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She almost laughed and shook her head. 'Don't take this the wrong way, Detectives, but my sister, even though she was pretty, was always insecure. So when she met David, he became like an obsession for her. He was the guy she got but couldn't ever believe she really did. My parents, my sister, they never saw that. Only I did.'
'So the first pregnancy?'
Janna shrugged. 'She never 'fessed to planning an unplanned pregnancy. And she never would.' She rose from the couch and looked nervously back at the foyer, lowering her voice again. 'I've said enough. But you asked me if she was going to leave him? Let me just say this, Detectives. Jennifer was desperate-crazy about David. He could do anything to anyone and she would never leave. Never. He couldn't get rid of her, even if he tried.'
'That is one fucked-up family,' said Brill as they climbed in the rental car and headed to the airport. 'I'm sure as hell happy my parents just beat my ass.' He lit up a cigarette and rubbed his head.
Lat looked at him and raised an eyebrow. 'Yeah. Just imagine how you might have turned out.' He started up the car. 'You know, they are in mourning.'
'They're in denial, bro. Big-time.'
'Of course they're in denial. Right now they're sifting through every memory they ever made with their daughter and grandkids and that man they called their son-in-law to see if any of them were real. They'll relive every word of every conversation for the last seven years for the missing clue that would have tipped them off that he was a fucking cold-hearted psychopath. And then for the next seven, they'll get to blame themselves and each other for not seeing the telltale signs of catastrophe that, by the end of this case, the prosecutors will have painted as obvious to everyone. So, yeah, right now they're still in denial. 'Cause if they deny it, then it didn't happen, got it? And then they're not the ones at fault for letting it.'
Brill stared at Lat in amazement. Then he exhaled a thick plume of gray smoke. 'Oh shit. That's deep.'
'That's the five stages of grief and an ex-wife who's a psychologist.' He fanned his hand in front of him. The Marlboro sure smelled good. 'Blow that shit out the window, man. I'm off the death sticks six months now.'
'Christ, you have had it rough. An ex-wife who's a mind-fucker. I take back most of the things I was thinking about you, Nitchy.'
'That's Nietzsche, you idiot.'
' "If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Watch who you call an idiot.'
Now it was Lat's turn to stare.
'Why is she an ex?' Brill asked.
'Could you live with me?'
Brill didn't even blink. 'Good point.'
Lat blew out a long breath. 'It just wasn't in the cards. How about you? Exes? Wives? Kids?'
'An ex-wife and an ex-kid.'
'That sucks.'
'Only the ex-kid part. Lisa, the ex-wife, poisoned her, so she hates me, too. But she still loves my money. Sure does love that. She's past eighteen now. Not supposed to be my problem anymore, but I still pay the tuition bill at college and she still ignores me. I'm hoping when she moves out of Transylvania that she'll see her blood-sucking mother is a fucking nut job. Maybe then she'll give her old man a call.' He threw his cigarette out the window. 'Got any worldly advice for me, Nietzsche?'
'Forget Nietzsche. You need Freud, man,' Lat laughed. 'What's her name?'
'Nicole – Nicky. I haven't actually seen her in five years. But, damn, she was a cutie. That college girl reminded me of what she must look like now.' He sighed. 'Hey, this is a fuckin' cheery-ass convo we're having, boss-man. Say, have you written up your will yet?'
'Well, at least we've got a motive now.'
'Yeah. Trying to bang your pregnant wife's younger sister would get the claws out on most women. And most lawyers. Maybe the denying relatives are wrong. Maybe she was gonna divorce his ass and he wasn't having no part of splitting everything he'd earned.'
Lat nodded. 'Especially if he was roped into a marriage to begin with.'
'Then there's the insurance. What was the death benefit on that MetLife policy you found?'
'Two million.'
'There's another two million reasons to make it hurt.'
'The house was worth some ching, though. And he's still got a one point two mortgage to pay off. It's not such a crazy amount, given the guy's a surgeon.'
'I got a friend from grade school, became a surgeon up in Connecticut. I saw him at a reunion a couple of years back. Said there ain't no money in it anymore. Not what people think there is. Wasted a hundred G's on med school.'
'Maybe your friend's just a shitty surgeon.' Lat paused for a moment. 'Even if he was scraping for change and decided to collect early on his wife's insurance policy, I still can't figure out the kids.'
Lat couldn't understand a father actually killing his own children, even though he'd seen it before far too many times. A wife – maybe you'd be angry enough to pull the trigger. But a three-year-old in Pull-Ups was just crazy. An infant who could never be a witness anyway? A screaming little girl?
Brill shrugged. 'Maybe he wanted to wipe the slate clean. Maybe he wasn't the Poppa type. Some aren't. Look at that freak in California who killed his nine kids last year with a bullet to the back of their heads. Or the dad who hated his wife so much he drove his two kids cross-country from New Hampshire, killed 'em and buried 'em in some state along the way, but then offed himself so she would never find their bodies. The list goes on. But I don't need to tell you about all the fucking psychos in this world. Just pick up the morning paper.' He paused for a second, flicking his cigarette out the window. 'I hate doctors,' he said in a low voice. 'I never go to 'em and I don't trust 'em. God complexes, every damn one. My dad went to see one – first time in twenty fucking years he goes for a check-up. Walks in the door laughing and smiling – healthy as a goddamned horse, I'm telling ya. Then this idiot in a white coat straps him to a treadmill and makes him run like the devil's chasing him. Two hours later he's lying in a hospital bed. Two days after that he's dead. Can you believe that shit?'
Lat's cellphone rang then. He looked at Brill and flipped it open. 'Latarrino.'
Brill lit another cigarette and turned to lookout the window. He'd never been to Philly before. And now he knew why. With the naked, twisted trees, gray skies and bleak rain, it looked depressing. Plus, right now Latarrino was driving past what looked like a few hundred graffiti-stained chemical plants, all belching white smoke up into the rain, where it hung in the humidity like a giant poisonous cloud over the city. Brill, like a lot of other transplanted New Yorkers, had lived in Florida long enough to be suffering withdrawal. He needed to see some green grass and blue skies and white-haired golfers in plaid pants and he needed to see them soon.
Two minutes later, Lat snapped the cell closed. 'Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water,' he said with a sigh. 'That was the lab.'
Brill looked at Lat's face. 'The knife don't match.'
'No. It matches, bro. But something else doesn't.'
'No fucking way,' Brill said, sitting up straight.
Lat shook his head and slapped the steering wheel hard. 'The semen found on Jennifer's nightshirt doesn't belong to her husband.'
Nora and Jimmy's condo in the aging Galt Towers was tightly sandwiched between two other high-rises at the far south end of an overdeveloped, mile-long stretch of Fort Lauderdale beach known as the Galt Mile. Julia pulled her Honda into a bright yellow spot that conspicuously warned GUESTS ONLY!! turned off the engine and sat there for a moment listening to the crashing sound of the ocean, hidden behind the building's elongated shadows, less than a hundred feet away. The sun was beginning to set, and to the west, the s
ky over the Intracoastal was a warm tangerine color, infused with fiery streaks of copper red and deep orange, and the faintest whisper of purple clouds. The air smelled and tasted of coconut oil and sea salt, like pina coladas and margaritas. It was Julia's favorite time of day, the beach her favorite place to spend it. And to top it off, it was finally a Friday. She could feel the stress of the past week begin to melt away with the sun as it slipped under the horizon. She savored the moment a little while longer, then grabbed the Macy's bag off the front seat, along with the bottle of Uncle Jimmy's favorite Chianti, and headed across the parking lot.
During the crazy South Florida real-estate market of the past five years, big-name developers like Donald Trump had snatched up a lot of the older condos and co-ops and spring-break hotels that lined the beaches of Fort Lauderdale. They'd either renovated the old with fabulous facades and ultra-chic lobbies, or torn them down to construct opulent spa/resorts and multi-million-dollar oceanfront condos. The much-needed facelift was helping reshape the city into a younger, edgier, metropolis-by-the-sea. The Venice of America was the new catchy nickname the Mayor hoped would catch on.
But not here on the Mile. Donald Trump and downtown might be looking for the young, up-and-coming professional, but the Mile still had its sights set on the older, down-and-almost-out-of-here retiree – fifty-five and older with No Pets, No Renters and definitely No Kids.
On her salary, Julia was lucky to afford a one-bedroom apartment that was just west of 195, so a place on the beach was definitely not happening anytime in the foreseeable future without a little divine intervention from the Florida lottery. Her aunt and uncle, though, were two of the Mile's pioneering snowbirds. They'd bought their unit twenty years ago as a vacation home for next to nothing. After Julia had left New York to go to law school and Uncle Jimmy had slipped a disc at work– prematurely and painfully ending a thirty-year career with the Department of Sanitation – they'd decided to make the move down to South Florida permanent.
Julia was only seven or eight when Nora and Jimmy got their condo, but she could still remember a time when the hallways didn't always smell like boiled meat, before the crimson flowers on the lobby wallpaper had faded to a dull pink. Her parents had combined their first visit to Aunt Nora's new vacation pad with her family's only trip to Disney, which was probably why she still remembered it so vividly. The endless drive down from Long Island in the family station wagon that – thanks to her brother, Andrew, spilling an entire container of Nestle Quikin the back seat the week before – smelled like rotten milk in the afternoon sun. The stops on 195 so her dad could collect cuttings from all sorts of strange plants he had no business disturbing. Fighting with Andy over who would get to rest their head on the console. Playing Jaws and Marco Polo and Jellyfish with Andy in the motel pools. Clutching Andy's hand as the two of them waited nervously in line to ride Space Mountain. But the clearest memory of the trip was the smiling, tan face of her mother, dressed in blue jeans and an orange T-shirt, running down the aisle of McCrory's five-and-dime, clutching bunches of plastic flowers in her hand. 'They're perfect, Nor!' she shouted as she ran. 'Just perfect!'
McCrory's had long since closed, and her mom was dead now, but whenever Julia tried to picture her mother, that was exactly how she saw her. Young and happy – maybe just a couple of years older than Julia was now – her long, wavy, dark hair flopping behind her, the lemony smell of Jean Nate body splash on her skin and bubblegum on her breath. The moment was framed forever in her mind like a brilliant, perfectly detailed picture, with one strange exception – she could never remember the color of the damn flowers Momma held in her hand. Strange because they were still sitting in Nora's bathroom, and Julia looked at them every time she was over.
She shook the memories out of her head and walked through the warm, musty lobby to the elevator, nodding at the white-haired security guard who sat watching The People's Court on a portable TV set and couldn't care less if she was dressed in black and wearing a ski mask. A couple of tables of bridge were still going strong in the resident rec room, along with a few bitter squabbles. For a late Friday afternoon the place was jumping.
She heard the blaring televisions as soon as she got off the elevator on ten, shouting at her from behind every door. Oprah. Ellen. Judge Judy. Judge Alex. Judge Milian. Today the fluorescent-lit, teal-carpeted corridor smelled like cabbage, chicken soup and boiling eggs. Finally, outside 1052 she caught a fragrant whiff of sausage and peppers and garlic cooking in olive oil. Before she could actually knock, the door opened. Moose ran out to greet her with a happy howl and a crazy-dog circle dance.
'Uncle Jimmy!' she said with a big smile as she stooped down to pet Moose before even the deaf neighbors heard him. 'Happy anniversary! How'd you know I was here?'
'Hey there, Munch,' Jimmy said. 'Freddy called up.'
Munch was short for Munchkin, which was really funny since in heels, Julia took her uncle by at least an inch. She stopped petting Moose and shook her head. Who's Freddy?'
'Fred. Freddy. The guard downstairs. He called up. Told us you were on your way.'
'Oh.' Good thing she'd left that ski mask back in the car. 'Where's Aunt Nora?' she asked, giving Uncle Jimmy a kiss and walking into a mauve and gray living room that still looked like it did that day in 1985 when her dad had packed them all back in to the smelly, overgrown wagon and headed for home. Moose merrily followed. In the corner, he had his own little mauve dog bed and a basket full of dog toys.
As if on cue, Aunt Nora came out of the kitchen, swaddled in aprons and holding a spoon. 'Well, there you are,' she said, giving Julia what she called 'a Sicilian hug' – a squeeze with all her body and generous bosom, followed by a hard kiss on the cheek that was sure to leave a bruise. We were getting worried about you.' Julia navigated her way around Nora's breasts and hugged her back hard.
Aunt Nora was her mom, Irene's, older and only sister. Her only sibling, in fact. It was Aunt Nora and Uncle Jimmy who she'd gone to live with fifteen years ago after her parents had died. After her world had been turned completely and horrifically and instantly upside down. She'd been only thirteen at the time – old enough, unfortunately, to understand what was happening to her and around her, and definitely old enough to know that she was being sent to live with her aunt and uncle in Staten Island. There were no relatives left on her dad's side. His only brother had died as a teenager – suicide, her mom had told her – and both his parents had died within a year of each other before Julia had turned five. She didn't even remember them. All of the pictures were gone, now, too.
They'd tried for years, but Nora and Jimmy could never have kids of their own. After tragedy struck, Julia had become their daughter, and they'd raised her through the rest of adolescence into adulthood just that way – adored and sheltered and completely overprotected. The fragile porcelain doll they knew could easily shatter into a zillion pieces at any moment. But Nora had rules. Crazy rules. From the day Julia had walked through the door of Nora and Jimmy's two-family house in Great Kills – a single, fuzzy purple overnight bag stuffed with clothes in one hand and a shoe-box full of what was to become her most cherished possessions in the other – certain subjects were never spoken of again, as were certain people. Familiar pictures simply disappeared from Nora's clean, white walls; treasured keepsakes were quietly put away, never to be seen again. Aunt Nora dealt with the pain of losing her only sister by ordering it from her house. Exiled mementos and the faces of the banished were replaced with new knick-knacks and smiling photos of Julia, which Aunt Nora hung everywhere.
Unlike her aunt, Julia, over the years, had only mastered hiding her pain. Hugs and kisses smothered in tomato sauce and cannoli cream were Aunt Nora's well-intentioned cure-all for an emotional anguish that both of them knew never really went away. For Julia, time had only dulled the constant ache that was always in her heart. And on occasion, like a crippling
case of arthritis on a cold day, that ache would flare up without warning into the most excruciating, debilitating physical pain, as if someone had torn a hole in her heart and then ripped the stitches out once again.
She could hardly blame Nora for wanting to scrub the horror of the past completely clean from her house. And given how Julia had turned out – a relatively successful lawyer who didn't do drugs or even smoke, and who wasn't downing Prozac with her Rice Krispies each morning – even she had to admit that her aunt's nurturing recipe for success had seemingly worked its magic. Perhaps most importantly, all these years later, she was still in one piece when others would surely have crumbled.
'Come in, come in,' Aunt Nora finally said, taking her hand and leading her into the kitchen. 'And don't you beg now,' she scolded Moose with a wave of her spoon as she tossed him a sniggle of something.
'He's getting fat,' Julia said, shaking her head.
'Nonsense. He just needs a haircut.'
'You shouldn't have cooked. I wanted to take you out,' Julia tried. A ridiculous proposition. Aunt Nora thought no one in the world cooked as good as her. And she was right. Hence, there was no reason to go out.
'Where do you think you can get sausage 'n' peppa that's not dried out like shoe leather? Save your money, sweetie.'
Julia conceded with a shrug and a smile. 'Happy anniversary,' she said, handing the package from Macy's to her. 'I also brought Chianti. Maybe you won't let me take you out, but I'm leaving that present here. I thought it would go with the kitchen. Don't you dare return it.'
'Tell me you got it on sale.'
'I got it on sale,' Julia lied.
'Okay, then I'll keep it,' Nora chirped.
Uncle Jimmy appeared behind her with a full glass of wine. 'So how's that big case Nora said you're working now?' he asked, handing her the wine. 'I don't see you on TV.'
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Kelley Holland of NBC News reports, Retirement Crisis: The Great 401(k) Experiment Has Failed for Many Americans:
You need to know this number: $18,433. That's the median amount in a 401(k) savings account, according to a recent report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Almost 40 percent of employees have less than $10,000, even as the proportion of companies offering alternatives like defined benefit pensions continues to drop.
Older workers do tend to have more savings. At Vanguard, for example, the median for savers aged 55 to 64 in 2013 was $76,381. But even at that level, millions of workers nearing retirement are on track to leave the workforce with savings that do not even approach what they will need for health care, let alone daily living. Not surprisingly, retirement is now Americans' top financial worry, according to a recent Gallup poll.
To be sure, tax-advantaged 401(k) plans have provided a means for millions of retirement savers to build a nest egg. More than three-quarters of employers use such defined contribution plans as the main retirement income plan option for employees, and the vast majority of them offer matching contribution programs, which further enhance employees' ability to accumulate wealth.
But shifting the responsibility for growing retirement income from employers to individuals has proved problematic for many American workers, particularly in the face of wage stagnation and a lack of investment expertise. For them, the grand 401(k) experiment has been a failure.
"In America, when we had disability and defined benefit plans, you actually had an equality of retirement period. Now the rich can retire and workers have to work until they die," said Teresa Ghilarducci, a labor economist at the New School for Social Research who has proposed eliminating the tax breaks for 401(k)s and using the money saved to create government-run retirement plans.
A historical accident?
It wasn't supposed to work out this way.
The 401(k) account came into being quietly, as a clause in the Revenue Act of 1978. The clause said employees could choose to defer some compensation until retirement, and they would not be taxed until that time. (Companies had long offered deferred compensation arrangements, but employers and the IRS had been going back and forth about their tax treatment.)
"401(k)s were never designed as the nation's primary retirement system," said Anthony Webb, a research economist at the Center for Retirement Research. "They came to be that as a historical accident."
History has it that a benefits consultant named Ted Benna realized the provision could be used as a retirement savings vehicle for all employees. In 1981, the IRS clarified that 401(k) plan participants could defer regular wages, not just bonuses, and the plans began to proliferate.
By 1985, there were 30,000 401(k) plans in existence, and 10 years later that figure topped 200,000. As of 2013, there were 638,000 plans in place with 89 million participants, according to the Investment Company Institute. And assets in defined contribution plans totaled $6.6 trillion as of the third quarter of 2014, $4.5 trillion of which was held in 401(k) plans.
"Nobody thought they were going to take over the world," said Daniel Halperin, a professor at Harvard Law School, who was a senior official at the Treasury Department when 401(k) accounts came into being.
Rise of defined contributions
But a funny thing happened as 401(k) plans began to multiply: defined benefit plans started disappearing. In 1985, the year there were 30,000 401(k) plans, defined benefit plans numbered 170,000, according to the Investment Company Institute. By 2005, there were just 41,000 defined benefit plans-and 417,000 401(k) plans.
The reasons for the shift are complex, but Ghilarducci argued that in the early years, "workers overvalued the promise of a 401(k)" and the prospect of amassing investment wealth, so they accepted the change. Meanwhile, companies found that providing a defined contribution, or DC, plan cost them less. (Ghilarducci studied 700 companies' plans over 17 years and found that when employers allocated a larger share of their pension expenditures to defined contribution plans, their overall spending on pension plans went down.)
But the new plans had two key differences. Participation in 401(k) plans is optional and, while pensions provided lifetime income, 401(k) plans offer no such certainty.
"I'm not saying defined benefit plans are flawless, but they certainly didn't put as much of the risk and responsibility on the individual," said Terrance Odean, a professor of finance at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Early signs of trouble
That concept may not have been in the forefront of employees' minds at the start, but problems with 401(k)s surfaced early.
For one thing, employee participation in 401(k) plans never became anywhere near universal, despite aggressive marketing by investment firms and exhortations by employers and consumer associations to save more. A 2011 report by the Government Accountability Office found that "the percentage of workers participating in employer-sponsored plans has peaked at about 50 percent of the private sector workforce for most of the past two decades."
The employees who did participate tended to be better paid, since those people could defer income more easily. The GAO report found that most of the people contributing as much as they were allowed tended to have incomes of $126,000 or more.
In part, that is because the ascent of 401(k) plans came as college costs started their steep rise, hitting many employees in their prime earning years. Stagnating middle-class wages also made it hard for people to save.
Fees have been another problem. Webb has studied 401(k) fees, and he concluded that "as a result of high fees, fund balances in defined contribution plans are about 20 percent less than they need otherwise be."
The Department of Labor in 2012 established new rules requiring more disclosure of fees, but it faced strong industry opposition, including a 17-page comment from the Investment Company Institute.
Failure of choice
Most employees also turned out to be less than terrific investors, making mistakes like selling low and buying high or shying away from optimal asset classes at the wrong time.
Berkeley's Odean and others have studied the effect of investment choice on 401(k) savers, and found that when investors choose their asset class allocation, a retirement income shortfall is more likely. If they can also choose their stock investments, the odds of a shortfall rise further.
"401(k)'s changed two things: you could choose not to participate, and you chose your own investments, which a lot of people, I think, screw up," Halperin said.
Benna, who is often called the father of the 401(k), has argued that many plans offer far too many choices. " If I were starting over from scratch today with what we know, I'd blow up the existing structure and start over," he said in a 2013 interview.
Another problem is that when 401(k) savers retire, they often opt to take their savings in a lump sum and roll the money into IRAs, which may entail higher fees and expose them to conflicted investment advice. A recent report by the Council of Economic Advisors found that savers receiving such advice, which may be suitable for them but not optimal, see investment returns reduced by a full percentage point, on average. Overall, the report found that conflicted investment advice costs savers $17 billion every year.
The result of all these shortcomings? Some 52 percent of American households were at risk of being unable to maintain their standard of living as of 2013, a figure barely changed from a year earlier—even though a strong bull market should have pushed savings higher and the government gives up billions in tax revenue to subsidize the plans.
In a hearing last September on retirement security, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., declared that "something is out of whack. The American taxpayer delivers $140 billion each year to subsidize retirement accounts, but still millions of Americans nearing retirement have little or nothing saved."
Retirement worries rise
As problems mount with 401(k)s, Americans' worries about retirement security are intensifying.
A 2014 Harris poll found that 74 percent of Americans were worried about having enough income in retirement, and in a survey published recently by the National Institute on Retirement Security, 86 percent of respondents agree that the country is facing a retirement crisis, with that opinion strongest among high earners.
Changes may come, but for now, 401(k) plans and their ilk remain Americans' predominant workplace retirement savings vehicle. They may be a historical accident, but for the millions of people now facing a potentially impoverished retirement, the fallout is grave indeed.
As a former Treasury official, Halperin witnessed the creation of 401(k) accounts, But, "on balance, I don't think it was a big plus" that the accounts were created, he said. "I don't take credit for it. I try to avoid the blame."
Welcome to the United States of Pension Poverty where rich and powerful private equity and hedge fund titans make off like bandits charging public pension funds excessive fees while the restless masses work till they die, or more likely, retire in poverty because they simply can't save enough money to retire in dignity.
I commend Kelly Holland for writing this article. Of course, it didn't surprise me one bit. In July 2012, I discussed America's 401(k) nightmare and explained why it was going to lead to more pension poverty down the road.
And now that America's private and public sector are following the rest of the world, shifting out of DB into DC plans, you can bet there will be more pension poverty down the road, pretty much ensuring global deflation. That's why I laugh at all the bond bears claiming we're in for a major bond market bruising, they simply don't get it. Rising inequality, including the growing retirement divide, is bad for the overall economy and will dampen growth prospects for decades to come.
What else? America's ongoing retirement crisis (and ongoing quality jobs crisis) will place considerable constraints on public finances, exacerbating total debt due to higher health and social welfare costs. This is why I'm a stickler for enhancing the Canada Pension Plan for all Canadians and doing the same thing via enhanced Social Security for all Americans.
Sure, America's rich and powerful will shout "we can't afford it" and I will counter their warped ideological arguments with a good dose of basic economic theory and tell them we simply can't afford the status quo because it is the real road to serfdom (Hayek got it wrong).
Importantly, policymakers around the world and their rich and powerful backers need to open their eyes and understand the benefits of defined-benefit plans to the overall economy (and overall debt profile of a country) and also recognize the brutal truth on defined-contribution plans.
One thing I can guarantee you, the growing angst of Americans unable to retire will be an issue in the 2016 elections. Senators Warren and Sanders will make it a point to remind Americans that they bailed out Wall Street's elite following the 2008 financial crisis but nobody is going to help Main Street retire in dignity and security.
Below, CNBC's Kelley Holland discusses how $18,433 is the median amount in a 401(k) savings account, according to a recent report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, highlighting the failure of 401(k)s.
And Emily Wittmann paid for years into a 401(k), but dipped into those retirement savings during the economic downturn. She's not alone. The scars of the 2008 crisis remain fresh to many Americans petrified to "invest" in these increasingly volatile markets dominated by computer algorithms.
Lastly, a 2009 report which explains the 401(k) nightmare. As the default retirement plan of the United States, the 401(k) falls short, argues CBS MoneyWatch.com editor-in-chief Eric Schurenberg. He tells Jill Schlesinger why the plans don't work.


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Spain set to replace US as second most popular tourism destination
Spain is set to replace the United States as the world's second most popular tourism destination while France has retained the top spot, the UN World Tourism Organisation has said.
It is expected that Spain will take the second position with 82 million visitors last year, UNWTO head Zurab Pololikashvili said.
Definitive figures will be published in the spring.
ololikashvili did not give any details about the US, nor did he explain why Spain took the second spot despite a terror attack in August and an independence crisis in tourism magnet Catalonia, home to Barcelona and the Costa Brava.
John Kester, head of tourism trends at the UN agency, said "everything indicates" France would retain its top spot in 2017 – a good year for the industry as the number of global tourists leapt 7% on 2016, the biggest increase in seven years.
Europe was the star of the show as it attracted a large number of visitors, up 8% from the previous year, lured in particular by the Mediterranean's sea and sun.
In 2016, Spain welcomed 75.3 million visitors, just behind the US with 75.6 million, while France easily remained the world leader with 82.6 million visitors, according to the UNWTO.
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At Art Miami, seven Albuquerque artists represent the thriving state of the city's art scene.
Clockwise from top right: Mick Burson, Earl McBride, Vasher Studio, Emi Ozawa, Beau Carey, and Raychael Stine. Courtesy of Richard Levy Gallery.
As Richard Levy Gallery prepares to head out east for its turn at Art Miami this year, it's bringing a little bit of home along with it. Seven of the 16 artists in the gallery's booth are living and working in Albuquerque, where the gallery is based.
For Viviette Hunt, the gallery's director, these artists represent the distinct flavor of the Albuquerque art scene, and the strength of the work coming out of it.
Mick Burson, Kitchen Window (2018). Courtesy of Richard Levy Gallery.
Indeed, Art Miami will be treated to an impressive—and diverse—group of Albuquerque-grown talents.
Raychel Stine, Three Rainbow River Jammers with Orange and Blue (2017). Courtesy of Richard Levy Gallery.
Another UNM alum, Earl McBride, makes large-scale abstract paintings that mix a variety of marks and gestures, from impastoed brush strokes to drips of spray paint and jagged wax crayon lines. Meanwhile, Raychael Stine—also a stylistic mixer—creates paintings that quickly shift from figuration to abstraction over and over again across the canvas. Stine's painting Three Rainbow River Jammers with Orange and Blue (2017), for instance, features a gradated background reminiscent of fellow New Mexican artist Georgia O'Keeffe, while in the center of the canvas, dynamic brushstrokes come together to form rivers and dogs.
Beau Carey, NC Rollers (2018). Courtesy of Richard Levy Gallery.
Mining plein air sketches, personal photographs, and his own memories, Beau Carey paints impressionistic landscapes of places he's visited around the world, such as Holden Beach in North Carolina and Acadia National Park in Maine—both of which are the subject of paintings on view in Miami. In true impressionistic fashion, Carey doesn't capture the exacting detail of these places as much as the sensation of being there.
Playing with perspective and space, Emi Ozawa makes colorful minimalist sculptures that recall Donald Judd, Anne Truitt, and Sol Lewitt. Her works are based on Amidakuji, a game taught to children in her home country of Japan, which generates random pairings of lines. For the first time, a number of Ozama's preliminary paper models, which she makes in preparation for the larger works, will be available in Miami as well.
Emi Ozawa, Tallest Ever (2017). Courtesy of Richard Levy Gallery.
Joanne Lefrak, the director of education and curator of public practice at SITE Santa Fe, collaborates with poet Hakim Bellamy at the fair. The pair created a series of word-works etched on small plates of glass that cast shadows of cryptic texts on the wall, such as, "You are a monsoon of muse / Written on sheets of rain" (You are a monsoon (clear), 2017). Finally, another pair, husband-and-wife artist duo Vasher Studio, present constituent parts of their ambitious Plumerai project—a 99-panel, accordion-style screen created from a photograph of a previous work.
Tight-knit though the Albuquerque art scene is, participation in national fairs is an important opportunity for the gallery and its artists. It's become a big driver of business for Levy.
Vasher Studio, Plumerai (2017). Courtesy of Richard Levy Gallery.


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Class 1- headbands for aviators' face mask goggles, parachute packs and harnesses, service cap covers, gloves, waist bands, and harness elastic on gas mask face pieces.
Class 3- Parachute packs and rip-cord grip pocket for parachutes.
Type I is cotton fiber while Type II is nylon fiber.
The well known cord 550 being TYPE III, good for a general pupose tie-down cord. Also works great for pull-ties, cinches with cord locks and more on gear. Intended use declares: for use as personal parachute suspension lines and is also used with various equipage items.
Another well known cord good for tie-downs needing a good amount of elasticity. Can be used as a great adjuster for one's kit/gear. Intended uses for Types I and II declare simply: Shock mount installations. While Type III: Opening elastic on parachute packs, camera or instrument cradle mounts, airship valve control lines and where a shock absorbing cord of low initial tension is required.
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Q: socket.io javascript don't work Anybody an idea why this doesn't work ?

function startServer() {
    console.log('function start');
    var keyBool = false;
    var client = require('socket.io').listen(3000).sockets;

    client.on('connection', function (socket) {
        console.log('someone connected');

        socket.on('party', function (party) {
            console.log(party);
            console.log('testbla');
        });

    });
}

the client side:

function client() {
    var party = 'test';
    var server = "http://127.0.0.1:3000";
    try {
        var socket = io.connect(server);
    } catch (e) {
        alert('failed to connect');
    }
    //setInterval(function () { sendCoordinates }, 125);
    //setInterval(function () { sendParty }, 5000);
    if (socket !== undefined) {
        alert('ok');
        try {
            socket.emit('party', {
                party: 'test'
            });
            alert('sended...');
        } catch (e) {
            alert('failed with reason: ' + e);
        }
    }
}

When I run the server and client logs 'someone connected', but not the party object I send...
Client is an chrome extension and the server a node.js 'file'.

A: I don't think using some of that code is needed, other than that have you port forwarded?

            if (socket !== undefined) {
                alert('ok');
                try {

A: Works for me.
$ node server.js
function start
someone connected
{ party: 'test' }
testbla

Maybe you expect the object to be sent before 'ok' is pressed on alert('sended...');..?
alert() is not the best option for debug.

$ node -v
v5.3.0

"socket.io": "^1.3.7"

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In films, with great power comes great responsibility. In pensions, with greater freedom comes greater uncertainty. This was certainly the case when 'pension freedoms' were introduced in April 2015. There was much debate about how people would use their pension pots and whether they were even equipped with the knowledge to make the right choice for them. Many feared that people would choose the immediate gratification of cash lump sums to buy fancy cars over planning how they make their pension last.
This raised the question of whether people would be financially prudent and seek advice, well, now we have the answer. The Department for Work and Pensions surveyed almost 3,000 people who used the Pensions Wise service in 2017/2018 – and it seems that some of the concerns about frivolous spending could be justified in many cases.
Interestingly, yet perhaps unsurprisingly, it was the people who had NOT sought professional advice who were more likely to buy a new car or holiday with the funds they accessed from their pension pots – 36% compared to just 14% of people who had sought financial advice.
A man of 65 can expect to live to 83, with life expectancy of almost 86 for women and while that is of course welcome news, it also means that any pension pot accrued also has to stretch much further than ever before. A study by Which? suggests that a pot of £210,000 would give a couple a comfortable retirement – however, the reality is that millions of people don't have anywhere near this amount. In fact, research by LV= (October 2018) suggests that the average pension pot of 35-44 year olds in the UK is £71,342. That's why it's crucial to have sound financial advice on how to manage that pension cash.
When it comes to investments, it's a similar story. Just under a quarter of Pension Wise users who had sought financial advice (the advice group), mainly using the services of a financial adviser, were also more likely to invest their cash. 33% were putting funds into non-pensions savings and investments – compared to 23% from the non-advice group. Even in the age of auto-enrolment, people often rely on their pension's default investment strategy even though most could benefit from better options available. This is where financial advice can go that one step further.
Steve Webb's often repeated comments about pensions being cashed in for Lamborghinis may still resonate for some, but in reality, most of us are likely to be looking for a Ford. And probably a second hand one at that!


I often get the warning message "apply light pressure to steering wheel" after several minutes of driving with AP engaged even though my hands are already on the wheel. I typically re-position my hands or apply more pressure and sometimes the message goes away, but frequently I get scolded for not having my hands on the wheel and AP gets disengaged for the remainder of the drive. Very annoying. Is there an optimal way to place your hands on the steering wheel to avoid this? Or maybe I have a steering wheel sensor problem?
Does it really say "light pressure" or does it say "light force"? I think it's the latter. The system will not respond to just your hands being on the wheel. You must provide a small control input too (i.e. fight the system just a wee bit). Of course if your input is too large the system will think you are trying to take over and shut down (as it should). It should only take you a couple of tries to figure out how much is too little and how much is too much.
You need to adjust to the Nanny Nag that was instituted about 2 years ago or so. Tesla claims that they are "refining" and "fine tuning" the required steering wheel torque "sensed" to keep your AP functional. It is an overreaction to preclude drivers who lack common sense from crashing their vehicles. The draconian institution of the Nanny Nag by Tesla provides an unrequired challenge to balance the minimum level of torque that is enough to keep AP active with too much which throws you out of AP. This WAS a great system before the Nanny Nag which was layered because folks were doing irrational distracting things instead of focusing on safe driving.
Operator error on my part. Didn't realize it was sensing torque on the wheel. Worked fine after I got the hang of it. Thanks.
I am not sure if this has changed in the last update but it feels like we need a white knuckle grip at exactly 10 and 2 on the wheel. It almost becomes uncomfortable to drive and we have just started using cruise control and steer ourselves that is way easier on the hands.
If you have your hands at the 10 and 2 position, it seems your hands would be canceling each other out. This would result in very little to no torque and getting the nag correct?
I have been wrestling about how to deal with this and used to flip one of the scroll wheels now and then, but what works for me now is to old the steering wheel below the cross support with my left hand and just exert about 1/2 pound of pressure to the left or right, so I can feel the car steering movement. I just relax, leave my hand slightly dragging on the steering wheel one way or another and go with the flow. This works very well for long distances.
At a Supercharger recently I was talking with a Model S owner who told me about his experiences driving back from a family vacation in San Diego with the old software. He was tired and told his family not to let him fall asleep. Well, when he woke up, he was in LA traffic, and the whole family was asleep! He had no idea how long he had been asleep. The Tesla took him through!
I use the weight of my arm to create a constant counter torque. My fingers hold the steering wheel at all time so I can feel the automation torque at all times and correct it easily and instantly.
Should be easy enough to defeat it if you want to but I certainly would not want to. I have fallen asleep at the wheel (happens to us old guys) in other vehicles and presumably if I did that with the Tesla the beeping would wake me up. Seems it's just what I need as is.
When Elon was on 60 Minutes showing AP he had his hands on the bottom of the steering wheel. I did more like 7 / 4 or a 10 / 4 on an NoP drive from NY to Fl.
Another comment about the wisdom of holding on to the steering wheel even while on autopilot. I was driving home eastbound on 580 in the San Francisco Bay Area during our heavy torrential rains yesterday on auto drive (not auto navigate). Needless to say, visibility of the road was poor in the dark because of the water, reflections from the water on the road and not being able to see the fading lane marks in our Bay Area roads. I now monitor auto drive with my left hand firmly on the steering wheel, exerting a little down or up pressure based on where the road is turning, to keep the nagging from the car away.
Just after the 580/238 merge, the road lane markings moved away from the original "poured" concrete edges of the lane, there was slight lane shift, and what do you know, the car started to follow the concrete edges and not the lane markings. Off the car went into another lane! Fortunately there were no cars next to me, just in front and behind, and when my hand detected the sudden movement of the wheel, I twisted the wheel to stay in the correct lane and that turned auto drive off.
Once I caught my breath and my heart stopped beating so rapidly, I made sure that the lanes were clear ahead and resumed the drive home with auto drive cautiously reapplied. I am certain that the cars behind me thought I was either a drunk driver or falling asleep. Message here is that although it is a cool tool, you really need to monitor what the car is doing and be able to take over quickly.
I have never gotten the warning on auto drive about limited functionality because of poor weather, but I have received the warning with Navigate on Autopilot.
You are right, auto drive is a tool that if you use, you have to carefully understand its limitations and be ready to take over. That was my message!
There's no way to appease the nags without AP shutting off eventually. If you're not willing to accept that it's basically a toy at this stage of development, don't buy it, but I'm sure Elon's team will work it out eventually. I don't regret paying for EAP and FSD to support the mission. My 2018 model X is still an amazing car!
When I got my 2016, I did not notice the Nanny Nag but I certainly notice it today. It is especially noticeable when it cancels while you are on the interstate when putting it into park for resetting is literally a nonstarter!


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Girls' JV soccer takes home a win
Bailey Aliberto, Staff Reporter
On December 5th, the school's JV girls' soccer team had a match with Calvary High School and resulted in a 3-0 win for the Canes. The elation of the crowd was enough hype for the team to continue pushing for a decently far lead from Calvary. The 3 goals were scored by Abigail Robbins, Sophia Ramirez, and Bailey Aliberto.
The Cane's coach – Michael Haber – had a goal for his team. With a record of 1 win and 3 losses, Coach Haber discussed his desire to end the season with more wins than losses, and this game was a notch on the belt for the team.
"My goal for the rest of the season is to win the next three games, and to end with a record of 4:3. Our team is very good this year and I believe in our ability to earn this for ourselves and our school," said Haber.
Charlotte Summers ('25), a center defender, speaks about what she thought of how the Canes played during the game and their attitude throughout the match.
"My standards for [Calvary's] game play was high, but we went in with confidence and [had] fun. It was a very exhilarating game, and I think our team came together as a whole because we wanted a win so bad," said Summers ('25).
Alexa Lenard ('25), an outside back, talks about the reactions of her teammates during the Calvary game, and the games before.
"We communicated nicely and encouraged one another on the sidelines. Everyone is very supportive and positive even during our losses. We always try to keep our heads up. Our gameplay is smart and successful, and even when we fail, we always find a way to pick ourselves back up", said Lenard ('25).
Olivia Wulf ('25), a winger, speaks on her appreciation of her team and their win against Calvary.
"I think our team did really good and I'm proud of my team for not giving up even after losing a few games. Our heads never went down, and we were never discouraged from winning. Our faith in each other and our need to win conquered, and in turn helped us conquer Calvary," said Wulf ('25).
This win for the Canes was just one step on their path of victories. In the end, the team achieved their goal, and ended the JV season with 4 wins and 3 losses, and they aren't done yet. On Saturday the 17th, the girls are competing in a 3-game tournament against the highest schools in the JV league.
The Road to the Super Bowl


Another Marvel Cinematic Universe movie is tearing up the Box Office, and of course it has some end credits sequences. Two this time, which seems to be the minimum these days. Let's get into what they were and what they meant!
SPOILERS for Thor: Ragnarok obviously follow.
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Our first one begins mid-credits after the fancy motion graphic/animated main cast and crew sequence.
We see the ship that Thor, Loki, Korg, and the other dozen or whatever Asgardians are on.
As they continue on course with Earth, they confront a sinister looking spacecraft that has hints of the Chitauri (previously seen in the first Avengers film) in it's design. The scene ends.
Well, Kevin Feige has gone on record on this one, telling the world at large that this is in fact the Sanctuary II. This vessel belongs to the "Big Bad Guy" of the upcoming Infinity War movie, Thanos.
So, it seems that things will not work out just fine for Thor & company. Steve and I speculated over on our Thor Episode of the Podcast that Thanos may take the Asgardian ship hostage, raising the stakes for Thor and Loki in the upcoming battle.
The second scene takes us back to Sakaar, where we find the Grandmaster down on the planet surface, confronted with the junk-scavenger people we saw earlier in the film.
Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster proclaims "It's a tie!" and the screen cuts to black.
Nothing really, just another joke to end the film with. I hear some people suggest that this means that the Grandmaster is now dead, but I am fairly certain that he is effectively immortal like his brother the Collector – who was featured in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, played by Benicio Del Toro.


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Q: How does this code remove duplicates from a sorted array? If I pass in a number, an array 2, 3, 3, 3, 1, for example. It removes the duplicates of 3, but why? and the result is 123 (which it should, because of the sorting method).
Sortering.sorterHeltallstabell(tab) is only sorting my code, while the rest removes the duplicates. It gets sorted before duplicates are removed.
Why does this code remove duplicates of an array when you pass it into the method?
public static int[] utenDubletter(int[] tab){
    Sortering.sorterHeltallstabell(tab);

    if (tab.length < 2)
        return tab;

    //why does this code remove duplicates?
    int j = 0;
    int i = 1;

    while (i < tab.length) {
        if (tab[i] == tab[j]) {
            i++;
        } else {
            j++;
            tab[j] = tab[i];
            i++;
        }
    }
    int[] B = Arrays.copyOf(tab, j + 1);
    return B;
}

A: Dig this simulation:
Start
[1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3]
 j  i
Duplicate found (tab[i] == tab[j]), move i over 1 (i++)
[1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3]
 j     i
Duplicate found, move i over 1
[1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3]
 j        i
Non-duplicate (else); adding 1 to j (j++),
    copying element i to el j (tab[j] = tab[i]),
    adding 1 to i (i++)
[1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3]
    j        i
Duplicate found, move i over 1
[1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3]
    j           i
Duplicate found, move i over 1
[1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3]
    j              i
Non-duplicate; adding 1 to j, copying i to j, adding 1 to i
[1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3]
       j              i
i == tab.length, so stop
Copy first 3 elements of array (up to j) to result
    (int[] B = Arrays.copyOf(tab, j + 1)) and return it

A: This works because the code under
if (tab[i] == tab[j])

iterates through the sorted array, skipping duplicated elements and instead copying each unique element forward to the front part of the array, just after the already scanned (and known to be unique elements).  It then only keeps that front part of the array.
Stepping through the code:
if (tab.length < 2)
    return tab;

int j = 0;
int i = 1;

Method gets input: [1,1,1,2,2,2,3], is sorted (since the input is already sorted in this example, there is no change), tab is greater than 2, so do not return.
j is assigned the value 0
i is assigned the value 1
while (i < tab.length) { ... }

i (which is 1) is less than the tab length (which is 7).  While loop is entered:
    if (tab[i] == tab[j]) {
        i++;
    } else {
        j++;
        tab[j] = tab[i];
        i++;
    }

Iteration 1:
tab[i], which is tab[1], which is 1, is compared to tab[j], which is tab[0], which is 1.  They are equal, so i is incremented.  i is now 2.
Iteration 2:
tab[i] (tab[2], or 1) is compared to tab[j] (tab[0] or 1).  They are equal, so i is incremented.  i is now 3.
Iteration 3:
tab[i] (tab[3], or 2) is compared to tab[j] (tab[0] or 1).  They are not equal.  j is incremented, and is now 1.  tab[j] (tab[1]) is assigned the value of tab[i] (tab[3]).  tab is now [1,2,1,2,2,2,3].  i is incremented, and is now 4.
Iteration 4:
tab[i] (tab[4], or 2) is compared to tab[j] (tab[1] or 2).  They are equal, so i is incremented.  i is now 5.
Iteration 5:
tab[i] (tab[5], or 2) is compared to tab[j] (tab[1] or 2).  They are equal, so i is incremented.  i is now 6.
Iteration 6:
tab[i] (tab[6], or 3) is compared to tab[j] (tab[1] or 2).  They are not equal.  j is incremented, and is now 2.  tab[j] (tab[2]) is assigned the value of tab[i] (tab[6]).  tab is now [1,2,3,2,2,2,3].  i is incremented, and is now 7.
I is now no longer less than the length of tab, we exit the while loop.
int[] B = Arrays.copyOf(tab, j + 1);
return B;

B is created by copying tab up to length j + 1, or 3, starting from the first element.  B is now [1,2,3].
Method returns [1,2,3], as expected.

A: It is obvious that with the line
if (tab[i] == tab[j])

you can skip an element of the array if two consecutive elements are the same.

A: There are a few important considerations for this duplicate removal portion of the code.

*

*It is actually overwriting the contents of the array in the middle of determining duplicates.  It's using the front part of the array (which has already been checked previously) to store the contents of the non-duplicates.  Since Java passes objects by value (specifically value of reference), changes to the local copy of the parameter won't be propagated back in the calling method.  This is not true for languages that pass objects by reference (like C#), so this algorithm would not work there.

*This algorithm depends on the fact that sorting the array puts all of the same duplicate into a single continuous block of indexes.  This guarantees that all future elements will never match something that was previously overwritten many iterations ago (because it is at least the size of the current maximum, else the array wasn't actually sorted properly).
Heavily commented explanation
public static int[] utenDubletter(int[] tab){
    //sort the array
    Sortering.sorterHeltallstabell(tab);

    //There must be at least 2 elements for any duplicate to exist
    if (tab.length < 2)
        return tab;

    int j = 0; //index of the largest element in the new array found so far
    int i = 1; //index of the current index of the array being checked

    while (i < tab.length) {
        //if it's a duplicate
        if (tab[i] == tab[j]) {
            i++;    //just skip this element and check the next one
        } else {
            j++;    //since this number does not exist in the new array make space for it
            tab[j] = tab[i];    //record this new element
                                //we have checked this element (with i) before this
                                //so we don't need to keep it around any longer
            i++;    //move onto the next element
        }
    }
    int[] B = Arrays.copyOf(tab, j + 1);    //copy only the elements that we actually
                                            //manually overwrote. Since arrays are
                                            //0-indexed, add one to the final index (j)
                                            //for the number of elements in our new array.
    return B;
}


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Let's kick up the heat tonight! I love the sweet heat of a good Cajun dish. Tonight, I am making Cajun shrimp and andouille sausage and serving it with a Cajun butter cream sauce. There is enough spice to tingle the lips but not so much that you cannot enjoy the flavors as they hit the back of your tongue.
Peel and devein a pound of shrimp and set aside. In a small bowl combine one teaspoon ground cayenne, a half a teaspoon of black pepper, a half a teaspoon of salt, a half a teaspoon of crushed red pepper, a half a teaspoon of dried thyme, one teaspoon crushed basil leaves, and half a teaspoon oregano.
In a skillet over medium-high heat melt a third a cup of butter with 2 cloves of minced garlic, and one tablespoon Worcestershire. Stir in the spices.
Add the shrimp and a pound of sliced andouille sausage. Cook for 3 – 5 minutes, or until the shrimp is no longer pink.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix together one teaspoon of cornstarch with a fourth a cup of milk until well combined. Set aside. In a small bowl mix together a fourth teaspoon cayenne powder, fourth a teaspoon black pepper, one eighth a teaspoon garlic powder, and an eighth a teaspoon of crushed red pepper. In a saucepan melt two tablespoons butter. Stir in the spice mixture and cook for one minute. Whisk in milk mixture and cook over high heat until mixture begins to thicken slightly. Remove from heat.
I like to serve this over a red-pepper and honey cornbread, click here for the recipe.
Split the cornbread in half placing the bottom on a plate. Top with the shrimp and sausage.
Set clean shrimp aside. In a small bowl combine the seasonings. Combine butter, garlic, Worcestershire, and seasonings in a skillet. When butter melts add the sausage and shrimp. Cook 3-5 minutes, or until shrimp is opaque.
In a small bowl, mix together the cornstarch and milk until well combined. Set aside.
In a saucepan, mix together spices and cook in hot butter for one minute. Add broth mixture and bring to a boil. Whisk over high heat until mixture begins to thicken slightly. Remove from heat. Serve hot. over vegetables.
Thank you so much! Your support is so appreciated! It's a great recipe. It offers enough heat to hit the back of the throat but not too spicy that it overrides the flavors.


Speaking in December 1960 at the Royal Institution of London, the German chemist Rolf Huisgen explained how his work on one particular type of reaction had at first proceeded at a 'snail's pace', employing just two people. But by the third year, he went on to boast, his team had expanded to 17. How gratified he must feel today to know that 'Huisgen's reaction' - otherwise known as 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition - is the focus of a burgeoning field of chemistry and that his work has been cited in many thousands of scientific papers.
Huisgen's reaction has come to exemplify the type of powerful, simple to perform, and highly reliable reaction that embodies 'click chemistry' - a term invented in 2001 by Barry Sharpless from the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, US. React an alkyne with an azide in the presence of copper and - click! - they snap together like Lego bricks. Huisgen's reaction, like other click chemistry reactions, benefits from favourable thermodynamics that drive it forwards under mild conditions to produce high yields of a single product. Sharpless' original motivation for promoting click chemistry was to encourage development of simpler strategies for medicinal chemists to use in drug synthesis,1 but, nearly a decade on, it is biologists who are adopting click chemistry reactions - and in particular Huisgen's.
At the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Colorado, US, Cole DeForest has been employing cycloaddition reactions to make gels for culturing cells in 3D that he hopes will one day form the basis of a tissue regeneration platform. Click chemistry provides a more direct route to creating the gel.
DeForest's lab has been making hydrogels for some 15-20 years. 'A lot of the work in our lab has been dealing with trying to encapsulate different types of stem cells and trying to have the material induce differentiation of these cells, ultimately for implantation in human patients,' he explains. Hydrogels, says DeForest, can be designed to dictate the sort of behaviour that the cells elicit - how they spread and adhere to surfaces, and, crucially, how they differentiate. All sorts of components can be added to the hydrogel to influence these behaviours. With the hydrogel as the base material, alkyne and azide groups act like Velcro patches for sticking on the various molecules that the team wants to test out.
Huisgen's original scheme, however, hasn't remained entirely intact - the simple alkyne-azide reaction favoured by chemists is not fully compatible with biological systems. As Renier van der Hoorn, a plant biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, points out, Huisgen's original reaction wasn't meant for studies in live cells. 'You need copper for the traditional click chemistry and copper denatures proteins and is simply toxic,' he says.
Van der Hoorn's own team has recently focused on using small molecule probes to label plant enzymes, for instance, showing the activity of the enzymes in leaves. Click chemistry avoids using larger fluorescent labels that are incapable of permeating cell membranes. Instead, a small alkyne or azide modified tag is added in vivo before making an extract and then adding a label, which is designed to 'click' with the tag using Huisgen's old trick of reacting azide with alkyne. But because the copper catalyst is toxic to plants, the reaction can not be done in live tissue. And as van der Hoorn notes, copper also denatures their purification columns.
Unlike study of biochemical processes, tissue regeneration requires live cells and DeForest's team was looking for a method that would be compatible with their differentiating stem cells.
In 2007, a paper by Jeremy Baskin at the University of California, Berkeley, US, and colleagues presented a solution to the problem - copper-free click chemistry performed in live cells.2 Based on the classic Huisgen cycloaddition, Baskin's revamped version placed the alkyne group in a 'strained' cyclooctyne ring, adding fluorine atoms to withdraw electrons. The idea was to put tension on the click components to make them more reactive and to drive the reaction without the need for a catalyst.
In 2008, Baskin and colleagues went on to prove that the method worked in live animals when they used it to watch cells and tissues forming in zebrafish embryos (Chemistry World, June 2008, p31). They achieved this by snapping fluorescent tags onto sugars in the cell membranes of the fish - the sugars acted as indicators of developmental processes.
The ring strain method was soon adopted by DeForest's lab. Last year, DeForest was lead author of a study published in Nature Materials describing a method for creating hydrogels using copper-free click chemistry.3 'We end-functionalise polymers and synthetic peptides with these chemical moieties and then we mix the polymers and the peptides together and they undergo this click reaction which is responsible for forming the hydrogels,' says DeForest. 'And because we've done this with a copper-free click chemistry, we can actually form these hydrogels in the presence of cells without sacrificing viability.' The advantage over traditional methods, he says, is that the click reaction is high yielding, quick and doesn't form any by-product - if it did, this could also potentially be toxic to cells.
But that's not all. A second click reaction is used to 'pattern' biological functionality into the 3D network. Straying away from the gold standard Huisgen's reaction, the team employed a light-induced thiol-ene reaction - the addition of a thiol to an alkene - allowing them to snap any thiol-containing compound of their choice onto the main body of the hydrogel. Thus, by incorporating a thiol into an adhesive molecule and shining a light on specific areas, they were able to pattern in attachment sites for cells and show that the cells did, indeed, attach to them. Few technologies have this level of control, claims DeForest.
While DeForest attempts to generate tissues from scratch, click chemistry methods are being developed by neurobiologists to track dividing cells in naturally regenerating brain tissue. Adrian Meedeniya, a neurobiologist at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, has based his work on that of a team at Harvard Medical School, which published a method for detecting DNA synthesis using click chemistry in 2008.4 The method involved creating an analogue of one of the nucleosides contained in DNA - uridine - with an all-important alkyne group, which was exposed in the groove of the DNA helix. The researchers 'clicked' this with a fluorescent azide that could be imaged to track DNA synthesis and therefore cell division.
But are too many chemists and biologists still clinging to Huisgen's reaction? It is, after all, celebrating its 50th birthday this year. 'I think there are certainly many other [click] reactions,' says DeForest. 'There's definitely room for pursuing more biologically compatible click reactions, that's for sure.' In theory, he adds, click reactions are supposed to be orthogonal to one other, meaning one reaction can be performed in the presence of other functionalities without undergoing side reactions. So discovering more click reactions could mean gaining more control over a system but also providing scope for multiple staining, allowing researchers to track different populations of cells at the same time.
As for Sharpless' original intention of developing easy-to-make drugs, several companies are already rumoured to be working on click products, including Intezyne in Florida. The company is using click methods to modify cancer drugs in such a way that they can be better targeted at tumours. Meanwhile, a group at the National University of Singapore led by Shao Yao has adopted click chemistry techniques to rapidly synthesise inhibitors for enzymes thought to be involved in chronic myelogenous leukemia and to help identify targets for malaria drugs (see box, p38). The growing compatibility of click chemistry with biology suggests its potential is greater than Sharpless, and certainly Huisgen, would ever have guessed.
Click chemistry can be used to rapidly assemble a library of hundreds of potential drug candidates. Last year, Shao Yao and colleagues at the National University of Singapore did just that to generate candidates for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML)5 - which affects the white blood cells and is responsible for up to a fifth of all cases of leukaemia. The only known cure is a bone marrow or stem cell transplant.
Several drugs have, however, been approved that can prolong survival, and Yao's team was able to identify a few more potentials from its screens. The approach was based on targeting Abelson tyrosine kinase, an enzyme implicated in CML, and using Huisgen's classic alkyne-azide reaction.
First, as proof of principle, the researchers produced a library of molecules through click reactions between an adenosine diphosphate (ADP)-alkyne and 344 different azides. Then they took imatinib, the first-line therapy for CML patients, and swapped its piperazine moiety for an alkyne, generating a clickable molecule with an already proven drug attached. This was then snapped onto 45 different azides and the products ability to inhibit Abelson tyrosine kinase tested, with some showing a slight improvement over the original imatinib.
According to Yao, his team is already making second and third generations of its candidate drugs. 'Our new generations focus on improving the binding property of the probes, for instance, by using more potent drug templates such as dasatinib instead of imitinib,' he says.


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We offered contracts to two players however work permits for one means he may not get to join us.
Eduards Grigorjevs is a current Latvian international. He can play anywhere through the wide and attacking midfield slots. He will be featuring on the left for us.
Christian Zech is an experienced Lichtenstein international, having played for his country 32 times. He will be featuring a s a ball playing midfielder.
They play a 4-4-2 with attacking wingers. Goals have been at a premium in their matches.
I decide to come out in my modified 4-2-3-1 formation. Both new signings are in the 18 and I am expecting big things from them both.
New boy Grigorjevs makes a great pass but Lavets shot is well saved. First quarter has seen us hold ball well. A fine team move sees Radzi break deadlock. Platinum Stars then had a couple of openings but our defence has been solid. An educated chip from Duarte saw us 2-0 up on the half hour mark. Unfortunately Platinum Stars pull a goal back with a fantastic strike from range.
Poor defending sees us conceed the equalizer just after the half. We haven't looked good enough in the second spell. In the end we were not clinical enough and spurned too many good chances. We went to sleep after the first hour.
Duarte gets player of the match. I am not sure how we didn't win this game. Lubasa was the only one of our players to have a poor game.
This is a must win game for us, after our poor showing last time out. They are weak down the left so I will be looking to exploit that.
Sesinyi comes in to make his first start of the season since coming back from loan. Ralebakeng gets another chance up top, it may be his last if he doesn't produce. Lubasa gets a chance to atone for his poor game last time out.
We have started strongly but need to get shots on target. It was a poor showing, and many a bad word was said from the sidelines.
Our first shot on target goes in as Majola slams home a desive effort. Majola made it two with a nice finish.
Majola off the bench gets POM. A good effort all around aside from the finishing.
Ajax have not had the best of seasons although they have been on a good run of late.
Am not sure that the 4-3-1-2 is the best formation against a 5-5-2 but I feel we need two up top.
We had a great chance and hit the post on the counter attack. We have settled well, but so have Ajax. Luthuli pulls off two great saves to keep us in it. A disappointing own goal sees us go behind.
We continued to fight hard but never really looked likely. Once again we were flaccid in front of goal. A second goal to Ajax in 69th minute followed almost immediately by a second own goal put the match to bed.
Not much to say about this performance. However, I need to keep perspective. We are probably only a top four side despite the win last season. We a currently safe in third place, so that is my goal for the season.
I attended the interview but am not sure I want the job just yet. They wanted a set piece focus which I wasn't prepared to do. I didn't get the job!
We have Golden Arrows next. They are currently bottom and I fancy our chances.
Radzi and Tseka come back in. Playing the narrow formation in a quest to have two up top.
Started really well and had the best of the opening stages. Radzi scored the opener following up a thunder strike from Makaringe. We have made a better fist of the opening half. A penalty following a blatant foul saw us double our lead.
Second period saw more of the same. Ngobeni comes in up front in an attempt to get his first goal to the club. Radzi bags his third goal for the game and gets replaced by Grigorjevs who has struggled to play well. Duarte is forced of with an injury which is worrying. The last 20 sees us holding on with Ngobeni blasts a shot on target which draws a great save.
Radzi has been a beast this season and his hat-trick was amazing today!
Duarte is out for 2 weeks, which isn't too bad. We have cover in the squad.
Notts County come asking – they want young first team player. I am down with that! 20th in League 1 so need to turn things around. They approached me, however I turned down the offer. My reasons were that I have Champions League games to play and I only want to manage in the Premier League in England!
Hilali Muhimpundu has been on trial with us and due to the slow grinding cogs of the Government has been waiting 4 weeks for a work permit. Hard working and possessing good dribbling and passing abilities he will be a good addition to the midfield.
Wits are tough opposition. We come into this game with only 7 points from last four matches. I was hoping for more.
Zech comes in for the injured Duarte. New signing Muhimpundu is on the bench, as is Ralebakeng who replaces Ngobeni who has gone out on loan.
We are short odds favourites for this match. There is a tense start to the match with few chances for either side. We have the only chance but nothing comes of it. Majola has the best chances of the half but is unable to beat the keeper on either occasion. We go into the break all square.
They start strongly in the second period but we hold them out. We miss another chance to take the lead and it looks like we are not going to get anything out of the game. In the end it finishes 0-0 which is a disappointment.
We were poor up front and need to do better.
Sundowns have always been tough. We will have to work hard to beat them. We certainly have to improve up front.
Switching to a wider formation for this match up.
Behind in the first minute following a mix-up in midfield. Not a good start. We had a chance to hit back but couldn't beat the keeper. We are exposed with a back to front long ball and go 2-0 down on the half hour mark. It should have been three 5 mins later but the shot was blasted wide. I pull back into a 4-3-3 and try to stabalise the game.
The second half begins and we hang in there. Ridzi has a great chance but the shot is well saved. Majola has the next chance but once again we can't beat the keeper. Radzi pulls a goal back with a header from a cross! 20 to go – can we do it? We pile on the pressue but cant find a way through. We go down 2-1.
In the end we didn't perform too poorly. Our chance conversion rate is just not good enough.
We get to play Maritian side Pamplemousses in the final Qualification round for the CAF Champions League.
Two wins, two draws and two defeats. 8 points out of 18 is not good enough and we are in danger of slipping out of the top four.
Still in the top three although not as comfortably as I would have hoped.
I will be back with you guys mid march following the Maritzburg game. Hopefully we will have a positive result to report in the Champions League.