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Hey Everyone! I've been quiet for a while, making smaller flash game projects and experimenting with ideas after Aero Empire fell apart, but I have recently started three things that I would like to share with everyone.
Fancy Fish Games - Following the recent success of some of my small flash game projects, I have decided to start a small, indie game studio called Fancy Fish Games. In the studio, I plan to catch some fancy ideas and make some interesting game projects. We already have a few projects planned, and two in the works, and I look forward to presenting them to the community soon.
VIDE - VIDE stands for the Vectorized Image Deformation Engine, and is a new tool I'm working on for future game projects at Fancy Fish Games. Like the name suggests, it's an animation program that can take an image and deform/animate it. The early results look nice, and it is written entirely in HAXE/NME.
The Legend of GameDev - My new indie game dev blog, which you can read here: Davidmaletz.blogspot.com. I have already written two posts detailing how VIDE works, and plan to talk more about my future game projects and Fancy Fish Games.
I also have plans and a new design document for a revival of Aero Empire, but I don't want to get anyone's hopes up while I still haven't solidified it or started working on it. Feel free to follow my blog for updates on that, as well as the current technology and games of Fancy Fish Games!
Results from the writing contest are in, however, we have some bad news to go along with it.
All graphical features have been successfully ported to Irrlicht, including some new effects like Planetary Rings.
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Ships below the twilishpere in expansions, eh?
How about submarine types?
Designing a craft to fly in the Twilisphere would take some thought. The Twilisphere is super-dense, yet non-liquid, an environment never explored in a video game or even in the real world to my knowledge. The only place like it is the lower atmosphere of Venus.
Such an expansion isn't even on our radar at the moment. Like any zero-budget indie project, our main goal is simply getting the game working and finished with as few problems as possible.
We're trying to keep from getting ahead of ourselves; a game this ambitious will only be finished if we take it a step at a time.
Im starting to love this more and more :D
Okay, thanks. Really interesting though.
Wow, I am really stunned by what you are trying to accomplish, and by the look of it, this is going to work! Hell, if you really wanted too, you could go commercial on this game.
This is like, revolutionary. I had a similar idea myself once, just with trees instead of mountains. I may even learn to code just to help! P.S. newb question, what code?
please excuse that comment i was getting a bit exited
That's ok! Comments like that are nice and help motivate us. It's great to hear that people are as excited about this game as we are.
As for your question about what code - did you mean what programming language? Aero Empire's game engine was written from scratch in C++ - but if you're learning programming, just learn programming principles, and you'll be able to pick up new languages easily (just have to learn new syntax), so you wont be restricted based on what languages you know.
My god it just gets better and better. I was getting scared between updates. :C
This is the sort of game I've been longing for over several, several years. I have "some" experience writing, but nothing I can really show off, but let me know if you need anything, and I'd be more than willing to throw some stuff your way, guidelines dependant, of course. In any case, I'm excited as all get-out about this game! MP especially will be wonderful no matter how you handle it, I'm sure!
This looks like a great idea :) I hope you guys have the best of luck with this as its an amazing idea :)
wow, this looks great
I'm wondering if you'll incorporate some kind of radar, or spotting system. Regarding the distance and height between airships it seems difficult to know if you're dealing with enemy or friend, unless you come up close enough.
I personally think a couple of birds on board of the ship would be perfect spotters. you could just send them to a ship and when they land on it they'll tell you its "color". If it's one of yours they would just return to your ship. Otherwise they would return (respawn), after giving a cunning enemy captain a chance to tell his ship has been spotted by an enemy - because the birds are piling up :)
It could also be imagined to have "upgradable" birds with offensive capabilities, which can overwin enemy spotters in their own type of ai-duel.
Of course I am only going crazy again with total disrespect for the amount of coding involved, but since this is an airborne game, I believe AI creatures would add a nice touch and it seems logical they play an important role in the kingdom. I still love your project very much!
We will definitely have birds in the game, and they could easily be the means for communication and determining whether a ship is friendly or not (as there is no radar). It wont be impossible to tell friend from foe just from sight, as ships from different nations will have a different "base coat" of paint to distinguish between them. But for far distances, scouting and searching clouds (as you can hide in clouds), trained birds could add an interesting aspect to gameplay - I'll have to think about that. However, having upgradeable birds and battles between birds is going a little too far - maybe in an expansion.
How about bigger flying non-player-animals, like sky-whales or something?
Reminds me of the world in the movie "Battle for Terra" (or later know just as "Terra") with wooden flying machines and so on.
Anyway, looks really nice and interesting, I'm tracking this one.


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Upwell Travel Guide: 20 reviews and 103 photos
This is Carl, BerniShands husband over 25+ years. He is one of the finest people I know. Generous, kind hearted, and he makes poached eggs better than anyone else in the world. One of the things I like best about Carl is his laugh. The first time I really took notice of his laugh happened when Berni, SueT and he picked me up at my hotel in London to head back to Upwell. Berni made a wise crack, Carl threw his head back and laughed. It was a genuine, heart felt laugh and it was at that precise moment that I knew the week ahead was going to be a good one.
Addendum 2007: Carl loves so completely and passionately. Yes of course for his wife but he is a loving and compassionate friend as well. He would literally give you the shirt off his back if he thought you would benefit from it. I dearly love and respect this man for you could never know and I could never fully explain the depth of his dear, brave soul.
For Carl: A poem
W. H. Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message She Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
She was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
Aside from the world's best egg poacher, Carl is a man of many talents. He can build things, take things apart like the shower when it was dripping one night, (Kat suppresses a giggle here), he designed the very functional small but oh-so-homey kitchen where Berni and I would sit and have tea and toast in the morning. The kitchen floor has lights, yes that is correct, the floor has lights well, ok, in the baseboards then. 6/03/08: A side note here: I happened to be reading this page again and remembered Berni had left a pair of shoes on the floor and they caught fire from the lights. Now this is made me laugh because we all know how much she LOVED shoes.
Carl relaxes by watching "Judge Judy" with his pal Rufus, and together they "discuss" the cases and the verdicts.
I wanted to thank Berni and Carl for opening their home to me, so I had a bottle of nice "bubbly" shipped to their home. When we returned from London the champagne was ice cold and ready for the partaking. After a couple of sips Berni implored Carl to make a "champagne chair" Now this is a talent I have never seen before, he can make a chair out of the wire that covers a champagne cork! Really he can! (See the photo). I made sure that I packed this carefully and it now sits atop my mantle in our living room.
Gee, I forgot to show them my talent...how to make a towel rise up off the table.
But the best quality that Carl possesses is his capacity to love. This is a man who so dearly loves the light of his life (that would be Berni) as well as his children. I truly hope that his children someday know just what lengths he would go for them out of love.
Thank you for loving my dearest Berni like you do.
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Inner awareness is more important than success. Without some level of centeredness we are more often than we would like to think, simply robots. Getting up, doing our morning clean up, coffee, work, rush hour traffic, struggle at work, success, interplay with others, then back home, more rush hour traffic to get home and watch TV. This can be done without any real level of being aware, it is simply done. The mind can wander all day from one tape to another, though the characters in the tapes can be interchanged with different people.
Prayer and meditation that is honest and reflective, or if one is secular, a simple practice of meditation, is a way to offset this tendency that seems to be normal for most humans. This allowing the mind to quiet and for simple awareness to emerge, is probably the only way to free oneself from an automaton type of existence. We do have a higher brain, this is the door to transcendence that allows us to respond to meaning and to ask questions and seek answers and yes to respond to graces urgings. For me, there can be entire days when I may not have a single personal thought, just inner movies being played out and mindless reactions to outside stimulation. One way to untie the inner Gideon knot is to simply relax in the presence of the infinite light or mind. To set before the loving gaze of the infinite will slowly allow an ever deeper awareness of the higher mind, the observer that can free us from mindless and frantic activity to become a lived reality. Then there will be a new kind of struggle that will allow growth and a deeper experience of life and appreciation of those who are in our lives.


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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a training device or apparatus useful for improving the pugilistic skills of a boxer or the skills of practitioners of other martial arts.
2. Description of the Prior Art
For many years boxers have utilized punching bags and large stuffed, punching dummies as targets to improve their boxing skills. A typical, conventional punching bag has a generally pear-shaped configuration and is formed of a leather cover having an inflated rubber bladder therewithin. A conventional punching bag is about one foot in length and typically hangs from an overhead omnidirectional swivel. A punching bag is advantageous because it improves eye and hand coordination for repeated punches at the same target area. However, it does not train a boxer to improve hand and eye coordination in making rapid vertical shifts in the target area.
A punching dummy allows a boxer to vary the target area of successive punches vertically, but does little to enhance hand and eye coordination.
Various devices have been created as training aids to improve the skills of boxers and other athletes. Some of these are described in the following issued U.S. Pat. Nos. 1,685,495; 770,869; 4,749,185; 264,931; 5,700,229; 426,944; 318,766; and 3,785,643. However, none of these prior devices is particularly effective in improving a boxer's skills in making repeated, accurate punches while rapidly vertically shifting the target area for successive punches.
The present invention is a device that can be used by boxers and martial arts enthusiasts for training purposes. The training device is designed to be mounted between a stationary overhead support and a base support located vertically beneath in the floor of a training area. The device may be between about five and ten feet in length. At its upper end it has a snap ring or some other catch or fastener mechanism to engage a ceiling fastener and an inextensible strap of adjustable length with an adjustment buckle or Velcro fasteners that allow the effective length of the strap to be adjusted between a few inches or as much as several feet.
The lower end of the strap terminates in a loop or eye or some other catch or coupling mechanism that may be engaged with the end of a very long bungee cord. The bungee cord may be five or more feet in length and has a coupling at its upper end to engage the adjustment strap and a coupling at its lower end to engage a floor fastener. The bungee cord is surrounded by vinyl tubing having an outer diameter of about five-eighths of an inch. Surrounding the vinyl tubing there is a cylindrical, annular sleeve of resilient foam having an outer diameter of about between about one-half and three inches. The outer surface of the foam is preferably covered with tape or some other sheath material. Also, visual indicia are marked on the outside of the sheath. This indicia may merely take the form of changes in color about every three, four, or five inches along the length of the sheath.
The resulting structure appears to an observer as a relatively thick, rope-like device having bands of different colors every few inches. A person practicing boxing or a person practicing some other form of the martial arts may utilize his or her fists or feet to jab at the different colored sections of the elongated structure. The device will yield each time is struck, but will quickly return generally to its original, upright position after each blow. Due to the resiliency of the bungee cord, the structure will waver and quiver somewhat, thus making it harder to strike each time it receives an impact. The adjustable strap can be utilized to alter the tension on the bungee cord, thus varying the extent to which the device quivers laterally. This challenges the user to maintain consistent, repeated contact with blows to the device and improves the hand-eye coordination and provides excellent training for pugilistic and martial arts endeavors.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved training device, useful to boxers and other individuals involved in the martial arts, that sharpens the skills of applying impacts to a relatively small target, while making vertical shifts in applying successive blows to the target.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a boxing training device from which a boxer can tell, through tactile sensation, or lack of tactile sensation, whether or not successive blows have been accurately applied to a target while vertically shifting the target area in successive blows.
A further object of the invention is to provide a boxing target which does not wildly gyrate when struck, but which does quiver laterally and in a fore and aft direction when impacted, and thereby presents a challenging target to a boxer to successfully land successive blows on the target.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a boxing training device that is extremely effective in improving eye and hand coordination in landing successive blows on a target that quivers about a vertical axis of alignment when the target has been struck.
An additional object of the invention is to provide a boxing target that can be stored within a relatively small volume and which can be erected for use in many different locations. For example, the target of the invention does not necessarily require the availability of the gymnasium or other facility dedicated to athletic training. The boxing target of the invention may be temporarily erected in a doorway, in a garage, or in innumerable other locations that are used for other purposes at other times.
In one broad aspect the present invention may be described as a martial arts training apparatus comprising: an elongated core line no less than about five feet in length having opposing upper and lower ends and at least a portion of which is formed of an elastic material; upper and lower couplings located respectively at the upper and lower ends of the core line for securement, respectively, to upper and lower vertically separated supports to stretch the core line therebetween; and a resilient jacket located between the couplings and surrounding the core line over a distance of at least about five feet, wherein the jacket has a minimum outer width of between about one inch-half and about six inches.
In another broad aspect the invention may be considered to be a self-defense training apparatus comprising: an elongated core line at least about five feet in length and having opposing upper and lower ends, wherein at least a portion of the core line is formed of an elastic material; upper and lower couplings respectively located at the upper and lower ends of the core line for connection, respectively, to vertically spaced upper and lower stationary supports between which the core line is maintained in tension; and an elongated, resilient jacket surrounding the core line over a length of at least five feet and having an outer dimension measured transverse to the core line of between about one-half and about six inches.
In still another aspect the invention may be considered to be a boxing training target comprising: an elongated core line, at least about five feet in length and at least a portion of which is elastic, having opposing upper and lower ends; an upper coupling at the upper end of the core line for securement to a stationary, overhead support; a lower coupling at the lower end of the core line for securement to a stationary base support to maintain tension on the core line between the upper and lower couplings; and an annular, resilient jacket disposed about the core line and surrounding it throughout a length of at least about five feet, wherein the jacket has an outer diameter of between about one-half and about six inches.
The invention may be described with greater clarity and particularity by reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating a preferred embodiment and use of the boxing and martial arts target of the invention.
FIG. 2 is an elevational view of the target shown in FIG. 1 illustrated in greater detail.
FIG. 3 is a sectional elevational detail of a portion of the boxing target shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is a transverse, sectional detail taken along the lines 4—4 in FIG. 2.
FIG. 1 illustrates a device 10 that can be used as a boxing target or a target for other martial arts and self-defense maneuvers. The boxing target 10 is comprised of an elongated core line 12, which is preferably a bungee cord, no less than about five feet in length and having opposing upper and lower ends. At least a portion of the core line 12 must be formed of an inelastic material. In the embodiment illustrated, the entire core line is a single, elongated, elastic bungee cord doubled back upon itself so as to have a double thickness throughout the length of the core line 12.
The boxing target 10 has an upper coupling 14 located at the upper end of the bungee cord 12, and a lower coupling 16 located at the lower end of the bungee cord 12. Both the upper and lower couplings 14 and 16 include a loop formed in the bungee cord 12 which is doubled back and clamped with a clamp 15. The bungee cord loop of the upper coupling 14 is passed through a releaseable coupling link 23, which is passed through the eye of a strap end termination link 28. The bungee cord loop of the lower coupling 16 also is passed through a releaseable coupling link 23 and clamped with a clamp 15. The couplings 14 and 16 allow the bungee cord core line 12 to be connected to upper and lower vertically separated supports to stretch the bungee cord core line 12 therebetween.
The boxing target 10 also includes a resilient jacket 18, visible in FIGS. 3 and 4, which preferably is formed of flexible, polyurethane foam or rubber. The resilient jacket 18 is located between the couplings 14 and 16 and surrounds the core line 12 over a distance of at least about five feet. More specifically, the core line 12 must be surrounded by the jacket 18 so that the jacket 18 resides at a vertical level corresponding to the head, torso, and leg area of an opponent when the boxing target 10 is fastened between vertically separated overhead and floor supports.
In the embodiment of the boxing target 10 illustrated, the core line 12 is shown as being about eight feet in length and is surrounded by the resilient jacket 18 throughout its entire length. The jacket 18 has an annular cross section and a minimum outer width of between about one-half inch and about six inches. In the preferred embodiment of the invention shown, the jacket 18 is between about one and a half and three inches in outer diameter, and preferably is about two and a half inches in diameter.
The boxing target 10 is further comprised of a tubular sleeve 20 interposed between the jacket 18 and the core line 12. The tubular sleeve 20 is a length of flexible, but somewhat stiff, vinyl tubing having an outer diameter of about five-eighths of an inch and an inner diameter of about one-half of an inch. The bungee cord 12 fits loosely enough within the surrounding sleeve 20 that it can stretch and retract freely therewithin.
The resilient foam jacket 18 is surrounded by a tubular, outer sheath 22. The sheath 22 may, for example, be formed by windings of tape of different colors that by their demarcations in color form a series of vertical bands 25 throughout the length of the sheath 22. Alternatively, the sheath 22 may be formed as a single, elongated, flexible tube having vertically spaced indicia thereon, such as colored bands, to define vertical demarcations along the upright length of the boxing target 10.
To provide a means for height adjustment the boxing target 10 is provided with an inelastic extension line in the form of an adjustable strap 26. The adjustable strap 26 has strap end termination links 28 at both of its ends and a length adjustment buckle 30 between its ends. The lower strap end termination link 28 of the adjustment strap 26 is engaged with a releaseable coupling link 23, which in turn is engaged with the bungee cord loop at the upper coupling 14 at the upper end of the bungee cord core line 12. The upper strap end termination link 28 of the adjustment strap 26 is engaged with an overhead support of some type. In FIG. 1 the overhead support is in the form of an eye loop 32 screwed into the ceiling 34. A releaseable fastener in the form of a releaseable coupling link 23 is utilized to link the upper strap termination link 28 to the ceiling eye loop 32. The lower coupling 16 at the lower end of the bungee cord core line 12 is connected to an eye ring 36 that is secured in the floor 38. Gymnasiums and exercise facilities are often equipped with eye rings of this type hinged into their floors.
Once the boxing target 10 has been mounted in a vertical orientation between the overhead support, namely between the ceiling loop 32 and the floor ring 36, the adjustment buckle 30 of the adjustment strap 26 is either tightened or loosened to place the bungee cord core line 12 under the appropriate tensile force suitable for the boxer using the target 10. The adjustment buckle 30 may be cinched tighter to prevent the target 10 from sagging loosely and loosened somewhat so that the bungee cord line 12 of the target 10 will exhibit a laterally quivering movement upon receipt of a blow.
The boxer then proceeds to practice punching and jabbing blows at the target 10 varying the height of the intended impact as between the different color demarcations defined by the different colored bands 25. When the boxer connects with a punch, the boxing target 10 will exhibit a quivering movement from side to side and forward and backward. This quivering movement presents a challenge to the boxer to continue to deliver blows with accuracy. Practice with the boxing target 10 improves a boxer's hand an eye coordination, since the laterally quivering target is difficult to hit accurately if the resilient jacket 18 has a narrow diameter.
The boxing target 10 can be manufactured in different sizes for use by boxers having different skill levels. For example, a beginning pugilist may practice upon a boxing target 10 in which the resilient foam jacket 18 has an outer diameter which may be as large as about six inches. Such a target is not particularly difficult to hit with accuracy, even delivering successive blows at different vertical levels. However, for boxers having greater skill, a boxing target 10 of a smaller outer diameter, for example about two and a half inches, may prove much more challenging.
To utilize the boxing target 10 the upper coupling link 23 at the upper end of the adjusting strap 26 is engaged with the ceiling loop 32 and the lower coupling link 23 is engaged with the floor ring 36, as illustrated in FIG. 2. The adjusting buckle 30 is then manipulated to lengthen or shorten the trailing tail 29 of the adjustable strap 26, which lengthens or shortens the distance between the two adjustment strap termination links 28. The effective length of the adjustable strap 26 is adjusted until a suitable amount of tension is placed upon the bungee cord core line 12 so that the boxing target 10 will vibrate and quiver both laterally and in a fore and aft direction when blows are delivered to it by a boxer 50, as illustrated in FIG. 1.
The boxer 50 then practices his boxing skills by repeatedly striking the target 10 and varying the vertical level of the blows delivered to it from one colored band 25 to the next up and down the central portion of the boxing target 10. The boxer 50 can tell by the resistance felt by his hands in delivering each blow as to whether or not he has successfully struck the target 10. The quivering motion of the central portion of the target 10 forces the boxer 50 to develop good hand and eye coordination so that the boxer 50 becomes better able to accurately deliver punches to a small, moving target area. Furthermore, the different colored bands 25 provided different target areas at different vertical elevations. The boxer 50 is thereby able to improve his skills in varying the vertical level of delivery of successive punching blows.
It should be noted that the utility of the training device 10 is not limited to boxing. Indeed, it is useful for any martial arts discipline in which blows are delivered to a target, including karate, taekwondo, and other disciplines of the martial arts in which blows are delivered to a target by either the hands or the feet of an athlete.
Undoubtedly, numerous variations and modifications of the invention will become readily apparent to those familiar with boxing and martial arts training devices. For example, different types of releaseable snap-hooks, catches, fasteners, couplings, and connections may be substituted for the releaseable coupling links 23 and for the couplings 14 and 16. Accordingly, the scope of the invention should not be construed as limited to the specific embodiment depicted and described, but rather is defined in the claims appended hereto.
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Dillinger: I have the dedication and experience of serving as Fulton County sheriff. I served six years as a Fulton County deputy in the 1980s.
Dailey: Completing the processes which ensure our criminals are punished and our community is safe. I will strive to ensure our county has available positive results of our law enforcement actions.
Dillinger: Prescription drugs are the going thing right now. It's not local pharmacists who are prescribing them but ones outside of the county who wind up selling them to people that sell them illegally. People need to understand that.
Are there any areas in the county which you think need special attention from law enforcement?
Dailey: The trouble with our children continues to be a priority of focus. The evidence and impact of continued drug use in our county must be more aggressively addressed. I will make a promise to every citizen to make a difference.
Dillinger: The Spring River during the summertime has been a problem area for the county. We are hoping to work with the people in that area to improve law enforcement there.
Do you have plan to improve the Fulton County Jail?
Dailey: The current plans are to work with our senator and representative to get funds appropriated for a general improvement grant. I will utilize the grant to get our jail in compliance with current jail standards.
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Wigan manager Owen Coyle believes that striker Arouna Kone will leave the club in the next few days.
Kone is thought to be on the verge of a move to Everton and Coyle admitted that it is likely the Ivorian will complete a transfer to Goodison Park this week.
"I'm led to believe through his representative that Everton is the club he wants to join," Coyle told BBC Radio 5 live.
Kone scored 11 goals in his debut Premier League season as Wigan won the FA Cup but also suffered relegation to the Championship.
"It's not rocket science to say that Arouna Kone will probably leave at some point this week. There have been a number of offers in for him," Coyle continued.
"There is no problem, he goes with our blessing because I need players who need to be at Wigan. If his heart's elsewhere then he's no good to me."
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If you are wondering whether it's still worth the worry to invest in a 401(k) or similar workplace retirement plan, stop your hand-wringing.
It is.
Or at least it's worth it for the people who invest consistently, according to new research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and the Investment Company Institute (ICI).
Yes, it's been painfully apparent that 2008 was a crushing year for those of us who invest. The average value of consistent contributors' 401(k) retirement accounts fell 24.3 percent, according to the two groups.
But retirement plan data studied by the groups found that over a five-year period -- from 2003 to 2008 -- 401(k) participants saw their account balances increase at an average annual rate of 7.2 percent. Now, mind you, these are not the return-on-investment figures you're used to seeing -- in this case they include the workers' ongoing contributions and any employer matches as well as the investment gains and losses.
For all participants in the EBRI-ICI 401(k) database, the average account balance at the end of 2008 was $45,519, compared with $65,454 a year earlier. Again, that's a loss even after a year's worth of new money.
That kind of hit is enough to unnerve even a seasoned investor. So it's understandable that many people have been wondering lately whether it's foolish to invest the little bit of extra money they have now for the dream of having enough money to stop working at some point in their lives.
"Basically the engine of saving and investing that the 401(k) presents still works," said Sarah Holden, ICI senior director of retirement and investor research.
For participants in retirement plans who invest consistently, the average account balance rose to $86,513 at year-end 2008 from $61,106 at the end of 2003.
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The EBRI-ICI study is worth noting because it is based on 24 million participants, including 6 million who have had 401(k) accounts with the same employer each year from 2003 through 2008. The 2008 data covered 48 percent of active 401(k) plan participants, 12 percent of plans and 47 percent of 401(k) plan assets. Information was gathered from participants in 401(k) plans of varying sizes and with a variety of investment options.
In their latest findings, EBRI and ICI found that the bulk of 401(k) assets continued to be invested in stocks. At year's end in 2008, 56 percent of 401(k) participants' assets were invested in equity securities through equity funds, the equity portion of balanced funds, and company stock. At least investors are getting the word that they shouldn't be overexposed to their own company's stock. The data found that the share of 401(k) accounts invested in company stock continued to shrink, falling by nearly one percentage point, to 9.7 percent, in 2008.


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As long as some spamming idiot revived the thread, let's do a mid-season update:
Vick is on pace, 2095. I'm still putting the Eagles at less than 50% based strictly on Vick's injury history and the general uncertainty surrounding the team this year.
Josh Freeman is next with 2047. I think he has a better shot than Vick. The Bucs are 4-4 and still in the playoff hunt. No way Freeman is getting benched and he's too big to get hurt.
Cutler (1774) and Wilson (1649) are out of the race.
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Of those four teams, Vick has 2,095, Freeman has 2,047, Wilson has 1,639 and Cutler has 1,774.
I think Chicago has no chance with Cutler. They have a good run game, and doing very well this year (which means they might rest Culter). Wilson seems to be doing okay, but I can't see him making up 2,400 yards in the second half. Vick is halfway there, but he might get benched at some point. So my favorite is Freeman and the Bucs. Freeman has the weapons. Tampa is going to be fighting for a playoff spot til the very end, most likely, and he has seemingly gotten better the past few weeks, which means a higher upside.
I'm not convinced any of the four will get to 4,000 yards, but if I had to bet, it would be Tampa and Freeman.
There is no way Cutler is doing, sepcially because he's basically only throwing the ball for 3 quarters. And no, it's not ebcause they running off leads, it's because the Bears are the worst 1st quarter passing team I've ever seen
Jay Cutler splits by quarter:
This doesn't speak to highly of how Tice and Bates script opening drives. On the plus sides, they've been pretty good at either adjusting or letting Jay make things up in the second half (or the 4th quarter).Code:BY QUARTER CMP ATT YDS CMP% AVG LNG TD INT SACK RAT ATT YDS AVG LNG TD QUARTER = 1 28 59 187 47.5 3.17 18 2 4 9 37.9 3 37 12.3 24 0 QUARTER = 2 39 67 536 58.2 8.00 47 1 1 7 82.7 4 23 5.8 13 0 QUARTER = 3 39 64 468 60.9 7.31 34 1 1 5 82.0 2 13 6.5 9 0 QUARTER = 4 38 51 583 74.5 11.43 42 8 2 7 135.0 10 25 2.5 21 0


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In recent months, companies like Pandora, Spotify, OurStage and Thumbplay have reportedly secured venture capital funding. But the overall investment climate clearly hasn't been an easy one for music startups.
David Pakman has had a bird's-eye view of the role of new companies in the developing digital music market. Before joining the venture capital firm Venrock as a partner in 2008, Pakman was CEO of the independent digital music retailer eMusic. Prior to eMusic, he co-founded MyPlay, which introduced the digital music "locker," and was VP for N2K Entertainment, an early developer of online music services.
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