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- Eurozone member
- High level of political and social development
- Diversified economy
- Integrated in the European production chain
- External accounts in surplus
- Small domestic market
- Ageing population and demographic growth at a standstill, leading to a labour shortage
- Dependent on regional economic conditions and auto industry
- Heavy public debt burden
- Inefficient state-owned companies
- Convalescing banking sector
- Slow administrative and judicial procedures
- Fragile coalition at the head of the government
Slower growth in connection with external trade
Growth will continue to slow in 2019, while remaining significant, driven by domestic demand. Consumption is expected to rebound on strong employment performances (unemployment rate of 5.2% in the second quarter of 2018) and a sizable increase in real wages. In addition, improved credit conditions, owing to the gradual debt reduction and rock-bottom interest rates, will encourage consumption by households, who will also be able to draw on the pool built up thanks to their high savings rate (13.9% of gross disposable income in 2017). In parallel, investment will continue to grow in order to meet supply constraints affecting equipment and manpower. Private investment is expected to be driven by the construction and consumer goods sectors, which will be the main beneficiaries of vigorous domestic demand. Public investment should also go up, thanks to increased use of European funding. Conversely, exports will be hit by lost competitiveness linked to higher wages and by cooler growth within Slovenia's main partners, namely Germany, Italy, Croatia, and Austria. At the same time, with imports increasing faster in response to domestic demand, the positive contribution of external trade will fall sharply, accounting for the slower pace of growth.
Reducing the fiscal and current account surpluses
Although a new centre-left coalition took office in September 2018, the budget accounts are expected to remain in surplus in 2019, but only just. In line with its election promises, the coalition is set to ease fiscal austerity from 2019, notably by increasing civil servants' salaries and social benefits. However, the increase in revenues made possible by brisk activity levels should enable the new government to stick to the balanced budget rule contained in the Constitution. In addition, low interest rates and efforts to restructure the public debt in recent years will reduce the interest burden. Public debt will therefore continue its downward trend, while remaining above the target of 60% of GDP. While over 60% of this debt is held by non-residents, it is mainly denominated in euros (89% in 2017) and long-term (62% of the total matures in over five years).
In addition, following the 2012/13 banking crisis, the authorities carried out major recapitalisations and restructuring measures to clean up the sector, 45% of whose assets were still state-owned at the beginning of 2018. The creation of a bad bank in 2013 cut the ratio of non-performing loans to 5.8% by June 2018, compared with 17% three years earlier. After several postponements, the government has promised the EU that it will sell 75% of the shares of NLB, the country's leading bank, by the end of 2019.
As regards the external accounts, the country enjoys a large trade surplus based on European demand and tourism. Exports of goods and services, which represent 85% of GDP, are 90% directed to neighbouring countries. Integration within German and Austrian production chains – thanks to competitiveness in the automotive, electrical and electronic equipment, pharmaceutical products, and household appliances sectors – accounts for half of exports. In 2019, the goods surplus will decline as imports outpace exports. At the same time, the balance of services will continue to post a large surplus, driven by transport and especially by tourism. Contrariwise, the income balance is in deficit due to the repatriation of dividends generated by foreign investments in the country. Although declining, the current account balance will again show a sizeable surplus. The country's elevated external debt (95% of GDP in June 2018, half of which is attributable to private commitments) will continue to decline.
A fragile centre-left government coalition
Janez Janša's Conservative Party, which came out on top in the June 2018 parliamentary elections, failed to form a governing coalition. Subsequently, Marjan Šarec, a pro-European independent and former comedian, was sworn in as Prime Minister in September 2018 by a coalition of five centre-left parties, with 43 seats out of 90 and the non-participating support of the left-wing Levica Party (nine seats). The coalition's shaky foundations were exposed after only two months, as the Minister of Development and European Funds, a member of the centrist SAB Party, was forced to resign after interfering in local elections. Following this episode, Alenka Bratusek, a former prime minister and leader of the SAB, was highly critical of Prime Minister Šarec. The fragility of the coalition, which is cobbled together from parties of different political persuasions, will make it difficult to carry out any large-scale reforms. However, strong economic growth will work in the government's favour. In addition, the country enjoys the advantage of being in both the European Union and the eurozone, which guarantees fiscal and economic stability in the event of political instability. Prime Minister Šarec has also reaffirmed his intention to be part of the "hard core of the European Union", while indicating that one of his priorities is to improve border control in response to the influx of migrants.
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NOAA: US Navy Work to Implement Protective Measures for Marine Mammals
NOAA Fisheries announced final regulations requiring the United States Navy to implement protective measures during training and testing activities off the coasts of California and Hawaii and on the high seas of the Pacific Ocean to reduce the effects on marine mammals.
The Navy requested an authorization under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, because the sound generated by active sonar, the sound and pressure generated by detonating explosives, and other associated activities may affect the behavior of some marine mammals, cause a temporary loss of their hearing sensitivity or other injury.
NOAA Fisheries recently made a final determination that the effects of these Navy operations will have a negligible impact on the species or stocks involved. NOAA Fisheries is requiring that the Navy use mitigation measures designed to reduce impacts to marine mammals.
However, exposure to sonar in certain circumstances has been associated with the stranding of some marine mammals, and some injury or death may occur despite the best efforts of the Navy. Therefore, the authorization allows for a small number of incidental injuries or deaths to marine mammals from sonar, as well as vessel strikes and explosions.
Under the authorization, the Navy will have to follow mitigation measures to minimize effects on marine mammals, including:
– establishing marine mammal mitigation zones around each vessel using sonar;
– using Navy observers to shut down sonar operations if marine mammals are seen within designated mitigation zones;
– using mitigation zones to ensure that explosives are not detonated when animals are detected within a certain distance;
– implementing a stranding response plan that includes a training shutdown provision in certain circumstances, and allows for the Navy to contribute in-kind services to NOAA's Fisheries Service if the agency has to conduct a stranding response and investigation; and,
– designating a "Humpback Whale Cautionary Area" to protect high concentrations of humpback whales around Hawaii during winter months.
These measures should minimize the potential for injury or death and significantly reduce the number of marine mammals exposed to harmful levels of sound.
Additionally, the final rule includes an adaptive management component that requires that the Navy and NOAA Fisheries meet yearly to discuss new science, Navy research and Navy monitoring results to determine if modifications to mitigation or monitoring measures are appropriate.
NOAA Fisheries and the Navy have worked to develop a robust monitoring plan to use independent, experienced vessel-based marine mammal observers (as well as Navy observers), and passive acoustic monitoring to help better understand how marine mammals respond to various levels of sound and to assess the effectiveness of mitigation measures. Additionally, an Integrated Comprehensive Monitoring Plan developed by the Navy (with input from NOAA's Fisheries Service) will better prioritize monitoring goals and standardize data collection methods across all U.S. Navy range complexes.
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Well, today was Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity in Washington, and if I could have been there, I would. I believe in what he is saying: that it is possible for us to disagree and still respect each other, that, in fact, most of us, despite all the loud noise coming from the cable channels, manage to do just that every day of our lives. Still, there is a lot of rancor out there, and over the past years (make that decades), it has distressed me to watch partisan disagreement escalate into ever more bitter partisan rancor.
Perhaps it's because I grew up in a home where my mother was a Democrat and my father a Republican. They had a pretty steady routine for their evenings. My Mom sat downstairs in the living room, watching a little TV and reading. My Dad went to the upstairs spare room to read the newspaper and "rest his eyes." Sometime around 11 o'clock, they'd meet up at the kitchen table. Whenever election time would roll around, I remember overhearing them hold some pretty lively discussions over beer and Cheese Nips, but never, never, was there any question about the love and respect they held for each other. They disagreed, but they knew down to their bones that the other was a person of intelligence and integrity.
If I hadn't already grown up knowing that disagreement was not synonymous with contempt, the quilt community would teach me that lesson all over again. As we all know, quilters are a diverse lot, and I see that diversity reflected in my own quilt groups. We do not all vote the same way, but we all respect each other. And we know how much we share in common. We all love our families and want the best for them. We all share the most basic of values, believing in honesty and integrity. We are all thoughtful, informed, and, without moving, I hope, too far into arrogance, let me say, people of good character. There are women in my quilt groups who vote differently than I do, and I couldn't respect them more.
I remember seeing a Bill O'Reilly segment with Ann Coulter where she said, in all seriousness, the problem is that liberals have no values. And O'Reilly, looking equally serious and profound, nodded his head in agreement. Just whom does this nonsense serve? (Well, in the spirit of satire that rules the day, I can say the bank accounts of O'Reilly and Coulter seem to have done quite well). I wondered what my father, the Republican, would have had to say about this commentary on his wife. Both my parents were devout Catholics who were highly active in their church community. My Mom not only volunteered at the church, she volunteered at the local hospital, the soup kitchen, and several local nursing homes. When my father suffered the terrible and debilitating effects of Alzheimer's, her care and devotion was profound and never wavered. She worked hard all her life, and her moral compass was unassailable. My Dad was a gentle man who was rare to anger, but I imagine he might have had something to say to O'Reilly and Coulter as they blithely said my mother, by virtue of checking a different box on the election ballot than they themselves did, had no values.
I think this is the insanity that does us no good at all.
It is inevitable that we will disagree over how best to serve our country. But I think it is very hard to use those disagreements to serve us well (so that conservatives and liberals might temper each other) when you demonize those who disagree with you. After all, you don't debate with Stalin. And so I loved one of Jon Stewart's suggested poster messages, "I disagree with you but I don't think you're Hitler." Well. Yes.
And, because our flag mixes both red and blue, I'm doing a little patriotic project in honor of Rally to Restore Sanity day, my homage to the diversity of idea that makes our country as rich as it is, because, as another suggested poster saying goes, "ALL Americans are REAL Americans."
As usual, if you are interested, you can find the pdf file for the patch requirements and Quilt Layout Diagram on the Projects 2010 page of my website. This little quilt finished at 11" by 11" – a very happy little quilt, just what I had in mind. And I kind of liked the symbolism of using the foundation grounded in 13 for it.
On a note unrelated: My own true love and I usually go out to lunch on Saturday's at our favorite Indian restaurant, but the last week I have been battling some serious crud and the last thing anyone would want is me sneezing and wheezing in a restaurant. Being the wonderful guy he is, Jeff went to our favorite Vietnamese restaurant for take out so I got to eat spring rolls while watching Jon Stewart. My fortune read: "You will spend years surrounded in comfort and material wealth."
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Harvard and Haiti drew 11,513 fans for the exhibition Sunday afternoon (Penny Ashford).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's soccer team and the Haitian National Team played to a 0-0 tie before more than 11,000 fans at Harvard Stadium Sunday afternoon. Following regulation, the Crimson and Haiti settled the contest in penalty kicks, with the Haitians winning 4-1.
The game, entitled Haiti Leve, which was held to as a fundraiser to benefit Partners in Health relief efforts in Haiti, drew 11,513 fans. Tickets to the game were $10 for the general public and donations were accepted for this worthy cause with all the proceeds going to Partners in Health. Harvard will soon announce what the monetary donations to Partners in Health will be.
After more than 90 minutes of action, Haiti and Harvard decided the contest in penalty kicks. Junior Clairssainvil converted the first try, beating Harvard's Brett Conrad. The Crimson evened the PKs, 1-1, when Scott Prozeller fired a shot past Peterson Occenat. After Haiti's Jean Garry Rubin put his team up by one, Ben Tsuda missed on his chance, as Haiti led, 2-1. Fritzson Jean Baptiste made Haiti's next attempt, giving his team a 3-1 edge in penalty kicks. Zack Wolfenzon took Harvard's next kick, but Occenat made the save. Bony Pierre clinched the penalty kick win for Haiti, as he made it 4-1 with a goal on the Haitian's fourth chance.
Harvard enjoyed multiple offensive opportunities in the first half, including two shots on net around the 30-minute mark. Ben Tsuda fired a shot just wide of the goal from 20 yards out at 27:50 and then Kyle Henderson fired a shot on target, but Haiti goal Peterson Occenat made the stop at 29:47. Following a corner kick off the foot of Prozeller, Tim Linden put a shot on net, but Occenat recorded another save.
The Crimson had its best chance of the opening frame at 37:56, when Connor McCarthy booted a shot from directly in front of the Haitian goal. Occenat made the save, and a chance moments later by Jamie Rees was blocked in front by a Haitian defender. The Crimson outshot Haiti, 10-4, in the first half, including 4-0 on net.
In the 56th minute, Haiti mustered two shots, as Jean Garry Rubin booted a chance that was blocked, and then Joseph Nicodeme Beauge forced Conrad, who took over in the Crimson's net at halftime, to make Harvard's first save of the day. In the 66th minute, Haiti stole the ball deep in the Crimson zone, allowing Wilde Donald Guerrier to have an open shot on Conrad from 20 yards out on the right side. The ball bounced twice, but Conrad picked it up and cleared it away.
In the final minutes of play, Harvard earned a corner kick at 83:21, but Linden's chance was blocked aside by the Haitian defense. In the 90th minute, Haiti's Ricardo Charles dribbled the ball down the left side and sent a shot that sailed just over an outstretched Conrad and over the Harvard goal.
The Crimson earned one final opportunity to score in stoppage time, as Kevin Harrington blasted a shot from 20 yards out, forcing Occenat to bat the ball over the goal, creating a corner kick for the Crimson.
Harvard owned the final count in shots, 13-10, while Haiti led in corner kicks, 8-5. Conrad made two saves for the Crimson, while Occenat recorded four stops, all in the first half.


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CSR Drives Bluetooth® Smart Innovation at CES 2013 with Turnkey Product Solutions
CSR Drives Bluetooth® Smart Innovation at CES 2013 with Turnkey Product Solutions
Intelligent LED Lighting Control Highlights Range of Smart Home, Fitness and Human Interface Demos
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) extended its leadership in Bluetooth® low energy technology today by introducing a collection of turnkey hardware and software solutions, based on the CSR µEnergy® platform, that OEMs and ODMs can customise to rapidly develop new and innovative Bluetooth Smart fitness, smart home and human interface products. Private demonstrations of these solutions include a smart LED lighting display featuring the integrated CSR µEnergy Bluetooth Smart platform that not only allows intuitive drag-and-drop control from an iPad® app, but also opens the door to enabling other Bluetooth Smart Ready systems throughout the home to control lighting, providing a more compelling user experience.
"CSR continues to drive innovation in Bluetooth low energy technology with compelling solutions that promote its rapid expansion into a broad range of Bluetooth Smart and Bluetooth Smart Ready products," said Paul Williamson, Director of µEnergy products at CSR. "Key to our success in this market is our development of the kinds of turnkey hardware and software solutions we are demonstrating at CES that our customers are using to rapidly develop custom designs and bring their products to market quickly and cost effectively."
Smart LED Lighting Control
CSR worked closely with PhotonStar LED Group plc, a British designer and manufacturer of smart LED lighting solutions, to create one of the most compelling demonstrations of how CSR µEnergy solutions enable smartphones, tablets and other smart devices to control systems throughout the smart home.
On its own, the advanced PSL LED lighting system is dimmable and colour tuneable. The addition of a CSR1000™ Bluetooth low energy chip massively increases the flexibility and intelligence of the lighting system by enabling lamps to be controlled individually or in groups using a CSR-developed iPad app which allows the creation of one-touch buttons to adjust the lighting in a room or portion of a room for reading, dining or watching movies, for example. Beyond this, the demonstration shows how easily control can be given to other smart devices in the home, such as enabling a smart media centre to automatically dim the lights in a home theatre when a movie starts or an alarm system to vary lighting throughout the home to deter intruders.
Smart Remote Control
CSR is also demonstrating a turnkey platform based on CSR µEnergy devices, with accelerometers and software to create an example design manufacturers can use to quickly develop the next generation of smart remotes for TVs and set top boxes. Using Freespace® MotionEngine™ software from Hillcrest Labs, the demo shows how products based on this turnkey CSR solution are able to employ gesture and voice commands to facilitate access to on-demand content, more easily perform searches and carry out more complex interactions with a smart TV.
Fitness Sensors
Continuing its focus on fitness-related applications, CSR is demonstrating two CSR µEnergy-based solutions for Bluetooth Smart foot pod and cycling sensors. Employing the CSR1000 device, accelerometers and proprietary algorithms based on CSR indoor dead reckoning technology, the foot pod demo calculates the pace of a runner and the distance covered and performs other functions using a CSR-developed iPhone® app. The cycle sensor similarly calculates cycle speed and cadence using an iPhone app, measuring both the rate of revolution of the bike wheel and also the pedals to provide training feedback that include pedalling rate, speed and distance based on wheel revolutions, as well as heart rate.
Windows® 8 Wireless Keyboards and Mice
Highlighting Bluetooth Smart Ready Windows 8 tablets and PCs, CSR is demonstrating wireless keyboard and mouse products from a number of ODM and OEM customers based on the CSR1000™ and CSR 1001™ µEnergy™ devices. With its built-in support for Bluetooth low energy HID devices, Windows 8 enables power saving, small form factor Bluetooth Smart keyboards and mice to connect directly without installing drivers or dongles and to achieve up to 10 years of operation from a pair of AA batteries.
Private, invitation-only demonstrations of these CSR Bluetooth Smart solutions are taking place during the International CES 2013 show in the Springhill Suites by Marriott, Las Vegas Convention Center, January 8-11. Attendees wishing to view these private demonstrations should contact CSR for an invitation.
All CSR's news at CES can be found on its online press kit: http://www.tradeshownews.com/events/2013-International-CES/CSR/
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Judge Elsbeth Levy Bothe, a well-known former criminal defense attorney who served on the Baltimore Circuit Court for nearly two decades and had a taste for the macabre, died Wednesday at her Homeland residence of complications from a stroke she had suffered three weeks earlier. Judge Bothe was 85.
"Elsbeth was always there for justice. She was fair, just, but could be very tough," said Ellen A. Callegary, who clerked for Judge Bothe in 1976 and was a founding partner of the Baltimore law firm of Callegary & Steedman.
"Even though she had strong feelings, she always supported juries. And she could be tough with lawyers," said Ms. Callegary. "She wanted them to come to court prepared and did not want to hear excuses. She respected both sides and respected them when they did their jobs well, and [was] tough when they didn't."
Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein clerked for Judge Bothe in 1981.
"Elsbeth was, at the end of the day, a force. She was brilliant, witty — wickedly witty — generous to a fault and an extremely entertaining individual," recalled Mr. Bernstein.
"She was the quintessential raconteur, if a woman can be one," he said. "You always needed to pay attention when you were with her because you never knew what she was going to say. Tossing out bon mots was a great part of her character."
"She was a great Baltimore character and as a woman was a trailblazer. And she did not suffer fools," said John Waters, the Baltimore filmmaker who had been a close friend for more than 40 years. "Whenever I have a party, my New York friends always ask, 'Is that judge gonna be there?'"
The daughter of Milford Levy, a neuropsychologist, and Elsa Kraus Levy, a social worker, Elsbeth Levy was born into Baltimore's German-Jewish elite and was a descendant of the Hutzler and Hamburger retailing families.
Raised in Pikesville, she was a graduate of the Park School. Before she turned 17, she enrolled at the University of Chicago, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1947.
She was working in an uninteresting research job when one day, tired of listening to the office Muzak, she cut a wire to turn it off and was promptly fired.
She decided to enter law school at the University of Maryland, where at the time she was among just a handful of women studying law. They had to endure taunts that the only reason they were there was to find husbands, reported The Baltimore Sun in a profile.
Judge Bothe graduated from the law school in 1952 and was admitted to the Maryland Bar that year. She practiced labor law and met her future husband, Berthold William Bothe, a regional director for the United Auto Workers, whom she married in 1965.
He died in 1985.
She was a lifelong liberal and advocate for minorities. During the summer of 1963, she represented hundreds who were arrested at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park as they challenged its "whites only" admission policy.
In 1964, she traveled to Mississippi to represent civil rights activists — both black and white — who were arrested.
After returning to Baltimore, she was an assistant public defender and counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union.
When she was working as an attorney, she represented a woman who had been charged with shoplifting from Hutzler's department store. It was an iron-clad open-and-shut case, reported The Sun in 2005.
When the woman came to her office scantily clad, Judge Bothe warned her to dress properly for her court appearance before Judge Mary Arabian, who was known for her rules regarding proper dress.
Even though she was found guilty, Judge Arabian gave her probation before judgment. When Judge Bothe complimented the woman on her courtroom outfit, she replied, "Isn't this a great outfit? I lifted it from Hutzler's."
Judge Bothe, who tried capital cases both as a defense lawyer and judge, was known as one of Maryland's most outspoken opponents of capital punishment. She also served for eight years on the review board at Patuxent Institution.
"I think I've got better insight into criminals than most judges," she told The Sun in 1978. "I know these guys in a way a lot of judges don't."
In a 1976 op-ed page piece in The Baltimore Sun, she wrote, "The most conceivable justification for perpetuating the death penalty is that it will stop crime, murders in particular. The evidence is clear, however, that incidence of murder bears no relationship to the existence of the death penalty."
In 1978, Judge Bothe was appointed to the Supreme Bench — which later became the Baltimore Circuit Court — by acting Gov. Blair Lee III. When asked about her staunch advocacy against capital punishment, she told The Evening Sun at the time, "I will follow the law whether I like it or not."
At the time, she was the third woman to serve on the Supreme Bench and the sixth female judge out of 188 judges in the state.
Judge Bothe had a fascination with murders — she was known to swap with other judges to get a murder case — that began as a child, she explained in an interview with The Sun in 2008. She had jettisoned "Nancy Drew's juvenile sleuthing stories in favor of The New Yorker magazine's marvelously scripted articles called 'Annals of Crime,'" she told the newspaper.
"Even though she was extremely liberal she was not soft on crime. She was a tough judge and had a reputation as being a tough judge," said former state Sen. Julian L. "Jack" Lapides, who is also a lawyer and friend of 60 years.
"Elsbeth had a great legal mind and loved to answer questions in the deepest possible way. She did not like any surface analysis or simple answers," said Ms. Callegary. "She loved an argument and if you were an attorney, she wanted you to disagree with her. She always wanted to hear the other side and loved it when you did. It was a wonderful trait."
Mr. Bernstein said that she had "great devotion to the law."
"She always wanted her clerks to succeed and she was a real pioneer in paving the way for women attorneys who followed her. She had very strong views and did not vacillate or waver," said Mr. Bernstein.
Judge Bothe filled her home and chambers with collections of skulls — some of them human — and her enormous collection of crime books.
"When I first went to her chambers and saw those skulls, I thought it must give pause to attorneys on both sides of a case," said Mr. Waters, who first met Judge Bothe after he was arrested for filming a nude hitchhiker scene on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus for his movie, "Mondo Trasho."
"They took me to a lockup in Hampden and they told me I could make one call, so I called the ACLU here, and thank God she was on duty that day, and answered the phone," said Mr. Waters. "She got me out and agreed to take my case."
Judge Bothe's career ended in 1995 when a city trial nominating commission did not forward her name to Gov. Parris N. Glendening for reappointment, two years before the mandatory retirement age.
"It was a devastating blow to her," said Mr. Lapides.
For the last 18 years, despite health issues that required her to use a walker, Judge Bothe maintained a vigorous social schedule, traveled all over the world, attended parties and spent time with her wide circle of friends.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. March 24 at Westminster Hall, 515 W. Fayette St.
Surviving are two grandchildren, two great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.


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text: NASHVILLE, Tenn. – (May 28, 2014) – AmSurg Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSG) today announced that it will participate in the Jefferies 2014 Global Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, June 4, 2014, in New York City. In connection with the conference, there will be an on-line simulcast and a replay of the presentation available at the Company's web site starting at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time / 9:30 a.m. Central Time. Christopher A. Holden, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Claire M. Gulmi, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be speaking at the conference. The live audio webcast and replay of the presentation will be available on the Company's website by going towww.amsurg.com and clicking on Investors. For the live audio, please go to the site at least 15 minutes prior to the presentation to download and install any necessary audio software. The webcast replay will be available for 30 days. AmSurg Corp. acquires, develops and operates ambulatory surgery centers in partnership with physician practice groups throughout the United States. At March 31, 2014, AmSurg owned and operated 242 centers.


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Changing careers wasn't a gimme for Scott Newton. After playing five years on the PGA and Canadian golf tours, he realized the driving force for most of his life had faded into mediocrity.
Changing careers wasn't a gimme for Scott Newton.
After playing five years on the PGA and Canadian golf tours, he realized the driving force for most of his life had faded into mediocrity, at least in terms of professional standards, and was hooking hard toward a different fairway — the ministry.
"I knew in 2003 my golf career had run its course," says Newton, whose father, Ernie, is still one of the best amateur players in the state, and his sister, Marcy, recently left the LPGA tour after 13 years.
"I wasn't having fun any more," says the 38-year-old former standout at Ledford High School and High Point University. "And our first child was born."
Newton didn't have a grip on what he would do after giving up the game, but he knew God was calling in December of 2003.
"I was saved in 1997, but I really didn't know God was calling (me) into the ministry until I went to a (Christian) convention in Charlotte."
He says he knows for certain he is now where he is meant to be, which is the lead pastor of the burgeoning Wesleyan church in Wallburg called Connection Church.
The transition, though, was as awkward as the swing of a weekend duffer.
"I didn't have any training in this," says the HPU sports management major.
He delivered his first sermon in 2004 at Hayworth Wesleyan in High Point, where his father-in-law was a former pastor, and he was overwhelmed with speech anxiety.
"It didn't go too well," Newton admits. "It was short. It didn't last too long. I was sick to my stomach. I was filling in for the pastor who was going out of town, but he ended up not going. So, he was there, and that made me even more nervous."
His second sermon went a bit smoother, this one a trial sermon at Liberty Wesleyan Church in Mocksville.
Newton received a call two weeks later inviting him to take over as pastor of the church.
He stayed two years, from 2005 to 2007.
"I got a wonderful opportunity to move back into the area with Greenwood Hills Wesleyan Church (in High Point). After four years there, God was calling me to start planning a church in the Wallburg area."
Connection Church celebrated its second anniversary in September. "God is really starting to bless us," he says.
The church grew from its small confines at Ledford Middle School to Ledford High School. There are plans to build a church on 35 acres in Wallburg. Newton explains the property is paid in full.
He does miss golf but knows he is where God wants him to be.
"It probably would have taken me several more years to develop as a golfer. I see some of my friends on the tour coming into their own," he added, mentioning Masters champion Bubba Watson as one of those.
"When most people leave professional golf, they wind up with jobs in the golf industry. One of my best friends on the Canadian tour just got a wonderful job with Ping as a sales rep down in Orlando."
His sister, Marcy, 35, has taken a job in the pro shop at Tanglewood in Clemmons.
"This (the ministry) is something literally so foreign to me, so I know this is what God wants me to do.
"I hate I never made it (in golf), but I love what I'm doing, sharing God's word. Looking back, I wouldn't have done anything any differently, honestly."
Lexington's Freddy Koontz of Koontz Masonry was Newton's sponsor.
"He's a generous individual who gave me a chance to play golf," Newton says.
While he was a pro, from 1998-2003, his wife, the former Dacia Emery, whom he met in high school, served as his caddy.
They now have a foursome: Grady, 12, Emery 10, Lincoln, 6, and Ezra, 7 months.
Dwight Davis can be reached at 249-3981, ext, 226 or at email@example.com.


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Health facility survey
Tool to evaluate the quality of care delivered to sick children attending outpatient facilities
An increasing number of countries are shifting from disease-specific to more integrated approaches to child health, including IMCI. Building on experience gained with the Control of Diarrhoeal Disease and the Acute Respiratory Infection programmes, the Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development and its partners have developed a new health facility survey (HFS). It is designed to assess the quality of care delivered to sick children attending outpatient health facilities; caregivers' understanding of home treatment and key messages after visiting these facilities; health system supports for quality care; and facility utilization by sick children.
The manual has been field-tested in several countries and has already been widely used, whether for baseline evaluation before programme implementation begins, for periodic evaluation of progress, or to compare the quality of care in areas with or without programme intervention.
The direct observation of case management practices along with the re-examination of the sick children and exit interviews of caregivers by expert clinicians make the information provided by a HFS unique. Programme decisions based on survey findings contribute to improved and sustained quality of care in health facilities and are complementary to other facility-based quality improvement methods. Combined with periodic population-based outcome evaluations and mapping of public health data, HFS are powerful instruments for improving service delivery.
From this site you can access and download the survey manual, the survey forms and instruments, generic EpiInfo files for data entry and analysis, and you will find links to the EpiInfo software and its user manual. By making this survey manual widely available CAH and its partners hope to contribute to strengthening child health programming in countries.
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QHurricane Sandy didn�t come near where we live. However, while we were all worried about the people it affected, my 8-year-old daughter became very frightened and upset. Is that kind of anxiety nutty or normal? � Georgia P., St. Louis
AChildren often personalize situations � fearing that bad things will happen to them, their family or friends. So your child isn�t nutty, but you are describing anxiety that�s not constructive. You want to help her get over this and then find ways to prevent her from getting that upset next time there�s news of a natural disaster or some man-made tragedy.
Here�s how to ease her upset (and remember, these situations get to all of us to one degree or another).
1. Limit your family�s exposure to TV, Internet and tabloid news stories � the 24/7 news cycle fuels repetitive and dramatic reporting of even minor details.
2. Kids pick up on negative parental vibes, so accentuate the positive. Point out how brave the first responders are; how the early-warning system saved lives; and how people are pulling together to help one another.
3. Show your child there are many ways to help those who have been affected by the incident. Volunteer as a family to provide assistance; for example, you can gather goods to donate to those in need. If your daughter feels she�s helping to improve the situation, it becomes less frightening.
4. To counter stress, make sure the whole family gets plenty of physical activity, enough sleep and eats well. Enjoy blood-sugar-stabilizing 100 percent whole grain (comfort) foods like oatmeal and keep your mind sharp with omega-3-rich salmon and selenium-loaded Brazil nuts.
5. If your child continues to talk about doom and gloom, make sure you listen, offer reassurance and show her examples of how life is getting back to normal in places where Sandy � or any other event � caused destruction. You�ll feel better, too.
QLeaves are gone, there are no flowers, but my allergies just keep going. What is it that gets me sneezing and congested during the winter? � Penelope P., Zanesville, Ohio
AMold spores and dust mites are the usual suspects when it comes to identifying winter allergies. Mold spores can lurk in piles of rotting autumn leaves; in soil (outside or in house plants); behind the walls of your house � if there�s a slow drip in a pipe; and anywhere that moisture accumulates, from shower stalls to drain pipes (also inside or out). Outdoors, molds can survive the first hard frost. Indoors, they love humidity. Keep yours at 35 percent to 45 percent, or you�re just asking mold to thrive.
Then, there are dust mites. These microscopic critters live indoors and feast on dry flakes of human skin that collect in bedding, mattresses, upholstered furniture, bookshelves, behind radiators and in closets. They crank out little bits of waste and that�s what triggers your allergy. The best defense? Wash bedding in water that�s 130 degrees or higher, get mite-proof bed coverings and keep inside humidity below 35 percent.
The symptoms of mold and dust mite allergies are similar to summertime allergies: sneezing, itchy eyes (more mites than mold), runny nose and congestion, even skin irritation and dry patches. Relief comes from antihistamines that stifle symptoms. But if you get mold in your lungs, you can develop asthma (wheezing, shortness of breath) and may need to use an inhaler to get relief.
But we like the idea of making an end run on allergies by boosting your immune system and desensitizing your body to the allergy triggers. What works? Some studies show that getting a lot of folate from food (fortified grains, spinach, asparagus and broccoli) and 400 micrograms from a supplement can reduce symptoms by 31 percent and wheezing by 40 percent. Also, go easy on the alcohol: Two drinks a day makes you more likely to have year-round allergies. And cutting down may reduce your symptoms.
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At SAP, we believe that when you bring everything you are, you can become everything you want.
by Adam Raelson | SAP Global Employer Branding
One thing I like about my job is that I get to talk to employees all over the world. Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with Jeongha Lim who is a Digital Demand Agent at SAP based in Seoul, South Korea. She works closely with companies across industries to explore the latest technologies and best practices to help them run better. I was inspired how she was deeply motivated by her clients' desire for success, and how she strives to deliver her expertise in SAP technology and innovations.
Jeongha is the kind of person who is in touch with her creative side. She sees the beauty in things and looks for opportunities to improve the world around her – whether it's being on the lookout to make something more efficient, find solutions to challenges, or simply giving someone her positive "cheer-up power", as she calls it.
When asking Jeongha about her role, she simply responded, "I love my job. I meet a lot of people at work and I enjoy interacting with customers too. My colleagues at SAP are supportive and collaborative."
Jeongha originally heard about SAP from her previous company, Oracle. She had read a lot about SAP and some acquaintances kept telling her that it is an open and transparent company that encourages free communication and welcomes employees from all professional and personal backgrounds.
Because of her love of art and aesthetics, she shared how she was initially hesitant that it wouldn't be appreciated in a new company. But she was pleasantly surprised how SAP didn't let her expertise in visual communication, market research, editorial design, and advertising development go to waste! She is part of the SAP Commercial Sales Academy program, which she got accepted to in 2017. SAP sent her to sunny California where she took part in a world-class training experience to get the skills, confidence, and experience to begin a successful career at SAP.
"What is my idea of success? Happiness every day. I think the most respectable thing at SAP is how seriously they take the relationship between the Organization and their people." She said
Looking back at her incredible 8-month experience at the SAP Commercial Sales Academy program, Jeongha shared how her best moment was simply that she got to meet her fantastic team and make new friends!
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7.3 Earthquake Strikes Nepal Again
Of all natural calamities nothing is more harrowing and destructive than a major earthquake. Unlike an oncoming typhoon or cyclone where there is time to take preventative action, that luxury is not afforded to those about to be struck by an earthquake. The suddenness with which it strikes, the intensity and ferocity and the horrendous loss of life in a mere 30 - 90 seconds is probably the most frightening of all natural disasters. The more superficial the earthquake the greater the destruction. Add to that poorly constructed houses and you have a recipe for a major catastrophe. To go through the experience once is a lifetime but to go through it twice is an eternity. The population of Nepal have just experienced a second 7.3 major earthquake in less than three weeks after the major 7.8 event. Eight thousand dead thus far from the first event (it's probably substantially higher as many of the areas are virtually totally inaccessible), 17 000 injured, thousands homeless and millions living in fear with each oncoming after shock.
Gift of the Givers teams were there, once again witnessing the same destruction as India 2001, Iran 2003, Pakistan 2005, Haiti 2010 and now Nepal 2015. The fear, the anxiety, the uncertainty, the pain and the suffering are all too familiar for our teams. This time search and rescue was virtually impossible in inaccessible mountains - it was possible for our teams only in the city where buildings were marked by us, identifying where bodies lie. Medical support was the hallmark of our mission with our teams running seven theatres in five hospitals, operating on 102 patients many with severely complicated injuries, treating 700 patients for primary health care in various mountainous areas, and seeing to another 100 non theatre patients in hospitals. We did the best we could and brought hope to a battered nation but more was done.
Patients and their families were provided with food at hospitals, medical implants and disposables all paid for by us to ensure FREE treatment for victims. Food parcels were handed out to 825 families in several mountainous districts and the roll out of 4000 tents has commenced, again paid for by us. In the wake of this second large earthquake our greatest contribution as South Africans to the people in Nepal will be cash to purchase food, tents and medical supplies to ensure some kind of physical support for thousands who will be homeless through destroyed homes or through fear of aftershocks. With the monsoon rains already on the way this is the least we can do for the people of Nepal. Trauma counselling and housing reconstruction are future options. Contributions to Gift of the Givers, Standard Bank, Pietermaritzburg, Account No. 052278611, Branch code 057525. Please fax or email deposit slip with full contact details for acknowledgement purposes. Details 0800786911.


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The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 6-Star O'Neill Cold Water Classic Canada saw the event's top seeds take to the water today in windy two-to-four foot (1 metre) surf and event organizers utilized the event's mobile permit to land at North Chesterman's beach today, completing the first 13 heats of Round 2.
The O'Neill Cold Water Classic Canada is the fourth of five stops on the O'Neill Cold Water Classic Series and the event's ASP 6-Star status plays a crucial role in all surfers quests towards qualification for the 2010 ASP Dream Tour.
Nathan Yeomans (San Clemente, CA), 28, is currently sitting just outside of the qualification bubble for next year's ASP World Tour and the Southern Californian's hunger to find his way amongst the top 45 was obvious when he dominated his Round of 96 heat today. Yeomans unleashed a precise forehand attack on two sectiony lefthanders to bash the day's highest heat total (a 17.10 out of 20) while advancing through to the Round of 48.
"For the first 10 minutes in that heat I really didn't have any scores," Yeomans said. "We're pretty much down to the last quarter of the year for qualifying and I knew it was really important for me to make that heat. I'm just outside of the bubble and I was looking to start off strong, so I'm stoked."
With four premier events remaining on the 2009 ASP WQS season, Yeomans is out to climb back into a firm spot within the top of the ASP WQS rankings to solidify his spot on next year's ASP World Tour. The explosive goofy-footer has his sights set on a victory at the O'Neill Cold Water Classic Canada as a jumpstart to the remainder of the year.
"It's been a mad shuffle and I've had a few decent results, but I definitely want to win an event this year," Yeomans said. "I've spent some time at home and got my equipment dialed in. I'm feeling confident, so hopefully this is the one."
Masatoshi Ohno (JPN), 28, was another top seed to crush his competition today. Like Yeomans, Ohno relied on the wedgy lefthanders coming through at North Chesterman's beach today to advance out of his opening heat.
"I got lucky and got some nice ones in the ning," Ohno said. "Then I got that bomb, so I'm stoked to get through. It's hard out there. It's bumpy, but there is a particular spot where a good left is coming through, so I was focusing on finding that left."
Ohno, who is currently ranked 46th on The Grind, is also out the build momentum throughout the last few events remaining on this year's ASP WQS. Although Ohno has some ground to make up, the flurry of points on offer in the last four events make a last-minute strike to qualify for next year's ASP World Tour possible.
"I'm definitely looking to make a push and still try and qualify for the 2010 ASP World Tour this year," Ohno said. "With this 6-Star and three ASP 6-Star PRIME events remaining this year it's still possible. I'm hoping to do well in this contest and build momentum for the remainder of the year."
Peter Devries (Tofino, BC), 26, who is the local favorite and the only Canadian surfer remaining in the event, continued to standout amongst the international field battling for the O'Neill Cold Water Classic Canada title. Devries convincingly won his Round of 96 heat today over progressive Hawaiian talent Dusty Payne (Lahaina, HI) 20, who advanced in second, to move through to the Round of 48 despite the tough windy afternoon conditions and ping tide.
"It was a struggle out there," Devries said. "I didn't know what was happening out there and no one knew what was going on. We couldn't hear the scores because of the wind. Luckily, I was able to get those few good lefts out there and they got me through."
Devries, who posted the top scores on the opening day of competition including a near-perfect 9.50 out of 10 for a massive 360 air, continues to use his relaxed approach to competition while surfing in front of his home crowd do dominate his heats and despite not having competed in several years, the Canadian's surfing does not seem to be affected by the intensity of competition.
"I'm just trying to stay relaxed and have fun and just surf," Devries said. "I'm not really thinking about the result, it's just a pleasure to be able to surf with guys at my home and just see the caliber of surfing that these guys are doing, it's amazing."
O'Neill Cold Water Classic Round of 96 Results:
Heat 1: Adam Melling (AUS) 13.67, Torrey Meister (HAW) 12.17, Sepp Bruhwiler (CAN) 9.27, Noah Cohen (CAN) 7.00
Heat 2: Masotashi Ohno (JPN) 16.10, Hodei Collazo (EUK) 11.93, Sean Holmes (ZAF) 11.10, Matt Johnson (USA) 7.73
Heat 3: Gony Zubizarreta (ESP) 13.50, T.J. Barron (HAW) 13.07, Nick White (NZL) 8.10, Jimmy Herrick (USA) 7.44
Heat 4: Nathan Yeomans (USA) 17.17, Ricky Whitlock (USA) 10.86, Bobby Morris (USA) 10.03, Hugo Savalli (REU) 6.70
Heat 5: John John Florence (HAW) 14.66, Blake Thorton (AUS) 10.50, Jason Miller (USA) 9.60, Sam Lamiroy (GBR) 7.07
Heat 6: Cory Lopez (USA) 15.84, Richard Christie (NZL) 14.40, Dustin Cuizon (HAW) 12.94, Jonathan Gonzalez (CNY) 0
Heat 7: Rudy Palmboom (ZAF) 12.73, Anthony Petrusso (USA) 10.27, Yadin Nicol (AUS) 9.46, Shaun Burrell (USA) 7.70
Heat 8: Peter Devries (CAN) 14.27, Dusty Payne (HAW) 12.10, Damien Fahrenfort (ZAF) 9.53, Matt Myers (USA) 6.74
Heat 9: Glen Hall (IRE) 14.66, Dylan Graves (PRI) 11.80, Alex Gray (USA) 11.07, Dylan Southworth (MEX) 7.57
Heat 10: Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 16.03, Romain Cloitre (FRA) 12.20, Shota Nakamura (JPN) 11.07, David Richards (ZAF) 10.10
Heat 11: Brian Toth (PRI) 14.07, Jarrad House (AUS) 8.06, Willie Safreed (USA) 6.20, Dane Andreson (USA) 4.43
Heat 12: Joan Duru (FRA) 13.80, Bruno Rodrigues (USA) 11.73, Chase Wilson (USA) 10.50, Alejandro Moreda (PRI) 8.10
Heat 13: Charles Martin (GLP) 11.83, Matt Wilson (AUS) 11.16, Blake Howard (USA) 11.10, Stuart Kennedy (AUS) 11.00


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Date: 14/07/2013
Competition: League
Venue: The Showgrounds
Gary Rogers; Alan Keane, Gavin Peers, Evan McMillan, Iarfhlaith Davoren; Lee Lynch (Liam Martin 76), Seamus Conneely, Joseph Ndo (for Kieran Djilali 68), David Cawley, David McMillan; Anthony Elding.
Brendan Clarke; Ger O'Brien, Conor Kenna, Aidan Price, Ian Bermingham: Conan Byrne (Sean Gannon 76), Shane McFaul, Stephen Maher, Greg Bolger, Chris Forrester (for Jake Kelly 61); Anto Flood (Christy Fagan 87).
Paul Tuite (Dublin).
Saint Patrick's Athletic continue to lead the Airtricity League Premier Division by four points after they played out and even and entertaining 1-1 draw with Sligo Rovers at the Showgrounds.
A horrendous Evan McMillan mistake on 16 minutes lead to Anto Flood's opener before McMillan made up for his shortcomings eight minutes from time when he bundled the ball over the Saints line to earn Rovers a point.
As a result the reigning league champions leapfrog Derry into second place in the table.
The reigning Airtricity League Champions were without Danny Ventre (leg), Danny North (knee), Aaron Greene (foot), Raffaele Cretaro (hamstring) and Pascal Millien (international duty) while Saints boss Liam Buckley went into the game without creative winger Killian Brennan and defender Kenny Browne, both through suspension.
Attacking midfielder John Russell was a late withdrawal due to a pre-game injury.
The home side were the first to produce a chance of note as Joseph Ndo's shot sailed narrowly wide of Brendan Clarke's goal with three minutes played.
The majority of play in the opening ten minutes took place in the Sligo half, but Pat's failed to capitalise.
Conan Byrne's tenth-minute shot which failed to test Sligo 'keeper Gary Rogers was the closest the Inchicore side came to an opener.
Clarke had to be alert on 14 minutes to touch David McMillan's shot around his post, while Evan McMillan was unable to get a touch on Gavin Peers' knock-on from the resulting corner just moments later.
Pat's took the lead on 16 minutes when the flight path of Brendan Clarke's punt up field was misjudged by Evan McMillan in front of his own penalty area.
Anto Flood assumed possession before bringing the ball inside the Rovers area and slotting it low past Rogers to put the league leaders ahead.
David Cawley passed up a golden opportunity to level the game on 23 minutes.
Ndo's trickery found Lee Lynch out wide, before the Limerick native's cross found the head of Cawley who nodded the ball straight into the waiting gloves of Clarke from two yards with the goalmouth gaping.
Both David McMillan and Flood went close for their respective sides on 30 and 31 minutes.
Anthony Elding - inside the Pat's six yard box - couldn't adjust his body in time to react to a Lynch ball from deep six minutes before the break, leaving Clarke happy to grasp the ball with ease.
Elding should have done better with his next chance one minute into stoppage time at the end of the opening period.
The imposing striker, unmarked, threw his boot at Iarfhlaith Davoren's cross from the left but failed to make contact as the ball deflected away off his standing leg.
Sligo had an appeal for a penalty waved away by stand-in referee Paul Tuite two minutes into the second half.
Alan Keane's cross from the right bounced off Conor Kenna's leg and inadvertently struck his hand, but Tuite showed little interest in Rovers' protestations.
David McMillan sent another pile driver over Clarke's crossbar on 49 minutes before Peers almost turned the ball home on 52 minutes from an Ndo corner.
Clarke again doing well to get a touch on the centre half's effort to send it behind.
The away side had to rely on their goalkeeper on 56 minutes as he denied Peers yet again.
The former Blackburn Rovers trainee did well to rise above a host of Pat's defenders to head a Davoren cross towards goal, but Clarke again tipped the ball to safety.
Elding should have done better with a 73rd minute chance which he headed over the Saints crossbar.
Keane's cross was flicked across goal by David McMillan toward Elding who failed to direct his header on target at the back post.
Peers gifted Greg Bolger a great opportunity to win the game only seconds later when he sliced the ball into the path of the former Dundalk midfielder.
Rogers had to be at full stretch to touch Bolger's curling effort wide.
A Davoren volley from 20 yards was easily dealt with by Clarke with 13 minutes remaining as Sligo pushed for an equaliser.
Rovers' hard work eventually came to fruition on 82 minutes when Evan McMillan bundled the ball across the Saints goal line.
Substitute Kieran Djilali's floated cross to the back post was headed back across the face of the goal by Seamus Conneely.
The Inchicore side failed to clear their lines and McMillan popped up at the back post to get the vital touch to blast the ball past Clarke.
The Saints almost stole all three points one minute into injury time as Bolger's well hit volley from the edge of the area left Rogers flat footed.
The former Pat's 'keeper relieved to see the ball float past the post.
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Hello all,
Building an all EML amp, with most of the stuff on the way. EML 20B V4 IT coupled to 2A3 mesh V4.
Since the 20B biases with a higher voltage than the 2A3, I was having some questions as to how to configure the power supply. I was pretty much resigned to having two completely separate supplies; one for the 20B and one for the 2A3.
A gentleman here in a forum on this side of the pond suggested Hitting the 20B w/ 250 VDC, 16ma with -4V on the grid. This would allow a normally configured PS where both stages would be supplied from a single point of the B+ rail, simplifying everything.
But of course the 20B is being hit at a lower voltage and current than recommended on the data sheet.
So, does hitting the 20B as specified above have any sonic disadvantages that anyone may be aware of ? The curves still look good there, with plenty of swing to drive the 2A3, but this amp will be all about how it sounds, and I don't want to compromise the end result if possible, though it would be great if that operating point on the 20B is feasible.
As always, thanks in advance for and advice and help. Much appreciated.
Cheers, Crazy Bill


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(e): Estimate. (f): Forecast. *Fiscal year 2019 from July 2018 to June 2019
- Expatriate remittances support consumption, the main driver of growth
- Dynamic services sector, especially tourism
- Financial and technical support from India and China
- Recipient of vast sums of international aid
- Heavily dependent on agriculture and weather conditions
- Landlocked and poor accessibility to many regions of the country
- Vulnerable to natural disasters: economy still affected by the 2015 earthquakes
- Weak productivity in the secondary sector
- Infrastructure shortcomings: electricity and fuel shortages
- Recurrent political turmoil and violence
Growth loses speed but remains strong
Consumption (76% of GDP for the 2016/17 fiscal year) will continue to be the main growth driver. It should benefit from increasing remittances (27% of GDP) from expatriate workers thanks to the appreciation of the USD, and to an agreement that should be concluded in 2019 and will re-enable expatriation of workers to Malaysia. It will also benefit from an accommodative fiscal policy for lower and middle income earners, and rapid credit growth. These factors will ensure disposable income growth in a context of very high unemployment (nearly 40% in 2018, but only 2.7% if informal work, including in agriculture, is considered). However, growth momentum will remain constrained by the high prevalence of poverty and inflationary tensions associated with high transport costs. Inflation will be even stronger in 2019 on the back of rising Indian inflation, due to the peg of the Nepalese rupee to the Indian rupee, and because two thirds of the country's imports are from India. Growth will also be spurred by the construction sector, thanks to infrastructure projects and continued reconstruction efforts. The increasing stability of the political scene and business friendly reform should also increase attractiveness for foreign investors. Moreover, agriculture – which still accounts for around 70% of total employment and a third of GDP – will benefit from a good monsoon season in 2019. While the government has set the target of 8% growth for fiscal year 2018/19, the Coface baseline scenario is that this target is too ambitious.
Although narrowing, twin deficits remain high, thus feeding public debt
The structural weaknesses of the administration, the recent decentralisation impetus, and the historical instability at the head of the state make reforms and budget implementation tedious. Spending cuts will be limited in order to accommodate the poorer fringes of the population and attract capital for investment (especially hydroelectric projects and transport infrastructure). The government will also subsidise some loans from national banks to stir education, employment growth and exports in the 2018/19 fiscal year. The budget deficit will decrease thanks to increased revenue from higher taxes for the richer fringes of the population, as well as taxes on alcohol, tobacco, luxury goods and vehicles. However, this will not prevent public debt from increasing especially because of the depreciation of the currency to Special Drawing Right (SDR) – as around half of total public debt is due to international institutions and denominated in this currency used by the IMF.
Nepal is highly dependent on India (65% of imports and 57% of exports) and China. The trade deficit will remain high as Nepalese production lacks diversity and competitiveness. Moreover, the depreciation of the currency will increase the import bill without spurring export growth. Import growth will also be related to imports of capital goods for the reconstruction efforts in relation to the 2015 earthquake, domestic consumption growth, and higher global energy prices. The trade deficit will not be compensated by the substantial remittances from expatriate workers and growing – but still very low in comparison – tourism revenues. Foreign reserve levels have been eroded by the frequent current account deficit, which is not compensated by capital inflows in the balance of payments, but they remain at a satisfactory level (covering nearly 10 months of imports in April 2018).
The new government bodes well for political stability
The new left-wing alliance between former rebel Maoists and the liberal communist party allowed for a majority government to be formed after the elections in December 2018. This is the first majority government in nineteen years. Since the end of the monarchy in 2008, ten governments of failed and tormented coalitions have reflected the country's divide between the two left-wing factions and the Nepali Congress party. The divide also reflects opposing positions regarding preferred Chinese or Indian influence. The country remains a disputed zone of influence between the region's two giants: it is the third main beneficiary of Indian aid and is also part of the Chinese Belt and Road initiative. Under the new coalition government, the country is expected to lean further towards China, although growing weariness regarding the extent of indebtedness towards China may limit new construction projects. Domestically, the coalition's durability has yet to be proved, but its comfortable parliamentary majority should allow for the passing of laws that could improve the business environment. Weak rule of law, continued deterioration of freedom of expression, ethnic tensions, high levels of poverty and lingering impacts from the disastrous earthquake of 2015, will remain core weaknesses in the business climate and governance challenges in the country.
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This ShapeFusion patch and physics model replaces the dual wield shotguns with a pump action shotgun. I came across a really nice set of sprites in a forum for zdoom and tweaked them to fit graphically. Below is the forum post and credit to the original sprite artist.
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Kumquat Blueberry Orange Cake and an Elephant for Lyanne - Kumquat #1
Monday, January 30, 2012
Lyanne turned 3 last Dec 31st. Phew! She's 3. Time flies. She's not as chatty as Lydia, special in her own way. Handy in the kitchen, loves podding beans, peeling chestnuts and make cookies! And once she comes in to help, she stays until the end. Sweet girl. She just started Kindergarden, in a 4 year old class, but she's just 3 years and 5 days old. I worried..but I think she's doing fine. She loves school.
She loves elephants. So, I made her an elephant cake. I was hoping it'll be something like Elly of Pocoyo. It wasn't very much like Elly, but haha, a cousin of mine said it's Elly the moment she saw it. So, I think.... I think... I think I am successful .. I think.
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I keep learning things about myself; not all of which I like.
For example, I went to the nursery for some plants the other day and for the first time in my life when I considered purchasing a tree, I stopped to consider that there was a good chance that I would not be around to see the tree grow to maturity.
I thought to myself that I couldn't buy just a small sapling for a tree, as I would never enjoy the shade of it, I would never harvest the fruit thereof.
That really bothered me. Up to this point I had been fairly philosophical about life and would never have thought twice about planting a tree for the next generation.
But there I was, confronted with the ultimate practical question. Should I buy the small tree which was well within my budget or should I buy the large tree that I couldn't afford and plant it hoping to save several years of waiting around to see if I would get to enjoy the shade and fruit.
I read a quote one time that said something like, "A true act of charity is to plant a tree under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
I always thought I was a charitable kind of guy. But here I was confronted in a practical test of all my beliefs.
Shakespeare said, "to be or not to be; that is the question?" And for me it was, "To plant or not to plant a sapling, that is the question?"
Unfortunately, our society is one of instant gratification. We cannot comprehend planting a seed and waiting around for 30 years to begin the harvest of the fruit or the enjoyment of the shade.
If I bought the small tree there was a good chance that I would be taller than the tree for many years to come. Even as I am shrinking with each year I get older.
Landscaping companies grow rich off people and a society that can't wait for mature trees and plants.
All those beautiful palm trees in Las Vegas didn't grow up there; they were transplanted fully mature from somewhere.
It is kind of like we all like the look of an old growth forest, but don't want to wait around for it to happen.
I have this fault in other areas of my life. I want patience and I want it now. I would like to lose weight, but I don't want to eat right and exercise.
I want to save money, but I don't want to curb my spending. You get the idea.
I certainly didn't want to wait. I am pretty sure that if I die, my kids are going to sell the house and split the money so I couldn't even conjure up images of generations of my posterity swinging on the old oak tree thinking kind thoughts of their Great Grand-pappy Torres that planted this here tree out in the back-forty.
One of the worst things about moving from our old house was the fact that we had to leave the trees.
When we bought our old house we were young and had lots of years in front of us and not much money, so we did the best we could.
The day we bought the house, I brought home trees and started planting. After about 20 years we had peaches and cherries; we had shade and my evergreens were big enough to decorate for Christmas.
Fortunately, last year the family that bought my old house brought fruit from the trees over to us. That eased a great deal of my too kind and loving wife's pain. She is still mad at me for making her move.
There is an old Chinese proverb that says, "The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the next best time is now."
So I plant my trees and hope I live long; but if I don't, the kids in the neighborhood might have a 4th grade teacher like mine (Mrs. Lyman) that made me learn a poem about a tree…"I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree—poems are written by fools like me, but only God can make a tree."


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Colorado lands pass-rushing DE T.J. Fehoko
About the only thing more important than a quarterback in today's game is having a pass rusher that can pressure the opponent's quarterback.
Colorado may have taken a big step in finding its pass rushers of the future when the Buffs received an oral commitment from T.J. Fehoko, according to the Rivals.com-affiliated website BuffStampede.com.
A senior-to-be defensive end at Salt Lake City's Cottonwood High School, Fehoko (6-foot-2, 255 pounds) set what is regarded to be a state record last fall as a junior when he was credited with 34 sacks. Fehoko also registered 100 tackles and seven forced fumbles.
According to Rivals.com, Fehoko's offer list also included Oregon State and Vanderbilt, and he had considered taking visits to Oklahoma State and Pittsburgh.
Rated a three-star prospect (out of five) by Rivals.com, Fehoko told the recruiting-based website that a big factor in his interest in Colorado is being a "huge fan" of Buffs defensive line coach Jim Jeffcoat, the former Dallas Cowboys star.


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How to Be a Good Sports Parent
That's not you screaming from the sidelines, saying all the wrong things on the way home from practice and generally behaving badly, is it? Nah. But just in case, we've got five ways parents can get a grip before they spoil their kids' fun.
Postgame Analysis
Let's go to the replay: Your daughter is the best dribbler on her team. Yet she's also a basketball black hole — once the Spalding falls into her hands it's never coming out. With the best intentions, you pull her aside after the game to offer your advice: "Pass the ball!"
Breakdown the penalty: Teaching her to be a thoughtful teammate is good, but remember: "Kids have a short attention span," says Rick Wolff, coauthor of Parenting Young Athletes the Ripken Way (Gotham). "Thirty seconds after the game she's thinking about homework or friends or what's for dinner." The last thing she wants is a verbal report card from you.
Your winning new move: After the team handshake simply say, "Great job!" When the uniform's safely in the washer's spin cycle at home, offer her a "praise sandwich," says Wolff. "Tell her that she's an awesome ball handler. Then offer constructive criticism ('When you get double-teamed pass to an open teammate'). Finally, give the other side of the sandwich ('When you move the ball you're unstoppable')." You've made your point, and there's not a tear or slammed door in the house.
Unintended Pressure
Let's go to the replay: All season your pre-meet speeches to your young swimmer consisted of one simple phrase: "Do your best." You commit to keeping mum after the final lap, regardless of his performance. Last week he finished in the top three and you were cheerful and chatty, while staying faithful to your rule of no "shop talk." This week he was second-to-last. On the way home you don't bring up the meet — or anything else. You clutch the steering wheel and silently stare at the road ahead.
Breakdown the penalty: Many parents don't understand their own attitudes about winning and losing, observes Joel H. Fish, coauthor of 101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent (Simon & Schuster). "Watching your kid compete is a very emotional experience," he says. "You need to prepare for your spectating emotions." Review your favorite on-the-spot stress-reduction techniques. (The ones that don't involve beer and yelling, that is.)
Your winning new move: Once you have a handle on your feelings, explicitly praise your kid when he swims hard, regardless of the outcome. And watch that body language. When he pulls himself out of the pool, the first face he'll look for will be yours.
Living Vicariously
Let's go to the replay: It's the bottom of the ninth and your daughter's up to bat. You've prepared her for this moment with 6,000 of your curveballs in the backyard. Then she swings at a ball so far outside it whizzes by the catcher's outstretched mitt. You leap from your seat. "C'mon!" When she strikes out you fall into a humiliated heap.
Breakdown the penalty: Your child's sports participation is not about you. Period. "Parents lose perspective," says Wolff. This is no small issue. "The biggest athletic stress on kids comes from their parents pressuring them to be outstanding players," says Fred Engh, author of Why Johnny Hates Sports (SquareOne).
Your winning new move: "If your child is smiling and having fun, your job as a sports parent is to find a seat, sit down ,and be quiet," says Daniel L. Wann, PhD, a member of the Executive Board of Directors for the National Alliance for Youth Sports. For added insurance, ask one of the calmer parents to quietly tap you on the back when you're starting to go over the top.
Let's go to the replay: Your daughter's busted her hump during volleyball tryouts, arriving first and leaving last each day. She's confident she has performed well. On the afternoon the teams are announced, she storms into the house sobbing. She was cut. Before she can reach for the tissue box, you're on the phone with the athletic director demanding a reversal of the decision.
Breakdown the penalty: A child's lack of success is not fatal — for you or for her. Nor does it signify that something needs fixing. "It's common for moms and dads to have continuing doubts as to whether they are good enough parents," says Alvin Rosenfeld, MD, coauthor of The Over-Scheduled Child (St. Martin's Press). This fear drives many parents to micromanage, even though it's unhelpful for kids in the long run.
Your winning new move: Sit with your daughter and have her write a list of questions for the coach. Tell her not to be accusatory but to ask what skills she could improve on. Of course, when that rare, dangerous, or sketchy situation demands your involvement, Jim Bloch, athletic director of New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Illinois, reminds parents: "First find the source closest to the situation — the coach or the teacher. Don't start with the superintendent, principal, or athletic director."
Mishandling the Quit
Let's go to the replay: Your son begged for months to play hockey. You relented. You bought him the expensive equipment and drove him thrice weekly to practice (even rising at 5 a.m. to score that coveted ice time). Then one morning out of nowhere he says he wants to quit. Flabbergasted, you catalog for him the price of each piece of gear and then detail how your personal life has crashed and burned due to the obscene hours of his Neanderthal sport. You tell him there's no way he's bailing.
Breakdown the penalty: You don't want him to give up easily, especially after the investment you've made, and you don't want to raise a quitter. But take heed. "In response to their fear of failure, parents run themselves — and their kids — ragged," says Fish. If your son's approaching you after serious soul-searching, his concern is probably legit and should be taken seriously.
Your winning new move: Skip the speech and take a moment to breathe. "Listen to your child's specific concerns and see if it is best to encourage further participation," says Fish. Why does he want to quit: Is it burnout? The coach's behavior? Does he feel like he's not good enough? "Put your needs on the back burner and really listen," adds Fish. "That will allow for a better decision." Maybe that means he gracefully bows out, and you give him your blessing to do so.
Be Your Kid's Cheering Squad
Always have some positive one-liners at the ready. Fred Engh, author of Why Johnny Hates Sports, suggests the following:
"You should be very proud of how much you've improved."
"I noticed you had a terrific practice. I can't wait to watch you play."
"You set a great example for the team by hustling on every play."
"I'm really impressed with how you've been hitting [kicking, shooting] the ball lately."
What Sports Can (and Can't) Do
Kris Bordessa, author of Team Challenges: 170+ Group Activities to Build Cooperation, Communication, and Creativity (Zephyr Press), gives the lowdown on how sports participation can — and can't — serve your child's development.
Sports can...
- Teach cooperation and teamwork
- Provide a feeling of camaraderie
- Give kids a support system they can trust
- Boost self-confidence
- Encourage better communication (which translates off the field)
Sports can't...
- Change a child's basic personality or nature
- Make a child popular
- Create a passion for a parent's favorite sport
- Teach the meaning of teamwork if the best players are the only ones allowed to play
Originally published in the October 1, 2008, issue of Family Circle magazine.


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John Singleton's 2005 film "Four Brothers," about a group of foster brothers (Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin and Garrett Hedlund) avenging the death of their adoptive mother, wasn't exactly "Boyz in the Hood," but it wasn't "2 Fast 2 Furious" either. Now, with Wahlberg leading the charge, Paramount is developing a sequel titled "Five Brothers."
Wahlberg came up with an idea for a new story with the film's original writers, David Elliot and Paul Lovett, and will return to star. No word yet if his former cast mates Andre Benjamin and Tyrese Gibson will return, or if Singleton will direct.
Hedlund died in the first film so there's little chance he'll be back which is too bad since we're big fans of his limited body of work, especially his beautifully raw performance in the film "Friday Night Lights." (While we're rooting for "Tron Legacy" to push his career to the next level, every time we see that weird, dark "Speed Racer" looking trailer, we get a bad feeling in the pit of our stomach. Is it just us or is the suck potential of that movie super high?)
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With "Five Brothers," it's good to see Wahlberg taking the lead on a film after his success executive producing great TV with "Entourage" and "In Treatment," not to mention "Boardwalk Empire," which we can't wait to premiere. Marky Mark has a few more tricks up his Calvins than people may realize.


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Former Port Vale pair sign for National League side
National League newcomers Chorley FC have signed former Port Vale duo Joe Anyon and Louis Dodds.
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I recently had a lot of work redesigning my photo website with atahualpa. After finishing and feeling quite happy with the new design i found a difference between my "ordinary" view on my monitor and what appears on my iPad. There is a thin line that seems to "shine through" from the dark background, because when I make the body background white the line disappears. Is there anything I can do or is this a bug in iOS?
Please take a look at the attached screen-dump.
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ENGG 177: Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Making decisions under conditions of risk and uncertainty is a fundamental part of every engineer and manager's job, whether the situation involves product design, investment choice, regulatory compliance, or human health and safety. This course will provide students with both qualitative and quantitative tools for structuring problems, describing uncertainty, assessing risks, and reaching decisions, using a variety of case studies that are not always amenable to standard statistical analysis. Bayesian methods will be introduced, emphasizing the natural connections between probability, utility, and decision-making.


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This week's Pnai Plus, Israel's TV Guide magazine, is all about fashion – who's hot and who's not. One thing that's not hot is their cover, as it includes a Photoshop disaster:
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Taken right out of an M.C. Escher lithograph, singer Ivri Lider (center) stands right behind comedian Adi Ashkenazi, and also right in front of her – depending on whether you are looking at his torso or his feet.
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