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Tucked into the ancient walls of Old Jaffa is Ben-Zion David's legendary Yemenite workshop and gallery. Eighth-generation Yemenite silversmith Ben-Zion David applies ancient filigree techniques to his modern creations of sterling silver jewelry and Judaica. Virtually all Yemenite jewelry is made of filigree, which requires a variety of different tools and weaving with various diameter silver wires. Every precious jewel is designed with "five strands"; each thread has a name of its own and is filled with sacred meaning.
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5. President Barack Obama smoked in college
A documentary that surfaced online in the recent weeks revealed in detail that the United States Barack Obama was a heavy smoker years before becoming president.
The documentary which was shot by Obama's half-sister, Auma, showed the world's most powerful man gaily puffing away at a cigarette on his Kenyan visit in 2007.
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The old video of Obama smoking suggested that Obama's daughter might have taken up the behavior from her father.
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Ancient Alien Chronology I: Pumapunku
One of the things that leaps out at you when consulting alient astronaut materials - if you have a good sense of the chronology of human history, anyway - is that there doesn't seem to be a plausible time scale by which this is all happening. These aliens seem to have hopped about all over the place at completely different points in time. A short visit to twelfth century BCE Veracruz to get the Olmecs up and going, a saunter into tenth century CE Java to get Borobudur built, a few cocktail parties in sixth century CE Bolivia to establish the Tiwanaku civilisation. It all seems a little far-fetched. Why didn't the aliens go everywhere at the same time? Why did these extra-terrestrial voyagers, used to super-long-distance travel, find it so hard to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
The principle is basically the same in ancient alien and 'Atlantis' thinking, and actually many of the claims are the same, which means that the same chronological problems are found in both of these collections of pseudoscientific claims. In this post, I'm going to discuss one major problem in ancient alien chronology. It isn't exactly representative, but it's pretty silly. And more importantly, the truth of the thing is incredibly interesting.
Ancient alien theorists lie fairly frequently about the ages of the sites they're discussing - they know that the evidence contradicts almost all of their pseudoscientific beliefs, and dishonestly claim otherwise. The classic example of this is at Pumapunku, a site in Bolivia, which has been claimed to be 12,000 years old. Pumapunku is a pre-Columbian palace in Bolivia associated with the Tiwanaku civilization, a precursor to the Inka empire in the Bolivian Andes. There are lots of artistic and architectural continuities between the Inka empire and Tiwanaku, and the people of the Inka empire appear to have believed that the builders of Tiwanaku were giants, and not ordinary people (despite the fact that the Inka empire was responsible for even bigger and grander sites).** Pumapunku is in an enigmatic place, up in the highlands. It was, apparently, an incredibly gorgeous and otherworldly palace, decorated with tapestries and gold, and considerable technical skill was used in its construction, in particular the use of molten metal staples to stick the gigantic blocks of stone together.
Ancient Aliens unequivocally states that the site is 12,000 years old. That would make the Tiwanaku/Pumapunku complex not only the oldest city in the world by a considerable margin, and the oldest megalithic architecture to boot, it would also mean that the site was built around the same time as the first arrival of humans in South America. That makes it, I think, an extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
So what evidence is there for the claim that Pumapunku is 12,000 years old? It consists entirely of a flawed book from the 1940s based on archaeo-astronomy. Archaeo-astronomy is the study of how people in the ancient past, or prior to the development of modern astronomy, related to celestial objects. There are lots of good archaeo-astronomical studies, and there is nothing wrong with archaeo-astronomy in principle. Gary Urton, a brilliant (and incredibly hard-working) anthropologist now at Harvard, has applied ethnographic research on how modern Quechua and Aymara speakers in the Andes think about the stars to the study of Inka civilization, and in particular to the lay-out of streets in Cuzco, the pre-Hispanic capital of the Inka empire.*** Other studies have highlighted the role of the pleiades cluster in regulating the harvest cycle in much of the Americas (and elsewhere). So this kind of archaeo- or ethno-astronomy can be very useful stuff. After all, people in almost all societies align some aspect of their lives with the stars, even if it's only something as simple as building a south-facing house.
These studies all rely on ethnographic data, either collected by ethnographers today, or by missionaries, travellers, and amateur ethnographers in the past. That's the key in ethnoastronomical work: finding out what the people themselves thought, or were likely to have thought. What matters is what the group of people intended, not whether the things they created happen to align with a star or constellation. Urton found out that Cuzco was supposed to align with the coalsack nebula through his ethnographic work. He used old Spanish documents, maps of Cuzco's streets, and the words of his modern-day informants to piece together the proposed astronomical alignments of the Inka capital. This is important, because it would probably be possible to find some alignment with some astronomical formation using any building in the world. Go back far enough in time, and you'll probably be able to find an alignment between a major astronomical object and your house - but that doesn't mean that the builders of your house intended to align your house with it, or that the house dates to the time of the alignment.
Failure to understand this is what led to the naive acceptance of the 12,000 BP (before present) date for Pumapunku. The basis of the claim is found in the writings of Arthur Posnansky, a Viennese adventurer who died in 1946. Posnansky visited Tiwanaku and Pumapunku, and came to believe that Tiwanaku was the source of all civilization in the Americas, from the Maya to the Inka and beyond (a version of hyperdiffusionism, the idea that civilization began in one place and spread from there, rather than being a more complex process). He thought that he had found an alignment between two stone pillars at the Pumapunku palace site and the rising and setting of the sun when viewed from a certain spot in the centre of the plaza - except that the sun doesn't rise and set at the pillars today (not even all that close, really). Instead of abandoning the theory of the alignment, Posnansky chose to believe that the pillars aligned with the rising and setting sun 12,000 years ago, and this proved the age of the site.
The pillars probably do exhibit this alignment, but there is no reason to believe either that they are that old or that they were intended to be aligned in that way. There's the possibility that the point from which the sun is being viewed is wrong; maybe a wooden structure, since disappeared, was once the observation point, or perhaps an earthquake shifted the position of the pillars. Possibly the idea of aligning the palace with the sun was not considered by the Aymara who built it. We really have no evidence to go on regarding this. Whatever was actually the case, Posnansky's date contradicts every other piece of evidence from the site, from radiocarbon dating to seriation, which place the site in the middle of the first millennium CE. That makes it pre-Inka, but relatively late on in the development of complex society in highland South America - which began much earlier at both coastal and highland sites, some of which are nearly 5,000 years old (although more like the large villages of eneolithic eastern Europe than the cities of Mesopotamia). All of the evidence points towards the 12,000 year old solar alignment being a fluke, a coincidence, and not the result of a decision by aliens or Atlantean Tiwanaku people.
Pseudoscientists, conspiracy theorists, ancient alien promoters - they all say that people questioning and debunking their claims have been brainwashed by the establishment, and that we are merely following academic dogma. They say that we are dogmatic, and not "open-minded" to the possibility that we are wrong. This is completely incorrect, and is based on a poor understanding of the epistemological basis of science. Beliefs in science are justified on the basis of a crossword-like system****; we don't accept that any statement we make is unequivocally and absolutely true, but as provisionally true if it makes sense in the context of the other evidence. New evidence changes how we look at the old evidence, and we might have to change our old entries in the crossword on finding out that new answers fit better with the newer evidence. The more evidence we have backing the belief - the more it fits with everything else - the more justified the belief is. It could all turn out to be wrong, but the likelihood of that being so in many cases seems incredibly low, especially with something like the chemical composition of water or the fact that English is the majority language of the United Kingdom. It could be that we got the earlier evidence wrong; we filled in parts of the crossword wrong, and that's why we can't find the right word to put in the spaces we've got. Sometimes, more than one word will fit in the same space, so we look for other evidence that could help us choose the correct one.
Instead of relying on a dogmatic belief in a secure foundation for all knowledge - otherwise known as foundationalism - we rely on working out how the existing evidence fits together to produce a coherent picture that could potentially be corrected and updated by new discoveries and new assessments of the evidence. When we come across a piece of evidence that doesn't fit, like Posnansky's claim, we don't dismiss it as wrong on the basis of an academic dogma. Instead, we investigate it and see how it fits with all of the other evidence.
Posnansky's claim was made on the basis of a spurious alignment that was not backed up by any ethnographic or historical evidence (in fact, if I remember correctly, he didn't even believe the ancestors of the Aymara-speaking people present in Bolivia in modern times had built the site, so he would have believed ethnographic studies of them to be useless with regard to resolving questions about Pumapunku). Posnansky believed that the alignment was intended by the Tiwanakuans solely on the basis of the fact that the pillars and the sun align at 12,000 BP - but similar alignments could be found between any objects if you give yourself thousands of years in which to find them, and do not constitute evidence enough to justify rewriting the entire crossword (which is what such a claim would amount to). If ethnographic evidence had somehow pointed in the 12,000 BP direction, and if radiocarbon dating had corroborated the Posnansky date, then perhaps it would be worth looking further into.
Science isn't dogmatic, and opposition to wild theories that contradict all other evidence is not the same as being close-minded. If Tiwanaku had proven to be 12,000 years old, and if it had been created by aliens or Atlanteans, that would be an amazing and incredible thing - something worth knowing and telling people about. But it turns out that the site (still amazing, and still a technological marvel for its time) is simply not that old, and was built instead by native workers with the genius of thousands of years of cultural mixing and development behind them.
* Lemuria was once considered scientifically respectable, unlike Atlantis and Mu; the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of the theory of evolution, briefly endorsed it before concluding that it wasn't a parsimonious explanation for the presence of lemurs in southeast Asia and east Africa (hence the name).
** You can read more about Tiwanaku/Inka continuities in Gary Urton's cheap, reliable book, Inca Myths. The Tiwanaku people appear to have spoken Aymara, a language from a completely different family to Quechua, the language of the Inka.
*** Urton's book on Inka khipu is what led me to read his studies of Cuzco's celestial relationships. I recommend his khipu book, Signs of the Inka Khipu. His ethnoastronomical articles are either on JSTOR, behind a paywall, or in pricey article collections.
**** Susan Haack coined the term foundherentism for this view of the justification of belief, and I believe she also came up with the crossword analogy. I have mentioned her before, and I really recommend her book, Evidence and Inquiry, in which foundherentism is spelled out (although scientists had unwittingly been using it for years). Falsification is not the only, or the best, epistemological position out there, and Haack's work is more up-to-date and useful than Popper's.
Epilogue: there is another claim made about Pumapunku, and that is that the rock at the site is diorite, an incredibly hard stone that the Tiwanaku people did not have the tools to work. In fact, most of the stone is sandstone, although some of it is harder rock, and actually the Tiwanaku civilization had access to metal tools - mostly copper, some bronze. This is a simple empirical claim, and it is evidently incorrect. It is another example of ancient alien enthusiasts lying about the facts to prop up their crazy theorising.
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But why are there also reliefs located at the site of animals that would've existed during the era Posnansky believes is that of Puma Punku - the reliefs of the condors, toxodons, elephants, etc.ReplyDelete
I'm intrigued by the site and think there's isn't enough considerate research going on - I do believe there should be something to address all the Ancients and Aliens tv show hoopla.Replies
All that means is that you've got to be careful when interpreting reliefs, I think. Posnansky saw what he wanted to see.Delete
In fact, the iconography of the Tiwanaku civilisation is almost enough on its own to date the site: the Staff God image on the famous Gateway of the Sun is an icon that has an ancestry in the cordillera going back to the Chavin civilization (began c.800 BCE, influence spread to the south including the Bolivian altiplano c.400 BCE). The staff-carrying figures with human heads and wings are also found over a wide area before the rise of Tiwanaku.
The Tiwanaku sites were occupied from the late first millennium BCE - c.300 BCE - and are clearly related to other sites in the area, like Pukara on the north of Titicaca (if I remember correctly), which flourished around the time of late Chavin influence. Tiwanaku came after these developments. All Tiwanaku artifacts have been discovered in later strata than these earlier developments, indicating that, well, Tiwanaku came later!
These strata and the radiocarbon dates place the rise of the Tiwanaku civilisation in the late first millennium CE. 'Classic' Tiwanaku objects begin around 350 CE, but the real rise of the urban centre and its style appears around 500 CE or so, contemporary with another militaristic/religious movement to the north in central Peru, that of Wari.
In fact, there was contact, and maybe conflict, between Wari and Tiwanaku, especially in the Moquegua valley (modern Peru). Tiwanaku also likely influenced the Aguada culture, and others, in northern Chile and northwest Argentina. It's not out-of-place or strange in an Andean context. I guess it's just that the Tiwanaku remains seem enigmatic if you don't look into them enough.
All of Tiwanaku's iconography has an earlier precedent and none of it shows prehistoric mammals. Posnansky wasn't familiar with good Andean archaeology - with good reason, as much of it was unknown in his time - and so he interpreted the reliefs on the basis of his belief in the extreme age of the site.
By the way, ancient alien theorists often like to claim that the way the rocks at Pumapunku are scattered about is evidence of alien contact. They say that only aliens could disrupt these giant rocks so easily. Actually, there are two reasons for the strange distribution.
One is that much of the site was made of adobe which has since disappeared, leaving only traces on the rocks. Adobe is basically just mud and grass, and it weathers quickly, meaning that if you construct a building out of (comparatively) durable sandstone and adobe and then wait a few hundred years without replacing the adobe, the structure can collapse.
The second reason for the distribution is that the structures were probably pulled down deliberately in the wake of the collapse of the Tiwanaku cult, possibly for climatic reasons. There are known to have been attempts to right the structures - the marks of wooden poles used to push the rocks into place have been found at several structures. The Gateway of the Sun, for instance, is not where it once was. It had likely been moved several times.
The chronology of Tiwanaku is well-known and understood, and none of the ancient alien claims stand up. I think it is best to be sceptical of iconographic claims, especially if they are claims about what reliefs and images are showing. In many cases, when all we have to go on is archaeological evidence, we have no firm ideas about what the images are supposed to portray. What we can do is to date them and see how they fit into the chronology we have of the region. Tiwanaku doesn't have any aberrant reliefs, and it isn't an anachronistic civilisation.
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Non-qualified Deferred Compensation Plans of Tax-exempt and Governmental EntitiesJuly 20, 2017
Non-qualified deferred compensation plans maintained by tax-exempt or state or local governmental entities, other than certain "eligible" deferred compensation plans, are subject to special, and often surprising, federal income tax rules under Internal Revenue Code ("Code") section 457(f). These plans, commonly known as "ineligible 457(f) plans," or just "457(f) plans," offer tax-exempt and governmental employers the ability to compensate their senior officers and high level management employees on a basis that is generally unrestricted in terms of who is covered by such plans and the amount of compensation provided.
Compensation deferred under a 457(f) plan is includible in the plan participant's taxable income on the later of the date when the participant obtains a legally binding right to the compensation or the date the right to receive the compensation is no longer subject to a "substantial risk of forfeiture." Thus, depending on the terms of the 457(f) plan or arrangement, amounts may be taxable to the participant in a taxable year prior to the taxable year in which the amount is paid.
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Deferred Compensation – Special Fica Tax RulesApril 18, 2017
FICA taxes (technically consisting of "social security taxes" and "regular and additional Medicare taxes") apply to wages paid by an employer to its employees with respect to their employment with the employer. The definition of "wages" for this purpose is quite broad and includes, with limited exceptions, all remuneration for services. FICA taxes imposed on an employee's wages are shared by the employee and employer. The employee's portion of FICA taxes is withheld from the employee's wages.
General Timing/Special Timing FICA Tax Rules
In general, wages are subject to FICA taxes when the wages are actually or constructively paid (known as the "general timing rule"). However, compensation in the nature of "nonqualified deferred compensation" ("NQDC") is subject to a different FICA tax timing rule. NQDC is subject to FICA tax and must be "taken into account" for FICA tax purposes as of the later of (i) when the services are performed, or (ii) when there is no substantial risk of forfeiture of the rights to such NQDC (i.e., when the amount "vests"). This rule, which accelerates the FICA tax applicability date, is known as the "special timing rule." Once an amount of NQDC is taken into account under the special timing rule, neither such amount nor any future earnings attributable to that amount is later treated as wages subject to FICA tax. This avoidance of the imposition of FICA tax at the later time of payment, where the wage amount was previously taken into account at an earlier date pursuant to the special timing rule, is known as the "nonduplication rule." Due to the impact of the nonduplication rule, the application of the special timing rule generally results in a smallar amount of FICA tax payable than would be the case if FICA tax was paid pursuant to the general timing rule.
Recent FICA Tax Ruling
In a recent IRS Chief Counsel Memorandum (AM2017-001, 12/19/2016) (the "GCM"), the IRS addressed the impact of failing to initially pay FICA tax on NQDC pursuant to the special timing rule. If an employer fails to initially report and pay its FICA tax liability with respect to NQDC in accordance with the special timing rule, but amends its employment tax returns and pays any additional FICA taxes attributable to such compensation within the applicable statute of limitations, then the favorable nonduplication rule applies. However, if such amendment and adjustment of FICA taxes due is not made before the statute of limitations period closes, the FICA tax will apply pursuant to the general timing rule.
In this GCM, the IRS was asked if it would enter into a binding closing agreement with an employer to allow the employer to pay FICA tax in a taxable year prior to the year of payment of NQDC, even though the statute of limitations had run with respect to the taxable year for which the special timing rule would have otherwise applied to such NQDC. Such closing agreement would enable the employer (and affected employees) to benefit, to some extent, from the application of the nonduplication rule in calculating the FICA tax due. The IRS concluded that, as a matter of tax policy, a closing agreement in such instance would not be appropriate in determining the amount of FICA tax owed where the statute of limitations period had closed, and accordingly, the general timing rule for determining FICA tax due on the NQDC would apply.
The above analysis and IRS ruling in the GCM highlight the important need for employers to be diligent and compliant with the special timing rule as applied to the reporting and payment of FICA taxes on NQDC.
Code Section 403(b) Tax-Deferred Annuity Plans - UpdateApril 3, 2017
Internal Revenue Code ("Code") section 403(b) tax-deferred annuity plans ("403(b) plans") are retirement plans for employees of public schools and universities, certain tax-exempt charitable organizations, and churches. 403(b) plans operate in a manner similar, but not identical, to Code section 401(k) plans. Thus, contributions to a 403(b) plan may be made via employee salary deferrals (on a pre-tax or after-tax (including Roth contributions) basis) and employer matching and nonelective contributions. Such contributions, other than after-tax or Roth employee contributions, are not taxable to the plan participant until distributed to the participant at a later date, usually after the participant terminates employment.
403(b) Contribution Limits
The opportunity to make elective salary deferral contributions under a 403(b) plan must be made available generally to all employees eligible to participate in the plan (known as the "universal availability rule"). Favorably, 403(b) plans are not subject, unlike 401(k) plans, to special nondiscrimination testing requirements applicable to elective pre-tax salary deferral contributions. Employer matching contributions and employee after-tax contributions, if such contributions are permitted by the plan, are subject to nondiscrimination testing rules similar to the rules that apply under 401(k) plans. Church-sponsored 403(b) plans are generally exempt from nondiscrimination requirements.
Salary deferral contributions to a 403(b) plan are subject to an annual dollar limit ($18,000 (plus $6,000 in "catch-up" contributions for participants over age 50) for 2017). It is important to note that such dollar limit applies on an individual basis to the aggregate salary deferral contributions made by an employee under all 403(b) plans and 401(k) plans for a calendar year (e.g., where an individual was covered by and contributed to two or more employer 403(b) and/or 401(k) plans for a given calendar year). Thus, such salary deferral dollar limit does not apply on a plan by plan basis. Employer nonelective contributions are subject to the general limit on annual contribution allocations (known as the Code sec. 415 "annual addition" limit). Further, 403(b) plans are funded through annuity contracts issued by an insurance company or a custodial account invested exclusively in mutual funds.
403(b) Plan Documentation
Since 2009, 403(b) plans are required to maintain a written plan document that reflects all applicable legal requirements. 403(b) plan documents, either in the form of a "preapproved plan" document (i.e., prototype or volume submitter plan) or an "individually designed plan," must be updated periodically to reflect changes in applicable law governing 403(b) plans.
403(b) Plans – Remedial Amendment Period
In accordance with recent IRS guidance (IRS Revenue Procedure 2017-18), sponsors of 403(b) plans, for which a written plan document was adopted by December 31, 2009 or as of its later effective date, will be permitted to adopt plan amendments to correct or update plan terms on a retroactive basis effective as of the later of January 1, 2010 or the plan's effective date, provided the corrective or updated plan, terms are adopted by the plan sponsor by means of (i) adopting, on or before March 31, 2020, a compliant preapproved 403(b) plan document that has a favorable opinion or advisory letter issued in 2017, or (ii) amending an individually designed 403(b) plan to reflect such corrective or updated plan terms by March 31, 2020. If the time deadline for adopting such retroactive 403(b) plan amendments is not met, the plan will need to be corrected pursuant to the IRS's voluntary plan correction program (known as the "Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System"), which program generally requires a formal plan filing with the IRS and payment of a compliance fee. It is important to note that currently only prototype and volume submitter 403(b) plans can be submitted to, and approved by, the IRS for compliance in the form of documentation with applicable 403(b) rules. Individually designed 403(b) plans may not be submitted for approval by the IRS.
While there is ample time to retroactively correct noncompliant provisions under a 403(b) plan, it is not too early to review your 403(b) plan document to determine if it reflects all required plan terms and to thereafter periodically review the plan to ensure any future 403(b) plan document changes are adequately and timely adopted. Lastly, it must be remembered that the extended remedial amendment period described above for making 403(b) plan document changes does not extend the otherwise applicable effective date for complying with any such 403(b) plan provisions in operation.
ESOPs Offer Significant Benefits For Business OwnersMarch 3, 2017
Let's say you are an owner of a successful privately-held company and you would like to cash out the substantial value reflected in your business. In addition, you would like to find an appropriate buyer for your company, a person that will carry on the business legacy you built and will continue to treat your employees in a manner similar to the way you treat them. A buyer in the form of an "employee stock ownership plan" ("ESOP") may be the answer.
What Is An ESOP?
An ESOP is a tax-qualified retirement plan that is designed to be primarily invested in the company's stock. Thus, since ESOPs must hold "company stock," ESOPs must be maintained by corporations for federal income tax purposes (e.g., regular C corporations or Subchapter S corporations). LLCs and partnerships are not eligible to maintain ESOPs.
Favorable Tax and ERISA Benefits
As a tax-qualified retirement, company contributions to the ESOP, within IRS-prescribed limits, are tax deductible by the company. Moreover, ESOPs are uniquely allowed to borrow money from the company or other third parties to enable the ESOP to fund the purchase of company stock. Thus, an ESOP's purchase of stock from a company owner can effectively be financed with fully tax deductible dollars, even the amounts applied by the ESOP to repay the principal on the loan used by the ESOP to purchase the owner's shares.
Special ESOP Gain Deferral Rules
Special provisions in the Internal Revenue Code permit an owner (or owners) selling stock in a privately-held domestic C corporation to an ESOP to defer the recognition of the gain on the sale if certain tax law requirements are met. Such requirements include (i) the ESOP must own at least 30% of the company's stock immediately after the sale, and (ii) the selling shareholder timely reinvests the ESOP sale proceeds in stocks and/or bonds of U.S. operating corporations. Thus, a company owner can liquidate his or her ownership interest in the company and pay no federal income tax upon a sale of stock to an ESOP, and at the same time favorably diversify his or her wealth among a portfolio of U.S. corporate stocks and bonds. In addition, the sale of stock to the ESOP effectively sells such portion of the company to the company's employees through their participation in the ESOP, thus allowing the employees to obtain a vested equity stake in the future appreciation in the value of their company. Such "skin in the game" for employees can provide a powerful basis for increasing employee commitment and productivity for the betterment of the company and its owners.
As the above discussion indicates, the use of an ESOP to facilitate the sale of a privately-held company owner's stock may prove to be a "win-win" result for the company owner, the company, and its employees.
Brach Eichler Benefits ReviewJanuary 26, 2017
Qualified retirement plans, such as Internal Revenue Code sections 401(k) and 403(b) plans, pension and profit sharing plans, individual retirement accounts (IRAs), and health flexible spending accounts (Health FSAs) are subject to various dollar limits on the amount of contributions that can be made or benefits that may accrue under such arrangements. Most of these dollar limits are adjusted annually by the IRS for changes in the "cost of living."
For 2017, some of the key dollar limits affecting the above plans, IRAs and Health FSAs are as follows:
While the above benefit and contribution limits should be, as applicable, reflected in the plan documents for such plans and accounts, and in the operation of such arrangements, it is important to remember that the elective deferral and, as applicable, related catch-up contribution limits apply on an individual basis. Thus, if you change jobs during calendar year 2017 and participate in two or more employer-provided 401(k) and/or 403(b) plans, you are entitled to a maximum aggregate elective deferral and catch-up contribution limit under all such plans for 2017 of $18,000 in elective deferrals and $6,000 in catch-up contributions (i.e., one set of elective deferral and catch-up contribution limits apply per individual per calendar year).
Related Practice: Labor and Employment
New Fiduciary Investment Advice RuleMay 17, 2016
On April 6, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") issued a final regulation (the "New Fiduciary Rule") that redefines and significantly broadens the scope for determining who is treated as a fiduciary as a result of the provision of "investment advice" to plans covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), and their plan fiduciaries, participants and beneficiaries, and individual retirement accounts ("IRAs"), and IRA owners. The New Fiduciary Rule also includes two new prohibited transaction class exemptions and modifications to other current prohibited transaction class exemptions to reflect this new expanded definition of fiduciary investment advice. This article will focus on the new fiduciary investment advice regulatory rule. A future article will address the new and revised prohibited transaction class exemptions.
Related Practice: Labor and Employment
Employee Benefits - Topics of InterestJanuary 4, 2016
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Arrangements
While many may know about qualified retirement plans, such as a 401(k) plan, and the rules governing such plans, it is likely that most people are not aware of the important tax rules that govern "nonqualified deferred compensation" ("NQDC").
Broad Scope of NQDC
The first, and perhaps most important, thing to note about NQDC is its broad scope. NQDC covers generally any promise of compensation made in one taxable year for a payment of such compensation in a later taxable year. Thus, NQDC could include compensation in the form of bonuses, elective salary deferral (outside the context of a 401(k) plan), separation or severance pay, nonelective supplemental deferred compensation, stock rights (e.g., stock options; stock appreciation rights), taxable expense reimbursements, equity-based deferred compensation (e.g., restricted stock units), and many other forms of deferred compensation that may not be labeled as "deferred compensation."
Code Section 409A
Under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code, and the IRS tax regulations and other guidance issued thereunder ("Section 409A" or "409A"), rules are prescribed that must be met to avoid violations that can result in the imposition of significant federal tax penalties. The essence of Section 409A is a roadmap of rules that are designed to limit the discretion of employers and employees to change the timing and form of payment of NQDC once the legally binding promise to pay such compensation is made. It is important to note that Section 409A also covers NQDC arrangements between independent contractors (e.g., consultants) and their "service recipients."
Compliance With 409A
In practice, Section 409A requires that NQDC either (A) satisfy an exception from 409A (e.g., special exceptions from 409A apply to (i) compensation paid within a short period after the employee (or independent contractor) "vests" in the compensation, and (ii) separation pay that is payable only upon an involuntary separation from service, is limited in amount, and is paid within a prescribed time period, or (B) complies with the substantive rules of 409A (which rules require that the compensation be paid only upon certain permitted payment trigger events and that the time and form of payment of such compensation be set forth when the deferred compensation promise is made, subject to limited opportunities thereafter to change the time or form of payment).
409A Noncompliance Penalties
A failure to comply with Section 409A will often result in income inclusion for the employee (or independent contractor) in a taxable year prior to the year the amount is otherwise scheduled to be paid, and the imposition on the employee (or independent contractor) of an additional income tax penalty equal to 20% of the amount included in income, as well as, in some cases, an interest tax penalty equal to the product of the applicable interest rate on underpayments of federal income tax plus one percentage point and the additional income tax that would have been due had the deferred compensation been included in income, as applicable, in an earlier tax year when first vested. Employers (or "service recipients" with respect to independent contractors) may be subject to tax penalties for violations of 409A due to the failure to timely report and, as applicable, withhold and remit taxes with respect to amounts included in income.
Thus, the tax stakes are high for employees (and independent contractors) who are covered by NQDC plans or arrangements that fail to comply with Section 409A. Moreover, given the broad scope of what constitutes NQDC and the need to comply with Section 409A in both form of documentation and in operation, it is strongly recommended that employees (and independent contractors), and employers (and service recipients), take all steps necessary to ensure that their NQDC plans and arrangements comply with, or are otherwise exempt from, the requirements of Section 409A.


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Chart Multiple Ranges:
In charts, you are now able to graph multiple ranges. Take this chart depicting time vs distanced traveled.
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Thomas Vanek (Detroit, $5300): The Wings' one-year gamble has paid off in spades thus far as Vanek already leads the team in points with three goals and four helpers, with two of those goals on the power play, where he plays with the first unit. I'm not expecting Vanek to repeat his 40-goal seasons in Buffalo, but I do like tonight's matchup against a young Carolina team finding its identity. The Wings are averaging 3.3 goals per game, and with a power play hitting at 24.0%, I'm expecting solid production from our Austrian friend in a game that could be a shootout.
Wayne Simmonds (Philadelphia, $6400): With a whopping 28.6% shooting percentage in this early season, Simmonds has potted four goals on 14 shots, with three of those on the Flyers power play. Philly is averaging 3.8 goals per game and is catching the Sabres at the end of a four-game road trip during which Buffalo has given up three goals per game. Simmonds is second on the Flyers in ice time amongst the forwards with 20:30 per game, and I'm betting he scores in this contest. This game has the makings of a shootout, with the Flyers among the worst on the penalty kill and one of the highest scoring teams so far this season.
Cory Schneider (New Jersey, $7600): With the Devils only allowing nine goals over five games, it seems to be a lock for a win with Schneider, but the Devils have only scored eight goals themselves. In four of those five games, the score was 2-1, with Jersey going 2-2, wihile two of those contests hit overtime. I really like the team to hit the win column versus a young Arizona squad travelling across the country, especially a team that has given up 18 goals already in five games. Arizona has a putrid power play at 11.1% and the same failures on the penalty kill at only 80%. Draft Schneider and know that the Devils tight defense will keep the young Coyotes at bay tonight with their 94.1% penalty kill and a tight five on five that has only allowed seven goals thus far.
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Strange Lines?
I have limited amounts of time and knowledge of statistical models, so I am going to trust Jeff that his model is complete and accurate within reason (call me lazy, I prefer efficient with a desire to remain gainfully employed). Sagarin includes a predictor rating, which rates the teams based on all data. Since it is a slow week at work, I took the time to combine the betting lines with the predictor.
The expectation is that the predictor ratings, adjusted for the home field advantage of 3.5 pts, plus or minus the spread should equal zero. I am sure there is a noise factor in there (a threshold for statistical significance) but that is beyond me. I selected the games with the highest absolute difference from zero.
Idaho (predictor = 70.69) at Nevada (net predictor of 69.78) -15, difference = 16.41pts
WSU (59.20) at Cal (net 82.76) -35, difference = 11.44
N Illinois (75.46) - 11at Miami not that Miami (net (55.10). diff = 9.36
Maryland (59.05) at Duke (net 72.28) -4.5. diff = 8.73
Louisville (63.45) at Cinci (net 88.73) -17. diff = 8.28
Vandy (59.55) at S Car (net 80.95) -13.5. diff = 7.90
Games of local interest:
PSU (82.77) -4.5 at UM (net 81.65) diff = 3.38 (significant?)
Iowa (86.00) at MSU (net 81.10) pick 'em. difference of 4.90
There are 17 games with an absolute difference above 5.00. I assume this will get tighter as the games are played.
- I do not have any knowledge of the Sagarin model or its corrections, adjustments etc.
- Home field advantage is a plug number, each team should have its own number.
- I pulled the lines from Yahoo sports, which may or may not be the latest.
- As a CPA, I can add and subtract, all other functions are considered immaterial or buried in a footnote in small print.
- This is for entertainment purposes only and all numbers should be verified.
Results this week:
Tulsa (72.55) -7 at UTEP (net 61.67).The play? Tulsa. The result? Loss.
FSU (78.49) at UNC (net 74.43) -2.5. The play? FSU. The result? Win.
Edit: I have not researched any external factors such as injuries or swine flu.
Go Blue!
Big 10 Picks: Penn State Week Edition
(Diarist Note: I should have some takes, opinions and picks on the rest of Saturday's action on the Just Cover Blog by tomorrow morning. We're leaving for Ann Arbor before 10:00 tomorrow, so thats my deadline. Also: Big time props to Mazie4Blue, the genius behind the site's redesign.)
Well, it's here. Penn State comes to town tomorrow. We're about 24 hours out from kickoff. It's time for the money to meet the mouth.
I have been chirping for two weeks now that Michigan takes this game. Let me formally lay out my case.
1.) This just in, but Michigan is a good team. I know we want to wail on defensive breakdowns, question our merits after those road losses, gripe that a walk on plays a lot of minutes on D and moan that since freshmen aren't instant impact players that they're probably busts. But, get over it people. September 2007 isnt walking through that door. Nor is 2008. This club is better team than those. You'll see tomorrow.
2.) Michigan dominated PSU for a half last year. Michigan is leaps and bounds better this season, Penn State is not as good as last year. The fatal flaw for Michigan in this game last year, and in a lot of their season in 2008, was an inability to turn to second, third and fourth wrinkles once the original gameplan wore out. No such issues this season. Michigan will put up 17 first half points again, but instead of getting shutout, will match that in the second half.
3.) I love the matchup of Michigan's defensive line versus Penn State's offensive line. While everyone else touted the PSU Oline this summer, I kept writing that no team in the league lost as much talent on the line from last year as Penn State did. As it turns out, the line has been 'meh' at best. They could not block Iowa a few weeks ago. Michigan is just a shade behind them as far as DLine quality. Brandon Graham will take over the game. Van Bergen's steady rise will continue. Michigan will stone the running game.
4.) Dayrl Clark is overrated. And perhaps not even that good. We'll see. He is in his second year behind center and he has yet to complete a big pass in a big spot to lead his team to a win. He compiles stats against mediocrity, but often struggles in the bigger games. Fact is, this team misses and has yet to replace the presence of do-everything Derek Williams. He has been the hardest player in the league to replace (with Beanie Wells in columbus a close second). He made more big throws last year than Clark in the money games. Big drives on the biggest stages last year were spearheaded by Williams who caught the ball, ran it out of wildcats and reverses and threw it out of direct snap formations. The defenses no longer have to guess what he is doing. The Lions have not been as explosive as they were last year as a result. They dont look like a team you need to plant at least 30 on to win, like they did at times last year. Remember how mediocre PSU became compared to the top of the league after Michael Robinson departed after the 2005 season? Williams had as much an impact on last year's Rose Bowl drive, even if he was not statistically as potent as Robinson, and I've been expecting a step backwards from PSU all season. The first step back happened last month against Iowa. A second step back happens tomorrow.
5.) Special teams. Big advantage for Michigan. Zolton wins the field position game for Michigan. Stounum can set Michigan up with field position. The Penn State return team (again, there's no Derek Williams back there) can not.
6.) This will be the best offense PSU has faced all year. Their brand new secondary has not been tested like it will in this game. Spread out, with a speed disadvantgae, this will be a bigger chore than thwarting Paulus and Syracuse and Weber and Minnesota. Night and day. The Lions will have their hands full trying to matchup. Michigan had little trouble running the football on PSU last year. Michigan is much better at that this season. The power of Minor and speed of Brown will be the story. The fact is, Penn State has not been forced to really play a full four quarters in most of their games. Tomorrow they will have to. Michigan's offense will put a lot of pressure on this defense. They will score points. The burden is on PSU to keep up. I dont think they can. They scored 21 fourth quarter points to finally shake Illinois, the league's worst team, earlier this month. Otherwise, they have scored just 36 points in their other six second halves. That wont do it against Michigan. Even last week, in their alleged best game of the season, they struggled to finish drives, only found paydirt twice and scored in the single digits during the second half.
Ok, I've said a lot. It's getting repetitive as I have been beating this drum for two weeks about this game. I didnt drop any analysis in the above screed that I have not laid out in piece meal fashion throughout various threads here the last several days. The Revolution takes a big step tomorrow, comrades.
The Pick: Michigan +5......I wont lie. I feel very confident here. I am getting the same vibe about this game as I did heading into the matchup twelve years ago. We all know how that turned out. Translation: Take the points, but you wont need them.
Illinois at Purdue, noon, BTN. Lines: Purdue -10, O/U 55.5
When was the last time a 2-5 team was a double digit favorite in a Big 10 game? Thanks to the 2009 Illinois Illini, we might be breaking new ground here.
Purdue is on letdown alert, playing at home a week after a monumental upset over Ohio State. I'd worry, except they're playing a team that's probably mostly quit. If you take Illinois here, you must be banking on one of two things: Hoping that this is the week that they will finally look prepared, interested and talented enough to compete in a legit football game. Or, that Purdue is still awash in morning glory apres Ohio State. The latter is a distinct possibility. The former, I will bet against. In fact, its enough for me to make a call here.
The Pick: Purdue -10........there is no reason to stop betting against Illinois. The Boilers are a few plays away from probably reversing their current 2-5 record. The Illini, meanwhile, are a few plays away from at least being in the game at the half in all their games. Yeah, I'll give the head start and take my chances with the suddenly PurDOIN' It Boilermakers.
Indiana at Northwestern, noon, BTN. Lines, NW -5, O/U 53.5
Critical Motor City Bowl positioning is on the line when Northwestern Wildcats host the Indiana Hoosiers this weekend in Evanston. The winner could be in the driver's seat for a post-Christmas weekend of skirting team rules while trying to secretly play blackjack or cross the border for the Windsor clubs. Oh, yeah, and a football game where they will likely be shredded by Central Michigan, one of the best teams in the nation. Arguably.
Despite being the road team, I like the Hoosiers in this one, not only with the points, but straight up. Both teams are 4-3. But, I think Indiana has played better, against pretty comparable slates, than Northwestern to this point in the season. Northwestern will have trouble with the WR combo of Tandon Doss and Damario Belcher. Indiana ought to be able to play their game on offense without much trouble. On the other side of the ball, I think IU's active front seven, spearheaded by Kirlew, Middleton and Repogle will bottle up NW QB Mike Kafka. He's really been a one man show this season. He could carry the Cats to the win all by himself. But the Hoosiers appear to have better athleticsm and skill than the last couple years on defense and I think they will do a solid job of containing Kafka. Contain. Not stop. This could be a high scoring game, so grab some of the Over if thats your thing. It should be pretty close. The last five games between these two have been decided by 4, 6, 7, 3, and 2 points.
Here's a tidbit: In games with IU and northwestern this year, the underdog has gone 9-3 ATS, including 5-1 in the Big 10. I'd wager that oddsmkaers, and the betting public, still have not figured these teams and take my chances with the points. Frankly, I would not lay five points with either of these teams in a conference game. I'll take the points, please.
The Pick: Indiana +5.......this may sound simple, but through seven games the Hoosiers have been making more plays than Northwestern. That continues this weekend and the Hoosiers get the win. But, I am taking the 5 points anyway. Maybe it comes from seeing them play in person in that great game last month in Ann Arbor, but that team we did see should not have a problem winning at Northwestern.
Minnesota at Ohio State, noon, ESPN. Lines, OSU -16.5, O/U 42.5
After seeing Minnesota play Penn State last week, do we really think they can score any points against an OSU defense fired up to punish somebody after last week's debacle? The Gophers are a one trick pony. If Decker to Weber isn't rolling, they really have no answers. That's what happens when you rotate offensive coordinators every year during your tenure and you cant decide on offensive philosophy. But, hey, you did cajole Sentreal Henderson to at least visit your campus on an official recruiting visit. Just dont forget to buy ESPN Gameplan so you can watch him play at USC the next four years.
Of course, in the other corner is the equally disturbing offense from Ohio State. Talk about lacking an identity. The team has not been to pass the ball in two seasons. And boy do they miss the threat of Beanie Wells, one the league's best home run runners in the last 20 years. I've heard a few stories or two this week about a quarterback that likes to turn the ball over and looks lost at times trying to lead this offense. Can anyone confirm those stories? They have not allowed newspaper delivery or live radio here in Ohio since last Saturday night. In fact, I am writing this under candlelit with Shoelaces the Puppy Rot running on a treadmill chasing a stick giving the power generator enough juice to get the computer fired up. We havent had much Internet access this week either.
The Pick:Ohio State -16.5......When push comes to shove, I dont really want to lay 16.5 points with Ohio State. But, after that ridiculous effort and offensive strategy last weekend, I dont want to take 16.5 points with the Gophers either. The Buckeyes have struggled this year. But, they're an angry bunch. And the Gophers just look bad all of a sudden. They are walking into a hornet's nest in this one. The angry Buckeyes will pummel their offense. Pryor's bounce back game wont be half bad. I am seeing 31-10.
Iowa at Michigan State, 7:00, BTN. Lines, MSU -1.5, O/U 42
This begins and ends with something I said in yesterday's podcast. Iowa makes other QBs look awful and, as a result, they're able to keep points off the board, even if it doesnt look pretty in the box score. In fact, its not meant to be pretty. It's meant to win. And destroy QBs physically and mentally. In three weeks when they invade Columbus, take the Under in every prop stat for Buckeye quarterbacks. Just sayin'
Of course, you might want to do that with Kirk Cousins tomorrow as well. Check out some of these numbers. They're holding foes to a less than 50 percent completion rate. They've swiped 14 picks and allowed just five touchdowns. Completions that do get made, generally go nowhere as the Hawkeyes allow just 5.43 yards per pass attempt. The carnage include harassing Daryl Clark into his worst day, knocking around a potent Arizona to the point where the Cats tried three different signal callers and, sadly for us, swiping Tate Forcier's cnady.
There is no reason to think MSU can buck those numbers. The Spartans enter this game a bit one-dimensional. A year after Javon Ringer leaves, the Sparties are dangerously close to the bottom third of the country in running the football. Kirk Cousins has elevated the QB production, but Iowa will force them to pass even more tomorrow and that plays right into the Black and Gold's plan. This will be far and away the toughest defense Cousins has had to face in his 7-start career. He's going to go down. Hard. He'll be wearing Adam Clayburn's helmet paint before its all said and done.
Also, nobody has scored any points against Iowa in the second halves this season. They've allowed just 21 points in the second half against the five BCS foes they've faced this season. On the road at Penn State and Wisconsin, they shutout the Lions and badgers during the second stanza.
Iowa has the best side of football in the Big 10 with their defensive lineup from top to bottom. They also have the most dominant positional group in the conference with its defensive line, a collection of would-be pass rushing ends, all trained to move back and forth along the line until mismatches are found. This defense can carry the team to a surprise Big 10 title. At the least, it will push Cousins into his worst day of the season en route to another win.
The Pick: Iowa +1.5.........We know how this is going to play out. It will be tight at halftime. Tied, or a slight lead for either team. Iowa will dominate the second half. Nobody has really scored on them all year in the third and fourth quarters. They will slowly, but surely through field goals, sacks, batted passes and a long pass play to either Moeki or Johnson-Koulianis pull away in the final 30 minutes to a 23-13 win.
LeBron's Note To TP
Hey TP,
Lebron here. Got some advice for you, maybe it'll help you get things together. Of course, I wouldn't really know, because man, I have never played as shitty as you did these past few games. That last drive against USC? Wow, which way did you think your team was going? :) I won't even mention Purdue. Purdue, hmm, sounds
like something you step in. And you sure stepped in it.
So here's my advice. Despite what everybody else does ...
- Don't murder people
- Don't steal from me, or from yourself
- Don't kill people
Especially number 2. Steal from me and I will f*** you up.
Who stole from me, Dwade?" "That guy, TP." "That guy? I'm gonna f*** him up."
Definitely: don't have regret about not going to Michigan, where a coach could
have utilized your skills about 1000x better than your current one. Regrets are for losers. Or, deep thinkers. Either way, your should clearly stay away from them.
Regret Poster: Awesome
Don't throw the ball again, ever. Ever! Just run the damn thing. On a passing play,
frustrate your coaches by simply calling an audible to a QB keeper. They'll only complain if you don't score a lot of touchdowns, like you did in high school. Note: you must learn how to audible. Second note: you must learn how to run in college. Third note: when you get in trouble, just dribble out of it. It works for me.
LB: Actually, this time I dribbled into trouble... Green, lovely, trouble.
Speaking of which, don't think about high school. Remember last year, when you said it was all like high school? That was because there was a lot of talent around you. Now, it's on your shoulders. And, unlike high school, you kind of stink at QB. So try to forget all that, and stop sucking.
TP in High School: The Helmet Hides The Ears
Also, don't talk back to Tressel. In fact, don't talk to Tressel. He is OLD, and wears some kind of sweater without arms. Does he have unusually warm arms? I hope so, because he needs to give you a hug. But don't talk to him; he'll probably mumble about
the "I-formation" or some such stone-age bullshit, and where will that get you? After all, there is no "I" in "TEAM". However, there is a "TROLL" in "TeRreLLe pryOr", for what that's worth.
TP And The Gargoyle: Old Pals.
Also, be careful talking near Tressel. For example, here is an innocent conversation you might be having:
- "Does anyone have a knife to spread this butter on my toast?" Or...
- "What is the point spread on that game?" Or maybe...
- "Now that I suck, chicks sure won't spread their legs for me anymore."
Coach: Already Nuts
Also, one final tip: don't worry about the ears. You'll grow out of it, probably. Unfortunately, though, your head isn't getting bigger these days (that only happens when you get too successful). Thus, losing just accentuates your ears even further.
Ugly Game of the Week (Week 8 Edition)
As always, the "Least Good/Best Bad" game of the week, aka the Pam and Ray Show, is Illinois (1-5, 0-4 Big Ten) v Purdue (2-5, 1-2 Big Ten). That game is ESPN2, but Northwestern v Indiana is on BTN? Key matchup: Pam Ward drinking game versus sharp objects. Although credit to Illinois for pulling a fast one and not really benching Juice last week. This week, they will have a redshirt freshman's name to pull out of the hat as well.
Colorado (2-4, 1-1 Big 12) v Kansas State (4-3, 2-1 Big 12). Even though CU pulled out a win against Kansas last week, Kansas lost two fumbles and threw a pick as well. Kansas scored on their last 5 drives, and it only proved that Kansas's defense was worse than CU's offense. Add to that a KState team who has played no one and lost to some of them. After squeaking out wins against powerhouses Massachusetts and Iowa State, they got pounded by Texas Tech. Key matchup: Tyler Hansen versus himself.
As much as I'd like to pick Maryland v Duke for Game 3, I'll go with Washington State v Cal. Washington State's win (singular) is against SMU, by 3, so yeah. Cal has been "offensively challeged" against Oregon and USC, scoring 3 points in each game, until exploding against UCLA for 26 in a loss. In the same way as vinegar and baking soda explodes. Key matchup: Cal versus Evil Cal. Also, Washington State versus QB roulette wheel. They seem to be platooning 3 or possibly 4 QBs. Fortunately, no one seems to be showing this game, and with the spread at 36, that seems like a good idea.
Data-Mining the HenneChart
How Tate Stacks Up Against M QBs of 2005-2008Update 10/22: Lots of changes. Reorganized. New Sheridan charting added. New, better metric proposed. Now fat-free!
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This is a collection of data inspired by Coach Schiano's brilliant new visualization of the Henne/HenneMallett/ThreetSheridammit/UseTheForcier Chart.
First, kudos, thanks, plusses, and a dozen sacrificed bulls go out to Coach Schiano. This is the most excited I've been about some new type of Michigan coverage since I read my first UFR.
I hope he doesn't mind if I go back and try to play around with the same stuff.
I went and made my own Excel spreadsheet (available here) to see if I could visualize some of the things we've been talking about here.
I replicated Coach Schiano's results (tossing out the screen metric).
One thing that stuck out right away, I think, is that the introduction of the "Marginal" metric (first discussed after FOOTBALL ARMAGEDDON in 2006 but not implemented until mid-2008) kind of hurts the QBs functioning under it. Erstwhile "catchables" for Henne/Mallett were discounted for late '08 through '09 QBs. In other words, performances before last year's Penn State game, especially in accuracy, might be kind of overrated.
Also, there were a number of games not charted during this period. These include Delaware State '09 (and high school stats, for much the same reason); Ball State '06 (Comcast was blamed); all bowl games;* and last year's Ohio State game, which was only UFR'ed under a shadow Bolshevik government, and thus cannot be trusted.
* (a UFR for the 2005 Alamo Bowl was provided, but since the entirety of that UFR was, literally, "Screw 2005!", I was unable to get any passing info from it)
Part I: Where We Do It By Downfield Success RatingThe metric we've been using, gleaned from UFRs, is Downfield Success Rating. This divides the Dead-on, Catchable, and Marginal balls against all downfield (read: "Pressure excluced") attempts.
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Sheridan's Minnesota miracle looks even more miraculous now! Note, however, there were only 2 Dead-On throws, and 2 bad reads. Also, just one throwaway, no batted balls, and no pressure. That's the O-line and running game's fault.
In other coaching-related-results here, Henne's 2005 Ohio State game was scrumtrulescent by any metric, except apparently not good enough for DeBord to use the passing game to put the game out of reach. Not that I'm bitter...
Sheridan's putrid, I-Survived-That-Game-Patch-Inducing game against Northwestern is, unsurprisingly, at the top. In fact, it may even trump several of my 7th grade sexual experiences in the category of worst-executed-thing-ever-done-by-man.
But I'm getting off topic. Note that Forcier's Iowa game actually made this hall of shame. So RR's pulling him for that game may be excusable. However, it is still my considered position that even with shoulder/weather/concussion/bad game, had Forcier been given that last drive, he would have pulled himself back to respectability.
Though 2008 dominated the Top 5, if you look at the Top 10 we get Threet v. Miami (NTM), three Malletts (Min, PSU, NW) and Henne's all-things-good-in-the-world-destroying 2007 game against Ohio State. [Much, much more after the jump.]
Campus Tradition: Mudbowl This Saturday @ 11:30
Over 75 years ago the Mudbowl game, as legend has it, started as an impromptu mud football game between SAE and Phi Delt on Homecoming weekend at the corner of South University and Washtenaw. As the years have gone by the game has become a campus tradition that now spans over 75 years.
The game itself is a relic of campus traditions of yore, so many of which have been stifled by the University, the city of Ann Arbor (the firemen used to come open the hydrants and supply hoses for the brothers to fill the bowl, now they have to pay for 100,000 gallons of water to be delivered), or have not had the fortune to be organized regularly.
The game is typically held on Homecoming weekend and traditionally involved SAE and Phi Delt playing until exhaustion in a no rules game of tackle football (until Phi Delt lost it's charter in 1998). The annual charity event today involves SAE and the winner of the fraternity tournament, with two sororities playing their own football game at halftime (up and through the 90s, the sororities played a weird muddy rugby-like game that did not involve a football).
However, this year with an early homecoming date and so many home football weekends, it was impossible to hold the tournament in the midst of fraternity and sorority rush… so, the game is this Saturday, kicking off at 11:30am (in the SAE lawn @ South U. and Washtenaw).
Info from Mvictors notes that the sororities playing will be Kappa Kappa Gamma v. a combination of Alpha Phi+TriDelt (co-team resulting apparently from a panhel punishment). I can only note that this is not the only time that the Mudbowl has been involved in sorority scandal (Chi-O bribed their way into the event in 1993 with pizza/champagne/and a stripper&apparently Theta failed with their bid - a Keg of beer).
The fraternity event will see SAE play the winner of tonight's fraternity final tonight between Phi Psi and Fiji. So, if you are going to be in town for the game this weekend, you can hopefully see several great football games… the Mudbowl is a charity event for Mott's, so if you do come, find one of the people taking donations.
I know that during my years at Michigan, the Mudbowl was my favorite day of the fall semester and I constantly meet people that learn I was an SAE at Michigan and talk to me about their Mudbowl memories...
Phi Alpha to all that attend, and go Blue!


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Discussion in 'Nintendo Wii Gaming' started by vashivihan, Jan 26, 2008.
I never knew they were making a Wii version of Assassin's Creed.
It's funny how all three have SSBB as their number 1.
thats probably the ds version you lookes at. its called altairs chronicals
Theres no doubt we will be busy playing games in 2008.
Games I am most excited for:
Animal Crossing, Disaster Day Of Crisis, Wii Fit, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Mario Kart, Okami and Bully. There are other games I want to play, but the ones listed are what I am really looking forward to.
Yeah, I didn't read all of it.:tard:
Well, hopefully this year of gaming will be better than the last.
i want my mario kart, ssbb, and house of the dead.
oh, and another zelda. but that might just be wishful thinking :scared:
Well, no surprises here. I find it sad that half the titles are obscure titles that the reviewers know little about but sound neat and MAY come out sometime this year. Is there really that little coming out?
The only game that they are really unsure about coming out this year is Animal Crossing. And there is more than just 10 games coming out this year for the Wii clearly, and Nintendo hasn't told us everything that is coming out this year. Plus E3 will give us insight on what we should be seeing next year. Also, its their most anticipated, its a list. Sorry they don't know every single detail about all the games coming out, but uh..I think thats the thing with most games. We don't know all the details of the game until we play it, we just get the gist of it.
They also know little to nothing about the Sonic Chronicles game as well as Disaster (which is strange as it's been in production for like 15 years now or something).
My top games in order
10: Bully
9: Destroy all Humans! Big Willy Unleashed
8: Wii Music
6: Iron Man
5: The Incredible Hulk
4: Star Wars: Force Unleashed
3 1/2: Mortal Kombat (next-Gen)
3: Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins
2 1/2: Mario Kart
2: Disaster: Day of Crisis
1: Super Smash Bros. Brawl (of course)


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