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Letter about poor attendance - should I worry?(66 Posts)
DD1 is in reception. Since starting in September she has caught every virus going and seems to be constantly fighting a new illness and has had quite a few days off school, particularly since winter set in.
So we had a letter this morning from the school regarding her attendance rate, which has dropped to 86%. It says that 'the LA Attendance Officer begins to take an interest in children's attendance that falls below 90%'
Should I be worried? What am I supposed to do when she is genuinely ill? Maybe I should see her GP.
Anti-bac hand gel should really only be used for D&V - for colds it's useless and may have an adverse effect. Children need to 'meet' as many viruses as possible to develop immunity - and in some children this may take longer than in others.
I'm very about attendance targets just because they are so very politicised - the welfare of the actual children seems to be a secondary consideration .
Well if she is only a 'little bit ill' then she can go to school then can't she Cecily.
Pointythings - good point that anti bac gel doesn't work on viruses.
You can be Ill enough that you can't go to school but not be I'll enough to go to the drs.
Ilovesunflowers Sun 27-Jan-13 15:06:05
"Well if she is only a 'little bit ill' then she can go to school then can't she Cecily."
For immune disorder purposes, "just a little bit ill" might still cover a temperature of 38.9, maybe vomiting and possibly an ear infection- which is not the state in which they would want you at school.
My brother got a high temperature and this level of symptoms every time he caught a cold for the first few years of school. It was a nightmare for my mother. This is still not the level of immunity problem where something will show up on the blood tests; for the kind of immune disorder that would show up on blood tests, you'd probably be looking at frequent hospitalisation with full blown pneumonia rather than just flu. Doesn't mean anyone who has the flu is fit to go to school.
Well if she is only a 'little bit ill' then she can go to school then can't she Cecily.
I disagree. You can be too ill to go to school while still not ill enough to go to the doctor. If a child has a nasty cold, or flu or a throat infection, you don't need a doctor to tell you what is wrong with them or to prescribe anything that can't be bought over the counter at the chemist. And as it is a trend when children start school, there doesn't seem much point in consulting a doctor to see if there is something more serious wrong.
OP - school are duty bound to let you know what your child's attendance is. It's not altogether a bad thing see it in black and white as some parents do need to see the impact lots of odd days have. Being in reception, school are not yet familiar with what type of parent you are; the type that takes the children shoe shopping on a Thursday and thinks it's OK to have birthdays off or the type that's basically doing their best to keep their child well and in school.
I have plenty of both types of parent and I try to treat them as individuals but it's surprising how the health of some children improves when a penalty warning lands on the doorstep. I'm not including you in this category
In your shoes I would ignore the letter, continue to send your child when she is well and keep her off when she isn't.
Secondly, the money a school receives is based on attendance - so unauthorised absences have to be kept to a minimum from the school's point of view. This is not true afaik.
Dd in yr 1 has had 86pc attendance. It was 84pc last year. She has had chickenpox, flu, three or four UTIs (investigated), at least two vomiting bugs and various random fevers. I wouldn't take her to the docs for anything other than the UTIs. You can absolutely be too ill for school but not ill enough for the dr. It's actively unhelpful for schools to be seeking sick notes for childhood bugs - my GP certainly does not want to see me every time one of my children throws up or has a fever (that would be four times since 1 Jan and frankly we've all got better things to do)
I'm a single parent who works full time so my children go to school if at all possible. But these hard and fast rules are a bit daft. Children do get sick frequently. I do hope our illness rate will improve but schools should display some common sense at this age. Ours does btw. No letter here.
I would phone the school on the first day of her absence letting them know what is wrong and, on her return, send a letter detailing everything including any dr's appointments, medication prescribed, etc and keep a copy in a folder. Remember to document if she was sent home from school and, if so, what was said to you.
Don't worry about it.
I think there are discrepancies in the use of EWO's authority in different areas.
Before leaving school in July at the end of y3 my dds attendance was in the 70's, nobody batted an eye lid and no EWO involved. My dd wasn't even ill, well hardly ever.
She was good publicity for the LEA and school as she has particular talents which she pursued during many school hours.
I think it is disgusting that parents of children who are ill are subjected to threats and made to feel irresponsible when children like my dd are encouraged to skip school. The end result for us was leaving school as I was afraid her education would suffer. But this came from us as parents not the LEA.
My DD2 had almost 100% attendance in Yr R.
In October last year, she suddenly came down with a virus just before half-term. She didn't pick up over half-term, and still wasn't well enough for school when it finished. I had taken her to the doctors and was given antibiotics. I took her back to the doctors a day or two later, explaining that she'd had quite a few days off already, and I needed to know if she was faking it (she was displaying anxiety). The doctor said 'no she's not faking, her glands are up in her neck and I think she has mesenteric adenitis'. He recommended that I keep her home until she had one 'good day', because she was falling asleep mid-morning, mid-afternoon and going to bed early. I discussed this with her teacher.
I tried to get her back to school, but after one day of being back, she had diarrhoea in the evening. She had to be excluded for 48 hours. Then, she went back to school for a few days. On a Sunday evening, she had severe abdominal pain (enough to call Out of Hours and them to want a Doctor to visit us at home because they could hear her screams), but eventually she vomited copiously. Of course, that led to another 48 hour exclusion.
The last week of term, I sent her to school daily with a temperature of 39.7c.
Despite this, her attendance was 79.84%. I got the letter. I told the HT that I wasn't happy to get the letter, considering I had been in such close contact with school, GPs and Paediatrician. She basically accused me of lying. She had no idea that I had been phoning the school (note to self: email each and every time). She wouldn't believe that I had been sending her in with a temperature of 39.7 because she said the school would have sent her home.
This Friday, she came out of school with a temperature of 38.5. It rose to 39.6 in the evening, stayed that way, dropping only 1 degree after paracetamol. Now, she has a temperature of 38c.
Tomorrow morning, I have to decide whether to:
a) Follow school policy and keep her off (temp over 37.5 - don't send), but not take her to the doctor - that will be recorded as unauthorised absence.
b) Follow school policy, take her to the doctor, but risk him refusing to write a letter, because it isn't his job to write sick notes for school children. If he doesn't, it will be unauthorised.
c) Take her to school despite being ill, so that other children catch her bugs and get kept off school.
The fact that she has to have weekly blood tests and I take her 10 miles away before 07.30 in the morning so that she doesn't miss the start of school seems to give no indication to the school as to how important I think her education is...
DameSaggarmakersbottomknocker Sun 27-Jan-13 15:33:38
"OP - school are duty bound to let you know what your child's attendance is. It's not altogether a bad thing see it in black and white as some parents do need to see the impact lots of odd days have. Being in reception, school are not yet familiar with what type of parent you are; the type that takes the children shoe shopping on a Thursday and thinks it's OK to have birthdays off or the type that's basically doing their best to keep their child well and in school.
I have plenty of both types of parent and I try to treat them as individuals but it's surprising how the health of some children improves when a penalty warning lands on the doorstep. "
Otoh schools may not realise the long-lasting damage that is done if they fail to distinguish between these two types of parents (and children!).
I am sure dd's headteacher thought he was doing his best when he kept calling us in to criticise our parenting and kept explaining to dd that she couldn't really be ill or in pain.
What he doesn't see, and never needs to know about, is how dd is going to pieces in secondary school because she cannot get her head around that here she will be believed, the years of self harming, the suicide attempts, all brought on because she feels she cannot face having to explain yet again to people who may not believe her.
The HT told her often enough how her whole life would be impacted, how she wouldn't be able to cope with her studies or earn a living, how everything would be hopeless if she couldn't stop being ill.
If you have an incurable chronic illness, would that make you feel you wanted to go on living?
Note: to explain the seeming contradictions with my earlier posts: dd has Ehlers Danlos syndrome, which causes chronic pain; it is thought that the stress from this also lowers her immune system. So not just talking colds and flu here.
I know I sound bitter, but dd took an overdose week before last because her school transport knocked on the door and she freaked out of explaining to him why she couldn't go.
DD2 has 88% for last term, she has had 8 days off.
The first single one I might just have crow-barred her to school feeling awful. The two days the Matron sent her home.
The full week she had a virus that gave her an ear infection as well.
I've never known DD2 take a week off school ever.
She was still pretty subdued right into the Christmas holidays. Not like her at all.
It's been a really really bad year for lingering bugs. I'm absolutely certain EWO's won't have time to chase DCs who have genuinely had a couple of weeks off this winter.
Some years are just worse than others for bugs. DS 4 is in preschool and he has been off for about 3 weeks in the last 2 months. It's been flu, then a vomiting bug, then a nasty virus. It's been going round the whole nursery. DH and I have caught everything he has which is unusual as well. Over the previous 2 years I think he was only off for about 3 days before that.
These things happen - I wouldn't stress about it.
My DD who is 11 and started at grammar school last term has been off sick loads.Again, just low level things .Just recently she had a rash accompanied by a mild fever, then a heavy cold and then diarrhoea one after the other.Last Wednesday she was complaining of tummy pain and feeling queasy but no other symptoms so I sent her in because she'd been off a week and a half!.The school rang me to collect her at lunchtime and I took her to the docs.She took one look at her and was horrified that I'd sent her to school so pale and washed out and that she should stay off til at least Monday and get properly recovered.
You can't win!!
Nicely dropped in that your dd is at grammar school Socharlotte .
I'm just thinking even if an attendance officer did arrange to come and see you about this I'm sure she'd be pretty easily reassured. So, try not to stress about it. Basically it's an automatically generated letter. We had one for DS once when he had been off with shingles. It even mentioned not taking time off for shopping which was bloody cheeky in the circumstances. I did go in to see someone at the school about it and make my feelings and objections known.
But equally you could ignore it if that's easier.
It would be nice if they at least included more concern for the possibility the child has been ill, especially where the parent has told them why the child has been absent
lougle: Why don't you send an e-mail to the head that you understand that she does not trust you, and does not trust your judgement. Therefore, next time your daughter is ill you will take your daughter into school, and ask thehead to make the call. Bring a thermometer. This is what I would be tempted to do.
BTW: Please can someone explain to me EXACTLY in which ways the school suffers if the children fall below a certain attendance ie financial? Ofsted and it's ramifications (linked to money?). AND WHAT IS THIS LEVEL PLEASE. ie. Is it judged against national guidelines.
ALSO LEGALLY at what stage is a school allowed to fine. And how easy is it to challenge a fine?
'Nicely dropped in that your dd is at grammar school Socharlotte wink. '
lol .I honestly had a reason for that which I didn't state!It was to say that DD is worried at missing school because of the pace of work, and the amount she will have to catch up when she gets back! For example my DSIL has taught French in several comprehensive schools where the year 7s are not taught much grammar , dds class have done lots!
Really Op I wouldn't engage with the school too much over this.Just say she was ill and leave it at that
Expansive girth - I'm not an expert but I don't think the school suffers financially , but it is an Ofsted requirement that attendance levels are at or above a certain level ( can't find exactly what that is at the moment). But I was under the impression that the main problem is that Ofsted is now very results driven and the school has to show high levels of both attainment and progress for all pupils. If a child's attendance is low then obviously it's harder to ensure they make the recommended progress( if they're not there the school can't teach them). So low attendance has an indirect negative effect on the results of the school.
Attendance is one of the categories in which a school is judged on an Ofsted report: very hard to get an Outstanding if attendance is low.
Don't sweat it...if your daughter is genuinely ill let the EWO do the running! Just keep a diary as mentioned above, dates, symptoms, if you visited doctor (in our area we have to describe the symptoms to the receptionist and we are either booked in to see the doctor or a nurse practitioner dependent on severity) , what was the outcome. Also make a note of times when you daughter is sent home, symptoms/reasons (you would be surprised how many half days there are when a child has been sent home before dinner which soon add up to full days, make a note of times when your daughter leaves school with a temp, what her temp was, and then what she was like the following day. My son tends to get really nasty flu like symptoms when he gets stressed (very low energy, eyes glazed and red, rubbish in his throat which he can't move, more argumentative than usual, lower tolerance levels than usual), I will go by my own instincts on whether or not he is ill enough to attend school, sometimes I give him some medicine and see if I get a phone call later that day or just keep him off. But he doesn't necessarily need to go to the GP (TBH I would feel that I was wasting the GP's time especially if I knew what was wrong ) Maybe it would be a good thing to go to the GP and explain to him what has been asked of you maybe he/she can send a little letter (and copy you in ) to the school pointing out how unnecessary their requests are? and refuse to do this? I shouldn't think there would be much they can do if your daughters GP point blank refuses, Unless they sent the EWO out to see them too.
Oh just for the record my son is taking multi-vits, actimel, goes to bed early, eats a healthy diet, and his behavior/attention WILL deteriorate dramatically when poorly so he will probably spend more time being punished than actually learning if he is sent in to school so not too sure how his education would be effected any more if he was to attend school ill than for him to stay at home .
I had a similar letter once. I can't remember the exact figure. I chucked it in the bin and thought no more of it.
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New Delhi has previously defended widespread snooping on Internet users and phone calls by U.S. intelligence agencies, saying such scrutiny had helped prevent "terrorist attacks." But the Foreign Ministry expressed concern about suspected spying on its diplomatic missions in July and said it would raise the issue with U.S. authorities.
The revelations are likely to see calls from India's opposition for the government to take a harder line with Washington.


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I have spent over twenty years teaching courses on "The History of Crime" and have been pleased to have many members of the police force as my students. I have the highest respect for those who risk their lives to serve the public, but, one thing has become clear to me after 53 years of teaching over 15,000 students. We all make mistakes. I am certain Sgt. Crowley is an excellent police officer, but he blew it this time by over-reacting. I begin from the premise that anyone who interacts with the public is prone to making errors of judgment. I assume that among my thousands of interactions with students I allow my emotions, my prejudices and experiences to get in the way of my normal sense of objectivity. I am human. This means I must have made at least two hundred mistakes in my life as a teacher.
Yes, those who work with the public, on occasion, allow emotions to get in the way. For example this past semester on nine occasions I contacted a student after class and apologized for being too curt in class, for making a grading mistake or for not grasping the point they made in class. I have worked with over 2,000 student teachers and the first lesson they learn is whenever there is a disturbance, restore order, don't make threats, and above all, don't send anyone to the principal's office until you have had a chance to deal in a calm manner with the situation. I assure those of you who have never taught, that any normal, honest teacher can recount hundreds of times when it was necessary to bite one's tongue, to be overly pleasant and to ignore rudeness and insults because acting in anger only created more problems.
I contacted a former student and asked for his opinion on the Gates situation.(I can not reveal his name). He responded by saying his initial focus is to restore calm to a situation., He refused to judge Crowley, but said if he had responded to the burglary call, his first comment to Gates would have been: "Sir, we have a report of a burglary. Are you OK? Is there anything I could do for you?" He said when the door is opened by an elderly man, you assume he will be upset and distraught because he is frightened and confused so get him sitting down, get him water to reduce his anxiety. My former student said words to this effect: "professor, I work in St. Louis which is mainly African American. If I entered a home where a black elderly man said he was a professor from Washington University, the first picture in my mind is to get things calm or I will wind up on the front page of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. I have a family, I attend night school, I don't have time for filling out papers and getting into a mess." He said he next would have asked Gates if he wanted him to contact Harvard or get a neighbor or family member over to the house to help him. Then, he would have apologized for any inconvenience, given his name and told Gates if he needed any further assistance to contact him.
Everyone in the public eye has made the Crowley mistake, we allowed our emotions to get the upper hand and lost sight of what we all desire –peace and calm in our lives and no shouting and screaming. I recently received an email from students I taught in 1959 and one said she could never forget how sometimes when the lesson was going poorly, I would stop, apologize to the class for my failure as a teacher and promise to do better the next day.
An article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch quotes a detective from Queens: "If you locked up everybody that was technically disorderly – you've got to know which battles to fight." Wise words. That is my mantra to new teachers, keep it cool, keep it calm, but know when you have to take a stand. An elderly man who is distraught at an incorrect burglary claim is not the place to take any stand. Just say you are sorry and get on with your life if you have a brain in your policeman's head.
I find fascinating how many have rushed to the defense of Sgt. Crowley. I assume when they are stopped by the police for not coming to a complete stop at a Stop Sign or pulled over for speeding, the first words out of their mouth is to thank the police. I'm normal. I grit my teeth and mutter curses under by breath. As NY State Senator Eric Adams, a retired New York City policeman, commented: "If it's their house, they're allowed to call you all sorts of names. A man's house is his castle."
You blew it Sgt. Crowley, but don't worry, at least you are human.


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Motocross spinal injury fundraising effort
08/11/2012 , 8:16 AM by Petria Ladgrove
Life changed in an instant for promosing Freestyle Motocross rider, Andy Hensel, when he crashed during practice earlier this year.
He is now wheelchair bound and he spoke with ABC producer, Angela Smallacombe, while he was out at a friends property watching his mates do what he loves most.
She also spoke with Ben Heinrich, Freestyle motocross rider and friend of Andy Hensel, who is organising a fundraiser to send his friend to the United States for treatment.
The Support To Walk fundraiser will be held at the Port Pirie Trotting Track on December 8th.
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Arab foreign ministers on Thursday agreed to relaunch the Arab peace initiative in its current form, despite earlier suggestions by the Syrian minister that the initiative could be rethought. "We agreed on maintaining the Arab peace initiative and there is no intention on the ministers' part to amend it," Mohammed Sobeih, Arab League assistant secretary general for Palestinian affairs, told reporters.
"It was also agreed that the initiative will be relaunched to the international community in order to stress Arab concern for finding a solution to the Arab Israeli conflict," Sobeih said, according to AFP. At the opening of the ministers meeting in Damascus earlier on Thursday, Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem hinted at the possibility of reconsidering the initiative if Israel did not prove its intention to establish peace in the Middle East.
"We believe in a just and comprehensive peace but Israel, which is supported by the United States, is still unable to show a political will to create peace," Muallem told delegations of the 22-member Arab League. "Therefore we support what came out of our meeting in Cairo which is to study Arab options for the strategy of peace," he said.
The initiative, first adopted at a Beirut summit in 2002, offers Israel normalisation of relations and comprehensive peace agreements with Arab countries in exchange for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from all the occupied territories.
In Jordan, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday rejected any plans to "amend or change" the peace initiative, after talks with King Abdullah II in Amman. "We have stressed our position more than once in the past. There is no way to amend or change the initiative," a palace statement quoted Abbas as saying.
"We should defend the initiative and fight for it because it is valuable and the other side (Israel) should accept it without any amendments or changes."
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Boxing back in Tijuana
By Felipe Leon
This Saturday night sees the return of Erik "Terrible" Morales' Box Latino to his hometown of Tijuana, Mexico. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Box Latino have not presented an event in Tijuana since Morales' second comeback fight back in December of 2011 when "El Terrible" earned a tough unanimous decision over late sub Francisco Lorenzo. Now Morales and company return with "Sangre y Patria (Blood and Country)", a multi-bout fight card scheduled for the Tijuana Municipal Auditorium. The fight card will be featured on Mexico's premier TV network Televisa on their weekly boxing series "Sabados de Corona". Slick boxer Oscar "Finito" Gonzalez (27-1, 21KOs) will match up skills against the always tough Mario "Maka" Briones (21-1-1, 15KOs) for the vacant WBC International super bantamweight strap.
After conquering the top spot in last year's "Reto de Campeones (Champion's Challenge)" tournament sponsored by the WBC and telecast by Televisa in which Gonzalez of Mexico City defeated foreign fighter's such as Roberto Vazquez and Vacharakrit Senahan, Gonzalez is looking for a defining win over Briones to take a step in the direction towards a world title in 2012. Briones of Guadalajara, Mexico, will not be an easy out as he is a tried and true fighter who at the moment holds the WBC FECOMBOX 122 lbs. title. Late last year, Briones dropped a controversial decision to AJ Bernal in the Philippines but has recouped as he is coming off a fourth round stoppage of Octavio Ascencio in November of last year.
In the semi-main event, Tijuana's popular son Javier "Cobra" Mendoza (15-2-1, 12KOs) will go after Armando "Chiquita" Vazquez (20-7, 4KOs) in the second defense of his WBC Continental Americas light flyweight title. Vazquez of Mexicali, Mexico, is a six-year veteran who has challenged for minor regional titles in the past such as the Mexican minimum title belt, the NABF 105 lbs. title and battled Manuel "Menny" Jimenez in a WBO elimination bout back in early 2010. Mendoza is an exciting knock out artist who either knocks his opponent out or gets himself knocked out. In spectacular Mendoza fashion, the "Cobra" struck against Osvaldo "Drakys" Ibarra in June of 2010 and categorically stopped him to capture the then vacant WBC Continental Americas strap. A year later in July of 2011, Mendoza was he himself ceremoniously knocked out by unknown Jorge Guerrero in an exciting six minute war that had a packed Tijuana Auditorium on its feet. Now Mendoza will look for redemption versus Vazquez
In a special attraction, the next link in the Morales' boxing dynasty, unbeaten super flyweight Ivan "Niño Maravilla" Morales (15-0, 10KOs) as he takes on veteran Ricardo "Rocky" Armenta (15-13-1, 7KOs) in a eight round contest. The southpaw Ivan is the younger brother of Erik and Diego Morales.
Also featured on the card is Tijuana super flyweight Jose "Hollywood" Estrella (9-3-1, 8KOs) as he faces a stern test in Pedro (Guerrero) Melo (7-2, 1KO) of Mexico City in a six rounder, exciting lightweight Mario "Popeye" Padilla (9-4-3, 1KO) and flyweight Osvaldo "Waldo" Castro (11-4-1, 8KOs) are also scheduled.
Three more bouts flesh out the card.
Tickets are available at the Tijuana Municipal Auditorium "Fausto Gutierrez Moreno". Prices range from $7 dlls to $16 dlls ($80-$200 pesos). Doors open at 4:30pm with the first punch thrown at 5:30pm. All ages welcome.


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National Parks have a somewhat well-deserved reputation as not very dog-friendly. After all, there is a list of restrictions at most parks about where your dog can't go. Usually it includes "all backcountry trails", hiking trails, and major tourist sites. There are, however, some National Parks where this is not the case. Acadia National Park, in Bar Harbor, Maine is certainly one of the them.
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A Dog-Friendly Tour Guide to Carmel CaliforniaTuesday, August 20th, 2013
You can be certain of few things always being true. One of those things is that Carmel California will rank at or very near the top of any national pet-friendly city list. It has been in DogFriendly.com's Top 3 resort cities to visit with a dog every year, and has held the number one spot about half the time. Carmel is made for a vacation with a dog. It is not too hot, with moderate summertime temperatures and the ocean fog cooling things off. It is not too cold in winter, so you can do the outdoor activities that make up much of a great dog-friendly vacation. But if weather was the only factor, there could be lots of other places like Carmel. There are not.
Hotel Affinia Manhattan Has a Paw-fect Spring Fling PackageSunday, May 26th, 2013
Affinia Manhattan is pampering its four-legged guests with a special Paw-Fect Spring Fling package in honor of National Pet Month. Travelers with pups, who book by May 30, 2013, will receive loads of treats to make their best friend feel extra special during their stay. Affinia Manhattan will also donate proceeds to the Humane Society of New York.
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"Bert Blyleven, Hall of Famer has a nice ring to it" – Bert Blyleven on Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN radio.
Personally, I'm not quite ready to live a world where Bert Blyleven is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Named on 79.7% of the ballots, he is still number one on the Insufferable Mo-Mo ballot.
"It's been 14 years of praying and waiting," Blyleven said in a conference call. "And thank the baseball writers of America for, I'm going to say, finally getting it right."
The election has not diluted your enduring Hall of Fame level of intolerability, sir. It got you to Cooperstown so why stop now? Blyleven beat his own drum until he had people who never saw him play voting for him based on statistics.
Check out these two pitchers:
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Aside from shutouts, complete games, and strikeouts, they are basically the same pitcher. What if I told you pitcher #1 won 16 Gold Gloves, including 12 in a row from 1962-1973. Pitcher #2 had a single 20-win season while Pitcher #1 did it three times, including back-to-back in 1974-1975.
Pitcher #1 finished fifth in the MVP voting in 1966 (25-13 / 2.75 / 1.070 WHIP) while Pitcher #2 twice led the league in home runs allowed (50 in 1986, 46 in 1987).
The main difference between these two pitchers is that only one of them had Bert Blyleven campaigning undyingly on his behalf (Pitcher #2 who, obviously, is Bert Blyleven).
Pitcher #1 is Jim Kaat, whose lack of Hall of Fame attention and similarity to Blyleven's career shows you just how subjective, nebulous and esoteric the whole process is.
You know who when you were a kid and you wanted a Polo shirt so you could look like a "cool kid," but your mother bought you some knock-off like Knights of the Round Table, and you wore it to school anyway hoping nobody would notice you were wearing a knock-off Polo, but of course someone did notice and it you got laughed at, and when you got home you threw the shirt on the bottom of the closet never to be worn again? Bert Blyleven is that shirt. Kinda looks like the real thing (a Hall of Famer) but after closer inspection it belongs in the dustbin of history.
On to more positive things.
So Roberto Alomar wasn't a Hall of Famer last year, but this year gets 90% of the vote? Did they discover a statistical deficiency wherein he was credited with 50 more homers, 10 points on his average and numerous humanitarian awards? No, it's just the First Ballot Police releasing their latest victim, another year older and deeper in debt.
This is committee thinking at its finest. I guess the BBWAA can't just usher any player in to the Hall of Fame, they need a raison d'etre, right. What are they going to do when the time comes, in the foreseeable future no less, when the ballot is nothing but Steroid Era guys? 2012 is a real thin year for newly eligible players (Carl Everett and Bill Mueller!) but 2013 is an explosion, with Barry Bonds, Mike Piazza, Roger Clemens, Craig Biggio and Royce Clayton, woops. Add that to holdovers Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Juan Gonzalez, and those coming up, Gary Sheffield, Miguel Tejada, Alex Rodriguez, Jim Thome, Manny Ramirez, and it's a morass of bulging veins and roid rages. Not that all these guys were users, mind you, just that they are all Steroid Era guys, and the taint of that epoch stains all.
Are the writers going to carefully eek out "clean player" elections so as to ensure at least one non-PED guy every year. Off the top of my head Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Pedro Martinez, Ken Griffey Jr, Chipper Jones, Curt Schilling Vladimir Guerrero and Frank Thomas are the only untainted elite-level players coming down the pike for some time, and who's to say some of them didn't use?
A friend of mine suggested that all the Steroid Era guys should be allowed into the Hall of Fame. Give them their own room, but instead of a plaque each of them gets a syringe on the wall and when you push in the plunger a hologram of a plaque appears and, as you read it, it slowly fades away. I'm in. This sounds like something Mark Cuban could take care of.
Quick hits on some other voting totals…
One is the loneliest number, except for these players that got no votes: Carlos Baerga, Lenny Harris, Bobby Higginson, Charles Johnson, Raul Mondesi and Kirk Rueter. Tip – if you start an ironic movement to get yourself elected you'll scare up a couple votes.
The three players on this ballot that I feel are definitely going to get in eventually, Barry Larkin (62.1%), Tim Raines (37.5%) and Jeff Bagwell (41.7%) will all deal with the same set of issues.
Larkin is methodically yet quickly climbing the ladder. It will be interesting to see what happens to Larkin if he does not get in next year, as then he is dealing with the aforementioned stiff competition. Like Raines and Bagwell, he could get lost.
The other question is: Will the writers vote for suspected PED users, and if they don't will they put their mark next to players they wouldn't have previously voted for as a reaction to the inflated numbers of the Steroid Era?
How sentiment sways in both these scenarios could well determine the fate of these three, although the number Bagwell put up in his first year virtually guarantees enshrinement so, whatever.
Fred McGriff holds strong with 104 votes (17.9%). Somewhere the Crime Dog smiles.
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Blackfoot from Dethecus (EU) sends in this shot and a story to go along with it. The image comes from the final step of the chain to craft the legendary sword Thunderfury, which requires you to defeat Thunderaan, a summonable raid boss. When defeated, he drops the giant sword you see in this shot, but usually only one... The multiple swords are due to multiple kills -- a raid alliance of Metus Mortis, Die Verlorenen, and Empire of Azeroth came out to finish the quest for two of their rogues, and because of one buggy encounter, ended up killing him three times.
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With the recent pulp reprint publications of THE SHADOW and DOC SAVAGE, it seems about the perfect time to explore the medium of radio which dramatized the same stories that appeared in the pulps, on the radio. The origin of the DOC SAVAGE radio program began in December 1932, when the Knox Company of St….
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Manning, Giants throttle SeahawksNov 8, 2010 - 1:08 AM
The Giants (6-2), fresh off a bye week, thrashed the Seahawks (4-4) for 487 yards while only allowing 162 en route to their fifth straight win and first in Seattle since 1981.
Manning ended with 290 yards on 21-of-32 efficiency, throwing TDs to Steve Smith, Kevin Boss and Hakeem Nicks, who caught six balls for 128 yards in the lopsided victory. Brandon Jacobs and Bradshaw rushed for 78 and 57 yards, respectively.
Charlie Whitehurst, in his first career start in place of an injured Matt Hasselbeck, completed 12-of-23 passes for 113 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions for Seattle, which was coming off a 33-3 drubbing at the hands of the Oakland Raiders.
"It's a big-time challenge for us, me and the coaching staff," Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said. "We have seen the whole spectrum in half a year. We now must deal with it."
A one-sided opening 30 minutes saw the Giants take a remarkable 35-0 lead, their largest halftime margin since November 29, 1959 against the Redskins when they led 38-0.
The Seahawks went three-and-out on their first three touches, failing to capitalize on a Boss fumble on New York's opening drive.
Bradshaw got the rout started on a two-yard TD run with 5:49 left in the first quarter, and the Giants scored twice in a 15-second span later in the frame.
Nicks made a highlight-reel catch for his ninth TD of the season, as he made a diving grab in the end zone on Manning's underthrown 46-yard bomb.
Leon Washington, the NFL's leading kick returner, coughed up the ball on the ensuing kickoff, and Bradshaw went in from four yards out on the next play from scrimmage at the 2:03 mark of the first.
Seattle's Mike Williams nearly had a touchdown on the first play of the second quarter, but the receiver bobbled the ball into Terrell Thomas' hands for the interception.
Manning capped the next drive with a six-yard strike to Smith over the middle, and after Whitehurst threw another pick in enemy territory, New York went 86 yards in 10 plays for a 35-0 advantage on Boss' five-yard reception in the final minute of the half.
"We came ready to play from the beginning. We were in good rhythm," Manning said.
Lawrence Tynes tacked on a 25-yard field goal five minutes into the third and booted a 20-yarder on the last play of the quarter.
Whitehurst, a third-round pick by the Chargers in the 2006 draft, had not attempted an NFL pass before Sunday and finally got the Seahawks on the board with a 36-yard strike to Ben Obomanu early in the fourth.
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Coincidentally, the Seahawks had a 35-0 first-half lead on their way to a 42-30 victory the last time these two teams played here (2006)...New York had lost four straight in Seattle...The Giants gained 30 first downs to Seattle's eight and had possession for 42 1/2 minutes...Manning had a 125.8 quarterback rating, his third straight 100-plus outing ...Marshawn Lynch led Seattle with 48 yards on 11 carries...There were no sacks in the game...New York hosts Dallas next week, while Seattle tries to get back on track on the road at Arizona.
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So, if I carefully read between the lines, I'm thinking it could possibly maybe be user error? Hmmm. Makes sense. I turned 45 this year. Now I have to shake my fist at passersby & tell them to stay off of my lawn, too...
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While I'm at it, there was no final season to LOST, There were only ever 3 Star Wars movies, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was only made into a TV Miniseries and not a movie...
leebeemi wrote:So, if I carefully read between the lines, I'm thinking it could possibly maybe be user error? Hmmm. Makes sense. I turned 45 this year. Now I have to shake my fist at passersby & tell them to stay off of my lawn, too...
i advocate such activity, 'cause those meddling kids ride their bikes too loud, BUT to be fair, i think we can concede that it's not the most intuitive process. sorry for causing a little confusion.
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What size best correlates to the OLD AA blanks in women's small? I would love to get this shirt for my wife, but the last few i ordered for her fit terribly.. bland and not at all "girlie tshirt" fitment... she doesn't wear them if they don't fit flatteringly. (FWIW, i ordered one in WS and one in k8 to discover this - both had a boxy "boys" fit.)
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gullsnest wrote:The first season is from 1963
Once more late to the party but had to include - the 'old Who' seasons are often referred to as serials, while the 'new Who' seasons are often referred to as seasons. So technically the commenter was right in referring to the 2005 first season as, well, the first season back in 2005.
Also, adding this one to my wish list because there's no such thing as too many Who shirts XD
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Her lover had let her down, she told the priest. She had gone to him for help when her parish job was threatened, thinking he could save it. They had been having a sexual relationship, she explained. There were lunches and dinners with wine, groping in cars and on park benches and much talk about love. She lost her job anyway, but her lover paid her bills - sometimes $900 a month. Then the relationship fell apart and he stopped paying. She was angry and blamed him for not saving her job.
As they sat together in the cathedral, Jennifer whispered the name of her lover to Dowling. But the priest, who refused this week to discuss the issue, didn't tell her he knew the man she was talking about; he knew because, years earlier, he had comforted another woman who had had a similar relationship with the man and had bore him a child.
Jennifer said her lover was Father Barry Whelan, 67, who retired - or, some say, was pushed last week by the head of the Melbourne Archdiocese, Archbishop Denis Hart - from his job as assistant priest at the Sacred Heart Mission in St Kilda. Jennifer's case is now under investigation by the archdiocese.
But Whelan's departure came decades too late for Jennifer and four other women who, between 1993 and May this year, told the Archdiocese of Melbourne that they had all had sex with, or were sexually assaulted by, the priest at various times since the 1960s. These revelations were made to the archdiocese under the stewardships of three archbishops - Frank Little, George Pell and the current archbishop, Denis Hart.
By all accounts, the women liked Whelan and trusted him. He was a priest, after all. They were highly vulnerable and distressed and they treasured the attention and words of comfort he gave them. Some of them fell in love with him.
But as the affairs ended, the women were left alone and in great pain. With two of the women, sex was apparently consensual.
In two other cases, the women say, it was not. The fifth case involved a 13-year-old schoolgirl where there was no question of consent.
Each of the women decided to take action to prevent Whelan doing to others what he did to them. But they were all disappointed as they pursued legal action or sought apologies and compensation from the church.
- Some of the women say the archdiocese failed to readily accept their claims, even though it already had similar cases involving the same priest on record.
Central to the criticism of the archdiocese is the issue of when it knew of Whelan's alleged activities. One woman claims that sometime between 1990 and 1992, she told the then auxiliary bishop, George Pell, that Whelan tried to rip off her clothes in 1980. She says Pell asked: "How do I know you are not completely mad?"
"If Pell listened to me when I went to him, it would have saved a whole lot of women who came after that," the woman told The Age.
Nonetheless, she suspects, Pell may have taken some action because Whelan soon moved from St Elizabeth's Parish, Noble Park, to the Repatriation Hospital. Later, as archbishop, Pell removed the priest from all priestly duties, only to be overruled by the Vatican after Whelan appealed under Canon Law.
By 1993, the church had received two further claims of sexual abuse relating to the priest and another followed in 1996. (Compensation has since been paid in three cases.)
The archdiocese and Whelan were determined that nothing should leak out. They were party to the payment of an estimated total of $157,000 to three women. But the church made two of the women sign confidentiality agreements to protect the church from scandal and further legal action.
The saga of alleged sexual abuse by Whelan has been talked about for years in closed circles. Some of the women told priests within and outside the confessional about the alleged abuse.
In 1994, The Sunday Age wrote about an anonymous priest who had fathered a child. A nun, doctors and counsellors at St Vincent's Hospital and other institutions involved in the delivery and care of the child knew who the father was.
One victim estimates 25 people knew about her sexual relationship with the priest, 15 of them priests, nuns or other religious layworkers.
Another of the victims, a counsellor at the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau in Carlton, destroyed letters and mementos from Whelan.
The woman allegedly abused as a child wrote to Little in 1996, asking that Whelan be investigated and given counselling. She pleaded that he should be prevented from harassing other women and girls. She promised to forgo legal action but only if the church acted firmly. The church let her down.
In her letter to Little, she spoke of how she suffered as a child and later as a young woman as a result of Whelan's actions. She gave details of the non-penetrative sex she had with the priest on Saturday afternoons - at St John's Presbytery in East Melbourne and later at a flat in, or close to, St Vincent's Hospital, where the priest was chaplain. He later moved to the Mercy Hospital, East Melbourne.
The woman says she also told Little about the cuddling and the kissing, and the oral sex in a school Whelan visited to give the pupils religious instruction. When she left school, the sex continued, often several times a week.
Explaining the sex, which took place in a variety of locations, including a loft at her school, the woman told the archbishop: "He told me to touch him on the penis, but not on the top of his clothes, but underneath them. I thought by doing this he would like me more. He told me to kiss him on the lips, then he would put down my blouse and... touch me down below. I didn't understand why he did this and what he was doing or what he wanted from me. He told me that this had to be our secret and not to tell anyone else."
In June, 1996, she asked Little for justice. "I would implore you to investigate him," she wrote. Seventeen days later, the archdiocese, in a letter from then Vicar-General Gerald Cudmore, promised justice would be delivered.
A month later, the Reverend Ian Waters, writing on behalf of Cudmore, told the woman her allegations had been "noted carefully" and investigations had been conducted. Whelan had been told of the requests, as had his psychotherapist.
"Together, they are dealing with your concerns," the letter said. "Father Whelan, along with all other priests of this archdiocese, subscribes to the Code of Ethics for Clergy implemented last year."
That paragraph hurt her deeply. She wrote again to the archdiocese. "Father Whelan and the archdiocese seems to be either in a state of paralysis or/and a state of denial, a most primitive state, about child sexual abuse, incapable of hearing my feelings and cowardly in self-protection and self-interest, above that of the interest of childhood...
"Father Whelan set the boundaries, the timing and the territory. Not any longer ... Now, my needs will be put first and the needs of children. Not Father Whelan's, not the archdiocese. Child abuse is NEVER right."
This sort of allegation was nothing new to the archdiocese. Three years earlier, in September, 1993, a woman wrote to Little claiming she had been sexually abused by Whelan when he was in Geelong.
Cudmore replied in February, 1994, that it "seems clear to me... there are no grounds for compensation".
While Whelan denied these allegations, he and the archdiocese were party to a financial settlement with the woman. She remains bitter about her treatment by the church and the degree to which the whole affair has ruined aspects of her life and damaged her health.
The woman with whom Whelan allegedly fathered a child was working at St Vincent's but was a cancer patient when he visited her in the ward.
In December, 1993, Cudmore wrote to the mother of Whelan's alleged child: "I have spoken with Father Whelan who emphatically denies taking advantage... and the development of any improper relationship, sexual or otherwise."
In March, 1994, the Analytical Reference Laboratories DNA-tested Whelan, the mother and the child and found that "James Barry Whelan cannot be excluded from identifications as the biological father... Furthermore, James Barry Whelan is 50 times more likely to be the father... than a random man and has a probability of paternity of 98 per cent."
On May 9, 1994, Cudmore wrote to the woman saying that, "unfortunately", his previous letter "erroneously said there had been no improper relationship between you and Father Whelan".
Martin Daly is an Age senior writer.
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Study: Percentage of Mobile Traffic Website Visits Up Year over Year; iPad Market Share on the Decline
Walker Sands' Quarterly Mobile Traffic Report reveals the total percentage of mobile traffic continues to grow year over year, up 171 percent since Q3 2011.
CHICAGO – Nov. 5, 2013 – Visits from mobile devices now account for 28 percent of total website traffic in Q3 2013, up 67 percent since Q3 2012, according to the Walker Sands Quarterly Mobile Traffic Report.
Walker Sands, a public relations and digital agency for technology companies and startups, found that the percentage of website traffic from mobile visits continues to increase year over year. Despite an overall increase in the amount of traffic since the same quarter last year, iPads experienced a drop in market share, down to 15.6 percent in Q3 2013 from 19.7 percent in Q3 2012.
"Device preference aside, the share of traffic coming from mobile continues to grow," said John Fairley, director of Web services at Walker Sands. "Rather than getting caught up in the device wars, companies should prioritize mobile and implement strategies that put equal emphasis on mobile and traditional Web design."
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- iPad: 15.6 percent of mobile traffic, down from 19.7 percent in the third quarter 2012
- Android Phones: 41.1 percent of mobile traffic, down from 42 percent in the third quarter 2012
- Android Tablets: 3.4 percent of mobile traffic, up from 2 percent in the third quarter of 2012
In total, iOS (iPhone and iPad combined) market share for Q3 2013 was 47 percent, down 4 percent since Q3 2012 and Android total (mobile and tablet combined) market share for Q3 2012 was 44.4 percent, up less than half a percent since Q3 2012.
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Wi-Fi access in the UK is complicated to say the least. With BT Openzone and The Cloud access can be hit-and-miss and when you do log on, you have to pay for it. Well O2 has now announced it is planning on challenging these two providers – and doing it all for free.
O2 has announced the creation of "seamless, fast and free internet for all" with a network of premium Wi-Fi hotspots set to double the amount currently available by BT and The Cloud combined. Initially O2 Wifi will be available when it replaces it existing 450 Cloud hotspots in its stores and offices. The plan is to then extend the coverage "through partnerships with strategic venues, to include shops, restaurants, retail outlets and outdoor and indoor locations across the UK."
Access to O2 Wifi will be free for O2 and non-O2 customers. O2 customers who own a Wi-Fi enabled device will be automatically signed up to the service by the end of the year with all others having to go through a signing-up process. While the service will be free, of course O2 and its partners will want something back in return, and every time you log on you will be greeted by a splash page with offers and advertising from O2 and its partners – be it a restaurant or shop. While this could get annoying, considering you are getting free access we are sure people won't mind too much.
O2 is shying away from the route taken by BT, whereby it uses its own customers' broadband service to create a huge wireless network around the country. Instead it says that all of its hotspots will be "premium public hotspots." Virgin has indicated plans to roll out its own wireless network but again not using its home customers' service.
"Only 20% of people who have access to free public Wi-Fi on O2 tariffs actively use it despite the majority of devices being Wi-Fi enabled. We know that Wi-Fi as a technology has great potential and can be a very fast service, however customers are discouraged by barriers which include complexity in activation, uncertainty of where Wi-Fi is free and the variable quality of the current experience," said O2's New Business Development Director Tim Sefton.
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The victim gave this guy everything he asked for and he still shot her. There's a 50/50 chance the BG will run after they rob you or shoot you. I would rather take the chance in drawing and getting the first shots off.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Hours after Elisabeth Kelly Reilly was shot outside a Virginia Beach shopping center, her cell phone helped police track down a suspect in her killing.
The global-positioning feature on the phone led detectives to an address in nearby Norfolk. Behind the home there, authorities found the phone, Reilly's purse and a blood-stained hooded sweatshirt, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in court.
A woman in the home told investigators she had loaned her car to her boyfriend, Christopher Eugene Hagans. Police found the car, with blood on the driver's side door, parked on a street a few miles away, according to the affidavit.
Hagans was arrested as he approached the car shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday.
Hagans, 19, of Norfolk, was being held at Virginia Beach Correctional Center without bail on charges of first-degree murder and robbery. A bond hearing was set for Nov. 27 and a preliminary hearing for Jan. 4.
Hagans could be charged with capital murder, punishable by death, because Reilly was killed during a robbery. Commonwealth's Attorney Harvey Bryant said no decision on the charge had been made.
On Monday, shoppers were wary about their safety after hearing about the second act of violence at Virginia Beach shopping centers in a month.
"You don't think something's going to happen when you go shopping in the middle of the day," Kari Mellenkamp said at Pembroke Mall, where a woman was abducted Oct. 14.
Police were looking into whether Hagans also was involved in that crime, in which a woman was forced into her car and physically assaulted. The suspect stole her purse and drove her to an unknown area in Norfolk, where she was allowed to leave.
Reilly, 25, had just finished shopping at Hilltop North Shopping Center and was walking to her car at 6:30 p.m. Saturday when a gunman robbed and shot her, Virginia Beach police spokeswoman Rene Ball said.
Witnesses told police the man shot Reilly in the back before driving off in a white car. She died later at a hospital.
Reilly was married in July and had planned to go on vacation with her husband this week.
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FILE - This April 22, 2013 file photo shows singer Lauryn Hill walking from federal court in Newark, N.J. Hill is facing sentencing Monday, May 6, on federal tax charges. Hill pleaded guilty last year to not paying federal taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. A judge two weeks ago said Hill had paid only about $50,000 of more than $500,000 she owes. Hill said she has signed a recording contract with Sony that will help her pay her taxes. Citing the legal deadline, she made a song available on iTunes over the weekend. She faces up to a year in prison on each of three counts. Her attorney is seeking probation for her. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, file)
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Last Day for Ameren Accelerator SubmissionsA St. Louis startup incubator is putting out one final call for applicants in advance of Friday's deadline.
Missouri Governor to Propose Budget Amid Financial StrainGov. Greiten's announcement will be made during a visit to a Nixa public school, a break from past governors' traditional announcements during Capitol speeches.
Missouri Voter Registration Deadline is WednesdaySt. Louis Republican Director of Elections Gary Stoff encourages people to bring some form of identification, but it does not have to be a picture ID.
Missouri High Court Weighs Sex Abuse Suit Against Boy ScoutsThe 35-year-old man, who is referred to in case documents only as John Doe, alleges that his scoutmaster sexually abused and battered him starting when he was about 12 years old in 1992 and that it continued until 1997.
Cash-Strapped Illinois: Can't Do the 'Impossible' on PayingThe state of Illinois asked a federal judge Friday not to hold it in contempt for missing a recent court-ordered deadline to pay services providers for the disabled, saying compliance should "not mean doing the impossible'' amid one of the nation's worst budgetary crises.
Ill. Senate Budget-Veto Override in Doubt; No Decision YetKey Senate Democrats pressed for a vote on reversing Gov. Bruce Rauner's budget veto, suggesting Tuesday that any available hammer be lifted to break the months-long spending deadlock before Wednesday's deadline.
Durbin Open to Extending Deadline for Rail Systems to Install Positive Train ControlCongress mandated in 2008 that railways have it installed within seven years, but didn't provide financial support past the first year. Facing a Dec. 31 deadline, Durbin says he's open to setting a new target date to let railroads become compliant.
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