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In the Odessa City Council today, 29 may, a meeting of the Commission on the implementation of the program the preservation and development of the Russian language in Odessa, correspondent BakuToday the press-service of the City Council.

According to the information provided, in the meeting, in addition to the members of the Commission, was attended by chiefs of profile departments of Odessa City Council, representatives of public organizations, Deputy of Odessa City Council, representatives of the Consulate-General of Russia in Odessa and the teachers of the Russian language and CENTERS them. I.i. Mechnikov. During the meeting, members discussed the conduct of activities in the framework of the International Festival the great Russian word in the city of Odessa. Press Service recalled that Grand Russian word is an International Festival every year, for the sixth time in Crimea. Delegation from Odessa traditionally takes part in it. This year, at the initiative of the Commission on the implementation of the program the preservation and development of the Russian language in Odessa, chaired by the Deputy of Odessa City Council Alexey Kosmina the Festival for the first time will take place in Odessa.

Within the framework of the International Festival the great Russian word 5 June will take place round table the preservation and development of the Russian language: problems and prospects, with the participation of deputies of city councils of South of Ukraine, representatives of the Ministry of education and science, youth and sport, as well as a forum for young researchers-rusistov, which will be attended by more than 100 people from different cities of Ukraine of more than 15 areas. Organizers stressed that the Forum is purely scientific and educational nature.

In all events happening in our city to the day of Russian literature, will be attended by writers, poets, writers from Russia and Ukraine, which will arrive in Odessa with Literary expedition project implemented within the framework of the inter-State programme of cultural cooperation between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Expedition, in which more than 70 people from Russia and Ukraine, 4 June arrival in Odessa. As coordinator of the expedition Nelya Fazlova, this is an unprecedented project of cultural cooperation of Russia and Ukraine, aimed at building a common intellectual and cultural space of Russia and Ukraine, acquaintance with modern trends in Russian, Ukrainian and World Science and culture, the support and cooperation of intellectuals and the general public of our countries.

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Smart young people from across the nation compete to become the next National Spelling Bee champion. Above, Lori Anne Madison of Lake Ridge, Va. is the youngest-ever contestant in the National Spelling Bee.

By msnbc.com staff and NBC News

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- "W-i-t-t-i-c-i-s-m." And with that word, correctly spelled byKevin Lazenby, 13, of Opelika, Ala., the85th National Spelling Bee got under way on Wednesday morning.

Each of the 278 participants spells two wordsduring the day's preliminary rounds, and their scores will be combined with their scores from a 50-word computer test they took Tuesday to determine the field of no more than 50 semifinalists, The Associated Press reported. You can follow along with the day's rounds here.

This year's contest included the bee's youngest speller ever: 6-year-old Lori Anne Madison of Lake Ridge, Va. Lori Anne, speller No. 269, correctly spelled "dirigible" during her turn just before noon Wednesday. The Washington Post reported that she asked for a definition, got the word right and quickly took her seat.

But she misspelled "ingluvies" during the third round later that afternoon. Ingluvies means the craw or crop of birds; Lori Anne provided the spelling e-n-g-l-u-v-i-e-s. The error does not eliminate her from the bee but will count toward her final score of the day, which will determine whether she moves on to the semifinals.

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'D-i-r-i-g-i-b-l-e': 6-year-old nails it at Spelling Bee

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Smart young people from across the nation compete to become the next National Spelling Bee champion. Above, Lori Anne Madison of Lake Ridge, Va. is the youngest-ever contestant in the National Spelling Bee.

By msnbc.com staff and NBC News

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- "W-i-t-t-i-c-i-s-m." And with that word, correctly spelled byKevin Lazenby, 13, of Opelika, Ala., the85th National Spelling Bee got under way on Wednesday morning.

Each of the 278 participants spells two wordsduring the day's preliminary rounds, and their scores will be combined with their scores from a 50-word computer test they took Tuesday to determine the field of no more than 50 semifinalists, The Associated Press reported. You can follow along with the day's rounds here.

This year's contest included the bee's youngest speller ever: 6-year-old Lori Anne Madison of Lake Ridge, Va. Lori Anne, speller No. 269, correctly spelled "dirigible" during her turn just before noon Wednesday. The Washington Post reported that she asked for a definition, got the word right and quickly took her seat.

But she misspelled "ingluvies" during the third round later that afternoon. Ingluvies means the craw or crop of birds; Lori Anne provided the spelling e-n-g-l-u-v-i-e-s. The error does not eliminate her from the bee but will count toward her final score of the day, which will determine whether she moves on to the semifinals.

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Geoff Nunberg, the linguist contributor on NPR's Fresh Air, is the author of the book The Years of Talking Dangerously.

There was something anticlimactic to the news that the AP Stylebook will no longer be objecting to the use of "hopefully" as a floating sentence adverb, as in, "Hopefully, the Giants will win the division." It was like seeing an obituary for someone you assumed must have died around the time that Hootenanny went off the air.

But these usage fixations have a tenacious hold. William Safire once described the "hopefully" rule as the litmus test that separated the language snobs from the language slobs. And the rule still has plenty of fans, to judge from the 700 comments on The Washington Post's story about the AP's decision.

That floating "hopefully" had been around for more than 30 years in respectable venues when a clutch of usage critics, including Theodore Bernstein and E.B. White, came down on it hard in the 1960s. Writers who had been using it up to then said their mea culpas and pledged to forswear it. Its detractors were operatic in their vilifications. The poet Phyllis McGinley called it an abomination and said its adherents should be lynched; and the historian T. Harry Williams went so far as to pronounce it "the most horrible usage of our times" a singular distinction in the age that gave us expressions like "final solution" and "ethnic cleansing," not to mention "I'm Ken and I'll be your waitperson for tonight."

You wouldn't want to take the critics' hysteria at face value. A usage can be really, really irritating, but that's as far as it goes. You hear people saying that a misused "hopefully" or "literally" makes them want to put their shoe through the television screen, but nobody ever actually does that what it really makes them want to do is tell you how they wanted to put a shoe through the television screen. It's all for display, like rhesus monkeys baring their teeth and pounding the ground with their palms.

Of course, even if you find the tone of these complaints histrionic, you can often sympathize with their substance. I feel a crepuscular wistfulness when I hear people confusing "enormity" with "enormousness," or "disinterested" with "uninterested." It doesn't herald the decline of the West, but it does signal another little unraveling of the threads of literary memory.

People get so worked up about the word that they can't hear what it's really saying. The fact is that "I hope that" doesn't mean the same thing that hopefully does.

- Geoff Nunberg

But the fixation with "hopefully" is different from those others. For one thing, the word itself is so utterly inconsequential is that the best you've got? And then there's no rational justification for condemning it. Some critics object that it's a free-floating modifier (a Flying Dutchman adverb, James Kirkpatrick called it) that isn't attached to the verb of the sentence but rather describes the speaker's attitude. But floating modifiers are mother's milk to English grammar nobody objects to using "sadly," "mercifully," "thankfully" or "frankly" in exactly the same way.

Or people complain that "hopefully" doesn't specifically indicate who's doing the hoping. But neither does "It is to be hoped that," which is the phrase that critics like Wilson Follett offer as a "natural" substitute. That's what usage fetishism can drive you to you cross out an adverb and replace it with a six-word impersonal passive construction, and you tell yourself you've improved your writing.

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May 29, 2012

Written by Aaron Chimbel

By the time what we now call legacy media was able to present the news it was inherently old.

Times, of course, have changed. News organizations have to change, too.

That's the basic idea behind why at TCU's Schieffer School of Journalism, where I work, were going digital first with our student media and realigning our structure to allow us to make that happen. Weve been converging our student media operations over the past few years and this is the next logical -- and perhaps most important -- step.

We have a four-day-a-week newspaper, the TCU Daily Skiff, a weekly television newscast, "TCU News Now" (which also produces daily updates), Image magazine and our one-year-old converged website, TCU 360.

Since 2009, our student media have moved into a new converged newsroom, began holding joint budget meetings, moved to a single website and switched the copy desk from the newspaper copy desk to copy editing for all of student media. That was just the start.

Now, the separate news organizations are being reorganized into a single news gathering force that will focus on digital and then use the content that is produced to serve the legacy outlets. There is a caveat. Because of its much different cycle, Image will remain largely independent initially. As will the109.org, a community news website that our program also runs.

Rather than centering the newsgathering on a particular media platform, the goal will be to have reporters produce content in real time and digitally. Its not a revolutionary idea, but its one that has to be embraced and sooner, not later.

In our setup, a student general manager will oversee all of student media. Working with that top leader will be a group of journalists focused mostly on content news, sports and visuals, plus an operations manager to make sure the content gets where it needs to go.

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Refocusing student media to align with digital first approach