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Lizabeth Wilson and a younger brother were at the Prairie Village Swimming Pool on July 7, 1974. When they started to walk home, he ran ahead. He waited around a corner of the high school, planning to jump out and scare her. But he never saw her again.
John Henry Horton was a custodian at SM East that night. As the search for the missing girl got under way, Horton was immediately a prime suspect in the disappearance, police say. He had chemicals in the trunk of his car, including chloroform, believed taken from the science labs at the school. Other bits of evidence in the car and fresh scratches on his body all pointed to Horton, police said. And he had been absent from work for an extended time that evening.
Horton lived in Independence and the FBI immediately took over the case with the possibility Lizabeth had been taken across state lines. Even Clarence Kelley, the FBI director at the time who was born in Kansas City, got involved. Horton was polygraphed and hypnotized. The FBI interviewed more than 200 known sex offenders in the area.
In January 1975, six months after Lizabeth's disappearance, an ATF agent supervising explosives at the construction site of a new Penney's distribution center in Lenexa stumbled across human remains. Lizabeth Wilson had been found.
The FBI backed out. No state lines had been crossed. With only circumstantial evidence, the district attorney declined to prosecute the case. Horton, who was 27 and married when Lizabeth was murdered, was never charged or held.
Years pass until the day in 2000 when Kyle Shipps starts reading the files at the Prairie Village Police Department. With the go-ahead to try again, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation assigns a cold case squad member to help. Shipps and his partners re-assemble the scattered evidence and start interviewing people involved with the case back in 1974. They had to track down old witnesses and detectives who worked the case. An FBI hair examiner was pushing 90 by the time he was called to testify, 29 years after he worked the case.
When the detectives did a background check on Horton, they found he had been arrested on a peeping Tom charge in Missouri in 1992, caught in a trap laid by police in a small town. The charge was pleaded down and he moved. That behavior elevated the suspicions that he was the one.
Shipps found Horton living in northeast Missouri. Twice Shipps and the team interviewed Horton. They were sure they had their guy. But a big break in the case came when they interviewed a niece of Horton's who had been living with him and his wife in 1974 when the niece was a teenager.
The niece said Horton took her and a teenage girlfriend to a golf course to get high not long before Lizabeth disappeared. Horton brought chloroform for the high. The friend told detectives that as she came out from under the chloroform, Horton was molesting her. For the detectives that proved deviant behavior.
Police had always suspected that Horton used chloroform on Lizabeth and that she died from an overdose. Shipps said detectives believe his intent was to molest her and he gave her too much chloroform – maybe because she fought him, which would be indicated by the scratches.
In October 2003, after three years of putting the pieces back together, finding the old evidence and interviewing old and new witnesses, police arrested Horton – more than 29 years after the murder. With a new district attorney, Paul Morrison, in office, Horton was finally prosecuted.
After a five-day trial in September of 2004, more than 30 years after the crime, Horton was convicted of first degree murder. Since the crime occurred in 1974, sentencing rules of the day apply. He is sentenced to life with eligibility for parole after 15 years.
But the courtroom drama, and Shipps' work, is not over.
Monday: Part 3 – The courtroom saga


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Posted by Katharine Crnko
For Marketplace Morning Report, Tuesday February 15, 2011
An Ecuadorean judge has fined oil corporation Chevron more than $9 billion in a case that's spanned over a decade. The judge ruled that the company is responsible for the pollution of forest and rivers in northern Ecuador. Eve Troeh has more.
The trend of online daily deal websites continues to grow. How many can the market take before consumers get turned off?
If he doesn't resign with the St. Louis Cardinals, first baseman Albert Pujols could set off a bidding war to end all wars. Pujols reportedly wants to be baseball's first $300-million-man.
After an audit of Apple's suppliers in China, the tech giant has found instances of underage labor, unsafe working conditions and improper handling of toxic chemicals. Rob Schmitz explains Apple's newly released Supplier Responsibility report.
In Jordan, King Abdullah and Queen Rania face criticism from opposition groups who don't want to get rid of the royal family, just achieve reforms.
Last week, Finnish cell phone maker Nokia announced a partnership with Microsoft on its new smart phone. But according to a report from Reuters, the alliance could cost most than 5,000 Finnish research and development jobs. The BBC's Jon Bithrey explains.
To deal with a large state deficit, the governor of Wisconsin is seeking to eliminate collective bargaining rights for unionized state employees.
The parent company for the New York Stock Exchange has agreed to a merger with Germany's Deutsche Boerse, pending regulatory approval. The deal will create the largest exchange for stocks and derivatives in the world. Heidi Moore explains.
The Commerce Department this morning reported retails sales rose 0.3 percent in January. Sales have increased for seven consecutive months. Jeremy Hobson speaks with Juli Niemann, Analyst at Smith Moore and Company, about what this means for the U.S. economy.
It's a legal battle that goes back 17 years. Residents of the Ecuadorean Amazon sued Texaco for pollution damages. When Chevron bought Texaco in 2001, the case remained unresolved. And now an Ecuadorean judge has fined the American oil company over $9 billion, and both sides are prepared to fight.
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Nearly every triathlete new to the sport who doesn't have a swimming background has or will (mark my words) receive this advice: To truly improve your swimming, find a good Masters program.
If you're a newbie, you've probably been going at it alone, putting in your lap-swim hours at the local pool or YMCA.
And while being in charge of your own workouts may seem empowering, without technical advice, advanced coaching and the camaraderie of a group of athletes working toward the same goal, it's likely that your training will reach a plateau and you'll end up more frustrated than well-trained.
It's at this point that the advice to join a Masters program begins to resonate.
It's possible you're currently at this point, but you've been putting off joining the local Masters team even though the one thing you've gained from lap swims is the troubling knowledge that your 40-minute 10K PR has yielded almost no tangible crossover when in the pool.
Looking at the rhythmic orchestration of 25 swimmers in a Masters workout, flashing myriad strokes and drills within a greater pattern all to the tune of a pace clock can be intimidating and make you wonder if you shouldn't just stick to dry land.
Should you feel intimidated? Absolutely not.
The primary message of this article is that Masters swimming is waiting for you, to help you get your triathlon career rolling, despite lack of ability and a background limited to what you learned in a high school PE class.
Here's an example:
A close friend of mine was a soccer, basketball and volleyball player in both high school and college. She often swam, cycled and ran as a form of cross-training.
However, she had never been a part of an organized swim team, and didn't know what interval training was, how to do a flip-turn, and she had never used a kickboard.
As soon as her collegiate athletic career was finished, she started competing in triathlons and joined a Masters swim team.
It was with her Masters involvement that she dramatically improved her stroke technique and quickly added swimming to her already-impressive list of multisport talents.
There are United States Masters Swimming (USMS) teams throughout the country, most of which provide organized workouts with a coach for technical assistance.
USMS teams cater to all levels of swimming and are open to all swimmers 19 years and older. Training with a USMS team will offer a variety of workout options, technical advice, motivation and, quite possibly, a lifetime of friendships.
The Masters team that I work with in Carlsbad, California, is made up of a large number of triathletes—pro and amateur alike.
Most have no competitive swimming background and have improved their athletic careers by taking part in the organized workouts.
Part Two: Frequently asked questions to help prepare you for the optimal masters experience
Bill Weaver is a former U.S. National Swim Team member and NCAA All-American at Ohio State University. He coaches swimming in Carlsbad, California.


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The best way to find out about carrier coverage is to get hands-on with a phone. We understand that not everyone has access to test devices, however there is always the option to check with friends and or family members and ask about their experience. Or possibly, grab their handset and do a quick speed test. Assuming none of those are an option, there is always the carrier coverage maps and third party reports.
We would suggest looking at the third party reports before the carrier maps and that being the case, it looks like Root Metrics has recently offered a fairly in-depth look at the state of LTE in the US. Their report covers the four big carriers — AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint. The report took at look at a total of 77 markets and to give a spoiler — it had Verizon Wireless with the most coverage and AT&T with the fastest coverage.
Needless to say, while fastest is generally nicer when it comes to the web, we cannot overlook Verizon as offering the most. This report notes AT&T as having the "fastest pure LTE speeds" showing LTE download speeds of 18.6 Mbps and upload speeds of 9.0 Mbps. AT&T had LTE coverage in 47 of the 77 tested markets. Looking outside LTE and AT&T was shown to have speeds of 4.3 Mbps down and 1.1 Mbps up.
Verizon on the other hand was showing average download speeds of 14.3 Mbps and average upload speeds of 8.5 Mbps. Stepping outside of the Verizon LTE areas and the average speeds were pretty far down as compared to AT&T. Verizon was shown to have averages of 0.9 Mbps down and 0.7 Mbps up. Just for comparison, this report notes that Verizon has LTE in 475 markets with AT&T having 135. Needless to say, we expect those covered market numbers to change. And in fact, they likely have already as both carriers seem to be adding LTE on a fairly regular basis.
Otherwise, T-Mobile and their HSPA+42 network was shown to produce average speeds of 7.3 Mbps down and 1.5 Mbps up which had them labeled as continuing to impress. While T-Mobile is certainly not comparing in terms of LTE speeds, they are doing rather nice when compared to the non-LTE networks of Verizon and/or AT&T. Bottom line here, we go back to the bit about actually seeing coverage in your area first hand, but this report does give a fairly nice look and should be helpful especially for those who regularly travel across the country.
[Update] It looks like some changes have indeed been made since this report was published. We have received word from AT&T letting us know they have since launched in 26 of the remaining markets. Basically, of those 77 tested, there is now only 4 where Verizon has LTE and AT&T does not.
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Celebrate the Cairns Amateurs Racing Carnival
Cairns is a beautiful destination, with a gorgeous balmy climate making it the perfect place to escape for the Cairns Amateurs Racing Carnival, also known as the "Cairns Amateurs."
Why should you get excited about this event? Essentially, it's a four day extravaganza encompassing horse racing, fashion, entertainment and much, much more in early September.
This year, the carnival runs on September 11 to 14. The event has actually been running for more than 50 years, so you can rest assured it runs incredibly smoothly and is fun for all involved.
Here's just some of what you can sample during this much-loved event.
The Cairns Amateurs: Some highlights
If you love the thrill of watching a race up-close, you can't go past a private trackside enclosure package. Here, you'll be situated just metres away from all the horse racing action - you just can't beat that kind of adrenalin buzz!
This isn't your only option, however. There are plenty of great other viewing areas, such as the Carlton 1500 Club, which offers up a two-storey marquee. It features some amazing views of all the excitement out there on the course.
If you're eager to show off a wonderful racing day outfit, the Cairns Amateurs Ball is an event for you. Here, you can enjoy a smorgasbord of tasty delights with a seafood banquet, and all your favourite drinks on hand too. In addition to this, there will be great live music for you to relax and unwind to.
Anybody keen on fashion should also head along to the Cairns Airport Ladies Fashion High Tea, which is taking place on 11 September at 9.30 a.m. at the Cannon Park Race Course. It's slated to feature local designers and boutiques, as well as visiting designers, so you can expect plenty of Cairns fashion talent, as well as some from further afield.
"Essentially, it's a four day extravaganza encompassing horse racing, fashion, entertainment and much, much more in early September."
There are plenty of other fantastic events and occasions to enjoy as part of this four-day celebration, so make sure you check out the event calendar to get a great overview of what you can experience. Some events are free, while others you need to pay for.
Where to stay in Cairns
Cairns has some great holiday accommodation right in the heart of the city, where you can find plenty of things to see and do.
Mantra Trilogy is centrally located in Cairns at 101-105 The Esplanade. It offers all the holiday accommodation options you could dream of, such as hotel rooms and one, two and three bedroom apartments that come with an assortment of different views. With this gorgeous location, you can enjoy the city's waterfront and its variety of dining, shopping and entertainment options.
Don't worry about Cairns' balmy climate, because your room will be comfortable and temperature controlled for your convenience. In addition to this, you can enjoy kitchen and laundry facilities, making your holiday here a breeze. Check out the pool and deck or relax and unwind on the resort lawn space.
Mantra Esplanade is another option for your consideration, located at 53-57 The Esplanade. Here you can enjoy enjoy wonderful waterfront views in close proximity to your favourite restaurants and other entertainment hubs. You can stay in a hotel room or a one or two bedroom apartment, and savour an array of facilities including an onsite gymnasium, spa and pool. Look forward to beautiful views of the city and the ocean, as well as plush, comfortable rooms to relax in. It's the perfect place to unwind in after an action-packed day.
With one of these options, you're sure to enjoy your stay in Cairns for the racing.
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text: Below is a great profile featured in Canoe and Kayak magazine of our very own Spike Gladwin, Lead Designer for Necky Kayaks. Click on the image below to view. And, if you haven't already, check out Spike's blog, Kayak Noise. In October he wrote about the busy times in the Research and Development department. His post includes behind the scenes photos and insights to the design process!


text: Here we have a fantastic photo from the late 1970's, possibly early 1980's of what appears to be three superheroes and a small child. It's hard to tell for sure from the photo if this is a promotional photo from some sort of appearance or just some sort of Halloween get together. Whatever the origin (I'm not sure I even want to know), it's got some great cheesy vintage charm to it. The costumes aren't too horrible (though Superman glued his S on upside down) but clearly not on model, until you get to Spider-man, who is about as ghetto as you can get. They're like real life Megos or something. I love it.


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*NOTE* - This is not a story, this is just me explaining what's happening.
And hey, it's the sequel, you shouldn't be reading this anyway unless you played the first one.)
Chapter I:
The games takes place right where we left off. Travis and Henry having their "Grand Duel". It shows the same exact cutscene, Travis giving his speech about how the only way out of this is to die. To reach paradise. There are no more heroes.
Henry wins. Travis is dead. Shinobu appears in the middle of the street with her katana. She sees the beheading of Travis. Blood everywhere. And that mysterious figure in the trenchcoat. She charges after him, shouting Travis' name. Her katana ready. She comes up from behind him, Henry paying no attention to her, rather his dead brother lying in a pool of blood in the middle of Santa Destroy's streets.
He sees Shinobu charging after him and readies his beam katana. There is a slow motion charge SWOOSH as the two assassins meet. Shinobu flies across the street skidding across the pavement. Her katana cut in half from the fire-hot beam katana.
She stands up and her and Henry start circling around each other. She tosses the chipped end of the katana in her hand at Henry. Stabbing him in the shoulder. She runs towards Travis' MK-III model and picks it up, releasing the beam. Henry shouts and pulls the katana out of his shoulder, his trench coat stained with blood.
Henry: Who the hell are you?
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In a round-robin narrative, in the style of Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn's 102 Minutes, Lynn Spencer takes listeners right to the front lines as the realization hits that multiple hijackings are underway - and then that the country is under attack.
Spencer follows the story all the way through the end of the day, when the fog of war had finally lifted and the country could assess exactly what had happened. The drama unfolds from a variety of perspectives, including the computer screen of the comptroller who first noticed that American flight 11 was off course; the phone call from a stewardess onboard alerting American Airlines that hijackers had killed two flight attendants and entered the cockpit; the battle cab of the military commander who ordered fighter jets in the air; the NASA-like operations floor of the FAA Command Center; and the cockpits of a number of the 4,500 commercial airliners flying over the United States that morning.
Spencer conducted hundreds of interviews and spoke to every key player in the airline industry and military who was involved in the major air events of the day. Based on highly detailed accounts from these interviews, as well as on the voluminous records of radio transmissions, Spencer fills in many holes in the story as it was reported by the 9/11 Commission. She also brings to pulse-quickening life the confusion, the horror, and the fierce determination and quick thinking of so many key players as they improvised their responses to a shocking new type of warfare.
©2008 Luynn Spencer; (P)2008 Tantor
"Spencer...expertly elucidates the complexities and pitfalls of American aviation as it faced a staggering challenge." (Publishers Weekly)
"Try "Voices of 9/11" Instead"
I really should've listened to the sample before spending a whole credit on this, but I was on a sniffly, cry-into-a-tissue, 9/11 kick and bought this. I'm giving this a 3-star rating simply out of respect for the victims, the first responders, and all the families, and hell, for all of us, 'cause that was a god-awful day/time and we deserve it.
The audiobook, however, doesn't. In the first place, while narrator Joyce Bean is trying her hardest, is in no way slacking off, she's doing what should be a man's job. Most of the voices are those of men, and she just can't hit the register necessary. While she doesn't get growly, she gets... stern and dry-sounding. Very odd.
Second, this is all just a really, really, really drawn out version of what happened. I STRONGLY suggest that, if you want to know what happened in those air traffic control towers, if you want to hear NORAD declare, "This is Real World," check out "Voices of 9/11." It's here on Audible, and it's free.
And, my God, it'll knock your socks off. Not quite two hours, and I cried like a baby for days...
"Very Insightful - Puts the reader in the cockpit"
Yes, I already have. It's just a gripping story that it's worth revisiting.
The airline pilots.
As a former USAF navigator I was impressed by the way the National Guard F-16 detachment at Langley AFB threw away the rule book and pressed on with the mission.
I was also impressed in a negative way about how useless the high levels of the Federal Government were. Apparently all the senior cabinet officials and military officers could do is join conference calls, chat with each other, and run around in circles.
All the key decisions were made by low level worker bees out in the field.
The only real guidance from the top came from Vice President Cheney, who authorized the military to shoot down a civilian airliner that was being hijacked.
Other than that the government's senior officials were useless.
This book desperately needed to be written. It is the story of how the aviation community reacted to the 9/11 attacks from the point of view of the pilots, dispatchers, controllers, and military officers.
The author is a professional pilot and it shows in the details. She does a good job of explaining the jargon and tools used within aviation in an easy to understand way for the lay reader.
I thought the narrator did a fine job.
"Riveting book"
One of my favorite 9/11 accounts from the perspective of ATC and pilots, this is so interesting and well done, I've listened to it about 5 times, never get tired of it.
"A Remarkable Story About A Horrendous Day"
Totally engrossing and well performed. I had absolutely no idea what was going on 'behind the scenes' on 9/11 however I lived not too far from Shanksville, PA at the time. To me, the untrained observer, it seemed as if one moment I could hear planes, lots of planes, coming into Pittsburgh a International to land and then I could hear birds. It was very eerie and remained like that for days.
I could, in a very small way, relate to the blissful ignorance of the Pilots as we too had no idea what was going on as we did not have TV. A conscious decision on our part at that time.
This story is written almost in real time and omits the 'gore' of the day which sadly we are all aware of. In stead it gives us the history of the facts. I could not stop listening.
Really enjoyed this book.
"Publishers Summary Was Way Off Base"
I am actually blown away by the average rating on this book, but different strokes for different strokes, surely applies on this rating, versus my own. The description of the book implies that the listener would learn much more about 9/11, and you did. It was air traftic controllers doing a good job, and thats the whole book. Repetitive verbiage drives you a bit off kilter, but I know books, and this was no book. Do not get the idea that you will enjoy this book, and the commenter was the absolute worst on this entire site, using probabilities.
You got to be kidding, other than a woman on testosterone treatments.
It did inspire me to write a review.
I am not fond of someone taking advantage of 9/11, to line their pockets, and part of the profit should be donated to NYC Firefighters Union. You can obtain the exact same material for free from the 9/11 Commision Report.
"Great Story, Terrible Narrator!"
This is a terrific story about aviation activity on the day of Sept. 11th. However, the story is ruined by the female narrator. She constantly adjusts her voice to sound like a man and fails miserably attempting to speak with an accent (Arabic, Boston, etc). Too bad they didn't think this through more and have a male do the voice. Just doesn't sound right. Tough to listen to.
One of the best audiobooks i've listened to in ages
The sections where you were in air traffice control
very good
Sometimes the stories that hit closest to home, are those above the clouds
Get this one
"Pilots can do no wrong"
In the opening preface the author tells us s/he is a pilot. Which is no doubt why most of the actual narrative concerns the pilots. There are no stories at any length about any of the passengers in the air or the family members of those in the air.
The book needed editing. Terms in use such as CAP (combat air patrol) were defined over and over.
The book could have used tidbits of information about how the flaws in the response that day have been corrected, or not.
If you want to read this book, buy it used or take it out of the library.
"Overall, quite good."
My only beef with this book is the narrator. There is something that sounds so ridiculous when a woman tries to sound like a man. Seriously, it reminds me of my kindergarten teacher telling a story.
"Best audible book so far"
Love this reading of the book Touching History. Have listened to it twice - will probably give it another listen next year. GREAT BOOK.
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During a successful 2013 campaign, the St. Louis Cardinals relied heavily on a plethora of rookies who stepped up and established themselves as big time major league contributors. Rookies may not have as big of a role in the Cards' 2014 season, but they have players in the minors ready to step up nonetheless. Here is a look at the Cardinal prospects who could have an impact on the 2014 season. All stats are from baseball-reference.com.
Zach Petrick, SP – In just his second professional season, Petrick was named the Cardinals minor league pitcher of the year. The right-hander was 7-3 with a 1.99 ERA across A, High A, and AA ball last season. He will likely start in AA and move up to AAA as the year goes on, but if he continues to dominate the Cards will have to consider him if they need to call up someone for a spot start.
Mike O'Neill, OF – O'Neill is a disciplined hitter who is an on-base machine. He has hit .340 with an on-base percentage of .449 during his time in AA Springfield. He does not have any power, but if the Cards need a reliable outfielder for an extended stretch he may get the call.
Greg Garcia, INF – A polished fielder with a solid offensive approach, Garcia, 24, could be called up to the majors in 2014 because of his versatility. His ability to play all three infield spots and capable base stealing might be a spark the Cards need as they trudge through the dog days.
Tim Cooney, SP – One of the highest regarded pitchers in the Cards system, Cooney will likely start the year in Memphis after a solid 2013 in Springfield. A lefty, Cooney has great control and rarely hands out walks.
Stephen Piscotty, OF – An all-around player, Piscotty has hit in the .290s at every level of the minors that he has played in. Piscotty, only 23, reached AA last year, so he still might be a year away from reaching the bigs, especially considering the Cards' outfield depth. But he is a regular on top prospect lists across baseball.
Lee Stoppelman, RP – This powerful southpaw reliever dominated in AA last season before getting a quick taste of AAA ball. Stoppelman will be 24 this season and if he can show any sort of proficiency in Memphis, he will be on the Cards radar as another always-needed matchup lefty.
Oscar Taveras, OF – The top rated prospect in the Cardinals' system for the last two years, Taveras is a renowned hitter with a lethal combination of bat control and power. His 2013 was cut short due to injury, so he will likely start 2014 in Memphis. But if Taveras, who is still not 22 years old, continues his progression the Cardinals will be forced to strongly consider calling him up for a major league debut.


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The earnings from learning: economists weigh up the relative returns from undergraduate degrees
Going to university represents a significant investment – and one that is only likely to increase in significance with impending tuition fees rises. So should prospective students be thinking more pragmatically – taking a long, hard look at what they study in terms of how it can enhance their earnings over their lifetime? Are some degree subjects more lucrative over the long term than others, in terms of what graduates can expect back?
The answer to that last question would most definitely seem to be yes, according to research by Professor Ian Walker of Lancaster's Department of Economics and Dr Yu Zhu of the University of Kent.
Using UK Labour Force Survey data from 1994 to 2009, Walker and Zhu have modelled how HE qualifications affect the earnings of graduates in the UK, according to the type of subject studied. This builds on earlier work they did to assess whether the rapid expansion of higher education in the late '80s, and subsequent increased supply of graduates, was driving down graduate wages – which they found not to be the case.
As Walker explains, their calculations went further than any previous studies, modelling the student loans system and factoring in the cost of repayments:
"The conventional literature really just stops at examining what the impact of a degree is on gross earnings. We went several steps further: applying the appropriate arithmetic to get the net impact over your lifetime. From the model we were able to predict what a lifetime of earnings would look like for different sorts of graduates. We applied the tax system to it, and the loan repayments system, to work out how much money you had to spend each year of your working life.'"
They compared their graduate sample with a set of individuals who did not do a degree but whose school qualifications would, in principle, have enabled them to go to university – typically two or more A-levels.
Degree subjects were divided into four major groupings, mirroring those used in the Labour Force Survey: science (including health-related degrees), technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); law, economics and management (LEM); arts, humanities and other social sciences (OSSAH); and combined degrees (COMB).
"If you think of higher education purely as an investment," says Walker, "our prior was that the rate of return across these different investments – i.e. different subjects – would be broadly similar. If markets are efficient you shouldn't see significant differentials across similar kinds of 'assets'. While human capital is presumably less malleable than financial capital, we nevertheless thought that people would broadly be making sensible choices and that we would not be seeing big differentials."
Differences in lifecycle
Yet the picture that emerged was far more complex. Earnings levels did differ markedly between different subject groupings, and these differentials varied by age for both men and women.
"The differences in age-earnings profiles are complicated," says Walker. "They do not appear to be parallel, which is what the literature typically assumes. Male LEM graduates, for example, enjoy faster growth in wages early in the lifecycle compared to other majors, including STEM."
This is true, he adds, even for those with poor degrees. The model showed that STEM graduates, or those with combined degrees, would eventually catch up with those who did LEM but not till much later in the lifecycle. So early-career wage levels are not a good predictor of lifetime earnings – something the government is assuming in using first destination earnings data.
For those opting for arts or social science degrees, the lifetime returns are markedly lower – especially for men. In fact, on average male non-graduates did better than men with arts degrees: the findings suggest there is actually a small negative financial return from doing this type of degree.
For women, the picture was significantly different. Once again LEM graduates saw the highest and fastest rate of return. But women who did a degree – irrespective of which subject they chose – enjoyed substantially higher lifetime earnings than those who did not. What this indicates, says Walker, is the level of discrimination female non-graduates still face in the labour market.
For Walker the results raise some interesting questions about which subjects are currently seen as priority areas.
"We were particularly interested in capturing what was going on with STEM graduates because we knew that the government felt this to be somehow different from other subjects. We were keen to see whether the rate of return to investing in a STEM degree really was bigger than to other subjects, which might conceivably justify subsidising STEM relative to other subjects. If the rate of return is high, that might be an indication that there are too few students studying those subjects and so provide grounds for a subsidy.
"If so, we'd expect to see a big differential in the rate of return to STEM graduates relative to non-STEM graduates. What our results show is that's actually not true. So we don't see a big argument for subsidising STEM from the point of view of market failure. This particular argument doesn't seem to hold water."
Effects on choice
So will all this affect what students actually choose, when it comes to the crunch? For some perhaps yes, but in general Walker thinks not – because young people, he argues, tend to take a fairly short-term view, attaching more weight to current experience than to more distant events.
"Young people are typically very impatient: they want to have things now, and they don't really care very much how they pay for it in the future. This suggests that subjects that are easy are more likely to be taken by students who discount the future heavily. They'd rather have the fun now and pay for it, in terms of lower wages, in the future."
Even the current reforms of the UK fees system will not, he believes, have a huge impact on the economic returns to be expected from degrees.
"The strong message that comes out of this research is that even a large rise in tuition fees makes relatively little difference to the quality of the investment – those subjects that offer high returns (LEM for men, and all subjects for women) continue to do so. And those subjects that do not (especially OSSAH for men) will continue to offer poor returns."


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Cooks & Cocinas: Jo Carlton
Published 12:00 am, Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Inspired by pieces of pottery, a homeowner chose turquoise as her primary kitchen color as she designed a bright space that could accommodate a wheelchair.
Who's cooking: Jo Carlton, an avid quilter who stitches for business and pleasure, and her mother, Ree Dankers.
What's cooking: Jo, who learned cooking by trial and error, cooks ribs in the oven and steaks on the cooktop. Her son, Michael, a junior at Judson High School, likes his mom's spaghetti alfredo.
In this kitchen: A remodel that began in July wrapped up in late October, giving Jo and her mom a fresh, new kitchen in the Universal City garden home Ree has lived in for five years. Jo and Michael moved in about four years ago.
The space: 22 by 24 feet, including a dining area that doubles as a space for weekly mah-jongg gatherings.
On the surfaces: Turquoise colored walls set the palette for the space that is complemented by a white counter on the island that sparkles with bits of blue-green recycled glass and black quartz perimeter counters accented with pieces of mirror.
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A sheer black glaze adds a whisper of gray to cabinets painted creamy white and shows the dimensions in the trim. On the island, the same black glaze was applied in triplicate to darken the turquoise shade from the walls to a deep teal.
A ribbon of glass tiles runs through the neutral backsplash of floor tiles laid in a brick pattern.
A mix of 12- and 24-inch square tiles is laid in a pinwheel pattern. Rough edges on the tiles prevent the floor from becoming slippery when wet.
Why it works: Configuring the kitchen to accommodate a wheelchair allows plenty of space for Jo and her mom to work around the island. Contractor Stephan Danielson of Hill Country Renovations in Boerne removed popcorn texture from the ceiling and reconfigured plumbing to expand the previous island.
The 8-foot-by-5-foot island has space for a bookcase along one end and a nook for a dog bed on one side.
All lower cabinets have either drawers or pullout shelves. "I don't want to crawl on my hands and knees to get things," Jo says. Baking sheets are stored vertically in a divi-ded drawer, and dishes go in a heavy-duty drawer across from the dishwasher. Under-sink cabinet is configured as a large drawer, a tip Jo picked up from HGTV.
The induction cooktop heats quickly, boiling water in 90 seconds. Ree's dishes are displayed in glass-front cabinets above a built-in desk that stretches across the back wall.
Splurges/sacrifices: Jo counts the Swarovski crystal chandelier over the dining table among the splurges, along with a tankless water heater.
The small water heater — well worth the $2,500 investment, Jo says — hangs on the wall above an added water softener in the garage and replaces the old-style water heater that was housed in a kitchen closet that's now a pantry.
Jo scratched a farm sink from her wish list when she priced the fixtures, but a wide oval cast iron sink in sea green works just as well and fits the color scheme perfectly.
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Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching, Soccer Fitness, Soccer News, Soccer Refereeing, Soccer Skills, Soccer Team Management, Soccer Training | Tags: Alf Galustian, coerver, England, interview, Liverpool, Newcastle United, peter beardsley, skills, technique
My series of interviews on influential figures in the world of coaching continues with this exclusive interview with Peter Beardsley.
I remember Peter as a very skillful player, slight of build, operating just behind the front strikers at Newcastle, Liverpool and of course England.
His skills have proved devastating for creating and scoring goals, netting over 230 in his career. He was a player with lovely ball skills and fantastic vision, as well as tremendous stamina, enthusiasm and work-rate.
He was also able to score long range shots, or clever placement using timing and dribbling skills.
As a youth player Peter was discovered at the famous Wallsend Boys Club on Tyneside in the 70s – the club has a pedigree of bringing through great players including Alan Shearer, Michael Carrick, Lee Clark and Steve Bruce.
He is now football development manager at Newcastle United helping to drive forward the recruitment of talented youngsters for the club's Academy and Development Squad, so what better person to answer questions on how to coach youth skills.
I caught up with Peter at Newcastle where he was coaching with the world famous coach Alf Galustian and asked him about youth coaching and what a coach learns from watching someone as experienced as Alf.
1. We all have favourite areas of coaching – as a former attacker do you find it easy to coach defending as well as attacking exercises?
I think all coaches need to learn how to coach both topics: the modern player especially as a youth player has to be both attacker and when they lose the ball win it back by pressing deep – defending from the front. Messi is probably the best example.
2. As a skillful striker you must have had a few tricks you used, which were your favourite and how did you practice them.
I learnt mostly by playing – we didn't have a programme like Alf's Coerver Coaching, so most of what I did was learnt in games. If I had had a programme like Coerver to follow, I am sure it would have made me a better player, especially for scoring goals!
3. Messi and Ronaldo both use skill in their play but appear to have one or two clever moves that they use a lot. How many skills should a youth player work on to use in match play?
I think young players should learn as many skills can they can so they can use them to beat players in as many different ways as possible; it will help their future game and it's great fun to learn new skills.
4. I think repetition is one of the most vital coaching tools. But players can find doing the same old thing boring. How do you hide repetition when coaching?
As you know I have been close to Alf for many years – once I was exposed to Coerver (over 20 years ago) I realised that repetition was crucial for perfecting skills.
I follow Alf's view that for young players you can hide repetition by playing fun games – for example simple relays where repetition is included.
Watching Alf coach today I can see so many possibilities to coach young players in using skills to win 1v1s and 2v1s where the repetition is hidden by the actual game they play.
5. You played in youth teams at Wallsend Boys in the 70s, which one factor would you say is the most important change in the way kids are coached today?
The quality of facilities and the improvement in coaches knowledge and understanding of what is best for the players and not what is best for the coaches
6 Can you explain one specific exercise you have been using with your team that my coaches can go out and use with their players?
While Alf has been here at Newcastle we have been concentrating on attacking principles. This is one of the sessions I have seen Alf coach and I am now using to help my players in their attacking role.
SESSION: To improve Shooting under pressure
How to set it up
- 10 players plus a server or the coach
- A 40x25yd area with a goal and goalkeeper at each end.
- Two teams of four players and a server
- Each player has a ball lined up by each goal.
- Two cones 5 yards either side of the server
- The coach or a designated player is stationed in the middle of the field as a wall passer.
How to play it
- The first player in TEAM A passes to the server in the centre, then takes the return pass and after controlling and dribbling the ball shoots on the opposite goal.
- As he shoots the first player in TEAM B passes to the server and sprints to take a return pass and take at least one touch before shooting.
- As soon as the TEAM A player shoots he sprints around the cone to try to stop TEAM B from scoring.
- When TEAM B shoots he must recover around his marker cone to defend again the second player in TEAM A who's repeats the sequence.
- At first the recovering player going around the marker cone will be too far and he will not be able to apply much pressure on the shooter.
- But gradually move the markers towards the Coach so the distances of recovery is less and less and there's increasing pressure on the shooters.
- Eventually allow the recovering players to use the WP as their marker to go around.
- Be sure the first pass to the server is firm so there's no lag time waiting for the return pass and the defender to get close.
- Take your first touch from the server away from the approaching defender to set up your shot.
- Head up before shooting.
- Aim low far post the GKs toughest shot.
Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching, Soccer Fitness, Soccer News, Soccer Refereeing, Soccer Skills, Soccer Team Management, Soccer Training | Tags: Arsenal, best player, carroll, febregas, Liverpool, manchester city, Tevez, Torres
The loss of Cesc Fabregas and Carlos Tevez will be a big blow to Arsenal and Manchester City but they need to send out a message that the teams are moving on not looking back.
I think the history books will show that although a Fabregas driven Arsenal could compete with Barcelona and give them a good game, in the English Premier League Arsenal lost too many games because teams could soak up the pressure and hit them on the break – their style of play won't win Arsenal the League.
Arsene Wenger can now revert to play 4-4-2 bringing back their own counter attacking prowess. 75% of their passes in the final third of the pitch were successful last season, yet they could not translate possession into goals. A fast breaking Arsenal will give them more space to take advantage.
At Manchester City losing the 25-goal a season Tevez is also seen as a blow. But City can buy in a replacement that will more than make up for the loss. Much as Liverpool did when they lost Fernando Torres and replaced him with Andy Carroll.
City have never lost when Tevez scores, but throughout last season he was constantly in the news for his arguments with the club – something they will be better off without. And there are good replacements out there like Sergio Aguero another Argentine playing at Atletico Madrid. He is a younger version of Tevez without the histrionics.
So don't despair if you lose one of your best players – as we speak I am talking with parents who want to take their son out of the team because they are being wooed by another club. I'm not losing sleep over it, I've been looking at the squad to see who can be promoted from one of our other teams. Of course that causes problems for that team!
And so it goes…
Watch Fabregas give the ball away with a suicidal backheel against Barcelona, and Tevez having his penalty saved in the Copa America for Argentina
Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching, Soccer Fitness, Soccer News, Soccer Refereeing, Soccer Skills, Soccer Team Management, Soccer Training | Tags: andre wisdom, Liverpool, ngoo, raheem sterling, silva, suso, youth team
Isn't it fantastic when you see young players come through the youth system and end up playing in the English Premier League? It's getting less and less frequent that this happens at one of the 'big' clubs, but in April at Liverpool John Flanagan, 18, made a fabulous debut in the 3-0 win against Manchester City.
Academy director, Frank McParland, and the technical director, José Segura, have produced some good players at Liverpool who are now pushing for inclusion in the first team squad like Flanagan has done.
Raheem Sterling, Andre Wisdom, Jésus "Suso" Fernández, Michael Ngoo and Toni Silva are all home grown players keen to make it in the game. Flanagan reckons the appointment of Dalglish as temporary manager is key to the development of youth team players.
"Kenny has been a big help to me and the other young players. He's been working at the club for the last two years and he was at the academy so he knows all of the youngsters well. He's always a big help to us, telling us what to do. It helps us just the fact that we already know him well from the academy because it means that he knows us well too.
YOung players like the attention of the manager it gives them something to put in a good performance for. If you have players that are not in the first team or regularly get subbed make sure they know you are watching out for them so they try their best when they do get a chance on the pitch.
Young players should always be included in the team or you could dent their confidence and that would be to the detriment of your team.
Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching, Soccer Fitness, Soccer News, Soccer Refereeing, Soccer Skills, Soccer Team Management, Soccer Training | Tags: Chelsea, forward runs, Liverpool, Manchester Utd, running without the ball, short passing, through balls, Torres
I will often play with just one attacker up front and three midfielders controlling the middle of the pitch supported by two wide players.
The player up front is there to create space by running off the ball and dragging defenders away or getting beyond the opposition defenders to run onto through balls from midfield.
This works best when my team is counter-attacking – if we play short passes and build up to the penalty area the attacker is focused on movement to draw the defenders away rather than run onto the through ball. This means the attacker in this role has to be clued up when the team moves forward.
Compare this to Fernando Torres at Chelsea. He thrives on though balls and although Chelsea
can be devastating on the break and play some raking balls down the wings, the coach Carlo Ancelotti prefers short-passing build-ups. You often see a few quick interchanges outside the box before a quick release.
Torres is not at his best in close-range build-up. When he plays for Spain the coach Luis Aragones uses Torres's acceleration and direct running as decoys, getting him to stretch defences and give the Spanish ball players more space to play.
Ancelotti recognises this: "He likes to receive the ball at a certain point, so we have to improve this. Sometimes he moves well on the wrong side of the centre-back and the ball does not arrive."
When Torres played for Liverpool the majority of his goals came come from running into space, getting to loose balls first, catching defenders out and running on to through-passes.
So remember if you are coaching your team to play a formation with one player up front you have to play to their strengths and get them to exploit the space they create behind the defence.
Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching, Soccer Fitness, Soccer News, Soccer Refereeing, Soccer Skills, Soccer Team Management, Soccer Training | Tags: 1v1, attacking, defending, Germany, Liverpool, spain, Torres
At the weekend Liverpool played away at Everton, hoping to change their recent poor run.
Key this has been the form of their striker Fernando Torres. His loss of form has been one of the reasons the team has struggled. The Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson decided Torres should go up against Everton's Sylvain Distin at centre-back rather than attack Phil Jagielka.
This was a key battle in the game – if Torres won most of these he was likely to score or create lots of chances.
However Torres won just four of the 14 head to heads he had in front of goal mostly with Distin. Distin won 10 of the 14. Torres and indeed Liverpool didn't score or create many chances.
One of the key reasons that he didn't win many of them was the poor service into him, balls in the air rather than into his feet or body. It is much easier for a big centre back to win crosses into Torres than trying to stop him with the ball at his feet.
But the other key reason is that when commentators say he is out of form what they actually me is he is no longer winning the 1v1 situations he is famous for.
Watch the two video clips below. In the first he scores in the final of Uefa Euro 2008 to beat Germany 1-0. The second is a compilation – watch the number of times Torres is 1v1 and the number of times he scores after beating a defender 1v1.
Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching, Soccer Fitness, Soccer News, Soccer Refereeing, Soccer Skills | Tags: berbatov, goal, Liverpool, Manchester United, overhead kick, scissors
Watching the Manchester United versus Liverpool game I had to admire the moment of unforgettable imagination and technique from Dietmar Berbatov.
It was a moment that exploded into the imagination, and left me wondering what Berbatov had been doing during the two years of strolling and loitering which had United's fans wondering if the £30m man would ever come good.
It's the kind of thing I love to see in matches, an outrageous piece of skill that works – I could watch the clip over and over again. Hopefully a lot of kids will be trying to do it in their backgardens and we will see it attempted on the youth pitches we play on.
Follow my blueprint and get your players doing it.
This skill is all about timing – Get your players to:
Get into line with the flight of the ball, keep their eyes on it.
Kick the ball cleanly, not hard – the movement of their body will generate the power.
Jump up, leaving their kicking foot on the ground and use their other foot to propel them upwards.
Begin to fall backwards, keeping their eyes on the ball.
As their body sinks towards the ground, their non-kicking leg will go into the air. Kicking leg may still be on the ground.
When the ball is in ideal range, whip the kicking leg off the floor into the back of the ball, bringing your other leg back down quickly. The upper body should be almost horizontal.
As you fall, stretch out your hand to steady your impact with the ground. Twist your body to avoid landing on your back.
Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching, Soccer Fitness, Soccer News, Soccer Refereeing, Soccer Skills, Soccer Team Management, Soccer Training | Tags: 2005, AC Milan, Champions League, Gerrard, half-time, Liverpool, team talk
I was reminded of how crucial a half-time team talk is this week… when I didn't give one. It was a friendly match and at half time I was collared by a parent trying to sort out his child's registration in the team.
By the time I had sorted him out half time was over and we were back on the pitch. I had done nothing with my team. This resulted in an early goal for the opposition and me trying to reorganise and get messages to my players – essentially the half-time team talk.
The half-time period in a match is not just about refuelling and physical therapy. It's a crucial time for the coach and team to gather their thoughts and prepare mentally for the challenges of the second half.
Looking back to half-time in the 2005 European Champions League final, with Liverpool 3-0 down to AC Milan, according to his Liverpool colleagues, captain Steven Gerrard was distraught and was ready to concede defeat. Afterwards, all he could remember of half-time was the manager getting his pen out, writing down the changes he wanted on the board and telling the team to try and get an early goal, as that could make the opposition nervous. But Gerrard said he just couldn't concentrate – but that one thought stuck in his mind.
And they got that early goal and Liverpool went on to draw the game and win on penalties.
Because you only get a very short amount of time tell your players one or two things that can help influence the second half – just like Gerrard and the early goal, and is the only direct opportunity the coach will have to speak to all the players and to influence the second-half performance and result.
What you tell them will, of course, depend on the score and the coach's perspective of the match. You must also take in other factors, such as the context of the game – eg is it a cup match in which the loser gets knocked out? Is it a league game and what are the league positions of the teams contesting the game? Is one team an overwhelming favourite to win the game? Is the team winning but not performing well?
These will help you decide what to say to your team, just make sure it's positive. A coach I know once said: "Don't get too carried away, this lot you're playing aren't very good." His team were winning 4-0 at half time and went on to lose!
Here's the hightlights from the 2005 European final


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Ever wonder what would happen if politicians threw a convention and nobody covered it? Not that it matters since it's unlikely we'll ever find out in a 24 hour media age where even the most pathetic minutae is worthy of reportage (we use that term loosely), but it's something that Slate's Jack Shafer is advocating (he's also convinced the reason John Edwards isn't being given a speech slot this year is because "voters finally want to hear him talk").
If the political press corps were honest, they'd start every convention story with the finding that nothing important happened that day and that your attention is not needed…Instead, they satisfy themselves by being the co-producers of a bad reality-TV show about the coronation of a man who would be king.So why don't they? Because, it's a party!
It's like a vacation, only no spouses! There's free food, plenty of booze, nice hotels, lots of pals in the press and politics dishing gossip, and the assignment is easy to report. Ferguson concludes that political conventions exist only to make the second convention the "journalists' convention" possible.A number of other people appear to concur with the latter, and judging by how many Denver event invites have landed in our inbox they seem to be correct. However, if Forbes is correct, it's going to a smaller "second" convention than in year's past since due to budget cuts everyone is sending less people. Anyway, does it matter? Maybe everyone should just take a page from NBC's Olympic coverage and call it live from a television in the basement thousands of miles away.