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The Syrian government blamed a rebel attack Monday for a blackout that hit much of the country's south overnight.
The entire capital of Damascus lost power, the first time the entire city has been in the dark since the Syrian conflict began.
The blackout hit residents especially hard because of rampant fuel shortages and the winter cold that pushed temperatures below freezing overnight.
"We covered ourselves from the cold in blankets because there was no diesel or electricity for the heaters," retired teacher Mariam Ghassan, 60, said. "We changed our whole lives to get organized for power cuts, but now we have no idea when the power will come or go."
Government forces still control Damascus. They say half of the city's power has been restored.
Surrounding areas controlled by rebels haven't had power in months because of frequent air strikes.


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The City of Annapolis is considering buying the 10-acre site at 2000 Capital Drive, the former headquarters of Capital Gazette Communications and The Capital newspaper.
City staff and elected officials recently toured the vacant facility, said City Manager Tom Andrews.
The building, Andrews said, could provide offices for city staff now working outside City Hall, including the Department of Public Works, which operates out of buildings on Spa Road.
KLNB, the real estate broker in charge of the site, lists the Capital Drive building at $5 million. State tax records assess the property at $8.3 million.
For fiscal 2015, Annapolis allocated about $4.4 million for construction at the condemned public works building at 937 Spa Road. Andrews said Annapolis could instead use that money toward buying the Capital Drive building.
"It mainly has to do whether we spend money on Spa Road to improve public works facilities out there," Andrews said.
Craig Morrell, a broker for KLNB, said the former Capital headquarters has attracted interest from other potential buyers. The 80,000-square-foot structure contains almost 30,000 square feet of office space. It is zoned for light industrial use and has 203 parking spaces, according to a flier advertising the property.
The Capital newspaper moved to 2000 Capital Drive, near the intersection of West Street and Solomons Island Road, in 1987. Presses at the facility were capable of producing up to 30,000 newspapers an hour and handling approximately 25 tons of newsprint a day.
The newspaper ceased printing in Annapolis in 2009, moving production to Comprint in Prince George's County. Morrell said the printing press will be removed from the facility.
Newspaper staff moved out of the building in September after the paper was purchased by the Baltimore Sun Media Group from former owner Landmark Media Enterprises. The building was not included in the May sale.
Baltimore Sun Media Group is owned by parent company Tribune Publishing. Tribune publishes the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and eight other daily newspapers. The company was spun off from Tribune Media in August.
Members of The Capital staff relocated to 888 Bestgate Road in September. The newspaper's former headquarters is owned by West Capital Associates LLC, a subsidiary of Landmark Media.
"You don't see these type of properties become available in Annapolis very often," Morrell said.
House of Delegates Speaker Michael E. Busch, D-Annapolis, said he does not want the city rebuilding the Public Works structure on Spa Road. Busch believes the land would be better used for homes.
The city government's lease on its offices at 145 Gorman St. will expire in July 2016. The city signed a 10-year lease for 55 offices in the building in 2006. It has until summer, Andrews said, to decide whether to renew.
Alderwoman Sheila Finlayson, D-Ward 4, who toured the former Capital building, said the site could benefit the city.
"What we've been told is that there are considerable cost savings if we moved out of Gorman Street and moved out of Spa Road," Finlayson said.
Andrews said he didn't know the cost of the city's lease at 145 Gorman St.

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S&P assigns AA rating to Qatar sukuk
Dubai, July 9, 2012
Standard & Poor's (S&P) Ratings Services has assigned 'AA' issue credit ratings to the proposed US dollar Sukuk Trust Certificates to be issued by state-owned SoQ Sukuk A QSC, a special purpose vehicle (SPV).
“We believe the reason behind the transaction is to raise funds in accordance with Islamic principles. The issuance of sukuk shall be made via the Shariah principle of ijara (leasing). The assets underlying the lease will be state-owned buildings and land in Qatar. Under the transaction, the state will sell a pool of property assets to SoQ Sukuk A,” S&P said in a statement.
“SoQ Sukuk A will enter into a trust arrangement under which it will hold the assets as trustee for the certificate holders. The state is to act as servicing agent to maintain the assets. SoQ Sukuk A will lease back the assets to the state, which will make regular rental payments to SoQ Sukuk A.
“These will be the basis for periodic distribution payments payable on the trust certificates. The rental payment obligation ranks pari passu with other unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the state,” the statement said.
On maturity (dissolution of the trust), SoQ Sukuk B QSC, a second SPV wholly owned by the state and registered in Qatar, will purchase the lease assets from SoQ Sukuk A at the relevant exercise price, as specified in the purchase undertaking, S& P explained in the statement.
The purchase price in connection with this sale funds the dissolution amount that is payable to the certificate holders. The state guarantees the obligations of SoQ Sukuk B under the purchase undertaking in a timely, irrevocable, and unconditional manner.
“In our view, the two key rating factors underpinning the rating on the sukuk are the rental payments to be made by Qatar, which ensure payment of the periodic distribution amounts, and Qatar's guarantee on SoQ Sukuk B's obligations, which ensures payment of the dissolution amount to certificate holders,” the statement said.
“The rating on the sukuk is equalized with our rating on the senior unsecured debt of Qatar. Standard & Poor's considers that Qatar has a strong incentive to consider the performance of the trust certificates to be as important as its conventional debt, because the rationale for the transaction is to raise funds in accordance with Islamic principles, rather than to separate the state's own obligations from those of the issuer, SoQ Sukuk A.” – Reuters


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mongrel is available under the gem path but the line
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State of the Digital Region 2016
“State of the Digital Region 2016” report, published by Top of Digital Europe, a joint initiative of BDF and Microsoft, presents an overview of how Baltic and Nordic countries have been performing within the digital economy.
This second annual edition of the report re-affirms that the countries in the region are frontrunners in many aspects of the digital economy. But it also confirms that the countries need to step up if the region is to stay in the lead as a global ICT hub.
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Startup Call Invites New Businesses to Turku

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Nestle India just launched new flavours and varieties of Maggi that will take your world by storm.
The 20-day fest will showcase the famous Taedonggang beer along with other brands.
The Michelin-starred restaurant's wine list is wide ranging, interesting, and award-winning.
Easily available at confectioneries across India, these rakhis are bound to make your brother-sister bond sweeter and trendier.
All this father needs is just two slices of bread to create edible art.
Innovative kulchas and buns are nothing new, but these new avatars will fill your palate with flavours and awe.
The Indian chef just won the popular American reality show which pits professional chefs against each other.
Bijlani made a beeline for Aminabad's kebab treasure while he was there to promote Jhalak Dikhla Jaa, Season 9.
Kiran and Sarah met and fell in love over the goodies at Krispy Kreme, and the cafe is now a part of their wedding.
From Madhur Jaffrey to Manish Mehrotra, Living Foodz honours the game changers in the Indian food industry
The Powerlist Awards ceremony was held at the Roseate House, New Delhi last weekend, and the winners were as impressive as the event itself.
Too Good To Go connects users with restaurants that have excess food to sell at lower rates, to minimize food waste.
If you're in the Brazilian city for the Olympics, you just shouldn't miss out on these delicious food items.

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Windsor West MP Brian Masse is holding his first family skate next week at Charles Clark Square.
Neighbourhood Watch Windsor is slowly building itself back to the levels it enjoyed decades ago.
About 20 local high school students aspiring to a career in medicine got a look under the hood of life at Windsor’s Western University Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry campus Tuesday night.
A home with historic curb appeal won’t be getting a new driveway thanks to the damage it could do to a tree and the precedent it would set in allowing a home to have two ingresses, city council decided Monday night.
This year’s Georgie-Odette Leadership Symposium will have a definite Windsor flair. Among the keynote speakers at the Odette School of Business event will be CBC Radio host of The Current, Anna Maria Tremonti, a Windsor native.
On a snowy winter’s night in Windsor Thursday, a high school for a poverty-stricken town in Ethiopia began to take shape.
Windsor renewable energy company Unconquered Sun has been bought by Sarnia-based utility Bluewater Power Corporation.
Tofu in Tahiti? How about a burger in Berlin?
City snow crews were busy preparing Wednesday night for the arrival of a potentially messy winter weather system on Thursday morning.
While rumours of a snap election are floating around Ottawa, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau will be making a trip to Windsor for a rally and fundraiser next week.

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You might have heard the term WBC count or, normal white blood cell count casually used in conversations every day. But, do you really know what it means? A WBC or white blood cell count is a medical test that measures the number of white blood cells in your body. Usually, it is a part of a complete blood count (CBC).
There are a variety of white blood cells in your body and bloodstream. And, each is present in a fixed percentage. However, at times, your WBC count can fall or rise out of the normal range. And, that can be a major cause for concern.
Having a lower or higher WBC count may indicate an underlying condition. It can detect hidden infections within your body and even serious autoimmune conditions, blood disorders, immune deficiencies, etc. A WBC count can also help in judging the effectiveness of chemo or radiation therapy in people diagnosed with cancer.
In this article, we have covered everything you need to know about a normal WBC count or normal white blood cell count. Read on!
Types of WBC count
WBC’s, medically known as leukocytes, are an essential part of the body’s immune response system. White blood cells help to protect the immune system by fighting infections caused by bacteria, germs, and viruses that invade the body.
White blood cells can be found in the bone marrow but they circulate throughout the body’s bloodstream. There are five primary types of white blood cells found in the bloodstream:
Now that we’ve understood the basic structure of a normal WBC count or normal white blood cell count, let us look at what constitutes a normal WBC count.
Normal WBC count
Newborn babies are said to be born with a much higher than normal WBC count. However, it eventually evens out as they grow and become older. According to reports published by the University of Rochester Medical Centre (UMRC), the normal ranges of WBCs per microliter of blood are:
- Infants: 9,000 to 30,000 per mcL of blood
- Children under two: 6,200 to 17000 per mcL of blood
- Children over two and adults: 5000 to 10,000 per mcL of blood
According to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), the normal percentages of the types of WBCs in an overall count are usually in the following ranges:
- Neutrophil: 55 to 73 percent of overall WBC count
- Lymphocyte: 20 to 40 percent of overall WBC count
- Monocyte: 2 to 8 percent of overall WBC count
- Eosinophil: 1 to 4 percent of overall WBC count
- Basophil: 0.5 to 1 percent of overall WBC count
As we said, higher or lower (abnormal) numbers of WBCs can be an indicator of any underlying medical condition.
Symptoms of an abnormal WBC count
When your normal WBC count drops or rises, your body sends you signals through physical symptoms. The symptoms of a low white blood cell count include:
- Body aches
However, it is always advisable to go to a doctor and get a CBC count test done.
Also, read Post Covid Syndrome : Know Its Symptoms
Complications of a CBC count test
A CBC count is a simple procedure where the lab technician just draws out blood from your body. It is as easy as an ordinary blood test and there are rarely any complications. However, it can be challenging to draw blood from people with small veins. The lab technician may face difficulty in locating a vein. Or once the needle is in, they might have to move it around to draw blood. This can cause pain and discomfort.
Some of the complications (even though, rare) include:
- Infection at the needle site
- Bleeding underneath the skin or hematoma
- Excessive bleeding
- Fainting, dizziness, or lightheadedness
Also, read 6 Coronavirus Myths Disguised As Facts!
How can you prepare for a CBC count test?
As we said, a WBC count test is just like any other blood test and doesn’t need any specific preparations or precautionary measures. You need to fix an appointment at your local laboratory.
Certain medications can interfere with your lab results and cause abnormal results. The drugs that have the potential to affect your results are:
- chemotherapy medication
When you fix the appointment, let the person know about the medications and drugs you take on an everyday basis. The technician will be able to guide and help you out.
The results of a WBC count test
Test results for WBC count are determined by the numbers that are higher or lower than the normal range as per your age.
A low or high WBC count can point to a blood disorder or similar medical conditions. However, you shouldn’t try to diagnose yourself by evaluating the test results. Consult a medical professional with proper knowledge. Your doctor will take into account several factors like your age, medical history, symptoms, current medications, etc. before diagnosing your condition.
The medical term for a low white blood cell count is known as leukopenia. It can be triggered by the following:
- severe infections
- liver and spleen diseases
- radiation therapy
- some medications, such as antibiotics
- autoimmune disorders
- bone marrow disorders or damage
Whereas, the medical term used to denote a high WBC count is leukocytosis. It can be triggered by conditions like:
- infections such as tuberculosis
- tumors in the bone marrow
- inflammatory conditions, such as arthritis and bowel disease
- tissue damage
- some medications, such as corticosteroids
After evaluating your test results and diagnosing your condition, your doctor will devise a treatment plan for you. Months into your treatment plan, you will have to get another CBC count test done. If your WBC count resumes to normal, then the treatment plan is working. And, if it doesn’t then your condition has probably worsened.
However, don’t stress yourself. Having a low or high white blood cell count is more common than you think. And where there is a condition, there is a cure! Just trust your doctor and you will be good to go.


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- Queer representation in cinema and literature gets critiqued at this Delhi film festival
While Delhi hosts many film festivals throughout the year, this Saturday was special for members of the LGBTQI community as a film festival to talk about their stories was organised in the city. From film screenings to a panel discussion, the fest brought many community-related topics to the forefront. Attended by members from different NGOs and activists, the fest also saw equal representation from writers, budding film directors and allies.


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In MA-URI, we search for answers to existential questions like: Who are you?
To truly and fully navigate your life, you must know yourself!
Mama MA-URI invites you to explore many layers of meaning in the answer: I am a woman!
We explore ourselves through the Wisdom of our Womb.
We dance the Sacred Dance of Woman – and in that Dance we connect to the core of our femininity.
We raise our consciousness of what our foremothers went through – what made them weak and what made them strong.
We empower ourselves by knowing what we have inherited, what is still useful and worth passing on, and what to let go of. And we let go with love………
We bring to our awareness our built-in cyclic nature that for far too long have been ignored, neglected, disrespected and even forgotten in our modern societies. It is time to honor and respect……..
What makes us different from our men is first and foremost our ability to
– conceive, embrace and support new life within our womb
– to give birth
– to nurture the baby with our milk and facilitate its independence
These physical abilities are strongly connected to the cyclic nature. With them follows a depth of emotional and spiritual qualities and skills that are subtle and fragile – yet stronger than anything else in this World.
In Mama MA-URI, we honor and we celebrate who we are as women!
Through Rhythm, through Awareness and through Connectedness we focus on empowerment, healing and facilitating Love and Creativity.
Our inspiration is Mother Earth, the Moon, the Stars, the Waters of the Earth and the Heavens and our Ancestors.
Our trail is MA-URI.
Our aim is to balance masculine and feminine energies and make a difference for the generations to come.
Tehei mauri ora! Let there be life!

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Smartphones and other technological advances enable banks to create products and services that dramatically change the way you bank. Here is a primer on three of the biggest banking trends and tips to protect your money:
- The traditional bank branch is going away. A recent report from consultants McKinsey & Company claims an average of three bank branches are closing every day. Many of the branches that remain open are either closing their lobby or drive-through lanes. Branches don’t appear to be going away completely, however, as 80 percent of Americans still prefer human interaction, according to the same McKinsey & Company report. What is likely to change is the manner in which the banker and customer interact. Banking agents roaming branches with tablets (rather than meeting customers at a desk) and teller-less, video-operated bank pods are on the horizon.Tip: When choosing a bank, understand how it wishes to do business with you. Some will install financial barriers if you want to have a traditional banking relationship. This includes charging you for making deposits, refusing to accept mail deposits, refusing to take coins, charging fees for check writing and other hidden fees.
- Mobile wallets are replacing physical wallets. Mobile wallets like PayPal, Apple Pay and Zelle give users a convenient way to pay online, pay friends directly and even make payments in stores. According to Apple Pay VP Jennifer Bailey, Apple Pay is accepted at 50 percent of all retail stores. Each mobile wallet operates a little differently, but the goal is to get users to ditch traditional payment methods and get them on their platform. For the most part, all you need is a bank account and the provider’s mobile app and you can start making payments. In addition to convenience, the idea is that new encryption and biometric technologies (like fingerprints and face recognition) give more protection than traditional credit card transactions.Tip: If you are looking to use a mobile wallet, compare the services to see which one would work best for you. Pay special attention to any consumer complaints and problems others are having with your service of interest.
Even with so many changes and countless options available to you, the point remains that it’s your money and you control where to put it. Do the research, talk to friends about banks they use, and ask questions before deciding who to trust with your money.


How to Dual Boot Linux next to Windows 10
Windows is not the most friendly Operating System for developers, and Macs are expensive. If you’ve ever wanted to have multiple operating systems on your computer (Maybe Linux and Windows?), then Dual Booting is one way to accomplish this goal.
What is Dual Booting, and When Should I Dual Boot vs Virtual Machines?
Dual Booting is cutting your Disk space into TWO or more partitions/chunks, and installing multiple operating systems side-by-side on the same computer using one at a time, while a “Virtual Machine” is running an operating system within an operating system; You’re using both at the same time.
The main benefit of Dual Booting is you get ALL of the systems resources to use on each system. If your computer isn’t that fast it may be unpleasant using a VM. If you’re a hard-core gamer and want your games to be as fast as possible, but still want to use Linux for coding, then Dual-Booting may be a good option.
Or if you’re still transitioning from a Windows to a Linux environment and aren’t ready to take the full plunge, then maybe Dual-Booting is a good option.
If you have 8 Gigs or more of RAM, then you might be better off running a Virtual Machine.
Whatever your reasons, if you want to Dual Boot Windows and Linux on the same computer, here’s how to do it!
Note: It can help to understand the different terms used in the Boot Process. Here’s an article on Swap Space, File Systems, Bootloaders, UEFI/GPT vs BIOS/MBR, etc…
Step 1. Download a Linux Distro
I’ll use Ubuntu because it’s beginner friendly. Download Ubuntu Here
Step 2. Prepare Flash Drive
Note: You can dual boot with a CD/DVD, but I’ll be using a USB Flash drive.
In this step, we’re taking the ISO image we downloaded, (the Linux distro) and putting it on the flash drive in a way that we can boot into Linux from the flash drive when we start the computer.
The Ubuntu Website shows you how to prepare a flash drive but We’ll do it together here as well.
Insert the flash drive into your computer.
Run the Rufus program, and one of the boxes (second box for me) will say something about the “Partition Scheme” and “Target system type”. Select “MBR partition scheme for BIOS or UEFI” if your computer is BIOS/MBR. If your computer is a 2015 or newer, it probably uses GPT/UEFI and you’ll want to select “GPT partition scheme for UEFI”. If Ubuntu fails to install, then try one of the other options, but I don’t think this part really matters.
Towards the bottom, there should be a box that says “create a bootable disk using… ISO image or DD image. Make sure “ISO image” is selected and click on the CD icon to select your ISO image. Choose the Linux iso you downloaded.
Note: This will DESTROY everything on the USB stick. Take everything important off of the flash drive before doing this.
Once everything is setup, click “Start” and accept all the prompts it gives you. When Rufus is finished, you can just close out of it, and move on to the next step. You should now have a fully prepared USB flash drive so you can install Linux on your machine.
Step 3. Prepare the Hard drive/Partitions
This part sounds scary, but it’s not bad. Think of your computer as a giant pizza. Right now you probably have ONE giant slice of pizza with the flavor of “Windows”. All we’re doing is using a “pizza cutter” to cut the hard drive in two or more pieces. This “other piece” can be re-flavored into “Linux” or whatever you want.
You can grow, shrink, and remove partitions; It’s somewhat flexible, but you want to be careful. Make a mistake and say bye-bye to your precious cat videos. It’s not super dangerous, but be careful and back things up.
All you need to do is type in the Windows search box “Disk” or “Disk Manager” and something in the control panel should pop up. It’ll say something like “Create and format hard disk partitions” or something.
Find the partition with the most amount of “Free space”. Right click, and select “Shrink Volume”. It will then ask you how much space you’d like to free up.
You’ll probably want at least 30 gigs, but I use Linux much more than Windows, so I’m going to give mine 150gigs, or 150000 MB of space, so I enter 150000 in the “amount of space to shrink”.
Then you should see “unallocated space” of ~140 Gigs, or however much you setup. Most Linux installers are pretty smart, and can handle the rest for you. So we’re ready to install Linux now!
Step 4. Install Linux
This part isn’t bad either! The Ubuntu installer handles most everything for you. All bets are off if you choose a more “hands on” install like Arch, Gentoo, or something else. They are great learning experiences, but a lot more challenging.
Step 4-A: Plug in/insert your USB/CD and Reboot computer.
Step 4-B: Change the Boot Order
We need to “boot up” into our “Install media” (the USB or CD where Linux is installed) instead of our normal hard drive.
Turn on computer and immediately start pressing the ESC key repeatedly. If that doesn’t work, there should be some sort of instruction on the bottom of the screen on how to enter special startup mode.
Your goal is to end up at a screen that looks something like one of the following:
If you end up with the first image, just select “Boot Device Options” or something with similar wording, and select the USB option.
If you end up with the second image. You may have to change the boot order temporarily. It’s going to be slightly different on every computer, so look it up for how to do it on your computer. You’ll probably have to go to the “System Configuration” -> “Boot Options” and adjust the “Boot Order” by following the directions… Usually f5 or f6 moves the options around.
You want to make sure your “flash drive” or “USB drive” is at the top of the list so it boots first.
Save the changes, and try restarting your computer again.
Regardless of what you get, your GOAL is to get to a screen that looks something like this:
Select “Install Ubuntu”. If you don’t get this page, keep trying stuff until you DO get to this screen.
Step 4-C: Follow directions
Then you basically just follow the directions until you get a shiny new Ubuntu system.
Select your language…
Connect to the wifi network…
Might as well get the updates and install some commonly used software… Looks like we need to “turn off secure boot” to do this. Honestly I don’t know why or what the benefit is of Secure boot. Google it. I used the same password I login with on the computer just in case. You may not have to do this.
Installation type is important! If you wan to DUAL-BOOT, meaning… when you startup your computer you can still boot into Windows if you want, then you need to install Linux along-side Windows. If you erase Windows, you’re obviously not going to be able to use it.
If you don’t get the option to install Ubuntu alongside windows, you probably need to free up some unused space so Linux can be installed. See Step 3. for details.
Select “Install alongside Ubuntu” and press install, or continue or whatever.
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Manual Partition Setup: Not recommended for beginners
If for whatever reason you want to choose “Something Else” and do it manually, I’m just going to lay it out quickly without pictures, because I’m lazy.
1. You’ll probably want to create a Swap space partition with the file system type of “Swap area” or “Swap space” or something. There’s no standard amount of Swap space. I’d suggest anywhere from 512 megabytes to half the amount of RAM you have.
2. Create another partition for the Linux distro. You’ll probably want to use EXT4 as the filesystem. Set the “Mount Point” to “/” for the partition where you’re installing Linux
3. Location for the Bootloader installation will be set to the partition that is set to EFI IF YOU’RE USING UEFI/GPT. If you’re using BIOS/MBR, then you’ll most likely want to set it to /dev/sda. Meaning the entire hard disk…
If you choose the manual setup, you probably know what you’re doing or will have to do your own research.
continue following directions…
Test keyboard, maybe do a couple other small things. Give a little info and setup login…
Once you hit continue, it’ll start installing. Go get some popcorn. Read a book. Play guitar. Pick your nose… It’s gonna be 30-60 minutes…
Eventually you’ll get a message saying “Installation is complete! Time to restart your computer!”
Step 5. Take out USB flash drive and Click restart.
Get this weird message about MOK startup or whatever. I just left it alone, and it restarted for me after 10 or so seconds.
Step 6. Test both Linux and Windows to make sure they both work!
If both systems work, then congratulations! You have a fancy dual-booted system with both Windows AND Linux available on one computer. If you need to switch from one to the other, just reboot your system and select which distro/os you’d like to use.
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What Am I Wearing Today – Yummy Plummy Makeup
I have done a matchy matchy makeup today, not my style as I don’t like matching my lips and eyes but for a change I did this deep plum-pink eye makeup paired with sheer glossy plum toned lips.
- Don’t Miss to Checkout: Orchid’s Garden Inspired Makeup
To add a bit of glitzy glam I patted down a bright yellow gold eye shadow pigment from MAC (Old Gold) on my lower lashline.
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For cheeks I dabbed a little of peachy plum HD liquid blush from INGLOT. Though I was expecting it to be more plum than peachy on cheeks but I was happy that it didn’t overpowered my plumy eyes. 😉
- Don’t Miss to Checkout: Parineeti Chopra Inspired Makeup
Makeup Products Used:
- Sleek Rio Rio Eye Shadow Palette
- MAC Old Gold Eye Shadow Pigment
- MAC Face and Body Foundation – C4
- Maybelline ColorSensational Lip Polsh – Glam 16
- The Body Shop Kabuki Brush
- L’oreal Paris Million Lashes Mascara
- Bourjois Kohl & Contour Eye Pencil – Noir Expert
- INGLOT AMC HD Liquid Blush – 83
Did you like this matching Eye and Lip Make up? Would you like me to do more of such matching looks? Do share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Pennsylvania police have warned parents to check their children’s Halloween candy to ensure they are safe to eat, after officers found drug-laced sweets last week.
In a Facebook post, the Pennsylvania’s Johnstown Police Department shared its findings after police seized packages of THC-laced Nerds Rope during a search warrant, which contained about 400 milligrams of the drug per rope.
“**ATTENTION** The Johnstown Police would like to draw extra attention to the Nerds Rope edibles containing 400mg of THC found during a search warrant in Stoney Creek Twp,” the Johnstown Police Department wrote on Facebook on Oct. 10.
Officers encouraged parents to be extra careful in checking their children’s sweet treats this Halloween as it may be difficult to tell the difference between the drug-laced candy and normal sweets.
“During this Halloween, we urge parents to be ever vigilant in checking their children’s candy before allowing them to consume those treats,” the department added. “Drug laced edibles are package [sic] like regular candy and may be hard to distinguish from the real candy.”
In a statement, Ferrara Candy Company, the manufacturer that produces the candy, said it is “working with the relevant authorities,” reported CBS News.
“This product is counterfeit and in no way associated with Ferrara Candy Company. We want to reassure consumers that the products they find at major retailers across the country are safe for them to consume.”
THC Candy Hospitalizes Student
In September, a Louisiana mother and her 11-year-old daughter were arrested after the child offered THC-laced gummy candies to fellow students at her school, according to St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Alexandra Price, 30, was arrested for possession of a Schedule I drug; manufacturing a Schedule I drug; cruelty to juveniles; sale, distribution, or possession of a drug without a prescription; and possession of drug paraphernalia, reported news outlet Nola.
One student at the Mandeville-area school was hospitalized after consuming one of the marijuana-laced gummies given to her by the 11-year-old, said spokesman for the sheriff’s office, Capt. Scott Lee.
THC, also known as delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, is the psychoactive compound responsible for many of the psychological effects of marijuana.
Lee said on Sept. 11 that detectives were alerted by the sheriff’s office deputy—who was working as a resource officer for the school—after he noticed a child “had a reaction” to a THC-gummy.
Detectives then visited the 11-year-old’s home where they discovered THC edibles and drug paraphernalia, according to Lee.
Price was arrested after admitting to investigators she had been manufacturing the goods.
Meanwhile her daughter was arrested for distribution of a Schedule I drug because she allegedly knew the candies contained THC, the sheriff’s office said. The child was released into the custody of a family member.
Hemp vs. Marijuana
While hemp and marijuana are both a type of cannabis plant, they are also very different. Marijuana can contain up to 30 percent THC, an intoxicating substance. Conversely, hemp contains less than 0.3 percent THC and contains more cannabidiol (CBD), a compound with medical benefits.
Some of the other possible uses for industrial hemp include biodegradable plastics, paper, textiles, construction materials, health foods, cosmetics, animal feed, and fuel.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb made it clear in a press release last December, that the Food and Drug Administration is committed to protecting and promoting the public’s health, and will continue to strictly regulate products, foods, and dietary supplements containing cannabis or cannabis-derived compounds.
In the statement, Gottlieb also said the FDA will provide pathways for those who seek to lawfully introduce these products into interstate commerce and continue to take steps to make pathways for the lawful marketing of these products more efficient.
NTD reporter Jeremy Sandberg contributed to this report.

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In many ways we are living in a new Golden Age of sailboat racing, and SAIL magazine covers it all, from the America’s Cup to solo-sailing races like the Vendée Globe and the new boat designs, gear and electronics systems that make these incredible feats of seamanship possible.
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing’s Azzam and skipper Ian Walker made it official today by clinching the overall win in the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race following a fifth-place finish in the ninth and final offshore leg from Lorient, France, to Gothenburg, Sweden. Read More
Although Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing’s Azzam appears to have pretty much wrapped up the overall win for the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race following the penultimate leg from Lisbon to Lorient, France, the battle for second and third is set to continue right up until the bitter end. Read More
An upset, an incredible comeback and what looks to be the crowning of a new champion: Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race may have been a short one, but there was certainly no lack of drama. First and foremost, the 647-mile sprint from Lisbon, Portugal, to Lorient, France, provided a kind of Read More
In Volvo Ocean Race terms, the upcoming 647-mile leg from Lisbon, Portugal, to Lorient, France, looks like little more than a daysail, especially when viewed in the context of the course as a whole. However, the sailors themselves know that Leg 8, which begins this Sunday, will be anything but a cakewalk. First, the fleet Read More
So much for the match race between Dongfeng and Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing’s Azzam. In the run-up to Leg 7 from Newport, Rhode Island, to Lisbon, Portugal, it was pretty much assumed that, barring any kind of catastrophe, overall leader Azzam had the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race well in hand. The one possible threat was Read More
It seems the six-boat 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race fleet only arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, yesterday, and already the sailors are getting ready to set out on the 2,800-mile seventh leg to Lisbon this Sunday. By VOR standards this one will be a quickie—only eight to nine days Read More
Two hot new sport boats in the roughly 30ft range, the Farr 280 (Farr Yacht Design) and the C&C 30 (Mark Mills-designed), have recently been snapping heads on racecourses and at boat shows around the world. Read More
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Hunter Hampton looks up at a blue sky as she sits with her three dogs on the steps outside her home.
This could be a scene from any neighborhood, except for one major difference: Hampton and her neighbors are constantly on the move, a steel caravan rolling across the country on wheels.
“The house remains the same, but the neighborhood changes,” Hampton said. “That’s the best part.”
Hampton is a member of the Tin Can Tourists, a group of enthusiasts devoted to restoring and showing off vintage recreational vehicles.
On the road to Dade Battlefield National Park in Bushnell, a few of them recently met for a pre-caravan gathering in Cedar Key. Two dozen members have unhitched their campers and settled in for the short stay on this Wednesday afternoon at Sunset Isle RV Park on State Road 24.
Like most Tin Can Tourists, Hampton enjoys driving cross-country to admire and compare old motor coaches and trailers. Although she is currently living in a newer Airstream, Hampton purchased a 1949 Vagabond and said she hopes to restore it for future Tin Can Tourist events. But that doesn’t keep her from coming out and enjoying the gatherings.
Old and new members agree it is the community feel of the Tin Can Tourist club that gives it character. Their passion for vintage trailers is simply an added bonus.
“RVers in general are just a really friendly group of people, but there is something special about the ones that camp out in some of these older rigs,” said Forrest Bone, who is credited with reviving the Tin Can Tourists club.
Established in Desoto Park, in 1919, Tin Can Tourists were minimalists, known for camping on roadsides and heating tin cans of food for dinner, according to Bone. Members had a tin can design soldered on the radiator caps of their vehicles, and the group’s objective was “to unite fraternally all auto campers.”
By the late 1930s, the Tin Can Tourists club had approximately 100,000 members who gathered regularly in Michigan during the summer, but would travel to Florida during the winter, said Bone.
Club membership, however, dwindled during World War II and the economic hardships that followed. By 1982, the club had vanished.
In an attempt to bring back the passion for vintage trailers and motor coaches, Bone and his wife, Jeri, revived the club. Today there are approximately 1,000 registered members.
Most Tin Can Tourists have a permanent home and use their trailers or motor coaches to fraternize with other like-minded enthusiasts while simultaneously touring the nation.
Hampton is one of the few who have turned their trailer into a full-time home.
“It’s a house,” Hampton said. “It just happens to be on wheels.”
Ten years ago, after losing her best friend to cancer, Hampton decided to make the most of her time. At 53, she packed up her things, bought a 1996 Airstream Classic, and hit the road. Her destination: Jackson Hole, Wyo.
Her intention was to travel for only a year. After spending most of her time out west, Hampton turned around and headed back east where she bought a house and farm outside Knoxville, Tenn. She lived in her parked trailer for two months as she remodeled her new home.
With everything finally in place, Hampton settled in. But it didn’t take long for her to realize that something was wrong – living in a house just didn’t feel like home.
“Two weeks later, I knew I had made a mistake,” Hampton said. “I was bored, I was lonesome, I was miserable. So I put the house on the market, sold it, moved back into the trailer and never looked back.”
Nine years later, Hampton’s trailer is adorned – inside and out – with souvenirs and trinkets from her travels.
On her door are tattered stickers in the shape of 48 states – a reminder of where she’s traveled. Alaska and Hawaii are the only states left on her list, although getting to the islands looks problematic.
In the meantime, Hampton has set her course to enjoy life while she can.
“There’s so much to see,” Hampton said. “You can’t see it all in one lifetime. But I’m trying.”


Sugar Factory, Amsterdam
In this edition The Backlash from Belgium will celebrate the launch of their new album, called 'Serial Cleaner'. They'll be doing a live performance. Also UK's new superstar Freeform Five will do a dj set. Freeform Five released numerous great records last year, and their songs were remixed by Tiefschwarz, Alter Ego and Mylo. DJ Terry Toner and DJ Pablo Lamberti will present their styles the rest of the night.


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LOUISIANA, Mo. — What started as a small musical group at Centenary United Methodist Church has grown into a community band.
“The Bible says make a joyful noise. That’s what we do as an eclectic group of musicians,” said Sandy Henry, a retired music teacher who leads the group. “We have farmers, bankers, retired music teachers, a current band director, a dentist.”
Joyful Noise will present a March 26 fundraiser — Letters Home, a mock USO radio show featuring dinner and dancing to songs from World War II.
“We think it will be a fun evening,” said Roberta Simpson-Dolbeare, a church member who plays with Joyful Noise.
Some 25 musicians, including the church’s bell choir and area vocalists, will perform songs ranging from “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and “I’ll Be Seeing You” to a medley recognizing each branch of the armed forces and “God Bless America.”
“It’s just feel-good American music,” Simpson-Dolbeare said. “Maybe that’s kind of what we need right now.”
The event will pay tribute to the men and women who have served, and currently serve, in the nation’s military, Henry said, and a portion of the proceeds will go to the USO.
Framed letters from a man to his wife over six years in wartime will be placed on each table, and instead of an emcee filling the time between songs, Henry said plans call for having wartime letters read that somehow tie into the next tune.
“We’re trying to set this at the end of the war, 1945, and recognizing these letters home as a look back to what the last five or six years were like with a little bit of tear-jerking but also a lot of laughter,” Henry said. “Young people don’t know these songs but will get addicted to the rhythm and the enthusiasm, plus it’s an opportunity for us to recognize the services.”
It’s also an opportunity for the musicians — who first came together some four years ago to play carols outside prior to the church’s Christmas Eve service and grew to include people from other churches and the community — to make music.
“A lot of people used to enjoy playing an instrument in high school or college. Life takes over, the instrument goes to the back of the closet, but they still remember how to play and still want to play. Joyful Noise gives them that outlet,” Henry said. “Everybody’s welcome, whether you play really well or not so well.”


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Quantrelle is an artist out of Charlotte, with intricate wordplay, ingenious metaphors, and powerful storytelling with a universal sound that any fan of music will gravitate towards. He has records that can illuminate all souls, help heal damaged wounds, and release any negative thoughts flowing through the mind. Quantrelle knows how to balance out his physical and spiritual experiences to create influential music. When you listen to his records, you can tell he understands that music is one of the top things that soothes our souls. With no marketing, distribution nor major deal, Quantrelle has gained a collective of over a million streams in a short period of five months
24 year old J-Alta is a rapper from Statesville, NC. Falling in love with Hip Hop after hearing Tupac & Bone Thugs N Harmony, the Dominican MC is known for combining the new school sound with old school lyricism. With two mixtapes on the market, J-Alta has opened up for T.I., Mannie Fresh, Lil Pump, PnB Rock, & Troy Ave. After gaining local buzz and radio play with his single "Big Papi", Alta was nominated for Hip Hop Male Artist of the Year in the 2018 Carolina Music Awards.


Azamgarh: Taking a dig at former Delhi chief minister and Congress senior leader Sheila Dikshit’s remark that party vice president Rahul Gandhi still lacks maturity, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Friday said the entire nation agreed with this ‘fact’ which did not explain why he was being ‘forced’ into the state.
Addressing a rally here, Shah said, “Sheila ji, the whole country acknowledges the fact which you stated that Rahul is immature but I want to ask why you are enforcing him in Uttar Pradesh?”
Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi for questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governance, Shah asked him to become accountable regarding the NDA Government’s rule in the last 60 years.
Lashing out at the Samajwadi government, Shah asserted that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had issued several schemes for the Uttar Pradesh Government, but the ruling dispensation in the state was not interested in implementing those.
Further attacking the SP and BSP, Shah said that these two parties have destroyed the state, adding the number in the cases of murder, theft, loot, incidents of kidnappings have risen under their governance.
Amit Shah’s response comes to Sheila Dikshit’s statement saying that Rahul Gandhi is not a mature politician but is ready to take over the reins of the party.
“Please remember Rahul is still not mature, his age does not allow him to be mature. He is what... in his forties. Please give him time,” she said in an interview to a leading daily.
However, she also made it clear that Rahul was the only Indian politician to talk about farmers’ issues, adding that he speaks his mind.
Dikshit also said that the Congress needs a change in its leadership and noted that Rahul should take over as the party president soon.


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Gamewell-FCI: New touch-screen fire alarm panel simplifies use
NORTHFORD, Conn.—A full-color, touch-screen interface brings the style of smartphones and tablets to a new fire alarm system that provides smoke, carbon monoxide, gas and multi-criteria detection and more, Gamewell-FCI announced this week.
The company announced the release of its new S3 Series fire alarm panel Aug. 28. It bills it as “the industry’s first small, addressable system that features an intuitive, touch-screen display to simplify system use for facility managers and first responders.”
Gamewell-FCI says the S3 Series simplifies use by eliminating buttons and text displays in favor of interactive screen that allows users to explore system status, events and system service. The touch screen allows users to easily access critical system information, and they can set the system’s five buttons as shortcuts to access specific information, according to the company.
The display screen is designed to be removable and can be installed as many as 3,000 feet from the system panel. Only one pair of wires is needed to connect a network of S3 Series systems, between one and 122 panels, so the system can expand over time at minimal cost, the company said. The S3 Series can also connect to the Internet for ease of monitoring.


For months the infrastructure 2.0 blog has talked about the automation of IT from a network perspective, including the automation of the network itself. While few may question the need for network automation most businesses today still run their networks like they ran their “supply chains” decades ago, before the network.
This great irony is about to change. Here’s why:
As virtualization entered the data center it became an accidental standard bearer for network automation. The power of virtualization helped to drive a cultural (including x as a service) shift in expectations, just as Nicholas Carr was declaring war on traditional “old world” IT with the help of Google, Amazon and a host of other cloud (and not so cloud) players.
IT directors watched operations pros create VMs in seconds while network teams could take hours (or days) to simply move an existing server. One visionary IT exec told me that an outside firm had calculated that moving a server cost his company almost as much as buying a new one. This was a very large network, but nonetheless increasing complexity was driving increasing cost and a need for more efficient strategic orchestration across ever larger pools of endpoints.
Years ago networks were the drivers of massive change. Today they often symbolize a resistance to change.
This is no doubt part of the appeal of cloud computing, and why Carr’s promise of IT as a plug and play utility is so compelling. Enterprise IT has not kept up with innovations it has, ironically, helped to enable. And the foundation for many IT departments is that inflexible, manually configured, kludge network.
Those who bet on the continuation of manual labor, processes, scripts, checklists and spreadsheets (to manage their network) will lose as they continue to be saddled with rising network management costs, inflexibility and the mounting pressure of IT consumerization. Those who embrace automation will likely have a strategic advantage… if they automate the right processes.
We’re now watching packs of IT vendors form to deliver containers of integrated solutions, pitting former partners against one another, partly in an effort to standardize the silos. I think this marks a mere transitional phase between the static network and the dynamic network.
The first pack to break from the complex, static network model into infrastructure 2.0 will likely win, as it will be able to demonstrate substantial opex reduction with increased IT agility. The other camp will be force to discount their goods in order to make up for the OPEX slaughter their customers will face.
The opportunity for substantial reductions in opex with heightened flexibility is simply too compelling to be passed by, for users and vendors.


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Pune: There are 433 prisoners in various jails of Maharashtra even after they have been granted bail by courts. Officials said they are languishing as they can’t furnish sureties of either third party or the cash.
Now, after consulting the State government, the Maharashtra Prisons Department has appealed to NGOs and corporates to come forward to bail out these undertrial prisoners by fulfilling bail conditions and release them from jails.
City-based Royal Group of Companies recently helped two undertrials come out of jail. One of them was in the prison for 25 months whereas the crime is punishable with only three months’ sentence.
Dr Bhushan Kumar Upadhyay, Head of the Maharashtra Prisons Department, said, “It is part of the reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners. The number of such prisoners is not constant. With the help of corporates and NGOs we are trying to help undertrials who are accused of committing petty offences.”
Another jail official told Sakal Times, “It is necessary to help such prisoners get out of the jail as soon as possible, otherwise organised gang members try to lure them. They provide them money and help them get bail. Thus, the person feels obliged and the gangs use them in serious crimes.”
One of the prisoners released is Rajendra Bharat Sunsune of Lohegaon. He was caught for illegal possession of liqour and remained in jail from February 2, 2016, till March this year. “Had I been convicted, the maximum punishment would have been 3-4 months, but I spent months behind bars,” Sunsune said.
Advocate Kainat Shaikh told Sakal Times that the prisoners in the jail are under the custody of the magistrate who can grant them bail on personal bond also in petty offences. “If someone has to spend more time in jail than the sentence he/she would get on conviction, it is sad. An accused can be released on personal bond with or without surety. In surety one has to bring a person who owns some property, earns more than specified amount or can be released on cash surety. The accused doesn’t have to pay in personal bond and just put his signature on the paper. It is the discretion of the magistrate to grant bail. They must ensure that injustice is not done to the accused persons as they are under the magistrate’s custody and lodged in jail.”
Praful Kothari, Director of Royal Group of Companies, said, “We helped two prisoners get bail and the process is on for eight others. These are people from economically weaker sections of the society who are not able to afford bail conditions.”
Law Commission of India 268th report (2017)
The data collected regarding prison population in India represents a grim scenario. It indicates that 67 per cent of the prison population is awaiting trial. Inconsistency in bail system may be one of the reasons for over-crowding of prisons. A majority of undertrials (70.6 per cent) are illiterate or semi-illiterate. In the absence of data regarding economic status of prisoners, ‘literacy’ serves as a useful proxy to appreciate that the majority of undertrials belong to the socio-economically marginalized groups. Reports from Ministry of Home Affairs show that 2,31,340 undertrial prisoners were lodged in jails for crimes under Indian Penal Code (IPC), and 50,457 under special laws, e.g. Customs Act of 1962, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1985, Excise Act of 1944, etc.8. A large number of 12,92,357 undertrials were released in 2015 out of which 11,57,581 were released on bail.
- Total 21,448 undertrial prisoners in State.
- 3,412 of them for crimes with less than 3 years imprisonment.
- 3,900 for crimes with 3-7 years imprisonment.
- 14,600 for crimes punishable with more than 7 years imprisonment.


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Ruben Studdard is off to a good start participating in this season of NBC’s “Biggest Loser.” However, in Tuesday night’s episode, the former “American Idol” winner was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
According to the show’s medical expert, Studdard’s insulin level, average blood sugar and instantaneous blood sugar levels were high across the board.
“I am afraid,” said Studdard to his coach Dolvette Quince and Dr. Huizenga. “I have seen a lot of lives cut short because of health issues. I’ve worked since I was 11-years-old to be a professional singer. That’s all I ever wanted to do.”
He confessed to being on the show because he knows it’s time to get his health in check.
“I most definitely want to be around for a long time,” said Studdard. “This has really, like, given me a second chance.”
When the show began weeks ago, Studdard weighed 462 pounds. Since then, he’s dropped down to 431 pounds.