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Acceptability Judgments
James Myers
Acceptability judgments are reports of a speaker's or signer's subjective sense of the well-formedness, nativeness, or naturalness of (novel) linguistic forms. Their value comes in providing data about the nature of the human capacity to generalize beyond linguistic forms previously encountered in language comprehension. For this reason, acceptability judgments are often also called grammaticality judgments (particularly in syntax), although unlike the theory-dependent notion of grammaticality, acceptability is accessible to consciousness. While acceptability judgments have been used to test grammatical claims since ancient times, they became particularly prominent with the birth of generative syntax. Today they are also widely used in other linguistic schools (e.g., cognitive linguistics) and other linguistic domains (pragmatics, semantics, morphology, and phonology), and have been applied in a typologically diverse range of languages. As psychological responses to linguistic stimuli, acceptability judgments are experimental data. Their value thus depends on the validity of the experimental procedures, which, in their traditional version (where theoreticians elicit judgments from themselves or a few colleagues), have been criticized as overly informal and biased. Traditional responses to such criticisms have been supplemented in recent years by laboratory experiments that use formal psycholinguistic methods to collect and quantify judgments from nonlinguists under controlled conditions. Such formal experiments have played an increasingly influential role in theoretical linguistics, being used to justify subtle judgment claims or new grammatical models that incorporate gradience or lexical influences. They have also been used to probe the cognitive processes giving rise to the sense of acceptability itself, the central finding being that acceptability reflects processing ease. Exploring what this finding means will require not only further empirical work on the acceptability judgment process, but also theoretical work on the nature of grammar.
Acquisition of Pragmatics
Myrto Grigoroglou and Anna Papafragou
To become competent communicators, children need to learn that what a speaker means often goes beyond the literal meaning of what the speaker says. The acquisition of pragmatics as a field is the study of how children learn to bridge the gap between the semantic meaning of words and structures and the intended meaning of an utterance. Of interest is whether young children are capable of reasoning about others' intentions and how this ability develops over time.
For a long period, estimates of children's pragmatic sophistication were mostly pessimistic: early work on a number of phenomena showed that very young communicators were egocentric, oblivious to other interlocutors' intentions, and overall insensitive to subtle pragmatic aspects of interpretation. Recent years have seen major shifts in the study of children's pragmatic development. Novel methods and more fine-grained theoretical approaches have led to a reconsideration of older findings on how children acquire pragmatics across a number of phenomena and have produced a wealth of new evidence and theories.
Three areas that have generated a considerable body of developmental work on pragmatics include reference (the relation between words or phrases and entities in the world), implicature (a type of inferred meaning that arises when a speaker violates conversational rules), and metaphor (a case of figurative language). Findings from these three domains suggest that children actively use pragmatic reasoning to delimit potential referents for newly encountered words, can take into account the perspective of a communicative partner, and are sensitive to some aspects of implicated and metaphorical meaning. Nevertheless, children's success with pragmatic communication is fragile and task-dependent.
Franz Rainer
Blocking can be defined as the non-occurrence of some linguistic form, whose existence could be expected on general grounds, due to the existence of a rival form. *Oxes, for example, is blocked by oxen, *stealer by thief. Although blocking is closely associated with morphology, in reality the competing "forms" can not only be morphemes or words, but can also be syntactic units. In German, for example, the compound Rotwein 'red wine' blocks the phrasal unit *roter Wein (in the relevant sense), just as the phrasal unit rote Rübe 'beetroot; lit. red beet' blocks the compound *Rotrübe. In these examples, one crucial factor determining blocking is synonymy; speakers apparently have a deep-rooted presumption against synonyms. Whether homonymy can also lead to a similar avoidance strategy, is still controversial. But even if homonymy blocking exists, it certainly is much less systematic than synonymy blocking.
In all the examples mentioned above, it is a word stored in the mental lexicon that blocks a rival formation. However, besides such cases of lexical blocking, one can observe blocking among productive patterns. Dutch has three suffixes for deriving agent nouns from verbal bases, -er, -der, and -aar. Of these three suffixes, the first one is the default choice, while -der and -aar are chosen in very specific phonological environments: as Geert Booij describes in The Morphology of Dutch (2002), "the suffix -aar occurs after stems ending in a coronal sonorant consonant preceded by schwa, and -der occurs after stems ending in /r/" (p. 122). Contrary to lexical blocking, the effect of this kind of pattern blocking does not depend on words stored in the mental lexicon and their token frequency but on abstract features (in the case at hand, phonological features).
Blocking was first recognized by the Indian grammarian Pāṇini in the 5th or 4th century
Experimental Pragmatics
Florian Schwarz
While both pragmatic theory and experimental investigations of language using psycholinguistic methods have been well-established subfields in the language sciences for a long time, the field of Experimental Pragmatics, where such methods are applied to pragmatic phenomena, has only fully taken shape since the early 2000s. By now, however, it has become a major and lively area of ongoing research, with dedicated conferences, workshops, and collaborative grant projects, bringing together researchers with linguistic, psychological, and computational approaches across disciplines. Its scope includes virtually all meaning-related phenomena in natural language comprehension and production, with a particular focus on what inferences utterances give rise to that go beyond what is literally expressed by the linguistic material.
One general area that has been explored in great depth consists of investigations of various 'ingredients' of meaning. A major aim has been to develop experimental methodologies to help classify various aspects of meaning, such as implicatures and presuppositions as compared to basic truth-conditional meaning, and to capture their properties more thoroughly using more extensive empirical data. The study of scalar implicatures (e.g., the inference that some but not all students left based on the sentence Some students left) has served as a catalyst of sorts in this area, and they constitute one of the most well-studied phenomena in Experimental Pragmatics to date. But much recent work has expanded the general approach to other aspects of meaning, including presuppositions and conventional implicatures, but also other aspects of nonliteral meaning, such as irony, metonymy, and metaphors.
The study of reference constitutes another core area of research in Experimental Pragmatics, and has a more extensive history of precursors in psycholinguistics proper. Reference resolution commonly requires drawing inferences beyond what is conventionally conveyed by the linguistic material at issue as well; the key concern is how comprehenders grasp the referential intentions of a speaker based on the referential expressions used in a given context, as well as how the speaker chooses an appropriate expression in the first place. Pronouns, demonstratives, and definite descriptions are crucial expressions of interest, with special attention to their relation to both intra- and extralinguistic context. Furthermore, one key line of research is concerned with speakers' and listeners' capacity to keep track of both their own private perspective and the shared perspective of the interlocutors in actual interaction.
Given the rapid ongoing growth in the field, there is a large number of additional topical areas that cannot all be mentioned here, but the final section of the article briefly mentions further current and future areas of research.
Japanese Psycholinguistics
Mineharu Nakayama
The Japanese psycholinguistics research field is moving rapidly in many different directions as it includes various sub-linguistics fields (e.g., phonetics/phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse studies). Naturally, diverse studies have reported intriguing findings that shed light on our language mechanism. This article presents a brief overview of some of the notable early 21st century studies mainly from the language acquisition and processing perspectives. The topics are divided into various sections: the sound system, the script forms, reading and writing, morpho-syntactic studies, word and sentential meanings, and pragmatics and discourse studies sections. Studies on special populations are also mentioned.
Studies on the Japanese sound system have advanced our understanding of L1 and L2 (first and second language) acquisition and processing. For instance, more evidence is provided that infants form adult-like phonological grammar by 14 months in L1, and disassociation of prosody is reported from one's comprehension in L2. Various cognitive factors as well as L1 influence the L2 acquisition process. As the Japanese language users employ three script forms (hiragana, katakana, and kanji) in a single sentence, orthographic processing research reveal multiple pathways to process information and the influence of memory. Adult script decoding and lexical processing has been well studied and research data from special populations further helps us to understand our vision-to-language mapping mechanism. Morpho-syntactic and semantic studies include a long debate on the nativist (generative) and statistical learning approaches in L1 acquisition. In particular, inflectional morphology and quantificational scope interaction in L1 acquisition bring pros and cons of both approaches as a single approach. Investigating processing mechanisms means studying cognitive/perceptual devices. Relative clause processing has been well-discussed in Japanese because Japanese has a different word order (SOV) from English (SVO), allows unpronounced pronouns and pre-verbal word permutations, and has no relative clause marking at the verbal ending (i.e., morphologically the same as the matrix ending). Behavioral and neurolinguistic data increasingly support incremental processing like SVO languages and an expectancy-driven processor in our L1 brain. L2 processing, however, requires more study to uncover its mechanism, as the literature is scarce in both L2 English by Japanese speakers and L2 Japanese by non-Japanese speakers. Pragmatic and discourse processing is also an area that needs to be explored further. Despite the typological difference between English and Japanese, the studies cited here indicate that our acquisition and processing devices seem to adjust locally while maintaining the universal mechanism.
Language Revitalization
Aidan Pine and Mark Turin
The world is home to an extraordinary level of linguistic diversity, with roughly 7,000 languages currently spoken and signed. Yet this diversity is highly unstable and is being rapidly eroded through a series of complex and interrelated processes that result in or lead to language loss. The combination of monolingualism and networks of global trade languages that are increasingly technologized have led to over half of the world's population speaking one of only 13 languages. Such linguistic homogenization leaves in its wake a linguistic landscape that is increasingly endangered.
A wide range of factors contribute to language loss and attrition. While some—such as natural disasters—are unique to particular language communities and specific geographical regions, many have similar origins and are common across endangered language communities around the globe. The harmful legacy of colonization and the enduring impact of disenfranchising policies relating to Indigenous and minority languages are at the heart of language attrition from New Zealand to Hawai'i, and from Canada to Nepal.
Language loss does not occur in isolation, nor is it inevitable or in any way "natural." The process also has wide-ranging social and economic repercussions for the language communities in question. Language is so heavily intertwined with cultural knowledge and political identity that speech forms often serve as meaningful indicators of a community's vitality and social well-being. More than ever before, there are vigorous and collaborative efforts underway to reverse the trend of language loss and to reclaim and revitalize endangered languages. Such approaches vary significantly, from making use of digital technologies in order to engage individual and younger learners to community-oriented language nests and immersion programs. Drawing on diverse techniques and communities, the question of measuring the success of language revitalization programs has driven research forward in the areas of statistical assessments of linguistic diversity, endangerment, and vulnerability. Current efforts are re-evaluating the established triad of documentation-conservation-revitalization in favor of more unified, holistic, and community-led approaches.
Number in Language
Paolo Acquaviva
Number is the category through which languages express information about the individuality, numerosity, and part structure of what we speak about. As a linguistic category it has a morphological, a morphosyntactic, and a semantic dimension, which are variously interrelated across language systems. Number marking can apply to a more or less restricted part of the lexicon of a language, being most likely on personal pronouns and human/animate nouns, and least on inanimate nouns. In the core contrast, number allows languages to refer to 'many' through the description of 'one'; the sets referred to consist of tokens of the same type, but also of similar types, or of elements pragmatically associated with one named individual. In other cases, number opposes a reading of 'one' to a reading as 'not one,' which includes masses; when the 'one' reading is morphologically derived from the 'not one,' it is called a singulative. It is rare for a language to have no linguistic number at all, since a 'one–many' opposition is typically implied at least in pronouns, where the category of person discriminates the speaker as 'one.' Beyond pronouns, number is typically a property of nouns and/or determiners, although it can appear on other word classes by agreement. Verbs can also express part-structural properties of events, but this 'verbal number' is not isomorphic to nominal number marking. Many languages allow a variable proportion of their nominals to appear in a 'general' form, which expresses no number information. The main values of number-marked elements are singular and plural; dual and a much rarer trial also exist. Many languages also distinguish forms interpreted as paucals or as greater plurals, respectively, for small and usually cohesive groups and for generically large ones. A broad range of exponence patterns can express these contrasts, depending on the morphological profile of a language, from word inflections to freestanding or clitic forms; certain choices of classifiers also express readings that can be described as 'plural,' at least in certain interpretations. Classifiers can co-occur with other plurality markers, but not when these are obligatory as expressions of an inflectional paradigm, although this is debated, partly because the notion of classifier itself subsumes distinct phenomena. Many languages, especially those with classifiers, encode number not as an inflectional category, but through word-formation operations that express readings associated with plurality, including large size. Current research on number concerns all its morphological, morphosyntactic, and semantic dimensions, in particular the interrelations of them as part of the study of natural language typology and of the formal analysis of nominal phrases. The grammatical and semantic function of number and plurality are particularly prominent in formal semantics and in syntactic theory.
Agustín Vicente and Ingrid L. Falkum
Polysemy is characterized as the phenomenon whereby a single word form is associated with two or several related senses. It is distinguished from monosemy, where one word form is associated with a single meaning, and homonymy, where a single word form is associated with two or several unrelated meanings. Although the distinctions between polysemy, monosemy, and homonymy may seem clear at an intuitive level, they have proven difficult to draw in practice.
Polysemy proliferates in natural language: Virtually every word is polysemous to some extent. Still, the phenomenon has been largely ignored in the mainstream linguistics literature and in related disciplines such as philosophy of language. However, polysemy is a topic of relevance to linguistic and philosophical debates regarding lexical meaning representation, compositional semantics, and the semantics–pragmatics divide.
Early accounts treated polysemy in terms of sense enumeration: each sense of a polysemous expression is represented individually in the lexicon, such that polysemy and homonymy were treated on a par. This approach has been strongly criticized on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Since at least the 1990s, most researchers converge on the hypothesis that the senses of at least many polysemous expressions derive from a single meaning representation, though the status of this representation is a matter of vivid debate: Are the lexical representations of polysemous expressions informationally poor and underspecified with respect to their different senses? Or do they have to be informationally rich in order to store and be able to generate all these polysemous senses?
Alternatively, senses might be computed from a literal, primary meaning via semantic or pragmatic mechanisms such as coercion, modulation or ad hoc concept construction (including metaphorical and metonymic extension), mechanisms that apparently play a role also in explaining how polysemy arises and is implicated in lexical semantic change.
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Morphology
Christina L. Gagné
Psycholinguistics is the study of how language is acquired, represented, and used by the human mind; it draws on knowledge about both language and cognitive processes. A central topic of debate in psycholinguistics concerns the balance between storage and processing. This debate is especially evident in research concerning morphology, which is the study of word structure, and several theoretical issues have arisen concerning the question of how (or whether) morphology is represented and what function morphology serves in the processing of complex words. Five theoretical approaches have emerged that differ substantially in the emphasis placed on the role of morphemic representations during the processing of morphologically complex words. The first approach minimizes processing by positing that all words, even morphologically complex ones, are stored and recognized as whole units, without the use of morphemic representations. The second approach posits that words are represented and processed in terms of morphemic units. The third approach is a mixture of the first two approaches and posits that a whole-access route and decomposition route operate in parallel. A fourth approach posits that both whole word representations and morphemic representations are used, and that these two types of information interact. A fifth approach proposes that morphology is not explicitly represented, but rather, emerges from the co-activation of orthographic/phonological representations and semantic representations. These competing approaches have been evaluated using a wide variety of empirical methods examining, for example, morphological priming, the role of constituent and word frequency, and the role of morphemic position. For the most part, the evidence points to the involvement of morphological representations during the processing of complex words. However, the specific way in which these representations are used is not yet fully known.
Second Language Phonetics
Ocke-Schwen Bohn
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Please check back later for the full article.
The study of second language phonetics is concerned with three broad and overlapping research areas: the characteristics of second language speech production and perception, the consequences of perceiving and producing nonnative speech sounds with a foreign accent, and the causes and factors that shape second language phonetics. Second language learners and bilinguals typically produce and perceive the sounds of a nonnative language in ways that are different from native speakers. These deviations from native norms can be attributed largely, but not exclusively, to the phonetic system of the native language. Non-native-like speech perception and production may have both social consequences (e.g., misjudgment of speaker mood) and linguistic-communicative consequences (e.g., reduced intelligibility). Research on second language phonetics over the past ca. 30 years has resulted in a fairly good understanding of causes of nonnative speech production and perception, and these insights have to a large extent been driven by tests of the predictions of models of second language speech learning and of cross-language speech perception. It is now generally accepted that the characteristics of second language speech are predominantly due to how second language learners map the sounds of the nonnative to the native language. This mapping cannot be predicted from theoretical or acoustic comparisons of the sound systems of the languages involved, but has to be determined empirically through tests of perceptual assimilation. The most influential learner factors that shape how a second language is perceived and produced are the age of learning, and the amount and quality of exposure to the second language. A very important and far-reaching finding from research on second language phonetics is that age effects are not due to neurological maturation that could result in the attrition of phonetic learning ability, but to the way phonetic categories develop as a function of experience with surrounding sound systems.
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My first track day was very exciting - scary, exciting and fun. My buddy and I had toured two days to get out there, two long days riding and camping. We got the bikes ready the night before and rode out the two miles to the track from our campsite early Saturday morning. The bikes passed inspection and we did the drive around the course in a trailer. We were at Oregon Raceway Park in Grass Valley ? doing it counter-clockwise. It?s a very tight technical track with lots of elevation, so lots of blind corners (come up a hill with no view of where the road goes!). There were about 9 of us in group C, but the majority of the group had done track days before. We had the usual beginner briefings before the first session and then after the next two sessions.
The first session was very scary for me. After I came in at the end of that session I saw my buddy had taken off his gear, he came off after the first lap and decided it was not for him. Anyway each session I loosened up more and got more and more comfortable and started focusing on the technicalities of the difficult track and trying to sort out the corners I was having issues with. I was clearly the slowest rider in group C, so after the first three sessions where we had instructors lead us for the first two laps, it was open session and I let the other riders start ahead of me and I had the whole track to myself ? at least no one lapped me (except the instructors). In session 4 I felt like I had sorted myself out quite well, had my lines and gearing figured out, and was starting to push a bit harder. But then in my second or third lap of session 5 I came down the straight faster than I had been doing and came out of the corner way wide and fast after a poor set up so I decided to take a little off road adventure. But I kept the bike up and rejoined the track. But then a few seconds later I saw the track was under a red flag because someone had crashed ? it was actually an instructor who is an experienced racer! After seeing the aftermath of the crash, when I came off the track under the red flag my head was no longer in it and I decided that I was done then...figured I was getting mentally tired and did not want to make any more mistakes. Anyway I enjoyed it, rode much harder than I normally get to do and learned a lot.

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Randy Mark Feldman of Menlo Park died on Feb. 27 in a Las Vegas hospital from severe burns suffered when fireworks in the trunk of a car exploded Feb. 12 in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Mr. Feldman, 59, was in Havasu for the Western Pyrotechnics Association's aerial-fireworks event, according to the News-Herald in Lake Havasu.
The incident happened when Mr. Feldman, a longtime member of the association, was driving on State Route 95 in Havasu. Fireworks' casings were strewn along the road, and the driver stopped and got out of the car to investigate, according to the News-Herald.
"That's when the back (of the car) blew up," said Battalion Chief Mike Quijada of Lake Havasu City Fire Department.
Mr. Feldman was evacuated by air to Las Vegas, where he died Feb. 27 in Sunrise Hospital, surrounded by his family.
The family said he was a man of many talents who could fix anything, would help anyone and talk to everyone.
He was married to Linda Feldman for 28 years; father to Jessica Lynn and Alison Michelle; son to Bernard and Ellen Feldman and Marian Hammer; brother to Michael, Daniel, Adam and Marshall; and uncle to many nieces and nephews.
The family prefers memorial donations in his name to: The Firefighters of Southern Nevada Burn Foundation, 3111 S. Valley View Blvd., Suite B -111, Las Vegas, NV 89102; The Lion's Burn Care Center at University Medical Center, 1800 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89102; or to a charity of the donor's choice.


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After Urban Meyer takes questions at his introductory press conference, he should toss one back to the assembled media mass.
"When did so many people become experts on career burnout?"
That's the $40 million question, or whatever the sum Ohio State will pay Meyer to coach its football team for the next 37 minutes.
According to burnout experts, that's about how long Meyer will last before he has a heart attack or secretly takes the Notre Dame job or realizes Tim Tebow isn't on the roster.
ANOTHER TAKE: Hayes says Buckeyes aren't getting real Meyer
Then he'll dump the Buckeyes like Ashton two-timed Demi, and Middle America all will realize what Florida fans already know.
Urban is a myth and Urban renewal will lead to Urban decay.
I warned last week that the play on "Urban" headlines was on the way. Sure enough, the blight has begun. I also wrote that Gators fans should get over whatever animosity they feel and thank Meyer for the memories.
It pained me a bit because Urban's never been the media's best friend. He's secretive, calculating and controlling to the point of paranoia. In other words, he's all too typical of the modern coaching model popularized by Nick Saban.
That accounts for some of the vitriol now being showered on Meyer. It again pains me to rush to Urban's defense, but if a likeable guy returned after taking a year off we'd say football is lucky to have him back.
Meyer is back after a year off, and critics are saying Ohio State just hired Bernie Madoff. It all gets back to Meyer's on-again, off-again, on-again breakups with the Gators. He said this at his final retirement announcement last December.
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"At this time in my life … I appreciate the sacrifices my 24/7 profession has demanded of me, and I know it is time to put my focus on my family and life away from the field."
Some people apparently interpreted that to mean that at age 46, Meyer would never coach again. Or at the very least he would spend the next three or four years making origami sculptures while re-learning his kids' names.
Now he's back after just 12 months?
Urban Liar!
According to the latest reviews, Meyer faked his burnout death because he knew the Gators were going to stink this year. Saban had passed him by, and Meyer's bloated ego couldn't stand any more beatings.
Meyer unquestionably wasn't as good a coach at the end of his tenure as he was at the beginning. Neil Young sang that it's better to burn out than fade away. Meyer did both.
The burnout thing was real, even if Meyer refused to let his robot façade down and show us the MRI images of his stomach. He should have left after his first "retirement," but the coaching demon was too strong.
After the frazzled 2010, he realized he needed to fade away. But at his farewell news conference, Meyer left the door open to coaching again. The distinct impression was it was more a probability than a possibility.
He never put a time frame on how long he would be gone. He never said he wouldn't do TV work. He didn't say Will Muschamp should beat LSU and Alabama in his first season.
So where was the deception, much less the lies?
How many of us spent the past 12 months in the Meyer's house observing what went on? He said he helped coach his son's baseball team. He attended dozens of his girls' volleyball matches. Maybe he really did join the Gainesville Origami Club.
I doubt it, since Meyer devoted about half his autumn weeks to ESPN, and Kirk Herbstreit reportedly doesn't do origami. But after coaching seven days a week for the past 25 years, dilly-dallying as an analyst had to feel like a vacation.
Then again, what do I know? What do any of us really know when it comes to somebody else's burnout rehab?
He's probably not the same person he was a year ago, and that's a good thing. Whether he's the same coach he was in 2006, we're about to find out.
If the Buckeyes start resembling this year's Gators and Meyer resigns for "health reasons" in three years, then I'll believe Urban was more scam artist than coach.
My guess is in three years, he'll be as beloved in Columbus as he was in Gainesville. And all the burnout questions will have quickly faded away.


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All about the budget
Stuart Hurd
The work sessions on the town's budget have concluded. The board thoroughly reviewed all department budgets over the last three Saturdays. Once again this year, the work sessions were being televised for replay on CAT TV. This year's budget (FY2014) will show an increase of 3.3 percent over last year. The net impact on the town's tax rate will be approximately $0.027. The ballot will also contain agency requests, those that the board will place on the ballot (those requesting $7,500 or less and were approved in the past) and those that are now petitioning for ballot placement. The Annual Town Meeting Warning, which includes the budget, ballot articles, and elective offices, will be signed at the Board's January 28th meeting. We will know then how many agency requests are on the ballot and what the total dollar impact will be if approved.
There are three Select Board member seats up for re-election as well as the offices of the town clerk, treasurer, and moderator. As of this writing, Sharyn Brush, Tim Corcoran, and Joan Pinsonneault have announced their intentions to seek re-election. There are several people in town who have picked up petition forms for Select Board. Jason Morrissey and Chris Oldham have announced that they are not seeking another term on the Select Board. Both gentlemen have served well. I wish them the very best in their future endeavors.
The town continues to work with the State and FEMA representatives to secure full funding for the remaining Tropical Storm Irene expenses. We remain confident that the river work will be found to be eligible for funding. The ultimate final amount the town must repay will be calculated after all FEMA funding is resolved and all insurance payments are figured in to the total. It should be in the $200,000 range, a far cry from the more than $5 million it cost to recover after Irene. Dan Monks, planning director, Melissa Currier, finance director, and Terry Morse, Water Resources Superintendent, have worked hard to insure that all expenses are found to be eligible and recovered to the greatest extent possible.
This winter has been more like a normal winter than last year. Snowstorms, cold weather, and icy conditions let us know that last year was truly different. Of course, the news that last year was the warmest in recorded history should give us pause to think about the effects of climate change. However, when the morning temperature hovers around 10 degrees above zero, climate change does not appear to be an issue. We should not be fooled by what appears to be normal; change is occurring.
I read today that the SVSU and BSD budgets are increasing in the 20 percent range. The net impact on the school tax rate may be significant. The BSD is forecasting a tax rate increase of $0.15. I encourage both the SVSU and the BSD to provide a full and thorough discussion of the reasons for these increases. We hear that federal education funds are decreasing. We hear that special education funds are decreasing. These are broad, overly general explanations that really do not tell us everything. I look forward to the information that must be forthcoming so that we all can gain a better understanding of what drives education funding double digit increases in these still tough times.
Remember, if anyone has any questions or suggestions arising from this column or on any town matters, please contact me at 442-1037 or stop in at the Town Offices on South Street.
Stuart Hurd is Bennington's town manager. He writes a monthly column on town issues for the Banner.
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text: 7 days into the month and I've put over 100 reds to the boat. From slots to beasts, the IRL and ML is producing more fish than I've seen all year. The mullet run is also beginning and that means even more fish following. Look for snook following the massive schools of mullet. Use a DOA baitbuster for these guys or a topwater can work just as well. Plenty of trout to be had on topwater and jerkbaits all across the flats. Cleaner water isn't really necessary either as I'm putting double digit fish each day in the ML as well as cleaner areas of the IRL. Also I'm finding tarpon running deeper water ranging from 80-100lbs. They are being picky but can be jumped! Tight lines my friends!


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Is Will Arnett and Jason Bateman's dumbdumb.com a New Alternative to Commercials?
Some of you are old enough to remember when a commercial was a commercial. When somebody on the television just looked at you dead on and said "This product is worth buying." The game has changed.
Last night dumbdumb.com had it's launch party at the IAC building. It was that one exclusive internet week new york party any Arrested Development fan (or, assuming one exists, a Sit Down Shut Up fan) would kill to get into. Jason Bateman and Will Arnett's startup. I certainly couldn't get in. But what is this startup? With the inclusion of the following the entire web site is contained in this post:
DumbDumb is a comedy enterprise led by Will Arnett and Jason Bateman. The twosome will create commercials along with short and long form programming for distribution across all platforms. For the new endeavor, DumbDumb will utilize web production, development, and marketing expertise from CollegeHumor.com, whose original content creations have been viewed over 800 million times. DumbDumb will create and produce digital content matching not only a brand's personality and marketing objectives but Arnett and Bateman's well-known comedic tone as well.
Here is there one "short film" the site currently boasts:
Is this how far over the edge we've managed to come? Well, it's been done before, but not on so systematic and encompassing a level. It might work, but "Prom Date" didn't do it for me. I hate to rain on anybody's parade, but these characters I know from television aren't coming off as that likable or all that funny. I did find it interesting though, especially when I thought to compare it with the 1980's McDonald's commercial "First Date":
While this tongue in cheek approach to advertising might seem kind of "new," fans of Wayne's World might see it as semi-recycled. It may be that this concept can be utilized to the intense degree Bateman and Arnett are banking on, but whatever the case it needs to be said that Mike Myers did it better:


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Concur CEO Steve Singh appears to be taking a page out of the Amazon.com playbook, investing heavily in the growth prospects of the Redmond maker of travel and entertainment expense management software. The company today said that its revenues increased 23 percent during the most recent quarter to $95.2 million, and that annual revenue hit $349.5 million.
Even so, the company swung to a net loss during the fiscal fourth quarter, in part due to accounting impacts related to its acquisition of TripIt. The company lost $14 million during the most recent quarter, and $10.7 million for the year.
As a result, shares of the company tumbled more than five percent in after-hours trading.
But Singh — who dubbed Q4 "an exceptional quarter" and one of the best demand environments they've seen in years — believes there's a great opportunity to bolster the business.
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For a man who seems to have the Republican presidential nomination sewn up, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's decision to attack the policies of his only rival who has not dropped out of the race, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), is curious indeed. Paul has proposed slashing $1 trillion from the federal deficit in his first year in office and balancing the budget in three years. He has argued that much of this deficit reduction could be achieved by ending America's overseas military operations, closing foreign bases, and bringing the troops home.
Romney, however, will have none of it, reports the Washington Times.
"My job is to get America back on track to have a balanced budget," he told attendees at a suburban Cleveland town hall event Monday. "Now I'm not going to cut $1 trillion in the first year," he added — a clear jab at Paul's plan.
"Why not, someone in the crowd apparently asked," according to the Times.
"The reason," Romney explained, "is taking a trillion dollars out of a $15 trillion economy would cause our economy to shrink [and] would put a lot of people out of work."
This, of course, is pure Keynesian economics — the idea that the economy cannot grow without massive government spending. History proves otherwise: The economy stagnated while the government spent more and more during the Great Depression, but it took off when federal spending plummeted after World War II.
For all his vaunted business acumen, Romney has apparently forgotten that the government cannot spend $1 trillion without first taking it from the private sector. Therefore, if the government fails to spend that money, it is not being taken out of the economy; it is merely being left in the hands of its rightful owners. As a result, it gets put to use meeting people's needs and improving their standard of living. When the government takes it, however, it is used to meet politicians' desires for reelection by redistributing wealth and rewarding political cronies. One trillion dollars left in the private sector will do infinitely more good than that same cash will do when confiscated by government.
That Romney believes money is better spent by bureaucrats than by businessmen is evident from his own budget blueprint. Romney, says the Times, "has laid out a fiscal plan that aims to cap federal spending at 20 percent of GDP and bring the budget into balance by 2020," taking four more years than Paul to balance the budget and leaving spending as a higher percentage of GDP (Paul has proposed limiting it to 15.5 percent).
Yet Romney's plan, unlike Paul's, is light on specifics; and by starting with very modest objectives, he is likely to achieve next to nothing once the necessary political compromises occur. Moreover, even if he were to get everything he claims to want, the national debt would still grow $2.6 trillion by 2021, according to U.S. Budget Watch. Paul, by contrast, would actually reduce the debt by $2 trillion, the organization calculates.
In addition, while Paul is unafraid to confront the military-industrial complex — "The one thing we have to come to realize is military spending is not equivalent to defense spending," he said last October — Romney is a full-throated supporter of it. The Times notes that he "opposes cuts to military spending, which currently accounts for about 18 percent of federal outlays." Romney, the paper continues, "drove the point home" at a Virginia campaign stop last week, where he said "he will add new ships to the U.S. Navy, add new aircraft to the Air Force and add 100,000 active duty personnel." Thus, Romney not only has declared almost one-fifth of the federal budget off limits but also has proposed expanding it — hardly the mark of a serious budget cutter.
Why, one wonders, has Romney decided to distance himself from Paul's budget proposals at this time? Is he trying to assure the electorate at large that, unlike his most conservative rival for the GOP nomination, he is a moderate who won't threaten any of their favorite government programs? Or is he trying to send a message to the Paul camp, to wit: No matter how many convention delegates your man racks up — and Paul has been doing quite well for himself in this regard lately — his ideas will not be considered by either the Republican Party or a Romney administration?
Whatever the reason for Romney's sudden urge to denounce Paul's plan, it provides further evidence that the GOP is once again preparing to offer voters no real alternative to the Democratic candidate for President. It was, after all, Obama's then-budget director, Jacob Lew, who declared in February that "the time for austerity is not today."
Romney, it appears, is an echo, not a choice.
Photo: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at a town hall-style meeting in Euclid, Ohio, May 7, 2012.: AP Images


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This team looks very poorly coached. I may sound like a broken record, but it's true. Even when they are winning, it is because they are making their tough isolation jumpshots and getting calls from the refs. Ball movement is as extinct as velociraptors in every 4th quarter this season
JV is just 20 yrs old. He would be real best in college!
It's fun to go on stats.nba.com and do splits of "last __ games" for JV and watch his steady progress
The bench has been wetting the bed for a long 2 months now thats why we lose games.....
They dont defend except Fields and they cant score.... awful.
Coaching is terrible, and quite frankly, as much as Ross seriously pissed me off tonight, and Derozan was shit as well, he didn't look to put them into places where they could be successful..
Defense was non-existent, which is so damn ironic because what kind of coach do we have? A defensive one!
The only positives in this game were Valanciunas, Acy, and Gay. What, is that our core now? Goodness.
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My thoughts:
- Valanciunas is going to be a big time player in this game.
- Rudy played one of his best game as a Rap. He's capable of putting numbers like this every game. He's that talented.
- Calderon outplayed Lowry. Not really surprising to me unlike most Raps fans who thinks that Lowry is a better PG than Jose. To me there's no argument. Jose > "healthy" Lowry. But go on keep making excuses.
- DeRozan. Where should i start? the shots that this guy takes is ridiculously bad. I mean, WOW. His shot selection in the 4th(specially) singlehandedly killed the Raptors tonight. Someone reminds him he's not Kobe Bryant.
- Ross i think hits the rookie wall.
- Turnovers after timeout continues to be a problem. And to me that's on the coach.
- The way the Raptors have played this year, i'll be SHOCKED if Colangelo and Casey is back next year. This team might not even win 30 games this season.
Gay and JV have big games. Raps still lose to one of the worst teams in the NBA.
But it's fine. Guaranteed playoffs next year. This team is awesome. Right on track. Everything is fine. Just need training camp. Players to gel. Get over injuries. Look at the shiny keys. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I still think a return one day would be good for both sides, but that is very likely not next season.
Jose is a class act and a smart guy. He will not be sentimental in free agency, even if he considers Toronto. He'll be one of the more pursued PGs this off-season because teams will be offering all kinds of different opportunities, and I'm sure many will be better than whatever Toronto can offer in terms of money, role, and chance to win.
If I was Jose I wouldn't come back until BC is gone if that opportunity ever happened anyway. Guy spent so much time and resources trying to replace Jose over the years rather than actually shoring up the actual problems.
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Discussion in 'Doctor Who' started by Green Lantern, Oct 6, 2012.
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Well as a colonial I'm not familar enough with the non-star-level UK actors to hazard an opinion outside the big obvious names already mentioned here [and which I'd say there's zero chance we'll get lol]... but in general terms I'd like an actor older than Smith and Tennant but still possessing at least most of the physical energy they present. I think the kinetic nature of 10 and 11 shouldn't be abandoned...
Statham would be an interesting flashback to 9's style, but can he act anywhere near well enough for this role?
To be honest, it wouldn't have to be her - her character has The Doctors DNA - she could easily have regenerated.
The Whoniverse seems to be collecting spare Doctors - Tenants half human incarnation is still around in an alternate reality, at least for the next few weeks.
I wonder if that reality (previously Doctorless) could be the Cushing movie reality, that Doctor having failed to regenerate along the way ? I can imagine a Tardis materialising in front of Tenant '2' and an aged dying Baker or Davison tumbling out...
A bittersweet last Doctor would be the only American who could pull off the role--
Gene Wilder.
He already played a Time Lord as Willy Wonka--right down to his Wonkavator Tardis
I love Johnny Depp, but Wilder would be my choice.
In the last scene, I see the light atop the Tardis light up, and it and the roof only disappears.
The four walls of the Tardis fall away like petals. It was always just an empty box. They fade from view as they fall.
Lastly, just the square pedestal of the Tardis reamins.
On it is a single word:
roll credits
Another interesting flashback to 9's style would be Idris Elba, and I think he could contain the kinetic energy that Smith and Tennant do too. Would e the perfect mix.
That'd be quite a good way for the doctor to die. I'd want a Brit to be the last doctor though. Really I think at the end of the day doctor who is a British thing, to deliberately have an American one wouldn't really gel well with a lot of Brits. I'm not saying completely avoid an actor if he's American, I'm saying don't go for an American actor for the sake of him being American. It would also make sense for the American actor to put on a British accent too. David Tennant is Scottish, but he put on an English accent and Scotland's in Britain, so why shouldn't an American do the same?
For the final doctor, I'd like just a good standard doctor. No female doctors or any nonsense like that.
What I'd do foe the thirteenth doctors dying episode is basically do what you suggested, but a nice moment that'd make the moment even sadder would be that the doctor is on an alien planet, but he has his companion with him, so she'd (or he'd) be stranded there.
But eventually, I'd bring the doctor back for his fourteenth incarnation. Maybe before the thirteenth doctor dies I'd have the timelords resurrected, and they've brought him back to help them as there's another time war, and the 14th doctors first series would be all about preventing this new time war. The doctor would also try and bring his companion back home as he feels like he owes her. That way, they could continue with the series, and there could be up to 26 doctors now instead of just 13. Or maybe the timelords would just give him about three new lives. After all, we can't really go for 100 doctors now can we?
He's currently tied up on Elementary right now, but it just hit me tonight that Johnny Lee Miller would make (I think) a good Doctor.
He could even maintain his persona he has on Elementary, he's a very eccentric type who exhibits many of the Doctor's personality traits. I would however have him shave and put on a more fitting outfit.
I'd like an older Doctor again, someone like Robert Glenister.
Never heard of Johnny Lee Miller.
He's the one that's not Ewan McGregor:
^ Anything from this millenium?
Haven't we mentioned Elementary? I'm pretty sure we have.
a female doctor would be cool. I think Emma Watson would be a good choice.
I didn't do that well, I just thought that was a funny clip to show someone who didn't know who he was and in relation to his potential casting as the 12th Doctor.
Frontios, Mawdryn Undead, Caves of Androzani, Enlightenment, Earthshock, Kinda, Snakedance and Warriors of the Deep (Certainly memorable!).
Great and memorable era.
Gosh maybe he's on the TV show I mentioned twice in my post. You know, just a guess.
For the record, I've never heard of the show either. :P
You're on the internet. It would have taken you five minutes to Google him and look at his pictures and filmography.
Actually, for the record, yes you have. It happened in this thread.
It takes you five minutes to google something?! Damn, your connection's slow.
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"This post office is so convenient for us," said Southgate resident Joan Atchley. "I love the location."
The U.S. Postal Service has put the Southgate branch, which employs 24 people, on a list of more than 600 post offices nationwide that are at risk of closure as part of a cost-cutting tactic. It's the only location in Sarasota on the list.
Greg Jackson, Sarasota's postmaster, said the primary reason Southgate is at risk is because it leases, not owns, its space, and the Postal Service is looking to shed its leases.
District 13 Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key, met with Jackson and U.S. Postal Service officials at the Southgate branch Friday morning in an effort to keep the post office open.
"I never realized the impact a post office has on a community," said Buchanan. "It's huge."
Postal Service spokesman Gary Sawtelle said a decision whether to close the branch could come within 90 days.
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"I bought into this neighborhood because it's a walking neighborhood," said Southgate resident Joann Atkins. "We walk to the post office. We walk to the mall. We walk to the restaurants. This (post office) is the fabric of the neighborhood."
Buchanan vowed to do what he could.
"Our goal is to keep the post office from advancing further (on the postal service's cut list)," he said.
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