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The 31-year-old Spaniard, who rides for Tinkoff-Saxo, claimed the red jersey he also won in 2008 and 2012 ahead of Chris Froome (Team Sky), with Spain's Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) third.
The stage 21 9.7-kilometre time-trial - completing the three-week, 3,239.9km race - in Santiago de Compostela was won by Spain's Adriano Malori (Movistar) in 11 minutes 12 seconds.
The Vuelta was the race everyone in cycling had predicted the 2014 Tour de France would be, full of excitement with the main protagonists duelling for victory.
Vincenzo Nibali won the Tour after Froome (wrist/hand) and Contador (leg) suffered race-ending fractures.
Both showed remarkable powers of recovery to contest for the red jersey, which Contador took after the 10th stage time-trial to Borja.
Contador won Saturday's 20th stage in Puerto de Ancares, his second stage success of the race, ahead of Froome to all-but confirm a sixth Grand Tour victory, barring sporting catastrophe on the short, final race against the clock.
In the end it was a victory procession for Contador, who has two Tour de France titles and one Giro d'Italia crown and won by one minute 11 seconds.
Contador clocked 12mins 52secs, with Froome 26secs quicker.
The stage was described as El Final del Camino (the End of the Road) and for Briton David Millar (Garmin-Sharp) it was particularly poignant.
The 37-year-old Scot is to retire at the end of this season and the Vuelta was his last major race.
Millar, a drug cheat turned anti-doping campaigner and winner of stages in all three Grand Tours, was 97th on the stage.
Tinkoff-Saxo sporting director Steven De Jongh said on tinkoffsaxo.com: "It's simply as astonishing achievement by Alberto.
"Coming back from an injury like that after declaring himself out a couple of weeks before the Vuelta and not only rides well but takes the win, is just amazing.
"We entered the race hoping that we could get a stage win in the last week of the race but as the race progressed and Alberto felt stronger by the day, we had to change strategy and go for the overall classification.
"So, with two stage wins in the pocket, the combined jersey as well as the overall win, we couldn't be happier."
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment report released today shows that 33,000 jobs were lost in September. In this blog post, I report results from three alternative projections, each of which was calculated using methodology outlined in my past research. However, it is important to note that these methods do not take into account the effects of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which are clearly the dominant factors affecting today’s jobs numbers. Accordingly, I begin with a discussion of their likely effect. Incorporating this effect into the standard weather adjustment yields 74,000 jobs added in September. The bottom line is that it is a weak jobs report, but the weakness is exaggerated by the effect of the hurricanes.
Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, and proceeded to flood the city of Houston—America’s 4th largest city—for the next several days. However, because data for the August establishment survey were largely collected before the storm, Harvey had no material effect on August’s employment numbers, but did affect employment for September. Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida on September 10, which is right around the time of the September establishment survey. Preliminary damage estimates are around $100 billion for Hurricane Harvey and $65 billion for Hurricane Irma, which together puts the damage on par with Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
In my 2015 paper “Weather-Adjusting Economic Data” with Michael Boldin, we experimented with including damage from hurricanes as a weather variable. But working with national data, we found it difficult to estimate the effect with reasonable precision; it seems essential to use data at the state and local levels to estimate the employment effects of hurricanes. Thus, we did not include a hurricane factor in our preferred empirical specification.
The bottom line is that it is a weak jobs report, but the weakness is exaggerated by the effect of the hurricanes.
State and local employment estimates for September will not be available until October 20. We do, however, have state-level data for initial jobless claims, which spiked by about 70,000 in Texas and Florida combined. Initial jobless claims have been a reasonable indicator of employment losses for past hurricanes, although it is important to remember that undocumented immigrants can be included in the establishment survey, but cannot claim unemployment insurance.
Preliminary estimates by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas suggest that Harvey could result in a decline in Texas payrolls of around 40,000 in September, rather an increase of around 30,000 jobs that was otherwise predicted—a 70,000 effect for Texas alone. Employment in Louisiana fell by over 100,000 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in September 2005, which has resulted in about the same damage as hurricanes Harvey and Irma combined. Taking all this into account, a reasonable estimate of the combined effect of hurricanes Harvey and Irma on September’s employment data is roughly –100,000 jobs, which swamps the typical seasonal and weather effects. Adjusting the BLS Official number with this estimated hurricane effect yields an underlying pace of jobs growth of 67,000. But we will get a better read on this when the state-level jobs numbers are released in two weeks.
Two final points about the effects of hurricanes on employment numbers must be made. The first is that hurricanes disrupt the physical technology used to collecting the employment data. As a result, future data revisions may be larger than usual. Second is that employment is be expected to bounce back as the hurricane cleanup process gets underway, and so we should expect a positive bump for October and November’s jobs data.
I return now to discussion of the Alternative Seasonal Adjustment and Seasonal and Weather Adjustment, the latter of which only controls for unusual temperature and snowfall.
To produce the Alternative Seasonal Adjustment, I calculate the month-over-month change in total nonfarm payrolls, seasonally adjusted by the 3×9 filter, for the most recent month, which you can see in table below. The corresponding data as published by the BLS are shown for comparison purposes. According to the Alternative Seasonal Adjustment, the economy lost 45,000 jobs in September, 12,000 more than the official BLS total of 33,000 jobs lost.
In addition to seasonal effects, abnormal weather can also affect month-to-month fluctuations in job growth. In my 2015 paper “Weather-Adjusting Economic Data” with Michael Boldin, we implement a statistical methodology for adjusting employment data for the effects of deviations in weather from seasonal norms. This is distinct from seasonal adjustment, which only controls for the normal variation in weather across the year. We use several indicators of weather, including temperature and snowfall. But, as described above, this adjustment does not include the effects of hurricanes. The Seasonal and Weather Adjustment estimate for September is 26,000 fewer jobs. Adjusting by the hurricane effect estimate brings us to an underlying pace of employment growth of around 74,000 jobs. This suggests a slowdown in the pace of hiring that is however compounded by the hurricane effect in this morning’s data.
"There's still an enormous amount of heat there and there's a lot of unburned areas," he told reporters.
"So although we might be turning a corner, there will be firefighters working on that fire until well into March."
Civil Defence regional chief Roger Ball said Wakefield residents could return home as early as Monday evening but the area was still under a state of emergency.
"Returning residents need to understand and accept that they need to be prepared to evacuate again if conditions change," he said.
He said residents of valleys outside the village, which are much closer to the fire front, would have to remain in emergency accommodation until further notice.
The main fire is believed to have been accidentally started by farm equipment, although there have also been two minor blazes which police said were deliberately lit.
So far one home has been destroyed by the fire and there have been no reported deaths or injuries.
This is, more or less, why the 17th Amendment is the only Amendment of the Constitution that should be repealed. Senators should return to being appointed by state legislatures, not voted on by the people. More important in our demotic age than ever.
The Times article on June 2 reported the vote on an amendment offered by (West Hollywood) Councilman Alan Viterbi and confused the amendment with the main motion. The Viterbi amendment called for the city to send a letter of strong protest to the county indicating extreme displeasure with the resolution of the issue and suggesting that the city would begin exploring how to get rid of the sheriff and all other county contract services unless the county accedes to our demands in the future.
1--I thought the hostile, arrogant tone of the suggested letter would ruin the dialogue that some members of the council had developed with Sheriff Sherman Block. Councilman Stephen Schulte and I had met with Sheriff Block several months ago to develop a strategy to get the Sheriff's Department to make some outreach into the lesbian and gay community to recruit new deputies. The sheriff was receptive to our concerns and I believe we made progress in our meeting. I was concerned that the Viterbi proposal would destroy any progress we had made by creating a hostile, adversarial relationship that would not be conducive to change.
2--I was concerned that Councilman Viterbi's suggested letter would further damage our relationship with the county that already was severely tested by our long stay in Plummer Park. Like it or not, we are dependent on the county for many services and we will continue to be dependent on the county for some time into the future. I saw no reason to engage in a war of words with the county given the fact that the county agreed to abide by our ordinances in letters from the sheriff and the chief executive officer.
3--I also believed that Councilman Viterbi's suggestion that we investigate starting our own police department was unrealistic, financially irresponsible and directly contrary to what was told to the voters less than seven months ago when we formed our city. Almost every major candidate for City Council assured the voters that we would retain the services of the sheriff after incorporation. To suggest that we now want to consider getting rid of the sheriff is contrary to the assurances provided to the voters and I think contrary to the sentiment of the overwhelming majority of residents, including the lesbian and gay community.
4--Finally, considering that the county agreed to provide written assurances that would comply with our antidiscrimination ordinances, I thought the abrasive letter to the county suggested by Councilman Viterbi was pure political grandstanding, something which all of us on the council have engaged in too frequently.
I know that each of us on the council is committed to the struggle for equality and for human and civil rights. I do not know how anyone could suggest otherwise. I am confident that we will be able to work with the county to make the changes we want to make. Real change, however, requires attitudinal changes that do not occur overnight and do not develop from hostility. I am confident that through meaningful dialogue we will achieve our goal of equality.
Magician John Pyka Launches The "Show On The Go!"
Nashville Corporate Magician Launches the "Show On The Go" at a deep discount for Nashville based businesses and groups for the Summer season!
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - May 31, 2016 - PRLog -- Local favorite magician and variety artist John Pyka is making an incredible offer to Nashville area businesses and organizations to help promote a green lifestyle. For the summer months of June through August, John is offering his popular Show On The Go at a deeply discounted rate of only $500, with ½ of the fee being donated to Green Energy initiatives and education!
"I normally charge $1500 for the show I am offering" says John, "but to create awareness and support for living and working green, I am slashing my rates during the summer months."
Of course, the $500 rate comes with some conditions. To promote a green lifestyle, the venue or event location must be along the Metro Transit Authority (MTA) bus route or accessible by bicycle. Also this rate is only valid for events on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday in the Metro Nashville area as John travels outside of the area on most weekends. Additionally, John will share his experiences and tips for adopting a green transportation lifestyle.
"My goal is to show others what is possible" adds John. "I want to show others that you can live green and without sacrificing quality of life or business. For that matter, I want everyone to know that going green is not nearly as difficult as they believe."
John Pyka started his green transportation initiative nearly 4 years ago, when his vehicle gave up the ghost for good. Being a cash only consumer, John began saving to purchase a new vehicle and to do so began riding the MTA bus and bicycling around Nashville. 4 years later, he has purchased two new vehicles (with cash), but has decided to continue to commute by bus and bike because he has lost approximately 100 pounds and dropped 5 pant sizes. John says "It turns out that I love commuting this way, and I've improved my health and gotten in much better shape!"
To take advantage of the Show On The Go Summer Special, contact John directly at 615-854-5459. For more information about John Pyka visit www.johnpyka.com.
In 1995 John Pyka left an 11 year career the entertainment industry where he had set himself apart as an entertainer with his patented fusion of magic, music, and larger than life characters!
Over the next several years he built a successful career in sales and marketing having led national and international sales teams in several industries including record labels, nation charities, an employee benefits.
In 2000 John returned to the entertainment world as the producer and director of entertainment for theatrical venues and corporate clients: Shell Oil, Chrysler, Mercedes Benz, as well as schools and civic groups around the southeast!
John is the author of 4 books on magic and including the best seller Theatrical Magic, and the pulp adventure novel Tales From The Flip-Side! All of John's books are available in print and e-book editions at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever books are sold.
Nashville Magician Offers Show On The Go to promote Nashville Transit Plans!
Everybody knows our girl Gloria Velez as a model, and the original video vixen, but she does multiple things. She raps, hosts parties across the nation … and now, does radio?
Yes, Gloria is now on the radio every Friday in Orlando on 102Jamz, alongside host Ricky Padilla. Here’s Glo showing up for her first day of work, bullsh**tin’ before getting it in on the air.
Glo and Ricky are on every Friday from 8 -10 p.m. on 102Jamz. For more info, visit 102JamzOrlando.com, or follow her on Twitter @GloriaVelez.
Thomas, a Sporting Kansas City midfielder who played with Matt Besler at Notre Dame before spending two seasons playing professionally in Sweden, went 84 minutes before giving way to C.J. Sapong, who returned from a three-game league absence.
The game also marked the first MLS start for Neven Markovic, a Serbian defender the club signed last month. His only other appearances came during friendlies with Montpellier Herault SC and Stoke City FC.
Markovic started at left back for Seth Sinovic, who sprained his ankle in the 100th minute Wednesday against the Seattle Sounders FC.
Midfielder Oriol Rosell, 20, who was signed from Barcelona’s youth ranks, made the game-day roster for the first time and earned his MLS debut in the 93rd minute.
• Finally, Sporting KC won with style again as it always does with centerback (and French fashion icon) Aurelien Collin in the lineup.
Collin, 26, missed nearly three weeks after suffering two broken bones in his face July 25 during the MLS All-Star Game.
“I missed it so much, the fans and my team,” Collin said.
He started the game with a protective mask, but he shed it barely 10 minutes into the game.
Collin almost netted a goal in his return as well, but couldn’t connect on a couple first-half headers — sans mask — and also whiffed on a sitter in the 84th minute.
• The spoils from winning the 99th Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final made the rounds Saturday at Livestrong Sporting Park.
Before the game, tailgating fans were graced with the Cup’s presence and filled Twitter and other social media websites with pictures of Sporting KC fans embracing the trophy.
During the game, the U.S. Open Cup trophy was in the Field Club, but plans call for it to be moved to different spots for different games to give fans a chance to see it.
• It was two years ago Monday – Aug. 13, 2010 – that Sporting KC signed Omar Bravo as the second Designated Player in club history. Bravo wouldn’t play for the club until 2011, when he tied for the team lead with nine goals in helping Sporting KC claim the Eastern Conference regular-season title.
Bravo returned to his native Mexico in the offseason.
Your son has told you what you need to do: back off. He’s intelligent, capable and, like all too many of his peers, has figured out how to make adequate grades with minimal effort. You can take away privileges if his achievement falls below a certain level, but that’s not going to work unless you back off, and I mean completely. Stop checking the school website; stop checking behind him; stop nagging. Leave him to his own devices.
You’re not describing a child who’s going to crash and burn, drop out of school and wind up homeless or in prison. My experience leads me to predict that when you back off, his school achievement will slowly improve – “slowly” being the operative word. You’re probably going to have to accept that he’s going to continue underachieving (while still making decent grades) until he finds coursework that presents him with a rewarding challenge.
In the meantime, your relationship with him will greatly improve. Can you accept a less-than-perfect outcome?
It’s time to get back into the precious metals market. Look at the current headlines of late: Greek default hovering overhead, mystery glitch closes NYSE, Airline company ceases all flights due to computer problems, Chinese stock market crashes 28%, and the U.S. mint just ran out of silver.
So, as we all reel from the salvo of body blows leaping off the TV screen we have to punch the pause button just to catch our breath. In the interim as we hold the button down we all should ponder just where the true financial safe haven is today in this current deluge of overwhelming news. You can’t go to the European Union without risk, Switzerland has shut the door and North America has all but regulated it business to flee to Asia--and yet the Chinese market has been in freefall the last week. So, where do you go with your money?
Right now, I argue it’s gold, and what we need to understand is what a real value it is at these levels and why precious metals create the safe haven mentality as a global currency. Now granted, you could argue the mainline alternatives such as having a lot of cash is a safe place to be. Buying bonds has always been good, and they burn very well also so you have the same options open just like with cash.
Yup, you guessed the next one, that also holds for stock certificates but the only problem is it's an all electronic issue now so you can’t even cook with them. Real estate is good bet except the second the state you reside in goes broke they jack the property taxes up to astronomical heights. No matter how much the local administration has poorly managed things, nothing seems to happen to them--you and I will have our land confiscated if we fall behind on our taxes.
So this leaves us with the precious metals market and the simple fact that gold has always held a value going back to the rulers of ancient Egypt. When you think about it, the stone masons working on the pyramids of Egypt were paid in garlic, onions and gold. So, I like the track record of gold. Going back 4,000 years is a long time to hold a value for anything.
Now let’s take look at what you get when you buy into metals for the long term starting at these levels in history. The current knock on the metals market is they have been in a down trend for the past few years. Silver is at $15 dollars down from $55 and gold at $1,155 down from $1,850 which makes for a gloomy picture as well--unless you look at the larger picture. We are getting very close to the overall production cost of refined precious metals. What this means is you’re very close to being able to purchase a tangible asset at cost. Why is this such an opportunity to an investor?
Peter Thomas is a senior vice president at the Zaner Precious Metal Division. As a licensed floor broker he was a filling broker in the silver pit back in the days when silver ran to $55 an ounce. He currently manages a global cash desk which handles Refiners, Recyclers, Mining Operations and Coin & Bullion companies. He is constantly in demand for his insightful opinions drawn from his 35 years of metals trade to such news companies and magazines publishers as Bloomberg News, The Guardian, Hard Assets, Kitco and Futures magazine. Reach him at @Goldbug111, (312) 277-0140 or pthomas@zaner.com.
The 40-millimeter gun is capable of taking on anything from drones to tanks, at least in theory.
A new, rapid fire light cannon could find its way onto U.S. Army armored vehicles. The BAE Systems 40-millimeter cannon system is proposed as one way to give increased firepower to existing vehicles, giving them the ability to engage threats big and small. The cannon is considerably more lethal than the chain guns and heavy machine guns it is meant to replace.
The new cannon system is designed to fit on armored vehicles such as the M2 Bradley, Stryker combat vehicle, and any future vehicle that arises from the U.S. Army’s new Next Generation Combat System program. Currently, the 1980s-era Bradley has a 25-millimeter chain gun, effective against infantry and light armored vehicles, while the Stryker has a M2 .50 caliber machine gun. The M2 is effective against the flanks of light armored vehicles and infantry, but cannot penetrate a light armored vehicle’s frontal armor.
Russia’s aggressiveness in the Baltics, Syria and the Crimea spurred the U.S. Army to think about whether its armored vehicles can still take on their Russian counterparts. In 1985, the M2 Bradley’s M252 chain gun could shred a Soviet BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle. Now, 33 years later, the U.S. Army is still fielding the same Bradleys with the same weaponry but the Russian Ground Forces are adopting a slew of new vehicles, including the T-15 Armata heavy infantry fighting vehicle, Kurganets-25 infantry fighting vehicle, and Bumerang wheeled armored personnel carrier.
The introduction of new Russian combat vehicles was considered serious enough that the Army started a crash program to upgrade Strykers based in Europe with a heavier gun. After a two year development period, the Army is upgrading half of the Second Cavalry Regiment’s Strykers to the new Dragoon standard, which ditches the machine gun and replaces it with a potent, rapid-fire 30-millimeter cannon. Meanwhile, is the Bradley’s 25-millimeter gun still effective against the frontal armor of Russia’s new combat vehicles? Nobody knows, but one thing for sure is Russian designers have had three decades to devise armor tough enough to defeat it.
Stryker Dragoon with new 30-millimeter cannon.
BAE claims that the new gun offers up to four times the power of 30-millimeter guns and penetrates five and a half inches of rolled homogeneous armor, a standard for measuring steel armor, at nine-tenths of a mile. It can penetrate more than eight inches of concrete at the same distance. It features armor piercing rounds for engaging light enemy vehicles, a point detonating round for buildings and other stationary targets, and an airburst round for attacking enemy infantry in trenches and behind cover, helicopters, drones, and other aircraft, and for disrupting the optics and exposed sensors on main battle tanks.
The new round also uses so-called “case telescoping” technology. Unlike traditional bullets and cannon shells that have the projectile sticking out of a metallic casing filled with propellant, the new 40-millimeter round is fully enclosed in the casing, surrounded by propellant. The result is a smaller, more compact shell that can be stored in greater numbers than older type shells.
The U.S. Army’s Next Generation Combat Vehicle program is supposed to result in a vehicle to replace the M2 Bradley by the mid-2020s, with meaningful numbers of the new vehicle available in the 2030s. Eleven years is a long time to wait, and the Army may consider building new turrets with the new 40-millimeter gun for Strykers and Bradleys in the interim.
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Congress has voted in favour of including parkour as an official new discipline.
FIG representatives gathered in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku ratified the statutes valid from January 1 this year following the FIG Executive Committee’s decision.
The vote came despite a concerted campaign from parkour communities around the world to persuade participating National Gymnastics Federations to vote against the inclusion.
It has also been officially confirmed that Congress accepted the creation of the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation, a new body charged with implementing FIG policy on the safeguarding and protecting of athletes.
Operational rules and a constitution for the Foundation were also agreed, along with investment policy – with the first investment sum being CHF 2 million (£1.6 million/$2 million/€1.8 million).
According to a FIG release,the General Assembly "took a number of important decisions which reflect President Morinari Watanabe's vision in the fields of governance, integrity and innovation."
The release continued:"It was in spring 2017 that this innovative, urban sport was brought under the aegis of the FIG, which organised two World Cups as test events in the same year in Montpellier, France and Chengdu, China, and the first Parkour World Cup Series earlier this year in Hiroshima, Japan and Montpellier."
Both of these cities will hold World Cup events again next year. In addition, another World Cup competition will be held in Chengdu.
The first ever Parkour World Championships are scheduled to take place between May and July 2020.
The Foundation will be established by January 1 next year and organised in three sections.
There will be a safeguarding section with a helpdesk for all participants in gymnastics, a disciplinary section with a disciplinary commission and appeal tribunal, and finally a compliance section that will monitor good governance and ethical principles.
The Congress also agreed to strengthen the FIG's governance in the field of gender equality and ratified a number of changes related to the statutes.