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BY iseekgolf.com | Australasian PGA Tour | 2003 Australian Open | Final Round | 22 Dec 2003
In the final event of the 2003 PGA Tour of Australasia schedule, Peter Lonard shot a final-round 67 to win the Australian Open Championship at the Moonah Links Golf Club in Victoria.
Lonard's one-shot victory over Chris Downes and Stephen Leaney leaves him atop of the Final Australian Order of Merit with AUD$604,000 and elevates him 14 places up the Official World Golf Ranking to World No.28. Stephen Leaney and first-round leader Chris Downes finished as the joint runners-up this week.
Leaney, who was also runner-up at this year's US Open, finishes the year ranked No.31 in the world while Chris Downes improves 179 positions to just outside the World Top 200 at No.205.
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Boston Children's has launched the world's 1st program dedicated to offering hand transplants to children who qualify.
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Combining training in adult and pediatric orthopedics, hand surgery, plastic surgery and microsurgery allows our surgeons to provide a comprehensive level of care unmatched in most other hospital settings.
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Children's Hospital; Brian I. Labow, MD, principal investigator,
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Combining training in adult and pediatric orthopedics, hand surgery, plastic surgery and microsurgery allows our surgeons to provide a comprehensive level of care unmatched in most other hospital settings.
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If your baby was born with radial dysplasia (radial club hand), we know that you and your family are concerned. So, please know that at Children's Hospital Boston, we will approach your child's treatment and care with sensitivity and support—for your child and your whole family.
A diagnosis of radial dysplasia refers to a condition in which the radius bone of the forearm is underdeveloped or absent, resulting in a characteristic appearance of a hand and wrist that is angled toward the thumb-side of the forearm.
• Radial dysplasia is a congenital (present at birth) condition in which the radius (the inner bone that connects the
elbow to the forearm) did not form correctly in the womb. The radius may be malformed or missing.
• In radial dysplasia:
- The affected arm is shorter, with curving of the forearm and stiffness of the elbow and fingers.
- thumb is either very small or missing.
• The occurrence of radial dysplasia is usually sporadic (meaning that it occurs by chance, for no apparent reason),
but it may be associated with any of several other defects or syndromes.
• The condition occurs in between one in 55,000 and one in 100,000 babies.
• More than half of babies with radial dysplasia have the deformity in both limbs.
• There are four types of radial dysplasia, corresponding to increasing degrees of severity and complexity.
(See Tests for a classification of these types.)
• Treatment usually begins in infancy with splinting, stretching and physical therapy.
• Many affected children, except those with very mild cases may benefit from one or more surgeries, usually
starting in the first year of life—but early splinting and stretching can help increase the effectiveness of later
• Radial dysplasia can occur by itself (in isolation), or can be associated with genetic syndromes.
• Radial dysplasia can recur following surgery in infancy, requiring additional surgery(ies).
How Children's Hospital Boston approaches radial dysplasia
You can have peace of mind knowing that the skilled experts in our Orthopedic Center's Hand and Orthopedic Upper Extremity Program and our Plastic Surgery Department's Hand and Microsurgery Reconstructive Program have treated thousands of babies and children with hand problems ranging from the routine to the highly complex. So we can provide your child with expert diagnosis, treatment and care—as well as the benefits of some of the most advanced clinical and scientific research in the world.
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Ji'an Travel Guide
Gaoguli Cultural Tourism Zone, owns General Tomb, Haotaiwang Tomb and Stele, Guonei City, Wan Du Mountain City, have been listed as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Located in the southeast of Jilin Province, Ji'an is one of China's three major ports opened to Korea. It lies opposite to the DPRK with the Yalu River running in between, borders Liaoning Province to the southwest, and neighbors Tonghua City and Baishan City of Jilin Province to the north. Ji'an covers nine nationalities such as Han, Korea, Manchu, Hui and so on.
In history, this area used to be the capital city of kingdom for more than 400 years. After Koguryo perished Bohai State and the following Liao, Jin, Ming and Qing dynasties all established administrative offices there, leaving behind them many historical sites and relics.
Ji'an tourism features its cultural relics, ecological environments and border sceneries. Among these the most renowned one must be Ji'an City, the remains of ancient Gaoguli Kingdom. It was added on the World Heritage List in 2004. The grand General Tomb is called the"Oriental Pyramid", and the Gwanggaeto Stele is regarded as the first Oriental tablet.
Other highlights include Yalu River Border Tourism Zone, Laohushao Scenic Resort, Huffing Lake Tourist Scenic Resort, and Ji'an Museum.
Ji'an is a little difficult to get into. The better way is reach Tonghua and transfer buses to get into Ji'an. Another option is taking long-distance buses from Changchun, Harbin, Yanji, Shenyang, Dalian, Dandong, Tianjin and Beijing to get into.
Located in the North Temperate Zone, Ji'an owns a continental climate with four distinct seasons. It has a windy and warm spring, rainy and hot summer, cool and clear autumn, snowy and frosty winter. It has an annual average temperature of 6 °C (43 °F) with an average annual precipitation of 900 mm (35 in).
Food and Restaurants
Ji'an food is influence by Korea cuisine. Local delicacies include bibimbap (Korean rice in stone bow), cold noodles, wild vegetable, yalujiang carp, Korean BBQ and some more.
There's a small mom-and-pop local restaurant at the southwest corner of Shengli Xilu and Dongsheng Jie selling some real Korea foods.
Here are some recommended hotels in Ji'an
Kaiyuan Intercontinental Hotel
Address: No.88 Yongshu Road, Ji'an
Xianggangcheng Holiday Hotel
Address: No.22 Liming South Road, Ji'an
Cuiyuan Hotel
Address: No.888 Shengli Road, Ji'an
Local specialties include ginseng, Bee Products, yalujiang carp, wood frog, pine nut, pecan, black fungus, fiddlehead and so on.
1. At night, the street tamps on Shengli Xilu near the Guo Nei City Park come in rainbow colors.
2. Ji'an Hospital is at No.208 Wenhua Road, Ji'an, Tonghua. Inquiry Number: +86 435 622 9348.
3. Bank of China Ji'an Branch lies on No.336 Shengli Road, Ji'an.
4. Ji'an Post Office is at Shengli Road, Ji'an. Inquiry Number: +86 435 622 2009.
Chinese Name: 集安
English Name: Ji'an
Location: Northeast China
Area: 3, 354 sq.km.
Population: 222, 431
Area Code: 0796
Time Zone: (UTC+8)


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First Reading: James 1:19-27
19 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger.
20 For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.
21 Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if a man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.
24 For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was.
25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty, and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man' s religion is vain.
27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one' s self unspotted from this world.
Psalm: Psalms 13:2-3a,3bc-4ab,5
2 The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God.
3 a They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they acted deceitfully; the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways: and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.
3 bc Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?
4 ab They have not called upon the Lord: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear.
5 For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the counsel of the poor man, but the Lord is his hope.
Gospel: Mark 8:22-26
22 And they came to Bethsaida; and they bring to him a blind man, and they besought him that he would touch him.
23 And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of the town; and spitting upon his eyes, laying his hands on him, he asked him if he saw any thing.
24 And looking up, he said: I see men as it were trees, walking.
25 After that again he laid his hands upon his eyes, and he began to see, and was restored, so that he saw all things clearly.
26 And he sent him into his house, saying: Go into thy house, and if thou enter into the town, tell nobody.
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PORTLAND (CBS/AP) - Police have released the names of some of the people charged with engaging a prostitute in a high-profile case in Kennebunk after a Maine judge denied a motion seeking to keep the names secret.
Justice Thomas Warren denied a motion Monday seeking to prevent release of the names of alleged customers of a woman charged with prostitution.
Stephen Schwartz, lawyer for two of the accused johns, filed a complaint Monday asking that names be kept private and that criminal charges not be pursued.
Kennebunk police say the following 21 individuals have been charged: Gary Bahlkow, Jens Bergen, Norman Crepeau, Joseph Cuetara, Kenneth Fairbanks, Donald Hill, Monie Hobbs, David Kline, Robert Labonte, Dale Madore, Paul Main, Harry McMann, Kevin Pagliccia, Claude Palmer, Philip Parker, Colin Powers, Clinton Ray, James Soule, John Verreault, James White, and Peter Wormell.
The names were released on the Kennebunk Police website. They will appear in Biddeford District Court on December 5.
Zumba fitness instructor Alexis Wright has pleaded not guilty to 106 counts of prostitution, invasion of privacy and other charges. Her business partner faces 59 misdemeanor counts.
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George Clooney has set the record straight.
Just after midnight Wednesday, USA Today published an op-ed from the actor challenging a recent Daily Mail article. Citing unnamed sources, the British tabloid claimed Clooney's future mother-in-law is opposed to his upcoming marriage to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin due to her religious beliefs.
The two-time Oscar winner—who refers to Alamuddin as his fiancée for the first time in print—wrote that according to The Daily Mail, "Amal's mother has been telling 'half of Beirut' that she's against the wedding. It says they joke about traditions in the Druze religion that end up with the death of the bride."
"Let me repeat that: the death of the bride."
"First of all, none of the story is factually true. Amal's mother is not Druze," Clooney wrote. "She has not been to Beirut since Amal and I have been dating, and she is in no way against the marriage—but none of that is the issue." Clooney is used to being a tabloid target. "If they fabricate stories of Amal being pregnant, or that the marriage will take place on the set of Downton Abbey, or that I'm running for office, or any number of idiotic stories that they sit at their computers and invent, I don't care," he said.
Why did Clooney decide to respond to this rumor in particular? "The irresponsibility, in this day and age, to exploit religious differences where none exist, is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous," the 53-year-old actor said. "We have family members all over the world, and the idea that someone would inflame any part of that world for the sole reason of selling papers should be criminal."
As the son of a newsman, Clooney understands that aspects of his private life will be made public. When multiple media outlets pick up untruths like those in The Daily Mail's story, however, he gets irritated.
"The Daily Mail, more than any other organization that calls itself news, has proved time and time again that facts make no difference in the articles they make up," said the Emmy winner, whose rep denied he was dating Alamuddin last fall. "And when they put my family and my friends in harm's way, they cross far beyond just a laughable tabloid and into the arena of inciting violence. They must be so very proud."


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Labor takes day off for parade and barbecue in Santa Paula
Workers say they appreciate support
It was hard to miss the men in their bright orange shirts as they marched down Main Street in Santa Paula and chanted in unison:
Everywhere we go.
People want to know.
Who we are.
So we tell them.
We are the union ... the mighty, mighty union.
The cheer — orchestrated by the Laborers' International Union of North America Local 585 — was a hit as hundreds of onlookers applauded the group and others who marched in Santa Paula's Labor Day Parade on Monday.
As paradegoers lined Main Street in Santa Paula, others throughout Ventura County enjoyed the last weekend of summer at the beach or relaxing at a backyard barbecue.
For Local 585 member David Valenzuela, Labor Day means much more than getting some rest and relaxation.
"We take care of our families every day and go to work," said Valenzuela, of Oxnard. "It's good to see that working men and women get some praise once in awhile. It's great to have the community's support."
Jose Garcia, an organizer for the construction workers union, said about 350 members of Local 585 live in Santa Paula.
"We are all about generating jobs for families and keeping the community strong," Garcia said.
Aside from Local 585, members of the American Postal Workers Union Channel Islands Area Local 589, the DeColores Arts Group, the Santa Paula Fire Department, and representatives from other unions, local farms and businesses made their way along Main Street in classic cars, big rigs and firetrucks.
The parade's grand marshals were Ernie and Joyce Carlson of Santa Paula, who have lived in the community for more than 50 years.
Ernie Carlson worked as a physician and Joyce Carlson as a community activist.
Music was also provided by the Santa Paula High School marching band and entertainment by the school's cheerleading squads.
Carol Hardison attended the parade with her husband, Logan, and their friends.
"It's important for the community to honor them because without them, we wouldn't have a town or a society," Carol Hardison said of the laborers and various union members.
Among those who cheered on the local workers was Santa Paula City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz.
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The BIOLA Cross Country Invitational, hosted at Irvine Regional Park in Irvine, CA, proved to be another step in the right direction for the Mustangs. Today, Hannah Kellerman and Hayley Parkinson demonstrated themselves capable of chasing down individual births to the NAIA Cross Country National Championship, scheduled to take place November 20th in Vancouver, WA. In order to qualify for nationals as an individual, an athlete must finish 15th or better at their Conference Championship meet, as well as be one of the top 5 finishers not on a national qualifying team.
Going into the day's competition, Kellerman and Parkinson knew the BIOLA Invite would serve as an indicator of whether or not they could be in contention for finishing their regular season as National qualifiers. The Golden State Athletic Conference, to which Master's belongs, is the most competitive women's conference at the national level. Currently, the GSAC boasts three top 10 women's programs and one more women's team in the top 30. Finishing among the top 15 as an individual at the GSAC Championship, and thereby securing an individual birth to the national meet, is incredibly challenging, to say the least. Historically, the top 15 female individuals from the GSAC finish among or near the top 30 finishers at the NAIA National Championship (claiming All American status). Although the competition changes from year to year, this season, looks to be no different.
At the BIOLA Invitational, the task for Kellerman and Parkinson was to finish the 5k race within striking distance of Westmont College's #1, Chrissa Trudelle. According to how teams and individuals are most likely to perform at the Conference meet, just two weeks away, Westmont's Trudelle appears to be the marker for a top 15 spot. This morning, coming back down from the height of this season's training, Kellerman and Parkinson looked fitter and fresher than ever. Kellerman ran a very tough race, finishing the hilly course with a time of 18:39, just 4 seconds behind Trudelle; Parkinson came through the finish just 9 seconds later in 18:48. As Kellerman and Parkinson peak for Conference in two weeks, their times should continue to drop. November 6th is going to be an exciting day for the Lady Mustangs, as the squad looks to send their first individual representatives to Nationals since 2005. Amy Hawkins (formerly Rice) qualified in 2005, and remains the only female cross country athlete to ever qualify for the national meet from The Master's College.
Sarah Pattison had a break out race today, running a personal best of 19:26, 18 seconds faster than her performance at Riverside. This is incredible progression from the sophomore, as Riverside is typically a much faster course than BIOLA.
On the men's side, the stage has been set for a battle for the GSAC Championship Title. Just two weeks ago, Vanguard upset then #6 ranked TMC at the Vanguard Invitational; TMC has since dropped to 19th in the national poll. In an unprecedented move, Coach Bryan Wilkins of Vanguard University pulled his men's squad out of the BIOLA Invitational, a decision made a week ahead of the competition. Vanguard absent, the task at hand was to put current #6 ranked Cal State San Marcos away and reclaim a top 10 position nationally. San Marcos, though defeated by TMC twice earlier in the year, has proven they are a much stronger team than they were at the beginning of the season. Also present was #22 Simon Fraser, traveling all the way from Canada in hopes of improving their position in the rankings.
The finish of the race was a beautiful sight for Mustang fans, as John Gilbertson, Jeff Jackson, and Anthony Pizzo came across the finish line #1, #2, #3. Taking the race out after mile 2, Jeff Jackson led all the way to the end, followed closely by Gilbertson and Pizzo. Gilbertson and Jackson would finish together, both posting times of 24:54, with Pizzo coming across the line in 24:59. The course record is 24:43; to put three athletes within seconds of the course record in a single meet is quite outstanding. "Jeff Jackson simply controlled the race today, and Gilbertson and Pizzo have the tenacity to stick Jeff, as well as both having tremendous closing speed. They work together all week long in practice, and that's what we saw happen today. Of the three, it could go in any order on any given day, that's what makes these three guys so dangerous," said Coach Schroeder.
In spite of their one, two, three finish, they key to the Mustangs' success continues to be the position of their 4th and 5th runners. Today, Josiah Downer and Nathan Seyler filled the rolls of #4 and #5 for the TMC squad, finishing 26th and 36th overall, with times of 26:26 and 26:58 respectively. Although the Mustang's had good performances by Downer and Seyler, San Marcos still managed to win the meet, with TMC finishing a close 2nd. However, Master's posted a faster team time of 128:13, with CSSMU running a team time of 128:39. Posting a better team time than #6 San Marcos should bode well for the Mustang men in the polls this week. Unfortunately, without the presence of Vanguard at the BIOLA Invitational, it is unlikely TMC will be able to move above VU in the ratings.
Confident his 4-7 can still run much better than they have thus far, Coach Schroeder anticipates an exciting race from his men at the GSAC Championship at Woodward Park in Fresno, CA, November 6th. Get ready for a thrilling end to the regular season as the men look to win their 1st Conference Title and move on to nationals, and the women chase down two individual births to the National Championship.
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Healthcare spending in 2003
July 08, 2005
Consumer healthcare spending showed little change in 2003, rising 2.8 percent on average, following increases of 7.7 percent in 2002 and 5.6 percent in 2001.
Among the components of healthcare expenditures, spending on health insurance continued to increase significantly, with a 7.2-percent rise in 2003 following increases of 10.1 percent in 2002 and 7.9 percent in 2001.
The increase in health insurance spending in 2003 was offset somewhat by a 4.2-percent drop in spending on drugs. The decrease in spending on drugs in 2003 followed several years of relatively large increases: 8.6 percent in 2002, 7.8 percent in 2001, and 12.6 percent in 2000.
Spending on the other two components of healthcare—medical services and medical supplies—increased slightly in 2003, by 0.2 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively.
These data come from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. Find out more in "Consumer Expenditures in 2003," (PDF 129K), BLS Report 986.
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Publication Date: 7/8/2013
Dr. Timothy Huebner, L. Palmer Brown Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Chair of the Department of History, has written an essay for the award-winning SCOTUSblog, the leading source of information on the Supreme Court of the United States. Huebner's essay details the "first Court-packing plan," a mostly partisan attempt to change the structure and personnel of the Supreme Court during the Civil War. To read the essay, see www.scotusblog.com
For the past three years, Huebner has served as associate editor of the Journal of Supreme Court History, published three times a year by the Supreme Court Historical Society in Washington, D.C. The essay is the first on the blog to highlight important events in the history of the Court, the result of a new partnership between SCOTUSblog and the Society.
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The Kookaburras' once vice-like grip on Olympic gold is suddenly looking vulnerable, and predictably it's Great Britain shaking the tree.
Yet another example of the host nation performing out of its skin at the Games was on display as Great Britain fought back from 3-0 down to draw 3-3 with the world No.1 men's hockey team on Sunday.
It means Australia have been pitched into a four-team dogfight to get out of a pool most expected they would strut through on their way to the medal rounds.
They still sit on top of Pool A with two wins, two draws and a healthy goal difference.
And the Kookaburras need only a draw against Pakistan in their final group game on Tuesday to guarantee a top two spot and a semi-final place.
But two successive draws - both after conceding good leads and dominant first halves - suddenly offers hope to Great Britain, Pakistan and Spain, who could all advance at Australia's expense with wins on Tuesday.
Great Britain, on equal points with Australia, take on Spain, who scored three goals in the final few minutes to beat Argentina 3-1 on Sunday.
The Spaniards now sit equal with Pakistan, one point behind the current top two.
Certainly the Kookaburras aren't panicking, saying they have the toughness and work ethic to fix their problems as coach Ric Charlesworth vows to tighten up a defence which has shipped five goals in two games.
"There are ups and downs in tournaments. If you want to get out the other side, you have to weather them," he said.
And experienced co-captain Mark Knowles says the Kookaburras are up for the fight.
"We know what we have to work on ... it does put us in a tough situation, but it's the Olympics. You don't expect an easy ride."
The Kookaburras looked to be cruising to victory against the Britons, leading 3-0 six minutes into the second half through two first-half Russell Ford goals and one to Knowles just after the break.
Roared on by a capacity Riverbank Arena crowd, Great Britain came storming back.
First Jonty Clarke's dribble down the right found the net with a deflection off Australian defender Liam De Young's stick on 47 minutes.
Then skipper Barry Middleton added a second seven minutes later, getting a stick on a beautifully worked penalty corner to make it 3-2.
The brave Britons deservedly pinched an equaliser with four minutes remaining when James Tindall hammered home against a 10-man Australia, who were minus Knowles at the time because of a green card suspension.


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by Brad Trechak, posted Jan 12th 2011 3:00AM
['V' - 'Serpent's Tooth']
This one is for those of you who missed Jane Badler on television. It seems pretty obvious that the character of Diana was created to highlight her return to the series and create a tangible link between the current version and the original mini-series, because her role doesn't make sense.
What did we learn from her? We learned that V's have visited the Earth since the first atom bomb (old news) and their purpose on the planet seems to be colonization and interbreeding. It's still unclear, given their firepower, as to why they don' just use force to accomplish this. It also seems that prolonged exposure to humans for them is a bad thing. They catch emotion cooties.
It's a little early for series eulogies; however, there is something of a missed opportunity with this one. It would have been a far more relevant message about today's circumstances if the V's practiced an extremist religion and wanted to convert the planet and its populace. Can a lack of emotion be interpreted as a religion? Possibly, but it seems pretty subtle for an American audience. The recent 'Battlestar Galactica' (also a remake) had a better execution of its concept.
The fact that the Visitors experimented on Erica Evans when she was carrying a child seems a bit too coincidental for my tastes. Granted, television has a limited budget, but if they could have produced a few hundred more who suffered through similar experiments, it would better suit the willing suspension of disbelief and not stretch it so much.
Based on what has transpired, I assume Anna could only mate and give birth once in her lifetime (although in her defense, there were a lot of eggs). She now can't and needs Lisa to perpetuate the species. It lends more credence to why they need Earth for interbreeding.
While I'm sure they filmed this episode months ago, it seems a little odd timing for the whole "lone terrorist nut" story line to occur given the recent events in Arizona (yes, I recognize that it ended up being a multi-city conspiracy, but it sure didn't seem that way for a few minutes. Particularly during the church confession). It took months for 'Buffy' to air one of its season finales due to the events in Columbine.
Erica's FBI co-worker is exposed as a V agent. Isn't that how the series started? Obviously, there will be more next week on that.
Ryan's character seems to drift in and out of emotion. Are they a race of lizard Vulcans (the type from 'Star Trek') or what? They even seem to have similar limited telepathic abilities.
The new incarnation of 'V' borrows a lot from the original miniseries (as it should). Tonight we got the classic image of Anna widening her jaw and eating a live rodent. Even better, the reason for her doing so was even more gauche than the original, if such a thing was possible. She spat a partially digested rat (or mouse or whatever) into an infant's mouth? Cool, yet gross.
Apparently, the V's don't have good music. We could have ended this invasion with a generous helping of Elvis, or perhaps the Beatles.
Admittedly, I'm a little disappointed in the whole "light in ourselves" speech and the concept of the soul as the saving grace of humanity. While I recognize that the creators are trying to put religious overtones into the program, it seems like psychobabble. It does make having a priest as a central character seem more relevant, given that he really can't fight.
It's about time that a larger army than our gang of four got involved. It did seem weird that it was only them for this long. It's a good excuse to bring in Marc Singer. The V's on the whole are pretty arrogant and certain of their superiority. That could be a weakness. Maybe.
While we now know what V's look like under the artificial skin, it seems odd that their hearts happen to be located in the same place. V blood even looks like human blood. I suppose it does make posing as humans easier.
I still think 'V' is dead in the water as a series and has no chance of a third season, but I do like how it's developing. It would be nice if the series made it to Year 3, because then it would likely go up a notch in story telling now that sufficient background has been set.
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Friday, 27 July 1973
Dáil Eireann Debate
(Dublin Central): If the policy matures some months before a person dies some consideration should be given. Providing the policy is taken out with this in mind for ten years and the person dies thre...
Private Business. - Finance Bill, 1973: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages.
(Dublin Central): The Taoiseach did not mention any time.
(Dublin Central): I move amendment No. 12: In page 41, before section 77 to insert a new section as follows: "Section 1, subsection (1) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after 'N...
(Dublin Central): I thank the Minister for his information. I did not realise that there was any discretion at all allowed in this taxable period whereby some traders could make arrangements to come i...
(Dublin Central): I appreciate the Minister's remarks. He has certainly given me information about something I did not know existed. My amendment, I should like to assure the Minister, was not inten...
(Dublin Central): When the Minister was zero rating food I believed he was zero rating it for the average working man. I believed that was his primary objective. In cities and towns throughout the co...
(Dublin Central): That is not the point.
(Dublin Central): How does the Minister reckon that it is only three farthings a day? On what basis does he price his lunch?
(Dublin Central): The Minister must concede that food is not zero rated to any worker having his food in a canteen. A factory worker has not got the benefit of zero rating on food. The Minister must...
(Dublin Central): We heard a lot from the Minister about the benefits of zero rating. These are the people who do not qualify.
(Dublin Central): This covers service in hotels. Is that right? The delivery of goods to hotels becomes the rendering of a service?
(Dublin Central): What will the situation be in regard to wholesalers who are dealing only with zero rated food? Will the customers be issued with an invoice and a number?
(Dublin Central): Wholesalers dealing specifically with zero rated food?
(Dublin Central): It means that the average grocer will have to keep invoices still. He cannot go into a cash and carry and buy his goods without presenting his registered number.
(Dublin Central): Grocers who are buying goods which are zero rated will still have a registration number?
(Dublin Central): That clarifies the situation. I was wondering what the situation would be if a certain wholesaler were not held responsible, especially where we have now the rendering of a service...
(Dublin Central): On the service or on the lot? On which part of it.
(Dublin Central): I agree entirely that food in hotels should get no concession. The decision to charge VAT is right. Whether we like it or not, I do not believe it is value-added tax. As I define...
(Dublin Central): I heard of corkage but I see complications.
(Dublin Central): We will have to separate what is the rendering of goods. There is a complication for a hotelier who is making up his accounts for VAT.
(Dublin Central): No. I am in agreement with the Minister. I am merely pointing out the complications for a caterer. There are complications in the returning of the VAT form. Part of it is a turnov...
(Dublin Central): I move amendment No. 13: In page 42, line 37, to delete "6.75 per cent" and to substitute "6.50 per cent". This amendment again is to try to simplify things for the distributive trad...
(Dublin Central): I do not know which section the Minister is speaking about but we are referring to section 79 which contains no reference to zero rating. This section concerns increasing the rates ...
(Dublin Central): I am questioning only the matter of honesty. If the Minister had told us three months ago about that subsidy and then granted the increases, I could say there was some honesty invol...
(Dublin Central): Section 79 increases the price of many commodities, including petrol. Even though increases have been granted in respect of transport in this city, additional increases will be nece...
(Dublin Central): In respect of the increase from 5.26 to 6.37 in the case of petrol how will that be adjusted?
(Dublin Central): I buy petrol per gallon.
(Dublin Central): It will be an increase in price.
(Dublin Central): There is provision for that later on. It will all depend on the volume of business the person is doing. In the case of a trader who was doing a large volume of business, who now fi...
(Dublin Central): Would they get a refund or would they adjust it in their returns which would be due?
(Dublin Central): Is this an additional penalty?
(Dublin Central): Is this an inspector calling to view the records?
(Dublin Central): The penalty is being increased to £100 from £20.
(Dublin Central): Is this for issuing inaccurate amounts for VAT in invoices?
(Dublin Central): That is just the case I want to put to the Minister. People, even wholesalers, can genuinely make mistakes. It is very simple to make mistakes in today's calculations. I am sure ...
(Dublin Central): This question of negligence can be interpreted in different ways. You can have negligence in a particular type of business that may not have the personnel capable of keeping account...
(Dublin Central): This is the rendering of services.
(Dublin Central): What is this section about?
(Dublin Central): Are the horses exempt from all taxes?
(Dublin Central): The only reason I asked that is because meat is becoming so costly I can see us consuming horses shortly. I presume horsemeat will be exempt, too?
(Dublin Central): You have made provision for it.
(Dublin Central): As regards hospitals and nursing homes, does this include qualified nurses who receive their food in the canteens or is it for the trainee nurses?
(Dublin Central): Student nurses should be taken into consideration. They come into the category of students.
(Dublin Central): I hope that the Revenue Commissioners will not be too strict when dealing with student nurses.
(Dublin Central): Did the Minister refer to unregistered traders? I must have missed it. What provisions are being made in this respect? I cannot seem to find it in any section and I should like to ...
(Dublin Central): I know it has been passed and I am sorry to have to go back on it. I am making a point only for clarification. Can they opt in or opt out?
(Dublin Central): Would it be to their advantage to stay in if they had a very small turnover?
(Dublin Central): The only reason they would opt out is because of the Revenue Commissioners owing them money.
(Dublin Central): All being equal, can they opt out?
(Dublin Central): Does this Schedule have regard to customs duties?
(Dublin Central): Could the Minister give us any clarification as regards the duties that exist today on imported spirits? I thought that there was an EEC regulation that this would have to be equal...
(Dublin Central): Have we any commitments in a free trade agreement as regard doing this between England and ourselves?
(Dublin Central): Has this been done?
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This simple, classic dish from From Tide To Table (Epicure press, out of print) is good with flat fish and any of the salmon family - salmon, trout (sea or river trout) or arctic charr.
50g/2oz plain flour
4 x 200g/7oz trout, salmon or charr fillets, skinned and bones removed
1 tbsp olive oil
50g/2oz butter
2 tbsp flaked almonds
juice of 1 lemon
2 tsp chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
salt and freshly ground black pepper
To Serve: baby roasted fennel
Place the flour on a flat plate and season generously. Use to dust the fish fillets. Heat a large heavy-based frying pan.
Add the oil and a knob of the butter and then fry the fillets for 2-3 minutes on each side until just tender.
Transfer the fish to warmed plates and keep warm.
Add the remaining butter to the pan with the almonds and lemon juice. Cook for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly until the almonds are golden brown.
Finally stir in the parsley and season to taste. Spoon the lemon butter and flaked almonds over the fish fillets and serve at once with the baby roasted fennel.
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Citation: Hendrickson, J.R., Walker, J.W., Kay, C.E. 2004. Long-term vegetation change in the centennial mountains. Society for Range Management Meeting Abstracts. Technical Abstract: There is considerable controversy over the past and current role of livestock grazing in changing the vegetative communities of the western United States. The use of repeat photographs can provide some insight into long-term changes within broad community types. An extensive search was made to locate historical photographs of the Centennial Mountains along the Idaho-Montana border. These photographs were taken to the field and modern photographs were taken to reproduce the historical scenes as close as possible. Over 100 photosets were complied throughout the area. These photosets represented a diverse group of communities including montane grasslands, sagebrush, coniferous forests, aspen, subalpine meadows and willow communities. While it is difficult to determine species shifts within communities, an evaluation of these photosets suggest that conifers have increased markedly while many of the other communities have decreased in extent. Several factors probably contributed to the shift, however, a change in the historic fire regime may be the leading cause of the increase in conifers. Long-term livestock grazing appeared to have little impact on the willow communities or soil erosion. These photosets suggest that grasslands, sagebrush, meadow and aspen communities will continue to have conifer encroachment unless the historic fire regime is reimplemented.


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Here are links to a videotaped lecture in two parts entitled "why quantum computers cannot work" recorded at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing on December 2013 and two additional videos: a short talk on topological quantum computers and a twelve minute overview. Here are the links: Overview, Part I, Part II, Topological QC. (Update, Nov 14: BosonSampling.)
Why Quantum Computers Cannot Work:
Overview and Vision.
Why Quantum Computers Cannot Work I:
From the "Trivial Flow" to Smoothed Lindblad Evolutions
Why Quantum Computers Cannot Work II:
Debate, Reasons to Disbelieve, and Experimentation
Why Topological Quantum Computers Cannot Work
The Geometry of Spacetime is Enabled by the Failure of Quantum Fault-Tolerance
Left: Nick Read; Right The front page of Nick's 1990 famous paper with Greg Moore on nonabelions, and below his email to me from March 2005 on topological quantum computation. (click for full view.)
Left: the argument regarding topological QC demonstrated via Harris' famous cartoon. While not strictly needed I expect the argument to extend from qubits to gates as well. Right: a recent discussion with Nick over Shtetl Optimized (click for full view). Update: We are actually not in an agreement as it seems from the above discussion (see the discussion below).
Update (Nov' 2014): A fifth video, this time in front of a live audience
Complexity and Sensitivity of Noisy BosonSampling
Update: A subsequent post by Steve Flammia, Quantum computers can work in principle over The Quantum Pontiff. (July:) See also this post: Quantum future" just beyond our grasp.
Added later (April 18): Let me quote from what Steve wrote about the videos: The surprising part is the superior production value relative to your typical videotaped lecture (at least for the first overview video). Producing the videos was an interesting and demanding experience and I was certainly happy to read Steve's description of the production value. (Of course, the main purpose of Steve's post was to express his disagreement with the content of the videos. See either the post or Co-'s comment below.)
Also there are two earlier versions of my lecture (in 1-hour format) that were videotaped. The first was taken by Jesus De Loera in Davis. Very interesting shooting-angle and interesting comments by Greg Kuperberg, Bruno Nachtergaele and other participants. The second was taken in Seattle in a UW-PIMS colloquium lecture. Again interesting questions by several participants including James Lee and John Sidles.
(July:) The Simons Institite (almost identical) versions of the movies are now linked from the web-page of my November 15 lecture at SI.
(Added nov 2014): The only difference from the HUJI version is that there are no opening slides and that for the closing slides I used two pictures of my department's administrative staff.
The administrative crew of the Einstein Institite of Mathematics (click to enlarge)
I thought of it as a nice opportunity to thank our great administrative staff whose part is crucial in the academic endeavor, and this is a good opportunity to thank the staff in my second academic home – Yale University, in the Simons Institute, in many other places.
Alistair Sinclair and the Simons Institure friendly and helpful staff (click for full size)
Following Saharon Shelah: How to watch these videos
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Saharon Shelah explained in an introduction to one of his books, that instructions on "how to read this book" are actually instruction on "how to not read this book". If you want to read the book you start on page 1 and read through to the last page. Instructions for "how to read this book" rather tell you how to jump to a place that interests you.
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Elaine May! Stacy Keach! Otto Preminger! It's the 1971 Obies!
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 27, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 21
27 Receive 'Obies' for '70-'71 By Clark Whelton
The 16th annual Village Voice Off-Broadway theatre awards were presented last Monday night. A crowd of 700 gathered in the Village Gate to cheer the 27 winners and create a little impromptu theatre of their own. Elaine May, Otto Preminger, and Ossie Davis made the 1970-71 "Obie" presentations, with Miss May acting as mistress of ceremonies, so to speak.
Voice associate editor Ross Wetzteon got the crowd quieted down enough to make a brief welcoming speech and a few introductions. "George C. Scott will not be winning an 'Obie' this year," Wetzsteon said, "although he did win 'Obies' in 1958 and 1963, and we're happy to say that he didn't turn them down." After citing former Voice theatre critics Jerry Tallmer and Michael Smith for their work, Wetzsteon brought out the "Obie" judges, who this year were Edith Oliver of the New Yorker, Harold Clurman of the Nation, and John Lahr of The Voice. The judges sat behind a table on stage like a tribunal, with nothing but a stack of "Obies" to shield them from those who may have selected a different list of winners...
VILLAGE VOICE OFF-BROADWAY AWARDS Season 1970-1971
Best Play: John Guare ("House of Blue Leaves") Best Performance by an Actress: Ruby Dee ("Boesman and Lena") Best Performance by an Actor: Jack McGowan ("Beckett") Distinguished Playwriting: Ed Bullins ("The Fabulous Miss Marie," "In New England Winter") Distinguished Playwriting: David Rabe ("Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel") Distinguished Production: "The Trial of the Catonsville 9" Distinguished Foreign Plays: Athol Fugard ("Boesman and Lena"), Heathcote Williams ("AC/DC"), Derek Walcott ("Dream on Monkey Mountain")
Distinguished Performances: Susan Batson ("AC/DC"), Margaret Braidwood ("Saved"), Hector Elizondo ("Steambath"), Donald Ewer ("Saved"), Sonny Jim ("The Fabulous Miss Marie"), Stacy Keach ("Long Day's Journey Into Night"), Harris Laskawy ("Uncle Vanya"), Joan MacIntosh ("Commune"), William Schallert ("The Trial of the Catonsville 9"), James Woods ("Saved")
Consistent Excellence of Performance: Kirk Kirksey Special Citation: "Orlando Furioso" Best Set: John Scheffler ("AC/DC") Distinguished Direction: John Berry ("Boesman and Lena"), John Hirsch ("AC/DC"), Gordon Davidson ("The Trial of the Catonsville 9"), Jeff Bleckner ("Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel"), Larry Kornfeld ("Dracula: Sabbat")
Judges: Harold Clurman, John Lahr, Edith Oliver
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Following World War II, Sweden attempted to mollify the Soviets by forcing Baltic refugees to repatriate and granting Moscow substantial financial credits. The Soviets, however, did not show much gratitude. After Swedish diplomat Count Raoul Wallenberg negotiated the release of Hungarian Jews, he was apprehended by Soviet agents and disappeared. This aroused great anti-Soviet sentiments in Sweden. Other early Cold War Soviet provocations included the presumed Soviet downing of a Swedish surveillance aircraft in 1951 and Soviet efforts to disrupt the subsequent search and rescue mission.
In the immediate postwar years, Sweden failed in its attempt to create a nonaligned Nordic bloc to keep all of Scandinavia out of the Cold War. Finland signed a mutual aid, cooperation, and friendship treaty with the Soviet Union in 1948, while Denmark and Norway joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949. This constellation of Norwegian and Danish NATO membership, Swedish nonalignment, and Finland's ties to the Soviet Union has frequently been termed "the Nordic balance." During the early Cold War, Sweden's Social Democrats and center-rightist political parties differed little on the practical aspects of nonalignment. Nevertheless, Sweden conducted security-related consultations with the United States and NATO in both the political and military spheres. On occasion, the center-rightists did advocate a tougher line with the Soviets in regard to Eastern Europe.
Although Swedes experienced some economic dislocation in the immediate post–World War II years, having escaped wartime destruction meant that their economic, political, and social institutions were still intact in 1945. In the elections of that year, the Social Democrats formed a majority government under Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson. When he died the following year, Tage Erlander replaced him and held the premiership until 1969. During 1951–1957, the Social Democrats had to share power with the Peasant Party, as it had done during the interwar years.
Swedish society was thoroughly democratic and civic-minded in its social and political structures. Swedes enjoyed a well-functioning social welfare state, a high level of social and corporate organization, and a strong public sector. Much of this was made possible by a thriving industrial base, funded by domestic financing. Swedish exports included high-value industrial products such as automobiles, machine tools, and ball bearings. But the postwar era also witnessed the rapid depopulation of rural Sweden, as industry and commercial concerns in the cities lured workers from the hinterlands.
Despite fears of provoking Soviet suspicions, Sweden accepted Marshall Plan aid and in 1951 also adopted the U.S. Cold War initiative that called for an embargo of strategic commodities and products to the Eastern bloc. Sweden also put recognition of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) on hold until 1972 in accordance with the general Western view that recognition could be seen as a hostile act against the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany), a major trading partner.
In the areas of trade and other transnational interactions, Sweden did align itself with the West. Swedish policymakers thus created a tension between nonalignment and economic necessity. The European Council provided one arena for interacting with other democracies without being tied to a bloc. The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) allowed for free trade outside the more politicized European Economic Community (EEC), which Swedish officials refused to join because it would contradict nonalignment.
As East-West tensions eased beginning in the mid-1960s, many nonaligned states had more freedom of action of foreign affairs. Accordingly, the Social Democratic government moved from pure realpolitik to a more idealistic foreign policy. At the core of this reorientation were expectations of a new economic world order, decolonization, nuclear disarmament, and the curbing of great power influence. The move away from realpolitik became most evident at the UN by Swedish participation in peacekeeping missions in the Middle East and the Congo and by Dag Hammarskjöld's posting as UN secretary-general. Indeed, rapid decolonization swelled the number of nonaligned states and broadened the appeal of Swedish foreign policy.
Swedish leaders did not shy away from confronting the United States. Prime Minister Olof Palme spoke out fiercely against the Vietnam War. Indeed, after the U.S. Christmas Bombings of Hanoi in December 1972, Palme compared the incident to the Holocaust. President Richard M. Nixon's administration was outraged and withheld its ambassador from Stockholm until 1974. Sweden also provided asylum to U.S. draft dodgers seeking to escape service in Vietnam, a policy that particularly rankled Washington.
In 1976, U.S.-Swedish relations improved markedly when the political Right gained power under Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin. The Peasant Party, to which Fälldin belonged, had changed its name to the Center Party and simultaneously aligned itself with the political Right. Still, no major policy changes occurred, although the idealism of the Social Democrats was drastically toned down.
With Cold War tensions already on the rise again in the late 1970s, the Swedish government condemned the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981. At the same time, dramatic events were also unfolding closer to home. In October 1982, a Soviet submarine ran aground outside the Karlskrona naval base in southern Sweden. Moscow acknowledged the undeniable fact of the grounded sub (which the Soviets blamed on a damaged navigation system) but denied that there had been any systematic Soviet violation of Swedish territorial waters. Nonetheless, Soviet intrusions by submarines into Swedish waters continued.
When the Social Democrats and Palme regained power in 1986, Swedish officials withdrew their protests of Soviet submarine violations and announced an upcoming state visit to Moscow. However, Palme was assassinated in February 1986, and the trip was made by his successor, Ingvar Karlsson, in 1987. The rapprochement between the Soviet Union and Sweden was facilitated by new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.
The end of the Cold War transformed the Baltic Sea from a part of the Iron Curtain to an increasingly important line of communication between Sweden and the former Eastern bloc countries. As such, Sweden's influence in the region grew. However, friction was also apparent. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania harbored a grudge toward Sweden for its 1940 recognition of the Soviet takeover of these republics and had not forgotten Sweden's forced repatriation of Baltic refugees back to the Soviet Union in 1945. There was also some Baltic discontent over Stockholm's tepid support during the 1989–1991 struggles for independence. Baltic skepticism toward Sweden also had deep historical roots, as it was here that Sweden had vied with Russia for Baltic supremacy in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
With the end of the Cold War, Sweden no longer regarded the European Union (EU), the successor of the EEC, as part of a political bloc to which membership on their part would be a breech of their nonalignment policy. Thus, Sweden joined the EU after a referendum in 1994.
At the end of the twentieth century, government interventionism and large-scale industrial structures marked a troubled Swedish economy. It faced the challenge of globalization and demands for harmonizing with EU standards. Unemployment has been comparatively high by Scandinavian standards, placing additional burdens on social services. Foreign interests have purchased Swedish trademarks such as Volvo and Saab, and production has moved to countries in which labor costs are lower. Fearing unemployment and diminished benefits, Swedish trade unions have not always been cooperative in making necessary sacrifices in order to make Sweden's industry more competitive.
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Bjereld, Ulf, and Ann-Marie Ekengren. Cold War Historiography in Sweden. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2004.; Hanhimäki, Jussi. Scandinavia and the United States: An Insecure Friendship. New York: Twayne, 1997.; Lundestad, Geir. America, Scandinavia and the Cold War. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1982.


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Philadelphia Eagles -3 over Atlanta Falcons
I know what you're thinking: How can you pick a 3-3 team, that's favored, to beat an undefeated team. A couple of reasons: #1 Andy Reid is 13-0 following a bye week, #2 The Falcons are good, but they are due for a loss, #3 The Eagles are desperate and have done some soul searching during the bye week- they need a good performance, at home, #4 The rainy weather will force the Eagles to run the ball more than usual and Shaddy McCoy will run all over the Falcons defense. Eagles 24 Falcons 20
New York Giants -2.5 over Dallas Cowboys
The Giants are a better team than the Cowboys, period. The Cowboys just lost Sean Lee, who is a key component of their defense. The Giants also want to exact some revenge on the Cowboys for their opening night loss, at home. You remember, Kevin Ogletree went off on the Giants secondary. I'm surprised the game is a 2.5 spread because I think the Giants are at least a touchdown better than the Cowboys. Eli Manning will outplay Tony Romo this time and the Giants secondary is better than it was in week 1. Giants 27 Cowboys 20 (Picks cont'd on page 2, click below)


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Who has retirement benefits in private industry in 2012?
September 21, 2012
Nearly two-thirds of private industry workers in March 2012 had access to some form of retirement plan, typically either a defined-benefit plan, such as a pension, or defined-contribution plan, such as a 401(k). Forty-eight percent of workers chose to participate in a retirement plan.
Access to retirement plans varied significantly by major occupational group, full- or part-time status, union-membership status, and wage category. Management, professional, and related occupations had nearly twice the access rate and more than three times the participation rate of service occupations. (Some examples of service occupations are healthcare support, protective service, food preparation, maintenance, and personal care workers.) Similarly, full-time workers had nearly twice the access rate and three times the participation rate of part-time workers. Union workers had very high access (92 percent) and participation (85 percent) rates for retirement plans.
High-wage workers (those in the top 25 percent of all wage earners, with earnings at or above $24.81 per hour) had significantly higher rates of access to and participation in retirement plans than did low-wage workers (those in the lowest 25 percent of all wage earners, with earnings at or below $10.69 per hour).
Workers in large establishments (500 workers or more) had a retirement participation rate more than twice that of workers in small establishments (fewer than 100 workers).
These data are from the National Compensation Survey - Benefits program. To learn more, see "Who has benefits in private industry in 2012?" (HTML) (PDF), Beyond the Numbers volume 1, number 13, September 2012. An employee had access to a benefit plan if the employee is in an occupation in which his or her employer offered the plan. The participation rate is the percentage of employees who actually enroll in a retirement plan.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Who has retirement benefits in private industry in 2012? on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2012/ted_20120921.htm (visited October 10, 2015).
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