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Giants Score 8 Runs Early In Victory Over Dodgers
Michael Morse keyed a six-run first inning with a two-run single, and the San Francisco Giants beat Los Angeles 8-4 on Friday, spoiling a Dodgers' home opener played nearly two weeks after they began the season in Australia.
Giants Lose Cactus League Home Run Derby Vs. Cleveland
Yan Gomes hit two home runs to lead the Cleveland Indians to a 12-11 victory against the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday. The teams combined for seven home runs.
Vogelsong Solid, Giants Tie Rangers In Cactus League
Ryan Vogelsong tinkered with his mechanics and it seemed to throw him out of whack, so the San Francisco Giants right-hander reverted to his longstanding delivery.
Bumgarner Solid Again, Giants Beat Rockies In Cactus League
Madison Bumgarner took another positive step in preparation for his first opening-day start, throwing three scoreless innings Tuesday in the San Francisco Giants' 3-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies.
Vogelsong Signs $5 Million, 1-Year Contract With Giants
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Pence Homers After Winning Willie Mac Award, Giants Beat Padres
Hunter Pence hit his career-best 26th home run to back a shaky outing by Ryan Vogelsong and the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 7-3 Friday night.
Giants, Padres Battling For 3rd Place In Final Series
The San Diego Padres are playing well as the season winds down, but their recent history at AT&T Park suggests it might not end as favorably.
Giants Give Up Early Lead, Lose To Rockies
Michael Cuddyer hit a tiebreaking homer leading off the ninth inning to go with his three-run shot, and the Colorado Rockies rallied from an early six-run deficit to beat the San Francisco Giants 9-8 on Tuesday night.
Vogelsong Struggles In 5th, Giants Lose To D-Backs
Ryan Vogelsong (3-5) lost for the first time since May 15, though he missed 69 games with a fractured right hand. He gave up four runs and eight hits over 4 2-3 innings, walking three and striking out three.


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Islamic scholars call for release of Bansil sisters from Abu Sayyaf
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COTABATO CITY, Philippines — A group of ulama (Islamic scholars) here called on Sulu officials to help secure the release of the Bansil sisters, who were abducted some two weeks ago by Abu Sayyaf gunmen in Jolo, Sulu.
Ustadz Jaafar Ali, board member of the National Ulama Council of the Philippines (NCUP), also said Nadjoua Bansil, 39, and her sister Linda, 36, should be freed unconditionally by the group that has been holding them hostage since June 22.
The Bansils were filming a documentary on the Sulu Sultanate when snatched in Patikul town.
Several persons have been invited for questioning over their disappearance but information on the progress of the case has come in trickles.
Ali lamented that efforts by relatives of the victims, and concerned fellow Muslims, to reach out to the Abu Sayyaf have not yielded positive results so far.
"They could not establish a direct contact with the kidnappers but influential leaders of Sulu could intervene and secure their safe release," he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer here.
Ali also took a shot at the Abu Sayyaf, also known as Harakatul Islamiyyah and has been claiming to champion the cause of Islam, as it has been targeting the very people who have been making contributions for the advancement of the faith.
Like their father, the late Aleem Abdulbassit, the siblings were known to espouse moderate Islam, in stark contrast with the Abu Sayyaf's extremist view, he said.
When it was founded by Abdurajak Janjalani in the late 1980s, the Abu Sayyaf vowed to become a thorn in the neck of non-Muslim settlers and staged kidnappings here and there.
But Ali immediately believes that kidnapping in itself, regardless of who the victim was, is un-Islamic.
The NCUP has consistently denounced the Abu Sayyaf's activities as these could not be found in any Islamic books.
Even from Koranic verses on Jihad, most Muslim scholars agreed that the Abu Sayyaf's activities strayed.
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text: Clinical Trials Search Results Initial search results include only NCI-sponsored clinical trials. To search all trials, click the "REFINE SEARCH" button, scroll down to the Trial ID/Sponsor section and select the "All" check box in the Sponsor of Trial section. View Content for: Patients Health Professionals Display: Title Description with: Locations Eligibility Full Trial Description Custom ? Hide Search Criteria Show Search Criteria Drug: roquinimexFind trials that include: Any drugs shownTrial Status: Closed Results 1-3 of 3 for your search: Start Over Select All on Page Sort by: Phase of Trial Title Type of Trial Status of Trial Age Range Sponsor of Trial Protocol IDs Show 10 25 50 100 200 Results per Page 1. Phase III Randomized Double-Blind Study of Roquinimex vs Placebo Following ABMT for Acute Myeloid Leukemia in First or Subsequent Complete Remission (Summary Last Modified 10/94) Phase: Phase IIIType: TreatmentStatus: ClosedAge: 10 to 65Sponsor: Protocol IDs: PHARMACIA-T91-OL-01, UPCC-1491, URCC-4510, NCI-V93-0218 2. A Phase II Pilot Study of Roquinimex in Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (Summary Last Modified 06/91) Phase: Phase IIType: TreatmentStatus: ClosedAge: under 75Sponsor: Protocol IDs: EORTC-30905 3. Phase II Study of Roquinimex in the Treatment of Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (Summary Last Modified 07/93) Phase: Phase IIType: TreatmentStatus: ClosedAge: 18 to 75Sponsor: Protocol IDs: EORTC-30923 Select All on Page Start Over


text: Clinical Trials Search Results Initial search results include only NCI-sponsored clinical trials. To search all trials, click the "REFINE SEARCH" button, scroll down to the Trial ID/Sponsor section and select the "All" check box in the Sponsor of Trial section. View Content for: Patients Health Professionals Display: Title Description with: Locations Eligibility Full Trial Description Custom ? Hide Search Criteria Show Search Criteria Cancer Type/Condition: Endometrial cancerTrial Type: PreventionTrial Status: ClosedSponsor of Trial: NCI Results 1-3 of 3 for your search: Start Over Select All on Page Sort by: Phase of Trial Title Type of Trial Status of Trial Age Range Sponsor of Trial Protocol IDs Show 10 25 50 100 200 Results per Page 1. S9630, Medroxyprogesterone in Treating Women With Breast Cancer Phase: Phase IIIType: Prevention, TreatmentStatus: CompletedAge: 18 and overSponsor: NCI, OtherProtocol IDs: CDR0000065314, CALGB-49901, S9630, U10CA037429, U10CA032102, SWOG-S9630, SWOG-9630, NCT00002920 2. Hormone Therapy in Preventing Endometrial Cancer in Patients With a Genetic Risk For Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colon Cancer Phase: Phase IIType: PreventionStatus: CompletedAge: 25 to 50Sponsor: NCIProtocol IDs: NCI-2013-00466, ID01-340, CDR0000069277, NCI-P02-0218, MDA-ID-01340, N01CN05127, TX035, NCT00033358 3. Genistein in Preventing Breast or Endometrial Cancer in Healthy Postmenopausal Women Phase: Phase IType: PreventionStatus: CompletedAge: 45 to 70Sponsor: NCI, OtherProtocol IDs: UNC-GCRC-2107, CDR0000393450, NCT00099008 Select All on Page Start Over


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Philippines turns trash into clean energy windfall
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MANILA, Philippines—Teresita Mabignay does her ironing using free of electricity on the slope of a garbage dump, an unlikely beneficiary of efforts to turn the Philippines' growing rubbish problems into a clean-energy windfall.
Mabignay lives at the base of one of Manila's largest landfills, which was the first in the country to have its methane gas converted into power as part of a United Nations' program aimed at tackling climate change.
Decomposing rubbish produces methane, which is one of the greenhouse gases that scientists blame for global warming, and turning it into electricity saves it from rising up into the atmosphere while reducing the need to burn fossil fuels.
The methane is captured with pipes that are dug into the landfill, similar to wells that extract gas from under the ground or ocean. Methane is then sucked down to a power station at the bottom of the dumpsite and pumped into generators to make electricity.
For the past few years Mabignay and other housewives from the slum community at the bottom of the Payatas landfill have been given free access to the power at a hall built at the dumpsite.
"It really helps because it cuts down on our electricity bills… sometimes we use the savings to buy food," said Mabignay, 50, whose husband earns the equivalent of about $200 a month working as a security guard at the dumpsite.
The company behind the project, Pangea Green Energy Philippines, could afford to be generous with its electricity as it was earning hundreds of thousands dollars to capture and convert the gas.
Under the UN program, industrialized countries can meet their Kyoto Protocol commitments to cut greenhouse gas output by funding projects that reduce emissions in developing nations such as the Philippines.
Companies in developing countries earn credits for reducing emissions, each equivalent to one ton of carbon dioxide. The credits are then sold to companies, institutions or governments in industrialized countries to offset their emissions.
Pangea president Jennifer Fernan Campos said the Payatas energy project was set up to take advantage of the UN scheme, with the first kilowatts generated in 2008.
"We are also very gratified to be helping the environment and the community. In our own little way we are mitigating greenhouse gas emissions," she said.
"Uncertain" future
Thousands of renewable energy projects in developing countries have been registered under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism since it began in 2005, including wind farms, solar stations and hydropower dams.
There have also been many waste-to-energy projects, with four others in the Philippines starting up after the pioneering Pangea operation, according to industry websitewww.cdmpipeline.org.
However the market price for each ton of greenhouse gas that companies save started dropping sharply in 2010, partly because of the economic meltdown in Europe which was the biggest source of revenues.
"Our rate is a floating one so when the market collapsed, we suffered," Fernan Campos said, explaining they made the mistake of not locking in a higher price when they had the chance.
Industry experts have warned the carbon trading scheme is in danger because of the collapse in prices, and many clean-energy projects face an uncertain future.
However Fernan Campos said the Payatas project had become commercially viable without the UN-channelled money.
She said Pangea this month expanded capacity from 200 kilowatts to one megawatt, and began selling directly onto Manila's electricity grid.
Previously the electricity generated at Payatas had just been used to power operations at the landfill and for the nearby slum communities via the ironing project and neighbourhood street lights.
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The amount of greenhouse gases that are now being saved at Payatas is the equivalent to taking 18,000 cars off Manila's roads, according to Fernan Campos.
She said the project had a host of other environmental benefits, including less direct air pollution for people living close by. The extracted methane gas could also no longer contaminate the water system.
Nevertheless, Greenpeace and some other environment groups oppose waste-to-energy projects, arguing their green credentials are often exaggerated and that they create a financial incentive for more rubbish to be dumped.
"The only way to address the issue of methane generation from waste is to stop the rubbish going to the landfill in the first place," Greenpeace Philippines programme manager Beau Baconguis said.
"Having such projects in place encourages the generation of waste, rather than eliminating it, because you need waste to run the facility."
Baconguis said there was no vision from the Philippine government to reduce waste, and that Manila's roughly 12 million residents were producing between 6,000 and 8,000 tons of rubbish every day.
However Fernan Campos insisted Pangea was not lobbying for, or encouraging, more waste to be dumped at Payatas.
She said the local government had implemented recycling and other waste-reduction policies in recent years that had seen the amount of rubbish going into the landfill drop from 1,800 tons a day to 1,200.
"We are just clearing whatever is there, and helping the environment at the same time," she said.
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From the article: Do Katas Help You Defend Yourself Or Improve Fighting Skills?
For centuries, martial arts practitioners have been doing katas or preordained individual fighting moves designed to protect against and subdue imaginary attacker(s). But as far back as Bruce Lee (likely even further), experts have wondered aloud if the practice of these movements was worth it. Does the practice of forms or katas really help people to improve fighting skills and defend against attackers?
You be the judge.
Kata is key
- The argument can go on, endlessly. If kata works for you fine, if not, it's not an obligation to make it part of your training ritual. Still, it shouldn't be belittle for many of the great fighters new and old have benefited from it. Look at some MMA fighters that come from such tradition like Lyoto Machida who practices kata daily and kumite champs like Kenji Yamaki who is one of only 14 people who was able to endure the 100 man kumite. It is ignorant to say kata is useless.
- —Guest BoriquaDo
Yes and no
- To say not to practice katas is not to be a martial artist is very sad. Many styles of martial arts do not use Katas as they are known in styles like Karate. Martial arts predates writing, printing and film, so it was a logical way to document and codify techniques. I think it can help only if the application of the moves are learned and also practiced with a partner, specially for self defense. That being said Martial arts is all about interacting with others, to truly develop fighting skills and self-defense one as to engage in, if not combat, drills that will mimic as closely as possible reality and that as to be done with partners. Kata can improve focus but to improve timing, range or "warrior spirit" one as to interact. Most people do not like to engage in strenuous activity's, specifically involving contact. So it is not surprising that styles that put forward katas are so popular. To much katas can give you a false sense of efficiency and create a kind of martial art pathology
- —Guest Eric Alphonso
only if you practice
- In addition to 'the basics', kata help develop muscle memory, mental focus, timing and ki. I don't recall ever consciously using a 'kata move' in a tournament round, though I'm sure I have included some techniques polished in kata. And most certainly, when a buddy of mine tried to sneak up on me from behind recently, my automatic response was straight out of Pinan sandan.
- —tonyva
If taught correctly...
- If kata's are taught correctly by an instructor who knows the real applications of each technique within that kata, then they play a major part in training as you will not just be going through the motions but learning what the techniques are actually there for. This is called Bunkai. As with all aspects of Martial Arts training it is the collective knowledge of a Martial Art that makes it effective in the real world and not a singular aspect. Kata, sparring, kihon, fitness and dedication. All of these will give you an advantage over someone with no training. But they must be used together to compliment each ones strengths and cover any weaknesses. Lets face it. Anyone whose been involved in a real life fight knows the only thing that works in reality is 'doing anything you can to stop that person from hurting you'. Rules and regulations don't exist on the street. To sum up, I love practicing Kata and if you don't then concentrate on something else.
- —Guest bernard
- i firmly beleave kata is nessesary for development of technique and improves power and focus speed and timing` all necessary for sharp fighting skills and aesthetically vital for preserving the traditions of each art.
- —Guest kevin kreckel
Kata are part of the package
- The complete MA package includes kata. It also includes drills, conditioning, sparring, and so forth. Lose any one and you have a less-than-complete art. Do them all diligently and you have a highly effective art that can meet a variety of situations; not just the cage, not just the dojo, not just the street.
- —mikejaqua
No, Kata are silly
- Determine how long it takes you to learn the first "basic" kata (say 2-3 months?) then I'll take another person and teach them "basics" for 2-3 months and then lets have them fight - one using only the techniques they learned in kata, the other with the "basics" they learned in 2-3 months. Point being, there may be some nominal value in kata, but there is nominal value in flower-arranging (patience, symmetry, aesthetics, etc.); however most kata-based schools won't waste valuable training time with stuff that has a negligble return on actual fighting skill (like flower-arranging).
- —Guest Artexerxes
Katas Are The Foundation
- katas or hyungs are the very foundation of all of martial arts! Once you can do your forms (katas/hyungs) without thinking yourway throu8gh them then and only then are truly an accomplishe dmartial artist. When the moves become automatic then you can defend yourself without having to think about it. Knowing what each move in a form is supposed to do really helps as well. Stidy the form, learn the moves & above all learn the reason for the form's moves.
- —DokKozzak
Kata forms
- Katas are esential in developing warrior spirit . You can use kata to develope breth power, awarness of center , focus , timing and range. What the Japanese call heragi or "belly art" means to focus on center . You really can use kata to develope mushin or "no mind " like the author in one of the articles said a meditative stat of mind . I may never use any of the techniqes that are in my katas but If you know the real purpose behined kata then you know how to use them to develope the spirit of a warrior.
- —Guest
Open the box
- Within kata are all of the self defence applications you can imagine. Many violent and extreme. You can work on different scenarios to cover one section of a kata. A couple of my students have returned to me after unexpected and dangerous assaults one an underground carpark grab against a female and another an ATM grab from behind. In both cases they stated that the scenarios practised with moves from a couple of katas were instinctively brought into play. I think it should be remembered that MMA is still a rule bound sport and of course the training methods will dictate the outcome. Kata usually deals with a surprise attack and the techniques are used as a last resort.
- —Guest Jeff McCauley
Love those katas!
- Katas help to organize martial thinking. Practicing katas without considering applications (bunkai) is as useless as learning a multiplication table without putting it to use. In much the same way that it's hard to multiply 6 x 4 unless you know the math fact, it can be hard to use a downblock - step-punch combination as, say, an armbar-and-finish set unless you have a technique vocabulary developed in kata. Fundamentals are the key to every physical endeavor as every coach will say. Master them, and building to excellence is straightforward. neglect them and lose. Kata are the shortest route to mastering fundamental combinations so their many different applications can be explored and applied.
- —Guest Hector Lareau
for kata
- I believe in the use of kata, I was grabbed once from behind while at a party store and my body automatically went into a technique learned from kata. It saved my life. Besides, isn't shadowboxing a form of kata?
- —Guest Tgreaper
Katas have much value
- I am a 40 year vet of martial arts and have seen this question kicked around for years. (it's a good question) Katas (or Hyung, Poomse, etc) have great value in certain areas. I don't believe one of those areas is preparing to fight. If all a person is concerned about is fighting (wether competitively or street) I think Kata practice has very limited value. Contained within the katas for those who understand them are some good self defense techniques, but there are more effective ways to practice them. I believe kata practice is very valuable for the following: physical fitness- practiced hard, and practicing advanced katas works the whole body and helps balance, speed, power, technique, etc. artistic expression - katas are like a violent ballet. Once again, if all a person wants to do is fight, they are not interested in this aspect of training. mental and spiritual development - as a 40 year veteran, doing all the katas I know keeps me sharp
- —Guest Gary Romano


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Located in Pietrasanta, this family-friendly hotel is 1.8 mi (2.8 km) from Versiliana Park, and within 6 mi (10 km) of Forte dei Marmi Beach and Pineta di Ponente. Forte dei Marmi Fortress and Pietrasanta Cathedral are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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This Pietrasanta hotel has its very own private beach. In addition to an outdoor pool, Hotel Suisse provides a seasonal outdoor pool and a children's pool. The hotel offers a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Giriraj Singh on Thursday said the alliance between the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Janata Dal (United) smacks of frustration and opportunistic politics.
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Brian Harry put up a post on the improvements that will be available in the upcoming Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 release. Here's some more in depth info on two of the TFS Build changes:
1. Conditionalize builds on the trigger.
There are actually a few changes here... Essentially we exposed a property on IBuildDetail called Reason that tells you why the build was started. Reason is an enum of type BuildReason, and can have the following values:
In addition to exposing this new property on IBuildDetail, we have also exposed it as an output property of the GetBuildDetails task and as an MSBuild property available in your TfsBuild.proj files. This could be useful in a couple situations:
For example, if you only wanted to generate a custom build number for your nightly build, you could do something like this:
<Target Name="BuildNumberOverrideTarget" Condition=" '$(Reason)' == 'Schedule' ">
<MyBuildNumberGenerator TeamFoundationServerUrl="$(TeamFoundationServerUrl)" BuildUri="$(BuildUri)">
<Output TaskParameter="BuildNumber" PropertyName="BuildNumber" />
2. Reduce build log noise.
In Orcas RTM, we tried to reduce the dependency of TFS Build on the names of particular targets, tasks, events, etc. in MSBuild. The goal was to make it more usable by people who wanted to radically customize their build process, and in general I think we did a pretty good job here. Unfortunately, one side effect of the associated changes was the presence of lots of "noise" build steps in the Build Details dialog. In particular, each project-to-project reference resulted in three build steps of the form:
These build steps should all magically disappear when Orcas SP1 is installed.
To accomplish this, we added a property called TargetsNotLogged to the TFS Build targets file that specifies the target names for which build steps should not be added when our logger receives ProjectStarted events, and made the default value of this property 'GetTargetPath;GetNativeManifest;GetCopyToOutputDirectoryItems'. If you want these build steps back, just set the property to the empty string in your TfsBuild.proj file. If you want to exclude other targets as well, just set the property to your desired semicolon-delimited list of excluded targets in your TfsBuild.proj file.
(NOTE: I modified the above text on 12/30/2008 to make it more clear that the TargetsNotLogged property should be modified by overriding the default in your TfsBuild.proj file(s), not by modifying it in place in the TFS Build targets file.)
Next week I'll post on Detect test result and/or Dynamically created properties.


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Quotes: Not So Invincible After All
"Dont say that! Whenever someone says that right after surviving something dangerous, something totally random pops out and kills them!"
— Elan, The Order of the Stick
"I will maintain a realistic assessment of my strengths and weaknesses. Even though this takes some of the fun out of the job, at least I will never utter the line "No, This Cannot Be!! I AM INVINCIBLE!!!" (After that, death is usually instantaneous.)"
— The Evil Overlord List, Rule 24
Black Knight: (After getting both his arms and one of his legs cut off] Right, I'll do you for that!
King Arthur: You'll what?
Black Knight: Come here!
King Arthur: What are you gonna do, bleed on me?
Black Knight: I'm invincible!
King Arthur: ...You're a loony.
—Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Yes! I am invincible!"
—Boris Grishenko, Goldeneye, shortly before being showered with liquid nitrogen.
"He's cut! The Russian is cut!"
—Rocky IV
'Indestructible' my ass.
—Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Glory Girl: Idiots. Im invincible.
Tattletale: First of all, I warned you about calling me stupid. Second, no, youre not invincible. Not exactly. [shoots her, letting Skitter's bugs through her force field]
"Here's a tip, Alcyoneus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only ten miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot."
— Frank Zhang to Alcyoneus (who was invincible while in his home territory), The Son of Neptune
"Perhaps It was not eternal after all; the unthinkable must finally be thought."
—Narration from It's perspective, It


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Scientists from NASA and other organizations are on a mission to unlock the mysteries of why certain clouds produce copious amounts of rain.
NASA atmospheric scientists got an unexpected chance to study a curious phenomenon called "thundersnow" when a recent storm unleashed it right over their heads.
A city that rarely sees snowfall, Huntsville, Ala, was blanketed the evening of Jan 9 under several inches of snow following a winter storm that also produced a rare "thundersnow" or lightning flashes.
Rain drops are fat and snowflakes are fluffy, but why does it matter in terms of predicting severe storms?
The National Weather Service there shares a building – the National Space Science and Technology Center – with NASA's Short-term Prediction Research and Transition, or SPoRT, Center. SPoRT puts state-of-the-art NASA satellite data directly into forecasters hands, arming them to recognize weather that threatens your safety.
NASA recently funded a suite of 59 research proposals under the agency's ongoing Precipitation Measurement Mission. The studies will look at ways to improve measurements of rain and snow from Earth orbit.
It may seem hard to believe that a powerful bolt of lightning, which heats the air in its path three times hotter than the surface of the sun, could spring from little pieces of ice. But that's how it is, according to theory.
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If the current laws that govern federal taxes and spending do not change, the budget deficit will shrink this year to $642 billion, CBO estimates, the smallest shortfall since 2008. Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit this year—at 4.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)—will be less than half as large as the shortfall in 2009, which was 10.1 percent of GDP. [...]That's with existing law: e.g., the sequester, current tax rates, and continued falling health care costs, primarily for Medicaid. In other words, look what raising taxes can do for the deficit.
CBO's estimate of the deficit for this year is about $200 billion below the estimate that it produced in February 2013, mostly as a result of higher-than-expected revenues and an increase in payments to the Treasury by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. For the 2014–2023 period, CBO now projects a cumulative deficit that is $618 billion less than it projected in February. That reduction results mostly from lower projections of spending for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and interest on the public debt.
CAP's Michael Linden has a fun comparison: Today's CBO estimate puts the deficit at 2.1 percent of GDP by 2015. Simpson-Bowles called for reducing the deficit to 2.3 percent of GDP by 2015. So we got beyond their recommendation without punishing any old people or cutting taxes even more for the wealthy and corporations. Go figure. That's not to say the sequester is not hurting the population and doesn't need to be replaced. But it doesn't need to be replaced with more pain.
Also of note in the new CBO report, it projects that the Treasury's "extraordinary measures" to avoid defaulting on the federal government's obligations if the GOP continues to take the debt ceiling hostage will expire in October or November, rather than the August-September timeframe they previously projected.
All of which makes a rather large hole in the argument that we need a grand bargain with Medicare and Social Security cuts to save the nation from the scary deficit.


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KUNA -- Administrators in the Kuna School District are preparing for major changes after voters rejected a $3.19 million school levy Tuesday.
They expressed disappointed in the election outcome as they try to figure out their next steps.
Superintendent Wendy Johnson said the next school year will be drastically different than the current one.
The levy failed to get a simple majority, and was defeated by a vote of 1,143 to 1,050.
Terribly disappointing for our kids, said Johnson.
The levy was meant to replace the current one which is set to expire on June 30th.
Property taxes would have stayed the same, but voters decided they would rather see a reduction in taxes - about $365 a year per $100,000 home.
Johnson says that money is significant to the district, making up about 11 percent of the overall budget.
So when you take 11 percent out of any budget, you see changes, said Johnson.
The changes are not set yet but will likely include a reduction in classroom days for students, a reduction in programs and an increase in fees for extracurricular activities like sports and music.
Johnson plans to put a committee together to come up with recommendations that will be presented to the board, likely sometime next week.
I would say across the board we'll see reductions in staff, and it wouldn't just be teachers, it would be support staff as well that might be part of that, said Johnson.
The district could also consider running another school levy in May or August.
If you run it again would you consider lowering the levy? asked KTVB.
We'd consider everything at this point, yeah, said Johnson.
District and school leaders plan to meet Thursday to begin the process of figuring out what to present to the board next week.


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The Joint Committee of Hill Districts Students' Organisation, a conglomeration of tribal students' organisations in the five hill districts of Manipur, has announced that it would impose an indefinite economic blockade against Manipur from October 15 if the State government does not open examination centres for the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) in district headquarters.
A press release said the blockade would be imposed along the two national highways, which are the State's lifelines. This is expected to cause much suffering to the people.
Tribal people in the hill districts often resort to economic blockade to press their demands. In 2009, there was a blockade for more than 103 days. The then Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram and the State government could not solve it. However, the organisations, which imposed the blockade, suspended it ahead of the visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Student leaders told The Hindu that a tribal candidate coming to Imphal for appearing in the TET has to spend a tidy sum for travelling, accommodation and other expenses. Since all other exams are being conducted in the hill districts, there is no reason why the TET cannot be held there, they say.
But officials say there are practical difficulties in holding the TET examinations in the hill districts. Tribal candidates can come here and return on the same day as the districts can be reached within an hour.The students had called a general strike last month to press this demand which the authorities ignored. The government officials have had talks with leaders of the students' organisation. However, no agreement could be reached.


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Singapore Injects S$4bn to Bolster Startup Ecosystem
The funding as well as upcoming events signal that entrepreneurship is the way forward for the city state, says Asiabiz Services. http://www.asiabizservices.com/singapore-s4bn-startup-ecosystem
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The National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore has recently announced that approximately S$4 billion worth of funding will be offered to local and foreign companies over the next few years. In addition, the city state will host two startup events – Techventure 2012 and FailCon Singapore.
Asiabiz Services, a Singapore company setup consultancy, welcomes the move and anticipates that it will ignite interest among Singaporeans to become budding entrepreneurs and in turn, opt for Singapore company formation.
Techventure 2012, which enters its 16th year, is Asia´s summit event for the world´s most influential investors and iconic innovators. It will be held next month, from 16 to 18 October, at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center and will feature 700 local and overseas entrepreneurs, chief executives, founders, and HNWIs from the technology, venture capital and private equity community. This year´s theme, the event aims to showcase new technologies in info-communications, electronics, materials, manufacturing, healthcare, energy and environment.
FailCon, an established Silicon Valley event for technology entrepreneurs, on the other hand, will make its debut in Asia via Singapore.The well-known conference is created for technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers and designers to come together, study their own failures and pivot for success.
"These events underscore the importance of entrepreneurship in the future of a country as open and robust as Singapore. It is one thing to say here´s some money, now open a company. It´s another to go into the psyche and understand why people are still afraid to, in spite of abundant funding. These events bridge those gaps and the funding is the icing on the cake. Hence, we expect Singapore´s entrepreneurial ecosystem to become more colorful and dynamic as more serial entrepreneurs opt for the EntrePass," said Mr. James Nuben, Head of Taxation at Asiabiz Services.
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Football can play an important role at a school. Back when Mount Abraham Union High School adopted the sport, I remember co-athletic director Jeff Stetson making the point that football would serve students that Mount Abe's other fall sports — soccer and cross country, which both favor greyhounds, not Great Danes — did not. Over the years, it's fair to say he's been proven right, regardless of the program's ups and downs.
I woke at 6 a.m. to the sound of steady rain on a metal roof. I'd been vaguely aware of the low rumble for several hours — it had swirled through the restless moments of my sleep. Awake, I was fully aware of the sound. I lay in place for several minutes carrying on an internal debate about the implications of that rain — which I knew was a cold one, just a few degrees warmer than sleet. Finally, I rose to dress for hunting.
Watching the red Sox most nights this summer, I have concluded that they really are an "Anacharsis Clootz Deputation."
Come to think about it, all sports teams are Anacharsis Clootz Deputations, more or less.
What in the world is an Anacharsis Clootz Deputation?
That's how Herman Melville in "Moby Dick" described the multicultural crew on the ship, the Pequod: they were "from all the isles of the sea, and all the ends of the earth."
It basically means a motley crew, in our everyday lexicon. Mostly, I like to say it: "Anacharsis Clootz Deputation."
Over the past month, two all-tackle world records for trout have been broken, with the new records awaiting only official confirmation. A new world record rainbow trout was caught on Sept. 5 in Saskatchewan, Canada. The trout weighed a whopping 48 pounds. (Just pause and consider that weight for a moment. It's about 5 pounds heavier than the largest king salmon I have ever caught in Alaska, and about six times bigger than the average weight of my kids at birth.)
In "Rocky 3" (for my money the most entertaining flick in the series) reporters ask Clubber Lang, played by the inimitable Mr. T, for his view of his upcoming heavyweight title fight with Rocky Balboa.
His response: "My prediction? Pain."
It remains the most accurate forecast in the history of real or fictional sporting events.
The gifted songwriters Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist (collectively known as the band "Over The Rhine"), begin their song "Changes Come" with the simple observation, "Changes come / Turn my world around."
Changes do come. I find the changes especially noticeable in the autumn. Weather changes. Daylight hours change — and in September they change rapidly. Our daily routines changes as vacations end and kids head back to school.
My son Peter is 14 and in the ninth grade. He has decided to play football this year on the Middlebury Union High School freshman team. I hope he's a better player than I was.
My dad, Peter's Granpa, was a genuinely good football player, captain of the 1934 Bates College team, when football was king on college campuses and players were Big Men on Campus. He is a member of the Maine State Football Hall of Fame, among other gridiron honors, and still attends Bates' games in the fall, at age 98, when the weather allows. He loved the hurly-burly of the game.
"There's no place like home."
That was the message from "The Wizard of Oz." And what was true for Dorothy is sometimes also true of fishing. For all of the fun of traveling and exploring new fishing spots (like, for example, Alaska), there is something quite enjoyable about returning home to a favorite river — a river I know well, whose insect hatches I have fished, whose seasons and personalities I have become familiar with.
This school year will see almost all Middlebury Union High School sports competing at the Division II level, with the exceptions being field hockey and both lacrosse teams.
Other Tiger athletic programs are already in D-II, including basketball, soccer and boys' cross-country. Still other girls' programs are now technically in D-I, but are in the process of being moved to D-II, according to MUHS activities director Sean Farrell. Because the numbers are within appeal guidelines, Farrell expects the Vermont Principals' Association to OK the changes.
Alaska is big. It has lots of mountains. The mountains are big, too. So are the lakes and rivers. Enormous. Loads of them. Everywhere. As for the vast quantity of small and medium-size creeks, streams, lakes and ponds, it is hard to fathom until you come and take a look.
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The Hong Kong Flu
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PHIL PONCE: That new flu is a virus never before seen in humans and one which apparently was transmitted to humans by chickens. But scientists now worry the virus is being transmitted by humans. While the outbreak in Hong Kong is still in early stages, the fear of a possible epidemic is prompting the medical community to take action. For more were joined by Dr. David Heymann, director of emerging and other communicable diseases for the World Health Organization. Welcome, Dr. Heymann. Again, a small group of people in Hong Kong. Why is it that the world's health community is so interested, so concerned?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN, World Health Organization: Well, Phil, this is a new virus in humans. This is the first time, as far as we know, that this virus has entered the human population. And whenever a new virus enters a human population, we're worried. We need to find out what's going to happen now that humans are infected.
PHIL PONCE: It's a new virus, and yet, what does the world scientific community know about it so far?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: Well, what we know is that this is a very lethal virus, not only a lethal virus in poultry but also in humans. Two of the first four cases have died from the disease, and now we have two people who are on ventilators with the disease in Hong Kong. So it's a disease which appears to be more lethal than the usual influenza.
PHIL PONCE: And as far as symptoms go, are they similar to what–the kind of flu that most people are familiar with?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: Absolutely. These are the same symptoms–the high fever, muscle aches, just feeling very bad, and then developing influenza.
PHIL PONCE: And how did it come to people's attention? Where did it come from? When was it first noticed?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: Well, throughout the world there's a series of laboratories which are constantly monitoring influenza, under 10 laboratories throughout the world. And these laboratories monitor cases of influenza. In Hong Kong back in May they isolated from a patient with influenza who died a new virus, the H-5 N-1 virus, which is the same virus that has infected poultry and was first identified in 1961 in Turns in South Africa.
PHIL PONCE: Turns being a form of bird.
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: That's correct, yes.
PHIL PONCE: Reports today indicate that two cousins of somebody who had been previously infected presumably by exposure to a chicken, that these two cousins now may have this virus. Do you believe now that it's being transmitted from human to human?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: Certainly, this is more concern that there might be human to human transmission, but these two people, these two cousins could have also been exposed to the same source of the virus, and, therefore, been infected at the same time, because they've fallen ill within five days of each other.
PHIL PONCE: But is that the key concern, just how communicable this virus might be from person to person?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: That's right. If this virus is very communicable from person to person, then we'll see it spread rapidly throughout Hong Kong, and with international travel, it will spread farther. What we know, though, is that hospital workers who have taken care of patients during this period have not themselves become ill with the disease. Some have become ill, and they've been put under observation, but they've not been ill with the virus, itself.
PHIL PONCE: Most of the people who've gotten the virus to date have been children. Why is that?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: That's a good question and that we can't answer. That's some of the questions that must be answered in what's called an epidemiological investigation. We need to know who is at risk of this disease, why is it coming from animals to man? Will man pass it from man to man?
PHIL PONCE: What about this 11-year cycle that viruses sometimes seem to follow, could you tell us about that?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: In recent years there have been influenza pandemics; that is, influenza epidemics that have covered the whole world every eleven to fifteen years. In 1958, for example, there was an epidemic of Asian flu. Then in 1968, there was an epidemic of Hong Kong flu. Then, as you know, in 1976 here in the U.S. there was fear that flu had crossed the barrier from pigs into man, and that there might be an epidemic of what was called swine flu, and measures were taken, vaccines were developed, and people were immunized in the hopes of preventing an epidemic, which never did occur. But at least the population was prepared.
PHIL PONCE: And in that case you talk about with the swine flu, there were–the epidemic did not happen, and yet, some people suffered some adverse consequences as a result of the vaccination.
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: That's right. People who were vaccinated, a certain number of those people developed a paralysis after vaccination, what's called Gionne Beret Syndrome, related to the vaccine.
PHIL PONCE: So what's being done with regards to this virus in terms of a vaccine?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: Well, this virus is a very lethal virus, and, therefore, it can't be grown on eggs, which normally viruses grow on to produce vaccines. So we're doing–the scientific community is doing what now is called looking for a reassortment; that is, a virus which will grow on eggs, so that a vaccine can be prepared. The virus is being manipulated to see if we can make it grow on eggs. And if that's the case, then this will serve as a seed virus to develop a new vaccine.
PHIL PONCE: And how long might that take?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: Well, we hope that by January, early January, this reassortment will have been found, and then it would fit into the actual normal cycle for preparation of influenza vaccines because each year in February there is a meeting which determines what strains of influenza should be put into the vaccine, and this is the time when this new reassortment will be available and can be put into vaccine.
PHIL PONCE: But typically, the lag period for the introduction of a new vaccine is what, about six months or so?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: That's right. The lag period is six months, and right now we are working with industry to see what the minimum amount of time could be. This is called pandemic preparedness, trying to find out what the minimum time will be for development of a new vaccine.
PHIL PONCE: So for those people who've already had a flu vaccine this season, what do you say to them?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: Those people are protected from what we know will be an epidemic this year, from the strains of virus which will cause an epidemic this year. What we don't know is if this new strain will also cause an epidemic.
PHIL PONCE: So if one has been–if one has already received a flu vaccine, that's for a strain that people were already familiar with in the past, not for this one.
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: That's correct. This is a new strain. We need to develop a new vaccine.
PHIL PONCE: What exactly constitutes a pandemic, or an epidemic?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: A pandemic is a disease which starts localized and then spreads worldwide, a very simple definition.
PHIL PONCE: In this case how concerned should people in this country be about what's happening in Hong Kong?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: People should be very concerned and make sure that the laboratories in the U.S., which are supporting the investigations in this outbreak, are supported. And those laboratories are the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis.
PHIL PONCE: You're coordinating some of those, at least they're reporting to you. Are you satisfied those laboratories and sufficient resources are being committed to this?
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: Yes. Every day we're sending more teams out to look not only at the human disease but also disease in poultry in neighboring Canton, because we know that that's where they're having epidemics in poultry. And we know that poultry from that area are coming into Hong Kong for sale.
PHIL PONCE: Dr. Heymann, thank you very much.
DR. DAVID HEYMANN: Thank you.


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Are you thinking about moving to London? Well, it's an amazing city but you do have to be ready to make some big changes in your life to adjust to living here. Whether you're a country bumpkin from the UK or travelling to start a new life here from overseas there are a few things you should know, straight up.
How could this be happening? ... I'd lost a lot of weight over the last couple of years and am now a size 14 (the slimmest I've been since I was 14). But that's obviously not good enough if I look pregnant. And not just a bit pregnant - enough to make two sober and presumably rational adults assume that I am pregnant enough to need to sit down on public transport. That's, what, like, seven months?
'Elasticity', as the internet was slow to realize, does not exist in any physical form, but only in the doctored photographs, video, and text which comprise Le Nézet's press release. As anyone who had commuted through Dalston Junction in the intervening time could have told you, there were no enormous concrete blocks hanging from the ceiling of that particular underground station.
What was Mark Harding's crime? What had he done that prompted the police to act in such a robust manner? Mark, as a committed and dedicated defender of worker's rights had tried to persuade another member of staff from crossing the picket line. He hadn't been violent, or abusive, and the staff member concerned had successfully reported for work without incident.


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We celebrated Daddy's birthday in advance at home. This year, I decided to bake a cake and Zann helped to decorate. Also a chance for the girl to play with the cream. Zann chose blue colour because it is Daddy's … Continue reading
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One year older
This year is special, as I have an added birthday wish…for bb. Received many well wishes from friends but didn't hear from my mum and bro. As usual, my birthday are forgotten by them. So today I celebrated my birthday … Continue reading
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