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Having supported the deceptively title "California Civil Rights Initiative" to ban affirmative action programs for months, presidential candidate Bob Dole announced his position publicly for the first time. At a rally sponsored by supporters of the initiative -- including Gov. Pete Wilson and businessman and University of California Regent Ward Connerly -- Dole announced his support for the measure Sunday (3-24) in what is called a "direct challenge to President Clinton" who has denounced the CCRI.
The announcement reiterated the strong role affirmative action will likely play in the November presidential elections. A recent poll showed that California voters still favor the CCRI, but that its support wanes when people realize that it will not only outlaw affirmative action programs for women and people of color, but will also gut sex discrimination law in the state where such laws are strongest and where many of the largest cases have been won against discriminating companies. Dole has introduced one of the many anti-affirmative action bills currently in Congress, and there are similar measures circulating in 17 other states.
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Gay Millennials, Part 1: Beyond 'Coming Out'
For previous gay generations, "Coming Out" was one of the most significant things you would do in your life as a gay person. For Gay Millennials, "Coming Out" is increasingly "no big deal" – to use the words of one Millennial we interviewed. In honor of National Coming Out Day, today we're taking a look at how this generation of gay youth is redefining this rite of passage…
When we began studying Gay Millennials earlier this year, we started by asking ourselves what the major challenges and tension points are for this particular subgroup of Millennials. "Coming Out" seemed like a natural place to begin our discussion. After all, rites of passage on the road to adulthood are often tough, and "Coming Out" has long been treated as one of the scariest and most risky acts of self-definition. For previous generations – where gay men and women often didn't come out until their 20s, 30s, or later (if it at all) for fear of rejection or persecution – simply revealing one's sexual identity was, perhaps, the ultimate challenge for a gay person. However, that seems to be changing.
For Gay Millennials, who have grown up in a culture with high gay visibility, "Coming Out", seems to be increasingly less of a tension point for many gay youth today. When we talked to Gay Millennials over the course of our research, many of them shared "Coming Out" stories that were surprisingly positive, drama-free, and — in some ways — a bit anti-climactic.
With more supportive friends and schools than ever before, for many, "Coming Out" as a teenager is no longer the dreaded nightmare it once was. Domenic, 19, explains "When I came out in high school when I was 14, it was no big deal. I was the only gay kid in my high school, and my high school was really liberal, so within a week I was like a celebrity."
Tom, 23, expresses a similar sentiment: "When I was a freshman in high school, I told my best friend and she decided to tell the entire school. Technically, I was outed. At that point, I was accused of being gay for so long that finally when I came out, everyone was just like 'OK.' High school was super, super easy for me."
We also heard stories that suggest "Coming Out" at home is becoming increasingly easier as well, with many parents taking the news surprisingly well. Jennifer, 23, was surprised by how enthusiastically her parents responded: "The weekend after my girlfriend and I put a title on our relationship, I told my parents at dinner. They were so supportive that they called the rest of my family and had me tell them that night. It was funny and tiring, but I guess all my hard work is over!"
Other parents offered reactions that were more muted but equally supportive. Allie, 23, recalls "One day my mom asked me why my friends had boyfriends and I didn't. "Do you even like boys?" she asked. I said "no," and then she told me that I can get diseases too. Ha! Ever since then she's been completely supportive of me."
With Gay Millennials coming out so early in life (the average "Coming Out" age is now 16), often prompting reactions from friends and family that range from gushingly supportive to benignly blasé, the process is becoming less scary. Furthermore, young people are coming out in record numbers. A New York Times article from last week cites a recent study on LGBT teens by the Human Rights Campaign in which 64% of high school students and 54% of middle school students report that they are out at school. While there are, of course, still many areas and communities in the U.S. where "Coming Out" is extremely difficult, stories like the ones mentioned above are increasingly common.
We're starting to see this new reality reflected on TV as well. Whereas TV shows in the '90s introduced gay characters and storylines via tearful and dramatic "Coming Out" scenes (see Jack McPhee's emotional reveal to his father in the second season of Dawson's Creek or Buffy's metaphorical "Coming Out" as the slayer to her mother in the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), today's young gay characters are more often embraced than rejected by their on-screen friends and family. On the first season of Glee, car mechanic Burt Hummel offered a warm and heartfelt reaction to his son Kurt's unsurprising admission that he is gay. Similarly, on the first season of Pretty Little Liars, Aria, Hannah, and Spencer unflinchingly welcomed their friend Emily's admission that she was in love with their former best friend, Alison. Even more recently, some shows are forgoing "Coming Out" storylines altogether by introducing viewers to characters who are openly gay right from the start (see Glee, Happy Endings, Smash, and The New Normal to name a few) – reflecting the rising Millennial notion that being gay shouldn't be a source of conflict.
As "Coming Out" becomes less of a tension point for this generation, new tension points are emerging center stage for Gay Millennials. The conversation around gay youth is now shifting from "Coming Out" to what comes after: navigating the complex world of Millennial relationships and sex, forging unique paths while planning for somewhat conventional futures, forming gay identities that are not exclusively gay – to name a few.
Look out for additional posts in this series on Gay Millennials.
Matt Cohen is a Senior Analyst for Creative Development & Marketing Research at MTV. For more insights and ideas from MTV, check out the MTV Insights blog.

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Fans will get three concerts for the price of one when Gavin DeGraw hits the road with Train and The Script.
The singer, who's working on the follow-up to his 2011 album, Sweeter, will kick things off in Cleveland, Ohio on July 17 making stops along the way in New York, Texas and California before finishing up in Auburn, Washington on August 14.
The Irish lads of the Script are celebrating their return to the States by giving away a pair of tickets for each and every date. They're even asking fans to send their song requests through Twitter while they prepare their setlist for the upcoming tour.
This will be the second time Gavin has toured with the guys of Train. The two acts, along with Maroon 5, hit the road together back in 2011.
Tickets for the California 37 tour go on-sale February 8.
Check out the full list of dates below.
7/17 Cleveland, OH- Blossom Music Center
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7/19 Noblesville, IN- Klipsch Music Center
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7/23 Wantagh, NY- Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
7/24 Camden, NJ- Susquehanna Bank Center
7/27 Mansfield, MA- Comcast Center
7/28 Holmdel, NJ- PNC Bank Arts Center
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SNOW HILL – Methane gas is building up at the capped Berlin landfill facility, but the concentrations are small and not harmful, county staff said this week.
"It's not heading to the west," said Public Works Director John Tustin. "It's not migrating toward the community."
The two exceedences detected have migrated closer to the southwestern property line, toward a woodland area, Tustin said.
The Maryland Department of the Environment has written Worcester County a letter requiring the situation be remediated.
"We've got some issues and we've got some options," Tustin said.
Costs of remediation will not be known until the remediation plan is complete.
"I don't think the cost is going to be a factor," said Commissioner Jim Purnell. "You've got people living all around that thing."
Remediation could take the form of extra vents or small candlestick flares, which would burn off the methane, but have no impact on the community.
"It's a low level flare," Tustin said.
Commissioner Louise Gulyas expressed concern that trespassers could injure themselves on the candlestick flares.
"I don't anticipate anything like that," Tustin said. "We do have some trespassing issues in Berlin."
County staff and law enforcement are working on blocking access to the obsolete Berlin landfill, according to Tustin.
County solid waste engineering consultants will provide a remediation plan in four to five weeks, Tustin said.
The closed Snow Hill landfill also exhibited some methane issues.
The landfill shows less methane than during recent tests, according to Tustin, from seven exceedences out of 15 monitors, to three out of 15. The county continues to keep an eye on the situation there.
The Pocomoke landfill, also capped, has exhibited some minor amounts of methane, but county staff is not concerned.
"It's not moving off the property at this time and we're continuing to monitor that," said Tustin.
These landfills are too small to host a methane plant like the one installed at the Central Landfill this year, which uses trash-generated methane to produce power, officials pointed out.


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Bill Keller, former executive editor of The New York Times wrote earlier this month about the importance of journalists being there when news happens. Risk-averse, cost-focused news organizations had begun their retreat from the world long ago, Keller wrote, lamenting that the truly committed foreign correspondent was something of an endangered species.
Sadly, in many areas, this issue goes far beyond a diminished corps of foreign correspondents.
The truly committed journalist, who is prepared to make personal sacrifices to tell the story despite economic, social and political obstacles, is in some societies also under threat. And how many publishers are still hiring and training and deploying journalists who are able to make their own calls on how close they get to risky situations?
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Speedy species surprise
The rapid appearance today, of new varieties of fish, lizards, and more defies evolutionary expectations … but fits perfectly with the Bible.
Researchers in Trinidad relocated guppies (Poecilia reticulata) from a waterfall pool teeming with predators to previously guppy-free pools above the falls where there was only one known possible predator (of small guppies only, therefore large guppies would be safe).1
The descendants of the transplanted guppies adjusted to their new circumstances by growing bigger, maturing later, and having fewer and bigger offspring.
The speed of these changes bewildered evolutionists, because their standard millions-of-years view is that the guppies would require long periods of time to adapt.
One evolutionist said, 'The guppies adapted to their new environment in a mere four years—a rate of change some 10,000 to 10 million times faster than the average rates determined from the fossil record.'2
Leggy lizards
And it's not just guppies. In the Bahamas, small numbers of anole lizards (Anolis sagrei) were transplanted from an island with tall trees to nearby islands where there were previously no lizards and only smaller bushy vegetation.
Body form rapidly changed in succeeding generations.3 In particular, the relative length of hindlimbs was greatly decreased—thought to be an adaptation for life amongst the twigs of the scrubby vegetation in the lizards' new habitat. (Lizards that live on tree trunks have longer legs than those that live on twigs—an apparent trade-off between the agility necessary for twig-to-twig jumping and the speed that longer limbs provide on the broad surface of tree trunks.)4,5
But again it was the speed of adaptation, many thousands of times higher than (their interpretation of) the 'fossil record' that surprised evolutionists.6
Daisy diaspora
On small islands off British Columbia, the seeds of wind-dispersed weedy plants in the daisy family (Asteraceae) are rapidly losing their ability to 'fly'. Specifically, the embryo part of the seed is becoming fatter while the parachute-like 'pappus' that keeps each seed aloft is becoming smaller. These changes are advantageous because they reduce dispersal—otherwise, on such tiny islands, lightweight windblown seeds would be lost in the ocean (which is why they have left fewer descendants). Note that these changes involve the loss of the capacity for long-range airborne dispersal.7
Flies, fish and finches
Other examples of rapid adaptation, even to the extent of producing 'new species'—speciation—abound. (If a population arises from another which cannot interbreed anymore with its parent population, it is generally defined as a new species.)
Creation magazine recently reported how evolutionists described as 'alarming' the rate of change in the wingspan of European fruit flies introduced accidentally to America.8,9,10 Similarly, rapid changes have been reported recently for Drosophila fruit flies and sockeye salmon—within just nine and thirteen generations respectively.11
In the case of Darwin's famous finches, it had been estimated that from one million to five million years would have been necessary for today's Galapagos Island species to radiate from their parent populations. But actual observations of rapid finch adaptation have forced evolutionists to scale that back to a timeframe of just a few centuries.12
Mosquitoes and mice
Not long ago, evolutionists were astonished to find that bird-biting mosquitoes, which moved into the London Underground train network (and are now biting humans and rats instead), have already become a separate species.13 And now a study of house mice in Madeira (thought to have been introduced to the island following 15th century Portuguese settlement) has found that 'several reproductively isolated chromosomal races' (in effect, new 'species') have appeared in less than 500 years.14
In all of these instances, the speedy changes have nothing to do with the production of any new genes by mutation (the imagined mechanism of molecules-to-man evolution), but result mostly from selection of genes that already exist. Here we have real, observed evidence that (downhill) adaptive formation of new forms and species from the one created kind can take place rapidly. It doesn't need millions of years.
Shouldn't evolutionists rejoice, and creationists despair, at all this observed change? Hardly. Informed creationists have long stressed that natural selection can easily cause major variation in short time periods, by acting on the created genetic information already present. But this does not support the idea of evolution in the molecules-to-man sense, because no new information has been added.
Selection by itself gets rid of information, and of all observed mutations which have some effect on survival or function,15 so far even the rare 'beneficial' ones are also losses of information. The late-maturing, larger guppies resulted simply from a re-shuffling of existing genetic material.16 Such variation can even be sufficient to prevent two groups from interbreeding with each other any more, thus forming new 'species' by definition, without involving any new information.
The Biblical account of history not only accommodates such rapid changes in body form, but actually requires that it would have happened much faster than evolutionists would expect. As the animals left the Ark, multiplying to fill the Earth and all those empty ecological niches, natural selection could easily have caused an original 'dog kind' (e.g.) on the Ark to 'split' into wolves, coyotes, dingoes, etc. Because there are historical records showing some of these subtypes in existence only a few hundred years after the Flood, this means that there had to have been some very rapid (non-evolutionary) speciation. So it is encouragingly supportive of Biblical history when some such rapid changes are seen still occurring today.17 And this is being repeatedly confirmed.
But since evolutionists mistakenly interpret all such adaptation/speciation as 'evolution happening', they are left stunned when it happens much faster than their traditional interpretations of the fossil record would allow. (This is, of course, easy to understand when it is realized that the standard idea about the fossil record—that it is a 'tape-recording' of millions of years—is in fact a misinterpretation. The record reflects the way in which a global Flood and some of its after-effects buried a world of plants and animals, in a time sequence which did not involve millions of years.)
Because such fast changes challenge traditional evolutionary ideas, the findings are often disputed, but with little success.2 Rapid 'evolution' (a misnomer, as we have seen) is welcomed by some fossil experts who support the idea of 'punctuated equilibrium'.18 This is the notion that the evolutionary history of life is one of mostly no change, 'punctuated' by short, sharp bursts of evolution (which, conveniently, happen too briefly to be recorded in the fossils). However, not only is this still a minority view among evolutionists, it begs the question of why, if fast change is everywhere, has not a vastly greater number of new species been generated over 'geologic time'? I.e. the observed changes are still too fast for comfort.
Not only is this rapid change not adding information, even some evolutionists point out that evolution in the molecules-to-man sense was not observed in any of these studies. The finches are still finches, the mosquitoes stay mosquitoes, and the mice remain mice. One evolutionary geneticist, referring to the guppy data, said, 'As far as I know, these are still guppies.'2
Setting the record straight
If we start with the Word of the One who knows all, the evidence of today's world makes a great deal of sense. Creatures were to reproduce 'after their kind', so mice come from mice, lizards from lizards, daisies from daisies. Evolution has never occurred, nor does it occur today. But organisms have a wonderful 'built-in' genetic capacity for rapid change in response to environmental pressures—most easily observed today in isolated island environments.
Such examples of rapid adaptation give us an insight into how the Earth's many vacant ecological niches were recolonized after the Flood—a global event in real history. This event buried the 'world that then was' (2 Peter 3:6). Because this was already a fallen world, the fossils record death, suffering and disease. Because it was a created world, the fossil record consists of the remains of some creatures that no longer exist, and some that still do, but no sequence of one type changing by stages into a totally different type, whether slowly or quickly.
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- Reznick, D.N., Shaw, F.H., Rodd, F.H. and Shaw, R.G., Evaluation of the rate of evolution in natural populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata), Science 275(5308):1934–1937, 1997. Return to text.
- Morell, V., Predator-free guppies take an evolutionary leap forward, Science 275(5308):1880, 1997. Return to text.
- Losos, J.B., Warheit, K.I. and Schoener, T.W., Adaptive differentiation following experimental island colonization in Anolis lizards, Nature 387(6628):70–73, 1997. Return to text.
- Case, T.J., Natural selection out on a limb, Nature 387(6628):15–16, 1997. Return to text.
- Morell, V., Catching lizards in the act of adapting, Science 276(5313):682–683, 1997. Return to text.
- Evolutionists have invented a unit called the 'darwin' for measuring the speed of change in the form (body size, leg length, etc.) of a species. In the case of the Anolis sagrei lizards, the rate of change ranged up to 2,117 darwins—whereas evolutionists had only 'measured' rates of 0.1 to 1.0 darwins over the 'millions of years in the fossil record'. For the guppies in Trinidad, the rates were even higher: from 3,700 to 45,000 darwins. Artificial selection experiments on laboratory mice show rates of up to 200,000 darwins. (Ref. 2 and Ref. 4.) Return to text.
- In the insect world, too, the loss of genetic information for flight can be advantageous, as shown by the success of wingless beetles on windswept islands. See Wieland, C., Beetle bloopers, Creation 19(3):30, 1997. Return to text.
- Fruit flies spread wings, Creation 22(4):5, 2000. Return to text.
- Walker, M., Flying out of control—alien species can evolve at an alarming rate, New Scientist 165(2222):15, 2000. Return to text.
- Huey, R.B. et al., Rapid evolution of a geographic cline in size in an introduced fly, Science 287(5451):308–309, 2000. Return to text.
- Marchant, J., Darwin strikes back—one modern idea about evolution turns out to be wrong, New Scientist 168(2262):11, 2000. Return to text.
- Wieland, C., Darwin's finches: evidence supporting rapid post-Flood 'adaptation', Creation 14(3):22–23, 1992. Return to text.
- As they were no longer able to interbreed with the surface bird-biting variety any more, Wieland, C., Brisk biters, Creation 21(2):41, 1999. Return to text.
- Britton-Davidian, J. et al., Rapid chromosomal evolution in island mice, Nature 403(6766):158, 2000. Return to text.
- Many mutations are 'neutral' in this sense, i.e. just meaningless gobbledygook, and are often described as 'transparent to selection pressures'. For instance, the non-critical portion of the amino acid chain of some proteins can vary without apparently affecting the way the protein works. Return to text.
- The major variation being observed seems to be from small, isolated populations starting with a mere subset of the total genetic information (thus variability). Natural selection acts on this, as does genetic drift, i.e. the statistical tendency for some forms of genes to be lost within small populations by pure chance. Return to text.
- The 'long-age creation' ministry of Dr Hugh Ross, Reasons to Believe, not long ago devoted a radio program to their apparent denial of observed speciation, repeatedly accusing CMI of believing in 'evolution'. They completely failed to understand the point we have been making for years about information. Evolution is allegedly capable of having 'created' a huge amount of new information by natural processes. Thus, one may have a 'new species' by some man-made definition, but if nothing new has been added to the pool of biological information (but rather that information has been decreased), it boggles the mind to see how that could support 'real' evolution. The real issue is of course that rapid speciation further highlights the non-necessity of their local-flood compromise of the Genesis record. Return to text.
- Stephen Jay Gould was probably the best-known exponent of this view. However, the majority of evolutionists hold to the classical neo-Darwinian view of 'mostly slow-and-gradual' evolution. A leading member of this camp reportedly said that Gould 'should not be publicly criticized because he is at least on our side against the creationists'; see Creation 21(4):9, 1999. Return to text.
Oh, this was an excellent article! However, may I point out something that your article addresses indirectly by inference, but not directly? Namely, the "catch 22" in which the evolutionary camps find themselves with regard to the evidence you have highlighted herein, versus their desperate "requirement" for "millions" and "billions" of years for their absurd claims to seem plausible.
(1) Evolutionists face facts that cannot possibly be explained by evolutionary theories -- ever. One is the existence of matter and energy. The law of causality demands that there was an "in the beginning," but without resorting to the concept of a Creator, evolutionary concepts are bereft of any explanation of from where these came; or from where the laws of physics, chemistry, etc., had their origin; or from where the laws of logic originated, by which we observe and comment on all these things.
(2) Thus, to compensate for these "inexplicable things" (i.e. within their worldview), they have to push them back billions of years past, in order to sound plausible when they say, "We cannot explain those things yet. They were too long ago."
(3) Thus, they need millions of years (at least) in order to provide a plausible explanation for "molecules to man" evolutionary claims within that larger billions of years framework.
So here these "scientists" face a situation which, if they are sincere in their pursuit of knowledge, would require them to admit that adaptations of species can happen in short periods of time. Yet, that clearly reduces the time-frame needed for "natural selection" SIGNIFICANTLY from their "millions" of years for changes to occur; and this, therefore, removes their facade of plausibility.
In other words, they would have to admit that "the emperor has no clothes."
Indeed, this is a 'killer' article. However me thinks the evolutionary camp will still not allow 'a Divine foot in the door', regardless of how convincing the evidence for the Divine is or will be.
Thank you for elucidating the process of creation and variation. We can always trust the word of Jesus to understand how the world came to be, why it is here and what we are supposed to be doing in it...turning people towards the Saviour. May eyes be opened to see His work in the world, and ears unplugged to hear His call on their lives. Bless you CMI.
Thanks guys. This article corrected heaps of misconceptions I had about the evolution and creation stances.
You've done a marvellous job with this article.


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Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by infinix, Mar 25, 2011.
Don't think it was ever mentioned on screen but some of the books pretty much state the opposite - storm troops are valuable, are well trained and post Endor are in short supply.
You're most likely right. I don't reach much Star Wars fiction. As an aside, does this mean that there's a possible Redshirt extinction though? Someone must save those Redshirts!
Why do think they changed the uniform colours?
The EU thing about Stormtroopers being limited I think was based on the assumption that they were an elite force, and that the guys in the big helmets and black shirts were the 'regular' army. However, judging by the prequels, Lucas I think intended them to be the main army of the Republic/Empire.
Sorry, but it is very difficult to take the storm troopers seriously after witness how inept they are in RotJ. They were poorly trained, uncoordinated, and absolutely disorganized.
SW.Republic Commando was a great game, but EU is EU.
the stormtroopers running out in the novels was because the Republic was killing them all and taking planets from the Empire, which was decreasing in size year-on-year, and losing Caridia and other Academy worlds didn't help.
Oops sry folks. I thought you were talking about Weather channels, storm trooper tank that videos tornadoes. My mistake.
Oooohhhh: Storm Trackers????
Or Storm Chasers????
Yeah, not to mention that it takes place in the Clone War era, which means things could have changed since then. It could very well be that the practice of cloning out of perfect soldiers fell out of use, perhaps because it was too expensive so that by the time ANH rolls around, the Empire is using soldiers that aren't as well trained as they should be, but as compensation maybe have larger numbers of them. Which begs the question, what exactly did happen to the clone troopers after the war was over? Is there any point of transition where the Empire starts looking more like the Empire in ANH compared to that of the Clone Wars? Everything looks so different between the two, with a few exceptions.
But now that I know what your talking about.
Yeah it seem that where ever you hit them with blasters the get hit and fall down. I don't think the armor serves much use other than for looking apeal.
the novels Order 66 and Imperial Commando: 501st partly deal with a transistion away from Kamino-produced clones and increased numbers of mongrel (IE baseline human) officers in the forces. it's also made clear that combat aside, clones have a limited life-expectancy due to the Kaminoans accelerated aging (something like 20 years in 5 calender years) of them to physical maturity.
so, by the time of ANH, nearly all the clones from the Clone Wars are dead either through combat or through aging. thus, the Imperial Army and Navy are instead reliant on either conscripts or volunteers from the human populace. and since they didn't spend the first five years of their lives being drilled in tactics, combat and live-fire exercises, they aren't as good.
Regarding Imperial Stormtrooper marksmanship: is everyone forgetting Tarkin let the gang escape so he could follow them back to the rebel base? Leia even mentioned that it was "too easy." The Stormtroopers were ordered to shoot everything but the fleeing rebels.
Comic relief.
How? I am not much a star wars fan, so I might not get the joke.
Ahh, I see. If that's the case, I think it would be pretty interesting to see a story where a clone tries to reverse his aging process.
that was the main background plot to the Republic Commando series and IC: 501st. the commandos' training sergeant, Kal Skirata (a Mando bounty hunter brought in by Jango to aid in training the clones) tries to find out how to extend clone lifetmes.
unfortunately, the author fell out with the publishers and Lucas Licensing over development of the Mandos in the Clone Wars toon and quit. i believe there were other issues involved as well.
In Labyrinth of Evil it didn't seem to help very much.
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Our current financial crisis was influenced by corruption that got so bad that we are now in this situation. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....ring a bell? These guys are known as of right now, as one of the most corrupt business people in America that screwed so many people for their own personal gain. And guess what? On their list of people they payed....Barack Obama is 2nd. This goes back to Obama's bad association with people. Jeremiah Wright, Bil Aires, etc. Barack is closer to some pretty bad people than everyone thinks. Look into the whole Fannie and Freddie situation. And then look at Obama's connection with them. It raises some eyebrows.
Joe Johnson is associated with Obama and he was the CEO for Fannie Mae. And more with the connection to Obama. Shows his financial views...not good.
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Sunday's visitors have not lost in the league in five games but Andrea Stramaccioni's men will be eager to put that run to an end as they try to gain ground in Serie A
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Inter will be without defender Walter Samuel but striker Antonio Cassano could return up front to partner Rodrigo Palacio for the visit of 11th-placed Torino.
Philippe Coutinho, who is rumoured to be on the verge of a move away from San Siro, will not feature, along with Diego Milito and Dejan Stankovic, but Ricky Alvarez is named in the squad.
Torino boss Giampiero Ventura meanwhile is only missing defender Angelo Ogbonna, with Kamil Glik and Guillermo Rodriguez slotting in at centre back and Rolando Bianchi back up front.
Alessio Cerci suffered a minor injury in midweek, but looks set to feature on the wing.
- Inter have won eight out of the last nine games against Torino in all competitions.
- Andrea Stramaccioni's side have conceded more goals at home than any other side in the top six in Serie A.
- The Nerazzurri have picked up just five points from their last five league games.
- Torino have not lost since December 9, when they went down 4-2 against Milan.
- Since then, they have picked up 11 points from a possible 15 to move them into 11th spot in Serie A.
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Retiring at 55 to a life filled with leisurely days of golf and afternoon cocktails is a dying concept, says Ken Dychtwald, psychologist, gerontologist and author of "The Power Years."
When it comes to retirement, "please forget everything you've been told," Dychtwald says in his new book. As the baby boomers reach their "golden years," they are redefining retirement just as they have redefined almost every stage of life up to that point.
More often, people are staying in the work force longer. One major reason is that life is expensive, and as people live longer, they need to work longer to support themselves. But many baby boomers decide to keep working because they are not ready to "fade away." They have more dreams to pursue, and, Dychtwald contends, would be bored if they entered traditional retirement at 55.
Dychtwald offered the following advice to "Good Morning America" viewers entering their "power years."
First, do what you really want to do now. You don't have to impress anyone or earn as much as you've been earning.
Second, reinvent your career. Go back to school or do something you love but have never done professionally.
Third, realize there is a brain drain of boomers leaving the work force so more people will be looking for your expertise and will value it.
Dychtwald offers much more advice in his book, and you can read an excerpt of "The Power Years" below.
Excerpt: 'The Power Years'
Do you long for a life without work or pressure in which your days are spent baking for the grandchildren or playing eighteen holes of golf in the morning, followed by a leisurely lunch and afternoon of bridge, then cocktails, a delicious early dinner, and a good movie? After all, that's how it worked for our grandparents and parents, isn't it? We grew up surrounded by this model of a leisure-filled later life.
Please forget everything you've been told. It's not your obligation to go away just because you're getting older. Nor is it your birthright to cede all responsibility to your community and mankind so that you may lead a life of leisure in retirement. Of course, you may choose these paths if you wish, but in our view that would be a mistake. Certainly there is no guarantee that you'll be able to afford a carefree romp through later life or even that you'll enjoy it if that's where you can afford to wind up. Reinventing yourself and repowerment -- ramping up life where and when you choose and in ways that excite you, not winding down into obscurity -- is the mold-shattering, exciting new stage that will come next for our generation.
Welcome to the Power Years
While we've had our heads down toiling away these past few decades, spending more time than we might have envisioned at work and raising our children, the world has changed enormously. As we all know, the Internet, global trade, medical breakthroughs, and more are speeding up the pace of life even as life itself is being extended, posing new challenges in our careers and families. In this book, we cannot hope to deal with all the changes confronting our lives. Yet it's vitally important for each of us to appreciate just how different things really are and will become as we move into the next stage of life, a stage that we -- the eighty-four million North Americans born between 1946 and 1964 as well as hundreds of millions more maturing adults around the world -- will redefine as the power years.
Reinventing Retirement
The majority of our parents worked for one company all their lives. When their careers ended at age sixty-five, the norm was that they got a nice party and a gold watch and happily hopped on board a slow cruise into the sunset. Forty years of toil behind and the kids now grown, both Dad and Mom were done. They floated over the horizon, eagerly retreating to a life of leisure.
For their employers, it was a great deal. They got to bring in younger, more energetic, and less expensive labor.
For a lot of reasons, many of us won't have the same options that our parents had. For one thing, government and employee-sponsored entitlements have questionable futures, and the idea of early retirement, or even for many of us the idea of retirement at sixty-five, took a quantum leap backward when the global stock market bubble burst in 2000, eroding much of our savings and more than a few of our dreams.
Demographic trends threaten to foist an unprecedented labor shortage on the world economy. Companies of all sizes and shapes are going to want us to stick around longer and will be willing to provide us with a great deal more flexibility to do so. Meanwhile, our careers have been far more mobile. We've bounced among three, four, five, or more employers, often in as many cities, and we won't have been with any one of them long enough for a gold watch, much less the pension and wall-to-wall retirement health coverage that our parents might have been blessed with.
The slow, lazy cruise that our fathers and mothers eagerly signed up for turned out to be a little too slow and lazy. Look hard enough and you'll see that many of our parents have begun to rebel against the idea that they should fade away; they're going back to school and back to work, taking up writing or painting and otherwise reengaging with a society they had dropped out of. Throughout this book we will lean on the experiences of what we call Ageless Explorers, the growing number of leading-edge adults of our parents' generation and some from even farther back, to illustrate the changing nature of the power years. Our hope is that you'll find these anecdotes inspirational and that the glimmers they provide will meld into a beam of light that helps you navigate to -- and through -- your power years.
These years present a unique opportunity for us. The notion of staying in the game longer, of not having to step aside at a set age, will liberate us, setting us free to lead the lives we want to lead by staying engaged, vital, and youthful as long as we like. Opening before us is a whole new stage of life squeezed between our primary career years and a steadily retreating old age. Just as we moved from adolescence into adulthood three or four decades ago, we are now pushing into a whole new period of discovery and personal growth -- what we call middlescence -- as more and more of us make the most of the many fruitful decades that lie ahead.
Our generation is coming to realize that we will have numerous decades to live past the age commonly thought to be the time to stop working. What we do with that time will set us apart from all previous generations.
This book is for people like you who are beginning to contemplate what comes next and how to make the most of it. Make no mistake -- this is not a retirement guide. It's about unretiring -- about how to shed your dated preconceptions about life after forty, fifty, or sixty and stay in the game in ways you'll find satisfying and invigorating. Money is important, and we'll deal with that critical issue in Chapter 7. But that's where this book stops being like anything you've read before. Countless opportunities are developing to let you live all aspects of your life to the fullest -- from staying connected with your kids and grandkids (and, eventually, your great-grandkids) to choosing emerging housing designs and lifestyles for a new, active time in your life with fewer responsibilities; from finding love all over again with your spouse (or someone new, should you be searching) to going back to school for the fun of it; from where, how, and why to make new friends to where and why you should pick up stakes and move to a city or town that will let you live and thrive as you always dreamed.
We'll discover new passions and explore long-dormant desires. We'll stay active by working longer or volunteering, by trying our hand at writing or painting or running a small business, and our continued involvement will promote our well-being and prove a vital resource to the communities in which we live.
You are on a far different life track from that of your parents; you just may not fully understand it yet. But you soon will, and this book is meant to help you as you ramp up your learning curve.
On a recent vacation with his family in Orlando, Florida, Dan was staying at a wonderful resort, the Gaylord, where he observed an apparent oddity that both encouraged and, at least initially, dumbfounded him. The hotel had two equally spacious and convenient swimming pools on either side of the grounds. One was designated as a quiet zone for rest-seeking grown-ups and marked "No One Under 18 Allowed." That pool area might as well have been a mausoleum -- not a single person was in the water. The other pool, by contrast, was overrun with raucous teens and quite a few bawling toddlers.What stunned Dan was that many of the mature adults he would have expected to find at the quiet pool had opted away from that morguelike environ, preferring -- even in some cases with no children or grandchildren in sight -- the lively atmosphere at the pool bustling with the energy of youth.
Which pool will you choose in the years ahead?
When is the last time you seriously asked yourself what you will do with the rest of your life? Is there a second or a third career you'd like to explore? A small business you want to start? Do you want to study art or open a bed and breakfast? Have you dreamed of taking up acting or going to cooking school? Where should you live for the perfect combination of weather, fun, friendships, family, lovers, intellectual stimulation, and lifestyle? What will all that free time do to our marriages and other relationships? Where and how will we live? What will keep our minds active and our lives relevant? Will this be the worst period of our lives -- or could it possibly be the best? Most important: what choices must we make now to ensure the kind of extended life after career that we have always envisioned?
You can't get there if you don't think about it, yet few people ask the key questions. We assume that we can deal with these issues when the time comes, reasoning that as long as we manage to save a lot of money, everything will work out. But this is backward thinking. A big pile of money shouldn't be your primary goal.Who you want to be, what you want to feel, and what you want to do with your power years are the critical considerations, and from those spring the types of choices and trade-offs you'll need to consider.
You wouldn't think of building a house without a plan.You wouldn't go on vacation without thinking through your itinerary and even your wardrobe. So why leave your power years to chance? Even if you're not wealthy, you can enjoy an active, fulfilling, and youthful next stage of life by understanding your goals and creating a carefully thought-out plan that makes those goals possible. In this book, we will guide you through every aspect of this blueprint and show you a wide range of choices and possibilities you may never have considered.
As we step over the threshold into maturity, we will transform the stage of later life known as retirement into something that squares with our generation's desire to work, play, and love on our own terms, staying young in mind and body, and engaging in new pursuits without becoming bogged down with too many numbing obligations. With greater energy and drive, higher expectations for our later years, and a greater willingness to repeatedly reinvent ourselves than any previous generation, perhaps we'll reshape work into something that we can do three days a week, or eight months each year, or seven years per decade. And with extended longevity, why wait until maturity for a long break? Why not take time off along the way? Instead of being stuck on a one-career path for life, why not go back to school, learn some new skills, and reinvent ourselves again and again?
The Baby Boom Becomes the Age Wave
What we're naming the power years has also been called by some our third age, a concept derived from the European tradition of adult education. This view holds that there are three ages of man, each with its own special focus, challenges, and opportunities. In the first age, from birth to about thirty, our primary tasks of life are biological development, learning, and survival. During most of human history, the average life expectancy wasn't much longer than the end of the first age, and as a result, the entire thrust of society was oriented toward these basic drives.
In the second age, from about thirty to sixty, our concerns focus on forming a family, parenting, and work. We apply the lessons we learned during the first age to these responsibilities. Until very recently, most people didn't live much beyond the second age. But with today's longer life expectancies, new generations of youthful, open-minded, and high-spirited men and women are not interested in fading into the sunset at sixty.
A third age, which spans the period from sixty to ninety (and longer), is unfolding ahead of us. This is a less-pressured period in which we can further develop our intellect, imagination, emotional maturity, and wisdom. This is also a period when we can give something back to society based on the lessons, resources, and experiences we have accumulated over a lifetime. We need not be social outcasts, but instead can assume the role of a living bridge between yesterday and tomorrow, and in this way play a critical role that no other group is as well suited to perform.
In recent decades, a small but growing number of older adults have been rejecting the social pressure to "act their age." They have been rebelling against ageist stereotypes and seeking to remain productive, involved, and late blooming well into their mature years.They are everywhere—within our families, among our friends, and in our communities: the executive who becomes a high school teacher; the grandmother who goes back to college or who writes her first book; the accountant who becomes an artist. Ask them when they think they'll start to feel elderly inside, and they'll probably say never!
In his book The Virtues of Aging, Jimmy Carter lit the repowerment path in a single phrase at the end of this telling passage: "In one of her hour-long special interviews, Barbara Walters covered all the aspects of my life, from the farm to submarines, from business to the governor's mansion, service in the White House, and from president back home to Plains.Then she asked me a question that required some serious thought: 'Mr. President, you have had a number of exciting and challenging careers. What have been your best years?' After a few moments I responded with absolute certainty: 'Now is the best time of all.'"
If the past fifty years of boomer evolution have taught us anything, it is this: as we enter each new life stage we keep what we like and replace the rest, like remodeling a house.
We'll be moving and experimenting with new lifestyles. As we stay in the game longer both socially and economically, we'll reshape family and community life. One breathtaking finding from the Merrill Lynch New Retirement Survey surfaced when we asked boomers how they would describe themselves. Ten times as many survey respondents said they "put others first" as said "put themselves first." A far cry from our rambunctious teenage years and our swinging single period, we're now focused on keeping our marriages strong, on trying our best to raise healthy and happy children, and on caregiving our parents (the average boomer now has more parents than children to care for). The me generation has grown up to be a we generation.This attitude shift will reshape philanthropy and volunteerism and may very well be the cornerstone of the new retirement values.Today's retirees have the lowest volunteer rate in the country, while those our age who are actively helping out in our kids' schools and in community churches/synagogues through various philanthropic activities actually have the highest volunteer rate. If this desire to make a difference continues into retirement, we may see a huge change in the role of retirees overall -- from taking to giving.
With the right insight and planning, we'll be able to merge what we most enjoy in our youth -- energy, freedom, flexibility, health, and personal growth -- with the good things that come with age, things such as experience, perspective, wisdom, and depth. One thing is clear: as our massive numbers ultimately catch the wave, the ripples will stretch far and wide.
The Seven Reasons These Are the Power Years
Why are these becoming the power years? Here are seven reasons why the rest of your life has more potential than you may have considered:
1. We'll Be Living Longer and Healthier
In 1800, the average life expectancy was less than forty years. By 1900, when one in five babies didn't make it to their fifth birthday and common causes of death were diarrhea, influenza, pneumonia, and tuberculosis, life expectancy at birth was just forty-seven years.Thanks to advances in public health, nutrition, and wellness-oriented lifestyles, today the average lifetime has stretched to more than seventy-seven years in all of the modernized nations of the world. Japan has one of the highest expectancies: seventy-eight years for men and eighty-four for women, for an overall average of eighty-one years. The tiny nation of Andorra, squeezed between France and Spain, tops the world charts in this regard with newborn boys likely to reach eighty-one and newborn girls expected to make it to eighty-seven, for an overall average of eighty-four years. The United States is far down the list, with an overall life expectancy of seventy-seven -- behind Singapore (eighty-two), Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, and Italy (all of which have expected average life spans at birth of eighty years). If you've already made it to fifty, you can expect to live at least until your mid-eighties, and thanks to impending scientific breakthroughs, these numbers will keep increasing.
We will live longer and grow old later in life than any previous generation. Incredibly, two-thirds of all those who have made it to age sixty-five in the history of mankind are today walking the earth. We're not just living longer, we are also in better health and enjoy greater youthfulness and vitality.There are more fifty- and sixty-year-olds running marathons, buying Harleys, starting new careers, going to rock concerts, and getting facelifts than ever before. Our increasing longevity and good health, coupled with our natural desire to remain youthful, are the greatest forces behind the power years. But technology and modern medicine are playing vital roles as well. Impending miracle treatments could help us beat everything from arthritis to Alzheimer's, and the arrival of the information age is taking much of the physical toil out of work and other pursuits.
The upshot is that great numbers of people -- not just exceptions -- are able to work and play as they like far longer than anyone might have expected.
2. The Cyclic Lifeplan Will Replace the Outmoded Linear Model
Greater longevity and vitality will change core patterns of society. When people lived just thirty or forty years, life followed a well-defined linear path. We grew up, went to school, worked hard while marrying and rearing a family, and then we died. Everything had its place, and life was too short for second chances. Increased longevity transforms this model. All around us, the linear path is being replaced by something more flexible. As Maddy Dychtwald explained in her book Cycles, now we can cycle in and out of careers -- interspersing periods of rest and retraining. We may end up working longer, but rather than saving all of our leisure for the end of our lives, regular breaks throughout adulthood will become commonplace. Formal sabbaticals and informal work leaves will be part of every major company's standard package of benefits.
The landmark New Retirement Survey that Ken directed in 2004 with Merrill Lynch was based on interviews with more than three thousand boomers (www.totalmerrill.com/retirement). The study found that only 17 percent of them said they intended to stop working for pay forever in their next stage of life. A whopping 42 percent reported that they hoped to cycle in and out of work and leisure for extended periods throughout life; 16 percent expected to continue working part-time; 13 percent were planning on starting their own business; and 6 percent fully intended to keep working full-time right through their retirement years. Incredibly, of the 76 percent who intended to continue working in some fashion, more than half were hoping to do so in a completely new career or line of work!
Further, when asked why so many wanted to stay involved with work, the overwhelming response was not money. Instead, two of three said the main reason was to stay mentally active. Members of our highly educated and productive generation simply don't want to live a life of intellectual stagnation and mental irrelevance.
3. We'll Have a Big -- and Growing -- Pool of Role Models
How about John Glenn going back into space, and what about Sumner Redstone, who in his eighties is chairman of Viacom, and Rupert Murdoch, who at seventy-four is chairman of News Corporation? They are running two of the world's largest media empires as though they expect to be around to see their visions realized decades hence.Who knows? Maybe they will be.
Warren Buffett remains the world's greatest investor midway through his seventies. People magazine named Sean Connery the sexiest man alive in 1989 when he was fifty-nine. Sophia Loren is pretty terrific in her seventh decade of life, too. Joe Paterno, at seventy-seven, signed a four-year contract extension to coach the vaunted Penn State football team.
Late achievement, while multiplying in frequency, isn't altogether new. Grandma Moses didn't start painting until she was almost eighty. Groucho Marx launched a new career as a television-show host at sixty-five. George Bernard Shaw was at work on a new play when he died at ninety-four. Galileo published his masterpiece Dialogue Concerning the Two New Sciences at seventy-four. Noah Webster was seventy when he published An American Dictionary of the English Language. Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York at ninety-one. Mahatma Gandhi was seventy-two when he completed successful negotiations with Britain for India's independence. I. M. Pei was seventy-eight when he designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. Picasso painted The Rape of the Sabines at eighty-one. Golda Meir was prime minister of Israel from ages seventy to seventy-six. Jessica Tandy was eighty when she won her first Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy. Mary Baker Eddy was eighty-seven when she founded the Christian Science Monitor. At ninety-three, Lillian Gish starred in The Whales of August seventy-two years after starring in the silent film Birth of a Nation. At ninety-four, conductor Leopold Stokowski signed a six-year recording contract. At a hundred, Ichijirou Araya climbed Mount Fuji.
In their day, these remarkable men and women may have been considered highly unusual. But these Ageless Explorers have carved new trails ahead of us and represent the first wave of maturity pioneers. We baby boomers will be next, and we'll turn this thorny trail into a superhighway. Many of us are already thinking ahead. Joel Levinson, fifty-one, has begun to picture his power years as a real-estate investor. He's enjoyed a fruitful career in the advertising business and has run his own agency for the past decade. But he doesn't want to do that forever, and sees real estate as an exciting challenge and a way to build both an income stream for life and his net worth. Joel is in a great spot. He's reaching financial freedom ahead of his own expectations, and he has already begun mapping out how he'll break into the real-estate game, which he has been quietly passionate about for years.
"Every time we plan a vacation, I build in time to go off alone and scout out properties in the area," he says. "I love comparing values and studying what makes one place worth more than another. And lately I've begun to bore friends who are even remotely connected to the real-estate industry -- lawyers, brokers, investors -- with all my talk about getting into the game."
Joel says he's just days away from making his first investment. "Have been for years," he jokes. "There's always another book to read or another property to look at, so I've been slow to pull the trigger. And I'm wary that prices may be a bit inflated these days." But he figures all of his hours studying markets will pay off when he finally buys that first property. Besides, he's enjoyed every minute of his research.
Joel still has two kids at home, so he's in no rush to give up his primary, high-earning career. "The longer I wait, and the more I study, the greater chances of success I'll have when I finally start buying," he says. "I don't intend to take big risks. I'll buy one at a time and keep reinvesting the profits, and see how it works out. I figure I can minimize any chances that I'll lose money. I'll probably do very well, and if nothing else I'll enjoy how I'm spending my time."
4. We'll Be Wiser about What Matters
Having climbed much of the mountain, you now have a pretty good view of life. As we accumulate and make sense of life's lessons, most of us have come to appreciate that the joy that money alone brings is fleeting, and that true happiness revolves around love, relationships, and our sense of fulfillment at work and at play. Most of us reach this basic understanding in our middle years -- sometimes precipitated by the death of a parent, our kids leaving home, or the failure of a career or marriage. But for the most part, by the time we're fifty and still young enough to shape our later years, we understand that money, while it's important, is not what underlies happiness.
Ken recently headed a massive international study with HSBC Bank, The Future of Retirement (www.HSBC.com/ futureofretirement). When eleven thousand people of all ages from regions including Brazil, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States were asked what they believed contributed most to achieving a happy old age, the overwhelming first choice was "loving family and friends." Thanks to the additional longevity we'll be experiencing, we will have both the time and the wisdom to realize what brings true happiness.
In a series of surveys over the past twenty years, Forbes magazine has asked people to rate their happiness on a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 being "not at all satisfied with my life" and 7 being "completely satisfied." No surprise, those on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest people in the world clocked in with a healthy average response of 5.8. But so did the modest-living Inuit people of frigid northern Greenland, and so did the cattle-herding Masai of Kenya, who live in huts with no electricity or running water.
Tom Hagan of Covington, Ohio, sold his pharmacy business at age fifty-six. But he didn't retire. He remains employed in the industry; he simply gave up the headaches and rewards of ownership. "The secret to life is being fulfilled," Hagan says. "It has nothing to do with money. I have friends who are worth $50 million who are miserable. They hate their wives; they hate their children. I love my life. I'm still working, and I plan to work until I die. I love my new job. It keeps my mind active. I couldn't imagine sitting around and watching TV every day."
5. We'll Have New Freedoms
The kids are gone or soon will be. College and the house are paid for -- well, mostly paid for. In any case, you probably have amassed a fair amount of home equity, and hopefully you've been stashing some money in a retirement plan at work. It's not just that your kids' schooling and the mortgage are mostly taken care of. Things like braces and summer camp and all the things you put in your house are largely paid for; you don't need a lot more stuff. With many of your biggest parenting-related financial obligations coming to an end, you'll be endowed with greater freedom to do the things you've always wanted. Meanwhile, your busy schedule is beginning to let up, providing you with a windfall of free time that will let you take on new challenges or pursue hidden passions and long-suppressed dreams.
And because the economy will want to simultaneously prevent a brain drain and declining consumption by keeping all of us earning and spending longer, it will become easier to stay at work or start a new career. The vacuum of workers maturing means that older adults will be in demand and more able to choose our own schedules, and still remain valuable. With the rise of flextime and part-time schedules and contract and project jobs and job sharing, there are millions of exciting paths for us to explore in the work world—throughout the world.With online universities, we can retrain at home or pursue a life as a writer or artist or some other dream.
6. We'll Still Have Clout in the Marketplace
Our huge numbers and often free-spending ways have ensured throughout our lifetime that anyone with something to sell would be inclined to tailor it to our wants and needs. Our demographic and financial wells of influence won't run dry as we mature. We'll live longer and healthier and remain active consumers. Meanwhile, as a generation, our wealth will continue to multiply. Already, today's fifty-plus men and women are the principal buyers of luxury cars, leisure travel, and high-end gifts and jewelry. We own 40 percent of all mutual funds and 60 percent of all annuities.While we are just 30 percent of the population, we control more than 70 percent of all of the wealth and account for more than 50 percent of consumer spending. As we mature and collectively inherit an estimated $20 trillion, we will be as cherished as ever in the marketplace.
Advertisers will need to break free of their addiction to youth. Many wrongly believe that all adults have already chosen the brands they will stick with for life, while young people have yet to choose their cola, sneaker, cell phone, or whatever. This flawed view will stop paying off; marketers will increasingly come to realize that at fifty or sixty we not only have money to spend but also are eager to ditch our old lipstick for the latest colors. As we age, we will remain interested in new adventures and experiences, and we will spend freely to reach our full potential in the power years.
In the years ahead, watch for growth in industries such as the following:
• specialty diagnosis and treatment centers for particular body parts, such as the eyes, ears, muscles, bones, or nervous system
• therapeutically cloned kidneys, livers, lungs, hearts, skin, blood, and bones for tune-up or replacement
• nutraceuticals engineered with macro- and micronutrients to fight aging
• cosmeceutical rejuvenation therapies for both men and women
• antiaging spas
• high-tech exercise gear and equipment programmed to precisely train users to build stronger, healthier, and more youthful bodies
• smart acoustic systems in telephones, radios, and TVs that customize signals to accommodate the auditory range of each user's ears
• Silver Seals -- for-hire teams of elders with various problem-solving talents who are deployed to fix difficult community or business issues
• lifelong learning programs at colleges, universities, churches, and community centers and on cable TV and the Internet
• "retirement zone" stores featuring products and technologies appealing to older adults with free time
• adventure travel services that send older adults to off-thebeaten- trail locations
• mature employment and career transition coordinators; experience agents -- similar to travel agents -- who can be commissioned to orchestrate any type of request, whether it's a party, learning program, psychotherapy, sabbatical, travel adventure, spiritual retreat, introduction to new friends, dates, or business partnerships
• mature dating services to help the tens of millions of single mature women and men find new relationships
• longevity-oriented communities for health-minded elders
• intergenerational communes
• Club Med-like residences for those who enjoy active social programming
• urban arts retirement communities that focus on cultural pursuits
• university-based intergenerational housing for people who desire lifelong learning
• hedonism complexes for mature swingers
• multinational time-share clubs for those who aren't interested in settling down in one location
• long-term-care insurance financing to provide security against the possibility of late-life chronic health problems
• longevity insurance that, rather than paying an individual's family in case of early death, provides financial support for people who live very long
• estate management and trust services to help families manage the $20+ trillion inheritance cascade that is about to occur
• reverse mortgages to help people who are cash-poor but "brick-rich."
7. We'll Be Open to Change
Personal growth and self-improvement are the new order, and as this mind-set blossoms, it will open the doors to fulfillment and achievement that might otherwise have been stifled.
The world of continuing education may best illustrate the appetites of a generation that loves to learn and grow. Already, a thriving adult-education industry has begun to flourish, including magazines, books, audio, video, Internet learning programs, and adult-education seminars, workshops, and courses. About forty million adults participate in one or more educational activities each year. As the need to continuously upgrade skills becomes a requirement, lifelong learning will become commonplace. In response, colleges and universities have begun to aggressively pursue adult students. USA Today recounted: "admission officers and financial-aid directors from campuses across the USA echo the message: Older students are as desirable -- often more so -- as the traditional 18-to-24 college crowd. And they're just as eligible for grants and loans as their younger brethren. Adults, they say, are better motivated, usually have educational goals in focus, and have experiences to share with younger students."
A quiet revolution is occurring. Students over age thirty-five were just 5.5 percent of higher-education enrollment in 1970; today 22 percent of all college students are over thirty-five. Meanwhile, the percentage of adults age sixty-six to seventy-four who enrolled in at least one adult-education course more than doubled between 1990 and 2000, to 20 percent. Retirees represent 25 percent of the ten thousand University of Chicago students taking noncredit courses in the arts and sciences. The trend toward older students will build as adults of all ages seek to upgrade their knowledge through formal university programs, correspondence courses, and employer-provided retraining. This is a worldwide phenomenon. In one respect, Canadians are leading the way, with 6 percent of all adults enrolled in one or more university courses. South Korea ranks second, followed by Australia and then the United States. But New Zealand, Finland, Norway, Spain, Ireland, and France aren't far behind.
Aging Rocks
Being a grandpa or a grandma will rock if we plan for those later years now, doing what we must to be able to stay active, in tune, and in touch. Is it possible to stay hip when we've reached the age of grandparenting? Ask Mick Jagger, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, or Keith Richards. All of them have kids with kids. They still rock, and none has lost an ounce of cool. When asked about his age, Richards recently commented, "Getting old is a fascinating thing.The older you get, the older you want to get."
We have grown up equating retirement with old age. But with the oldest of our generation starting to celebrate sixty, that's beginning to change. We aren't looking to be old or to wind down. We're looking to begin a whole new life when we reach our fifties and sixties. Having a positive outlook and understanding that life's next chapter is just that -- not the beginning of the end of life -- are vital to making it fun and fulfilling.
The power years are coming, and we want to be your guides.


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Avid Technology, Inc. has unveiled the Avid VideoRAID family of storage systems that deliver up to 5 terabytes (TB) of high-efficiency storage with guaranteed real-time access for multi-stream, high-bandwidth standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) workflows. Unlike other competitive RAID products that suspend performance in the event of a drive failure, the new Avid VideoRAID line delivers uninterrupted real-time performance, even during a drive rebuild. The new systems - the Avid VideoRAID RTR320 and RTR320X - are the first in a series of low-cost parity RAID storage products that Avid plans to introduce as a result of acquiring Medea Corporation in January of 2006.
While terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, the deal further expands Avid's position as a leading provider of high-performance storage solutions for content creators in film, video, audio, broadcast, and animation.
The Avid VideoRAID product line leverages the combined bandwidth of multiple drives - with capacity of either 250GB or 500GB per drive - in storage arrays that provide real-time access to SD and HD media assets. The VideoRAID RTR320 and RTR320X systems are built around five-drive and 10-drive storage arrays, respectively, with one of every five drives functioning as a parity drive to deliver extremely robust data protection without interrupting performance during drive rebuilds.
The line, which comes in a range of configurations at low-cost price points, is qualified on the following Avid editing systems: Avid Liquid Chrome HD; Avid Liquid Pro; Avid Xpress Pro; Avid Xpress Studio; NewsCutter XP (with or without Avid Mojo); Media Composer Adrenaline and Media Composer Adrenaline HD; NewsCutter Adrenaline; Avid DS Nitris; and Avid Symphony Nitris.
Specific features of the VideoRAID RTR320 and RTR320X systems include:
The following chart includes pricing for the new Avid VideoRAID systems. All prices are USMSRP and based on specific configurations that range in drive capacity (250 GB or 500 GB) and storage array size (5 or 10 drives): Avid VideoRAID Avid VideoRAID Configuration RTR320 RTR320X -
Avid is currently accepting orders for the new Avid VideoRAID systems. The new products can be ordered through either the Avid or Medea worldwide reseller channels, or through Avid directly. For complete information about Avid VideoRAID storage products, please visit www.avid.com/videoRAID. Avid will continue to offer its existing local storage solutions, including its Avid MediaDock and Avid MediaDrive systems - as well as all other Medea storage products - through both Avid's and Medea's worldwide reseller channels. For more information about Medea's RAID product line, visit www.medea.com.


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'End of Magic' a Fallacy for Road Warriors, Children at HeartCommentary
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Seth Godin wrote recently of "the end of magic." He was lamenting how the newness of the new seems to have passed us by — how the really cool tools and applications that once wowed us in the workplace and life now are so commonplace that they are taken for granted, and no longer harbingers of Wow!
Wait. Take a moment to ponder the tools we use and what they bring to our daily lives. You might respectfully disagree.
Every day, I use services and tools that keep me connected with the world outside in ways that still seem magical. My BlackBerry brings the Internet and its motherlode of possibilities to a device smaller than a deck of cards (iPhone users will only smirk at the possibilities borne from their device).
Want to contact a peer, client or someone else from my database? Will that be by phone (office, mobile, home, "other"?), or email, or SMS, or MMS?
Add a new name to Google Contacts — and it's "magically" duplicated in my BlackBerry. Send an email from my phone and it instantly appears in GMail.
As I prepare to head out on Home Office Highway once again this year, I think about the tools that'll keep me connected from the road.


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Each week Arcane Brilliance comes to work totally motivated, ready to sit down and manufacture a fantastic, insightful, entertaining column about Mages. Then Arcane Brilliance's wife brings him breakfast, because she's awesome like that, and Arcane Brilliance takes a break to eat it. Fat and happy, Arcane Brilliance flexes its fingers and gets ready to resume the creative process. Then winamp shuffles through to a song from the new Silversun Pickups album and Arcane Brilliance gets distracted again, and has to listen to the whole album before it can concentrate. Then Arcane Brilliance's kids come in the room and Arcane Brilliance plays with them for awhile. Lunch approaches, and Arcane Brilliance needs to get the column up. And, that, loyal readers, is a preemptive apology for any inaccuracy, inconsistency, misspelling, and grammatical eror that may follow this opening paragraph. Sorry!
Before we begin, let's get a couple items out of the way.
First: In case you haven't gotten it yet, or weren't aware, today is your last day to obtain Polymorph: Rabbit, at least during this calendar year. This is purchasable from the Noblegarden vendors for the low, low price of 100 Noblegarden Chocolates (it's only visible on the vendor if you're a Mage), which shouldn't take very long to obtain if you put your mind to it. Noblegarden ends tonight at 11:59pm server time, so even if you have no interest in the rest of the holiday, don't miss out on this little Mage-only perk.
Second: Mirror Images aren't stupid anymore! Yes, when the PTR for patch 3.1.2 went live, the patch notes included one tiny note for Mages, but what a note it was. Your Mirror Images will now attack only the target that you've generated the most hate from, instead of targeting whatever shiny object happens across their fields of vision first. In addition, they'll no longer break CCs whenever they feel like it. I've tested this out a bit, and I'm happy to report that it seems to be working as advertised. Rejoice, my fellow Mages: our copies are no longer ham-fisted, drooling, mouth-breathers. I'm giddy.
And with the news and notes out of the way, we are free to move on to this week's topic: PvPing as an Arcane Mage.


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Experimental advances in electrically and optically probing individual molecules have provided new insights into the behavior of single quantum objects and their interaction with the nanoenvironments without requiring ensemble average. Molecular-scale devices are open quantum systems whose dynamics are intrinsically stochastic and are subject to dissipation and decoherence through system-environment correlation. New concepts and computational techniques may be needed to unravel the rich physics underlying single-molecule measurements.
In this talk, I discuss our efforts in developing quantum open systems theory of single-molecule electronics and optics, based on the concept of quantum trajectory which links measurement theory with stochastic dynamics of open quantum systems. .
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Researchers should cite this work as follows:
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Zambia Rejects GMO Crops
The Zambian government has rejected calls to use GM crops in the fight against poverty and hunger in the southern African nation.
A press statement endorsing the use of GMOs appeared in the Times of Zambia on July 30. Endorsers included: AfricaBio, the Africa Biotechnology Stakeholders Forum, Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International, Biotechnology-Ecology Research and Outreach Consortium (BioEROC) and the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Application (ISAAA).
Zambian minister of agriculture and cooperatives, Ben Kapita, responded on behalf of the government: "We have always said that Zambia will not be used as a dumping place for GMO products."
Biotechnology supporters contend that African agricultural productivity could suffer in comparison with members of the global community that embrace GM technology.
On April 3 the Zambian parliament had adopted a biosafety bill aimed at preventing the entry of GMOs into the country.


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Sawatch Range > North Apostle > Climber's Log
North Apostle Climber's Log
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|Just N Apostle
Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2016
|Iffy weather with wet rock. Plenty of loose rock. Enjoy this one.
|Posted Sep 5, 2016 11:22 am
|From Ice
Date Climbed: May 12, 2016
|North Apostle itself was just an easy snowshoe from the saddle, but the descent off Ice was fairly spicy with the new snow. Trip report.
|Posted May 14, 2016 2:15 pm
|Nice hike
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2015
|Beautiful basin and approach to these mountains, lot of loose rocks going up to the top of North Apostle, nice views. Nice hike with Liba.
|Posted Aug 17, 2015 9:00 am
|Liba Kopeckova
|Ice and North Apostle
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2015
|nice looking mountains, easier than expected, lots of scree to the saddle between N. Apostle and Ice
With Senad.
|Posted Aug 17, 2015 8:03 am
|Brad Snider
|Ice Cubed
Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2013
|Climbed Ice Cubed with my dad. Trip Report
|Posted Jul 7, 2015 5:28 pm
|Woodie Hopper
|Standard route + Ice
Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2014
|Lots of boulder hopping. Tricky route finding. Hiked to a higher lake before heading to the saddle. Still a great day. Headed over to Ice afterwards.
|Posted Aug 3, 2014 7:35 pm
|With Ice
Date Climbed: Aug 21, 2011
|Easy summit after doing Ice Mtn.
|Posted Jul 26, 2013 5:35 pm
|North only
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2013
|Went in for both North Apostle and Ice Mtn. Camped two miles in in preparation for another trip. On summit morning, my partner was really sick. I figured the trip was done, but after a long morning, he suggested we hike up and see what happens. So we were able to get North Apostle, but had to leave Ice for another time.
|Posted Jun 23, 2013 8:26 am
|North Apostle
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2012
|An easy scramble, after climbing ice mountain!
|Posted Jun 25, 2012 1:54 pm
|Matt Lemke
|Nice Spring climb
Date Climbed: May 28, 2012
|Some nice snow remaining on the north facing slopes in the Apostle Basin...made for great snow climbing to the saddle. Upper ridge was snow free and the summit views were fantastic!
|Posted May 29, 2012 9:53 pm
|Timothy Pearl
|Following Ice summit
Date Climbed: Apr 28, 2012
|A nice finale to a long day.
|Posted Apr 29, 2012 2:24 pm
|With Ice Attempt
Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2011
|Turned back on Ice about 30 feet from the summit due to slippery conditions, headed up North Apostle as a consolation prize. Great views of Ice from the top.
|Posted Apr 3, 2012 3:56 pm
|an unholy winter environment
Date Climbed: Dec 30, 2011
|solved the maze of the basin between north apostle and ice mountain to gain the summit of north apostle in winter(2nd ascent?). long, trying and exhausting day. didn't return to the car until hours after dark.
|Posted Jan 15, 2012 10:37 pm
|SW Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2011
|Climbed North Apostle via SW Ridge from South Winfield TH before traversing to Ice Mountain. Beautiful weather, great views.
|Posted Aug 29, 2011 11:45 pm
|Ice + N Apostle
Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2010
|We did N. Apostle via the standard SW Ridge. Pretty good warmup for Ice Mntn later in the day. Very talusy approach, and ridge. Not horrible but makes for pretty slow goings.
Summit North: 9:00
Summit Ice: 10:00
Back to TH 3:00
Lots and lots of talus hopping, and some wet rock made for a very slow descent. Long day, but definitely a great time on these peaks, that dont feel like they are in the Sawatch.
|Posted Aug 3, 2010 3:47 pm
|Nice Axe!
|Apostle Traverse (N to W)
Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2009
|I'd been eying this traverse since 2005 and finally made it up there. The climb to North Apostle & Ice Mtn was really fun with big talus high up just below the saddle. The traverse to West and the descent were slogs!
|Posted Sep 16, 2009 4:27 pm
|Ice Cubed pt 1
Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2009
|via SW ridge (trail to Apostle Basin was easy to follow all the way, but it was a bit of a slog getting to the saddle between N. Apostle and Ice Mtn).
|Posted Aug 23, 2009 11:01 am
|Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2009
|Uuuuhhh? What can I say? Snow conditions weren't that great, I was coming down with a cold and very fatigued. The final hour to the summit involved some poor weather / snow. I'm glad to have earned this one on the solo! When alone, your lows are lower & your highs are higher...
|Posted Jun 11, 2009 11:48 pm
|One out of three
Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2008
|Planned on the complete traverse, but the weather thought otherwise.....will be back to finish!
|Posted Aug 11, 2008 1:41 pm
|from Ice Mountain
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2008
|Great scenery.
|Posted Aug 3, 2008 7:09 pm


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Egalia reports this nuttiness:Republican Lawmaker Wants State to Issue Death Certificates for Abortions Remember Stacey "Black Caucus is More Racist than the KKK" Campfield? Well, the looney Republican lawmaker is at it again.Campfield -- the blogging legislator -- has a little bill that would require the state to issue death certificates for every abortion performed in this state.Of course, to be consistent, they'll have to issue death certificates for every miscarriage -- along with coroner inquiries as to why each woman had a miscarriage, perhaps. And just to cover all their bases, how about death certificates for every period any woman who has had sex in the past 4 weeks?Never mind little things like logic, or the real world tradition of issuing death certificates to beings who actually have something called birth certificates!
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