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I want to congratulate Deacon Greg Kandra.
He has managed to make the devil mad at him.
How do I know this?
Some of the devil's hate mail to the Deacon has been landing in my box here on Public Catholic. Not much, mind you, but it is mindlessly nasty stuff.
How did a kind and intelligent man like Deacon Greg Kandra inflame the devil so much?
He stood in front of a camera and said that the Catholic Church loves gay people, but that sex belongs in Holy Matrimony, between a man and a woman. He included both gay and straight people in this injunction concerning sex outside of marriage.
The reason for the hate mail is that, by stating this 2,000-year-old consistent teaching of the Church, and indeed, up until the last few years, all Christian churches, he crossed swords with one of the false gods of this world.
For many people and indeed a growing number of churches, god the (little g) god, resides halfway between their waist and their knees. His worship is random sex, his vestments are contraceptives and his sacraments are azt, penicillin, abortion, et al.
Sadly, many of the "Christian" churches are in the process of walking away from the real God to follow after this little g god of our age. They're drop-kicking the commandments off the front steps of their churches and replacing them with "statements" they write themselves full of meaningless gibberish about "inclusiveness and tolerance," which basically mean that their little g god follows the world in pelvic region worship and eschews the Christ of the Cross.
Down the road we have other churches which give a lot of lip service to the commandments involving the pelvic regions of the human body, but twist the Scriptures in much the same way their heretical brethren do on other matters. Their little g god is the almighty $ sign.
I'll talk more about that later. The point for now is simply that little g gods are being worshipped in lieu of the real God in many of our churches.
Whatever your sin, you can go find a little g god worshipping church to tell you that (a) it's not a sin, and (b) the people who claim it's a sin are in fact sinning when they say it.
However, that's not enough. The devil who is the real little g god behind all these false idols, is a ravening hunger that craves annihilation. He can not rest so long as there is one matchstick of light and truth out there, anywhere. He doesn't attack the little g worshipping churches. It doesn't matter to him if he's snared them with their lust for sex or their lust for money. Their light is cold and dead and they are his.
What he attacks — and as the world grows darker, his attacks become more focused — is any beam of the light of the real God, anywhere.
I don't think it's an accident that the Church which is under the most aggressive attacks today is the Catholic Church. The devil appears to hate the Catholic Church above all others. Why should this be so?
After all, the Church is full to the top with sinners. We've got all-too-human priests trying to shepherd a laity that aborts, divorces, lies, steals and watches porn. All of humanity is represented somewhere in the Catholic Church, including every single human sin.So, why would a Church like that make the devil mad?
Because, this Church, for all its failings, does not put a little g god on its altars. Its sacraments are conduits of grace and the real presence of the living Christ. This Church will not tell people that their sins are ok. It does not comfort them and sustain them and support them in their sinfulness as it leads them down the wide path to their own eternal damnation. This Church, for all its many faults, is not in league with the devil.
Unlike the rapidly multiplying fallen churches out there, the Catholic Church does not encourage people to sin. It tells them their sins can be forgiven, but they must repent of those sins from the heart and try to change their ways. The Catholic Church doesn't teach sin, it forgives sin.
And for that, it is hated. For that, it is attacked. For simply saying that the Church is following Christ with its teachings, even little people like me can get smacked with a few brickbats.
Sometimes, I get the by-blows of attacks that are really aimed at someone I admire. In this case, that someone is Deacon Kandra who had the honesty to tell people that the Church loves them and stands ready to support them in their life in Christ, no matter their sexual orientation, but that their sins are, in fact, sins, which need the forgiveness of God.
These poor, sad souls who come swooping in over the internet to drop their load of anger need prayer. They are lost and their fallen churches with their little g gods are even more lost. I am talking about pastors, and even whole denominations who claim to be shepherds of souls, but who deliberately lie to people about the state of their souls in order to be popular in the here and now.
This is sad beyond sad.
We need to do two things.
We need to examine our own hearts and cast out everything that comes between us and Christ. We need to pray for forgiveness and the grace to follow Him faithfully through the minefield of this world.
Then, we need to pray for our fallen brothers and sister who are being misled by little g god worshipping pastors and churches. We also need to pray for these churches and pastors. They are in grave peril.
We need to do this because rewriting a church's mission statement doesn't change anything but the church's mission statement. The reality of sin and death, salvation through the cross and eternal hell still exist. Coming onto this blog or staging demonstrations that involve yelling and insulting and throwing tantrums to demand that God change the way things are doesn't accomplish anything, either.
These things may feel like they are accomplishing something. They can bully other people. Enough of this kind of thing can get laws changed. It can even push whole denominations into denying themselves and re-writing who they are. But no amount of wind-milling temper tantrums can change the ultimate order of things.
God is God and we are not.
Little g gods are just reflections of our worst, most venal selves in action. Following them leads us wandering in circles in the wilderness of life.
However, we don't have to be lost. If fact, we are only lost if we chose to be. There is an easy-to-follow, readily-accessible, true compass that will lead you home. That true compass is the 2,000 year old consistent teachings of the Catholic Church.


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Symantec Paper Explores Mobile Security Models
A new research paper from Symantec presents an interesting analysis of the approach to security in Google's Android and Apple's iOS.The main theme of the paper is to divide the overall security approach in to 5 separate security models used in the systems:
- Traditional Access Control--such as with passwords or PINs
- Application Provenance--using digital signatures to control which applications can run
- Encryption--to protect against unauthorized data access, especially with lost devices
- Isolation--separating applications from each other and from other parts of the system; sandboxing
- Permission-Based Access Control--allowing the user to control which system resources an application can access
The paper goes on to grade Android and iOS in their design and execution. iOS generally comes out ahead, which makes sense to me. Some of Apple's advantages derive from their complete control of the device, whereas 3rd parties install Android on phones, giving Google less control. Some of their advantages come from their willingness to take control. As with much else on the devices, the security picture on Android looks less polished and more open to hacking than on iOS.
Model 5, Permission-Based Access Control, is an interesting example of this. As a general matter, for any particular function, like taking a picture with the device's camera, an application's permissions are one of these three:
- The program cannot invoke the function no matter what
- The program can invoke the function any time
- The user is prompted to decide whether the program should have permission to invoke the function.
For example, on iOS an app can never actually dial the phone, but they can read from and write to the calendar. For permissions, iOS has only 4 capabilities which it checks with the user: access to GPS, whether the app can prompt the user to begin texting, whether it can prompt the user to initiate a phone call, and whether to allow push alerts. But permissions on Android are more central. There are dozens of permissions which a user has to decide to allow to the application.
And Android presents these permissions in a list at install time for the application. It's easy to get frustrated at the list and just allow it. iOS permissions are sometimes at install time, sometimes at the time of access.
Many of the Android permissions are powerful and could compromise the user's privacy or worse. For instance: "Apps can obtain the device's phone number, the device ID (IMEI) number, its SIM card's serial number, and the device's subscriber ID (IMSI) number. These codes can be used by criminals to commit cellular phone fraud."
And these devices don't exist in a vacuum. Users can manually synch them to PCs at home or with 3rd party services, potentially exposing company data on them. Shutting off the avenues for such exposures would be difficult for IT, as it would seriously impinge on the use of the device; it would take the fun out of them.
It's a truly brave, not to mention powerful, IT department that can resist the entry of smart phones into the enterprise picture. Nothing's perfect, so maybe there's no point in resisting, but it's not your job to cave in, it's your job to protect the company assets.


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The heat was on. The stylish did not wilt
Style YYC: Calgary Folk Music Festival Part 2
Once the weekend hits, the Calgary Folk Festival is the place to be—especially when Market Collective moves into Eau Claire with amazing vendors and a free music stage for all to enjoy. As I walked into the market space on Saturday, I was greeted by the talented and entertaining Mark Mills on the decorated stage, where he busted a serious move and really got me into the festival spirit.
Aside from great vendors, Market Collective also drew some seriously fashionable people, who then easily flowed into the park to enjoy music, food trucks, and maybe even some beer garden action. Once again, the diverse fashion is why I attend in the first place, and it was my pleasure to capture some seriously cool and stylish people all weekend long.
Click here for the photos from Thursday night at the festival.
Click here for the gallery of photos from the weekend: part 2 and part 3.


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WALTHAM, Mass. – The Brandeis University men's soccer team scored a pair of second-half goals today, with five different players earning points, as the Judges earned a University Athletic Association (UAA) victory over Case Western Reserve University, 2-0, on Gordon Field. With the win, the ninth-ranked Judges improve to 11-0-1, 1-0-1 in the UAA, while the Spartans fall to 3-8-1, 0-2-0 in the conference. The Judges have not lost in their past 17 games, going 16-0-1 in the span dating back to last season.
The contest featured a slow first half in which Brandeis outshot Case, 8-4. There were only three shots on goal, two by the Judges. The Spartans got off the first two shots of the second half, including their best attempt of the day by senior Rene Silva (Hudson, Ohio/Western Reserve Acad.) which was saved by Brandeis senior Blake Minchoff (Fiskdale, Mass./Tantasqua Regional) in the 49th minute.
On the counter-attack from that save, the Judges finally broke open the scoring. Sophomore Foti Andreo (Lynn, Mass./Phillips Exeter Acad.) sent a beautiful through ball to classmate Tyler Savonen (Orleans, Mass./Nauset Regional). Savonen tracked it down at the end line and sent a perfect cross to senior midfielder Sam Ocel (No. Attleboro, Mass./No. Attleboro). Ocel sent it home at 49:36 for his fifth goal of the season and team-leading fourth game-winner.
Case nearly equalized in the 60th minute when sophomore Patrick O'Day (Plano, Texas/Plano Senior) took advantage of Minchoff being out of position, but Brandeis senior defender Joe Eisenbies (Hingham, Mass./Hingham) cleared the ball off the line to preserve the shutout.
Brandeis added an insurance goal in the 72nd minute. Junior midfielder Tudor Livadaru (Bronx, N.Y./Riverdale-Kingsbridge Acad.) did some nifty footwork to beat a defender along the goal line. He sent the ball through the goal mouth, and classmate Steve Salazar (Revere, Mass./Malden Catholic) one-touched it into the net for his first collegiate goal. The Brandeis defense took over from there, allowing Case just one additional shot the rest of the way.
For the game, Brandeis outshot Case, 14-12, though the Spartans had eight shots to six for the Judges in the second half. Minchoff finished with two saves and his fifth shutout of the season, while Case senior Ryan Koepka (Venetia, Pa./Peters Township) had four stops in the losing effort.
Brandeis is off for a week before traveling to the Midwest for another UAA tilt at the University of Chicago on Friday evening at 6:30 p.m., while Case takes on Emory in a UAA contest at 5 p.m. the same evening.


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Boys' club set for Banksy windfall
A youth club which was facing closure is now celebrating a potential multimillion- pound windfall thanks to a painting by mysterious street artist Banksy.
Dennis Stinchcombe, who has worked at Bristol's Broad Plain Boys' Club for the past 39 years, said Banksy's controversial Mobile Lovers painting could pump more than £2 million into its coffers now that the secretive artist has confirmed it is real.
The "elated" 58-year-old said: "Banksy has become the saviour of this club that I have volunteered at for years. I think the man deserves a medal, if somehow he could come out of his secrecy.
"Without him I would have looked at closing this club within the next 12 months.
"It is not only going to do this club good, it is also going to help other clubs because it will help all the young kids in the community and is the main thing that this has all been about."
The piece, showing a couple embracing while checking their mobile phones, has been at the centre of wrangles over who owned it since it appeared on a council-owned wall in Clement Street, Bristol, a month ago.
It was attached to a plank of wood and screwed to the wall.
Mr Stinchcombe moved it into a corridor at the inner-city club and invited members of the public to come and view it - with donations optional.
Within days the police removed the painting and handed it to the city council, which took it to the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.
Tweets from city's mayor, George Ferguson, seem to have signalled a turn-around in the club's fortunes.
He wrote: "Just received confirmation by #Banksy that note to #Bristol Broad Plain Boys Club is authentic. Great to have a clear resolution.
"As far as I'm concerned it now belongs to the club as I'd agreed once confirmation received from Banksy.
"I've received confirmation by #Banksy that note is authentic & 'Mobile Lovers' can go to the #Bristol Broad Plain Boys Club :-)"
Mr Stinchcombe, who received death threats from art fans after he revealed plans to sell the piece to raise money, now hopes to sell it.
He said: "It went to the museum and it is good that it is there - let as many people come to see it as possible. We have had people saying it is worth a million - that was the sort of bids we were getting and £2.5 million has been spoken of from some places around the world. It is going to be a fair bit of revenue.
"Banksy has been a saviour of this club and I think he appreciates my tenacity.
"Now that we know that it (the painting) is genuine and everything has been done right we can now look to what we can do with it. Where it is at the moment is fine. It is based in a museum and that is a nice place for it.
"We will now look at the various valuers and auction houses to see about the best values for the piece.
"It is fantastic. This thing will safeguard this club for the rest of its days."
A screen print of Mobile Lovers has been installed in the artwork's original home, a boarded-up doorway overlooking the busy A4032 road into Bristol's centre.
The discovery of Mobile Lovers came days after a piece depicting three 1950s-style agents listening in on conversations in a telephone box appeared on a house in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
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Basic Training at Ft. Benning Georgia. I love him and miss him so much!
Please post my poems--I know he will love to see I posted them for him when
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---Ashley Padgett
-=My Song to You
It is the loudest song you'll ever hear
Yet it can't be heard with the naked ear
For this song isn't to be heard, but felt--
It's known to make open hearts melt
Some don't realize the song they sing--
Others strain too hard to hear it
And quickly learn how fast their hearts sting
But the the lucky ones like you and I--
Our song rings on in endless time.
If truly meant, it can be heard from miles away,
For a strong song isn't affected by time or day.
In this song, words are simply not enough--
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What song is this? You ask
It is the song of my heart, which I can no longer mask
Before my Beloved, it was hidden in loneliness and lies,
But he opened my heart--now our song forever continues to rise
Hearken! Can you hear it too?
I am singing a song to my true love
My One
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My Beloved Drew
I will Love you forever Drew
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California Earthquake: No Early Warning System
Napa residents weren't warned of the recent 6.0-magnitude earthquake because the state doesn't have an early warning system like ones found in Japan and Chile. The WSJ's Deborah Kan speaks to David Oppenheimer of the U.S. Geological Survey about the latest quake to strike the San Francisco Bay Area.
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... Healthways wife entry of assessing the damage from a six point though earthquake which struck early Sunday morning ... joining me now is David Oppenheimer a heathen phrase knowledge as with the U S Geological Survey Joe inning as from them apart California ... I did it ... the morning or evening ... that would look at these pictures I'm I'm not quite dramatic our what type of earthquake a was this an are you surprised at the amount of damage they cause ... to you who is willing Austria's the earthquake ... ruble falls ... in one side who only listens to the other sizes resemble the ... kind of false and we seen sentences go Bay area ... investors may have heard of ... ends ... when we come to the also is a lot you can ... do it on the surface of the year is false ... many of these nine it uses ... your place ... or will we call on and they don't come up to the surface there's no indication of their ... own really knows the stress building up and it has to be released ... it is best to put it on as investors have been used in his little kiddies Matic PCs ... it's ... ASM a lot of anxious people in the Bay area right now on how long do people ... have to worry about aftershocks and that potentially helping could be the aftershocks be ... so it is the moment we have ... is an analysis of the stories I miss the California ... recall emerging or three mo so he can or lose magnitude ... we bought in the ... after shot ... UK parameters for this ... generously sequence ... in our house number in this case and neatly into your great continuity ... within the next seven days ... a magnitude five or greater earthquake ... was about fifty six percent ... total hours later we had an earthquake in the probabilities are Entropic's now oh yes to six percent ... didnt on duties in twenty twelve will remind you this ... collection of aftershocks can actually see how this particular sequence is the day ... and then all computers statistics in Korea for the sequence ... tomorrow morning meal I'm quite certain the numbers will drop the credit because this is not a very energetic aftershocks sequence ... ok and and David living here in a set were familiar ... aisle with an earthquake early morning says stamp on the Mantell KL I mean take a lot of ... of residents saying and that the early warning system and ... implemented bear of really did help in the last big earthquake ... on ... in California and doesn't have one in place yet why not ... we're behind the jet an easy thing would have been huge and is the ... only earthly was a huge windfall for the country in unison really intended for ... in United States ... we haven't had that has coffee ... the reclusive eighty reclusive North Korea to weigh in on the greater is needed ... but the instrumentation is lacking ... so is among the early news of a cellular telephone network we have been seismic institution ... in Los Angeles metropolitan area and seems as though the area ... yes ... there is the institution is too sparse ... as little as well so ... we have a system running which performance ... is satisfactory for your way ... you know it's ... we don't feel we have the ... instrumentation is a serious reason statewide ... the view that the radius on units ... were awaken within seconds ... the potential AEI do you believe that the isthe I'm systems these early warning systems ... are worth implementing ... this is the question ... be warning for businesses only area ... for a prisoner status is a scenario is the very short when time in seconds it just ... me ... and said this didn't isn't really are using were the preceding four years ... soon ten seconds or any ... really talking about on a response ... not only is going to explore and doors opening roster is our stations winning ... the most significant one and I think this one actually and would be a huge payoff ... would be nearing ... the area rapid Transit is the portions of the system is an elevated train ... Yu travels ... at speeds up to seventy mph so ... for every sat ... morning we get into our system ... the slew trains are three miles per hour so you can is a warning to slow the train from seventy ... to forty mph ... and I this is good for one and you're ailments ... for loss of life for a ... train full of people ... indices and is well worth it ... okay thanks Fran much David Oppenheimer for joining us and helping you have a quieter night tonight


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I bought a stashbuster book for ideas to use up fabric BUT could not resist making this from the book. Of course I had to buy suitable greens, and then I found stone wall look fabric for a border on the internet, waiting for.
So defeated the objective really - but I think this will make a nice hanging for one of the bedroom walls, do you think? I will post when its finished.


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At 8:14 am, a rose is a rose said…
chilling michael(and of course very well done)
At 7:30 am, sumo said…
Sobering and apropos lyrics.
At 11:33 am, JACOBITE said…
verey good lyrics and sadly very true
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Coconut water was too sweet for my taste, but diluted with water it was perfectly refreshing.
Although decided to keep it light we ordered Kai Satay as an entrée. The marinated chicken was tender and juicy and the peanut sauce was delicious. I didn't care if it seemed wrong to serve these with white bread because it was perfect for soaking the last bits of the yummy sauce with.
This is light: Tom Yum Koong has prawns and oyster mushrooms in a spicy broth. I am not good with chilli and even though I was told this wasn't exactly super spicy, it was a tad too much for my palate. I had to seek refuge from my refreshing coconut water...
Tom Kha Kai has chicken and oyster mushrooms in mild coconut broth with cherry tomatoes and galangal. This was more for my liking as the broth was not nearly as spicy as the other one. The soup was lovely and warming on a cold winter evening.
I could definitely go back because this tiny eatery has a bit more character than your average Thai restaurant and I'll definitely have to go back to Kirribilli!
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Reverse Innovation - by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
The gap between rich nations and emerging economies is closing. As a result, the global dynamics of innovation are changing. No longer will innovations traverse the globe in only one direction, from developed nations to developing ones. They will also flow in reverse.
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How far back do your newspaper's online archives go? The U.S. Library of Congress has a database of thousands of newspapers dating back to the 1800s. In the case of over 150 of the papers, there are also digitized, searchable pages. And it's all available via its new API for Chronicling America (details at our Chronicling America API profile).
Looking into the past using the tools of today is the most fun part of this project. Search results are available on the web site appear with terms highlighted. The API does not have access to highlight information, but it does contain thumbnails. Each page has a permalink back to the Library of Congress site, which displays the page in a zoomable, draggable viewer similar to Google Maps.
You can control highlighting inside the viewer by passing terms, such as this link to the above basketball story. Full imagery is also available as PDF or JPEG 2000.
If the openness of the feature-set doesn't make it clear, The Library of Congress is focused on making these public domain works widely available. As such, this is an API without any registration or key necessary. That's pretty wide open.
As the Dead Librarian points out, we're only looking at the first round of imagery. The goal is huge:
The Library of Congress would like to digitize every newspaper that is in the public domain and is available on microfilm.
Among the interesting technical details is that the API can return linked data via RDF. It's good to see reference sites, especially government ones, support semantic web formats (there are now 20 APIs in our directory with RDF support.)
While your favorite old paper might not yet be available in digital form, at least you can learn about the historic publishers in your area. Part of the API lets you search titles. There you can learn what years a paper published and where microfilm is available. Of course, if there are images somewhere, there's a good chance it will eventually make it up on the web and accessible from your applications.


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This collaborative project aims to address conservation issues critical to the preservation of the archaeological site of Herculaneum through a combination of scientific investigation and fieldwork, including the conservation of decorated architectural surfaces.
This will be undertaken through the following components:
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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the Roman seaside towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum as well as the surrounding area were engulfed by volcanic material. Since that time up until the 18th century, Herculaneum was buried under a layer of volcanic material more than 15 meters (50 feet) thick at the base of Vesuvius.
The remains of the buried city were first discovered in 1709 and explored mainly by tunnels during the 18th and 19th centuries. The site's many richly decorated public buildings, houses and theater have yielded fine marble and bronze sculptures, wood elements, and paintings. Of particular significance, an extensive library of charred papyrus rolls was found at the Villa of the Papyri (a lavish residence that served as the inspiration for the design of the Getty Villa in Malibu, California).
Three short periods of open-air excavation at the site were conducted in the 19th century. Systematic open-air excavation began in 1927 and continued until 1961. Since 1961 excavations within the archaeological site have proceeded intermittently. It is estimated that only one third of the ancient town has been uncovered, with the remainder lying under the modern town of Ercolano.
Historical images of Herculaneum and objects excavated over the last two centuries illustrate the alarming rate of deterioration and loss afflicting the site, much of which has occurred in recent times.
In 2008, the GCI began a collaboration with the Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) at the archaeological site of Herculaneum. During the first three years of the collaboration, the GCI and HCP carried out scientific investigations to address a number of conservation issues at the site.
The knowledge gained from this joint program of site investigation, scientific analyses, and conservation trials has increased the understanding of deterioration present on site; and has improved methodological approaches at Herculaneum that can be applied on other open-air archaeological sites with similar problems.
The current phase of the project aims to study and conserve the architectural surfaces of the Tablinum of the Casa del Bicentenario with the continued collaboration of HCP, under an agreement with the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei (SANP).
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text: Kenneth Faried had a monster game for the Nuggets last night, scoring 19 points and pulling down 19 rebounds in 36 minutes of action. After the game, a visibly exhausted Faried (playing like a rebound-hungry maniac will do that to you) took some time to give a postgame interview. At the 50-second mark of the video above, the interviewer tells Faried what his stat line was, eliciting a genuinely surprised and foul-mouthed response. You won't be able to help but smile while watching Faried bashfully chuckle through the aftermath of his slip of the tongue.


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In his State of the City address today, Mayor Chris Beutler said Lincoln is achieving its goals and becoming a "premier American city." He thanked City Council members and many others in the community for working with his administration as partners for the common good.
"Lincoln, Nebraska's success is not about the Mayor," Beutler said. "It is about all of us and what we can achieve when we lay down the word of political partisanship and knock down the barriers of personality conflicts and personal ambitions. It is about meeting our City's challenges with the consensus born of diplomacy and thoughtful compromise."
The Mayor cited the City's numerous national rankings for its high quality of life and outstanding business climate; the local companies that are continuing to invest in Lincoln; and the low unemployment rate. He said the City's new Development Services Center is cutting bureaucratic red tape, and the development of UNL's Innovation Campus and the construction of a new arena will spur even more development.
"The new home of Husker basketball and other entertainment opportunities will be the foundation for a great building boom," Beutler said. "The new arena will serve as a catalyst for a second wave of investment in the Lincoln Haymarket area with new businesses increasing our valuation base and creating new jobs."
The City continues to make progress on infrastructure as well, Beutler said, with more than 15 miles of resurfaced arterial streets and construction of the Stevens Creek trunk sewer project. "In July, we reached a significant milestone when over 700 homes and businesses in the core of our city were removed from the federal floodplain maps as a result of the Antelope Valley Project," he said. "The designation created even greater investment opportunities and saves the cost of flood insurance for many Lincoln residents and businesses."
The Mayor said the City's outcome-based budgeting process is setting the standard for other cities across the nation. And he said City Hall is now smaller and more efficient, with the elimination of nearly 120 jobs since he took office.
"We've pioneered consolidations and used technology to offer City services at less cost," Beutler said. "We worked with the City labor unions, and for the first time in over 30 years, reduced the City retirement match to employees. Three of the four unions voted to end the two-to-one match for new employees, recognizing that we all must sacrifice to help during tough economic times."
Beutler said public safety is the top priority of his administration, and thanked the Police and Fire departments for their work. Crime is down, the crime clearance rate is up and fire and ambulance response times are improving. The Stronger Safer Neighborhoods initiative is working to clean up problem properties, and the graffiti program has "allowed us to re-claim our neighborhoods from taggers."
Beutler said the City cannot rest on its laurels, but must continue to come together to work on projects like this summer's Special Olympics USA National Games. "If we can just continue to capture the collaboration and energy that made Lincoln's Games such a rousing success, then our ongoing challenges will simply become more opportunities for achievement," he said. "We must continue to strive for greatness and improve on all fronts. The hallmark of greatness is the continuing quest for progress."


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Carmelo Anthony: I know Im not a selfish player. People around me know Im not a selfish player, Anthony said. I do everything I can to make people around me understand Im not a selfish player.
Anthony called the idea that hes a selfish player a slap in the face.
There are some statistics to back the static that goes against Anthony.
Missed shots: (worst to best ranking) (top 10 NBA scorers only)http://blitzsportsnetwork.com/2012/01/carmelo-anthony-destroys-team-chemistry-he-is-a-big-reason-the-knicks-suck/
1. Kobe Bryant 227 missed shots (#1 in PPG)
2. Carmelo Anthony 190 missed shots (#4 in PPG)
3. Kevin Love 172 missed shots (#5 in PPG)
4. Monta Ellis 167 missed shots (#7 in PPG)
5. LaMarcus Aldridge 155 missed shots (#6 in PPG)
6. Russell Westbrook 154 missed shots (#10 in PPG)
7. Kevin Durant 152 missed shots (#3 in PPG)
8. Derrick Rose 119 missed shots (#9 in PPG)
9. LeBron James 116 missed shots (#2 in PPG)
10. Blake Griffin 108 missed shots (#8 in PPG)
Both a rested Carmelo and the addition of Jeremy Lin, I believe, will bring those numbers up, however.
We all know that Melo will get better looks with Jeremy Lin playing on this team. That's a given. But that's not what this thread is about. This thread's about what Melo needs to do personally to improve his game at both ends of the floor. If he can do these things, or any others that you consider necessary that I have missed, we will be that much closer to a contender. We haven't been as close as we are now in a long time, and Anthony MUST be the catalyst.
Carmelo Anthony Is Underachieving
When speaking specifically about what Melo needs to do to make this team better, here are some things that I believe are fueling the opinion that he can't coexist with The Jeremy Lin Knicks Team.
● Offensively: Melo has to want to be the player necessary to fit the remolded Knicks: play in sync, MOVE in sync especially - he's a massive underachiever off the ball, is very lazy and tends to wait for his turn to shoot or create.
He has said that he's insulted by talk of him not being able to coexist with Lin because he's selfish or has been touted as being selfish. I don't think he's been overly selfish [on the court that is] but he's never been a good passer off the dribble bar the P&R which gives the impression that he's selfish. He's either looking to pass or looking to shoot, he has to learn to create on the move to better his game and that of others. Whether or not that concerns him seems to be the issue, IMO. As I stated in the opening paragraph, this is not about whether he can, it's about whether he's willing. I think he is, or he will be, and the talk of him not blending in will be what defines his potential turnaround.
● Defensively: Defense is what has been the crux of Anthony not ever being a top 10 player. Period. He's been called top 5 and so on, but that's not the case. Not one bit.
You look at every top 10 player in the league, and Melo doesn't compare to any of them defensively.
He's shown flashes of excellent defense here in NY, but he tends to only reveal it when he deems it necessary: against the likes of LeBron James.
A consistent, dedicated and exemplifying captain's defense is the absolute least we should expect from Melo after the trade. There are no excuses. STAT, too.
He's a good rebounder, which has helped blanket his defensive shortcomings, but his man to man defense is suspect to say the least, and with a consistent effort Anthony will help the team get points off bad shots, turnovers and 24 second violations. The one thing that has really pissed me off this year with Carmelo, is that he has to defend regardless of whether or not he's upset about a non-call on the previous offensive possession. That has happened far too often, and is a deterrent and a distraction.
If this cat has the gaul to talk championships, he needs the ball sac to want to stop opponents by himself, and as a member of the team.
He's not getting any younger, and the time for him to refurbish his skill set and take both himself and this team to greater heights has to start now! This is Carmelo's time, and Carmelo's team.


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You're not allowed to see the CIA's postmortem photos of Osama bin Laden. But that doesn't mean they can't be described to you! Sen. James Inhofe got a chance to see the pictures today, because he is a fancy boy, and the Oklahoma Republican was very excited to tell everyone about it. In, uh, detail. They're "gruesome"!
"The brains were coming out of his socket," he told the Atlantic Wire, saying that the photos were "taken right after the instant he was shot." Inhofe, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is the second Congressperson to see the photos, and the first to speak on the record. (Sen. Scott Brown saw some fake photos, and told everyone they were real, the dummy.)
"Brains... coming out of his socket" not gross enough for you? Inhofe got very detailed when he described it to Shep Smith on Fox News later in the evening:
Then they had some of his ear. Now, what had happened in those, I couldn't tell whether the bullet went through the ear and out the eye cavity or through the eye and out the ear because a lot of brains were draped out from the socket.
Later, Inhofe attempted to dispel the rumor that part of bin Laden's skull was gone:
It appeared that way at first. Then when you saw the other pictures later, you could tell it wasn't that way. Now, what happened was if the bullet went into the eye socket, then it was an explosive, it detonated once it was in so that caused the brain to come back out of the eye socket. That's what made it look so gruesome.
And, speaking of gross, bin Laden was apparently wearing what "you would call underwear" when he was shot. Inhofe says the photos would dispel any remaining conspiracy theories, as the body depicted is clearly bin Laden's, and he's advocating for the release of (at least) the three photos taken on board the U.S.S. Carl Vinson, which are less gruesome and "much more reasonable to show [to] the public."
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I'm trying to gain an intuitive understanding of the following construction:
For any vector space $M$ over a field $R$, one can define the algebraic dual of $M$ as $M^* := \mathsf{Hom}(M, R)$ and given another vector space $N$ one can define the algebraic dual of a linear map $A \in \mathsf{Hom}(M,N)$ according to $A^*(\omega) = \omega \circ A$. This establishes a linear mapping from $N^*$ to $M^*$ and since for suitable linear maps $A$ and $B$, $(A \circ B)^* = B^* \circ A^*$ and $(1_A)^* = 1_{A^*}$ the "duality" operation $*$ sets up an endomorphic (contravariant) functor on the category of vector spaces.
I understand the basics of this construction, but what I would like to see are some good concrete examples that would illustrate the abstractions in a meaningful way. It's easy to come up with specific examples of linear maps and dual spaces where one applies this to specific linear forms, but are there some examples that would shed light on the motivation for these definitions and relations?
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Politico reports that Sen. Harry Reid screwed up a chance to legalize online poker, though I'm not really crazy about the way it was going to be done. He did manage to get some Republicans on board but then apparently bungled the opportunity to get the package through the Senate (whether it would have passed the House is another question).
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had promised Nevada's gambling industry a federal law to legalize Internet poker by the end of 2012, calling it the state's "most important issue" since the nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain was scuttled.
But in the end, Reid rolled snake eyes. And as the 113th Congress gets under way, the odds of legislation passing are even worse.
Now, questions are mounting over Reid's handling of the issue, which would legalize Internet poker but bar almost all other online wagering. Why, critics ask, did Reid antagonize Republicans at a critical juncture by attacking the efforts of his Senate colleague Dean Heller to garner GOP support? Why did Reid and former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) draft a measure so certain to anger powerful stakeholders — from lottery directors to Native American tribes to gaming officials — in states other than Nevada?
They say Reid had the best shot ever to have pushed the bill through Congress last year. But he never formally introduced legislation — not because he lacked GOP support, some say, but because he didn't have enough Democrats with him…But even Reid's longtime backer, American Gaming Association CEO Frank Fahrenkopf, is skeptical. "Heller and Kyl went to Republican senators, and most of them agreed something had to be done about the problem, but until we see a bill and look at it, we can't say for certain we're going to vote for it," Fahrenkopf said. "Sen. Reid had the same problem on the Democratic side."
Fahrenkopf, who recently retired from the AGA, is also a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, so he's very well connected in Washington, especially in the GOP. I don't really like this bill, but it's probably the only realistic way online poker is going to be legalized. All forms of online gambling should be legal because it simply isn't the government's job to protect you from your own vices (and the overwhelming majority of people who gamble do so responsibly; we don't ban alcohol — anymore — because a small percentage of people who drink have a problem with it). And it certainly isn't the job of the government to protect either the big casino interests or the Native American casinos from competition.


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It's not every day you find a Kotaku editor in downtown Atlanta. Normally I'm about 16km north, but for Dragon Con 2011 I'm making an exception.
I'll be hanging out at one of the world's largest science fiction and fantasy conventions this weekend, taking photos, taking names, and taking whatever gaming news might pop up. Tonight I stopped by to pick up my badge, and ran into a couple of familiar plumbers on the way home. They sure look different without the facial hair, don't they?
The convention powers-that-be tell me they're expecting some 45,000 attendees over the course of the long weekend. I'll be the tall sweaty guy trying to take professional cosplay photos with a phone. Where the hell did I put that camera battery?
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2014 Grammy Winners
The Grammy Award winners were announced on Sunday, January 26. Logan Library has the following Grammy-winning CD albums:
Album of the Year: Random Access Memories by Daft Punk
Best Pop Vocal Album: Unorthodox Jukebox by Bruno Mars
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: To Be Loved by Michael Bublé
Best Rock Album: Celebration Day by Led Zeppelin
Best Alternative Music Album: Modern Vampires of the City by Vampire Weekend
Best Urban Contemporary Album: Unapologetic by Rihanna
Best R&B Album: Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys
Best Rap Album: The Heist by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Best Country Album: Same Trailer, Different Park by Kacy Musgraves
Best New Age Album: Love's River by Laura Sullivan
Best Jazz Vocal Album: Liquid Spirit by Gregory Porter
Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue by Terri Lyne Carrington
Best Gospel Album: Greater Than by Tye Tribbett
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: Overcomer by Mandisa
Best Latin Pop Album: Vida by Draco Rosa
Best Latin Rock, Urban Or Alternative Album: Treinta Días by La Santa Cecilia
Best Regional Mexican Music Album: A Mi Manera by Mariachi Divas De Cindy Shea
Best Americana Album: Old Yellow Moon by Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
Best Bluegrass Album: The Streets Of Baltimore by Del McCoury Band
Best Blues Album: Get Up! by Ben Harper With Charlie Musselwhite
Best Folk Album: My Favorite Picture Of You by Guy Clark
Best Reggae Album: Ziggy Marley In Concert by Ziggy Marley
Best World Music Album: Savor Flamenco by Gipsy Kings
Best Spoken Word Album: America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't by Stephen Colbert
Best Musical Theater Album: Kinky Boots
Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media: Sound City: Real To Reel by Various Artists
Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media: Skyfall by Thomas Newman
Best Opera Recording: Adès: The Tempest
Best Choral Performance: Pärt: Adam's Lament
Best Classical Compendium: Hindemith: Violinkonzert; Symphonic Metamorphosis; Konzertmusik
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State 'Opt‐Out' Proposal: a Ruse within a Ruse
President Obama and his congressional allies want to create yet another government-run health insurance program (call it Fannie Med) to cover yet another segment of the American public (the non-elderly non-poor).
The whole idea that Fannie Med would be an "option" is a ruse.
Like the three "public options" we've already got – Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program – Fannie Med would drag down the quality of care for publicly and privately insured patients alike. Yet despite offering an inferior product, Fannie Med would still drive private insurers out of business because it would exploit implicit and explicit government subsidies. Pretty soon, Fannie Med will be the only game in town – just ask its architect, Jacob Hacker.
Now the question before us is, "Should we allow states to opt out of Fannie Med?" It seems a good idea: if Fannie Med turns out to be a nightmare, states could avoid it.
But the state opt-out proposal is a ruse within a ruse.
Taxpayers in every state will have to subsidize Fannie Med, either implicitly or explicitly. What state official will say, "I don't care if my constituents are subsidizing Fannie Med, I'm not going to let my constituents get their money back"? State officials are obsessed with maximizing their share of federal dollars. Voters will crucify officials who opt out. Fannie Med supporters know that. They're counting on it.
A state opt-out provision does not make Fannie Med any more moderate. It is not a concession. It is merely the latest entreaty from the Spider to the Fly.
(Cross-posted at National Journal's Health Care Experts blog.)


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Baseball has been in the headlines here in my adopted home town of Seattle this week. Not because we are in a race for anything but the bottom of the West Division, but rather because of the trade of one the game's greatest who has become an enigmatic legend in the game.
Ichiro Suzuki, the eleven-year patroller of "Area #51" in our ballpark's right field, was no longer seen as an asset to our team and was swapped for a couple of minor leaguers who will likely be nothing more than occasional players in "The Show".
While I could write pages on my thoughts of the deal (and mostly the year-plus events which led to the trade), this is the "Life With MS Blog"…
But, if Baseball teaches me anything, it teaches me that baseball offers lessons to be learned. The most important, and relative to the deal for this future Hall of Famer, is that failure is part of the game. Not just part of the game; failure is expected far more than success.
A batter who fails 7 times out of 10 for his career will go down in history as one of the greatest of all time (A lifetime batting average of just .300 will likely land him in Cooperstown with the first ballot). A team that performs errorlessly for only 20 percent of its season straight will set club records. I could go on.
My point – and I want to make it quickly as I'll be heading to the ballpark to see Ichiro's last game in Seattle this year – is quite simple. Failure is to be anticipated, accepted and, after learning the required lessons from said failure, moved on from.
I need to remember that when MS keeps me from doing (or doing well) what I expect from myself. I need to remember that when I slip into the dark place of focusing on what I can no longer do rather than what I can. I need to remember this lesson every day of my life; MS or not. I need to remember my failures are just part of my MS Batting Average.
I'm going to slap on some sunscreen, don my cap and go watch a bunch of really talented guys swing and miss, fly-out and get caught stealing. I'm going to go and celebrate failure today because the guys who lead the record books in homeruns are also at the top of the strike-out list.
Oh, and speaking of home runs; I'm proud to announce the launch of my new website, TrevisLGleason.com, in advance of my new book. I'm very excited…
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
Don't forget that you can also follow me via our Life With MS Facebook page, on Twitter, and our new group on MS Connection.org. Check out our bi-monthly blog for the UK and look for our Very Special new monthly blog for the National MS Society.


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Google I/O Introduces Chrome and Drive for iOS; Google Compute Engine
At this morning's Google I/O keynote, Google announced that the Chrome browser and Google Drive applications are now available for iPhone and iPad; showed offline access for Google Documents; and introduced Google Compute Engine, a competitor to Amazon Web Services for cloud-based virtual machines.
Chrome for iPhone, iPad
Sundar Pichai, senior vice president for Chrome and apps, talked about the growth of Chrome. He said mobile is driving Web traffic and, in future years, there will be 20 billion connections, or about 2.5 connections for every person. Chrome now has 310 million users, up from 160 million a year ago, and Chrome users download 1TB of data each day, making it the most popular browser in the world. The big change, Pichai said, is that people are now using browsers on multiple devices, noting the release of Chrome for Android.
Brian Rakowski, vice president of Chrome, demonstrated how when you sign into Chrome, you immediately can see your settings, bookmarks, and startup tabs in the same places that they were on another machine. Similarly, using Chrome on Android, he pulled up the list of tabs that were open on the desktop machine, with things like the back button working. He showed this both on a phone and the Nexus 7 tablet.
He then introduced Chrome for the iPhone and showed the same features, including the ability to swipe from tab to tab, and an iPad version with tabs on the top (as on the Android tablet version). Credentials are synced so you can easily sign in to websites, even on machines you haven't used before. The Incognito feature for private browsing works as well. Chrome users should really like this—particularly the tab synchronization with the desktop version.
Google Docs Goes Offline & Drive Comes to iPad
Pichai then moved onto Gmail, which launched in 2004 and now has 425 million active users. Google has launched many new applications, including recently Google Drive. More people are "going Google," Pichai said, and government agencies in 45 states, 66 of the top 100 universities, and more than five million businesses have now switched over.
Most companies want collaboration and you can't get there with SharePoint, Pichai said, citing Roche as an example customer. He then showed a number of quick videos highlighting collaboration features. (Indeed, there are a number of things that are easier in Google Apps and Drive; of course, SharePoint has a different set of features.)
Clay Bavor, director of product management for apps, announced that Drive is now available for iOS and Chrome OS. He showed Drive on an iPad and used a search feature to dig through documents, including scanned images with OCR and image recognition. This should be available later today.
On Chrome OS, Bavor said, Google Drive just becomes the file system, synchronizing files to your machine seamlessly. He brought up the same document in Google Docs on the Chrome OS system, a phone, and a tablet to demonstrate the synchronization.
Perhaps more importantly, he showed how Google Docs now works for editing offline. All the changes are saved to a local cache and once you reconnect and you reopen the document, it synchronizes with the online version, even if other people have made changes. This is available in the documents now, and spreadsheets and presentations will be coming shortly. (It wasn't clear, but I believe this only works in the Chrome browser.)
Bavor then announced the second version of the software development kit for Google Drive. Third-party applications—like Lucid Chart for things like creating diagrams, Hellofax for faxing, and SlideRocket for presentations—now can be integrated with Google Docs and Google Drive.
Pichai then returned to talk about Chromebooks, which he called "the always new computer," as updates happen automatically. A recent update made the new version three times faster than the earlier version, features an app-centric interface, and has a cloud application ecosystem. One hundred Best Buy stores in the United States, as well as Dixons in the United Kingdom will now be selling these devices, indicating Google plans a big push for these machines in the holiday season.
App Engine and Compute Engine
Above: Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of technical infrastructure
The second part of this morning's Google I/O keynote dealt with Google's infrastructure. Urs Hölzle, senior vice president of technical infrastructure, said Google App Engine now has one million active apps and gets 7.5 billion hits per day, accounting for two trillion NoSQL Data Store operations per month. For example, a Japanese application got over 25,000 requests per second.
Hölzle then announced Google Compute Engine, an infrastructure-as-a-service that offers Linux virtual machines with multiple storage options, clustering options, and connectivity offers.
As a prime example, he cited the Institute for Systems Biology: an application looking for genome associations took its in-house 1,000 core cluster 10 minutes per association, but on Compute Engine with 10,000 cores, it could deliver a new association every few seconds. Compute Engine is now in limited preview, and it will offer higher performance at a lower cost. Google is used to big applications, Hölzle said, and then showed the genome application running with more than 600,000 cores, which looked very fast. "That is cool, and that's how infrastructure as a service is supposed to work," Hölzle said.
Next, Pichai discussed the overall Web platform.
He demoed a service streaming a 3D game called BulletStorm, which looked to be a first-person shooter running with a sandbox on a Chromebox. He mentioned some games are available now in the Chrome Web Store, including some console-style games.
Going forward, Google's focus will be on making sure Chrome apps are always available, with a full-screen app experience and enhanced device access, and native apps using the hardware of the notebook, tablet, or phone.
As an example, Joanna Fillion and Aubrey Anderson of Cirque du Soleil showed off an immersive app designed to let you move through the circus within a browser. They explained that this uses features such as face recognition and gestures. It's built completely in HTML with CSS animations, but looked very fast with hardware-accelerated graphics.
Sergey Brin closed the keynote with another view of the amazing skydiving from an airship demo he introduced yesterday. Today's discussed a little bit more of the technical details and had better cameras (in addition to the Glass cameras), so it looked even better.


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What do employees lust after most these days? A fat bonus? A bigger salary? Extra time off? According to one new study, a surprising number covet something their parents might well have taken for granted: A pension plan.
The survey, released earlier this month, was conducted by benefits consulting firm Towers Watson, largely as an effort to help companies understand how to attract and motivate workers.
In several head-to-head questions, researchers asked whether workers would prefer it if their employers offered them a guaranteed retirement benefit (essentially a pension) or other perks. A large plurality – 49% -- chose the pension over the opportunity to earn a bigger bonus. (Just 26% picked the bonuses, while the rest didn't express a preference.) The pension also beat out paid vacation and a better chance at a promotion by similar margins. Guaranteed retirement income was also more popular than bigger salary hikes, although there the outcome was a closer 38% to 33%.
In some ways the numbers shouldn't come as a big shock. In the wake of the financial crisis, many employees have turned risk-averse, according to Tower Watson Senior Retirement Consultant David Speier. "They're more concerned about security," he says.
But the result doesn't necessarily speak well for the state of America's retirement system. A generation ago, pension plans were offered to more than four out of five private-sector workers; today it's fewer than one in three. Pensions have largely been replaced by defined contribution retirement plans like 401(k)s, which were hammered along with stock and bond prices during the financial crisis.
Of course, many government employees can still count on pensions. Speier says they've also lingered among private companies in sectors like utilities and energy where traditional industrial concerns have remained financially healthy. While that's good news for workers in those sectors, other employers probably aren't going to bring pensions back despite their popularity. Executives see the commitments as just too risky and expensive. "For the same reason employees want to them, employers don't want to offer them," Speier says.
There's also some evidence workers may be looking at the past with rose colored glasses. Another recent study from the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund industry's trade group, argues exactly that. Its findings: In 1980, payments from private pension plans accounted for only about 8% of retirees' overall income, compared to 53% for social security. (The rest came from other sources, ranging from other forms of government help to dividends on stocks.)
Since most 401(k)s are stocked with mutual funds, of course, the institute has a lot to gain from promoting the current 401(k) system. But the study is still worth note. The explanation: While many workers had access to pension plans thirty years ago, many failed to collect full benefits because of various factors. Switching jobs, for example, tended to reduce employees' standing under formulas plans used to calculate payouts. The government moved to fix these problems with new laws in the 1970s and '80s, but by then the move to 401(k)-type plans was already underway.
"There's a persistent misconception that there once existed a time when private sector workers typically retired with full pension benefits," says ICI senior economist Peter Brady. "Many actually received little or nothing."


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