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I just submitted my application yesterday and thought I'd start a thread for this process! I was involved in one last year when I applied, and it was really helpful to know what was going on, and... Read More
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I know this is an old thread, but was wondering if anyone would be willing to list the book list for first semester? I tried looking online at the CSULB bookstore, but it's only listed as a bundle, with no further info.
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I agreed to be a judge on the John Moores Painting Prize for painting because I didn't have a good enough reason to turn it down! I also thought it would be good to see the other side of the table -— and it's horrible! It's given me a bit more sympathy for the judges of prizes, that they're not always bastards, and that when I don't get selected it's not always because I'm not part of the club.
Prizes in art are tricky. In the Olympics, when someone runs, the fastest wins the race. With art it doesn't work


text: They know more about the threat than anyone. Can tell the hero/heroine everything they want to know. They're a cop who's been hunting the SerialKiller for their entire career, or the GreatWhiteHunter who knows more about dangerous animals than anyone. Perhaps [[HauntedHouseHistorian they're an expert on ancient curses]], or are schooled in the ways of killer robots. Whoever they are, they're the good guy's best and most reliable source of information regarding The Threat, its plans, its motivations, its patterns, its strengths, and its weaknesses. Unfortunately for them, they're not the hero of the story and hence cannot rely on PlotArmor. Even more unfortunately, they're just useful enough to the hero that their death will make our heroes even more vulnerable, and their plight more dramatic. Worse still, since they're the expert on The Threat, their death by the Threat will augment the advantage the villain has over the heroes -- after all, if this Expert couldn't win against them, what shot do our non-Expert main heroes have? Compare/contrast TheObiWan, who is also wise to the threat and often killed by it nonetheless, but The Obi Wan's death, if and when it comes, is often a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, ObiWanMoment, or at least dramatic. Compare also TheWorfEffect, which is where an enemy dispatches a more generally established badass with ease, rather than one specialized against them. Finally, consider MentorOccupationalHazard, which is the tendency of mentors to the hero to die.!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''----!!Examples:[[foldercontrol]][[folder:Anime and Manga]]* In the first season finale of ''Anime/BloodPlus'', Saya, Haji and Eric team up with a squad of professional chiropteran (vampire) hunters. They die to a man fighting baby chiropterans, which come in waves by the dozens as opposed to the usually singular appearances of their larger brethren.* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': The Survey Corps are essentially an entire ''army'' of this trope. Notable examples include: Dita Ness, Armin's squad leader during the 57th expedition and the Female Titan's first victim; the entire [[spoiler:Spec Ops squad; Mike Zacharius,]] the in-universe [[WorldsStrongestMan World's]] [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter SECOND]] [[WorldsStrongestMan Strongest Man]] [[spoiler:who's totally unprepared for the Beast Titan;]] and his squad, killed while protecting the unarmed 104th at Castle Utgard.* The Anti-BM unit in ''Manga/{{BioMeat|Nectar}}'' gets eaten mere moments after reaching the infested building. [[TooDumbToLive Would it hurt them to put those fancy suits on BEFORE leaving the chopper?]]* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Mami Tomoe is a veteran Magical Girl who introduces Madoka and Sayaka to the risks and rewards involved so they can decide if they want to enlist. She gets eaten by episode three's MonsterOfTheWeek.* Happens a lot during the Hunter exam in ''HunterXHunter''. Placed on the roof of a large tower? The world class mountain climber knows he can scale the tower with ease... only to be eaten by a watchful bird.* FAITH-eilte Heine Westenfluss in ''GundamSeedDestiny'': a ZAFT special forces pilot who even Athrun looks up to for his skill and test-pilot of the latest specialist mobile suit ZAFT has to offer. Killed in his very first sortie by failing to check his surroundings before rushing in to engage the Freedom.[[/folder]][[folder:Film]] * Robert Muldoon from ''Film/JurassicPark'' "knows more about Raptors than anyone" ... but is pretty quickly and easily dispatched by the raptors once they're loose when they use their standard attack pattern. One wonders if the fact he was [[AcceptableTargets a hunter]] in a Hollywood movie might have something to do with it. In the book, it's Hammond instead, and Muldoon survives the experience after shooting the T-Rex with a rocket launcher, blowing at least one raptor in half with a shotgun and still continuing to be an untouchable {{badass}} even after he finally gets so drunk he can barely stand.* Carson Wells from ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'' is the character most familiar with serial killer Anton Chigurh. Chigurh doesn't even break a sweat in catching up with him. The un-initiated Llewelen is, however much more problematic for Chigurh.* Major Valentina Koslova from ''Film/TheJackal'' is assigned to help Preston and Mulqueen track down the title assassin, bringing with her all her useful knowledge about the villain. Still, her confrontation with him doesn't last long. * Charles Remington in ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness'' is the world's authority on man-eating lions, and how to make them dead. One of the lions takes him in his sleep, it seems.* Phillip Fitzroyce, from the ''Film/Jaws3D'', is described as a skilled hunter and naturalist who has every confidence he can take down the killer shark that is threatening the movie's fictionalized Sea World park. He lasts about five minutes against the beast.* Quint from the first ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' movie talked a good game but didn't last very long once he actually met the shark. However, both he and Hooper imply that they had never seen a shark like this before. Also, in all fairness, they'd been waiting and drinking for hours, so it's also clear that Quint is pretty hammered by the time the shark shows up.* The entomologist who knows all about the killer spiders of the movie ''Film/{{Arachnophobia}}'' goes down like a RedShirt. Perhaps a little more acceptable than most examples because he's a scientist, not a hunter, but he still wasn't very careful despite knowing how dangerous the spiders were.* Four Jedi Knights set out to arrest Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious in Star Wars III: RevengeOfTheSith. They're led by Jedi Master Mace Windu, who had just then been warned by Anakin that Palpatine was a Sith Lord, so there's no excuse for being taken by surprise. And yet Sidious takes them by surprise. Two Jedi ''don't even parry a single slash from Sidious's lightsaber'' before immediately dying, and one more gets in a few blocks before being felled. Only Mace Windu survives long enough to offer a decent lightsaber battle. Windu is not this trope. The other three Jedi are.* ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' franchise:** ''Film/{{Predator 2}}'' has an elite alien-hunting squad tracking and studying the predator, but they get slaughtered when they try to capture it. ** ''Film/{{Predators}}'': the expert has defeated several Predators off screen, but still goes out like a punk the second they show up on screen.* Played for (dark) laughs in ''Film/{{Feast}}'', where "Hero", the badass-looking character who bursts onto the scene and actually seems to know what's going on, gets eaten by the creatures within seconds of his first appearance. Then his wife, Heroine, shows up, and dies halfway through the film.* Played for laughs in ''Film/ClubDread'', when the battle-toughened security chief gets offed mid-speech.* Luca Brasi, the Corleones' top hitman in ''Film/TheGodfather'', doesn't survive his first onscreen encounter with armed opponents and ends up sleeping with the fishes. That said, his killers knew his reputation and didn't even try to take him in a straight-up fight, instead opting to get him InTheBack with a garrote.* Happens in the B-Movie ''Film/{{Alligator}}'' to its GreatWhiteHunter. Same thing happens to [[SequelEscalation an entire family of such characters]] in the sequel.* PlayedForLaughs in the ''Film/{{Coneheads}}'' movie. As Dan Aykroyd is about to be executed by being forced to fight a Rancor-like creature, the prisoner before him says that he's used his years of imprisonment to study footage of the creature, determine a weak spot where he can strike, and trained until he's positive he can slay the beast. When it's his turn, he goes off confidently to victory and ''immediately'' gets his head ripped off.* ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'' combines this with SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome in killing off Sue Snell, a ZenSurvivor turned guidance counselor who tried to prevent the slaughter this time around.* Happens towards the end in ''[[Film/SpyKids Spy Kids 3D]]'' where a teen comes in who calls himself [[TheChosenOne "The Guy"]]. He enters the last level before the others do. You'd think a video game expert would last long, but one hit and all 100 hit points he had were GONE.* The ball-collecting scientist in ''Film/PlanetTerror'' is the only person in the world who knows ''anything'' about the cause of the zombie apocalypse - a green gas referred to by professionals in the business as "the shit" - and what might be done to fix everything. Guess what happens just as he's about to tell the viewers and protagonists about it.* This happens in ''Film/{{Nighthawks}}'' when the heroes' trainer is ambushed by the villain's sidekick. * In ''Film/TheGoonies'', the kids discover the bones of treasure hunter Chester Copperpot, who was apparently killed by the very first pirate booby trap he encountered. Rather than be horrified and turn back, the kids manage to use it as inspiration that they've made it farther than the expert.* ''Film/PacificRim'':** Hannibal Chau, a man who deals in {{Kaiju}} organs, is killed by a baby Kaiju moments after confidently declaring that it was dead. Subverted, however, in that he turns out to be alive in TheStinger.** The Chinese and Russian Jaegers and their crew also count. For all their InformedAbility as highly skilled, their on-screen performance is abysmal. They're tasked with defending against two Kaiju, but the Chinese are killed and the Russian's crippled by just one Kaiju, the second one only needed to squash their HopeSpot. In their defense, they put up some effort at a fight, and these are the biggest kaiju seen to date. It's also implied that the human scientist attempting to drift with the kaiju in the previous scene allowed the kaiju HiveMind to see how the Jaegers work and how to counter them.* At the beginning of ''Film/WorldWarZ'', a young scientist fresh out of college believes he knows what's responsible for the zombie outbreak. During the first zombie attack, the scientist panics and falls on top of his gun, killing himself. This leaves Brad Pitt's reporter character to find the solution.* In the first ''Film/{{Cube}}'', the group of people trapped in the death maze is quickly joined by Rennes aka "The Wren" a notorious escape artist who has gotten out of six different prison around the world. He introduces the idea of checking trapped rooms by throwing their boots in, advices the others to focus only on getting out [[AHouseDivided lest they turn on each other]] and promises to get them all out of there if they can keep up. He dies minutes after being introduced due to a molecular-chemical sensor he didn't notice.* In ''Film/ChernobylDiaries'', Uri, the extreme tour guide and grizzled veteran, is the first person killed after going out of the car alone at night. * Utterly, completely, and totally averted in the {{Tremors}} franchise. [[CrazySurvivalist Burt Gummer]], through frequent battles with Graboids, Shriekers, and Ass-Blasters, is oft called upon to deal with such threats as of the opening of the third film (and much of the t.v. series.) The closest Burt comes to being killed was a situation where he was EatenAlive, and even then, he survived. [[/folder]][[folder:Literature]]* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Book 6]]; Dumbledore, an expert in magic and Voldemort, gets himself cursed by making a foolish move while retrieving Voldemort's ring horcrux. Justified by the fact that, by his own admission, his desperation to see his lost family and beg their forgiveness clouded his judgement.** Mad-Eye Moody in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''. He is described as a master duelist and an expert in fighting Dark Wizards, but is killed personally by [[BigBad Voldemort]] literally five chapters into the book. He doesn't put up much of a fight before going down, either. To be fair, though, he ''was'' left in a bad position, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption had no way of winning the battle]], and may not have had a chance to properly defend himself. *** ''Avada Kedavra'' is unblockable, so he could only have survived if he dodged it. Considering Mundungus Fletcher disapparated, distracting him and probably throwing his broom off-balance, it's not likely he was able to.** Gilderoy Lockhart is a parody of this trope. He's amazing. A genius. He's defeated evil monster after evil monster- and his written works on how he did it has made him famous. Oddly enough, he seems rather hesitant to do anything in real life. Turns out that he's a total fake, not an expert at all. He's been stealing the defeats of evil monsters off other people, and erasing their memories, that being the ''one'' form of magic he has any talent at all for.** What about Quirrell? He knows all about the theory of defensive magic, but the one time that he goes off to try to fight the dark side, he comes home [[spoiler:possessed by Voldemort]].* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Senior Council Member Simon Petrovich is the world's foremost expert on vampires. He doesn't even get an appearance in any of the books, as he is killed off screen by the Red Court during their initial attacks against the White Council.* ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn'': Amerasu, the oldest Sithi and second oldest thinking being in [[StandardFantasySetting Osten Ard]], is the only character with enough knowledge and power to fully understand the plans of the [[BigBad Storm King]] and the Norn Queen, Utuk'ku, who is aiding him. As Utuk'ku is the oldest thinking being, however, and has spent centuries building her power, she is able to silence Amerasu right before she can reveal her knowledge to the protagonists, seemingly without effort. The job is then completed by her huntsman, who kills Amerasu's body.[[/folder]][[folder:Live Action TV]]* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': The foremost expert on the serial kidnapper/killer "the Gravedigger" is killed by the Gravedigger.* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' examples:** Kendra, the new Slayer, is introduced as a key ally of Buffy with skills comparable to hers. Then she doesn't show up again until the end of the season, when she's dispatched by Drusilla with very little effort. ** Jenny Calendar's people had handled [[BigBad Angelus]] before and she was the only person who had the curse that would [[EnemyWithin restore Angel's soul]], thus ending the threat. He knew this; she knew he knew this. (He'd already killed the other member of her clan in town.) Yet when Angelus came for her, she was completely unprepared.* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': PlayedForLaughs: An {{expy}} of Film/JamesBond infiltrates a meeting of various arms dealers, who has been tracking Volkoff Industries and the Norseman device for some time. He stops to [[{{Monologuing}} monologue]]. [[TooDumbToLive Oops]].* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': Detectives Doakes and Lundy both serve this role, to a degree, although they are both killed by women obsessed with their respective serial killers, not the killers themselves. * ''Series/DoctorWho'' examples:** In "Aliens of London", during an alien crash landing in public, the world's greatest experts on aliens were called together -- only for it to turn out to be a trap to kill them all. {{Subverted}}, since the Doctor was one of them, and survived thanks to his BizarreAlienBiology.** The Torchwood Institute, which is supposed to be Earth's best defense against aliens, keeps getting completely wiped out by them. ''Children of Earth'' has a particularly nasty example: after much fuss from Torchwood and its allies about letting the alien experts do their job, Jack and Ianto charge in and threaten the aliens... with ''no plan at all''. It goes [[KillEmAll exactly how you'd expect]].* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Most of Arzt's speaking lines in his last episode are about how dangerous and volatile the aged dynamite is, so naturally he dies doing exactly what he told the others not to do with the explosives.* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': Similar to the ''Series/{{Bones}}'' example, this show has Mary (short for Marion) get killed. This was after he theorized that Mr. Yang, a female serial killer who he was an expert on, may have had a partner. He is right, and it's Mr. Yin who kills him.* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': Crewman Daniels turns out to be a temporal agent of 31st-century Starfleet, sent back to counter enemy agents -- specifically Silik, a bad guy Daniels suspects is also aboard. He is. He kills Daniels easily. (Daniels does show up later, having apparently only been killed "in a manner of speaking", but whatever happened, it took him out of the action and left Archer to fend for himself.)* ''Series/TheXFiles'':** In the episode "First Person Shooter", the owner of the VR game brings in [[InformedAbility "world reknowned hacker"]] Daryl Musashi that even the Lone Gunman drool over like fanboys. The game AI murders him by cutting off his hands and head before he fires his first shot.* Neelix on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' claims to be an expert on many things, including mining and camping. The former ended up with him falling down a cliff and pulling Torres down with him. The latter led directly to the deaths of at least two crewmen. He also claims expertise in crew morale and cooking. This has led handmade food on the ship to be viewed as a [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment punishment]] as well as the direct cause for a thriving replicator credits black market. He has also poisoned the ship on one occasion - not the crew, ''the actual ship itself.'' The most unfair part is that ''he himself'' survives, even when wandering off on his own got his lungs removed; other people suffer for thinking he knows what he's talking about.[[/folder]][[folder:Video Games]]* In ''[[VideoGame/{{FEAR}} Project Origin]]'', Snake Fist[=/=]Terry Halford is your best chance of bringing down Alma. Which results in [[SurprisinglySuddenDeath an Assassin ripping his head off]] seconds after you meet him.* In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'', Raymond Maarloeve, a private eye motivated by the death of his family at the hands of the organization known as Salamandra, had amassed information on the group and its head, Azar Javed, with the hopes of bringing them down. Raymond decides to aid the protagonist, Geralt, in dismantling Salamandra. The endeavor doesn't end well for him, despite Geralt successfully defending him from Salamandra's initial backlash. ** Azar Javed himself kills Maarloeve, and begins impersonating him using magic, which Geralt may or may not discover early on, depending on the player's actions.* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', one Borgia Captain claims, in EnemyChatter you can eavesdrop on, to know how Assassins operate and thus how to deal with them, but other than being on horseback (and thus being able to flee faster), he's no harder to kill for all his bluster than any other Borgia Captains. As a result, players have been known to time their kills of him to maximize the dramatic irony. For example...-->'''Tomasso di Viterbo:''' The assassin will not appear in front of you. The assassin will come out of the shadows and---->'''Ezio:''' [''rushes on foot right up to Viterbo's side, pulls him leg first off of the saddle and stabs him through the throat with the Hidden Blade as he lands'']* Inverted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', as Auron, the party's leading expert on Sin, knows so much about it because he was killed by Sin's emissary Yunalesca several years ago. 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Jade Starling Releases Single 'Think About U', Plays New York Show Tonight to Celebrate CAPTIVE Release
Jade Starling, best known as New Jersey's vocalizing half of the platinum-selling duo Pretty Poison (No. 1 hit "Catch Me I'm Falling" on Virgin Records), today releases "Think About U", the 2nd single from her acclaimed first-ever solo work, CAPTIVE, hailed as a "masterpiece" by AXS.com (AEG Live) and due Aug. 12 on Subpoena/Universal. 'Think About U' follows the Top 30 Billboard Dance Chart success of the album's first single, "Insomniak".
"'Think About U' is '"an exhilarating beatopia!,' continued AXS.com. "The track mesmerizes with an abundance of swirls, waves, and fuzzy pulses while Starlings pristine vocals electrify your soul making you feel truly alive!"
"Think About U," was produced by Lee Dagger of the hugely successful English remix team Bimbo Jones (Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Kylie Minogue). CAPTIVE also features collaborations with newcomer Laszlo (Selena Gomez, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Bieber & Nicki Minaj) and French DJ/remixer Franck Dona (Universal France).
Starling's Summer-Fall 2014 CAPTIVE U.S. Tour is already under way, with CD Release Events TONIGHT in New York at Resorts World Casino; the 2014 EDM Showcase at the Cutting Room in New York (Aug. 9), and Atlantic City at the DJ Expo 2014 (Aug. 11), produced by DJ Times. And, following a wildly successful appearance before 15,000 people on the Los Angeles stop in June, two more dates have been added for Jade on Live Nation's Super Freestyle Explosion Tour in Orlando (Sept. 12) and Tampa (Sept. 13).
Bringing the CAPTIVE theme further into focus, Jade went with Gretchen Johnson Photography inside the historic Eastern State Penitentiary, which once "held captive" some of America's most notorious criminals, including gangster Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton, to capture all of the photos for her album cover and the complete album package design.
According to the flame-tressed, Philadelphia-based diva, CAPTIVE, two years in the making, ended in a much different place from where it started. Jade and her long-time partner, keyboardist-producer Whey Cooler, originally intended to create something in the vein of their dance-popping predecessors, released under the Pretty Poison banner. But along the way, they decided to bring in outside collaborators to give their tracks a more contemporary sound.
"This is a dance record," says Jade. "Collaborating with international DJs gave it a fresh new sound, and inspired us to write many new songs."
Not that dance music is new territory for Jade and Whey. "We've been doing electronic music since the beginning of our careers," says Jade. "Now it just has a label -- 'EDM.' We're about what's happening next. We've always tried to stay ahead of the curve and not follow it."
Despite its infectious beats, CAPTIVE is about far more than just dance floor grooves. Lyrically, Jade examines the human condition in ways that are instantly relatable and relevant to club kids and everyone else.
"The record takes you on an emotional journey from start to finish," she explains. "From the opening track, 'Everything in the World,' which really sums it up -- 'I want it all, I want it now, I want everything in the world' -- it covers the gamut of emotions from breakups to falling in love. The new single, 'Think About U,' captures the first time you fall in love, getting back to those pure feelings that you felt."
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Mary Jo Clancy Releases CHRISTIAN METAPHYSICS
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Author Mary Jo Clancy is both a Christian and a supporter of alternative medicines. Recently she has seen a growing number of friends and family reject these medicines, such as essential oils and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), because they feel the medicines clash with their faith.
Her new book, "Christian Metaphysics" (published by Balboa Press), shares Clancy's holistic messages and connects them to her faith, which has played a big role throughout her life.
"Christian Metaphysics" discusses the many different holistic healing practices in a candid manner. Clancy, a practicing Catholic and theta healing practitioner, explains that these methods are not outside of faith. God, she believes, gave people multiple ways to heal themselves.
Packed with healthy recipes and techniques for learning theta healing, properties of beneficial herbs and EFT, "Christian Metaphysics" offers several different routes for readers who want to feel healthier.
"God gave us many ways to heal ourselves," writes Clancy. "Just because it is outside our allopathic medical system does not mean it is not from God."
"Christian Metaphysics"
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Experienced 'Diggers, inexperienced Bengals meet in 5A semis clash
Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — The Brighton coaching staff has experienced the electricity of playing in a larger venue for the 5A semifinals, but their players haven't. Before this season, the Bengals' current group of players had not advanced past the first round.
That's certainly not the case with Jordan, which will make its fourth-straight appearance at Rice-Eccles Stadium Friday at 2:30 p.m. when it faces Brighton in an all-Region 3 semifinal clash.
"I think it's definitely an advantage for Jordan. I mean those coaches have parking passes up there," Brighton coach Ryan Bullet said. "I think they feel comfortable up there; (Jordan quarterback) Austin (Kafentzis) feels comfortable up there. For us it's a new thing. We tried to tell them not to get caught up with the aura of the stadium. It's still turf and you're still playing football."
Jordan running back Clay Moss agreed that his team's familiarity with the added pressures of the semifinals provides a leg up.
"That's a huge advantage, especially for Austin," explained Moss, who has rushed for 1,461 yards and 17 touchdowns this season. "(Quarterback) being the most important position, I think we'll have that over them for sure. That's important in this critical part of the season."
For the second time this postseason, the Bengals (11-1) play a team they previously defeated in the regular season. Three weeks prior to Friday, Brighton topped Jordan, 34-21.
"I think everything cancels out," Bullet said. "They're doing some things different than what they were doing earlier in the year. They're scoring a lot of points. I think it's going to be an even matchup between two good teams."
Since the loss, Jordan (7-5) has posted scores of 65, 56 and 62 points. They scored those 62 points in a quarterfinal win over Pleasant Grove.
"Our team has come together; we usually start rolling in the playoffs. They're a good team, but at this time we're a different team," Moss said. "We started to click as a team and started being better friends."
In the first meeting, Brighton outscored the 'Diggers 27-8 in the second half behind running back Osa Masina and three interceptions by Simi Fehoko.
"I'm sure before the game Austin didn't even know who he was. He's probably not looking for a little sophomore DB," Bullet said of Fehoko. "Simi was opportunistic; I don't know if it was as much as making all these outstanding plays. I think we had a couple breaks go our way, and Simi happened to be the benefactor of them."
Kafentzis has accounted for 1,265 yards and 19 touchdowns with only one interception in the three games following the loss. He currently leads the state with 4,507 total offensive yards, which ranks seventh all time in Utah history.
"He's the kind of kid if he makes a mistake he learns from them," Moss said of Kafentzis' lackluster performance against Brighton. "I think he'll have one of the best games of the season 'cause he wants to correct his mistakes from last time."
Jordan's defense hasn't been able to consistently control the line of scrimmage this fall. In the Beetiggers' five losses, the defense surrendered 1,744 yards and 22 touchdowns, including 224 yards and four scores to Brighton.
"A lot of it's dictated by our formation," Bullet said. "I'm sure if we go with a tight end and fullback they're going to have eight in the box. That's what they do; they played Hunter and pretty much had an eight-man front."
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With budget consideration underway this week, the House has passed its own resolution and rejected several proposed alternatives, while the Senate budget is still in the debate and amendment process. So far, different FY 2016 budgets have been proposed by President Obama (and scored by CBO), the House Republicans (from Chairman Price), the Senate Republicans (from Chairman Enzi), the House Democrats (from Ranking Member Van Hollen), the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), the Republican Study Committee (RSC), and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). Each budget offers a variety of different plans for funding the government over the next decade.
Importantly, each budget goes to varying lengths to at least temporarily reduce our debt as a share of the economy in the next 10 years, though some go farther than others. On one hand, the President's budget, the Van Hollen budget, and the Black Caucus budget leave debt stable or on a slight upward path after 2020. The Price, Enzi, Progressive, and Republican Study Committee's budgets all put debt on a clear downward path, with the RSC budget reaching 48.1 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2025.
Earlier today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of the Medicare Sustaintable Growth Rate (SGR) reform bill under consideration in the House. According to CBO, the legislation would increase federal deficits by $141 billion through 2025 and much further in the second decade. By our rough calculations, including interest, that means the SGR reform bill would add over $500 billion to the debt by 2035.
More specifically, CBO estimates the spending increases in the legislation will total $210 billion over the next decade. Only about one-third ($70 billion) of this spending would be offset, with a combination of provider reductions, increased means-testing of Medicare premiums, and other minor reforms. (Details are available in the table at the bottom of this blog.)
As we had predicted, savings would then grow in the second decade but not by enough to pay for costs. In fact, according to CBO it would most likely barely be enough offset the additional costs beyond a payment freeze.
While considering the FY 2016 budget, the Senate Budget Committee voted on about 50 amendments before passing the budget resolution on a party line 12-10 vote. (We described the underlying budget here). Some of these amendments were steps toward fiscal responsibility, some were steps backwards, and some were more mixed. Below, we describe the good, the bad, and the other notable amendments, even though not all of them passed.
Although the numbers in the budget resolution draw a lot of attention, one of the most impactful parts of the resolution deals with budget process, setting up the parameters for legislation later in the year. A key part of this process is reconciliation instructions, which help turn the assumptions in the resolution into reality. Additionally, it provides a bill prepared by a committee filibuster-proof consideration on the floor. This legislation would need to be signed by the President and have the force of law, while the budget resolution does not. Both the Senate and House Budgets provide reconciliation instructions, starting this potentially powerful legislative process.
But what are reconciliation instructions?
Reconciliation instructions are directions to a committee to report legislation that changes existing law to bring spending, revenues, or the debt limit in line with the budget resolution. Reconciliation specifies the committee or committees, the nominal dollar savings needed, and sometimes a deadline for legislation to be reported. A reconciliation bill that comes to the floor cannot be filibustered in the Senate – meaning it does not need 60 votes – and has a 20-hour debate clock in both chambers (unless waived by rule or unanimous consent). Reconciliation's special privileges are important because they are intended to ease the passage of politically difficult (usually) deficit reduction legislation.
In order to resolve disagreement between defense hawks and fiscal hawks, the House will vote on two competing budgets with different approaches to funding for Overseas Contingency Operation spending (also known as OCO or war spending) and offsets. Neither of these versions is responsible, but one is more irresponsible than the other.
The first and less irresponsible version is the original House budget provision, which would provide $94 billion for OCO, $36 billion above the President's request for FY 2016 and $20 billion above the current level of $74 billion. This increase fills in almost all of the difference in the non-war defense budgets between the House and the President, thus creating a slush fund to slip normal defense spending into the war category. This would effectively provide the same amount of sequester relief for defense spending for next year while purporting to comply with the sequester caps on paper. However, the budget does require that the $20 billion of spending above current law be offset, so it at least partially pays for this increase.
As potentially irresponsible as this approach is, it is not as bad as the alternative, which would eliminate the requirement that the $20 billion in spending above the FY15 level be offset. This approach is counterproductive in both legitimizing the use of OCO as a slush fund and undermining the principle that sequester relief must be offset by savings elsewhere in the budget.
House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) yesterday released the House Democratic alternative budget, which provides similar deficit reduction to the President's budget. The budget reduces deficits on net by just under $1.3 trillion compared to CBO's baseline, the majority of which comes from eliminating war spending after FY 2016.
The budget would put debt on a downward path by its own numbers to 70 percent of GDP by 2025, down from 74 percent in 2015. However, it appears that the budget takes into account the economic benefits of immigration reform; using CBO's GDP numbers, debt would be on a stable (if not a slight upward) path at 72-73 percent in the latter part of the budget window.
Now that we have shown that the "doc fix" proposal in the House will likely add to the debt in the longer term – refuting a key argument for not fully offsetting the ten-year cost of the bill – supporters of the legislation have come up with a cynical new argument.
There was a lot of discussion in the run-up to the release of the Senate budget about disputes within the Republican caucus over defense spending. The original budget proved to be responsible compared to the House budget on defense, and particularly on war spending, but it took a clear step back during the mark-up yesterday. Here's how.
As we've already discussed, the House budget took an irresponsible stance on war spending by spending in FY 2016 $36 billion above the President's requested $58 billion, essentially to provide backdoor sequester relief for defense. It provided further sequester relief for defense by cutting non-defense discretionary spending below sequester levels, which may prove difficult to sustain over a long period of time.
The originally-released Senate budget took a more realistic and responsible approach on defense. For war spending, not only did it spend at the President's request of $58 billion, but also it created a point of order, which could be overridden with 60 votes, against any bill that raises it above that amount. This enforcement was especially helpful considering that lawmakers spent $8 billion more than what the President requested in the CRomnibus last year.
Note: The analysis below is based on an earlier version of the SGR plan, which has since been adjusted to include modestly larger offsets and – more significantly – slower growth in physician payments beyond 2025. Our latest analysis shows that debt would increase by $500 billion by 2035.
Proponents of the SGR reform plan currently under discussion have suggested that lawmakers ignore its $140 billion ten-year cost and focus instead on the legislation's long-term effects. Over time, they argue, spending reductions in the legislation will grow and thus reduce long-term debt levels. Unfortunately, this claim appears to be false – the legislation would add to the debt both this decade and next. Even accepting optimistic savings estimates, we estimate that debt would increase $400 billion by 2035 (including the cost of interest) as a result of this deal.
According to recent reports, the SGR reform bill currently under consideration would cost about $210 billion through 2025, while offsetting $65 billion – leading to about $140 billion of net costs. Some have argued that the savings will grow over time and thus the legislation will be fiscally responsible over the long-run. Yet while it is true that the savings will be greater in the second decade, costs will grow as well – and under the current framework, costs will most likely remain higher than savings in the second decade as well as the first.
In other words, proponents of the "second-decade theory" appear to be looking only at one side of the ledger. They are counting the long-term savings while ignoring the long-term costs.
To the plan's credit, Medicare savings from the offsets in the reform package will grow over time. Although some of the savings are temporary, some of the changes are not only permanent but will likely save much more in the second decade than the first, including changes to post-acute care payments, Medicare means-testing, and Medigap reform. (Importantly, much of the reason is not because the savings grow faster over time, but because these policies don't begin for a number of years and therefore generate savings over less years in the first decade than the second).
According to one estimate by Doug Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum, Medicare means-testing and Medigap reform could save $230 billion in the second decade. Notably, these numbers appear to us to be significantly higher than likely savings, but even accepting these numbers, total savings over two decades would be about $300 billion.[1] Meanwhile, the total costs could total more than $550 billion.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) has released his FY 2016 budget resolution, which prescribes $5.1 trillion of spending cuts to reach a balanced budget by 2025. Those spending cuts, which exclude savings from drawing down war spending, include $4.2 trillion of program changes (almost entirely from mandatory spending including the Affordable Care Act), $710 billion of interest savings, and $164 billion from the "fiscal dividend" that counts the economic benefits (and short-term costs) of the deficit reduction contained in the budget. The Senate budget is slightly less aggressive than the House budget, with most of that difference coming from fewer non-defense discretionary cuts.
With its relatively aggressive savings targets, the Senate budget would put debt on a sharp downward path as a percent of GDP, from 74 percent in 2015 to 57 percent by 2025. Even excluding the fiscal dividend's effects on spending and revenue (the budget does not count the increased growth in its GDP numbers), debt would only be about 0.6 percentage points higher.
The budget also significantly reduces deficits, having them fall from 2.7 percent of GDP in 2015 to 0.5 percent in 2018 and to a small $3 billion surplus by 2025. Although the budget would not balance without the fiscal dividend, it would only record a small deficit of $52 billion (0.2 percent) in that year. Even then the budget might be close to balance, because the budget bases its numbers off CBO's January baseline, which has a $49 billion higher 2025 deficit than CBO's most recent baseline released last week.
House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) released his FY 2016 budget yesterday, outlining a framework that would significantly reduce the debt as a share of the economy and balance the budget by 2024. Our initial analysis of the budget showed it decreased deficits and placed debt on a clear downward path. This post examines the House budget's spending and revenue levels.
The Price budget achieves balance entirely on the spending side, using a cumulative $5.5 trillion of spending cuts over 10 years to gradually reduce spending from 20.4 percent of GDP today to 18.3 percent by the end of the decade. This brings spending and revenue closely in line, with the small difference made up for by an assumed "fiscal dividend" of about 0.3 percent of GDP in 2025.
We described some of the details of Chairman Price's $5.5 trillion in spending cuts here. They included significant reductions to both domestic discretionary and mandatory spending. Some of the largest cuts include a repeal of the coverage provisions in the Affordable Care Act and block granting Medicaid and food stamps. Beginning in 2017, the budget proposal would also cut future non-defense discretionary spending to well below sequester levels – by over $700 billion through 2025, on top of the $360 billion from sequester. At the same time, it would restore over $350 billion of the $550 billion of defense sequester cuts.
One of the most important functions of budget resolutions is to set the spending limits for the coming fiscal year. At first glance, the House budget would seem to take a straightforward approach by abiding by the sequester-level defense and non-defense caps for FY 2016. But as David Rogers of Politico points out, the budget in effect breaks with the caps by increasing war spending by $36 billion above the Pentagon's request. Although the budget would follow the President's budget path for war spending after that, the 2016 figure represents a dangerous precedent that could significantly undermine the spending caps.
We have long warned about the practice of lawmakers using the uncapped war spending category (Overseas Contingency Operations, or OCO) as a slush fund to slip in non-war defense spending to get around the spending caps. We have shown how they have done this in the past two omnibus bills by overfunding categories in the OCO category relative to the Pentagon's request. By stretching the definition of war spending or sometimes outright ignoring it, lawmakers make extra room in the non-war defense budget for other spending.
However, the House budget's approach goes further in both scope and purpose than previous attempts. It provides $94 billion for OCO, more than was provided in FY 2013 when full combat operations were ongoing in Afghanistan and $36 billion more than the Pentagon's request for 2016. The $36 billion increase is much greater than the amounts actual spending has exceeded requests in the past, and the increase seems more explicitly designed to provide nearly the entire amount of sequester relief the budget seeks in other years rather than reflect actual funding needs. In other words, rather than having appropriators marginally game the OCO category late in the budget process, the budget would give lawmakers license up front to shift large portions of non-war spending into OCO.
This morning, House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price released his FY 2016 budget proposal, "A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America." The budget reaches balance in 2024 by cutting about $5.5 trillion of spending over ten years (relative to a "PAYGO baseline" which excludes savings from drawing down war spending), and it assumes an additional $147 billion in deficit reduction from a "fiscal dividend" that incorporates the longer-term economic benefits (and short-term economic drawbacks) of the deficit reduction contained in the budget.
Importantly, the budget puts debt on a clear downward path as a share of the economy, with debt falling from about 74 percent of GDP today to 55 percent by 2025. Even excluding the higher revenue, lower spending, and higher GDP created from the fiscal dividend, debt would still fall to 56 percent by 2025 and would still be on a clear downward path.
Chairman Price's first House budget is very similar to last year's budget by then-Chairman Paul Ryan. It gets the bulk of its savings from health care programs, particularly the Affordable Care Act, and also includes sizeable cuts to other mandatory programs. In addition, the budget calls for somewhat similar domestic discretionary cuts (while increasing defense spending) after abiding by the current spending caps in law for the first year, as the budget resolution did last year. Finally, the budget assumes the fiscal dividend would generate $83 billion of savings in 2025.
This last assumption is based on CBO's estimate about the economic benefits of the budget's deficit reduction, though we would caution against banking these uncertain savings. Still, even without the fiscal dividend, the 2025 deficit would only be $50 billion, or less than two-tenths of one percent of GDP. However, the budget might balance, because it calculates its savings against CBO's January baseline, which has a 2025 deficit that is about $49 billion higher than their most recent baseline released last week.
This weekend, The Wall Street Journal announced its support for the permanent Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) replacement currently being negotiated in Congress. Although full details are not yet available, the legislation apparently has about $200 billion of costs, accompanied with roughly $60 billion of offsets – half from beneficiaries and half from providers. In other words, the legislation is largely unpaid for and would add about $140 billion to deficits through 2025, before interest.
Despite its long-standing support for controlling the growth of Medicare costs, The Wall Street Journal endorses this Medicare spending increase under the premise that the SGR itself is a "fiscal deception," and that past offsets used to pay for avoiding it "are usually fake." However, for the most part, these arguments do not stand up to scrutiny.
Below, we explain why many of their claims are either inconsistent with the facts or else counterproductive to achieving the overall goal of reforming Medicare and reducing its future costs.
Claim #1: Ending the SGR does not add to the deficit.
The Wall Street Journal claims that politicians are under a false "impression that the formula leads to real savings, and thus ending it adds to the deficit" and that "the SGR merely lets Congress hide the future spending it is going to do anyway." Yet while it is true policymakers have continuously prevented the across-the-board SGR cuts from happening, they have also offset the cost of doing so 98 percent of the time. As Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times explained, "With only a few exceptions, Congress simply cuts other parts of the budget to compensate for the extra money for the doctors. And that money almost always comes from Medicare or other health care programs."
In fact, our analysis shows that these offsets -- nearly all of which are health-related -- will save about $165 billion (before interest) through 2025.
As doc fix discussions continue in Congress, three opinion pieces recently declared support for fully offsetting the cost of a replacement for the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula. Editorials in the Washington Post and National Review plus an op-ed in The Hill by Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow Robert Moffit all called for an SGR fix to be fully offset, in contrast to the current discussions that apparently would only offset part of the cost.
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The unpleasant fact is that there is no way to make our current entitlement programs sustainable absent deep structural reform. But if Congress is unwilling to undertake that reform, then keeping SGR as is, or fully offsetting the cost of repealing it, would be the next best outcome.
The worst outcome — abandoning those spending restraints while doing little or nothing to mitigate the fiscal impact of doing so — is, unfortunately, what is currently under consideration. If presented with that option, conservatives should put their foot down — on the neck of this profligate, deficit-swelling deal.
The unpleasant fact is that there is no way to make our current entitlement programs sustainable absent deep structural reform. But if Congress is unwilling to undertake that reform, then keeping SGR as is, or fully offsetting the cost of repealing it, would be the next best outcome.
The worst outcome — abandoning those spending restraints while doing little or nothing to mitigate the fiscal impact of doing so — is, unfortunately, what is currently under consideration. If presented with that option, conservatives should put their foot down — on the neck of this profligate, deficit-swelling deal.
The federal government will reach its second Fiscal Speed Bump today, as the debt ceiling will be reinstated after having been suspended since last February. The Treasury Department will be able to push back the actual day of reckoning until the fall with "extraordinary measures," but lawmakers will have to lift it later this year to avoid a default on the debt. At times, raising the debt ceiling has involved unnecessary brinkmanship, but it has often been used as a catalyst to make important fiscal reforms. To further the latter and minimize the former, the Better Budget Process Initiative has proposed ten options to change the debt ceiling to make it a more effective tool for fiscal responsibility while improving financial stability in a new paper entitled "Improving the Debt Limit".
The paper divides the changes into four broad categories: linking debt limit changes to achieving fiscal targets, incorporating the debt limit into Congress's decision making, applying the debt limit to more meaningful measures, and replacing the debt limit with a limit on future obligations. The ten options are below:
Link changes in the debt limit to achieving responsible fiscal targets
1) Presidential authority to increase the debt limit if fiscal targets are met2) Presidential authority to increase the debt limit if accompanied by a plan to put debt on a declining path as a share of GDP3) Suspend the debt limit automatically if fiscal targets are met
Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified last Wednesday in front of the Senate Budget Committee for a hearing on the benefits of a balanced budget.
In her testimony, MacGuineas told Senators that we are not out of the woods yet from the economic problems following the Great Recession and that critical national objectives require controlling our historically high national debt.
MacGuineas' testimony focused on four key points:
Our deficit and debt problems are far from solved.
While the deficit has come down by about two-thirds since the 2009 peak, this was only after a 780 percent increase in the prior two years. Importantly, the recent declines in the deficit are only temporary. The deficit is only projected to shrink for the next three years, and trillion-dollar deficits are projected to come back within a decade. In addition, CBO's already-bleak projections might be too optimistic, since they assume that lawmakers won't further increase the deficit, including by continuing temporary policies as they often have in recent years.
We've released our analysis of CBO's estimate of the President's budget, breaking down the report and its supplementary data in less than six pages. Our paper explains that CBO finds that many policies would save less than the President's budget claims shows debt on an upward, rather than a downward path.
Although CBO shows lower debt as a percent of GDP than OMB does, it also shows debt on a slight upward path after 2020, meaning the budget is less likely to stabilize debt over the long term using CBO's numbers (OMB's numbers showed stable debt through 2040). Debt would fall from 74 percent of GDP in 2014 to 72 percent by 2020 before rising gradually to 73 percent by 2025. Thus, the budget would likely have to do more to truly put debt on a sustainable path.
Debt as a Percent of GDP in the President's Budget
Debt would rise after 2020 because deficits would increase throughout much of the ten-year window. Although they would fall from $486 billion (2.7 percent of GDP) in 2015 to $380 billion (2 percent) in 2016, they would rise continuously after that to $801 billion (2.9 percent) by 2025. The 2025 deficit is lower than CBO's baseline deficit of 3.8 percent but higher than OMB estimated deficit of 2.5 percent.
CBO has just released its analysis of the President's FY 2016 budget, using its own numbers and methods to re-estimate the budget. While CBO reveals lower debt as a percent of GDP than OMB did when it estimated the budget, it also shows debt on an upward path after 2020. Thus, CBO's estimate demonstrates that the budget would have to go further to put debt on a truly sustainable path.
We will have a paper on the analysis later today and a deeper dive into different aspects of the re-estimate in the coming days. Stay tuned!
The latest CBO projections show a slight improvement on our fiscal situation over the previous ones made in January, and lower projected health insurance premiums are at the center of that improvement. Not surprisingly, then, the agency's latest estimate of the coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act improved as well.
The net cost of coverage -- the coverage expansions net of mandate penalties, revenue from the Cadillac tax, and related effects -- dropped by $142 billion over ten years, from $1.35 trillion to $1.21 trillion. Simultaneously, CBO projects that there will be 4 million fewer people uninsured in 2025 than they did in January. There are plenty of different effects at work, so let's take a closer look at what happened with their ACA estimates.
The largest factor, lower private health insurance premiums, comes about as CBO takes into account the slower-than-expected premium growth from 2013 and puts greater weight on the slow growth since 2006. CBO now anticipates a slower bounce back in premium growth than they expected before as the economy continues to recover. As a result, projected 10-year spending on subsidies for health insurance purchased through the exchanges dropped by one-fifth, from $1.06 trillion to $850 billion.
At the same time, though, the lower premiums mean that the Cadillac tax on high-cost insurance plans will now raise $62 billion less than expected, continuing a trend of downward revisions to projected Cadillac tax revenue (the 2023 projected revenue is now 60 percent less than was expected two years ago). The lower premiums also translate to lower revenue as a result of the fact that people losing employer coverage due to the ACA will have less compensation shifted into taxable income (lower anticipated premium growth similarly increased CBO's projections of baseline wages and salaries).


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