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Prices dip for housing units at uncompleted projects
Published on Mar 19, 2014 8:32 AM
Selling prices at some uncompleted projects have fallen over the past three months - by anything from just over 1 per cent to 7 per cent - possibly as developers aim to clear units that have been on the market for some time.
Urban Vista in Tanah Merah, The Glades nearby and D'Leedon have all recorded declines in their median prices from December to last month, Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) figures show.
Consultants said developers could be facing pressure to give discounts due to stiff competition from newer launches. "But most of the projects will still try to maintain prices as much as possible," R'ST Research director Ong Kah Seng said.
OrangeTee research head Christine Li noted that a median price drop does not necessarily mean that developers reduced prices for the whole project.
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The National Health Service has continued to take a bashing in the USA, says Giles Fraser. The outrage of the religious right is fuelled by ignorance and prejudice, he argues.
Church leaders and members are among those giving enthusiastic support to the new Wall of Life initiative, an interactive campaign across the UK by the NHS Blood and Transplant service.
With health care a top reform issue in the USA, there is much discussion of the NHS and other social-based systems – just as they are potentially being further undermined in the UK.
The Church of England has called for greater investment in public health programmes aimed at teenagers, in a submission to UK advertising regulating bodies.
As the federal government in the USA considers comprehensive reform of the health care system, faith groups, civic organisations and labour unions are mobilising for change. They want to see an end to the massive health divisions.
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When people hear the word 'health' they think immediately of medical matters, says Juan Michel. But health is also an issue of clean drinking water, nutritious food, a safe work environment and essential care accessible at the community level - not least in a time of flu panics.
While the impact of flu viruses and the issues surrounding them is making life increasingly difficult in Mexico, churches in the USA are seeking to respond rationally and with care to a situation where panic can be a major part of the problem.
Patients' and hospital groups have expressed anger that a nurse who exposed serious mistreatment of elderly hospital patients has been struck off the medical register for misconduct.
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So GA, you are going to have her play all the way through college even if she doesn't love it? Have you thought about the childhood memories you are leaving her with while you are busy making sure you are living yours?
I think you should talk to parents of college players and understand what it takes to get there and the life you are subjecting her to, including HER college years, not to mention all of them between now and then. You seem like a nice guy with great intentions, but do you want an older daughter that resents the choices you made for her because of your dreams? It's fine to encourage the love - but you have to be willing to let it go if the signs present themselves or it will be unhealthy for you both.
I have known many many players (ages 12-16ish) that have moved on from tennis for whatever reason - changing interests, injury, etc., and every one of them has ended up happier in what they are doing now than they ever were with tennis - be it speech and debate, drama, academics, service clubs, or whatever. They have to make their own path. Tennis can be a miserable existence for those whose hearts aren't in it. A player has to give up a lot to be good at it, so the player better be the one liking it. Listening to an older kid talk about how they grew up playing tennis cause their parents wanted them to but never really liked it is a really sad conversation to be part of.
She really likes tennis. Im not making her play at all. Im just saying for her to one day be a money making pro she is gonna have to wanna be great from within. Right now she could play for alot of d2 teams and she just turned 11. If she ever didnt wanna play she knows im gonna love her either way.
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13 August 2008 00:00 [Source: ICB]
In a future world of global chemical capacity increases and potentially faltering demand, only the strongest will prosper. Will your team be prepared?
Paul Hodges, International eChem
"WHEN SORROWS come, they come not single spies, but in battalions." The English playwright Shakespeare could have been thinking of the petrochemical industry when he wrote this famous line in Hamlet.
The industry is facing an avalanche of new capacity, much of it based on advantaged-cost feedstock. And this new production is coming on line just as the global economy may be turning down.
Meanwhile, gasoline markets, which are key for aromatics producers, are also in the middle of major change.
Just one of these factors would be enough to put the industry under pressure. Taken together, they represent an unprecedented series of challenges. It is no exaggeration to say that, in a worst case scenario, the survival of many companies could be under threat.
This is why we believe it is timely to take a completely fresh and integrated view of the outlook for the building block petrochemicals and their main derivatives. What are the key issues for cracker operators and polymer producers? How are aromatics and their derivatives likely to be affected? And what are the risks for end-users?
It is especially difficult to forecast demand at the moment, with the longer-term impact of the credit crunch still unknown. In order to overcome this problem, our new study, Feedstocks for Profit, presents its analysis in the light of three main economic scenarios. These are: a continuation of the 2003-2007 boom a base case and a global downturn situation.
The aim of these scenarios is to highlight the key sensitivities, and therefore enable companies to develop robust plans for an uncertain future.
The first major conclusion is that we do not expect recent shortages of feedstock to continue. The two main reasons for this are that ethane usage in the Middle East will substitute much of the current naphtha demand elsewhere, while naphtha supply is set to increase significantly:
And as its advantaged-cost position means it will always be competitive, it is unlikely that ethane-based producers will cut back production. The burden of adjustment will, therefore, fall on more expensive naphtha and LPG-based crackers, reducing their demand for feedstock.
There is also another factor that needs to be considered when assessing operating rates, and that is the region. Today, three of the world's Top 10 ethylene producers come from the Middle East and Asia. These regions do not necessarily share the same outlook, or indeed the financial priorities, of Western firms.
We estimate that Middle East ethylene capacity will expand from 14m tonnes in 2006 to 32m tonnes in 2013, and propylene from 3m tonnes to 11m tonnes. Much of this will be based on "advantaged feedstock," particularly ethane, which is variously priced between $0.75-$2.00/m Btu. At $0.75/m Btu, the cash cost of ethylene production is around $200/tonne.
These plants are, of course, mainly linked to polyethylene (PE) and monoethylene glycol (MEG) plants, as ethylene movement is difficult and expensive. Based on this feedstock price for ethylene, the cash cost for high density polyethylene (HDPE) delivered to Asia is no more than around $400/tonne. It is therefore hard to see why producers should choose to cut back rates towards the anticipated global average of 85% at the trough.
Similarly, China has a different agenda from the traditional Western outlook. It went through a major restructuring exercise at the beginning of the decade, as a result of which Sinopec and PetroChina emerged as dominant players. Since then, considerable investment has been approved for new capacity. China's ethylene capacity is planned to rise from 10m tonnes in 2006 to 17m tonnes in 2013 propylene capacity to rise from 9m tonnes to 14m tonnes benzene from 3m tonnes to 8m tonnes, and paraxylene (PX) from 4m tonnes to 10m tonnes.
This capacity is mainly integrated into major new refining complexes, which are expected to run at normal operating rates. This is partly because China remains short of most oil products, such as gasoline and diesel. But it is also due to the national policy of seeking to attain self-sufficiency.
This is a vital goal in the whole energy sector, as we have seen with the country's continuing drive to increase its ownership of oil and gas reserves around the world. Having invested so much already in the pursuit of this policy, it is hard to see why China should choose to cut back on operating rates in the petchem sector.
Thus our analysis suggests that it is misleading, and gives a false sense of comfort, to believe that individual regions will all operate at similar rates in the next few years. For example, the Middle East and China will have 49m tonnes of ethylene capacity in 2013, compared with 24m tonnes in 2006. They will account for 64% of the total increase in global ethylene capacity, from 126m tonnes to 165m tonnes, between 2006-2013. If these regions choose to maintain normal operating rates of 93%, then other producers will be forced to cut back.
A second major conclusion follows from this analysis. International eChem expects that the next few years will see a reversal of the globalization trend of the past 20 years. The rationale for this view is that overcapacity will persist into 2013-2015, even if recent global boom conditions continue. If global downturn occurs, then new capacity will not be needed until the 2015-2020 timescale.
In these circumstances, margins will be under pressure as producers move from stand-alone to roll-through economics. Freight and logistics costs will figure more strongly as a deterrent to interregional movements. The advantage will therefore lie with those regions that are either best balanced between supply and derivative consumption, such as NAFTA, Europe and China or those that have advantaged feedstock, such as the Middle East. Other regions will find it difficult to compete in export markets, as they will be up against local suppliers who are likely to fight hard to maintain their market positions.
Petrochemical markets are therefore going to become more complex. Integration and the flexibility it provides will be the key critical success factor for producers and consumers.
And those companies who are not clearly focused on being "low cost" will find their margins are increasingly squeezed, to the point where their survival may be at risk over the medium to longer term.
The next few years will not be comfortable, even if an extended global downturn can be avoided. The era of cheap feedstocks and ever-lower costs via globalization may well be over. Companies that wish to survive and prosper need to be willing to challenge conventional thinking. Complacency in the face of the gathering storm could prove fatal.
Paul Hodges is chairman of UK consultant International eChem. Further details of the new Feedstocks for Profit study can be obtained from email@example.com. Feedstocks for Profit was writtenin association with UK oil and refining consultant Wood Mackenzie. It benefits from their insiders' assessment of likely developments in gasoline and feedstock markets and contains detailed analysis of likely demand and potential feedstock availability.
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Most modern-day runners have long subscribed to a sole belief: The more cushion in their shoes, the less impact on their feet when they strike the ground, the better it is for their bodies.
It's only been within the last five years that the running masses have taken a serious interest in kicking off those cushioned clogs and investigating the benefits of barefoot-style running – sometimes running in so-called "five-finger" glove-like toe shoes, other times hitting the track sans footwear all together.
But as new as the idea may seem, barefoot runners have been making strides for years.
Indeed, barefoot Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila took home a gold medal in the1960 Olympic Games. And one of the lingering images of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics is that of Mary Decker falling to the ground after colliding with shoeless South African runner Zola Budd in their 3,000-meter race.
Olympic runners aside, it's commonly agreed that barefoot-style running received it's biggest PR boost from the 2009 publication of Christopher McDougall's "Born to Run," in which the author visits Mexico's Tarahumara Indians, a tribe whose members run hundreds of miles at a stretch, either barefoot or in minimally cushioned – minimalist – footwear.
The sprint toward minimalist shoes that followed the publication of McDougall's book has turned into more of a jog among curious runners.
And more recently, perhaps as pushback to the minimalist trend, several shoe companies are bringing extra-cushioned running shoes to the market.
Among them are the Hoka One One, with a foam cushion 2½ times the volume of that of traditional running shoes; and Brooks Running Company's new Transcend, due in stores Feb. 1, which is designed to provide a super-cushioned plush feel the company calls a "float" experience.
Yet the question remains: Which is better for your foot, cushion or no cushion?
There's no definitive answer.
The minimalist running-shoe trend was built on the idea that running virtually au naturel is best for the body because it allows the foot to function as nature intended.
But it comes with risks, as several studies have shown.
Last year, exercise science professors at BYU studied the impact of five-finger shoes on the health of 36 experienced runners over a 10-week period. What they found was that those runners who made a quick transition from conventional (cushioned) to minimalist shoes saw an increased risk of injury to bones in their feet, including a greater chance of stress fractures.
Transitioning to minimalist shoes is stressful to the bones, they concluded, and should be done gradually – over more than 10 weeks – to enable the body to adjust.
"We collected a lot of data, looking at muscle size, running mechanics and how any of those things changed," said Sarah Ridge, lead author of the study. "We wanted to see what happens as runners used to traditional running shoes transition to minimalist shoes. What we found is that half of the minimalist shoe group had some type of boney injury on a follow-up MRI."


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Does the city need another Chinese resto serving 'xiao long bao'? Yes
The Fort has found its neighborhood straight-from-Binondo joint
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There was a time, believe it or not, when the xiao long bao was fairly unknown outside China, and the few who tried to replicate it ended up with a forlorn, limp sac of dough bunched up around a meatball. The difference between that and this Shanghainese delicacy in all its glory is the subtle, cunning art of enclosing a mouthful of stock along with the minced pork in a wrapper that is thin yet elastic, so that it all bursts when bitten in a glorious draught of molten flavor.
It's actually hard to find a restaurant that doesn't serve xiao long bao these days. Suzhou, at Bonifacio Global City, is the latest contender in the market, having moved uptown and upscale from their Binondo digs.
Does Makati really need another Chinese restaurant?
Very much so, unless you have a driver and a 4×4 in which to go down to Greenhills, where everyone has a driver and 4×4. The drivers run over dogs and small children in their effort to get as close as possible to the door of the restaurant, and it is there, and only there, that the family will emerge, one at a time, in slow motion. If you drive your own car in Greenhills they will laugh at you and put you in a corner table and feed you scraps. I know this from experience.
But there are some nights when only MSG-laden peanut oil will do the trick, and the choices at more southern latitudes are scarce.
There is Mey Lin on Jupiter Street, which has become one of my favorite places to wind down. There is Panda's Kitchenette on De la Rosa Street, but it isn't for beginners, or even for advanced amateurs; the effect on one's taste buds is as though a panda jumped up and down on them. And that's about it, apart from upscale and hotel restaurants.
Suzhou has all the elements of a modern Chinese restaurant: uncomfortable curvy furniture on which to bark one's shins, red velvet drapes, and tinkly music. Even the fellow diners were straight out of central casting: a group of shady men huddled behind one of the curtained booths planning a hit; a table of dyed-blonde sex-and-the-city types with salacious banter, raucous laughter, and a bottle of scotch; a young Chinese couple on a date.
Every seat was filled, and everyone seemed to be having a good time. All the dishes we had ordered arrived at the same time, like a magic trick.
Suzhou, the city, is a quick train ride away from Shanghai and is known for beautiful women, etiolated ancient gardens, and a high and rarified cuisine that once eclipsed the port town Shanghai's more down-and-dirty fare. There is absolutely no relation between the food of Suzhou and that which one finds at the eponymous restaurant in Makati. But once this has been established, one can go on and enjoy the menu, which represents more or less the state of contemporary Chinese fare in the Philippines today.
There's a bit of the Hongkong-Canton nexus there, some of the newer dishes from the Sichuan-Hunan fire-breathing fare that the newer migrants have been bringing on, some of the dishes that the local Fujian Chinese can't go without, and a couple of dishes from all over China, maybe even some from Suzhou.
It's a little more expensive than your usual Chinese restaurant, but four people ate comfortably on what you'd pay for appetizers and drinks down the street.
I wonder how long the drapes will stay clean and the furniture unmarked, and even more unlikely, the menu will stay at this bargain price-point. I would like to see a few more exotic items on the menu, and would pay extra to be introduced to some Suzhou area specialities; the repertoire of this cuisine is vast.
Otherwise, I'm happy to report that the Fort area has found its neighborhood Chinese joint.
Suzhou Eastern Chinese Restaurant is at the 2/F, Crossroads Complex, 32nd St.; tel. 5511680.
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Astronomers Start Search For Alien Life
US astronomers said Friday that they are now listening to the skies for the existence of ETs, using a massive radio telescope in West Virginia to scan for signs of alien life on 86 possible Earth-like planets in the heavens above.
The giant dish began pointing toward each of the planets this week and will gather 24 hours of data on each one. The 86 planets were gleaned from a list of 1,235 planets identified by NASA's Kepler space telescope.
"It's not absolutely certain that all of these stars have habitable planetary systems, but they're very good places to look for ET," University of California at Berkeley graduate student Andrew Siemion told AFP.
The new mission is part of the SETI project — Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence — which launched in the 1980s.
SETI announced last month that it was shutting down a major part of its project — the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), which consisted of 42 telescope dishes — due to budget shortfalls.
ATA began in 2007 and was operated in part by UC Berkeley Radio Astronomy Lab, which has hosted several generations of experiments. ATA was funded by the SETI Institute and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Now, astronomers are hoping the powerful Green Bank Telescope will provide valuable information about potential life-supporting planets.
"Our search employs the largest fully steerable radio telescope on the planet, and the most sensitive radio telescope in the world capable of undertaking a SETI search of this kind," said Siemion. "We will be looking at a much wider range of frequencies and signal types than has ever been possible before."
The surface of the telescope is 328 by 360 feet and can record nearly one gigabyte of data per second, Siemion added.
The 8,500-ton telescope became operational in 2000 and is a project of the NSF's National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
"We've picked out the planets with nice temperatures — between zero and 100 degrees Celsius — because they are a lot more likely to harbor life," said physicist Dan Werthimer, who heads a SETI project in Puerto Rico.
He said the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico could not be used to observe the same area of the northern sky as the Green Bank Telescope can. "With Arecibo, we focus on stars like our Sun, hoping that they have planets around them that emit intelligent signals," he said in a statement.
The Green Bank Telescope can scan 300 times the range of frequencies that Arecibo could, meaning that it can collect the same amount of data in one day that Arecibo could in one year.
Astronomers said the project will take about one year to complete, and will employ the aid of nearly a million at-home astronomers, known as SETI@ home users, who will help process the data on their personal computers.
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: The police have released computer-aided portraits of three of the four bank robbers who fled with more than Rs. 18 lakh from the Bank of Baroda branch in Perungudi on Monday after holding bank staff and customers at gunpoint. The portrait of the fourth accused was not generated as the victims could not provide proper description, police said.
The investigation that followed the armed robbery has been a real challenge for the special police teams which have questioned more than 300 persons including customers, staff, construction contractors and workers in and around Perungudi.
Police teams also carried out meetings with real estate brokers in the area and distributed the sketches of the suspects. The computer-generated portraits would be prominently displayed in places where the public gather in large numbers in the city and other districts.
The three portraits were drawn based on the accounts of those held hostage by the robbers. However, the victims failed to give a suitable description about the fourth accused, who is said to have threatened and made them face the wall before bundling them into the safe room, police sources said. "Neither the customers nor the bank staff were able to see the man's face properly, leading to difficulty in generating his portrait'', said an investigating officer.
As fingerprints lifted from the scene are of little use, the investigating teams are relying on the portraits and some cellphones that the culprits took away from the customers for a breakthrough.
"A few construction workers from an IT park in Perungudi said that the portraits showed some resemblance to some of their co-workers who had not reported to work after Pongal holidays. But the men were known to be in Orissa and will be reporting to work on Friday," the officer added.
According to Rangaramanujan, a lawyer, to whose head one of the robbers pointed a handgun inside the bank; all the four suspects were slim and shabbily dressed youths. "They spoke Hindi among themselves while one conversed to us in broken Tamil. I think they are natives of UP, Bihar or Jharkhand," he added.
The police helpline 98842 03821 to which people can provide information on the armed robbers has received eight phone calls till Thursday evening. Callers have expressed suspicion over some North Indian youths in their respective localities. Police teams are being sent to question them, sources added.
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NEW ORLEANS ― The Saints' defense broke the Atlanta Falcons' spirit with critical stops and a clutch turnover.
But Monday night, in the Superdome in front of 70,000-plus fans, Drew Brees went one step further.
Brees broke Dan Marino's 27-year old NFL record for passing yards in a season with his last pass of the night, a 9-yard touchdown pass to Darren Sproles to give New Orleans a 45-16 win over the Falcons.
It also handed New Orleans the NFC South title and a home game in the NFC playoffs.
Brees has 5,087 yards this season, eclipsing Marino's record by three yards. He did it by going 23 of 39 for 307 yards with four touchdowns and two interceptions.
With the crowd in full throat to begin the game, the Falcons drove 65 yards in 11 plays, eating 6 minutes, 7 seconds off the clock to take a 3-0 lead. Saints cornerback Jabari Greer came up big late in the drive, breaking up a Matt Ryan to Julio Jones pass inside the Saints' 15 on second-and-11.
The Saints answered emphatically.
Quarterback Drew Brees threw for 49 yards and running back Pierre Thomas pounded out 24 yards on the ground, including a 4-yard scoring run that put the Saints up 7-3. He was flagged for pulling a bow out and putting it onto the ball, but the tone was set.
The Falcons, undisturbed by the noise and New Orleans' pressure packages, moved right down the field and on third-and-10 from the Saints' 21, quarterback Matt Ryan hit receiver Julio Jones for a 21-yard touchdown to stake Atlanta to a 10-7 lead.
Not to be outdone, Brees led the Saints right back down the field on a 10-play, 81-yard drive that ended with an 8-yard touchdown pass to Marques Colston, extending his streak of consecutive games with a touchdown pass to 42 and giving the Saints a 14-10 lead early in the second quarter.
New Orleans looked poised to extend its lead, but a fluke interception, Brees' first since Nov. 6, turned the ball over. The Saints forced a punt and then did extend the lead on Brees' 9-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jimmy Graham.
The Saints led 21-10 at halftime, with Brees needing just 75 yards to go to break Dan Marino's record of 5,084 passing yards in a season.
New Orleans pushed its lead to 28-10 with 8:28 to go in the third quarter when Brees hit receiver Robert Meachem for a 24-yard touchdown. Meanwhile, after scoring on its first two possessions, Atlanta went without scores on its next four possessions.
The Falcons cut into the Saints lead with a 51-yard Matt Bryant field goal, but New Orleans returner Darren Sproles brought the ensuing kickoff 92 yards to Atlanta's 14. Kicker John Kasay hit a 29-yard field goal and the Saints were back on top by 18 points.
Bryant kicked a 30-yard goal with 12:43 left to play, the Saints lead was down to 31-16.
New Orleans was forced to punt on the next series and, suddenly, the Falcons were close to getting back in the game.
But on the first play of the possession, Saints linebacker Scott Shanle forced a fumble by Atlanta's Jones. New Orleans safety Malcolm Jenkins picked up the loose ball and returned it 30 yards for a touchdown and a 38-16 lead with just 11:09 to go in the game.
The rest was set up for history.
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Brian Keller, sr., Germantown: The summer state and North Shore Conference player of the year will play at UW-Milwaukee next year. "Brian is one of the best, if not the best, pitchers I've seen in 20 years of coaching," Germantown coach Jeff Wolf said. "We may never see a pitcher like Brian Keller again." Keller was 11-0 with one save. He struck out 107 in 83 1/3 innings, and just five of his 36 hits allowed were for extra bases.
John Sprtel, sr., Hartford: He not only finished with a 10-3 record this year with a 1.03 ERA but pitched three years in a row at state and finished 2-1. The third-team all-state member also hit .478 with 28 runs, and will play at UW-Whitewater next year. "He had an outstanding year on the mound for us and worked very hard to become a complete player," Hartford coach Russ Grundy said.
Nate Krause, jr., Kettle Moraine Lutheran: A second-team all-state selection, Krause was the player of the year in the Wisconsin Flyway after hitting .493 with 30 runs, 35 RBI and 12 doubles. He's been a starting catcher all three years. "His defensive skills have been there since his freshman year, and this year his hitting really came around to a top level," Lutheran coach Darrell Washburn said. "He keep improving each year, and it has been a pleasure coaching him."
Tommy Pennington, sr., University School: The Bucknell recruit was a four-year starter who played third, shortstop, second, and also pitched. "From a defensive standpoint, he controlled the diamond from second base his senior year," University School coach Tim Bartz said. "He has an excellent arm and great range." Pennington made first-team all-state thanks to a .506 batting average. He also had 38 runs, 38 RBI and 17 stolen bases.
Tony DeBartolo, jr., Kenosha Bradford: A third-team all-state pick, DeBartolo finished with 27 RBI in 28 games, 22 runs, three homers and a .404 batting average. "This was his first year as a varsity player, and Tony did a great job at the plate for us," Bradford coach Matt LaBuda said. "He will be a key player in our 2013 campaign to win our third consecutive conference championship and help to make a bid at our third consecutive trip to state."
Tanner Johnson, sr., Oak Creek: The Greater Metro player of the year is the second Knight in school history to have at least 50 hits (52), 30 runs (34) and 30 RBI (31) in one season. The third baseman, who made all-state (summer) will play at Iowa Lakes Junior College, hit .444 and struck out just nine times in 117 at-bats. "What stands out about Tanner is his range, arm strength, and ability to come up with the big hit time and time again," Oak Creek coach Scott Holler said. "He's the most complete third baseman I've coached."
Eric Solberg, sr., Waukesha West: Solberg made first-team all-state (summer) and will play at UW-Milwaukee. He was on varsity since the middle of his freshman year, and this season led the Wolverines in batting average (.444), hits (52), runs (41) and stolen bases (15). Solberg added 25 RBI and four triples as well. "Eric is a very smooth fielding shortstop and has made plays look effortless all year long," West coach Chad Montez said.
Nate Mikolas, sr., Kenosha Bradford: A first-team all-state selection, Mikolas finished with six home runs, 12 doubles, 23 RBI, 32 runs and a .514 batting average. "Nate is an incredible baseball player and a remarkable individual," LaBuda said. "His swing reminds me of what I have seen in Ted Williams videos. We will miss his baseball skills at Bradford next season, but I know that Nate helped his fellow Red Devil players and coaches to be better people and more knowledgeable about the game of baseball."
Eric Weisbrod, jr., Racine St. Catherine's: After making second-team all-Midwest Classic last year, Weisbrod landed on the all-state third team this year. He hit .470 with 35 RBI, 21 runs, three homers, five triples and 16 stolen bases. "He absolutely crushed his statistics from last season," St. Catherine's coach Kerry Timler said. "No one on our team worked harder over the offseason than Eric to improve his swing and timing, and did the results ever show."
Joel Zyhowski, sr., Menomonee Falls: The centerfielder made first-team all-state (summer) after hitting .457 with 34 runs and 36 RBI. He also made just one error. What stood out about the UW-La Crosse recruit was 36 RBI in 31 games, according to Falls coach Pat Hansen. "He was consistent throughout," Hansen said. "It wasn't a week-long stretch that got him hot and bloated his stats. If I had to use one adjective for him in the outfield, it'd be smooth. He gets to everything and has a great arm."
Josh Baker, sr., University School: In addition to his stats already mentioned, Baker finished with a 1.04 ERA this year, and opponents hit just .147. He also allowed just five extra-base hits. Offensively, Baker was walked 24 times and struck out just twice. He also played centerfield, leftfield and first base. "He can play anywhere," Bartz said.


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TN wants 34 tmcft in July, 50 tmcft for August to save Samba crop
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on Monday clashed during the third meeting of the Cauvery Supervisory Committee here over latter's share of the river waters.
Tamil Nadu sought a direction from the panel to Karnataka for making the stipulated release of Cauvery waters in July. But, Karnataka said it had already released about 34 thousand million cubic (tmc) feet of water between June and July 13.
Further release would be made if the rainfall was good, Karnataka is reported to have said.
The panel, chaired by Water Resources Secretary Alok Rawat also demurred at giving any assurance and noted that Tamil Nadu's receipt of the stipulated waters till July 31 at Biligundlu would depend on the behaviour of the monsoon in the next fortnight.
Tamil Nadu pointed out that in view of the recent heavy rainfall in the Cauvery catchment area of Karnataka and inflows into Karnataka reservoirs, the Delta farmers were anticipating release of water by Karnataka as per the final order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) award for the cultivation of the Samba crop.
Unless the Committee ensures the release of 34 tmcft of water due to Tamil Nadu in July and 50 tmcft for August, as stipulated in the CWDT order, the samba cultivation will be put to severe stress, the State said.
The panel noted that, so far on account of good monsoon rain, Tamil Nadu had received about 34 tmcft water as against 44 tmcft during June and July (till July 13) including its share of 10 tmc ft water in June. By July 31, it should receive another 10 tmcft as the forecast was that monsoon would be good.
The meeting was attended among others by Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary Sheela Balakrishnan and her Karnataka counterpart S.V. Ranganath, Central Water Commission Chairman Rajesh Kumar and senior officials from Kerala and Puducherry.
The next meeting will be held in August to review the Tamil Nadu water receipts till July 31.
Keywords: Cauvery Supervisory Committee meeting, Tamil Nadu-Karnataka dispute, Cauvery river water dispute


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Ramesh Chennithala, president, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), has left a decision on his appointment as a Minister to the Congress high command.
Mr. Chennithala told presspersons here on Thursday that the party had not been holding discussions on his entry into the Cabinet, but if the high command took a decision, no Congress worker could reject it.
Earlier, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had asked him to join the Cabinet, but he did not take the offer. A Cabinet reshuffle was the Chief Minister's prerogative, and he had no role in it. No discussions had been held on filling the Cabinet berth that had fallen vacant following the resignation of K.B. Ganesh Kumar. As KPCC president, he was bound to make the party ready for the coming Lok Sabha elections.
Asked about the criticism raised by community organisations such as the Nair Service Society and the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam, Mr. Chennithala said the Congress shared a warm relation with them and would hear their opinions on various issues, but would not yield to all their demands. The party was not for a confrontation with such organisations.
The Kerala Yatra taken up by him from Kasaragod from April 18 had elicited a warm public response. This was proof of the popularity of the slogan raised at the Yatra, the commitment of the party to the people and the welfare measures initiated by the Union and the State governments.
The complaints and petitions received at the Yatra would be submitted to the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister. The public donations received would be used to form a corpus to help ailing, indigent Congress workers who had dedicated their life for the party.
The Congress was working out a development strategy beyond politics.
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you have to go to a designated call in center - I am not sure where the best place for you to go would be, I imagine there is a designated area in Victoria & i know there is one in Sidney.
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Coming to Canada by Small Aircraft or Recreational Boat
Recreational boats
The master of a recreational boat is the person in charge. As master of the recreational boat, he or she is required to go to a designated telephone reporting marine site and call the telephone reporting centre at 1-888-226-7277. No one except the master may leave the boat until authorization is given by the CBSA.
To find designated telephone reporting marine sites in your area, call 1-888-226-7277.
The master is required to follow these steps:
•give the full name, date of birth and citizenship for every person on the boat;
•give the destination, purpose of trip and length of stay in Canada for each passenger who is a nonresident of Canada;
•give the length of absence for each passenger who is a returning resident of Canada;
•give the passport and visa information of passengers, if applicable;
•make sure all passengers have photo identification and proof of citizenship documents;
•declare all goods being imported, including firearms and weapons;
•report all currency and monetary instruments of a value equal to or greater than CAN$10,000;
•for returning resident of Canada, declare all repairs or modifications made to goods, including the boat, while outside Canada; and
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Compound drugs are defined as those drugs that are changed from the original U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) dosage form.
Pharmacy compounding is the customized preparation of a medicine in a way that is not available from major drug manufacturers. Pharmacy compounding includes the combining, mixing, or altering of ingredients to create a customized medication for an individual patient in response to a licensed practitioner's prescription. Compounding does not generally include mixing or reconstituting commercial products in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions or the product's approved labeling.
The quality of a finished compounded drug product can be affected by numerous factors including the quality of the active pharmaceutical ingredient used and the compounding practices of the pharmacy in which the product is created.
Each benefit plan, summary plan description or contract defines which services are covered, which services are excluded, and which services are subject to dollar caps or other limitations, conditions or exclusions. Members and their providers have the responsibility for consulting the member's benefit plan, summary plan description or contract to determine if there is any exclusion or other benefit limitations applicable to this service or supply. If there is a discrepancy between a Medical Policy and a member's benefit plan, summary plan description or contract, the benefit plan, summary plan description or contract will govern.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana considers drug compounding, the process of mixing, combining or altering of ingredients to create a customized medication experimental, investigational and unproven.
Policy Guidelines
Compounded medications are exempt by law from having National Drug Code (NDC) identification numbers.
Congress has stated that "drugs should not be on the market unless the FDA knows who is making them, and where they are being made, and is able to inspect the facilities in which they are being made."
While drug compounding is an important part of ensuring that medicines are available to meet individual patient care, the quality and extent of drug compounding problems that have occurred raises legitimate concern about the quality and safety of compounded drugs and the oversight of pharmacies that compound them. The practices of compounding products that already exist in commercially available forms are likely to be harming consumers and violating the law. Although some states are taking steps to strengthen state oversight, and national pharmacy organizations are developing standards that might help strengthen oversight, individual states would need to adopt and enforce these standards. However, the effectiveness of these measures is unknown, and factors such as the availability of resources may also affect the extent of state oversight.
A 1997 FDA Modernization Act states that compounding pharmacies are not manufacturers and are therefore exempt from standard FDA regulation on that basis. The act prohibited pharmacists from advertising or promoting compound drugs, but in April 2002, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the FDA could not restrict pharmacists from advertising or promoting products solely because they were compounded drugs. This action would tend to place consumers at risk, as the FDA does not have the resources to police compounding pharmacies.
Since 1990, the FDA has become aware of more than 55 product quality problems associated with compounded products, many of which resulted in product recalls. In 2001, the FDA Division of Prescription Drug Compliance and Surveillance conducted a limited survey of drugs compounded by a group of community pharmacies located throughout the United States. The goal of the survey was to gather information on the quality, purity, and potency of compounded drug products in the marketplace. The compounded products surveyed were selected from a cross-section of commonly compounded dosage forms based on FDA's assessment of the potential health risks resulting from improper compounding.
The survey was conducted from June to December 2001. Samples of the products to be analyzed were collected from 12 compounding pharmacies that allowed specific compound products to be ordered over the internet.
Ten (34%) of the 29 sampled products failed one or more standard quality tests performed. Nine of the ten products with failing analytical results failed assay or potency testing. All of the sampled products that failed potency analyses had sub-potent results, indicating that the products contained less of the active ingredient(s) than expected. The average percent of declared potency for these nine products was calculated from the original and repeat analyses performed for each sample, with a range of 59 percent to 89 percent of expected potency. In addition to the potency failures described, two other analytical test failures were noted during the survey (i.e., a failed Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) test for an injectable product and a content uniformity failure for an oral product that also failed potency testing).
None of the compounded products analyzed in this survey failed identity testing. In addition, none of the compounded products sampled and subjected to sterility testing (sterile injectables, pellet implants and ophthalmic products) or testing for microbial limits (the single inhalation product) failed these analytical tests.
Each year, FDA routinely samples drug products made by commercial manufacturers and analyzes these samples in FDA laboratories. More than 3,000 drug products from commercial manufacturers have been sampled and analyzed by FDA since fiscal year 1996. The analytical testing failure rate for commercially produced samples has been less than 2 percent. When compared to this failure rate, the percentage of sampled compounded products failing analytical testing in this survey (34%) was higher than expected.
This survey had several limitations including a small sample size, the inability to collect and complete original and repeat analysis on all product samples originally identified for the survey, and the fact that the compounding pharmacies selected for the survey were limited to those permitting internet purchase of the drug products chosen for sampling. Despite these limitations, this survey provided valuable, preliminary information on the quality of selected compounded drug products currently marketed.
2009 Update
Several studies, in addition to the 2001 FDA, have reported quality problems with various pharmacy-compounded drugs, including sub-potency, super-potency, and contamination. To explore these quality issues, the FDA conducted an additional survey of compounded drug products in 2006. The FDA collected both active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and finished compounded drug product samples during unannounced visits to compounding pharmacies located throughout the country. The samples were sent to FDA field laboratories for chemical analysis to measure identity of active ingredients, potency, and uniformity of dosage. The analytical methods used were generally United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) or modified USP methods. Once all analyses were complete, FDA staff evaluated the analytical data and methods corresponding to all samples that failed at least one analytical test.
Most of the products that failed analysis did so due to sub- or super-potency, called assay, or a lack of uniformity of individual dosage units, called content uniformity. Potency ranged from 67.5% to 268.4% of the amount of drug declared on the product labeling. For content uniformity analysis of products containing multiple active components, both sub- and super-potent active components were found within the same product samples. Such variability can lead to uncertainty in dosing and raises concern for patient therapy.
The results of the survey suggest that problems with the quality of compounded drugs occur throughout the country. Of note is that all APIs passed analytical testing, supporting the notion that the observed failures of the finished drug products may be causally related to the compounding processes at pharmacies. .
2011 Update
A search of peer reviewed literature through October 2011 identified no new clinical trial publications or any additional information that would change the coverage position of this medical policy.
The 2012 Hormone Therapy Position Statement of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS)
Bioidentical Hormones
The term bioidentical hormones is most often used to describe custom-made HT formulations (called bioidentical hormone therapy [BHT]) that are compounded for an individual according to a healthcare provider's prescription. The term is used by proponents of BHT to convey that the hormones they use are identical to the hormones made by the ovaries. In that regard, the term can also be used to refer to many well-tested, government-approved, brand-name HT products containing hormones chemically identical to those produced by women (primarily in the ovaries), such as 17ß-estradiol and progesterone.
Custom-compounding of HT may combine several hormones (eg, estradiol, estrone, and estriol) and use nonstandard routes of administration (eg, subdermal implants). Some of the hormones are not government approved (estriol) or monitored and some of the compounded therapies contain nonhormonal ingredients (eg, dyes, preservatives) that some women cannot tolerate. Use of BHT has escalated in recent years, along with the use of salivary hormone testing, which has been proven to be inaccurate and unreliable. There may be increased risks to the women using these products. Custom-compounded formulations, including BHT, have not been tested for efficacy or safety; product information is not consistently provided to women along with their prescription, as is required with commercially available HT; and batch standardization and purity may be uncertain. The dosing of compounded progesterone is particularly difficult to assess because the levels in serum, saliva, and tissue are markedly different. Custom-compounded drug formulations are not government approved.
The US Food and Drug Administration has ruled that some compounding pharmacies have made claims about the safety and effectiveness of BHT unsupported by clinical trial data and considered to be false and misleading. Pharmacies have been instructed not to use estriol without an investigational new drug authorization. The Food and Drug Administration also states that there is no scientific basis for using saliva testing to adjust hormone levels.
NAMS recommends that BHT products include a patient package insert identical to that required for products that have government approval. In the absence of efficacy and safety data for BHT, the generalized benefit-risk ratio data of commercially available HT products should apply equally to BHT. For most women, government-approved HT will provide appropriate therapy without the risks of custom preparations. Therefore, NAMS does not generally recommend compounded EPT or ET unless necessary because of allergies to ingredients contained in government-approved products.
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Procedure and diagnosis codes on Medical Policy documents are included only as a general reference tool for each policy. They may not be all-inclusive.
The presence or absence of procedure, service, supply, device or diagnosis codes in a Medical Policy document has no relevance for determination of benefit coverage for members or reimbursement for providers. Only the written coverage position in a medical policy should be used for such determinations.
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Reform Bill Could End Popular HSAs, Flex Spending - Health Care News
Proposed health care legislation in the U.S. Senate could eliminate tax-advantaged savings accounts used by thousands of Americans, even as evidence suggests they have helped lower health care costs.
Dec 25, 2009
Now That It's Passed: What You Need to Know About the Senate Health Care Bill – ABC News
Legislation Clears First Hurdle; Debate Is Far From Over
Now that the Senate's $871 billion health care overhaul bill has passed, many may still have questions about the exact nature of the bill -- and how it may affect their health choices in the decade to come.
Dec 22, 2009
Obamacare Hazardous to America's Health – Human Events
At least common thieves don't destroy an entire health care system and socialize the American economy when they commit their felonies. Too bad we can't say the same for our illustrious Democratic senators who sold out the nation.
Dec 22, 2009
Obama Passed Up Opportunity for Real Reform - Health Care News
No one really likes any of the various health care reform proposals passed by Congress. Why would the majority of Members of Congress vote for bills that no one really likes and no one thinks will control costs or improve quality and possibly not even improve access to care?
Dec 13, 2009
No cure for small business - The Washington Times
Swine flu pushed snout into the tent
NCPA Distinguished Fellow Terry Neese said in a Washington Times editorial that the proposed Emergency Influenza Containment Act would force more mandates on small businesses, and mandated sick leave is not a cure for what ails small businesses. Neese said a better solution would be to look for policies that empower the employer and employee.
Dec 11, 2009
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NCPA President John C. Goodman explains solutions to the health care crisis on Fox Business Network.
Dec 11, 2009
Avoid Classic Retirement Savings Goofs - Investors Business Daily
During the agonizing descent to the lows of the 2007-09 bear market, snappy lines about moving remaining funds to the "Bank of Posturepedic" surfaced. Buy-and-hold was dead.
Dec 10, 2009
Eco at the end of recession? – Washington Times
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… I picked up the Nokia N82 yesterday from Import GSM, a great hybrid brick-and-mortage / online store. Think Dynamism for phones. It was my first visit, right at closing, and despite trying to get stuff out the door for the evening shipment the guys helped out with descriptions and subtle nuances between the N95…
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Ok, i feel the vains in my forehead throbbing blood through it as i read quake 4 mp will have only 9 maps?? 9 maps... niiiiiine maps... God, im gonna hate the single player campain because of this. Lol, just kidding, but 9 maps arnt much at all and will get boring very fast... usually 2 or 3 maps will be crapp.. so that will leave 6 kewl maps... yay... ID should have made quake 4..
Since the quake community always has have a hard time setting up custom maps servers...(Doom 3 has a few with like 3 custums maps that arnt impressive.. same goes for quake 3 dm, not counting full mod servers that are always empty..) so i can see the Quake 4 mp communtity will be very short lived.
Dont get me wrong i loved quake 3, but this game seems to be a downgrade except for the graphics. Ill still be picking it up nontheless.. hehe.
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Problem after compilation, during insmod
I had just reconfigured this system after having the drivers working on it a week earlier. After downloading the drivers (the tar.gz packages), and successfully compiling them, the problem I have is that NVdriver does not pass module dependencies on my system currently.
I run Slackware 8.0 kernel 2.4.5 with a STB Velocity 4400 TNT. Here is the error message I am recieving for NVdriver (GLX seems to install fine):
Funny thing is that the drivers worked fine the first time i installed them months ago.
[edit] forgot to set my MTU settings again >.<; [/edit]
Hopefully there is something I can edit to knock out these module dependency errors.
Most of the time NVdriver complains about unresolved symbols when you used wrong kernel headers. I mean when you use kernel headers which aren't the ones for your kernel version.
Okay thanks, I'll do some research into that.
I ran make with the SYSINCLUDE option for the directory that contained the include files for the 2.4.5 kernel (/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/include) but I still seem to get these unresolved symbol errors. I did make sure to make menuconfig dep before doing that.
Are there any other files that could be giving NV's makefile the wrong kernel header locations?
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Thank you for the help. Was not aware of that slack issue (just a newb).
Slackware 8.0 shipped with unconfigured kernel headers, which is why you're seeing the unresolved symbols. You'll probably have to reconfigure your sources and then recompile your kernel to get the two to match.
I hope this helps...
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Bafela Chaval
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There are two ways to cook rice, so that every grain is separate.
First method: Wash rice well several times in cold water to remove all starch.
Soak in cold water for twenty minutes.
Drain in a sieve and leave for twenty minutes more.
Boil three times the quantity of water and add rice and salt to boiling water.
Bring back to boil and simmer till rice is just tender.
Drain out water, swirl some cold water into rice and drain it out again.
This does not make it cold, but separates the grains.
The water drained is called rice conji and is a strengthening drink, often given to people who have an upset stomach, as it also helps in binding the stomach.
Second method: Wash rice and soak for twenty minutes in cold water.
Discard water and put rice into a pan with enough cold water to come about one inch over level of rice.
Bring to boil and simmer on low heat, with pan half covered.
Gook till holes appear in the surface.
Check rice to see if it is done, toss with a fork and add a little more water if required.
Cover pan and cook till done.
In this method, each variety of rice requires a different quantity of water to cook and the quantity given is just an indication.
Once you have cooked a particular variety of rice you will know how much water should be put in at the start of cooking and there should be no need to add more water halfway through.
Here starch is not removed from the rice which makes it a more nourishing way of serving it.
Always toss rice with a fork in the pan, before serving it.


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These came out yesterday courtesy of BofAML's 2015 look at looong term trends in financial markets by Harnett and Leung…
The obvious place to start:
And the obvious place to continue, asset prices: Read more
These came out yesterday courtesy of BofAML's 2015 look at looong term trends in financial markets by Harnett and Leung…
The obvious place to start:
And the obvious place to continue, asset prices: Read more
It's misleading to compare macroeconomic aggregates across countries with very different population growth rates, which is why so many analysts get it wrong on Japan. While we were doing some of the data work for that previous post, however, we thought you might appreciate a visualization of how Japan's population has aged and why it is poised to shrink a lot over the next few decades:
Credit Suisse's global demographics research team came out with a new note on Friday featuring some enlightening charts about the US economy. It provides a handy way of evaluating the country's lackluster performance since 2000, as well as a few longer-term trends.
As the CS team notes, GDP growth can be decomposed into three distinct forces: growth in the population of working-age people, growth in the number of hours worked by each working-aged person, and productivity growth. Read more
A chart, courtesy of James Knightley at ING…
If India continues its current path it will face a catastrophic shortage of jobs, creating a young and angry population, and with it conditions for social unrest and economic disaster. Whether India exploits or is undermined by its demographics will likely be determined by the policy choices over the next two administrations. It simply cannot afford a repeat of the last five years.
That's from a recent Espirito Santo note that makes for refreshing reading compared with the usual demographic dividend stories that cruise through our inboxes every few days. Read more
End the 'one-child policy', get some 9.5m extra people. Nice policy if you want to give your population a bit more control and if you have one eye on a declining working age population.
According to a few news organisations in China late last week, citing those close to the National Population and Family Planning Commission, the government may relax its one-child policy in the very near future. Families where at least one parent was a single-child might be able to start upping their families headcounts in late 2013/ early 2014 with a full revision in 2015 (a date that has been mentioned before).
Nomura's Zhiwie Zhang gave the reports quite a bit of weight (our emphasis): Read more
George Magnus, senior economic advisor at UBS has always been fond of demographics. In fact, he's always warned the world about the dangerous side-effects of an ageing society, with specific reference to the case of Japan.
As he reminds us in a note on Wednesday: Read more
We've been combing through an interesting new Pew report on attitudes towards a number of economy-related issues.
Among the dominant themes are that people in advanced economies are more likely to report increasing inequality in the past five years, while respondents in emerging and developing economies had more faith in their prospects for economic mobility than their developed-country counterparts. Read more
Self-explanatory, and they come via RBC Capital Markets:
Quite a few analyses of the sequestration cuts have noted that they do little to address the sources of longer-term budget deficits, which are mainly the result of expected health care costs.
Matt Slaugher of Tuck Business School and Matthew Rees of Geonomica argue something similar but take a slightly different approach, emphasising which generations the cuts are punishing most: Read more
We've recently heard an interesting suggestion that China's ageing population — generally a bad thing for growth — might also have the positive side-effect of inducing a transition away from the country's unusually high ratio of investment to consumption. But will it? Read more
Yep, China again.
Here's a table from a fresh IMF paper pondering the country's Lewis Turning Point, the moment when people streaming into cities from farms will be fully absorbed, industrial wages will take off, and — an estimated 350m jobs later after it began — the era of cheap Chinese labour will end. Click to enlarge. Read more
China's growing demographic challenges have been well documented and their economic impact much discussed. So how about urbanisation being touted as the solution?
After all, more people working in cities generally means more productive workers, hard to argue with that. But Beijing's traditional policy of encouraging urbanisation through greater infrastructure investment is getting ever diminishing returns. If the government really wants more people to move to the cities, argues Wei Yao at Société Générale, it must start treating its new urbanites better. Read more
We've been moaning about the old stealing our jobs for quite a while but we may have been missing an obvious trick. Much like their advanced toilet habits, Japan is leading the way demographically and has come up with an alternate to our more "soylent green" approach to the problem. Read more
If increased proportions of older workers are squeezing out some of the younger would-be workers there could be a significant downside in the longer term — ironically, due to the ageing population. Read more
From Steven Englander at Citi — a little observed factoid regarding employment trends among the older demographic:
We are taking one small slice at this subject, starting with the little noticed fact that employment to population ratios among older individuals have gone up in recent years, in contrast to the so-called prime-aged 25-54 cohort, where employment to population is much lower than earlier. Figure 1 shows the percentage point change in the employment to population for the three age groups since 2007. Read more
To what extent has Japan's soft growth over the past 20 years been due to its population ageing? And to what extent unfavourable demographics can be offset by increases in labour market participation (especially by old people) and/or labour productivity gains?
Citi's Nathan Sheets and Robert Sockin have put together a very useful comparison of (mostly supply-side) measures for the US, Japan and eurozone that examine these questions. They've "decomposed" real GDP-per capita down into labour productivity, employment rate, labour force participation, and the share of the working-age population. Read more
Making babies is fun and good for economic growth (sexing up a lede has never been so easy). Nomura has taken a shot at calculating just how significantly population changes can hit GDP. Their conclusion is that:
[A]lthough a population decline will dent GDP growth and inflation, the degree of correlation is not that high and the negative impact may not be as large as some observers fear. Read more
This chart from Credit Suisse is included in a note about the graying of America and the developed world's demographic problems and future runaway deficits and frightening old-age dependency ratios and blah blah bliggity blah…
These are difficult issues and we'll continue to write about the financial and economic implications of same, but this blogger returned from holiday about five minutes ago and feels like looking on the bright side of things for just one post. So instead we're going to think about this in the happier and more obviously humane context of living standards rising and people living longer: Read more
We've seen a lot interesting and deservedly favourable commentary about Alex Tabarrok's argument that liberalising high-skill immigration policy in the US would be an economic boon.
Hey, we're all for it – and it's more politically feasible than wider substantive reform on illegal immigration, in part because its entrepreneurial and societal benefits are intuitively easy to grasp. Read more
Fascinating data point via the Brookings Institution:
The new Census results show 49.8 percent of infants under age one are members of a race-ethnic minority – up from 42.4 percent in 2000. Given this trajectory, and the fact that the Census was taken well over a year ago, it is almost certain we have now "tipped" racially, and more than half of all national births are minorities. More than a quarter of infants are Hispanic, Blacks and Asians comprise 13.6 and 4.2 percent, respectively. Nearly one in twenty births were reported to be two or more races. Read more
A decent review of a theme we've been exploring recently, courtesy of Moody's Analytics:
Several important demographic trends will influence US activity for some time. They include (i) the slower growth of Americans aged 15 to 49 years, which is a population cohort that shows a comparatively strong correlation with the growth of real consumer spending, (ii) the record slow growth of the working age population, (iii) the much faster growth of older workers relative to younger workers, and (iv) the breakneck growth of those 65-and-over vis-à-vis the number aged less-than-65. Read more
Interesting USDA chart, pointed out by Big Picture Agriculture:
This morning's miserable new home sales report gives us an excuse to write about a theme we've been distantly following for some time: the possibility that the housing downturn has overshot the pre-crisis boom and will eventually provide an economic boost when it corrects.
Whether this turns out to be the case depends on whether demographics can trump the recent adjustments in household behaviour, as a recent paper from RBC explains: Read more
The rankings of the new Global Aging Preparedness index from the Center for Strategic and International Studies — or, handicapping the Race to Sovereign Default 2040:
Relax, kids: a demographic tidbit from Citi's emerging market round-up on Monday:
China will relax the one-child policy in five provinces this year and probably switch to the two-child policy within five years. According to the Chinese Liaowan Weekly, under the new policy, all couples with a one-child family can have two children. Read more
An interesting application of political science to the market, from Deutsche Bank analysts:
Youth bulges in emerging markets likely to decline sharply from 2010–2020 Read more
By now you've perhaps heard about the ticking, aging timebomb underneath Japanese government bonds. Or predictions of a negative savings rate. Or sovereign downgrades.
But what of the super safe Japanese mortgage market? Read more
Nomura's Richard Koo — he of 'balance sheet recession' fame — has been inspired.
He's spent a week with Chi Hung Kwan, of the Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research and an all-around China expert, and come back with the discovery that the "conventional wisdom on [the] Chinese economy has begun to collapse." Read more


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BY DAN BEGNOCHEIn 2010, running back LaDainian Tomlinson was just a 10-year veteran trying to extend his career in a new city.Little did he know that his time during training camp would be under the watchful eye of a camera crew and weekly audience.Tomlinson's move from San Diego to New York coincidentally synced up with the team's hosting of HBO's Hard Knocks series, which chronicled the team's every move throughout camp and into the final week of the preseason. (photo: Billtacular, Flickr)His arrival and fit into the team's system was a semi-major story line of the program, along with the evolution of quarterback Mark Sanchez and cornerback Darrelle Revis's contract negotiations.With HBO's recent announcement that the Cincinnati Bengals will be this year's focus for the Emmy award-winning series, the five-time Pro Bowler recently spoke about his experiences on the show, specifically the wedge it can create when trying to bond with other teammates."You always had to watch what you ...
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We all remember the calm before the storm before the Gathering Storm in the Shiverpeaks and we're certainly not going to forget the travesty that went down at the Battle for Lion's Arch. However, the might of the Molten Alliance, the Aetherbalde Pirates, Watchwork Armies, and the Toxic Alliance was not enough to fall Tyria. Good did end up prevailing, but at what cost?
I'm so sad about sound issues – since it's Dark Souls II, I couldn't go back and redo stuffs. After a bit more of back tracking, we grab the Garrison Ward Key. Going to the only unopened door so far, we discover a bunch of coffins. After a bit of technical difficulties (someone busting into the room I was recording in, singing), we jump into the coffin into a blizzard. This area is horrid....
I'm so sad about sound issues – since it's Dark Souls II, I couldn't go back and redo stuffs. We start this episode by literally falling into the Old Chaos. Now that I have an army, I can fight the evil army way easier. After much sacrifice and turmoil, the Burnt Ivory King Shows himself. Watch his tells and range to defeat him. Compared to everything else you've faced, he's nothing new. After...
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I'm so sad about sound issues – since it's Dark Souls II, I couldn't go back and redo stuffs. The majority of this episode is Rei II running around in places she's already been finding items and knights no longer trapped in ice. Along this path, we discover a witch invader by the name of Donna. She does little to stop us on our grand adventure. Next stop, Burnt Ivory King.
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13.11.05 - By Jim Jamesson: Ok, so I'd like to offer my insights on the recent comments and drama surrounding the so-called Quiet Man. Before I get down to the nitty-gritty though, I'd like to make a quick point that I do not dislike John Ruiz as a person by any means. He's easily one of the nicer folks in the boxing game today. In today's scrambled-eggs heavyweight division, I don't argue the he could be considered by many as one of the top 10 guys in the division.. His wins, while painfully boring to watch, are indeed wins, and over some decent guys at that. But to hear the latest babble spew from the Quiet Man's mouth are probably among the most hypocritical statements I've ever heard out of a fighter's mouth. I will quote below:
"The first words I'm going to say in Germany are, 'I'm not Klitschko; I'm no chicken.' Klitschko has always been a quitter."
I'm sorry, but this to me just comes across as sheer ignorance. Perhaps I'm the ignorant one, but last I checked, even life-long Lennox Lewis haters regarded him as THE legitimate champ of his era. I was never a big Lewis fan, but there is no arguing that he was the champ. I don't need to go into detail on the legacy of Lennox as it's been written to death on countless occasions... but come on, Ruiz, you mean to tell me that because Lewis didn't win the title from a champion, it negates all of his accomplishments since then? Do you even follow boxing?
While my boxing knowledge isn't as complete as many other people that visit this site, I do know enough to realize that there aren't many in the boxing world who base everything on any one particular alphabet organization over the other. Many do however hold the Ring Magazine belt in higher regard, and up until a couple of days ago, the man on top was Klitschko, who just so happened to hold the WBC belt. Had it been the WBO or IBF or whatever else at the time of the whole Lennox / Vitali fight & Lennox retirement fiasco, Klitschko would still be regarded as the "people's champ."
"Klitschko was handed those 'belts' when Lewis retired. He lost and became champ? It looks like HBO and Ring's valedictorian got on stage and dropped his cheat sheet. They hand out belts like government cheese; get in line because you may be next."
"I'm fighting him because he's the No. 1 contender. I don't pick and choose my opponents like Klitschko."
Ok, I will give you a little on this one. It's true that HBO covets fighters they know translate into dollar signs. But let's face it--the bigwigs at HBO are not dummies. Unlike some promoters, they can only keep pushing fighters that keep winning. They aren't going to stick with a guy that fights poorly fight after fight, plain and simple.
My case in point is the amount of advertising HBO shoved down our throats with the whole Klitschko world domination thing. All we saw was Wlad this Vitali that. Next thing we know, HBO dropped Wlad like a ton of bricks when he couldn't win. Imagine for a moment if Wladimir was on another promoter's pathetic stable. The guy would lose ten fights in a row to middleweights and STILL be heading up some horrible productions that so many of us are embarrassed to even admit we ordered... (myself included). However, the way I see it, the reason Ruiz is going to Germany to fight Valuev is because there's probably only 7 or 8 people that would actually buy a ticket in the US to watch Ruiz "box" again. His promoter, is no idiot.
Well John, I think I speak for many boxing fans on this one. We can. In my opinion, we're in no hurry to see you as the linear heavyweight champion. I believe we are safe, however. Based on your previous performances, there are a few guys that I don't think you will fare well against (Although that doesn't mean you won't come away with the title...). Quickly, lets take a open-minded look at potential Ruiz opponents.
As far as the other "champs" are concerned:
Hasim Rahman: I see a draw or even another decision for Ruiz on this one. 2-time champ Rahman just doesn't have the skills to contend with the jab & grab, as we witnessed during the first fight. I foresee Ruiz walking out of the arena with his belt and a "W" on his record.
Chris Byrd: If I had to choose who was worse to watch nowadays, Byrd or Ruiz, I would come up with an excuse to change the subject. Chris Byrd has morphed into one of the most completely boring boxers in the division. Watching his last so-called fight was marginally more exciting than watching the grass grow or waiting for paint to dry. For the life of me, I don't know who wins this. My guess, whoever wins, it will be a humdrum 12 round split decision that Jim Lampley will have to grab hold of Larry Merchant and shake the analogies out of just to wake him up.
Lamon Brewster: If there truly is a god, I will pray to him that "Relentless" win's this fight in a big, Golota-esque fashion. I think, (well, I hope) that Brewster comes into this fight determined and blood-thirsty for a KO. I believe this may actually be an entertaining fight, with Brewster winning by TKO in the mid to later rounds.
Well, that takes care of the three other alphabet champs. Just for the heck of it, let's look at a few of the other fighters in the division. I honestly don't see this so-called "tournament" coming off, and feel we will have a better chance of seeing non-title fights rather than this long-promised box-off. I don't know how in the world anyone can claim that Vitali Klitschko is the lone reason why Brewster, Byrd, or Ruiz couldn't have already fought each other. Perhaps they just never thought of that... must be all the novelty USA flags he keeps twirling or something, who knows.
Wladimir Klitschko / Sam Peter: Personally, I think either of these fighters has the best chance to rid us of Ruiz for good. Wladimir absolutely has the boxing skill to completely negate Ruiz's hugging and clenching. Wlad definitely has the strength and power to keep Ruiz at a distance, where he will pepper his face with jabs all night long. I predict this fight coming off as an early to mid-round KO, with Ruiz frustrated, disoriented, bleeding and beat up. My hunch and hope is that he would once again retire from boxing, only this time it would be permanent.
With Sam Peter, I predict this as a brutal early, early KO. Peter feeds off guys that get close, and Ruiz would be target practice for the most powerful heavyweight today. It would be quite the opposite fight that he gave Wladimir. Sam Peter would end this fight in a devastating fashion much like David Tua did. Unfortunately for us boxing fans, this is a fight Ruiz will likely never agree to. Pity.
James Toney: Sucks, but this fight still has a year and change before even having a Pat Robertson prayer of coming off. This fight would go no different than the first fight other than Ruiz would try to look mad and P.O'd. Toney would outbox and outclass a frustrated Ruiz to a 12 round one-sided UD. The only negative is that Toney just doesn't have the power or size to KO Ruiz, or any other fighter in the heavies for that matter.
That about covers the "big names" in the division. Of course chances are favorable that we're only given the pleasure of seeing The Quiet Man wrestle, and man handle the likes of Kevin McBride, Nicolay Valuev, maybe a Calvin Brock or McCline. If only Ruiz would step it up and challenge someone worth a damn... none of this "I call out everyone in an open, prepared letters' nonsense, but a real-deal, no B.S. calling out a particular fighter. Ruiz, if you are so tired of everyone ripping you a new rear-end, do something about it! Give us something that makes us want to see you fight! Beat the crap out of somebody good until he submits and allows you to beat the crap out of any of the other champs--and do it convincingly! Until then, I'm afraid us boxing fans will just think you're not the real deal.
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Phoenix Measures Local Rocks
May 30, 2008
Approximate sizes of several rocks in the view measured using the NASA Ames Viz tool using stereoscopic images from the SSI camera whose shadow is shown in self portrait. Headless nature of the images comes from time elapsed imaging of mast taken at one time, and the SSI (head) taken later. Video credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/NASA Ames.
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Deep ruby red in color, the wine has a nose dominated by blackberry, plum and black cherry, coupled with toast and spice from the integrated oak. The palate exhibits the expressive fruit promised by the bouquet, coupled with dark chocolate and a complex, earthy richness.


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