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Women's Fitness Festival a race — and much more
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When 16-year-old Kayla Ham arrived at Capitol Mall early Sunday before the Kaiser Permanente Women's Fitness Festival, her goal was to complete her first 5K run. After jogging across the finish line holding hands with her stepmother, Brittany Ham, and family friend Liz Delgado, Kayla said she was excited to sign up for another race.
"I wanted to get in shape and be healthy," said Kayla, a high school student from Folsom who began running this year at the encouragement of her stepmother.
They were three of the about 4,100 participants a record for the event who registered for the run and walk that began on Ninth Street near Capitol Mall, circled through midtown and finished on 10th Street in front of the state Capitol.
After the walk and run, women many dressed in the official hot-pink Nike race shirt proceeded up the west steps of the Capitol to have their body composition tested and to learn how to do breast self-exams in the Kaiser Thrive Pavilion. Some received massages from the 30 therapists in the Recovery Zone, and enjoyed yogurt parfaits and fresh fruit including locally grown strawberries from the Whole Foods Market.
"It's encouraging to see women taking control of their lives with their husbands and families out here supporting them," said Mo Bartley, a race assistant and a coach with the Fleet Feet trail training program that began four years ago.
Brittany Ham and her husband, Mark Ham, who took photographs of his wife and daughter, began running through a Fleet Feet program. In Sacramento, Fleet Feet has trained 3,000 people, and the store produced the eighth annual women's race.
"We went from not being able to run a mile to running a marathon in a year," said Brittany Ham, adding that they joined the training program to get healthier.
The couple completed the California International Marathon in December and plan to run the race again this year.
Lisa Riley, director of training programs, said demand for them has increased since the first was offered in 2004. While Fleet Feet Sacramento's customer base is about 63 percent female, Riley said women make up roughly 70 percent of the training program participants.
"Women are joiners," Riley explained.
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A second retirement check less of option
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TALLAHASSEE Changes to the state employee retirement program aimed at eliminating abuses and excessive payouts are in place although a dwindling number of state government workers are still banking two retirement checks.
That second retirement check is quickly becoming a thing of the past and new hires must work longer to become vested in a retirement plan that is less lucrative than its predecessor.
Doing away with the double dipping was pretty much focused on elected officials and judges who were truly taking advantage of the system; it was shameful, state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, said. Its frustrating to the average citizen and average taxpayer.
But almost 2,000 employees, including some prominent names, are still receiving two retirement checks and its all legal.
Former Secretary of State Kurt Browning retired in the spring of 2010 when he claimed a $426,897 payout from the states Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) in addition to a $7,273 monthly retirement and returned to the $140,000-a-year job in January 2011 before resigning a second time earlier this year.
The state paid nearly $5.8 billion to 319,689 retirees (an average of $18,066) in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011 and another 9,595 employees cashed out of the DROP program. Nearly half of the 643,000 active members in the Florida retirement system are teachers and other school district employees.
Under the new rules, employees are allowed to return to work if they sit out at least six months after cashing out of DROP. Previously they were able to return after 30 days.
Willie Meggs, a state attorney in Tallahassee, received $519,995 from DROP in late 2007 and began collecting a monthly retirement check of $8,468.32 but didnt retire. He took a month, as previously required, and returned to his $153,000-a-year job.
Obviously, they had to think people would come back after 30 days or they wouldnt have put it in there, Meggs said. They must have anticipated you would come back.
The recent legislative changes make it more difficult, if not impossible, for an elected official to circumvent the intent of the DROP since they would have to sit out for six months and the amount of money in the retirement account would be frozen and not earn interest during the period that individual would continue in their career.
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AIG Chief Sees Retirement Age as High as 80 After Crisis
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By Boris Cerni and Zachary Tracer - 2012-06-03T22:00:00Z
American International Group Inc. (AIG) Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche said Europes debt crisis shows governments worldwide must accept that people will have to work more years as life expectancies increase.
Retirement ages will have to move to 70, 80 years old, Benmosche, who turned 68 last week, said during a weekend interview at his seaside villa in Dubrovnik, Croatia. That would make pensions, medical services more affordable. They will keep people working longer and will take that burden off of the youth.
The crisis, now in its third year, threatens to destroy Europes 17-nation currency union as Greece contemplates exiting the euro and Spain sees its bond yields rise and banking industry falter. German Chancellor Angela Merkel hardened her opposition to joint debt sharing in the euro region as U.S. President Barack Obama singled out Europes leaders for not doing enough to arrest the crisis.
Greece abandoning the euro could be a disaster for the country and Europe must work to keep that from happening, said Benmosche, whose company was the worlds biggest insurer before it took a U.S. bailout.
People in Greece have to see there is no easy way out of this and the government must get them to work longer, he said in the June 2 interview on the Adriatic coast. If not, and if they go to their own currency, I think they will see huge inflation and it will be devastating for people on fixed incomes.
Greece, where the average life expectancy is 81.3 years, has an effective retirement age of 59.6, among the lowest in Europe, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. French President Francois Hollande, the Socialist who was sworn in last month, has pledged to cut the retirement age to 60 from 62 while increasing corporate and bank taxes and introducing a 75 percent levy on earnings of more than 1 million euros ($1.2 million).
Peter Hancock, CEO of AIGs Chartis property-casualty unit, said last week the insurer has assigned staff from Argentina to advise their counterparts in Athens as the company prepares for a possible Greek exit from the euro, with the common currency at its lowest against the U.S. dollar since June 2010. Argentina defaulted on a record $95 billion of debt in 2001 and later abandoned a decade-long 1-to-1 peso peg to the greenback.
We have gone through the crisis in Argentina and other countries over time, so we have experience there, Benmosche said.
Benmosche has sold non-U.S. life insurers, a consumer lender and other businesses to pay back its taxpayer rescue, which swelled to $182.3 billion as the U.S. extended more credit and lowered the interest charged. The Treasury Department has cut its stake to 61 percent from 92 percent through three share sales totaling about $17.6 billion. In the most recent two, AIG bought back a total of $5 billion in stock.
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