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- 1 Buildroot Developers Meeting, 4-5 February 2013, Brussels
Buildroot Developers Meeting, 4-5 February 2013, Brussels
What is Buildroot ?
Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to generate a complete embedded Linux system. Buildroot can generate any or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel image and a bootloader image. Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with small or embedded systems, using various CPU architectures (x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.) : it automates the building process of your embedded system and eases the cross-compilation process.
Thanks to our sponsor Google
We would like to thank Google, who will be providing the meeting location, with Internet connection, but also free lunch and refreshments for the meeting participants. Thanks Google!
It is worth noting that Google is sponsoring due to their usage of Buildroot to build embedded Linux systems for embedded devices used in the Google Fiber project. The source code of their modified Buildroot is available at [1].
Location and date
The Buildroot community is organizing a meeting on Monday February 4th 2013 and Tuesday Feburary 5th 2013, for Buildroot developers and contributors. This meeting will be a mixture of discussion and hacking session around the Buildroot project. This meeting takes place right after the FOSDEM, in order to make it easy for participants to attend both events.
Note that it is not mandatory to attend both days. It is expected that the first day will be mostly dedicated to discussion, while the second day will be mostly dedicated to hacking.
The meeting will take place in Google Brussels offices, located Chaussée d'Etterbeek 180, 1040 Brussels. See http://goo.gl/maps/ZVAGJ for a map of the area.
- Thomas Petazzoni, confirmed. Arriving on February, 1st at 19:45 at BRU airport, leaving on February, 5th at 21:10 from BRU airport.
- Yann E. MORIN, confirmed. Arriving 2013-02-01 17:23 at Bruxelles Midi, leaving on 2013-02-05 17:13 from Bruxelles Midi.
- Peter Korsgaard, confirmed. Lives close by.
- Arnout Vandecappelle, confirmed. Lives even closer by.
- Samuel Martin, confirmed. Arriving on February, 2nd at 08:47 at Bruxelles Midi, leaving on February, 5th at 19:13 from Bruxelles Midi.
- Dimitrios Siganos, attending on Monday only.
- Thomas De Schampheleire, confirmed. Lives close by.
Please contact Thomas Petazzoni (firstname.lastname@example.com) if you would like to attend.
Attending the event is free, but registration is required.
Note that the event is mainly intended for Buildroot developers and contributors, or advanced users willing to contribute more or to share about their use case for Buildroot.
List of topics to discuss
Good starting points are:
Topics for the discussion day (Monday 2013-02-04)
- Topics related to changes to the infrastructures
- current state of the infrastructure, and how to enhance it
- copy target/ before creating images
- handling of linux-menuconfig, busybox-menuconfig, uclibc-menuconfig, etc.
- Refactoring package menus (Arnout)
- Support for out-of-tree packages (Arnout)
- Switch to ct-ng as the default backend for toolchain building
- pending series enhancing the infrastructure
- current state of the infrastructure, and how to enhance it
- Topics related to the packages included in Buildroot
- finally remove the 'devel-on-target' packages ?
- host-pkgconf and "host-autotools" as visible host packages (Eclipse/app dev)?
- new packages pending
- tzdata et al.
- What to do with systemd/udev/eudev
- How are we doing? (Arnout)
- Is the project sufficiently stable?
- Do we have enough users, contributors?
- Are there threats we should care about?
- Is there a new important direction for which we lack support?
- Building a fully configured project
- Wild idea: scratchbox2
- Giving a status on autobuilder improvements / website improvements (Thomas)
- Wild idea: for VCS site methods where version is HEAD or a branch, BR checks every time if the upstream has changed. This is to track the development made by team mates: your own work is in a OVERRIDE_SRCDIR, other libraries/dependencies are in a VCS method and are automatically updated. Question: how to expose this feature to the user? Addition kconfig option per package? Additional variable in local.mk? Something else?
- Wild idea: make it possible to configure some things per package, like optimisation/debug flags, static library, ... - this would require serious modification to Kconfig or a meta-kconfig.
- Provide a (nightly|weekly)-built manual from master. (Yann)
- Use kconfig-frontends ? (Yann)
- Remove the wget et al config options (Arnout)
- Google Summer of Code 2013 (Thomas)
- Patchwork maintenance, how to deal with pending patches (Arnout)
- Copy target before creating images: the idea is to avoid the need for creating idempotent scripts in e.g. post-build script. It does make sense, because for the user it's a bit more difficult to make scripts idempotent. Also it can be a step for hiding the "target" directory. And it makes complete sense if we remove the "target" directory completely and copy from staging instead.
- The compelling reason to make target a subset of staging is that it is much easier to do debugging: just "gdb staging/usr/bin/foo" and it will have debug symbols and the paths to the source files.
- Single install commands: FOO_INSTALL_CMDS. They get executed twice, with DESTDIR set to the correct place (target or staging or host). The POST_XXX_INSTALL_HOOKS would still be executed separately. But this doesn't yet give us the situation that target and staging are the same, but target just has some stuff removed.
- Take it one step at the time: start with FOO_INSTALL_CMDS, we can see how far we get.
- Document that post-build script has to be idempotent (with an example).
- There was a lot of discussion about using buildroot in practice in different contexts. Add to documentation a section of how to use buildroot in practice. Maybe in the form of one or more use case - but not too many because it would just confuse users. For instance, assume that proprietary patches are in-tree in package/companyname, not out-of-tree. The chapter would be called "Integration into a development workflow".
- There is a consensus that buildroot should not be just an integration platform, but also usable in development. However, we should never sacrifice the simplicity, and integration has to remain the main focus. The out-of-tree package build is a good example, as well as the automatic fetching of VCS HEAD.
- Add chapter to manual to explain the internals of buildroot. Not so much the existing implementation, but rather the design choices.
- post-image script: good thing is that it can be included in a defconfig, so accept it. Post-image script (just like post-build script) will not run in fakeroot.
- Stable releases: the consensus is that it is a lot of effort and nobody would use it.
- Users and contributors: contributors are still increasing, number of users we don't really know but probably pretty high.
- Threats:
- The number of forks of buildroot. We're missing out on contributors, and if it doesn't work well we loose credibility. For instance, armadeus doesn't upstream anything (no kernel, u-boot, buildroot) - for them there is no hope. But for instance also RPi has a buildroot fork on github. Maybe it would help if we would have an official repository on github (github can be setup to automatically pull form the official repository). If we really want, we could pull patches from the repositories that we know about. A fork that just adds a defconfig and a few feature patches is not a big deal, on condition that they are kept up to date.
- Flash sizes are increasing, so the size advantage of buildroot is not much of an advantage anymore. Compared to e.g. emdebian, there are two more advantages:
- much more understandable what happens at boot time and what exactly is installed, there's no predefined policy;
- you have a top-level integration of the entire rootfs+kernel+bootloader from the start;
- easy to learn for someone not familiar with Debian or Linux distros or system administration.
- Thomas would like to add testimonials and a list of users of buildroot to the website.
- Next big directions for buildroot
- SoC-specific libraries (OpenGL) are a pain: packages that use them need to somehow find them. We can use a virtual package mechanism like for jpeg (but then a bit different) and e.g. Qt5 depends on that virtual package.
- Switching to ct-ng as the default toolchain backend has been in the plans for several years. But since it's not the default backend it isn't getting a lot of attention (example: for several months it was broken, libraries were not copied to the target, and it took a lot of time for somebody to notice).
- Issue #1: passing subarch variants to crosstool-ng. Shouldn't be a big problem to solve, just a matter of work.
- Issue #2: download integration. Crosstool-NG cannot tell Buildroot what it needs, so Buildroot can't download it, which breaks things like "make source" and "make external-deps". This requires a number of changes in Crosstool-NG: Crosstool-NG doesn't know the exact URL for each component, doesn't yet have a capability to list which tarballs are needed (similar to "external-deps"). It has the capability of doing the download only, but it requires configure and installing crosstool-NG. Which means that "make source" in Buildroot would need to build Crosstool-NG and all its dependencies (host-gawk, host-libtool, host-autoconf, host-automake). This problem requires more work at the Crosstool-NG level.
- Issue #3: legal info integration.
- Option 1: keep only external toolchain backend. Consensus is that this is not acceptable, Buildroot should still have a way of building toolchains on its own.
- Option 2: work on the Crosstool-NG backend to fix all the integration issues, and use it as the default backend.
- Option 3: improve the internal backend, and assume that we don't really need an integration with Crosstool-NG.
- Conclusion: Yann gets time till 2013.05 to work on issue #2. If that is successful or is making good progress, we go for Option 2. If it is going nowhere, we go for Option 3 or option 1.
- Handling of make xxx-menuconfig
- The last proposal on the list was to store the xxx-config files in the output directory, and don't remove them with make clean. However, if you delete the output directory that will still be gone.
- Instead, it can directly be saved to the configured place (e.g. boards/mycompany/myboard/xxx-config) instead of requiring an explicit 'make xxx-saveconfig' step. Potential problem: do we save a defconfig or a full config? Linux defconfig only exists since 2.6.26 or so and is sometimes buggy...
- We can disallow linux-menuconfig in case the BR2_LINUX_USE_CUSTOM_CONFIG is not set, and issue a warning. Combine that with automatically saving and we have a pretty complete solution.
- Conclusion: copy it back to the configured place, disallow xxx-menuconfig unless something is configured. We always save full config because defconfig is not always reliable.
- Splitting package/Config.in into separate files for each menu is a good idea for several reasons:
- In patches adding a package, it's obvious in which menu it is added
- Scripts can automatically find out in which menu a package is, e.g. to generate the package list in the manual
- Out of tree package build
- It's mainly needed for the kernel
- But it's also nice for the 600 other packages that support it out of the box.
- Risk of breakage, but can easily be solved by setting SUPPORTS_OUT_OF_TREE to NO
- Makes it slower for some large packages that don't support out-of-tree build, but also saves time for some others.
- Conclusion: the series still needs some work, but we do like out-of-tree package builds.
- Some .la files in the staging directory contain wrong information: paths to the build directory instead of the staging directory. Samuel proposes to remove the .la files. This needs some testing first, though.
- Devel-on-target packages are not removed quite yet. But more packages can be marked as deprecated.
- What to do with systemd/udev/eudev: we try to use the udev from systemd without systemd. Exactly how we don't know yet... There's a risk that udev becomes unusable without systemd, but Leonard Poettering promised this would not happen. After a quick look, it turns out that you always end up building systemd, which requires dbus, even if you need only udev. So it makes the systemd source tarball a bit unpractical to build a system that uses udev only, and doesn't need systemd. Probably an indication that we should have a look at eudev? How would this interact with the systemd selection? What about incompatibilities between udev and eudev?
- Building a fully configured project: the question is: what is the workflow for creating a buildroot-based distribution which has a lot more than just the defconfig, and you don't want to fork the buildroot repository. Answer: fork the buildroot tree, but merge regularly.
- Autobuilder status: Thomas will move the info to a database, and has some very basic webpages for accessing the database. He also dreams about running some tests in qemu - but we already have enough failures with the autobuilders as they are :-)
- Remove the wget et al config options (Arnout): these options are indeed useless, especially because dependencies.sh looks for "git", not BR2_GIT. But in fact, the whole "Build options" menu could use some refactoring.
- scratchbox2: may make life simpler to support cross-compiling. scratchbox2 does LD_PRELOAD magic to make sure that /usr/include and /usr/lib point into the sysroot instead of the host. It also runs foreign executables in qemu. However, Thomas (who used scratchbox before) was not impressed by it. It will probably also run into the kernel headers problems we had with cpanminus/qemu. Bottom line: it can be used if some package requires it, but in the end we will still have to solve cross-compilation issues.
- Use kconfig-frontends: we would clone it into buildroot, just like we currently do. Advantage of current kconfig-frontends is that it has some possibilities for tweaking the config executable, so that we need less or no patches. Still it's a bit of work to integrate. One problem is that it now has a configure script, which checks for flex, bison, gperf, and we want to bypass this in buildroot. We will create our own Makefile (just like we do now) and we'll check in the files generated by flex, bison, gperf. Yann doesn't have a lot of time to work on this.
- GSoC: student works 3 months full-time on a project. Google has to accept it, so it has to be somehow innovative and end up with a product. Core infrastructure work is probably not a good idea, because it's too difficult. Cleaning up and merging the blackfin fork or solving the autobuilder failures may not be a sufficiently well-defined project. Also there is some work for us: interviewing the students, mentoring, ... Thomas will write one or two topics. E.g.: incorporate blackfin support; improvements to test infrastructure.
- We iterated on the AVAILABLE problem once more, and concluded once more that none of the solutions is fully satisfying. The extra AVAILABLE options don't solve the comments - and we really want the comments. Replacing the comments with some generic statement that the required toolchain options are not available is not enough, because it's almost impossible to see which toolchain options you need. The best compromise is to have a script that checks if the dependencies and the comments are inconsistent, but it's not clear how easy it would be to create such a script - perhaps with the [[[2]] python-kconfig] it's doable. The script could even automatically modify the Config.in in a later stage.
- Patchwork: at FOSDEM, Wolfram Sang mentioned some scripts that he uses to integrate patchwork into his git workflow. Peter is already using that to automate getting patches from patchwork and updating the patch status when it is pushed.
- Flags in external toolchain wrapper. The source of this discussion is the Cavium toolchain which requires an additional linker option to link correctly. Note that this is only about compile/link flags that are strictly needed for compiling for the right target, so typically things like -mfpu. The conclusion is that we want:
- For toolchains built by buildroot (internal, ct-ng), the toolchain configuration itself should already have the right options.
- For external toolchains downloaded by buildroot, buildroot should add the correct flags in the toolchain wrapper to do the right thing.
- For custom external toolchains, there should be a free-text config option that is coded into the toolchain wrapper.
- The BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION option should be renamed to something more sensible, and only be used in TARGET_CFLAGS (not in the wrapper).
Action point list
- post-build script documentation (Yann E. MORIN)
- merge the staging and target install steps, and have all packages installed to both the staging and target directories
- add in the manual references to previous Buildroot related talks (slides and videos, Thomas)
- Add documentation for "Integration into a development workflow" (Arnout, hopefully others too)
- Documentation: make it clear that buildroot is not a distro (no policy), make it clear what buildroot's niche is compared to e.g. emdebian
- Implement automatic fetching of package's VCS HEAD
- Resend post-image patch set with just the minor comments fixed (Thomas, to be done for 2013.02)
- Write a bit of documentation that documents how to add a minimal board support (Thomas)
- Identify buildroot forks and put them on the website or wiki
- Handling of make xxx-menuconfig
- Split package/Config.in into 35 separate files, e.g. Config.in.lib.crypto (Arnout ?)
- Set up a daily or weekly build of the Git version of the manual (Peter. Really this time.)
- Patches: don't look at the version number anymore, just apply <pkgname>-*.patch (Peter)
- Apply <pkg>_CONFIG_FIXUP patch (Peter)
- Test if removing .la files works (Samuel)
- Refresh the package-create-user patchset (Yann) and commit (Peter)
- Commit pkg-infra: limit -reconfigure and -rebuild actions patch (Peter)
- In the next release announcement, mention the Eclipse plugin (Peter)
- Further improve the tzdata series: fix the duplicate POSIX zones, add a more fine-grained zone selection, add an option to set the local timezone (Yann) (partially done)
- Thomas asks Maxime R. if he can have a look at updating systemd/udev, preferably using the udev that is part of systemd.
- Fix passing random flags to external toolchain wrapper, and rename BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION.
- Change of the patch logic
- For the patches stored in the package directory, if package/<pkg>/<version>/ does exist, apply package/<pkg>/<version>/*.patch, otherwise, apply package/<pkg>/*.patch
- For the patches stored in the global patches directory, if $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/<version>/ does exist, apply $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/<version>/*.patch, otherwise, apply $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/*.patch
Topics for the hackaton day (Tuesday 2013-02-05)
- help triage the pending patches
- Create scripts to help the triaging process
- More people with patchwork write access?
That was all that was actually done (we still had a lot of discussion). The following topics are still interesting for future reference:
- design (and implement) changes discused the previous day (eg. infrastructure enhancements)
- test and upstream changes discused the previous day (pending infrastructure changes and packages)
- update the crosstool-NG backend
- Fix iso9660 fs
- Document the Buildroot policy decisions (about out-of-tre packages, about package manager support, about cleaning, ...) (Arnout)
- Document use cases (as discussed yesterday)


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Believe it or not, we've now seen the Toyota FT-86 in some form or another on five different occasions now – and it's still a concept. The original car was unveiled at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show, we saw the FT-86 II this year at the Geneva Motor Show, along with the chassis and powertrain of its Subaru counterpart, we then saw the Scion interpretation at the New York Auto Show, and finally, a slightly revised version of the car is on display here in Frankfurt.
Can we please just drive the thing already? By the time it gets to market, it's going to arrive with a mid-cycle refresh!
Toyota says that the car on display here at the Frankfurt Messe is "lighter, faster and sportier" than the concept cars that came before it, but aside from the new orange paint job, the only noticeable difference we can see are a pair of red Brembo brake calipers behind those alloy wheels. Nifty.
Still, we never turn down a chance to eyeball the FT-86, and we encourage you to do the same in our attached high-res image gallery.
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My sister in law made this great latkes version and she found that it worked better on parchment paper rather than tin foil.
No-Fry Latkes with special permission by Norene Gilletz from her fabulous cookbook Healthy Helpings.
One no-fry latke contains just 1 gram of fat, compared to 2.7 grams for the fried version!
- 1 very large sweet potato,plus 2 Idaho potatoes
- 4 tsp. canola or vegetable oil, divided
- 1 medium onion
- 1 clove garlic, if desired
- 1 tbsp. fresh dill (or 1 tsp. dried)
- 1 egg & 2 egg whites (or 2 eggs),lightly beaten
- 1/4 c. flour (white or whole wheat)
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 3/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
*1. Place oven racks on the lowest and middle positions in your oven. Preheat oven to 450°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Spray each sheet of parchment paper lightly with non-stick spray, then brush each sheet with 1 tsp. of oil. (This provides a crispy exterior to the latke.)
2. Peel potatoes or scrub them well if you don't want to peel them. Grate potatoes. (The processor does this quickly.) Transfer them to another bowl. Use the processor to finely mince onion, garlic and dill. Add potatoes, egg, egg whites and remaining 2 tsp. of oil to the processor. Mix using quick on/off turns. Add remaining ingredients and mix briefly. If over-processed, potatoes will be too fine.
3. Drop mixture by rounded spoonfuls onto prepared baking sheets. Flatten slightly with the back of the spoon to form latkes. Bake uncovered at 450°F for 10 minutes, or until bottoms are nicely browned and crispy. Turn latkes over. Transfer pan from the upper rack to the lower rack and vice versa. Bake about 8 to 10 minutes longer, or until brown. Best when served immediately.
*Note: Alternatively, line the pan with parchment paper, such as Chefs Select. Bake uncovered at 425°F for 12 minutes. Ensure the paper does not extend beyond the baking sheet or touch the walls of the oven.
Yield: 2 dozen medium latkes or 6 dozen minis.
Serve with applesauce, low-fat sour cream or yogurt topped with minced lox and chives. Latkes freeze well.
Nutritional Information:
36 calories per medium latke, 1 g fat (0.1 saturated), 9 mg cholesterol, 1 g protein, 6 g carbohydrate, 92 mg sodium, 143 mg potassium, trace iron, <1 g fiber, 10 mg calcium.
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The Kansas Athletic Commission has changed Jake Rosholt's disqualification loss to John Ott to a no-contest after a short review of their fight, which took place May 27 at Titan Fighting Championships 18.
KAC Boxing Commissioner Troye Blackmon confirmed the change today with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) and said the decision had been made "a few weeks ago."
Blackmon declined to discuss the basis for his decision. Rosholt's manager said it is a just outcome considering the circumstances of the fight.
"Obviously, we'd hoped to get a win," said Ted Ehrhardt of Team Takedown, which reps Rosholt. "But a no-contest is better than a loss, and I think with all the events the way they occurred, I think that's probably the most fair thing that could have been done for both fighters."
Rosholt, who had dominated the fight, was disqualified after he threw an illegal knee in the third round of the fight, which aired live on HDNet. In a subsequent interview, he disputed the commission's decision because he claimed the knee was unintentional.
"When you go back to the video, his knee is down, and he was on his way back up," Rosholt said. "I'm not trying to say it wasn't (illegal). I'm saying it was completely unintentional. I had no idea his other knee was on the ground."
Rosholt argued that the decision should be changed to a technical decision similar to a fight at WEC 38, which was ruled a technical decision in favor of Jamie Varner when Donald Cerrone threw an unintentional knee that rendered Varner unable to continue. The bout was contested in California, which also uses the Unified Rules.
Ott and his representatives could not be reached for comment.
Prior to the bout, Rosholt (11-4), who was released by the UFC in late 2009 after a loss to Kendall Grove at UFC 106, enjoyed on a four-fight win streak. Ott (9-8), meanwhile, got back in the win column after a decision loss to Bobby Lashley at Titan Fighting Championship 17.
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010
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Posted by Amrita at Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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- Nina in Portugal said...
Send Sheeba over to dig up theirs...see how they feel about "shooing" dogs away then.....
- 17 March 2010 at 20:13
- Amrita said...
Good idea Nina, but Sheeba 's not the digging type.
- 17 March 2010 at 21:06
- Joseph Pulikotil said...
Hi Amrita:)
Your Sheeba knows how to enjoy her life. She is very cozy and comfortable. It was wonderful of you to be very observant about Sheeba's method of jumping because you found out how she got hurt.
I wonder if Sheeba will chase the neighbors dog or perhaps she is very friendly. It would be good idea to talk to your neighbor about their dog's mischief.
As regards the wedding in my post, it took place on Jan.24th, much before the lent started. I only posted it now. Even here no Christian marriages take place during lent.
Have a nice day Amrita:)
- 17 March 2010 at 21:24
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i am so ready to come over there and build a dog proof fence around the plants.... ( if only...?)
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please forgive me, sometimes it ain't
so easy being an Old Geezer.
God Bless You
- 18 March 2010 at 04:28
- Pat said...
Sheeba has a wonderful perch there in the sunshine. a perfect spot!
Yes! You need some sort of fence around your garden, or neighbors with better manners!
- 18 March 2010 at 04:37
- Becka said...
love story's about any animal,
sheeba is beautiful,
Not sure what to tell you about the other dog tho, cause one of mine goes next door to eat the trash, lol
- 18 March 2010 at 06:43
- Becka said...
love story's about any animal,
sheeba is beautiful,
Not sure what to tell you about the other dog tho, cause one of mine goes next door to eat the trash, lol
- 18 March 2010 at 06:44
- NAK and The Residents of The Khottage said...
How khomfy Sheeba looks!
That is furry nice of woo to now ensure she's got a safe spot fur landing!
Khyra & Khousin Merdie
- 18 March 2010 at 07:05
- Grayquill said...
When we get older we just don't jump as high as we use to. Sheeba I understand - getting old stinks.
Keep your chin up and your paws clean and if that doesn't help bite something.
- 18 March 2010 at 11:46
- John Cowart said...
Your Sheba is such a great dog. I remember the photo you once posted of her after a mongoose.
We had a black lab also named Sheba; she lived with us for 17 years before she died. I miss her.
- 18 March 2010 at 14:02
- monsoon dreams said...
basking in the sunlight!wow!seeing her snap i was wondering how long it has been since i could rest like that without worries.hope sheeba is better.may be you can place a smaller trunk too so sheeba can climb easily.
i am fine,amrita.going on with life.yet to adjust with my loss.
- 18 March 2010 at 23:00
- Felisol said...
Hopefully Sheeba will soon recover from her injuries.
I've said a prayer for her as well.
I think God, who cares about sparrows,even more will look after your beloved Sheeba.
I have many good ideas about what to do with your neighbors and their dog. Am not sure God will approve.
Better pray about that too.
All good to you and your family, Sheeba included, from Felisol
- 19 March 2010 at 01:10
- Amrita said...
Oh David that 's my dream wish, but I have other priorities first.
Hi Ron (Old Geezer) thank you for your visit and comment. Your blog is such a pleasant place to visit.
Doesn 't bother the neighbours Josephji.
- 19 March 2010 at 09:44
- Julia Dutta said...
Hi Amrita,
Such a pleasure reading about Sheeba. Poor dear! Had a bad fall is it?
Now, the other possibility to look at is: maybe the neighbour's dog is in love with Sheeba and digs up the garden to find her? That silly dog!
- 19 March 2010 at 14:06
- Mel Avila Alarilla said...
Sheeba is a faithful dog who watches over your property. She loves to perch at the window sill to keep watch over any intruder to your yard. Too bad she hurt herself when she fell while attempting to land on the window sill. You have all the right in the world to shoo away the dog of your neighbor who keeps on digging your vegetables in your garden. Not only is it doing harm to your crops, it is also trespassing in your property. They have no right to complain when you shoo away their dog. You should be the one to complain to them because of the mischief their dog is doing to your crops. Well, maybe they don't like you because of your religion. Thanks for the post. God bless you all always.
- 21 March 2010 at 01:32


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Brooklyn Philharmonic Announces Revised 2013 Season; Returns to BAM, June 8
The Brooklyn Philharmonic announced today that it is returning to the Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM) as part of a revised Spring season for the first time in three years.
On June 8, 2013, in a unique collaboration with four-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Erykah Badu, and actor and emcee Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), the Brooklyn Phil will bring ideas from hip-hop music into the symphonic world at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House in the 2012-2013 season's headlining event You're Causing Quite a Disturbance.
Badu will collaborate with Brooklyn composer TEd Hearne on a new symphonic work that interconnects colorful and original arrangements of Badu's songs with original music that delves into their musical, social, and political ideas.
The June 8 concert at BAM is the centerpiece of a revised Spring season that replaces the one announced in September. The orchestra's community outreach throughout the borough will continue, however concerts at the Millennium Theater in Brighton Beach and at Roulette in Downtown Brooklyn are being cancelled.
"We are delighted to be returning to BAM, Brooklyn's signature concert hall and the Brooklyn Phil's venue of choice for this very 'Brooklyn' event," said Jack Rainey, Chairman of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Board of Directors. "The strength of our community relationships in Bedford-Stuyvesant and throughout the Borough have made this signature moment possible."
Erykah Badu is Brooklyn Phil's second Artist-in-Residence, continuing a tradition that began with Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), 2011-2012 Artist-in-Residence, during the orchestra's debut "reboot" season under newly appointed Artistic Director Alan Pierson.
Says Pierson: "It's been amazing to delve into Brooklyn's culture with the Brooklyn Phil and with all of our community partners and collaborators. Erykah and Yasiin are doing deep and meaningful work here, and the opportunity to bring them together with great local artists like TEd Hearne and Derek Bermel to create something original for the orchestra is incredibly exciting."
Each Brooklyn Phil neighborhood series-Brighton Beach, Downtown Brooklyn, and Bed-Stuy-is inspired by the cultural traditions and musical history of the communities. Preceding the June 8 show at BAM, students from Bed-Stuy will be invited to have the unique opportunity to see Pierson as he rehearses the orchestra with Erykah Badu and Yasiin Bey (Bey was born and raised in Bed-Stuy) in readiness for You're Causing Quite a Disturbance. Repertoire will include arrangements of songs from Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War and other works.
In addition, this Spring the Brooklyn Phil introduces a new initiative called Insider Tours. These are neighborhood-specific events that expose attendees to the wealth of creative, imaginative and entrepreneurial spirits within the communities of Bed-Stuy, Brighton Beach and Downtown Brooklyn.
Scroll down for more details on the Brooklyn Phil's revised 2013 season!
Chamber Concert
Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 7:00 pm
S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture
Brooklyn Public Library Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238
One hundred years ago, the sophistication and scope of musical life in Brooklyn were great enough to place the city at the forefront of musical progress in America. The archives of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reveal the borough's importance in connection with Europe's classical music scene, with frequent visits and performances by European violin virtuosos including Ysaye, Kreisler, Elman and Kubelik.
This violin recital by Brooklyn Phil concertmaster Deborah Buck takes one back to these historic concerts through performances of violin showpieces that were all the rage in the borough at the turn of the century. Joining Ms.Buck onstage will be pianist Molly Morkoski and music historian Maurice Edwards, author of How Music Grew in Brooklyn, who will tell the story of Brooklyn's evolution from leading importer of musical expertise to the home-grown creative hotbed it is today. This performance will be followed by a post-concert Q&A with Maurice Edwards.
The Brooklyn Philharmonic is honored to partner with the Brooklyn Public Library to present this performance.
Deborah Buck, violin
Molly Morkoski, piano
Maurice Edwards, author
George Gershwin, Short Story for violin and piano, arr. Samuel Dushkin
Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, "Spring", I. Allegro
Fritz Kreisler, Caprice Viennois
Jules Massenet, Meditation from 'Thais'
Henryk Wieniawski, Polonaise Brillante No. 1 in D major
George Frederick Bristow, Sonata for Violin and Piano, Mvt. I (World Premiere)
John Corigliano, Violin Sonata: II. Andantino
I. Allegro
Chamber Concert
Sunday, February 10, 2013, 4:00 pm
S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture
Brooklyn Public Library Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Tchaikovsky gets personal as acclaimed poet Vera Pavlova and the Brooklyn Phil Chamber Players take an intimate look at the life of a great Russian artist through original poetry, imagery, and music for strings and piano. Born in Moscow, Pavlova is a graduate of the Gnessin Academy of music and has published eighteen collections of poetry in her native Russian in addition to authoring five opera libretti and lyrics to three cantatas. Now living in New York, Pavlova recalls her childhood and coming of age in Russia through the lense of Tchaikovsky's Album for the Young and Piano Trio in A minor. Texts will be presented in Russian with English translations. This free performance will be followed by a post-concert Q&A.
The Brooklyn Philharmonic is honored to partner with the Brooklyn Public Library to present this performance.
Vera Pavlova, poet
Steven Seymour, translator
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Album for the Young, Op. 39
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 - Mvt. 1. Pezzo elegiac
Family Workshop
Sunday, March 3, 2013, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst
7802 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11214
Russian folk music was born in a rich peasant culture, centuries ago and 5,000 miles away, by artists who created music using whatever resources were at their disposal, from wood blocks to washboards to tablespoons. Lack of proper tools held no sway over creativity of the human spirit! The remarkable and distinctive folk music they created had an enormous impact beginning with orchestral music of the 19th century and expanding on into the music of today. The public is invited to join charismatic teaching artists and Brooklyn Phil musicians in a hands-on discovery of these creative traditions.
Orchestra Concert
Saturday, June 8, 2013, 7:30 pm
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Peter Jay Sharp Building
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
$35 - $125
Four-time Grammy Award winner and "First Lady of Neo-Soul" Erykah Badu comes home to Brooklyn for a groundbreaking concert that redefines the scope and depth of hip-hop-orchestral fusion.
Pairing Badu with Brooklyn composer TEd Hearne, the Brooklyn Philharmonic will perform an evening of seamlessly integrated new music featuring collaborative arrangements of songs from Badu's 2008 album New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War, amid perspectives from prominent contemporary African-American thinkers on New Amerykah's ideas about identity, hip-hop, and community.
This performance also features Bed-Stuy native and Brooklyn Philharmonic 2011-2012 Artist-in-Residence Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), performing a reprise of selected works from the critically acclaimed performance Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), Lena Horne and the Bed-Stuy Tradition.
A portion of the proceeds from this concert will benefit music education programs in Bed-Stuy public schools.
Erykah Badu, singer-songwriter, Brooklyn Phil 2012-2013 Artist-in-Residence
Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), actor and emcee, Brooklyn Phil 2011-2012 Artist-in-Residence
Erykah Badu, world premiere collaborative arrangements of songs from New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War and other works
Chamber Concert
Sunday, April 7, 2013, 4:00 pm
S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture
Brooklyn Public Library Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Charged-up rhythm and strong points of view define the attitude and art of Bed-Stuy. For decades, artists from this neighborhood have opened our eyes through the powerful combination of music and spoken word poetry. Twenty-year-old poet and Bed-Stuy native, Ishmael Islam was named the New York Youth Poet Laureate in 2012, and now he teams up with members of the Brooklyn Phil to take the spoken word tradition into the 21st Century. This multi-faceted concert intertwines selections from Islam's debut collection, Meet at Greene, with contemporary chamber music for strings by Mark Mellits, Don Byron, and Randall Woolf (Blues for Black Hoodies). The performance, a partnership with Urban Word NYC, will be preceded by a slam poetry open mic and followed by a post-concert Q&A with poets and musicians.
The Brooklyn Philharmonic is honored to partner with the Brooklyn Public Library to present this performance.
Wordisbon, lyricist and emcee
Ishmael Islam, 2012 New York Youth Poet Laureate
Zachary Francis Condon (Beirut): My Family's Role in the World Revolution, arr. Conrad Winslow
Marc Mellits: String Quartet No. 4: Prometheus
Don Byron: String Quartet No. 2: Four Reflections on Marvin Gaye
Randall Woolf, Blues for Black Hoodies
Chamber Concert
Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 8:00 pm
Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
$15, General Admission
This spring the Brooklyn Phil will premiere brand new string quartets from 2012-2013 Outside-In Fellows Jesse Krakow, Toshi Reagon and Hadi Eldebek, as well as a new work about life in Nepal created by resident Composer-Mentor, Randall Woolf with film by Mary Harron and John C. Walsh of Ruby Nation Films, Inc., for Brooklyn Phil concertmaster Deborah Buck.
Jesse Krakow, 2012-2013 Outside-In Fellow
Toshi Reagon, 2012-2013 Outside-In Fellow
Hadi Eldebek, 2012-2013 Outside-In Fellow
Deborah Buck, violin
Randall Woolf, composer-mentor
Jesse Krakow, new work for string quartet (world premiere)
Toshi Reagon, new work for string quartet (world premiere)
Hadi Eldebek, new work for string quartet (world premiere)
Randall Woolf, new work
The Outside-In Fellowship pairs non-orchestral musicians with Brooklyn Phil's resident Composer-Mentor, Randall Woolf, and Artistic Director, Alan Pierson, to create new orchestral works. The Fellows are guided through the process of writing new pieces for string quartet and chamber orchestra, while respecting their unique and individual musical styles. Compositions for string quartet receive a world premiere performance in an eclectic spring concert, while the chamber orchestra pieces are performed in a public orchestral reading session the following fall.
Outside-In Fellows have included Charlie Looker (2011-2012), Natalie Elizabeth Weiss (2011-2012), Tim Fite (2011-2012), Matthew Mehlan (2010-2011), Corey Dargel (2010-2011), Jeremiah Lockwood (2010-2011), Elan Vytal (2009-2010), Ryan Brown (2009-2010), Susan Oetgen (2008-2009), Darcy James Argue (2008-2009), Valerie Coleman (2007-2008), Cristian Amigo(2007-2008).
Education Event
Saturday, April 13, 2013, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
357 Clermont Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Hosted by Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, this event has featured hundreds of instrumental and vocal students from all five boroughs for the past five years. Demonstrating their abilities to an audience of parents, peers and skilled judges, each ensemble competes in five different categories based on their skill level. In addition to cash prizes for winners, all participants receive a recording of their performance from the school's state of the art recording studio.
Open Rehearsal
Friday, June 7, 2013, 1:30 - 2:20 PM
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Peter Jay Sharp Building
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Students from Bed-Stuy will be invited to have the unique opportunity to see guest artists Erykah Badu and Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) collaborate with Alan Pierson and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The performance will include arrangements of songs from Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War and other works, as well as a Q&A session with the artists.
*This event is open to Bed-Stuy area schools only. If your school is interested in participating, please contact Will Simbol, Brooklyn Philharmonic Manager of Education, at 718-488-5700 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
When the first conductor stepped to the podium in Brooklyn in 1857 to launch the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Bizet, Wagner and Berlioz were the strident young voices of new music. De Tocqueville had just departed Brooklyn to warn our European cousins about the mad democratic experiment he'd witnessed in America. Abraham Lincoln's wife hurried to attend the Philharmonic's first concert in Brooklyn's newest music hall. And the people of Brooklyn were, as always, defining what it means to really live in our country.
Now 155 years later, the Brooklyn Phil is not only one of the oldest living orchestras in the New World, but with 174 world premieres under its belt, 72 works commissioned from living composers, and the accolades of 22 ASCAP awards, it's also one of the most adventurous and widely acclaimed musical forces in America as well. The New York Times calls it "feisty and provocative." Rolling Stone raves the Brooklyn Phil is "vital" and "inspired."
The Brooklyn Phil's mission is to present outstanding programs that serve and celebrate the diverse and ever-changing cultural fabric of Brooklyn and greater New York City. As a nationally recognized symphony orchestra dedicated to innovation, artistic collaboration, arts education and engaging audiences, the Brooklyn Phil substantially contributes to Brooklyn's vibrant music scene and provides musical experiences for people of all ages.
Operating daily and serving over 6,000 children annually, the Brooklyn Phil's award-winning educational programs promote creativity, achievement and cultural awareness through musical activities, giving all of Brooklyn's residents, regardless of means or background, new powerful tools to reach their full potential as creators, thinkers and leaders in society.
Alan Pierson has been praised as "a young conductor of monstrous skill" by Newsday, "commanding" by The New York Times, and "gifted and electrifying" by The Boston Globe. He is the artistic director and conductor of the acclaimed ensemble Alarm Will Sound which has been called "the future of classical music" by The New York Times and "a sensational force" with "powerful ideas about how to renovate the concert experience" by The New Yorker. Pierson has appeared as a guest conductor with the London Sinfonietta, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Steve Reich Ensemble, Carnegie Hall's Ensemble ACJW, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, the New World Symphony and The Silk Road Project, among other ensembles. He is also Principal Conductor of the Dublin-based Crash Ensemble, and was a visiting faculty conductor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He has collaborated with major composers and performers, including Yo-Yo Ma, Steve Reich, Dawn Upshaw, Osvaldo Golijov, John Adams, Augusta Read Thomas, David Lang, Michael Gordon, La Monte Young, and choreographers Christopher Wheeldon, Akram Khan and Elliot Feld. He has recorded for Nonesuch Records, Cantaloupe Music, Sony Classical, and Sweetspot DVD.
"The First Lady of Neo-Soul," Erykah Badu is the recipient of four Grammy Awards, one American Music Award, two BET Awards, one MTV Music Video Award, two NAACP Image Awards, three Soul Train Music Awards, three Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards, and 57 other major music award nominations. Her recorded albums have been certified triple Platinum. She is the winner of Rolling Stone's Reader's poll for Best R&B Artist, and Entertainment Weekly named her Best New Female Singer.
Badu's film work includes critically acclaimed performances in such films as Blues Brothers 2000, Academy Award winner The Cider House Rules, Emmy nominated children's television show Yo Gabba Gabba! and feature documentaries Dave Chappelle's Block Party and Before the Music Dies. Fashion designer Tom Ford proclaimed Badu his design muse and she appears as the public face of his White Patchouli fragrance.
Badu's musical style focuses on blending and extending the contemporary styles of soul and hip hop but frequently focuses on deeper messages than more traditional R&B. Her songs explore her personal take on life and are often influenced musically and philosophically by African traditions, fusions from the Nation of Islam, the Five Percent theologies, complex views of the ancient Egyptians, and Southern African-American folk traditions. Taken together, "Neo-Soul" has been said to evoke speakeasies, incense, head wraps and boho coffee shop culture all in one easy breath. It's nothing if not original. This is her first collaboration with the Philharmonic.
Badu is founder of the non-profit group B.L.I.N.D. (Beautiful Love Incorporated Non-Profit Development) which attempts to create positive social change through economic, artistic and cultural development. Among B.L.I.N.D.'s many accomplishments, the organization provided arts, crafts and dance classes to children displaced by Hurricane Katrina and has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to support student scholarship funds around the United States.
Tickets for any event may be purchased by calling the Brooklyn Phil Box Office at 718-488-5700, Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, by ordering online anytime at www.bphil.org, or by sending an email inquiry to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Carol Hymowitz and Margaret Collins
Sunday, 16 February 2014 04:36 PM
Employers are squeezing their workers' retirement savings, holding back on both the amount and the timing of 401(k) matching funds and dragging out vesting schedules. Taken together, these measures are making it more difficult to save for old age.
Major companies that have engaged in such practices in recent years include Whole Foods Market Inc., Facebook Inc., Oracle Corp., Caesars Entertainment Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The most frugal have been scaling back company matches and setting lower limits for the maximum annual payment they'll make to a 401(k) account, according to hundreds of government filings analyzed by Bloomberg. A difference of three percentage points on a match can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars lost for employees over the course of their careers.
"There's been an implicit contract for years and years -- workers save and companies match -- but now they're changing the rules," said Brigitte Madrian, a Harvard Kennedy School professor who studies retirement policy and corporate management. "Most individuals can't do it on their own. We're going in the wrong direction."
Companies including International Business Machines Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. say their 401(k) policies are partially dictated by bottom-line considerations and marketplace competition. Others say that when setting their 401(k) contributions, they consider a wide range of benefits and their costs as well as employee preferences, including health care, vacation policy and incentives such as performance bonuses, stock options and outright grants.
Choosing Benefits
"In addition to our 401(k) plan, we offer benefits that our more than 80,000 Team Members have the opportunity to actually vote on, including paying only $0-$15 per paycheck for health insurance premiums, robust store discounts, and paid time off that carries over," Mark Ehrnstein, global vice president of Team Member Services at Whole Foods, said in an e-mail. "We offer other benefits such as a broad-based stock plan that awards 95 percent of options to non-executives, and we have a gain-sharing program that rewards teams for labor productivity."
The advent of 401(k) retirement savings since the late 1970s was supposed to help secure and boost the retirement savings of baby boomers. The plans, originally conceived as a supplement to pensions, have since mostly replaced them. Workers can direct up to $17,500 of pretax income toward their 401(k)s this year and an additional $5,500 for those aged 50 and older.
Control, Portability
The investment industry has said for the past 30 years that 401(k)s are a big improvement over pensions, giving employees more investment choice, more control over retirement planning and more portability amid the frequent job changes of the modern workforce. That, at least, was the promise held out by the industry that now holds $4 trillion in retirement assets.
It hasn't worked out that way. The median balance in 401(k) and individual retirement accounts for households headed by people ages 55 to 64 who had accounts at work was just $120,000 in 2010, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
Those savings will provide only $4,800 a year, assuming seniors withdraw 4 percent annually, the amount recommended by retirement benefits experts to ensure retirees don't run out of money in their lifetimes. Financial planners say that retirees need savings of at least 10 times their annual income to live comfortably.
Cost Savings
Companies that adopted 401(k) plans have realized they can adjust them, tinkering with the plumbing and, in the process, costing workers millions in retirement savings. What's more, contributions aren't mandatory as they generally are in traditional pensions. Since 401(k) contributions are measured as a percentage of payroll, the savings from any cuts are realized immediately. Some employers are changing what they offer to lower their own expenses and improve profits.
That's what AOL Inc. tried last week when Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong announced the company would make 401(k) payments in one lump sum after the end of the year. When he blamed the change on spiraling health-care costs, including $2 million spent on care for "distressed babies" and the higher cost of benefits under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, employees cried foul. Within days, Armstrong apologized and AOL reversed its decision.
Delayed Contributions
The tiff at AOL provides a window into a growing practice among companies of quietly scaling back retirement contributions, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg. Many companies, including some major U.S. banks that sell investments to retirement plans, now delay their contributions to their employees' 401(k)s until early the following year, paid in one lump sum rather than through regular payroll checks. Those changes depress employees' compounded returns. And employees at some companies who change jobs before the end of the year wind up leaving company matches on the table.
"It's starting to feel like déjà vu at the start of the Great Recession," said Marcia Wagner, president of the Wagner Law Group, who specializes in employee benefits. "Right now employers are looking at cost savings and they are definitely looking at their 401(k) plans."
The corporate cutbacks are adding to employees' financial anxieties at a time when incomes are stagnant and even those earning low-six-figure incomes aren't accumulating enough retirement savings. A generation since the shift from company- funded pensions to mostly employee-funded 401(k) accounts, half of baby boomers aged 50 to 64 don't think they'll ever have enough to retire, according to a 2011 survey by the AARP.
Wide Variations
The details of retirement plans vary widely from company to company. A typical match is 3 percent of pay and requires the employee to contribute 6 percent to get that company money.
Facebook offered no company match in 2012 and 2013. Whole Foods provides an annual match of $152 based on a formula of 15.2 percent on the first $1,000 that workers contribute. That compares to more generous companies, such as the biotechnology company Amgen Inc., which contributes 5 percent of workers' salaries whether they contribute or not. The company also will match as much as another 5 percent of employee salary deferrals.
Facebook says it will decide each year at its discretion whether to make a contribution. The company plans to provide a match later this year "as part of a comprehensive set of benefits," said Facebook spokesman Tucker Bounds.
Whole Foods' Ehrnstein said his company's match was approved by 84 percent of its 80,000 employees.
Full Match
Kroger Co., the grocery store chain, is more generous than many companies. It matches 100 percent of the first 3 percent of workers' salary deferrals, plus 50 percent of the next 2 percent of workers' compensation. The company generally also pays an additional contribution of 1 percent to 2 percent based on tenure.
Kroger's 401(k) match program is a way to attract and retain employees and is "a reflection of our company values," said spokesman Keith Dailey.
Most employees have no idea how their company's plan stacks up against competitors because the details are buried in opaque government filings. While companies file reports annually to the Labor Department that are available online, they're difficult to access and the information provided isn't consistent.
Corporate tinkering with 401(k) plans accelerated in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. About 18 percent of 334 companies surveyed by consultant Towers Watson suspended or reduced contributions, a response to an urgent need to conserve cash. Yet when the liquidity crisis subsequently eased, about 23 percent of companies that reinstated company matches offered less generous contributions than before the recession.
Lower Match
Caesars Entertainment, the casino resorts and online gaming company, suspended its 401(k) match in 2009, when it was 50 percent of employee contributions up to 6 percent of pay, not exceeding the federal cap. When the company reinstated the match three months into 2012, the maximum contribution was $450 for that year, and it was $600 for all of 2013. Gary Thompson, a company spokesman, declined to comment on the change.
Hewlett-Packard lowered its match during the financial crisis from 6 percent to 4 percent, where it has stayed.
"The change was made to align with comparative companies," said HP spokesman Michael Thacker.
Huge Difference
A few percentage points up or down can make a huge difference come retirement day. A 25-year-old worker with a starting salary of $25,000 whose employer matched 3 percent would see his or her 401(k) balance reach about $624,000 if he or she saved consistently until age 65 and got 6 percent annual returns, according to calculations by Jack VanDerhei, research director at the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
All things being equal, that person would have about $812,000 -- or 30 percent more -- if his or her company matched 6 percent. The analysis assumes an annual wage growth of 3 percent so the worker's ending salary at age 65 is $81,550.
"Top executives with high compensation likely don't care what their company contributes to a 401(k), but for employees in the ranks it can mean the difference between financial security and scarcity in old age," said Mike Alfred, CEO of BrightScope, a San Diego firm that ranks retirement plans.
Some companies, especially small businesses, offer no match at all. The number of 401(k) plans that contribute declined 3 percent in 2012, according to a survey of government filings of more than 400,000 plans by American Investment Planners, a financial adviser in Jericho, New York.
Vesting Periods
Companies also save costs through lengthy vesting requirements, forcing employees who leave to forfeit unvested contributions. Employees at Oracle, for instance, are 25 percent vested after one year of employment, another 25 percent after a second year and only fully vested after four years. In 2012, Oracle used $3 million in nonvested payments to offset its matching contribution obligations, according to government filings. An Oracle spokeswoman, Deborah Hellinger, declined to comment.
Another form of skimping occurs when companies delay 401(k) matches until the end of the year or early the following year. IBM shifted last year to a lump-sum payment. Workers who left the company before Dec. 15 didn't get their match for the year.
"Younger workers who tend to be more mobile are really going to get hammered by this," Harvard's Madrian said of delayed matches and long vesting schedules. While the amounts left on the table may only total a few thousand dollars, over the course of decades of compounding and investing, they have the potential to significantly enhance retirement portfolios, Madrian said.
Financial Giants
Many large financial institutions also delay matches. Among these are Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley. Citigroup and Goldman in e-mails said employees who leave during the year get the portion of the match owed. Morgan Stanley's spokesman Matt Burkhard declined to comment.
JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank, began delaying matching contribution payouts in 2009. The company, which sells investments to retirement plans, urges savers to "Invest early and often," in a J.P. Morgan Asset Management website.
The bank waited until January 2014 to match retirement deferrals its own workers' made last year. The bank employed about 7,500 fewer people at the end of December than a year earlier, according to its fourth-quarter earnings filing. Employees who left the bank because their positions were eliminated got their matching contributions even if they weren't employed on Dec. 31; JPMorgan declined to comment on the exact number, according to spokeswoman Jennifer Kim.
Meanwhile, the bank gave 6 percent of salary up to $600 to U.S. employees' 401(k)s if they earned less than $60,000 a year. The award was made to employees with at least one year of service at the end of 2013. The program has been in place for at least two years and the bank hopes to continue it, Kim said.
"It's ironic that the very financial companies that earn fees by sponsoring 401(k)s are themselves cutting back on contributions for their employees," said Teresa Ghilarducci, an economist at the New School. "Even as they tell people to save more."
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PHILADELPHIA - If any of his fellow Flyers were suffering from pre-game jitters Sunday, Claude Giroux knew how to calm them down - scare them silly.
Giroux, overtly optimistic the day before, adopted a different posture just prior to the start of Game 6 of this first-round survival test against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
'He got this thing in his eyes where (it was), 'You can't stop me,'' Max Talbot said.
Or, to put it another way… 'He was possessed,' Danny Briere added.
But after Giroux first set the tone, then dominated the game at both ends of the ice in leading the Flyers to a 5-1 elimination of the Penguins, it was coach Peter Laviolette who best described the change that has come over his top center turned franchise player.
'His game tonight was monstrous, it really was,' Laviolette said of Giroux. 'When the best player in the world comes up to you and tells you, 'I don't know who you're planning on starting tonight, but I want that first shift,' that says everything you need to know about Claude Giroux right there.'
It might have been only the first round of the playoffs - and an opponent remains to be determined for the Eastern Conference semifinals - but Giroux's performance on this day did call for a ceremonial passing of the global hockey torch.
Not only did Giroux score a goal and help set up two others, he was a main component in a team-wide effort to shut down Crosby - previously known as 'the best player in the world' - and highly talented cohorts Evgeni Malkin and Jordan Staal.
Giroux didn't waste any time in enacting a plan to quite literally grab the spotlight from Crosby. Just after the first drop of the puck, Giroux went hunting for Crosby. He caught him at the Penguins blue line, then belted him with a legal if not lethal shoulder check, sending Crosby flailing to the ice.
Seconds later, Steve Sullivan turned the puck over and Giroux was right on it, moving in and firing a wrist shot from the left circle that beat Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury all of 32 seconds into the game.
That fast, Claude Giroux had changed the course of this series for good.
'Ten seconds before the (first) puck dropped he came over and told me, 'Watch the first shift,'' Briere said. 'When he did what he did, I didn't even know what to say to him. He's been our leader the whole year and he took another step in that direction today.'
'When you see a guy like (Giroux) and he's not afraid to throw his weight around … it kind of shows that everybody has to be physical,' defenseman Matt Carle said. 'So he's a leader in that respect. And that opening hit kind of set the tone for our team. When he's going to be hitting their captain, everybody has to get going. And then for him to score right after that, it was icing on the cake.'
Of course, as impressive as that first half-minute was for Giroux, he was seriously testing fate -- the team that scored first lost the previous five games of the series. Judging by the roar of the crowd in appreciation of Giroux's amazing first half-minute, though, it was easy to forget that odd little stat.
Maybe everybody could see that little look in Giroux's eye.
'Well, it wasn't planned to hit Crosby,' Giroux said. 'It's just sometimes when you have a chance to hit another player you just have to go out there and do it. I was able to do it (on the) first shift.'
With Giroux's help, Scott Hartnell and rookie defenseman Erik Gustafsson scored to establish an early three-goal lead for the Flyers. Briere then all-but iced it by scoring just 36 seconds after Malkin did in the second period, thereby keeping the momentum in the Flyers' favor.
Brayden Schenn would end it with an empty net goal, but it had become obvious early in the third period that even the gifted Penguins weren't going to be allowed to lay down any real threats.
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'Blocking 40 shots,' Laviolette said, 'I'm not sure I've seen that (before).'
The Flyers welcomed a little luck in the game, too. They took a 2-0 lead after Giroux pushed a puck toward Fleury, who thought he had it covered, but it squirted loose in the crease. Hartnell dove stick-first, poking it out from under Fleury and into the net for a power play goal at 13:01 of the first period.
Then Fleury flubbed one, something he'd done earlier in the series. This time, an unscreened, 40-foot softie from defenseman Erik Gustafsson curled under Fleury's arm at 5:25 of the second for a 3-0 lead.
Just over three minutes later, however, Malkin got free on the power play, closed and beat Bryzgalov with a wicked shot. But all of 34 seconds later, fortune struck again when Briere took a nearly 90-degree shot that hit off Fleury, bounced off Penguins defender Zbynek Michalek and dribbled back into the net.
It was 4-1, there was still more than half the game to play ... but it didn't take a long look into Claude Giroux's eyes to guess that the series was over.
'Anything you do, you want to be the best at it,' Giroux said. 'If that's to score goals, do hits or block shots, whatever it is, I am going to try and do it.'
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Expresso Fitness' S2r recumbent stationary bike comes equipped with interactive fitness capabilities. Like the company's upright bikes (including the S2u), the bike fuses Web-based exergaming features with a customized workout experience. It includes advanced hardware and software while providing riders a low-profile machine and a 19-inch wide screen for viewing the virtual biking tours and chases. Additional features include an ergonomic seat and back rest that accommodate a wide range of rider types, and a lower walk-through design that enhances stability and allows riders to easily get on and off the machine. The handles of the bike come equipped with integrated steering and shifting mechanisms.
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The Aquatic Play Feature Handbook provides guidance on how to operate and manage facilities that have water park-type features. The handbook concentrates on risk reduction to the users, the employees and the facility itself. It describes the different types of play features and discusses the unique considerations to operate them, proper maintenance of water quality, and management and operations. Other critical topics include how to deal with cloudy water, excessively high water bills, high sanitizer/oxidizer consumption, short filter runs, maintaining automated control systems, management of water and of water chemistry, and play-feature operational considerations. The full-color, 76-page handbook is illustrated and retails for $19.95.
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Athletes' Oasis allows users to stay hydrated while walking or running without impeding the rhythm of their workout. Athletes' Oasis containers are used in both hands, so body balance is maintained. The patented trigger release allows users to open and close their drinking valves easily, so they never have to slow down to take a sip of their water or energy drink. The product features add-on weights to add resistance.
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Life Fitness' Classic Cardio Series includes the Classic Series Treadmill, Elliptical Cross-Trainer, Upright Lifecycle Exercise Bike and Recumbent Lifecycle Exercise Bike. With a contemporary industrial design and high-performing durability, the equipment is built with comfort and ease of use in mind.
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Carrying a membership identification card when going to swim, work out or jog can be inconvenient. A card also can be easy for members to lose. Biometric Fingerprint ID Technology simplifies the member-verification process. The system helps members enter a club without the hassle of carrying, locating and displaying a membership card. It also cuts the costs involved in manufacturing new cards and replacing lost cards, as well as eliminates the fraudulent use of cards by nonmembers. Club members enroll by placing a finger on the reader, which is then converted into a number, so the fingerprint is never stored. Enrollment is typically done at member sign-up.
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Pool and Spa Adhesive is flexible and convenient. The two-part, high-strength, fast-drying white adhesive is made for plastic and metal bonding. Its average setting time is 10 minutes, and it cures under water. The adhesive can be used to repair filters, leaking PVC pipes, light housings and more, without having to drain water or remove an object from the water. Application and mixing require a manual dispense gun and static mixer.
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Nutrition Tools
Balance Bands are a strategic tool designed to remind people to consume at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. The product includes five elastic bands, worn on the right wrist. Throughout the day, each time users have a serving of fruits or vegetables, they move one band to their left wrist. It's a game, and the goal is to get all five bands on their left wrist by bedtime. Perfect for fitness facility members and clients, the basic set includes five bands and an instructional booklet with tips, information on portion sizes and rules of the game. Balance Bands are available for women, men and kids.
Contact: Balance Bands; e-mail: [email protected]; www.balancebands.com.
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Viper MX is a multi-mode rope climber and features three exercise modes: vertical rope-climbing mode, diagonal rope-pulling mode and horizontal rope-pulling mode. Users can easily switch between modes with a simple and safe one-step carriage move. Each mode provides a distinct set of cardio and strength workouts that emphasizes different muscle groups in users' arms, back, chest and core. The longer bench allows various positions closer or farther away from the climber, enabling longer or shorter hand strokes, along with accommodating a wide variety of users. Viper MX also provides seven rope resistance settings and an electronic display to keep track of distance, time, speed and calories. The unit is compact, lightweight and easy to move around.
Contact: Marpo Kinetics Inc.; phone: 925-337-4205; www.marpokinetics.com.
Whagaa Software delivers a state-of-the-art, complete mobile-training solution that utilizes video/audio on handheld devices such as Smartphones, iPods and PDA's. Applications include gym/home fitness, running, cycling, golf and more. Whagaa can customize software for corporate wellness programs, fitness clubs, hotel gyms and golf courses, creating a cutting-edge advantage against competitors.
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I had a bit of a ruff night sleeping as the back was still bothering me. I slept on heating pads most of the night. I knew i had a busy day ahead of me so i took some more pain meds and got my day started. The grands were up by 7.30 AM and our day was started. The wind blew a bit but It warmed up and ended up being a beautiful day.
We had a surprise 50th birthday party for hubby. The grands kept Papa busy so Gram could get things going before everyone showed up. Thanks Toby and Hailey you did a excellent job keeping Papa away.
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We spent the rest of the evening resting from a very busy, tiring and wonderful weekend. It is so good to be back home with our family and friends.