Dual American Sprint Champion Roy H made a statement in January when he trounced his foes to comfortably win the Grade 2 Palos Verdes at Santa Anita Park. The 7yo gelding is trained by Peter Miller and running fresh off his second Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Sprint win in November, he gobbled up his multiple Graded Stakes rivals, finishing up the 1200m in 1:08.89 and winning by four lengths at the wire. The beaten favourite in last year's Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen will now return as an arguably better horse, hoping to make up for his third last year behind Mind Your Biscuits and X Y Jet. "Last year Roy broke flat out of the gate," said Brian Trump, racing manager of owners Rockingham Ranch.
"He just didn't seem to have the same kick as he's always had. A few things happened, but we aren't looking to make excuses. When Pete took him back, reevaluated everything and put him into a training programme, he saw that Roy was complacent and needed to be challenged a little bit more. We mixed up the scenery and it made all the difference in the world." The Jorge Navarro-conditioned X Y Jet, also the 2016 Dubai Golden Shaheen runner-up, has had two races since, an impressive win in Grade 3 June's Smile Sprint and a lacklustre run two weeks ago in the Sunshine Millions Sprint. "Right now, the plan is still to send X Y Jet back to Dubai," Trump added.
"He is absolutely healthy and 100%. We will touch base with Jorge in the next week to strategise and make a final decision." Trump also reported that Rockingham, who also finished second last year with Bernsen co-owned Stormy Liberal in the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint, is pondering sending horses to Meydan during the Dubai World Cup Carnival in the future. "We absolutely would consider running horses in the carnival," he concluded. "We have been trying to figure out the logistics of it for a few years now, as in who will go and stay with the horses, which of our horses are the right fit, etc." Stormy Liberal is confirmed as pointing toward this year's Al Quoz Sprint.


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A MUM-OF-FOUR was killed in front of her children when she she was dragged 16metres by a car when she tried to bump start it.
Kerry Ann Bowers, 29, was crushed to death after she and her sister tried to start the faulty people carrier and she became trapped in the runaway vehicle.
Kerry's sister Georgia tried to push the car but its front wheels were just behind a speed hump on the road and could not be pushed over with Kerry in the driver's seat.
So Kerry also got out to push with one hand on the steering wheel as she stood between the open car door and the driver's seat.
An inquest in Truro, Cornwall, heard they pushed the large Ford Galaxy over the speed bump but it quickly gained speed down the road on the Pengegon Estate in Camborne, Cornwall.
Georgia told the hearing that the car picked up speed and Kerry was being dragged along by the car as it mounted a pavement and struck a hedge.
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She said: "Kerry was screaming at me to jump over her and get into the seat."
But by the time she got into the car it had crashed into a thick hedge 15 metres away and trapped Kerry between the door and the car frame.
Georgia said: "She kept saying she couldn't breathe, I said I couldn't do anything and was talking to her before I got the kids out of the car.
"I waved down a car and asked the driver if he could help."
But Kerry, of Connor Downs, Cornwall, died at the scene.
There were no major faults with the car, just an intermittent wiring issue which affected the ignition.
The senior Cornwall coroner Andrew Cox recorded an accidental death conclusion.
He said Kerry was unable to get back into the car which mounted a pavement and ploughed into a thick hedge.
He said: "Hedgerow forced the driver's door shut and Kerry was caught in the gap and the door and was sadly asphyxiated.
"I struggle to recognise that something as innocuous can have such a devastating outcome. I've done this myself on many occasions."
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Why do Saturdays make me sad? I've found that question on my mind a lot since rejoining this family as a coach last summer. I would get home from 10 am doughnut filled practices (also known as 10@8@10) and just feel empty. Today I figured it out. 8 years ago, when I first joined track things were really tough for me. I'd just had a falling out with one best friend and the other had moved to Illinois at the start of the year. I'll never forget when my science teacher asked me to come out for track, I've never asked him what he saw in me but I'm pretty sure what he saw isn't what he ended up finding. Through track I rekindled old friendships and forged new ones. On Saturdays we started meeting at someone's house to play board games, risk and monopoly were the favorites. It was in those games that lasted for hours that I found something I didn't know I needed. I found a family that accepted me with open arms. It didn't matter that as a sophomore I could barely run a 6-minute mile, they took me as I was. That's the gift my family has given to me, brotherhood and belief. The boys on that team made me one of their own, they believed in me even when I failed.
Now, the boys on that team from only 8 years ago are scattered to the winds so to speak. We don't really keep in touch much and we've even lost one of our own far too soon. But I don't look back on those days with a longing for what was. I look back at how blessed I was to receive this gift. My challenge to you is to make this team a family. Introduce yourself to just one person you don't know, you'll be amazed at what this simple gesture can accomplish. Help a teammate with their technique or push them through a tough workout, we accomplish more together than we ever could alone. And finally, remember that your words are powerful, your teammates are listening, you have the power to create and destroy, which will you choose? Saturday's made me sad because I'd forgotten how lucky I was. Now they make me hopeful because I see what we can become and where we are going. And I know that we'll get there together because just like someone believed in me once, I believe in each of you to make it happen.
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On the device manager, is there any device with yellow mark?
Wednesday, May 23, 6: Please read this post below and try the suggestions. I have a zvus and am currently running Win 7 RC 64bit and his Vista 64 bit driver worked with the hack. Proposed as answer by eezynow Friday, March 12, 1: Good luck with 13.
Delete the current qta Can you reinstall your windows, If not it is difficult to workaround this problem.
Wednesday, February 07, 9: I don;t recommend to do that, i suggest you download the legit windows 7 is from the link given.
Compaq presario US, Win 7 gig o' ram. Anonymous November 5, at Excuse my English please. Black Zc97 28, at 8: Millrich Colandog August 22, at Anonymous June 15, at 2: Click on the driver tab. If 2nd method failed, you will have 2 folder which is SP and SP Go to the extraction audik Default: I've copied this part from the device manager: I'm happy it worked. The following are the three devices for which there are no Win 7 bit drivers and show up in Device Manager with the yellow Exclamation Point.
Anonymous November 4, at 6: Drivers x64 audio driver for an HP zd with conexant ac97 Hi, I am new to the forum so please bear with me. Ivo87 Thank you so much.
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Thank you Very Much. You are absolutely brilliant, Ivo87! Even UAA is not able to install I have one other easy idea you can try.
How would I know which to download and where to get it from? Right click on the Audio in device manager the one which you got the hardware ID and select update driver.


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sneezing a bit. Though recovering a bit more each day.
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(Calif.) The LCFF is working.
Gov. Jerry Brown's landmark restructuring of school funding, a redistribution of close to $18 billion in tax money over just 8 years, is helping to improve student performance–at least so far.
That's the headline from a new study of classroom outcomes and district finance that compares students from the same neighborhoods and schools before and after implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula.
In what is perhaps the first research to clearly articulate the impact of the LCFF on student performance, university researchers correlated the program's targeted spending increases with significant and measurable improvement in high school graduation rates, as well as test scores in math and reading.
A broader and perhaps more fundamental finding, however, is the clear relationship between higher per-pupil expenditures and better student achievement—contrary to a large body of other research and the opinions of many policy makers.
Born out of academic theory a decade ago, the LCFF became a political possibility during the nadir of the recession as former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders scrambled to find any and all resources to keep schools open.
Political defense of tens of billions of dollars locked into a long list of categorical programs evaporated as desperation grew and virtually all of that money—or what was left of it—became integrated into the overall education budget.
When Brown took office, still fighting enormous deficits, he was then able to muster support for a new method of support that based state funding on individual district needs.
Beginning in 2013, the LCFF began increasing services to low-income students, English learners and children in foster care. Just as important, the LCFF removed Sacramento's role as arbiter on the use of state money and gave local officials authority to make most spending decisions.
At the time, there were many skeptics. Indeed, some pundits suggested Brown's plan was just another reform strategy that will be eventually discarded for something new.
Johnson's study, one of more than 30 released earlier this month by a research collective supported by Stanford, the University of California and the University of Southern California, suggests otherwise.
What they found was that the LCFF's first $1,000 increase in per-pupil spending on high school students led to a 5.9 percentage point increase in the high school graduation rate.
That same spending on 8th graders through grade 11 resulted in a .19 percent increase in math scores and a .08 percent jump in reading scores.
The study's timeline spans more than 20 years, but the focus is on the years just prior to LCFF implementation and the immediate four years after, 2013 through 2016.
The impacts may even be greater up the road because, since 2016, even more money has flowed into the program generated by the state's robust economy and the booming stock markets.
At the same time, however, Johnson was careful to point out that his work did not attempt to evaluate what districts did with their money nor to isolate best practices. He said those questions still need to be answered.
His study merely looked at school level outcomes before and after LCFF.
The marked improvements, he said, were induced by the LCFF increases in spending.
It is important to point out that this study, unlike many others that have looked at questions surrounding educational resources, was able to align student performance from the same schools over time.
This approach, he said, allowed them to better incorporate the "pre-existing disadvantage" of high needs students and to better mark the impact of a surge in spending.


We are proud to announce that all of the ColdBox sample applications have been updated for the upcoming ColdBox 3.0 release. Sample applications are important as they increase the speed of entry into any development related task.
Give me a good sample and I can adopt it to my needs and be well on my way to learning the concept.
We believe so much in them, that there are over 20 of them covering a number of different techniques and tasks for ColdBox.
Here is a quick run down of the sample applications.
A very simple CRUD and Listing application using Mark Mandel's Transfer Library. This is a great example to learn how to tuse the Transfer Library and the ColdBox Framework.
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November 23, 2016 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:45 am Finance Tagged with: buffers, Dow, Economics, Erdogan, EU, Greece, IMF, Renzi, sea ice, Trump, wealth 2 Responses »
Cyclone, Oklahoma, 1898
• Dow 19,000 Is No Cause For Celebration (MW)
• Global Wealth Update: 0.7% Of Adults Control $116.6 Trillion In Wealth (ZH)
• We Could Be In A 'Lost Decade' Of Global Wealth Growth (CNBC)
• Willing To Oppose Trump, Some Senate Republicans Gain Leverage (R.)
• EU Draft Plan Eyes New Bank Creditor Class To Bear Losses (R.)
• Economists Need To Get Into The Real World, Says BOE's Haldane (Tel.)
• Of Dunces, Fools, Drones and Heroes (Dmitry Orlov)
• Renzi's Party Wants Early Election in Italy If Referendum Lost (BBG)
• Erdogan Says EU Lawmakers' Vote On Turkish Membership 'Has No Value' (R.)
• EU Finance Ministers To Discuss IMF, Greek Debt (Kath.)
• Trump: 'Open Mind' On Quitting Climate Accords (AFP)
• Sea Ice Reaches A New Low (Economist)
Arbitrary numbers.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 19,000 on Tuesday for the first time. How is this news? I'm sure you remember the spell-binding chase for the Dow to break 18,000, or those thrilling days when the Dow crossed 17,000, or hunted for 15,000. If you don't remember those benchmark days – which occurred in December 2014 and July 2014 respectively, the latter being 14 months after the Dow had crossed 15,000 – then you also recognize that Dow 19,000 is equally no big deal, post-election rally notwithstanding. In fact, the Dow itself is no big deal. The Dow is the Kardashian of indexes – a celebrity benchmark, famous because it's known rather than because of what it does.
Every round number on the index hits the news cycle hard, largely because there is so little real news out there. In early November, for example, people were talking about nine straight down days on the S&P 500 – the first nine-day losing streak in 36 years – as if that was somehow meaningful, even though the total decline on the index amounted to just 3.1%. (By comparison, the S&P 500's last nine-day skid – which ended in December 1980 – shaved 9.4% off the index, according to FactSet). Tuesday's headlines included a 13-day winning streak for the Russell 2000, its longest win streak in more than 20 years. The Russell benchmark gained roughly 15% during that stretch – an achievement largely unnoticed because it wasn't the Dow or S&P 500.
Round numbers and little factoids are amusing and interesting, and are obvious fodder for the talking heads. Currently, the talk is whether the post-election rally can continue and if the Dow can roar on to 20,000, or if the quick rebound since the election has pushed us closer to a point of go-no-further. Focusing on the meaning of the Dow passing a landmark, however, misses the bigger point, which is that the Dow is a virtually meaningless benchmark. The Dow is important to people because it's what they know, the staple of every market-oriented website, every radio-station market update, every newspaper's daily business section, and the centerpiece of the 20 seconds of coverage that every national newscast guarantees the investing world each day.
Criminal. And deadly. The ultimate pyramid scheme.
Today Credit Suisse released its latest annual global wealth report, which traditionally lays out what is perhaps the biggest reason for the recent "anti-establishment" revulsion: an unprecedented concentration of wealth among a handful of people, as shown in its infamous global wealth pyramid, an arrangement which as observed by the "shocking" political backlash of the past few months suggests that the lower 'levels' of the pyramid are increasingly unhappy about.
As Credit Suisse tantalizingly shows year after year, the number of people who control just shy of a majority of global net worth, or 45.6% of the roughly $255 trillion in household wealth, is declining progressively relative to the total population of the world, and in 2016 the number of people who are worth more than $1 million was just 33 million, roughly 0.7% of the world's population of adults. On the other end of the pyramid, some 3.5 billion adults had a net worth of less than $10,000, accounting for just about $6 trillion in household wealth. And inbetween is the so-called global middle class – those 1 billion people who rising anger at the status quo made Brexit and Trump possible.
[..] How about the very top? Things here are even more nuanced, with 28.9 million people whose net worth is between $1 and $5 million gradually tapering off to just 140,900 Ultra High Net Worth individuals who control more than $50 million in assets each. Of these, 50,800 are worth at least USD 100 million, and 5,200 have assets above USD 500 million. The total number of UHNW adults is about 3% higher than a year ago (4,100 individuals), and the increase has been relatively uniform across regions, except for the higher than average rise in Asia- Pacific countries (10%)
How about a lost century?
Concerns that we are in a "lost decade" for global wealth growth have been given further credence by the latest "Global Wealth Report" released by the Credit Suisse Research Institute on Tuesday. According to the researchers, "In recent years, there has been a growing sense that the economic recovery is shallow, and has not reached all layers of society. Evidence from our global wealth database supports this view." "While exchange rate movements sometimes obscure trends, wealth per adult and median wealth have grown well below their potential during the last nine years, compounding fears that we are in the midst of a lost decade for global wealth growth," the paper continues.
The 1.4% rise in global wealth over the 12 month period to June 30 has only kept in line with population growth, meaning that for the first time since 2008 the wealth per adult measure has remained flat, according to the research. The paper burrows down into country level data which show that exchange rate fluctuations were the biggest drivers of changes in wealth for different nations over the period. Most notably, the 15% plunge in the British pound driven by Brexit translated to a $1.5 trillion loss for the U.K.. Meanwhile Japan's 19% jump – which added $3.9 trillion to its wealth pile – was exactly aligned with gains in the yen as the Japanese currency bounced back from earlier weakness as its central bank was increasingly seen as running out of tools with which to force its depreciation.
Trump will listen. But these folks must recognize why he won and they did not: they can't command the room like he can.
It is no surprise that Democrats in the U.S. Congress will oppose Donald Trump but the most important resistance to fulfilling the president-elect's agenda is beginning to emerge from Republicans on Capitol Hill. A small number of influential Republicans in the Senate are threatening to block appointments to Trump's administration, derail his thaw with Russia and prevent the planned wall on the border with Mexico. The party held onto control of the Senate at the Nov. 8 election but by only a thin margin, putting powerful swing votes in just a few hands. That empowers Republican Senate mavericks such as Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas. Both were bitter rivals to Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primary.
Paul, a libertarian lone wolf, says he will block Senate confirmations if Trump nominates either former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani or former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to be secretary of state. South Carolina's Lindsay Graham has started publicly outlining places he might be willing to oppose Trump. He is against the Mexican border wall and is delivering warnings against Trump's intention to revoke legal status for undocumented immigrants brought here as children – although that would not require congressional approval. Graham, a traditional Republican foreign policy hawk, strongly disagrees with Trump's attempt to improve ties with Russia. "I am going to be kind of a hard ass" on Russia, Graham told reporters recently. "We can't sit on the sidelines" and let cyber attacks blamed on Russia "go unanswered."
Accounting tricks are supposed to keep zombies alive.
European banks would be able to issue a new category of debt that could be wiped out in a crisis only after shares and bonds, but before more secured instruments, such as covered deposits, under a draft EU law seen by Reuters on Tuesday. The proposal aims at facilitating the building up of capital buffers for banks against losses at time when shares and bonds are losing value, forcing lenders to pay more to build the required cushions. The draft law, to be published by the European Commission on Wednesday, would create a new category of "non-preferred" debt instruments that would be bailed-in -suffer losses- only during a bank resolution, the draft text said.
The document is part of a wider legislative package aimed at reviewing EU rules on capital requirements for banks. Only debt instruments with a maturity of one year, and that are not derivatives, can be included in the new class. Lenders issuing such instruments will have to stress in contracts their ranking, which will be lower than secured debt such as covered deposits, derivatives or tax liabilities. The law is also aimed at creating a uniform ranking of bail-in-able liabilities across EU countries, which have so far applied in divergent ways new bail-in rules in force since the beginning of this year. The bail-in regime is meant to reduce costs to taxpayers in the event of a bank crisis, while increasing losses for the lenders' creditors.
The field is still very slow to wake up, even if more of them raise their -timid- voices.
Economists are too detached from the real world and have failed to learn from the financial crisis, insisting on using mathematical models which do not reflect reality, according to the Bank of England's chief economist Andy Haldane. The public has lost faith in economists since the credit crunch, he said, but the profession has failed to thoroughly re-examine its failings to come up with a new model of operating. Instead, he fears, it is still using the same failed analyses, and is still failing to speak effectively to the public. This applies to an all manner of areas, from studies of the financial meltdown to analysis of the Brexit vote. "The various reports into the economic costs of the UK leaving the EU most likely fell at the same hurdle. They are written, in the main, by the elite for the elite," said Mr Haldane, writing the foreword to a new book, called 'The Econocracy: the perils of leaving economics to the experts'.
The chief economist said that the Great Depression of the 1930s resulted in a major overhaul of economic thinking, led by John Maynard Keynes, who emerged "as the most influential economist of the twentieth century". But the recent financial crisis and slow recovery has not yet prompted this great re-thinking. "Thus far at least, the present crisis has yet to spawn a Keynes for the twenty-first century. And nor have we witnessed any great leap forward analytically. Perhaps it is simply early days," he said. "Salvation for the economics profession probably lies not among existing academic and policymaking dinosaurs, like me, but among the new generation of students of the discipline." For now, economists need to focus on reviewing their models, accepting a diversify of thought rather than one solid orthodoxy, and on communicating more clearly.
A bit hard to convey what Dmitry means in a news overview, you'll have to read the article.
Some time ago I posted three T-shirt designs, with no explanation as to why. "Here are some shirts," I wrote, "reasonably priced, in all styles and colors, free shipping on orders over 100 USD, yadda-yadda." Just as I expected, a few people got it, and a few of those ordered some shirts. The rest had no idea; some even confessed to that in the comments. That was a test. It was a success. Now that all eight of the planned designs are available, I offer the full explanation and rationale behind this, my latest humanitarian intervention/fundraising effort.
In all my travels and conversations, I have proven to myself beyond all doubt that the decision on who to talk to should have nothing to do with race, age, class, gender, ethnicity, nationality, IQ, profession/trade, educational level, criminal record, party affiliation, gang/militia membership, religious persuasion, military training/rank, drinking/drug habits and whatever else you might try to use to categorize people. Categorizing people based on their public attributes just doesn't work. So, in determining who is worth talking to, all we have to go on is gut feeling, first impressions and happy accidents. But is this, I ask you, in any way optimal? No, it is not!
That is why I decided to step in and help. The eight designs may have some artistic merit, but they are not exactly art; in fact, they should be regarded as precision mental calibration instruments. Each design features a simple nautical motif consisting of a circle and the 16 compass points. Around the circle is a tag line. Inside the circle is a fish. The tag line is a pun about the fish. Confused? Read on! Each of the designs is a cognitive test. As you walk around wearing one of these shirts, looking for people worth talking to, you can apply specific methods, explained below, to interpret the way they react to your shirt. You can then make an objective determination as to whether a particular person is worth talking to. The determination is based on that staple of business consultants, Four-Quadrant Analysis.
In this case, the two dimensions being mapped are:
x-axis: Did the person get it? (No | Yes)
y-axis: Did the person laugh? (No | Yes)
Yeah, bring in the old guard. The return of Monti. That'll work miracles.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's party would seek early elections in Italy by the summer of 2017 if he loses a referendum on constitutional reform, according to a senior official. Lorenzo Guerini, deputy-secretary of Renzi's Democratic Party, said in an interview that the group would try to reform the electoral system and then push for a fresh ballot if the "No" campaign wins on Dec. 4. He declined to say whether the premier would stay on to lead that effort or honor his promise to resign after a defeat, but he insisted Renzi would remain leader of the biggest party in parliament. "If there is the political will, we can work over a brief period on a new electoral law, and have elections with a new electoral law soon, by the summer of 2017," Guerini said in his Rome office.
"If there are not the political conditions and the electoral reform is used as an excuse for a weak government surviving, we're not interested." Both the euro and Italian bonds have fallen this month amid concern that a rising populist mood will derail Renzi's plans for reform and put another crack in the European project. The insurgent Five Star Movement is aiming to capitalize on a "No" vote to force Renzi out and wants another referendum, this time on Italy's membership of the euro area. With Five Star just behind the Democratic Party in the polls, part of the Italian establishment is looking to hold off another vote until the current parliamentary term ends in February 2018.
Mario Monti, who headed a technocratic government between 2011 and 2013, said he expected there to be no early ballot whatever happens and said Italy should prioritize stability rather than rushing into another vote. "In case the 'No' were to win, I would expect first of all Mr Renzi to stay on after all," Monti said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg Television's Francine Lacqua. "If he at all costs wanted to leave, I would expect the president of the republic to form a new government with a new prime minister, but very much from the same center-left political spectrum which is now the Renzi majority."
I'm waiting till Putin takes revenge for the Russian jet downed last year. The West is too weak to take on Erdogan.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that a vote by the European Parliament on whether to halt EU membership talks with Ankara "has no value in our eyes" and again accused Europe of siding with terrorist organizations. "We have made clear time and time again that we take care of European values more than many EU countries, but we could not see concrete support from Western friends … None of the promises were kept," he told an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) conference in Istanbul. "There will be a meeting at the European Parliament tomorrow, and they will vote on EU talks with Turkey … whatever the result, this vote has no value in our eyes."
Leading members of the European Parliament on Tuesday called for a halt to EU membership talks with Turkey because of its broad purges in the wake of a failed July coup. More than 125,000 people – including soldiers, academics, judges, journalists and Kurdish leaders – have been detained or dismissed over their alleged backing for the putsch, in what opponents, rights groups and some Western allies say is an attempt to crush all dissent.
Erdogan said on Tuesday the measures had significantly weakened the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whose followers are accused of infiltrating state institutions over several decades and carrying out the coup attempt. Erdogan, and many Turks, were angered by the Western response to the putsch, viewing it as more concerned about the rights of the plotters than the gravity of the events themselves, in which more than 240 people were killed as rogue soldiers commandeered fighter jets and tanks. He has also repeatedly accused Europe of harboring members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has waged a three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state and is deemed a terrorist organization by the EU and United States.
Get so sick of this. More reforms will be called for. Rinse and repeat.
Finance ministers of core European Union countries are expected to meet later this week in Berlin to discuss the possible concessions Brussels could offer to secure the participation of the IMF in Greece's third international bailout, paving the way for debt talks. Government officials suggest that the IMF, which has yet to decide whether to join Greece's third bailout, is to blame for the slow process of talks between Greece and its creditors. In a media briefing on Tuesday, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos acknowledged that the differences between Greece and its creditors remain too great for an agreement on all prior actions to be reached by the December 5 Eurogroup meeting and said that Athens was aiming for a political agreement by that time.
There is enough time until December 5 for agreements to be reached in talks on labor laws, fiscal issues and the overhaul of the Greek energy sector, Tzanakopoulos said, noting that the government has shown the political will necessary to achieve a breakthrough by the deadline. However, he said, this political will does not include "a willingness for new austerity measures and concessions on matters of principle such as labor rights." Elaborating, government sources said authorities will not retract their demands for the restoration of collective labor contracts. If all differences have not been bridged by December 5, Greece's creditors should issue a political decision and make good on their pledge to launch talks on debt relief, Tzanakopoulos said.
Denouncing the CON21 accord is not the worst of things. Because it doesn't achieve a thing.
US President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he has an open mind about pulling out of world climate accords and admitted global warming may be in some way linked to human activity. "I think there is some connectivity. Some, something. It depends on how much," he told a panel of New York Times journalists. Asked whether he would make good on his threat to pull the United States out of UN climate accords, he said: "I'm looking at it very closely. I have an open mind to it." But he said he was also wanted to see how much the Paris climate accord "will cost our companies" and its impact on US competitiveness.
The Republican billionaire businessman has called climate change a "hoax" perpetrated by China and threatened to pull out of the agreement on limiting greenhouse gas emissions. The accord was reached in Paris in December 2015 after negotiations involving 195 countries. The worldwide pact to battle global warming took effect on November 4. The agreement sets a goal of limiting the rise in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial revolution levels. The United States, the second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after China, ratified the accord in early September, with strong backing from President Barack Obama.
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Scientists are interested in sea ice as a marker -and amplifier- of climate change. Its bright surface reflects 80% of the sunlight that hits it back into space. When it melts, the uncovered dark ocean surface absorbs 90% of the sunlight, which heats it up, causing more ice to melt. In recent years, the melting season in the Arctic has been ending later in the year, leading to less time for new ice to form. As a consequence, the total sea-ice extent in September 2016 was over 3m km2. smaller than in September 1980, although not as small as in September 2012, the worst year on record.


Thirteen weeks later, the New York Yankees are finally making headway on trading starter Sonny Gray to the Cincinnati Reds.
It looks as though the Cincinnati Reds are going to be getting a little Son-shine coming their way.
According to Jon Heyman of Fancred, the New York Yankees appear to be finalizing a deal that would send righty Sonny Gray to Cincinnati.
Of course, fans are now gun-shy when sharing reports of potential trades since the Manny Machado debacle of late 2018, but this one could be incredibly accurate, seeing as how Brian Cashman made it clear that Sonny Gray would likely be traded this offseason.
Various teams have been reported to be in the mix towards the end of 2018 but it seems the Yankees might have found a perfect trade partner with a good return for the oft-criticized Gray.
According to Heyman, the Yankees would be looking to bolster their farm system by adding prospect Shed Long and a draft pick. While another piece might be in play here, the speculation remains that Long and a draft pick would be definites.
As the tragic story goes, Gray arrived in the Bronx prior to the trade deadline in 2017 with the hopes of serving as a starter with control for the next two years. Unfortunately, it went downhill fast for the Nashville, TN native.
Gray struggled mightily as a member of the Yankees, going 15-16 and posting a 4.90 ERA in the 2018 season alone. Gray's lackluster performance resulted in him being left off both the Wild Card and postseason roster.
On the Reds' end, Shed Long is ranked currently by MLB Pipeline as the Reds' No. 7 overall prospect. The Yankees would also snag a great draft pick and a second minor leaguer. Earlier reports indicated that catching prospect Tyler Stephenson was a potential target but the Reds are looking to keep him in their system for a while.
Sonny Gray's days in the Bronx were already numbered but it seems like the deal is right around the corner. Wherever Sonny Gray ends up, may the skies be a little less Gray for him.


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Florida's Red Tide Fueled By Sewage
by Gary Chandler | Aug 18, 2018 | Waste Management, Water Management | 2 comments
Wastewater Treatment Plants Dumping Sewage Sludge
Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for seven counties in Southwest Florida over an unusually severe red tide outbreak. Unfortunately, red tide is now another symptom of sewage mismanagement on land. Florida, like most states, now thinks of toxic sewage (biosolids) as fertilizer. The wind and the rain have a way of spreading this toxic waste far and wide.
Red tide, which scientists call a harmful algae bloom, is partly caused by a naturally occurring alga (a plant-like microorganism) called Karenia brevis or K. brevis. When K. brevis appears in large quantities – typically in the Gulf of Mexico – it can turn ocean water red, brown or green. K. brevis is fueled by some of the harmful toxins that it encounters in the ocean, much of which comes from sewage and surface water runoff from cities and rural areas alike. The toxins absorbed by red tide can impact the nervous systems of fish, birds and mammals (including humans).
Ironically, at least one form of agriculture fertilizer also attacks the nervous system—human sewage. Some health advocates believe that water runoff from these farms and dumping sites are fueling the red tide and the rise in neurodegenerative disease around the world.
Red tides are not unusual in the Gulf of Mexico and the western coast of Florida. The strong smell; eye, nose, and throat irritation; and large fish kills related to the event have been documented as far back as the 1840s. Red tides are caused by tiny algae that grow on the surface of the ocean, occasionally giving it a reddish-brown tint. Thus, scientists can use satellite imagery to map the extent of red tides and monitor how they spread over time. Satellites detect changes in the way the sea surface reflects light. These changes can be linked to concentrations of chlorophyll, showing where algae and other ocean plants are concentrated in the ocean.
In his declaration, Gov. Scott's office made two points: The state is supporting communities struggling with the scourge, and in an attempt to defend the agriculture industry he said that the siege of seafaring microorganisms is "naturally occurring." Unfortunately, the problem and the solution aren't that simple.
The declaration will provide money and resources to address a problem that's lingered since October in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas and Sarasota counties.
At 10 months, the current bloom is testing the resilience of communities and the priorities of government. Red tides have lasted as long as 24-months in southwestern Florida since the turn of the century. The frequency and the duration of these deadly tides appears to be rising.
Indeed, scientists and historians note fish kills triggered by the infestations dating back as early as the 1500s. While scientists today acknowledge the natural roots of Florida's red tides, they also are investigating the possibility that persistent blooms, like the one besetting the Gulf Coast this summer, might be getting a "booster shot" from man-made pollutants that spill into the ocean.
Both the coastal red tide and the inland blue-green algae have beset South Florida through the summer, killing vast numbers of fish and other wildlife, including dozens of dolphins, manatees, sea turtles, sharks and eels. Humans also have been sickened by brevetoxins, which are emitted by the tiny organisms — karenia brevis — that create the red tide. Breathing the fallout can constrict the lungs' bronchioles and send asthmatics to emergency rooms with coughs and shortness of breath.
Scott last month declared an emergency because of the blue-green algae bloom that began in giant Lake Okeechobee, before spreading to multiple rivers and canals.
The declaration helped pave the way for assistance, including the deployment of biologists and other scientists from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to rescue wildlife and to clear away the innumerable creatures that could not be saved.
Along with Scott's action comes a $900,000 grant to Lee County, home to Fort Myers and the epicenter of the red tide, to help cope with the cleanup. That brings the total amount granted to the county, where some tourists have cut short their summer vacations, to $1.3 million.
Another $500,000 will go to Visit Florida, so the agency can support local tourism officials in mounting a campaign to try to bring visitors back to the red tide zone — which stretches more than 100 miles from Sarasota nearly to the tip of the state.
"We will continue to deploy all state resources and do everything possible to make sure that Gulf Coast residents are safe and area businesses can recover," Scott said in a statement.
The red tide initially tends to thrive in low-nutrient environments, where it does not have to compete with other organisms. But when the blooms take hold and move closer to shore, they can thrive on nitrogen and other elements that could be fueled by pollution.
One researcher recalled his recent sampling trip along the coast, seeing the pollutants that brought the blue-green algae to the Caloosahatchee River spill into the Gulf just a couple miles from where the red tide exploded, near Fort Myers.
"It seems pretty damned obvious there is a connection," Mitsch said, adding a cautionary note: "But that doesn't mean there actually is one. That is why we are investigating. We have to dig deeper."
Farming fertilizers already are blamed for fueling another Florida plague — the blue-green algae that chokes inland lakes, rivers and canals in the south part of the state, including giant Lake Okeechobee. This farm runoff also includes tons of human sewage, also known as biosolids, which has been pawned off on farmers as fertilizer since the early 1990s. Wastewater treatment plants throughout the east and southeast are paying farmers and other managers of open space, including golf courses, parks and playgrounds, to dump this toxic, infectious waste (biosolids). Florida and other states in the southeast get more than their share. It's killing more than fish.
Such a finding likely would reinvigorate calls for greater regulation of the prime source of the pollutants —agricultural runoff from sugar cane and other farms in South Florida.
Read The Full Story About Florida's red Tide
Donald Klemen	on December 1, 2018 at 7:47 am
Glad we have people researching, but no solutions presented.
Home builder are required to have runoff ponds.
If its farm runoff, it's a lot more water than can be hzndled.
1 Farms must move away from rivers leading to ocean
2 Increase runoff ponds to catch rainwater
The water usually drains quickly in this area.
3 canal for extreme rains goes to Everglades distributed like it was before the large cities formed
4 If copper sulfate really helped, it could be added to the river water if the problem is observed.
5 change EPA rules on home fertilizers to ensure the quickly decompose. Same with weed control .
6 could pump to a reservoir for power gen.
The best breakdown is usually the sun. Spreading the water out when it goes to Everglades may help.
I don't know how much any of these would help, and it sounds like it has been around a long time, but a real list of controls which may reduce it should be proposed by top biologist working with army corps.
Don	on January 5, 2019 at 1:14 pm
How about ship fertilizer to ind, ky inland farms. It sounds like farm runoff needs to be diluted. Mixing clean runoff water from streets, roads with farm runnoff? Pump it to a temp reservoir to provide breakdown time? Inject current sulfate into streams during high periods of detected microbes? Redirect flow to everglades periodically to keep toxic levels low?
Do something. We can simulate weather, our universities can help.


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Jackie Joyner-Kersee Visits Portland for Free Laptop Event
By Christen McCurdy | The Skanner News
Retired Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee visited Portland Monday to talk about closing the city's digital divide – and for 143 Portland families, that divide got smaller.
Self Enhancement, Inc. hosted an event Monday afternoon to promote Comcast's Internet Essentials program, which offers no-contract Internet access to low-income families – along with in-person, printed and online training opportunities to familiarize users with computers – that culminated with 143 families going home with free laptops. None of the families had been notified they'd be leaving with a laptop.
"When you talk about the digital divide, you're bridging that gap and also giving young people and families a level playing field -- and that's what we all want, is a level playing field," Joyner-Kersee told The Skanner.
Internet Essentials customers -- who qualify if they have children who are eligible for free or reduced lunch or if they live in subsidized housing – can also purchase laptops for $150 through Comcast.
Since 2011, when Internet Essentials began, Multnomah County – recognizing that $150 can be a burdensome amount for many families -- has dedicated funding to purchase laptops for eligible households in partnership with Comcast.
County commissioner Loretta Smith said the county works with organizations that serve low-income families, such as Head Start or SEI, to identify families who might benefit from the gift of a laptop and from reduced-cost Internet access, as well as digital literacy training.
Mari Young, a mother of two who spoke with The Skanner in advance of the laptop giveaway, works for a medical equipment company and said she primarily accesses the Internet using her phone, or sometimes borrows her mother's laptop – but connects through the Internet Essentials wi-fi service rather than her phone's data plan.
"A lot of times, [my children] have assignments where they have to research things at home, and we don't have a computer so it's kind of harder to walk to the library or wait around to use a computer," Young told The Skanner.
SEI founder Tony Hopson said most of the families who received laptops Monday were part of the Jefferson High School cluster, with many living in Northeast Portland or East Portland.
According to Rebecca Brown, senior manager of community investments at Comcast, about 18,000 families in Oregon and southwest Washington have used the Internet Essentials program since its inception in 2011. Initially, the program was available only to families with children who qualify for free or reduced lunch. In August, Comcast partnered with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to offer the program to families in HUD-assisted residences, public housing or Section 8 housing – making 30,000 more households eligible for the program.
Comcast subsidizes the cost of the $150 computers, but the $9.95 is a price point it set for qualifying families, who can apply for the program either by visiting Internetessentials.com or calling 1-855-8-INTERNET (1-855-846-8376).
Nicolas Jimenez, senior manager for Internet Essentials, said Comcast works with nonprofits and institutions like libraries all over the country to provide digital literacy training, and the way the program is implemented will vary depending on what individual communities need.
"We work with nonprofits, with libraries to provide in-person digital literacy training. We work with partners all over the country. The way that work is implemented can vary slightly, but it's all about building awareness of the fact that this program exists, providing training and resources so we can get folks to cross over the digital divide," Jiminez said.
"The most important part of this effort to me is things becoming actionable, with the training that's necessary and with the families being connected to something that's going to continue," Hopson said. "We could have three million, we could have ten million folks who've touched a computer. That don't mean that they really know what to do with it and that they're going to follow through and it becomes a part of their life, that the access becomes so real that now they're a better individual with more access to jobs and all kinds of things."
Before she became the spokesperson for Internet Essentials, she said, Joyner-Kersee created a community center in East St. Louis that included a computer lab to help ensure kids would have the ability to have Internet access for homework – and parents for job applications.
"We're in a global economy. When you talk about that digital divide, if young people do not have access to the Internet to do their homework. You're talking about, really, the diminishment of self-esteem and kids dropping out of school because all the homework is on the Internet. Also, when parents are trying to apply for jobs or do applications, a lot of it is dealing with technology," Joyner-Kersee said. She went on to say that watching families receive their new laptops was "like Christmas coming early."
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Retirement can be the perfect opportunity to take a look at your bucket list and possibly make some of those wishes come true. Maybe even invent some new ones that you'd never thought of before. It seems like there's never been a better chance than now, at your retirement, to make it all happen.
You want your money to out-live you, not the other way around, so how do you plan for the unexpected? It may help to know what you're up against.
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One of the primary reasons that people come to us as financial advisers is to find out if, and when, they can retire. And you know something? Often times, just the very thought of retirement can cause worry for people… and this can leave them overwhelmed and under-prepared.
Here's something I've been hearing a lot lately: that people are foolish for putting money in their 401(k) plans. They say that deferring taxes now and paying them at retirement will cost you because your taxes will be substantially higher in retirement. But for many retirees, that is untrue.
If you're concerned that your retirement savings won't last as long as you do, you're not alone. According to a 2016 Northwestern Mutual study, two-thirds of Americans believe there is some chance that they, unfortunately, will outlive their savings.
I've spoken before about the potential benefits of having some tax diversification within your portfolio. There can be a distinct advantage to having both pre-tax accounts, and holding assets in post-tax brokerage accounts which may qualify for special capital gains tax treatment when sold. But maybe the greatest advantage of all could come from post-tax monies invested in Roth IRAs and Roth 401(k)s which can produce tax-free withdrawals and tax free income in retirement. By blending the tax treatment on distributions from different types of retirement accounts, wealthy and even not-so-wealthy retirees and their heirs, could enjoy significant benefits from having a Roth.
To Roth, or not to Roth? That's a question that confronts both financial advisors and their clients alike. Here are three factors that may determine if a Roth IRA might be better for you than a Traditional IRA.
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Little has come of this "absolute prohibition." Since 2016, the Rama government has removed nearly 600 ha from the forest registry to hand them over to commercial companies engaged in hydropower and mining activities. Among the companies profiting from the government's violation of its own moratorium are well known names such as Victoria Invest, the company behind the unsolicited offer for the ring road, and Salillari, the concession holder of the Rruga e Kombit highway and the Tirana Bus Terminal. Both companies were allowed to undertake mining activities in forested areas, despite the moratorium.
Meanwhile, environmental activists continue to report illegal logging activities in many parts of Albania, while the "immediate needs of the inhabitants," as Prime Minister Edi Rama formulated it, cause 3–5 times more trees to be cut than that there are planted, thus continuing steady decline of the natural environment.


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Intel iAPX 86/88, 186/188 User's manual: When the opcode 0FH is encountered, the 8086,88 will execute a POP CS; the 80186,188 will execute an illegal instruction exception.
Branch hints have effect only on NetBurst microarchitecture: A Detailed Look Inside the Intel NetBurst Micro-Architecture of the Intel Pentium 4 Processor: Branch hints are interpreted by the translation engine, and are used to assist branch prediction and trace construction hardware. They are only used at trace build time, and have no effect within already-built traces.
Alternating branch prefix: The microarchitecture of Intel and AMD CPU's, By Agner Fog, Copyright © 1996 - 2006.
Christian Ludloff wrote: While FSTP (D9 /3, mod < 11b), FSTP8 (DF /2, mod = 11b), and FSTP9 (DF /3, mod = 11b) do signal stack underflow, FSTP1 (D9 /3, mod = 11b) does not.
INTEL 80287 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE MANUAL 1987, Processor Control Instructions: The 8087 instructions FENI and FDISI perform no function in the 80287. If these opcodes are detected in an 80286/80287 instruction stream, the 80287 will perform no specific operation and no internal states will be affected.
INTEL 80387 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE MANUAL 1987, 6.1.2 Independent of CPU Addressing Modes: Unlike the 80287, the 80387 is not sensitive to the addressing and memory management of the CPU. The 80387 operates the same regardless of whether the 80386 CPU is operating in real-address mode, in protected mode, or in virtual 8086 mode.
Christian Ludloff wrote: Unlike INT 1 (CDh,01h), INT1 (F1h) doesn't perform the IOPL or DPL check and it can't be redirected via the TSS32.IRB.
Christian Ludloff wrote: While the latest Intel manuals still omit this de-facto standard, the recent x86-64 manuals from AMD document it.
Some processors support reading whole CR0 register, causing a security flaw.
AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 3, System Instruction Reference: If CPUID.80000001H:ECX.4, CR8 can be read and written in legacy mode using a LOCK prefix instead of a REX prefix to specify the additional opcode bit.
Christian Ludloff wrote: For the MOVs from/to CRx/DRx/TRx, mod=00b/01b/10b is aliased to 11b.
AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 3, System Instruction Reference: This instruction is always treated as a register-to-register instruction, regardless of the encoding of the MOD field in the MODR/M byte.
On AMD64 architecture, SYSENTER is valid only in legacy mode.
On AMD64 architecture, SYSEXIT is not valid in long mode.
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architecture Software Developer's Manual Volume 2B: Instruction Set Reference, N-Z: The GETSEC instruction supports multiple leaf functions. Leaf functions are selected by the value in EAX at the time GETSEC is executed. The following leaf functions are available: CAPABILITIES, ENTERACCS, EXITAC, SENTER, SEXIT, PARAMETERS, SMCTRL, WAKEUP. GETSEC instruction operands are specific to selected leaf function.
On AMD64 architecture, only MOVD mnemonic is used.
The destination register operand is zero-extended to 64 bits even if the condition is not satisfied.
AMD64 Architecture Programmers Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose and System Instructions: The reg field in the ModR/M byte is unused.
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M: This instruction can be used with a LOCK prefix …. To simplify the interface to the processor's bus, the destination operand receives a write cycle without regard to the result of the comparison.
AMD64 Architecture Programmers Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose and System Instructions: CMPXCHG always does a read-modify-write on the memory operand.
AMD64 Architecture Programmers Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose and System Instructions: The CMPXCHG8B and CMPXCHG16B instructions always do a read-modify-write on the memory operand.
CMPXCHG16B is invalid on early steppings of AMD64 architecture.
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M: When the BSWAP instruction references a 16-bit register, the result is undefined.
AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose and System Instructions: The result of applying the BSWAP instruction to a 16-bit register is undefined.
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M: This instruction causes a transition from x87 FPU to MMX technology state.
sreg ES CS SS DS FS GS res. res. ES CS SS DS FS GS res. res.
sreg ES CS SS DS FS GS res. res.
References to debug registers DR4 and DR5 cause an undefined opcode (#UD) exception to be generated when CR4.DE[bit 3] (Debugging Extensions) set; when clear, processor aliases references to registers DR4 and DR5 to DR6 and DR7 for compatibility with software written to run on earlier IA-32 processors.