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After reading your synopsis and then rereading the original post, I can see your point that I may have skewed from the stance...
I was talking about numbers
Today the New York Times launched a broadside at the widespread practice of futzing your participation numbers to make it look like your school meets the "proportionality" requirement demanded by Title IX. This trick in particular is bizarre:
At Cornell, only when the 34 fencers on the women's team take off their protective masks at practice does it become clear that 15 of them are men. Texas A&M and Duke are among the elite women's basketball teams that also take advantage of a federal loophole that allows them to report male practice players as female participants.
The federal government doesn't actually care what your gender is as long as you don't play.
To me, that absurdity demonstrates how futile Title IX is. There is more interest in men's sports to the point where you can't even fill out your rosters with women because no one is interested, so dudes step in to fence. Those guys can't play varsity (Cornell has a club team) because of Title IX.
The Times article and the reaction to it is totally opposed to this view. Triple counting track athletes and jamming tennis walk-ons for whom practice is optional is portrayed as scandalous. The very headline of the article establishes an editorial viewpoint:
College Teams, Relying on Deception, Undermine Gender Equity
Football comes in for its usual hit here:
Yet football, the pride of many universities and a draw for alumni, rarely faces cuts. The average Division I football team went from 95 players 30 years ago to 111 players in 2009-10.
"Football is the elephant in the whole thing," Mr. Crouthamel said. "That's the monster."
This is obviously stupid. The Average Division I Football Team added a dozen or so walk-ons over the past 30 years. Walk-ons don't travel with the team. They don't get financial support. They just show up and fail to kick balls through the uprights. These days they don't even have an equipment cost—many schools have deals where they get that stuff for free. Meanwhile, many places the monster hands out free candy.
If we're talking about "equity" as treating different groups fairly, the thing that's undermining gender equity is Title IX. The article hits a bunch of different schools for practices like the bizarre loophole above but focuses most heavily on South Florida. The Bulls have 71 women's cross-country runners, many of whom are not aware they are on the team. The practice started shortly after USF started a football team, because football is a monster.
Football is a monster!
Men's Basketball
Women's Basketball
Non Program Specific
Expense to Revenue Difference
Football… uh… essentially breaks even. Since basketball gets 100k in "direct university support" this makes it unique amongst USF sports. Women's basketball, meanwhile, gets 232k in direct support—those thirteen scholarships cost the school over a million dollars. Football's 85 cost the university 1,000 bucks each. USF could have 12.3 football teams for what it costs to run one small women's team.
In terms of money thrown at sports that don't have a prayer of ever making a dime, USF's women are killing the men. Football and men's basketball could break even with small tweaks. The attention they get is a major way to let people know the University of South Florida exists. The reason USF sponsors those sports is because they are a net positive.
But Title IX pretends that money sent to them is like money sent to baseball/swimming/track/cross-country—essentially burned. It's not. There is a ROI in football. It's absurd to force a university to maintain proportional representation as if football is some sort of charity. Many places it's not: it's an investment. A law that isn't insane would recognize that.
After reading your synopsis and then rereading the original post, I can see your point that I may have skewed from the stance...
I was talking about numbers
I would + OVER 9000!!!! you for this post.
is begging the question.
Yes, Title IX imposes costs, and it makes universities less profitable. Legislation designed to remedy discrimination or guarantee equal access often imposes costs. It is expensive for businesses to comply with the ADA, Title VII and the FMLA, but many people think the benefits that those statutes convey to potentially unprotected classes of people outweigh the costs that they impose.
It's not enough to say "Title IX imposes costs" unless you can also say that the benefits aren't all that great. I think it's implicit in a lot of the comments here that people don't feel the benefits of Title IX have been great enough to outweigh the costs, but no one seems to be showing their work on the issue, and it's undisputed that the number of women in athletics has gone up by orders of magnitude since Title IX passed.
I agree.
I skewed away from the original stance and argued against something he/she wasn't actually arguing for...my bad.
I laughed at this:
Walk-ons don't travel with the team. They don't get financial support. They just show up and fail to kick balls through the uprights.
but then realized that it also needed to say "or start at safety as a redshirt freshman" and wept for our cursed secondary.
I played Basketball in college. We were D3 but very sucessful. Went to
The Final 4 my fresh year and had won back
To back Nat Champ in the years previous. My relevance to this story.....
Our practice team consisted of male students. They learned the opposing teams offense. It gave us a distinct advantage. I don't know how they were counted. I didnt care. It helped is be a better program. It was not a disservice, it was a leg up.
This also brought with it a stronger fan base. These practice members were the
Core and grew our 6th man club, an over the top fan
The investment line works fine for Michigan, but what about all the non BCS schools who are bleeding money out of their eyeballs and are extremely unlikely to see a payout?
They aren't amateur and the people playing them are primarily athletes, not college students. The problem is that if you cut them loose from the athletic department, then logic says that you should cut them loose from the university altogether. What's their educational purpose again?
Men's football and basketball could be required to break even, and the university take independent responsibility non-revenue sports. Then it would be feasible for Title IX to be enforced for non-revenue sports. Of course, some of the football and basketball programs would die, but wouldn't that increase competitiveness?
I don't know what the research says now, but I do know that the last time I looked, the vast majority of Division I athletic departments got subventions from their universities, and quantifiable benefits from increased exposure and increased alumni giving weren't evident. If that's the case, women who don't bring in money and men who don't bring in money should be supported equally.
By the way, there are more women in college now than men. Not sure how that figures into things.
At what point do you all think women's sports would have enough cultural momentum to be taken off the life support of Title IX? A recurring theme in the comments here is the fear that things would go back to the way they were before Title IX if it were repealed or significantly amended. For those with that fear...when does it subside?
I'd say it could be repealed when female athletes are given the same respect (and pay) as their male counterparts.
but it's not really a useful answer.
There isn't a single measure of women's disempowerment in sports. Am I supposed to bring out a chart and say "when we cross THIS LINE things are equal"?
that has had enormous effects, wanted and unwanted, across a very big board, no? You're muddying your message, Brian.
The fact that women do not participate in the numbers men do does not mean greater equality of participation is not a worthy goal. Doesn't have to be equal--who cares--but most high and middle school educators will tell you about the desperate need to get kids, especially girls, moving.
A broad-brush condemnation gets you nowhere, only prevents everyone seeing the more thoughtful fine print. Title IX isn't going away anyway, so rants (what this occasionally thoughtful screed dressed up as macho rant may elicit) are less than wutless. Problematic as it is, it has lifted womens' sports in a way that has enriched this country's u's.
Edit: one of the ways that I think we get confused, as fans, is in failing to distinguish our pleasure as consumers of the college sports spectacle with sports as participatory activity that schools offer kids as part of a college experience. They've ended up being pretty different animals. I love my hoops and football, but hint to me--as an educator, father, UM grad, etc.--that it's those activities that should suffer/lose support, when women got nothing routinely almost from the beginning, and sorry. . . The Times dangled the scandalous--just scandalous!--bit of info that guys were playing womens' sport to draw in readers to their (as often) botched piece, but from my pov they got the "protecting access to and boosting of women's sports" part mostly right.
[1] Accept that there will be 85 more men's sports' scholarships than women's at FBS schools, and 63 (aggregate) at FCS schools -- not sure about DII.
[2] Mandate that existing women's programs don't get cut to pay for new men's programs, or something like that. I don't think it would be too terribly hard to develop a set of rules about what schools can and can't do as they transition toward a reformulated Title IX.
Should be abolished.
It's based on the invalid assumption that men and women are the same. They are not. They are different both physically and intellectually. That is a biological fact. I'm not suggesting one gender is better either physically or intellectually - just different. Not only do men and women have different athletic capabiliites, they also have different interest levels in athletics. Treating them the same results in inequities favoring women. Rather than a one-size fits all edict from the state, a more libertarian free market approach would be fairer. Schools should be allowed to fund athletics for men and women based on demand from students and based on economic incentives. If schools receive greater revenue from certain male or female sports, they should be free to fund these based on this economic reality. If men or women demand greater athletic opportunities, they are free to attend the school which provides these opportunities.
Ok. The close minded here are free to neg bomb.
So your "free market" solution is to give government support to men's sports and not to women's? WTF?
Men and women are different, so men who want to play sports should get more government support that women who want to play sports?
Libertarianism has cognitive dissonance at its heart, but this is special.
I didn't neg bomb this. I'm laughing too hard.
He said nothing about government support, unless you're equating all schools with government. And economic incentives != subsidies.
...I think you misread his post. First off, Libertarianism has no more cognitive dissonance than reps or especially dems, so I don't think that's really relevant to your point.
Libertarianism adovcates people to live as freely as they want in accordance to the tenet "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as long as it respects those around you and does not impede others from living their lives as freely as they want. Unfortunately, Title IX at times does this. Its has certainly expanded access to collegiate sports for women, but many times at the expense of a men's sport. This is hard to stomach for a Libertarian (such as myself).
Also, we are not really talking about government money are we (especailly at Michigan, when we get so little from the state)? We are talking about tuition money or money that I pay for Michigan football season tickets that gets funneled to losing sports (men and women).
"Men and women are different, so men who want to play sports should get more government support that women who want to play sports?"
That is not his point. His point is that men DO want to play sports more than women. That is a fact. And a proportional amount of money in this regard doesn't seem too outlandish, does it?
Michigan's athletic department may break even. If so, it's very, very unusual. At almost every other school in the country, private and public, student tuition fees, donor money and state funding (315 million in UM's case, 1/5 of its funding, less money, higher percentage where I teach) support the athletic department, specifically non-revenue sports. In other words students' tuition, their fees, and taxpayers' money goes to, say, the wrestling team. You can't say "It's tuition and students fees that fund it." It's all the revenue stream, including the state money. Even at private schools there's substantial federal money involved--student loans, Pell grants and other--which is what allows the federal government to impose Title IX on them as well.
This is partly why libertarianism as it's expressed in the United States requires cognitive dissonance: in-state students at public institutions regularly rail against government intrusion into the marketplace. As a taxpayer and donor, I listen bemused. I'm subsidizing them with my taxes and donations. I'd subsidize them more, too, if the people I vote for won more often, or if university faculty were getting raises. (My favorite libertarian moment came when I was doing work study (federal money, state administered) for the university at which I did grad work . One of the guys I was cooking with said to me, "Could you ever imagine working for the government?" I said, "I don't have to imagine it, I'm doing it now. So are you." He was incredulous.)
Yeah, partisan politics require cognitive dissonance. I'm well to the left of the Democrats on most things (one of the reasons I chose the University of Michigan, by the way). The best take on the three main threads of American politics is here: <http://whatever.scalzi.com/2002/03/22/i-hate-your-politics>. I think libertarians who drive cars and rely on people who went to public schools are a little more dissonant.
Even if we funded intercollegiate sports with only tuition and fees, you'd still have this problem: most university students are women. Why should their money go to fund men's sports?
The best comment in this whole thread speaks to women athletes who experienced what it was like before Title IX.
...of libertarianism. I can agree that there is cognitive dissonance if all the people you described were actual libertarians (highly unlikely). Me and the rest of the tiny libertarian nation are fully aware of our government at work around us and we do what we can to ensure they do not intrude into our liberty. However, we are not anarchist. We believe that the government is essential to our nation, but only in a few key ways (protection of rights and property mostly), and anything beyond that is sometimes unavoidable at this point (like in your case of public education). I went to Michigan twice as an out of state student, so there :)
Sorry, now back to the original topic. "Even if we funded intercollegiate sports with only tuition and fees, you'd still have this problem: most university students are women. Why should their money go to fund men's sports?" Because men's sports enrich the schools spirit and image more so than woman's sports. I know that sounds sexist, but it is true. Even the not-so-major schools have great traditions derived from the achievements in mens sports that make the school more than just an academic hub. Think what Michigan, Stanford, etc would be without football and men's basketball. I can't tell you how many old timers from the Univeristy of Chicago think that dimishing their sports programs were a bad idea. I happen to agree.
Title IX needs a huge overall. If we can amend our consitution to prohibit alcohol consumption and amend it again to repeal prohibition, then we can tinker with Title IX. As a libertarian, it's hard for me to behind such a "law". It's a government "entiity" that is impeding the liberty of many other Americans.
your detailed reply. But I believe you seem to misunderstand libertarianism and equate it with anarchism. It is not cognitive dissonance to believe in libertarianism and at the same time, use government supported services and institutions. Since government intrusion into daily life and the marketplace is so widespread, it is impossible to avoid. Moreover, libertarians recognize the need for limited government to maintain order and protect one's rights.
Your reply does illustrate the complexity of the entire situation. Once government begins to support or subsidize an activity or industry, it gradually increases its control over said activity or industry. So there is a good case to be made for lessening or eliminating government support for higher education. There is currently a major bubble in higher education (much like the housing bubble inflated by government involvement) due to government support - it may be one of the next bubbles to burst (it's already burst for many who are unemployed and burdened with huge loan debt).
Anyway, it's a complex subject. As for libertarian philosophy, I think should try to give it more serious thought rather than laughter. It's principles are strongly based in and supported by empirical and historical data - as opposed to left or right wing ideology which usually ignore the lessons of history.
Sorry to digress. But it was necessary to explain my view of a government edict like title IX.
You and WindyCityBlue have provided thoughtful responses. Cool. I think we're OT enough that we should stop, but I appreciate the engagement.
Also, Go Blue, including the softball team, which is up there, in my view, with the hockey and football teams.
One parting thought: I hope that sometime down the road, women's and men's teams get the support from the university and the fans that match their efforts and attainment, undiminished by outdated attitudes about gender (or race, for that matter). I also hope that every student has the opportunity to compete at the level he or she can achieve. I expect Michigan to lead the way in this, because that's what a university is for--leadership.
I hate the New York Times... it is amazing how they are all about failing to see the facts and just making wild claims for page hits...
of the New York Times either. It's "news" stories are incredibly tainted by bias. I'll give you just one example. It plastered the unsubstantiated Duke lacrosse player rape accusations all over the front page but gave much less coverage to their exoneration. When their accuser was charged with her boyfriend's murder recently, this story was buried as a small blurb on one of the back pages.
That's a fairly standard thing with modern news media: hype and outrage at first but if corrections need to be made they're utterly buried. It's endemic to pretty much every venue--newspaper, magazine, and television.
I mean, do you remember that Fox News Se"Xbox" thing where a bunch of talking heads tried to say Mass Effect was Super Erotic Space Porn? I don't remember hearing about any apology or correction. It might have existed, but it wasn't any where near as publicized.
(That is not to say the two stories are equivelent in scope or in harm, simply as an illustration of my point.)
I think most reasonable people agree that Title IX is sort of screwed up, even if it did correct a flaw that existed at the time.
It's easy to poke holes in it, but I suppose the question is "what do you propose as an alternative?"
Sports that break even should be excluded from Title IX.
Any dollar earned in ticket revenue in any sport should count for Title IX accounting purposes as a dollar spent on that sport. That would be a fair way to gauge "interest" and account for sports that require large investments but bring in even larger returns. I don't like the idea of "any sport that breaks even" because that would create a cliff and wildly separate haves (Michigan, Alabama, Texas) and have-nots (Sun Belt.)
Ask Coach Hutchins what it was like to be a female college athlete before Title IX enforcement.
We're talking about the way it's enforced — in otherwords, after. Brian even admits at the end that it's done good things for female athletes. But that doesn't mean its effects have been exclusively positive.
What I would like to see happen is the NCAA doing away with the terms Varsity and Club. Instead adopt revenue and non-revenue. Revenue sports are able to give scholarships just like they always have, because they make money. Non-revenue sports are not able to give scholarships because they do not make money. The schools have to offer the same nonrevenue sports it has in the past.
Non-revenue players are still able to compete for championships and are still able to offer the opportunity to play a college sport. If they meet academic scholarship requirements they can receive these and play, without counting against the athletic departments budget.
Does the law go further than just mandating that female athletes have the opportunity to play college sports? If not, this is a solution.
Why are NCAA sports any part of any educational institution's mission?
The reason we're talking about this right now is because the Commision on Civil Rights released recommendations last week that advocate using interest surveys to allow schools to reapportion and still meet a Prong Three standard of the regulation.
Before the law, athletic departments "figured" that men's sports were more important than women's, thus women's sports were given far, far, far less support, way out of whack with how many women actually wanted to compete, and the level at which they competed. Get rid of Title IX and you're basically sending women's sports back to 1960.
The law just says you can't discriminate. This is an important distinction because to change it doesn't need an Act of Congress; you need to get the Department of Education's Civil Rights Office to tweak the regulation.
The regulation is how the law is applied, and is retarded because it doesn't acknowledge that revenue sports are different, specifically that football will eat up half of the men's budget no matter which prong you're trying to meet. If you don't count football, schools can meet this easily. On the other hand it was created in the first place because schools used to put their football teams in gold chariots while giving out partial scholarships and 3-wheel carts to all of two girls teams.
We have lots of laws which in application treat different subsets of a regulated industry differently. We don't make dairy farmers, for example, control air pollution the same way we would a gas plant because it's not realistic to expect dairy farmers to get the cows to stop farting, for one, and two the scale is completely different.
I think the survey thing would help, and the Administration doesn't seem adverse to it, so we might see that implemented in as soon as a year. Another option is to provide a revenue apportionment based on ROI. You can't count TV exposure as ROI but that will play into schools' decision-making processes regardless. What you can do is exempt 1/2 of revenue brought in by a sport, so that apportionment of funding is more in line. It's still not "fair" but at least this would put women's sports and non-revenue men's sports on equal footing, and place revenue sports outside of that.
If we can harness the energy from the cow farts, we can sell it and use it to pay for women's college athletics???
I'm saying we're doing that Right Now!
There's this new technology developed in East Lansing...
There's a pretty wide variety of data out there that women who play sports do better at getting to college, being succesful in college, and being successful after college. I could give a shit about the financial costs, the mission is to educate people. Title IX helps that in a variety of ways. It can be tweaked to be less rigid so that in the name of equity we don't take away opportunities from non-revenue male sports (wrestling being the hardest hit, nationally) for the same reason, and I think exempting football is probably the easiest way to do that.
But calling it "futile" because of profitiability is ridiculous and beneath you, Brian. It misses the core mission of universities. Which is not to make fucking money.
Calling it futile doesn't have to do with not making money, it has to do with actually diverting money from other aspects more directly related to the school's mission.
Are you willing to tell a pre-med chem major with a 3.7 and 150,000 in debt that they can't get a scholarship because the school is forced to fund a sport with little to no interest? In my opinion, one deserves a scholarship and one does not.
The problem with articles like these is that the only effect they'll ever have is negative. Suppose someone went to the worst offender, whether its USF or whoever but we'll say USF, and waved this article in their face saying, "you're cheating on Title IX, you're cheating female athletes, stop these accounting shenanigans or we'll sue."
Well, the staunchest Title IX defenders will say that schools aren't supposed to come into compliance with the law by cutting men's sports, ideally they're supposed to be doing it by increasing opportunities for women. The problem is that only the government can spend money it doesn't have; everyone else has to find it somewhere. That's how the real world works. So USF looks at where it can spend money "correctly" and decides that money's going to have to come from men's sports because it can't come from other women's sports.
So the net result of the article is that just as many women are playing sports as before, and just as much money is being spent on women's sports because you can't round up a bunch of girls and force them to start fencing or swimming, but now there's no more men's soccer or wrestling or track or whatever and men have fewer opportunities. But equality has been achieved!
That is the problem with Title IX and these wonderful exposés that purport to blow the lid off of unfair practices. Fantasyland meets real world. Title IX has done wonders for women's sports, fine. Now it's a dinosaur. Just because it served this wonderful purpose in the 70s doesn't mean it shouldn't be changed. So did leaded gas.
i have to say i like how title IX works because it serves to keep the small schools without huge stadiums, tv deals, marketing, etc. down. the money taken from football and basketball revenues at a small school is disproptionately larger than the money takem from big school since big school's revenue pot is much bigger. it likely only takes michigan one home game to pay for south florida's entire athletic budget on tickets alone.
does this make me an asshole? maybe. am i an asshole who roots for the winningest team in college football history and not some glorified arena bowl team that plays in south nowhere and has a nonplural nickname and a congressperson that won't quit complaining about a level playing field? yes, i certainly am.
There are three ways a school can meet Title IX, established in '79. Any of the three will do:
Through the '80s, even under Reagan when Title IX wasn't enforced, most schools used Prong Two, because every school was slowly adding women's programs and could demonstrate that. The real ugliness began when the growth ended, between the early '90s and late '90s, when the cost of having a footbal and basketball team skyrocketed. Their revenues don't help them, so you end up with ludicrous spending disparities that basically null Prong One except for the uber-rich.
For Prong One, "substantially" is interpreted as "financially." Let USF demonstrate why that's not going to work for most schools:
Total Operating Expenses:
|Total minus FB&BB
For the record, Michigan spends $33.7 million on men's sports and $15.2 million on women's sports. We could meet Prong 1 but that would mean spending what USF does on football, which would be silly because football operates at 190% profit not even counting the "everyone knows Michigan" factor it brings.
So right now schools meet it with Prong One using number of participants. Basketball helps because it's only a few players, but football is still the biggie.
However there's another Prong: "Full and effective accommodation of the interest and ability of underrepresented sex." How do you show this?
Recommendation for Fix:
Well, poll your student body to see how many of either gender want to play sports, then check that against the participation in your athletic programs. Gauge interest by two polls: one for incoming freshman added to the polls you have to take at the start of orientation, and one a random poll taken annually from the student body at large.
Polls ask freshmen "do you plan on competing in a varsity sport during your career at [school]?"
The at-large poll gets into specifics: "Please select up to three sports from the list provided..."
Then allow universities to show that their athletic offerings and support are roughly in line with male/female student body competitive interest and sport interest. This would allow smaller schools to meet a Prong Three definition.
Another exemption would do the trick as well: Allow schools to exempt up to 50% of funding provided to a team, so long as the amount exempted is exceeded by the total amount the sport brings in. Include a formula for counting Television exposure.
University of Nebraska Omaha, had to cut football and wrestling (3 time defending national champions) completely when moving to division one this year because we couldn't afford to comply with title IX
I think you're missing something. You have to comply with title IX no matter what division you are... even high schools and middle schools have to comply.
Yes, but football becomes a hell of a lot more expensive in D-I than D-II, and the same is true for things like basketball. No doubt there simply wasn't room in the budget for both D-I sports and T-IX compliance.
Yeah it costs more and you have to add additional scholarships, so they axed two male sports and are bringing in golf and soccer because both sexes can play that
The current system really doesn't matter to me because I don't think any school should offer any scholarships to "athletes" who play sports with zero chance of playing professionally. Let's be honest. Football and basketball subsidize everything else. Why should rich kids get into good school through the backdoor with lesser credentials playing some sport (for purposes of ease, let's call that sport "lacrosse") they have no shot of making a career of. It's a waste of time. The commitment required to play any sport on a D1 level is immense. There's just no way you can get around the simple fact that someone who has more time to study is going to do better. Look, I work out at a gym that produces a lot of D1 talent. I understand the benefit of athletics, but only to a degree, only to the extent that it helps you focus. When you spend too much time on it, with no benefit on the horizon, you're wasting your time. At the end of the day, rich kids who never should have gotten in, except that they can play lacrosse or squash or field hockey or whatever, are the ones who are hurt by this. When you mismatch students, the weaker ones will struggle, and they will struggle even more with a sports commitment. If the NCAA really wanted to help kids, they should do away with all these useless addendums and just focus on the revenue sports. At least with football and basketball (and to a lesser extent hockey and baseball), you can make the argument that providing a base education as a backup or addendum makes sense for those athletes.
*feigned equality
That's a cool story. I had no idea that Michigan had a good history in rugby too. I began playing as a junior in high school and now I'm playing at Purdue. I'm a freshman right now. We only have 30-40 guys. Wish we could turn out 150 guys!
I wish you would tell the current Rugby team about their great history. The current team is rapidly screwing it all up.
I played for UM's rugby team and it seemed most the people there were more concerned with getting drunk and acting foolish than anything else.
Title IX effectively sponsors a slave labor system where teams of primarily black male football and basketball athletes subsidize comparitively less athletic primarily white men and women playing olympic sports. And for all their trouble, the football and basketball players graduate at pathetic rates compared to other athletes. It's a sad state of affairs.


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FULTON – Unity Christian School recently celebrated homecoming and spirit week.
Students dressed according to themes chosen by the student council, which included Occupation Day, School Spirit Day, Athletic Day, and Krazy Day.
The days featured a banana suit, colors of professional sports teams, Sam Lenz as mathlete, being professional mattress testers, a movie director, and the fashion police.
Dodgeball, a scavenger hunt, games, and a pep rally with a cheerleading squad performance were part of the week's entertainment.
In basketball, the junior high girls defeated Galesburg Christian School 64-9; the high school girls lost to Morningstar Academy of Bettendorf, Iowa, 35-41; and the high school boys also beat Galesburg 72-36.
The high school basketball season ended with a conference tournament.
The boys finished third and the girls fourth. Collin Willoughby and Vanessa Frederick were named first team All-Conference; and Erin Wessels, Sean Hansen, Nolan Willoughby, and Colby Dykstra were named second team All-Conference.

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Sept. 11, 2002 began with a prayer breakfast hosted by Parkersburg Mayor Jimmy Colombo, attracting religious and civic leaders from the area and beyond.
The main speaker was West Virginia University President David Hardesty, who cited past conflicts in the nation's history for perspective on how America is coping with last year's terrorist attacks. More than 500 people attended the sunrise breakfast.
Later in the day, hundreds came to Parkersburg City Park to hear from veterans, law enforcement and emergency medical personnel their perspectives on Sept. 11. A wreath was laid in City Park honoring, among others, Mary Lou Hague, the Parkersburg native who died in the attack a year ago on the World Trade Center.
Bells were rung denoting each of the wars in the nation's history, including the current War on Terror.
And as dusk fell on the city, the third ceremony of the day was held at Bicentennial Park.


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They're poor. They're elderly. They're disabled. But are they eligible? Advocates and state officials are struggling to determine just who among hundreds will be allowed to continue in the program that replaces Medi-Cal's Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) system. Cash-starved California slashed the optional ADHC benefit last fall and replaced it with a leaner program called Community-Based Adult Services (CBAS).
The state-wide centers continue to serve about 80 percent of the original 40,000 or so participants, some of California's frailest individuals, people who suffer from multiple disabilities including Alzheimer's, paralysis and traumatic brain injury. Advocates say the evaluation process for new participants was flawed and left many needy people without care. The state contends that the process worked and that only the most medically fragile individuals qualified, as intended.
This report comes to us from the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting.
It's no easy task explaining the eligibility criteria for California's new Adult Day Health Care program. Or, as it's now called, Community Based Adult Services, CBAS.
Just ask Norman Williams. It's his job to explain things on behalf of the state.
Whaley: "Can you explain the eligibility criteria?"
Williams: "I cannot. I mean I have a chart that I can show you. I know what you were asking and I felt bad that it's not something you can roll off the tip of your head. It's a complicated process."
Even visually, it's a challenge.
"There's a chart and it has five different bubbles. Each of these bubbles has arrows going to other parts of the process."
The state and advocates for the disabled agreed on this eligibility criteria. Then, about two hundred nurses were dispatched to the nearly three hundred centers across California.
Jane Ogle is the deputy director for health care delivery systems for the state. She's in charge of overseeing the transition from the old program:
"Under the CBAS program, we're looking much more at medical conditions and not at social conditions. I mean, the truth is, while we would love to be able to support social programs such as this with medical dollars, we just can't anymore. "
So if you have severe Alzheimer's you're definitely in and can spend a few hours a week at a center with planned activities, nutritious meals and companionship. On the other hand, if you have mild dementia, but you bathe, dress, eat! walk, and use the bathroom by yourself, well, there's a good chance you didn't make the cut.
"It's very hard to hear some of the sad stories, but, um, I have complete faith in the nurses who are doing these assessments that they're making the right decisions."
Across town from Jane Ogle, Lydia Missaelides works as an advocate at the California Association for Adult Day Services. Initially she shared that faith in the process.
"We were very pleased that at the end of the first round of face to face reviews, roughly 80% were found eligible. So that was the good news."
Good news. And a surprise. The state had expected that only about half of the 40,000 or so participants would be found eligible. For Missaelides, though, that initial good news was soon forgotten when she learned that there were still a lot of people who were cut from the program.
"Every one of those is a human being with a story and a support system or lack of a support system."
She and other advocates also point to a few hundred cases where they say the state second guessed nurse decisions.
"We began to see a flurry of ineligible determinations based on a paper review of what the face to face nurse deemed to be an appropriate person."
The state responds that advocates are purposefully using words like "overturn" for dramatic effect and that nurse recommendations were just part of a bigger decision making process. They were never the final say.
State spokesman Norman Williams knows he has a difficult task explaining broad policy that can affect people so dramatically.
"One of the interesting parts of my job is that the other side is almost always more compelling than our side. So what we have to do over and over, my associate and myself, is explain the state's point of view."
The bottom line, he says, is this:
"We have an obligation to be good stewards of the public dollar."
Both advocates and the state do agree on one thing. This revised program needs to keep the frail, sick and disabled away from expensive nursing homes and pricey emergency room visits.
Whether it will meet that goal … it's too early to say.


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RichardSanders writes "This recent publication provides an accessible introduction to using Mahara within business and academic settings. It is great to see that the authors work for TDM, who provide Mahara & Moodle based solutions for a broad range of clients. This professional experience has contributed to a coherent and easy to follow text that provides essential information for new users. This comes as no surprise, as many individuals within the academic sector regularly benefit from Derrin's advice within mailing lists concerned with educational technologies." Keep reading for the rest of Richard's review.Covering key functionality that the reader should be aware of, the book comprises of 7 main chapters dealing with reasons for using Mahara, setting up an account, adding artefacts, creating portfolio views, creating & managing groups, interacting with friends, overall site settings and administration. TDM have also provided an installation of Mahara for readers of the book to interact with, if they do not have access to an installation of their own.
|Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios: Beginners Guide
|Derrin Kent, Richard Hand, Glenys Bradbury and Margaret Kent
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|This book will provide you with step-by-step instructions to get started with Mahara and create an impressive electronic portfolio.
Looking at this from the perspective of higher education, I can see this publication being used in two main ways. Academics can dip in and out of the publication to cement their understanding, and it can also be used in formulating support for students who are using Mahara for the first time. For both of these purposes, the authors' previous experience of writing instructional text for technology shines through, with flowing informal writing that is easy to digest and a logical, stepped approach to introducing each of the key features. Use of screenshots is intelligently done and you are provided with questions to test your understanding within every chapter. I particularly liked the 'Have a go hero' sections provided throughout the book, which are designed to encourage deeper investigation by the reader.
Other highlights include Derrin's example of a multi-page Mahara view, an easy to understand explanation of tagging. It's great to see the authors highlighting the importance of folder structures for files that you may store online. The publication also deals with quality checklists for information that you publish online, which is important to consider from an accessibility perspective.
For a new edition, there are only a few improvements that the authors could consider. The main area for improvement relates to the provided case studies, which are referred to at appropriate points within chapters. These are designed to illustrate how Mahara functionality can be used in particular situations and they manage to fulfill this purpose. This useful idea could be significantly enriched if case study examples were integrated into TDM's companion Mahara installation for readers to access. This would also help to encourage active community involvement around the installation, which could bring further collaborative benefits between readers in the future. It is also worth mentioning that the index could be improved for those that want to dip in and out of content.
I can whole-heartedly recommend this publication to anyone who is intending on using Mahara for the first time. If you need a more general academic justification for using ePortfolios or are looking for a way to compare the different solutions available for use, you would be better off looking somewhere else. This book is unashamedly for those who have already considered this and have come to the conclusion that Mahara is the best fit. With the close integration of Moodle with Mahara on the horizon, using this book to learn the basics becomes a no-brainer for those who already have this popular open source VLE.
You can purchase Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios: Beginners Guide from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.


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Crysis 3 has been announced--but only after a series of leaks forced publisher Electronic Arts to confirm the game's existence. "The best kept secret in shooters just can't be contained," the publisher confirmed.
Leaked boxart which appeared briefly on Origin showed off a Nanosuit-wearing soldier in yet another urban environment. This time, though, he's carrying a bow and arrow.
The leaked Origin entry (via DSO Gaming) also revealed the platforms. Predictably, it's Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
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Old English deop "profound, awful, mysterious; serious, solemn; deepness, depth," deope (adv.), from Proto-Germanic *deupaz (cf. Old Saxon diop, Old Frisian diap, Dutch diep, Old High German tiof, German tief, Old Norse djupr, Danish dyb, Swedish djup, Gothic diups "deep"), from PIE *dheub- "deep, hollow" (cf. Lithuanian dubus "deep, hollow, Old Church Slavonic duno "bottom, foundation," Welsh dwfn "deep," Old Irish domun "world," via sense development from "bottom" to "foundation" to "earth" to "world").
Figurative senses were in Old English; extended 16c. to color, sound. Deep pocket "wealth" is from 1951. To go off the deep end "lose control of oneself" is slang first recorded 1921, probably in reference to the deep end of a swimming pool, where a person on the surface can no longer touch bottom. When 3-D films seemed destined to be the next wave and the biggest thing to hit cinema since talkies, they were known as deepies (1953).
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WARSAW — It was the place where Jewish women did their ritual bathing. It was a tuberculosis clinic. It survived the German onslaught and became a gathering point for Holocaust survivors.
Now ''the white building,'' the headquarters of the Jewish community and one of the few surviving remnants of the infamous Warsaw Ghetto, could be torn down to make way for a multistory tower that would fit seamlessly into a modern city skyline.
The building's fate will soon be determined by the Culture Ministry, which has been asked by advocates of historic preservation to declare it a historical monument, a classification that would ban its destruction.
It is not yet clear how officials will decide, though previous rulings by other state offices had declared the building not worth saving. Now those for and against destroying the old building are anxiously awaiting a verdict.
What is perhaps unexpected in this case is who is fighting for what: Warsaw's Jewish community, which owns the dilapidated three-story building, is making the case for its destruction.
The community leaders argue that a bigger building is needed to accommodate a Jewish community that is reemerging in the young Polish democracy after the Holocaust and decades of communist repression.
The white building, in the heart of the city's business district, is the place where the Jewish community gathers for lectures, Shabbat dinners, holidays, even sports.
Jewish leaders argue that it is too cramped, bleak, and fungus-infested to continue serving the needs of a community that has roughly tripled in number in the past decade.
''An opinion that I can't agree with is that the building is more important than the future of the community,'' said Andrzej Zozula, vice president of the Jewish community. ''Because unfortunately that's the gist of the conflict.''
Poland's Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich has even been evoking the precedent of King Herod rebuilding the Second Temple in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago as he makes the case to tear the structure down.
''As much as we respect the past, we build for the future,'' Schudrich said. ''As much as there was a holiness to the temple that stood, that temple was reconfigured to a much more grand scale to meet the needs, the desires of a living Jewish community. And so this in some way represents the struggle we have here.''
The debate is also a microcosm of deeper issues that emerge in city planning today in Warsaw, a city that was almost totally destroyed during World War II and which has seen massive development as the economy has boomed in the postcommunist era. Architectural gems key to the nation's identity were meticulously rebuilt after the war — like Warsaw's Royal Castle and Old Town Square.
Some prewar buildings here and there also survived, sometimes thanks to chance, sometimes because they headquartered the Nazis and were therefore spared the leveling that was the German response to two major uprisings — the Ghetto uprising of 1943 and a larger revolt by the entire city in 1944.
In the old ghetto area, almost nothing remains of the past. Just next to the white building stands the Nozyk synagogue, the only prewar synagogue still in existence in Warsaw. It survived because the Germans turned it into a horse stable.
There is a prewar church that largely survived across the street as well as four buildings on nearby Prozna Street, with aging brick facades still bearing bullet holes. Here and there fragments of the old ghetto wall can also be found.
The debate over the white building raises questions that underlie several building projects across the city: Should rare old buildings be saved if doing so holds back modernization? And which historical structures are worth saving?
In this case, opponents of the plan say Jewish leaders don't have the right to destroy a rare surviving structure, arguing that it belongs to Poland's larger patrimony. But Jewish leaders counter that it would be unfair if they are prevented from developing, when skyscrapers all around have long erased any trace of the area's prewar character.
Though it has a cellar dating back more than two centuries, most of the building is about 130 years old and has undergone major transformations.


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Fiscal Uncertainty Chips Away at U.S. Prestige
Dysfunction Is Limiting U.S. Position Abroad, Observers Say; 'Sadness From Our Trading Partners'
WASHINGTON—As the world's pre-eminent economic power, the U.S. has been the cornerstone of the global financial system since World War II. Now, observers say that prestige may have been badly dented by Washington's latest display of fiscal dysfunction, limiting the U.S.'s ability to get things done abroad.
Laurence Fink, chief executive of the world's largest asset manager, New York-based BlackRock Inc., said Friday that he detected "a pronounced sadness from our trading partners and our friends" as he tried to...


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Luis Suarez made the headlines again for all the wrong reasons on Sunday, his Liverpool future has been put in doubt, but should Liverpool sell their talismanic striker?
With Suarez currently the second top scorer in the Premier League, it is hard to see Liverpool coping without him; but do they want a striker whose reputation gets the better of him? Only time will tell.
For all of Suarez's outstanding achievements this season, he has had his fair share of controversy too. Even before his arrival, Suarez, then Ajax captain was handed with a seven-match ban for biting Otman Bakkal in 2010.
That proved to be his last game for Ajax, with him subsequently being sold to Liverpool for £22.7million in January 2011.
This season, we have seen the good, bad and the ugly of Luis Suarez. Firstly, he has been phenomenal this season and is currently only second to Robin van Persie with 23 goals so far to his name.
Then we started to see the bad side of Suarez. During a match with Manchester United at Anfield on the 15th October 2012, Suarez was found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra; this led to an eight match ban and a £40,000 fine.
That appeared to be the only blemish in what appeared to be a magnificent season for Suarez; but that was not the case.
Suarez did make a positive impact in the 2-2 draw with Chelsea, by providing an assist to Daniel Sturridge to score against his former club, he also scored a dramatic leveller in the dying seconds to salvage a draw; but this is not what the game will be remembered for.
During the second half, Suarez sunk his teeth into the arm of Branislav Ivanovic, a sheer act of brutality. Although Suarez did not face any action during the game, he is likely to receive a lengthy ban and fine for his troubles.
With Brendan Rodgers claiming that every player can be replaced, many are wondering whether Suarez should be sold. Whether Liverpool would want to sell is a different matter, but Suarez has damaged the image and reputation of a top class football club.
However, the footballing authorities should be doing everything they can to keep such a good player in the Premier League. Eric Cantona, a man who aimed a kung-fu kick at a Crystal Palace fan, remained at Manchester United despite a huge protest, showing that you can remain in this illustrious league even if you have done wrong. Even the footballing authorities are doing all they can to help Suarez.
PFA chairman Gordon Taylor has announced the PFA will offer Suarez anger management counselling to ensure that incidents as brutal as this are never repeated again.
It is clear that the PFA want Suarez to stay in the Premier League, so should Liverpool sell him? It is clear that Suarez has immense quality, but whether he is worth all the hassle is a different matter, but for now, Suarez should remain a Liverpool player.
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European Space Agency Picks Plato Planet-hunting Mission 32
kc123 writes "A telescope to find worlds around other stars has been selected for launch by the European Space Agency's Science Policy Committee. Known as Plato (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), the mission should launch on a Soyuz rocket in 2024. The Plato space telescope will prepare the way for scientists searching for alien life by locating the first genuinely Earth-like exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. It will break new ground in astronomy by using a "bug eye" array of 34 individual telescopes. The intention is for this array to sweep about half the sky, to investigate some of its brightest and nearest stars."


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The return of Kiprusoff and facing another tired opponent using their backup goaltender? this game began with promise.
And surprisingly, Calgary took advantage of it! A tied game heading into the third, the Flames uncharacteristically scored three times (including an empty-net goal) to walk away with a 4-1 win. Iginla scored, Blake Comeau scored (who?), and Calgary moved above .500 for the first time this year! Can someone say race for eighth? Nope, not even close.
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REINBECK - Brittney Keller rattled off 18 kills and Ellie Stoakes added 11 as the Rebels fought off the Falcons 25-14, 25-22, 18-25, 25-20 in Class 2A Region 6 first round action Tuesday.
Alyssa Christopher (17-for-17) and Hayley Weber (12-for-13) each served up three aces and had 18 digs as G-R (11-22) moves on to face top-ranked Dike-New Hartford in quarterfinal play on Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. The Wolverines (39-1) are the reigning state champs and received a bye in the first round.
The Rebels' Jenny Schildroth distributed 34 assists and was a perfect 23-for-23 on serve with a pair of aces. Stoakes had two solo blocks and Keller added 11 digs as Bailea Evenson and Hayley Weber notched six kills apiece.
Evenson (14-of-17) had two aces and Stoakes (8-for-10) and Keller (11-for-12) each had one as the Rebels finished 85-of-92 from behind the line with 12 service winners. No stats were available for Aplington-Parkersburg (9-19).


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The Estherville City Council learned Monday the Fifth Avenue North project continues to move forward.
This week, the street was installed between the 600 and 700 blocks of Fifth Avenue North.
By Friday, Estherville Administrator Penny Clayton said crews still have to pour the tie-ins and do the driveway approaches along with some intake work and other odds and ends.
Clayton said the street is projected to be open by the end of October if not sooner.
Meanwhile, she told council resurfacing projects around town are expected to begin the week of Oct. 21.
"We have significant patching work to do," said Clayton.
In other improvements around town, the council on Monday approved the exterior remodeling plans submitted by Godfather's Pizza at 1804 Central Ave
Also council authorized the city attorney to proceed with the steps necessary to eliminate the minimum housing code violations at 12 W. N. First St. and 321 Seventh Ave. N.
As reported in the Emmet County Board of Supervisors story (which starts on Page 1), council approved a $50,000 forgivable loan from the economic development fund to help the Estherville Industrial Development Corporation with the restoration and redevelopment at the building at 12 S. Sixth St. Council members Dave Seylar and Larry Anderson were appointed to serve on the restoration committee. Council also supported the recommendation from Excel Estherville for the issuance of $400,00 in bonds repayable from Excel's portion of the local option sale tax.


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ROCKFORD (WIFR) – A 15-year-old Guilford High School Student has been arrested after the Rockford Police School Unit began investigating complaints that were being transmitted on Facebook regarding an alleged shooting. The alleged shooting was to take place at the high school on either December 20th or 21st.
The student indicated that she made the threat solely to cause disruption in the school.
After admitting to making the threat, the 15-year-old was then arrested for Disorderly Conduct: Knowingly causes to be transmitted a threat of violence (Class 4 Felony).
The Rockford Police Department takes all threats of violence towards students, staff, or property seriously and all cases will be investigated and arrests will be made.


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Coastal Men's Tennis Opens 2013 with 6-1 Win over Mercer
CCU stays on the road for two matches, home opener is Feb. 8
Coastal Carolina Student-Athletes Continue to Enjoy Classroom Success
Of the 453 Coastal Carolina student-athletes, 256 posted a GPA of 3.0 or better for the fall 2012 semester
Chanticleers Finish Elon Invitational With Three Championships
Freshman Hunter Whalen claims a singles and doubles championship
Chanticleers Go Unbeaten in First Day at Elon Invitational
Coastal Carolina Men's Tennis Receives Academic Recognition
Team Honored as well as Danny Heidecker, Yusuke Kusuda, Leo Christofides and Sam Barr
Fall 2012: Recorded a singles and doubles win in the Big Teal vs. Big Orange match against Campbell .... Won the C2 doubles flight with partner Hunter Whalen at the Elon Invitational ... Won three singles and one doubles match at the UVA Fall Classic.
Spring 2012: Put together a 6-6 record in singles play including a 3-3 mark in the Big South... Five of his six wins were completed in straight sets... Along with teammate John Karle the duo posted an 8-6 record from the No. 3 doubles flight and an 8-8 overall record.
Fall 2011: Dropped his only fall singles event in the UNCW Fall Invitational... Fell 8-3 in his lone doubles match at the UNCW event.
At Arizona (Spring 2011): Played in two dual singles matches, compiling a 1-1 record in the No. 6 spot. He made his college singles debut against Boise State at the Blue/Gray Tennis Classic where he secured a win in straight sets. In doubles action, Barr tallied a 2-1 record, teaming up with Borja Malo twice compiling a perfect 2-0 record. The pair claimed wins in the No. 2 and No. 3 positions. He also teamed up with Geoff Embry (0-1) in the No. 2 slot.
High School: Attended Hutt Valley High School in Wellington, New Zealand...Played under personal coach Clint Packer... Won the New Zealand under-16 doubles championship in 2008 and finished third in the under-16 singles championship... Won an under-18 international doubles championship in 2008 and was on the New Zealand under-18 team in 2008-09.
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ROCKFORD — The victim of Saturday morning's fatal stabbing in downtown Rockford was 21-year-old Achaiah Tyashay McGee.
According to the Winnebago County Coroner's office, McGee is from Rockford, but her family resides in the Chicago area.
She was pronounced dead at Rockford Memorial Hospital at 10:39 a.m. Saturday. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday. She died of an apparent stab wound to the chest.
The stabbing took place at 520 Mulberry St. across the street from the police station.
Police said the stabbing occurred after an altercation between two women at the Rockford Mass Transit District downtown bus station.
Jeanette Short, 28, of Rockford was jailed on aggravated battery after the incident.
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"We are going to be a little hotter and sexier," says Rich Frank of Prospect Park. "That doesn't mean we'll be doing anything that's offensive. We're trying to be contemporary and have storylines that are relevant to people's lives."
"This is an evolution of the viewing mechanism," says Steve Kent, senior exec programming veep of Sony Pictures Television (which produces Y&R and DAYS). "People have long predicted the demise of network television, but it still exists and will for the foreseeable future."
As for potentially racier content, Kent says, "If they turn ALL MY CHILDREN into porn — and I'm sure they won't — then nobody is going to watch. Soap audiences are more traditional."
"We all have our fingers crossed that this is successful," says DAYS co-exec producer Greg Meng. "(But) these shows won't be competitive with us."
"If we're right, we'll have started something," says Frank. "If not, then we'll have spent a lot of time seeing if this would work. But we're very confident that this will happen and that people will come to us. This is just the start. After we're up on the air and running we're going to look at doing other things."


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Health care dominates highest-paying jobs in America
Health care is where the money is.
The nine highest-paying jobs in America are all in the fields of medicine, dentistry or psychiatry, according to an On Numbers analysis of newly released compensation data for 816 occupations.
Anesthesiologists top the list with average annual pay of $232,830 as of 2012, the latest year for which official figures are available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
- The 100 highest-paying jobs in the nation
- The 100 highest-paying jobs in each of 104 major markets
- The average pay levels for all employees in 104 major markets
These are the nation's nine leading occupations in terms of average annual compensation:
- Anesthesiologists, $232,830
- Surgeons, $230,540
- Obstetricians and gynecologists, $216,760
- Oral and maxillofacial surgeons, $216,440
- General internists, $191,520
- Orthodontists, $186,320
- All other physicians and surgeons, $184,820
- Family and general practitioners, $180,850
- Psychiatrists, $177,520
The highest-rated occupation outside of health care is chief executives, who rank 10th overall with average annual pay of $176,840.
BLS subdivides the workforce into 22 broad sectors. Sectors, in turn, are split into differing numbers of occupational groups, each of which has a distinct six-digit code. Click here to see definitions and descriptions of all occupations, along with additional national data.
On Numbers analyzed 2012 earnings for full-time employees in all occupations across the nation, using data collected by BLS through a comprehensive survey of employers. The study generated separate rankings of the highest-paying jobs in the nation as a whole and in 104 metropolitan areas with populations greater than 500,000.
Surgeons are the highest-paid workers in 37 of the 104 major markets, followed by general internists (tops in 13 markets), all other physicians and surgeons (13), obstetricians and gynecologists (12) and anesthesiologists (10).
Two Connecticut metros -- Bridgeport-Stamford and New Haven -- are the only places where the highest-paid workers are not in the field of health care. Chief executives are No. 1 in the local salary rankings for those two areas.
Average salaries for all workers exceed $60,000 in four major metros. Atop the list is San Jose, where average annual pay for all employees in all lines of work is $69,670. The runners-up are Washington ($63,750), San Francisco-Oakland ($62,680) and Bridgeport-Stamford ($60,720).


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School Library Journal Gr 5-8-In this tale of courage and devotion, a single shard from a celadon vase changes the life of a young boy and his master. In 12th-century Korea, the village of Ch'ulp'o is famous for its pottery. The orphan Tree-ear spends his days foraging for food for himself and Crane-man, a lame straw weaver who has cared for him for many years. Because of his wanderings, Tree-ear is familiar with all of the potters in the village, but he is especially drawn to Min. When he drops a piece Min has made, Tree-ear begins to work for him to pay off his debt, but stays on after the debt is paid because he longs to learn to create beautiful pots himself. Sent to the royal court to show the king's emissary some new pottery, Tree-ear makes a long journey filled with disaster and learns what it means to have true courage. This quiet story is rich in the details of life in Korea during this period. In addition it gives a full picture of the painstaking process needed to produce celadon pottery. However, what truly stands out are the characters: the grumpy perfectionist, Min; his kind wife; wise Crane-man; and most of all, Tree-ear, whose determination and lively intelligence result in good fortune. Like Park's Seesaw Girl (1999) and The Kite Fighters (2000, both Clarion), this book not only gives readers insight into an unfamiliar time and place, but it is also a great story.-Barbara Scotto, Michael Driscoll School, Brookline, MA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Publishers Weekly Park (Seesaw Girl) molds a moving tribute to perseverance and creativity in this finely etched novel set in mid- to late 12th-century Korea. In Ch'ul'po, a potter's village, Crane-man (so called because of one shriveled leg) raises 10-year-old orphan Tree Ear (named for a mushroom that grows "without benefit of "parent-seed"). Though the pair reside under a bridge, surviving on cast-off rubbish and fallen grains of rice, they believe "stealing and begging... made a man no better than a dog." From afar, Tree Ear admires the work of the potters until he accidentally destroys a piece by Min, the most talented of the town's craftsmen, and pays his debt in servitude for nine days. Park convincingly conveys how a community of artists works (chopping wood for a communal kiln, cutting clay to be thrown, etc.) and effectively builds the relationships between characters through their actions (e.g., Tree Ear hides half his lunch each day for Crane-man, and Min's soft-hearted wife surreptitiously fills the bowl). She charts Tree Ear's transformation from apprentice to artist and portrays his selflessness during a pilgrimage to Songdo to show Min's work to the royal court he faithfully continues even after robbers shatter the work and he has only a single shard to show. Readers will not soon forget these characters or their sacrifices. Ages 10-14. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Book list Gr. 4-8. When the polite greeting in a society is "Have you eaten well today?' one may guess that subsistence is of prime concern. Surely no one in this twelfth-century Korean village is more accustomed to hunger than the orphan boy Tree-ear and his guardian Crane-man who is lame. They sleep under a bridge in summer and in a pit in winter, eating what they can forage in the woods or garbage piles. At the age of 12, Tree-ear becomes an assistant to the potter Min. A hard taskmaster to himself and the boy, Min is the maker of the finest celadon ware in Ch'ul'po, a village known for its pottery. When Min entrusts two precious pots to Tree-ear to deliver to Songdo, the boy must make his way across miles of unknown territory, relying on his courage and wits to prove himself worthy of Min's trust. This quiet, but involving, story draws readers into a very different time and place. Though the society has its own conventions, the hearts and minds and stomachs of the characters are not so far removed from those of people today. Readers will feel the hunger and cold that Tree-ear experiences, as well as his shame, fear, gratitude, and love. A well-crafted novel with an unusual setting. --Carolyn Phelan
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COLUMBUS — When Nottingham High freshman Sean McGeehan singled to lead off its New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Central Jersey Group III Tournament game at Northern Burlington yesterday, the 16th-seeded Northstars had high hopes for the rest of the game.
Greyhounds pitcher Zach Gakeler had his own idea of things were going to go.
Gakeler, a junior left-hander, did not allow another hit for the remainder of the game. He only walked two other batters and struck out 14, including one stretch of eight straight.
He needed to be that sharp because Nottingham junior right-hander Franco Esposito was equally sharp, limiting Northern to one hit as well.
But that one hit, a third-inning double by Tyler O'Dell chased home Frank Bilancio with one of the game's two runs as top-seeded Northern Burlington won, 2-0.
"Fourteen strikeouts is the most I've had," Gakeler said. "It kind of surprised me when I struck out the eight in a row. Everything was working for me."
When it comes to dominant pitching performances, this was one. But Esposito gave him a run for his money by keeping the Greyhounds off balance.
"After that first at-bat, we thought things were going to go better," McGeehan said. "But after we had that string of strikeouts, we lost all of our intensity."
Esposito kept the game even until the third when Bilancio led off with a walk and moved to second on a bunt by Kevin Welsh. O'Dell followed with the hardest hit of the game, banging a double just right of center field to give the home team a 1-0 lead.
"I got in a good count, and kind of thought he was going to come with a fastball," O'Dell said. "Their outfielders were playing me to pull, so I knew if I could get a ball away, I'd put it in the gap."
That run stood until the bottom of the sixth when Esposito hit Gakeler with a pitch. After courtesy runner Tyler Mealy was sacrificed to second base by Bret Parlante for the second out, esposito had trouble coming up with dribbler off the bat of Adam Rapp and the second run crossed the plate.
Gakeler never let the Northstars think about a rally by retiring the final six batters he faced, three by strikeout.
"When Zach's on like that, it's phenomenal," O'Dell said. "As a fielder, you're almost bored out there. But it sure was fun to watch."
Northern Burlington (19-3) will have more chances to show what their talented young team can do when they host ninth-seeded Hightstown (12-7) in Friday's second round.


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Last night, New Jersey voters approved a constitutional amendment to raise the minimum wage by a dollar to $8.25 an hour.
And in SeaTac, Washington, a proposition that would make the minimum wage in some in airport-related industries $15 an hour was leading with over 50 percent of the vote.
But if raising the minimum wage is so popular with voters, why won't Congress take up the issue?
NPR's Marilyn Geewax joins Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson to explain.
- Marilyn Geewax, senior business editor for NPR. She tweets @geewaxnpr.
From NPR and WBUR Boston, I'm Jeremy Hobson. It's HERE AND NOW.
Last night, New Jersey voters reelected their governor, Chris Christie, but they also overwhelmingly approved a $1 hike in the state's minimum wage. Starting in January, the minimum wage in New Jersey will be $8.25 an hour. Nationwide, the federal minimum wage has been 7.25 an hour since 2009. Now President Obama has asked Congress to raise that again, but so far, lawmakers have not made that happened. So more and more states are taking action on their own.
Joining us now to talk about all this is Marilyn Geewax, senior business editor with NPR. Marilyn, good to have you back. And tell us about what happened last night because it wasn't just New Jersey.
MARILYN GEEWAX, BYLINE: Right. First, in New Jersey, it really was a slam dunk. Voters overwhelmingly approved this wage hike. And now, it joins New York where the state legislature already had approved a wage hike. So we're seeing, you know, real momentum as far as states approving this. But the big thing that, you know, it's kind of a small town, SeaTac, Washington, that's where the surprise was. People appeared to have passed by a fairly good margin an increase to $15 an hour. That's a lot of money.
HOBSON: Wow.
GEEWAX: But it only applies to people who work in or around Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. So, you know, that's a relatively small group of people. But still, when you think about it, it's not just mechanics or pilots or airport workers like that. It's the people who make sandwiches, who are the janitors, whatever. The - these - everyone across the board will be able to make $15 an hour now, and that's pretty amazing, more than double the federal wage.
HOBSON: So if there is this support for this around the country, why hasn't Congress raised the federal minimum?
GEEWAX: That's interesting. The federal wage was last raised in July of 2009. It's been at this $7.25 for a long time now. And President Obama, at the start of the year, during his State of the Union Address, said he wanted to raise the rate to $9 an hour. But it always has a lot of resistance in Congress because, you know, if you think about it, every single member of Congress has at least one restaurant in their district. There are often lots and lots of restaurants.
And the restaurant owners are really opposed to higher wages as well as the small business owners. So the lawmakers get a lot of lobbying. They hear a lot about it when they go back to their districts from the small business people. So there's a lot of resistance at a federal level to raising this federal minimum wage. But as we said, you know, on the state and city level, the voters are going around the lawmakers and just taking these direct ballot initiatives.
HOBSON: Well, yeah. And the argument against it always comes from these business leaders who would say, if you raise the minimum wage, you're going to have fewer jobs created as a result of that. What does the economic research show about the impact of raising the wage?
GEEWAX: Well, the wage has been set for 75 years now. So there's been a lot of time to look at the economic impact of it. And most studies actually show that the impact on total employment is pretty marginal. You know, in any specific business, if suddenly you have to pay more in wages, you may not be able to hire an - another worker, or you may have to let someone go.
But overall, if consumers have more money in their pocket, you know, a lot of those low-wage workers, as soon as they get some more money, they can, you know, get a haircut, buy another pizza, whatever. They help stimulate the economy so that, overall in the aggregate, you end up with somewhat, you know, breaking even where you have jobs shift, but they're not necessarily shrinking.
HOBSON: Marilyn Geewax, NPR senior business editor, thank you as always.
GEEWAX: Oh, it's good to be with you, Jeremy.
HOBSON: And let us know what you think. Does the minimum wage need to go up across the country? Should it be more than $7.25 an hour? You can go to hereandnow.org and weigh in with your thoughts. This is HERE AND NOW. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Liverpool winger Stewart Downing had a rare day to remember at Anfield as his first Barclays Premier League goal for the club wrapped up a comfortable 4-0 victory over Fulham.
Only last week the England international had admitted he may leave next month after manager Brendan Rodgers said he could go.
If that was the incentive to put himself in the shop window it worked as he registered his first league assist in setting up Steven Gerrard - after Martin Skrtel's opener - and capped his performance with a goal of his own before Luis Suarez added an injury-time fourth.
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A quick response by Newark and Rhome volunteer firefighters saved most of a mobile home Wednesday afternoon.
The two departments were dispatched to reports of heavy smoke and flames coming from underneath the structure in the 700 block of Rogers Road in Newark around 3 p.m. By 3:35, the fire was extinguished and had been contained to the home's undercarriage.
Although firefighters on scene couldn't deem the home inhabitable or not, they believe the damages were minimal.
"We got it before it came up through the floor and into their belongings," Newark firefighter Charles Braun said.
The cause is unknown and may not be determined for a while since the county is without a fire marshal.


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DENISON, TEXAS - Every year more than 400 men between the ages of 15 to 35 die from testicular cancer and this year one of those men included a Denison firefighter. And now his mother shares how she uses his tragic death as a way to save the lives of other men.
Earlier this year, we did a story on Rhonda Kohles and that story has not only impacted people in Texoma but around the world, as she works tirelessly to fulfill her son's last plea raising awareness about testicular cancer.
"They called us about 4:00 that morning and told us he wasn't going to make it and up until that time we had so much hope," said Kohles.
On Jan 6th 2011, Robert Jones, a Denison firefighter and father of three, took his last breath. It happened just a few months after he was diagnosed with testicular cancer.
But before he died he wanted one last thing from his family.
"He said mama we have got to do something about this we've got to get the word out about testicular cancer," said Kohles.
At a benefit concert over the weekend, she unveiled the Robert Jones Foundation.
It's an effort she's worked tirelessly on, making it her life mission to spread the word about the potentially deadly disease that claimed the life of her healthy 27-year-old son.
"I thought I'm going to uphold what he wanted me to do and so I got out and doing what Robert wanted me to do and warned young men about testicular cancer," said Kohles.
Shortly after his death, she shared his story with us in hopes that some young man might get tested for the disease. Little did she know that it would be seen by someone who lived more than a thousand miles away.
This is Mike Craycraft, the Founder of the Testicular Cancer Society.
If you take one look at him and Rhonda, you'd think they knew each other for years but they only recently met, after Mike (who is a survivor of testicular cancer) saw her story on kxii.com.
"I just really saw a mother that was in a lot of pain and turmoil because of what testicular cancer had taken away from her and just felt the need to connect," said Craycraft.
After just one conversation, Mike knew he wanted to find a special way to include Robert in his 5th year anniversary celebration of surviving testicular cancer.
"It was literally right when I was watching your video that I thought I want to take Robert's name with me on the top of a mountain," said Craycraft.
Just months after the story aired, he went to the UK and spent an entire day climbing one of the highest mountains and at the top he put up a flag with Robert's name on it, along with two other men who lost their battle with testicular cancer.
"Robert always wanted to climb a mountain and his favorite song being 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus, at least the song he responded to a lot while he was sick, it was just a phenomenal connection that you wouldn't expect from Ohio to North Texas," said Craycraft.
"What was that moment like? I just kind of got chills, I didn't have an option for failure I had contacted Rhonda and said this is what I'm going to do if I had to get on my hands and knees to get to the top, I couldn't come back and say I'm sorry I couldn't make it," said Craycraft.
"I feel like Mike's my angel sent from my son he has just been such a support for me," said Kohles.
And now the two have joined forces, spreading the word about testicular cancer all in an effort to save more lives.
"I don't want another mother to have to go through what we had to go through, I don't want to be the founder of the Robert Jones foundation but somebody has to because I don't want somebody else to go through this," said Kohles.
To learn more about Robert's Foundation and how to donate visit: http://www.facebook.com/groups/255053517842522/
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Response: Crown rust is a fungus that affects the leaves of oat, and spreads from leaf to leaf via spores. There are some varieties of oat that are more resistant to crown rust than others.
Crown rust on oat should not pose a major health risk to your horses once baled. However, crown rust will likely decrease the nutrient value of the hay (decreased protein and digestible energy levels) and may decrease the palatability (the horses willingness to ingest the hay) of the hay. Therefore, it is recommended that you test the hay for forage quality and supplement with a vitamin/mineral mix or concentrate as needed.
More importantly, crown rust may make the hay dusty, which could lead to respiratory issues. Feeding the hay outdoors and pulling apart the flakes prior to feeding may help to decrease the dust level. Wetting (not soaking) the hay with water prior to feeding will also help reduce the chance the horse will inhale the dust and spore particles.
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Trivia for Monday, April 28. This one is short and sweet.
Who said this of bebop, "It was like humming along with Mitch Miller. It was too simple."
Post your answer in the comments box below or on our Facebook page by 11:59pm on 4/28. All correct answers are eligible to win a CD from the KUVO vault.


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Levendi Debuts on The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Check out the Season 4 picture gallery for The Real Housewives of New Jersey! Turns out the ladies and men of the show LOVE Levendi wines. So of course a Napa trip was included in this seasons lineup. A winery tour and tasting with Levendi Winemaker Alison Green Doran is all this crew needed to spice up the show. Their passion for wine and life is evident in these fantastic pictures. Season 4 premieres on Sunday, April 22 at 10/9 central. Yasou Levendi!


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Patent granted to encourage purchase of digital textbooks
"In a newly-approved patent, an economics professor hopes to bring to the academic publishing world what seems to be forthcoming in the video game industry—new restrictions that would seemingly eliminate a secondary market for digital goods and prevent legal borrowing. Last week, the 2006 patent for a "Web-based system and method to capture and distribute royalties for access to copyrighted academic texts by preventing unauthorized access to discussion boards associated with copyrighted academic works" was approved by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent was granted to Joseph Henry Vogel, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras.
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The footnotemaven has me tagged (er, has tagged me) with the "Thinking Blogger" award which is making the rounds of the blogging world, and, as such these are the rules that are to be followed:
- If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think, tag blogs with real merits, i.e. relative content, and above all - blogs that really get you thinking!
- The origin of the meme, is at The Thinking Blogger.
- Display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote.
These are the blogs I've selected, each with their own merits, that I find engaging, interesting, and thought provoking.
- T.K. at Before My Time
- Cheryl at Two Sides of the Ocean
- Steve Danko at Steve's Genealogy Blog
- All My Ancestors
- Marty Weil at ephemera


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Summer Recipes
This week marked the first official day of summer and that got me thinking about all of my favourite summer recipes! Summer has to be the best time of the year as it's just packed full of fresh produce and of course the weather is perfect for outdoor activities like grilling and picnics! My weekly trek down to the farmers market is like an adventure where I get to see what new and wonderful things arrived and I often have a difficult time choosing just what to get! Below you will find a collection of some of my favourite summer recipes including those using some of summers bounty and some for outdoor cooking and eating!
Spinach and Feta Chicken Burgers (aka Spanakopita Burgers) with Grilled Halloumi, Roasted Red Peppers and a Spinach and Feta Sauce