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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) will be in the stands Thursday at Eastern High when his alma mater, Dunbar, plays Coolidge in the 42nd annual Turkey Bowl. Also expected in the stands for the game, one of the D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association's marquee events, will be members of the eighth-ranked team from Friendship Collegiate, a charter school whose program has risen to such prominence that many believe there is little doubt the Knights are the city's best.
Friendship's 9-1 season ended a few weeks ago without so much as a playoff game. According to Gray, who has taken an active role in trying to shape District high school athletics, that's just one of many things that must change on the D.C. high school sports landscape.
Gray said in an interview on Tuesday that the tattered image of the DCIAA needs to be restored and the athletic league needs better marketing, more sports and more resources. He also wants to bring burgeoning public charter athletics into the city-wide fold.
"The charters should have the opportunity to play for what is the ultimate championship," said Gray, a regular presence at DCIAA events. "How we structure that is still open for discussion. . . . But at the end of the day, I don't think you have a true city-wide or state-wide championship if you've got schools that have been excluded, especially when they are public schools, they just happen to have a different governance model."
The city's public charter schools continue growing, totaling more than 32,000 students this school year while enrollment in D.C. Public Schools, which has seen a decades-long decline, stands at nearly 46,000 students. Friendship Collegiate, which beat three-time Turkey Bowl champion H.D. Woodson, 46-6, last month, opened its season on ESPNU and its only loss was in New York to nationally ranked Bergen Catholic (N.J.). Meantime, charter schools Maya Angelou and KIPP fielded their first varsity football teams, and Options started one last season.
"To me, these are public schools just like other schools and we've got to find a place for them," Gray said.
The mayor said he has floated the idea of forming a public charter school league and possibly having the champion play the DCIAA champion for a city title. That could take the place of the Turkey Bowl or be scheduled after the game, he said.
Gray said the Office of the State Superintendent of Education recently posted an opening for a newly created position of a District-wide athletic director that could oversee a public charter league and work with private schools in the city. State Superintendent of Education Hosanna Mahaley would be responsible for that hiring, he said.
Gray also addressed the public image of the DCIAA, which has been hurt in the past year. An eligibility scandal cast a cloud over last season's Turkey Bowl, an episode Gray referred to as "terrible." Eligibility standards were also an issue during basketball season, both for boys and girls. This football season, three of the DCIAA's 11 football teams were involved in on-field fights (including Turkey Bowl participant Dunbar) that ended games and resulted in forfeits. Scheduling issues plagued the start of the football season and an eleventh-hour rule change allowed fifth-year seniors to compete, casting the league's ability to compete against other area schools in doubt.
Repairing that image begins with "improving the schools themselves, which we are working hard on," Gray said. "There was a time many, many years ago when there were close to 150,000 kids enrolled in DCPS. And now you have about 45,000, so the sheer numbers have reduced. Working to improve those academics conditions will send a message to kids, too."
Gray said he wanted to add more staff to the athletic office to help better police the league's rules, chief among them the eligibility of athletes, instead of relying on coaches or administrators to turn in offenders.
Echoing the thoughts of new DCIAA Athletic Director Stephanie Evans, who was introduced last week, Gray said ensuring coaches are properly trained and certified is a priority.
Gray said the DCIAA wants "coaches who realize that their real goal is to be a teacher and are not just teaching the skills of the athletic endeavor but are also teaching the values to these young people. We've seen instances where that wasn't the case. And we're going to work hard to clean that up."
The mayor also said he wants a more robust offering of sports, from lacrosse to rugby, at all schools, with an eye for increasing the participation of girls in athletics. He said money could be secured for these ideas by securing donations from foundations and by better marketing existing sports events.
This year's Turkey Bowl will feature a title sponsor in Safeway, which signed on for a three-year, $150,000 deal, Gray said.
Gray also addressed the competitive imbalance of the DCIAA, noting that it's an issue that relates directly to the DCPS out-of-boundary policy that allows students to apply to change schools for any reason. The enrollment disparity that results among DCIAA schools creates concerns both in the classroom and on the playing field, Gray said.
"When you have a school that is beating another one at halftime, 40-0, you've got a real disparity there," he said. "And those schools typically don't have many players, they may have 20, 25 players. And that's a part of fixing the educational stuff because as you get more kids coming to a particular school, it's also going to broaden your talent pool of kids that are participating in athletics."


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COLUMBUS, Ga. - An afternoon of uncertainty ended Thursday evening when the Georgia High School Association postponed the Glenn Hills/Northeast-Macon girls basketball game until noon today.
The second round matchup, along with the Central-Macon and Northside-Columbus game, came into question early Thursday when the Bibb County school system decided not to send its teams to Columbus because of inclement weather.
The schools were saved from forfeits when the weather between Macon and Columbus turned bad. Tornadoes were spotted in a number of Middle Georgia counties. The GHSA decided that the weather posed imminent danger and postponed the games until today.
"This was the best decision the GHSA could have made," said Glenn Hills coach Bernard Bowman, who brought his team to Columbus on Wednesday. "We came to play Northeast, and we get to play Northeast. Everything worked out."
But for about four hours Thursday, Central coach Andre Taylor and long time Northeast coach Alvin Copeland believed their teams wouldn't be allowed to travel to Columbus for the Class AAA basketball sectionals.
Bibb County Deputy Superintendent Sylvia McGee determined the inclement weather was too dangerous to drive in and mandated that the two county schools wouldn't be allowed make the trip to second round games which would result in a forfeit.
But it was the bad weather that ultimately saved the Central and Northeast seasons for at least one more day.
To GHSA associate director Ernie Yarbrough's knowledge, no team had ever forfeited a game because of a decision not to travel because of inclement weather.
"I've never seen anything like this," he said when he thought the teams were going to forfeit. "You feel bad for the seniors on those teams, but we can't make concessions for one county. Glenn Hills is in Augusta and they are here. The Bibb County schools could have left earlier in the day or last night."
Northeast was less than an hour away from forfeiting before the weather turned bad in Columbus.


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Thomas W. Gibbs was interviewed by Karen H. Williams on January 4, 2010. Excerpts from the interview are below. Copies of the interview on DVD are in the open stack video collection of the Frost Library for borrowing, and are available for viewing in Archives and Special Collections or for purchase on request .
The Rev. Thomas W. Gibbs III, Class of 1951, made national headlines when the AC Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi planned to initiate an African-American into the national fraternity. This resulted in their charter being revoked in 1949 and the chapter's subsequent affiliation with Phi Alpha Psi, as detailed in the book "Passages of Time" by Douglas Wilson '61. Gibbs went on to study theology and served in positions of increased responsibility for the Episcopal Church, becoming Dean, Cathedral Church of All Saints on St. Thomas, V.I. from 1966 until his retirement.
Karen H. Williams is a graduate of Bates College and the Catholic University School of Law. She was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. She also served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget and as Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in the Office of Management and Budget. She is currently a retired partner in the law firm of Crowell & Morning LLP where she specializes in seeking compensation for victims of terrorism.


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The Walt Disney World Railroad (or WDWRR for short) is a narrow gauge railroad circling the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Operated by Main Street Operations, the 3 ft (914 mm) gauge, 1.5-mile (2.4 kilometers) railroad circles the entire park with stations at Main Street, U.S.A., Frontierland, and formerly at the now-closed Mickey's Toontown Fair (But this stop reopened as Fantasyland station after the opening of Storybook Circus). One of the busiest steam-powered railroads, it transports over 3.7 million passengers each year.
Attraction Characteristics
- Embark on a relaxing 20-minute, 1.5-mile scenic tour on board an authentic steam-powered train.
- Listen to the clamor of the engine, the chug of the wheels and the call of the whistle as you travel aboard the Walt Disney World Railroad. Offering convenient stops at Main Street, U.S.A., Fantasyland, and Frontierland, it's the perfect way to preview the magic at Magic Kingdom park and take in the picturesque scenery.
- The Walt Disney World Railroad is also a handy way to get around quickly and easily. And because the trains are scheduled to arrive at each station every four to ten minutes at most times throughout the day, you never have to worry about waiting a long time to ride one.
The railroad has four different locomotives and four sets of passenger cars. The four locomotives were found on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico before they were taken and refurbished at the Tampa Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. These locomotives are narrow-gauge locomotives, built between 1916 and 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia.
A regular train consists of a steam locomotive, tender and five passenger cars with a capacity of approximately 365 passengers and two wheelchairs. The tender has a capacity for 1837 U.S. gallons (6953 liters) of water and 664 U.S. gallons (2514 liters) of fuel oil. The tender needs to be topped off with water every three or four trips (or circuits) around the park. The water tower is located at the former Mickey's Toontown Fair station, necessitating the trains still stop there to refill.
All four passenger car seats face forward and are based on the Excursion III trainset of the Disneyland Railroad.
Each of the four locomotives is named after those who greatly contributed to the efforts of the Disney Company and the Walt Disney World Resort.
No. 1 "Walter E. Disney"
This locomotive is named after the man behind the mouse, Walt Disney (1901-1966). Walt loved railroads and his parks have always displayed his love for trains.
- Locomotive Type: Baldwin Class 10-D
- Built: May 1925
- Wheel Configuration: 4-6-0 "Ten-Wheeler"
- Serial Number: 58444
- Locomotive Colors: Red cab with red boiler jacket
- Coaches Color: Red with red poles
- Coaches Number Series: 100
- Coaches Status: Operational
- Driver Diameter: 44 inches (1,118 mm)
- Boiler Pressure: 160 Psi (1.10316 MPa)
- Locomotive and Tender Weight (dry): 67,000 pounds (30,390 kg)
- Entering Service: October 1, 1971
- Locomotive Status: Out of Service
In August 2016, the No. 1 locomotive went out of service and shipped off to the Strasburg Rail Road workshop for an extensive overhaul in Halloween 2016. This locomotive was suspected to be return to service in 2019
No. 2 "Lilly Belle"
The Lilly Belle is named after Walt Disney's wife Lillian Disney (born Lillian Marie Bounds) (1899-1997). Lilly Belle is also the name of the scaled-down steam locomotive Disney ran in his own backyard and the parlor car of the Disneyland Railroad. It should also be noted that Lilly Belle was built in 1928, which would make it as old as Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
- Locomotive Type: Baldwin Class 8-D
- Built: September 1928
- Wheel Configuration: 2-6-0 "Mogul"
- Serial Number: 60598
- Locomotive Color: Green cab with green boiler jacket
- Coaches Color: Green with green poles
- Coaches Number Series: 200
- Coaches Status: Operational
- Driver Diameter: 44 inches (1,118 mm)
- Boiler Pressure: 160 Psi (1.10316 MPa)
- Locomotive and Tender Weight (dry): 61,000 pounds (27,669 kg)
- Entering Service: October 1, 1971
- Locomotive Status: Operational
Back in late summer 2010, the Lilly Belle has been taken out of service and shipped off to the Strasburg Rail Road workshop for a new boiler. The overhaul was originally scheduled 10-12 months but to no avail. On July 21, 2016, the Lilly Belle arrived back on Walt Disney World's property and back in operating service again on November 23, 2016.
No. 3 "Roger E. Broggie"
This locomotive is named after Roger E. Broggie (1908-1991), who led the effort of acquiring the locomotives for the Walt Disney World Railroad and helped build Disney's own Carolwood Pacific Railroad. Roger Broggie was also the original Disney Imagineer who worked on the EPCOT theme park project.
- Locomotive Type: Baldwin Class 10-D
- Built: May 1925
- Wheel Configuration: 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler"
- Serial Number: 58455
- Locomotive Colors: Red cab with green boiler jacket
- Coach Color: Yellow with red poles
- Coach Number Series: 300
- Coaches Status: Operational
- Driver Diameter: 44 inches (1,118 mm)
- Boiler Pressure: 160 Psi (1.10316 MPa)
- Locomotive and Tender Weight (dry): 67,000 pounds (30,390 kg)
- Entering Service: October 1, 1971
- Status: Operational
- Driver Diameter: 44 inches (111 cm)
- Locomotive and Tender Weight (dry): 67,000 pounds (30,390 kg)
- Locomotive Status: Operational
No. 4 "Roy O. Disney"
The Number 4 locomotive is named after Walt Disney's older brother and business partner, Roy Oliver Disney (1893-1971). Roy saw the completion of his brother's dream after Walt's death in 1966 due to lung cancer and completed the construction of the then named "Disney World". Roy renamed the resort to "Walt Disney World" in Walt's honor and died just shortly after the Magic Kingdom opened on October 1, 1971.
- Locomotive Type: Baldwin Class 8-C
- Built: February 1916
- Wheel Configuration: 4-4-0 "American"
- Serial Number: 42915
- Locomotive Colors: Green cab with red boiler jacket
- Coach Colors: Blue with blue poles
- Coach Number Series: 400
- Coaches Status: Under Refurbishment
- Driver Diameter: 46 inches (116 cm)
- Boiler Pressure: 160 Psi (1.10316 MPa)
- Valve Gear: Stephenson valve gear
- Locomotive and Tender Weight (dry): 51,000 pounds (23,133 kg)
- Locomotive Status: Operational
Roy was offered to have the second 4-6-0 ten wheeler (which is now the "Roger E. Broggie") named after him so that the Walt Disney and Roy Disney engines would be alike, but he refused because he "didn't want to be compared to all the great things Walt has done". The Roy O. Disney was the only WDWRR locomotive that was not steaming at the park on Opening Day 1971. Its restoration was not finished until December of that year, shortly after Roy's Death on December 20, 1971, due to a stroke, thus allowing the company to name the locomotive in his honor.
- The No. 1 and No. 2 locomotives were both equipped with Buckeye 3" 3 chime whistles. However, the No. 2's sounded at a very high-pitch.
- The No. 3 locomotive originally had the same whistle as the No. 1 and No. 2 locomotives (which sounded at a half-step lower in pitch). However, it was replaced with a Crosby 4" 3-chime whistle since Jan 2014.
- The No. 4 locomotive is the only one to be equipped with a lonesome Crosby 5" 3-chime whistle. But in the mid 1980s, the whistle's chambers got covered in dirt and soot, so it sounded different than what it had originally sounded like. Sometime around summer 2015, the whistle's chambers were cleaned up, thus returning to its original sound.
- Imagineer Roger Broggie didn't like the sound of the bell on the #3 locomotive (before it was named after him). Because he said, "sounded like a hammer hitting an old frying pan." So George Britton decided to swap out one of the riverboat's bells (which is still under construction) and today the #3 locomotive ended up with the clearest-ringing locomotive bell on the WDWRR.
- There is a wooden leg labeled "Smith" among the props at the Frontierland Train Station as a silly nod to Mary Poppins.
- The Window reading "Walt Disney World Railroad Office, keeping dreams on track, Walter E. Disney, Chief Engineer," on the front of the Main Street U.S.A. station is the only window that can be seen from outside the park.
- The fifth locomotive that Roger E. Broggie and Earl Vilmer purchased was a mogul like the Lilly Belle, deemed in very poor condition to be restored, was sold to a party in California and presumed scrapped.
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When I first took my baby boy home from queens hospital he was discharged with a rattley chest in September '15. When he was around 11 weeks old he came over very listless one day, he wouldn't drink and I could hear him wheezing over the TV. I took him to a walk in polyclinic where he was diagnosed with bronchitis and we were sent home with an asthma inhaler. Later that night we rushed him into queens hospital where he was taken through to resus, there were around 7/8 doctors and nurses, some standing around googling or on the phone and others running around like headless chickens, which was terrifying for a new mum, I was in hysterics. He was discharged 4 days later, better but still with a rattley chest.. He was admitted back 4 days later, at that time there were no beds left at Queens so we were taken to The Royal London Hospital where he was surveyed closely and thankfully got better and we never needed to return back.
Until, beginning of June '16 I came down with a viral infection and inevitably my son caught it too, he was having difficulty breathing so again I rushed him to queens, the wait for a baby fighting for breath was appalling, we were seen after around half an hour and was told 'he just has a viral infection, it will clear up in 7-10 days'. I could not destress enough about it being bronchitis again, I asked numerous times that they were certain it wasn't and they were 'certain'. Now if I had listened and waiting 7-10 days my son would have been very ill indeed, 3 days later i took him back in this was unacceptable. We were seen a lot quicker as I think they knew. Once again they had no beds and after a 6 hour wait we were transferred into King George's hospital where the care, time and patience really shone, the relief I felt for my sons life was incredible compared to at queens knowing their previous mistakes with the same thing. I'm not entirely blaming staff but they're so understaffed it's a joke and you can clearly see the strain.
Response from Queen's Hospital 16 months ago
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Skip to comments.MILITARY UPDATE: Luring current force to reform its own retirement
Posted on 05/17/2014 8:30:06 AM PDT by SandRat
Current military members and retirees are to be grandfathered from any retirement changes that the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission recommends to Congress next February.
Current force members shouldnt let that dampen their interest in the work of the commission or its final recommendations, because any retirement reforms proposed almost certainly will include an opt-in feature.
Many currently serving members will get the chance to choose to switch to a more modern, less generous retirement plan. Who would do that?
If past behavior is a reliable guide, thousands will.
Economists use the term personal discount rates. More simply, its how the promise of cash-in-hand affects you versus larger future rewards.
Its pretty clear, though, that current members, if they choose, will be able to stay under the High-3 retirement with its immediate annuities after 20 years of service set to equal 50 percent of average basic pay for their highest three earning years. Why?
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are insisting on it. The Obama administration has made retroactive retirement protection part of its guidance to the commission. And the likelihood Congress will buck those promises is slim given the lashes Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), House and Senate budget committee chairmen, felt when their budget deal last December included a cap on military retiree cost-of-living adjustments.
Before the ink dried on that deal, Congress voted to replace the COLA cap with alternative budget savings it still might regret: lengthening the impact of sequestration on future defense budgets by another year.
So to borrow a phrase from recent popular culture: If you like your current plan, you can keep it. But youll have something new to consider.
Department of Defense pay experts gave the commission two concepts for reforming retirement. They also advised that a lot more money would be saved for taxpayers if, in adopting either of these ideas, the commission also endorses an opt in feature for those in service.
Steady state savings from any one of the new retirement concepts if adopted only for new entrants would range from $1.7 billion to $3.9 billion annually, officials told the commission.
However, if currently serving members were permitted to participate which DoD believes should be an option, savings to the Department and the Treasury would emerge more quickly. The greater the number of members who opt-in, the faster the full savings of the change would be realized.
Current military retirement is a defined benefit that pays an immediate annuity after 20 or more years. The value of the annuity climbs by 2.5 percent of basic pay for each year served. However, only 15 percent of all members who serve stay long enough to quality.
Both of the new concepts shown the commission is a hybrid plan, combining a reduced defined benefit with two new tools. One is a defined contribution feature, the government making regular payments on a members behalf into a Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), similar to a 401(k) account. The contributions would be invested and made portable for members to take with them even if they leave before 20 years. They would be fully vested in these accounts after six years service.
A third element of the hybrid concept is supplemental pay to give the services greater flexibility to shape force structure and to retain select skills or pay grades. These pays could ease transition to civilian life for careerists no longer needed, or be made continuation pays to entice members to served years longer until the defined retirement benefit is within reach.
Being able to pocket benefits sooner can be a powerful inducement to forfeit more valuable benefits. As Defense officials advised the commission:
Because service members on average value deferred benefits less than the actual cost to the government to provide these benefits, it is possible to generate savings and sustain retention by altering the mix of current and deferred benefits.
Defense officials have seen this work with the $30,000 Career Status Bonus (CSB) offered for over the last decade to careerists in their 15th year. In return for that extra cash, to pay off credit cards or buy a new car or put a down payment on a home, careerists are still opting back into Redux with its reduced annuities and smaller cost-of-living adjustments to retired pay.
Congress conceived the CSB for one purpose: to dampen the cost of repealing that cheaper retirement plan, which Congress had imposed on any member entering service after July 31, 1986. When the Joint Chiefs complained about the impact on career retention from a cheaper retirement offering, Congress repealed Redux. But it also created the $30,000 bonus to entice at least some careerist to opt back in.
Though CSB has been frozen at $30,000 more than a decade, steadily losing purchasing power, it continues to induce about three percent of officers and 15 percent of enlisted into a cheaper retirement. Wartime tax breaks on deployment increased its attractiveness.
As of 2012, more than 34,800 enlisted and 925 officers had retired under Redux rather than under the High-3 plan. Because of that choice, the Defense Department, in setting aside funds to pay future retirement benefits, needs to contribute about $600 million less annually.
Defense officials and outside analysts who shaped the new retirement concepts would bristle at any comparison of their complex plans to the maligned CSB. Their hybrids, they say, address the unfairness of allowing most members to separate with no benefits toward retirement. The hybrids also give force managers greater flexibility to shape a cost-effective force.
But like the CSB, their plans also save a lot of money by moving retirement cash forward where many members will decide it has greater value than in the long run.
When will the Government reform the Civil Service pensions which dwarf the military pensions?
I ould bet NEVER.
"When will the Government reform the Civil Service pensions which dwarf the military pensions?"
The same day Congress, the President, and congressional staff go on Obamacare and pay for it out of their own pockets.
They already did. It's called FERS.
The far more generous program, CSRS, was replaced by FERS. CSRS retirees were unaffected by the change I believe.
FERS uses a 401K style plan called TSP for the lion's share of its benefits. Federal employees contribute to their own retirements and can receive matching contributions from the government up to, I think, 5%. In addition to TSP, they receive 1% per year served if they serve until retirement age, but TSP is the most important component by far.
This is the trial run. If they can get by with gutting military retirement, socialization of civilian retirement will be easy.
After the 2014 elections, or the election of Hillary in 2016, expect serious "reform" of Social Security and private sector retirement. After the next stock market crash expect the $16 trillion in 401K and IRA money in private hands to be swept into social security and "invested" in government bonds for "safekeeping". Of course this new money will initially be personal savings accounts placed in a "lockbox" by the government. Give them another five years and the individual Social Security accounts will be combined into a single pool for the common good and the disbursements will be means tested to ensure fairness.
By that time the Obamacare medical panels will have decided it serves no purpose to society to provide life extending healthcare to senior citizens over age 75 except the few members of the elites who benefit society. Give them another five years and we'll have compulsory euthanasia for common citizens over age 70 in order to reduce the environmental impact of human beings, who no longer produce, on the planet.
All of this is coming from the party that routinely beats up Republicans for hating the poor and wanting to destroy social security so the elderly can starve. It is simply amazing.
They will give you a choice, if you choose the old system, there will be a reduction in force, and guess who will be on the list.
I have no idea, but I suspect the cost of military retirees is pittance compared to non-military, gov't retirees.
Government employee retired benefits continue to grow by leaps and bounds, while military retirees are constantly under the knife. IMO!
BTW I know they are under different accounting structures...doesn't change the facts, just provides an excuse.
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Military retirement is based on a 20 year term. Unless you get out under a special program you get nothing. The article says only 15% of servicemembers get that far. At 20 years you get 50% of your base pay. Base pay is a majority if your pay, but far from a vast majority. I would imagine it would be about 30% of your total compensation including housing and subsistence allowances. Additionally, you go from free healthcare to a very low premium healthcare. One of the expensive parts is that you draw your retirement right away, no matter how young you are. Somebody who enlists at 18 can retire at 38 and then draw that retirement for the next 35 years if they make it to the current life expectancy.
Federal retirement is a different type of beast. I went from the miltary to federal service and I don't know very many people who quit once they have a more than a few years in. The ones I have seen quit were other pilots, who can make more money on the outside. So you have a huge percentage of employees who are staying until retirement. You are also vested after 5 years, so even if you quit you will eventually start drawing something. The four rent fed retirement is a three component deal. A defined annuity, a 401k type account, and Social Security. The annuity is 1% x total number of years x highest three total salaries. that means about 30% for most career employees. Law enforcement has a higher rate than that because of a mandatory retirement age. One thing fed retirement does have is minimum ages to retire so of you don't see people retiring at 40. Retired fed employees still get medical at the same premium structure they had while working until they are Medicare eligible. Fed employees also contribute some of their pay to the defined portion, a small percentage compared to the government. Their 401k is matched up to 5%, but it seams most employees put about 10% of their pay into that.
Both systems are expensive, but most people don't begrudge miltary retirees their retirement. Fed employees are reviled, regardless of what they do. There are too many of us. I think a 15% RIF would be a good start.
Sorry about the typing errors. Auto correct is crushing me on my iPad.
This might be a good option for people who are not sure if they want to stay the full 20 years or not. The problem is that many don't make up their minds until they are 6-8 years in. And then it's too late.
Active Duty/Retiree ping.
Just out of curiosity I looked at an LES from shortly before I retired. On deployment, base pay was 58% of my total pay, 62% upon return and losing HFP/IDP and FSA. More than I thought, but still quite a bit less than union public employees who are getting pensions based on their entire pay at retirement.
When I retired from the Air Force, my retirement pay was a whopping $761 a month. I thought I could get rich on that. s/
Where you tend to see the very high retirements is with the state and local agencies. I lived in a state where a 30 year teacher got 90% of their high 3, plus medical.
Las Vegas Fire was investigating a scheme wear their management was approving excessive over time for managers close to retirement to pad their payouts. With the large amount of overtime available to some public safety employees and contract rules using overtime as part of the retirement calculation, that is a chronic problem.
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You are spot on. There is a HUGE disparity between Federal and military retirements vs. local and state retirements.
I retired from the armed forces - and my retirement was based on 50% of my base salary. Years ago, Congress broke down your pay into several categories: housing, subsistence, allowances, and base pay.
They did this so they would only have to pay you 50% on one portion of your pay, thus making your retirement check much, much smaller.
Federal retirements are much, much less than most state, municipality, and county retirements.
Six figure isn't the trend on some states, it is becoming the norm.
There is no less stressful, taxing, and dangerous job in American than the US military.
And though you are vested at 20 years (and now they want to change THAT), it is a much less generous retirement than cops, teachers, and administrative workers for the states.
The same can be said by extension with the federal retirement system. The planned payouts aren't as high, but the federal government as a whole has been running deficit for a long time. In general we can't afford our current government outlays. Part of that is employee costs.
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Addiction Counselor Certification Board of California
The concept of "tiers,"or "career ladders," based on increasing levels of education serves as a model for the evolution of our field into a recognized profession. The tiers must be graduated in a way that makes advancing up the ladder both desirable and achievable, with career incentives in between. The California Association for Alcohol/Drug Educators (CAADE) and the Addiction Counselor Certification Board of California (ACCBC) introduced a tiered system that serves as a model for the future of addiction counseling. CAADE's accreditation guidelines manual, contracted over many years by the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, was the model for the standardized curriculum developed by the National Addiction Studies Accreditation Commission (NASAC) as part of a project spearheaded by Dr. Westley Clark and SAMHSA. Our unique niche is our 36-unit community college addiction studies certificate program which provides the opportunity for individuals to attend a community college, earn a certificate and enter the workforce. The students may then continue on to higher degrees with our fully transferrable college courses. We are working now with NASAC to serve as their west coast accreditation affiliate.
CAADE's nationally approved credential (the Certified Addictions Treatment Counselor–CATC) is one of five credentials offered in California. We are the only one that requires college coursework from accredited colleges and universities. In line with CAADE's mission to promote and support quality higher education in addiction studies the board of directors developed and launched the Certified Addictions Treatment Counselor (CATC) Tiered System. The implementation of the tiered system rewards higher education, and CAADE maintains the highest certification standards for addiction service professionals in California.
CAADE is the only certifying organization that requires our counselors to be educated in regionally accredited colleges and universities. Contrary to popular belief, coursework completed in extension programs will not transfer to any college or university in any state. Attending a CAADE college ensures that your coursework will transfer to other states and to four year university degree programs. Even if you don't think you are going to need or want a college degree now, a CAADE eduction will prepare you to change your mind later. AND, if you move to a state which requires a degree for addiction counselors, you'll be able to take your CAADE coursework with you. NO OTHER ORGANIZATION CAN MAKE THAT PROMISE.
There are old terms and concepts still being used in addiction counselor "culture." As long as addiction professionals continue to speak in the "traditional"way, as long as we continue to talk in terms that describe the old "national standards" for addiction counselor education, we will have difficulty taking our place beside other licensed professionals. Accredited colleges and universities generally use the term "hours" to refer to practicum, fieldwork, or internship work performed in actual treatment settings under supervision. In our institutions, when we measure minimum educational requirements, we use units, not hours. CAADE accredited programs require a minimum of 36 units that can apply directly toward the AA or AS degree in a variety of disciplines (Human Services, Psychology, Health Science, etc.). Check out our accredited college page.


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Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:28:06 GMT — Lt. Governor Peter Kinder says he won't leave his keys in his car again after it was stolen last night. That's not all, when the car turned up at daybreak Monday in a field outside Cape Girardeau it had been torched.Police have arrested a Cape Girardeau man for the crime. Adam D. Cromer, 20, was charged with stealing a motor vehicle, first-degree tampering and second-degree attempted burglary.Police believe Cromer rammed the vehicle into the Shooter's Gun Shop, tried to rob it but left empty handed, then drove the Governor's car to the country and set it on fire.When Kinder got the news the car had been found, he says he was "shocked." Kinder told the Southeast Missourian newspaper that it was "burnt to a cinder, and unrecognizable. " The 2009 Ford Flex crossover vehicle sold for between $30,000 and $46,000 the year it came out.Kinder is no stranger to Cape Girardeau, that's his hometown. He was there to speak at a Naturalization Ceremony. Kinder told the newspaper that he was "feeling stupid" that he left the keys inside.


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The Monday Fix: Last week's political highlights
"Mr. President, you don't believe in the Constitution. You believe in socialism."
- Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), bringing an abrupt end to the bipartisan peace treaty surrounding President Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
1.6 millionDollars that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) raised in 2010 through his five state-level PACs in Alabama, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Romney, who also raised $4.5 million through his national PAC, topped the field of potential GOP presidential contenders with a total of $6.1 million raised last year. Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R) raised a total of $3.5 million, followed by former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty (R) with $2.4 million and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) with $1.4 million.
4 Days until Palin delivers the keynote speech at the "Reagan 100 Opening Banquet," an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan. The gathering, which is being hosted by the Young America's Foundation, will be held at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, Calif. Palin is to address the group Feb. 4; former vice president Dick Cheney is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the event's closing dinner on Feb. 5.
6Republican freshmen who have won seats on the Senate Appropriations Committee. The half-dozen GOP freshmen tapped are Sens. Mark Kirk (Ill.), Dan Coats (Ind.), Roy Blunt (Mo.), Jerry Moran (Kansas), John Hoeven (N.D.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.). By naming so many new lawmakers to serve on the committee, GOP leaders are signaling that they want to bring fresh voices to the spending panel as part of their push for greater fiscal responsibility; traditionally, lawmakers spend years working their way toward winning a plum spot on the panel, which oversees the doling out of federal dollars.
They got their mojo working again. A new Gallup poll showed, for the first time in five years, Republicans are now viewed favorably by more voters than view them unfavorably. The improving GOP image coincides with a bump in President Obama's approval rating, as voters are more optimistic about the country generally. There are plenty of battles ahead, though, beginning with the GOP's aims to cut spending before they agree to raise the debt ceiling. Can the GOP prolong its honeymoon by staking out some stubborn fiscal ground?
President Obama delivered an effective State of the Union address. The president's point about this being the United States' "Sputnik moment" fell a little flat, but overall the speech laid out an ambitious and wide-ranging agenda for the country. Obama also didn't have to deal with the partisan applause that often colors a State of the Union speech, because members of different parties sat next to each other. That gave him more of an opportunity to focus on his message and not worry about another "You lie!" moment.
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03 June 2008 Drama, Comedy 100 mins
One-night stands, Internet dates and unrequited love are among the topics in this anthology of gay-themed short films. In "Signage," a middle-aged man hooks up with a deaf younger man, while the offbeat "41 Seconds" chronicles a brief but steamy encounter. "Shahram & Abbas" follows two Iranians pretending to be homosexual in order to be granted asylum in Holland, and "Mr_Right_22" focuses on a waiter who dispenses farsighted advice to a customer.
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"The 2% decline is not major, but rather an inertia of a month that historically seems to lag in a resting point. BREI entered the year 2009 being influenced by the last year's sentiment and uncertainty that reigns over the entire economy", reads Colliers analysis.
At the level of its components, Old-BREI, the index that monitors the price variation of old apartments dropped 3%.
"The interesting thing is that for the first time since July 2008, we are witnessing a substantial growth of the sector 1, that climbed 7%, as opposed to 2%-6% decline of the other sectors", Colliers stated.
The growth may be credited to the presence of a constant rental market in the premium apartments in the north, as well as to "safe long-term investment" approach for apartments in central Bucharest.
The value afferent to sector 6 remains the lowest, steadying at 1,111 euro/sqm , and the highest value was registered for sector 1, at 1,990 euro/sqm.
New-BREI remained relatively constant from last year. The quarterly auditing of the projects that will be monitored by the index was modified due to the delay of projects or sale procedure completion.
BREI index was set up by a team of 20 advisors and analysts at Colliers International, headed by Calin Bucur, 4,000 offers being completed since January 1, 2005. As all the major stock exchange indices, BREI compiles eight secondary indexes that monitor the price variations on Bucharest's residential market for old apartments built before 1990 and for new apartments.
Colliers International is a global partnership between companies, with 293 offices in 61 countries. In Central and Eastern Europe, the company provides services in Romania, Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro.
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I am slowly but surely getting back on track with blogging and I have another month in my project life album to share with you today....yaaaaaaaay!
June was a fun month, we went on vacation but I didn't add it to my pl album because I plan on making a minibook with the photos from our visit to Charleston, SC. I did add a little bit of journaling to document the trip however.
also upgraded to my iPhone 4 to the 5 // school came to an end for S2 // didn't run a color race but my job was the benefit to one and I experienced my first one // a trip to dc during the work week is always a good thing because it equals food truck for lunch! // #ootd, mixing up prints.
I had a fab.com sticker that I was holding onto and though to add it to one of my included page protectors, love how it ties in the black + white and color elements. I am busy working on July and August, HIGH FIVE!
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BTDT moms with multiple kids
Do your kids look alike? Have you noticed a resemblance as they get older?
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My kids look quite a bit alike.
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They look like a nice matching set. They each share some qualities with some others, but not all the same. Does that make sense? 3 have blue eyes, 3 have green and the baby we aren't sure of yet. They are all sort of blonde, but they go from bright yellow to strawberry to copper. Well, I guess 2 are really brown now. They are all skinny. Which is amusing because me and DH are fat. But we were really skinny when we were little.
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My two look exactly alike except one has brown hair while the other has dirty blond oh and one is a boy and the other is a girl but it is beyond obvious that they are siblings. :)
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During your stay, we provide you with, kayak, beach volleyball, snorkelling gear, ping-pong table and tennis court, and of course our large swimming pool with white bottom sand. Yoga and aquaerobic session every day (Time table on request)
Experience yourselves, in couple or in family, unforgettable and unique memories to live on the island of Tahiti: paragliding, helicopter, boat, jet-ski, fishing and dive, visit of museums... Enjoy in the airs, offshore or on land, fascinating excursions. In season, take advantage of a boat trip in the Pacific Ocean to observe whales, or visit the lagoon and see dolphins who swim near the hotel. On the East coast of the island, explore the tubes of lava of Hitiaa, " 3 waterfalls " and the blow hole.
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According to the Daily Mail, the dieting industry has the profit of $60billion a year and is said to be big business. Plenty of advertisements feature before and after shots to show you just how effective the product is.
One blogger and eating champion shows how to achieve the look without having to deprive yourself of your favorite foods. He says: âMost of the time it's hard to believe that a supplement or training programme can make you look like this.â
Showing a series of tips and tricks, Pete shows how go from a flabby "before" look to a buff "after" in 5 hours. All the viewers are advised to hit the gym and "make sure you are as vascular as humanly possible."
'Furious Pete' shows off the buff and slick after picture and reveals that the picture is Photoshopped a bit. Now for the before picture.
"The first step is to reverse the process. Go to the gym and do as many bicep curls, tricep push-downs and chest presses,â says Pete. "Make sure you are as vascular as humanly possible."
IBTimes says, budding hulks are advised to hit the tanning bed, before rubbing themselves in cooking oil for that extra slick, muscle-enhancing look.
And to achieve the flabby "before" picture, Pete urges his followers to eat and have a rest: "Take two hours off, you worked hard. Rest up and make sure the vascularity disappears.â He recommends drinking chocolate milk, saying: âIt will bloat the hell out of you.â
"Grab a bag of chips and down all of them,â says the blogger. âGrab yourself a two-litre bottle of pop and drink it all. Diet pop works even better because it has more carbonation and will make your stomach even bigger."
Well, after the video was uploaded to YouTube, it has received plenty of comments. Some claim that itâs impossible to achieve such a body form in few hours and others just adored the blogger and his method.
âYes. This is possible – its called PhotoShop,â said Mags from Edinburgh.
âI have mixed feelings about this video,â commented the Internet user Greg Feathers. âYes it demonstrates the deceptive practices of some companies but on the other hand âFurious Peteâ put in the time to get in shape in the first place."
"I seriously doubt that his genetics graced him enough to give him chiseled arms and a ripped mid section. He never once states how much hard work he put into his physique which is the point of the whole video in the first place,â he added.
However, there are people who thanked Pete for his video tips. âI've always wondered how they did that!! And thanks for the tips on the crap to avoid. I never realised that those foods/ drinks could make that much difference,â said user mcconvilleme.
âReverse psychology worked for me. Instead of telling me how to look great and get frustrated and possibly fail trying to achieve it, your vid showed me how easy it is not to look bad. Thumbs up!â IRLON24S commented.