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Lubbock welcomes new faculty members
Wayland Baptist University - Lubbock has added three new full-time faculty members to its roster beginning in the fall term.
Dr. June Hogue joins as associate professor of education, while Dr. Bill Ballard and David Unfred join as associate professors of business.
Hogue comes to Wayland from the Lubbock Independent School District, where she served in several capacities from teacher to her last position as executive director of the planning and development department. She began her education career as a teacher at Bozeman Elementary in Lubbock and has also taught at Texas Tech University in the College of Education and as an adjunct education professor for Wayland's Lubbock campus.
Hogue holds a doctorate in education and a master's degree in education from Texas Tech, and she received her baccalaureate degree in education from North Texas State University. She is a member of numerous educational and professional organizations and has served on various advisory groups over the years. She has many publications to her credit and has been a presenter and speaker at a number of conferences and school district workshops.
Unfred comes to Wayland after ten years as an adjunct professor while working at Texas Animal Health Commission as the lab director. He has also previously worked for a publishing company and Christian Heritage College.
He holds a master's degree in science from Texas Tech, a master's degree in business administration from the University of Northern Colorado and is working toward a doctorate in education through Texas Tech University.
Unfred is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Kappa Delta Pi and earned the C.S. Lewis Noteworthy Book Award for his "Dinosaurs and the Bible," published in 1990. The also wrote a book on science for homeschoolers in 1995. He has had papers presented at three conferences dealing with web-based education and electronic media.
An attorney in private practice, Ballard comes to the Wayland staff full-time after teaching adjunctly for the campus in Lubbock. He is a farmer and agri-business consultant in Kent County as well.
Ballard holds the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Texas Tech University School of Law and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Tennessee. He also earned the master of science degree from the University of North Texas and a bachelor's degree from Angelo State University.
He has taught at Texas Tech, the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and at University of Tennessee and UNT while working on degrees. Ballard has published several articles and done numerous presentations in the field of economics, specifically in the area of Keynes' theory. He presently serves as referee for the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.


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Californication star David Duchovny is currently at a rehabilitation center for sex addiction.
"I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction," the former X-Files star's lawyer Stanton "Larry" Stein tells People. "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."
Duchovny, 48, has been married to actress Téa Leoni for over 10 years and have two children together–daughter Madelaine, 9, and son Kyd, 6.
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A Minnesota government auditor voiced frustration Wednesday over kinks in an almost $70 million state accounting system overhaul that he says have led to delays and other problems in tracking taxpayer dollars. The agency responsible for the system insists past problems with the rollout are being adequately addressed.
The dispute dates to last fall when the Department of Minnesota Management and Budget disclosed that implementation of the SWIFT accounting system had caused delays in producing essential government reports. It boiled over again this week when KSTP-TV reported that some entities linked to the new system continue to be cited for tardiness with federal audit reports.
Legislative Auditor James Nobles told the Associated Press that his office has had issues verifying financial data of agencies it reviews because of the conversion to the SWIFT system, which he doesn't think has functioned properly. That includes an $85,000 discrepancy at the state lottery identified in a June audit report. He said he has raised concerns with top budget officials more than once, often over reports delayed by months.
"My biggest frustration is I don't believe the Department of Minnesota Management and Budget has given this the urgent priority that it needs," Nobles said. "We should not be willing to accept the kind of deficiencies in a computer system we paid a lot of money to obtain. The response shouldn't be, 'Oh well, these things happen.'"
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Friday, October 16, 2009
2T8 vs 4T9: A Different Perspective
A History of 2T8
The first version of 2T8 was a 6% increase to your Eclipse buffs when the eclipse buffs were mutually exclusive. Math that I and a couple of other people did showed that it was extremely inferior to 4T7 and suggested that Blizzard buff it to 15% to make it competitive. When Blizzard buffed it as we suggested it became a good set bonus that increased Moonkin DPS by about 3% give or take. In patch 3.2 Eclipse was buffed so that the two Eclipse buffs were no longer mutually exclusive, and you could proc one while the other was on cooldown. Not only was this a significant buff to Eclipse, but it was also a significant buff to 2T8. This increased the value of 2T8 so that the set bonus provided about a 6% DPS increase. This is much larger then most other Set Bonuses in the history of the game and many theorycrafters including myself expected 2T8 to be nerfed. It was not.
2T8 vs 4T9: A different perspective
I have seen several comments that said something to the affect of "4T9 sucks. Blizzard is screwing us." I completely disagree.
4T9 is not a bad set bonus. My calculations value it at about a 2.5% DPS increase. Looking at prior moonkin set bonuses and the set bonuses of other classes, set bonuses tend to be worth somewhere between 2% and 4%. 4T9 is on the lower end of that scale, but a 2.5% DPS increase is not something to brush off. It's much more significant than most people think.
2T8, on the other hand, is a bad set bonus. Try and understand what I'm saying before you flame me. 2T8 is obviously a very strong set bonus, but it is an outlier. The reason we don't move from 2T8 to 4T9 isn't because 4T9 is weak, but because 2T8 is strong.
The reality of the situation is that Blizzard is not going to increase the value of set bonuses with each tier of content. It would be an unsustainable cycle. If they did that, at some point only the set bonuses would matter. The trick is to try and maintain the value of set bonuses from tier to tier to make for an easy transition, without making the other factors of our DPS meaningless.
Therefore, every time you say "4T9 is weak" or "buff 4T9", what blizzard probably hears is "2T8 is too strong" or "Nerf 2T8."
Myth: 2T8 was made to Make Moonkin Competitive
It seems to be a popular opinion that Blizzard purposely used 2T8 to make Moonkin competitive with other classes in terms of DPS. Personally I think the suggestion is ludicrous. Why would Blizzard balance any class using a temporary set bonus? It doesn't make sense. To maintain the buff they would have to continue giving that class over powered set bonuses. This would in turn create expectations of what a set bonus should be worth, and the other classes would get up set that one classes set bonuses were always significantly better then their own.
If Blizzard feels the need to balance a class they are going to do so with more permanent changes like having Spirit provide Spell Power, or changing Eclipse so that the buffs are not mutually exclusive.
Like everyone, I would love it if 4T9 was better. I would love it if all moonkin bonuses and abilities were better. I would love it if Moonkin were OP for once in their lives, but that is not good game design. No one likes to hear it but 4T9 is probably closer to what a set bonuses should be then 2T8. If you keep asking for a change to be made, don't be surprised when that change happens on the opposite side of the equation.
10 comments:
- lissanna said...
Yeah, if people try to hold on to 2 T8 when we're supposed to be getting the T10 gear, I'm betting they'll crack down on that behavior really fast... I'm really surprised that 2T8 hasn't been nerfed yet.
- October 16, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Blizz will not go backward and nerf T8, but if they don't come out with significantly better gear, T8 may outlive T10.
- October 16, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Great post. Anyone who doesn't understand or believes they won't nerf 2T8 only has to look at what happened to the 4T8 resto Druid bonus. Too bad for me as I got my four piece the day before, but it was a smart move on their part.
- October 16, 2009 at 4:08 PM
- Druid Dude said...
I am probably alone on this one, but I would greatly prefer more flat set bonuses. Give me something like
"Increases spellpower by X percent" or even "Increases spellpower by X amount"
Heck I would even take a flat crit bonus.
Some of the set bonuses are pretty interesting, but they vary wildly in effectiveness. I would much rather know what I am getting right out of the gate, and leave the interesting bonuses and interactions to theorycraft about to things like talents and idols and glyphs.
Don't get me wrong, I love to sit down and work out math and theorize as much as the next guy, er chicken. But when it comes to set bonuses, give me something more plain.
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- October 16, 2009 at 8:01 PM
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- October 17, 2009 at 1:20 PM
- Andres said...
I am definitely in accordance with you, Graylo. I would like it if they nerfed our 2T8 and buffed our 4T10. 4T10 is just good enough but I wish it was just slightly buff. A change from 5 to 8% would not suddenly cause our dps to skyrocket.
All throughout WotLK, Moonkin dps has just barely cut it as a hybrid but it feels like quite a few other hybrids are exempt and allowed to dominate DPS. I'm of course talking about DKs and Warriors. I do not by any means think our dps is abysmal but I try my best and my DPS is competitive but I know for a fact that I would do more dps as another hybrid if I put in the same effort, excluding the poor shadow priest who will overcome our dps in 3.3.
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- October 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM
I hope they do nerf 2t8. It makes sense that they should (as you point out, it's too strong a bonus for 2 pieces), and I don't like feeling tied to wearing 2 pieces of an old set because the bonus is more significant than increased stats on newer gear and the new set bonus. It feels clumsy.
- October 17, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Gray... the owl was once kind of op. sunwell post patch with that glyph of starfire adding a tick endlessly... i remember our gildies be very jealously looking at my dpses. ;-)
back to topic: i agree with you that 2t8 is just too strong. it wont last over t9 though. the item lvl in icecrown will be far too high.
but i have to say also, that i really like the idea of the 2t8 bonus.
@druid dude: you mean to put powerful components back to the talent tree (e.g.: givig iIS a bigger impact ) than being dependant of some set bonus?
- October 18, 2009 at 2:03 AM
Great post.
It's important that they keep the bonus damage of sets to a certain level, and not let it inflate out of control.
Not sure there is a huge point in nerfing 2T8 now (or with 3.3 as is more likely), it is a problem that will sort it self out eventually, probably already with T10. It reminds me of the mage T5 bonus, it sucks that you have to use old tier gear, but that's what happens sometimes.
- October 19, 2009 at 3:14 AM
It'll be interesting to see if they bother to nerf the bonus or not. They may just hinge on t10 stats and boni (sp?) to outweigh 2t8. If not, i hope they do nerf it, i was stuck with 2pc T4 as Feral in BC. It was not fun.
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Worldwide application of a new standard for sustainable harvesting of wild medicinal, aromatic, dye and food plants and trees is charting new ways to protect the species and their habitats and benefit the communities that depend on them, according to a new report from world wildlife trade monitoring network, TRAFFIC, a joint programme of IUCN and WWF.
Wild for a cure: ground-truthing a standard for sustainable management of wild plants in the field details projects ranging from South America to Southern Africa and South-East Asia where new methods were devised to protect key natural resources from the wild while improving the livelihoods and benefits for local people through application of guidelines on sustainable wild collection.
In Karnatka, India, it is now possible to collect the resin of the White Palle tree used in traditional Indian medicine and incense without removing the bark and killing the trees that provide it. In Cambodia, a new co-operative has boosted returns to medicinal plant harvesting communities through better harvesting, drying and marketing.
In Brazil, a women's co-operative in Amazonia State and a major natural cosmetics company are aiming to co-operate on the marketing of sustainably harvested products. In Lesotho and South Africa, a harvesting and management strategy for Kalwerbossie, whose tubers are used to treat digestive disorders, will ensure sustainable harvest of the plant, thus providing long term benefits to communities.
"With around 15,000 of the estimated 50,000 to 70,000 plant species used for medicine, cosmetics or dietary supplements threatened, the need for developing practical guidelines to ensure supplies are sustainable has never been more urgent," says Anastasiya Timoshyna, TRAFFIC's Global Medicinal Plants Programme Leader and co-author of the report.
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"The BMZ-funded 'Saving Plants that Save Lives and Livelihoods' project has taken an important step in bridging the gap between words and action to manage wild plants for the future of humankind," says Dirk Niebel, Germany's Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)."We are glad to demonstrate just ahead of the forthcoming Convention on Biological Diversity that, by supporting TRAFFIC, we were able to contribute to the conservation of key natural plant resources from the wild, while improving the livelihoods of and benefits of local people."
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The Wyalusing Masonic Lodge No. 618 meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at the Lodge Hall, 158 Church St., Wyalusing. For more information, call 570-721- 0008.
AA meeting, Friday evenings at 8 p.m. at the Standing Stone Vesper Church spiritual building, River Road, Standing Stone Township. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
Grief Support Group: Jan.- Dec. 2013. A bereavement support group meets monthly, the last Tuesday of each month from 3 to 4:30 p.m. This group is open to those who have experienced loss and is facilitated by Trudy Ventello, LSW, a social worker with Memorial Hospital's Hospice program. The meetings are located in the library in the lower level of Memorial Hospital in Towanda. Any questions, call 570-268-2233.
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. in St. Peter's Church, 3832 State Route 6, Tunkhannock. For more information, visit www.mops.org or www.stpetestunkhannock.org. Call 570-836-2233.
The Tunkhannock Junior Women's Club will hold a general meeting on Nov. 26 at Perkins in Tunkhannock at 7 p.m. (6 p.m. for optional social dinner). All women 18 years and older are welcome. Visit the club on facebook at tjwc.tripod.com for more information.
The Wyalusing Senior Citizens will meet at the fire hall on Tuesday, Nov. 19 at 11:30. Bring a dish to pass and place setting. All persons 55 and over are welcome. Hedy Chaffee will be guest speaker.
The Susquehanna Branch of the quality Deer Management Association presents Deer Management and Habitat Improvement night on Nov. 16 at 6 p.m. Doors open at 5:30. It will be held at the Central Conservation Club in South Montrose.
Wyalusing Musical Society will meet on Thursday, Nov. 21 at the Presbyterian Church at 7:30 p.m. Please note change of date. Hostesses will be Marti Keeney and Margaret Dabback.
Bradford Salon 747 Eight and Forty will meet on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 11 a.m. at the American Legion Post 534, Wyalusing. Theme is Ride 4 Respiratory. This is for special children to help with cystic fibrosis and other respiratory problems.
The Camptown Civic Club will hold their meeting on Nov. 19 at the home of Marilyn Young on Totem Lake, beginning at 7 p.m. (Please note change of time.) Cars will leave the church at 6:45 for members who would like to ride together. Refreshments will be served by Terry Comiskey and Gina Peterson. Tiffany Repsher of LeRaysville Cheese Factory will present the program.
Caregivers' Support Group sponsored by the Law Office of Leslie Wizelman and the B/S/S/T Area Agency on Aging meets at noon the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at the Library at Memorial Hospital Personal Care Home in Towanda. Anyone taking care of a family member or loved one, be it at home or as a resident of a long term care facility welcome. For information, call Donna Benjamin at the Law Office of Leslie Wizelman, 570- 746-3844 or Carol Dieffenbach at Area Agency on Aging, 570-265- 6121. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, Nov. 26.
Towanda Area Senior Citizens will have their Christmas banquet on Thursday, Dec. 5 at noon in Ferguson hall, Wysox Presbyterian Church. The Wysox Ladies Sewing Society will prepare the roast pork and dressing meal. Reservations will be taken at the Nov. 21 meeting or by contacting Ruth Ann Cleveland, 570-265-2581. Andy Boardman will provide entertainment.
Al-Anon meetings on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the upstairs kitchen of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Open meeting, non-smoking.
Poppy Days
Attention: American Legion Auxiliary Unit 534 will NOT being holding their Poppy Days as planned for Nov. 15 and 16. If you signed up, we thank you for offering your time.
RTL meeting on Nov. 24 at 6:30 p.m. at the Laceyville Fire Hall.
Serious Hits 1 (Wyalusing Area Volleyball Club) will be holding a parent meeting for all girls interested in playing grades six through 12 at the Wyalusing High School cafeteria at 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 18.
Turkey Party
Turkey Party benefit of St. Brigid Parish, Friendsville (St. Francis Xavier and St. Augustine Churches) on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. Free admission. Refreshments.
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There was a chance of snow, so I called to see if our choir director was going to brave the roads. But I already knew what she'd say. Judy's too tough to let a bit of wind or rain push her around. Besides, she said, they always say it's going to snow and it never does.
I got home from choir at 10:15 PM and the first reports of snow came in half an hour later on our local Efrat e-list. Dov sniffed. "It's not going to really snow until Thursday night."
No SchoolBut I woke up this morning and there was my youngest on the sofa. "No school?" I asked.
I looked out the window. Oh my. It was a world of white.
I love the way that happens. That surprise of seeing thick snow first thing in the morning, when the night before, there'd been none.
Usually, I'm the first one out there making snowballs and angels. A good snow is so rare in Efrat and I don't like to waste it. I love to play in the snow. But today, I just wanted to stay in and be warm.
Work, Work, WorkBesides I had to work waiting for me. *sigh* Thursdays are all about that rush to fill my weekly quota of articles over at Kars for Kids. Still, a snow day is a snow day and that's not to be taken lightly.
My firm belief: a snow day can be celebrated, even with work beckoning and even from inside the home, all snug and warm. I put up a pot of soup and brainstormed appropriate snow music, but the truth is, it was a no-brainer. I give you The Snow is Dancing, by Claude Debussy.
Son number six stumbled out of his room on hearing the music, cocked his head to listen, and then looked out the window at the white. He said, "By the way, Eema, that music is perfect for snow."
I smiled my secret Mona Lisa smile. My next step: I changed my Facebook profile picture to this:
|Snow in Efrat (photo credit: Varda Meyers Epstein)
It was kind of cheating because I'd taken the photo during last year's storm. Still, it was a nice photo and several of my friends asked if they could share it. I was happy to share.
My snow photo got me thinking about snowflakes and how cool they look when you magnify them. I googled "snowflake photography" and found this amazing side show: macro photos of snowflakes by Alexey Kljatov.
In particular, the first photo in this series caught my eye. Doesn't it look like Superman's logo? One of my kids asked me why it looks like metal. Great photo, right?
Optical IllusionsAnyway, more about snowflakes: you know how everyone always says that no two snowflakes are alike? It's only somewhat true. Snowflakes fall into specific classifications. I found this page of stereo snow images. The photos are supposed to be optical illusions. Alas, my eyes didn't see anything special. Worked for my son, though. Did it work for you?
Last but not least, crafts. In particular, you guessed it, snowflakes. For Game of Thrones freaks. Here. (I even made a new Pinterest board for this one. I called it, "Crafts I'll never do.")
It's a peaceful day. The house is filled with the good smells of baking and cooking, my kids are playing a game, and with this blog piece, I've filled my work quota for the week. Life is good.
Until the next time, stay warm, wherever you are, and if you brave the snow, throw a snowball for me.


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8 month old Tortie constant crying?
Hey guys, I have a question and hope someone can give me some tips or something
My cat is an 8 month old Tortie, she was fixed 2 months ago and they gave her a clean bill of health..my problem is she won't stop crying!! Is this normal for Tortoiseshells?! I've had cats before but never a tortie and I'm about to go CRAZY!!
I've heard Torties can be vocal but this is a bit extreme lol. She stares at walls and just "yells" at them. She'll even go into my kitchen lately and just cry for what feels like forever!
I've read online to ignore them, distract them, hiss at them, and nothing works!
She's always cried for everything but for the past 3 weeks its getting out of control, I'm a huge cat lover but I've never had to deal with this before. She can play fetch for at least 2 hours and still want to keep going, are they always this hyper?
Her back twitches a little in the middle sometimes, and her tail has always flicked a lot. Shes also got into the habit of moving her blanket around the house, if I pick it up and put it back where it goes she moves it again and chews it for awhile. This habit started at the same time as the meowing. No moving, nothing stressful, everything is exactly the same as before! She's never been a cuddler but she's starting sleeping curled up next to me too.
I'm trying to hold off on going to the vet because when I take her up there it takes 3 men with gloves to hold her down to get anything done. She gets so stressed out, I end up crying! She bites, claws, and growls at everyone. Some guy popped his head in to say hello to her one day and she went nuts.
So, anybody with a similar experience with a cat? I just want the crying to stop
I'm sorry you are going through this. I have had many tortoiseshells and they were never that vocal...can you upload a video of this behavior...maybe she is bored? hurt? can you get a second opinion? what is her history? I have socialized a few colony cats and they were very vocal for the first week trying to find their friends or their mom..but it only lasted for about 5 days and then they settled in? I am sure there will be others on this board who can shed some light...sorry I can not help...good luck
When we got her she was only 5 weeks old. My friend had her mom, who was in heat and was crying all the time so she was in a rush to find her a new home. I kept telling her to keep her there a little longer, shes too young but she ignored me. She had the mom maybe 4 weeks before she gave her away, broke my heart. Especially to see her get another kitten a month or 2 after she got rid of her!
Anyway, shes always been vocal. She would cry to be fed, to be played with or whatever. As she got older she started to run into the back of my house and just let out loud cries, and it slowly started getting to the point where she would wake us up. We figured she was just in heat. (she started it about a month before she was fixed)
She was fixed in December and had a rough time with it. The vet gave her some medicine to sedate her while she was at home and she drooled and threw up all over herself. I thought she was going to die!! I took her in and she got a shot and some medicine and it went away within a few days.
Then about 3 weeks ago, she decided she was going to go into the back bedroom and let out loud meow at the ceiling fan and just kept going! I took her out of the room and shut the door and that didn't stop her. She goes into the bathroom with me when I take a shower and she gets on the toilet and stares up at the wall and lets out a cry. Her new favorite spot is to sit in my kitchen and let it all out. She's even started laying in the middle of my living room and just meowing as loud as possible!
I've tried recording her but she knows what a camera is and has to pose lol. I did manage to get her where she was behind me and crying but it wasn't very loud, I can try to upload that on here some how.
I would get her a friend, but I'm not even really supposed to have her So not only is she super loud but she's going to get me in trouble I play with her all the time, she really loves fetch but mommy doesnt lol She has all the toys you can imagine, her diet hasn't changed. I'm thinking she might have a sensitive stomach like her mom, so I'm going to try to switch foods.
Shes extremely picky when it comes to food, she will only eat Fancy Feast wet food in the pink box. She's getting tired of that, but she refuses to eat dry food unless I don't wake up to feed her. She was great on dry food until my vet forced me to feed her a "special diet" because "I feed her too much"??! Now she refuses to go near it
I've had lots of cats before but she is just so loud lol. Shes completely different than the rest, she doesn't like to be pet. She likes to lay in wet bath tubs, loves my humidifier (I tell her shes clearing her nose) I just can't for the life of me figure out whats wrong.
Before her spay, I told them about her breathing heavy and the meowing before she goes to the bathroom. They listened to her and didn't say anything was weird about her breathing and pretty much told me if shes not crying when shes in the litter box then shes fine. She has no problems going to the bathroom, her poop smells horrible but I've read that any cat on Fancy Feast can lay some nasty stink bombs lol.
Not sure what else to include, but if anybody thinks of anything that I missed let me know
the food
I am not sure ''fancy feast'' is the best food... perhaps you can go to a pet product store and get another kind of food.
Perhaps the food she is eating now is not nutritious enough and she is simply hungry! It's worth a try for sure.
Keep in mind that the vet makes a big profit from the food you buy there... Keeping yourself informed and looking up discussions in forums like this one can help you make well informed decisions about what to feed and where to buy it from!
hope this helps, keep us posted
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For many people in this country, employment opportunities are being denied because of age…
Should someone now lose their job in their 40s or 50s, the chances of finding new employment in the UK presents a major challenge to even the most qualified of people. The media is now full of stories from older workers telling how they lost their employment through no fault of their own never to return.
Whilst official unempoyment figures may show that some 2.67 million people were seeking work as at mid February 2012, this figure fails to take into account those who may be in low paid part time employment and the many that fail to officially register with the Department of Work and Pensions. Other statistical analysis suggested that there were some 2.8 million people over the age of 45 without paid work in the UK as far back as September 2006.
On 1 October 2006 new laws were introduced to combat age discrimination in the workplace applying to staff under the age of 65. No longer will firms be able to deny an interview, refuse a job offer, deny training or sack someone under 65 on the grounds of age. Sadly this has had very little impact upon the attitude of employers towards the older applicant, yet it is something that is very difficult to prove. So why are so many people in their 50s and 60s without lucrative paid work?
One theory is that people feel discouraged to apply for jobs because of their age, whilst others attribute the inability to work because of health reasons. The older candidate is stereotyped as being inflexible, unable to adapt to new technology, and lacking creativity. They therefore fall outside the demographics of modern business methods. Whilst employers cannot specifically mention age in a recruitment advertisement, subtle phrases such as the ideal candidate will be expected to grow with the young company effectively exclude the older person from applying. In other words, discrimination is being shown but circumnavigates the law.
Another subtle form of discrimination against the older applicant are academic requirements. So many vacancies today specify a university degree, no matter how poor or irrelevant to the job in question that might be. This is fine for the younger applicant as at least 40% of school leavers move into higher education but some 30 years ago this figure was as low as 6%. This means that many older applicants do not meet the basic criteria and are therefore eliminated from the selection process. Potential employers overlook three important qualities here, namely that the older applicant will have considerable business experience, he or she is likely to be professional in their approach to work, and will undoubtedly be more reliable.
How times have changed! Back in the 1970s, nine out of 10 men over the age of 50 were employed. There was an attitude of respect towards the older worker, and in many industries, loyalty was rewarded. The next two decades saw a decline in traditional labour markets as industries closed due to a lack of competitiveness and in a period of rejuvenation, the emphasis on younger staff was born. Those who were in managerial or professional jobs have had most to lose if they were made redundant after their mid 40s.
With so many older people seeking new employment prospects, it is somewhat ironic that the government is forcibly extending the age before official retirement. Whilst this article is predominantly centred on the older generation of unemployed people, it must not be forgotten that there are currently over one million people seeking work in the 16-24 age bracket. Surely it would make economic sense to get some of these people into employment and training instead of prolonging the working life of those approaching retirement age.
Governments fail to acknowledge some of the major implications of long term unemployment. Firstly, people lose their self esteem and motivation as they see little to strive for in the future. In the case of a minority of younger people, this has led to recent riots, as individuals strive to make themselves heard in one way or another. For the older person, the onset of ill health is more prevalent as the mind ceases to function in a disciplined manner. Both scenarios subsequently put a considerable drain on the country's resources, funds that could be used to support training for young people and, where necessary, paid to companies as an incentive to employ older applicants with the skills, knowledge and experience that are waiting to be exploited.
Anyone reading this who knows me will be well aware that I have first hand experience of age discrimination. Having been made redundant from a middle management position some years ago, I found it impossible to secure another position despite having had several interviews. Even recently, despite attending an interview for a position falling well below my skills and capabilities, the job was offered to a 30 year old! Whilst I am currently self employed and therefore not a statistic in the unemployment figures, I struggle to survive like so many people in a similar situation due to a considerable reduction in my workload over the last two years.


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IRB Awards
Ford named IRB Junior Player of Year
ESPNscrum Staff
October 24, 2011
George Ford helped England under-20 to a Six Nations Grand Slam and final of the Junior World Championships © Getty Images
Fly-half George Ford dedicated his International Rugby Board Junior Player of the Year award to the entire England under-20 squad after becoming the first Englishman to win the accolade.
The 18-year-old went one better than previous English nominees Joe Simpson and Carl Fearns when he was presented the award at a ceremony at Vector Arena in Auckland on Monday. It capped a terrific year for the Leicester Tigers youngster who helped guide England to a Grand Slam in the Six Nations tournament and to the final of the World Junior Championships in Italy, where they lost 33-22 to New Zealand.
Ford beat off competition Baby Blacks duo Sam Cane and Luke Whitelock before paying tribute to his England team-mates.
"It's a massive honour especially when you consider the calibre of player who have won it in the past as well as the others (Cane and Whitelock) nominated," Ford said. "I couldn't believe it when I found out to be honest, but I've got to be quick to point out that rugby is not an individual sport. All of the lads were awesome throughout the whole campaign and I'd like to think that I'm picking the award up on behalf of them.
"Winning the Grand Slam in Ireland was a massive highlight. To remain unbeaten against the calibre of sides we played against took some doing, but we performed well each time we took to the field. Getting to the final of the Junior World Championship was also a great achievement, and it's just a shame that we fell just short against a strong New Zealand side.
"I really am just taking it each game as it comes, my focus is on Leicester at the moment and will switch to England during the U20 6 Nations, but there are a fair few established names that have won the award in the past and it's a massive honour to be part of them now."
England under-20 head coach Rob Hunter added: "George's influence on the pitch and off it was enormous; he works extremely hard to maintain his high levels of performance and is a pleasure to work with as a coach. He's a key player and we're looking forward to having him back in the U20s for the Six Nations and the Junior World Championship."
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American Psycho
Probably the most violent book I have ever read!
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Finished reading
Darkest Days
by Stanley Gallon...a lot of it is pretty far fetched stuff. Honestly I doubt much of the world would be habitable at all if the events it described unfolded. Still it kind of involves you in the story and keeps you guessing as to how it's all going to play out.
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July 03, 2013, 02:39:39 PM »
What is it about the English and their need to be complete?
Lizzie Collingham's
The Taste of War :
World War II and the Battle for Food
2 previous non-fiction books
Being English, she not only talks about the U.K. and the U.S., but also . . .
Australia -- Canada -- China -- India -- New Zealand -- Russia
and . . .
Germany -- Italy -- Japan
and the occupied lands in . . .
Asia . . .
Burma -- Dutch East Indies -- French Indo China -- Korea -- Malaya -- New Guinea -- Philippines -- Siam -- Taiwan
Europe . . .
Austria -- Belgium -- Bulgaria -- Czechoslovakia -- Denmark -- France -- Greece -- Holland -- Hungary -- Norway -- Poland -- Romania -- Yugoslavia
and . . .
Africa -- the Caribbean -- Latin America -- the Middle East
Which may be why she makes a strong case for one of the forgotten causes of the War, food or the lack of food or the fear of the lack of food.
She also makes a strong case for the fact that half of the people who died in the War probably died of starvation and diseases associated with starvation, such as . . .
beriberi -- botulism -- bronchopneumonia -- dropsy -- diptheria -- influenza -- jaundice -- gastritis -- malaria -- measles -- neuritis -- ricketts -- scurvy -- spotted fever -- tuberculosis -- typhoid -- typhus -- whooping cough -- and yaws.
And how during the war, when there was no meat, people would eat . . .
acorns -- duckweed -- grass -- leaves -- nettles -- roots -- water lilies -- weeds -- and clay. CLAY? CLAY!
And when there was meat, it might be . . .
bats -- butterflies -- caterpillars -- cats -- centipedes -- crocodiles -- dogs -- foxes -- frogs -- gophers -- grasshoppers -- grubs -- horses -- kangaroos -- leeches -- lizards -- locusts -- maggots -- mice -- moles -- rats -- silkworm cocoons -- snails -- snakes -- songbirds -- and worms.
I don't care what anyone in the past has done. No one deserves to live like that.
She also honest enough to point out that neither side was immune to . . .
arrogance -- the black market -- corruption -- cruelty -- the double standard -- disorganization -- envy -- exploitation -- greed -- hatred -- hoarding -- incompetency -- inefficiencey -- military expropriation -- mismanagement -- racism -- rationing -- starvation as a weapon -- stupidity -- and vengeance.
How it ran rampant to one degree or another on both sides.
But yet . . . but yet . . . there were differences from place to place and person to person, so sometimes the "other" side came out better than "our" side.
It is this completeness and honesty that gives her words such an impact. An impact that few other writers are able to achieve.
Next time: the Good, the Bad, and the Obtuse
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Normally, I remember the author and the title, then forget what's it about, but this time I remember what it's about and forgot the author and title, which is probably to the good.
Here's the good and the bad.
Tourism is neither bad nor good of itself, but does have good and bad impacts. And that's it.
The rest is an obtuse series of errors of fact and errors of opinion. I'd name all of 'em, but there are 35, and that's just the ones I found, in a book that runs slightly more than 350 pages.
Errors of fact is self-defining, so let me just define how to get to errors of opinion in 14 easy steps.
01. DO compare "apples" with "oranges."
02. And even then, fail to Do a competent critical comparison of the two.
03. DO make what is complex simplistic and simplistic complex for your own critical purposes.
04. DO ignore information that does not support your viewpoint.
05. Or DO just omit necessary information.
06. DO apply a double standard to others. DO NOT criticize those you like, but DO criticize those you dislike. Though, both may be guilty of the same thing.
07. DO apply the double standard to yourself. Deny others what you have had or have.
08. DO believe that everyone who does not agree with you is wrong.
09. DO assume, but DO NOT explain your assumptions.
10. DO lack an understanding of economics.
11. DO define words to fit your definition of them.
12. DO have trouble with the concept of math. 1 + 1 = 3.
13. DO lack an empathy for others, even those for whom you espouse an empathy.
14. And faulty logic + illogical thinking = errors of opinion.
Next time: Arthur Waybourne or a blast from the past or the illogic continues or maybe not.
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July 14, 2013, 09:28:54 AM »
Normally books are better than movies made of them, but sometimes it's a disillusioning experience to read the source material of a film you love (
LA Confidential
being an example;
Friday the 13th
being another), but Norman Maclean's
A River Runs Through It
, while different in many ways from the wonderful movie version, held up well on its own without diminishing the regard I have always had for the onscreen version. (I really think the 1992 film is one of the 100 best of all time.) I'm glad I read it.
Das was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich noch merkwürdiger. (What does not kill me makes me stranger.)
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Re-read a childhood favorite of mine,
Lizard Music
, by Daniel Pinkwater. Possibly the uber-weirdest children's book ever written, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone.
Das was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich noch merkwürdiger. (What does not kill me makes me stranger.)
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Just finished re-reading CAESAR'S WOMEN, the fourth volume in Colleen McCullough's MASTERS OF ROME series. I cannot put these books down when I pick them up, and they are so massive - but I do love them! So cool to just immerse yourself in another time and place, when titans strode the earth in human form!
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Quote from: Gory Video Games on June 29, 2013, 02:11:10 AM
American Psycho
Probably the most violent book I have ever read!
American Psycho
! How into this novel I was back in spring 2000.
It is violent, you're right, almost to the point of overkill, so that by about the fifth slaying the body count begins to seem secondary to other aspects of the jumbled plot. Did you notice, though, that Bateman kills exactly as many men as women in this so-called misogynistic book?
That's assuming he ever really kills anyone at all, which he may not. If you read
Rules of Attraction
, probably B.E.E.'s best book, Patrick Bateman's brother Sean drops some big hints that Patrick really isn't all that in the grand scheme of things, and except for a couple reasons I really WOULD think the big secret to
American Psycho
is that much of what Patrick Bateman describes takes place between his ears. (He describes dumping his fiancée, but other Yuppies are heard gossiping about how she dumped him; Bateman has a drawn-out description of murdering a rival with an ax and then taking over his apartment and using the dead man's name, but at least one witness tells of meeting the same man alive and well in London. He tells us he has this massive shoot-out with police that surely could never have taken place. Even the detective who comes and harasses Bateman at Pierce & Pierce---even that name's an inside joke---was, if you notice, the exact same age as Bateman, which may indicate it's his conscience or at least his sense of worry chasing him.)
I say I WOULD conclude the book is a low-ranking Yuppie's empowering revenge fantasy except in other books Bateman shows up in front of new characters with blood on his clothes and is described as a creepy dude obsessed with serial killers. And then of course in
Lunar Park
, the final verdict seems to be that he is exactly what he told us he was in
American Psycho
: namely a murderous American Psycho!
You know the whole book probably works best as a morbid satire, and at times it's really pretty funny. I should re-read it one of these days.
And by the way, don't know if you've seen it but at the time of the movie Ellis authorized a twenty-ish page short story that shows us Bateman a decade after the conclusion of
American Psycho
, divorced and with a son, whom he describes as "instinctively" knowing for his own survival which fabrics, which stocks of paper, etc. are of the finest quality. As Bateman tells it, it's his paternal approval of the boy's appreciation of quality that has stayed his hand.
A twisted little tale indeed!
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Anne Perry's
Bluegate Fields
5th or 6th in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series
Reprint edition
You always remember your first one. I had picked up a book at random and was reading it, when I came upon a character, and I said: "Wow! That's me." Or, more likely, I said: "Wow! That's just like me." And over 40 years and almost 80 characters later, I'm still looking for 'em and still finding 'em. Characters for whom I have an EXTREME empathy. Characters for whom I know what they'll say. What they'll do. Almost even before the author or authoress does. But, especially I know what drives 'em: their weaknesses.
the cowardice -- the envy -- the fear -- the greed -- the hatred -- the jealousy -- the lust -- the pride -- the rage -- the slyness -- the stupidity -- the wrath.
And to push back the veil, to pull back the curtain, to reveal something of myself, here is an example of what I mean from the story above.
Arthur William Waybourne
To be continued below . . .
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July 19, 2013, 03:30:37 PM »
the Human MacGuffin
As an intellectual exercise, I like to give nicknames to the characters to which I i.d. Here are some more of the nicknames.
Brain Trust -- Crosscut -- Deadmeat -- Deep Closet -- the Gold Dust twins -- Kid Irony -- The Little Marquis -- Mr. Unlonely -- the Oh, Yeah Kid -- Poster Boy -- Smiley -- Squid Bait -- the Virgin Stud
Hero or villain or neither:
"Every man's hand raised against 'em." I i.d. more with the villain than the hero Maybe, because the unloved and unlovable need love, too.
Adult or juvenile
Juvenile. Age 16
An adult: 20 and older
A juvenile: 19 and younger
I i'd. more with adults than juveniles, but I have not forgotten my childhood, so I still i.d. with juveniles as in this case. Youngest character i.d.: 12
To be continued below . . .
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If you want a strong male character, then read something written by a man. They have a better understanding of other males than most female writers, and that applies to both adult and juvenile characters. I will say that when women do write about a male character, they are better with sons and younger brothers than fathers and husbands.
Americans 1st
English 2nd
Germans 3rd
Maybe because I came out of a stolid German-American family on my father's side. Plus a half dozen other European nationalities. No problem there. Though, not surprising, I've never i.d. with a female character. And perhaps more surprisingly, I've never i.d. with a racial minority for some reason.
To be continued below . . .
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Crine victim, criminal, or both
Crime victim: murder
Criminal: Prostitution
Heroes are just as likely to be criminals as villains. Oddly enough, or maybe not, criminals are also often victims of a crime. And other crimes committed . . .
Assault 'n' battery -- Attempted murder -- Bank robbery -- Blackmail -- Breaking 'n' entering -- Cheating at cards -- Embezzlement -- Kidnapping -- Murder -- Prostitution -- Receiving stolen goods -- Sexual assault -- Theft -- Treason
The one that bothers me the most is the sexual assault, but it only happened twice, and both were dead before the end of the book "I ain't foolin' 'round!" Actually, it is simpler to name those that do not get an automatic death penalty, then those that do.
Assault 'n' battery -- Breaking 'n' entering -- Cheating at cards -- Receiving stolen goods
To be continued below . . .
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July 19, 2013, 04:14:27 PM »
Deceased, injured, or both
Deceased: drowned in a bathtub
There is no truer test of a character's character than to watch 'em as they die. Which is probably why the death rate is over 50%. Then for those who are not killed off somehow, the injury rate is another 33%. Making a casualty rate of over 80%.
Other deaths come by . . .
Asphyxiation -- Animal attack -- Beheading -- Burning -- Drowning -- Explosion -- Falling or jumping -- Fever -- Hanging -- Heart failure -- Impalement -- Landslide -- Old age -- Plane crash -- Shooting -- Stabbing -- Vehicular accident
Sexual Orientation
But also asexuals, heterosexuals, and homosexuals. No problem there.
To be contined below . . .
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July 19, 2013, 04:22:05 PM »
Past, present, or future:
Past: 1949 and before
Present: 1950 to 2013
Future: 2014 and after
I i.d. with characters more from the past than anyother time. Which I like to think puts me one up on most people.
A book set in the past, like this one, can also serve as a mirror projection of our progression or regression over time.
Anyway . . . HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. And maybe one will find one's own characters, if not in this book than in another book or TV show or film.
Next time: Something must shorter. "They are so wrong, but they sound so good, or, what do you expect from the English?" And thank-you for listening.
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COPENHAGEN -- In a quick dash of salesmanship, President Barack Obama is in the Danish capital, putting his personal powers of persuasion on the line to boost Chicago's Olympics bid.
The president arrived in Copenhagen on Friday morning for a whirlwind trip of less than five hours, with Chicago-backers hoping that would be sufficient to give Obama's adopted home town the advantage it needed to win the close, four-way race to become the host city of the 2016 Summer Games.
Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo have been making their cases to the International Olympic Committee for more than a year, but many IOC members were believed to be undecided about which city they would vote for Friday. Some said they might not decide until after the cities made their final presentations in Copenhagen.
Enter Obama. He was to take part in Chicago's 45-minute presentation, although details about his role were kept secret. But anticipation -- and expectations -- ran high.
The Chicago bid committee had asked the president to take part in the Copenhagen meeting several times. Despite being a longtime supporter of Chicago's bid, Obama said the debate on health care overhaul in Congress might keep him from attending. He asked first lady Michelle Obama, a Chicago native, to go instead.
Aides said the president only made the decision to make an overnight flight to Copenhagen after determining that a short trip wouldn't take away from his work on health care.
But the compressed time frame did not shield Obama from criticism that he shouldn't be hopscotching to Europe in Air Force One when there were so many pressing issues to deal with in the U.S. such as health care, the war in Afghanistan and the financial meltdown.
"The problems we have here at home affect all Americans, and that's where his attention ought to be," House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Wednesday.
Though IOC President Jacques Rogge has said heads of state aren't required to attend the IOC meeting, recent votes indicate their presence can make a difference.
During the 2005 IOC meeting in Singapore, then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair successfully lobbied members on behalf of London's bid for the 2012 Summer Games. Two years later, Vladimir Putin, then president of Russia, helped secure the 2014 Winter Games for Sochi on Russia's Black Sea coast.
Obama is poised to be the first U.S. president to make an in-person appeal to the IOC on behalf of an American bid. Heads of state representing all of Chicago's competitors also were to be in Copenhagen.
In advance of Obama's arrival, Mrs. Obama did some high-powered lobbying for Chicago. The first lady has been in Copenhagen since Wednesday, holding one-on-one meetings with IOC members. She also was to have a speaking role in Chicago's presentation and was expected to focus on her personal experiences growing up and raising a family in the city.
Mrs. Obama said she's relying on lessons learned during the 2008 presidential campaign, when the Obama team focused on making personal connections with voters and rallying support up until the last possible moment.
"You can't take any vote for granted," Mrs. Obama said Wednesday. "Nobody makes the decision until they're sitting there."
Following the Chicago presentation, the Obamas were to meet with Denmark's Queen Margrethe, and the president with Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen.
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The margin of victory in approving the Trade Promotion Authority conference report was larger than most observers had anticipated. The House passed the conference report by a vote of 215-212 early on the morning of July 27.
"I look forward to bringing some trade agreements back to Congress that will help workers and farmers and ranchers," the president said in a telephone call to Senate leaders following the vote, which came as the Senate prepared to leave Washington for its August recess.
Farm groups such as the National Corn Growers Association and the American Farm Bureau Federation hailed the votes while others, including the National Farmers Union and the American Corn Growers Association, criticized it, arguing that the Bush administration should work on improving existing trade agreements.
"With TPA, the president can negotiate trade agreements with world leaders that not only open more export markets for corn, but also for value-added corn products, such as meat, poultry, corn gluten feed, corn syrup and biodegradable plastics," said National Corn Growers President Tim Hume.
"TPA increases market choice and reduces costs for American farmers, workers, consumers and businesses while protecting U.S. corn growers from unfair subsidies being levied to benefit our competitors."
The authority to negotiate trade agreements and submit them for an up-or-down vote in the Senate expired during former President Clinton's first term in 1994. Efforts to extend fast track authority failed in 1997 and 1998 because Democrats were concerned about the effect of NAFTA and similar agreements on U.S. workers.
Earlier, Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman had urged the Senate not to wait on approving trade promotion authority.
"This trade negotiation authority is needed now," he said. "With negotiations well under way in the World Trade Organization, the United States cannot afford to delay TPA any longer."
Hume congratulated the Senate for passing this important piece of legislation before it recessed on Aug. 2. "The Senate has the foresight to realize that the president needs the authority to negotiate trade agreements in order to enhance export markets for U.S. products."
National Farmers Union leaders, meanwhile, had asked senators to reject the measure.
"The legislation fails to address the major issues effecting U.S. agriculture's international competitiveness, such as exchange rates, currency valuations and labor and environmental standards," NFU President Dave Frederickson said.
He cited the administration's recent World Trade Organization proposal for agriculture as an example of how TPA would be detrimental to domestic producers. "It could cut assistance provided in the recently passed farm bill, and it could weaken domestic trade remedy protections against the unfair trade practices of other countries."
American Corn Growers Association officials said farmers' experience with earlier trade agreements do not bode well for the expanded negotiating authority that TPA would give the present and future administrations.
"The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has devastated farmers from the wheat fields of Canada to the corn fields of Mexico and from the tomato patches of Florida to the milking parlors of California," said Keith Dittrich, the ACGA's president.
"And until we can accomplish a major overhaul of NAFTA to ensure that it is fair for farmers and farm workers and that it helps sustain family farms and the rural economy, ACGA will oppose the negotiation and ratification of the expansion of that trade agreement."
Dittrich said trade agreements have forced American corn farmers to relinquish 68 percent of their buying power in their pursuit of "mythical increases in exports which were, in turn, promised to bring prosperity to rural America and lower food prices to America's consumers."
The NFU's Frederickson also complained that the House-Senate conference committee dropped from the TPA report a Senate amendment designed to protect domestic trade remedy laws. It also weakened trade adjustment assistance language originally adopted by the Senate.
Frederickson was referring to the Dayton-Craig amendment, a provision in the earlier Senate bill that would have allowed senators to reject any part of a trade agreement that weakened U.S. anti-dumping laws. Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., one of its authors, said he would oppose the conference report.
Conferees reportedly agreed to a compromise provision that would provide financial assistance that would enable workers who lose their jobs due to new trade agreements to maintain health insurance coverage, but not the level of assistance in the original Senate bill.
The bill reportedly includes a 10-year, $12 billion provision to help workers who lose their jobs because of new trade agreements adopted using the Fast Track procedure in which such agreements must be voted on without amendment.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, defended the conferees action, saying the trade promotion authority bill took "a big step forward" on labor and environmental issues by requiring U.S. negotiators to push for commitments in future trade pacts that countries would not weaken their laws in those areas to gain an advantage.
"We didn't give the president a blank check – far from it," he said. "This bill makes Congress a full partner in trade."
Provisions in the bill also give added trade preferences to Colombia and other Andean nations in South America to help them provide economic alternatives to drug trafficking by shipping more apparel products into the United States.
Textile state senators continued to express reservations about the bill's impact on jobs in their states.
A review of the legislation by the National Cotton Council said the House-Senate conference report generally would:
- Increase regional fabric quotas beyond levels that were proposed by a coalition comprised of the NCC, the American Textile Manufacturers Institute and the American Yarn Spinners Association
- Includes no U.S. yarn requirements
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Never Punt with Denard?: Fourth Down Strategy Revisited
[Ed.: Bump. This makes sense to me: Michigan should mostly dump special teams once it gets across midfield.]
As Brian highlighted in the UMass round-up, maybe forgoing the punt altogether might not be such a bad decision. He noted my earlier look at the the topic and I wanted to pull it back and revisit and refine some of the work.
I looked at the years 2004-2009 and only looked at the top 20 rated offenses for each year. This study assumes that Michigan's offense this year will be at a top 20 caliber and provides a broad enough definition of greatness that there is a good sample size. I did not distinguish what type of offense (Texas Tech Air Raid vs Georgia Tech triple option vs spread and shred) was used to get into the top 20. I will detail more assumptions as they are applicable along the way. In place of fourth down conversion percentages I used third down conversion percentage since the data pool is much larger and covers a wider variety of opponent levels. Since the thought process on a third down and fourth downs are roughly the same in most all (for now, anyway) situations, it seems reasonable to use the third down numbers.
Time for a you know what…
Assumptions: Top 20 offense, average defense, average punt game, average field goal kicker.
Based on these assumptions, except for long yardage, the punter should grab a seat once the offense crosses midfield. On your own side of the field the decision still makes sense starting around the 30 for shorter yardage situations and becomes more viable for longer yardage as you cross further down the field. Field goals become practical with 4+ yards to gain and only from about the 5-25 yard lines.
There are two big advantages a potent offense has that make 4th down tries more logical. The first is that they have more to gain by success. With a limited number of drives in a given game, why give them away for free? The second is that they are more likely to make them. Good offenses are more likely to be in better position on fourth down and more likely to make it. Here is a chart of great offenses fourth down conversions compared with all offenses. The right hand column was the one used for the above chart.
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It's not a huge advantage on any one given down, but Top 20 offenses convert the same opportunities about 2-3 percentage points more often than the average offense. Note: the rate of conversion for great offenses was much higher in the original analysis and is part of the reason the chart isn't quite as go for it as the original.
But we don't have an average <blank>
<blank> = Kicker
Let's start with the kicking game, which is currently 5 points below average on the season and rated third worst in the country after the first three weeks.
Assumptions: Top 20 offense, average defense, average punt game, below average field goal kicker (FG make odds are reduced by 25% everywhere on the field).
The decisions near midfield obviously aren't changed but now attempting a field goal on 4th and 5-9 from inside the 25 is no longer the most valuable option.
<blank> = Punter
I know it hasn't been the most Zoltanic of starts for Will Hagerup, but at this point if he can hold onto the snap, there is no point in adjusting him to below average, even if he isn't an advantage at this point.
<blank> = Defense
This is the one that seems a bit counterintuitive and Brian and I disagree on. I say that the strength or weakness of your defense is irrelevant to your offensive decision on whether or not try a fourth down conversion. My belief that it is irrelevant is based on this chart.
Great defense obviously give up fewer points than bad defenses but the key point is that the difference between a great defense and a bad defense is consistent up and down the field. Giving the opponent a first down at midfield isn't a guarantee of a touchdown even with a bad defense and isn't a guarantee that pinning an opponent deep against a great defense will keep the other team off the board. In fact, the gap between the two is about .25 points per first and 10 all the way from the 1 to the 90. If this is true, then the ability of the defense is irrelevant to the offense's decision to go for it. For that to be the case, there would have to be evidence that the difference between a good defense and a bad defense changes at different points on the field.
So what does all this mean
If Michigan can maintain their feverish offensive pace this year and fail to find an adequate kicker, I think their decision set in all but late game score specific situations should look something like this:
As I noted previously, if you buy into this mentality, it opens up another opportunity, changing your early down play calling. If your four down strategy has changed, so should your down by down playcalling. It may become more viable to risk a wasted down with deep ball knowing that you have an extra, or it might just make sense to keep the ball short in the air and on the ground knowing that over four plays instead of three the likelihood of getting the yardages greatly increases so play to have the shortest possible fourth down attempt if you don't convert before that.