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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
At Hyeres 2008……Beach Beauty, South of France
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She looks great!I like the hairstyle , sunglasses, everything. But their clothing was too dark to the beach.
Sorry for my English
Great silhoutte!
Gorgeous overall/catsuit!
So relaxed, wish I could wear that.
Somehow I don´t like the colour of the cardigan in contrast to the (too short) belt.
Anyway,amazing light and backdrop.
This reminds me of J.H. Lartigue's pictures of Renée Perle from the 1930s.
i love her hair and cardigan
I Love Hyeres!!!
I have been going on vacation there for years….
Beautiful sea – light – beaches -
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i recently read "Tender is the night" and this is how i imagined their style when they spend their days on the beach.
very old hollywood.
love the skinny belt.
She's a beauty…she looks like Diana Mitford!
A classic.
Absolutely spot on! – love everything about it – will be endeavouring to copy the exact outfit this summer
I guess I'm going to be the person who comments on the photography more than the clothes. Love the background action as well as the foreground figure!
The belt looks almost like a LV strap. Always like the soft look of well-worn leather, and I think it goes well with the navy dress. Also like the wayfarers- so glad I kept mine from the 80′s! You know you are getting old when the fashions you once wore come back! Jorge from West Palm Beach
Too literal and anachronistic
Not only are the clothes spectacular, but the shot is amazing because it is completely timeless. Take out that kid in the board shorts and this is a snapshot of someone's grandmother in the 1940′s.
"it just comes natural."
V cruel timing with these beach pictures, Sartorialist. It's been raining for three consecutive days in London (and more forecast for the rest of the week). This is really rubbing it in.
This is stunning.
So natural…..VERY cool
I love her curvy shape. The gentle curve of the neckline paired with the stripes are a great combination.
Wow. Interesting interpretation of the original sailor stripe and a hint of leg. Very 1940s glam!
There seems to be an interesting 50′s vibe happening in these south of france beach shots. Here, and I'm also thinking of the lovely "pinup" woman in the striped shirt. I wonder if it's something timeless for this place, or if it's a current trend.
Love it! She could be Coco Chanel herself in 1933.
Great Outfit, inspiring and so flattering! she just came out from those beautiful striped tents.
Good to see you at Hyères!
But where is the girl with the red umbrella? I'm sure this is a very nice shoot!!
I love her jumper – does anybody know who makes it?
I love how she looks so sharp against the hazy background.
I think that love at 1st sight would feel like this looks…
I like the outfit, but do people really wear long black pants to the beach? With a sweater? I may be too literal, but that outfit, AND the sneakers in the sand — it seems totally out of place to me. Fashion has to meet reality at some point. And her reality is going to be a sticky, sweaty self and sandy shoes.
skinny belt + deep v halter= perfect
There's something different about your shots in France. Maybe it's the light. The people look so natural, so easily put together and …oh…chic, but in a non-affected way.
Great job!
Perfection — it's official, I have to move to the South of France tout suite…
Super elegant. Sporty, relaxed and severe all at once.
These portraits from Hyeres are a force of inspiration… There's a naturally cool and timeless style that transcends fashion from all these individuals– from the gentleman that appears as a vision from The Sheltering Sky, to the radiant young lady in her pin-up girl pose, to the stylish older couple, and to this elegant individual. All these portraits would be as stylish 50 years ago and 50 years later, as they are now. Timeless.
This photo makes me smile for two reasons, the clothes and lighting are both beautiful. Me likey.
Just love it.
Looks like a photo that I've seen of Giorgio Armani's mother.
I love the navy blue with the navy blue horizontal stripes. Something to me doesn't work. The pink button up needs to be more of a red tint, a little more vibrant. The glasses are chic.
an overall great look. i am drawn to the thin belt.
this really is a timeless image. the framing of the beach goers in the background tops everything off; was that by chance or did you wait for the perfect timing?
exquisite. i'm loving the bodysuit-overall silhouettes.
the colors may be dark, but the navy and the white have a great beach-y/yacht-y feel to it.
however, i'm so sick of seeing the wayfarers everywhere! it seems like once a trend hits, it REALLy hits.
do love the outfit, but sneakers on sand … misery. get on the boardwalk!
Love it! very 30′s but perfectly modern as well. the combo of the suit, striped shirt and belt is perfect!
So far, I've seen the 30′s, 40′ and 50′s mentioned…now I'm going to suggest the 20′s. haha. There are photos of F. Scott and his friends (a few of whom were the basis of "Tender…") frolicking in the south of France, circa 1920′s. This girl looks like she just walked out from one of those photos. Lovely.
nothing i don't LOVE about this outfit! plus the game of beach football in the background gives the whole picture an extremely relaxed look. great photo, wonderful outfit!
I love your shots from the strand, Sart.
Timeless. So fresh.
The fabric is a linen & jersey blend?
When my ship comes in: I'll stay in my desert house for the winter and live in Hyeres in the summer… meanwhile, where can find a lighter-colored version of this look for the Mojave?
– desertwind
Magnifique! Superb! That is style in so many ways. Thank You.
The only things I don't love are the shoes, the watch and the haircut.
I am totally loving the fact that she's not in the "itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini"–love this look for the beach or for anywhere!
she looks very out of place on the beach with kids in bathing suits
Very retro-cool.
In a good way!
timeless perfection. i love the people sporting in the background contrasting her very cool demure. love it.
I'm personally loving the rolled up sleeves on the sweater… nice adaptation
Like Mis-Tal, as soon as I saw this I thought of Tender is the Night, where Nicole is on the beach.
I think that's a really great look for the beach, although I'm not sure it would be so easy for other people to pull off, she's very natural and confident.
Love it! Very nautical without having obnoxious anchors and other marine-related images actually on the clothes.
It's Chanel in the 20′s & since it's not yet summer what's wrong with long black pants on the beach?
My eyes are automatically drawn to the thin belt, wayfarers, then halter-pants suit…love it!
What the HECK!…jusdt kidding …she is a bit out there…..I suppose we all associate beach attire with our epidermis…..not here ….she has it all covered …looks like a character of a old black n white movie…cant put my finger on what circa
I don't like the outfit, I guess I am not in the norm.
The picture is nice, and the beach is beautiful.
mmm…I like the sailor stripes..and is the pink a sweater or a blouse???
Very 20′s… I love it.
For those commenting on how come is she wearing pants on the beach; not everyone goes to the beach to sunbathe and swim, you know.
Sartorialist: I've been coming to your blog for about two months, now and I'm very happy I have found it!.
Thank you for the inspiration.
Very Coco Chanel. I love it.
Nice! Really beautiful 'see look'. All she needs is to 'au revoir' that slim belt that cuts her figure in two (she doen't need it, the horizontal lines in her t-shirt are enough!), a little wooden house painted with white and blue stripes in the backgound and, perhaps, also a pink parasol.
She looks like a beautiful woman in the 20´s. Love her!
she looks great. i think this is the perfect beach look, we don't all need to wear string bikinis all the time. she is fabulous, and she wont have to spend all night sitting inside putting lotion on a sunburn.
Super chic, super relaxed. I am in love with this look and the girl who pulls it off effortlessly.
Phyllis at 10:10 AM said what I immediately thought. This looks exactly like the beginning of Coco's revolution!
nice lines.
She is very chic, like Chanel in the 30ths…
this looks like taylor warren. either that or it's her older sister!
She is beautiful but maybe just a tad overdressed for the beach :)


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Medina, Arabic Al-Madīnah, formally Al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah ("The Luminous City") or Madīnat Rasūl Allāh ("City of the Messenger of God [i.e., Muhammad]"), ancient Yathrib, city located in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, about 100 miles (160 km) inland from the Red Sea and 275 miles from Mecca by road. With Mecca, it is one of Islam's two holiest cities.
Medina is celebrated as the place from which Muhammad conquered all of Arabia after his flight from Mecca (622 ce), and a pilgrimage is made to his tomb in the city's chief mosque. Only Muslims are allowed to enter the city. Pop. (2010) 1,100,093.
Physical and human geography
City site
Medina lies 2,050 feet (625 metres) above sea level on a fertile oasis. It is bounded on the east by an extensive lava field, part of which dates from a volcanic eruption in 1207 ce. On the other three sides, the city is enclosed by arid hills belonging to the Hejaz mountain range. The highest of these hills is Mount Uḥud, which rises to more than 2,000 feet above the oasis.
City layout
Because Medina is a sacred area, only Muslims are permitted to enter. The airport, however, lies just outside the sacred limits, and a good view of the city can be obtained by foreigners from aircraft landing there.
In Turkish times there was a small military landing ground at Sultanah, to the south near the garrison's barracks, but the area is now occupied by the king's palace and its extensive satellites. There too are the ruins of the tomb of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, the celebrated conquerer for early Islam of Palestine and Egypt. The tomb of Aaron is located on the highest point of Mount Uḥud.
Other religious features of the oasis include the mosque of Qubāʾ, the first in Islamic history, from which the Prophet was vouchsafed a view of Mecca; the Mosque of the Two Qiblahs, commemorating the change of the prayer direction from Jerusalem to Mecca, at al-Rimāḥ; the tomb of Ḥamza, uncle of the Prophet and of his companions who fell in the Battle of Uḥud (625), in which the Prophet was wounded; and the cave in the flank of Uḥud in which the Prophet took refuge on that occasion. Other mosques commemorate where he donned his armour for that battle; where he rested on the way thither, and where he unfurled his standard for the Battle of the Ditch (Al-Khandaq); and the ditch itself, dug around Medina by Muhammad, in which the rubble of the great fire during the reign (1839–61) of Sultan Abdülmecid I was dumped. All these spots are the object of pious visitation by all Muslims visiting Medina; they are forbidden to non-Muslims. In addition the city is also the site of the Islamic University, established in 1961.
But the cynosure of all pilgrims is the Prophet's Mosque, which Muhammad himself helped to build. Additions and improvements were undertaken by a succession of caliphs, and the chamber of the Prophet's wives was merged in the extension during the time of the Umayyad caliph al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik. Fire twice damaged the mosque, first in 1256 and again in 1481, and its rebuilding was variously undertaken by devout rulers of several Islamic countries. Sultan Selim II (1566–74) decorated the interior of the mosque with mosaics overlaid with gold. Sultan Muḥammad built the dome in 1817 and in 1839 painted it green, this being the accepted colour of Islam. Sultan Abdülmecid I initiated a project for the virtual reconstruction of the mosque in 1848 and completed it in 1860. This was the last renovation before the modern expansion planned by King ʿAbdul-ʿAziz in 1948 and executed by King Saud in 1953–55. The mosque now includes a new northern court with its surrounding colonnades, all in the same style as the 19th-century building but of concrete instead of stone from the neighbouring hills. The qafas (cage), to which female worshippers were formerly restricted, has been dismantled, while, apart from minor repairs, the southern (main) part of the mosque has remained intact. It comprises the three ornamental iron structures representing the houses of the Prophet and containing respectively (according to general consensus) the tomb of the Prophet himself under the great green dome, those of the first two caliphs, Abū Bakr and ʿUmar, and that of the Prophet's daughter Fāṭimah. A specially adorned section of the pillared southern colonnade represents the palm grove (Al-Rawdha) in which the first simple mosque was built.
The modernization of Medina has not been so rapid as that of Jiddah, Riyadh, and other Saudi towns. Building development has involved the complete dismantlement of the old city wall and the merging of that historic area with the now built-up pilgrim camping ground (Al-Manakh) and the Anbariyyah quarter, beyond the Abu-Jidaʿ torrent bed, which was formerly the commercial quarter and in which the Turks established the railway station and terminal yards. The foundations of the old city wall were found to be lower than the surface of accumulated silt and rubble, but no attempt has been made to examine the excavations from the archaeological point of view. Nor has any archaeological work been done on the ruined sites of the old Jewish settlements, the largest of which was Yathrib (the Lathrippa or Iathrippa of Ptolemy and Stephanus Byzantius), which gave its name to the whole oasis until Islamic times. There are also several interesting mounds (ʿitm), besides the village of Al-Quraidha, which would certainly produce historical data of interest. The Islamic cemetery of Al-Baqiyyah (Baki al-Gharkad) was shorn of all the domes and ornamentation of the tombs of the saints at the time of the Wahhābī conquest of 1925; simple concrete graves in place of the old monuments and a circuit wall have been installed.
The residents of Medina are Arabic-speaking Muslims, most of whom belong to the Sunni branch of Islam. The city is one of the most populous in Saudi Arabia, and it is common for Muslims who make the pilgrimage to settle in the city. Farming and pottery making are important occupations.
To supplement the income derived from accommodating pilgrims, Medina has an economy based on the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and cereals. The city is especially well known for its date palms, the fruits of which are processed and packaged for export at a plant built in 1953.
Mechanical pumps for irrigation, in use since Turkish times early in the 20th century, have virtually replaced the old draw wells. Drinking water is supplied by an aqueduct from a spring at the southern end of the oasis. In addition to the plentiful supply of subsoil water at no great depth, a number of important wadis meet in the vicinity of Medina and bring down torrents of water during the winter rains. Of these the most notable are the Wadi Al-ʿAqiq from the western mountains and a wadi coming down from the Al-Tāʾif area to the south.
Although Medina was known in early Islamic times for metalworking, jewelry, and armory, those industries were never large-scale, and most activity was connected with agricultural technology until the mid-20th century. Principal activities came to include automobile repair, brick and tile making, carpentry, and metalworking.
From 1908 to 1916 Medina was connected with Damascus by the Hejaz railway, destroyed during World War I. Reconstruction of this railroad is studied periodically but has never taken place. Asphalt roads link the city with Jiddah, Mecca, and Yanbuʿ (Medina's port on the Red Sea); another road extends north through the Hejaz and connects the city to Jordan. Al-Jiladain airport nearby provides transportation to Saudi Arabian centres and has links to Jordan, Egypt, and Syria.
The earliest history of Medina is obscure, though it is known that there were Jewish settlers there in pre-Christian times. But the main influx of Jews would seem to have taken place as the result of their expulsion from Palestine by the Roman emperor Hadrian about 135 ce. It is probable that the Arab tribes of Aws and Khazraj were then in occupation of the oasis, but the Jews were the dominant factor in the population and development of the area by 400 ce. In that year Abi-kariba Asʿad, the Sabaean king of Yemen, visited the colony and imbibed the lore and teaching of the Jewish rabbis with the result that he adopted the religion of the Jews and made it the state religion of Yemen on his return, in supersession of the local paganism. The Yemeni Jews, who in 1949 emigrated to Israel, are mostly descendants of the Arabs then converted. On September 20, 622, the arrival of the Prophet Muhammad at Medina, in flight from Mecca, introduced a new chapter into the history of the oasis. This flight (hijrah; commonly transliterated Hegira) marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar. Soon thereafter the Jews, at first treated with indulgence, were driven out of all their settlements in Hejaz. Medina became the administrative capital of the steadily expanding Islamic state, a position it maintained until 661, when it was superseded in that role by Damascus, the capital of the Umayyad caliphs.
After the caliph's sack of the city in 683 for its fractiousness, the native emirs enjoyed a fluctuating measure of independence, interrupted by the aggressions of the sharifs of Mecca or controlled by the intermittent Egyptian protectorate.
The Turks, following their conquest of Egypt, held Medina after 1517 with a firmer hand, but their rule weakened and was almost nominal long before the Wahhābīs, an Islamic puritanical group, first took the city in 1804. A Turko-Egyptian force retook it in 1812, and the Turks remained in effective control until the revival of the Wahhābī movement under Ibn Saʿūd after 1912. Between 1904 and 1908 the Turks built the Hejaz railroad to Medina from Damascus in an attempt at strengthening the empire and ensuring Ottoman control over the hajj, the obligatory Muslim pilgrimage to the nearby holy city of Mecca. Turkish rule ceased during World War I, when Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, the sharif of Mecca, revolted and put the railroad out of commission, with the assistance of the British officer T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"). Ḥusayn later came into conflict with Ibn Saʿūd, and in 1925 the city fell to the Saʿūd dynasty.John Bagot Glubb The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Islamic arts: Umayyad dynastyIn Medina, on the other hand, idealized love poetry was the vogue; its invention is attributed to Jamīl (died 701), of the tribe ʿUdhrah, "whose members die when they love." The names of some of these "martyrs of love," together with the names of their beloveds,…
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Personal Statement
A graduate education, it seems to me, should impart a detailed and accurate knowledge of a specialized topic. (Undergraduate liberal education, by contrast, should impart a somewhat vague and general knowledge of everything.) A graduate program should draw the graduate student into the ongoing debate over the meaning of their subject matter. In Jewish studies, graduate students must learn to take their stands within the great modern debate over the meaning and direction of Judaism, Jewishness, and the Jews. This implies that each student must begin to formulate her or his personal convictions. Furthermore (here is where detailed and accurate knowledge become important) he or she must have an understanding and appreciation of opposing positions, and locate his own convictions within the universe of opinions and interpretations of Judaism, and in this way, begin to participate in the great conversation of Judaism.
The professor, like the student, must be willing to express personal opinions and interpretations. But the professor, far more even than the student, must be open to the full range of interpretations of Judaism, so that the classroom may become a place in which every formulation is sharpened, every insight is treasured, every spark is raised, and every thought is respected.
To debate myths is also to correct myths. The world is awash in half-truths about Jews and Judaism, in simplistic stereotypes, dubious generalizations, legends with little or no basis in fact, out-and-out lies, and slogans and formulas so devoid of content or meaning that they hardly count as lies or legends or even myths. Sometimes students are so discouraged by this great mass of half-truth and that it seems that nothing else can exist -- only spin, fluff, and legends. Graduate education in Jewish studies must start with myth and stereotypes. But it must work to nuance and correct stereotypes, to add detail and complexity to generalizations, to offer new and more accurate generalizations and concepts, and to distinguish probable fact from improbable legend.
Most of all, graduate education must work -- it is often rather hard work; professors and students do it together -- to cut through the fluff to what is essential, meaningful, and uplifting. Or (to use a slightly different image), we must work to breathe life into a multitude of voices. In doing so, we will participate in the unending conversation of interpretation and reinterpretation that unites the Jewish tradition and the Jewish world today.
Joseph M. Davis was born in 1960. He grew up in Providence, R.I., and attended college at Brown University. His Ph.D. is from Harvard University in the field of medieval Jewish history and literature. His area of academic specialization is the cultural and intellectual history of Ashkenazic Jews in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Professor Davis has been teaching at Gratz College since 1994. Before that, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of Maryland. He teaches a variety of courses on aspects of medieval Jewish culture and thought and on modern Jewish thought.
In March, 2007, Dr. Davis was appointed to the position of Academic Coordinator of the Distance Learning Program. Under the direction of the Dean for Academic Affairs and within the budgetary guidelines established by the College Administration, the Academic Coordinator of Distance Learning Program is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the academic level of the College's distance learning program. The Coordinator's responsibilities include oversight of online instruction as well as working with the Directors of Information Technology and Distance Learning to help ensure the academic quality of the distance learning program.
He is the author of Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller: Portrait of a Seventeenth Century Rabbi (Oxford: Littman Library, 2004), and various journal articles. His most recent article, not yet published, traces the changing definitions of heresy among Ashkenazic Jews from the time of Rashi, about 1100, and until Moses Mendelssohn about 1780. Professor Davis began work this summer on an edition and translation of Eser She'elot ("Ten Questions") by Eliezer Eilburg, written about 1575, an unpublished work which is perhaps most radical statement of religious skepticism by any sixteenth century Jew.
Professor Davis's teachers include Professor Isadore Twersky and Professor Bernard Septimus, who were his dissertation advisers, Professor Jacob Neusner, Rabbi William Braude, Rabbi Saul Leeman, and his grandfather, Professor Louis Finkelstein. He lives in Bala Cynwyd with his wife Susan, their three children, and a cat.


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ATLANTA (AP) - Authorities say eight people have died so far in traffic crashes on Georgia roads during the Christmas holiday weekend.
The Georgia State Patrol reported the numbers Monday morning. The State Patrol based the count on a Christmas holiday period that began at 6 p.m. Friday and ends at midnight Tuesday.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/U6t3N4) that state troopers investigated five of the fatalities reported through 12:30 a.m. Monday, with the other three deaths being investigated by police in Smyrna, College Park and Newnan.
The State Patrol worked 298 crashes with 124 injuries through early Monday.
Last year, three people died statewide in Christmas holiday wrecks.


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So I'm answering piles of e-mail that have accumulated since I've been out of Internet reach. One of them was from a woman whose mom is a hardcore fundamentalist Christian. She wanted to know how to tell her mom about Buddhism. Here's what I wrote (slightly modified):
I never know what to say about Buddhism to people who have very fixed ideas about religion. Sometimes it seems like no matter what you say it's going to be shoved into some pre-ordained slot in their mind.
A few tried and true lines that sometimes get me out of trouble are: Buddhism isn't a religion, it's a philosophy. Buddhists don't worship Buddha or believe he was a God or a supernatural being of any kind. Buddha was an ordinary man who Buddhists regard as a kind of genius the way we think of Einstein or Beethoven as geniuses. The statues of Buddha are kind of like statues of Aristotle or Plato. Buddhists bow to these statues to show their respect, not to worship them.
It's perfectly acceptable to Buddhists if you're a Christian and a Buddhist at the same time. I know Christians often have a hard time accepting that, but Buddhists don't. Buddha's philosophy emphasizes compassion, kindness and physical and mental stability. We do our meditation practice to try and develop these qualities, not to go into some kind of spiritual trance or experience some kind of altered mental state. The very still and quiet feeling of meditation helps you become more stable and calm so that you are more able to act with kindness and compassion.
Just keep emphasizing that it's not a religion and that it is compatible with Christian beliefs. If she tries to research Buddhism she might find that other people do describe it as a religion (especially Christians who fear Buddhism, and even some Buddhists themselves). If she has studied it and holds some of these beliefs, I'd tell her that it is true some sects of Buddhism are more religious. It's even true there are Buddhists who think of Buddha as some kind of God. But tell her that Zen Buddhists are not like that, especially the ones who follow the philosophy of Dogen. Though it may be going too "deep" to try and explain Dogen to her. You could just say he was a 13th century Japanese Buddhist who tried to strip away all the religious aspects of Buddhism because he thought those religious aspects were not true to Buddha's original intention. This is arguable, of course. Some scholars regard Dogen as very religious. It really depends on how you define "religious." But it's one legitimate way to explain Dogen when you're talking to someone who's not going to listen to all the other details anyway.
Or just point out the window and yell, "Look! It's Big Foot!" And when she turns around to look outside, run away. That works too.
Man, I'm wasting time not finishing my third book. Gotta go do that.


text: Cotton's Wild Ride To Continue December 16, 2012 11:00 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ben Potter AgWeb Social Media and Innovation Editor Email Editor's Note: AgWeb.com is taking a look at experts' projections for a variety of commodities in 2013. See the full list of outlooks. Market faces uncertainty despite expected steady prices Cotton has had its fair share of ups and downs over the years, especially in the past decade. Cotton farmers could see some short-term stability from 2012 to 2013, with cotton economists projecting a price range that's very similar from last year. However, cotton acres are expected to be down big – by 2 million acres or more. What happened? "Producers have a lot of flexibility in the West, Mid-South and Southeast with the other crops they are able to grow," says Gary Adams, vice president of economics and policy analysis at the National Cotton Council. Because of that, changes in acres track very closely with market signals, he says. Right now, growing $14 soybeans or $8 corn is more lucrative than growing 70-cent cotton. Any big price swings for the 2013 crop season could originate on the other side of the world, Adams adds. "China is probably the biggest wild card right now," he says. "They buy a gigantic amount of cotton from the United States. In the short term, they've provided support to cotton prices because they've been such a heavy importer. But this could have a negative impact on long-term demand. The question we're asking for 2013 is how much longer will China continue to build reserves?" John Robinson, professor and Extension economist at Texas A&M University, says the expected price range for 2013 should fall somewhere in between 65¢ and 85¢. This is essentially the same range as 2012. Compared with prices over the past few years, this range is too low relative to corn and soybeans. "If you're in the Mid-South and can grow corn and soybeans, it's probably less risky and more profitable to do so," he says. "In Texas, we can live with 75¢ cotton because our production cost structure is a little lower." The aforementioned reserve-building happening in China and even India suggests that "the upside is capped," Robinson says. "So much surplus cotton is being held around the world," he says. "So if there are supply problems, they can release those reserve stocks." Others are looking back in time to help forecast what the future will bring. "We look at the last 10 years for periods that had a similar economic and commodity price situation," says Duane Canfield, portfolio marketing leader and general manager for PhytoGen Cotton. Canfield says there are some similarities with 1998 and he has been trying to tease out additional insights based on this observation. Adams admits forecasting cotton acres and prices can be difficult. "It's a challenging market," he says. "Cotton is both an ag commodity and an industrial input. That makes it very difficult to diagnose prices sometimes." Upland Cotton Acres, 2004-2013 (in millions) 2004: 13.409 2005: 13.975 2006: 14.948 2007: 10.535 2008: 9.297 2009: 9.008 2010: 10.770 2011: 14.428 2012: 12.121 2013: >10.000? For More Information Visit AgWeb's Market Center AgWeb.com is taking a look at experts' projections for a variety of commodities in 2013. See the full list of outlooks. Back to news


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The creme de la creme of snowboarding have descended on Baldface Lodge as Red Bull Supernatural Contest Window Opens. February 3-8th is said window, with the chat being tomorrow could be the go. There's also an updated rider list and a deeper look at the course details. Check it…
Eighteen of the world's best snowboarder's are settling into Baldface Lodge tonight, as the holding period for Red Bull Supernatural begins. On only one day between today and February 8th, the 18 will be the first riders to drop into Travis Rice's dream snowboard run, competing to find out who is the best all-around snowboarder on the planet. Red Bull Supernatural is a first-of-its-kind, backcountry snowboard competition, challenging riders' big mountain, freeride, slopestyle and big air talents all in one spectacular run.
"Scary Cherry," the run in Baldface's tenure that's been enhanced to host Red Bull Supernatural, features a variety of slope angles and natural features. It starts off with an extremely steep, over-40 degree slope angle providing big mountain terrain before tapering to 35 degrees where most of the 80+ wooden platforms and other features have been built. Midway it flattens out into a bench providing the perfect location for Rice's dream 300' wide kicker with a fresh powder landing zone. After the kicker, the slope drops to a 30 degree pitch where esteemed terrain park builder J.P. Martin, working with Rice for inspiration, planted a garden of innovative slopestyle features.
"Inspiration for the course design came from nature, straight up, and the crazy features that I've seen people ride," Rice explains. "You have to have terrain that compliments freestyle riding on all-mountain terrain, which is why we built this course from scratch. There's no limit on what is possible with a little creativity and some will."
The rider list features the additions of wild card winners Mark McMorris and Sage Kotsenburg, both 18-years old and global slopestyle leaders. Also this week, Canadian Mark Sollors has been confirmed to replace Wolfgang Nyvelt, who was forced to drop out by an injury.
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Ocean Plastic Aid Insects
Floating pools of plastic debris in the Pacific offer more surfaces for marine insects to lay eggs.
May 10, 2012
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The large amounts of plastic debris that have been accumulating in the north Pacific Ocean for decades may be altering the resident ecosystems in unexpected ways. According to a new study published in Biology Letters this week (May 8), open sea insects that lay eggs on solid substrates are increasingly using tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in diameter for this purpose.
Insects such as Halobates sericeus, which normally lay their eggs on the rare piece of drift wood or pumice, are benefiting from the increased surface area the plastic debris is providing, and are laying more eggs. Indeed, over the past 4 decades, the number of plastic particles that have drifted into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, brief description, has increased by about 100 times.
While researchers are uncertain of the wider impact of this increase in egg-laying, it is likely to have an immediate effect on the animals that prey on the insects, Miriam Goldstein, a marine ecologist at the University of California, San Diego and author of the paper, told ScienceNow. "This is an ecosystem that doesn't have many nutrients. There's a lot of things there that are hungry all the time."
The authors also worry that a boom in insect populations may deplete the plankton populations that they feed on, but conclude that further research is needed in order to understand widespread ecological effects.


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Colorado won the NHL draft lottery and the right to make the first pick in this year's entry draft. The Avalanche had an 18.8 per cent chance of winning the lottery after finishing the regular season with a dismal 16-25-7 record.
The Florida Panthers, who finished last overall with a 15-27-6 mark, had the best odds of winning at 25 per cent. But they had to settle for the No. 2 pick when the draft is held June 30 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
The Avs will have first shot at Portland Winterhawks defenceman Seth Jones, the No. 1 ranked North American skater according to the NHL Central Scouting Bureau. The six-foot-four, 206-pound Jones had 14 goals and 42 assists in 61 regular-season games and also helped the U.S. capture the world junior hockey title.
"There's a lots to like (about Jones)," said Rick Pracey, Colorado's amateur scouting director. "His size and skating are two things that jump off the page and are attention-grabbers.
"But his ability to rush the puck and make decisions coming out of the defensive zone and create offence from the back end has our attention. He's an individual that brings two-way ability and size, the reach, the ability on the back end serve him well in the D-zone. He's certainly a well-rounded, two-way defenceman that is getting plenty of attention and hype at the top of the board and rightly so.
Jones, 18, is the son of Popeye Jones, an assistant coach with the NBA's Brooklyn Nets who spent time as a player with the Toronto Raptors (1996-'98).
If the Avalanche draft Jones, it'll be a homecoming of sorts. He learned to skate and got his start in hockey in Denver when his father played for the Nuggets.
But Pracey said Halifax Mooseheads forwards Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin are both very much in the picture to be selected first overall in what is very deep talent pool.
"This is not a slam-dunk decision by any means," he said. "Our philosophy has always been best player available.
"It may sound like a cliche or we're dancing but that isn't the case. We firmly believe in building our list the right way and we'll make our decisions based on our core scouting beliefs that we think have served us well in the past."
The lottery adopted a different format this year, with all of the 14 non-playoff teams having a shot at the first overall pick. In previous years, the lottery-winning team could move up no more than four spots in the draft order.
The remaining teams, in order of selection based upon the lottery, are Tampa Bay, Nashville, Carolina, Calgary, Edmonton, Buffalo, New Jersey, Dallas, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Winnipeg and Columbus.
The Oilers have made the first pick overall in the last three NHL drafts, becoming the first team to do so since Quebec (1989-1991). This year, all seven rounds will be held on the same day for the first time since 2006.
Pracey gave the NHL's new lottery format the thumbs up, even if it was a little nerve-wracking.
"It's truly exciting, that's probably the best way to describe it," he said. "There's some anxious moments, it's great it turned out our way."
Panthers GM Dale Tallon said the No. 2 pick will secure his club a talented player but admitted not garnering the top selection stung.
"We were hopeful to get the pick to weather some of the storm we had over the year and lessen some of the pain," he said. "It would've been nice to pick first but second is pretty good to.
"The top four, five, six or seven are pretty good players. They can make a difference to your franchise. They're different, they bring different qualities to the game and that's exciting. We're looking forward to getting one of those players."
And Tallon has a definite idea of the kind of player he'll be looking for in New Jersey.
"I like offence," he said. "I like puck-moving defencemen, I like to score goals.
"I like to play an exciting brand of hockey so some of those players will help us do that."
Nashville GM David Poile liked the drama the intrigue created by the new lottery format. He said the prospect of landing a top-flight prospect will help lessen his disappointment of the Predators missing the post-season.
"It's not fun being a non-playoff team and being in the bottom five of the league," he said. "But having said that this is a terrific year.
"The top five or six players are outstanding so we're going to be rewarded very nicely for not making the playoffs . . . so from that standpoint we're very happy."
So too was Carolina GM Jim Rutherford.
"The fact of the matter is right through the first round and even in the second round there's going to be some impact players if you get the right ones," he said. "We're not excited about picking where we are because of the season but it is what it is.
"We're going to get somebody that's going to fit into our team and help us."
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Financial records show Scott, Crist net worth increased
Gov. Rick Scott's personal wealth rebounded to more than $130 million last year on the strength of his vast investments, and his chief rival, Charlie Crist, is now a millionaire, according to financial documents released on Monday.
Scott's net worth rose from $83.8 million in 2012 to $132.7 million last year, an increase of more than a third, according to his financial disclosures.
Crist's financial statement, filed with his candidacy papers, listed a net worth of $1.25 million and $713,000 in income last year, with nearly half of it coming from his employer, the Morgan & Morgan personal injury law firm.
Crist has cited Scott's wealth as proof that the governor is out of touch with Floridians, and he recently said he has lived "paycheck to paycheck my entire life."
Scott, who has refused his salary as governor, released income tax returns for 2010, 2011 and 2012 "in order to provide even more transparency to the public" than the law requires, he said. He challenged Crist, who provided the financial disclosures required under state law, to do the same.
Scott files jointly with his wife, Ann Scott. He did not release his 2013 return because they asked the IRS for a filing extension.
The Scotts reported adjusted gross income of $9.3 million in 2010, $80.3 million in 2011 and $8.7 million in 2012. They paid about $16 million in taxes over the three-year period.
They reported a capital gain of $75.8 million in 2011, but the asset is not disclosed.
That was the year Scott sold Solantic, his network of walk-in urgent care centers, which in 2010 he had estimated as worth $62 million. Scott's campaign said the Solantic sale represented about half of the 2011 income spike.
The Scotts' charitable contributions totaled $693,581 in 2010, $209,871 in 2011 and $99,953 in 2012. They made five-figure donations to Naples Community Church, Oakwood School, the state employees United Way fund and the George W. Bush Foundation.
Scott co-founded the nation's largest hospital chain and received a severance package worth more than $300 million when he left Columbia/HCA in 1997. The firm paid a $1.7 billion fine for healthcare fraud. Scott was not personally implicated in wrongdoing.
In addition to releasing tax returns, Scott separately disclosed assets such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds and placed them in a blind trust, managed by a trustee, to avoid potential conflicts of interest.
Scott's list of current assets does not show any interest in Schlumberger Ltd., an oil services firm that has helped a Texas drilling company explore for oil in Naples. Scott listed a $135,000 investment in Schlumberger when he first created a blind trust in 2011, which has raised concern among environmentalists.
In his first race for governor in 2010, Scott released tax returns for 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Crist's financial statement, his first in four years, shows that life in the private sector has been profitable.
He listed $296,722 in law firm income; $182,933 in consulting fees from The St. Joe Company, a leading Florida developer; and $125,000 from Foundry Literary and Media. Crist wrote a book, The Party's Over, about why he bolted from the Republican Party during his unsuccessful 2010 run for U.S. Senate.
Crist also reported $194,510 in St. Joe Company stock, $50,000 from the Coastal Construction Group of Miami and a $45,588 state pension after 18 years in public office.
A persistent critic of public utilities, Crist reported $90,622 in stock in TECO Energy.
Crist campaign spokesman Kevin Cate, in response to Scott's call for Crist to release his tax returns, said: "We are going to release way more.''
All three Cabinet members also submitted net worth statements Monday.
Attorney General Pam Bondi's wealth climbed by nearly 60 percent to $1.24 million. That's a one-year gain of $457,762 in a job that pays $128,745 a year.
Three years into office, Bondi's net worth is nearly triple the $450,735 she reported when she ran for attorney general in 2010.
Much of the increase in her net worth was her one-third interest in a condominium, a share valued at $277,928, that was not listed in previous years. A Bondi spokesman cited the death of Bondi's father, Joseph, in 2013 but she declined to elaborate.
Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater reported a net worth of $1.86 million in 2013, a 7 percent gain from the prior year, or an increase of $121,697.
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam reported a net worth of $7.85 million, an 8.5 percent increase from the prior year or $617,311. Putnam's net worth has risen by 22 percent since 2009, when he began running for his current job.
Putnam's major holdings include $300,000 in income from family citrus groves, a $174,000 Bartow home, a $260,000 Tallahassee home, part ownership of homes in Babson Park, Lake Wales, and Little Gasparilla Island, and ownership of vacant land in Polk County. He lists a $2.9 million stake in Putnam Groves and more than $4 million in investments.
Times/Herald staff writer Michael Van Sickler contributed to this report.
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Medway, MA — Cybex International Inc. reported third quarter 2008 net sales of $35.8 million compared to $32.6 million in third quarter 2007, but its net income for the quarter was $300,000 compared to $4.6 million for the same period last year.
The decrease in net income resulted from the company reducing the amount of money on reserve as a deferred tax valuation allowance in the third quarter of 2007, according to Cybex. That reduction then increased the Medway, MA-based company's net income by $5.2 million for third quarter 2007. In addition, the third quarter 2007 results included pre-tax charges of about $1.65 million for the relocation of the company's Owatonna, MN, facility, the estimated cost to repair certain treadmills built prior to 2002 and asset write-downs.
"The company is pleased that we were able to eke out a small profit on increased revenues for third quarter," Cybex Chairman and CEO John Aglialoro said in a call with analysts. "I think it's no secret to anyone that clarity in the global marketplace is currently gripped with…fear or uncertainty, but we're bringing in orders."
For the first nine months of 2008, net sales increased to $108.7 million compared to $102 million for the first nine months of 2007. Net income for the first nine months of 2008 was $1.8 million compared to net income of $6.8 million for the same period in 2007.
Although Aglialoro said he couldn't give clarity about future revenue generation, he says that the company is keeping busy. In fact, Cybex has a small backlog in its Medway plant, where it makes bikes and treadmills, and the company is backlogged by two or three weeks on its strength equipment in its Owatonna facility.
"While general economic conditions make short term results difficult to predict, we maintain a positive focus over the longer term," he said.
The company continues to introduce new products. It plans to ship Next Generation Arcs, an improved commercial bike and expanded video display products by the end of the year, Aglialoro said.


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According to the EEOC's suit, this policy resulted in qualified female applicants being placed on a waiting list due to a lack of female trainers, thus delaying or denying them employment, while New Prime provided training for male applicants without similar delay. The EEOC specifically charged that New Prime's policy discriminated against Deanne Roberts, who filed an EEOC charge in 2009, and all similarly situated female truck driver applicants from 2003 to the present. The EEOC anticipates that New Prime will contend that it established this policy to reduce claims of sexual harassment of female trainees.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits sex discrimination in hiring and terms and conditions of employment. The EEOC filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri (EEOC v. New Prime, Inc., Case No. 6:11-cv-03367) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC seeks an end to the discriminatory policy as well as back pay and other damages for the women adversely affected by this policy – a class of at least around 100 women, the EEOC believes.
"Employers cannot avoid their responsibility to provide a workplace without sexual harassment simply by placing roadblocks in the path of qualified female applicants," said Barbara A. Seely, regional attorney for the EEOC's St. Louis District Office. "Instead of proactively training and monitoring male truck drivers to avoid sexual harassment, the company put in place a discriminatory procedure that effectively deprived women of the opportunity to work as truck drivers."
According to company information, New Prime, based in Springfield, Mo., is one of the nation's largest refrigerated, flatbed and tanker carriers and employs over 2,000 persons. It provides truck freight services to a customer base in Mexico, the United States and Canada.
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Brace yourself: what you're about to see is some (gasp!) feelings and a hint of emotion coming from future college football Hall of Famer and current cyborg Nick Saban.
Earlier in the week, Florida assistant Tim Davis was quoted at a booster function as referring to the Alabama head coach as "the devil himself." That was the second time this offseason that the Prince of Darkness has been brought up in reference to Saban, with Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin referring to the four-time BCS-title-winning coach as "Nicky Satan" in January.
This time, though, it was a little personal for Saban as Davis was a member of his Miami Dolphins staff for two years and spent another year on his Tide staff. That familiarity led to some unexpected — and refreshing — honesty on the part of the coach prior to a Crimson Caravan event Thursday.
"It really is a little terribly disappointing," Saban said according to al.com. "I try to do right by the people that work for me," he said. "It's a tough, demanding job. And at the same time, if anybody had an issue or problem with me, I would want them to just tell me. …
"It's just disappointing. If somebody has a problem with me, I'd appreciate it if they'd tell me. If I'm doing something to offend somebody, I'd certainly like to do whatever I have to do to fix it. It's not our intention. It's not what we try to do.
"We're in a tough business. It's very competitive. Sometimes you've got to demand that people do things that maybe they don't want to do, but it's not personal."
Also included in Davis' standup routine — which Saban apparently took to heart way more than we had assumed he would — the Gator offensive line coach took a jab at Saban's personality, or lack thereof, in propping up his current boss Will Muschamp.
"[Muschamp's] like [Saban], only he's got a personality," the Gator assistant said. "He'll smile at you. He'll talk to you. You understand?"
Muschamp also worked under Saban for five years, four at LSU and one with the Dolphins, and the two have a level of respect for the other that goes beyond the football field. It's that respect that left Saban seemingly biting his tongue when it came to Davis' personality shot.
"I know it's not representative of Will Muschamp and the University of Florida and the way they do things," he said. "I know that, because I'm close enough to Will to know that."
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Bisons who fail to get a hit in a game can expect to have a video session with coach Jeff Forehand and assistant coach Chris Collins an hour or two after the game. Even the players who do have success at the plate get an opportunity to study the videos to see what they were doing right.
"By the time we get back on the bus or back inside the dressing room the guy that goes 0-for-4 is going to be ready to look at film," Collins said. "It is immediate feedback."
The majority of the time unless somebody has had a bad day the coaches won't seek players out to watch the videos.
"Sometimes it is good to just let it go," Collins said. "Sometimes it is good to prove one point. Sometime it is good to show a guy a great at bat where he can build some confidence."
Players can see what pitches they missed, what pitches they fouled and which ones produced hits. The type of pitch, the location of the pitch and the way the opposing pitcher chose to attack each hitter are all available on both video and a computer program.
"It does identify some swing mechanic issues, but more than anything this is about hitting mechanics," Collins said. "This is about how a player is being pitched to and how can he be better informed when he goes to the plate.
"We want our guys to talk about what kind of pitch they were looking for, why did they get fooled on a pitch, why did they swing through a pitch or why did they foul it off when they should have been able to put it in play."
Several players are referencing the videos when they talk about their batting in a particular game. Collins is encouraged to hear that because getting the players to talk about baseball is a by-product of the videos.
"Several years ago we felt like there weren't a lot of baseball conversations going on among the players," Collins said. "One of the reasons I moved back into the dugout was we wanted to have interaction immediately with hitters.
"With Jeff and I both on the field that was difficult to do. I can have conversations with the hitters in that teachable moment."
Collins knows that many fans and followers of the Bisons might wonder what purposes the videos are serving based on the offensive numbers for the team in first 16 games of the season. But he is confident that overall it will pay dividends.
"I believe we had better approaches and better at bats in the first 16 games this year than we have had at the beginning of any year before," Collins said. "Granted we haven't scored as many runs as we would, out batting average is down and our on base percentage is down. But that is the case in all of college baseball because of the changes in the bats this season.
"I think the people who stick to their approach and their plan are going to be rewarded in the end. We have guys who are learning that process. We have some young guys in the lineup who are still gaining experience. We have to stick with those guys and help them gain that experience through this program."
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Hayden Panettiere and her "Nashville" co-star Connie Britton took to the stage for the first time in public on Tuesday to perform tracks from the hit show.
The actresses play country singers in the series, and they came together for a surprise set at the Nashville Songwriters Association International's annual Tin Pan South festival in Tennessee.
Britton had a quick backstage rehearsal with her co-star Charles Esten, who plays her ex-lover on the show, before walking on stage hand-in-hand to perform "At The End Of The Day," according to Rolling Stone magazine.
She confessed, "I'm trying really hard not to be scared."
Panettiere was a late arrival to the gig, having earlier wrapped filming for the day on the series.
She joked, "I was bawlin' (sic) all night long", before performing her character Juliette Barnes' song "Telescope" with songwriter Kate York.