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Here is my long story summed up very simple and basic.
I was previously doing a Musclenow program which I could not complete because of how much volume and constant CNS over stimulation that kept progressing as the cycle went on. ALSO... I am on week 3 of a Havoc cycle in which I have a bit over a week left on until I start pct. I switched from Musclenow to HST about a week ago and began on the 10s which I just finished and got pretty much accurate maxes for my 10's.
Now that you know where I am coming from here are my few questions:
1) I have been training for a while non-stop and really feel the need to SD soon but I am in the middle of my havoc cycle and I don't wanna SD on cycle OR in my pct, in fear of muscle-loss. I would like your opinions on when I should SD. I have 1 week left on havoc and I have 4 more weeks of 5's... so go from there.
2) When I set my hst training up, I really feel the need to have alternate exercises for muscles. For example: one day for Bi's I will do 2 sets of ez bar curls, but on the next day I would like to do preacher curls. What I don't understand is how you would do your maxes for both of the lifts? On the Friday of the second week I would be on my (A) day and would be doing my max's for ez bar curls, which is cool, but what happens to the preacher max's?
I have done alota reading and research before I asked this question so I feel as if I MAY possibly know the answer to this question but I am not sure...Would I basically just have 3 increases of weight for each exercise? Ie.. If my max for ez curl is 100 x 10 then I would just go 80x10 / 90x10 / 100x10. And the same idea for preachers? So I would have my max's completed for my (B) day wed and then max's completed for my (A) day on Friday?
3) This question is in regard to the last question. If you have done a few hst programs before and you have NOT alternated and HAVE alternated as I described above, which did you prefer in terms of gains and stagnating?
4) What happens when you get to your max day, but you can definitely push through your predetermined max? Do you just continue doing more reps, or do you bump it up for the next set.
5) Lastly, what happens when your max is 200 on bench for 10 reps, and on your max day you get 200 barely for the 1st set but definitely cant get 10 reps again for the second set, how do you work that out.
I really appreciate your time reading and answering these questions. I have been doing alot of research and I simply could not find the answers to these questions, so please do not think I didn't try to help myself first. Thanks!
How long is your PCT?
How about instead of doing a full SD, how about if you just do the basic movements (Bench, Squat/Dead, Row, Pull up/downs).
The drop in the amount of movements can make your routine shorter and a bit more bearable.
My opinion, gut it out for the rest of your PCT, just don't kill yourself. Use some lighter weights, you don't have to do the 5's at the heaviest weights, do them enough just to put a load on the muscle.
As far as your #2. I have a lot of exercises that my 5th & 6th workout has the same weight duplicated.
so go with:
M: Preacher Curl 80#
W: EZ Bar 80#
F: Preacher curl 90#
M EZ Bar 90#
W Preacher Curl 100#
F EZ Bar 100#
Or what ever your weights would be
3. I stick with the same basic exercises, but I do alternate some each time I start a new cycle just to keep the boredom down. I.E. For bench presses, one cycle I'll do flats and then the next I'll put the bench on an incline 1 click (home gym), one time I'll do EZ Bar curls, the next I'll do hammers, some times I go with close grip pulldowns other times I use the regular pull down bar. I've never seen that I've stopped growing and my strength is always going up. The only thing that has impeded me is injuries I've sustained at my job.
In the last 8 months I've really concentrated on legs a lot more after reading the benefits of them and I started doing deadlifts (hated them before I learned how beneficial they were) Between doing squats and deads I've gained 3 inches on my thighs, which is great for a guy with chicken legs <--me. So to answer your question, doing the same leg exercises hasn't stopped my strength or growth, but I believe that is due to SD, changing the rep scheme, and progressive loading.
4. If I can do more on my max day, I make a note of it for my next cycle and move on to the next rep scheme.
5. If I can't finish the reps in the final set, I do what I can and call it good. Your body truly doesn't know the difference between 8 and 10 reps IMO. As long as the muscle receives the load I don't see the problem.
If all else fails, ask the question over at the HST board, they always are willing to help.
Good luck and let me know if I can be of any further help.
1. SD after pct
2. I use A/B for 1/2 of my exercises (which makes those 3 times every 2 weeks). The other 1/2 follow traditional HST 3x/wk structure.
3. I like to keep my "favorite" exercises in HST format so that I can systematically progress them. If my favorite moves are in my HST split, then there's never a feeling of boredom.
I swap HST for various other splits in 6-8 week intervals.
4. My personal opinion is that the whole point of HST is to make progress in body composition without having to constantly reach failure. I do the predetermined weight for the predetermined reps. I'd guess the majority would disagree with my opinion on this particular question
5. I take a few deep breathes and make sure the fukcer goes up 10 times
*side note: HST is 1000 times better the second time around. That way, exercise choice, volume, A/B splits, inclusion of cardio and core, etc etc can be adjusted to your liking. HST is the MOST fun I've ever had with workout splits... but it's only as effective as your predetermined plan.
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It's hard not to watch Bernard Hopkins with a little bit of awe.
In the 1990s, Roberto Duran challenged William Joppy for Middleweight belt at the age of 47. It was a disgusting spectacle, Duran stopped in three. Evander Holyfield has been beaten multiple times past the age of 40, for titles and not, against Heavyweights who likely couldn't have laced his shoes in his prime.
That's the way it usually goes. A fighter ages, elects to keep fighting, and adds losses to their record that no one thinks the 'real' them would ever have had.
Every once in a while, a fighter hangs around and keeps winning. Hopkins has hung around and then some, winning titles at Light Heavyweight three times including a lineal championship win over Jean Pascal in 2011 to become the oldest legitimate world champion in boxing history.
There's been much to celebrate about Hopkins run at Light Heavyweight and plenty to ponder about how much it elevates him in the pantheon of the greats. One question that doesn't seem to come up much is this:
Has Bernard Hopkins faced tougher competition after 40 years of age than he did before?
The question is not to be confused with whether he was a better fighter after 40. Watching today's Hopkins, in contrast to the fighter he was at Middleweight against Felix Trinidad, reveals some of the subtle adjustments age brings to bear. He's not as offensive now, nor as quick.
It makes his perseverance all the more remarkable.
So does the consistency in opposition he's faced. It's a place where he can make a claim most of the other remarkable over 40-fighters cannot. Archie Moore and George Foreman, for instance, did great things after 40. Both fought their best opposition before that age.
There is a strong case to be made that Hopkins elevated his competition as his physical assets declined from peak.
Beginning with a defense against Howard Eastman and his two fights against then-undefeated former Olympian Jermain Taylor in 2005, Hopkins has posted a mark of 8-4-1 with 1 No Contest against eleven opponents. Only two of those 14 fights, Enrique Ornelas and Eastman, have come against fighters who were not current, former, or future titlists. Only one loss, to Chad Dawson, doesn't have anyone making a case for Hopkins as the winner.
Digging further, most of the titlists he's faced since 2005 were clear current, former, or future lineal World champions. Saturday's latest conquest, Tavoris Cloud for the IBF belt, was an exception. Roy Jones and Antonio Tarver both held the Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight title and can also be counted as exceptions. That version of Ring's belt was always fodder for debate as to whether or not it represented lineage.
Feel free to look it up and decide.
Taylor became the lineal Middleweight champion at Hopkins' expense and to healthy debate. Joe Calzaghe was the reigning lineal World Champion at Super Middleweight when he moved up to defeat Hopkins for the Ring Magazine title at 175. Pascal won the vacant lineal crown (a matter cleared up when Zsolt Erdei vacated his claim to the Light Heavyweight crown in 2009) in his 2010 decision victory over Dawson; Dawson lifted that crown from Hopkins last year.
In the winner's circle for Hopkins, Tarver was, if not strictly the lineal king, regarded as the very top of the class at 175. As noted above, Pascal was the leader of the pack when he suffered a disputed draw and decisive loss to the Executioner. Following the Tarver bout, former lineal World Jr. Middleweight champion Winky Wright, by then rated as the number one contender to Taylor at Middleweight, challenged Hopkins and fell short at a catchweight of 170 lbs.
The same catchweight, and fate, awaited then-reigning Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik in the fight immediately following Hopkins' loss to Calzaghe. Throughout the span of his career since 2005, the only real competitive lull would come during the stretch between Pavlik and the first Pascal fight. Ornelas, and a rematch with a Roy Jones who didn't age anywhere near as well as Hopkins, occurred within five months of each other following a deserved layoff.
Taylor, Calzaghe, and Cloud were all undefeated opponents. Eastman, Pascal, and Dawson all entered their fights with Hopkins with but a single defeat.
Compare this stretch of 14 fights to the previous 49 for Hopkins.
It's not hard to argue that the most talented fighter Hopkins ever faced came early on. The 1993 version of Roy Jones, while not quite at the peak he'd hit, was already quite impressive when he defeated Hopkins for the IBF Middleweight belt in 1993. Jones was undefeated.
After defeating Segundo Mercado for the vacant IBF belt in his third crack at the strap, Hopkins would hand first losses to challengers Joe Lipsey, Glen Johnson, and Felix Trinidad. Johnson, despite a glossy record, was still green at the time and a far cry from the fighter he would become years later at Light Heavyweight. The great Trinidad was at the height of his powers and, for many, remains the finest hour of Hopkins career.
Hopkins would unify titles at Middleweight against not just Trinidad but also William Joppy, Keith Holmes, and Oscar De La Hoya. Holmes and Joppy both entered their bouts against Hopkins with two losses, De La Hoya with three.
In total, of the 18 titlists Hopkins has faced in his 63-fight career to date, ten came before the age of 40 with Jones a presence in both periods.
Each side of the scale has its merits. For pre-40, an undefeated Jones and Trinidad in the flourish of youth makes a case.
For concentration of challenges, the Hopkins slate after 40 easily wins out. At a point where most fighters would get extra choosy, Hopkins really hasn't. He left Middleweight facing the contender everyone wanted to see (Taylor) and, in what will soon be seven years at Light Heavyweight, has faced almost everyone in the division of consequence with some world class Middleweights thrown in for good measure.
And he's not done yet.
Just imagine what he might try in his fifties.
Cliff Rold is the Managing Editor of BoxingScene, a founding member of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and a member the Yahoo Pound for Pound voting panel, and the Boxing Writers Association of America. He can be reached at [email protected]


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some interesting performance loss happened with my measurements.
I have a system with two sockets, each socket is a E5-2680 processor. Each processor has 8 cores and with hyper-threading. The hyper-threading was ignored.
On this system, I started a program 16 times at the same time and each time pinned the program to different cores. At first, i set all cores to 2.7GHz and saw :
Program 0 Runtime 7.7s
Program 8 Runtime 7.63s
And then, i set cores on the second socket to 1.2GHz and saw:
Program 0 Runtime 12.18s
Program 8 Runtime 15.73s
The program 8 ran slower. It is clear, because core 8 had lower frequency. But why was program 0 also slower? Its frequency wasn't touched.


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I decided to try the Himalayan Peak after a co-worker recommended it.
My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed our dinner and it was better value than I had anticipated.
The food was delicious, hot and sizzling when we ordered it - a bit of a wait to get to our table but I did enjoy everything. The butter chicken was my favourite, not too spicy and not sweet like I have tried at other restaurants (I hate it when it is sweet). The Lamb kababs were tender and juicy with lots of flavour.
The restaurant itself is nice with a very warm feeling, unfortunately it was too cool to use the patio that day and they didn't have patio heaters, but perhaps another night.
Staff was friendly and helpful in making suggestions. Value on the dinner selections was pretty good - but they had really cheap drinks, appetisers (two samossas in chick pea sauce) was also cheap, and desserts were also relatively a good value.
I'd go to far as to say it was a perfect meal. I'll re-visit it again.
I like my food spicy and I can handle very hot dishes but I have to say that they went overboard when we ate there, it was actually like they spilled extra chillies into our dish and served it anyway.
The food was not bad, we had the coconut green curry and the pad thai noodles with a side serving of steamed rice. Overall the dishes were ok, not the best thai food that I had, not the worst... other than the food being incredibly hot, the noodles were a bit mushy - my wife likes them that way but I'm not a huge fan.
The area is a bit dodgey but I thought it added to the atmosphere - however, given the neighborhood I was hoping for a cheaper meal - it was reasonably priced but I wouldn't say great value.
Worth a try - not the best - but good enough to return.
I'm not a big fan of chain restaurants and I have to say that Milestones is at the bottom of the list of them. The food is pretty average and because of that, their value is mediocre... not as bad as cactus club but getting up there. I will say that their drink specials are reasonable and their upstairs lounge is like a separate restaurant with more of a bar type of a feel - which is quite nice.
The biggest complaint is lack of selection on their menu.
On the positives the atmosphere is nice and the service was solid and fortunately the servers were just that, servers, not raunched up exploited women like you see elswhere.
Milestones would rank better in my books if it just had better selection and better tasting food. I hope it changes because their locations are nice.


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The New York Mets have removed catcher Rob Johnson and left-handed pitcher Justin Hampson from the 40-man roster, according to Adam Rubin of ESPN Nee York. After clearing waivers, both players have elected free agency, according to Rubin. Johnson, who appeared in 17 games for NY in 2012, collected 13 hits in 52 at-bats with four runs batted in: According to Rubin: "Johnson's departure and the free agency of Kelly Shoppach leave Josh Thole and Mike Nickeas as the only major league-capable catchers under the organization's control at this point. The Mets will consider re-signing Shoppach because his likely 2013 salary would match the organization's spending capability, but team officials were not enamored with Shoppach and are first expected to investigate other options" Hampson, the Mets lone lefty reliever during the seasons final week, was 0-1 with a 1.50 ERA while holding left handed batters to a .150 average (3-for-20) in 13 relief appearances — spanning 10 innings.
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Being the lucky chap that I am, I was lucky enough to get a brief but nonetheless enlightening interview with the YouTube video game rap star, Dan Bull. He kindly took some time out from his schedule to answer a few questions for me, so without further ado, lets get down to brass tacks.
So, lets begin with how you got introduced to video games?
I had a Game Boy as a kid, I loved playing Tetris, Mario and all the other titles everyone knows. I didn't really become a gaming geek 'til my parents bought a PC, and then I was attached to it like a limpet – and pretty much have been ever since. Well, not the same PC, obviously.
What was the first thing you can remember in regards to gaming?
I remember my friends having consoles and me not having one. I was jealous. I'm making up for it now by pretty much spending all my spare cash on gaming. I just got myself a tidy graphics card and am hoping to get a 3D gaming setup soon.
In the "League Of Legends Rap" you make a lot of self referential lyrics, are you actually that good?
Absolutely not, I suck at the game. It's just a bit of fun, or perhaps the lyrics are my way of compensating for my crapness in game.
If you where given the resources, what kind of games would you make?
I love open world games, I love exploring. For me, one of the most important aspects of a game is the level of detail that goes into creating a believable and interesting world, which includes the level design, architecture, soundtrack and game lore. I had the idea of creating an MMO based on Google Street View, then I realised that's kind of already been done. It's called real life.
Which of your Game Raps is your personal favourite?
The first one I did, "Generation Gaming" is probably the best one as a personal statement about myself. It goes through all the consoles and systems I had from childhood up until recording the song, and my favourite games on each. I now use the chorus of that song as the theme tune for my gameplay channel, DanBullGames.
Could you choose an overall favourite game?
It would probably between Civilization IV and Oblivion. Don't make me choose…
Paragon or Renegade Shep?
I always play Paragon first with the intention of being an absolute twat on the second play through. But I never do a second play through.
Your raps have a very unique style, who was the inspiration for your style?
Rappers I am inspired by are Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Ghetts, Ludacris, Brother Ali. Anything I hear that I like really.
I've noticed that you sometimes use internal rhyming to build a better flow in your raps, does this ever present any problems?
Not really – it's one of my favourite parts of the writing process, trying to find as much relevant stuff to rhyme as possible and then build it into a really tight structure. I'm glad you noticed it because a lot of people only spot the punchlines and not the actual structure of the rhyme schemes, which is the aspect I enjoy more than any other.
Which other YouTube artists would you like to collaborate with? And which major artist?
YouTube artists I'd like to work with include George Watsky – I even made a music video asking him if he wanted to collaborate. I recently discovered Hopsin who is cool. Mainstream artists. It would be awesome to do something with Morrissey but I can't imagine that ever happening.
Aside from your rap channel and Dan Bull Games, do you have any plans for the immediate future?
My aim at the moment is just to work on releasing plenty of new content for those channels and hoping to see them grow. You can help by going and watching some of my videos now.
Well that's all we have thus far, but cross your fingers that we can hear more from Dan soon. In the mean time, you can find one of his videos here. Ladies and Gents I give you, Dan Bull and the Borderlands 2 Rap.
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Please identify figurative language in Langston Hughes' poem, "Harlem."
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In Langston Hughes' poem entitled "Harlem," the "dream deferred" here describes the American Dream that was available to all white people, but not to the black man. Even when laws were changed to guarantee equality, the dream was not theirs. There are several instances described in the poem that compare the "dream deferred" (or the American Dream) using similes. A simile compares two dissimilar things that share similar characteristics. It is...
...a comparison of two dissimilar things using "like" or "as"
There is a simile in the line "Does it dry up like a raisin?". Here "it" refers to a "dream deferred" in the first line.
The speaker is stating that a "dream deferred" (or put off), not realized, is like a shriveled up raisin: a grape that was once juicy and plump, now dried up from sitting, abandoned in the sun.
There is a simile in the second image as well: "Or fester like a sore…" Here the "deferred dream" is compared to a "festering sore," saying that the dream that does not come true is like a sore that festers and does not go away, but potentially causes illness to the body on which it rests.
The third simile is found in the line, "Does it stink like rotten meat?". The comparison here is of the "dream deferred" to "rotten meat." A dream not realized is like meat that is worthless, poisonous.
The simile Hughes uses next compares the "dream deferred" to something covered with a crusty sugar like a piece of candy ("syrupy sweet"). A dream that never comes true is like a piece of old candy. When it is new, it is enticing and beautiful: full of promise. But as a "dream deferred," the candy becomes old, soft, faded, perhaps tastes unusual or bad.
The last simile is comparing a "dream deferred" to a sagging, heavy load. In this case, I see that lost dream as a burden that weighs one down because it haunts the soul. This is not something that poisons or causes illness, but it breaks the spirit a little at a time, for there is no respite from that continuous weight. It robs the bearer of hope.
The last line might be an example of hyperbole—exaggeration. All of the other comparisons have affected the dreamer in quiet and individual ways. The term, "explodes," provides a dramatically different image: explosion affects more than one person, and it is something that takes place when some kind of reaction can no longer be contained by that in which it rests. Because we have been reading figurative language seen in the similes, I believe this image is also figurative, and hyperbole is exaggeration on a figurative level. However, were one to look on a literal level, the word "explode" would be just as appropriate.
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In Langston Hughes poem "Harlem" or as many refer to it "A Dream Deferred", there are many examples of figurative language used. Most of them are similes. In the first stanza, he uses 4 similes comparing how a dream deferred might look like. These similes are "like a raisin in the sun", "fester like a sore", "stink like rotten meat", and "sugar over like a syrupy sweet". In the same stanza Hughes also uses one example of personification by sating "and then run?". Here, he is giving an inanimate object a human like ability by asking if a dream deferred gets up and run.
In the second stanza there is one example of figurative language used and it is a simile as well. He says "...it just sags like a heavy load".


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ATHENS, Ohio (Oct. 13, 2006) -- Ohio University Dining Services has announced that The Oasis facility will close at the end of the business day on Tuesday, Nov. 21.
Ohio University Dining Services has assured all Oasis employees that they will be offered positions at the new Baker University Center or other food service operations on campus with an equivalent job title and pay grade.
When the university decided to close The Oasis it considered two critical factors. First, the Oasis building is in need of major repair to its infrastructure and utilities. Second, the current and future dining options for students in that area of campus are vast and include many unique and appealing options.
The Oasis, located at the intersection of Park Place and University Terrace, currently operates as a restaurant and convenience store.
With the closing of The Oasis, Dining Services announced it is developing a plan for the Shively Dining Hall Grab-n-Go to offer extended hours and an enhanced menu.
Dining Services also submitted a business proposal to the university to operate the Oasis building as a grocery/convenience store that specializes in natural and organic foods not sold at other campus locations. The store also would serve nonalcoholic beverages and light food items and provide wireless Internet access.
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Works by Henry James include:
- The Portrait of a Lady
- The Bostonians
- Washington Square
- What Maisie Knew
- The Wings Of The Dove
- The Turn of the Screw
- The Europeans
Other works by Henry James contain examples of:
- British Stuffiness: Subverted. James often depicted American characters who were as stuffy as (and sometimes more stuffy than) their British counterparts.
- Obfuscating Stupidity. Such as in The Ambassadors or The American. Henry James liked using tact as a tool to limit how much information he was giving out.
- Passion Is Evil: Lambert Strether in The Ambassadors starts out believing this, but he changes his mind.
- Purple Prose: James wrote in very long and finely crafted sentences.
- Reality Is Unrealistic: The short story "The Real Thing" deserves to be a Trope Codifier: the narrator is an artist who wants to paint a picture of a fictional upper-class family, and who's delighted when he's approached by a down-at-heel but real-life upper-class couple who need cash and are willing to be models for him. He soon finds that they're useless models because they're incapable of seeming like they're who they are, and he goes back to hiring working-class men and women, who are far more relaxed as subjects and who can seem like they're anyone he wants them to be.
- Unreliable Narrator: His works are often filtered through the perceptions of their point of view subject with a biased or incomplete understanding of the events they perceive. In What Maisie Knew, the complex romantic lives of two people are perceived by their young daughter, who does not understand most of what is going on.
- Wall of Text: James' writing style evolved into extraordinarly long sentences and paragraphs that run for pages. The effect can be very vivid, but it's also very easy to become lost in the avalanche of words.
- Wife Husbandry: In Watch and Ward, 29-year-old Roger Lawrence adopts 12-year-old Nora Lambert and grooms her to marry him several years later.


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Track Which Industries Are Growing When Paving a Career, ManpowerGroup Tells Workers, As U.S. Jobless Rate Drops to 7.7%
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports 236,000 Jobs Added in February
Mar 08, 2013, 10:54 ET
MILWAUKEE, March 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN), the world leader in innovative workforce solutions, tells U.S. workers to carefully examine how to apply their core skills to growing industries and to develop new skills that can be applied across industries and different functions, as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported that the overall February jobless rate was 7.7%, down from 7.9% in January.
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A substantial 236,000 jobs were added in February across industries. Professional and business services added the most jobs at 73,000; construction increased by 48,000; while health care added 32,000. Information and retail trade also added significant number of workers.
January's job figures were revised down from 157,000 to 119,000, while December's jobs figure was revised up for the second time. It now stands at 219,000.
"To experience more 2013 job growth spikes, across industries, particularly in the wake of federal job losses, the U.S. job market must reinforce its educational infrastructure," said Jeffrey A. Joerres, ManpowerGroup Chairman and CEO. "With budget cuts to education, companies are under increasing pressure to invest in modernizing school curriculums and preparing today's workers and students for fast-growing industries. Employers have always been the most knowledgeable sources of what skills will accelerate industry growth. Yet, the responsibility they now bear, to invest in skills-training the American workforce, is inescapable."
Today's jobs report also cited the millions of U.S. workers who have been unemployed for years. This talent is often concentrated in regions where a dominant industry or employer has not been able to hire locally due, in part, to a shortage of the right skills.
"To build a long-term career across many industries, individuals at all career stages must first examine which industries are growing and then seek the skills and career development expertise that will open doors for them across these industries," said ManpowerGroup President Jonas Prising. "Essential career planning resources are found in ManpowerGroup's widespread presence in U.S. communities. The ManpowerGroup network is critical for acquiring the insight into the top skills demanded by today's growing employers."
ManpowerGroup's forward-looking Employment Outlook Survey, gauging hiring intentions among employers in 42 countries and territories for the second quarter of 2013, is released next Tuesday. Full survey results will appear here: http://www.manpowergroup.com/press/meos_landing.cfm
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ManpowerGroup™ (NYSE: MAN), the world leader in innovative workforce solutions, creates and delivers high-impact solutions that enable our clients to achieve their business goals and enhance their competitiveness. With over 60 years of experience, our $21 billion company creates unique time to value through a comprehensive suite of innovative solutions that help clients win in the Human Age. These solutions cover an entire range of talent-driven needs from recruitment and assessment, training and development, and career management, to outsourcing and workforce consulting. ManpowerGroup maintains the world's largest and industry-leading network of 3,500 offices in 80 countries and territories, generating a dynamic mix of an unmatched global footprint with valuable insight and local expertise to meet the needs of its 400,000 clients per year, across all industry sectors, small and medium-sized enterprises, local, multinational and global companies. By connecting our deep understanding of human potential to the ambitions of clients, ManpowerGroup helps the organizations and individuals we serve achieve more than they imagined – because their success leads to our success. And by creating these powerful connections, we create power that drives organizations forward, accelerates personal success and builds more sustainable communities. We help power the world of work. The ManpowerGroup suite of solutions is offered through ManpowerGroup™ Solutions, Manpower®, Experis™ and Right Management®. Learn more about how ManpowerGroup can help you win in the Human Age at www.manpowergroup.com.
ManpowerGroup is the only company in our industry to be named to the Ethisphere Institute's World's Most Ethical Companies list for three consecutive years, in recognition of its proven commitment to ethical business practices, including an outstanding commitment to ethical leadership, compliance practices and corporate social responsibility.
In January 2011, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, ManpowerGroup announced the world has entered the Human Age, where talent has replaced capital as the key competitive differentiator. This concept of talentism as the new capitalism continues to resonate, and was echoed as a core theme of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Learn more about this new age at www.manpowergroup.com/humanage
Gain access to ManpowerGroup's extensive thought leadership papers, annual Talent Shortage surveys and the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, one of the most trusted indices of employment activity in the world, via the ManpowerGroup World of Work Insight iPad application. This thought leadership app explores the challenges faced by employers navigating the changing world of work and provides in-depth commentary, analysis, insight and advice on strategies for success.
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Six billion dollars is big bucks. Alaska and its communities could build just about whatever we wanted with annual revenue of at least $6 billion. But this wouldn't be Alaska's annual revenue. This would be new revenue on top of what Alaska receives today in oil revenue.
Gov. Murkowski and his administration negotiated a oil production tax/natural gas pipeline proposal with three major oil companies and introduced the proposal to the Legislature this session. Legislators failed to endorse it or come up with their own proposal during the session and the governor has called them back for a special look at it.
At first the Legislature complained about lack of information about the proposal. Then it complained of too much information. Now it needs to quit complaining, look at the proposal, tweak it if necessary - but on the surface and what most Alaskans will note is that it likely requires few changes when the outcome could be about seven really big ones annually.
Whatever the Legislature does, it cannot be fiscally responsible if it does nothing. The proposal would put more oil in the existing pipeline - that amount is dwindling and the current state revenue with it - because gas and oil are extracted together. Now without a gas line, the gas is returned to the ground while the oil is sent down the pipeline to refineries and then market. Of course, it also would be instrumental in getting natural gas to market, too.
The proposal includes an increase in oil production tax, which is the second tax increase for the oil companies by the Murkowski administration. Murkowski increased the tax in 2005. Oil taxes aren't increased often. Oil companies tend to lobby, placing excruciating pressure on legislators, to prevent that. The governor has proposed a 20 percent increase; legislators are considering figures, but staying in the low 20s.
The oil companies would like the tax stabilized for the next 30 years in order to reduce their business risk in building a natural gas line. They wouldn't want to see the oil tax go up at the same time they are investing millions of dollars in the new line. But they would take on some risk, as would the state by nature of being a partner in the gas line. As a partner, and unlike with the oil pipeline in which it isn't a partner, it would have access to all the data concerning the gas line. Such information would help the state ensure it was being paid appropriate royalties for its gas.The figures are based on the current price of oil and natural gas. The $60 a barrel price could increase or decrease. If it decreases, Alaskans won't receive as much in oil royalties, but we would enjoy relief at the service station gas pumps and in our home-heating bills. If it increases, the state would receive even greater royalties and the communities could renovate and expand.
Not only will construction of the gas line create jobs, but the influx of new gas and oil tax revenue would build infrastructure to sustain and attract new businesses to communities. Alaska would be able to provide jobs for its youth, and instead of sending them off to grow and develop other states, they would live here and share their knowledge and ingenuity with us. They likely would be able to study at Alaska institutions with world-class reputations.
We have been blessed with oil and gas resources. It is foolhardy not to make the most of them. Not to act now is like sitting on a diamond mine and complaining about being poor. It's pitiful. We support the governor's contract with the oil companies, and suggest the Legislature do the same. Sure there is risk, but there is risk in getting up in the morning. The governor and administration have laid out a proposal that speaks of greater wealth for Alaska. All the Legislature has to do is stop complaining or reading motives into what the governor has done and look at the deal at face value and move ahead with it.
The governor has done his homework; he's helped legislators and other Alaskans do theirs by providing reams of material on his Web site, at public hearings, through op-ed columns and other reports. Read it - the long version or the short version - and encourage your legislators to get this contract signed immediately. If we don't, they might let $6 billion annually slip away.
This gas line could be built and operating in 10 years. That isn't far in the future; think of it this way: in less than 12 months, Ketchikan Pulp Mill will have been closed for a decade. Times change fast; Alaska should not let the natural gas line disappear over the horizon.
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Bills Digest No. 16 1999-2000
Indigenous Education (Supplementary Assistance) Amendment Bill 1999
This Digest was prepared for debate. It reflects the legislation as introduced and does not canvass subsequent amendments. This Digest does not hav e any official legal status. Other sources should be consulted to determine the subsequent official status of the Bill.
Passage History
Indigenous Education (Supplementary Assista nce) Amendment Bill 1999
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Education, Training and Youth Affairs
Commencement: Upon Royal Assent
This purpose of this Bill is to transfer a particular form of Commonwealth s upport for indigenous education from the ABSTUDY program to the Indigenous Education Strategic Initiatives Program (IESIP). The courses in question involve both distance education and a component of travel away from the student's home base. The Bill also provides for the administration of the Commonwealth funding from within the IESIP, including the calculation of maximum amounts payable by the Commonwealth to education providers and the appropriation of required funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. A number of minor and consequential amendments are also made.
Government Programs for Indigenous Education
Since 1989, Commonwealth funding for indigenous education has contained two main elements: income support and supplementary benefits paid to individual students, and direct funding to institutions providing courses and training.
The first Commonwealth scheme for assisting indigenous students commenced in 1969 and was known as the Aboriginal Study Grants Scheme (Abstudy). It was confined to post-school education and training. Later, programs to assist indigenous students at secondary school emerged, notably Absec.
In 1984, the Commonwealth Government commissioned a review of Abstudy by Williams and Chambers who concluded that Abstudy was still decades away from achieving educational equality, but had facilitated greater participation by indigenous people in education, and should be maintained.(1)
In 1988, Absec and Abstudy were amalgamated into the Aboriginal Study Assistance Scheme (ABSTUDY). In the following year, the Government announced the Aboriginal Education Strategic Initiatives Program (AESIP, later IESIP). This marked a diversification of funding policy, because rather than provide benefits to individual students to enable them to study, IESIP directed funds to institutions such as universities and TAFE colleges for indigenous education. In the same year, Parliament passed the Aboriginal Education (Supplementary Assistance) Amendment Bill 1989 ('the Principal Act') (the word 'Indigenous' replaced 'Aboriginal' after an amendment in 1995). This Act gave effect to IESIP's focus on education providers and their indigenous education initiatives.
ABSTUDY continued as an essentially non-statutory scheme of direct student support. Various adjustments were made to the scheme in the years leading up to 1996, such as lowering the age of independence and measures targetting mature age students, the home less and those in custody. Several other programs which provided direct support to students also emerged in this period, including the Aboriginal Tutorial Assistance Scheme and the Aboriginal Student Support and Parent Awareness Program.
In the May 1997 Budget the Howard Government announced major changes to ABSTUDY to commence from 1 January 1998. They included capping the incidentals allowance, cuts to fare allowances and changes to what is known as Away From Base assistance. The Government also announced that it would be conducting a review of ABSTUDY 'in the context of the Government's other student assistance programs'.(2)
The announced changes met with strong and sustained criticism from indigenous, academic as well as parliamentary quarters.(3) It was widely asserted that the Government's figures showed planned cuts to ABSTUDY totalling almost $40 million. The Government's most recent assertion is that in its first three Budgets, spending on indigenous education as a whole increased 'by a total of $143 million'.(4)
Continuing controversy over the ABSTUDY measures announced in the 1997 Budget eventually led to a partial Government backdown on Away From Base allowances and interstate travel entitlements.(5)
Meanwhile as part of the review foreshadowed in the Budget, the Government released a Discussion Paper which stated the review was being undertaken 'in the context of the Government's plans to introduce a Youth Allowance which will replace AUSTUDY and a range of other forms of income support for young people'.(6) The main questions posed in the paper were whether ABSTUDY should continue as a distinct form of living allowance, or whether it should join AUSTUDY, Newstart and other youth income support schemes in the new common youth allowance. The paper also drew attention to supplementary benefits not available under other schemes and provided to counter the extreme disadvantage faced by many young indigenous people. The paper asked whether alternatives such as direct payments to educational institutions would do more to overcome indigenous disadvantage.
Major Policy Announcement: December 1998
A year later, in December 1998, the Government announced that ABSTUDY would be maintained as a separate scheme. Much emphasis, however, was placed on changes to oper ate from 1 January 2000, which to a large extent would assimilate ABSTUDY benefits to those payable to non-indigenous students under the Youth Allowance. The exception would be 'where special provision needs to be made to cater effectively for the particular disadvantages faced by many indigenous students'.(7) The Minister also pointed out that as a result certain benefits such as rent assistance would become available to ABSTUDY recipients for the first time. Generally, the Minister said that 'improvements' were being made 'to ensure clarity, simplicity, equity, administrative efficiency and accountability'.(8)
A major change foreshadowed by the Minister related to the Away From Base allowance.
Away from Base Assistance
The Minister told a national workshop last year that 'a principal cause of educational inequality lies with the failure to adapt mainstream educational approaches to meet the needs of indigenous students'.(9) This philosophy is at the heart of the Away From Base component in ABSTUDY. The allowance is paid to cover activities such as residentials, placements and field trips where the student is required to travel away from their home base in order to comply with course requirements. Over the last decade, many institutions developed 'Block Release' courses tailored to the needs of indigenous students:
Through the Block Release mode of delivery, individuals are able to engage in study to improve their employment and career prospects while at the same time remaining in employment and/or within their communities. This is cost effective in that whole families do not have to be relocated for extended periods so that the student can attend university or TAFE courses not available closer to home.
…Programs which encourage indigenous participation in education while simultaneously being responsive to family, community and cultural commitments have been powerful tools for bringing indigenous students into educational settings.(10)
The May 1999 Budget
In his major policy announcement of December 1998, the Minister foreshadowed that the Away From Base benefit for courses delivered by 'mixed mode' (e.g. intensives, residentials, distance learning etc) would cease to be paid to individual students under A BSTUDY and instead would take the form of a specific purpose grant to education institutions, under IESIP:
Under the new arrangements the Government will settle individual agreements with institutions for the purpose of achieving improved educational outcomes for indigenous students from remote communities.(11)
There was no other explanation for the change other than 'to ensure flexibility'.(12)
On 11 May the Minister released a statement about Budget measures in the area of indigenous education. It detail ed expenditure both on institutions under IESIP and individuals under the Indigenous Education Direct Assistance (IEDA) Program. Under IESIP the Minister said that funding levels would be maintained for the year 1999-2000 and a number of administrative changes would be made. The most prominent changes were:
- the current triennial funding for 1997-99 to be extended by 1 year so that from 2001 IESIP could operate on quadrennial funding, in alignment with the Commonwealth's major schools funding programs
- the ch anges necessary to make ABSTUDY largely mirror the benefits payable to non-indigenous students, except where particular disadvantage warranted additional benefit
- terminating the Away From Base payment and providing a replacement in the form of block grants to institutions in return for agreed education outcomes.
Again the statement did not elaborate on why the Away From Base component had ceased to be paid as an individual benefit and been transformed into an IESIP payment to an institution, or how this mov e would promote the policy which underpinned the Away From Base allowance.(13)
Main Provisions
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Indigenous Education (Supplementary Assistance) Act 1989
Item 1 defines 'ABSTUDY approved course' and makes clear that reference to such courses in the Indigenous Education (Supplementary Assistance) Act 1989 will be confined to courses which mix distance education with a component involving travel by the student away from his or her home base.
Item 2 defines 'higher education institution' by reference to another Commonwealth Act.
Item 3 excludes the type of payments provided for in the Bill from the Principal Act's definition of 'permitted payment'. This will prevent the general appropriations dealt with in section 13B becoming confused with the appropriation of money for funding ABSTUDY approved courses provided for in item 8 .
Item 4 is consequential on tem 5 .
Item 5 brings the Bill's proposal within the existing structure of the Principal Act, by providing that Indigenous education agreements may authorise payments for an ABSTUDY approved course, in addition to the two existing types of agreement.
Item 6 confirms that the amount payable under such an agreement is calculated in accordance with the formula and principles found in item 7 .
Item 7 provides in proposed section 10L the means to calculate the maximum amount an education provider will be paid for ABSTUDY approved courses which are run in the year 2000. If funding for indigenous students enrolled in ABSTUDY approved courses run by the education provider was provided in 1998, then that provides a base year for the formulas found in proposed subsections 10L(2) , (3) . If not, then proposed subsection 10L(4) provides a modified version of the formula.
Proposed section 10M explains how the adjustment for inflation provided for in the above formulas is calculated.
Item 8 inserts in the Principal Act a provision which authorises appropriations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to fund ABSTUDY approved courses.
The Principal Act, when passed, originally contained appropriations for the years 1990-1992. Subsequent amendments have adjusted some of the nominated amounts and added appropriations for subsequent trienniums or similar periods. Item 9 will amend section 13B of the Principal Act to add an appropriation of $126,100,000 for the 18 months from 1 January 2000 to 30 June 2001, for the purpose of making permitted payments. This is presumably consistent with the announcement made in the Budget about bringing the IESIP funding into line with other education programs running on quadrennial funding from 2001.
The cost supplementation provisions were included in the Bill for the first time from April 1998. They permit the adjustment of IESIP grants in line with cost increases. At the time they were introduced into Parliament the Government said that this brought the program into line with other education programs. Item 10 makes a minor change to the cost supplementation provisions which is consequential on the appropriation for the 18 months to 30 June 2001 contained in item 9 .
Schedule 2—Amendment of the Student Assistance Act 1973
Because item 12 in Schedule 1 authorises the appropriation of money to pay education providers for ABSTUDY approved courses, item 1 removes the appropriation provision. which has to date authorised payments of ABSTUDY to individual students. It does so, however, only in respect of the Away From Base element in a mixed mode study course (in other words that part of the benefit which has been transferred out of ABSTUDY and into IESIP).
Concluding Comments
The definition of 'ABSTUDY appro ved course' in Item 1 of Schedule 1 is obviously designed to preserve in the IESIP scheme that part of ABSTUDY funding which has emphasised sensitivity to the specific needs of disadvantaged indigenous students (the Away From Base allowance). The question is whether the mechanism of directly funding institutions will equal or better the educational outcomes from providing the benefit direct to students.
Government documentation consulted for this Digest makes it difficult to answer this question because the educational rationale for the measure and supporting evidence have not been set out in detail. The Minister denied that the Government had been driven by Pauline Hanson's criticism of ABSTUDY to remove special recognition of indigenous people. He then said:
The Government has reaffirmed its commitment to that program, equally, it's reaffirmed its view that where young Australians, indigenous or non-indigenous, are in exactly the same situation they should receive exactly the same benefits.(14)
The Minister has also said that the change will bring clarity, simplicity, equity, administrative efficiency and accountability. During a radio interview in December 1998, without going into detail, he adverted to the mechanism of tied funding agreements under the Principal Act as a sound one for securing defined outcomes, as well as reiterating arguments of equity and simplicity:
ABSTUDY had become a very complex scheme. Many Australians, including indigenous Australians, were confused about the benefits available through ABSTUDY. The scheme needed to be simplified and we needed to focus it much more on actually achieving improved educational outcomes. The philosophy behind these changes is that all Australians are entitled to equal educational opportunity. The changes we made will allow us to make sure that institutions catering particularly to indigenous students have to deliver improved educational outcomes.(15)
The authors of a report commissioned by ATSIC and published in early 1998, however, expressed concern that funding to institutions under IESIP may be too indirect a means of overcoming barriers to access for individual indigenous students:
While noting the importance of the substantial financial support provided to educational institutions under IESIP or other programs aimed directly at institutions, the review team considers it necessary to further develop the point made in [another section of its report]. A main aim of ABSTUDY is to provide an incentive to encourage greater indigenous participation in education. If indigenous people do not access educational institutions and stay in them, they simply cannot obtain benefits offered by IESIP or the special allocations provided to higher education institutions.
…programs aimed at educational institutions to improve indigenous education outcomes are limited by the extent to which indigenous people are able to access and participate in education for want of adequate financial assistance.(16)
This appears to be the main policy question raised by the Bill: can the ins titutions themselves use the money to remove barriers and actually achieve enrolments, participation and completion more effectively than if the money was put in the hands of the intending students?
1. Don Williams and Barbara Chambers, An Evaluation of the Aboriginal Study Grants Scheme , 1986, quoted in Owen Stanley and Geoff Hansen, ABSTUDY: An Investment for Tomorrow's Employment , A Review of ABSTUDY for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, ATSIC, 1998, section 7.2.3.
2. Dr David Kemp MP and Senator Amanda Vanstone, Building on Reform , Media Release, 13 May 1997.
3. See for example Debates , Senate, 22 October 1997, p 7885 and p 7891, and 24 November 1997 p 9322, and RG Schwab and SF Campbell, The Future Shape of ABSTUDY: practical and policy implications of the recent proposed changes , Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Discussion Paper No. 140/1997.
4. Dr David Kemp MP, Improving Opportunities for Indigenous Australians , Media Release, 11 May 1999.
5. Senator Chris Ellison, Government Announces ABSTUDY Changes , Media Release, 30 October 1997.
6. Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Review of the Aboriginal Study Assistance Scheme (ABSTUDY). A Community Discussion Paper , November 1997, p 4.
7. The Hon Dr David Kemp MP, New ABSTUDY: Improved Education for Indigenous Students , Media Release, 17 December 1998.
8. Ibid.
9. The Hon Dr David Kemp MP, Educational Equality for Indigenous People: A National Priority , Speech, 3 December 1998.
10. Schwab and Campbell, op.cit., pp 13, 18.
11. The Hon Dr David Kemp MP, New ABSTUDY: Improved Education for Indigenous Students , Media Release, 17 December 1998.
12. Ibid.
13. Dr David Kemp MP, Improving Opportunities for Indigenous Australians , Media Release, 11 May 1999.
14. PM , ABC Radio, 15 December 1998.
15. Ibid.
16. Stanley and Hansen, op.cit., sections 7.2.5 and 7.5.
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Discussion in 'Tennessee Titans and NFL Talk' started by The Hammer, Oct 3, 2013.
Figures............ FFS
Maybe Trent Richardson is a curse..
the browns fans leave happy after the game very rare sighting indeed
Did the Browns win the Super Bowl?
Wow... NEVER would have thought Cleveland would win 3 in a row after trading Trent. I hope Trent curses Indy
Terrible TUEL
ok i unmuted the game and why is mayock giving credit to weeden, he stinks too!
Cleveland in 1st place in the AFC North
Steelers in last place in the AFC North
Bills gm - "Hello, Mr. Freeman we would like you to come to buffalo"
Freeman- "wow, that was quick, why such a quick decision?"
Bills gm- " Tuel sucks"
currently happening now lol
Titans would destroy both of these teams