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Over the last three months, average real income (the amount that income rises taking out the natural upward-trend in prices) rose 1.5% per year, while average real consumption rose 1.75%. The math is simple: saving must be falling. In fact, since the late 1980s, personal saving has been on a downward spiral. In order to eat at the same restaurants, drive the same car, buy the same groceries, insurance, furniture, appliances, entertainment, and vacations, Americans are saving an almost-zero share of their disposable income.
However, this is just one measure of saving. Saving measured on a national, or even international, scale tells a different story. It is important to understand that
Investment must be included in national saving because it is an important determinant of future economic growth. As a nation, Economists include buildings, computers, and machinery in the definition of saving because when they are built (it takes time), income rises with higher production, and the country is better off. Government saving/dissaving must also be included. When the government issues a bond in order to pay for a public service or program (ex: universal health care) that is not covered by regular tax receipts, American tax-payers must pay off the debt in the future. National saving falls and brings future economic growth with it.
As a nation, national saving has fallen with rising government deficit spending, but is being sustained by firm investment and sits at 13% of total income (GDP). When compared to the personal saving rate (0.7%), national saving (13%) is not so alarming. Firms (and the government) are building up the infrastructure of the economy, which will produce higher economic growth in the future.
We are not out of the woods yet
If the
The current account is the most troubling of all saving measures. Fact is fact: American consumers are big spenders and currently borrowing from the rest of the world in order to keep the spending going.
There are arguments as to why the current account is not really as bad as it seems; perhaps this is worth a future blog entry. However, the light at the end of the tunnel is still shining with all the umph of a 40-watt light bulb. The falling value of the U.S. dollar is good for the current account. Exports rise relative to imports, and
So there is hope yet. The correction of the current account is a natural economic process. It is okay to keep consumption steady, but not at the cost of becoming increasingly indebted to the rest of the world. Further, it is always good to remember that the saving rate reported in the media is only a small part of the whole story.


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In 2007, William Rutledge, a retired NASA mission specialist currently living in Africa, revealed some amazing facts about his involvement with two missions to the moon, the failed Apollo 19 and Apollo 20, which he says was launched in August 1976 from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
According to Rutledge, both of these missions were highly classified joint space missions resulting from collaborations between U.S. and Soviet governments. In other words, the general public had, and still has, no idea these missions ever took place.
The purpose of these missions was to investigate a large alien spacecraft (3,370 meters long and 500 meters high!) on the far side of the moon in the Delporte-Izsak region, allegedly discovered and photographed during the Apollo 15 mission. The photo to the right shows the alien craft on the lunar surface and then superimposed onto New York City. NASA supposed that the craft either crashed or was abandoned on the moon in ancient times.
Rutledge claims that he and Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov landed a Lunar Module near the alien ship and actually entered it. Certain artifacts were discovered and recovered, including two bodies alleged to be the pilots. One was very well preserved and appeared to be female. The second body was badly deteriorated and only the head was retrieved.
The alleged photographs and video of the mission specialists actually examining the female body have made their rounds on the Internet in recent years, and, as you can only imagine, this story remains highly controversial. For most people, it's just too unbelievable to be true.
Believing that NASA conducted top secret, joint U.S./Soviet missions to the moon in the early 1970's is hard enough for people to wrap their heads around, but the fact that these missions took place in order to explore an ancient alien craft on the lunar surface strains credulity for most people, even true believers.
However, this story has never been debunked outright, and the images and video associated with it are eerily authentic looking, especially the NASA photographs of the craft on the lunar surface. Eighty-year-old Alexei Leonov certainly isn't talking, and why William Rutledge did remains a mystery to this day. Maybe, already in the twilight of his life, he decided he was no longer going to keep such an important event a secret.
Until official UFO/alien disclosure occurs, we may never know if these secret missions took place. Debunkers tend to state that the images and video associated with this story are obviously fake, but they offer little to confirm these allegations. But if you simply refuse to believe something, no evidence in the world is going to convince you of its authenticity anyway.
Hopefully, one day soon, we will have more information to share regarding this mind-blowing tale.

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To follow up her acclaimed album Haydn Hummel Trumpet Concertos, the phenomenally gifted Alison Balsom turns her attention to Italian composers, with a selection of concertos originally composed for violin or oboe by Vivaldi, Albinoni, Tartini, Cimarosa and Marcello.
It's a typically elegant affair: Balsom's bright tone and tight phrasing on the opening Allegro of "Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in A Minor" gives way to more subtle work on the Largo, with a series of delicate, feathery trills. Similarly, her nimble fingering on the opening section of Albinoni's "Oboe Concerto in B flat Op. 7 No. 3" is supplanted by long, poised notes on the Adagio section. An eloquent performance.
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Argentina seems in a real mess. What is going on?
The economy has collapsed and the president, Fernando de la Rua, has resigned and gone to ground. Presidents Raul Alfonsin (1989), General Galtieri (1982) and Isobel Peron (1976) all went the same way.
How did this crisis blow up?
Argentina has been in recession for more than three years. Unemployment is 18%. It needs a devaluation of the peso and a sharp cut in interest rates.
So why not do that?
Because Argentina has tied the peso to the dollar and vowed never to break the link. That means keeping interest rates high. Even if it wanted to devalue, it has more than $150bn (£107bn) of public sector debt, much of it repayable in dollars. Devaluation would make that debt much more expensive.
If the government has borrowed so much, why doesn't it boost public spending to help the economy?
The International Monetary Fund has effectively ordered Argentina to cut spending to qualify for IMF aid.
What happens now?
Argentina tried everything to defend the one peso to the dollar rate, including exchange controls, bank-withdrawal limits and cuts in public-sector salaries. Now, some observers expect Argentina to scrap the peso and use US currency.
Does it have enough dollars for that?
Probably not, which is why the alternative - a peso devaluation and default on some or all of its huge debts - is more likely.
Why should it spoil my Christmas?
Default would cause shockwaves globally - and Middle Britain would feel the tremors. Argentina's collapse could set off a domino effect, toppling other troubled economies. Such as Brazil, South Africa, Russia (a lot of debt due is next year), India (its public finances are shaky), Hong Kong (its currency is also pegged to the dollar), Turkey (heavily in debt) and the Czech Republic and Hungary (both have high trade deficits).
Britain's HSBC has up to $590m of exposure in Argentina, and Lloyds TSB has $400m in Brazil. The Bank of England reckons actual losses to all UK banks would be $450m should Argentina default and $300m in the case of Brazil. On top of that, certain UK pension funds have bought Argentine debt, believing the dollar link made it safe.
So what lessons should we draw?
Gerard Lyons, of Standard Chartered, says: 'Countries should always set economic policy to suit their own domestic conditions. This is where Argentina went wrong. In Britain, we should remember this when people urge us to join the euro. We don't need it.'
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 963488
libvirt: Use qom-get command on newer versions of qemu to make virDomainMemoryStats() usable again
Last modified: 2015-03-16 13:58:10 EDT
As explained by Eric Blake in en email to the virt-tools mailing-list (https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2013-May/msg00035.html, I just added some minor modifications to the text):
Versions of qemu since 0.15 or so intentionally crippled the 'info balloon' command to plug a security hole, where qemu waited for the guest to report the stats. Thus, qemu only reported information that could be obtained without guest interaction.
Just recently, qemu switched to an event-based solution, where it periodically asks the guest without blocking, the guest informs qemu when it wants, and where libvirt can query the most recent guest information (if any) without blocking, which works to remove the hole of a non-cooperative guest stopping progress.
Patch to qemu-devel is here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-01/msg04832.html
Libvirt should use the new QMP querying commands for those properties (on systems with a new enough qemu), in order to get guest memory stat reporting back operational.
This should be fixed upstream in 1.1.1:
commit ab600621170985b580af438efd1fd049de39b054
Author: John Ferlan <firstname.lastname@example.com>
AuthorDate: 2013-07-11 19:18:48 -0400
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CommitDate: 2013-07-16 08:44:52 -0400
Add capability to fetch balloon stats
This patch will add the qemuMonitorJSONGetMemoryStats() to execute a
"guest-stats" on the balloonpath using "get-qom" replacing the former
mechanism which looked through the "query-ballon" returned data for
the fields. The "query-balloon" code only returns 'actual' memory.
Rather than duplicating the existing code, have the JSON API use the
GetBalloonInfo API.
A check in the qemuMonitorGetMemoryStats() will be made to ensure the
balloon driver path has been set. Since the underlying JSON code can
return data not associated with the balloon driver, we don't fail on
a failure to get the balloonpath. Of course since we've made the check,
we can then set the ballooninit flag. Getting the path here is primarily
due to the process reconnect path which doesn't attempt to set the
collection period.
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Got a cold or flu? Don't ask for antibiotics
19th November 2012 - A publicity campaign's been launched to persuade people seeing their doctor with cold or flu symptoms not to ask for antibiotics.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) says a leaflet will urge patients to discuss with their doctors why they are not being prescribed antibiotics. It will remind patients that colds, most coughs, sinusitis, earache and sore throats usually get better without antibiotics and explain how these conditions are best treated.
The leaflet is being launched to coincide with the annual European Antibiotics Awareness Day which aims to raise awareness of the risks associated with the inappropriate use of antibiotics.
Antibiotic resistance
Antibiotics have been widely used in medicine over the last 70 years to treat bacterial infections. In recent years it has become apparent that widespread use has led to antibiotic resistance and the prospect that some once potent types of antibiotic will be rendered useless.
For instance, penicillin is no longer effective for staphylococcal wound infections, while the synthetic antibiotic ciprofloxacin is now powerless against gonorrhoea. The value of many more antibiotics are under threat.
Experts say that between the 1940s and 1990s the problem of resistance could be overcome by producing new types of antibiotics, but that the pharmaceutical industry is no longer geared up for that kind of eventuality. As a result, doctors now may have to fall back on 'reserve' antibiotics which may not be as effective or may have more side-effects.
Bacteria, not viruses
This year's awareness campaign aims to reinforce the message that antibiotics are effective at killing bacteria, not viruses. Viruses, which antibiotics do not affect, cause nine out of 10 sore throats and all cases of flu. So, the message is that prescribing antibiotics for people with colds and flu risks unnecessarily weakening their ability to work against infections when they are needed.
GPs under pressure
"When patients attend the surgery with a respiratory infection they still receive an antibiotic in around 70-80% of consultations," says Dr Michael Moore, a Salisbury GP and Reader in primary care research at the University of Southampton.
He tells us: "The precise rate depends on the labelling of the condition. It is around 90% for tonsillitis and chest infection compared to 50% for sore throats. We know from our work in delayed prescribing that by asking patients to wait a few days the pick up rate for antibiotics is reduced to around 30% with no change in recovery rates or satisfaction. So antibiotics are still 'over used' in this situation.
Dr Cliodna McNulty, the HPA's lead on European Antibiotics Awareness Day says in a statement: "This expectation puts a lot of pressure on the doctor to prescribe antibiotics which is often not necessary and causes increased antimicrobial resistance in the long run. Bacteria will always adapt to try and survive the effects of the antibiotic and we have seen that the problem of resistance is growing.
" GP patients who have had antibiotics in the last six months are twice as likely to have an infection with resistant bacteria. This is why it is very important that we preserve the antibiotics that we have by not prescribing them where they are not necessary so that they are effective when we really do need them."


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Spurs expect Parker to play in Game One of Finals: report
(Reuters) - The San Antonio Spurs expect to have point guard Tony Parker in their lineup when they host the Miami Heat in Game One of the NBA Finals on Thursday, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
Parker, the court general who runs the Spurs' attack, sat out the entire second half of San Antonio's Western Conference-clinching, Game Six overtime victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday due to an ankle injury.
The San Antonio newspaper quoted a source saying that Parker "absolutely" will be ready to play.
Despite prevailing in the clincher without Parker, the Spurs would sorely miss the dazzling playmaker in their best-of-seven National Basketball Association championship rematch with the Heat.
Miami prevailed over San Antonio in seven grueling games last year to repeat as NBA champions.
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THE PIXAR THEORY: Everything is connected by Jon Negroni
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Every Pixar movie is connected. I explain how, and possibly why. Several months ago, I watched a fun-filled video on Cracked.com that introduced the idea (at least to me) that all of the Pixar movies actually exist within the same universe. Since then, I've obsessed over this concept, working to complete what I call "The Pixar Theory," a working narrative that ties all of the Pixar movies into one cohesive timeline with a main theme. This theory covers every Pixar production since Toy Story. That includes:
- A Bug's Life
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The City recognizes the importance of housing, including affordable housing, in meeting the needs of the City's existing and future residents.The provision of affordable housing is an on-going challenge, which the City plans to address through the creation and implementation of an Affordable Housing Strategy.
The involvement and coordination of all stakeholders, including the federal, provincial and municipal governments, Wellington County, not-for-profit sector, development community, and Guelph residents is needed to ensure that affordable housing is available for all.
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Affordable Housing Strategy
The City has developed an Affordable Housing Strategy. The strategy builds on the work of the City's Official Plan and the 10-year Housing and Homelessness Plan led by Wellington County as the Service Manager for social housing and homelessness programs. The Affordable Housing Strategy includes strategic actions that support the city-wide 30 per cent annual affordable housing target (25 per cent ownership, 1 per cent affordable primary rental and 4 per cent affordable secondary rental) and address affordable housing issues in the private market.
The affordable housing issues identified for Guelph include:
- There are not enough small units to rent or buy to meet the affordability needs of all smaller households.
- A lack of available primary rental supply makes it difficult for people to find affordable rental housing.
- The secondary rental market provides choice of affordable dwelling types but the supply is not as secure as the primary rental market.
The Affordable Housing Strategy was modified on May 8, 2017 to reflect Council approval of a revised affordable housing target that reflects the secondary rental market. Section 6.3.3, Financial Incentives, of the Affordable Housing Strategy has been excluded from Council approval. Further work will be undertaken to determine an approach to financial incentives and funding in support of the affordable housing strategy.
Affordable Housing Financial Incentives Program
On November 7, 2016, City Council confirmed the establishment of an Affordable Housing Financial Incentives Program to support affordable housing in Guelph. Council deferred the approval and development of the detailed financial incentives program framework until further research can be undertaken about the role of accessory apartments (e.g. basement apartments) in the affordable housing market.
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Affordable Housing Strategy: Review of the Affordable Housing Target and Secondary Market
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It's Monday evening. I'm on Douglas getting ready to eat a fantastic dinner with Tony Chachere. (Actually, I'm staying with him.) The water's cold — 51 degrees — and the weather forecast isn't saying warmer weather until Saturday. If that's the way it works out, it'll be a cold water event. That's a heck of a lot different than what we faced down on Falcon.
That's something we might take a minute to talk about. Professional bass fishing is very different than fishing in the same part of the country most of the time.
When you fish one or two bodies of water in the same part of the country, you can follow the fish as then change with the seasons. If it's the late spawn and you don't get out for a week or so, you can figure they're on the beds, or at least close to them. If you can't go for three weeks or so, you figure they're in the postspawn. That thinking will work for you all year long.
But when you're fishing professionally, you go from one part of the country to another in just a matter of a few days. That means you're looking for prespawn fish on the Sabine River, postspawn fish on Falcon and when you come up to Douglas Lake it's back to prespawn.
Those kinds of changes require that you not only change tactics but that you change your mindset. You have to learn to fish where you are, and to forget about what happened yesterday or last week. It sounds easy enough when you write it but in practice it can mess with your head. Dealing with these challenges is part of being a professional. I'm not complaining, just stating the facts.
The issue I'm facing right now is different. I spent a part of my drive up here and most of today trying to figure out a way to win this thing without throwing an Alabama rig. That's possible but not easy. A guy has to give it his best shot, though. A win in one of the Opens is a guaranteed ticket to next year's Classic. That's something you can't take lightly. Every tournament matters at this level considering the quality of the competition.
It looks to me like the best strategy is to throw jigs and Luck "E" Strike jerkbaits. I'm thinking that they'll produce some quality prespawn bass that should put a guy in the running come Saturday morning. That's my hope anyway.
The nice thing about those lures is that you can adjust your presentation to what the fish want fairly easily. If they want it slow and easy, you can do that. If they want it fast and fleeting, you can do that, too. With a lot of the lures we fish, you can't do that.
I'm not going to make any predictions about weight. That's something that might be very different from last year. You'll remember that was an Elite event so the Alabama rig wasn't legal and we fished there about a month later. We won't know for sure, though, until the weigh-ins start on Thursday afternoon.


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Gigerenzer's 'external validity argument' against the heuristics and biases program: an assessment
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Gigerenzer's 'external validity argument' plays a pivotal role in his critique of the heuristics and biases research program (HB). The basic idea is that (a) the experimental contexts deployed by HB are not representative of the real environment and that (b) the differences between the setting and the real environment are causally relevant, because they result in different performances by the subjects. However, by considering Gigerenzer's work on frequencies in probability judgments, this essay attempts to show that there are fatal flaws in the argument. Specifically, each of the claims is controversial: whereas (b) is not adequately empirically justified, (a) is inconsistent with the 'debiasing' program of Gigerenzer's ABC group. Therefore, whatever reason we might have for believing that the experimental findings of HB lack experimental validity, this should not be based on Gigerenzer's version of the argument.


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He was quiet.
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He ate pork yesterday.
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The Philadelphia Phillies and Florida Marlins are setting up for a pitched battle atop the National League East but, while ERA leader Josh Johnson and the Florida starters are getting plenty of help from the bullpen, Roy Halladay and Phillies rotation might end up with little choice but to do it themselves.
The Phillies haven't scored more than four runs in any of their past 13 games and their bullpen is breaking down physically, but their pitching-first formula is working out just fine for now. Still, they can't shake the Marlins, who have won eight of their last 10 and allowed just 24 runs in that stretch.
Halladay threw 130 pitches -- his most in nearly a year -- Sunday and came within one out of a complete game in a 3-1 victory at San Diego that finished a four-game sweep and left the Phillies with baseball's best record at 15-6. But the excitement over the team's best start since 1995 was tempered by the loss of another closer.
Jose Contreras, pressed into ninth-inning duty with Brad Lidge out probably until midseason, succumbed to the increased workload. While his teammates are headed to Phoenix today, Contreras will be back in Philadelphia having his sore elbow examined.
Contreras, who hasn't allowed a run this season, pitched four times in five days last week and his 74 pitches took a toll.
"I think it was just the work that he's done," said general manager Ruben Amaro. "He didn't indicate it was one pitch."
Ryan Madson, who wasn't available Sunday for the second time in less than a week because of his workload, will take over as closer. Minor leaguer Michael Stutes was added to the roster that also has reliever J.C. Romero on the DL.
"It's thin," Amaro said. "It is what it is."
The Phillies bullpen still ranks second in the majors with a 2.24 ERA, but Florida relievers are at 1.79 even after their first blown save of the year Sunday cost the unbeaten Johnson his fourth victory. The Marlins pulled it out later on this massive Mike Stanton home run.
"Can't fault the bullpen," Johnson told the Palm Beach Post. "They've been doing an outstanding job."
Johnson started Florida's 8-2 charge with a 5-1 victory at Atlanta. His two starts since -- seven two-hit shutout innings against Pittsburgh and three hits in seven innings Sunday against Colorado -- have come after the only two losses in the stretch.
Florida's starters lead the NL with a .235 opponents batting average, all the more remarkable considering Javier Vazquez has a 6.52 ERA and Chris Volstad 6.60. But Johnson is the horse -- his ERA actually rose to 1.06 after he gave up a run in his seven innings Sunday -- Anibal Sanchez came within three out of a no-hitter against Colorado on Friday and Ricky Nolasco is unbeaten like Johnson.
But if it's a Big Three for the Marlins, that might not be enough. The Phillies have gotten exactly what they expected when they assembled their Big Four. Halladay, Cole Hamels, Cliff Lee and Roy Oswalt have combined for a 10-3 record and 2.75 ERA. Joe Blanton, the fifth guy, is 0-1 with a 5.92 ERA.
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It didn't take long for the market to figure it out, did it? The Dow powered up by 2% overnight. Traders now realise it's okay to borrow money and buy higher-yielding assets. Besides, with short-term interest rates so low, the Fed is all but demanding that investors move out of cash and into something that moves, like stocks, houses, or commodities.
So we're moving. And we're moving people. We're moving.
But where are we moving to? It looks like another mini-bubble. The market seemed prime for a fall in conjunction with a U.S. dollar rally. That could still happen if the U.S. employment report tomorrow is a shocker.
A negative employment will remind everyone that this recovery (if it can properly be called) that is still largely a jobless one. The process of reducing household debt is going to take years and not months if households can't grow their incomes. Real wage growth (adjusted for inflation) is pretty hard to come by in most of the Western world (unless you run a bank).
All this adds up to lower household spending ahead. How much further ahead can stock prices get of corporate profits that may never materialise? We'll see. But valuations are already stretched. Investment advisor Jeremy Grantham reckons fair value on the S&P 500 is around 860 – or 24% lower than yesterday's close at 1,066.
But whether the market breaks up or down here (something Murray has been looking out with his technicals) is up to investors. There is a huge cash position on the sidelines that's still worried to jump back into markets. For the bear to really do his work, he's got to convince these people to get into the market. The Fed is helping by making cash a wasting asset (when you figure in inflation).
Thinking out loud, then, you could make a case for new highs on the market as this cash mountain moves into equities. We saw a chart on Sunday at the opening of the conference hosted by the Gold Standard Institute which showed that the amount of cash on the sidelines exceeded the total market cap of the Wilshire 5,000 (a broad measure of the market value of all U.S. equities).
In layman's terms, it means there is more money in cash right now than there is equity in U.S. companies. Now, there is a very good reason investors are reducing their allocation to stocks. As we've said before, we think the equity premium – what people are willing to pay for stocks – is regressing to the mean. It was so high for so long because corporate cash flows in the second half of the last century benefitted so much from low interest rates and globalisation.
But even if the equity premium is collapsing, it wouldn't take a small change in that cash position to power equities much, much higher. In fact, if the investors holding that cash realise that inflation is a bigger risk than over-valued stocks, they may decide to get out of cash anyway, despite the risk of being in the market.
In any case, we are not suddenly becoming bullish. But we are suddenly thinking that the next phase of this GFC (other than the sovereign debt crisis) is to lure investors back into an equity rally. Whether they are prodded by negative real interest rates on short-term deposits, or lured by equity markets lurching ahead with the backing of the dollar carry trade, well that doesn't really matter.
It could all be moving on up.
What's really worth watching is how the commodities behave in this market. They are moving on up too. This means gold is shedding its image as a risk-aversion asset and becoming something that people want to own. Its allocation in household and institutional portfolios is going up too. And of course, trading cash for things is probably a good trade these days, no matter whose cash you have in your wallet.
We'll have to cut it short today as other deadlines press. But beware. The bear is afoot and he is making mischief. He is doing is devilish best to convince investors that he's hibernating. After all, the November to April period is usually when stocks do their best.
This year has been unusual because, thanks to the Fed, stocks had a great six months during a time when they generally don't do much. It's unnatural you might say. But so are current fiscal and monetary policy, we might say.
We might also say that there is something tawdry about insisting that modern living standards are not negotiable and must be preserved with high public sector debt. In effect, today's policy makers are saying to the future, "Our current well-being and comfort is more important than any debt you may have to repay. We refuse to live within our means because it would inconvenience us to do so. We are too lazy and selfish to recognise our financial mistakes and pay for them. We're going to leave that to you. Suckers!"
It's not very nice. It's not very moral. But it is what it is. And right now, it gives you the chance to prepare your portfolio for the consequences of bad policy (fiscal, monetary, climate…take your pick!) More on all of it next week. Until then!
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The impressive numbers for last week's HIMSS15 in Chicago speak for themselves: five days, more than 42,000 attendees, 1,200 exhibitors and 500+ sessions targeting trends and challenges in the healthcare industry. The one theme that ran like an artery through the entire event? Without a doubt, interoperability. I wrote about the roadblocks many providers face when implementing electronic medical record (EHR) systems last week. The advent of patient-centric and value-based care, however, makes clear that while EHR technology is a major building block in achieving these BHAGs, it's only one of several.
I spoke to very few people at HIMSS who weren't trying to master interoperability. In a nutshell, systems generate or collect data. The more systems you have, the more you have to make sure they can actually interact with each other toward the ends you want them to. No one at HIMSS complained of having too little data to work with; in fact, most find the magnitude of available information like patient and drug data and care records utterly overwhelming. Actually improving patient care is the brass ring everyone is reaching for; i.e., how to make that information useful.
Given recent year's heavy mergers and acquisitions activity in healthcare, it surprises no one that integrating disparate health IT systems has become the bane of many a CIO's existence. For a while now, those CIOs have been looking outside their organizations for solutions. Gartner's Jennifer Mazzucca (paywalled article here) estimates the healthcare-related outsourcing market will grow by 6.4 percent in 2015.
Simply put, interoperability means different IT systems and applications can interact with each other, exchange information and utilize that information, with, as HIMSS puts it, one goal in mind: ensuring "health information systems ... work together within and across organizational boundaries in order to advance the effective delivery of healthcare for individuals and communities." (You'll find more from HIMSS on interoperability here.)
Federal leaders who attended the conference made their expectations crystal clear. While lauding progress made to date during a press briefing, Karen DeSalvo, National Coordinator for Health IT, stated that the scope is larger. "The EHR is one of major drivers to advance care, but the world has evolved and advanced, and now the ecosystem is much broader than EHRs. To provide person-centered care … we need to make certain that we're allowing technology to evolve. EHRs only tell one part of story."
Interoperability takes a village … or at least a partner
As Mazzucca pointed out, attaining interoperability is a complicated endeavor for healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs), and creates high demand for service providers that understand the landscape and can help navigate the complexity. It's simple: Without the right building blocks in place, the promise of real-time healthcare systems (RTHS) will remain elusive.
Here are three areas Mazzucca sees healthcare delivery organizations actively seeking outside assistance with:
1. Legacy applications: The multitude of legacy applications health systems run are a major stumbling block toward achieving RTHS. Most HDOs employ a hodgepodge of homegrown applications, modern EHR technology and applications much closer to the end of their useful life than the beginning. These applications will require integration, management and sunsetting where appropriate.
2. Enterprise-class architecture: In the words of Mazzucca, "the healthcare sector has been relatively slow to adopt cutting-edge IT." This has led to unwieldy application infrastructures that can't scale to growing demands. For some HDOs, developing enterprise-level applications and infrastructures will require significant changes to the guts of their IT structures as well as outside expertise on the path there.
3. Analytics: The "real-time" in RTHS hinges on leveraging data to proactively improve patient care and cut costs. To that end, HDOs continue to make business intelligence and analytics one of their top priorities. Additionally, they have concerns about mobility, security and master data management, among others.
Interoperability will continue to be a massive area of interest, concern and opportunity this year, and I'm certain it will take up at least as much, if not more, collective mindshare a year from now at HIMSS16.
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Currently, ethylene is produced commercially by the steam cracking of petroleum-derived feedstocks. However, the rising cost of petroleum has led to the exploration and development of alternative, biological production systems for fuels and chemicals. Algal production systems have been developed since the 1970's and NREL is one of the preeminent laboratories developing biological systems for the production of fuels and chemicals. Recently, a number of organizations have successfully applied closed-loop photobioreactors to the production of hydrocarbon feedstocks. One such system developed at NREL utilizes the freshwater photosynthetic cyanobacterium, Synechosystis in the production of ethylene and its derivative fuels in a process that improves the energy conversion efficiency and reduces operational costs.Description
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All eyes here focus on test captain Virat Kohli as he will play the second unofficial test match between Australia A and India A.
The match starts on wednesday at MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai. It will be a four day unofficial test match between the two countries.
While Indian skipper Virat Kohli himself asked the Board of control for cricket in India (BCCI) to allow him to play in this unofficial match.
He want to play this match as a practice match before the Srilankan tour, because he and many other senior player was not in the 15 member squad against Zimbabwe
Many cricket experts praised this approach of the indian test captain Virat Kohli as he is determined for the srilankan tour.
Skipper Cheteshwar Pujara mentioned that KL Rahul, Amit Mishra and Umesh Yadav will be rested for this game. Kohli will takeRahul's place while a fit-again Varun Aaron will replace Yadav. As for Mishra's spot, it will be a three-way battle between Shreyas Gopal, Baba Aparajith and Jayant Yadav. Pujara also confirmed that he will open the batting in Rahul's absence.
Australia A will be without the services of middle-order batsman Nic Maddinson, who has withdrawn from the tour after suffering a finger injury. Khawaja mentioned that spinner Ashton Agar, who was rehabilitating for his shoulder injury, would be available for the match. It remains to be seen if Australia A opt fora five-bowler strategy by including Agar in place of the injured Maddinson.
Match Date: July 29 to August 1
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Probable XI: Usman Khawaja(c), Cameron Bancroft, Travis Head, Peter Handscomb, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade(w), Steve O'Keefe, Sean Abbott, Ashton Agar, Gurinder Sandhu, Andrew Fekete
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Charu had never thought she would get married to an Air Force officer. She always thought them to be frivolous and unreliable. She found them too flamboyant for her liking. With their Raybans and snazzy overalls, she felt they were too 'forward' for her small town upbringing. Yet in her deepest, innermost thoughts she had never believed that it could happen to her.
Raman had seemed nice enough initially. However, from the moment they had returned to the squadron, he and his cronies seemed to be talking in whispers, conspiratorially. She could see something cooking, and did not like the flavour wafting from it. "Surely they should have nothing to hide from me. After all, I am his wife", she fumed.
It did not take long for the truth to surface. Within two hours things started heating up. Charu heard the sound of squealing tires and car doors being banged. This was followed by loud angry voices. Raman got up with a start and tried to flee. A huge guy barged into their drawing room, shouting for Raman, while his mates barred all exits. Raman had no choice but to stand rooted, looking uncomfortable and a trifle scared.
"You filthy bas***d", the Big Guy abused her husband, as he protectively brought forth a meek little girl through the doorway. She was sobbing quietly, her large pregnant belly shaking with each sob. Her face was hidden in her dupatta and while Charu could not see it, she appeared completely shattered.
Big Guy was in a terrible rage. "Did you ever think what would happen to my sister? How could you go and get married, after you have done this to her?" He moved forward menacingly, eyes bulging with anger, breathing fire. He thumped Raman hard on his chest and held him by his collar. Charu felt herself reeling and clutched a chair for support. She would have fallen, had a gentle hand not supported her.
She shifted her gaze to see an old lady looking at her benevolently. She spoke gently, "Beta, we understand it is not your fault. I am sure that you knew nothing about this. But tell me, with my daughter in this state, what else can we do?" She pointed at the pregnant girl, with a meek question in her eyes. Charu, despite herself, felt a deep empathy for the girl.
"He has to marry her," she heard the old lady saying vehemently.
Brought up in a household where infidelity and adultery were treated equivalent to rape, she could not believe that this was happening to her. More than Raman, she felt angry with her father, who had disregarded her doubts and hitched her to Raman. It dawned very slowly on her that her life was utterly, completely ruined.
The desperation gave her strength. Turning a deaf ear to the other room where her husband of a few days was being roughed up, she stood before the old lady and her pregnant daughter.
"You are right. He must marry her. I will go to my father's house tomorrow. My hus...," her voice trailed off. "Please ask Raman to send me the divorce papers at my father's place."
The old lady looked satisfied with this. The commotion in the other room was increasing. Another set of voices had joined in. Charu peeped through the curtain to see Raman's cronies. Were they really trying to justify his despicable behaviour? Charu could have torn their eyes out; however, she remained quiet. The old lady quietly informed them of Charu's decision. She and Big Guy left with the pregnant girl.
"Let us go to the CO's (commanding officer's) house and talk this out," Raman's cronies said lamely to Charu. She wanted to refuse but she realized her own helplessness just in time. In an alien place, 500 km away from her father's house, without a friend, where would she go? She needed a place to stay the night. "Oh God! Let the CO have some sense," she prayed.
The CO turned out to be a venerable and reasonable man. He made her comfortable, offered her a glass of water and asked her to sit comfortably in his house. He assured her, then left in his jeep to talk to the pregnant girl's family.
He came back looking dejected. Back at his house, the CO tried to reason with Charu. "Why don't you just wait a week and see? Maybe things would sort themselves out."
Charu broke down. "How can I spend a lifetime with such a scoundrel? He has done this to one girl today, he can do this to me tomorrow." She was crying openly now, tears flowing down her cheeks. "Please arrange for a ticket to my father's house," she sobbed. The CO seemed perturbed by this. He called his wife to talk to her.
Things appeared to be happening in a blur now. Gradually, she seemed to have many more well-wishers pouring in from all directions. Through her tears and numbed senses, some vague recognition started dawning.
All the people she had met since coming to Jwalapur were standing around her trying to shush her down. They seemed thick friends, despite the happenings of the day. Big Guy was introducing himself to her as the squadron doctor. The pregnant girl came and introduced herself as Mrs so and so along with her husband.
"Noooooo!," she screamed, as the truth hit her. A similar thing had happened to her sister, when she got married to an army officer. Charu had never believed that she would fall for such a clichéd ploy – but she had. She realized that Raman was involved as deeply in pulling the prank. She could have killed Raman then, except that the relief was so overwhelming. In the next few minutes she was introduced to the whole cast of the skit – all officers and wives from Raman's squadron – and of course, Raman's friend's mom, who had played the part of the girl's mother.
Today, Raman and Charu have been happily married for eighteen years. Since then, Charu too has played many a character trying to make each girl's honeymoon with the squadron more memorable.
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This is hilarious! Can't imagine the shock she must have felt lol
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Braman testifies in stadium lawsuit trial
Auto dealer Norman Braman took the stand at 4 p.m., Monday, during the first day of the trial in his lawsuit against a funding plan to build a new Florida Marlins stadium and other projects.
Braman testified he had seen the Marlins' financial statements in 2004, when he was approached as a possible investor. Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Jeri Beth Cohen ruled that Braman could not testify or enter court documents about the financials he had seen at that time, but she allowed him to talk about the investment proposal.
"My answer was I could not make an investment in a company that had $163 million in debt," Braman said.
Attorneys for the city and county objected when Braman's attorney asked the auto magnate how much property tax he paid on his downtown auto dealership. His dealership is in the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency district being tapped for funding some projects in the county's $3 billion megaplan -- the target of Braman's lawsuit.
During objections, Marlins attorney Sandy Bohrer said Braman's testimony was irrelevant to the trial because it did not show the city and county's decisions were illegal. But Braman attorney Roberto Martinez argued the testimony was relevant to Count IV of the lawsuit -- which alleges the county is illegally using taxing power to provide the Marlins with an exclusive business operation.
"I believe that these TIF [tax-increment financing] funds should be spent in the Omni area, where they were meant to be spent .... It's just been an almost uninhabitable area," Braman said.
I also believe that people have the right to vote," he said. "These are ad valorem taxes -- taxes designed to help people -- shouldn't go to help to pay baseball players that are making a million dollars a year."
Braman's testimony concluded the trial's first day. However, a videotaped deposition of Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez led the introduction of evidence.
Alvarez's taped statements said he never saw financial statements for the Marlins before approving public funding for the stadium, and that he had no guarantees the Marlins could pay for cost overruns, as required.
Alvarez also said in the recording that he never asked why the county couldn't keep naming rights for the stadium, which were assigned to the Marlins, or why the county couldn't retain scheduling at the stadium when the Marlins' season ends.
The mayor said he believed that the Marlins leaving Miami would be an "embarrassment," and that a new stadium would only increase civic pride.
Cohen overruled several objections by Bohrer to stop playing the videotape.
The trial began Monday morning after a false start last week. It was set to begin Thursday, but the judge sent the parties back to mediation, which failed.
Plaintiff focuses on financial details
In his opening statement, Braman attorney Roberto Martinez focused on the details of the nearly $3 billion megaplan to fund a new Marlins stadium, tunnel to the Port of Miami and other projects.
His main argument is that the funding in the agreement violates the Florida Constitution.
Martinez said he believed government officials might make statements in trial testimony that did not support his argument.
"We're suing based on what's in the global agreement. Not the statements that have been made -- what it actually says in the document," he said.
The $525 million funding plan for the Marlins stadium is part of an about $3 billion plan endorsed by city and county commissioners this year. Referred to as the megaplan, the funding package also includes a tunnel to the Port of Miami and funding for bonds at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.
Braman's attorneys presented arguments for almost two hours before the first 10-minute break.
They argued that the transfer of public money for a baseball stadium is beyond the scope of a 2004 bond issue voters approved to fund recreational projects. A major issue in Braman's argument is that the city and county have no evidence to back up their assertion that the projects will have positive economic impact on the surrounding neighborhoods.
The Marlins have exclusive control over the stadium after the county pays for construction.
"[The stadium] will be a county-owned facility in debt only," Martinez said. "The agreement gives the Marlins all revenues generated by the stadium, regardless of how they are generated."
He also presented evidence suggesting the county and city had little information about the Marlins' financial position or if a new stadium would succeed financially.
"The Marlins have never been asked why they cannot construct a baseball stadium using their own money," Martinez said. "The Marlins' financial statements have never been requested."
What hangs over the funding "shell game," as Martinez described it, is a threat that the Marlins would leave South Florida.
Martinez said in arguments that public officials' support for the stadium was based on their "personal opinions," with no research or studies or opinion surveys about the potential use or economic impact of a new baseball stadium.
The plaintiff's attorneys then played clips from videotaped depositions, where Miami Mayor Manny Diaz replied to questions about such studies: "No, I haven't seen any studies." Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and County Manager George Burgess both said no repeatedly when asked if they had seen studies of the stadium's economic impact.
Defendant says authority is the issue
After the break, the defendants began their arguments, with Miami-Dade County Assistant County Attorney David Hope asserting that the trial is really about the city and county's authority to govern, based on legal precedent that legislative decisions cannot be overturned unless "patently erroneous."
"Our constitution establishes a basic framework of separate of powers," he said. "The issue here is the legislation determinations of the county commission."
Hope called Braman's lawsuit "an attempt to get the court to act as a super-legislature" because the plaintiff "does not like" the decisions of the Legislature.
He referred to numerous public meetings where the county discussed the financing arrangement and the benefits of having the stadium, and said the decision to redirect community redevelopment money for the megaplan was not illegal because it was authorized by the governing boards of the community redevelopment agency districts that were involved.
"Plaintiffs haven't offered any evidence the Omni CRA is a taxing authority," Hope said. He added that the private gain to the Marlins is incidental to the public benefit of having a stadium.
"There's over 50 years of [Florida] Supreme Court decisions that consistently corroborate that these sorts of recreational facilities serve a public purpose," Hope said.
Tax-increment financing
In their opening statements, attorneys for Braman did not mention a case currently before the Florida Supreme Court that has similarities to their case. In Strand vs. Escambia County, a northern Florida resident sued his home county partly because he didn't get the right to vote on the use of tax-increment financing for a local road project. Tax-increment financing refers to the funding of public improvements with loans that are paid back by the increasing property tax income that results from those improvements. Miami's CRA districts are funding the TIF dollars, but the property taxes themselves are authorized by the city and county.
But Hope said the case doesn't apply, because it doesn't apply to prior obligations and the Omni CRA is not a taxing authority.
"If Strand was final and was retroactive, it would still not apply," he said.
Hoping for speedy judgment
In closing, Hope summarized the defendants' position: "This is about the role of local government to make those decisions. Once the county government or city government has debated it and made a decision, plaintiffs cannot challenge it because they don't like the deal."
After Hope closed his presentation, attorneys for the city and the Marlins took their turn. An attorney representing the city said it did not intend to offer witnesses in the hope Cohen would enter a speedy judgment in its favor.


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What is stomach flu?
Stomach flu also known as gastroenteritis or infectious diarrhea is referred to as the inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract collectively known as the stomach and the small intestine. Stomach flu ironically has no relativity to influenza.
According to a Wikipedia statistics, it is estimated that three to five billion cases of gastroenteritis resulting in 1.4 million deaths occur globally each year. Children and those in the developing world are most commonly affected. As of 2011. In those below age five, there were about 1.7 billion cases resulting in 0.7 million deaths. In the developing world children less than two years of age frequently get six or more infections a year. It is less common in adults, partly due to the development of immunity. (Wikipedia)
Stomach flu is majorly caused by viruses, occasionally bacteria, fungi, and parasites may cause it. The following viral species has been indicated to be causative organisms of stomach flu- Giardia lamblia, Entamoeba histolytica and Cryptosporidium spp. Stomach flu may resolve within about 10 days without medication, however, if the symptoms stomach flu symptoms persist, you may have to visit your doctor.
The first signs of stomach flu noticeable are diarrhea, abdominal pain and vomiting immediately there is an onset of viral infection. These viral infection may easily spread through consumption of poorly prepared foods or drinking water that has been contaminated. Stomach flu affects children mostly due to their desire to eat anything in sight without prior thought as to how the food was cooked.
In the management of gastroenteritis, the symptoms of stomach flu is often treated as opposed to finding the real cause, more so, the symptoms may subside in few days without taking drugs.
Symptoms of stomach flu
Stomach flu may present symptoms especially those that looks similar to other gastric inflammation symptoms such as ulcerative colitis and acid reflux. Stomach flu symptoms normally will resolve within few days depending on the causative organism. The following are stomach virus symptoms:
- Abdominal cramps and pain.
- Nausea and vomiting
- (This may a low-grade fever).
- Diarrhea (usually watery with no traces of blood).
There are certain instances when you might have to see a doctor depending on the severity of the symptoms of stomach virus presented. Let us look at the following cases.
In children, it is advisable to see your doctor if the following stomach virus symptoms are presented:
- Fever with body temperature rising as far as 38.9⁰C or higher.
- If your child looks lethargic
- If you sighted a bloody diarrhea.
- If your child is seriously dehydrated. You begin to notice pale skin with dryness.
For Adults
In adults, if the symptoms of stomach flu becomes aggravated to the following extents, it is time to see your doctor:
- Persistent vomit for at least 1 day.
- If your vomit is tinged with blood.
- Body temperatures at or above 104⁰F (40⁰C) should call for a serious concern.
- Severe dehydration with signs of deep yellow urine, burning sensation when urinating.
- Vomiting blood.
- Severe body weakness, dizziness or fainting spell.
For babies (little children under the ages of 2years)
If any of the symptoms presented belongs to any of the following listed below, do call your doctor as early as possible:
- Dehydration (this is characterized by dry diapers for at most 7hours).
- Has bloody stools or severe diarrhea.
- Has a fontanel i.e. a sunken soft spot on the head.
- Unusual drowsiness and sleepiness.
In the management of stomach flu, severe cases often attract feeding and fluid may be administered via nasogastric tubes. Rehydration therapies are often needed to restore the lost body fluids.
So also body serum electrolytes and kidney function needs to be checked in cases of severe dehydration to prevent complications.


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