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Huntington disease is a disorder in which nerve cells in certain parts of the brain waste away, or degenerate. The disease is passed down through families.
Alternative Names
Huntington chorea
Huntington disease is caused by a genetic defect on chromosome 4. The defect causes a part of DNA, called a CAG repeat, to occur many more times than it is supposed to. Normally, this section of DNA is repeated 10 to 28 times. But in persons with Huntington disease, it is repeated 36 to 120 times.
As the gene is passed down through families, the number of repeats tend to get larger. The larger the number of repeats, the higher your chance of developing symptoms at an earlier age. Therefore, as the disease is passed along in families, symptoms develop at younger and younger ages.
There are two forms of Huntington disease.
- Adult-onset Huntington disease is the most common. Persons with this form usually develop symptoms in their mid 30s and 40s.
- Early-onset Huntington disease affects a small number of cases and begins in childhood or the teens.
If one of your parents has Huntington disease, you have a 50% chance of getting the gene. If you get the gene from both your parents, you will develop the disease at some point in your life. You will also pass it on to your children. If you do not get the gene from your parents, you cannot pass the gene on to your children.
Behavior changes may occur before movement problems, and can include:
- Behavioral disturbances
- Hallucinations
- Irritability
- Moodiness
- Restlessness or fidgeting
- Paranoia
- Psychosis
Abnormal and unusual movements include:
- Facial movements, including grimaces
- Head turning to shift eye position
- Quick, sudden, sometimes wild jerking movements of the arms, legs, face, and other body parts
- Slow, uncontrolled movements
- Unsteady gait
Dementia that slowly gets worse, including:
- Disorientation or confusion
- Loss of judgment
- Loss of memory
- Personality changes
- Speech changes
Additional symptoms that may be associated with this disease:
Anxiety, stress, and tension
- Difficulty swallowing
- Speech impairment
Symptoms in children:
- Rigidity
- Slow movements
- Tremor
Exams and Tests
The doctor will perform a physical exam and may ask about the patient's family history and symptoms. An exam of the nervous system will also be done. The doctor may see signs of:
Abnormal movements
Abnormal reflexes
"Prancing" and wide walk
Hesitant speech or poor enunciation
Other tests that may show signs of Huntington disease include:
- Psychological testing
- Head
CTor MRIscan PET (isotope) scan of the brain
Genetic testing is available to determine whether a person carries the gene for Huntington disease.
There is no cure for Huntington disease. There is no known way to stop the disease from getting worse. The goal of treatment is to slow the symptoms and help the person function for as long as possible.
Medicines can be prescribed, depending on the symptoms.
- Dopamine blockers may help reduce abnormal behaviors and movements.
- Drugs such as amantadine and tetrabenazine are used to try to control extra movements.
Depression and suicide are common among persons with Huntington disease. It is important for caregivers to monitor for symptoms and seek medical help for the person right away.
As the disease progresses, the person will need assistance and supervision, and may eventually need 24-hour care.
Support Groups
Huntington Disease Society of America –
Outlook (Prognosis)
Huntington disease causes disability that gets worse over time. Persons with this disease usually die within 15 to 20 years. The cause of death is often infection.
It is important to realize that the disease affects everyone differently. The number of CAG repeats may determine the severity of symptoms. Persons with few repeats may have mild abnormal movements later in life and slow disease progression. Those with a large number of repeats may be severely affected at a young age.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if you or a family member develops symptoms of this disorder.
Genetic counseling is advised if there is a family history of Huntington disease. Experts also recommend genetic counseling for couples with a family history of this disease who are considering having children.


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More than 270 prospective business owners and caring adults collected at Second Ebenezer Church April 28 for a new business workshop. You might not consider an event with individuals laying on the floor coloring to be an important business seminar, but these new business owners were serious.
The festive afternoon was alive with children from toddlers to teens who were getting ready to be business owners for the day at the second annual Lemonade Day Detroit, June 9, 2012.
Lemonade Day Detroit is part of a national effort to teach children how to start, own and operate a business through the simple and time-honored act of running a lemonade stand. The goal is to have 5,000 entrepreneurs hit the streets of Metro Detroit. Children are encouraged to plan everything from their stand location to asking an adult for a monetary loan for supplies.
Presenting sponsor Huntington Bank and event organizers created the April 28 workshop with sessions for the children and their caring adults to answer questions and prepare participants. Booths were staffed by local business people and volunteers who taught attendees how to:
– Build Your Stand with Shuster Homes and Joseph Mosey Architecture
– Organize Your Business Plan and Budget with Huntington Bank
– Create Your Lemonade with Whole Foods
– Advertise Your Stand with The Yaffe Group
– Develop Success Strategies for Your Stand with JR Turnbull Communications
– Register for Lemonade Day Detroit
Huntington's business planning session was extremely popular with parents, but it was the advertising station and the ability to make your own poster that got the kids' attention. 10-year-old Nayanna Hollins of Detroit, who was making a sign with a "Sisters" theme with her little sisters, was just one of the dozens of motivated entrepreneurs on-hand who consider Lemonade Day Detroit an important stepping stone to big plans. "I'm going to be a performer when I grow up, but you don't have to go to college for that, so I'm going to be a doctor or a vet as back-up," she explained.
"Lemonade Day's mission is to arm our youth with tools that help them see that they can do whatever they want, and be successful," said Mike Fezzey, president of Huntington National Bank's East Michigan Region. "Lemonade Day helps walk children and caring adults through every step of setting up a business, and they are also learning life skills. Everyone needs to learn to balance a budget; who knew it could be fun?
"We're very grateful to Second Ebenezer Church for hosting our first workshop in its wonderful facility," he added.
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One of the first things you will see when you enter is this wonderful mantel decorated with pretty plates (You know I love that!) and these fabulous stockings! I have been seeing a lot of these colors…so fun to see them translated into Christmas! And…a mirror in the fireplace…genius!
Need some ideas for stockings? These are the most unusual ones that I saw made from everything from vintage grain sacks and gingham to upholstery fabric with fun trim!
There are lots of fun and different wreaths starring hydrangeas, coffee filters, skates and webbing!
What a fun way to decorate your candles for the holidays…burlap and sweater sleeves!
It looks like music-themed decorations are as popular as ever this Christmas with everything from a tree decorated entirely with sheet music to a different spin on a sheet music wreath! Love those sheet music feathers!
I also love this unique Christmas tree skirt made from several different vintage-y looking fabrics! Hmmm…wish I could find the one with the frenchy script somewhere…fabulous!
Here's a beautiful little hydrangea tree to match the wreath I showed you earlier! I need to print this photo and put it beside my hydrangeas to inspire them to grow some pretty blooms like that for me next year!
You know I have a thing about dough bowls and I love this one…filled with big mercury glass acorns and surrounded by elk sheds…fabulous! I have everything I need to recreate this on a smaller scale.
Now you have to admit that you love these burlap-covered deer…so cute and different! Love those big eyes!
And now…get ready to have your socks blown off! It's the pièce de résistance of the whole Christmas open house…
…this fabulous wreath made from angora and cashmere sweaters! I am in love! Are you holding your breath? Isn't it gorgeous? I don't know about you, but I found several things I want to try to make! And…I'd better get busy…Christmas is only a little over a month away!
Need even more inspiration? Have a look at Christmas Open House 2011 and Christmas Open House 2010...more fabulous ideas from the Queen of Hearts!
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Throw Your Own Cinco de Mayo Fiesta
Mix up some margaritas, and get the party started with these ingredients.
First things first: Cinco de Mayo is not a Mexican holiday. And contrary to popular belief (at least in the United States), it isn't Mexico's Independence Day, either (that event falls on Sept. 16).
The first Cinco de Mayo celebration was held on May 5, 1862, when the Mexican American community in California celebrated Mexico's victory over the invading French in the Battle of Puebla. Celebrants in Los Angeles viewed this unlikely win as "a symbol of hope" for forces of democracy during the U.S. Civil War (France threatened to ally with the Confederacy; Mexican Americans were overwhelmingly Union sympathizers).
This year marks the 155th anniversary of that original battle: no better time to cook up some tortillas, and wave a few Mexican and American flags.
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Tacos for a Crowd
Make-your-own tortillas
Homemade tortillas are so easy to make, you'll wonder why you never tried this before. You'll need only two ingredients corn flour (called masa) and water and to invest in a tortilla press ($20 in kitchen stores). For 12 six-inch tortillas, mix about 2 cups masa with 1 1/2 cups water and knead into a firm but springy dough. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes to an hour, then break off an approximately 2-inch ball, place it between two sheets of plastic wrap, and flatten in the press. Place on a hot griddle for 1 minute, then flip and heat the other side. Repeat with remaining dough.
Tortilla Fillings
Courtesy of Marcela Valladolid, host of the Food Network show Mexican Made Easy. Each recipe makes enough for six to eight tacos.
Pork or Chicken Adobada
- 1 small white onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 guajillo chiles, chopped
- 1 cup chicken broth
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 pound pork roast or chicken breasts
- Avocado slices, pineapple slices, and salsa, for garnish
- 2 limes, quartered
1. To make the adobada (marinade), sauté the onion and garlic in olive oil, then add the chiles and cook until soft, about 4 minutes. Place mix in a blender with the broth and process until smooth, about 1 minute. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
2. Rub the meat with the adobada. Grill until fully cooked, then slice.
3. Wrap a couple of slices of meat in a tortilla and top with avocado, pineapple, salsa, and a sprinkle of lime juice.
Carne Asada
- 1 pound flank steak
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 orange, sliced
- 2 teaspoons oregano
- 1 cup beer (lager)
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Avocado, salsa, lime juice, and cilantro, for garnish
Marinate the flank steak in the oil, orange, oregano, and beer for 1 hour before cooking. Grill the steak, then cut into strips. Remove from marinade and season with salt and pepper. Wrap a couple of slices in a tortilla, with toppings.
Squash Blossoms
- 6 squash blossoms
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 12 tablespoons shredded cheddar cheese
Lightly sauté squash blossoms in olive oil. Stuff each tortilla with 2 tablespoons cheese and 1 squash blossom.
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Impala Margarita
Combine 2 ounces blanco or silver tequila with 4 ounces fresh lime juice, 2 ounces water, and 2 ounces agave nectar (or simple syrup) in a shaker. Shake vigorously with ice and pour into an unsalted glass. Add a handful of frozen strawberries with a few candied ginger slices, or a handful of blackberries with a sprig of rosemary. Tip: To prevent watered-down drinks, freeze lime juice or limeade to use as ice cubes.
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For breaks in the dancing, bring out the colorful Mexican bingo game lotería. You can find it for about $6-$8 online at sites like Amazon.com and Walmart.com.
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L.A. has lowest crime among big U.S. cities, midyear figures show
At the year's midway point, crime rates in Los Angeles generally have continued their decade-long decline, according to police figures released Wednesday.
The crime totals were announced by Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at a morning news conference. They heralded the continued fall in violent crimes with Beck calling Los Angeles "the safest big city in America."
Through the end of June, the city experienced just shy of 9,000 violent crimes, a category that includes homicides, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults. The total marked a nearly 9% drop compared with the same time last year, according to LAPD figures. With 147 homicides committed so far this year, the rate of killing is about the same as 2010 and puts the city on pace to have fewer than 300 killings for the third consecutive year –- a historic benchmark that is four times lower than the peak Los Angeles reached in the late 1990s. Robbery and aggravated assaults also are down, and the number of rapes has risen slightly in 2012.
Gang crimes, a major factor in the city's crime landscape, also fell. Gang-related killings are down 8%, while the 405 people shot by gang gunfire represented a 21% drop.
The decline in violent crime was tempered somewhat by property-related crime statistics. Overall the number of burglaries, auto thefts, and other types of thefts fell by 1% throughout the city, but there were several areas of the city that saw significant increases. In areas patrolled by the LAPD's Central Bureau, for example, thefts rose by 9%. The department's South Bureau also had increases.
[Update, 7:26 p.m., July 11: In an interview with The Times, Beck explained why he believes the realignment law is contributing to increases in property crimes. Under the law, he said, offenders receive less supervision and assistance programs after being released and so are more likely to commit new crimes.]
"Crime is not down in all categories; crime is not down in all parts of the city," Beck said, "but ... our strategies in crime reduction are working. The course this department has charted, the course this administration has charted have had an extremely positive effect on Los Angeles. It wasn't so long that this city was known as the murder capital of the United States. That is not true any more."
In calling Los Angeles the safest big city in the country, Beck was comparing its per capita violent crime rate to Houston, Chicago and New York, the three other cities with at least 2 million residents. According to figures compiled by the FBI, the rate in L.A. is the lowest of the four.
The LAPD's overall success were contrasted by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which patrols the county's unincorporated areas and many of its smaller cities. Violent and property crimes in those areas rose 6% during the first half of this year, according to Sheriff's Department statistics.
The homicide total fell by 9%, giving Sheriff Lee Baca a bright spot in a largely disappointing midyear report. His department, he said, was "focusing on crime every day like never before."
"There is good news, but we are not ignoring the challenges," Baca said.
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Photo: Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hold a news conference in May after an array of firearms were collected. Beck called L.A. the safest big city in America after the release of a midyear report on violent and property crime. Credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times


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By Matthew Heimer
A first-of-its-kind proposal involving nine major philanthropic foundations could spare Detroit's public-sector retirees from hefty cuts to their pensions—while also keeping the city's most prominent art museum from having to auction off its collection.
In the proposed deal, announced Monday, the foundations pledged to contribute $330 million to the city to shore up its pension funds. In return, as John Gallagher and Mark Stryker report today in the Detroit Free Press, the Detroit Institute of Arts, whose collection is city-owned, would be spun off as a nonprofit, theoretically shielding the artworks from being sold off to pay Detroit's creditors.
If approved, the deal would mark the first time that nonprofit foundations would play a role in shoring up public-sector pensions, the New York Times reported today.
Negotiations about the fate of Detroit's pensions have been proceeding in relative secrecy since last month, when a federal bankruptcy judge ruled that pension payments could be reduced as part of any bankruptcy settlement; the art deal has reportedly been in the works since mid-November. Detroit's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, has estimated that underfunded pensions account for $3.5 billion of Detroit's $18 billion in debts; retirees and pension officials have said that Orr's figure is drastically inflated.
U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen, the federal mediator in Detroit's labyrinthine bankruptcy proceedings, praised the foundations' offer yesterday, but whether the different parties in the negotiation would agree to the deal was an open question. Officials cited by the New York Times estimate that Detroit would need a total of $500 million to sequester the artwork from a sell-off, and say that supporters of the deal are still trying to raise additional money. Critics of the deal cited by Gallagher and Stryker claim that the art institute has engineered lowball appraisals of its collection, in order to fend off demands for a sell-off from creditors.
The foundations teaming up to make the pledge include the Kresge Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the Knight Foundation.
Also in Encore:
Illinois legislators pass pension reforms
Detroit pensions can be cut in bankruptcy
Coping with extremely early retirement
Matthew Heimer covers retirement for MarketWatch and edits the Encore blog. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewHeimer.


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The problem with April is that it's so far from September.
The 2013 NFL season became easier to visualize on Thursday night, as the league announced dates and times for every game.
But there are more than four months until the season's first game, which we learned yesterday would be Sept. 5 between the Denver Broncos and Baltimore Ravens.
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The Chargers open at home on a Monday night, Sept. 9 against the Houston Texans.
"The first thing you always look for when the schedule comes out is who you open with," Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers said Thursday night. "It's the only game that matters, really."
Rivers – an absolute football fanatic – then went on to analyze various portions of the schedule, the location of the bye, the timing of the division games.
Through no fault of his own -- Rivers' earnestness could make the description of rain running down a windowpane seem interesting -- it was all noise.
The six 10 a.m. kickoffs will be difficult for the Chargers. Or not.
The two East Coast road trips sandwiching the week off at the end of October make the bye less restful. Which may or may not have anything to do with anything.
Finishing Denver-Oakland-Kansas City gives the Chargers a chance to be peaking in their most important games. Or the season could be all but finished before any of those contests.
The Chargers haven't won in Miami, where they play on Nov. 17, in 30 years. The Chargers are the visitors in the Philadelphia Eagles' home opener, and the past four teams that have been the visitor in the Eagles' home opener have gone on to finish that season as Super Bowl champion. The Chargers play four of the six teams that comprised the AFC playoff field this past January.
So what? Who cares. Shrug.
What has happened in past seasons has very little bearing on what will happen in coming seasons in the NFL.
That is why "Strength of Schedule," the standard measure of assessing the difficulty of a team's road to the playoffs, is bogus.
The Chargers are adjudged to have the second-easiest schedule in 2013. That judgment is based on their opponents' combined winning percentage (.457) in 2012.
But we need only look back to how the 2012 season played out to see how misleading that can be.
Prior to the '12 season, the Chargers' strength of schedule was ranked sixth-toughest in the NFL due to their opponents having finished a combined 132-122 (.520) the previous year.
By the end of last season, the Chargers clearly had not played that difficult a slate. In fact, their opponents finished 22 games below .500 (117-139) in 2012. That qualified them as tied with the Denver Broncos for the fourth-easiest schedule.
Again, in the NFL, the past most often has very little to do with the future.
Sure, the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens being in every postseason almost as sure as my teenage son forgetting to take down the trash barrels every week, but each season has an upstart almost as thrilling as the Indianapolis Colts (improving from 2-14 in '11 to 11-5 in '12). In 10 of the past 11 seasons, at least five teams have made the playoffs after not qualifying the previous year. Never in that span have fewer than four new teams been in the postseason. More often than not, at least a half dozen playoff spots are filled by teams that weren't playing the previous January.
Things change in the NFL. The Chargers, who haven't made the playoffs in three seasons, can be grateful for that.
At this point, the draft hasn't even taken place.
Rookies and new veterans change the makeup of (and outlook for) many teams. We won't know the extent of that change until … well, until it happens.
And it won't start happening for more than four months.Copyright © 2019, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Bernie Pleskoff has been a professional scout for the Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners.
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|Right-handed-hitting centerfielder Adam Engel was a three-time All Conference baseball player at Loveland (Ohio) High School. He hit .537 his senior year with 25 stolen bases. A very good athlete, he also played high school football and basketball.
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|Upside. Potential. Call it what you will, that's left-handed hitting outfielder Raimel Tapia. He has outstanding upside. He is a very good athlete with pop in his bat that exceeds his thin 6-foot-2, 160-pound frame.
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|Right-handed pitcher Lucas Sims has been a huge Atlanta Braves fan all his life. His parents took him to Turner Field when he was only four years old, and he has been a life long supporter. Today, he wears the organizational uniforms of his favorite team.
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|Not many young men have the great Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski as their high school hitting coach. Mike Yastrzemski did.
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|It's simply amazing how many very good prospects have populated the Chicago Cubs Top Prospects lists the past couple seasons. Of course, several of them have become household names at the big league level.
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|It's a bit ironic that both the Mets Dominic Smith and the Blue Jays first base prospect Rowdy Tellez are playing for the same Salt River Rafters team in the Arizona Fall League.
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|After beginning at South Central Junior-Senior High School in Union Mills, Indiana, the big, strong 6-foot-5, 235-pound Sean Manaea moved to Andrean High School In Merrillville, Indiana.
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|Sam Travis has soared through the Red Sox development program. In parts of two seasons, he has reached Double-A and has compiled a .310 career batting average in 848 plate appearances. The right-handed hitting Travis is No. 11 on the Red Sox Top 30 Prospects list.
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Jimmy B. Parker Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy 2015 ScholarshipThe Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy is pleased to announce we are now accepting essays for the Jimmy B. Parker Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy scholarship. Full tuition to SLIG 2015 will be awarded to the student whose essay and application exemplify the culture of giving back to community, lived by Jimmy B. Parker. The scholarship will be awarded by a committee
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1. A one-page essay detailing how attending SLIG will help you prepare to give back to the genealogical community.
2. A short biography, including previous volunteer and research experience.
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4. A letter of recommendation from someone who has benefited from your volunteer service.
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3. Finding Immigrant Origins (David Ouimette, CG)
4. Advanced Research Tools: Post-War Military Records (Craig R. Scott, CG, FUGA)
5. Advanced German Research (F. Warren Bittner, CG)
6. Resources & Strategies for United States Research, Part 1 (Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FUGA, FGMS)
7. From Confusion to Conclusion: Writing Proof Arguments (Kimberly Powell and Harold Henderson, CG)
8. Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum (with Angela McGhie and Kimberly Powell)
9. Advanced Genealogical Methods (with Thomas W. Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS)
10. Getting Started with Genetic Genealogy (Debbie Parker Wayne, CG, CGL)
11. Diving Deeper into New England ? Advanced (D. Joshua Taylor, MA)
12. Advanced DNA Analysis (CeCe Moore and Angie Bush)
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—As the fiscal-cliff debate staggers on, some in the retirement industry have come out swinging against the possibility of lawmakers slashing tax benefits for 401(k)s and similar retirement plans. But do 401(k)s need protection? That is, are lawmakers really gunning for the billions of dollars of uncollected tax revenue sitting in retirement plans?
The answer is a qualified maybe.
Some say it's inevitable lawmakers will at least look at limiting the tax benefits of such plans. After all, tax deferral for 401(k)-type plans will cost the government an estimated $429 billion from 2013 through 2017. (There are many ways to estimate the total amount of lost revenue. The figure above is from the fiscal year 2013 federal budget. See that budget report here.
This paper from Boston College's Center for Retirement Research looks at various ways for estimating the cost.
Big tax bills can devastate your retirement savings. MarketWatch's Robert Powell and Andrea Coombes talk about strategies to employ before and during retirement to lower your taxes.
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"The numbers are big enough that I think [lawmakers] will evaluate whether the tax preferences given to these plans are worthwhile," said Craig Rosenthal, a partner with Mercer, a human-resources consulting firm, in New York.
Few expect Congress to start tinkering with retirement-plan tax breaks between now and the end of the year. That hasn't stopped the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries, a trade group, from developing a media campaign, complete with website, Facebook page, and Twitter handle, to encourage retirement savers to contact their members of Congress to forestall any such changes.
The industry is worried that revenue-seeking lawmakers may slash the 401(k) maximum contribution amount. Various deficit-trimming proposals in recent years suggest that very idea, not least the Simpson-Bowles plan of 2010, which proposed limiting the total annual contribution from employee and employer combined to the lowest of 20% of salary, or $20,000. The current annual maximum for employer and worker contributions is about $51,000. Read the 2010 Simpson-Bowles report here.
Long-term outlook
Still, it's unlikely 401(k) changes will get adopted soon. "I do not expect any change as part of the current [fiscal cliff] negotiations," said Dallas Salisbury, chief executive of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a nonprofit think tank.
But in 2013 or 2014, "tax expenditures" (that is, the money the government doesn't collect due to tax breaks) will be on the table, Salisbury said. "Should the parties take the approach that both have discussed—that is, a dollar limit on itemized deductions or a maximum tax rate applied to deductions—then retirement incentives will likely be left where they are, or very close to it," Salisbury said.
But if broad tax reform is taken off the table, he said, look for lawmakers to raise revenue by trimming the maximum-contribution amount and other means, with an effective date of 2014 at the earliest.
Others agreed. With regard to trimming 401(k) tax breaks, "There's nothing that the tax-writing committees or anybody who has real influence is really pushing at this stage," said Eric Toder, co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute.
Even if lawmakers eventually do limit the 401(k) maximum contribution amount, that's not likely to change savings rates, Toder said. "There are very few people who contribute to the contribution maximum."
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Generally, only high-income workers can afford to save the maximum, and the tax benefits of 401(k)s accrue largely to those folks. Read: Who gains most from 401(k) tax breaks?
That's why the Pension Rights Center, a group that advocates for retirement savers, would like to see lawmakers trim the 401(k) tax break—but not for the purpose of reducing the deficit.
"The fact is that people who are at the top of the income ladder would be saving for retirement probably without these tax incentives," said Karen Friedman, executive vice president of the Pension Rights Center. These tax benefits, she said, should be "reaching those folks who are low and moderate wage earners."
Expanding the saver's credit is one lever for doing so, she said. Another idea the PRC likes: a new type of retirement plan where contributions by lower-income workers would be subsidized by the government. "Why not look at how these tax subsidies are being directed and make them more efficient?" she said.
Still, even people who are not at the high end of the income scale may get hit if lawmakers change 401(k) contribution rules, said Mercer's Rosenthal.
For savers who see retirement fast approaching and are eager to ramp up contributions to get ready for that big day, a reduced maximum contribution could be a problem, he said.
"My fear is that a lot of that reduced savings is going to come out of the near retirees—the people who are within say 10, 15 years of becoming retirement-eligible," Rosenthal said. "They're at their prime earning years and they really are catching up from when they weren't able to save as much earlier in their careers. It would be a real shame if they were unable to do so because of a change in the tax law."
Another concern, some say, is that a reduction in benefits for higher-earning employees may prompt some employers to stop offering 401(k)s, a prospect that could be bad news for all retirement savers.
But all of these fears may be unfounded, given that lawmakers still appear far apart on fundamental tax issues.
"I'm a little pessimistic that we'll get any serious effort at tackling tax reform," said Mark Luscombe, principal tax analyst with CCH Inc., a Riverwoods, Ill.-based tax publisher and unit of Wolters Kluwer.
After all, in 2010, the Simpson-Bowles commission went nowhere fast. Still, "maybe the economic situation is more dire now," Luscombe said. "As the deficit keeps growing, [lawmakers] might be moved to do things they wouldn't otherwise have done."


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NEW YORK (AP) – The man in the suit and tie and the duo who buys clothes at thrift shops are the leaders at this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
MTV announced Wednesday that Justin Timberlake and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis have six nominations each. Bruno Mars has four nominations.
Timberlake's "Mirrors," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop" and Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven" will battle Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" and Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" for video of the year.
Timberlake's "Mirrors" and "Suit & Tie" are up for best male video, pop video and collaboration, among others. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' nominations include hip-hop video and collaboration.
Thicke, Miley Cyrus, Pink and Thirty Seconds to Mars have three nominations each.
The VMAs will air live Aug. 25 from Brooklyn's Barclays Center.
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Online retailer Amazon.com 'accidentally' leaked expected pricing for Microsoft's Windows XP software yesterday.
Prices were put up on the site last night but were pulled soon after.
Microsoft today remained adamant it had not yet set specific prices for its Window's XP operating system, due for release on 25 October.
"We are not sure how this has happened," said a spokesperson. "We will make an official statement on prices once the have been agreed."
But red-faced Microsoft also faced rumours over the rollout of its anxiously awaited software amid reports that some of its beta testers had not yet received their preview copies of XP - and were not likely to until the end of the month.
Microsoft refused to comment and would not confirm how many testers were affected.
According to Amazon's short-lived advert people can expect to pay $299.99 (£210) for XP Professional, $199.99 (£140) for the professional upgrade and XP Home, and $99.99 (£70) for XP Home upgrade.
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The 1901 Plan for Washington D.C. was the first expression of the City Beautiful movement in the United States, influencing the emerging profession of city planning and the subsequent beautification projects in Chicago, Cleveland, and San Francisco, among other cities. Building on the core of government and monumental buildings, supervised by the Commission of Fine Arts headed by Burnham and Olmsted, was interrupted during WWI, and resumed in the 1920s. The initial plan was completed in May1922 with the erection of the Lincoln Monument.
Reaction to the plan, from the beginning, was mixed. Middle class residents of Washington D.C. were glad to be rid of the railroad tracks on the Mall, considered a park for city residents before the 1901 plan, but were concerned with the price tag and "fears of its excessive formalism were still being voiced as late as 1910." (Gutheim, 36) On a purely cultural and aesthetic level, critics were quick both to praise and criticize the use of the European Beaux-Arts idiom. Montgomery Schuyler, a noted architectural critic, enthused in May 1902, "We can have nothing but praise for the magnificent scheme of Messrs. Burnham, McKim, Olmsted, and St. Gaudens. Their part in the making of a beautiful city has been so well done that they already deserve to be ranked with L'Enfant in the gratitude of Washingtonians and of all Americans who wish to be justified of their pride in the capital." (qtd. in Craig, 254). Yet the WashingtonEvening Star held quite a different opinion two years later: "It was a sad day for the city of Washington and all the people of the country interested in the welfare of the National Capital when Charles F. McKim was sent to be educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts." (qtd. in Craig, 254)
In general, the goals of the Commissioners were met in the implementation of the 1901 Plan. They succeeded in providing a national sacred space, an area on which the nation could focus its pride and point to as its cultural authority and heritage, drawing on the classical forms which gesture to Athenian democracy and the founding fathers. They succeeded in legitimizing their own place in the social structure, demonstrating the power they possessed and their usefulness to society. They succeeded in legitimizing a growing governmental structure through the symbolic relationships (the North-South and East-West axes of which the Capitol, the White House, and the Washington Monument are the foci) and the sacralization of their placement in the monumental core. And they succeeded in setting a standard for urban beautification.
Yet in many ways the plan did not live up to the expectations of the Commissioners or the public. The opportunity to rectify an omission in L'Enfant's plan--providing an appropriate space for the Supreme Court in the Mall's axis of power--was missed. Instead, the Commission planned a Supreme Court building in the Capitol grounds complex, to balance the group with a monumental structure paralleling Burnham's Union Station. Further, the emphasis on the core of monumental and government buildings was an exclusive, rather than inclusive, construction. "Government buildings designed to complement the neoclassicism of Jefferson's and L'Enfant's era were to line the Mall and encircle Capitol Hill and the White House...tending to seal off official Washington from the neighboring commercial and residential districts." (Hines, 92)
However, the most important element that did not seem to succeed in the plan was the amorphous goal of civic idealism leading to moral and economic improvement. The center of the city had been beautified and became a focus for national pride. Yet the impoverished living in the shadow of the Capitol's dome were not necessarily inspired with civic loyalty, and were certainly no better off economically for the expensive monumental plan. Boyer points out that effective "socialization through the civic ideal was an unproveable proposition at best, tenuous or nebulous at worst." (90) How could the urban poor, the largest population in Washington's city center, be "made to realize their abstract obligation to promote the 'ethical well-being of the whole community' when their individual preoccupations were so much more tangible and compelling?" (254) The idea that the poor would be somehow morally rejuvenated, and therefore more apt to succeed economically, through proximity to a beautiful city center was unproven and unproveable. Ultimately, in the 1901 plan for Washington D.C., the City Beautiful movement was unsuccessful only in the one thing it expressly allied itself with--Progressive moral and economic reform in the urban center.
The legacy of the 1901 Plan is still felt throughout the United States. The profession of city planners is well established, the prominence of the Mall in national pride is unquestioned, and the legitimacy of government as expressed in Beaux-Arts style can be found in every state. The debate over the role of city beautification versus economic redevelopment still rages, and in Washington D.C., the aims and uses of the Plan of 1901 are being renegotiated. Architect Kent Cooper recently wrote, "Our foremost problem is not the placement of new monuments and museums. They can wait. Rather, the issue for today is how best to restore the balance of fiscal resources, economic opportunity, and social and racial diversity across the spectrum of the metropolitan area so that all may prosper and the monumental core will not strangle." As Washington D.C. nears its bicentennial, the problems the 1901 Plan set out to solve are still with us.


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There are a whopping 23 new hep-th papers today, not counting the cross-listed ones, and some of them are very interesting. For example, Kachru and Tripathy find some cute number theory inside the engine of \(K3\times T^2\) compactifications of type II string theory. Max Guillen shows the equivalence of the 11-dimensional pure spinor formalism to an older one.
Dvali studies the chiral symmetry breaking, a physicist named Wu presents a theory of everything based on "gauge theory in a hyperspacetime". Some paper answers whether patience is a virtue by references to cosmic censorship LOL. But mainly the following two papers look like they belong to the black hole (or spacetime's) quantum information industry:
Spacetime has a `thickness' (Samir Mathur)Mathur wrote a (silver medal) essay for a "gravity foundation" and the point is right. However, the suggestion that these are new ideas is not really valid. He says that the spacetime (or its state) isn't just given by a shape. One must also specify the "thickness" of the wave functional defined on the configuration space (the space of 3-geometries).
Classical Spacetimes as Amplified Information in Holographic Quantum Theories (Nomura, Rath, Salzetta)
[The 4th prize in the same contest went to Shahar Hod, also cross-listed today, who claims to have proven our weak gravity conjecture as a consequence of "generalized Bekenstein's" [I wouldn't use these words] second law of thermodynamics within quantum gravity. The second law implies that the relaxation time is \(\tau\gt 1/(\pi T)\). When the imaginary parts of quasinormal models of a charged black hole are used to extract the relaxation time, one proves the weak gravity inequality. If it were a correct paper, he would have repaid my proof and our proof of his log-3 numerical observation. Well, I would still view it as "another" proof among many – similar to the proofs we already had in the original paper. It's surely personally intriguing that he has combined two things I've studied, the quasinormal modes and the weak gravity conjecture.]
If you think just a little bit, you will realize that it's an equivalent statement to my 2013 observation that coherent states form an overcomplete basis which implies that that field operators in QG cannot be localized in a background-independent way. Derivations with similar or stronger consequences have appeared in papers by Raju and Papadodimas, Berenstein and Miller, and a few others.
Even if the content of papers like Mathur were totally right, it's an unfortunate development – trend towards Smolinization of physics – for researchers not to follow their colleagues' work.
Nomura et al. do follow the literature. To say the least, when they derive that semiclassical operators must be defined in a state-dependent way, they do refer to two papers by Raju and Papadodimas who have crisply formulated this conceptual insight – I was fortunate to watch them when they were localizing the true "new lesson" of their perfectionist analyses of the possible operator algebras describing the black hole interior.
At the same moment, Nomura et al. study an idea that is new within papers on quantum gravity that include some justification:
Classical spacetimes represent amplified information.I have – and, I am sure, many of you have – articulated the idea that the local operators in theories of quantum gravity (but even other theories with classical limits) are those that amplify some information, that make it more classical. You may therefore imagine quantum gravity as some process of "organizing a pre-existing spacetime-less quantum information" and the classification of possible spacetimes in quantum gravity should therefore be equivalent to some task of finding out all the ways that allow the information to be amplified.
As far as my thinking about these matters go, the amplification should include the requirement the condition of a classical limit that the commutators between the relevant observables are much smaller than the generic ones – while this subalgebra of operators (field operators in a spacetime) evolves in a way that only depends on the operators in this subalgebra. (I am not acturally sure whether there is any tangible difference between the two conditions, amplification and the classical limit.) It's left as a homework exercise for you to show how e.g. T-duality (including mirror symmetry) and the ER-EPR correspondence may be derived as the existence of numerous inequivalent ways in which the information may be amplified.
But Nomura et al. talk about a stronger, exponential selection of the important semiclassical spacetime-like operators. These operators may be dynamically selected by time evolution.
What makes the task of finding the amplified information nontrivial in quantum gravity is that you don't have the answer from the beginning. In non-gravitational quantum field theories, we know what the Hamiltonian is and it is simply constructed as a functional of the fields that are capable of amplifying the information. However, in holographic descriptions of quantum gravity, the boundary or similar description uses different degrees of freedom and it doesn't have the bulk fields from the beginning. You really have to reconstruct them and the task is nontrivial.
If you demand the hypothetical subalgebra of these bulk operators to have small commutators with each other and the Hamiltonian, you should pretty much derive that the subalgebra includes the bulk field operators and their simple enough functionals. To be more precise, in the absence of a black hole in the bulk, only the field operators in the black hole exterior should be produced in this way. The exterior is picked because we have included the Hamiltonian into the definition of the problem (see the bold face word in this paragraph) and the CFT Hamiltonian is only simply related to the evolution outside the black hole. Note that the infalling observer's Hamiltonian has no relationship to the Killing field. Because the space and time are interchanged inside the black holes, the infalling observer's Hamiltonian is mathematically closer to some momentum operators outside the black hole.


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Chad Barrett's goal direct from Sam Cronin's corner kick last weekend in Toronto has the Revs aiming for a change in mentality
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Set pieces have been a thorn in the side of the New England Revolution in recent years. While the Revs have seemed to lack a certain cutting edge on set plays in the attacking third of the field, they've also occasionally struggled to defend balls served into the box from free kicks and corner kicks.
Those concerns on the defensive side of set pieces came to the fore once again last weekend in Toronto, when Chad Barrett got on the end of Sam Cronin's 53rd-minute corner kick and buried a header from six yards out. Barrett's strike proved to be the only goal of the game as the Revs remained winless in four all-time trips to Canada.
"Every now and again something is going to happen on a set piece – that's just a fact of life in soccer," said goalkeeper Preston Burpo, who has played every minute of the Revolution's 10 regular-season games this season. "But for us, it's happened a little bit more than it should."
Barrett's header last Saturday afternoon was the second goal New England has conceded direct from a corner kick this season – Ike Opara's header in San Jose on April 17 being the other – while the Revs have also allowed a pair of goals from indirect free kicks served into the box.
With defensive set pieces providing occasional difficulties for the Revs, it could be assumed that there are tactical reasons at the root of the problem. New England employs a unique combination of man-marking and zone defending on set pieces.
However, the overarching attitude in the Revolution locker room is that tactics aren't the issue. It's merely execution.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with the way we're setting up," said Chris Tierney, who has played every position along the backline this season, in addition to both left and central midfield. "We're in the right spots. It's just about attacking the ball. It's the same thing when you're trying to score goals, but you've got to be even more aggressive when you're defending them. It's just a mentality thing. It's nothing tactical. We've just got to go attack the ball and we've got to make sure we want it more than the guys we're marking. That's pretty much all it comes down to."
Burpo agrees that tactics aren't the problem. Instead, he believes it comes down to individual assignments and an increased sense of focus.
"Guys have got to be on their toes," he said. "If someone does run past you, maybe give them a bump to help the guy out in front of you. It's a matter of making sure we're in the right spot, (having the right) mentality, getting on your toes, attacking [the ball], being a man and throwing your body around when you have to."
Because the issues can be traced to individual mistakes, correcting them is relatively simple.
"It's very straightforward," said head coach Steve Nicol. "We have to attack the ball, and we didn't do it (in Toronto)."
While preventing goals from set pieces on the defensive end of the field is the top priority, the Revs will hope to parlay a similar mindset into success from dead-ball situations in the attacking end, where they've struggled to generate many serious threats this season.
The Revs only scored two goals from set pieces in the entire 2009 regular season, and it wasn't until their 28th game that they capitalized from a dead-ball situation. When the Revolution scored two more goals from set pieces against the Chicago Fire in the MLS Cup Playoffs, it seemed like any issues on the offensive side of the ball had been swept away.
Those difficulties have arisen yet again this season, however, as 42 corner kicks and 51 free kicks in the attacking half of the field have resulted in just one goal – Marko Perovic's fantastic free kick against the Colorado Rapids, which the Serbian deposited in the upper corner from 25 yards out. Not one of the Revolution's 10 goals this season has come via header.
Rookie forward Zack Schilawski is one of the players trying to get on the end of corner kicks and free kicks, and he believes that the return of Shalrie Joseph will provide a major boost in that area.
"Obviously [set pieces are] the way a lot of goals happen," said Schilawski. "That's another thing [Shalrie] brings to the game. I thought against Toronto he was unlucky not to score a couple. He's able to get his body in there, he's always challenging the goalkeeper and he's a threat.
"I think more guys have got to have that attitude," he continued. "I think we've had a couple of times when balls have been served into the box and no one's been around. The guys off the ball just need to have a little bit better mentality, attack the ball and try to make something happen."
The term "mentality" came up yet again when Tierney was asked about offensive set pieces, which he is often charged with delivering with his wicked left foot.
"Again, it just comes down to a matter of having the right mentality when the ball's coming into the box," he said. "You've just got to be willing to put your body on the line. You might take a [few knocks] here and there, but goals are goals, and that's what we need right now."


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The Suzuki SX4 offers a lot of compact car for the money. The SX4 lineup features a four-door sedan and a four-door hatchback. All Suzuki SX4 models are powered by a 143-horsepower 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. Front-wheel drive is standard, but all-wheel drive is available on the hatchback.
All-wheel drive makes the SX4 an excellent choice for drivers who want an inexpensive car with all-weather capability. The all-wheel-drive system has a locking feature that sends 30 percent to 50 percent of the available power to the rear wheels, giving it better traction in snow and on unpaved roads. All-wheel drive is also beneficial in the rain or anytime it's slippery, even on dry pavement in some situations.
The hatchback is called the Crossover. The Crossover offers cargo versatility and looks like a cute mini-SUV.
The sedan offers responsive handling and packs worthwhile features into a tidy package. Using front-wheel drive, the sedan achieves 23/31 mpg with the automatic and 22/30 mpg with the manual transmission.
For 2009, the biggest news is the inclusion of a navigation system as standard equipment, unusual for this class. The 2009 models get more features than before, including electronic stability control with traction control for the hatchback and a split-folding rear seat as standard equipment on all models. The SX4 Crossover was first launched as a 2007 model; the sedan joined the hatch for 2008.
The Sport sedan features a sport-tuned suspension and wider, lower-profile tires on alloy wheels. We found the Sport offers sharper steering and more nimble handling, though the ride may be stiff for some drivers.
All Suzuki SX4 models offer pleasant cabins with controls that are easy to use and interior materials appropriate for the price. The front seats are spacious. The rear seat in the hatchback is roomy. The back seat in the sedan is cramped for tall riders, but it has a large trunk. All models are keenly priced, making them worthy candidates for shoppers looking for small cars that are more than just basic transportation.Model Lineup
The 2009 Suzuki SX4 lineup comes in sedan and Crossover hatchback versions, each with a 143-hp 2.0-liter four-cylinder. Front-wheel drive is standard; all-wheel drive is available for the hatchback.
The SX4 sedan ($13,299) comes with cloth upholstery, tilt steering wheel, anti-lock brakes, P195/65R15 tires on steel wheels, and a five-speed manual transmission. The LE ($14,689) adds air conditioning, an AM/FM/CD/MP3 audio system, and power windows, door locks, and mirrors. The LE is also available with a four-speed automatic ($15,789).
The Sport ($15,739) features a sport-tuned suspension with P205/50R17 all-season tires on 17-inch alloy wheels; it's available with the automatic ($16,839).
The Crossover hatchback features 60/40 split folding rear seats, and roof rails. The Crossover comes standard with P205/60R16 all-season tires on 16-inch alloy wheels. The Crossover comes with front-wheel drive ($15,939) or all-wheel drive ($16,439). It comes with a choice of manual or automatic.
The Touring sedan ($17,539) and Touring Crossover ($18,539) add automatic climate control, SmartPass keyless entry and start, a nine-speaker sound system and electronic stability control with traction control.
Options include the LE Popular Package ($450), which includes a leather-wrapped steering wheel, cruise control, and remote keyless entry. The Sport Technology Package ($800) adds front fog lamps, real-time traffic information, Bluetooth wireless hands-free connectivity for cell phones, leather-wrapped steering wheel, and cruise control.
For the SX4 Crossover the Technology Package ($XX,XXX) includes real-time traffic information, Bluetooth, cruise control, and the leather-wrapped steering wheel. The SX4 Crossover Technology Package ($XX,XXX) adds front fog lamps, rear spoiler, heated outside mirrors, automatic climate control, heated front seats, SmartPass keyless entry and start, and the nine-speaker sound system.
Safety features include six airbags: front driver and passenger airbags, torso-protecting driver and passenger side-impact airbags, and head-protecting side-curtain airbags, all standard. Also standard are a tire-pressure monitor and LATCH child seat anchors. Electronic stability control with traction control is standard on all versions of the SX4 Crossover, and all-wheel drive is also an excellent safety feature.Walkaround
If you like the tall look of modern compact hatchbacks you'll love the lines of the Suzuki SX4 Crossover. From the side, its profile has an uncanny resemblance to the Mercedes-Benz ML-Class SUV. That's not bad considering the ML has a much sleeker look to it than most SUVs.
It seems strange to talk about the SX4 Crossover in the same breath as an SUV, but it is exactly how Suzuki describes it in the U.S. The term crossover is normally used to suggest the vehicle crosses the line between truck-based SUV and car. By industry definitions, the SX4 Crossover is a compact hatchback, not a crossover SUV. But like most crossover SUVs it has a tailgate, fold-down rear seats for added cargo space and all-wheel drive. In Europe, where the car was designed and has been well received, it's described as a hatchback. There's nothing wrong with that in Europe, where hatchbacks are considered smart and practical. But hatchbacks have traditionally been unwelcome in the U.S., a shame because they are practical and make a lot of sense.
It's also a bit strange to talk about the SX4 Sport sedan as being sporty. While there is a definite wedge shape running front to rear, the SX4 Sport's tall greenhouse makes it look more like an economy car than a sporty runabout. In fact, the SX4 Sport is really an economy car with a small amount of sports appeal.
Both versions have a large windshield that slopes down to a hood that curves over large headlight/turn signal units. The curve of bodywork from the front of the distinctive front fenders extends down to the lower lip of the front bumper with its large air intake. The look is similar for the two body styles, but the front fascias differ. The Sport has differently shaped pods for the available fog lights and a lower aero add-on that is carried over into the body sides. The Crossover has flat-black caps along the rocker panels and over the fender flares.
One of the most unusual design cues of both body styles is the large quarter windows set in front of the front doors. At their base, these windows dip down from front to back, flowing into a rising line that leads to the back of the rear windows.
The Crossover's roof remains high all the way to the rear, and has wraparound glass at the rear behind the C-pillars. The Sport's roof turns down into a short trunk. The Sport sits lower than the Crossover, befitting their purposes: the Sport is intended to grip the pavement a bit better in corners, and the Crossover is better equipped for snow and unpaved roads. For the same reasons, the Sport gets 17-inch wheels with lower profile tires while the Crossover is fitted with 16-inch wheels and tires with slightly taller sidewalls. Each setup has its advantages and disadvantages, but the differences are not dramatic.
All in all, we found both body styles to be pleasing, though not swoopy or cutting edge. Neither car looks like it's too small, and they both have a modern stance.Interior
Climbing inside the Suzuki SX4 we discovered a pleasant cockpit with no gimmicks. Everything is well placed and the brushed aluminum trim seems to be well finished. The radio controls are found on the same plane as the center of the steering wheel, with three easy-to-use climate control knobs located just below them. The interior materials include sturdy plastics on par for the class.
Four gauges are found in three dials that fill the instrument pod. They are located in front of the steering wheel, not in a gimmicky central-mounted pod like that of the Toyota Yaris. The large speedometer is mounted in the central position slightly overlapping both the smaller tachometer and a circle that houses the fuel gauge and water temperature gauge.
Head room in either body style is excellent up front. Leg room is adequate for most, though tall drivers will want more. Visibility is good to the rear, but the split front pillars can block the driver's view to the sides at intersections.
Storage space is merely adequate. A center console does not come standard. One can be ordered as a dealer accessory, but it is more of an armrest than a storage bin. Two cup holders are provided in front of the shifter where they don't get in the way while shifting a manual-equipped SX4. A decent-sized cubby is located below the climate controls, and large map pockets are provided in the front and rear doors.
Rear-seat leg room is pretty good in the Crossover, more than sufficient for a six-footer. Rear-seat legroom is not quite as generous as in the similar-sized Nissan Versa but, to put it in perspective, it's about the same as in the much larger Mercedes-Benz E-Class. Rear-seat head room in the hatchback is generous.
The sedan has less head room and leg room, with its sedan body style, but it is still usefully sized. Ingress and egress to the back seats is fine because the rear wheels are pushed toward the rear of the vehicle and the wheel wells do not intrude much.
Cargo space is sufficient in both models. The specifications for the Crossover say there is only 10 cubic feet of luggage space behind the back seats. However, it seems much larger, primarily because it is fully useable with little intrusion from the wheelwells. The wide track and low-mounted rear suspension components allow for a flat floor, a feature the Nissan Versa can't claim and more comparable to that of the relatively expensive Honda Fit. The rear seats are split 60/40 and fold and tumble forward, opening up a generous 54 cubic feet of cargo space. Getting stuff in and out is a breeze thanks to the full-width one-piece tailgate.
The trunk of the sedan offers 15.5 cubic feet of space, which is as much as some midsize cars. Be aware that the hinges do intrude on the cargo room, so you won't want to put anything that can be crushed beneath them. And while the trunk's cargo volume is generous, the rear seats do not fold down or offer a pass-through.Driving Impressions
The Suzuki SX4 comes with one of the most powerful engines in its class. It has a wide track for good handling and it seems to have a solid body. The downside is that it's relatively heavy, and weight is the enemy of performance and fuel economy. So the SX4 is not much faster than its competitors, on dry pavement, that is, and fuel consumption is not quite as good.
The Suzuki SX4 Crossover is available with all-wheel drive and that distinguishes it among the herd of compacts. The world's top rally cars use all-wheel drive for its superior traction and Suzuki has been running the SX4 in the World Rally Championship. In other words, the SX4 has the basic ingredients for a solid performance car.
The all-wheel drive system, called i-AWD, operates in three modes via a console-mounted switch. The 2WD mode is for maximum fuel economy on dry pavement, the AWD Auto mode controls the drive power distribution ratio to the rear wheels from 0 to 50 percent, depending on available traction, and the AWD Lock mode is designed to facilitate traction in case of snow or mud. In the Lock mode, power is distributed to the rear wheels in the range of 30 percent to 50 percent. When the car reaches 36 mph in AWD Lock mode, the system automatically switches to AWD Auto mode.
We're not sure why there's a 2WD mode as the fuel savings have to be minimal and it means the driving feel changes when you switch to or from the automatic mode. It seems much more sensible to have the benefits available at all times so that in an emergency situation one has all four wheels doing the work. The lock mode is useful for really adverse conditions at slow speeds. Maybe it helps in tight parking lots, though we didn't notice any binding in AWD Auto.
We found both body styles fun to drive with the manual transmission, though the gearshift throws are a little long and rubbery. The SX4 could do with a sixth gear as we found ourselves wanting to up shift several times as we drove on straight highways and freeways. Around the twisty bits, however, just shifting through the gate between second, third and fourth gear was fine. Zero to 60 mph acceleration times are in the 10-second range, so the SX4 is not particularly quick.
We only tried an automatic for a short distance and the shifting seemed smooth. The SX4 sedan achieves a slightly better EPA-estimated fuel economy rating with the automatic than it does with the manual: 23/31 mpg City/Highway for the automatic, compared to 22/30 mpg for the manual. In the Crossover, the fuel economy numbers are the same 21/28 mpg no matter what transmission is chosen.
In the Crossover, the power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering feels fine with virtually no sign of torque steer. It isn't crisp but it's far from sloppy. The steering in the Sport is a little sharper, and some minor torque steer can arise if you stomp on the throttle in the middle of a turn.
The brakes seemed fine. Anti-lock brakes are optional, but we recommend getting them because the ABS helps the driver maintain steering control in a panic braking situation.
Overall handling is competent in both body styles, thanks in part to a long wheelbase and a wide track. All-wheel-drive models grip much better on slippery surfaces, and the AWD system can help stabilize the handling even on a dry road. The sedan lacks all-wheel drive, but its lower ride height and tauter suspension make it more nimble than the Crossover.
Both body styles have a relatively high seating position, which makes the SX4's moderate body lean more pronounced. However, once the SX4 shifts its weight in a corner, it takes a set and tracks nicely through the turn.
Those who like a soft cushy ride might like the Crossover but find the Sport a little too stiff for their liking. Broken pavement can cause the Sport to jiggle, while a series of larger humps can create some bounding motions. Still, the Sport is not uncomfortable; it's just stiffer than most of its competitors.Summary
The Suzuki SX4 is a good choice among small cars for anyone looking for something other than just the cheapest, most basic transportation. All models are bargain priced and they deliver a lot of content. The SX4 Crossover is a versatile hatchback body style. The all-wheel-drive model is perhaps the best buy because it's one of the least-expensive vehicles available offering this level of all-weather capability. The SX4 Sport offers a taste of sportiness in a sub-$15,000 package. As an added bonus, there's Suzuki's 100,000-mile, seven-year, fully transferable, zero-deductible powertrain limited warranty.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent John Rettie test drove the Suzuki SX4 Crossover near San Diego, with Kirk Bell reporting on the SX4 Sport from Traverse City, Michigan.
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Hamlin Wins Slugfest at Bristol
The grinding process that Speedway Motorsports Inc. Chairman Bruton Smith ordered in April to return Bristol Motor Speedway to the way it was prior to the 2007 reconfiguration didn't work.
The high groove that was supposed to be eliminated became even more important.
The lower groove – the one that helped make this half-mile track the toughest ticket in NASCAR because it forced drivers to move each other out of the way to pass – was slow.
But through a strange twist of backward luck, Smith got the desired effect he wanted.
Bristol is back.
In a big way.
If you thought Saturday night's Sprint Cup race won by Denny Hamlin lacked the excitement of the old Bristol, if you thought it lacked the intensity that caused drivers to lose their tempers and fans to call it the best show in the sport, then you weren't paying attention.
This race had everything, from an Olympic-worthy helmet toss by Tony Stewart to a finger-pointing temper display by Danica Patrick to slide moves that equaled the excitement of the old bump-and-run.
Hamlin's winning move on Lap 461 of the 500-lap event epitomized the night. He dove low going into the turn and came up ahead of Carl Edwards, who had so much momentum he slammed into the back of the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing car.
The only difference from days of old was Hamlin held his position and pulled away for the win instead of spinning out.
"It's just a different kind of racing,' Hamlin said after what he described as the biggest win of his career. "There is nothing [Bruton Smith] is going to do that is going to make us run the bottom if it's not the fastest way around the track.
"But it's the same thing. We're all running in a line and just waiting for a guy to screw up. That's what you had with the old Bristol.'
The difference is the line was at the top and not the bottom, which made the slide move necessary instead of the bump-and-run.
So is the old Bristol really back?
"I don't think we saw as much side-by-side racing, but you didn't see side-by-side racing with the old Bristol,' said Hamlin, now tied with Jimmie Johnson, Stewart and Brad Keselowski with the most wins at three. "I'd say yes.'
That yes is seconded.
It just didn't work out the way Smith planned.
"Track position is everything,' Jeff Burton said after being collected in Ryan Newman's wreck on Lap 191. "There is no bottom lane and you can only run the top. We went from a one-groove racetrack on the bottom to a one-groove racetrack on the top.'
Ditto, said Keselowski, who crashed on Lap 272 after a nudge from Bobby Labonte to end his string of consecutive Bristol wins.
"I know the goal was to make a one-groove racetrack so there'd be more action,' he said. "But it had an inverse affect to where not everybody is running up against the wall, and the pace of the field, combined with hard tires, has made the track just even more of an aerodynamic-fest.'
It also made it a temper-fest, which was a huge part of the allure of the old Bristol. Tempers never were more heated than when Stewart tossed his helmet into the hood of Matt Kenseth's car after the two wrecked on Lap 334.
"I checked up twice to not run over him (Kenseth) and I learned my lesson there,' Stewart said. "I'm going to run over him every him every chance I've got from now 'til the end of the year ... every chance I've got."
Asked if he got the helmet back, Stewart added, "I don't give a crap. The hell with the helmet.'
That's old Bristol kind of trash talk.
Kenseth didn't think he did anything wrong, and if Stewart wants to run through him every chance he gets, "that's fine.'
"Look, Tony is probably the greatest driver in the garage,' he said. "I don't really have anything bad to say about Tony.'
Controversy. Conflict.
Sure looked like the old Bristol.
There almost were two helmet tosses, but Danica Patrick chose to point a finger at Regan Smith after Smith ended her night on Lap 436.
"This is Bristol and this is why people love this track is because you see a lot of that and you see tempers flare,' Patrick said.
There were 13 cautions compared to five in the spring race in which fans were so vocal with displeasure about the side-by-side snooze-fest that Smith felt he had to do something drastic.
His solution in lieu of returning the track to exactly the way it was before progressive banking was added in 2007 was to grind the top groove to the point it was so slick drivers wouldn't dare go there.
But as tire rubber filled in where the track was ground the upper level developed more grip than the rest of the track. Second-place finisher Johnson noticed it around Lap 50 and used it in his march from the rear to the front.
Slowly but surely, everybody used it.
And action-packed Bristol was back.
"I guess that's what they were trying to accomplish, make it harder to pass so we'd have to bump people out of the way,' said Jeff Gordon, who finished third.
With that came intensity. Fans in the stands could feel it. Drivers could feel it.
"It was fast and it was intense,' Gordon said.
And it brought in an entirely different kind of strategy. Drivers had to make sure they were two car lengths ahead of the car behind them before attempting a pass because the trailing car could close the gap and leave them hung out.
Drivers also had to make sure they were clear on the slide move or they risked taking themselves out.
"I don't know what the fans thought about the race,' Dale Earnhardt Jr. said after locking himself into the Chase with a 12th-place finish. 'I really enjoyed it, though.'
What wasn't to enjoy?
The only person luckier than Bruton Smith was Hamlin. He had a run-in on pit road with Landon Cassill, hit the wall another time, had a fan issue that caused his car to spew out almost all its water twice, and he still had the fastest car.
"I told (crew chief) Darian (Grubb) the more stuff we hit the faster it went,' Hamlin said with a huge smile.
Drama and slam-bang excitement.
If that's what fans were missing, they got it on this chamber of commerce night.
It wasn't what Smith intended, but it worked.


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