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Many health professionals suggest that health and fitness of a body can be improved by following a routine of physical activities. So, many people do jogging, exercise and walking that helps them to stay healthy and active in a fun way. If you also want to get a healthy and fit body and look for more adventure and thrill, then playing the outdoor sports is the best option for you. There are a number of exciting outdoor sports that you can play and get a healthy and fit body. The outdoor sports helping you in increasing your overall health as well as decreasing stress and depression.
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As soon as the coach matches them up with someone, they change their minds, although some people beg the coach to spar. Nevertheless they will make an effort to talk somebody else into sparring using them whom they believe is far more appropriate. I knew guys who treated the sparring sessions – which are supposed to be possibilities to build and learn up skills – like regular boxing matches. It absolutely was important to experience a sparring partner they can “win” against. Other fighters in the gym can refuse to spar with those individuals if they notice this behavior. Coaches can refuse to enable these folks to spar unless there is an attitude adjustment.
When I see someone similar to this at the gym, I automatically wonder: why are they here? My favorites are the type who appear the first day and give a listing of the things they is not going to do when it comes to training. It does not matter if alternatives and moderation’s are offered because the people who complain don’t want to do those, either. Normally the complaints are from people who often not determine what boxing was before they registered to the gym. Wait them out. Most will drop out after awhile.
Don’t let several characters ruin your regular workout.
This May 17, another fight that you need to watch the fight is the fight of Marquez vs Alvarado and see their characteristics as a professional boxer.
For many years, Ive been studying the life stories in the great people along with their strategies of success. I could identify their common-related traits that made them get noticed on the list of rest. From the greatest writers, leaders and philosophers on the powerful and rich, and famous those people who are regarded as the “masters in the universe” I’ve been enjoying reading their remarkable biographies.
Basic familiarity about the prominent qualities and talents of these people provides us the inspiration: the excellent American Abraham Lincoln for instance, reminds us of his bravery and perseverance; the genius notion of Einstein; the excellent philosophy of Confuscius along with the wisdom of King Solomon are simply just awesome; the oozing confidence of Muhammad Ali as well as the passion and work of Manny Pacquiao; the hard drive-determination of Bill Gates why he succeed; the power-speaking ability of Kennedy; the golden voice of Elvis; the never-surrender attitude of your British bulldog, Churchill; the mighty leadership of Napoleon and the great Caesar’s conquering command; Donald Trump’s, Jerry Jones’ and the Billionaires Club’s genius business management techniques in amassing financial wealth; These are few to mention on the list of 1000s of rich, great and powerful and famous people the globe who made a difference. They made remarkable things happened with their lives in order in our lives.
Watch Pacquiao vs Bradley live online and dont miss the fight.
Manny Pacquiao is 34 years-old now, and it’s only proper that as he’s aged over an occupation with a lot of hard education and spats ideologies behind him, he’s started to decline physically. John Garcia thinks he considers a lot of proof Pacquiao perhaps not being the fighter he was a long time ago, and is also assured that Brandon Rios could get on November 23.
We’re likely to prepare for the best effective Pacquiao, that same one from 4 years back, that’s the Pacquiao that we’re likely to plan for. But you can find little things that I’ve been noticing within his last several fights, he doesn’t have the identical energy and his legs are influenced by aches, possibly the impacts of era, consequence within the fitness center. You will discover items that nobody can hide. It occurs to players, there’s and fighters nothing you are able to do.
Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KO) has absolutely seen better times, but he likewise viewed adequately-defined this past year against Juan Manuel Marquez, before he was knocked-on the ideal right-hand in just one of the absolute most unforgettable occasions in recent boxing memory. But has he dropped enough that Rios (31-1-1, 23 KO) and his clear-cut, all-action type may very well be enough to get over Manny? Pacquiao could mainly seize control a bigger Antonio Margarito this coming year, with Garcia within the place. Garcia states that he learned a great deal herself in that battle, though the Rios and Margarito types are related. He’s surely accustomed to Manny and there’s no insufficient record on him from his new battles.
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But chief executive Andy Haste sent a shudder through the market by revealing yet more adverse claims from the previous year could hit its troubled US arm - igniting concerns about the adequacy of its funding to meet these claims.
But Haste said there was no reason yet to boost reserves: RSA has set up a £200m contingent liability to cover claims arising in the US as it clears up the business.
Operating profits in the three months to 30 September came in at £453m, against just £27m a year when RSA booked a slew of exceptional charges.
Haste said: 'We set out 18 months ago what we needed to do, and the good thing is we have delivered.' Claims from the US hurricane season totalled £14m.
The United States, where Royal & Sun has a large claims exposure, has been the group's Achilles heel for a number of years, and the group is unwinding most of its operations there.
Last year, the company was forced to tap shareholders for nearly £1bn pounds, largely to meet potential asbestos-related claims in North America.
'There is no silver bullet. We don't expect it to be a smooth ride in the United States,' Haste said, adding that the group did not expect to be affected by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's probe into insurance fees.
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The Nashville Tapes is yet another career-best album for Adam Harvey. A deeply personal, powerfully reverent release not years but decades in the making, The Nashville Tapes is the masterwork of an all-time Australian country music legend.
Adam Harvey has long been one of Australian country music’s premier artists. With eight Golden Guitars on the mantelpiece including Male Vocalist of the Year Golden Guitars in 2002, 2004, 2005 and Album of the Year wins in 2002, 2008 and 2012. Add to that more than half a million album sales, back-to-back No.1 albums on the ARIA Country Albums Chart, three ARIA nominations, and a succession of Gold- and- Platinum-certified albums, and it’s easy to see that Adam’s trophy room sparkles from every angle.
Recent years have seen Adam team up with longtime mate Troy Cassar-Daley to record the Platinum-certified The Great Country Songbook (2014) which debuted at the No.1 spot on the ARIA Country Albums Chart, and at No.2 on the General Albums Chart before releasing Top 10 sensation Family Life (2014), rollicking good time Harvey's Bar. The Backyard Sessions (2015), and last year’s monumental The Great Country Songbook Volume II with Beccy Cole.
Adam and band are poised to take The Nashville Tapes on the road in the coming months, with support from The Voice Australia 2017 winner and Adam’s own newly minted lead guitarist Judah Kelly.


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More than a year after he sold one of China’s longest-running bitcoin exchanges, Bobby Lee, co-founder and former CEO of BTCC, is back.
Announced Thursday at CoinDesk’s Invest: Asia event in Singapore, Lee’s new venture, Ballet, is rolling out a hardware wallet supporting multiple cryptocurrencies.
To differentiate its product and spur adoption outside crypto circles, Ballet will generate public addresses and private keys for users in advance.
Lee believes this design will make it easier for people who have no exposure to crypto to get hands-on experience with the asset without having to go through the set-up process most hardware wallets require.
“We wanted to create a wallet that is simple and elegant. And that is what we’ve done,” Lee said on stage Thursday.
The wallet, also dubbed Ballet, is a piece of metal the size of a credit card that prints a QR code associated with the cryptocurrency wallet address set up by Lee’s firm.
On each wallet, beneath the QR code, there is a string of printed encryption code. At the bottom of the card, there’s another string of encryption code that’s coated, which a user must scratch off in order to see.
Only the combination of the two through Ballet’s iOS and Android app, also launched Thursday, will allow the user to see the private key, which will be the same key to access all cryptos on different blockchains that Ballet supports.
“I’ve been working on this hard since January of this year,” Lee said during his presentation. “We’ve gone through six iterations of this hardware wallet design.”
Currently, the firm’s product supports native cryptocurrencies on the bitcoin,


DALLAS (KDAF) — North Texas is set to experience record-breaking heat and elevated fire danger on Wednesday ahead of a cold front during the night, and yes, it’s the middle of January.
The National Weather Service center in Fort Worth reports elevated to near critical fire threat west of I-35 on Wednesday with record-breaking temps expected around the region.
“Temperatures will climb into the mid 70s to mid 80s this afternoon, which may tie or break high temperature records across North and Central Texas today. Additionally, the abnormally warm, dry, and breezy conditions (SW winds 15-20 mph with gusts to 30 mph) will result in an elevated to near critical fire threat mainly west of I-35,” the report said.
As night falls, it will turn cooler and windy behind a cold front and no precipitation is expected with this front.
NWS Fort Worth said, “Cooler, more seasonable, temperatures return to North and Central Texas tonight as a cold front sweeps across the region.
“Behind the front, gusty northwest winds will spread across the region with temperatures rapidly falling into the 40s and lower 50s around daybreak. Highs Thursday will only reach the mid 50s to lower 60s. No precipitation is expected with this front.”
Moving forward into the weekend, the weather is set to be mild and dry as temps will be near normal through the end of the week but will climb back above normal for Sunday and Monday.
“Following a midweek cold front, temperatures will be closer to normal to end the week, but warmer weather is expected again over the upcoming weekend with highs returning to the 70s. Periods of elevated fire danger are expected due to low humidity, breezy winds, and a lack of recent rainfall,” NWS Fort Worth said.
Don’t miss these fire safety tips from the weather center, “Warm, dry, and breezy conditions are expected this afternoon across North and Central Texas.
“These conditions will allow for the rapid spread and growth of any fires that are started. Be extremely careful participating in any activities that can start grass fires and follow the listed tips to help prevent wildfires!”


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May 20 2013 10:42AM
A few random thoughts on the world championships, memorial cup and how the Flames draft picks are settling out.
May 15 2013 09:02AM
A year ago, you could be forgiven for forgetting about Tyler Wotherspoon. The 2011 second round choice of the Calgary Flames was a face in the crowd on a very stacked Portland Winterhawks team at the time. This year, he's become one of their best players and has arguably raised his stock faster and higher than many in the organization had hoped.
Acquired with one of the picks acquired in the Tim Erixon trade with the Rangers, Wotherspoon has been to three straight WHL championship series – finally winning this year – and will be appearing at the Memorial Cup next week, to go along with a trip to Ufa, Russia for the World Juniors at Christmas.
He's had a very busy, very successful season.
May 13 2013 04:16PM
One of the more prominent new faces on the list (and in the Flames organization) is Yale University forward Kenny Agostino. If he sounds familiar, he's one of three assets that Calgary acquired for Jarome Iginla in March, as well as a newly-minted NCAA National Champion.
May 10 2013 09:14AM
Following the completion of the season, Flames general manager Jay Feaster (and several players) expressed that their team is in a decent good place going forward.
They're not entirely wrong. While the team on the ice is what it is – there are a lot of holes – but the club does have a bounty of resources at their disposal heading into the summer. A look at how the Flames sit compared to their counterparts in three areas can give a glimpse as to how the club sits, and who may be ideal trade partners going forward.
May 06 2013 11:33AM
- Consensus around town is that Mark Giordano is the front-runner for the captaincy. He fits the bill. He's the active leader in games-played and plays a heart-and-soul style of game that likely inspires his teammates. He's also generally pretty good with the media, usually shooting straight and not dodging questions. He'll be 30 when the season starts, which is roughly the same age most Flames captains have been when they don the C – Lanny McDonald and the late Brad McCrimmon were both that age. The four youngest Flame captains were Brad Marsh (22), Todd Simpson, Tom Lysiak and Jim Peplinski (all 24). The worst captain was Todd Simpson. Period.


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Trust warned over poor patient care at Dewsbury hospital
Published: 3rd Aug 2012 10:41:22
A cash-strapped hospital trust has been told to improve standards of patient care at Dewsbury and District Hospital.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has issued a formal warning to The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust following a visit last month.
Inspectors found some patients on ward 2 "were not being treated with dignity, respect or consideration".
Stephen Eames, the trust's interim chief executive, said he "apologised unreservedly" to affected patients.
The CQC said the trust had until 1 August to address concerns or "face serious consequences".
Inspectors visited the hospital to check on what progress had been made in relation to the hospital's maternity services.
The CQC had earlier told the trust to make "urgent improvements" after a different inspection found concerns with maternity services.
During the follow-up visit, inspectors observed staff and spoke to patients.
The CQC said on ward 2 it found some patients "were not responded to appropriately or promptly".
Inspectors said "patient call bells were observed to go unanswered for considerable periods of time (many in excess of 10 minutes).
They found "instances where people had to wait a long time to be assisted to use the toilet and relatives raised concerns about their loved ones being left incontinent for significant periods of time".
At 17:04:48 in EnglandPolice have apologised for saying they were too busy to deal with a pub theft even though the landlord knew the suspect was near to a police station.
At 17:01:41 in SportBournemouth midfielder Eunan O'Kane has signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract which will keep him at the club until the summer of 2017.
At 16:48:29 in ScotlandPassenger numbers at Scotland's three main airports rose last month, according to new figures.
At 16:48:14 in SportAlly McCoist insists he is more focused on winning the League One title by beating Airdrieonians on Wednesday than fearing for his job amid criticism.
At 16:47:17 in SportTamworth have confirmed the signing of Wrexham midfielder Kevin Thornton on an emergency loan after receiving international clearance.
At 16:45:57 in EnglandA man has been airlifted to hospital with severe burns to his face after an incident at a garage in Hertfordshire.
At 16:45:43 in SportIn a world where swagger and confidence are a necessity, Richard Kilty beat his fist to his chest like a super-charged Tarzan as he celebrated becoming 60m World Indoor champion. Undaunted and self-assured, he looked like a champion sprinter.
At 16:43:57 in HeadlinesUgandan rights activists and politicians have filed a legal challenge to overturn a tough anti-gay law condemned by Western donors.
At 16:43:08 in EnglandDomestic abuse charity Safer will take over the running of the Guernsey Women's Refuge as part of moves to improve the service.
At 16:42:57 in HeadlinesMichelle Bachelet, 62, has been sworn in as the president of Chile, her second time in office.
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With the doors to its brand new £1million training centre officially open, one of the UK's leading apprentice training providers, Bristol based S&B Automotive Academy, is showcasing its world-class facilities by launching a series of foreign student exchanges for the first time in its 41-year history. To get a flavour of what life is like as an apprentice in the UK, the Academy hosted 16 apprentice engineers and bus drivers from the G9 Automotive College in Hamburg, Germany, as part of a Europe-wide vocational training initiative called the ‘Leonardo Programme’ with support from the European Social Fund. In a reciprocal arrangement, S&B will be sending nine apprentices to Germany during February 2012 so that they can get an appreciation of life in the automotive industry on the Continent. A further three German exchange groups are being planned for next year. Designed to assist the development of vocational skills and training across Europe, including work placements for trainees, the Leonardo Programme has a budget of €1.75bn, which is helping to encourage UK organisations to work with their counterparts abroad. In what is expected to be another challenging year for employers in the UK automotive sector, S&B’s Chief Executive, Jon Winter, claims that the exchange initiative will bring many benefits to the Academy and its apprentices: “In a world of global automotive brands, it’s important for our learners to understand the international context of the industry they have chosen to make their career. This new exchange programme will enable apprentices and Academy staff alike to achieve a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities within the automotive arena in Europe. With the Academy’s influence also extending to the USA and Asia, there’s every possibility that this initiative could move further afield in the future.” Continued Winter: “The need for skilled technicians across the world is on the increase and we actively encourage our apprentices to look at broader horizons during their training. Many of them have already learned the phrase ‘Vorsprung durch Gelehrtheit’, quite simply, ‘Advancement through learning.” In the 2010/11 academic year, S&B doubled the number of successful Apprenticeships over the previous year with some 350 apprentices graduating from the Academy. At the same time, achievement levels reached an all-time high with an overall success rate of 85%. For those learners on the Advanced Apprenticeship three-year programme, success rates were even higher, at over 98%. PHOTO CAPTION: As part of their exchange visit, S&B Automotive Academy arranged for the German apprentices to visit Hampshire bus operator, Bluestar, at its Barton Park depot. The students are pictured with S&B’s Andy West (3rd right) and Steve Prewett, Bluestar’s Area Engineering Manager (2nd right). Ends http://www.sandbaa.com
Bournemouth midfielder Eunan O'Kane has signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract which will keep him at the club until the summer of 2017.
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Pregnant women who are obese can cost the NHS over a third more than women of healthy weight, a Swansea University study has found.


Anyone that knows me knows I’ve been shooting video for many years. I’ve shot a lot of footage of a lot of different entertainers – musicians, poets, comedians, and friends.
Certainly not everything is related to my big LOUIE project.
While video production is my livelihood that provides me an occasional paycheck, I do create a lot of video for various musicians, simply because I love what they’re doing, and want to preserve certain special moments for posterity. I’ve got an extensive archive of footage that goes back for over twenty years.
I do love YouTube. It’s a great chance to get the immediate gratification of sharing this material with others, and I love the idea of having friends all over the world appreciate what I’m doing.
Today, I posted my 100th YouTube clip. It’s some previously-unseen video of one of favorite local San Jose bands from early 1990s- the Guttersluts, doing a medley of Spinal Tap songs, including a personal favorite, “Gimme Some Money.”
Among guitar players, Jerry Miller is one of those guys that’s considered a living legend. When Eric Clapton first visited the United States, he called Jerry the “best guitar player in the world.” He’s shared the stage with a lot of iconic musicians – Jimi Hendrix, Clapton, BB King, and The Doors. Jerry [...]
The recent death of Lux Interior of the Cramps still weighs heavily at LOUIE Central, as do more deaths than I care to think about. Some close friends of mine have also lost some dear people in their lives, and my heart goes out to them.
At the LOUIE Party Yahoo Group, some of my pals weighed in on the legacy of Lux Interior.
So sad to hear about Lux’s death, I don’t think I skipped any of the Cramps’ gigs whenever they played in the Netherlands. They opened up a magic box of weird and wonderful music which otherwise for certain would have stayed closed. At least over here.
Anyway, there is a closer link between the Cramps and Louie Louie. It used to turn up sometimes in their live setlist. At least two recordings have been ‘released’: the ‘Live on Venus’ bootleg from London 1983 and a bootleg cassette ‘Daze Of Future Passed’, recorded somewhere in the USA during their 1981 tour.
Lux’ fascination with Louie Louie must have been from the same order as Iggy or Frank Zappa and is another proof we got a real anthem here.
May he continue his great quest for the undiscovered on the other side in the shape of a teenage goo goo muck (you always duck, when I show up!)
Chester Rocket of the UK chimed in with these thoughts…
… felt I had to add my own about the loss of the truly great Lux Interior. I only saw the Cramps twice – once in the early 80′s and then a couple of years ago when the toured the UK again. That last show was the best time I had a gig for YEARS. I had a grin on my face that cracked it in two for 6 months afterwards. They were just everything I love about great rock and roll. How can anyone not love a band that starts a show with a song called Dames, Booze Chains and Boots? And ended with 15 minutes of Surfin’ Bird – a song they rescued from “world’s worst record” and recognised for the classic that it is? They introduced me to so much music I would never otherwise have heard. Pretty much my entire musical taste has been shaped by them one way or another. You only have to look at my profile to see what I mean. I saw an article a little while ago that saw them as the first band to spot the end of rock and roll and take it back to the future – which sounds about right to me. By all accounts he was a lovely fella offstage too. Must be an awful time for Ivy – thoughts go out to her. Is so sweet how they were together all that time. My mobile has been pinging all morning – there are many people upset about this. A very sad day and a great loss.
RIP Lux – but really so many thanks for the memories and the lasting legacy and influence.
KFJC alumni Stretch Riedle had these comments:
Wow, this one surprised me. I didn’t realize Lux was older than me or had health issues.
Lux was undoubtedly influenced by Iggy Pop. At times looked like him, and used some of his stage antics, like putting the microphone down his pants, etc.
Also, the Cramps members were music buffs and really liked to collect and listen to a lot of cool roots music. I’ll miss him.
The Cramps did more than one song that borrowed from “Louie Louie”. E.P. already mentioned ‘Garbage Man’, which I have both studio AND live versions of in my collection. Also give a listen to ‘Papa Satan Sang Louie’ from the album FIENDS OF DOPE ISLAND, as well as ‘I Wanna Get In Your Pants’ from the album LOOK MOM NO HEAD!.
So today for the LOUIE of the Week, I’m acknowledging a Cramps version of LOUIE LOUIE that’s up on YouTube. Thanks to theeggman01 for sharing this one. The video itself is just a placeholder for the music, so don’t expect too much in terms of entertaining visuals on this one.
Taken from an old cassette tape marked, The Cramps, venue, 81. Right or wrong ? who cares. Turn your volume nob to 11
If you want to see more cool Cramps videos, that aren’t necessarily LOUIE-related, click below…
This week’s LOUIE of the Week is yet another archival rendition of the song. Twenty years ago, before David Letterman moved over to CBS, Paul Shaffer was the musical director for Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. He put out out his very first solo album, which was called “Coast to Coast,” released [...]


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Military warns Nigerians against rumour peddling
The Nigerian Army yesterday warned Nigerians against peddling rumours that could jeopardise the nation’s security. The Acting Director Defence Information, Brig-Gen. Rabe Abubakar, gave the warning in a statement in Abuja.
He said the attention of Defence Headquarters (DHQ) had been drawn to a news story alleging that ransom was paid in exchange for 21 of the abducted Chibok girls released recently.
He said: “This unsubstantiated story, to say the least, is quite unfortunate. It is important to recall here that several statements have been issued by the military high command to clarify the issue surrounding the release of the girls, which the whole world applauded.
“It is therefore worrisome that some sections of the media continue to undermine this modest effort of the government, security agencies and other stakeholders. It is imperative to state categorically that the sponsors of this media campaign have a hidden agenda, which is best known to them.”
“The military and other security agencies will not be distracted and would remain focused in achieving their objectives in the North East. The important thing is that the release has been made and circumstances surrounding this effort should not be a matter of controversy, so as not to overheat the polity and jeopardise ongoing efforts to secure release of the remaining girls and other innocent citizens still in captivity of the terrorists,” the statement reads.
In a related development, the Arewa Youth Leaders Forum has urged the military to ignore false media reports by persons it described as detractors and unpatriotic elements.
It also cautioned the Nigerian media against allowing itself to be used as agent of distraction in the war against insurgency.Addressing journalists in Kaduna yesterday, the national president of the group, Abubakar Abubakar, said: “Those that are out to destroy Nigeria are diversifying their strategies. Their seeds of discord must not be allowed to germinate and neither should they be allowed to take root.”
Meanwhile, the family of late Lt. Colonel Mohammed Abu Ali, who was killed by insurgents, recently, has called on the Federal Government to intensify effort at ending the war so that soldiers could reunite with their families.The family made this known while receiving a delegation of the Nigeria Fallen Heroes Project 2017 in Kaduna.

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6th EU Anti-Trafficking Day-Working together towards the eradication of trafficking in human beings: The Way Forward
To mark the 6th EU Anti-Trafficking Day, the Cyprus EU Presidency and the European Commission are organising a high level conference in Brussels on 18 October 2012.
The conference 'Working together towards the eradication of trafficking in human beings: The Way Forward' will focus on the recently adopted EU Strategy on Trafficking in Human Beings. It aims to serve as a forum for exchange of views on shaping future actions to strengthen cooperation, victim protection and assistance, prevention and prosecution in the field of trafficking in human beings.
For this event, the Commission will provide travel arrangements and accommodation for three EU Member States representatives (one representative from a government organisation and two representatives from NGOs, to be selected by Member States). NGOs are advised to contact directly the relevant authority in their respective Member State.


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Are you considering taking a long-delayed holiday? Try the pacific islands of Fiji. In an enticing tweet, the country's prime minister says: "Say you're a billionaire looking to fly your own jet, rent your own island, and invest millions of dollars in Fiji in the process... you may have a new home to escape the pandemic in paradise." Can't wait!
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Unsurprisingly, given the rise in unemployment and the effects of pay cuts through furloughing, etc, the number of people unable to pay their bills continues to increase.
Last month, mortgage repayments were down 14%; rents by 11%, and council tax by 9%, compared to pre-pandemic levels.
Latest government figures from the Food Standards Agency show that declining incomes during the pandemic have forced millions to go without food or rely on food banks. The FSA reckons up to 7.7 million cash-strapped adults reduced meal portion sizes or skipped meals. And up to 3.7 million adults had to use a food bank.
A £6 billion shortfall in council funding in England during this financial year by the Tory government will mean more savage cuts to local services and council tax/service charges increases. Extra financial pressures and revenue falls because of the pandemic mean that an estimated eight out of ten councils face bankruptcy. Trade unions and the wider working class communities must get organised to stop jobs and services being slashed.


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Lagarde, 1875); (b) the old Latin, which as revised by Jerome in 383 after the current Greek text forms the Psalterium romanum, long read in the Roman Church and still used in St Peter's; (c) various Arabic versions, including that printed in the polyglots of Le Jay and Walton, and two others of the four exhibited together in Lagarde's Psalterium, Job, Proverbia, arabice, 1876; on the relations and history of these versions see G.
At Rome were published the Gospels (with a dedication to Pope Damasus, an explanatory introduction, and the canons of Eusebius), the rest of the New Testament and the version of the Psalms from the Septuagint known as the Psalterium romanum, which was followed (c. 388) by the Psalterium gallicanum, based on the Hexaplar Greek text.
This important version was first published in a good text by Lagarde, Psalterium juxta hebraeos hieronymi (Leipzig, 1874).
Of the Magnalia; The Short History of New England (1694); Bonifacius, usually known as Essays To Do Good (Boston, 1710; Glasgow, 1825; Boston, 1845), one of his principal books and one which had a shaping influence on the life of Benjamin Franklin; Psalterium Americanum (1718), a blank verse translation of the Psalms from the original Hebrew; The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements (1721); Parentator (1724), a memoir of his father; Ratio Disciplinae (1726), an account of the discipline in New England churches; Manuductio ad Ministerium: Directions for a Candidate of the Ministry (1726), one of the most readable of his books.
The Hexaplar text of the LXX., as reduced by Origen into greater conformity with the Hebrew by the aid of subsequent Greek versions, was further the mother (d) of the Psalterium gallicanum - that is, of Jerome's second revision of the Psalter (385) by the aid of the Hexaplar text; this edition became current in Gaul and ultimately was taken into the Vulgate; (e) of the SyroHexaplar version (published by Bugati, 1820, and in facsimile from the famous Ambrosian MS. by Ceriani, Milan, 1874).

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Terinspirasi dari pertanyaan yang tertulis di status facebook seorang teman, aku jadi ikutan penasaran untuk mengetahui universitas apa dan di mana yang merupakan universitas tertua di dunia.
- University of Al-Karaouine: Located in Fes, Morocco, this university originally was a mosque founded in 859 by Fatima al-Fihri, a woman. It developed into one of the leading universities for natural sciences. It wasnâ€™t until 1957 that the university added mathematics, physics, chemistry and foreign languages. This university is considered the oldest continuously-operating degree-granting university in the world by the Guiness Book of World Records.
- Al-Azhar University: This university, located in Egypt, is the worldâ€™s second oldest surviving degree-granting institute. Founded in 970-972, this university serves as a center for Arabic literature and Sunni Islamic learning. Al-Azhar university concentrates upon a religious syllabus, which pays special attention to the Quranic sciences and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad on the one hand, while also teaching all modern fields of science.
- Nizamiyya: This series of universities was established by Khwaja Nizam al-Mulk in the eleventh century in what is now present-day Iran. The most celebrated of all the Nizamiyya schools is Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad, established in 1065 in Dhuâ€™l Qaâ€™da and that remains operational in Isfahan. But, this was just one of many Nizamiyyah schools â€” others were located in Nishapur, Amul, Mosul, Herat, Damascus, and Basra. The Nizamiyya schools served as a model for future universities in the region, and al-Mulk often is seen as responsible for a new era of brilliance which caused his schools to eclipse all other contemporary learning institutions.
- University of Bologna: This university was the first higher-learning institute established in the Western world in 1088. The term, â€œuniversity,â€? was coined at its creation. Located in Bologna, Italy, this university led the Western world in educational innovations until the period between the two World Wars. At that time, leaders called upon the university to forge relationships with institutions in more advanced countries to modernize and re-invigorate its educational philosophies. This university met the call and, today, is considered a leader in the European university system.
- University of Paris: This universityâ€™s exact founding is unclear; however, teaching from this university existed since 1096. The university was reorganized as 13 autonomous universities in 1970. Often referred to as the Sorbonne after the College de Sorbonne (founded about 1257), this institute grew up in the latter part of the twelfth century around Notre Dame Cathedral as a corporation centered on the fields of arts, medicine, law and theology. In 1968 the cultural revolution commonly known as â€œthe French Mayâ€? resulted in the closing of the university for only the third time in history. Th
e first occasion was in 1229, and the second was due to the invasion by the German army of 1940.
- University of Oxford: Like the University of Paris, the exact date of this universityâ€™s founding is unclear. The formal founding date, however, is 1096 â€” although teaching from the Oxford location is considerably older than this date. This institute developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. The school has temporarily closed twice, once in 1209 for the town execution of two scholars and in 1355 for the St. Scholastica riot. Currently, this oldest English-speaking university contains 38 colleges, each with its own internal structure and activities.
- University of Montpelier: Located in Montpelier, France, this university also is considerably older than its founding date of 1150. A papal bull issued by Pope Nicholas IV in 1289 combined all long-existing schools into one main university. This university was suppressed during the 1793 French Revolution, but the faculties of science and letters were re-established in 1810, law in 1880. This university, in the spirit of modernism, was â€œre-foundedâ€? in 1969. The modern focus is on science and technology.
- University of Cambridge: Known as the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, this university was formed by scholars who left the University of Oxford over a dispute in 1209. The two schools have, therefore, a long history of rivalry between them. Currently, Cambridge is ranked as one of the worldâ€™s top five universities and is a premier leading university in Europe. As of 2009, the alumni from this university account for eighty-five Nobel Laureates. Cambridge now consists of 31 colleges comprised of over 150 departments, faculties, schools and other institutions.
- University of Salamanca: Located in Salamanca, Spain, this school was established in 1218 and obtained the title of â€œuniversityâ€? by Alexander IVâ€™s papal bull in 1225. The school originally was established by Leonese King Alfonso IX to allow the Leonese people to study at home rather than leave to study in Castile. Its historical high note was when Columbus consulted this instituteâ€™s scholars in seeking a western route to the Indies. Today, Salamanca remains the university of choice for Spanish students who want to focus on humanities and language studies.
- University of Padua: This is the second oldest uni
versity in Italy, falling behind the University of Bologna. This university was founded in 1222 when a group of students and professors left the University of Bologna in search for more academic freedom. Its primary claim to fame is its anatomical theater, established in 1595, which drew artists and scientists studying the human body during public dissections. The gardens and museums were begun in 1545, and remain as a testament to the focuses on botany and history. As of 2003, this university had approximately 65,000 students.

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Paintings and carvings stretch across Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau
One of them dates back 6,000 years, University of Tennessee researcher says
The images may be a composition of "enormous scale," he says
They reflect a three-tiered view of the world by the Native Americans of the Southeast
The paintings and carvings have been scattered around the caves and bluff faces of the Cumberland Plateau for centuries, left behind by the ancestors of the Native American nations of the Southeast.
Now a lengthy survey of the works indicates they’re all part of a pattern – a sweeping, interrelated series that illustrates how the continent’s prehistoric inhabitants saw the universe and their place in it, University of Tennessee anthropologist Jan Simek said.
“What’s part interesting is it spans an area literally from the Kentucky line down into northern Alabama,” Simek said. Most of them are between 500 and 900 years old, but radiocarbon dating indicates one painting of a hunter in east-central Tennessee was laid down 6,000 years ago. That would make it the oldest representation in North America known to date, he said.
“There is this cosmology being expressed … and one of the things we’re trying to suggest is the composition has an enormous scale,” he said.
Simek and colleagues from the University of the South, the U.S. Geological Survey and Mississippi State University spent about a decade and a half documenting the rock art of the Cumberland Plateau, which slices across Tennessee between Chattanooga and Nashville. They found common themes, colors and depictions across the 94 sites, 50 of them underground.
The aboveground works were drawn largely in red, a color associated with life, and tend to face to the south and west, away from the Appalachian Mountains.
“That’s looking into some of the most dramatic parts of the sky, especially in the spring and summer months,” Simek said. “And we know their relationship was such that they paid attention to celestial phenomena, but they also believed in a universe that was layered.”
Some of the images suggest an “upper world,” where forces of the weather and mythic representations of the sun and stars influenced human life. Those tended to be at higher elevations. Nearer the surface, “middle world” imagery featured people, animals and plants.
“Very often some of the humans that are depicted outside of caves are doing otherworldly kinds of things,” he said. “Very often, their hands and feet are extended, and they have very elongated digits, as if they’re reaching out of the rock or into the rock.” Many Native Americans believed boundaries between the spirit world and the natural were permeable, and things like rocks, trees and water sources – including caves – “were places those boundaries could be crossed.”
Down in the caves, however, the paintings were “characterized by darkness and danger, and was associated with death, transformation and renewal,” scientists wrote.
“The art sites, predominantly found in caves, feature otherworldly characters, supernatural serpents and dogs that accompanied dead humans on the path of souls,” they wrote. The images are largely painted in black, a color associated with death.
“There’s a small cave in the middle part of Tennessee, a very small cave that contains over 400 engraved images that are extraordinary,” Simek told CNN. “Some of them are tiny – so small that if you didn’t know how to look for them, you would never find them.”
Some of the images feature birds a half centimeter (1/5 of an inch) long, Simek said – yet when you look closely, “You can see the wing feathers on them.”
The findings were published this week in the British-based scientific journal Antiquity.

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Flying cars have long been the litmus test for whether or not our society is as technologically advanced by now as all of our 20th-century ancestors hoped it would be. The Jetsons had flying cars. The Back to the Future franchise predicted we’d have flying cars by 2015. Well, technology has finally caught up to fantasy! It’s 2018, and flying cars have hit the market.
What Can It Do?
It is 2018 after all, so, as you could imagine, the first flying car is extremely nice. The Transition, made by Terrafugia, runs of hybrid energy (gas and electric). Even though planes are notorious gas guzzlers, this flying car is extremely fuel efficient.
This is a two-seater car that becomes a two-seater helicopter. When driving it looks very much like a plane with its wings folded in.
The Futuristic Shows Lied To Us
If you want to see the Transition in action for yourself, watch this video. As you can see from the video, transitioning from driving to flying isn’t as easy as pressing a button.
If there are air traffic control regulations in your country, you have to contact air traffic control before you can go airborne with your own personal helicopter. It would be disastrous if there was an airborne accident between two planes. Drivers also need to inspect their cars to ensure that all the flying parts have properly deployed and that the wings are intact before taking off. Even if you have your own flying car, flying is a very serious activity.
What Kind Of License Do You Need To Drive One?
The Terrafugia Transition is considered to be a light sports aircraft, which is great for people who want to drive one and don’t already have a pilot’s license. The FAA gives different types of pilot’s license, and the kind for this type of plane is called a sports license.
To get this type of license, you need an FAA approved medical exam and a twenty-hour flying course. Next, you have to take a written test and a flying test. A 17-year-old who meets these requirements could get a Terrafugia Transition as his or her first car.
How To Buy A Transition
The cars are will be sold on preorder in late October to mid-November of 2018. Then, at the beginning of 2019 all of the fortunate first buyers will have their Transitions shipped out to their homes. Although the price hasn’t been officially announced this will likely be one expensive vehicle.
It runs on hybrid power, it’s made by a company associated with Volvo, and it’s the first flying car! Various internet sources have offered estimates on the price, and some are as high as $280,000. If these Transitions take off (pun intended) the next generation of teenaged drivers will need to get a driver’s license and a pilot’s license before they can hit the road.


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This link is long overdue. I intended to put it up last week, got distracted, and it slipped off my radar.
Cliff Harris is an indie game developer. A while back he asked on his blog for pirates to let him know why they pirate games. Now, we’ve had that conversation here many times, but this is the first time a game developer has begun such a dialog, and the results were pretty interesting. After being Slashdotted and linked all over the place, he had quite a stack of replies.
Harris then wrote this response. It’s a must-read for anyone interested in the subject, as he outlines a lot of the reasoning and then goes on to talk about what he’ll be doing differently in the future based on this feedback.
I agree with Jay Barnson, in that you have to take a lot of the responses with a grain of salt. The most flagrant pirates aren’t going to openly admit, “I pirate software because it’s cheaper and I can.” Those people will either cultivate more nuanced justifications, or they will probably avoid taking part in the discussion.
But even allowing for that, it’s an interesting read. It also gives me hope that no matter how badly EA and 2kGames salt their own fields with DRM, indie developers will be there to provide for our gaming needs.
The Middle Ages
Would you have survived in the middle ages?
A look at the main Borderlands games. What works, what doesn't, and where the series can go from here.
Joker's Last Laugh
Did you anticipate the big plot twist of Batman: Arkham City? Here's all the ways the game hid that secret from you while also rubbing your nose in it.
The Strange Evolution of OpenGL
Sometimes software is engineered. Sometimes it grows organically. And sometimes it's thrown together seemingly at random over two decades.
Even allegedly smart people can make life-changing blunders that seem very, very obvious in retrospect.


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Venezuelan leader vows to punish foes; charter-panel vote today
The opposition is boycotting because, it says, the vote called by Maduro was structured to ensure that his ruling socialist party dominates.
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolas Maduro pledged Saturday to go after his political foes with the virtually unlimited powers of a constitutional assembly being elected today, while Venezuela’s opposition made a lastditch effort to flood streets across the country in defiance of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and police.
In an address on staterun television, Maduro made clear he wants the assembly to strip opposition legislators of their constitutional immunity from prosecution and jail at least one.
“This little Hitler has his cell guaranteed!” Maduro shouted, using his frequent nickname for Freddy Guevara, a hard-line opposition leader and one the highest-profile organizers of four months of protests against the government.
In the opposition strongholds of relatively wealthy eastern Caracas, skinny teenagers manned barricades of tree branches, garbage and barbed wire torn from nearby buildings. Clashes with police began Friday afternoon and lasted into the night.
The months of violence have left at least 113 people dead and nearly 2,000 wounded.
Maduro called for people to turn out today for a vote to elect members of an assembly that is to rewrite the 18-yearold constitution created under President Hugo Chavez. The opposition is boycotting because, it says, the vote called by Maduro was structured to ensure that his ruling socialist party dominates.
The opposition says the government is so afraid of low turnout that it’s threatening to fire state workers who don’t vote and take away social benefits like subsidized food from recipients who stay away from the polls. By Wednesday, the resulting National Constituent Assembly will become one of the most powerful organs in the country, able to root out the last vestiges of democratic checks and balances in favor of what critics fear will be a single-party authoritarian system.
Maduro indicated he is eager to prosecute many more members of the opposition parties that control a handful of state governments along with the National Assembly, providing one of the few remaining checks on the power of the socialist party that has ruled the nation for nearly two decades.
“The right wing already has its prison cell waiting,” the president said. “All the criminals will go to prison for the crimes they’ve committed.”
First lady Cilia Flores, a candidate for the assembly, said it would create a commission to ensure those responsible for the political upheaval “pay and learn their lesson.” Diosdado Cabello, first vice president of Venezuela’s socialist party, said legislators in the opposition-controlled National Assembly will be stripped of their immunity from prosecution. He said the office of Venezuela’s chief prosecutor, who recently became one of Maduro’s most outspoken critics, would be “turned upside down.”
Washington has imposed successive rounds of sanctions on members of Maduro’s administration, and Vice President Mike Pence on Friday promised “strong and swift economic actions” after today’s vote. He didn’t say whether the U.S. would sanction Venezuelan oil imports, a measure with the potential to undermine Maduro but deepen Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis.
Opinion polls show that more than 70 percent of the country is opposed to the election. But as many as half of all Venezuelans support neither the government nor the opposition — a phenomenon evident in the glum paralysis that has gripped much of the country as protesters and police wage nightly battles. While Venezuelans bitterly complain about shortages of food and medicine, few still respond to opposition calls for protests, a far cry from early demonstrations that saw hundreds of thousands pouring into the streets.
“Many strange things have taken place this week that makes you wonder what is going on with the opposition. I don’t know. The opposition is at home, the opposition is hiding,” Caracas resident Abed Mondabed said.
The opposition has organized a series of work stoppages and a July 16 protest vote it says drew more than 7.5 million symbolic votes against the constitutional assembly. It called late Friday for marches on the day of the assembly vote.
In the eastern neighborhood of Bello Monte, the site of fierce battles with police in recent days, a 54-year-old shop owner named Ricardo watched masked adolescents block a road with dumpsters as a soot-smeared, emaciated man picked through their contents for bits of food.
Ricardo, who declined to provide his last name for fear of government retaliation, said he felt the vote meant the last chance for political resolution of Venezuela’s problems was gone, ushering in an even more violent phase.
“Negotiations have come to an end,” he said. “The fight will continue and all of a sudden it could be a lot tougher.”
People walk Saturday near a barricade erected by anti-government demonstrators in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela.

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Defining goals in participatory water management: merging local visions and expert judgements
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Management by objectives is intrinsic to the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) and Swedish environmental policy. We describe three approaches to formulating objectives via model-assisted dialogue with local stakeholders concerning eutrophication in a coastal drainage area in south-eastern Sweden: a WFD eco-centred approach based on 'natural state'; Swedish environmental policy reformulated into quantified reduction goals; and a participatory approach based on local stakeholder definitions of desirable environmental status. Despite problems with representation, we conclude that local stakeholder participation in formulating local goals could increase goal functionality and robustness when adapting and implementing national and EU WFD goals at the local level.
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|Journal||Journal of Environmental Planning and Management|
|Publication status||Published - 2011|


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Cop dat album!
I’m meaning to write a review of it, like 5 days ago, but I’ll do it this weekend.
Along with a bit of organization and maybe following a few of these guidelines:
Simplicity (72 ideas for creating it, from Zen Habits)
More organization would be a great thing for me, because I already lost the article I read from them earlier with only like 10 steps. 70, 10, it’s all the same if you’re not doing them, but all the rage if you are.
I’ll work on working on stuff too, like wording, and optimism.


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How are guys and girls different?
they are very different with their mannerisms, dress sense (you dont see a guy wearing a dress now do you?) their body parts (no guys have fannys) and they like the opposite sex (unless they are gay or lez)
Different guys like different girls. Some guys like fiesty, pain in the neck girls. Some guys like submissive girls. Just be you and try to find someone that likes you for who you are. Different guys like different girls. Some guys like fiesty, pain in the neck girls. Some guys like submissive girls. Just be you and try to find someone that likes you for who you are.
Is it true that guys just call girls confusing because they are sad that they do not have the special qualities of girls?
There is no such thing as what most guys like...every guy is different and is attarcted to different girls for different reasons. Sorry if this is not a very helpful answer but it is very true!! yah, all guys are different... but id rather prefer a semi shy, sweet girl tho most guys like something in the middle
There is no answer to that, really. Guys are smarter than Girls in different ways, and Girls are smarter than Guys in different ways. one thing that has been tested is that schools are more adapted to girls. Girls learn more from teaching , boys tend to learn from hands on experience. A man's brain is bigger but a woman uses more of hers
This is a bit of a loaded question. Not all white guys think black girls are ugly. There are probably some white guys that do not find black girls attractive, just like there are some that do not find red heads attractive, or girls that are tall, or girls that are short. Different people are attracted to different things. There are plenty of interracial relationships throughout the world. There are white guys that are only…
It all depends on personality, you can't say girls or guys are better on a whole because everybody is different. Everyone will have their own opinion about girls or guys being better. The truth is that you can't lump a large group like guys or girls together and say which group is the best. There are good guys and bad guys and there are good girls and bad girls. Guys are better at some things…
i think girls get guys to become attracted to them by dressing nicely, smiling, flirting, and just being themselves around them. they may not try if they are not confident, and may just wish for something to happen to them. girls should try, or they may regret not trying. girls are different from guys.


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Senator Nancy Schaefer spoke out against Child Protective Service and the abuse of children.
CPS Does not protect children…
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of Child Protective Services.
CPS is funded on a pay-per-kid basis. No kids in the system = no money. Then there are the bonuses. Up to $60,000.00 per kid taken from their natural parents and adopted out. Nothing for keeping families together. Most workers are good people trying to protect children. Some are not.
They say they help orphans but when is the last time you saw an orphan?
They create orphans by finding abuse everywhere they look. Some counties take away 90% of the kids they have contact with, some less than 10%.
These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN) Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS .
*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*
These numbers are based on the number of cases per 100,000 children in the US.
|Child Protective Sevices vs. Parental Abuse|
|Physical Abuse||CPS/Foster care||160||Biological Parents||59|
|Sexual Abuse||CPS/Foster care||112||Biological Parents||13|
|Neglect||CPS/Foster care||410||Biological Parents||241|
|Medical Neglect||CPS/Foster care||14||Biological Parents||12|
|Fatalities||CPS/Foster care||6.4||Biological Parents||1.5|
6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children.
CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children than parents in the United States.
Senator Nancy Schaefer was murdered a couple months back. They called it murder suicide. We may never know the truth.


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Fortunately he's seen it and likes it.
Now director Andy Muschetti has explained to Collider why King wasn't involved in the film.
"I'm very happy making an adaptation, my interpretation of the story, and I would be thrilled to meet Stephen King," he said, talking on set while the film was being shot.
"But there comes a time in the process where you start feeling good with your interpretation of it, and your contribution to the story, and it doesn't feel like I want to discuss my ideas with him, you know?
"I don't know. It feels like something that I would be embarrassed to tell him, you know? 'Your words and your moments don't work,' right?"
Among the changes made to the book, Muschetti's version of the story is split into two halves, the first of which will just feature the kids. He's also said that any involvement of the giant magic turtle from the book will be toned down, saying:
"I was never too crazy about the mythology, but it is mentioned, and the turtle appears, as a Lego. It's a Lego turtle. It's a presence that's there in the key moments of the story. Especially when – there's a moment where they're all together – well, you'll see in the movie. I won't spoil you."
He's also chosen not to include the weird orgy. Which is something of a relief.
IT opens on September 8.

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This repeats more detailed information found elsewhere. If your computer can't seem to find your serial port and you already know something about hardware resources (addresses like 3F8 and IRQs like 5) then try this: First, get into the BIOS (often called "setup") when the computer is powered on by pressing certain keys. To find out what keys to press, watch the screen as your PC starts up. If the words that flash by on the screen too fast to read, freeze them by holding down the "pause" and "shift" keys at the same time. Then when read, hit any key to resume (cease pausing) and hold down the key(s) required to enter the BIOS setup. You may have to try this again since there may be more than one screen which you can freeze with the "pause" key. Also, look for messages about the serial ports on these frozen screens.
Once in the BIOS menus, try to find menus dealing with the serial port. They could be shown in a menu dealing with Resources, Plug-and-Play, Peripherals, Ports, etc. Some old BIOSs setups (before 1995 ?) didn't deal with the serial ports. Make sure the ports you need are not disabled and note how they are configured (like 3F8 IRQ 4). You may need to change the configuration to prevent conflicts. There could be a shortage of IRQs if the BIOS has reserved some IRQs that it didn't need to reserve.
For serial ports to be found, either the kernel must have been compiled with serial support, or serial support must be provided by a module. To check this look in the file /boot/config-2.6... and search for SERIAL. =m means it's a module and you may check to see the modules that are being used by typing: lsmod.


On Skrillex’s birthday (Jan. 16), he decided to surprise fans by reuniting with his former band From First To Last to release “Make War”. It was his first track he had done with the band in over 10 years. The group then created an Instagram account that listed the individual members of FFTL in the bio where Skrillex’s handle is included. While he’s yet to make any official announcements about his return to the band, he did take the reunion up a notch by performing with FFTL last night (Feb. 7) at ‘Emo Nite’ in Los Angeles.
Watch the new official 14+ minute recap from From First To Last below.


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Celestial Bloom Necklace
Like the feeling of love – a heavenly sensation, a celestial feeling, and an out of the world gift.
This dainty necklace is made of paper beads I lovingly handcrafted from eco friendly paper. The flower pendant is made of paper beads in lilac and yellow. The pendant hangs from a cream waxed cotton cord. The necklace length can be adjusted with the little wooden bead.
My jewelry making process is incredibly time consuming and tedious, however, the final result always makes me smile. I hope it brings you the same joy 🙂
Pendant- 1 inch (2.5 cm) long and 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide
Necklace length – Adjustable with a maximum length of 30 inches (76 cm).
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Enjoy 10% off when you buy the necklace-earrings set. View the jewelry set.
This jewelry set is part of my ‘Vibrant Nature’ collection, marvelling at the wonders of nature. View the entire collection.
The paper beads are protected using a sealant which allows the jewelry to be sweat and splash proof. However, they should not be immersed in water. Read detailed care instructions here.
All items will arrive in beautiful handcrafted gift boxes, ready for gift giving.
I have ordered many pair of earrings from this shop – some for myself and quite a few as gifts. EVERY pair of them is BEAUTIFUL. The craftsmanship ( the craftsWOmanship!) is AMAZING. The creativity, color and shapes are sooooo unique. The shop owner is so lovely -and so attuned to detail – even the packaging is beautiful! I wore these particular earrings this week and got SOOOOO many compliments. I am so glad I found this shop.
Love the look of this uniquely beautiful jewelry set! Hard to imagine it is from paper and so well made! Great color combinations, fun summer jewelry. Thank you!
Love these earrings! They come in the cutest box. The seller communicates very well, which helps a lot!
This is a really neat pendant. Got it as a birthday gift for my niece. I think she’ll love it. Very well made and sent in a cute gift box. Packaged well and arrived in perfect condition. It only took 15 days to get from India to the east coast of the US. I don’t think that is bad at all. It is also nice that this is an adjustable necklace. Very unique!!
Even nicer in reality! Really lovely earrings – amazingly inventive use of paper. Nicely packaged.
Beautiful and excellent craftsmanship! My wife loves her new gift. Thank you so much PaperMelon!!!!

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On one hand, don’t regulate others. On the other, immediately let someone know when it affects us personally. So, tell on authority to help us in schools. Given, good netiquette to talk to a trusted adviser about things that make you uncomfortable. Do tell. Checks and balances are required.
Authority Netiquette Schools
Next, we consider education a right. Also, seek it out. So, it is necessary. Then, tech is making it easier. As as a result, more of a business. Hence, feedback helps us improve. In addition, past abuse has been noted. Furthermore, we have more resources now.
There are many things that can happen in a school setting that break the rules or laws. Cheating among students is common. Contact that is not appropriate between coaches and athletes is another.
Proper protocol is to tell someone. A trusted adviser is an authority figure in good standing in the community who can help. Not necessarily a parent or a teacher. A good friend. Someone who can help us deal with the situation emotionally.
We break the rules and the law. When this happens, tell a trusted advisor. They can help us deal with it. Seeing someone do something inappropriate may bother us. ‘Get it off our chest’ so to speak. Also, might need to tell a couple people. Often, we tell ten people about bad customer experiences.
For example, principles of schools should not be at a casino on a regular basis. Especially alone. Probably on drugs which leads to a lot of criminal activity. Recreational gambling occasionally with a friend or friends may be acceptable. Tell somebody.
Report perceived crime to someone. Even if it is seen on the internet. Sometimes a person may just need some good advice. Telling a trusted advisor is the right thing to do for teachers and students alike.
Tell On Authority Netiquette
Tell a respectable person anytime something uncomfortable happens because their opinion is respected.


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Call for Artists – Babbitt Road Mural Project
Keep Euclid Beautiful, a committee of the City of Euclid, was recently awarded a grant from Sherwin Williams through Keep Ohio Beautiful to paint a mural on the east retaining wall of the CSX railroad bridge on Babbitt Road near the new Amazon Fulfillment Center.
This is the same grant that helped make “Expansive Greetings” – the community painted octopus mural - happen in downtown Euclid in 2018. Keep Euclid Beautiful is on a mission to “do beautiful things” in Euclid, including litter education and prevention and enhancing our city with public art.
This year, the blank canvas is much larger – up to 8,500 SF of wall could be painted! A ‘call for artists’ is currently hosted with Arts Cleveland at https://mycreativecompass.org/. Please share the opportunity and stay tuned to Keep Euclid Beautiful’s Facebook page for information throughout the summer on how any and every community member can participate. We look forward to announcing a small, socially distanced art event to coincide with the painting of this exciting project in September 2020.
Allison Lukacsy-Love is the Community Projects Manager at the City of Euclid. You can reach her at (216) 289-8160 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.org


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Watch: Cows go on rampage in street after escaping
They're on the moo-ve!
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Around 40 were on the loose in Lichfield - and police were called to help with the round-up.
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In the Wall Street Journal Thursday, Peggy Noonan laid into the State of the Union speech, calling it ‚Äúa spectacle of delusion and self-congratulation in which a Congress nobody likes rose to cheer a president nobody likes.‚ÄĚ
Noonan‚Äôs theme was ‚Äúthe growing distance between Washington and the public it dominates.‚ÄĚ There‚Äôs no scoop there, at least to members of the Tea Party, and certainly not to Sarah Palin.
Where was she? In 2008 she was enthralled by candidate Barack Obama,¬†whose ‚Äúvictory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief.‚ÄĚ In 2012, she said she was privately receiving thanks from conservatives for ‚Äúher candid and unflattering assessment of the state of the Romney campaign.‚ÄĚ Now, in 2014, she seems concerned about a federal government that is larger than ever and out of touch with ordinary citizens. In other words, welcome to the Tea Party.
Palin‚Äôs full Facebook post reads:
Great article, Peggy, but where the heck were you when I and other commonsense conservatives were sounding the warning bell in ‚Äô08? You joined the ‚Äúcool kids‚ÄĚ in mocking and condescendingly criticizing ‚ÄĒ ultimately demanding that we ‚Äúsit down and shut up.‚ÄĚ Better late than never, though, Peggy and your ilk, because, meanwhile back in America‚Ä¶
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It’s early days, but the long-range impact of a master-planned community on the westside of town could be a roundabout leading to an overpass.
Green Road has long been an important corridor in transportation planning, though it does not look like much now. The dirt road, which is mostly unimproved, runs from the northern boundary of Maricopa south across State Route 238 and down to Garvey Avenue at the railroad tracks. South of the tracks, it runs from Madison Avenue down to McDavid and then down the westside of Maricopa Meadows.
Along the way, Green’s northernmost stretch borders the current Anglin Dairy. Owners of that property wish to turn the low-density agricultural land into a community of single-family and multi-family housing, with a mixed-use portion at the northwest corner of SR 238 and Green Road.
City planner Ryan Wazniak said a roundabout at that intersection is under consideration. He called it a “traffic-calming measure.”
City engineer Josh Plumb said a four-legged roundabout is being explored, “with a potential overpass on Green Road.”
The City’s long-range transportation plan has the possibility of a Green Road overpass crossing the Union-Pacific tracks. The idea is to give residents on the southside another corridor north and relieve traffic on John Wayne Parkway as the city grows.
Anglin Dairy was back before Maricopa Planning & Zoning Commission on Monday for a public hearing on its request for a major General Plan amendment. The project involving 493 acres on an L-shaped property is only at the concept level.
Another public hearing is scheduled Sept. 28 at Copper Sky. The P&Z Commission may take action at that hearing.
The current dairy is bordered by state land to the east, Gila River land to the north and Ak-Chin Southern Dunes to the west. Developers are asking for a re-designation from low-density, medium-density and mixed use to master-planned community on the General Plan. That is considered a major amendment because it is over 160 acres.
They are not yet seeking a zoning change.
Wazniak said the City and developers will be taking several factors into consideration, including traffic flow.
“The intersection is being evaluated for what it can do for this facility type as it approaches the urbanized section of the City of Maricopa,” he said.
Commissioner Ted Yocum noted, “its use as a dairy is becoming noncompatible considering the direction we seem to be going.”
Commissioner Dan Frank called for more diversity in the types of multi-family projects that are coming before the commission. “Almost everything we’re getting is medium-density.”
A portion of the property is in the Vekol Wash watershed, an issue Plumb said would likely be addressed as the site develops.


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East Africa and Horn of Africa (EHoA)3 region are a crossroads of different migration and displacement patterns, with sending, transit and hosting countries sharing common challenges in terms of economic development, health, peace and security threats. Unemployment, protracted conflicts, and environmental degradation are some of the determinants that have characterized this region for decades, and they are also important causative factors for people to migrate. In the Horn of Africa, consequences of climate change and the impact of natural hazards such as frequent drought, flooding and more recently locust invasions have exhausted the resilience of local communities, forcing many to migrate either internally towards the cities, or abroad. Africa is the continent with the highest intra-continental migration (2); 80% of intra-continental movement, characterized mainly by the migration of low-skilled workers, occurs toward bordering countries and through unofficial ground-crossing points along porous borders.
El derecho a la salud y la política migratoria: un tema importante en la agenda pública de la región
Comunicado Lancet Migration para América Latina

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I’m really surprised Dr. Showalter doesn’t know the answer to the article about “Credential Inflation” he recently published. Steve it’s really simple, it’s call liberalism, participation trophies, politically correct, brain washing kids at the elementary level through college. Democratic teachers union protecting terrible teachers who pass kids to just get them out of school. It’s to mean to make them learn and pass proficiency tests right? Baltimore recently had 15,000 students graduate with not one being proficient in reading and math. Think about that Steve then start a movement to go back to the days of old when there wasn’t politics in the schooling system.
I sincerely hope that people are tired of dumb kids, liberal teachers, BLM, Antifa, rioting, looting, talk of defunding police and every other democratic/liberal cause. Just a reminder, it’s tough out there in the real world.


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Ladies and gentlemen make sure your dance moves are on point as Nigerian star Mayokun Awodumi la, popularly known as Mr.MayD will be performing live for the first time in Kenya.
The mass communication graduate has worked with artists such P square, Akon, Mafikizolo and many other stars. Some of his biggest songs include; Chop my money” with P-Square and Akon, Happiness featuring Mafikizolo and Gat Me Hight.
MayD will be performing in Mombasa on the 30th of May and 31st in Nairobi for the Art of Luxury Party at Skylux Lounge.
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In the coming weeks, China Compliance Digest will cover the most significant anti-corruption compliance risk factors facing multinationals operating in China. Subscribers will receive the latest reports via email as soon as they become available.
In the first half of 2012, China overtook the United States for the first time since 2003 to become the world’s leader in inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI).
Despite an apparent tapering-off in economic growth and widespread wage increases on the mainland, China is expected to continue to attract billions in foreign investment throughout 2013 and beyond.
China’s leaders aren’t leaving anything to chance. In November 2012, China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) announced investor-friendly policy changes designed to allow foreigners more autonomy over the funds they bring into the country.
Yet would-be foreign investors are still subject to a convoluted approvals regime whose overarching logic appears arbitrary to some outsiders.
In a 2010 report comparing the FDI policies of the United States and China, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said one of the key characteristics of the Chinese system was “relatively opaque inbound FDI approval processes that accord broad discretion to government administrators.”
Some companies have said this lack of transparency allows China leeway to favor homegrown enterprises over foreign ones while maintaining deniability.
In addition, recent history shows China’s foggy regulatory environment can be conducive to corruption.
In 2008, authorities uncovered a nest of corrupt officials within the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC). Both agencies are heavily involved in determining which foreign ventures will gain entrée into the Chinese market.
The first to fall was director-general of MOFCOM Law Department Guo Jingyi, who was found to have accepted bribes totaling 8.45 million yuan (US $1.35 million).
Guo informed on several of his colleagues, including Deng Zhan, deputy director-general of MOFCOM’s department of foreign investment administration, and Liu Wei, deputy director of SAIC Foreign-Invested Enterprises Registration Bureau.
Deng’s close relationship with Guo reportedly stretched back to their student days at Peking University. The pair allegedly had many bribe-givers in common, including ENN Group, which is China’s largest private gas company, and lawyer Zhang Yudong.
Chinese media reported Deng accepted 400,000 yuan in bribes (US $63,000) from Dutch electronics company Philips.
Chinese media observers have suggested the probe into Deng Zhan may be linked to the ongoing FCPA investigation surrounding possible bribes paid to secure Avon China’s direct-sales license.
Avon’s internal investigation centering on anti-corruption compliance in China and elsewhere has so far cost the company more than $280 million.
Deng also served as president of the China Association of Enterprises With Foreign Investment (CAEFI), which promotes overseas investment into China.
Liu Wei allegedly collected illicit advantages worth at least 1.35 million yuan (US $214,822). Authorities said Liu received a 50 percent discount on his house in exchange for providing “consultation services” to ENN Group and developer Beijing Capital Co. Ltd.
In 2010, Deng and Liu were handed prison terms of 12 and 11 years, respectively.
The same year, Guo was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.
Sources: Jinghua Times (京华时报), Southern Weekend (南方周末)
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Posted October 22, 2017
Screening is an important part of preventative health in general practice.
The main programs that are advised here in Australia to improve the health of the nation and prevent critical diseases.
National Cervical Cancer Screening Program
- Proven reduction in incidence of cervical cancer by looking for abnormalities of the cells on the cervix or high risk Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) that can lead to cervical cancer.
- Recent change in that from December 2017 –
- 5 yearly cervical screening test (liquid based sample replaces traditional pap smear slide testing)
- Age 25-74
- Analysis for HPV DNA – if found cervical cell tests (cytology) are performed on this sample
- A high risk abnormalities are referred to a specialist clinic for colposcopy and potential removal of abnormalities that could lead to cervical cancer.
- Click here
National Bowel Cancer Screening Program
- 2 yearly faecal occult blood test (FOBT) sent to people aged 50-74.
- Looks for hidden blood in faeces that could be from a cancerous tumour.
- Proven reduction in incidence of bowel cancer.
- Abnormalities would lead to an urgent referral for a colonoscopy.
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Breast Screening Program
- Every woman aged 50-74 is offered a free mammogram every 2 years.
- Mammograms look for breast changes associated with breast cancer in asymptomatic women.
- It should not replace regular checks for lumps and investigation of these by a GP.
- Click here. Or book in at breast screen victoria by clicking here.

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Dhaka, July 29: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved a Tk 2,511.51-crore project to expand the scope for science education in 200 government colleges across the country.The approval came from the 3rd ECNEC meeting of the current fiscal year at the NEC conference room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar held with ECNEC Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, BSS reports.
Briefing the reporters after the meeting, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said a total of nine projects involving an overall estimated cost of Tk 7,539.13 crore were approved today.
“Of the total project cost, Taka 6,751.66 crore will come from the GoB portion, Tk 258.57 crore from the organisation’s own fund while the rest of Tk 528.90 crore from project assistance,” he said.
Of the approved nine projects, eight are new while one is a revised project.
The Planning Minister said the Secondary and Higher Education Division under the Ministry of Education will implement ‘the Expansion of Science Education project’ by June 2021.
Noting that the importance of science and technology is indispensable in the current world, Kamal said the interest of the country’s students and youth folks has declined over science education in recent times.
According to the data of the Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics, students in science education section have declined by 11.12 percent compared to arts and commerce education at the higher secondary level during 1990 to 2013.
So, Kamal said, there is no alternative to taking immediate measures to remove the barriers in science education.
Under the circumstances, the project has been placed and approved which aims to increase infrastructural facilities in some 200 government colleges to expand science education side by side increasing the capacity of the teachers and increasing scope for conducting researches in science and technology.
The main project operations include construction of one six-storey academic building in 176 government colleges having rooms for teachers, classrooms, IT lab-cum-language rooms, multipurpose halls, common rooms, rest rooms, upward extension of existing academic buildings in 18 colleges alongside renovation of academic buildings in six colleges, construction of 164-seat male and female hostels in 47 colleges, and providing ICT equipments, furniture and office equipments to some 200 government colleges and 47 hostels.

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Honey is a remarkable healing agent for all sorts of ailments. The benefits you can gain from pure bee honey is limitless.
Honey contains flavonoids, antioxidants which help reduce the risk of some cancers and heart disease.
Honey has antibacterial, anti-fungal, and antioxidants activities that make it ideal for treating wounds. Honey releases hydrogen peroxide through an enzymatic process, which explains its general antiseptic qualities.
It also works as an excellent energy booster.

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