple attracts national and international tourists across the globe!


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Toulouse midfielder Moussa Sissoko says he would like to join Newcastle
Moussa Sissoko has confirmed his desire to join Newcastle United, but admits his future has not yet been finalised.
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Newcastle have been leading the chase for the 23-year-old Toulouse star and, as he is out of contract in the summer, they have been able to talk directly to him as well as to his club.
It is reported that a pre-contract is close to being agreed, but discussions over whether he would join this month or in the summer are ongoing.
Sissoko admits that a move to the Premier League with Newcastle does appeal.
"Newcastle is a club that attracts me, even if they do not have a good ranking currently, but I am not scared by that," he told L'Equipe.
"I trust that group considering what they achieved last season. Moreover, the officials have invested a lot on quality French players. They will have better results in the second part of the season.
"All those Frenchman is reassuring. I know them well and that would help me to adapt."
Other clubs such as QPR have shown an interest, but Sissoko admits they are not as attractive a proposition as Newcastle.
"QPR? I am a little less attracted. There are also good players there, but the situation is much more complex. However I don't close any door," he said, adding he would rather move to England than stay in France.
"Marseille and Monaco? They are still attractive. But I would prefer to discover the Premier League. It is the league that should match my football the best."
Sissoko was suspended earlier this week by Toulouse chairman Olivier Sadran amid the ongoing row over his future.
The player admitted: "The Toulouse chairman's decision was very disappointing. I didn't expect such a reaction. But he is the chairman and it is his club. I am just an employee but I continue to do well in training.
"I am a professional and if I have to play with the reserves or even Under-14s I will. I have no choice. But I trust my agents to find a solution even if it is a difficult period."


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7 habits of amazingly successful salespeople
More than ever today, all of us are selling. In business, we sell our products and services. In life, we're constantly selling our ideas, our plans and more. Being able to influence others is part of the selling process, and we can all learn from people who are successful in selling.
The best salespeople seem to practice a set of common habits. Here are seven habits of highly successful salespeople.
1. They hustle when others hunker down.
When times get tough, the unsuccessful want to circle the wagons and hunker down into something safe and cozy. Unfortunately for them, life isn't designed to be cozy or safe. It rewards those who take risks and venture forth in hustle mode. Successful people have a sense of urgency about them. They know how to embrace hustle mode when it is necessary.
2. They constantly work at being relationship farmers.
They are not pushy salespeople. Instead they are constantly creating, building and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships. They think of themselves as farmers — constantly nurturing, caring and doing the day-to-day tasks to grow a strong harvest farther down the road.
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3. They thoroughly research their prospects.
The best-kept secret of social media is that it is a brilliant tool for research. One ninja-level trick is to start with LinkedIn to get the basics about a person, such as where your prospect went to school and worked. Then move on to Facebook to get more information about what he or she likes, such as restaurants, vacations, pets, kids or quotes. Then they move on to Twitter and track their tweets, their re-tweets and the people they follow. They learn volumes about potential clients this way.
4. They make direct, personal connections.
They deploy social media with pinpoint, precision accuracy. None of this "My cat is sleeping" kind of baloney. They research like crazy (see point No. 3), and then they take massive action to connect with others in a way that is meaningful to the other person. Let your prospects see you as an ally rather than just another pest trying to fake a common interest only to sell your stuff.
5. They are resoundingly resilient.
They know they are going to get knocked down every now and then. But 99 percent of the time they know they can get back up, dust themselves off, and get back in the game. Smart salespeople learn from mistakes and make themselves better after a bruising.
6. They do self-surgery and give themselves a "try-ectomy".
They don't settle for a lame, "Well, at least I tried," pity party. They keep going till they get results. Remember Master Yoda from Star Wars. "Do. Or do not. There is no try." Stop resting just because "you tried." Successful people know that you don't get paid for trying. You get paid for results.
7. They embrace technology to help people.
Today technology is not a department — it is integrated into everything we do in business. Top salespeople don't get enmeshed in the technology, but always have a mindset to use it to be more productive and help others. They use video tools like Google+ Hangouts, Skype, and Eyejot to connect with more people. As I've said for years: It's not about the e-commerce (electronics), it's about the r-commerce (relationships).
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Police investigating alleged assault involving members of CMU football, track & field teams
Police are now investigating an alleged incident involving members of the football and track and field teams, two days after the university's athletics department said it was aware of an altercation involving several student-athletes.
Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski said an assault complaint was filed with his office on Friday regarding an altercation the night of Nov. 10 at Copper Beech Townhomes, 4750 E. Blue Grass Road.
Mioduszewski could not provide any other details Sunday night, only confirming the complaint was filed with deputy Todd Graham and involved members of the CMU football and track and field teams. Graham could not be reached for comment Sunday night.
On Thursday, during a scheduled meeting with Central Michigan Life about the athletics budget, athletics director Dave Heeke said CMU was aware of "an issue involving multiple student athletes."
"We've encouraged those people who are involved in it and have concerns about it to contact local law enforcement if they see fit to do that, and are wishing to do that," Heeke said. "We're sitting here waiting to see if we'll get feedback from local law enforcement.
"If it's determined that any student-athletes were directly involved, they'll be held accountable and disciplined accordingly."
The CMU football team beat Miami University, 30-16, Saturday in its last home game of the season. The team plays at Massachusetts on Friday, seeking a 6-6 record and bowl eligibility for the first time since 2009.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Emboldened by further gains at the ballot box in November, Oklahoma's Republican leaders say they remain committed to improving the state's economy by focusing on creating jobs and a business friendly environment.
But with nearly two dozen new Republican members, GOP leaders acknowledge they also expect to see even more conservative legislation this session that pushes the envelope on hot-button social issues like guns, abortion and immigration.
Although the bill filing deadline is still two weeks away, Senate measures are beginning to trickle in, some of which reflect the conservative ideology of the 36-member strong Republican caucus.
At least two measures have been filed to limit the activities of groups connected to Agenda 21, a plan developed by the United Nations to help cities and countries become more environmentally sustainable.
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text: Book – Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail is an inspirational and candidly honest memoir by Cheryl Strayed. At the age of 26, feeling that she no longer had anything to lose, Strayed makes an impulsive decision to hike 1100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail; her ultimate goal is to reach the Bridge of the Gods spanning the Columbia River at the Washington-Oregon border. Totally inexperienced and naïve she embarks solo on a journey that begins in the Mojave Desert and takes her through California, Oregon, and Washington State. I was perfectly content being an armchair traveler as the author encountered black bears, rattlesnakes, temperature extremes, inadequate boots that rubbed blisters on her heels and made her toe nails fall off and clothing that failed to keep her cool in scorching heat or warm in the bitter cold while hauling all her possessions in a ridiculously heavy backpack appropriately named Monster. She was lonely, vulnerable, and woefully inexperienced. Many times she went hungry and unshowered due to her lack of planning and funds. At other times, I wished that I could hike along with Strayed taking in the beauty of the trail, feeling a great sense of accomplishment with every mile hiked and enjoying the interactions when meeting up with other hikers and experiencing the kindnesses and friendships that she made along the way. I cheered as she became stronger, smarter and began to heal. The book also recounts her disappointments and mistakes including drug use and sexual promiscuity that ultimately led to her escape to the trail. "I was crying over all of it," she writes, "over the sick mire I'd made of my life since my mother died; over the stupid existence that had become my own. I was not meant to be this way, to live this way, to fail so darkly." This is a lovely story of both physical and spiritual endurance and realization.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers in both parties say President Barack Obama's warning against Syria's use of nerve gas may now force the administration to act.
The White House acknowledged Thursday that the Syrian government has twice used chemical weapons in the two-year civil war.
Lawmakers emerging from a closed-door briefing with Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that failure to respond would have widespread implications, potentially emboldening rivals like North Korea and Iran.
Yet lawmakers were cautious about what the next steps should be, reflecting wariness about aggressive U.S. military involvement in a Mideast war.
Republican Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky says simply that Syria is "such a muddled picture."


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Editors' Reports for 2011
For further details on the information presented below, please see the Summary of Editorial Activity table. To see editors' reports from previous years, click here.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
American Sociological Review
Review Process: The American Sociological Review (ASR) received a large number of high-quality submissions during the 2011 calendar year. From January 1 through December 31, 2011, we considered a total of 765 manuscripts submitted to the journal, a 30 percent increase over the previous year. We attribute the increase to ASR's 2010 first-place ranking in impact score by Journal Citation Reports and the ease of the journal's new electronic submission system. Of the 765 manuscripts submitted, 543 were new submissions and 222 were revisions. In addition, the journal carried over 121 manuscripts from the previous year, which were manuscripts still under review.
Using the traditional ASA indicator for the acceptance rate (that is, the number of accepted manuscripts divided by the number of overall decisions), ASR's acceptance rate for the year was 6 percent. (Using the method of calculating the acceptance rate proposed by England [in Footnotes, March 2009], in which acceptances are divided only by final decisions, the ASR acceptance rate was 9 percent.)
We, as editors, conducted the review process as efficiently as possible to continue ASR's timely review process, something we believe is important to all scholars, but especially newer scholars in the discipline. The journal's mean turnaround time remained low, at 11.49 weeks, and we maintained the journal's low turnaround time even as the number of manuscripts submitted climbed.
Visibility and Successes: We continue a number of new initiatives introduced with our editorship to increase the visibility of ASR. For instance, we provide an e-mail announcement to all subscribers of the journal, containing the table of contents for each issue and a direct link to the ASR SAGE site (http://asr.sagepub.com/) where articles can be viewed online. This provides easy electronic access for subscribers to the journal's content. We also provide Spanish translations of article abstracts and a translation of one full article per issue. These appear on the ASR SAGE website and help disseminate ASR's scholarly research to a wider, international audience.
This year we also introduced a new feature, inviting authors to provide a podcast in which they discuss their published work. Links to these podcasts can be found on the ASR SAGE website. We believe that students in particular, but faculty and others as well, will find these discussions by authors highly accessible and interesting. Faculty can also use these podcasts to augment class discussion of cutting-edge sociological research.
In addition, we continue the practice of past editors of preparing press-friendly abstracts of all ASR articles. These are also available on the website. The ASA's press officer and authors' university press officers are sent these media-friendly summaries for use in their own press releases, which are then brought to the attention of relevant media outlets. Such coordination, among the ASR office, authors' university media relations experts, and the ASA press office, works well, with many ASR articles receiving high press visibility during the past year, including in the New York Times, CNN, ABC News, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, to name just some of the outlets.
Articles appearing in ASR also generated excitement in the field and received awards and accolades from ASA sections. More generally, ASR is widely read in sociology and the social sciences. Journal Citation Reports gives ASR an impact factor of 3.693, the highest in our discipline. On this same measure, ASR is among the top 50 journals in the social sciences as a whole.
Range of Submissions: The topics of manuscripts submitted to ASR, and the methodologies employed by these manuscripts, remain wide ranging and reflect the diversity and richness of our field. Experimental research and manuscripts that are primarily methodological or exclusively theoretical in focus continue to remain underrepresented in the pages of ASR due to limited submissions. We, like past editorial teams, encourage such submissions. The submission of qualitative, historical, and mixed-methods articles continued to rise in 2011, reflecting the methodological diversity and innovation currently occurring across the discipline. We also saw numerous manuscripts of high quality that bridged multiple sub-disciplinary areas and thus carried the potential of wide appeal within the sociological community. As the discipline's flagship journal, ASR has and continues to seek innovative manuscripts that reflect breadth of contribution to the discipline.
Editorial Board and Reviewers: During our editorship, we found that a key ingredient to ensuring that the true richness and excitement of the field makes its way into the pages of ASR is by assembling a strong and diverse reviewer pool. We maintained diversity on the editorial board with the help of a large, theoretically and methodologically diverse group of six deputy editors, to whom we owe a great deal of thanks for their capable and careful assistance with the review process.
In addition, the 2011 ASR editorial board was composed of 70 members. Of these, 43 percent are women and 33 percent are racial and/or ethnic minorities. We thank existing board members, especially those recently rotating off the board after a three-year commitment. We also welcome new board members. In addition to maintaining an active, conscientious, and thoughtful editorial board, we also continue to expand the reviewer pool. This expansion has been important not only to help handle the substantial increase in manuscript submissions, but also for more effectively tapping into the strong body of scholars, including new scholars and international scholars, who read ASR and are engaged in similar research. We believe this expansion of the reviewer pool also helps contribute to the rise in the number of manuscript submissions, including from non-U.S. sociologists.
Challenges: Limited page allocations and the desire to publish as many articles as possible continue to push issues of article length to the fore. Many journals are restricting submissions to word counts as low as 8,500 words. We, as editors, recognize that publishing diverse articles and serving a diverse audience warns against rigid limits. We therefore ask authors to limit their word counts to 15,000 words or below. Most articles published in the journal are between 11,000 and 12,000 words. We constantly encourage authors to edit their articles toward the most effective lengths with the highest readability for our general sociological audience.
We, as editors, are very excited about the research published in ASR during 2011. You will find some of the very best scholarship in our discipline among the journal's pages, and we are delighted to have played a role in making this stellar work available to a wide sociological audience. We invite you to consider sending your work to ASR, where it will receive a timely, careful, and fair consideration.
Tony Brown, Katharine Donato, Larry Isaac, and Holly McCammon, Editors
Contemporary Sociology
Books Considered: The editorial office of Contemporary Sociology received 1,310 books from publishers during 2011. The total number of books that the editor examined was 1,310.
Review Process: Five hundred and one (501) books were screened by the editor and accepted for review for the year, and the number of reviews received for the year was 437. Four hundred and seventy-eight (478) regular reviews were finished and published in Volume 40, plus 32 review essays. Six hundred and forty-five (645) were classified as "No Review," and 120 were reviewed as "Briefly Noted." There were 55 "New Books" pending triage at the time of this report. (Note: These figures do not total 1,310 because some books have not yet been assigned for review, or reviews have not yet been submitted, or the books have not yet been considered by our Editorial Board.)
Production Lag: Between the time a book arrives for review consideration and the review (if any) is published, the most time-consuming ingredient in the process is the length of time required for the designated reviewer to submit his or her review after receiving the book. The editorial office, on average, schedules reviews, articles, and review essays for publication within 14 weeks after the materials arrive, and after consultation with the Editorial Board, which occurs every two months. The journal's managing editor copyedits and formats all the work received electronically in preparation for publication. The copyedited materials are sent to SAGE for typesetting, and several sets of proofs are corrected prior to publication. The production lag represents the time between receipt of the review and the publication date. The production lag averages 4 months.
Items Published: The breakdown of the items published in Volume 40 contain the following: 329 book reviews, 32 review essays, 9 comments, 5 editor's remarks, and 120 books reviewed in "Briefly Noted." The total number of items published is 495.
Editorial Board Members and Reviewers: Twenty-three women and 20 men comprised the editorial board in 2011. This included 8 minorities, and 12 foreign editorial board members, including 5 women and 7 men.
Alan Sica, Editor
The year 2011 marked the final year of our editorship of Contexts, the ASA publication designed to bring sociology to broader public visibility and influence. We thank our colleagues at ASA and the ASA Committee on Publications for their support of Contexts and our editorial team in Minnesota.
When we assumed the editorial reins in 2008, there was some uncertainty about the future of Contexts, stemming from questions about funding and financing, a lack of clarity about the mission and editorial vision, and the conclusion of the initial 10-year business model used to launch the publication. We believe the publication has been stabilized over the past four years. We refreshed the layout and design of the publication and consolidated the editorial vision. We participated in the process to identify a new publishing partner (SAGE). And we demonstrated the potential of online outreach and distribution to reach larger audiences and bring sociology to broader public visibility and influence.
In our final year, we worked with our section editors and diverse author pool to publish some 78 pieces, 22 of which were peer-reviewed feature articles. Our total acceptance rate stood at 8.57 percent, while our revised (that is, only our final decisions) rate was 15 percent. (Those who are familiar with Contexts know that we have a fairly intensive revision and review process; for features, it starts with a proposal, which we then "green-light" or return, submission of a full-length manuscript, peer review, acceptance or rejection, and rewriting and revision, editing, and layout/design.) The number of acceptances documented here is a bit down from previous years due to the editorial transition and the fact that we transferred the submission and review process over to the new editorial team in August 2011. Our goal was to leave the new editors with one full issue's worth of strong features in hand, but to otherwise limit our "acceptances" to avoid creating a publication backlog.
We also worked closely with Arlene Stein and Jodi O'Brien in the transition to their editorship. This included a transfer of files, exchange of design templates, and much communication about various features, production systems, and design elements. Stein and O'Brien have decided to stay with the Minnesota-based ThinkDesign group for at least their first year to maintain a certain degree of comfort and continuity with the look, design, and feel of the publication. We also passed on about a dozen feature article submissions in various stages of development and review. (One of the ongoing challenges of the publication is building a pipeline of new authors and submissions, especially from colleagues in the field who are most well positioned and able to write to a broader, public audience). Suffice to say, we wish the new editors the best and indeed look forward to working closely with them in the coming year in hosting Contexts.org on our Minnesota website.
The year 2011 also brought the production and release of a new edition of the Contexts Reader with W.W. Norton. About two-thirds of the Reader is new content, most of it pulled from articles produced during our editorial term. Our Minnesota team also prepared the teaching questions and exercises that accompany each of these selections, wrote a new introduction, and proofed the entire manuscript. With this Reader and all of the other content and activities of our term, we hope and believe that we leave Contexts positioned to reach even greater visibility and influence in years to come.
Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen, Outgoing Editors
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
The Journal of Health and Social Behavior (JHSB) has a long-standing reputation as the place for cutting edge research on social aspects of health and illness. I am pleased to report that in 2011 we have published and accepted for publication papers reflecting a broad range of issues in health, illness, and healing. In 2011, and forthcoming in 2012, JHSB included theoretical as well as empirical papers, international and U.S.-based studies, and research on health care policy and professions, the relationship between health, social networks and social capital, health behaviors throughout the life course, psychological distress and mental health, stigma, and life course health processes including cumulative disadvantage. Many of the articles in 2011 emphasized minority health, gender and health, health disparities, and the social context of health including schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, and families. These articles used a wide range of quantitative as well as qualitative methods. A number of articles used innovative methods, proposing new solutions to existing methodological problems. Keeping with JHSB's mission statement, published and forthcoming articles use health issues to inform our understanding of many sociological topics, including inequality and the production of disparities, the impacts of social ties and contexts on individual and group well-being, social-psychological consequences of adverse experiences and events, and how health care systems are shaped by political and economic processes with important consequences for access to and quality of care.
Journal Operations: Journal operations ran smoothly in 2011. Most important, we worked very hard to continue reducing the turnaround time for manuscripts despite a slight increase in the number of submissions. The average turnaround time from receipt of a submission to decision in 2011 was 6.43 weeks (compared with 7.7 weeks in 2010). In 2011, we processed 330 papers (compared with 322 in 2010). The "traditional" acceptance rate, which counts all decisions, was 7.77 percent, down from 10.8 percent in 2010. The "new" acceptance rate, which counts only final decisions, was 11.17 percent, down from 12 percent in 2010. The mean production lag (i.e., the time between acceptance of a paper and its appearance in print) was 6.3 months, compared with 7.7 months in 2010.
We published 27 papers in 2011, as well as 4 policy briefs. With the March 2011 issue, JHSB launched the policy brief series, for which I select one article from each issue that has significant policy implications to showcase in a one-page brief directed at policymakers, media outlets, and the general public. With this policy brief series, we aim to promote press awareness and wider dissemination of JHSB articles that are directly relevant to policy concerns. The editorial office works closely with the author(s) to develop the brief in a way that illustrates the relevance of rigorous medical sociological research to health in the "real world." The brief is included in the front-end of the issue and on the journal home page and distributed to media outlets and non-profit and governmental organizations across the country.
Journal operations were managed primarily by outstanding half-time managing editors, the Managing Editor for Reviews (Mieke Beth Thomeer) and Managing Editors for Production (Corinne Reczek and Christine Wheatley), as well as our Graduate Editorial Assistant (Kristine Kilanski).
Editorial Board and Deputy Editors: I want to thank JHSB's continuing Deputy Editors: Ronald J. Angel, Chloe E. Bird, Mark D. Hayward, Robert A. Hummer, and Stephanie A. Robert. New Deputy Editors include Gilbert Gee and Michael Hughes. Gilbert Gee finished a three-year term as an associate editor and transitioned to deputy editor.
At the end of 2011, eleven editorial board members rotated off the board: Clifford L. Broman, Gilbert Gee, Steven Haas, Fred E. Markowitz, Illan H. Meyer, Melissa A. Milkie, Deborah K. Padgett, Jo C. Phelan, Stefan Timmermans, Kristi L. Williams, and Andrea E. Willson, I am grateful for their extraordinary service and commitment to the journal. I also thank the continuing editorial board members and the many additional ad hoc reviewers who have contributed their time and expertise so generously to the journal. Without their contributions, we simply could not fulfill the goal of publishing the very best papers in medical sociology submitted to the journal.
The editorial board has 14 new members whose terms run from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2014. New board members include Benjamin Cornwell, Brian Finch, Bridget Goosby, Thomas A. LaVeist, Kyriakos Markides, Kei Nomaguchi, Sigrun Olafsdottir, Christian Ritter, Kristen Springer, Kristin Turney, Koji Ueno, Rebecca Utz, Edna Viruell-Fuentes, and Zhenmei Zhang. I have already begun to rely heavily on the professional guidance of these new editorial board members along with our faithful continuing board members.
The editorial board in 2011 was a diverse group, not only in terms of gender (50 percent female) and race/ethnicity (14 percent minority), but also in terms of research methodology and substantive specialties. The 2012 editorial board is similar in terms of gender composition (52 percent female) but significantly more diverse in terms of race/ethnicity (now 24.4 percent minority). The articles we publish in 2012 continue to represent a range of methodological approaches and substantive specialties.
Debra Umberson, Editor
Rose Book Series
Stony Brook Editors: The year 2011 was our sixth and final year as an editorial team and it was also a record year for publication. Three books came out in 2011, two more were in production by the end of the year and have since been published, and another is currently in production. In addition, two sets of authors completed drafts of their books and participated in seminars at Russell Sage this year.
Because the transition period began in July, we did little recruiting of potential authors in 2011. However, we received more proposals than usual during the first half of the year. In accordance with the policy of our publisher, Russell Sage, we accepted one proposal out of those submitted.
In total, over the past six years the Stony Brook editors accepted 10 books; one more (contracted by the previous editors) is still under contract. We would like to note in closing, that the Rose Series can now be considered a source of pride for the ASA—five of the books published in the last six years have (among them) won nine awards!
Rutgers Editors: July 1, 2011 marked the beginning of the Rose Series editorial transition from Stony Brook to Rutgers University. The editorial transition became official on January 1, 2012 with Rutgers University lead editors assuming responsibility. From July through December, both editorial groups worked closely to ensure a smooth transition. The editorial groups collaborated to develop a shepherding plan for manuscripts currently under contract that was approved by ASA. The aim of shepherding is to sustain the editorial integrity, facilitate continuity, and ensure that future editors do not have a large backlog of projects signed by their predecessors. It is now the responsibility of the editorial group that contracts a manuscript to continue to shepherd it through to publication. Currently, there are five manuscripts that will be co-shepherded by a lead editor at Stony Brook and a secondary editor at Rutgers.
New Publications
"They Say Cutback: We Say Fight Back!" Welfare Rights Activism in an Era of Retrenchment
Ellen Reese
Nurturing Dads: Social Initiatives for Contemporary Fatherhood
William Marsiglio and Kevin Roy.
American Memories: Atrocities and the Law
Joachim J. Savelsberg and Ryan D. King
Social Movements in the World-System
Jackie Smith and Dawn Wiest
Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s to 2000s
Arne L. Kalleberg
Books Currently under Contract
Stony Brook Editorial Group
Exceptional Children, Challenged Families: Raising Children With Disabilities
Dennis Hogan
The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth and the Transition to Adulthood
Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle and Linda Olson
Islam and Society: Movements, Structures, Critique
Mohammed A. Bamyeh
The Logic of Terrorism: A Comparative Study
Jeff Goodwin
Embedded Dependency
Deirdre Royster
Family Relationships Across the Generations
Judith A. Seltzer and Suzanne M. Bianchi
University of Massachusetts Editorial Group
Repressive Injustice: Political and Social Processes in the Massive Incarceration of African Americans
Pamela E. Oliver and James E. Yocum
Award Winners among Recent Publications
Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans' Definitions of Family
Brian Powell, Catherine Bolzendahl, Claudia Geist, and Lala Carr Steelman. 2010. New York: Russell Sage.
2011 American Sociological Association's William J. Goode Award for outstanding book, Section on Sociology of Family
2011 North Central Sociological Association's Scholarly Achievement Award
2011 Midwest Sociological Society's Distinguished Book Award
Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations?
Paul Attewell and David Lavin. 2007. New York: Russell Sage.
2009 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education
2009 American Educational Research Association Best Book of the Year Award
Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Transnational Activism
Gay W. Seidman. 2007. New York: Russell Sage.
2008 honorable mention from the ASA's Section on Labor and Labor Movements
Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age
Madonna Harrington Meyer and Pamela Herd. 2007. New York: Russell Sage.
2008 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America
Changing Rhythms of the American Family
Suzanne M. Bianchi, John Robinson, and Melissa Milkie. 2006. New York: Russell Sage.
2008 William Goode Book Award
2007 Otis Dudley Duncan Award
Diane Barthel-Bouchier, Cynthia Bogard, Michael Kimmel, Daniel Levy, Tim Moran, Naomi Rosenthal, Michael Schwartz, and Gilda Zwerman, Outgong Editors
Lee Clarke, Judith Gerson, Lauren Krivo, Paul McLean, and Patricia Roos, Incoming Editors
Social Psychology Quarterly
As we conclude the first full year of our coeditorship, we are pleased to report continuation of a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) tradition: publishing cutting-edge research that represents a wide array of both substantive issues and methodological approaches and that shapes directions in sociological social psychology. During 2011 and forthcoming in 2012, articles cover diverse topics such as: self, identity, and stigma processes; intergroup dynamics; life course; mental and physical health; emotions; group processes; conversational analysis; culture; prejudice and discrimination; social inequality issues pertaining to race, gender, and sexuality; and work/family issues. We are particularly delighted that several articles highlight linkages within theoretical and empirical domains of social psychology. And, importantly, within each issue we provide readers with a range of offerings. In our quarterly subscriber letters, we highlight such linkages and the variety of our offerings as well as provide information on new developments affecting the journal.
We have continued the "Snaps" feature started by our predecessor, Gary Fine. Snaps offer shortened, lightened, and focused versions of some of the papers that SPQ publishes. Each SPQ Snap is about half the length of the published article yet emphasizes the major theoretical and substantive points and includes the most central tables and figures. We appreciate the extra effort and time our Snaps authors take to make their pieces available to students, especially undergraduates, in ways that are clear and usable. Snaps promote wide readership and ensure that an article transcends its scholarly purpose to also become a valuable teaching tool.
In addition, we are taking advantage of SAGE Publications' offer to create podcasts pertaining to particular articles. To date, four authors have been interviewed. We are currently in contact with SAGE to ensure their proper posting. Like with Snaps, we see these podcasts as potential teaching tools to introduce young scholars to the exciting work of social psychologists. The podcasts will include, literally in the author's own voice, what motivated the study and the implications of the results.
We have also made progress on two activities relevant to our mission. First, our website has undergone revision to make it more readable and user-friendly. We have eliminated repetitive links and revised our heading structure to streamline the appearance of the website. And, second, we have successfully published the Cooley-Mead address in the March issue so that there is only a six-month lag between presentation and publication of this special contribution. To do so requires us to be in close contact with the winner soon after the award announcement and to line up in advance potential reviewers.
Now that we have published a full volume, our goal is to make the contents of each issue of the journal known to a broad range of audiences. We will construct communiqués appropriate to various sections of ASA and other professional organizations indicating which SPQ articles would be especially relevant to the members of particular sections (e.g., articles focused on race would be sent to the Race and Ethnic Minorities section) or organizations with particular substantive foci (e.g., criminology or delinquency focused papers would be sent to the American Criminological Society). We hope to broaden this endeavor by also sending an issue's table of contents to the notice of members of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues, and relevant divisions of the Academy of Management. We also hope that our international editorial board members will help us reach to a captivated international audience.
Our commitment to broadening the readership of the journal as well as increasing submissions from what the chair of the Social Psychology section of the ASA has labeled "closeted social psychologists" remains strong. To that end, we are considering doing a special issue that might focus specifically on the role of social psychology in cognate subspecialties such as race, health, inequality, and criminology.
These goals, however, would be impossible to achieve without the efficient functioning of the review and production process. Below we describe the review process in more detail. And, while we have experienced some bumps along the way in the production of the articles in the journal, we are thankful to the personnel at SAGE who responded quickly to our problems. Thus far, we have found SAGE to be an engaged partner.
Review Process: During the calendar year 2011 SPQ received a healthy number of high-quality submissions. From January 1 through December 31, 2011, we considered a total of 184 manuscripts submitted to the journal. Of these, 29 that were still under review carried over from the previous year and 155 were submitted in 2011 (126 new submissions).
Using the new acceptance rate in which acceptances are divided only by final decisions, SPQ's acceptance rate for the year was 6.98 percent. Using the traditional indicator for the acceptance rate in which acceptances are divided by the number of overall decisions, SPQ's acceptance rate was 5.2 percent.
We, as coeditors, are strongly committed to conducting the review process in an efficient, fair, and timely manner, similar to SPQ editors of the past. We know the importance of timeliness for all scholars, but particularly newer scholars to the discipline. The journal's mean turnaround time remained low, at 8.8 weeks, even as we utilized the new online submission system (SAGEtrack) for the entire year.
Editorial Team, Board, and Reviewers: Our editorial deputy editors Deborah Carr and Timothy Hallett augment our expertise and provide wise counsel. Each Deputy Editor handles a handful of manuscripts each year and shares with us reviewers' comments and their editorial decisions prior to informing authors. Graduate editorial assistants Heather Scheuerman (January–July) and Lesley Watson (August–December) provided invaluable assistance in locating reviewers, maintaining the website, and organizing the journal office. The long-standing SPQ managing editor, Gianna Mosser, is a good implementer of timely, thoughtful journal operations. She facilitates the work of the coeditors and ensures that production runs smoothly.
The breadth of expertise on our editorial board ensures that we have access to experts who have signed on to be active and frequent reviewers. We wish to acknowledge the dedication and critical guidance of the outgoing board members. The composition of the board strikes a balance in terms of the representation of subspecialties and methodological approaches within social psychology. We also have good international representation and a nearly equal number of males and females serving. We recognize, however, that our board is not very diverse in terms of race and ethnicity. We are trying to resolve this issue by inviting more reviewers of color to examine manuscripts during 2012, with an eye to enlisting them as board members in the future.
With regard to reviewers, we invite sociologists, psychologists, and scholars from other cognate areas such as communications, criminal justice, organizational behavior and management, public health, and political science. In addition, a healthy number of our reviewers are international scholars. We have also expanded our reviewer base. In 2011, 273 scholars reviewed for the journal, up 186 from 2010. And to all board members and 2011 reviewers, we are sincerely grateful for their unfailing service to ensuring that we publish the very best papers in social psychology.
Karen A. Hegtvedt and Cathryn Johnson, Editors
Sociological Methodology
The year 2011 marked the second full year for Sociological Methodology editor Tim F. Liao and managing editor Lisa Savage at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Volume 41, which became available in its entirety online in early November and was published on paper in December 2011, features ten articles in four important areas: ethnographical research, inference and bias, comparisons and differences, and social network analysis. Volume 41 also included three commentaries on snowball sampling and respondent-driven sampling.
For the entire year of 2011, 67 submissions and resubmissions were considered, and 60 of these were new submissions. Most of the considered submissions went into the review process, although 8 submissions were rejected without reviewing. Of the 59 submissions or resubmissions accepted for review in 2011, 11 were rejected outright, 22 were given a revise and resubmit, and five were given conditional acceptance. The traditional acceptance rate was 20.51 percent and the new acceptance rate was 28.57 percent (by not counting resubmissions separately). Half of these manuscripts considered took 8.98 or fewer weeks in the review process. Since last summer, we have started the preparation of moving manuscript submission from email based to an online system. On January 1, Sociological Methodology made the transfer over to SAGE and the SAGEtrack online manuscript tracking system. Now we take all new submissions through the online system. We currently have a healthy stream of new submissions and resubmissions, and we project that volume 42 will come out some time in fall 2012, slightly earlier than the publication date in 2011.
Tim F. Liao. Editor
Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory (ST)—the subject matter and the journal—continued to truck along in 2011. Although our submission numbers declined from 2010, from 120 new submissions to 94, the quality of the manuscript pool remained high. In addition to the 94 new papers received, ST's office here at the University of British Columbia processed decisions on 51 papers that had previously been given revise and resubmits, and published a total of 14 articles.
These 14 articles represent important contributions. The first issue of the year contained Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam's paper on "strategic action fields," a terrific piece by Jeannette Colyvas and Stefan Jonsson on diffusion and institutionalization, and a paper by Ron Jepperson and John Meyer challenging methodological individualism. The second issue led off with a pioneering theoretical essay by Robert Jansen on populism, and also contained an important formal theory paper by Greta Hsu, Michael Hannan, and Laszlo Polos, as well as an innovative piece by Hiro Saito on cosmopolitanism. The quality was no lower in our third issue, with a very nice theoretical paper on economic sociology by Andrew Shrank and Josh Whitford, a thought-provoking essay by Jorge Fontdevila, M. Pilar Opazo, and Harrison White, and an extremely interesting contribution to action theory by Daniel Silver. The last issue was also rich, with two contributions to the study of classical sociology, one by Gregoire Mallard, recontextualizing Mauss's The Gift, and another by Chad Goldberg on the place of Jews and Judaism in Durkheim's sociology. The issue drew to a close with an article by Kuang-chi Chang theorizing guanxi, or Chinese social connections, from a new angle.
Given the diversity of these papers, and the others submitted that we were not able to publish, I relied very heavily on the advice of reviewers, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who gave their time this past year in service to the journal. Taking the counsel of my editorial board members, I increased slightly the number of papers I screened out in advance of the review process, to 33. This reduced the burden on the reviewer pool, and on editorial board members. Despite this, editorial lag increased in 2011 (we think—ASA's Journal Builder software no longer allows for straightforward calculations of this)—a trend that I hope to reverse in 2012 now that we have made the transition to SAGE and its highly efficient manuscript processing software. The journal's traditional acceptance rate for 2011 was 8.2 percent, and its new rate (only using final decisions) was 10.42 percent.
That transition has occupied much of our office's time over the past few months. Thanks to the hard work of Joe Wiebe, ST's managing editor, and the good people at SAGE, including Jennifer Stephenson, Tom Mankowski, and Peter Alexander, everything has gone well so far, and our first SAGE issue is going to press as I write this report. Authors and reviewers may experience a few hiccups as we work through the final steps of the transition, but hopefully nothing more than that.
The year 2012 promises to be another stellar year, given the papers we have in the pipeline. Our submission numbers for the first month and a half of the new year are way up, too.
Neil Gross, Editor
Sociology of Education
The year 2011 was a successful one for Sociology of Education (SOE). The journal continued to be ranked highly among scholarly journals (26th of 129 sociology journals and 36th of 177 education journals. As always too, SOE demonstrated that good sociology can be interesting and important to a broader audience. As just one example, Jennifer Van Hook and Claire E. Altman's paper "Competitive Food Sales in Schools and Childhood Obesity: A Longitudinal Study" was cited in dozens of news stories around the world. SOE plans to broaden its reach even more next year by moving into the podcast age, where we will feature Gregory Hooks and Andrew Crookston's "Community Colleges, Budget Cuts and Jobs: The Impact of Community Colleges on Employment Growth in Rural U.S. Counties, 1976-2004."
Editorial Team: While maintaining tireless and productive professional and scholarly lives of their own, Steve Morgan of Cornell University and Stefanie DeLuca of Johns Hopkins University retained their statuses as the most responsive, insightful, and even-handed Deputy Editors I could hope for. I am grateful to them.
I wish to acknowledge the important contributions of the outgoing Board members: Richard Arum, Mark A. Berends, John B. Diamond, Thomas A. DiPrete, Spyros Konstantopoulos, Freda B. Lynn, Hugh Mehan, Chandra Muller, Stephen B. Plank, Josipa Roksa, Mitchell L. Stevens, and Tony Tam. All of them served well and one of the privileges of editorships is getting to better know people of this caliber. I also appreciate the service of continuing Board members: Megan Andrew, Carl L. Bankston, III, Fabrizio Bernardi, Amy Binder, Prudence L. Carter, Simon Cheng, Robert Crosnoe, Scott Davies, Regina Deil-Amen, Danielle Thomas Espenshade, Cireno Fernandes, Kim Goyette, David Harding, Holly Heard, Melissa Herman, Takehiko Kariya, Sean Kelly, Vida Maralani, Hiroshi Ono, Sal Oropesa, Hyunjoon Park, C.J. Pascoe, Alejandro Portes, Maria Rendon, Keith Robinson, Evan Schofer, Tricia Seifert, Lisa Stulberg, David Suarez, Ruth N. Lopez Turley, Will Tyson, and Herman G. Van De Werfhorst. This is an exceptional assortment of talent.
I invited 10 people to join the SoE Editorial Board. The new Board members, who began their terms on January 1, 2012, are Brian An, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Wade Cole, George Farkas, Michelle Frisco, Ruben Gaztambine-Fernandez, Linda Renzulli, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Maryellen Schaub, and Laura Tach. I look forward to working with them. I understand that Board membership is a nice c.v. item for most people, but it's not a sinecure, and I asked these people to join as much for their work ethics as for their academic achievement.
The Board includes 24 men, 20 women, and 18 minorities. Reflecting trends in manuscript flow, the Board is taking on more of an international cast. It is more difficult to characterize the intellectual diversity of the Board. While the sociology of education community will recognize on the Board accomplished statisticians, ethnographers, immigration experts, higher education scholars, and so on, in all honesty I see the Board as consisting of sociologists, any one of whom can bring insight and wisdom to any particular manuscript that I put in front of them.
Finally, I acknowledge the superb contribution of my graduate assistant Chris Swanson, who is not only a skilled office manager but a strong scholar in his own right.
Manuscript Flow: This report covers the manuscript activity of the journal from January 1, 2011, through December 31, 2011. The total number of manuscripts considered during the 2011 calendar year was 194 (up a bit from a year ago), with 10 percent of those being invited as revise and resubmit manuscripts. SOE published 17 articles plus a scholarly exchange in 2011. The acceptance rate for SOE, calculated in the "old" manner (the one with which most sociologists are familiar), was 12.03 percent. Using the "new" method of calculation, our acceptance rate was 12.93 percent. Both of these figures are in line with past trends. During 2011 the journal review process averaged about 12.45 weeks, a considerable improvement over the 15 weeks that we achieved in 2010 and the 18 weeks in 2009. I'm sure that much of this improvement is due to the efficiency of SAGEtrack and our ability to run the office entirely without paper. Our production lag (the time it takes for an accepted manuscript to actually appear in the journal) edged down a bit, from about four and a half months to about four.
Reviewers and Reviewing: Part of the job of an editor is following the scholarly literature on peer review and academic publishing. I have been especially struck over the past year at the frequency and severity of many of the attacks on the concept and practice of peer review (see, for instance, Glenn Ellison "Is Peer Review in Decline?' Economic Inquiry 2011, 49(3) 635-657). SOE is firm in its commitment to peer review. Scholarship demands much of reviewers, and I am routinely impressed by the willingness of busy people to write useful and penetrating reviews. I've tried this year to expand our pool of reviewers, and in fact we had 195 individuals who reviewed in 2011 who did not review in 2010.
Good reviewing almost always goes unacknowledged, other than perhaps a private note of appreciation from an editor. This year, SOE initiated what I hope will be an annual public event – the awarding of the "Revise and Resubmit Reviewer of the Year Awards." These were given to recognize the work of individuals who set the reviewing bar high, those whose reviews were consistently constructive, critical, collegial, and focused. Recipients of the award this year were Annette Lareau, John Meyer, Dan McFarland, Angel Harris, and Maurice Gesthuizen.
SOE welcomes submissions from across the broad substantive concerns of the field, and is receptive to any appropriate methodology.
Please send manuscripts through our on-line system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/soe/. You can correspond with Sociology of Education by email at email@example.com.
David Bills, Editor
Teaching Sociology
Teaching Sociology continues to be at the forefront of the scholarship of teaching and learning in sociology. Manuscripts continue to flow into the journal and there are exciting plans for special editions to come in the next two years. For example, in 2013 we are hoping to have a special edition on the role of writing in the teaching of sociology and are accepting manuscripts for that edition now. Suzanne Hudd will be the guest editor.
In 2011, the journal had a special section in the April edition on assessment, which was guest edited by Jeff Chin and Mary Scheuer Senter. The articles were exciting snapshots into how several institutions are taking mandated assessment and using it to provide creative opportunities for innovative and comprehensive curricular reform. If you missed these articles when they first were published, I urge you to read them, since nearly all our institutions are requiring more and more assessment activities.
Teaching Sociology, Volume 39 (2011) published 49 works, including 21 articles, 5 notes, 22 book and film reviews, and one invited review essay about aging and gerontology texts for use in classes.
Manuscript Flow: In 2011, 152 manuscripts were submitted. Of these, 89 were new manuscripts, 32 were revised manuscripts, and 31 were still in review from the previous year. The manuscript statistics are: 24.3 percent were either accepted or conditionally accepted; 35.5 percent were invited to revise and resubmit, 22.4 percent were rejected, 7.2 percent were rejected without review, 6 percent were withdrawn by the authors, and 4.6 percent were still out for review at the end of the year. Using these numbers, the acceptance rate for 2011 was 13.97 percent.
Looking at the manuscript decision rate from another perspective – counting only the last decision (usually, but not always a final decision) for manuscripts submitted in and decided on in 2011, 26 percent were accepted, 46.6 percent were rejected, 12.3 percent were withdrawn by the author, and 15.1 were rejected without review. The new acceptance rate (i.e., only final decisions) for 2011 was 29.69 percent.
Thanks to a wonderful set of reviewers, I have been able to have an average time-to-first decision of 30 days. I am so grateful that so many of the scholars I ask say 'yes' to my request to review – and then faithfully complete their reviews, often sooner than required. In most cases, I write decision letters within 48 hours of receiving the last reviewer's comments.
Editorial Board: There were 31 members on the Editorial Board. Fifty-five percent were female and 45 percent were male, and 19 percent were minorities. I want to express my gratitude to those members who transitioned off in December 2010: Peter L. Callero, Marisol Clark-Ibanez, Michael DeCesare, Anne Eisenberg, Chad Hanson, Mark Israel, Matthew Lee, Wendy Ng, Shireen Rajaram, Stephen Sweet, and Susan Takata.
The year 2011 was my second full year as editor and each day I remind myself how lucky I am. Not only do I have a wonderful Editorial Board and reviewers, but each manuscript I read gives me ideas for my own teaching. Being editor has been an amazing gift in my own career as a teacher.
I am seeking new reviewers. If you are interested, please email me and let me know the topical areas for which you would prefer to review. And of course, I am always in search of new submissions. So if you have an idea for an article or a note but are not quite sure if it is appropriate for TS or if you are not sure how to turn it into an article – please e-mail me. I would be happy to talk with you and give some suggestions about what strategies you might want to try as you begin to write up your thoughts. Authors and potential authors are never a bother; so please do not hesitate to contact me.
I also want to thank several people: First, is Glenn Muschert, my Deputy Editor. Glenn handles all film, book, and web reviews quietly and efficiently. And when I need a fast review or someone to help me think through an issue, I know that Glenn will be there for me, and for the journal. Second, I also want to thank my Managing Editor, Roseanne Ponce. Rosie is a graduate student here at Valdosta State University and balances grad school classes and her social work practicum, her work with TS, a private life with her husband, her political involvements, and a long commute with grace, dignity, and a great sense of humor. Third, I want to thank publicly Karen Edwards and Janine Chiappa McKenna – both from the ASA – they too are wonderful sources of advice. And last, but not least, I want to thank Julianne Amsden at SAGE. She is a wonderful copyeditor/production editor. And while we don't always agree on how to hyphenate words like pre-test (or as she would have it be, 'pretest'), I think we have crafted a good working relationship!
I also want to acknowledge all the authors who submit their manuscripts to TS. It is not easy to risk rejection. Thank you for being brave and for sharing your pedagogical theories and techniques with readers. Please e-mail the editorial office at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Kathleen S. Lowney, Editor


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As my wise Republican candidates have pointed out, this kind of thing is proof that the free market--left to itself and without any government oversight, regulation, or interference--will make things better for all of us. The DoJ needs to get off the backs of these job-creating companies and let them give their employees the freedom that Jesus and Capitalism can only provide when we have a free market with no regulation or oversight. Anything less is socialism.
This represents a non-free job market. That's the problem and why it's apprpriate for government to step in.
No one is arguing for no regulation. But there is such a thing as over regulation.
Your kidding me right? That is what the Republican Party has been screaming about the last 4 years. They want NO regulation on anything!
Those are just a few examples off the top of my head, I am sure that there are more. Take Ron Paul; he is in favor of getting rid of a few government agencies just for the sake of getting rid of something.
Lets not pretend that everyone is a reasonable human being.
Have the republicans really pointed that out? I don't even think many libertarians think that way either. Readily available information is a vital part of a healthy free market, and these secret agreements violate that principle. This is the exactly the sort of thing that the government _should_ be doing in a free market economy: correcting the non ideal factors of real world competition. Things like limiting monopolies and ensuring availability of accurate information (e.g. in advertising) are some reg
This no poaching agreements could be supportive of Free Market principles. By preventing companies from directly advertising jobs to a specific potential employee they have to make the job posting public and consequently open to more potentially employees. So instead of Apple directly soliciting a top engineer from Google with Google possibly being unaware of it a particularly savvy Google could see that Apple is looking for a new top engineer and they would be able to notice that one of their employees is
The free market does not adjust itself overnight. But, had the DoJ not done anything, there is a good chance the situation would have changed in a few years. Why? Essentially, a certain group of X companies are colluding to keep employee salaries low. Say the market salary for an employee would be A, but it's reduced to D as a result of the collusion. This is an unstable situation for two reasons: first of all, it's possible that one of the X companies will start hiring employees for a slightly higher salar
Your argument supposes (wrongly) that other companies would not prefer to pay lower wages as well. Without regulation new companies will simply join the collusion against employees, and the overall average wage will remain depreciated indefinitely, they have no incentive to offer more money if they can simply join the scheme and pay less like everyone else. The net effect is to drive down the pay/productivity of employees, and thereby drive up profits.
This agreement appears to be a followup to the now defunct rules that were 'non compete' clauses (that were, but afaik not legal in California anymore*). Those had the same net effect - you couldn't change employers quickly and if you tried you'd be potentially out several months or years salary in doing so. Since non competes have been around as long as I've been in the IT business (which is getting on to 15 years now) this has, in various forms, been going on for a very long time, and the market doesn't seem to have corrected itself. Actually, it's exactly what I said, in that time new companies emerged, (say, google) and were folded into the grand scheme by the existing players (intel, adobe, Apple and so on). The details of the scheme changed, but it's the same scheme. Sure, they still drive up prices for employees competing for talent to some degree - but not as much as they would have without the protection for employers either from non compete contracts or from collusion.
A free market is free to have a massive coordinated effort by those with money to operate from an unfair position against those who don't have money. Preventing the unfair coordination is the point of (some) regulation.
*I don't live in the US, or California, and never have (or will). My recollection on the details of these rules is hazy as it won't ever directly effect me.
This is actually quite pertinent.
Most/all companies set salaries according to the "market median". They claim to have commissioned some survey org to go poll for salaries in the area and then set their salary bands accordingly. They don't attempt to retain talent but salary, but by inertia.
If I'm not likely to get lots more dough for moving someplace new, I probably won't. A new workplace means:
- you need to integrate into a new environment, which might be worse than your current.
- You definitely need to p
we need that money to fuel the lawyers for all our patent violation lawsuits against each other.
Get a load of that coincidence. it 'coincides' just 2 days after sopa protests, and involves almost all major technology companies that have major stakes on internet. Just like how the megaupload bust 'coincided' a day after sopa protests, yesterday.
Get a load of that coincidence. it 'coincides' just 2 days after sopa protests, and involves almost all major technology companies that have major stakes on internet. Just like how the megaupload bust 'coincided' a day after sopa protests, yesterday.
Your assumptions of government competence are staggering.
A lot of those companies are pro-SOPA or SOPA-neutral. Lucasfilm and Pixar are certainly pro-SOPA; Apple and Adobe have been pro-SOPA but are now merely quiet on the issue.
The problem is trying to negotiate for a raise but what was happening in the 1970s - you work for company A for six months and company B comes along and offers you 25% more. Six months later, company C offers 20% more. Six months after that, company A offers the same person another 25% raise to come back. Yes, this gets out of hand quickly and is something that just about everyone - including the employees - hate. Sure, it is nice to be wanted but sooner or later it is going to catch up to you. It also
...years ago. So if poaching is illegal whats wrong with agreeing not to poach>?
Poaching is completely legal in an employment sense. Google got to steal people from Microsoft to prevent them from developing a search engine earlier and while they got sued nothing really happened. I think Microsoft has done the same thing to Google as well. And I know Apple has been on both sides in the past.
There are no laws that say company B cannot directly contact company A's employees and offer them higher paying jobs. Of course, once you start down that road there are few limits as to what can
It must be great to be a C-level executive, with a near limitless salary, and not subject to this kind of underhanded collusion because you're making all the rules and approving your own raises.
The enrichment of those who own has always far exceeded that of those who actually create.
It's the way of the world.
Not right, but how it is.
So Google offered me less in salary than they might have without this agreement. I wonder if I could sue them for lost income.
Only acceptable when done by employers, not employees. Got it.
From what I hear, this whole cozy arrangement has been disrupted by Facebook, which started poaching techies from all of the above with higher pay...
Loose bits sink chips.


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As Tensions In Syria Rise, US Marines Perform Military Exercises In Jordan (Video)
Friday, June 14, 2013
A group of United States Marines is taking part in the yearly military exercise known as "Eager Lion" in Jordan, a country that borders Syria. Just yesterday, President Obama said he would increase military aid to Syrian rebels as a consequence of the nation using chemical weapons on its own people, according to the Associated Press.
Now, to be clear, Eager Lion has been planned for months. It's an annual partnership exercise between the United States and Jordan. There are more than 8,000 troops from 19 countries taking part in Eager Lion.
According to the Pentagon, Eager Lion is...
...designed to strengthen military-to-military relationships and enhance regional security and stability by responding to modern-day security scenarios.
But Eager Lion does come at time when debate is heating up in the United States over how -or if- our military should get involved in the Syrian Civil War.
For instance, Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham are calling on Obama to implement a no-fly zone over Syria. McCain told CNN today:
"This isn't just a bunch of demonstrators being beaten up. This a regional conflict. It spilled over … Jordan is destabilized, Lebanon is about to erupt into sectarian violence, jihadists are falling in from all over the Middle East. This is erupting."
What do YOU think about the United States military getting involved in Syria's conflict? Have your say in our comments section!
Here's some video, courtesy of the Navy, of your Marines and Sailors in action during Eager Lion 2013:
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This morning I did my usual round of texting/emailing/begging to my Dolphins and other NFL sources. And the question du jour (that means today) had to do with ESPN's constant reports that the Dolphins are down and nearly out of the Peyton Manning sweepstakes.
I reported to you over the weekend that Miami is in lockdown mode on the information and informed sources front. And there is two ways to take this approach.
It is either good news because it means the team is shutting down as to not hurt any possibility of getting Manning -- a possibility that still exists. Or ...
It means the club has locked down because Manning has swatted them aside like a gnat and Miami is simply trying to mask the embarrassment.
So I asked my sources if it's fair to believe lockdown mode is a sign the club is still in the game for No. 18 and doesn't want to hurt those chances.
"Fair," one source responded.
"Correct," another source responded.
There you go, folks. The Dolphins are still in the Manning sweepstakes. It is not over after Manning's trips to Denver and Arizona.
Doesn't mean the Dolphins will get Manning. But there is still hope.