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According to Harvard Professor Dan Gilbert (the guy in the new Prudential ads), life in retirement may not be what you imagine. Instead, it's better "to look at other people who are in the very future you're imagining." So let's have a look at what research has to say about retirement living to see whether it resembles our vision of the golden years.
Retirement is an abstract concept until it happens. You develop a routine of driving to work, interacting with coworkers, addressing challenges and finishing projects. Then you drive back home again, have dinner, relax, then wake up and go to work. But what happens when you quit your routine? How easy is it to establish new habits and take on new challenges? What do people actually do when they retire?
Financial advisors spend a lot of time helping clients become financially prepared for retirement. But retirement isn't just about money. It's about using the money to get the most out of a unique life stage that involves a huge increase in free time that needs to be filled, a greater reliance on social interaction, spending a lot more time with your partner (and, unfortunately, without for those who outlive their spouse) and predictable physical and mental decline.
This is a new area of research, but there are a number of studies that give us a much clearer picture of life in retirement. Understanding what others do in old age and what makes them happy can help us develop strategies that are most likely to result in a satisfying retirement.
There are two basic theories of retirement living. The first is continuity theory. According to continuity theory, retirement is a potentially stressful life change. If we try to maintain our environment—our home, city, friends, activities—then we'll be happier in retirement than if we try to break out of our routine too quickly. The second is activity theory. Starting anew forces us to break out of old habits, establish new routines, meet new people, and create a new lifestyle that isn't just normal life without the work.
The good news is that we have data that can help us test these theories.
What you do and how much you do it can have a big impact on retirement satisfaction. For those pining for a relaxed retirement, the news isn't good. A significant reduction in activity is associated with lower satisfaction (controlling for health effects). It is, in fact, better to burn out than it is to rust.
Those who listed maintaining an active lifestyle as a goal did much better. Active leisure activities and social contact, and in particular activities that require some skill but were not overly difficult, resulted in a more satisfying retirement. So don't watch TV, but do travel, exercise, meet regularly with friends, and engage in activities that require some (but not too much) mental and physical effort. And creating a routine, for example by volunteering weekly to help grade-schoolers learn reading skills, ensures that you won't forget to maintain rewarding mental challenges.
If you're more active, you tend to be happier in retirement. But part of this correlation is to be expected. Unhealthy, less active people often have to retire earlier and are not surprisingly less happy during retirement. It turns out that the strongest predictor of retirement satisfaction is almost always health. Making an investment in one's health, for example through regular exercise and a prudent diet, is just as important as investing money for retirement. As we'll see from other research, it may be even more important to invest in health and maintain close friendships and hobbies than it is to arrive at retirement with a stack of cash.
Retirement Stages
Some see retirement as a set of transitions that are affected by physical and mental decline, or the so-called "go-go, go-slow and no-go" stages identified in Michael K. Stein's The Prosperous Retirement: Guide to the New Reality.
These stages and their impact on projected retirement spending make intuitive sense. We start out retirement in good health and make the most out of it by traveling and enjoying life to its fullest; we begin to slow down as our bodies and minds become less capable of handling more vigorous activity; and finally we reach a stage where we become more dependent on others in advanced age. Studies of spending in retirement are consistent with the retirement stages idea. David Blanchett, head of retirement research at Morningstar, has identified a so-called retirement spending smile pattern where retiree spending is highest in the earliest and latest stages.
Research on time use backs this up as well. Both men and women increase their active leisure time in their late 60s and early 70s (things like playing golf, having lunch with friends, cleaning the house) but then begin cutting back after 75. Among active leisure activities, time spent on sports activities increased only by about 15 minutes and on hobbies by about 20 minutes on average between age 65 and 74 and then begins to fall again to near pre-retirement levels. So much for using retirement to while away the days sailing or working on your stamp collection.
What does increase? Passive leisure (like watching TV) and personal activities such as bathing, dressing and receiving medical care. In other words, the types of activities that do not tend to show up in financial services ads showing healthy, vibrant retirees surfing, playing golf or taking long walks on the beach.
It's also important to remember that wealthier retirees have more access to goods and services that help them spend more time in active leisure. You're more likely to walk on the beach if you live near one. You're going to be more social if you move into a retirement condo or have the means to eat at restaurants. There's no sailing if you don't have a sailboat. Given that a third of retirees get most of their income from Social Security, leisure opportunities might be limited.
Joseph Heider, managing principal for Rehmann Financial in Westlake Ohio, agrees that spending does seem to follow a predictable pattern. In early retirement, "they go through the phase of fulfilling their dreams, and that phase generally will last five to even 20 years." This phase is followed by a stage where clients develop a retirement lifestyle routine. "They're still very active," notes Heider, "but how many times can you go to the wine country in France?" Although they may still travel, "it's much more toned down, and it tends to revolve around family."
The later stage of retirement living often involves an inevitable decline in abilities and possibly the death of a spouse. "Because of physical or mental limitations," says Heider, "they tend to lead a sedentary life where they may get out a little bit from time to time, they still may be living on their own, but outside of health expenses their budgets tend to go down." Health expenses are what create the retirement "spending smile"—at least in the United States (other industrialized countries with pooled long-term health protection will see a "spending smirk").
Gilbert points out that our satisfaction with retirement may be related to the irreversible nature of the condition. If we decide to just slow down and take occasional part-time employment at age 65, we may not be as content with retirement because we are constantly reassessing our other options. Those who consciously choose to retire at a certain date and buy into the permanence of the new life condition may actually be more happy than those who choose to hold on to the possibility of rejoining the workforce.
This resonates with what Heider has seen among his clients. Those who are able to leave their job life behind and start a new life are often better off in retirement than those who try to hang on. This means not tying your identity to your job. Being a CPA or an engineer "wasn't who they were, it's one of the things that they did. So when they retire they look at it as they just entered a new phase of life rather than that they had just given up their identity." Although keeping a foot in the door of your old profession provides more options for a retiree and can create a sense of purpose, many don't consider the tradeoff in retirement living. According to Heider, "they want to hang on because their identity is wrapped in what they do and what they've done and they're miserable."
This can help explain the remarkable measured happiness of retirees with lower income and fewer skills. They don't have anyone phoning them up asking them to take on just one more project—they now see themselves as retired and their lack of choice fits well with our brain's ability to "simulate" satisfaction with one's current condition.
Gilbert is most well known for his research that shows how we tend to overproject how much happier we will be in the future if we, for example, have more money and are able to take around-the-world cruises or buy a villa on the beach in retirement. It is then a little ironic that Gilbert was hired by a financial services firm, since his research on "impact bias" points out that we might be prone to oversave for retirement by imagining ourselves living like the happy older couples on the beach in commercials, when in fact we might be just as happy with a more modest (and permanent) existence. And in his newest commercials, he encourages viewers to imagine doing "what you love" by becoming a writer or a baker when his own research suggests that we might overproject the amount of happiness we'd get from such a major life change.
Research by University of Wisconsin professor Keith Bender gives us a clearer idea of what creates a satisfying retirement. As expected, being forced to retire is a prescription for an unhappy retirement. Men are less satisfied than women in retirement. If one spouse is still working, this has a negative impact on the satisfaction of the one who isn't still working (an argument that couples should coordinate retirement). Married retirees are better off, which perhaps argues against the rise in divorce among empty nesters. Consistent with Gilbert's hypothesis that we tend to become more satisfied when we accept our current state, retirement satisfaction increases as we get older. Retirees who may be initially unhappy with their new lifestyle may actually learn to enjoy it later on.
Financial Factors
The real surprises relate to the complex influence of money on retirement. More wealth does lead to greater happiness in retirement, but the relationship actually starts to decline at high levels of wealth (about $2.3 million). This does make some sense if managing an amount greater than most can reasonably spend in retirement becomes a burden.
Retirees with annuitized income are also more satisfied. The amount of satisfaction retirees get from each dollar of Social Security and pension income is exactly the same — and is higher than the amount of satisfaction gained from a dollar earned from other sources of income. Retirees who rely solely on a defined contribution plan to fund retirement are significantly less satisfied with retirement. The importance of automatic retirement income is consistent with my own studies on declining cognitive abilities in advanced age as well as the simple intuition that managing an investment portfolio and deriving an appropriate income takes work that might be better delegated to a pension manager or automated through the purchase of an annuity.
One of the reasons very wealthy retirees might not be happier is that they don't bother to actually spend their savings before they die. Urban Institute researchers Karen Smith, Mauricio Soto and Rudolph Penner looked more closely at how retirees spent their savings throughout retirement and found some interesting differences between the wealthy and the middle class.
It turns out that the wealthiest retirees actually tend to increase their asset holdings well into their 80s. Middle income retirees seem to do a pretty good job of conservatively spending down their assets over time. The richest retirees draw down their defined contribution assets (because they have to) but they don't seem to spend much more than less wealthy retirees. This result is consistent with older analyses that also find no evidence that retirees actually follow the conventional advice to spend a safe percentage of their wealth each year in retirement. They seem to just watch it grow.
This, of course, leads to the question — why did you accumulate the money in the first place? Isn't the point of spending less and carefully investing during our working years so that we can live better in retirement?
Part of the problem may be that we have a hard time spending our assets, but no trouble spending our Social Security or a pension. This may also help explain why pension income leads to far more satisfaction than income derived from wealth. We feel guilty spending $5,000 from an investment account to pay for a cruise but have no trouble paying for it with our pension and Social Security.
Although old age does lead to predictable declines in our senses, physical and mental abilities, more recent retirees are living longer and more active lifestyles than in the past. Studies show that a greater percentage of 80-year-olds are able to lift a five-pound weight or walk up a flight of stairs than in the past, and this increase in physical ability seems to be getting better with each generation. Improved physical abilities mean that the active stage of retirement will last longer, so the go-go period might not end at 75.
Part of delaying our no-go phase can be attributed to advances in medical science. Heider has seen this change among his own clients. "Forty years ago people couldn't get hip joint replacements or knee replacements at older ages." Before advances in medical sciences, deteriorating body parts would limit what an older person could do in retirement. Thankfully, that's no longer the case. "I notice that once they have those kinds of surgeries they tend to be more mobile, they look better, they're more engaged, they're happier," says Heider.
So how does a clearer vision of the golden years help an advisor develop a retirement living strategy? It does help to imagine what retirement life will look like. When you decide to retire, buy into it as a new lifestyle. Use money to live somewhere where you're most likely to be social and spend time in active leisure. Develop your hobbies and friendships while you're still working so you know how to get the most out of life without work. Consider turning retirement assets into a regular flow of income. And face the fact that we will decline physically and mentally later in retirement.
Most importantly, remember that money alone doesn't buy a happy retirement. Perhaps the most valuable resource you get from retirement is more time. How are you going to use it?
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NPR | National Guard Members Struggle To Keep Civilian Careers
NPR — along with seven public radio stations around the country — is chronicling the lives of America's troops where they live. We're calling the project "Back at Base." This is the third of four reports this week about the National Guard. A version of this story has appeared on KPBS.org.
The National Guard is a reserve force that can be mobilized in a crisis, but soldiers in the Guard have to support themselves with a civilian job. Many veterans find it challenging to transition from military to civilian life, but those in the National Guard have to balance the two worlds simultaneously. North County Bureau Editor Alison St John tells us how that's playing out for two National Guardsmen in San Diego.
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Mass. Gov. pressed to name Frank to Kerry seat
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Liberal groups have launched twin online petitions aimed at pressuring Gov. Deval Patrick to temporarily name former congressman Barney Frank to U.S. Sen. John Kerry's seat if Kerry is confirmed as secretary of state.
Asked Thursday if the petitions will affect his decision, Patrick said that it wouldn't and that everyone he's spoken to about the possible interim appointment is well qualified.
"Look, if I made the list public, you'd probably have a whole bunch of petitions because they're very, very able people," he said.
Frank's outspoken reputation has captured the imagination of liberal groups, however.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which helped raise money for Democrat Elizabeth Warren during her successful Senate campaign, has launched a new website and online petition.
The petition points to potential cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and says, "We can't afford to have our other senator be lukewarm, undecided, or uncertain."
"We need someone who we are 100 percent confident will fight right alongside (Warren)," the petition adds.
The website SignOn.org, affiliated with the liberal activist group MoveOn.org, which also raised money for Warren, has posted a similar petition saying, "We can't think of anyone who would do a better job over the next few months than Barney Frank."
"Barney will take on conservative Republicans in Congress who want to cut Social Security and Medicare and play politics with the full faith and credit of the United States," the petition says.
Frank, who opted not to run for re-election after a 32-year career in the U.S. House, has taken the unusual step of publicly lobbying for the interim post.
"I'm very well suited to do it," Frank said last week. "You're not going to have a long period to get acquainted with things."
Patrick confirmed that he was considering Frank and believed he would make a "great interim senator," but added that he has talked to other people about the position as well.
If Kerry's nomination is confirmed, Patrick must appoint someone to fill Kerry's seat until a special election is held. That special election would be scheduled for about five months after the Democrat's resignation.
It would be the third Senate election in Massachusetts since 2010.
Patrick has said he won't reveal his pick for interim senator until Kerry's resignation is official. Kerry, who was nominated to the top diplomatic post by President Barack Obama, isn't expected to run into serious opposition from his fellow senators during the confirmation process.
Others mentioned as possible interim senators include Michael Dukakis, the former governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, and Victoria Kennedy, widow of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy.
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Risky business; the 2012 fire season is off to a bad start
It is the first week of summer and the Eastern Sierra is almost 50 percent drier than average for this time of year.
A bark beetle infestation on June Mountain and in the Sherwin Range above Mammoth stands red and dry as an old bone. It won't take much to start a fire there.
An unprecedented invasion of cheat grass up and down the Eastern Sierra valleys and rangelands (this began five years ago in response to changes in weather and/or climate patterns) exploded even more last year, after the historic wet winter of 2010-11. The now-dry grasses carpet vast areas of the Eastside that firefighters once thought immune to fires.
A century of misguided federal fire suppression policy has left the Eastern Sierra full of historic levels of fuels—trees, grasses, and vegetation that can carry fires from one place to another fast—and as prone to fires as the rest of the country.
And it's only June.
"It's August out there right now," said Mammoth Lakes Fire Marshall/Division Chief Thom Heller. And it's not just a local problem.
"We are seeing fire events in places now not seen in recorded time," he said, pointing to the series of massive fires in the Reno area, to a giant fire still burning in New Mexico, to another in Colorado. No one has ever seen fires like these, he said, not in these places at this time of year, not this big.
Jeff Iler, the Fire Management Officer for the Inyo National Forest and the Bishop Bureau of Land Management Interagency Fire Center, is equally blunt.
"The number of Red Flag warnings we have already had is unprecedented for this time of year," he said. "The Palmer Drought index has given the Eastern Sierra a rating of Extreme Drought and fuel moistures are at historical low levels. A 20-year average is 12 percent. Last year, it was 13 percent. This year, we are at 7 percent."
Iler watches over a giant landscape stretching from the Conway Summit area to Olancha and the hotter, drier southern end of his area of responsibility, in particular, has seen fire danger explode due to the invasive cheat grass noted above.
"And the John Fire, in Lone Pine last year, was carried by cheat grass. A few years ago, that fire probably could not have happened."
He echoed Heller.
"Even a big log could burn right now, if ignited with a cigarette. That doesn't normally happen (larger fuels, like large logs, can typically resist ignition from small sources, if they are not bone-dry like they are now). It's August."
The National Weather Service predicts this summer will be drier than usual. Temperatures have already been several degrees warmer than normal—how many times has Mammoth almost hit 90 degrees in June—and even the normal monsoons that sweep up from the Gulf of Mexico that bring rain to the Eastern Sierra in late June and early July are a question mark.
It all comes down to one thing.
"Everyone is going to have to do their part," said Heller.
"Even something as simple as doing yard work, hitting a rock with a shovel and creating a spark that jumps into dry grass could start a fire now," he said.
Lightening starts about 70 percent of fires in the Eastern Sierra. The rest are human-caused. It's imperative residents and visitors are aware that even things they normally can "get away with" are no longer safe to do.
"Parking your car with a hot catalytic converter on top of grasses, like the cheat grasses, could start a fire now," said Iler. "The John Fire was started by a weedwhacker. Cutting wood with a chainsaw up in the Mammoth area could start a fire if you are not careful."
But all is not lost. Even with the admittedly dangerous potential for fires this year, Iler is not ready to cry doomsday.
"There are always so many factors we don't know about," he said. "I've learned that just about the time we say it's going to be the worst fire season ever, something changes and the fire season drops out."
But he also is not taking any chances.
"We have been fully staffed and geared up for months, now," he said. "The interagency fire program has nine engines, two water tenders, three handcrews, one light helicopter, and nine patrols currently on."
And the Eastern Sierra has a big ace in its pocket this week that it didn't have a few weeks ago: two big firefighting aircrafts.
"In addition, we have requested and have just received confirmation that a Type 1 Helitanker (Sikorsky SkyCrane) and a Single Engine Airtanker (SEAT) will be positioned at the Bishop Airport Reload Base for the fire season, starting this week," he said.
Only four such helicopters (the Sikorsky is a giant helicopter) have been recently added to the federal fire fighting resource base, according to a national press release, so it's something of an honor to host the plane.
The Sikorsky and the airtanker are both used to dump fire retardant on fires, considered to be one of the most effective ways to fight wildfires.
That doesn't mean the aircraft are for the Eastern Sierra's use only. They are a federal resource and can be sent wherever they are most needed.
Heller, too, is guardedly optimistic. He and Mammoth Lakes Fire Chief Brent Harper and the rest of the department firefighters are responsible for all of the land within the boundaries of Mammoth Lakes, as well as south to the airport and north to the Crestview rest area. Other volunteer-driven fire departments, like Lee Vining and Long Valley, take over for their respective "spheres of influence." If a fire begins on community or private land, the local departments are the lead agency. If it begins on federal land, the forest service and BLM—Iler, in other words—are in charge.
For the past decade or so, the Mammoth Lakes Fire Department has been working with individual property owners to create "defensible space" around private homes and businesses—an area between 10 feet and 100 feet wide around a building that is relatively free of vegetation that can carry a travelling fire. Other local fire departments have done the same.
Their efforts are beginning to pay off, Heller said.
"We have done a lot of work in the Mammoth area already that will make it much harder for an incoming fire to start a home on fire," he said. In addition, the fire department and the forest service have been reducing fuels around the community, clearing brush from places like Mammoth Creek, removing dead and down trees from the edges of the community, and more. Mammoth's close brush with a big fire, the Rainbow Fire 20 years ago this summer, was a wakeup call and it's been heeded, he said.
It's an ongoing effort that will never be completely done, he said, and no one believes it is cheap. It's not. It's labor intensive and slow.
But the alternative is to not do it.
In that case, property owners are taking a risk.
"We do a kind of triage, if a fire is imminent," Heller said. "If there are three homes at risk and one doesn't have any defensible space around it, that's the one we are least likely to be able to save. So if resources are limited, we will save the homes that the property owner cares enough about to do the work."
He reiterated what he said earlier.
"Everyone is going to have to do their part this summer."


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Global growth is expected to lag this year and next, but for the first time in a long time, it's not all Europe's fault.
That's the view of a leading international economic body, which said Tuesday that a slowdown in emerging economies and the potential for another U.S. budget crisis are the main sources of concern for the global economy.
In its half-yearly forecast, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development lowered its forecast for global growth this year to 2.7 percent and 3.6 percent for next. In May, it had predicted 3.1 percent and 4 percent growth, respectively.
"We can't get (the world economy) out of first gear," said Angel Gurria, the secretary general of the organization, which brings together the world's most developed economies.
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Just as the economy of the 17-country eurozone is emerging from its longestever recession brought on by a debt crisis, other economies are beginning to slow.
Emerging markets, which have helped shore up global growth in recent years, are beginning to lag, partially over fears that a pickup in the U.S. economy will spell the end of cheap credit.
"The BRIICS (Brazil, Russia,
India, Indonesia, China, South Africa) have been big machines of growth, they were pulling the world, and they are decelerating," said Gurria.
Among those economies, Indonesia, for instance, is projected to grow 5.2 percent this year and 5.6 percent next. In May, the OECD was predicting at least 6 percent growth for both years. In India, the growth projection for this year has slid from 5.7 percent to 3.4 percent.
The Fed
The Federal Reserve has pumped trillions of dollars into the U.S. economy in an attempt to keep interest rates low and get money flowing. The stimulus, which has been going on in various guises for years, has also helped sustain growth in emerging countries. Now businesses there are bracing themselves for the policy's end.
The OECD also cautioned about the impact of another damaging fight over the U.S. budget. A little over a month ago, the U.S. narrowly avoided technically defaulting on some of its debts following a protracted and often dysfunctional battle in Congress over the budget and the raising over the debt ceiling.
"Brinkmanship over fiscal policy in the United States remains a key risk and uncertainty," Pier Carlo Padoan, the OECD's chief economist, wrote in a commentary accompanying the report.
Suggestion made
The OECD recommended that the U.S. scrap its policy of capping borrowing with a debt ceiling and instead come up with a more reasoned plan to reduce debt.
But with the risk that the U.S. won't come up with such a plan in mind, the OECD slightly lowered its expectations for U.S. growth, saying GDP would rise 1.7 percent this year and 2.9 percent next.
The eurozone, on the other hand, is beginning to improve, the OECD said, although risks remain. It predicted that, overall, the eurozone will shrink 0.4 percent this year, as compared with the 0.6 percent slide forecast in May.
But the report warned that the recovery is uneven, and unemployment won't begin to fall — from very high levels — until next year.
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I put a lot of effort into it and noticed it starting to dust in the corner of my desktop.
Wondering what to do with it I decided to just post it here.
It's a quite challenging Tower defence game, but you should be fine as long as you don't get irritated by the german names
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Paul caps five-run second inning; righty ties career high with 10 K's
MIAMI -- A five-run rally and nine strong innings from Homer Bailey helped the Reds start their nine-game road trip on a positive note.
Xavier Paul's bases-clearing double capped a five-run second inning that gave Bailey all the support he would need, as the Reds beat the Marlins, 6-2, before 14,694 at Marlins Park on Tuesday night.
"He saved my bullpen," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "That's a great way to start a road trip. We have eight more to go and those guys are fresh."
The early five-run frame allowed Bailey to pitch aggressively, and he allowed just one run over the final eight innings. The right-hander held the Marlins to a pair of runs on six hits to earn the complete-game win.
"I've had two or three games this year where I felt like I could've gone nine," Bailey said. "Today, we jumped out ahead, and with that kind of lead, I was just trying to be aggressive."
Bailey had thrown 103 pitches through eight innings, and Baker had All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman warming in the bullpen in case his starter could not finish the game. The veteran manager admitted it was difficult to watch Bailey's pitch count climb as he went for his fourth career complete game.
"This guy never wants to come out," Baker said. "His last start, he only went five innings. He struggled some that game. Complete games are hard to come by. Most guys don't care about them, but the competitors do. We were monitoring his pitches and asked him how he felt after the seventh and eighth. He said he was fine and we were keeping an eye on the radar gun, too."
Bailey threw 125 pitches on the night, his last one being a powerful 97-mph fastball that induced a Greg Dobbs lineout to short. The right-hander tied a career high with 10 strikeouts and picked up his first complete game against an opponent other than the Pirates. His previous three were all thrown at PNC Park.
The Reds wasted little time supporting Bailey against Marlins starter Ricky Nolasco, collecting a run on three hits in the first inning. Zack Cozart opened the threat with a one-double and came around to score on a Brandon Phillips single.
But the Marlins answered in the bottom of the first, scoring a run on Derek Dietrich's RBI single. The rookie's base hit drove home Juan Pierre, who doubled to lead off the inning. Dietrich, who had two of the six hits against Bailey, has hit safely in all four big league games to date and turned in his second consecutive multi-hit performance.
Cincinnati's offense continued to succeed against Nolasco, loading the bases in the second thanks to a pair of hits by Ryan Hanigan and Cozart sandwiching Shin-Soo Choo's MLB-leading 12th hit-by-pitch.
The Reds took advantage of some poor command by the Marlins starter, scoring two runs as Nolasco walked both Joey Votto and Phillips with two outs and the bases loaded to give Cincinnati a 3-1 lead.
"One out away, frustrating," Nolasco said. "Been doing a good job of staying away from the one big crooked inning all year. It got me today. Votto gave me a real good at-bat, laid off some good pitches. Pulling the front side with Phillips and the next guy there puts the ball in a good spot there in left with that wind just carrying it that way."
That next guy was Paul. The 28-year-old doubled the Reds' score with a three-run double to left that put them ahead, 6-1.
"Ricky Nolasco usually has great control, and he was off some in that inning," Baker said. "He walked in a couple of runs, which I've never seen him do, and then came that big double by X. I would have liked to score some more, but their bullpen held us down. We'll take a five-run inning any time we could get."
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In the Czech Republic, our main Christmas celebration is tomorrow, on 24th December, Christmas Eve.
My family starts the day with some light breakfast, for lunch, we have 'kuba' – a meal made out of mushrooms, groats and garlic. We then go for a long walk, which we finish visiting a cemetery to light up candles for those, who are still in our hearts but no longer with us.
Our main food of the day is Christmas dinner, which usually consists of some fish soup, which I absolutely hated as a child 🙈, a fried carp and some yummy potato salad.
Carp is a traditional Czech Christmas meal, which symbolises Christianity.
We open presents after dinner. After we hear a bell ring coming from the living room. That's to let us know that Ježíšek (baby Jesus) has visited and left us something underneath the Christmas tree.
I still remember that sense of wonder when I saw the decorated Christmas tree. My parents would decorate it the day before Christmas Eve, lock up the room and let us, kids, see it for the very first time after the Christmas dinner.
There was something magical in those sprinkling lights reflected in glass baubles. I absolutely loved it. That sense of surprise mixed with anticipation. Feeling giddy with excitement. It's one of my favourite memories I cherish dearly.
Regardless if you celebrate Christmas or not, I wish you all a very peaceful holiday full of wonderful moments we people you care about.
Happy Holidays my friends. ❤❤❤


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Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has denied the prison system is in crisis despite concerns about violence and the suicide rate behind bars.
The Cabinet minister acknowledged that the service is facing "pressures" and is having to cope with an increased number of prisoners, but insisted "we are meeting those challenges".
However, Prison Governors Association president Eoin McLennan Murray said staff shortages mean it is impossible for some jails to run a "safe, decent regime".
Last month, figures released by the Ministry of Justice painted a bleak picture of English and Welsh jails, with high levels of violence, including attacks on prison staff hitting the highest level for six years.
But Mr Grayling told the BBC: "We've actually got a prison estate where violence today is at a lower level than it was five years ago. We've got challenges from an increased population that was not expected in the last 12 months.
"We are meeting those challenges, we are recruiting more staff - but I'm absolutely clear there is not a crisis in our prisons.
"There are pressures which we are facing but there is not a crisis."
He said cost-cutting measures were based on proposals from the prison unions as an alternative to privatisation: "I accepted how we should do things, as recommended by our staff, and that is what we are doing .
"So the approach we are now putting in place in our prisons is what was recommended by the unions and by staff."
Mr McLennan Murray told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme there is a shortage of staff and "we haven't been able to recruit in the numbers that we need in order to run safe, decent regimes".
He said the lack of staff means "we have to lock prisoners up for more time than we would want to" and "many prisons are having to run restricted regimes".
Mr Grayling's comments came as i nspectors raised fears over levels of violence at a jail with a high population of gang members, where a shortage of staff is highlighted as an issue.
In 2013, there were 254 fights and assaults at Isis prison, which holds young men aged 18 to 30, with 120 in the previous six months, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) said.
The report on Isis, in Thamesmead, south east London, found that many of the incidents were serious, some were gang-related and a higher proportion than usual involved weapons.
Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick said: " The location of the prison, the volatile population it holds and continuing staff shortages mean the risks and challenges it faces are significant.
"Opening any new prison is complicated and although Isis has now been open for three years it is still in a settling phase."
In late 2013, staff shortages led to a restricted emergency regime which, although intended to be temporary, was still in place at the time of the unannounced inspection in February.
Inspectors said the restricted regime had presented a temporary solution by keeping identified gangs apart.
However, the report added that this was "an unsophisticated plan and inadequate as a long-term solution".
However, inspectors did praise the high level of prisoners - three-quarters - who go into employment or training on release.
Michael Spurr, chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, said: " Isis manages a difficult population of young adult men - many of whom are serving sentences for violence and have links with London gangs.
"The governor and his staff have done some excellent work with the police to challenge gang affiliation and are committed to tackling and reducing violence.
"As the chief inspector makes clear, Isis is an improving prison. In particular, it is doing really good work to support resettlement. Three-quarters of prisoners go into employment or training on release - this is crucial for successful rehabilitation.
"Recruitment is taking place to address the staff shortfalls and the prison is currently receiving detached duty support from other prisons to ensure it can deliver a consistent and safe regime."
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said: "Chris Grayling is still burying his head in the sand about the crisis in our prisons.
"Under David Cameron and Chris Grayling there has been a complete leadership gap in the criminal justice system, which has led to deteriorating jails, increasing violence in prisons and less and less being done to rehabilitate offenders and treat those suffering with poor mental health.
"The Government needs to listen to these warnings from the chief inspector about the deteriorating situation in our prisons and act now to prevent putting public safety at risk.
"We simply can't afford to go on like this. Five more years of the Tories would mean five more years of failure in our prisons."


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Berlin to Tel Aviv: A Guest Post by Vaadat Charigim's Juval Haring
29 Nov 2013 — Editor
Despite ongoing and mostly blatantly misguided discourses about gentrification in Berlin and the responsibility of incomers (like ourselves), be they from other parts of (western) Germany or from abroad (read this), we still dearly hope that at least most of the city's residents that belong to our generation will be able to agree that there's absolutely nothing within the boundaries of The Ring that benefits the otherwise still stuffy and narrow-minded capital of Germany more than its ever-growing expat community. This very website certainly wouldn't be able to survive without it, and even if we felt we could, its absence alone would be reason enough to pack up and leave Berlin for good.
That being said, one of the more remarkable branches of this community, remarkable for various yet fairly obvious reasons that thus probably need not be spelled out in this forum (yet that are made express in virtually every other piece on the topic), is the presence and growth of the Israeli community in Berlin, which today is between 18.000 and 20.000 citizens strong, depending on the source, and that to a great extent is made up of students, musicians, artists, and other cultural entrepreneurs, just like the expats of any other nationality who now call this place home. Today, we're happy to welcome one ex-member of that community to write about his experiences, not mainly in regard to living in Berlin but about a process that all of us who were not born here can relate to at least to some degree, so I assume: the process of leaving and arriving, to live in a constant state of transition. The question of feeling at home, and of the definition of "home" as such in a globalised world, if you find yourself privileged enough to be in a position to actually travel or move. In this sense, the story Tel Aviv native Juval Haring is telling us below transcends his own experiences as someone leaving Berlin to return to the land and the city where he was born. But aside from that almost universal perspective, it is a deeply personal account, and we think for that alone well worth five minutes of your time.
Haring is singer and vocalist of Tel Aviv outfit Vaadat Charigim, whose full-length The World Is Well Lost is out now. Watch the video for lead single "Odisea" below (and read about it over on Self-Titled), and stream the whole album after the break. (ed.)Read more →
Leaving Berlin
On a cold winter morning in January 2012, I took a last look into the dark interior of my Prenzlauer Berg ground floor apartment, locked the door, and proceeded down the street with a small travel bag which contained clothes and the demo recordings of The World Is Well Lost, on 1/4" tape. I remember thinking about windows, gas heaters, the fridge. Did I shut all the heaters? Did I lock all the windows? God knows when I'll be home again.
I suffer from a severe aerophobia. Getting on a plane is a task that requires me to be medicated, and at times, also intoxicated. When my parents called me and said my grandfather – who for years had come up with money for me when I was stranded on tour in the middle of nowhere in the USA, and who had always been the greatest supporter of my choice to be an artist – was dying of cancer, I had to go to Israel.
But I wasn't going to fly to Israel. I came up with the plan of going there by boat. This idea had come to me after reading a story in a magazine about a man who devoted his life to traveling the world by cargo vessel. I found it to be extremely romantic. A kind of self aware choice to live in a "slower" world. But freighters are complicated to get on as a private passanger (I know, because I checked). So I booked a spot on a cruise ship leaving Venice, going through Greece, and to Israel. The cruise continued from Israel back to Greece and then to Italy, but my plan was to get off in Israel.
First, I had to get to Venice from Berlin. Remember, I can't fly. So I headed from my apartment, which I had just left behind, all the while bothered by the thought that I hadn't locked it properly, to a car rental service near the Berlin Zoo. I rented the smallest, cheapest crappy car I could get, and drove it all the way to Vienna in one day. As the hours went by, the scenery changed, getting whiter, snowier towards the mountains of south Germany and Austria. It was the first time I had ever traveled alone by car in Europe. For years I had been a driver for my own bands, and had my wife Mickey next to me to navigate, and talk to. It was lonely driving to Vienna without her. I couldn't stop thinking how stupid I was, to not just say "fuck it" and take a plane like a normal person, instead of booking a car, a train, a bus and a boat, for a total of nine days on the road just to reach Israel, which is a four-hour flight away from Berlin.
From Vienna I took a train to south Austria, where I was supposed to switch to a bus to Venice. When I got on the train it was completely empty, but then right before it was about to leave, dozens of teenagers boarded it, and came on my car. They started unpacking their backpacks, taking out an astonishing amount of alcohol and juices, beers and so on. I was sort of sleepy and shocked at the same time. They explained to me that they were on their way to a skiing vacation and that they are all employees of the train company. They offered me booze and I went straight for it. I was lonely and kind of terrified of the thought of being on a boat for five days, so getting drunk seemed like a logical thing to do.
By the time we reached the small town in south Austria where I was supposed to switch to a bus, I was so drunk I couldn't walk straight. Somehow I managed to get off the train and onto the bus. I climbed up to the upper level of the bus and fell straight to sleep. A few hours later the bus had arrived in the central bus station in Venice. I reached Venice around afternoon, went to a cheap motel that I had booked online, unpacked, and hit the streets. It was my first time there. I walked towards the direction the signs were showing. I didn't really care about seeing everything, or "visiting" monuments. I was looking for pizza. All I had to eat for days had been alcohol and cigarettes.
I found a cheap, probably not so great pizza place and got a slice, then proceeded down the route all the way to the Piazza San Marco. It was getting darker. I could see massive cruise ships docked on the other side of the water. Suddenly my heart became heavy, and I couldn't swallow. I felt like I was totally alone in the world, and that the world is happening around me in such a way that it is making my head spin. That I will always be alone, because I am a coward, because I never let anyone help me, because I never listen. I stood on the waterline and looked at the people around me, there on vacation. They must be looking at me, all sweaty and holding a half eaten pizza like a bum, thinking I must be homeless. And maybe they weren't so far off from the truth.
Since I had left Israel to live in Berlin I had always been, in some way, "homeless". An Ausländer. I went to bars, ate out, went to galleries, went to shows, had friends in the music scene, but it always felt to me like we were a bunch of kids, from a bunch of different countries, waiting for the grown-ups to come back, spending time in the best way we could together, till they get back to take us home. I had always felt baseless, my family far away somewhere in the Middle East, and me, in an old Berlin building, looking out of a window at a grey north European sky. Sure, there are a lot of Israelis in Berlin, but most of us are there for the same reason: we were tired of trying so hard to live in Israel. Being a Berliner solved some of my problems, but It couldn't reach as deep inside me as the river of my childhood flows. I was very happy to stand there on the waterline knowing I would be going back home. But at the same time I was filled with fear, both a phobic fear, of the boat, of how it would feel just like being on a plane in the end, and a fear of coming back, of the losing the unfinished quality, the rough around the edges way of life I was used to living in Berlin.
Dreams of Greece
If I could I would leave everything behind and move to Greece. Maybe I could. I don't know. It's a big move. But it's something I think about ever since reading My Family and Other Animals. When the cruiser, which turned out to be just like a plane, only longer, and weirder, passed between the islands of Greece, I remember looking out at them for hours. I had a balcony in my room, which was just like a hotel room, only on water, and I would sit there for hours, looking back at the white foam line formed in swirls as the ship pushed forward, and at the horizon where pale white and grey montains rose off rocky islands.
I had never traveled between countries by boat before, except between France and the UK on tour. It was so weird. Most nights I spent in the bathtub hugging a bottle of vodka. The ship would go out to sea, and you would have nothing but endless blue around you, or black if it was night time, and then after a day or so it would reach a port, dock, and you could peek from your high balcony into the lives of the tiny people living in the port city where you happened to stop. Most people, who were on vacation – unlike myself, who was on a mission – got off at each port with money and cameras and walked around for half a day. I was trying to save money so I just stayed on board and stared into the town. We stopped in Bari, Rhodes, and then finally after five days, in Haifa, the port town of Israel, north of Tel Aviv.
I remember getting off in Haifa and boarding a train to Tel Aviv, feeling like an alien again, even though I was home. My Berlin apartment still silent and dark, same as I left it. Only I was here, in Israel, again. But I was neither here nor there in my mind. It was a different travel experience. I didn't just "hop" over to Tel Aviv. I had glided there, slowly, by foot, car, bus, train, boat. I had walked in between. Stopped to look. On the train I was looking out of the window at Highway 2 going from north to south in Israel, along the shoreline, thinking: I probably seem weird to everyone. I was surrounded this time by young, 18 to 19 year old soldiers in uniform, all looking at my skinny jeans, buttoned shirt and snow cap, ironic moustache and large sideburns, probably thinking I am some tourist. And perhaps they were not so far from the truth.
Tel Aviv
Like I said, I wasn't supposed to stay in Israel. I came to see my grandfather. But since I had been away from the Tel Aviv music scene for so long I felt the urge to start a project while I was there. Vaadat Charigim's demos were in my suitcase and I joined two old friends, Dan Bloch and Yuval Guttman, around early 2012 to work on them. We worked on the songs during weekends, first in a school's bomb shelter/rehearsal space, where Dan's children were going to school, and later in Guttman's apartment (where we also recorded the album). After two rehearsals we felt a great "click". We had a lot in common, were all kind of older, kind of weirder than other people, kind of outsiders, kind of homeless, kind of tourists.
I can't say exactly why I stayed here, in Tel Aviv. Maybe it's because the band was doing so well. Maybe my new job doing PR and booking. Maybe I'm just still afraid of traveling again and feeling or seeing so much. Maybe I am tired of being homeless. But I have been here since I got off that ship in Haifa, and I have thought a million times about the dark room I had locked and left behind.
The World Is Well Lost is an album I wrote before, during and around this journey. It is infused with my inability to let the past be, my fears, my hopes. It turns out that even though I wrote big parts of it in Berlin, that it has a lot to do with the contemporary Tel Aviv state of mind: trying to make things last while war and injustice make everything seem fleeting and not worth it, wanting to be together, but at the end always feeling alone, loving the city and its people, but hating the way it somehow keeps you down and controlled, your dreams never too wild, never really outside the box. Today, I am happy to be here, but at the same time I am haunted with the thought that I have no real reason to be here but my fear. Fear not only of planes, but of everything I cannot control, of life, of death, of everything with wings, of the pain that twists and turns in your chest facing the vastness of the ocean and the abstract notion of change which it represents. Today, from here, Berlin in my mind is like a lighthouse. Stable. Solid. But then again, when I was in Berlin, Tel Aviv seemed like a sort of lighthouse. So maybe in life, you are always stranded out at sea, and every shore seems like the place you ought to be.
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A decision over whether prisoners should be given the vote could delayed until after the next general election, the Justice Secretary has indicated.
Chris Grayling said complex recommendations made by a cross-party committee about how to deal with the controversial issue had caused delays, and refused to rule out kicking the issue into the next parliament.
The Tory last year published a draft Bill offering MPs three options - giving the vote to prisoners serving less than four years or less than six months or keeping the blanket ban.
After the recommendations were set out, a committee of MPs and peers recommended that voting rights should be given to p risoners serving short sentences or approaching the end of their time behind bars.
They said it would be ''wholly disproportionate'' for the UK to defy a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, which has said Britain's ban on votes for those behind bars is a breach of their human rights .
The committee called on the Government to table a Bill granting the vote in local, general and European elections to those serving less than 12 months or within six months of release, with exceptions for those convicted of serious crimes.
Prime Minister David Cameron has made clear he does not want to extend votes to prisoners, telling MPs it would make him ''physically ill'', and a House of Commons vote in 2011 saw MPs vote by an overwhelming 234 to 22 to preserve the ban.
Quizzed by the House of Lords Constitution committee about the Government's progress, Mr Grayling said the committee's recommendation was the reason for the "slightly slow response".
He said: " The position we are in at the moment is we are still considering the response from the committee, and the reason that we are taking a bit of time over this is not that we have moved away from our earlier position but because the option that the committee recommended - which was to provide, or to be considered, providing votes for prisoners in the last few months of their sentence - actually is quite complex.
"So, we need to take quite a careful look at what the viability is of doing that. Obviously, I would wish, in whatever measures in due course are brought before the House, to be able to reflect the views of the committee, but it is not something where you can simply tick the box and say 'yep, fine'.
"It's actually quite different to anything that has previously been envisaged. It does require some careful analysis."
Asked if the delays meant the matter would probably be pushed beyond the end of the parliament, Mr Grayling replied: "I couldn't say that for certain yet. But it certainly wasn't a straightforward recommendation because, as you can imagine, we have got people at different stages of their sentence, we have got people who are on indeterminate sentences, and so looking at how exactly you deal with that, and of course, people who are subject to parole board release as opposed to automatic release again causes a logistical issue for us."
Mr Grayling told the committee it was Conservative policy to replace the Human Rights Act but insisted the details of how that would be done would be set out in the party's manifesto.


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Alienware, purveyor of pre-built PCs of all shapes and sizes, has recently revealed their plan to introduce yearly upgrades to their model of Valve's PC-slash-console-hybrid Steam Machine, justifying the decision by saying that their machines will not be upgradable. Turns out, that's not quite the case.
"We've purposefully designed the Alienware Steam Machine to be smaller than the latest generation consoles," Alienware general manager Frank Azor told Eurogamer. "Upgrading the internal components will not be as easy as compared to other platforms (...) but we will not prevent a customer from upgrading."
Azor went on to explain that their Steam Machine is intended for those who want a "smaller, more console-like system," further implying that the more closed nature of their model comes from the slight form factor—meaning that yes, you can upgrade. But you'll need to find a way to cram your components into a tiny, tiny box. Sounds like a challenge!
Alienware won't "prevent" users from modding Steam Machine [Eurogamer]
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The EHR industry is characterized by fairly poor customer satisfaction—the average KLAS score for service sits at a low 73% (Ambulatory EMRs for 11–75 Physicians). Physicians who cannot rely on their EHR company for excellent support will find their productivity and success jeopardized. No longer is the impact of an EHR limited to its use in managing charts—the increasing demands of government and other payer programs have extended the reach of an EHR beyond the four walls of the practice, and success or failure now has increasingly significant financial implications. Physicians must be able to successfully share information, connect to HIEs, and report on clinical data. In the future, they will need to respond to new reimbursement models such as ACOs. All of these communications are complicated and fraught with potential technical challenges—even with the best EHR solutions—making access to the highest quality customer support vital.
Meaningful use incentives are foremost on the minds of most physicians right now, and the program's requirements are complex, confusing, and challenging. Physicians rely on their EHR vendors not only for the technical support necessary to achieve meaningful use, but also for the educational resources required to successfully navigate the program. Unfortunately, this kind of support is not universally available within the industry. The findings of a recent survey presented to the HIT Policy Committee revealed that physicians cite vendors—in particular, the lack of adequate support and training and unresolved technical problems—as a major obstacle to achieving meaningful use.
Physicians want to know that their EHR company will be in business for the long term. In a recent post, "The EHR Bubble Will Pop—To the Victor Go the Spoils," I maintained that significant market consolidation is inevitable, and that many, if not most, of the 472 EHR companies currently offering certified EHRs will not survive the shakeout. Customer service is a distinguishing feature among EHR companies that will be important in ensuring a vendor's future viability.
So, what constitutes excellence in EHR customer service and support, and how do you see through the promises made by vendors during the sales process to ensure that you will receive the level of support that you need? The highest quality customer support requires a sufficiently large team of highly skilled, well-trained, eager-to-please employees, who are easily reachable and accountable for responding within a defined and appropriate amount of time. Where possible, they should be proactive, not just reactive. Such a team requires oversight by senior management, which is really only possible if the support department is not outsourced or sent overseas. You should rely on the real experience of colleagues—review the KLAS ratings and then validate them by doing your own due diligence.