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HTC Desire owners, rejoice! Android 2.2 (Froyo) is set to arrive this weekend with all its Sense goodness. There's a slight catch though. This timeline is applicable only to folks who purchased unlocked handsets. Carriers, who are notorious for taking their own sweet time, will determine the fate of locked (branded) handsets.
This update will also introduce some tweaks to HTC's proprietary Sense UI. "As well as including the complete set of Android 2.2 features, the update will contain a few special additions of our own through the latest iteration of HTC Sense," said an HTC spokesperson to CNET.
While Desire owners across Europe will begin receiving Froyo tomorrow, HTC Evo owners in the US will have to wait slightly longer. Don't worry though, Sprint phones will still be the first to get Froyo in the US. Sprint has announced that it will begin rolling out the update on Tuesday. However, not all users will be getting it immediately. Thanks to the phased deployment, you might have to wait til mid-August to feast in the Froyo goodness.

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"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." –Dr. Seuss
Since June I have heard multiple stories from bloggers regarding haters in the blogging community. Just to be clear, I am not talking about mild disagreements or people who just don't click. I am talking about vicious comments on blogs and Twitter, bullying, threats and sabotage. That's not even mentioning the entire sites devoted to hating certain bloggers.
Prior to becoming a blogger I worked at a media company which has competing entities under its umbrella. Competitors working in the same building. Yet, the tension there was not nearly as thick as some of what is happening lately in the blogosphere.
I don't get it. What's with all the haters in the blogosphere? Why can't we all just get along? Seriously, folks. Aren't there better ways to spend one's time than spewing hatred on Twitter? Shouldn't we instead be celebrating one another's success?
When I first started in blogging I was the subject of some rumors and whispers behind my back. While I didn't want to let it bother me, it really did. Friends told me not to waste my energy on it but we all know that it's so much easier to say that than to do it. Finally, after months of hurt feelings and anger I was able to let myself ignore it and just move on. Fortunately at about that same time, those who had bought into the hype began to recognize the real situation (and my experience is small potatoes compared to what some of these other bloggers are dealing with lately). I have found great friends and supporters through this sphere, some who I know only through Twitter and others who I now call friends 'in real life.'
There is enough room here for everyone to have success. Differing opinions are not just allowed, they are welcome. That's what sparks interesting conversation and friendly debate. However, as the saying goes, when we start to attack the messenger rather than the message we have lost the meaning of the debate.
Those who are the subject of hatred did not ask to be placed in that role and all of it, albeit deflating, is not ultimately going to change a thing. For the most part, those who are the subject of the hatred are in that position because they are successful. These attempts at bringing them down are not going to work and may even help to boost their success. So why bother? What are the haters going to prove, anyway?
Let's face it. These haters are not going to disappear any time soon. I guess it's up to those of us on the outside to either ignore the nonsense or, at the very least, give it due diligence before drawing any conclusions.
And so I ask again. Can't we all just get along?
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Celebrate the Fourth of July with American Spirits
Weekly insight into the world of drinks with Paul Clarke from the Cocktail Chronicles and Imbibe magazine.
It just doesn't feel right to toast the Fourth of July with vodka. Or with scotch or aquavit, for that matter, or any of a number of other spirits that are perfectly appropriate pretty much any other day of the year. But for a celebration on the Fourth, it's not a bad idea to keep the drinks in theme, and turn to a classic American spirit for the day's festivities.
Bourbon, of course, is the domestic spirit that always comes to mind. No matter what any marketing material may tell you, nobody's certain exactly who made the first bourbon, or when, but this corn-based whiskey first came out of the then-wilderness of Kentucky in the years that followed the American Revolution (though it would still be a few decades before the word "bourbon" was regularly attached to what became this distinctive style of whiskey).
Bourbon has changed a great deal over the past couple of centuries, probably entirely for the better, and today's arguably the best time in history to be a bourbon drinker. There are plenty of good finds in the bourbon aisle; some of my favorites include smaller brands and bottlings such as Jefferson's Reserve, Noah's Mill, and Weller 12-year-old, as well as major brands such as Basil Hayden, Evan Williams Single Barrel and Four Roses Small Batch (and bargain bourbon doesn't necessarily mean bad whiskey; more inexpensive whiskies such as Old Fitzgerald 100-proof, Old Forester and Ancient Ancient Age are very good bourbons for the price).
For a Fourth of July barbecue, classic bourbon drinks such as the mint julep or its close (and much easier to prepare) relative, the bourbon smash, are great choices.
Before there was bourbon, there was rye whiskey. Made by Scots-Irish settlers in western Pennsylvania, New York and Maryland, rye whiskey is the ancestral link between the Old World barley-based spirit, and today's American whiskies. Once the most prominent style of American whiskey, and the kind of spirit originally used in most classic whiskey cocktails, rye was nearly wiped off the map by the double-whammy of Prohibition and the vodka invasion of the 1950s and '60s. Today, rye is again ascendant, with a number of new brands joining a few old stalwarts. Rittenhouse 100-proof is the rock star rye of the cocktail set, and Sazerac Rye has a number of adherents; of the newcomers, Bulleit Rye is very nice (and reasonably priced). For summer sipping, you may wish to avoid the high-octane cocktails and aim for something long and slow; the aforementioned julep and smash are equally great with rye, or make it easy with a highball.
It's often overlooked, but American apple brandy has a history that predates the republic. During colonial days (and well into the 19th century), farmers and homesteaders throughout the mid-Atlantic and into New England turned their customary hard cider into something more potent on a massive scale. Different in flavor and character than more familiar Calvados from France, American apple brandy (long known as applejack, though today's applejack is apple brandy softened with neutral spirits, much in the manner of a blended whiskey) is another boom-to-bust spirit. New Jersey-based Laird's, which has been in the apple brandy business and owned by the same family since the late 17th century, is the most prominent maker of applejack and apple brandy, and until very recently, they were the only ones. With a taste more similar to rye or bourbon than to either apples or brandy, this spirit is easily deployed in almost any drink that calls for whiskey.
Vodka? Gin? Rum? Well, if you or your guests insist on sticking with this route, keep in the Independence Day spirit by using a brand made by a small domestic distiller. The boom in microdistilling means many of us can go locavore with our booze: in Philadelphia, Bluecoat is a dry, self-described American-style gin for your backyard gin and tonic; Prichard's, from Tennessee, makes a tasty rum for summer punches; and pretty much anyplace with startup distilleries has its own local vodka—Seattle-made Sound Spirits vodka is my neighborhood pick.
I'll likely break out some nice bourbon for the Fourth and, weather permitting, enjoy the holiday with a nice mint julep. What are your plans for drinks over the holiday weekend?
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Reviewer: Nick Wedd
Bruce Wilcox, the author of the Nemesis go-playing program, has now released another go-playing program, Ego. Ego is a program for PCs. It is a Dos program, but runs under Windows without problems. My first impression on running it was of the good user interface. There is a pleasant wood-grained go board, occupying about two thirds of the screen, and you play a stone onto it by using the mouse to indicate where you want to play, and clicking. So far it is similar to Many Faces of Go, with which it is natural to compare it. But where Many Faces has a number of subsidiary menus, which you can use to configure various settings, Ego presents all its configuration options on the front screen. There are twelve of these, all fairly obvious as to what they do - setting the board size, setting the handicap, whether the program is to play black or white, etc. The most interesting of these is the "style" control. You use this to specify the personality of the program. There are nine personalities:
The possibility of playing against any of these personalities adds a lot to the interest of the program.
Ego has claims to be one of the strongest Go-playing programs available, though I have found it to be considerably weaker than HandTalk. However any Go-player stronger than 10-kyu should be able to beat any program that currently exists, Ego and HandTalk included; so unless you are in the range 10-kyu to 15-kyu it is likely that appearance and ease of use may matter more to you than absolute playing strength of a program. It plays fairly fast, taking typically two seconds but up to twenty seconds per move (on a 66MHz 486DX). It uses only Japanese rules.
As it plays, it continuously gives its assessment of the amount by which it is winning or losing. If you don't want to see this, you can switch it to showing its assessment of how much territory each side has, or if you don't want to cheat, to the numbers of prisoners (click on the place where this information is shown). You can also switch on or off the "safety" option, which causes it to show the "alive"-ness of every group and where the secure territory is.
Should you get bored of playing against it yourself, you can even run two copies of Ego at once (if you are using the Windows operating system), and play one personality against another, copying the moves from one board to the other yourself. I found a game between Earthy (territory) and Airy (influence) interesting. Earthy started by making secure corner territory, while Airy made thickness which was often pointing in the wrong direction. Then Earthy lightly annulled most of this thickness. Finally Airy demonstrated that its influence was not nearly as useless as I had been assuming, by creating territory in unexpected places and winning the game. Most instructive.
A couple of apparent defects are easily remedied. First: you may find, if you are incompetent in the use of your mouse, that a lot of stones suddenly disappear in the course of a game. This is recoverable. What you have done is double-click on a stone, and it has reverted to the point in the game at which that stone was played. You can recover by using the "Final" button, which takes you back to the end of the game as so far played. The second defect is more mysterious, and the author has acknowledged it (it's always an encouraging sign when the author of a program admits the existence of a bug). When the program plays a stone, it usually flashes it so you can see where it has played. But sometimes it fails to do this. You can then force it to flash it by saving the position (just click on the "Save" button).
If you want to get an impression of what Ego is like before paying for it, there is a free cut-down version of it available, called EZ-Go. This has all the features of Ego, except that only two of the nine personalities are included: Psycho and Leaper. Psycho is the stronger of these, but it does not approach the strength of Samurai.


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Police: Crash kills man, driver arrested
Madison man suspected of driving while intoxicated
MADISON, Wis. — A single-car crash early Saturday morning killed one man and significantly injured a woman, Madison police said.
The driver of the car was arrested on suspicion of intoxicated use of a vehicle.
Police said a car going west on Odana Road just before 5:30 a.m. went off the road and struck a tree.
Two passengers, Richie R. Christie, 21, of Waukesha, and a 20-year-old woman with addresses in Madison and DeForest, were transported to a hospital with significant injuries, police said.
Christie survived a short time before dying at a hospital, according to a Madison Police Department incident report. A forensic autopsy is scheduled.
The woman remains hospitalized with serious head injuries.
The driver, Lawrence Montgomery, 21, of Madison, was also transported to the hospital and arrested on suspicion of intoxicated use of a vehicle and operating after revocation.
Police said the investigation is ongoing.
"(Montgomery) has a couple of priors for operating while under the influence and now he has been picked up for a homicide while driving intoxicated. At this point we have a traffic investigator who is still working on this case so more of the details may be known after that investigation is complete," said Joel DeSpain, Madison Police Department spokesman.
According to court records, Montgomery was convicted of his second OWI charge in February.


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Most articles focus on the financial nuts and bolts of the things you should have in order before you consider buying a home. You've got to have good credit. You've got to have a down payment. You've got to know the housing market. And so on.
Yet those aren't the only important things to be thinking about:
Unorthodox Recommendations for Prospective Homeowners
1. Save a significant amount each month for at least two years
A mortgage payment requires financial discipline as well as enough money, period. Can you cover the mortgage? The insurance? The taxes? The constant expenses that go with homeownership?
Use a mortgage calculator to figure up what your monthly mortgage payment will be. Tack 50% on top of that for insurance, taxes, and other expenses. Subtract your current monthly rent payment from that.
If you can't save that amount each month, then you're not ready to buy a house of that size.
People will give all sorts of reasons why such a statement isn't true.
"You really don't need that much money each month." Let's hear that refrain again when your hot water heater fails at the same time as you need a new lawnmower and your lawn needs re-seeding.
"Our lifestyle will be different when we own a house." In what way? The only major change will be that you have less spending money and, most likely, more room to store stuff.
Such statements are merely ways to pass the buck on to your future self, the responsible one who owns a house and makes more money and makes all of the payments. If that person doesn't exist now, merely owning a house won't make that person exist in the future. Don't ever base your plans on what you hope might happen someday.
Take responsiblity now. See whether or not you actually can make it work in terms of your month-over-month finances. If you can't do it now, then you won't be able to do it then.
2. Sell off all of your stuff that you don't use
The less stuff you have, the less space you need. The less space you need, the smaller house you need. The smaller house you need, the more likely it is that you'll be able to afford that house.
Go through your closest. Pare down. Get rid of stuff that you don't use.
If you sell off a lot of your stuff that you don't use, you'll not only realize you don't need as much space as you thought you did, but you'll also find that you suddenly have some cash in hand that can help you move towards actually owning a house.
Even better: the less stuff you have, the easier (and less costly) it is to move.
I'm not arguing on behalf of selling off stuff that has value to you. I only suggest that you go through your closets and cupboards and get rid of the stuff that you don't use. It's just sitting there taking up space, convincing you that you need more living space, when in fact it could be money in your pocket and freedom in your life.
3. Fix some stuff
If you're a renter or you live at home, it's easy enough to call a landlord or a parent when there's a problem. "The toilet seems to be broken." "There's no hot water." "Why won't the dryer dry my clothes?" "There's water flooding the basement."
Here's the catch: when those things happen in a house of your own, it's up to you to fix it. If you can't, you're going to be shelling out fistfuls of cash to pay someone to do it.
When you're living in such an environment, you've got a perfect opportunity to learn how to do such things with something of a safety net. When the toilet breaks, try to fix it yourself. Watch some YouTube videos on toilet repair. Identify what parts you need, find a good hardware store, and pick them up. Give the repair a serious attempt all by yourself.
If you can't do it, then report the problem. Don't just walk away, though – watch and learn from someone who can do it. Watch your landlord or the repairman. Try to figure out where you went wrong and how you can avoid it next time.
Even if you fail, you've learned some things. You've learned how to use tools. You've learned how to identify problems. You've learned what the equipment looks like. This will make solving future problems much simpler and much more cost-effective, especially when you're living in your home and something goes wrong for the first time.
4. Figure out why you're buying a home
There are lots of bad reasons and non-reasons to buy:
Don't buy a home because that's what you've been told you're "supposed" to do.
Don't buy a home because that's what you think you're "supposed" to do.
Don't buy a home because it's a good investment for the future. It's really not all that great of an investment.
Don't buy a home because you might get married and have kids someday and you need the space for this hypothetical future.
Don't buy a home because you think it will lead you to some sort of idealized suburban life. A home won't change who you are.
Don't buy a home because you're trying to "keep up" with someone in your life. It'll make you fall further behind in the long run.
Buy a home because you it truly makes sense financially and you're ready (and excited) to deal with the challenges of homeownership. Buy a home because it's better for your housing dollar than the other options available to you.
Buy a home because it's what you want and it's what you can handle, not because it's what others want.


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(L-R): David Ricksecker, Natalie Barr and Jennifer Klugh each played prominent roles in helping their respective teams capture conference championships over the weekend.
One of the most popular (or unpopular, depending on one's perspective) phrases on the Liberty University campus is "ring by spring." These three words stand for the stereotypical belief that many Liberty students' top priority is to get engaged by the end of the school year.
Over the weekend, three Liberty teams upped the ante by one season, earning championship rings before winter. The men's and women's cross country squads both claimed Big South team titles Saturday at Winthrop, one day before the field hockey team wrapped up its first NorPac East Division crown at Davidson.
To celebrate and summarize the three teams' impressive feats, this week's Flames Report will present an adaptation of the longtime bridal tradition, "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue."
Something Old -- Winning Big South titles is becoming old hat for the men's cross country team, which extended its conference record to eight consecutive team championships. The Lady Flames are no stranger to Big South cross country titles either. This marked their fifth crown in the last seven years. -- The men's and women's cross country squads were both paced by veterans at the Big South meet. Redshirt senior Jennifer Klugh (more on her later) won the women's individual title, with fellow seniors Khristina Kanagy and Betel Yosef also placing inside the top 10. Meanwhile, the No. 1 Liberty men's finisher was redshirt senior David Ricksecker, who placed second overall. -- Head men's and women's cross country coach Brant Tolsma shows no signs of slowing down in his 27th year at the helm. He was named Big South Men's and Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year, boosting his career total of Big South Coach of the Year trophies to 52.
Something New -- The field hockey's NorPac East Division championship is remarkable, considering head coach Jodi Murphy's team is in just its second year of existence and first season as a NorPac member. -- Eight of the field hockey team's 11 starters in Sunday's win over Davidson were freshmen. -- Four of the men's cross country team's top six finishers on Saturday were freshmen, including Big South Freshman of the Year Ngetich Kipchirchir.
Something "Barr"-owed -- Field hockey freshman midfielder Natalie Barr, a native of Northern Ireland, has played a key role in the Lady Flames' success this season. -- She scored two of Liberty's three goals on Sunday at Davidson, including the game-winning and East Division-clinching tally with just 68 seconds left on the clock. -- Barr currently leads the team in goals (14), assists (7), points (35) and defensive saves (4).
Something "Klugh" -- Jennifer Klugh (pronounced "clue") produced a fitting end to her brilliant Big South Championship career Saturday, coming from way behind to win her third consecutive Big South women's cross country individual championship. -- Klugh trailed Winthrop's Jeanne Stroud by almost 20 seconds during the first half of the race, before coming back to win against a strong field by five seconds. -- Klugh defeated three runners who either broke or tied their respective school records on Saturday. In the process, she also cut 10 seconds off of her own Liberty women's cross country 5K mark with her winning time of 17:18.72. Paul Carmany is an assistant athletics communications director for Liberty Athletics.
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Inauguration of Galileo in-orbit test facilities in Redu
Yesterday ESA's Redu centre in Belgium inaugurated its in-orbit testing facilities for Galileo. This is an important milestone for the in-orbit validation of the satellite navigation system, which is a joint project of the EU and ESA.
As part of the Galileo programme, the infrastructure at Redu has been expanded to host Galileo's satellite in-orbit testing facilities and a Galileo sensor station.
The main purpose of the testing facilities is to verify the performance of the payloads on the four Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites. The testing involves measuring radio frequency and baseband parameters for the navigation L-band downlink and the C-band uplink.
The inauguration is an important milestone for Galileo's in-orbit validation. The first two IOV satellites are scheduled for launch in mid-2011 atop a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
The Galileo ground segment for the in-orbit validation phase will comprise 18 sensor stations, five uplink stations, two telemetry, tracking and command stations, and two Galileo control centres. The control centres will be situated at Fucino, in Italy, and Oberpfaffenhofen, in Germany.
"Galileo is coming. Another important part of Europe's global navigation satellite system is now ready. We are progressing steadily," said René Oosterlinck, ESA's Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation-related Activities.


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Professional tennis careers can be counted in dog years. Twelve months tracking down yellow balls across five continents feels like seven years; a decade is a lifetime. So when Amélie Mauresmo says it's been "almost an entire life" since her breakthrough showing at the 1999 Australian Open, where she both reached the final and came out of the closet, she's not being flip. Not entirely, anyway. "I'm 100 years old, I guess," the 29-year-old says with a laugh.
Mauresmo is back at Melbourne Park for the 2009 tournament, which starts January 19, only now she's in the twilight phase of what has become a distinguished career. Three years ago she won the Australian Open and Wimbledon, spending most of the year ranked number 1, but she's tumbled from that high. Last spring, after an injury-plagued, confidence-sapping turn, she publicly discussed retirement. In 2008 she barely finished in the top 25.
A richly talented, all-court player known as much for her electrifying shot-making as for the nerves that sometimes undercut it, Mauresmo still has the tools to contend. But as she approaches her 30th birthday in July, with fresh teenage phenoms arriving all the time, the world's most visible lesbian athlete since Martina Navratilova may pull the plug at any moment. And if she does, there don't seem to be any out players to take her place.
Unlike maria sharapova or the Williams sisters -- or some of the upstart talent from Eastern Europe, like Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic -- Mauresmo isn't a global brand. Sure, she has the de rigueur sponsorships with Nike and the like, but she's always been focused more on the craft than the limelight.
I'd been pursuing Mauresmo for an interview for the better part of 20 months, so I was pleased and somewhat surprised when word came that she'd finally agreed to do it -- she rarely talks about her sexual orientation anymore. But as it turned out, my request had been miscommunicated: She thought the interview was for another publication, not The Advocate . As we sat down in the players' garden at the U.S. Open in August and I asked why she'd decided to chat, she looked confused and startled. When the tan, fit Frenchwoman, dressed in shorts and a sleeveless athletic top, finally understood what was up, she leaned forward in her chair. I figured she was about to stand, politely decline, and leave.
"So what do we do?" she asked. I said it was up to her. She sat back and barely hesitated. "Yeah, whatever."
It was with that same laid-back attitude that she came out in 1999, after advancing to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. A jubilant Mauresmo voluntarily disclosed to the press that she is a lesbian -- and that her girlfriend had accompanied her Down Under. Unfortunately, the reaction was unkind: The Australian tabloids had a field day, and crass comments from her peers didn't help. Then-number 1 Lindsay Davenport, whom Mauresmo beat in the semifinals, remarked on Mauresmo's power, saying she thought she was playing a guy. Then-superstar Martina Hingis -- who beat Mauresmo in the final -- called her "half a man" and complained about her girlfriend's presence at the match. The negative attention nearly obscured Mauresmo's accomplishment in competing for the championship as an unseeded player.
But Mauresmo didn't flinch. She said she was unwilling to expend energy hiding her sexual orientation and felt "sorry" for those who were having a hard time dealing with it. "When the media asks me what's going on in my life, I'm obliged to talk about this because it's part of my life," she told The New York Times . "It's clear that I'm not going to get unanimous support for this. Not everybody is going to be behind my back saying, 'Super.' But no matter what I do, there will always be people against me."
Still, she was stung by the feedback, even if she didn't show it publicly. "At the beginning it was very brutal, hard to take," Mauresmo says now. Coming out also estranged her from her family. But eventually the ice thawed: Mauresmo reconciled with her dad before he died of cancer in 2004, and now her mom, once invisible on the tour, occasionally travels with her to tournaments.
And Mauresmo herself has relaxed. "Maybe my attitude makes people feel more comfortable," she says, but they "act completely normally to me -- we can joke around." While she understands that it takes public figures like her to help end homophobia, like anyone, she wants to be seen in her entirety. "Everyone has their moment to [come out] and then they go beyond this issue. If people say, 'It's great that you are gay,' I say, 'Why?' It's not great or not not great. It's just the way it is."
She is, however, tight-lipped about whom she's dating. Recently she's been linked with Geraldine Filiol, an executive with European sports broadcaster Eurosport, but Mauresmo confirms they're no longer together. She won't go further, though. "I don't want to get into this," she says. When I press her, she cuts off the line of questioning like a crisp volley at the net. "I'm not going to develop on this subject. Sorry."
As the furor over her sexual orientation faded, however, Mauresmo became increasingly dogged by her failures on the tennis court. A powerful player with beautiful strokes and a deft touch, she can also be mentally fragile: She was notorious for tightening up at critical moments in the latter stages of the four Grand Slams, especially in her own backyard at the French Open, where she's never advanced past the quarterfinals in 14 attempts. When she won the 2006 Australian Open, it was her 32nd attempt at a Grand Slam title -- the second-longest wait in the sport's modern era.
At the end of 2007 -- during which she underwent an emergency appendectomy that forced her off the tour for two months, followed by an adductor strain that led to another two-month hiatus -- Mauresmo wasn't sure she could compete with the firepower top players now possess. Her thoughts turned to retirement.
But as she gradually regained her health and confidence this past summer, the idea dissipated. "I think I was wrong," Mauresmo says about quitting. "I think I can still somehow go on the court against these guys and be able to have some good wins out there." Still, 2008 was one of her worst seasons: She failed to win a title for the first time in 10 years.
Even so, with two grand slam titles, 24 career titles, and 39 cumulative weeks at number 1 -- the ninth-best all-time run -- Mauresmo is a shoo-in for the International Tennis Hall of Fame. "On the plaque, I don't think it'll mention that she's gay," veteran tennis commentator Mary Carillo says, noting that the quality of Mauresmo's career stands on its own.
But that's one kind of success. What about Mauresmo's legacy as an out athlete?
Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova came before, but Mauresmo's path has been fundamentally different in three ways: She came out at the beginning of her career, she did so of her own volition, and she says she's had no problems attracting sponsorships. By contrast, King was dragged out of the closet by a palimony suit, while Navratilova tiptoed out little by little, going fully public only toward the end of her career. By most estimates, both lost out on millions in potential endorsements.
If King was the pioneer and Navratilova the outspoken, take-me-or-leave-me activist, Mauresmo could be remembered for unobtrusively being herself. Though her coming-out was bolder and riskier than that of her forerunners, Mauresmo has rarely strayed beyond the 36-by-78-foot playing lines of the tennis court to influence society at large. "I don't know that she ever wanted to be a barrier breaker," Carillo says. "I don't think she had the ego of a Martina or a Billie. She just wanted to quietly insist on herself."
Mauresmo certainly believes her legacy will be her game, and not anything to do with being gay. "I definitely think people are going to remember my ability to come in, to slice, to put some spin [on the ball], to serve and volley, and to mix things up a lot," she says, adding a nod to her perseverance, "I definitely hung in there."
What hasn't materialized, though, is a new wave of openly gay players. Mauresmo maintains she's never had issues with her peers or coaches because of her sexuality, so where are the others? Mauresmo says no closeted players have asked for her advice.
Carillo says the closet in tennis is no different from that in other sports. As both media scrutiny and commercial opportunities have grown, so has the collective cocoon around stars. "È'f;'It's none of your business' is more the attitude," she says. And Australian player Rennae Stubbs, a top-ranked doubles specialist and the only other out lesbian currently on tour, says there's "no doubt that sponsorship is a major part" of why people don't come out.
But Mauresmo's popularity among her fellow players surely means something. Admired for her tennis skills as well as her affable, straightforward manner, she can often be found in the locker room or players' restaurant playing the French card game belote with her coach and other male and female compatriots. An informal survey of players and pundits turned up nary an unfavorable word.
"I can't think of people who have said negative things about her," says TV analyst and former pro Pam Shriver. "She's classy," Stubbs adds. "Maybe they wanted to not like her, but in the end you couldn't not like Amélie Mauresmo."
Mauresmo can add to her legacy with another big win this year. For now she'll likely be remembered for getting the demons off her back at Wimbledon, for handling her first major victory in Australia with equanimity, and for defying any layer of phoniness almost from the outset of her career. She'll also be remembered for an engaging frankness and ability to enjoy some of the finer things in life. "If there's one player I'd like to sit down and have a glass of wine with, it would be Mauresmo," Carillo says. "And preferably her wine."
Yes, the Frenchwoman is an oenophile, with a wine cellar in her home, and she'd like to combine her two passions in the future. "Tennis is my life, so I would like to stay involved," she says, but a Mauresmo wine label may be in store too. What varietal? "A red for sure -- a Bordeaux, good body, fruity."


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Matthew Isaiah is 10 YEARS OLD, THANK YOU GOD! Wow, what an amazing and wonderful life we have had with matthew in our life. GOD IS SO GOOD! HE IS IN DOUBLE DIDGITS!!! wowowow, that is just such an INCREDIBLE AMAZING WONDERFUL MIRACLE OF GOD that little boy is! I sit here just in amazment that my beautiful boy is growing and getting bigger and stronger and just LIVING day by day. Such a MIRACLE he is, THANK YOU GOD!
My thoughts are never far away from what a miracle he is and where he has come from and where he is now. James and I are always marveling at what he is doing or things he does on a daily basis. He is such a CUTE kid and such a SMARTY!! Hard to believe that when he was born, they gave him NO real chance that he would live...that after he was born blue, needing an open heart surgery IMMEDIATELY, they didn't think he would make the trip from one hospital to another....that once he got there, that he would survive the open heart operation that he had when he was ONLY 8 HOURS OLD!! but he did, thank you JESUS! He was kept on an ECMO maching (https://www.dellchildrens.net/services_and_programs/ecmo/what_is_ecmo/) for his first 5 days because they could not take him off of the machines after his surgery, so they left him on this hoping that his body would recover and be able to take over the job of his lungs and heart....at 5 days (may 26, 2004), they told us they had to take him off this machine and either he was going to LIVE or DIE...and after doing so, we were told in the waiting room, that he had about 1% chance of survival and to pray for a miracle because that was the ONLY way that he would survive....going in to see our MIRACLE without that big ECMO machine and the room being so silent...the wonderful staff at METHODIST CHILDRENS hospital who took over and got us a CAKE and DECORATIONS for his 'birthday' party that we wanted to give him (since we didn't know if we would have anymore), and having all our family and friends there with us but most of all FINALLY BEING ABLE TO HOLD that precious baby in our arms for the first time!! what an JOY it was to hold him in our arms and FINALLY be able to carry him....thinking back, that hospital was just amazing to allow us to have this 'party' for him and allowing us to have so many of our friends and family there to celebrate his life!!! & at a PICU! I soooo love that hospital!!! They had a ceremony for us and the wonderful doctor read a beautiful poem for him, they did some prints of hands and feets, cut a lock of his hair for us, made a cast of his hands and feet, gave us a grief blanket and just supported us thru this amazing time in our life....and all the nurses came over and sang HAPPY BIRTHDAY to him too!! such a SPECIAL place that is!!!
After holding our beautiful baby boy until 2am, we finally put him down and fell asleep next to his bed only to wake up at 7am SCARED AND WORRIED thinking that we had missed his passing....only to find out he had his eyes open, grabing our fingers and wiggling his toes, all to the AMAZEMENT of the doctors and staff!!! HE MADE IT and is a MIRACLE to all the doctors and nurses that have known him especially those that knew all the personal, medical and private parts of his life while he as there in the hospital during those first days thru the 98 days he stayed in the PICU. They TRULY know what a miracle he is and what he went thru and what an almost IMPOSSIBILITY it was that he survived thru it all....and as I ALWAYS say, it is ONLY thru GOD that our son is HERE today!!! if you want to read about his miracle story, here is alink to the BLOG post: http://blessingsinmylife.blogspot.com/2008/05/miracle-matthews-story.html and one of his YOUTUBE videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E2QOasHR0A
soooo, now on to the amazing news of the day....MATTHEW ISAIAH IS 10 YEARS OLD!!! double digits!! wooohooo!!! This little guy has been thru it all and ALWAYS with a smile!!! He is eating orally now, but it is not consistant, but we will TAKE IT! He only gets 3 cans of his PEPTIMUM JR formula a day and that is thru a bolus....and he has been able to maintain his weight and keep growing. He is now 55 lbs and 43"...To think this was the baby boy that would not 'make it thru the night'....THANK YOU JESUS!! He is really vocal, although still non verbal, but he CAN get his meaning and wants across for the most part. I think A LOT of his fustration has to do with the lack of being able to communicate...he does have a communication device but it is really big and HEAVY...but GOD WILLING next year he will get the new and improved device on an PAD platform which will be soooo much lighter for him! :) He is learning to use his KAYE walker. He walks with assistance everywhere he goes and he helps with his transfer and such too. He is soooo SMART! He is doing amazing with his teacher and has excelled and made all his goals! He LOVES playing WII resort and playing the SWORD FIGHTING game. He also enjoys WII SPORTS baseball and bowling game. If he could, he could play ALL DAY LONG! On top of that, he LOVES his iphone and enjoys watching YOUTUBE VIDEO's all day....just different stuff like, people playing WII, seasame street, and he especially loves any video's that are of HIM or our family! He can watch those over and over! ESPECIALLY if dad is either talking or in the picture!! and he LOVES playing BASEBALL!! He recently was in a special team called THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SA and he was on the LEIJA DODGERS team!! he was soooo PROUD when he hit the baseball and dad and him ran around the bases!!! he LOVED playing on his team!! just like his brothers! Wow, the things he can do! He loves being right in the middle of everything and just BEING there!! He loves his family!! and now that we bought the PONTOON BOAT, well, he LOVES being on the water and then jumping in the water and swimming around!! :) but to get him out is a DIFFERENT story!! boy, that child does NOT want to get back in the boat!!!!!! ;)
LIFE with matthew is just so amazing and wonderful!! THANK YOU GOD, this year has been a HEALTHY year!! hard to believe but we are ever so THANKFUL that he has really only had about 3 illness the WHOLE YEAR!! amazing! I keep waiting for it but nope! LOVE it! And I know he has enjoyed the stress free year without having to have the drama of having to do drs appts, meds, suctions, treatments, oxygen etc! AGAIN, THANK YOU JESUS!! I won't lie by saying I am not 'waiting' for it because I am!! just always worry when it will hit!!! :) as for the other medical issue, well, it's been over 36 months since his last BIG seizure!! and since aug 2010, he has had only 2 seizures!! woohooo!! thank you GOD for that!!!!!! but we are ever vigilant, never taking it for granted that he could get sick or have a seizure at ANY moment! But that has been our life for the last 10 years....knowing that every SECOND of his life is a precious miracle and that because of all he has gone thru, we know that ANYTHING can happen!! but we are sooooo GREATFUL for the last 10 years we have had with our MATTHEW!!! i made a movie for MATTHEW with pictures of his last 10 years...here is the link to it: ***UPLOADING TO YOUTUBE AND WILL POST SOON!****
SOOOO, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIRACLE MATTHEW ISAIAH!!! with your birth you have brought MORE life, love and happiness to our home and we thank GOD everyday for the true BLESSING you are in our lives!!! WE LOVE YOU AND ARE SOOOOO PROUD OF YOU!!!! PLEASE GOD, GIVE US MANY MANY MANY TO INFINITY MORE YEARS WITH MATTHEW!!!


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That's fine buddy. Whenever I'm in town & you are too we can train. I was in The AF @ Elmendorf. Anywho, I work out of town but whenever you are in just let me know.
Jacob, i just wanted to introduce myself, I see you live/from west monroe. I grew up north of there in union parish. I am new to the field trial game, I am currently training my first dog, she turn 2 in feb, we have run three quals. Anyway don't want to take up much of your time but when I visit my family I pass thru West Monroe, so if want to train or someone to throw marks, feel free to give me a shout. I am a member of the Shreveport/Bossier retreiver club. I am currently in the Air Force (21 yrs) and stationed at Barksdale. Thanks, Jason


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need help with a project I am working on to help a former teacher....
she needs to use java to make a program using array of scores to calculate a average:
requirements: function must be called scores ; must have at least 6 scores ; will need a variable to hold the sum of the scores ; have a loop that will go through the array and add up the total of all scores in array ; then calculate the average and only display that to the screen
does anyone have any ideas? i have never done a program like this but am wanting to help her if I can.
This is what I have so far...no idea if its anyway correct

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Triumph of the Will
Leni Riefenstahl
Genre : Documentary, WarFråga : 28/03/2006 Tillverkare : Leni Riefenstahl Författare : Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Ruttmann Studio : Synapse Films Längd : 120 Land : Tyskland Språk : German, English, Spanish, Italian Språk : sv Subtitles : Engelska Skivor : 1 Media : DVD Features : Black and White, Special Edition Video Format : NTSC Ljud : Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Region : 1 IMdB : 0025913 UPC : 0654930305294 Starring : Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Werner von Blomberg, Werner von Fritsch Taggar : Hitler, Rally, Nazi, Propaganda, Third Reich, Nuremberg Germany, Nazi Party, Propaganda Film, Totalitarian State, Procession, Montage, Salute, Nazi Flag, Military, Public Domain, Swastika, Eagle, Cloud, Lebensraum, Military Official, Banner, Heil Hitler, Title Directed By Female, Wehrmacht, Controversy, Spade, Hitlerjugend, Night, Speech, Motorcycle, Torch, Labor, Shovel, Bathing, Parade, Government Official, Flag, Nazi Uniform, Camping, Year 1935, Nazism, Motorcade, Nazi Propaganda, Nazi Rally, Nazi Germany
Sammanfattning : Leni Riefenstahl directed this chilling documentary of the sixth Nazi Party Congress in 1934. This intense digitally remastered presentation details how the Nazi party developed strong propaganda and attempted to sell their ideas to German leaders. 1936/b&w/107 min/NR.
Triumph of the Will is one of the most important films ever made. Not because it documents evil–more watchable examples are being made today. And not as a historical example of blind propaganda–those (much shorter) movies are merely laughable now. No, Riefenstahl's masterpiece–and it is a masterpiece, politics aside–combines the strengths of documentary and propaganda into a single, overwhelmingly powerful visual force. Riefenstahl was hired by the Reich to create an eternal record of the 1934 rally at Nuremberg, and that's exactly what she does. You might not become a Nazi after watching her film, but you will understand too clearly how Germany fell under Hitler's spell. The early crowd scenes remind one of nothing so much as Beatles concert footage (if only their fans were so well behaved!). Like the fascists it monumentalizes, Triumph of the Will overlooks its own weaknesses–at nearly two hours, the speeches tend to drone on, and the repeated visual motifs are a little over-hypnotic, especially for modern viewers. But the occasional iconic vista (banners lining the streets of Nuremberg, Hitler parting a sea of 200,000 party members standing at attention) will electrify anyone into wakefulness. –Grant Balfour


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text: the next day samuel went to Xaviers room, the alarm did not go off when he opened the door, but when he did there were two robots in the room, Xavier, and a smaller robot, who didn`t seem quite finished yet. "hello samuel!" said xavier cheerily, "i would like you to meet Zim, i made him yesterday." samuel took a good look at Zim, and said, "he doesn`t look finished." to that Xavier replied "he isn`t. i plan on adapting him as we go along, for one thing, he doesn`t have a shell, so we`ll have to find some metal before we embark, do you have any dumps?" "yes,"said samuel, "in sector 9, almost right next door," "good. off we go!" and with that Xavier proceeded into the passage way, once he was out, he turned to Samuel and asked "which way to sector 9?" samuel turned and said "this way." and set off down the passage. when they were nearly there Samuel stopped in the middle of the passage, "i cant go in," he said. "why?" asked Xavier, "heat sensors, its the door marked three, good luck." with that he sat down on the floor and crossed his legs. Xavier went to the door and opened it. beyond it was dark, Xavier felt the wall for a light switch, there was one, he switched it, it became light. it was almost blinding because of the gleam from the metal, Xavier took Zim from his compartment and searched for a suitable piece of metal, he found one almost immediately, it was a machine, with keys with letters on top, it was green, and said REMINGTON on top, it appeared that when pressed, the keys moved these hammers, which had letters inscribed upon them , perhaps it had at one point been an early robot, at any rate, there was enough metal to cover Zim, after the covering, he still required logic circuits, those were supplied by a small folding object, that had keys that resembled the REMINGTON , but this machine said melon Ubook Pro, and had a display that appeared to be made of liquid crystals, there were wheels nearby which he affixed to Zim, Xavier also found a telescopic ocular enhancement device, and a hat, which said "hubert johnson co." and a coat, which looked warm, {for Samuel} all this he put in the cleanest bag he could find, which happened to be bright blue, and carried out of the dump, samuel was still waiting outside, and when Xavier came out he said "good you`re back, i was just about to come in after you!" when Xavier showed him the contents of the bag he said, "wow a hat! haven`t seen one of these in years! but what kind is it?" Xavier told him he thought it was a hubert, because of the inscription, and showed samuel the ocular enhancement device, which samuel called binoculars, after that was done, samuel said "okay, you have seen outside, would you like to go back to your room now?" "no!" declared Xavier. "i do not, i would like to visit the outside. not outside my room, above ground. do you wish to come?" samuel thought a moment, then said, "yes, i do want to come, i`ve never seen the above, in person, from the pictures i`ve seen it looks beautiful, but i wouldn`t know how to get there." "don't worry samuel," said Xavier," i have a map." samuel was incredulous, "a map? where would you get a map?" "from human 2, alex his name was." replied Xavier as he took out his piece of card board, "looks like there are two ways out, the first one in sector 1, the other in sector 15" sector 1 is the government district, " said samuel " but sector 15 is mostly residential, i say we go out there." "i agree, in the government district they`d be sure to recognize 'project X-56', so how do we get there? " to that samuel replied "i suggest we take the 4:15."


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I am moving from creating maps with Illustrator to making them with QGIS and actual data. One of the things I haven't been able to re-create in QGIS are the smooth curved lines I can get in Illustrator. I am not talking about Join and Cap Styles, but how an entire line is rendered.
I am looking for an answer that doesn't include exporting as SVG to Illustrator and finishing the map there.
Also, I realize they could be considered an inaccurate representation but, for the most part, these maps are for giving riders an idea of where they are and don't necessarily have to be an exact representation.
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As the full moon rose into the skies of Friday the 13th, Rick Reid joined Blendover where we glanced at the case of Bobby Lee Pearson – a man who was accidentally acquitted, then murdered the same day. We return to #YesAllWomen, with the release of sex crime statistics at colleges. We find out how ads are making your Xbox One turn itself on, and close out with those DC Universe rumors…
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The Vampire Diaries Season 4 Episode 8 recap
I mean, of course it's not; the CW exists because there are teen dramas abounding, and ABC Family is there to pick up where they leave off, but that year 2000 movement where anything with a teenager was automatically relevant and made what your show had to say not just a show about coming of age, but a greater treatise on The World and how Learning To Be In It was bittersweet.
It will surprise nobody that I love the genre – but man, The Vampire Diaries could school them all. I admit it has a lot going for it that other shows don't: the frequent flashbacks to whenever the hell they feel like helps, the fact that the kids can be teenagers when we need them to care about the prom and warriors when we don't is a stretch of reality that you don't come by very often… but still.
Still this show knows how to take the very simplest emotions common to young people and make them relevant to people far older than they are. Partially it's because of everything life-and-death that surrounds our Mystic Falls family, but partially it's because they (unlike some characters we know elsewhere on TV) all make mistakes constantly. Elena chooses "good" even when that would be a stupid move. Damon is selfish, and proud of it. Stefan is selfish and in denial. Caroline is judgy. Bonnie is irrelevant. They are flawed, and their flaws are what make the people we care about. They matter.
The things in your life that are true when you're young are only ever more true when you're older, unless you consciously try to change them. Tyler was always going to be influential – it's just that now he's influential to a whole new group. It's not hard to see that Tyler will be some kind of king; it's also not hard to see that power could corrupt him at any time. But that's nothing new, right?
It's also nothing new to see Caroline revert back to her gossipy, meddling self. She may be a vampire with a heart of gold, but she's also a high school expert, and nothing trades there like judgment does. The idea that she might have to become the type of person who bites her tongue at something she doesn't like has been introduced to her before, but it goes against her nature. She is going to have to learn that lesson over and over and over for centuries, and she might never get better at it. She also might never get better at hiding her bitterness – Caroline's beloved is supposed to be right for her but she's more and more on the sidelines. Elena's is supposed to be So. Wrong …so why is she so happy all of a sudden? Why is she leaving Caroline behind to be sad on her own? Those aren't the rules. Elena's supposed to be unhappy. It upsets the order of things…
It's why Damon is having such a hard time.
The flashback to wartime New Orleans was supposed to show us about the last time Damon had a sire bond, and what he did to break it. But as far as I'm concerned, what it really showed us was how Damon has convinced himself he's bad for women, always and forever. No wonder he thinks the right, noble, selfless thing to do is to "set Elena free". That's what he's been told over and over, for years. He's not good for people, so being "bad" is being selfish and enjoying them, and being "good" means cutting himself off because he is akin to poison. Watching his face open up as he tells her how happy he is, watching how guiltlessly the two of them finally come together, and the wonder in his face as she tells him something that feels so good can't possibly be wrong – it's turning his world upside down.
I've never had a problem with the supposed age difference between Elena and Damon (or Stefan), but I do think it was poignant that the 18 year old told the centuries-old vampire what he'd never known before – that it's possible for everything to fall into place the right way, even for the "wrong" people. Even for those who have been "bad". Where Stefan was all about saving Elena, Damon is all about loving her as she is…as equals, both of whom deserve happiness.
The only problem is, with bliss like this, there's nowhere to go but down.
OH. And sorry, I know I am boring when I talk about how incessantly boring Bonnie is. But you'd think a witch, who was into expression, would have some sort of judge of character, wouldn't you? It makes a better story for us that she doesn't, but man is she going to have egg on her face when he turns out to be an utter disaster. At least she never liked Klaus.
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Much of the criticism of the U.S. retirement system is misguided, a joint report released by the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI), American Benefits Council (the Council) and Investment Company Institute (ICI) said.
The paper, released Wednesday, said that employer-sponsored retirement plans were a vital source of retirement security for American workers and that government proposals to change their tax treatment would thwart efforts to save.
The authors studied research and surveys from various sources dating as far back as 1975 for the paper, "Our Strong Retirement System: An American Success Story." The authors illustrated the strength of the retirement system as a pyramid. Social Security forms the base of the pyramid. It supports homeownership, employer-sponsored plans and IRAs. Other assets form the top of the pyramid.
The authors noted that overall retirement well-being has improved over time. In 1975, when the Employee Retirement Income Security Act took effect, household retirement assets were just over $27,000, adjusted for inflation. Now they are six times higher at nearly $168,000. Between 1975 and 2011, both the number of retirees with private retirement income and the amounts they were receiving increased.
The paper argued, too, that income remains stable in the first few years of retirement. Data from the Internal Revenue Service's Statistics of Income Division shows income from wages, Social Security, retirement plans and IRAs remained stable through the year that retirees filed for benefits and the three years following.
"Our private retirement system has come under attack from those who seek to radically change it or replace it with government-backed programs," Walter Welsh, executive vice president of taxes and retirement security for ACLI, said in a statement. "As employers and organizations committed to helping Americans save for retirement, we believe that such changes would be extraordinarily risky for the majority of workers who rely so heavily on these plans."
Defined contribution plans have proliferated in recent decades as defined benefit pension plans have waned. DC plans' flexibility leaves room for further innovation, too, according to the paper. "Defined contribution plans are not just 'working,' they are strong," the paper stressed.
Olivia Mitchell, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and executive director of the Pension Research Council, agreed that defined contribution plans are better suited for today's employees who frequently change jobs, and noted that defined benefit plans' heyday wasn't necessarily the golden age it's remembered as.
"What many people don't understand is that the traditional defined benefit pension plan environment was a golden age for a few, but not for many," she told ThinkAdvisor on Friday. "Under the typical defined benefit plan, you only really got a useful benefit if you remained there your entire career. You had to have 30 or 40 years of service before you would get a nice payout. Most people don't understand that only one out of 10 employees who start working in a company with a DB plan ever gets a benefit from it. If you change jobs, if you drop out for a while to go to school, if you stay home with kids, if you have a sick elderly parent and have to leave a job, then a DB plan doesn't really suit you. The defined contribution plan is a much better model in principle for the kind of work force we have today."
The paper argues that because 401(k)s were only introduced in the 1980s, workers haven't had an opportunity to "[enjoy] the full benefits of the many innovations and improvements reflected in today's 401(k) plans." Current retirees and those about to retire worked some part of their career in the pre-401(k) era, and workers who are young enough to have started saving in a 401(k) are many years from retiring.
Criticisms of 401(k) plans come down largely to missteps in evaluating their success, according to the paper. Analyses often come up with averages for an entire population of workers without considering their income, age or length of time in the plan. They frequently exclude other savings as well.
The paper referred to data from the Employee Benefit Research Institute that found workers in their 60s who had been with their employer for at least 30 years had an average $208,892 saved in their 401(k) as of the end of 2011. The average balance for all participants was under $59,000. A 2013 analysis by Fidelity Investments of almost a million investors who had more than one type of retirement savings account held there put the average combined balance at $225,600 by the end of 2012. Average balances rose from more than $32,000 for workers between 25 and 29 to almost $448,000 for those in their early 70s.
However, Mitchell noted that many projection studies, both industry and academic studies, fail to take into account the effect of Social Security and Medicare.
"What might look like sufficient retirement savings if we can count on Social Security and Medicare probably won't be if benefits have to be cut a lot," she said. "Then of course we're also living longer than we did 50 years ago, so there are more years over which we have to spread those retirement assets."
She added that retirees can't really predict their future medical care needs, either. "By one estimate, if you wanted to prefund your out-of-pocket premiums for Medicare and deductibles and copays and so forth, as well as put aside the amount you'd need for long-term care, a couple could easily need to have something like $500,000 — just to pay for medical costs. What that means is if you have $1 million, half of it will go to medical and you'll have to live on the other half to pay your bills, travel, buy your grandkids presents. What used to look like a lot of money doesn't anymore."
"I wouldn't say the picture is all good or all bad," Mitchell added. "I would say the pension institution we have now seems to be better suited to most of our workers in the current economy, and in other countries as well."
Americans' high level of confidence in 401(k)s is another tick on the positive side of the ledger. Almost two-thirds of households surveyed by ICI, and 76% of households who had a DC plan or IRA, said they had a very or somewhat favorable impression of those types of plans.
Also key to 401(k) plans' success is their tax-deferred status. However, the paper stressed that a tax deferral is not an exclusion or deduction. They are similar in that they reduce taxes paid in the year of deferral, but they increase taxes at distribution because taxes are paid on the original deferred compensation and the interest earned, according to the authors. "The benefit of tax deferral is the combined effect of tax savings at the time of contribution and tax savings on investment returns, reduced by the tax paid on distributions."
The paper said several current tax reform proposals would affect retirement plans' tax status, effectively weakening their success. One such proposal would replace the current system of deductions and exclusions in income taxes with flat-rate refundable credits. Another proposal caps itemized deductions at 28%.
A 2010 proposal by The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform limits combined employer and employee contributions to $20,000 or 20% of compensation, whichever is less. The paper noted that "A $20,000 contribution limit in 2013 would be less in nominal dollars — without allowing for inflation — than the 1975 limit of $25,000 established by ERISA."
"A lot of evaluation of reforms tends to be driven by need for tax revenue," Mitchell said. "In times of fiscal stress, governments are very reluctant to allow money to be set aside in tax-deferred accounts because it makes the current budget shortfalls look worse. Of course, sooner or later the government gets the money back because when you withdraw the funds you pay income tax on them. They don't take into account the fact that more saving now will generate more income later. Part of the appeal of trying to raise taxes or curtail retirement spending depends on this artificial window, which I don't much approve of."
A 2012 study by Mathew Greenwald & Associates showed the effect those proposals might have on employers' willingness to offer the plans, according to the paper. A flat-rate tax credit of 25% would lead almost half of employers to drop their plan or at least consider doing so. A 28% cap on exclusions would force 35% of employers to drop or consider dropping their retirement plan, the same percentage who would react negatively to the 20/20 proposal.
Among respondents who would keep their plan, 30% would cut non-elective contributions, 29% would cut employer matches, and 23% would lower auto-enrollment, auto-escalation and safe harbor contributions.
"Congress is currently contemplating comprehensive tax reform, and we want policymakers to understand the importance of the private retirement system and the role of tax deferral in promoting retirement savings and retirement security," Lynn Dudley, senior vice president of retirement and international benefits policy for the American Benefits Council, said in a statement. "Lawmakers will find evidence in this report that efforts to raise money by reducing the tax incentives for retirement plans are short-sighted and illusory — and could ultimately decrease retirement savings, especially for low-income workers."
Mitchell said that determining how much to save is closely tied to what you think interest rates will be in the future. With more pessimistic estimates for returns at between 2% and 3%, Mitchell said, target savings goals should be around 25% of annual salary. "In reality, focusing on the low savings we've had in the past, we need to be encouraging rather than discouraging more saving."
There are some proposals that could have a positive effect on savings, though. Mitchell said, "There have been proposals to have automatic 401(k)s or Australian-style pensions. In Australia they have a 9% of pay mandatory contribution rate. Moreover, the Australians have decided to bump that to 12% of pay. In the U.S., in typical 401(k) plans, we've seen numbers like 3% or 6%. We have a long way to go before we hit anywhere near the maximum."
Other proposals have been floated to "de-link" 401(k) plans from employers, Mitchell said, that would allow people to have an automatic payroll deduction into an IRA. This would be especially helpful for workers at small firms that don't offer 401(k)s to their employees.
Check out these related stories on ThinkAdvisor:
- Olivia Mitchell: You Might Live to 100. Will Your Money?
- Olivia Mitchell, Kent Smetters, Others Reveal Holes in Retirement Advice
- World's Top 10 Retirement Systems That Beat America's
- Retirement Around the World: How the U.S. System Stacks Up
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The IEEE has approved IEEE 1394, "Standard for High Performance Serial Bus." The revised specification combines and incorporates all previous IEEE 1394 standards developed since 1994. Commercially known as FireWire and i.LINK, the IEEE 1394 standard provides specifications for a high-speed serial bus which supports both asynchronous and isochronous communication and integrates well with most IEEE standard 32-bit and 64-bit parallel buses. More than 500 million IEEE 1394 ports have been produced since the standard was first published in 1995.
"The new standard includes all of the amendments, enhancements and more than 100 errata which have been added to the base standard over the last 12 years," said Les Baxter, chair of the working group which developed the standard. "This update provides developers with a single document they can rely upon for all of their application needs."
The 1394-2008 standard updates and revises all prior 1394 standards, including 1394a, 1394b, 1394c, enhanced UTP, and the 1394 beta plus PHY-Link interface. It also incorporates the complete specifications for S1600 (1.6 Gigabit/second bandwidth) and for S3200, which provides 3.2 Gigabit/second speeds.
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The Front Page Café, also referred to as the Front Page Bar, is a café in the Ocean Drive, Ocean Beach, Vice City. It is directly north of the player's first safehouse, the Ocean View Hotel, in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. During the mission "Bar Brawl," Tommy Vercetti takes out members of the DBP Security at the café and their headquarters to force the owner to pay protection to Vercetti.
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Agency faces no direct cuts, but a slow economy could hurt business.
U.S. Postal Service officials expressed concern over the effects sequestration will have on business, despite being exempt from the $85 billion in cuts, The Hill reported.
USPS is not directly affected by sequestration cuts because it does not receive taxpayer funds, instead relying on its own sales for funding. But, most economists believe the sharp budget reductions will have a drag on the economy overall, which could in turn affect postal revenues.
"Any economic or other factors that lead our residential and business customers to mail less [are] a concern," USPS spokesman Dave Partenheimer told The Hill.
Sequestration will have no immediate effects on USPS business, as post offices will remain open and employees and suppliers will be paid on time, Partenheimer said. However, with projections of just 2.5 operational days of cash on hand by the end of the current fiscal year, the slightest economic disruption could vastly alter that picture.
Lawmakers have said they are close to striking a deal to overhaul the Postal Service. The looming economic downturn could speed up that process, an industry expert told The Hill.


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You choose the level of service yourself. We serve a breakfast buffet every morning with organic produce or you can make your own breakfast in our well-equipped guest kitchen.
A wide range of cultural and outdoors experiences are on offer right around the corner. We have Sweden's most exciting adventure swimming pool. Museums such as the Jusse Björling Museum, the Future Museum, the Geological Museum and the Museum of the Swedish Road Administration. The outdoors activities are unbeatable both in the summer and the winter, with Romme Alpine Ski Resort or Gyllbergen for cross country skiing in beautiful mountain countryside. Cycling around Lake Runn is a great experience or cross country ice skating on prepared trails. Enjoy some relaxation with a fishing rod on the magical Skommartjärn. Open all year round.
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The Delaware River Sojourn is a non-profit event and is planned and priced as a package. It typically costs more to put on the Sojourn than what we take in, and contributions of time, goods, and services from our many sponsors and supporters allow us to keep participant costs as low as possible. The Sojourn Committee is ever appreciative of the donations, grants, and in-kind services that it receives.
Registration fees for 2018 were as follows:
ADULT (Over 15): $80/day
CHILD (15 and Under): $50/day
There is also an American Canoe Association (ACA) insurance fee of $5 per person for the entire trip, except for current ACA members. Please download and complete the below waivers and bring with you to registration.
Our livery Northeast Wilderness Experience (NEWE) also has a waiver that each participant renting a kayak must sign: Download NEWE Waiver
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