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Checkout Time – 12:00 p.m.
Extra Adult – $50 USD + tax per night
This property cannot accommodate pets.
The General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") law in the European Union ("EU") became effective on May 25, 2018. This privacy notice sets out your rights under the new laws.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
The Estate Yountville (the "Company") is a Controller (as defined in the GDPR) and responsible for your personal data that we collect. The Company is one of several affiliated entities which are owned directly or indirectly by Boardwalk Investments Group, LLC (the "Parent"), which affiliated entities include operators of other hotels and resort properties (those affiliates, collectively, the "Other Operators"; those properties, collectively, the "Other Properties"). The Company, the Parent and the Other Operators are sometimes referred to, collectively, as the "Affiliated Group". You can learn more about the Affiliated Group at www.boardwalkinvest.com. We are committed to providing our customers and website visitors of The Estate Yountville, with the best service possible while also respecting their right to privacy. The Company collects information about its customers and website visitors so that we can provide them with a personalized experience that is customized for their needs. This Privacy Policy explains how the Company collects and uses the information that our customers and website visitors share with us, as well as the precautions that we take to protect the confidentiality of their information.
This Privacy Policy applies to your visits to www.TheEstateYountville.com, including mobile optimized versions (the "Website"). We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect additional websites or properties. When we are permitted to store or use Personal Information (defined under "Information Collection and Use" below), we may do so across the Affiliated Group for purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact us free of charge at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Children's Privacy & Parental Consent
The Website is not designed, or intended for use by, anyone under age 18, and minors are expressly requested not to use these sites or submit Personal Information over them. Our Privacy Policy prohibits us from accepting users who are under the age of 18. Should we inadvertently acquire Personal Information or other data from users under the age of 18, we will not knowingly provide these data to any third party for any purpose whatsoever.
Your Consent to this Privacy Policy
Use of the Website signifies your consent, as well as the consent of the company or business for whom you use the Website and whose information you submit, to this Privacy Policy, including the collection and use of the collected information by the Company, as described in this Privacy Policy, and also signifies agreement by both you and your company to the Terms of Use for the Website, which can be accessed through the link "Terms of Use."
Information Collection and Use
It is the policy of the Company to collect only that personally identifiable information (such as name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, etc.) (Hereinafter, "Personal Information") that customers or website visitors to the Property knowingly and voluntarily provide to us. The Company will not collect Personal Information without your knowledge and consent. The Personal Information requested on the Website is necessary for the purpose of processing your reservations, providing other products or service, or answering your inquiries. Any email address collected through a third party based on your consent to receive emails from the Company or the Property will follow the same provisions as described for those who provide their email directly on the Website. By providing the Company with your Personal Information, you are giving your consent and permission for this use and any other use disclosed elsewhere at the point you submit such Personal Information.
When you visit the Website through a mobile device, we automatically collect information on the type of device you use and operating system version. We access and track location-based information from your mobile device while during your visit to the mobile website. If you no longer wish to have your geo location used, you may turn off location services at the device level. We collect your location-based information for the purpose of locating a hotel in your geographic area. We will only share this information with our mapping provider for the sole purpose of providing you the service. The Company will use your Personal Information only as provided in this Privacy Policy.
We also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
If you Fail to Provide Personal Data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you a room or other services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
Mobile App Collection and Use
When you download and use our services utilizing one of our mobile optimized websites or our mobile applications, we automatically collect information on the type of device you use and operating system version. We access and track location-based information from your mobile device during your use of our mobile application or services. We collect your location-based information for the purpose of locating a place that you may be searching for in your area. We will only share this information with our mapping provider for the sole purpose of providing you the service. If you no longer wish to have your geo location used, you may turn location services off at the device level.
The Website does not collect, save or store Personal Information from our visitors who just browse through the Website without completing and emailing any forms, making reservations, or enrolling in our programs. Like most standard website servers, we collect (or engage third parties to collect on our behalf) non-personally identifiable information using log files, ad tracking tags, and similar technology. This includes, but is not limited to, Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and click stream data. We use this non-personally identifiable information to analyze trends, administer the website, track users' movements in aggregated form, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information. We currently engage the third-party service provider Google Analytics to analyze user activity on the Website. You should review Google Analytics' Privacy Policy to learn how it collects and uses information. You can find Google Analytics' Privacy Policy at www.support.google.com/analytics.
We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our mobile software on your phone. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We do not link the information we store within the analytics software to any personally identifiable information you submit within the mobile app.
We use a third-party service provider to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet and sometimes on this site. This service provider may collect non-personally identifiable information about your visits to the Website. They may also use information about your visits to this and other websites to target advertisements for goods and services. If you don't want your anonymous information collected, you may delete the existing cookies for the Website, and in your browser settings revoke the permission granted to the Website for placing cookies.
Online Hotel Booking
We request Personal Information from you in our online booking area. You must provide contact information (such as name, address, phone number and email address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date and other information) in order for us to process your reservation. This information is used for billing purposes and to reserve a room or rooms at the property. If there is a problem with a reservation, the information may also be used to contact you. Your email address will be used to send promotional specials only if you sign up to participate.
Email Exclusives
You can unsubscribe at any time from the emails you receive from the Company by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the emails.
Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, when you stay at the Property your Personal Information will not be shared with other parties for marketing purposes, except companies within the Affiliated Group. Communicating to past guests via email is the most environmentally friendly and responsible way to communicate; therefore, we make a strong effort to acquire the email addresses of those guests that stay with us.
If you do not opt out you will continue to receive our offers emails which will be sent approximately twice a month. If at any time you receive email from the Company and you wish to opt out/unsubscribe, please click on the unsubscribe link in emails you've received from the Company. On the unsubscribe page, click 'unsubscribe' to be removed from email campaigns.
Tracking Technologies
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies, Web beacons, Local Storage, HTML 5, Java Script and E-Tags on our site. We have no access to or control over these tracking technologies. This privacy statement covers the use of tracking technologies by the website only and does not cover the use of tracking technologies by any advertisers or third parties that we partner with.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies.
At any given time, the Website may have any number of simultaneous users making reservations or updating information on the Website. In order to keep track of what function a user is performing in the Website at any particular time, the system assigns a unique identification number for each user. This is referred to as a Session ID. We use Session ID cookies to store a unique session ID so that we can keep track of user interactions with the system at any particular time. As one might expect, when there are 50 or 100 users on the system at the same time all performing simultaneous operations, it is imperative that a unique ID is appended to each user operation so that the system can respond with the right information to the right user. The cookie performs this function. It is created and stored on the user's machine the first time a user receives a response from the server. The cookie terminates, or is deleted, from a user's computer when he or she closes the browser.
We use persistent cookies only when a user gives permission to place a cookie on his or her hard drive. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user's hard drive for an extended period of time. This option stores all customer information in the form of a cookie on your computer, which will automatically apply your profile data to future reservations. No credit card information will be retained as a result. If you are using a public or shared computer, we recommend that you deselect the checkbox for Remember Me to disable this function.
The Company and our third-party partners use Local Storage, such as HTML5, to store content information and preferences. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5.
The Company and our third-party partners may also utilize tracking tags and pixels to gather information about your activities on the Website and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. An e-tag is a HTTP header that is sent-behind-the-scenes between a web browser and a web server. Tags are tiny bits of website code that allow our partners to measure traffic and visitor behavior, understand the impact of online advertising and social channels, use remarketing and audience targeting, test, improve sites, and more.
The Company and our third-party partners may also utilize JavaScript. A JavaScript is a scripting language used to produce more interactive and dynamic websites. JavaScript can create cookies, read cookies, and delete cookies.
Our third-party partners may also use technologies called web beacons to gather information about your activities on the Website and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. Web beacons, also known as web bugs, pixel tags, or clear gifs are clear graphic images of a 1-by-1 pixel that are delivered through a web browser to an end user's computer – usually as part of a web page request. The beacon operates as a tag that records a user's visit to a particular web page.
We also use tracking technologies within email communications in order to more effectively tailor offers to your needs, as well as allow us to understand booking information from email responses.
Social Media Widgets
The Website includes social media features, such as the Facebook button and widgets, such as the share this button that runs on the Website. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the Website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
We use Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") connections to protect the information that you provide to us through the Website. SSL encrypts information and keeps the data private and confidential between your computer and the Company. This technology helps to make it safer to transmit your credit card number over the internet.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information and email addresses submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute confidentiality or security.
If you have any questions about security on the Website, contact us by email at email@example.com.
Communications from the Company
Confirmation Emails
We send all visitors who book reservations at the Property an email confirming their reservations.
Service Announcements
On rare occasions, it is necessary to send out a service related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send users an email. Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications. However, these communications are not promotional in nature.
Customer Service
We communicate with users on a regular basis to provide requested services and, with regards to issues relating to their accounts, to reply via email or phone, as directed.
Marketing Materials
We may, from time to time, use your email information gathered through the Website for the electronic marketing of the Property or the Other Properties, or our other products or services. If you do not wish to receive these electronic marketing materials, please see the Choice/Opt-out section below.
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose Personal Information when required by law when we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, a court order, legal process, or governmental investigation, or if we have a good faith belief that it is necessary to protect our rights or property. A request to opt out made on the Website will only apply to our use of your Personal Information collected on the Website and not to uses of your Personal Information that is obtained by us through other sources.
We may make Personal Information available (under an obligation to keep the Personal Information confidential) to a prospective or successor owner, buyer or operator of the Company or the Property. In the event of a merger, asset sale, reorganization, restructuring, liquidation, bankruptcy proceeding or similar transaction involving the Property, the Company's or the Websites, and we may share, sell, or otherwise transfer your information to such owner, buyer or operator of the Company or the Property.
We do not share your Personally Identifiable Information including email address with third parties for their promotional purposes, except as noted below.
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We may combine non-personally identifiable information supplied by our users, such as geographic or other generic information, and use such information to describe our user base, without reference to any specific individual information, to our potential partners, investors and advertisers. We will not link this statistical information to any user's Personal Information that can identify such user as an individual.
Third Party Providers
We use credit card processing companies to bill users for goods and services purchased on the Website. We may also from time to time use unaffiliated third parties to perform various functions related to our website management, including many of the activities described in this Privacy Policy. None of these third parties is authorized to use personally identifiable information for any purpose for which the Company does not use such information. The third-party providers may use aggregated non-personally identifiable information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, and may combine that information with other information for other marketing purposes. Any third-party provider that uses this information for any purpose other than as described as undertaken by the Company in this Privacy Policy has provided a link (listed elsewhere in this policy) to permit you to opt out of this use.
Credit Card Companies
When you purchase goods or services with a credit card, we may share your information with credit card companies. We may use a third party a service provider to help us gather and analyze information about our customers. The third-party service provider's only role is to help us conduct our business and deliver the most relevant products and services. If you would like to deactivate our ability to analyze your anonymous browsing and purchase behavior through the use of this service or find out more about our service provider, including its privacy policy and how to opt out, or to unsubscribe to our services, contact us using our online Customer Support form.
Access to Your Information
If you would like to modify or request deletion of your Personal Information including email address that you have provided to us through our website or mobile applications, you may do so by emailing email@example.com. We will respond to all access requests within 30 days.
All Personal Information collected from you, with your permission for purposes of making a reservation at one of our hotels, may be accessed and modified by contacting the hotel where your reservation is held.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Our customers and visitors are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of receiving our electronic newsletter and promotional communications by notifying us via Email. Opt-out of receiving these types of communications, you can unsubscribe by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the emails. On the unsubscribe page, click 'unsubscribe' to be removed from email campaigns.
If you do opt out, we will use your personal information only (a) as necessary to respond to your inquiry, and make a record of it; (b) as necessary to provide any goods or services, including hotel reservations that you have specifically requested, and to make records of these transactions; and (c) for inclusion in statistical or demographic profiles that we use for general marketing purposes. Although personally identifiable information is used to compile the profiles, we use the profiles only as aggregate data, without reference to personally identifiable information.
Links to Other Sites
The Websites provide links to third party websites. When you click on one of these links, you are leaving the Website and entering another website that we do not control and for which we cannot be responsible. You should carefully review the privacy statements or policies on any other website that you visit because those privacy statements or policies will apply to your visit to that website and may be very different from our policy.
Data Outside EU
By submitting information to us through the Website or otherwise, you acknowledge that you are sending your data outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"), including to the United States, and we do not intend to store that data inside the EEA.
We share your Personal data within the Affiliated Group. We ensure your Personal data is protected by requiring all our group companies to follow the same rules when processing your Personal data.
Many of our external third parties are based outside the EEA so their processing of your Personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
- We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission. For further details, see European Commission:
- Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
- Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European
- Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
- Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
How Long Will You Use My Personal Data For?
By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for seven years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for further information.
Your Legal Rights
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the Personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the Personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove Personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your Personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your Personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your Personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your Personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your Personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your Personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your Personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your Personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
Please send an email to email@example.com if you wish to exercise any of the above rights.
Policy Changes
The Company reserves the right to modify the terms or conditions of this Privacy Policy or email practices at any time without prior notice or warning. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be made here on our "Online Privacy" page. You should periodically revisit this Privacy Policy to see if any modifications have been made.
If we make material changes in our information and email collection and use practices, we will notify you by means of a notice on the Website home page.
Contact Information
If you still have questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us using the online Customer Support form. You may also contact us at email@example.com.


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Stung by a recession that sapped investments and home values, but expressing widespread job satisfaction, older Americans appear to have accepted the reality of a retirement that comes later in life and no longer represents a complete exit from the workforce. Some 82 percent of working Americans over 50 say it is at least somewhat likely they will work for pay in retirement, according to a poll released Monday by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The survey found 47 percent of working survey respondents now expect to retire later than they previously thought and, on average, plan to call it quits at about 66, or nearly three years later than their estimate when they were 40. Men, racial minorities, parents of minor children, those earning less than $50,000 a year and those without health insurance were more likely to put off their plans.
"Many people had experienced a big downward movement in their 401(k) plans, so they're trying to make up for that period of time when they lost money," said Olivia Mitchell, a retirement expert who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
About three-quarters of working respondents said they have given their retirement years some or a great deal of thought. When considering factors that are very or extremely important in their retirement decisions, 78 percent cited financial needs, 75 percent said health, 68 percent their ability to do their job and 67 percent said their need for employer benefits such as health insurance.
Graphic designer Tom Sadowski, 65, of Sterling, Va., had expected to retire this year, but the recession caused his business to fail and his savings to take a hit. With four teenage daughters, he knew he had to put retirement off.
"At this age, my dad had already been retired 10 years and moved to Florida," he said. "Times are different now for most people."
Sadowski now plans to retire in about five years, but even then, he expects to do some work for pay. He notes that some of his friends without children have begun to retire, but he tries not to dwell on his shifted plans.
"For a moment, maybe, I have a twinge of, 'I wish that were me,'" he said. "But you can't live that way."
The shift in retirement expectations coincides with a growing trend of later-life work. Labor force participation of seniors fell for a half-century after the advent of Social Security, but began picking up in the late 1990s. Older adults are now the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce; people 55 and up are forecast to make up one-fourth of the civilian labor force in 2020.
That growth has paralleled a rising interest in retirements that are far more active than the old stereotype of moving to Florida, never to work again. Among those who retired, 4 percent are looking for a job and 11 percent are already working again. Those still on the job showed far greater interest in continuing to work: Some 47 percent of employed survey respondents said they are very or extremely likely to do some work for pay in retirement, and 35 percent said they are somewhat likely.
"The definition of retirement has changed," said Brad Glickman, a certified financial planner with a large number of baby-boomer clients in Chevy Chase, Md. "Now the question we ask our clients is, 'What's your job after retirement?'"
One such retiree who returned to the workforce is Clara Marion, 69, of Covington, La., a teacher who retired in 2000 and went back to work a year later. She retired again in 2007 but soon returned to part-time work because she needed the money.
When she first retired, she had about $100,000 in savings, but she has used much of that up. Her pension isn't enough to pay her bills, and she isn't eligible for Social Security. So she's back in a second-grade classroom, four days a week.
"I'd love to be sleeping in," she said, "but I will probably never retire."
Though Marion's finances are primarily what keep her working, she says she enjoys her work, in line with other survey respondents reporting exceptional job satisfaction. Nine out of 10 workers in the study said they are very or somewhat satisfied with their job.
Increased lifespans and a renewed idea of when old age begins are also fueling more work among older adults. Six in 10 people said they feel younger than their age; only 6 percent said they feel older. Respondents said the average person is old at about 72. One in 5 said it depends on the person.
Even so, one-third of retired survey respondents said they did not stop working by choice. The figures were higher within certain demographic groups: racial minorities, those with less formal education or lower household incomes were more likely to feel they had no option but to retire. Eight percent say they were forced from a job because of their age. In interviews, survey respondents cited health as well as layoffs followed by unsuccessful job searches.
David Sandersfeld, 62, of Dayville, Ore., was laid off from his park ranger job two years ago. He had hoped to stay on the job until he was 70, but his search for a new job was fruitless. So almost a decade sooner than expected, he retired.
"It came sooner than I was hoping," he said. "The economy doesn't need me, so I guess I'll just retire."
Others, like Margaret Yarborough, 86, of Scranton, S.C., had their plans thwarted by health. She had hoped to keep working as a department store sales clerk forever, but a car accident and arthritis made it impossible, so she retired a few years ago.
"I sure would like to work," she said. "I enjoy being with people. I enjoy having the income."
The AP-NORC Center survey was conducted Aug. 8 through Sept. 10 by NORC at the University of Chicago, with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which makes grants to support original research and whose Working Longer program seeks to expand understanding of aging Americans' work patterns.
It involved landline and cellphone interviews in English and Spanish with 1,024 people aged 50 and older nationwide. Results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
Though a roughly equal share of survey participants reported feeling secure about their retirement savings as feeling anxious, a significant minority gave signs of financial stress: One in 6 reported having less than $1,000 in retirement savings and 1 in 4 working respondents aren't saving for retirement outside of Social Security. Some 12 percent of unretired people reported borrowing from a 401(k) or other retirement plan in the past year. Though 29 percent reported at least $100,000 in savings, some find even that's not enough.
"All too often, people have a lump-sum illusion. They think, 'I have $100,000 in my 401k,' and they think, 'I'm rich,'" said Mitchell. "But it doesn't add up to much. It certainly is not going to keep them in champagne and truffles."
Dolores Gonzalez, 57, of Coalinga, Calif., expects no luxuries in retirement. She'll be happy if she can simply afford her $2,200 monthly mortgage payment. She used to think she would retire from teaching at 65; now she says she'll never stop working.
She had been strained by helping to support her parents. Now she has less than $200 in savings and she worries about sustaining herself in retirement when all she'll have is a Social Security check.
"A lot of people don't save because the cost of living is so high," she said. "Retirement is not going to be comfortable. It's going to be hard."
AP Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.
Matt Sedensky, an AP reporter on leave, is studying aging and workforce issues as part of a one-year fellowship at the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which joins NORC's independent research and AP journalism. The fellowship is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and supported by APME, an association of AP member newspapers and broadcast stations.
Follow Matt Sedensky on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sedensky
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In 1931, William Teasdale Armstrong, a highly respected craftsman and a C.G. Conn shop foreman, founded his small flute repair shop in Elkhart, Indiana. Word of his skill and uncompromising commitment to quality quickly spread, and it wasn't long before he was asked to manufacture instruments for professional musicians.
The proud Armstrong heritage passed on to son Edward, who apprenticed under his father and shared his father's attention to detail regarding quality. Edward's concern for quality went well beyond the crafting of professional level instruments. He recognized a need to provide quality instruments to a rapidly growing number of students and community musicians.
In the 1970s, Armstrong developed a "new" flute scale in conjunction with Albert Cooper. Prior to this new scale, flute makers would correct the tuning of A=435 commonly found on flutes by cutting the end of the headjoint to bring pitch up to A=440. While this served to correct the pitch in the center registers, all other octaves did not play in tune. Armstrong and Cooper collaborated together to create a whole new flute with improved performance. Changes would include a tapered headjoint, alterations to dimension of tone holes and tone hole placement. This redesigned flute would become today's 102, 103, and 104 model flute platforms.
In 1984, the Armstrong woodwind company was sold to King Musical Instruments, which later merged with C.G. Conn in 1985 to form United Musical Instruments (UMI). UMI later merged with the Selmer Company in 2002 and created Conn-Selmer, Inc.


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C. trachomatis test, CZ test, chlamydia test
This test looks for Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria in a sample of cells collected by your healthcare provider.
C. trachomatis bacteria cause chlamydia. Chlamydia is 1 of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the U.S.
The CDC recommends that sexually active women 25 and younger, as well as older women with risk factors, be screened once a year for chlamydia. That's because as many as half of women who get chlamydia don't have any symptoms. Men should be tested as soon as they have symptoms or if their partners are diagnosed with chlamydia.
In women, chlamydia may lead to cervicitis, an inflammation and swelling of the cervix. If it isn't treated, it can lead to serious sexual health problems, including infertility. Affected women may also develop endometriosis. In men, chlamydia can cause urethritis. This is a swelling of the urethra and possibly blood in the urine. Babies born to mothers infected with chlamydia can get a lung or eye infection.
Chlamydia can be treated with antibiotics.
You may need this test if you are a sexually active woman age 25 or younger, an older woman with risk factors, such as new or multiple sexual partners, or a man whose partner has been diagnosed with chlamydia.
When symptoms happen in women, they can include:
Abnormal vaginal bleeding or discharge
Stomach pain
Pain during sex
Pain when urinating
Rectal pain
When symptoms happen in men, they can include:
Watery discharge from your penis that's not urine
Swollen scrotum
Painful sensation in your testicles
Your healthcare provider may also order other tests because chlamydia symptoms can be confused with symptoms of other STIs. These STIs include:
Hepatitis B
Test results may vary depending on your age, gender, health history, and other things. Your test results may be different depending on the lab used. They may not mean you have a problem. Ask your healthcare provider what your test results mean for you.
Normal results are negative, meaning that no chlamydia cells were found in your sample.
A positive result means that chlamydia bacteria were found and that you are likely infected with the disease.
This test is done with a sample of cells from the urethra in men or the vagina in women. For men, the healthcare provider will gently insert a swab 3 to 4 centimeters into the urethra. The provider will turn it once to collect cells. For women, the provider will put the swab into the vagina to take cells from the cervix.
This test poses no known risks.
Other factors aren't likely to affect your results.
You don't need to prepare for this test. Be sure your healthcare provider knows about all medicines, herbs, vitamins, and supplements you are taking. This includes medicines that don't need a prescription and any illegal drugs you may use.


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Researchers say they've discovered that gravitational waves rippled through the fabric of space-time in the first sliver of a second after the Big Bang — the first direct evidence for a mysterious, ultrarapid expansion at the dawn of the universe. If confirmed, it would represent one of the most profound insights in decades to emerge from the field of cosmology.
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics used an experiment known as Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization — BICEP2 — which involves a telescope based at the South Pole, to detect waves in the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background at just 10-35 of a second after the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago.
How small a moment is that? For the 13.7 blog, astrophysicist Adam Frank defines it as "a decimal point with 34 zeros after it, which looks like this: T = 0.00000000000000000000000000000000001 second."
Among the most important implications of the discovery would be for what's called inflation theory, an idea first posited in the 1980s by physicist Alan Guth.
"Inflation has been the workhorse of cosmology for 35 years, though many, including Dr. Guth, wondered whether it could ever be proved.
"If corroborated, [astronomer John M.] Kovac's work will stand as a landmark in science comparable to the recent discovery of dark energy pushing the universe apart, or of the Big Bang itself. It would open vast realms of time and space and energy to science and speculation."
"The violence of the early universe was so extreme that it would leave space-time itself ringing like a bell. Almost as soon as inflation was proposed some scientists predicted that in would leave a 'gravity wave' signature," Frank says.
That first microsecond came well before the galaxies, stars and planets that make up our familiar present-day universe.
As The Associated Press writes: "Right after the Big Bang, the universe was a hot soup of particles. It took about 380,000 years to cool enough that the particles could form atoms, then stars and galaxies. Billions of years later, planets formed from gas and dust that were orbiting stars. The universe has continued to spread out."
But possibly proving Guth's inflation theory is not the only implication of the new research, says NPR's Geoff Brumfiel. It could also help rationalize ideas of the very large (Einsteinian gravitation) and the very small (quantum mechanics) that didn't seem to want to play nice together.
"These waves are produced in gravity, but they exist within the context of inflation, which is fundamentally quantum mechanical.
"So, this might go some way toward unifying the two," Brumfiel says.
"This is really exciting. We have made the first direct image of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time across the primordial sky, and verified a theory about the creation of the whole universe," says Chao-Lin Kuo, an assistant professor of physics at Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and co-leader of the BICEP2 collaboration.
Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, at Arizona State University, said that if verified, the discovery "gives us a window on the universe at the very beginning."
"It's just amazing," he is quoted by the AP as saying. "You can see back to the beginning of time."


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Fedora ARM VFAD - Fedora 18 - TC1
- When: Monday October 15th at 12PM EDT
- Where: #fedora-arm on Freednode
Please join us on Monday October 15th as we test all available images to be used in the Fedora 18 TC1. All can participate - even if you lack hardware you can greatly assist us by testing the functionality of our QEMU images, as well as in updating our wiki where appropriate. Our aim is to remove outdated material, and add areas that include answers to frequently asked questions, installation and usage instructions for specific hardware and anything else that may help Fedora ARM users.
Please add your name, followed by your IRC nick:
- Paul Whalen - pwhalen
Test Instructions
Please add your name to the wiki beside the hardware you will be testing as well as the media you will be using (eg SATA, SD). See this link for examples on how to report test results.
Overall Test Results and Board Assignment
Hardware | Media | Who's Testing | Result | Link to Results Page | Final Notes |
Versatile Express (Qemu) | Disk Image(mmc) | pwhalen | vexpress Results | ||
Versatile Express+XFCE (Qemu) | Disk Image(mmc) | pwhalen | vexpress XFCE Results | Boot to runlevel 3. Missing @fonts and xfce4-icon-theme. Once installed system functions as expected. | |
Pandaboard | SD | pwhalen | Pandaboard SD Results | LED's not lit | |
Pandaboard+XFCE | SD | jcapik | Pandaboard+XFCE SD Results | lm_sensors fail to start, no GUI ... X says "No screens found" ... fixed with xorg.conf generated with 'Xorg -configure', @fonts/xfce4-icon-theme/gdm and maybe more packages are missing, strange artifacts on the screen or totally black screen | |
Trimslice Bare/Value Pro/H/H250 | SD | pwhalen | Trimslice SD | ||
Trimslice Pro/H/H250 | USB(SATA) | pwhalen | Trimslice USB |
Testing Template
Copy the wiki source of the below tests and results chart to a page you will create, using the hardware you are testing as the end of the url. For example if you are testing a Pandaboard with SD card, use a link similar to "Architectures/ARM/Quality Assurance/2012-10-15-VFAD-Fedora 18 Test Day-Pandaboard-SD" to record your results. Once completed add the link to overall results chart above, and an assessment if the image is ready. Please include the categories at the bottom of the page.
- Copy the below tests and results chart to a page that you create .
- Download the image for your system from http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/vault/f18-prealpha/ as well as the corresponding checksum file http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/vault/f18-prealpha/SHA256SUMS
- Does your downloaded image have the correct checksum?
- Run the command: sha256sum --check SHA256SUMS
- Check the image size:
- xzcat NameOfImage.xz|wc -c - Is the uncompressed image less then 4GB?
- Copy the image to your SD card:
- xzcat (name-of-image) > /dev/SD_Card_Device and then insert it into your system and power on. Does the system boot?
- Do all default services start properly?
- Watch for service-start failure messages during boot.
- Check the boot result:
- If graphics hardware is present and the image is configured for a graphical user interface, does the system successfully boot to the GUI?
- If no graphical hardware is present, does the system successfully boot to a login prompt? (Note: depending on the image, the login prompt may appear on a connected monitor or on a serial console)
- Are you able to download and install updates with yum, and if available the default graphical package manager?
- Test this using the command: yum install sl and yum update (you may want to limit this to one package as updates can take a while depending on your media. eg - yum update bash)
- Graphical user interfaces only: use the graphical package manager for your desktop (if applicable) to install zsh
- Is logging functional? It must provide at least basic local file-based logging of kernel messages, and allow other components to write log messages.
- Test using the command: tail -f /var/log/messages
- Are you able to shutdown the system using standard console commands?
- Test poweroff or halt or reboot or shutdown -h now
- If audio device support is present, does it work?
- Test with: play /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*wav
- Are the final branded release notes from the Documentation team present on the installed media?
- Check /usr/share/doc/HTML/fedora-release-notes. In a graphical user interface, look for a "Release Notes" menu entry.
- Graphical user interfaces only: Is it possible to run Firefox and a terminal application?
- Use the browser to download a small file - http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/vault/f18-prealpha/SHA256SUMS
- Load extensions (Firefox -> Tools -> Get Add-ons _> <choose an extension>)
- Log into FAS.
- Graphical user interfaces only is the default Fedora artwork used (currently not decided)?
- Default wallpaper - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_Artwork
- Graphical user interfaces only: Are the desktop's panels working and fully functional?
- Graphical user interfaces only: Is media automatically detected when inserted?
- Plug in a USB device or other removable media. Does the system automatically mount the device?
- Graphical user interfaces only: On graphical hardware - do offered mechanisms (if any) for shutting down, logging out and rebooting work?
- Use the GUI to logout, reboot and shutdown the system.
- Graphical user interfaces only: Do all elements of the default panel (or equivalent) configuration in all release-blocking desktops function correctly in common use?
- Does every button do what it is supposed to do?
- Do GUI actions align correctly with the pointer position?
- Graphical user interfaces only: Menu sanity:
- All Applications listed in the system menus (or equivalent) must have icons which have a consistent appearance and sufficiently high resolution to avoid appearing blurry
- Do all applications listed under the Applications menu or category start successfully?
- Do all applications listed under the Applications menu or category must withstand a basic functionality test and not crash after a few minutes of normal use. They must also have working Help and Help -> About menu items
- Ensure no application appears more then once in the menus. In particular, items under System must not appear under Applications
- Graphical user interfaces only: Does Saving passwords in the desktop default keyring (if the desktop implements one), and retrieving passwords from the keyring work?
- Create an ssh key: ssh-keygen # Use a passphrase
- Copy the ssh key to a remote system: ssh-copy-id YourUserId@RemoteSystem # Enter password when prompted
- Connect to the remote system: ssh YourUserId@RemoteSystem # You should be prompted for the passphrase. Select the checkbox marked "Unlock this key when I log in" (or similar wording)
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...We had meatballs for dinner this evening. We've been entertaining a young neighbor and he stayed with us through supper tonight. He is a notoriously poor eater, and while I don't fret about food when he visits, I have been known to follow the path of least resistance when I cook for him. I cheat a bit and only make things I know he will eat, so, dishes like tonight's "Viking" meatballs usually appear on the table when he is here. Meatballs are standard fare in Scandinavia, and while this version contains sherry and is spiced a bit differently than most, the Vikings would have loved to down these between rounds of mead or ale. I like them because they are easy to prepare and make a great family supper. The meat mixture used here is very loose and it helps to use wet hands when shaping it. I also like to strain the pan gravy before I spoon it over the meatballs. While my personal preference will always be good old-fashioned Swedish meatballs, these are a really nice alternative and I think you will like them. The sauce is mildly sweet and sherry flavored but neither the sugar nor the wine overpower the brown sauce in which the meatballs cook. I like to serve these with noodles, but rice or mashed potatoes also work well. I hope you will give these a try. Here's the recipe.
Spiced Meatballs in Sherry Wine Sauce ...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
1 large clove garlic
2 small onions
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1 pound lean ground pork
1/2 pound lean ground beef
1/2cup panko bread crumbs
1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 large eggs,lightly beaten
1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons dry sherry, divided use
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoons vegetable oil
3/4 cup low-sodium chicken broth
1 to 2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon instant blend flour (i.e. Wondra)
1) Pulse onions, garlic and parsley is a small food processor until they form a paste. Scrape into a large mixing bowl.
2) Add pork, beef, bread crumbs, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, salt, pepper, eggs and 2 tablespoons sherry to herb mixture. Mix well. Form the mixture into 1-inch balls.
3) Heat butter and oil in a large skillet. Workingin batches, brown meatballs on all sides. Remove from skillet.
4) Deglaze pan with reserved 1/2 cup sherry. When wine has nearly evaporated, whisk in broth, sugar and instant blending flour. Bring to a boil and cook until lightly thickened. Strain at this point if a smooth sauce is desired. Return meatballs to pan, cover, and simmer until fully cooked, about 10 minutes longer. Serve immediately. Yield: 6 servings.
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This summary of the book of Judges provides information about the title, author(s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Book of Judges.
The title refers to the leaders Israel had from the time of the elders who outlived Joshua until the time of the monarchy. Their principal purpose is best expressed in 2:16: "Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hands of . . . raiders." Since it was God who permitted the oppressions and raised up deliverers, he himself was Israel's ultimate Judge and Deliverer (11:27; see 8:23, where Gideon, a judge, insists that the Lord is Israel's true ruler).
Although tradition ascribes the book to Samuel, the author is actually unknown. It is possible that Samuel assembled some of the accounts from the period of the judges and that such prophets as Nathan and Gad, both of whom were associated with David's court, had a hand in shaping and editing the material (see 1Ch 29:29).
The date of composition is also unknown, but it was undoubtedly during the monarchy. The frequent expression "In those days Israel had no king" (17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25) suggests a date after the establishment of the monarchy. The observation that the Jebusites still controlled Jerusalem (1:21) has been taken to indicate a time before David's capture of the city c. 1000 b.c. (see 2Sa 5:6-10). But the new conditions in Israel alluded to in chs. 17-21 suggest a time after the Davidic dynasty had been effectively established (tenth century b.c.).
The book of Judges depicts the life of Israel in the promised land from the death of Joshua to the rise of the monarchy. On the one hand, it is an account of frequent apostasy, provoking divine chastening. On the other hand, it tells of urgent appeals to God in times of crisis, moving the Lord to raise up leaders (judges) through whom he throws off foreign oppressors and restores the land to peace.
With Israel's conquest of the promised land through the leadership of Joshua, many of the covenant promises God had made to their ancestors were fulfilled (see Jos 21:43-45). The Lord's land, where Israel was to enter into rest, lay under their feet; it remained only for them to occupy it, to displace the Canaanites and to cleanse it of paganism. The time had come for Israel to be the kingdom of God in the form of an established commonwealth on earth.
But in Canaan Israel quickly forgot the acts of God that had given them birth and had established them in the land. Consequently they lost sight of their unique identity as God's people, chosen and called to be his army and the loyal citizens of his emerging kingdom. They settled down and attached themselves to Canaan's peoples together with Canaanite morals, gods, and religious beliefs and practices as readily as to Canaan's agriculture and social life.
Throughout Judges the fundamental issue is the lordship of God in Israel, especially Israel's acknowledgment of and loyalty to his rule. His kingship over Israel had been uniquely established by the covenant at Sinai (Ex 19-24), which was later renewed by Moses on the plains of Moab (Dt 29) and by Joshua at Shechem (Jos 24). The author accuses Israel of having rejected the kingship of the Lord again and again. They stopped fighting the Lord's battles, turned to the gods of Canaan to secure the blessings of family, flocks and fields, and abandoned God's laws for daily living. In the very center of the cycle of the judges (see Outline), Gideon had to remind Israel that the Lord was their King (see note on 8:23). The recurring lament, and indictment, of chs. 17 - 21 (see Outline) is: "In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit" (see note on 17:6). The primary reference here is doubtless to the earthly mediators of the Lord's rule (i.e., human kings), but the implicit charge is that Israel did not truly acknowledge or obey her heavenly King either.
Only by the Lord's sovereign use of foreign oppression to chasten his people -- thereby implementing the covenant curses (see Lev 26:14-45; Dt 28:15-68) -- and by his raising up deliverers when his people cried out to him did he maintain his kingship in Israel and preserve his embryonic kingdom from extinction. Israel's flawed condition was graphically exposed; they continued to need new saving acts by God in order to enter into the promised rest (see note on Jos 1:13).
Out of the recurring cycles of disobedience, foreign oppression, cries of distress, and deliverance (see 2:11-19; Ne 9:26-31) emerges another important theme -- the covenant faithfulness of the Lord. The amazing patience and long-suffering of God are no better demonstrated than during this unsettled period.
Remarkably, this age of Israel's failure, following directly on the redemptive events that came through Moses and Joshua, is in a special way the OT age of the Spirit. God's Spirit enabled people to accomplish feats of victory in the Lord's war against the powers that threatened his kingdom (see 3:10; 6:34; 11:29; 13:25; 14:6,19; 15:14; see also 1Sa 10:6,10; 11:6; 16:13). This same Spirit, poured out on the church following the redemptive work of the second Joshua (Jesus), empowered the people of the Lord to begin the task of preaching the gospel to all nations and of advancing the kingdom of God (see notes on Ac 1:2,8).
Fixing precise dates for the judges is difficult and
complex. The dating system followed here is based primarily
on 1Ki 6:1, which speaks of an interval of 480 years between
the exodus and the fourth year of Solomon's reign. This would
place the exodus c. 1446 b.c. and the period of the judges
between c. 1380 and the rise of Saul, c. 1050. Jephthah's
statement that Israel had occupied Heshbon for 300 years
(11:26) generally agrees with these dates. And the reference
to "Israel" in the Merneptah Stele demonstrates that Israel
was established in Canaan before 1210 b.c..
Some maintain, however, that the number 480 in 1Ki 6:1 is
somewhat artificial, arrived at by multiplying 12 (perhaps
in reference to the 12 judges) by 40 (a conventional number
of years for a generation). They point out the frequent use
of the round numbers 10, 20, 40 and 80 in the book of Judges
itself. A later date for the exodus would of course require
a much shorter period of time for the judges (see Introduction
to Exodus: Chronology; see also note on 1Ki 6:1).
Even a quick reading of Judges discloses its basic threefold division: (1) a prologue (1:1 -- 3:6), (2) a main body (3:7 -- 16:31) and (3) an epilogue (chs. 17 - 21). Closer study brings to light a more complex structure, with interwoven themes that bind the whole into an intricately designed portrayal of the character of an age.
The prologue (1:1 -- 3:6) has two parts, and each serves a different purpose. They are not chronologically related, nor does either offer a strict chronological scheme of the time as a whole. The first part (1:1 -- 2:5) sets the stage historically for the narratives that follow. It describes Israel's occupation of the promised land -- from their initial success to their large-scale failure and divine rebuke.
The second part (2:6 -- 3:6) indicates a basic perspective on the period from the time of Joshua to the rise of the monarchy, a time characterized by recurring cycles of apostasy, oppression, cries of distress and gracious divine deliverance. The author summarizes and explains the Lord's dealings with his rebellious people and introduces some of the basic vocabulary and formulas he will use in the later narratives: "did evil in the eyes of the Lord," 2:11 (see 3:7,12; 4:1; 6:1; 10:6); "handed them over to," 2:14 (see 6:1; 13:1); and "sold them," 2:14 (see 3:8; 4:2; 10:7).
The main body of the book (3:7 -- 16:31), which gives the actual accounts of the recurring cycles (apostasy, oppression, distress, deliverance), has its own unique design. Each cycle has a similar beginning ("the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord"; see note on 3:7) and a recognizable conclusion ("the land had peace . . . years" or "led Israel . . . years"; see note on 3:11). The first of these cycles (Othniel; see 3:7-11 and note) provides the "report form" used for each successive story of oppression and deliverance.
The remaining five cycles form the following narrative units, each of which focuses on one of the major judges:
The arrangement of these narrative units is significant. The central accounts of Gideon (the Lord's ideal judge) and Abimelech (the anti-judge) are bracketed by the parallel narratives of the woman Deborah and the social outcast Jephthah -- which in turn are framed by the stories of the lone heroes Ehud and Samson. In this way even the structure focuses attention on the crucial issue of the period of the judges: Israel's attraction to the Baals of Canaan (shown by Abimelech; see note on 9:1-57) versus the Lord's kingship over his people (encouraged by Gideon; see note on 8:23).
The epilogue (chs. 17 - 21) characterizes the era in yet another way, depicting religious and moral corruption on the part of individuals, cities and tribes. Like the introduction, it has two divisions that are neither chronologically related nor expressly dated to the careers of specific judges. The events must have taken place, however, rather early in the period of the judges (see notes on 18:30; 20:1,28).
By dating the events of the epilogue only in relationship to the monarchy (see the recurring refrain in 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25), the author contrasts the age of the judges with the better time that the monarchy inaugurated, undoubtedly having in view the rule of David and his dynasty (see note on 17:1 -- 21:25). The book mentions two instances of the Lord's assigning leadership to the tribe of Judah: (1) in driving out the Canaanites (1:1-2), and (2) in disciplining a tribe in Israel (20:18). The author views the ruler from the tribe of Judah as the savior of the nation.
The first division of the epilogue (chs. 17 - 18) relates the story of Micah's development of a paganized place of worship and tells of the tribe of Dan abandoning their allotted territory while adopting Micah's corrupted religion. The second division (chs. 19 - 21) tells the story of a Levite's sad experience at Gibeah in Benjamin and records the disciplinary removal of the tribe of Benjamin because it had defended the degenerate town of Gibeah.
The two divisions have several interesting parallels:
Not only are these Benjamin-Dan parallels significant within the epilogue, but they also form a notable link to the main body of the book. The tribe of Benjamin, which in the epilogue undertook to defend gross immorality, setting ties of blood above loyalty to the Lord, was the tribe from which the Lord raised up the deliverer Ehud (3:15). The tribe of Dan, which in the epilogue retreated from its assigned inheritance and adopted pagan religious practices, was the tribe from which the Lord raised up the deliverer Samson (13:2,5). Thus the tribes that in the epilogue depict the religious and moral corruption of Israel are the very tribes from which the deliverers were chosen whose stories frame the central account of the book (Gideon-Abimelech).
The whole design of the book from prologue to epilogue, the unique manner in which each section deals with the age as a whole, and the way the three major divisions are interrelated clearly portray an age gone awry -- an age when "Israel had no king" and "everyone did as he saw fit" (17:6). Of no small significance is the fact that the story is in episodes and cycles. It is given as the story of all Israel, though usually only certain areas are directly involved. The book portrays the centuries after Joshua as a time of Israelite unfaithfulness to the Lord and of their surrender to the allurements of Canaan. Only by the mercies of God was Israel not overwhelmed and absorbed by the pagan nations around them. Meanwhile, however, the history of redemption virtually stood still -- awaiting the forward movement that came with the Lord's servant David and the establishment of his dynasty.
Major Judges | Minor Judges |
A. Othniel Defeats Aram Naharaim (3:7-11) | |
B. Ehud Defeats Moab (3:12-30) | 1. Shamgar (3:31) |
C. Deborah Defeats Canaan (chs. 4-5) | |
D. Gideon Defeats Midian (chs. 6-8) | |
(Abimelech, the anti-judge, ch. 9) |
2 .Tola (10:1-2) | |
3 .Jair (10:3-5) | |
E. Jephthah Defeats Ammon (10:6;12:7) | |
4 .Ibzan (12:8-10) | |
5. Elon (12:11-12) | |
6. Abdon (12:13-15) | |
F. Samson Checks Philistia (chs. 13-16) |
From the NIV Study Bible, Introductions to the Books of the Bible, Judges
Copyright 2002 © Zondervan. All rights reserved. Used with permission.


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SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: The celebratory confetti had barely stopped falling on the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte when a report from the Labor Department popped the president's political balloon. U.S. employers added just 96,000 jobs last month, a far slower pace of hiring than forecasters had expected.
The unemployment rate ticked down a bit, to 8.1 percent, but only because hundreds of thousands of people had given up looking for work. The report offered fresh ammunition for Mitt Romney to attack the president's handling of the economy. Romney said if Thursday night's convention was a party for the Democrats, Friday morning's jobs report was the hangover.
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TODD SLITTER: Obama claims to be going forward. I see that he's going backward. I'm voting against him. I just want Romney to win. I want him to defeat Obama.
HORSLEY: The White House notes that even with Friday's tepid jobs number, private employers on average have added more jobs in the last two-and-a-half years than they did during the George W. Bush recovery. That's little consolation, though. Mr. Obama has a much deeper hole to climb out of.
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HORSLEY: For a year now, the president's been urging lawmakers to pass a jobs act, with money for teachers, firefighters and public works. But except for a scaled-down payroll tax cut, almost none of his proposals have cleared Congress. Martha Ann Crawford, who makes quilts and sells antiques in Iowa, thinks the economy might be in better shape if lawmakers were more cooperative.
MARTHA ANN CRAWFORD: He's done his best and he needs to be able to continue. Absolutely. I want him to have four more years.
HORSLEY: Mr. Obama and his campaign aides have criticized Romney's alternative agenda. They say the GOP plan is not so much a cure for the nation's hangover, as another dose of the toxic brew that made the economy sick, including rolled back regulations and tax cuts weighted towards the wealthy.
OBAMA: Tax cuts when times are good. Tax cuts when times are bad. Tax cuts to help you lose a few extra pounds. Tax cuts to improve your love life. It will cure anything, according to them.
HORSLEY: The president's advisors say they're encouraged that more Americans seem to be treating the race as a choice between two competing economic roadmaps, rather than a referendum on Mr. Obama's own economic stewardship.
Mr. Obama got an assist this week from Bill Clinton, who did much of the heavy lifting of defending the president's record and contrasting it with Romney's. The former president's Wednesday night convention speech drew rave reviews.
OBAMA: Somebody emailed me after his speech and said, you need to appoint him secretary of explaining stuff.
HORSLEY: Most voters have already made up their minds about the presidential race, so Mr. Obama's political advisor, David Plouffe, doesn't expect any wild swing in the polls as a result of the two parties' conventions. By this time next week, he expects the race to be about where it was before the conventions started, with Mr. Obama enjoying a small but significant lead in most of the critical battleground states.
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Scott Horsley, NPR News, Iowa City. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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