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Tanya Roberts still alive, representative now says, after claiming she had died
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Tanya Roberts, best known for 'A View to Kill' and 'That '70's Show', dies at 65
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Real-life James Bond was 'archivist' in communist Poland
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James Bond actor Daniel Craig pays tribute to original 007 Sean Connery
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Fan of James Bond, Ahmedabad man pays Rs 34 lakh for 007 no. plate for SUV!
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Naseeruddin Shah: Sean Connery was the ONLY Bond for me
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Ali Fazal-Gal Gadot's 'Death on the Nile' pulled off release calendar; delayed indefinitely
Adventure movie 'Death on the Nile' was taken off the holiday release calendar on Thursday, further jeopardizing the chances for a revival of the film industry this year.
"There will never be a better Bond than you,"Abhishek Bachchan mourns the death of Sean Connery
Exclusive! Chunky Panday: 'If theatres don't open, I will book a private theatre to watch 'No Time To Die''
Like many other crazy movie buffs, actor Chunky Panday is also waiting to step into the theatres as soon as they are unlatched, and did you know Panday, who considers himself as a movie buff is a crazy fan of James Bond movies. Yes, you read it right. The versatile actor has watched all the James Bond series so far and is eagerly waiting to watch the movie 'No Time To Die' but yes, 'only in theatres'.
Nokia phone appears on the set of upcoming James Bond film
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Sean Connery reminded me of Jackie Shroff, a person who didn't take himself seriously: Naseeruddin Shah
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Kollywood mourns the demise of Sean Connery
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Esports is Coming to Florida Schools (Sheffield/WRUF)
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"Q.I. Roberts' computer science teacher and esports Coach Chris Cantrell made it a priority to introduce esports to his students as soon as he could. Cantrell is a former esports pro, playing "NBA 2k" for the Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers' esports teams in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Cantrell's entry into scholastic esports was a little different than Neal's. Cantrell said he knew he wanted to start an esports program at the school but did not know where to begin.
"I just spent months doing research and going to conventions where speakers were talking about high school esports," Cantrell said.
Cantrell got the go-ahead from his administration and was able to secure 10 fully equipped gaming PCs for his computer lab. In the fall of 2021, he started the program as an after-school club, where once a week he and the students got together to play games.
"The first step was just getting kids into the club," he said. "Getting kids who were dedicated and passionate about it."
By the following spring, he had fielded a team in "Halo Infinite" to compete in the High School Esports League. The HSEL runs a national league meaning Cantrell's fledgling team was competing against hundreds of others across the country. By the end of the league, it had secured top eight in playoffs and reached 6th during the regular season.
After, Cantrell said he pitched an esports class: both to better help him connect with his esports players but to also help expand his students' understanding of esports and how it's more than just competitive video gaming.
"Any sort of job in other fields can relate to esports," he said. "For example, there's managers, there's coaches, there's people that help you with your physical fitness, there's all kinds of different jobs that go into esports that go into traditional sports as well."
Cantrell is not the only esports coach in Florida who is expanding the definition of esports for his students.
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The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2002.  Events listed include television series debuts, finales, cancellations, and new channel initiations.

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 2002 in the United States
 List of American films of 2002

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Video: Allen West Says 78-81 Democratic Congressmen "Are Members Of the Communist Party"
April 11, 2012 at 05:57 PM ET
Rep. Allen West, a Republican Congressman from Florida, last night said "I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party." The New Civil Rights Movement reported on this story earlier today, but now we've located the video.
Of course, I believe this is a lie, and Allen West can get away with telling it because he's a Congressman, and because he said "I believe." He can believe all he wants. I also believe for thew first time in a very long, long time, Congressman West next year will not be getting a government paycheck.
Of course, in his defense, a constituent (or a plant?) asked Congressman West the question. Of course, in the defense of sanity, he could have said it was a stupid question. Works both ways.
TN Lawmaker: Gay Kids Commit Suicide Because Their Parents Don't Instill Good Values
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Justyna Kasprzycka (née le  à Głubczyce) est une athlète polonaise, spécialiste du saut en hauteur.

Biographie

Neuvième et septième des Championnats d'Europe espoirs en 2007 et 2009, la Polonaise se révèle en 2013 lors des Championnats du monde de Moscou : elle se classe sixième de la finale avec un nouveau record personnel à , échouant aux essais pour la médaille de bronze. En fin de saison, elle gagne la médaille d'argent des Jeux de la Francophonie avec , devancée par la Française Melanie Skotnik ().

Durant l'hiver 2014, Kasprzycka réalise sa meilleure performance personnelle en salle lors des qualifications des Championnats du monde en salle de Sopot. En finale, elle améliore ce record de deux centimètres pour le porter à  mais échoue au pied du podium. Elle est devancée par sa compatriote Kamila Lićwinko et la Russe Mariya Kuchina qui remportent toutes les deux le titre avec  et par l'Espagnole Ruth Beitia, médaillée de bronze ().

Le , elle égale le record de Pologne à  lors du Prefontaine Classic de Eugene (Oregon) avant d'échouer à . Elle se classe deuxième de la compétition derrière Anna Chicherova.

Au mois d'août, Justyna Kasprzycka participe aux Championnats d'Europe de Zürich : elle égale durant la finale cette marque d' avant d'échouer de très peu à . Elle est devancée aux essais pour la médaille de bronze par la Croate Ana Šimić.

La saison en salle de la polonaise est ponctuée par des blessures : néanmoins, elle participe aux Championnats d'Europe en salle de Prague. En qualifications, elle porte sa meilleure marque de la saison à . Le lendemain, en finale, elle se classe sixième du concours en réalisant à nouveau cette marque. Elle échoue aux essais pour la médaille de bronze qui est remportée par sa compatriote Kamila Lićwinko.

Lors de la saison en plein air, elle réalise à nouveau cette marque par deux fois : à Rehlingen et à Birmingham. Mais elle se blesse à la cheville lors du meeting de New York et est contrainte d'annuler sa participation aux Championnats du monde de Pékin.

Elle reprend la compétition en , après sa grave blessure, où elle franchit 1,70 m.

Elle met un terme à sa carrière le , n'ayant jamais réussi à refranchir plus d'1,75 m.

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Vallourec USA Names Frischmann Senior VP
HOUSTON, Texas – Bertrand Frischmann was appointed senior vice president, North America and president, Vallourec USA Corp. effective April 1. He will be based here, lead all Vallourec businesses in North America and report to Edouard Guinotte, chairman of the Vallourec Group.
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He is a graduate of the Ecole des Mines, Paris, and holds an engineering degree in industrial engineering and logistics.
Nicolas de Coignac, formerly senior vice president, North America has returned to France and assumed new responsibilities within the executive committee at the Vallourec Group.
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What is Community Organizing?
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Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani both mocked Barack Obama's career as a community organizer. Palin made the most blatant mockery of the profession by comparing her experience as mayor to his as an organizer by saying "a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."
As I've thought about the comments they have made me a little upset, in some ways my job and experience is tied very closely to that of an organizer. As to be expected the community of organizers are very upset, no doubt organizing against McCain & Palin!
The joke played well to the party faithful, but in my opinion, mockery may be the best form of flattery, but its not a good way to get votes. Okay, so maybe we shouldn't make fun of her experience as a mayor of a small town.
Christianity Today wrote that
Obama was incensed by the mockery, asking, "Why would that kind of work be ridiculous? Who are they (Republicans) fighting for… They think that the lives of those folks who are struggling each and every day, that working with them to try to improve their lives is somehow not relevant to the presidency?"
I'm not sure how any one could say that there is no responsibilities in community organizing. Essentially organizing is the most basic form of democracy – working at the grassroots level gathering support for community change. I don't know much about Obama's work in Chicago, but in general organizing is tireless work, often calling for long hours and at times small, incremental successes.
The Wikipedia definition of community organizing may shed some light on the situation:
Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America's promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. From winning living wages to expanding affordable housing to improving the quality of public schools to getting health coverage for the poor and elderly, community organizers have made and will continue to make our communities and our country better for all of us.
It is my understanding that the Republican Party doesn't really like these issues. I am a moderate who tends to lean conservative on many issues, but these are issues that are important to really discuss and actually act on during the 4 years between presidential campaigns.
Less Controversial – A Christian Perspective
Surprisingly Christianity Today quietly chastised Giuliani and Palin for their remarks.
for a party still trying to shake off the stereotype that Republicans are out of touch concerning the plight of the poor and care only for the rich. Certainly pro-lifers and others who help the poor do their own brands of community organizing in dysfunctional pockets of society. Whether community organizing is the best way to help the poor is one thing, but to dismiss out of hand the work of someone willing at least to try to help is another entirely.
Jim Wallis of Sojourners was offended by these comments, but more importantly he provided comments from a variety of faith-based community organizers, some of which are or were Republicans.
When people come together in my church hall to improve our community, they're building the Kingdom of God in San Diego. We see the fruits of community organizing in safer streets, new parks, and new affordable housing. It's the spirit of democracy for people to have a say and we need more of it," said Bishop Roy Dixon, prelate of the Southern California 4th ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ, member of the San Diego Organizing Project and former board chair of PICO National Network.
I should also note this paragraph about what community organizers have been doing since Hurricane Katrina to help prepare for Hurricane Gustav. So community organizers were doing a ton of work to help evacuate and prepare people for a potential disaster:
"Perk," as we used to call him, reported on the enormous consequences of 2 million people being evacuated because of Hurricane Gustav, much of the state now being without power, how hard cities like Baton Rouge were hit, the tens of thousands of people in shelters and churches, and the continuing problems caused by heavy rains and flooding. Then he talked about how their community organizers were responding to all of this — responding to hundreds of service calls, assisting local officials in evacuation plans, aiding evacuees without transportation, coordinating shelters and opening new ones, providing food, essential services, and financial aid to those in most need. Since Katrina, Perry's Louisiana interfaith organizations have played a lead role in securing millions of dollars to help thousands of families return to New Orleans and rebuild their homes and their lives.
Another blogger from Sojourners, Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah had this to say:
Community organizing attempts to give voice to the voiceless in our society (not just the powerful and the elite) and attempts to build influence based on relationships, rather than positions. Community organizing provides a prophetic voice because it arises from outside the system of power from the local community. Those feel to me like very biblical values.
Sojourners has published some great articles in the past about faith-based community organizing – Organizing Hope and Saul Alinsky goes to Church.
Elana Wolowitz responded at the Wellstone Action Blog with a post entitled: Responsibilities of an Organizer. She had this to say:
Being an organizer means putting the needs of the community above yourself and your ego. Your task is to influence the powerful with little more than the common will, and do so while developing the leadership of those around you. A good organizer is always working to put themselves out of a job, because many others should be prepared to step up and take their place. You listen and learn, coordinate and plan, arrive early and stay late, and do the real work that improves people's lives.
I guess this means putting people first – not country first.
A local paper, Minn Post interviewed several organizers around the Twin Cities including
Elana Wolowitz, communications director for Wellstone Action!, is quick to point out that the nonprofit organization she works for is bipartisan. She's just as quick to note that Palin's "remarks were insulting and inappropriate to a field of work that is made up of people who are really sacrificing of themselves to give back to the community."
Chuck Repke, longtime executive director of the District 2 Community Council in St. Paul, said "Clearly [Palin] doesn't have much understanding of what community organizers do in a larger city."
The District 2 Community Council facilitates communication between 10 neighborhoods in northeast St. Paul. It also offers English classes, carries out recycling efforts and crime prevention measures, and holds school supply drives, among other programs.
"The big thing of a community organizer is empowering the citizens to be able to take control of their communities, to give a voice to people who normally are voiceless, to empower those people who tend not to have much power and to facilitate the development of leadership in the community. It's about making other people have power, not power for yourself," Repke explained.
Yes the Democrats need to be thick skinned and should expect some harsh words and criticism about their lives. But in their remarks, Giuliani and Palin attacked a profession, not a person. I would venture to say that Republicans don't really like Community Organizers too much because they are the opposite of big business and oil. Organizers are often organizing against "the establishment", it is the nature of the beast.
Two late posts about organizing from The Moderate Voice and Daily Kos (don't think about them as a liberal blog, take a second and look at their photo diary of organizing).
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package com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.collections;

public interface Filterer<K>
{
	public boolean passesFilter(K obj);

	@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
	public static final Filterer ANYTHING=new Filterer()
	{
		@Override public boolean passesFilter(Object obj) { return true; }
	};

}

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Q: How to implement 2 or more recyIclerview in an activity How to implement 2 or more recyIclerview in an activity ?
I am trying to implement 2 or more recyclerview in my activity
in this code line I am declaring the first adapter
private RecyclerView.Adapter mAdapter;

how to declare my second adapter?
by the way while running my app with the below code , the recyclerview is not scrolling and displaying correcly
mainactivity
 private RecyclerView mRecyclerView;
    private RecyclerView mRecyclerView1;

    private RecyclerView.Adapter mAdapter;
    private RecyclerView.LayoutManager mLayoutManager;

    private static String LOG_TAG = "RecyclerViewActivity";

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_recycler_view);
//first recycler
        mRecyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view);
        mRecyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);
       // LinearLayoutManager layoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this, LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL, false);
        mLayoutManager = new

    LinearLayoutManager(this,LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL, false);
            mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);
            mAdapter = new MyAdapter(getDataSet());
            mRecyclerView.setAdapter(mAdapter);
            RecyclerView.ItemDecoration itemDecoration =
                    new DividerItemDecoration(this, LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL);
            mRecyclerView.addItemDecoration(itemDecoration);
    //second recycler
            mRecyclerView1 = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view1);
            mRecyclerView1.setHasFixedSize(true);
             LinearLayoutManager mLayoutManager1 = new LinearLayoutManager(this, LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL, false);
            mRecyclerView1.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager1);
           // mAdapter1 = new MyAdapter1(getDataSet1());
            mRecyclerView1.setAdapter(mAdapter1);

myadapter
public class MyAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RecyclerView.ViewHolder> {
    private ArrayList<String> mDataset;

    public class ImageViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        //ImageView mImage;
        public TextView txtHeader;
        public TextView txtFooter;
        public ImageViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super (itemView);
            txtHeader = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.firstLine);
            txtFooter = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.secondLine);
        }
    }

    public void add(int position, String item) {
        mDataset.add(position, item);
        notifyItemInserted(position);
    }

    public void remove(String item) {
        int position = mDataset.indexOf(item);
        mDataset.remove(position);
        notifyItemRemoved(position);
    }

    // Provide a suitable constructor (depends on the kind of dataset)
    public MyAdapter(ArrayList<String> myDataset) {
        mDataset = myDataset;
    }

    // Create new views (invoked by the layout manager)
    @Override
    public RecyclerView.ViewHolder  onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent,
                                                       int viewType) {

            // create a new view
            View v = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.rowlayout, parent, false);
            // set the view's size, margins, paddings and layout parameters
            ImageViewHolder vh = new ImageViewHolder(v);
            return vh;
        }

    private static final int TYPE_IMAGE = 1;
    private static final int TYPE_GROUP = 2;

    @Override
    public int getItemViewType(int position) {
        // here your custom logic to choose the view type
        return position;
    }

    // Replace the contents of a view (invoked by the layout manager)
    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.ViewHolder TextViewHolder, int position) {

                ImageViewHolder viewHolder = (ImageViewHolder) TextViewHolder;
                //  viewHolder.txtHeader.setText(...)
                final String name = mDataset.get(position);
                viewHolder.txtHeader.setText(mDataset.get(position));
                viewHolder.txtFooter.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onClick(View v) {
                        remove(name);
                    }
                });

               // viewHolder.txtFooter.setText("Footer: " + mDataset.get(position));

        }

    // Return the size of your dataset (invoked by the layout manager)
    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return mDataset.size();
    }

}

my adpater1
public class MyAdapter1 extends RecyclerView.Adapter {
    private ArrayList mDataset;
public class ImageViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    //ImageView mImage;
    public TextView txtHeader;
    public TextView txtFooter;
    public ImageViewHolder(View itemView) {
        super (itemView);
        txtHeader = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.firstLine);
        txtFooter = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.secondLine);
    }
}

public void add(int position, String item) {
    mDataset.add(position, item);
    notifyItemInserted(position);
}

public void remove(String item) {
    int position = mDataset.indexOf(item);
    mDataset.remove(position);
    notifyItemRemoved(position);
}

// Provide a suitable constructor (depends on the kind of dataset)
public MyAdapter1(ArrayList<String> myDataset) {
    mDataset = myDataset;
}

// Create new views (invoked by the layout manager)
@Override
public RecyclerView.ViewHolder  onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent,
                                                   int viewType) {

    // create a new view
    View v = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.rowlayout1, parent, false);
    // set the view's size, margins, paddings and layout parameters
    ImageViewHolder vh = new ImageViewHolder(v);
    return vh;
}

private static final int TYPE_IMAGE = 1;
private static final int TYPE_GROUP = 2;

@Override
public int getItemViewType(int position) {
    // here your custom logic to choose the view type
    return position;
}

// Replace the contents of a view (invoked by the layout manager)
@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.ViewHolder TextViewHolder, int position) {

    ImageViewHolder viewHolder = (ImageViewHolder) TextViewHolder;
    //  viewHolder.txtHeader.setText(...)
    final String name = mDataset.get(position);
    viewHolder.txtHeader.setText(mDataset.get(position));
    viewHolder.txtFooter.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            remove(name);
        }
    });

    // viewHolder.txtFooter.setText("Footer: " + mDataset.get(position));

}

// Return the size of your dataset (invoked by the layout manager)
@Override
public int getItemCount() {
    return mDataset.size();
}

mainactivity layout

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_width="150dp"
        android:layout_height="30dp"
        android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:paddingTop="5dp"
        android:text="Recomanded for you"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/my_recycler_view"
        android:layout_width="400dp"
        android:layout_height="180dp"
        android:layout_below="@id/textView"
        android:scrollbars="vertical" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="150dp"
        android:layout_height="30dp"
        android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:paddingTop="5dp"
        android:layout_below="@id/my_recycler_view"
        android:text=" for you"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/my_recycler_view1"
        android:layout_width="400dp"
        android:layout_height="180dp"
        android:layout_below="@id/textView1"
        android:scrollbars="vertical" />
</RelativeLayout>

A: Since code in your adapters is exactly the same, you don't need to declare two different classes. You can use just one class and create two different instances from it, passing to each instance the right set of data to render in the RecyclerView.
Hope this could help:
private RecyclerView mRecyclerView;
private RecyclerView.Adapter mAdapter;

private RecyclerView mRecyclerView1;
private RecyclerView.Adapter mAdapter1;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_recycler_view);

    //first recycler
    mRecyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view);
    mRecyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);
    mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(
        new LinearLayoutManager(this,LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL, false));
    mAdapter = new MyAdapter(getDataSet());
    mRecyclerView.setAdapter(mAdapter);

    //second recycler
    mRecyclerView1 = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view1);
    mRecyclerView1.setHasFixedSize(true);
    mRecyclerView1.setLayoutManager(
        new LinearLayoutManager(this,LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL, false));
    mAdapter1 = new MyAdapter(getDataSet1());
    mRecyclerView1.setAdapter(mAdapter1);

    // ...
}

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Streaming Info: Season 4
Rogue Nation
Season 4 · Episode 1
While Pride remains on probation after his rogue takedown of the corrupt Mayor Hamilton, his team is closely monitored by a strict supervisor; the team must secretly investigate after the FBI takes the lead on a case involving stolen nuclear waste.
No. 1 Fan
An erratic whistleblower who calls Pride her mentor kidnaps him to help her locate a serial killer targeting young women in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Asset
The team joins forces with FBI Director Isler after a Russian operative with intelligence on sleeper agents disappears; Tammy partners with former sleeper agent Eva Azarova to assist in the disappearance.
Dead Man Calling
The team investigates the copycat murder of an unsolved case from 150 years ago that spawned a legendary ghost story; Gregorio is spooked when the case is connected to a recent séance and a local medium.
Sebastian is placed on administrative leave after being questioned by the FBI about a foot chase; Pride and the team attempt to clear Sebastian's name.
Acceptable Loss
The murder of a petty officer leads the team to a woman who is targeting men with high security clearance; Lasalle's father arrives to discuss the family business.
The team investigates after a clinical trial in which brain implants are put into veterans is hacked; Patton must work alongside his ex-wife, who spearheads the project.
Sins of the Father
Wade's son asks Pride for help after being attacked and discovering his girlfriend is missing; Pride must meet with a therapist to discuss his process for solving cases.
Pride starts to doubt evidence suggesting homeless kids murdered a petty officer.
Season 4 · Episode 10
Rita Deveraux tells Pride that Douglas Hamilton is about to make a deal to get out of prison; Pride and the team re-investigate the Clearwater case in hopes of spoiling his plans.
After a deadly armed robbery and high-speed chase is linked to an undercover ATF operation, Percy reconnects with her former ATF partner.
Sebastian's high school friend asks for help when her business partner is killed at a gaming convention; FBI Special Agent Raymond Isler believes Adrian is the hacker that the Cyber Crimes division has been tracking for years.
A petty officer's murder leads the team to a night club where Pride's mother used to perform; Lasalle must return home to Alabama after receiving an unexpected call from his family.
A petty officer is murdered while in town to help a refugee family; Wade works on the special election campaign for Mayor Zahra Taylor that takes place during Mardi Gras.
FBI Special Agent Raymond Isler asks Pride for help with an off-the-books opioids theft investigation he is personally invested in; Percy works under cover as a getaway driver, with Isler as the muscle for a job tied to the case.
A congressional aide disappears after a hit man saves her from two men posing as NCIS agents; LaSalle struggles with life-altering decisions regarding his brother's future.
The team investigates the murder of a Navy captain who was searching for a priceless 200-year-old fleur-de-lis during the annual Louisiana Pirate Festival.
Pride, Sebastian and Tammy travel to South America after Pride is personally requested by a former colleague to assist with a classified operation that has been compromised.
Percy and Lasalle go under cover at a high-stakes poker game after the organizer targets players with access to a naval research laboratory; Laurel Pride visits her dad during spring break to discuss options after her upcoming graduation.
Pride and his bar patrons are held hostage by a group of volatile thieves.
Gregorio calls on her former behavioral science professor when the team's latest case matches one she studied during FBI training.
The Assassination of Dwayne Pride
A journalist posts a scathing article documenting Pride's "reckless use of justice"; the team is concerned about the fallout from the piece and the confidential information revealed; Rita Devereaux tells Pride it is a coordinated attack on him.
Checkmate, Part I; Checkmate, Part II
Pride assembles an off-the-books team to search for a loophole when he faces a grand jury indictment for abuse of power; Pride's teams uncover a sinister plot during the New Orleans Tricentennial Fleet Week celebration.


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Labour's Unholy War
Once upon a time, an organisation grew tired of its weak and self-serving leadership. It rejected the conventional candidates, and elected an old man from the wilderness. He was humble in appearance, ascetic in lifestyle, and uncompromising in his principles.
I am referring of course to the Catholic Church in the year 1294. At the time, the cardinals had spent two years failing to elect a Pope. They finally settled on Peter of Morena, a seventy-nine year old hermit who was enthroned as Celestine V. He was sincere, incorruptible and no doubt holy; but unable to handle the administrative and diplomatic duties of the papacy, he abdicated after five months -- the only Pope to do so until Benedict XVI in 2013.
Tomb of Celestine V. Source: Wikipedia
History does not repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. Corbyn was elected in a similar mood of frustration with business as usual. He looked different, sincere in his convictions, and untainted by personal greed. That set him apart from his colleagues, and it was enough to win him the leadership election. Where Corbyn differs from Celestine is that he has no intention of going quietly.
In medieval terms, Corbyn has barricaded himself in a castle with a few devoted allies. He stands on the battlements, shaking his fist at the cardinals and bishops, refusing to accept their consensus that he should go. He hopes an army of his peasant followers will arrive to save him -- in something reminiscent of the People's Crusade, if we mix medieval metaphors.
They may yet do so. It now appears there will be a leadership election in the Labour Party, with Corbyn on the ballot against Angela Eagle and Owen Smith. I've noted that Eagle never expressed any confidence in Corbyn's leadership, and now she has the opportunity to take over his job. As for Smith, I follow politics closely, but my first reaction to his leadership bid was, "Who's he?"
Maybe Corbyn is still popular enough among the Labour membership to prevail. But win or lose, it's hard to see how this can end well for anyone.
If Corbyn loses, I don't see him serving as a loyal foot soldier for the leader who has unseated him. Corbyn, the forty or so MPs who still support him, and their backers in the membership and unions might split off and form their own party; or they might remain as a thorn in the side of whoever emerges as the new leader, the Militant Tendency of the 1980s all over again.
If he wins, his position is still invidious, with more than four in five Labour MPs expressing no confidence in his leadership. Corbyn would have a mandate from two leadership elections; but the MPs have their own mandates, from nine million Labour voters at the last general election. They have gone too far to come back and make peace with Corbyn. Again, they might break away to form a new party; or they might keep the current state of cold war going until the next general election, at which Labour would surely be demolished.
No matter how events turn out, one thing is certain: The Labour Party are unfit to run a village fête, let alone the country. If they were tasked with organising the proverbial piss-up in a brewery, it would at once degenerate into a brawl over the merits of conical pint glasses versus dimpled mugs.
All of this is a shameful dereliction of duty. The Conservatives have swiftly united under their new leader, Theresa May. With the vote to leave the European Union, they preside over upheaval such as we have not seen since 1945. Weighty and far-reaching decisions must be taken. Scotland may leave the UK; and Brexit will have drastic consequences for the peace settlement in Northern Ireland.
In the meantime, it looks like Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition will be busy arguing with itself. The Conservatives will have a free hand to do as they please. And it's very, very hard to see Labour coming back as a party fit for government in the next decade, if it even comes back at all. For all Labour's many flaws, it is the only progressive party of government available for the UK. It makes me angry to see it reduce itself to this state.
There is plenty of blame to go around. I understand the anger and frustration which brought Jeremy Corbyn to office. The mainstream Labour MPs were a grubby, uninspiring lot. Many were tainted by the expenses scandal or the Iraq War; and all had gone along with the woefully inept leadership of Ed Miliband.
I also understand the alarm of the MPs. Corbyn simply doesn't look like a Prime Minister in waiting. For more than thirty years as a backbench MP, Corbyn was an eternal rebel and protester. That was admirable in its way, but did not prepare him for leadership.
Corbyn is used to addressing meetings of people who already agree with him, not reaching out to persuade indifferent or sceptical voters. He has no experience of developing detailed policy. He scorns political compromise; but a leader who cannot negotiate or build coalitions is no leader at all. These skills are not some sort of optional extra; they are at the very core of what the Leader of the Opposition must do to hold the government to account. He might have been able to change and learn, but has shown no interest in doing so.
My natural sympathies lie with the MPs. I appreciate the value of practicality and consensus. I am leery of Corbyn's record. Among other things, he remained Chair of the Stop The War Coalition long after it became a ludicrous joke of an organisation, so bad that the Green MP Caroline Lucas decided to disassociate herself from it. But the MPs make it awfully hard; they can't even settle on a single alternative candidate, and the best they can do is Angela Eagle and Owen Smith.
Eagle appears to be a competent politician and administrator, and a dedicated public servant. But given the chance to present an inspiring vision for the country, a reason for us to follow her, she has so far provided... well, nothing much, except for the key quality of being Not Corbyn. It remains to be seen how Smith will do, but I have a sinking feeling his selling point will be Not Corbyn And Not Eagle.
Getting back to my historical comparison, the papacy's woes did not end with Celestine. He was followed by the relocation of the papal court to the French town of Avignon. Then came the Western Schism of 1378-1417, with two rival popes, one in Rome and one in Avignon. Unlike the Catholic Church, the Labour party is unlikely to survive a thirty-year schism.
It reminds me of the scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian:
BRIAN: Comrades, we should be struggling together!
COMRADES (busy punching each other): We are!
Labour's internecine warfare is fascinating, in the way of car wrecks and disfiguring diseases. But one way or another, it is the most vulnerable in this country who will suffer for it.
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Man vs Zone – who ran each coverage scheme the most in 2017?
As Teaching Month continues here at PFF, we've turned our attention to coverage this week. Yesterday, PFF Analyst John Kosko brought you the prototypes for key positions and roles in the defensive backfield and today we switch focus to the team level and which teams run specific schemes most often.
We began collecting coverage scheme data for our NFL clients back in 2015 and while there are always variations, there are two common big buckets that schemes can be grouped under. With that in mind, here's our look at which teams ran which coverage schemes most often, and how much success they had.
Broadly, Cover-0, Cover-1 and Cover-2-man are considered man-coverage schemes, while Cover-2, Cover-3, Cover-4 and Cover-6 are more zone schemes. There are of course variances and also coverages in which change in the redzone and near the goal line. For sake of this article, we will focus on those broad buckets – man versus zone.
The primary man coverage shell, Cover-1 leaves a single-high safety as a safety net on the back end, with the cornerbacks manning up against the receivers in front of them. No team ran more predominantly man coverage schemes than the Kansas City Chiefs in 2017, and more often than not they went with Cover-1, using it on 43.2 percent of their snaps against the pass. On those plays, they allowed 57.2 percent of passes to be completed and while they allowed five touchdowns, they also came away with five interceptions. By completion percentage allowed, the Pittsburgh Steelers were the best defense in the NFL when they ran Cover-1, allowing just 44.8 percent of passes to be completed, but they ran it on just 13.4 percent of their snaps against the pass.
Cover-0 was used much less than Cover-1 and the reason for this is simply because it is much more risky. With no safety net over the top, it exposes the defense to big plays if things don't go to plan. The Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles were the bravest team in the NFL in this regard, using it on 6.1 percent of their snaps against the pass, but from just 43 dropbacks they allowed five touchdowns (11.9 percent). That touchdown percentage might seem high, but it pales in comparison to the Atlanta Falcons, who allowed a touchdown on all three occasions where they went with Cover-0. The small sample size doesn't help their cause, but it's not ideal to allow a touchdown every time you line up in a specific scheme.
When we think of Cover-2, we immediately think Tampa-2, the scheme made famous by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Here, the safeties are responsible for covering the deep halves of the field, while the 'Mike' linebacker will drop deep from his spot in the middle of the field to cover any inside seam routes. The Cleveland Browns were the only team to run this coverage on more than 20 percent of passing plays but allowed a 73.2 percent completion rate on those plays. The Los Angeles Rams used Cover-2 on just 5.3 percent of passing plays, but allowed an NFL best 37.9 percent completion rate.
Cover-3 splits the field into deep thirds, with the free safety taking the middle, and the outside cornerbacks dropping deep on either side. This allows the defense to put eight men in the box using the strong safety, so is something we often see on earlier downs. The Atlanta Falcons led the NFL in using Cover-3 on 46.4 percent of their plays against the pass, but the number dropped from 53.0 percent on first down, to just 37.2 percent on third down. Overall, the Cincinnati Bengals had the most success when running the scheme, allowing a league low completion percentage of 52.9 percent, with zero touchdowns allowed and three interceptions.
Often known as quarters, Cover-4 sees two deep safeties and two deep corners split the field into, you guessed it, quarters, and was used most often by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2017. Running the scheme on 27.3 percent of their snaps against the pass, they allowed a completion rate of 65.8 percent, with seven touchdowns and three interceptions. The Green Bay Packers allowed the lowest completion rate when using Cover-4, coming in at 47.8 percent, but used it on just 4.9 percent of snaps.
The naming conventions for the coverage schemes so far have been fairly self-explanatory, with the number coming from the number of players responsible for the deep part of the field. Cover-6 goes against that convention and doesn't mean that the deep field is split six ways, but rather is a combination of Cover-2 and Cover-4, so on one side of the field a safety takes a deep half, while on the other side a cornerback and safety each take a deep quarter. The Chicago Bears ran this significantly more than any other team in the NFL, with their 16.4 percent usage topping the Rams (12.9 percent) in second place. The Bears did allow a completion percentage of 65.2 percent here, but from 103 snaps against the pass in Cover-6, they allowed just one touchdown over the course of the season.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Configuration;
using WzComparerR2.Config;

namespace WzComparerR2.MapRender.Config
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        public MapRenderConfig()
        {
            this.Volume = 1f;
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        [ConfigurationProperty("volume")]
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            get { return (ConfigItem<float>)this["volume"]; }
            set { this["volume"] = value; }
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        [ConfigurationProperty("muteOnLeaveFocus")]
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            get { return (ConfigItem<bool>)this["muteOnLeaveFocus"]; }
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        [ConfigurationProperty("worldMap.UseImageNameAsInfoName")]
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Trump Declares "Trade Wars Are Good," Immediately Gets Brutal Awakening
World leaders, corporate America, and members of his own administration have basically told the president to get bent.
By Bess Levin
By Evan Vucci/AP Photo.
Early Friday morning, shortly before tweeting casting tips to Saturday Night Live, Donald Trump sent this statement out into the universe:
It's disturbing on a number of levels, not the least of which is his use of a phrase parents generally reserve for their naughty children ("Don't get cute with me, missy!") applied here, by the president of the United States, to another country. But it's the notion that "trade wars are good, and easy to win" that is truly terrifying, considering the consensus is that trade wars are, in fact, neither good nor easy to win—in fact, more often, everyone loses. Over the past 13 months, Trump's non-crazy advisers have reportedly attempted to hammer this idea into his head. Those tutorials were officially declared a failure on Thursday, however, when the president surprised nearly all of the people who work for him by declaring his intent to impose tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum. Now, in the wake of Trump's impromptu announcement—one that was supported internally by only Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and adviser Peter "Free trade causes infertility" Navarro— world leaders have taken the opportunity to let the president know exactly what they think of his plan and—spoiler alert—they do not think trade wars are "good."
Li Xinchuang, vice secretary general of the China Iron and Steel Association, called the move "extremely stupid" and "a desperate attempt by Trump to pander to his voters, which . . . in fact runs counter to his 'America First' pledge." Bernd Lange, head of the European Parliament's trade committee, commented, "with this, the declaration of war has arrived," shading the "mercantile model in [Trump's] head that dates back 200 years." Ildefonso Guajardo, Mexico's economy minister, has reportedly "made it clear that if included [in the tariffs], Mexico will have no other option than to react." Even Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said any U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports would be "absolutely unacceptable," noting that his government has been trying to "impress upon the American administration [that] . . . these proposals are going to hurt them every bit as much as they are going to hurt us." But it was European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker who knew how to really hit us where it hurts. "We will put tariffs on Harley-Davidson, on bourbon and on blue jeans—Levi's," Juncker said Friday. "We cannot simply put our head in the sand."
Those threats of retaliation became a bit less theoretical when Wilbur Ross appeared on CNBC Friday and, bearing various canned goods for some light prop comedy, said of the options he presented, "the president chose one—which was [to] put broad tariffs on all products from all countries." If that is indeed the case, it would mean that allies who've been fighting to be exempt, such as Japan and South Korea, could be much more likely to fight back. But according to Ross, who seemingly stepped into a 7/11 for the first time in his life today, that's not a problem. "In any war there may be a few casualties," he said. "That just comes with the nature of the beast."
Not thrilled about dying on the battle field? The very American companies that Trump thinks the tariffs will support, who have panned the move. "These proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports couldn't come at a worse time," Cody Lusk, president of the American International Automobile Dealers Association, told Bloomberg. "Auto sales have flattened in recent months, and manufacturers are not prepared to absorb a sharp increase in the cost to build cars and trucks in America." Nicky Thompson, a spokesperson for Campbell Soup, which was lucky enough to get a shout-out during Ross's interview—when he said people won't mind spending more money on the product—said that "Any new broad based tariffs on imported tin-plate steel—an insufficient amount of which is produced in the U.S.—will result in higher prices on one of the safest and more affordable parts of the food supply." MillerCoors—an American beer company you can actually trust, unlike, say Heineken or Corona—said in a statement that "American workers and American consumers will suffer as a result of this misguided tariff."
Oh, and for anyone worried they'd sleep too well tonight, please note that Trump might have decided to start a trade war because...he was in a pissy mood. The issues setting him off? Hope Hick's testimony re: Russia, Jeff Sessions, and John Kelly's totally unfair treatment of Jared Kushner— in other words, things that have nothing to do with trade. According to an official familiar with his "state of mind," the president was reportedly "unglued" at the time. Let that be a comfort to you all!
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Speaking of Trump's tariffs . . .
There are a lot of people who are unhappy with them, but his old buddy Carl Icahn, who appears to have impeccable timing, is probably not one of them:
Icahn dumped $31.3 million of stock in a company heavily dependent on steel last week, just days before Trump announced plans to impose steep tariffs on steel imports. . . . Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross publicly released a report on February 16 calling for a 24 percent tariff. But, as the chart in the S.E.C. filing indicates, Icahn started selling his Manitowoc stock on February 12, prior to the public release of that report. Moreover, the sharp drop in steel-related stocks did not occur until Trump announced he would accept the Commerce Department's recommendations.
Last March, after he came under fire advising the president to scrap a regulation that would directly benefit one of his investments, Icahn told Bloomberg: "Yeah, it helps me. I'm not apologizing for that."
Did Trump's head of V.A. affairs make the Secret Service pick up his dry cleaning?
We won't know for sure until an internal report is unveiled next week. But: sure sounds like it!
The top watchdog for the Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing a report that is expected to criticize David Shulkin over his use of his security detail to run personal errands, the Daily Beast has learned. Three sources familiar with the situation say the forthcoming Inspector General report will likely fuel criticism of Shulkin's use of official-department resources and could further erode his standing in the administration.
Shulkin, an Obama-era holdover, is already on thin ice with the White House owing to a separate I.G. report last month, which found that he improperly expended taxpayer resources so that his wife could join him on a trip to Europe last summer. During that trip, both Shulkin and his wife attended the Wimbledon tennis tournament, claiming (it appears falsely) that they were provided the tickets by a family friend. That report also found that Shulkin's chief of staff had forged an e-mail, ostensibly showing that Shulkin was slated to receive an award from the Danish government, in order to create a post-facto pretext for his wife's attendance.
Lawyers for Shulkin disputed the earlier I.G. report, with the secretary suggesting his chief of staff's e-mail account could have been hacked—a theory the I.G.'s office said in a letter this week there was no evidence to support. As for the forthcoming report, we don't necessarily know that the infractions were dry-cleaning related—it's just as possible that Shulkin sent the Secret Service to do his grocery shopping.
Trend alert: showing company loyalty by branding your skin (forever)
Obviously, this is a trend we hope will catch on on Wall Street, which has been deprived of executives bearing JPMorgan or Goldman Sachs tats for too long:
At age 40, tattoos weren't on the bucket list of consultant Mahadeva Matt Mani, a suburban father who generally wears suits with a tie and a pocket handkerchief. But at a company retreat in New Orleans a few years ago, he was called upon to prove his loyalty. His firm, Booz & Co., was being purchased by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and employees were worried. To show his faith, Mr. Mani, a company principal, marched into a tattoo parlor to memorialize the new firm, Strategy&, with a 2.5-inch ampersand. "It felt right in the moment," he said.
The accolades of his younger employees didn't match the reception he got at home in Herndon, Va. "My son was like, 'You're an idiot,' " Mr. Mani said.
Elsewhere!
BlackRock says it's time to take action on guns, may use voting power to influence (CNBC)
Delta C.E.O. says, "Our values are not for sale," after Georgia lawmakers drop tax break (CNBC)
Gunmakers Are Losing Retailers Who Don't Even Buy Guns (Bloomberg)
Wounded globalists plot fightback in Trump's trade war (Financial Times)
Trump may have doomed the North American Free Trade deal (CNBC)
S.E.C. subpoenas TechCrunch founder's cryptofund amid broader investigation into digital coins (CNBC)
Goat spends years evading police around Kentucky highway (UPI)
Bess Levin is a politics correspondent at Vanity Fair.
Stock Market Embraces Trump's Tariffs by Plummeting 550 Points
Trump Unleashes Inner Car Salesman on Davos Elite
The Exact Moment Each of Trump's Enemies Sold Their Souls


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Calpensions: Public pension debt: How big is it?
By Ed Mendel
While not complying with an apparently flawed state law, CalPERS is opposing a similar federal bill calling for a report showing how pension debt could soar if long-term investment earnings are well below average.
How public pension funds report their long-term debt, and its impact on future payments needed from government employers, has become an issue in the politically charged debate over pension reform.
Do overly optimistic earning forecasts conceal massive debt owed by taxpayers and shift costs to future generations?
Or do pessimistic forecasts needlessly alarm the public and aid those who want to switch government workers to 401(k)-style plans?
The debate centers on the fact that public pension funds, once limited to bonds, now expect to get two-thirds or more of their revenue from stocks and other risky investments — a funding source that can only be estimated, not predicted with precision.
Critics contend that overly optimistic earning forecasts keep employer-employee contributions artificially low, force future generations to pay for the cost of current workers, and can be abused to claim pension increases won't cost taxpayers.
For example, bill analyses show legislators were told that earnings and surpluses would pay for a major pension increase for state workers, SB 400 in 1999, and a contribution cut and new retirement supplement for teachers, AB 1509 in 2000.
Public pension earnings forecasts, often 7.5 to 8 percent, are well above the forecast used by private-sector pension funds, now 5 to 6 percent. The rationale is that companies, unlike governments, can go out of business and need more caution.
Last year, the debate moved to a new level when Stanford graduate students issued a report arguing that the unfunded liability of the three state pension funds is $500 billion, not $55 billon as the funds were reporting.
The students, following the view of some economists, used an earnings forecast based on a risk-free bond rate, 4.1 percent, rather than the forecasts based on a diverse portfolio, 7.5 to 8 percent.
The economists argue that because the pensions are risk free, guaranteed by taxpayers, the assets should be valued the same way, with a risk-free government bond rate. It's said to be how insurers would charge to take over pension obligations.
The Stanford study used data prior to the stock market crash in fiscal 2008-09, when the state funds were underfunded, but not as much as now. The study dropped the earnings forecast by nearly half, causing the debt or "unfunded liability" to soar.
The California Public Employees Retirement System unfunded liability jumped from $39 billion to $240 billion, the California State Teachers Retirement System from $16 billion to $157 billion and UC from $600 million to $29 billion.
The study estimated that when market-crash investment losses are added to the total $426 billion risk-free debt calculation, the unfunded liability of the three state funds is more than $500 billion.
"Unfortunately, I think most people would give this a letter grade of 'F' for quality," Jack Ehnes, the CalSTRS chief executive, told his board in April of last year when the Stanford study was issued.
CalPERS said, among other things, that its investments earned 7.9 percent during the last 20 years and, with "high certainty," can earn more than the risk-free rate in the future, continuing to save tax dollars by providing billions to finance pensions.
Both pension boards recently rejected slightly lower earning forecasts recommended by their actuaries.
CalPERS left its forecast at 7.75 percent in March, instead of dropping to 7.5 percent as advised. The actuaries said no change would still be "reasonably" prudent, noting that a lower forecast would raise costs during a time of deep government cuts.
CalSTRS dropped its forecast from 8 to 7.75 percent in December, not to 7.5 percent as advised. Teacher groups said a lower forecast could reduce member benefits by raising the cost of annuities and service credits purchased to boost pensions.
A lower CalPERS forecast would have quickly raised employer rates, erasing savings from new labor contracts that cut pension costs. The CalSTRS board lacks the power to raise employer rates, needing legislation not expected any time soon.
How missing the earnings target, even by a relatively small amount, can increase pension costs was the aim of a "transparency" bill in a state budget package enacted last October.
"There were people that pulled wool over their eyes," former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said, referring to CalPERS telling legislators that the SB 400 pension increase in 1999, now said by critics to be "unsustainable," would not increase state costs.
"They never really knew all the facts and the risks that were involved," Schwarzenegger said. "Now this will be eliminated, this problem. We will have full transparency moving forward."
When CalPERS sets new employer rates, the transparency bill, SB 867, requires a report showing how the rate would increase if earnings fell below the target — either 6 percent or one percentage point below the target, whichever is lower.
Among several other things called for by the transparency bill is a calculation of CalPERS liabilities based on a risk-free earnings forecast or discount rate: the 10-year U.S. Treasury note.
Since the transparency bill was enacted, CalPERS has set state rates twice, lowering them in December and again in May to reflect more than $400 million in savings under new labor contracts.
But CalPERS has not made reports required by the transparency bill "any time" rates are set.
A Senate bill analysis said CalPERS compliance would be "discretionary" because Proposition 162 in 1992 gives CalPERS sole power over actuarial services. In addition, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst said the new law has drafting flaws.
The bill could require additional actuarial calculations and reports to the Legislature each time the giant CalPERS sets rates for 2,200 state and local plans. The analyst said the risk-free rate calculation may be more "alarmist" than useful.
A new transparency bill, AB 1247, requires a report showing employer rates if the earnings forecast is 2 percentage points below or above the CalPERS forecast, currently 7.75 percent, but does not call for a risk-free rate calculation of CalPERS debt.
The new bill, approved 75-to-0 by the Assembly, is scheduled to be heard by a Senate committee today. CalPERS supports the bill but suggests the report be based on earnings one percentage point below or above the target, not two points.
In Congress, high on the agenda of lobbyists for CalPERS and CalSTRS is opposition to HR 567 by U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Visalia, which requires public pension funds to report debt with an earnings forecast based on risk-free U.S. Treasury bonds.
Nunes and a CalSTRS lobbyist have both talked about the potential impact of the bill on the drive by some to switch public pension funds to the 401(k)-style individual investment plans now common in the private sector.
Reporting pension debt with a risk-free bond rate received nonpartisan support last year from Alicia Munnell at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College and last month from the Congressional Budget Office.
But a new front could open in pension-debt reporting under a proposal mentioned last week by Robert Attmore, chairman of the influential Governmental Accounting Standards Board.
To read entire column, click here.
Filed under: Budget, California State University, CalPERS, CalSTRS, Cities, Counties, Economy, Finance, In the News, Local Government, Pension Funds, Pensions, State of California, University of California
One Response to this post
Anonymous on June 27th, 2011 9:02 pm
wow, what a crock of shit, if it takes that long to explain it, it is definetly flawed. If calpers can't cover the retirement benefits who does?????


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Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
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7.0. Doctor of Philosophy Degree Program
The doctoral program in Agricultural and Applied Economics is designed to develop a broad based competence in economic theory and in techniques of quantitative analysis. Dissertation research of students in our department usually addresses applied problems using contemporary economic theory and analytical methods. Students completing our program have demonstrated a high degree of success in academics, business, and government.
Two options are offered for the Doctor of Philosophy in the Agricultural and Applied Economics program. The first option does not require a minor. The second option includes a minor in Family Financial Planning—a joint Ph.D. program between the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and the College of Human Sciences. Completion of the Doctoral program in Agricultural and Applied Economics with a minor in Family Financial Planning qualifies graduates to take an exam administered by the Certified Financial Planning Board of Standards to become Certified Financial Planners.
6.1. Prerequisites
Most students will have completed the requirements for an M.S. degree or its equivalent before admission to the doctoral program. If the Master's degree does not meet the prerequisite requirements for entering our Master of Science program (see Section 5.1) then those requirements must be met in order to enter the Ph.D. program. Some exceptional students will be offered the opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. directly from a Bachelor's program. In this case, see the Graduate Coordinator for course and program requirements.
Background in algebra, partial and total differentiation, integration and basic matrix or linear algebra operations are very useful to perform well in coursework and research work.
6.2. Credit Hour Requirements
The doctoral program requires a minimum of 60 credit hours of course work beyond the baccalaureate degree and at least 12 credit hours of dissertation research (AAEC 8000).
6.3. Transfer of Credit
Transfer of graduate credit from other academic institutions may be allowed. The request for transfer must be initiated by the student and supported by the student's committee chair. Transfer decisions are made by the department Graduate Coordinator and must be approved by the Graduate School. Information required in support of transfer requests includes academic transcripts and course catalogue descriptions of each course proposed for transfer. Course syllabi may also be requested to support transfer decisions.
6.4. Substitution for Core Courses
Substitutions for core courses are allowed only under unusual circumstances. Requests for substitutions for core courses must be initiated by the student and his or her committee chair, to the department Graduate Coordinator and must be approved by the Graduate School. Final decisions on substitutions for core courses taught outside our department are made by the department Graduate Coordinator. Decisions on core courses taught in the department are made by the current instructor of the core course being replaced.
6.5. Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination
The purpose of the Ph.D. comprehensive examination is to test the student's ability to integrate knowledge from various subject matter areas and apply appropriate concepts and tools to issues and problems relevant to the discipline. The comprehensive exam is administered by a departmental committee twice each year (usually in May and August) and is normally taken at the end of the first full year of coursework. The exam has two parts which are taken separately. Part 1 of the exam focuses econometric methods and Part 2 covers microeconomic theory. Students have two opportunities to pass both parts of the exam. If both parts of the exam are passed on the first attempt then the student has successfully completed this degree requirement. If one or both parts of the exam are failed on the first attempt (usually in May), the student must retake the failed part(s) at the next offering (in the following August). A second failure of either part of the comprehensive exam will result in dismissal from the student's Ph.D. program.
6.6. Qualifying Examination and Admission to Candidacy
Graduate school rules require that all doctoral students successfully complete a Qualifying Examination for admission to candidacy for the doctor's degree. In the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics the Dissertation Proposal Defense serves as the Qualifying Exam. Students are allowed two attempts to satisfactorily complete this examination. Failure to satisfactorily complete the examination on a second attempt will result in dismissal from the Ph.D. program. Further information on the Dissertation Proposal and Proposal Defense is provided in Section 9.0 of this Handbook.
6.7. Final Examination
All doctoral candidates are required to pass a public final oral examination which is usually over the general field of the dissertation. Candidates should consult the Graduate School for details regarding scheduling of the final examination. After the final examination, the professor conducting comprehensive exams will send a written notification of the results to the Graduate Secretary for the student's graduate file.
Doctoral candidates, with their major advisor, are required to find their own Dean's Representative for the Graduate School for their defense, preferably someone outside of the department.
Public announcement of exams will be done through the department Graduate Secretary. Exams must be announced at least four weeks prior to the exam date, without exception.
6.9. Degree Program Course Requirements
Listed below are the course requirements for the Ph.D. program options. Courses listed specifically by number are core courses. Note that the option II course requirements have been revised in consultation with the Department of Personal Financial Planning.
Ph.D in Agricultural and Applied Economics - No Minor Required (option1)1
Course number / Course title / credit hours
AAEC 5303 / Advanced Production Economics / 3
AAEC 5307 / Applied Econometrics I / 3
AAEC 6316 / Advanced International Trade and Policy / 3
AAEC 5321 / Research Methodology in Economics/ 3
AAEC 6302 / Food, Ag., and Nat. Resource Policy Analysis / 3
AAEC 6305 / Economic Optimization / 3
AAEC 6308 / Advanced Natural Resource Economics / 3
AAEC 6310 / Demand and Price Analysis / 3
AAEC 6311 / Applied Econometrics II / 3
AAEC 6301 / Microeconomic Theory II / 3
AAEC 6315 / Applied Microeconomics I / 3
ECO 5311 / Macroeconomic Theory and Policy / 3
Committee Approved Field Courses / / 24
AAEC 8000 / Doctor's Dissertation / 12
Total Credit Hours 72
Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics - Minor in Family Financial Planning (option 2)1,2
PFP 5371 / Fundamentals of Personal Financial Planning / 3
PFP 5372 / Asset Management II / 3
PFP 5373 / Personal Financial Planning Cpstn. / 3
PFP 5394 / Retirement Planning / 3
PFP 5497 / Risk Management and Insurance Planning / 4
PFP 5398 / Estate Planning / 3
PFP 5362 / Asset Management I / 3
PFP 5377 / Client Communication and Counseling / 3
ACCT 5311 / Individual Study in Accounting / 3
1Numbered courses are core courses.2Draft revisions pending review and approval of AAEC faculty.
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M.S. Agricultural and Applied Economics
Credit Hour Requirements
Substitution for Core Courses
Thesis Proposal and Proposal Defense
Professional Paper Requirement for No-thesis Students
Degree Program Course Requirements
Master of Agribusiness
Ph.D. Agricultural and Applied Economics
Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination
Qualifying Examination and Admission to Candidacy
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Minors for non-majors Overview
Agricultural Economics Association
Agricultural Economics Graduate Student Association
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