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What HUD shows us about the limits of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.
I was interested your recent article "Powered by Mission" by Charles Clark. My father was a project manager with NASA's first manned space program, Project Mercury, and I can attest to the power of mission at that agency.
As a nonmanagement employee at HUD's Boston Regional Office, I can also attest that the power of mission can be trumped by the power of organizational dysfunction.
I am providing an employee's take on the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey using HUD as a case study. The agency serves as a good study, first, in the limits of the FEVS and, more importantly, the self-limiting processes of an agency itself.
The FEVS is not perfect. The questions are simplistic and generic, and have the bias as a management vehicle of representing what management thinks employees are thinking about. On the one hand, this allows for standardization and easy tabulation, and provides for the ability to make comparisons across agencies and over time. But employee concerns are not as "black and white" as presented. For example, employees are asked about their supervisors. Yet it is often the second-line or third-line manager who is the cause of much discontent, which is not picked up by the FFEVS.
While the survey isn't perfect, the results do provide useful insights into an agency, and there are reasons why HUD consistently ranks at the bottom of the rankings. Yet at HUD there has been no attempt to follow up with employees to try to identify the root problems, such as by conducting a HUD-specific survey.
Two chief issues at HUD are pay and promotions, but not in the way that the FEVS treats them.
HUD is a conglomerate of different, independent program areas (community development and public housing are two areas, for example), with service delivered through 90 field offices. The FEVS asks: Do you think promotions are awarded fairly? Do you think you are paid fairly? For promotions, the issue at HUD isn't about fairness, it's about the fact that promotions are rarely posted in the field; almost all promotions are in headquarters, even though 70 percent of employees work in the field. In my program area, there has never been a promotional opportunity posted in the 10 years I have been here.
And regarding pay, it is not the absolute level of pay that is the issue, but the fact that job grading is not consistent between program areas or between and within offices. In my program area, duties are so blended that customer service reps are assigned senior analyst duties and vice versa. Between the two phenomena, the result is a caste system, in which an employee is stuck in the position for which s/he was hired, with no hope for change other than by leaving the agency.
Because the questions aren't targeted specifically enough, we end up with generalized responses by management—variations on the standard "we hear you." And what happens when management "hears" employees? One response: the former deputy secretary initiated an "I Believe in HUD" campaign, whereby employees would wear buttons, blog online, post comments on a board in each office, etc. Is wearing "I Like HUD" buttons really the answer to the significant employee discontent identified repeatedly in the annual FEVS? This is in the same category as Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign to end drug use.
In the article, John Kamensky, Senior Fellow at the IBM Center for the Business of Government, offers an easy and unearned "out" for HUD's poor standing, saying that the agency was hollowed out under the Reagan administration. Ronald Reagan left office 25 years ago. Where has HUD management been in the intervening quarter-century? The fact that HUD consistently ranks at the bottom of the governmentwide rankings, regardless of the exactness of the questions, provides support for the belief that something is amiss.
Kamensky also states that things are turning around at HUD and that there is now strong leadership two or three levels down. Interestingly, he has unknowingly identified, in a nutshell, the problem at HUD: Leadership stops at the top.
When Shaun Donovan became HUD secretary, he brought great enthusiasm for "righting the ship," immediately articulating a vision for the Agency via a Transformation Initiative he launched. With work and commitment, we would have a re-engineered HUD with respect to both operations and human resources management. Five years later, the only change in human resources management has been the streamlining of the hiring process.
Nothing else has changed, and HUD's HR practices remain mired in the mid-20th century. The reason is, while senior managers have launched the change initiatives they have never implemented a process for ensuring that changes are adopted at the line level. They naively think that the ideas will be carried down through the hierarchy by gravity and then root themselves.
What has happened, not surprisingly, is that when the ideas hit the third or fourth level, gravity fails because the ideas hit the impenetrable wall of ensconced bureaucrats, most of who whom have been at HUD their whole careers and almost all of whom have no interest in change, or will not admit that change is necessary. In line with human nature, no line manager thinks the FEVS results apply to him or her or to their business unit, and without prompting they won't move into the new millennium (even though it has been under way for 14 years now).
I admit it is easy to dismiss these statements as clichéd generalizations. But, prior to joining HUD, I worked for a small private firm, two Fortune 500 companies, a small federal agency and a large federal agency. The problems with the management culture at the line level at HUD go well beyond what could be considered normal organizational molasses. I have never seen anything that comes close to the culture of nonresponsiveness, opaqueness and lack of accountability as at HUD.
I have offered, in several venues, suggestions for helping ensure changes are implemented at the line level at HUD, including:
- Require managers to develop transformation action plans, just as they are now required to produce management action plans.
- Include in managers' performance reviews an evaluation of how they have achieved results under, or demonstrated commitment to, the Transformation Initiative.
- Provide mandatory organizational behavior training to managers using real-life case studies of how core values have not been observed, as provided by employees.
These suggestions have generated no interest. But cheerleading alone won't accomplish change.
Bill Matthews is a senior analyst at the Housing and Urban Development Department.
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- 1. Barry Jackson on "Teaching to the Test"
Barry Jackson, who tutors children in the East Valley, sent the following letter to Betsy Devos, United States Secretary of Education.
Dear Secretary DeVos:
For several months I have been tutoring a student whose school seems to spend an inordinate amount of time preparing students for standardized tests. First it was two days "reviewing" for a Galileo test. Now she says "we are not doing anything" but preparing for another standardized test, and this is taking several days. Along with "fall break"(two weeks) and "early release" Wednesdays, it is at least even money that she is learning more from me in one hour than she receives in a week in school.Click here to read more
- 2. High Stakes Testing - Expensive, Wasteful, Ineffective Child Abuse
Hopefully, you read the letter that educational tutor Barry Jackson sent to Betsy DeVos. In it you can see the damage that is being done to our children by the Arizona State Board of Education when they, along with then Gov. Jan Brewer and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, in 2010, brought the Common Core Machine to Arizona. They did this in hopes of "winning" millions of dollars from our federal government via Race to the Top.
Since that time, Common Core has been rebranded, twice. Further, the pro-Common Core State Board has ensured that the damage continues. These people consider themselves "experts," a term that is being met with cynicism by a growing number of critically thinking people.
"Board member Jared Taylor, who has been consistent in his opposition to Common Core, was the lone "no" vote.
"The bottom line is that I am very disappointed that we kicked the parents to the curb and ignored the will of the voters when they elected Diane Douglas. Yet she led the way today; we just renewed Common Core," stated Taylor. Arizona State Board Of Education Approves Rebrand Of Common Core Standards
If you have any doubts about the negative effects of High Stakes Testing, there are many others who agree with Barry Jackson. They also say it is counter-productive, expensive, wasteful, and it is also child abuse.
As you read some of the comments below from the real experts, both local and national,--there are thousands more that I have not quoted--please recall that the Arizona State Board of Education voted in April 2017, to make 90% of a school's A-F grade dependent on how well their students scored on the High Stakes test, AZMerit.Click here to read more
- 3. The National Common Core Standards System
This heavily referenced, 48-page document is the result of three months of research effort on the part of members of Arizona's Mommy Lobby, with the help of Emmett McGroarty of the American Principles Project. It has been distributed to Arizona's House and Senate Education Committees, Governor Ducey's office, most of Arizona's leadership, as well as the Arizona State Board of Education. If you have questions about Common Core in Arizona (aka Arizona's College and Career Ready Standards) most of the answers are contained in this document titled the National Common Core Standards System
Chapter headings include: 1) History of Common Core: America and Arizona; 2) The Common Core are Inferior, Defective, and do Not Lead to Readiness for Authentic College Work; 3) High Stakes Testing; 4) Data Collection and Personally Identifiable Information; and 5) Teacher Accountability.Click here to read more
- 4. California Teacher: "Get out of my way, I have some laws to change, and no one's stopping me."
This post appeared in Stop Common Core in California Facebook on May 6, 2016. It was shared by California teacher, Dawn Nikisher Kelly, with her permission:
(GW NOTE: It may be of interest to know that, unlike Arizona, California law allows a parent or guardian to excuse a child from all or parts of the statewide assessment. Not many parents do, however. See 60615 of EDUCATION CODE SECTION 60604-60618.)
- 5. SILENT NO MORE: Why this Former Teacher Opted Out of the AzMerit
Those of us in the anti-Common Core/AzMerit/High Stakes testing movement have long explained why teachers don't speak out against the insane nationalization of our K-12 Education System. Mostly, it's because they don't want to risk losing their jobs. Even former teachers don't speak out, for fear they will never work again in the public school system. Ms. Debra Jo Borden, a former Arizona teacher, bravely went public in late April 2016 . She is silent no more about the gagging of teachers, AzMerit, the data mining and psychoanalysis of our children, and much more. Please read what she has to say:
1) I disagree with the contracts teachers are required to sign that force them to remain silent.
2) I can be brave and I will speak up.Click here to read more
- 6. Cowardly AZ Legislators Fret over "maybe" Losing Federal Money: Courageous NY Children Refuse Tests!
The Arizona Legislature has adjourned Sine Die. The Fifty-Second Legislature, Second Regular Session ended May 7, 2016. Unfortunately, the majority of legislators (including all Democrats) refused to respect parents' rights in voting Nay to SB1455 (parental opt out) . Yet, in liberal left New York, young school children happily joined together to stiffen adult spines against statewide (nationalized) assessments.
- 7. Vacancy on the Arizona State Board of Education's Standards Development Committee
If you would like to play an effective role in replacing Common Core in Arizona, now's your chance! There's a vacancy on the State Board of Education's Standards Development Committee for a member who is a parent of a public high school student. The Arizona Standards Development Committee includes representation from the Board, business community, deans of colleges, parents, classroom teachers, a school administrator, and a school district governing board member. The Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas is also a member of the Committee. Members of the Committee are an equal mix of those who have and have not participated in the standards development process in the past.
More information about the Arizona Standards Development Committee can be found HERE.
Applicants are encouraged to complete the application and return the requested documents to email@example.com by May 31, 2016. Click HERE to print out the application.
According to State Board Member Jared Taylor, "It would be great to get some good parents of high school students to apply."
Are you interested in reviewing some excellent K-12 standards that already exist? See An English Language Arts Curriculum Framework for American Public Schools: A Model and Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools Kindergarten through Grade Twelve: A Model
Two addenda could be added to the California standards referenced above that elaborate on the standards themselves and deal with pedagogical and organizational issues: 1) Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools, 2000 Revised Edition; and 2) Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools, 2006 Edition."
Please contact Gilbert Watch and let us know if you apply!Click here to read more
- 8. The Schools' War on Arizona's Children: Part 3 Emotional Child Abuse
As stated in Part 1 and Part 2, even though Arizona legislators are ultimately to blame for causing the ugliness, humiliation, undue stress, and mental anguish experienced by parents and their children who dare to reject AzMERIT, it is the teachers, principals, and administrators who are inflicting the pain. As you will see from these parent comments, some local school "leaders" seem to take delight in emotionally punishing children for their parents' actions. Local school authorities are willing to suspend their own consciences and actually harm children under their care, all in the name of standardized testing. The comments you will read below aren't unusual. They are representative of what's happening all over Arizona. These parents will never again trust the "public school system."Click here to read more
- 9. Sen. Allen calls for schools to respect parents over assessment concerns
(Phoenix, State Capitol)---Senator Sylvia Allen today urged local school leaders and administrators to work with parents, be respectful and not retaliate against a student for choices that parent may make.
It is that time of year again when Arizona schools are administering the statewide assessment to our students, also known as AzMERIT. Unfortunately, another legislative session is coming to an end where a parent's right to make educational decisions for their children are not being recognized in our state laws. Senator Allen sponsored SB 1455, which would have allowed parents to opt their children out of the AzMERIT assessment. This year Congress reauthorized the federal education law that gave states the flexibility to develop their own opt-out policies, but Senator Allen was unable to get it through the legislative process this session.Click here to read more
- 10. Beautiful Letter from an Arizona Teacher to Her Students
Among the horror stories of teachers and local school administrators who intimidate, lie to, and bully their students are stories like this one. Rusdon Ray shared the following letter that his young son received from his teacher. According to Mr. Ray, "This letter was written by his good teacher who clearly recognizes and is doing her best to combat the psychological damage to her students by too much high stakes testing in schools with tests such as the AZ Merit. You can feel the love and concern this teacher has for her 3rd grade students and her desire to help them even though teachers' hands have been tied. Take a moment and read it."Click here to read more
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United Nations "at the heart of the dysfunction" in South Sudan, Democratic republic of Congo and Jordan
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The international aid system is failing those who most need help despite having more resources and greater know-how than ever before, a leading medical charity said on Monday.
In a damning report, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says U.N. agencies and international aid groups are increasingly absent from the field in emergencies, especially when there are significant security or logistical problems.
Many agencies also focus on the people who are easiest to reach and ignore the more difficult places, MSF International President Joanne Liu said in the foreword to the report.
"… people in desperate need of lifesaving assistance are not getting it – because of the internal failings of humanitarian aid system," she added.
In crises like Central African Republic and South Sudan, Liu said persistent problems remained with the scale-up of the U.N. and international aid groups' response, which was "characterised by bureaucracy and risk aversion".
The report, Where is everyone?, follows research into three major displacement emergencies - South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Jordan which is hosting many Syrian refugees.
It said the United Nations was "at the heart of the dysfunction" in all three cases. Funding systems in particular were slow, cumbersome and not suited to emergency situations.
But it said aid groups also appeared to lack technical capacities in some cases in areas such as health, water and sanitation, and assistance to victims of sexual violence.
For example, it said the provision of water and sanitation at refugee camps in South Sudan's Maban county was totally inadequate to meet the needs of tens of thousands of Sudanese who sought shelter there in 2012, contributing to catastrophic mortality rates.
In DRC, MSF said very few agencies were able to provide medical services during emergencies in eastern North Kivu province which has been wracked by violence. Aid agencies seemed to have stopped the practice of negotiating access with all armed actors, limiting their presence to zones patrolled by U.N. troops, it added.
Assistance to people uprooted by fighting in North Kivu was also overwhelmingly concentrated on the 14 percent living in recognised camps. The vast majority of displaced people generally received no help. And camps closest to the regional capital Goma received more help than those in the worse-affected periphery.
In Jordan, humanitarian agencies have also focused attention on the most easy to reach Syrian refugees – those living in the colossal Zaatari camp near the border. Aid agencies have not done enough to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Jordan's cities, where many live in destitution.
MSF said that in the worst emergencies, when help was most needed, international staff were rapidly evacuated and programmes were downgraded to skeleton staff or were suspended.
Many humanitarian groups now worked at arm's length through local non-government organisations or government authorities, acting more as technical experts, intermediaries or donors.
The report highlighted the huge burden placed on local organisations, but said they often lacked the skills to conduct difficult operations. It can also be hard for local organisations to be seen as impartial if they are operating in areas affected by conflict.
MSF stressed it did not exempt itself from the criticism it leveled at others and hoped the report would open up debate ahead of a World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 when experts will consider the structure and funding of future humanitarian work.
U.N. refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards said it was reviewing MSF's criticism, adding: "Anyone who has been in a full-blown humanitarian emergency will know that they can indeed be chaotic and dangerous, especially in the initial phases."
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By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for March delivery was down 17 cents to $95.69 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $1.45 on Friday.
Trading volume was lower than usual as floor trading, like U.S. financial markets, was closed for the Presidents Day holiday.
Investor sentiment has been subdued since the Federal Reserve said Friday that U.S. factory production slowed in January, mostly because of a big drop in output at auto factories. Most analysts think the slowdown is temporary, but it was enough to raise concern about the still-sluggish economic recovery.
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Wrestler-turned-reality TV star Hulk Hogan has apologized for posting graphic pictures of his burned hand on Twitter on Sunday after his followers complained about the shocking snaps.
The 59-year-old was hospitalized in Florida after a radiator exploded, leaving him with injuries to his hand and fingers.
Hogan documented his trip to the emergency room of Tampa General Hospital by posting several gory images of his swollen and scalded fingers on his Twitter account, but the snaps prompted a backlash from his fans.
The star returned to the website on Monday to say sorry for uploading the pictures, writing in a post, "I apologize for posting my burned hand photos, with all the feedback I now realize I really should take a moment before I make a decision."
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UH Board of Regents approves program to increase allocation for student financial assistanceUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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KAPOLEI, Oʻahu — At its monthly meeting held today at Kapolei Hale, the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR) approved proposed policy revisions to help maximize the financial assistance for Hawai'i residents enrolled as students at the University of Hawaiʻi. The approved changes will go into effect in Fall 2007.
"The Board's action today has put in place a comprehensive program of financial aid for UH students. The creation of UH grants and scholarships will enable campuses to increase access for low income Hawaiʻi residents, to attract academically superior students both from Hawaiʻi and elsewhere, and to manage their financial assistance in keeping with campus mission and program priorities," said Linda Johnsrud, UH vice president for academic planning and policy.
The policy revision replaces tuition waivers and certain non-resident tuition differential waivers with University of Hawai'i grants and scholarships. Four new awards are created with this policy change: opportunity grants based on need, achievement scholarships based on merit and/or service, international student scholarships, and Pacific Islander scholarships.
The allocation for student financial assistance will be a share of the tuition revenues that will keep pace proportionately with the increases in tuition. The amount awarded to Hawaiʻi residents based on financial need is projected to increase from $4 million in 2004-2005 to $16.6 million by 2011-2012. Under the revised policy, certain UH tuition waivers will continue to be honored including the following:· Graduate assistants (as a function of their appointment)· Employees and spouses or domestic partners of UHPA members (as established in collective bargaining agreements)· Native Hawaiian need-based waivers· Current non-resident students receiving tuition support under the existing guidelines who are continuously enrolled until they complete their current degree or certificate
The changes will also allow the university to predict and monitor the value of tuition assistance provided and allow greater flexibility in awarding grants and scholarships of varying dollar values.
Regents and UH President David McClain expressed commitment to sustain access for underserved populations through the new scholarship programs that were approved, particularly as these new awards apply to Pacific Island students from jurisdictions that do not have public higher education institutions granting baccalaureate degrees.


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- Very thinly slice 1 orange into rounds (about 1/16 to 1/8 inch thick). Remove any seeds. Place slices in medium bowl and add 1/2 cup sugar; let stand at room temperature 1 hour.
- Combine 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cup water in heavy large saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat; boil without stirring until syrup is deep amber, occasionally brushing down sides of pan with wet pastry brush and swirling pan, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat. Carefully add orange-sugar mixture to caramel (mixture will bubble up). Return pan to medium heat; simmer until orange slices are tender, stirring occasionally, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool 10 minutes.
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Per serving (1/4 cup): 137.1 kcal calories, 12.5% calories from fat, 1.9 g fat, 1.2 g saturated fat, 5.0 g cholesterol, 31.0 g carbohydrates, 1.0 g dietary fiber, 29.1 g total sugars, 30.0 g net carbohydrates, 0.4 g protein


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All course materials, lunch and two coffee breaks will be provided.
You must provide your own laptop.
Course Length: 1 day
Students should be Windows GUI smart and have experience in using the Internet Explorer, File Manager and MS Office. To maximize the learning environment each student should bring his/her notebook computer with CD and diskette drive. The notebook should have either Windows 2000 or Windows XP installed.
No loaner computers will be provided.
This hands-on course will involve case investigation procedures and a set of advanced tools for the imaging, forensics review and reporting processes involving Windows client platforms. The course will include use of a set of tools to analyze digitally stored case evidence on exclusively Windows 2000 Windows XP systems.
These items of evidence are becoming increasingly important in a wide variety of administrative, civil and criminal cases, and numerous law enforcement agencies, which have trained personnel, to retrieve this evidence from computers. To increase the effective investigation and prosecution of criminals who utilize computers, it is critical for systems professionals and investigators to understand the basic concepts of information technology, computer security, evidence controls and the forensic examination of digitally stored information.
In this intensive 1 day 8-hour course, attendees will receive vital information on the processes and tools used to collect and analyze digital evidence. In addition to reviewing the typical areas where digital evidence may be located or hidden within a computer the full range of forensics tool kits will be used to extract such information.
There will be case exercises and demonstrations of several information retrieval, computer forensics assessments and forensics reporting techniques. The course will also cover a variety of issues involved in drafting forensics reports about digitally stored evidence and ultimately using such evidence in administrative or legal matters.
A comprehensive end-of-course examination will be administered and students who attend classes - complete exercises and pass the examination will be awarded a Microsoft - Client Systems Forensics Certificate.
Larry Leibrock, Ph.D., is a member of the McCombs Business School The University of Texas faculty and serves as the Associate Dean and Technology Officer for the McCombs Business School. He has held or currently holds clinical teaching and research appointments at McCombs Business School, Institute for Advanced Technology, The University of Texas Law School, Emory University, Helsinki School of Economics and Monterrey Technologica in Mexico City and Monterrey. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, Internet Society, FIRST and USENIX/SAGE. He is also a member of the Department of Defense Software Engineering Institute and a participant in the Air Force Software Technology Conference. He is the founder and CTO for eForensics LLC, a private technical services firm.
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In clinical practice, he has served as the project manager in over IT projects in several US and international sites. He holds professional certifications in IT project management, Windows, UNIX, systems performance, computer security and networking. He has authored papers in the topics of information systems attacks, encryption, public key infrastructures, privacy, systems survivability and systems forensics.
He has won several University teaching awards and has served as an expert in a range of legislative matters, judicial testimony, and legal disputes. Larry has served as a Special Master for a Texas Court in the areas of systems management, systems survivability, security and protection of systems mechanisms.
Larry has delivered expert digital evidence testimony at both civil and criminal trials. He has testified for the Presidential Commission for Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure and the Senate Science Committee. He recently presented forensics testimony at an invitational conference for the Executive Office of the President. He presently serves on the Texas Infrastructure Protection Advisory Committee formed by the Attorney General of Texas. He is also appointed to the Board of Directors - Texas Department of Information Resources. Larry is active in IT industry and government systems consulting projects in the areas of systems forensics, enterprise IT operations, security and incident investigations.


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Two story lines broke today that were of interest to me, and neither were particularly encouraging. The first was related to Roy Oswalt: the New York Post reported a friend of his said that Oswalt "likes the veteran fiber of the Mets" and would accept a trade to Flushing.
Kudos to Oswalt's buddy for that excellent quote, but no thank you. In the spirit of full disclosure, I feel compelled to share with you my utter dislike for Roy Oswalt. It's pretty straightforward: I don't like Oswalt because of his grudge with Cliff Floyd. I distinctly remember my outrage when Oswalt plunked Floyd with first base open, after Floyd had hit a grand slam off of him in a previous game. It was petty and I've never let go it. My inner "irrational fan" wants nothing to do with that jerk.
My "rational fan" side is only slightly less disinterested. Oswalt is still an above-average starting pitcher who, in his prime, was dominant. The problem is that he's owed a lot of money over the next two seasons, will probably require a contract extension to waive his no trade clause ("veteran fiber" be damned), and plays for an organization that will demand premium prospects in return.
Truthfully, it's that last piece that is the biggest negative. I read a couple of stunning trade suggestions from Mets fans on Twitter today that alternatively had me laughing out loud or dropping my jaw in utter disbelief. I don't want to single anyone out, so I'll just tell you my parameters for a deal. If the Astros asked for Jon Niese straight up, I'd decline the trade. Jenrry Mejia straight up? No thanks. Wilmer Flores? Nope. Fernando Martinez? No way. Dillon Gee? I'd think about it. Any combination of the above? Please don't let the door hit you on the way out.
If the Astros are willing to eat a significant portion of Oswalt's contract or accept Oliver Perez as part of a package, I'd think about upping the quality of prospect included in the deal. If not, I'd start with Tobi Stoner, Pat Misch, and a C quality prospect (or lower). If the Astros accept, great. If not, save those bullets for Kevin Millwood, Jake Westbrook, or (if possible) Cliff Lee: their cost/benefit ratios are far more acceptable than Oswalt's*.
*This may all be a moot point. While I was writing this, Craig Calcaterra of NBC Sports' Hardball Talk (hat tip to MetsBlog) reported that the Texas Rangers are working hard at acquiring Oswalt. According to Calcaterra, the Rangers and Astros have agreed on the players involved but are waiting for MLB's approval on the contract side (the Rangers are in bankruptcy and MLB is floating their payroll until their recent sale is finalized). Stay tuned, as Buster Olney is tweeting that there's "nothing to it", but it looks like it may be out of the Mets hands anyway. Which is a good thing.
In other news, MetsBlog reported that the Mets had come to term with 25 draft picks, the highest of which was 4th round pick Cory "Son of Greg" Vaughn (for the full list of signees, click here). I'm all for getting the kids signed and playing as soon as possible, but I have mixed emotions about these quick signings.
I have no insight regarding the scouting and drafting process beyond what I read in the past 10 days or so and I'm not involved in the negotiations, so I can't comment on what was demanded and what was offered. But the quick signings indicate that the Mets drafted these kids knowing that they wouldn't try to break the bank. It's possible that they're the players Omar Minaya wanted, but available evidence indicates otherwise. If even one of these guys makes the majors, it won't matter one bit, but as I mentioned here and here, that was the last thing I wanted to see. The amateur draft may be one of the bigger crapshoots in professional sports, but that's no excuse for a franchise as wealthy as the Mets to intentionally handicap themselves like that.


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"I was here when the war ended," Ms Barr said, recalling that she celebrated VE Day in London in 1945.
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Ms Barr, one of the oldest marathon runners in Europe when she ran her last race in 2016 aged 88, has run more than 80 marathons.
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Ms Barr does not run marathons any more but she continues to keep fit.
"I still do a lot of walking. I never get on the bus to go to town or anything like that," she said.
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"What makes 20,000 Days on Earth distinctive is that it provides an overview of the man and his art while creating the illusion that this has come together organically – out of poetic ruminations, casual encounters, ghost-like visitations and good old Freudian psychoanalysis... On a purely technical level this is a richly cinematic documentary that showcases some beautiful film craft. Erik Wilson's cinematography brings a hypnotic sense of place, amplified in the moody strains of Cave and Ellis' melancholy underscoring. Jonathan Amos' editing is indispensable in navigating the dreamy shifts in and out of Cave's head. His montage near the end of performance moments from over the years, folded into footage from a Sydney Opera House show, is a stunner… Longtime Cave-men (and women) will be bewitched, along with a fair share of folks drawn in simply by the film's unique investigation into the mind of an artist." — David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter


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December 28, 2010
1996: Jaguars Defeat Bills for Franchise's First Postseason Win
In their second season of existence, the Jacksonville Jaguars had gotten off to a 4-7 start. They were performing in typical fashion for a recent expansion team, but then they reeled off five straight wins to finish the year. The Jaguars not only ended the 1996 regular season with a winning record of 9-7, but finished in second place in the AFC Central and qualified for the postseason as a wild card entry.
Head Coach Tom Coughlin's team featured third-year QB Mark Brunell, who led the NFL with 4367 passing yards and 7.8 yards per attempt. Wide receivers Keenan McCardell and Jimmy Smith emerged as outstanding receivers, but it was the running game that keyed the season-concluding winning streak. Veteran RB Natrone Means (pictured above), formerly of the Chargers, gained 364 of his 507 rushing yards in the last five games. The defense benefited from the addition of eleventh-year veteran DE Clyde Simmons (pictured below left) and rookie DE Tony Brackens, as well as rookie LB Kevin Hardy.
The Jaguars went on the road for their first playoff game, facing the Buffalo Bills at Rich Stadium on December 28. The Bills, coached for the eleventh season by Marv Levy, went 10-6 to end up second in the AFC East. Many of the key players who had helped Buffalo to dominate the AFC at the beginning of the decade were still vital to the club's success, but were also showing the effects of aging and wear-and-tear, including 36-year-old QB Jim Kelly, 30-year-old RB Thurman Thomas, and 32-year-old WR Andre Reed. Defense had mostly carried the club during the season, in particular DE Bruce Smith, still an elite player at age 34.
There were 70,213 fans at Rich Stadium, a venue where the Bills had never lost a postseason game, on a cloudy day with temperatures in the fifties. Following a punt by Jacksonville, the Bills drove 43 yards in six plays to score the game's first touchdown on a seven-yard pass from Kelly to Thomas. However, on Buffalo's third possession the veteran defensive end Simmons intercepted a shovel pass from Kelly that was also intended for Thomas and returned it 20 yards for a touchdown.
The Bills came right back with a ten-play drive that included four pass completions by Kelly and ended with a two-yard touchdown run by Thomas over right tackle. But the Jacksonville offense, which had not been able to move thus far in the game, was spurred by a 62-yard run by Means to the Buffalo five. The drive stalled there, but Mike Hollis kicked a 27-yard field goal and the score was 14-10 after one quarter.
The Bills had to punt following their next possession but regained the ball when a long Brunell pass was intercepted by CB Thomas Smith in the end zone. Buffalo proceeded to mount another long drive that included three pass completions to WR Quinn Early that totaled 31 yards. But on fourth-and-one at the Jacksonville 16 yard line, Kelly's attempted quarterback sneak was stopped short.
The Jaguars regained momentum as Brunell threw to TE Pete Mitchell for a 47-yard gain into Buffalo territory and then Means ran for a 30-yard touchdown. Jacksonville was ahead for the first time at 17-14.
The Bills managed a 33-yard field goal by Steve Christie at the two-minute warning while Jacksonville came up empty on its last possession of the half when Hollis was short on a 58-yard field goal attempt on the last play before halftime. The score remained 17-17 at the intermission.
Buffalo's opening drive of the third quarter resulted in a 47-yard field goal by Christie that put the Bills back in front. The teams traded punts before the Jaguars moved 62 yards in 11 plays, featuring a 27-yard pass completion from Brunell to McCardell, and culminated in a 24-yard Hollis field goal to again tie the game at 20-20.
On the second play of the fourth quarter, Buffalo CB Jeff Burris intercepted a partially deflected Brunell pass and returned it 38 yards for a touchdown and 27-20 lead for the Bills. The Jaguars responded by driving 65 yards in 10 plays that resulted in a two-yard TD pass from Brunell to Jimmy Smith, and with the successful PAT the game was again tied.
On Buffalo's next series, Kelly fumbled when hit by safety Chris Hudson and CB Aaron Beasley recovered for the Jaguars at the Jacksonville 42. Brunell completed passes of 14 yards to Smith and 11 to McCardell in setting up a 45-yard field goal attempt by Hollis that hit the right upright but caromed on through for three points.
Todd Collins replaced the injured Kelly at quarterback for the Bills and was unable to move the team in two possessions while the Jaguars were able to run a minute-and-a-half off the clock. Brackens forced Collins to fumble in the last seconds to nail down the 30-27 win for Jacksonville.
The Jaguars outgained Buffalo (409 yards to 308) although the Bills had the edge in first downs (19 to 18). Buffalo suffered more turnovers (three to two) and only managed to sack Brunell twice as offensive left tackle Tony Boselli (pictured at right) had an outstanding day against Bruce Smith.
Natrone Means had a big day running the ball for Jacksonville, gaining 175 yards on 31 carries with a TD. Mark Brunell (pictured below) completed 18 of 33 passes for 239 yards with a touchdown against two interceptions. Jimmy Smith caught 5 passes for 58 yards and a score while Keenan McCardell gained 76 yards on his four receptions.
In his last game before retiring, Jim Kelly was successful on 21 of 32 passes for 239 yards with a TD and an interception. Quinn Early caught 9 passes for 122 yards, but the Buffalo running game was held to 92 yards on 29 attempts – Thurman Thomas led the way with 50 yards on 14 carries.
Jacksonville advanced to the AFC Championship game after beating Denver in the Divisional playoff round, but the prospect of a Super Bowl between the two 1995 expansion teams (the Carolina Panthers had similarly advanced through the NFC postseason) ended when New England handily defeated the Jaguars for the AFC title (the Panthers also lost the NFC Championship game to Green Bay).
For Buffalo, it was the end of the postseason road in the Levy era. The Bills dropped to 6-10 in 1997, and while they were back in the playoffs in '98, it was under a new head coach (Wade Phillips), Kelly was retired, and Thurman Thomas only a shell of his former greatness (381 yards rushing for the year).
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2.6.3 Decadal to Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation, and
North Pacific Oscillation
Recently, ENSO-like' spatial patterns in the climate system, which operate on decadal to multi-decadal time-scales, have been identified. This lower-frequency SST variability is less equatorially confined in the central and eastern Pacific, and relatively more prominent over the extra-tropics, especially the north-west Pacific, and has a similar counterpart in night marine air temperatures (Tanimoto et al., 1993; Folland et al., 1999a; Allan, 2000). The corresponding sea level pressure (SLP) signature is also strongest over the North Pacific, and its December-February counterpart in the mid-troposphere more closely resembles the Pacific-North America (PNA) pattern (Zhang et al., 1997b; Livezey and Smith, 1999). There is ambiguity about whether inter-decadal Pacific-wide features are independent of global warming. In the longer Folland et al. (1999) analyses since 1911 they appear to be largely independent, but in the Livezey and Smith analysis of more recent SST data they are an integral part of a global warming signal. Using a different method of analysis of data since 1901, Moron et al. (1998) find a global warming signal whose pattern in the Pacific is intermediate between these two analyses.
The PDO of Mantua et al. (1997), with lower-frequency variations in the leading North Pacific SST pattern, may be related to the same Pacific-wide features, and parallels the dominant pattern of North Pacific SLP variability. The relationship is such that cooler than average SSTs occur during periods of lower than average SLP over the central North Pacific and vice versa. Recently, the IPO, a Pacific basin-wide feature, has been described, which includes low-frequency variations in climate over the North Pacific (Power et al., 1998, 1999; Folland et al., 1999a). The time-series of this feature is broadly similar to the inter-decadal part of the North Pacific PDO index of Mantua et al. (1997). The IPO may be a Pacific-wide manifestation of the PDO and seems to be part of a continuous spectrum of low-frequency modulation of ENSO, and so may be partly stochastic. When the IPO is in a positive phase, SST over a large area of the south-west Pacific is cold, as is SST over the extra-tropical north-west Pacific. SST over the central tropical Pacific is warm but less obviously warm over the equatorial far eastern Pacific unlike ENSO. Warmth also extends into the tropical west Pacific, unlike the situation on the ENSO time-scale.
The IPO shows three major phases this century: positive from 1922 to 1946 and from 1978 to at least 1998, with a negative phase between 1947 and 1976. Arguably, the structure of this pattern, nearly symmetrical about the equator and only subtly different from ENSO, is a strong indication of the importance of the tropical Pacific for many remote climates on all time-scales (Garreaud and Battisti, 1999). Power et al. (1999) showed that the two phases of the IPO appear to modulate year-to-year ENSO precipitation variability over Australia. Salinger and Mullan (1999) showed that prominent sub-bidecadal climate variations in New Zealand, identified in the temperature signal by Folland and Salinger (1995), are related to a SST pattern like the IPO. The IPO is a significant source of decadal climate variation throughout the South Pacific, and modulates ENSO climate variability in this region (Salinger et al., 2001). Similarly, the PDO (and likely the IPO) may play a key role in modulating ENSO teleconnections across North America on inter-decadal time-scales (Gershunov and Barnett, 1998; Livezey and Smith, 1999).
A simple and robust index of climate variability over the North Pacific is the area-weighted mean SLP, averaged over most of the extra-tropical North Pacific Ocean, of Trenberth and Hurrell (1994). A general reduction in SLP after about 1976 has been particularly evident during the winter half (November to March) of many of these years. This is characterised by a deeper-than-normal Aleutian low pressure system, accompanied by stronger-than-normal westerly winds across the central North Pacific and enhanced southerly to south-westerly flow along the west coast of North America, as reviewed in the SAR (Figure 3.17). Consequently, there have been increases in surface air temperature and SST over much of western North America and the eastern North Pacific, respectively, over the past two decades, especially in winter, but decreases in SST, or only modest warming, over parts of the central extra-tropical North Pacific (Figure 2.10). Numerous studies have suggested that the mid-1970s changes in the atmospheric and oceanic circulation may reflect one or more low-frequency variations over the North Pacific, one being the PDO (Kawamura, 1994; Latif and Barnett, 1994; Mann and Park, 1994, 1996; Deser and Blackmon 1995; Zhang et al., 1997b; White and Cayan, 1998; Enfield and Mestas-Nuñez, 1999).
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