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I look at this and think nah it's a hoax, zombie movie makeup, but it's not, that is what happens when the rot sets in, I thought the scars from my meningococcal disease could have been bad but that is just gut churning sick, why TF would anyone do that to themselves.
Have u ever had a heroin addiction. If not then u have no idea what ppl will do
I agree with you totally!! if you've never been there you'll never know so you need not comment on it! Don't get me wrong its a good thing that you've never been there, but I hate it when people talk about addiction and I don't even understand it.cCan you imagine how horrible it must be to just have to keep doing that to yourself until you rot!! My heart goes out to these people.
You dont know
" be to just have to keep doing that to yourself until you rot!!"
I keeped doing it after my flesh started rooting from inside out. The difference is that i started using more frequently.
And i knew the next was the bones.
At the hospital my imunologic system was 7 times under the tolerable limit. That is why i started rooting. When you start rooting it is when you are about decide to dye and acellerate the process using kkdye.
If i had taken antibiotic before start rooting i would have a chance to stop.
see you next life!
I will go to hell because of suicide?
My is kllllll
Oh wow. In my opinion. You will NOT go to he'll. Im so sorry you are suffering. Love and peace . Next life love.
Omg r u alright?
Are you still alive? It is NEVER TOO LATE TO REPENT YOUR SINS… please pray to God for salvation.
Jehovah God will not send you to hell for suicide. Ask Jesus to come into your heart and relieve Him as your Savior. He will forgive and receive you unto him. Love and prayers❤😢
I don't believe there is any hell after we die. Hell is here. I'm sending you love, healing and peace in my thoughts.
Ms Forbes i can tell you there is a hell. Im not going into the incident that occurred that day. It was three days before the rotting flesh and stinch was out my nostrils. I didn't get use too it. I promise you. You will scream the name of JESUS why. There people who has been there hundreds and thousands of years. Just like here you get hungry. They will try and eat on a new person who arrives your flesh there has not taken on a rot yet. It will rot to a degree and regenerate enough to keep you alive you wilk struggle to breath its so hot. Every unomaginable horrorn will be hunting you to inflict pain. You wilk burn from inside out. You will beg for food. And water. None. If you meet someone you know theunwilk trick you into area in order too attack you they are hungry. Nothing good comes from satan. I want tell you the worst.
Caroline, So sorry you will find out about hell the hard way! I promise to start praying for you. Accept Jesus and believe❤🙏 He is the Savior of the world and he loves you!
Are you still alive?
You won't go to hell just because of a suicide. Ask God to forgive you for what you have done, accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and he will receive you unto him. The Lord be with you, I will pray for you❤😢
Obviously they knew the what would happened before they took the drug as with any drug there is side affects do it and suffer plain and simple. No simpathy for any addict.
I understand ur statement but I guess u haven't been there either. My mother and father were addicts and me being born of 2 addicts I was 75% more likely to be an addict. I did not ask for this and being ADHD the fact I have been fed pills my whole life from age 7 didn't help. So please have sympathy for my crack addicted mother who sold me for drugs starting at age 4. But do not have any sympathy for me who now being 32 has a beautiful 15 month old daughter who will never know that or my life. But I am an addict also. But I have and will stop, and regress or fall off the wagon maybe for life, but the people I love will not suffer for my disease. I can't wait until addiction hits ur family cause it does in all so that u will want sympathy and love for the person or u..
how can you say "wait until addiction hits ur family"? If an a**hole does not have sympathy for a human being, that is one thing. Wishing pain and misery on another to understand a concept is totally ignorant. it is another form of hate. God bless the person who did not go thru or knows anything about addiction. You dont get any props for "being there" or having been there.
No they didn't know. Duh it's not the hope of anyone… yet the ignorance and hate of someone unknown to this, to know so they aren't hateful .. I only hope for that und er standing and love to come wi th out life's lesson.
wishing something bad on someone else doesn't do anything to heal your pain
No they didn't know. Duh
U are very ignorant I am an addict and we have a feeling disease
Like you never had a problem with something? You don't have to be an ass about it..
I agree
I totally agree with you!!!
Who are you? Do you know nothing? The addiction is akin to the cancer you get from smoking. It is there. You can't turn back. There are so many factors that go into creating an addiction. What if you did everything right in life? What if you did everything your parents, your preacher, your teacher, your professors, everyone told you and you graduated, and then you went to college and graduated. Two degrees. Became a social worker. What I saw was awful. So yes, I started socially drinking after hours. I didn't ever think I would get an injury that would require painkillers. Painkillers that also numbed my inside pain. Now you can stop right there and say loser, but when you are a 23 year old trying to find a home for a two year old that has no mother but has vaginal tearing and daddy is who everyone is blaming I started to self medicate because I couldn't cry in front of this baby, OK? I had every reason not to take that first pill but I did and I have been fighting an addiction for ten years now. I lost my job. I had to quit. I'd be a hypocrite not to. I lost everything. I got on a suboxobone program, my insurance changed. After three years I relapsed. So, please don't talk about addicts like we are no body. We are people struggling to live everyday. I have never taken anything stronger than a percocet except the suboxobone, but I feel for these people because some days I think I can't fight this demon today. To all my friends fighting something in life, hang in there. People do care about you. To everyone, please stop the hate, it keeps people sick. Come on. Educate yourself. It could be your son or your daughter.
Hey dumb judgemental person people like u are truly the reason why addiction lives. Go get in a car accident or fall climbing a cliff enjoy ur painkillers the doctor gives u cause when they decide to take them or ur doctor dies and ur dependent because of them then lay there for eighteen month not feeling normal because ur brain can't function because ur doctor never told you that the pain pill was legal heroin now u will never be the same. There would not be so much drug treatment If it was not a disease or you could control it. Unfortunately it is and someone u love suffers from it in the closet because ur too dumb to forget your judgement hell if u had children imagine there suffering in silence because people like you would rather judge than help!! Prey for the addict that suffers because there cards may not have been dealt as a royal flush. And if u believe in God prey for forgiveness for he is with those who don't pass judgement hr is with those who have realized pride is wrong and only he is righteous. You are a toy in his world not your own where there must be no room for mistakes because I'm his world there is and ur house is made of glass. You have much wisdom to find and much growing up to-do. Things are not that simple!
You need to get saved!
Your. Correct
Oh sweet heart I understand. I am also a recovering addict. You have to take it one day at a time. I pray u get better. I'm sorry. It's hard.
But I learned you actions have reactions to the choices you make in your life. I am a spokes persons who goes to rehabs and talk and tell my story about my life and my additive drugs. And we talk about all kinds of things. And I have been volunteering for 13 year's. I pray thingscwork out for you.
Debbie is right, keep as far away from all drugs except weed in some cases. I was addicted to OxyContin crushing and snorting them. In rehab they told me I had the equivalent of a 3bag of heroin a day habit. I was so shocked because I WOULD NEVER DO HEROIN! Right. Many years ago a smart First Lady named Nacy Reagan said"JUST SAY NO!" I almost lost everything but my wife being the strong loving woman that she is, told the Doctor on me. At the time I hated her for that. She saved my life and I have spent the last 15yrs thanking her. We'll be married 28yrs on the 22nd. I'm glad God put her in my life because she saved it.
My heart doesn't go out to any moron that does this…they are the dumbasses that did it, let them suffer
Honestly I hope u find a way to soften ur heart. Hurt has hardened u to others. U should know better about someone if u actually care. Lets try more of that.. love not hate
Percocet is an opiate and that just feeds addiction. Talk to a counselor or a spiritual advisor. There are all kinds of free programs out there. I'm in one right now. 3 group sessions and individual counseling session once a month. The put me individual counseling 4 times a month because they rated me severe. Don't ever give and remember that your baby depends on you.I'll be thinking about you (I went through horrible things too but am now just trying to get better….in recovery for 5 weeks).
I suppose we could all close our eyes . Since we cant speculate.
Try Spice addiction that suks
What has gone so wrong in this world that people wld go to such lengths to escape their reality
watch the news…. :)
I'm currently a heroin addict an I will say that there is no way I would do this stuff!!! I would def go sick an sober up. Why would anyone knowingly do that to themselves? I know, I know…. Heroin is killing u too, just slower an diff way. I just don't know. Def not trying to judge even though sounds like I am… I apologize to anyone my comment might have offended.
I was a heroin and pain pill addict for over 35 yrs. one day I fell on my knees and asked God the Father to forgive me of my sins and accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior and invited the Holy Ghost to live inside me. I threw all my pills away, poured all my alcohol out, suffered for about 2 days and was totally delivered. I was also as alcoholic. I never touched or desired it again. He took it all away because he knew my heart was sincere. Give Him a chance! "I can do all things through Jesus Christ, who strengthens me" I will pray for you. I'm now 63 and sober!
I've not been on heroin but I banged Roxy and OC and dalotdid an now meth!!! I sit wonder what I would do if I couldn't get the drug I wanted!!!I probably would do it myself! I don't know why the needle makes me do cdrazy things!!! I tested positive for hep C about 2 and half years ago!!!! I did stop doing everything BC I did want my kids to see me die young and the way it would happen!!! Well a year later found out I did not have it anymore or it was a false positive!!! Doctor said Tonia u got a second chance don't get back on the needle!!!! Well here I sit high now BC I shot a butt load of meth. I told my friend that if I didnt have a point in would go behind someone. Thats crazy as hell!!!! I love drugs and I hate them all at the same time!!! If u ain't an addict u want understand!!! Well if u don't bang u probably won't understand either. If u never used a needle please take it from a junkie DONT DO IT !!!!!!!!!
That's their prob. I have zero sympathy for those people. I've had a super shitty life and I don't drink or do drugs. So they got what they deserve.
Cuz they're stupid that's why. They choose to do it, they chose to start doing it. Prob would have started rotting the brain first if these people actually had one. Oh well.
I dont have any pitty on anyone who does drugs it is there own fault for doing them you know what will happen what can happen nobody's fault but their own…
Don't be a hater.
Your statement is untrue. You believe everybody knows what will happen, what can happen? Maybe not after you matured 16 whole months…. hah
Your an ignorant dumb ass you need to get educated on the fact that half our society or better is strung out on pulls or street drugs . don't be a dumb ass all your life this will be affecting people in the our family possibly even one of your kids one day and then you will feel the struggle and the sadness as you watch them self destruct don't you get it? Once you do drugs they start doing you!!!!!!
I'm with you. It was their choice to start doing drugs so…you reap what u sow. I don't think ur a hater…I think ur a realist like me.
May god have mercy on these people.
I believe that krokodil is sold to the unwitting addicts as "Heroin". They are literally told, "this is heroin". The users then inject the drug fully unaware of what they are really injecting. The same thing happens with MDMA aka Ecstasy. Buyers are sold a "fake" drug that is made to appear like the one they are seeking. The unwitting victims do not realize the danger until the rot sets in. Tragic. LEGALIZE DRUGS. Increase the availability of methadone.
I have been an addict before i think these people honestly dont know what will happen or they think its heroin either or a strict crackdown needs to b done here bfore people we know and love ends up a zombie and we loose them i say do ur pot ur coke ur meth ur pilss whatever just make sure u dont get hold of this stuff i know addicts who have been that way for 50 or 60 yrs and are still here at least but this is awful lifespan for it 2 or 3 yrs is all now
I'm sorry, but I DO NOT BELIEVE for one second that these people "thought" they were buying "heroin" and it was this krokodil junk. Here is the one and only reason why…you do not buy heroin in a liquid form in any type of beaker or container. I have never used needles but whenever I or someone else I know has bought H in smaller quantities like dimes or dubs, it is in powder form. Half G or more usually in rock or "hard" form. The point I am getting to is that you either snort it, or "cook" it and the only other "substance" used other than the heroin is water.
You an snort, smoke or eat heroin, so I don't uderstand your response.
Awesome comment! I agree w everything u just said. Addicts really don't care, ecspiecally when in need of a fix. Been there… It is pretty shitty for someone to do that to someone.. But, that's the name of the game. An ur rite, if they would just legalize it there'd be a lot less shit like this an a lot less deaths too I would think. If the government would just think about it…… They money they could make! They'd probably b outta debit before you'd know it
My wife and I had come across these twenty pictures.We couldn't believe our eyes,and that's to say the least.I myself am an recovering addict/Drunk.Sober now for 8yrs and trying to wrap my mind around all of this.I know what it's like to have uncontrollable cravings but my god!!!!I just hope that where ever this drug shows up the athorites are able to shut it down hard and fast.
May God be with all,and keep all from this terrible, terrible POISON.
Scott D.
You know I got to using drugs not because I wanted to do drugs.but from using prescription pain pills because of broken bones and other injuries. So before I knew it I was addicted which led to other drugs. So all of you making comments about people who are addicted are complete idiots. Alcohol is a drug and is the worse thing to detox off of. More people die from detoxing off alcohol then any drug look it up!!So you uniformed idiots don't comment it you know nothing of the situation. That's all I have to say.
Cw is a fucking junkie idiot.TYPICAL JUNKIE FOOL.SURE ALCOHOL IS BAD# BUT U R. A. FUCKING FOOL
Cw is a fucking junkie idiot.TYPICAL JUNKIE FOOL.SURE ALCOHOL IS BAD# BUT U R. A. FUCKING FOOL
You have no idea obviously how bad alcohol is. Do you know what a hangover is, its your body withdrawing. What other substance do you know of that you withdraw after the first use. Cw is right, I was addicted to multiple drugs and alcohol. You can put down and fight the urges to pick back up if you are strong enough, you can not just quit drinking without medical assistance if you drank every day like I did. Not to mention that your dope dealer isn't on every corner, and 70percent of your restaurants in America
You have no idea obviously how bad alcohol is. Do you know what a hangover is, its your body withdrawing. What other substance do you know of that you withdraw after the first use.
Heroin, crack, meth, OxyContin, opanias, Percs.. And many more. Why do recovering alcohols think they are better than narcs anonymous? All of its bad just alcohol is legal to all.. Imagine if it wasn't and u had to go out and search for hours the hurry up and wait game? Throwing up, cold chills, leg cramps from hell, need sleep bad but can't , and only one thing on ur mind making that feeling go away.? We are all addicts in some form none more harmful than the next cause it hurts us all and the people we love. So take care of each other and come on finally lets start supporting each other. What's wrong with u people? Don't u know we are all we have…
Please who ever is reading this, please don't try this drug I beg you, don't let your love ones see you this way
Does it pain when the drug krokodil eats away body flesh?
Dingus all of u
If any1 has ever been properly educated on what or who an addict is,they would find out its actually a disease. Weather it be cocaine,pills,WEED,Alcohol,hell ,even diet coke if you can't stop drinking it and it's harming your life in negative ways. For any1 saying stuff like,I don't feel for any of these addicts,it's their own fault. Do some research b4 you look very ignorant. If you are currently suffering,try "NA" there is hope for every1. God Bless.
Look guys ….when someone pee blood …is that a sighn of crocodile user
There are maany things which can cause blood in pee besides drugs. Kidney, liver, urethra, prostate problems. Go to a clinic and get checked out.
Could someone please tell me what it looks like? The drug itself is what I would like a picture of since it is mistaken for heroin. Is it a liquid like the picture? I am terrified because apparently one could do it and think they just did heroin. Is it growing in use stateside?
What has gone so wrong in this world that people wld go to such lengths to escape their reality
I have no sympathy or any addiction it's a way to wallow in their own self pity because they can't deal with their own pathetic reality addicts don't realize the trauma that they put their loved ones through its a sad sad world I dealt with it for 12 years there's no excuse for having your head up your ass take it from a surviver
I pray for you people that are bad mouthing people addicted to opiates. Replay only after you have had a major health crisis
Population control
Marijauna, that is all
I just want to say the world is full of shit. The stuff what the people are doing to other people are just rude. And thanks for the update on the new drug it keeps me updated on the world that we as people are living in. I'm not a drug user and won't be one EVER in my whole life. Just to see al the pictures are bad. Thanks for the information on the ' krokodil drug'. It will open a lot of peoples eyes and see what we as humans are doing to each other. May God be with all off you who has been using this drug. God bless.
The United States should make the manufacturing or selling of this Devil's delight an automatic death sentence. Watch how fast the production will stop.
Yeah until you been so low that you use mud puddle water to get ur fix. Cause there wasnt another water source.
Wow. The amount of shitty grammar in these comments.
Hi guys its bad to know that there is drugs like this that kills u but they stil useing it. Why are the people so stupit. And I was allso stupid by useing heroine for 2years but I'm kleen now thanx god for helping to recover and when u start useing its all about when u loosing every thing like your job your place to stay. Family Throwing u away in the streets then its where the shit hapens sho people please don't use drugs its dangerus
I just can't understand why a person known what this drug can do continue to use it.
Bullshit, I've shot dope for awhile and no way in hell would I inject that shit after those pics. Anybody who claims they will for the addiction is an attention junkie rather than just a junkie


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Effects of seed traits on the success of direct seeding for restoring southern Thailand's lowland evergreen forest ecosystem
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The success of direct seeding, as a low-cost approach to forest restoration, varies with tree species and seed characteristics. A system to predict which tree species are likely to be suitable for direct seeding would therefore be useful for improving forest restoration projects. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effects of seed traits on the success of direct seeding to restore tropical forest in southern Thailand. Seeds of 19 indigenous lowland tropical forest tree species were collected, from both the east and west sides of the Thailand peninsular and the following parameters measured: seed size, shape, coat thickness and moisture content. Field trials were established to determine seed germination rates and to calculate a "direct seeding suitability score" for each species, which combined seedling establishment and growth rates. Seed size, shape and moisture content were associated with germination percentage. Species with higher seedling survival tended to have large or intermediate-sized seeds, round or oval seeds and seeds with low or medium moisture content. Only seed coat thickness was significantly correlated with the suitability score (r = 0.65, p < 0.01). Seed coat thickness >0.4 mm coincided with higher rank suitability score. These conditions successfully predicted the success or failure of direct seeding for 15 out of 19 species tested. Eight tree species are recommended as suitable for restoring lowland evergreen forest ecosystems in southern Thailand, by direct seeding.

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I think you had more than the oil spill over there. Maybe you had a dust/oil/moisture deposit there which made possible the short. This could also happen to the
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under the engine frame (pass side). There's attached to it.
I have a April 1998 build, non water cooled alternator (thank God though).
Based on what I saw after wards, the cabel was very very close to the oil line BUT I never saw or heard any spark when I was changing the filter as I should have if it was touching since the back of the alternator has constant full votage from the battery.
So I think the oil dribbled onto the alternator down the oil line, and when I started the car, the spark from the brushes touched off the oil.
Of course I am not sure and I want to learn. As it is I haven't been driving the car since I have a fear that it will happen again until I know the exact cause.
Do you mind posting a picture of the other junction box that you mentioned?
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Sergey Ryshkoff's Extraordinary Ice Circus is strong on acrobatic skills, poor in theatrics and not very "extraordinary" at all. Wearing ice skates obviously increases the complexity of any stunt, but it doesn't necessarily make them more spectacular to watch. The level of difficulty isn't easy to comprehend, so many of the acts appear mediocre in comparison to non-skating circuses.
In one of the few truly impressive feats, an acrobat atop a tall pole sustains a headstand while being promenaded around the rink by his partner balancing the pole below.
While the acrobats are very proficient, they are let down by the unimaginative choreography. The fantastic synchronised partner skating in the second act lifted the show, but other sections, including those performed on stilt skates, are restricted and repetitive.
And some segments were just bizarre, including one where a skater had her skirt torn away by three men in medieval outfits, before performing balancing tricks with them. Even the clowns' antics are mostly incomprehensible, and mostly unfunny.
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The Office of Fair Trading today warned the £9bn current account market remained poor value for customers but it was lambasted for failing to refer the banks to the Competition Commission.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said that while overdraft charges had fallen - saving customers £928m between 2007 ane 2011 - they remained too complex. The report also found that consumers rarely switched accounts and there were still too few new entrants offering accounts.
However, campaigners and consumer groups called the report "depressing" and criticsed the OFT's failure to refer the issue to the Competition Commission for immediate action.
"Comparing the costs of current accounts continues to be challenging and ... people lack confidence in the switching process," the OFT found in its latest look at the market since 2008.
"Overall, a combination of a lack of competition, low levels of innovation and customer apathy in the face of unclear costs and a lack of diversity in the choices of current accounts available mean that this market is not working well for consumers or the wider economy."
The OFT said "significant changes" are needed to tackle "long-standing competition concerns and a lack of focus on customers' needs".
It made some new recommendations but said it had chosen not to refer the sector to the Competition Commission for further investigation, although it will revisit the issue in two years.
Martin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert.com which has campaigned for a more competitive current account market, said it was a "depressing read".
"It's just review after review after review," he said. "The OFT wimped out four years ago and to hear this now is just depressing."
Martin Lewis outside the Supreme Court in 2010
Clive Maxwell, OFT chief executive, said: "Personal current accounts are critical to the efficient functioning of the UK economy. Despite some improvements, this market is still not serving consumers as well as it should."
The regulator noted that text alerts were helping consumers avoid unauthorised charges, but it wants banks and building societies to do more to promote this service.
There has also been encouraging feedback on the use of annual account summaries which detail what people have paid for their service and provide scenarios so customers know what they will pay if they exceed agreed limits.
The OFT said they would be of greater value if consumers had more consistent access to them.
Regarding current account switching, the OFT said it would ask the Payments Council to look into the costs of enabling customers to transfer their bank account number.
The OFT hopes competition will improve with the sale of branches from both Lloyds Banking Group (LSE: LLOY.L - news) and Royal Bank of Scotland (LSE: RBS.L - news) , while a new £750m automated account switching service is due to be launched in September.
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Richard Lloyd, executive director, said: "This is the latest damning verdict on how badly people are still being let down by the banking industry. Everyone - consumers, the Government, leading bankers and now the OFT - seems to agree that big change is needed in banking, and that much greater competition on the high street is urgently needed to make the banks work for customers, not bankers.
"So it's disappointing to see current account providers avoid immediate action by the competition authorities, but the banks are not off the hook. If the reforms underway do not quickly make a real difference to consumers, the whole of retail banking must be referred to the Competition Commission without any further delay."
The relationship between banks and their customers dramatically deteriorated from 2006 onwards as customers refused to accept soaring bank charges. Unauthorised overdraft fees and late payment charges of nearly £40 were imposed on customers. Millions attemped to reclaim these excessive charges, which prompted the Office of Fair Trading to set up a market study in 2007, with the issue culminating in a Supreme Court battle in 2010. But the court found in favour of the industry.
However, banks felt pressured enough to reduce the level of charges (see the chart above).
The Government set up the Independent Banking Commission to recommend how to create a "more resilient, stable and competitive banking sector". It came after multibillion-pound taxpayer bailouts of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group during the financial crisis. A draft Financial Services Bill on banking reform was published in October.
However, the Government was criticised for permitting a delay until 2019 for the restructuring of banks - ringfencing risky investment banking from high street operations. The report, led by John Vickers, also recommended the sale of branches by Lloyds and easier account switching.
Mr Lloyd of Which? added: "The need for further action by the competition authorities seems inevitable while the Government's plans for reform fail to adequately address the unhealthy dominance of the biggest banks, barriers remain to new providers thriving in the market and the industry refuses to make switching banks easier by introducing portable account numbers. The measures proposed today by the OFT are a step forward but, by themselves, will not do what's required to transform customer service and stop banks offering poor value products that are impossible to compare."
British Bankers' Association chief executive Anthony Browne said: "We welcome the OFT's decision not to refer this issue to the Competition Commission and will continue to work with them to make further improvements for customers and the wider economy."


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Reporter: Matthew Chambers
Date online: 06 December 2012
ROBBIE Simpson has heeded a warning that has potentially saved him from three serious operations.
The Athletic forward returned to the substitutes' bench - though didn't play - for the Doncaster FA Cup win last week, having been rested over the three previous league games to let inflammation in his pelvis and groin settle down.
The recurring problem for Simpson has eased lately, thanks partly to following advice from a specialist.
The 27 year old has been told what could happen if the injury had been allowed to get worse.
"It feels a lot better, but it is still something it is important to keep an eye on and be cautious with," said Simpson, who may have to bide his time before getting back into the starting line-up, given Athletic's good form.
"When I saw the specialist, he told me he had seen someone else with a similar problem and that person ended up requiring two groin operations and hip surgery.
"He said he was pleased that I haven't had to go through that — but it shows how serious it can get if not managed properly."
Given the excellent attacking performance against Doncaster, Athletic manager Paul Dickov will keep the midfield and forward lines intact for the trip to Colchester on Saturday.
Dean Bouzanis serves the second match of his three-game suspension — Alex Cisak starts again in goal — and the only likely changes are in defence.
Cliff Byrne returns from his one-match suspension and will rejoin the squad which travels south tomorrow. Dickov could recall the more rugged Byrne to the heart of defence alongside Jean-Yves Mvoto and play Wabara at right-back.
personally think its worth keeping wabara in the centre back position because brown and grounds have been excellent in the full back position and byrne has been solid the only worry is Mvoto. Mvoto has improved a lot of the last couple of years but lacks consistancy and dickov spoke of recently wanting to sticking with a winning formular perhaps he should take his own advise and leave Mvoto out for this one.
Well we have not missed him, what matches he has played in only has been one performance of note!. Saying that I wish him a quick recovery!.
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"I'm not strong, nor fast, nor skilful, I'm a player from the street," said Spain's Xavi Hernandez, football's most intelligent player and its best talker this weekend. "Without my team-mates, without space, I am nothing."
Xavi's said similar before, usually to deflect the praise which is lauded on him globally, but there was little false modesty on his part. He knows what he's good at: controlling the tempo of the match, passing the ball frequently with accuracy, ideally to team-mates in a more threatening position. He does it better than anyone, the master of teams which dominate, the product of a system which started with the Dutch Total Football system and was enshrined by Johann Cruyff at Barça.
"We all live in the present but Xavi actually lives in the future," purred Brazilian full-back Dani Alves when asked about his team-mate. "That's how he sees things the way he does. He shows that the little smart guys can play great."
Josep Guardiola was the finest exponent of Barça's Cruyffism until Xavi came along. "There's the man who will retire me," said Guardiola upon seeing a young Xavi. He was half right, but Xavi's role has changed from the famed number four position once occupied by Guardiola.
Xavi was a very good Barça player until 2005, the year he ruptured his cruciate ligament, but he didn't trouble the game's top individual honours. He'd made his European debut for Barca in 1998 at Old Trafford, but his profile didn't really rise in Britain until he ran the show in Spain's win over England at the Bernabéu in 2004. Afterwards, AS had claimed that "Xavi did things worthy of Maradona. What a work-rate, what dynamism, what vision, what leadership, what a midfield player!"
Still, when I offered an interview with him to one British magazine in 2005, the answer came back that he wasn't high profile enough. Their loss. There's no shortage of people wanting interviews with him now and it's no surprise because he's the most fascinating man in football, a fan with an anorak streak who became a player. I bet he could name 15 of the Premier League stadiums, bet he could name Everton or Fulham's usual starting XI. When he's finished at the Euros, he's spending his month off running his own football school.
Arthur Hopcroft's seminal 60s book 'The Football Man' could have been name after Xavi, though maybe the 'The Total Football Man' would have been more appropriate given the Dutch influence in his game.
Xavi's rise to being football's best passer since Platini came when he changed positions in 2007 under Frank Rijkaard. His coach suggested that he moved forward 20 metres in games and the difference was marked. It made better use of his creativity, vision and superb reflexes and with Yaya Toure, Seydou Keita or later Sergio Busquets behind, Xavi scored 13 leagues goals in 07-08 and 08-09. In the previous two seasons he'd scored three in total.
"People who didn't really see my overall game before started to see me set goals up and even score some," Xavi said when I interviewed him at the end of 2009, a year in which Barça won all six trophies they entered. That interview was supposed to last 15 minutes. It went on for 45 minutes as he wanted to talk and talk about football, to ask questions about English football to fill his many gaps. It was where he said that he loved watching Matt Le Tissier play. Le Tissier was so flattered that he showed the magazine to all his mates and then had a t-shirt made saying: 'Xavi loves me'.
An increasing obsession with statistics in football to rival American sports showed his game in an even better light. He often makes more passes than any other player in the game. He wouldn't achieve such statistic playing outside the Barça or Spain team which plays to his strengths, but he's the perfect player for a system he's played in since he was 12.
For Spain against Ireland last week, Xavi and his perfect foil Iniesta made more passes (229) than the entire Irish team (217).
Passes don't win tournaments, but they help. Xavi's pass to Fernando Torres created the only goal in the Euro 2008 final, a tournament in which he was voted the best player.
Xavi has won the lot with club and country yet his appetite for football is undiminished. He's a straight talker who doesn't need PR, agents or advisors because his opinions don't need spinning or glossing. He's not outspoken, but if he has a point to make it he won't hold back. I've only seen him flustered twice, once when Almeria put two men on him in a league game, seemingly with instructions to hack at him — and whenever a journalist asked him if his international career is coming to a close at 32. If there's one player who can play for as long as he physically can then it's the player who still lives in his hometown of Terrassa, however unfashionable it may be. He owns and rents out hundreds of properties in Terrassa.
Xavi's played 112 times for Spain, more than any other outfield player in the country. This season, he surpassed legendary Barça defender Migueli to become the Catalans all-time appearance holder. He's played 690 times for Barca and given that his game relies more on quickness of mind rather than physical speed, he could do as he intends - play and play through 700 and 800 games, maybe more.
For now, Xavi's concentration is on helping Spain win Sunday's quarter-final clash against France, while the French hope to prevent the street footballer with a line in self-depreciation from dominating affairs as he so often does.


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The story of Helgi and Swava is one that covers a large period of time, though the actual remnants of the story are small.
Indridi lifts the sack to Helgi's back; Helgi carries it out to the left.
Lyting thrust at Skarphedinn, but Helgi came up then and threw his shield before the spear, and caught the blow on it.
Now, Helgi, when you have eaten, you can go and begin to cut turf.
Probably they had not seen the description of the discovery made by Bjrn and Helgi in 1654.
Helgi summoned his men to save her from this loathed wedding.
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In Novel Move, City Campus Gets US Patent Officer
In a first-of-its-kind effort to help students and others capitalize on their ideas, a patent officer is setting up shop at a New York City technology graduate-school campus.
The U.S. Commerce Department and Cornell University announced the plan Tuesday. The patent worker is already working at the new CornellNYC Tech applied sciences school.
The patent office has recently unveiled plans for satellite offices in places ranging from Detroit to California's Silicon Valley. But the "innovation and outreach coordinator" at Cornell NYC Tech is a novel effort to help innovators on campus — and in the city at large — get advice on capitalizing on their ideas — hopefully with less red tape, Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank and patent office Director David Kappos said.
The staffer may consult one-on-one and give classes on such topics as how to best to write a patent application, what financial help might be available and what commercial strategy to pursue, Blank said.
Beyond advice on navigating the nuts and bolts of entrepreneurship, the plan aims to foster discussion on one of tech's touchy subjects: the balance between protecting intellectual property and fostering the public benefits of innovation, such as making computer code publicly available for others to adapt and build on.
"That dialogue is something that the United States has to have," Cornell President David J. Skorton said. "This is a conduit for the U.S. government to be working directly with the innovation community ... to figure out: What's the right place for intellectual property in one of the areas of our economy that's growing like crazy right now?"
Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are running the school. About 20 students will be admitted to a one-year master's program that starts in January.
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a small African animal that lives in trees. It has a long tail and very large eyes and ears.
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an African animal with black or brown fur that lives and hunts in groups. It belongs to the ape family, which is the most similar to humans.
a very large wild animal that lives in Africa and Asia. It has thick grey skin and a very long nose called a trunk
a large strong African wild animal that is similar to a monkey but much larger and lives in forests
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a large African animal with a wide head and mouth and thick grey skin. Hippopotamuses live in or near rivers.
a wild animal similar to a dog that lives mainly in Africa and makes a noise that sounds like laughing
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a large African wild animal with golden fur. The male lion has thick hair around its head called a mane.
an African animal like a giraffe without a long neck
a brown and white African animal that looks like a small deer
a wild pig that lives in Africa and has two tusks (=very long pointed teeth)
an African wild animal that is a type of antelope with curved horns
an African animal similar to a horse but with black and white stripes on its body
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Ready to join me on our journey of self –exploration of the external vaginal anatomy? Come on, get your trusted hand mirror and jump on board!
We will start with the external and then go on to the internal vaginal anatomy. You can refer to the diagram above and the reflection on your mirror as a guide.
Sometimes, a woman's entire genital region is referred to as the vagina. But in fact, the vagina is just part of the package. The outer portion of a woman's privates is actually the vulva. That includes the Mons Veneris, inner and outer labia, the clitoris, clitorial hood and the opening to the urethra and vagina.
Therefore, the vulva is the external sexual organ of a woman. It is this part of the vaginal anatomy we see when we stand in front of the mirror. This entire area is covered with nerve endings which is extremely sensitive to touch and stimulation.
The vulva is make up of:-
1. Mons Veneris
Hill or Mound of Venus (Venus is the Roman Goddess of Love) is the pad of fatty tissue that lies just above the opening of the vagina. It protects the pubic bone and other delicate organs and bones in the pelvic area from the impact of sexual intercourse.
Usually covered with a thatch of pubic hair, this is the part of the external vaginal anatomy we are most familiar with. The mound of Venus is one of the most erotic part of the body and is highly sensitive to touch.
2. Labia Majora
Outer set of vaginal lips. These are pads of fatty tissue that wrap around the vulva from the Mound of Venus to the perineum. These outer lips are covered with pubic hair and contain sweat and oil glands which provide the characteristic "musky" scent. Simply stroking the outer lips can easily set your sexual desires aflame.
3. Labia Minora
The inner pair of lips is commonly refer to as the flower. These are thin stretches of elastic tissue within the outer lips that fold and protect the vagina, urethra and clitoris. The appearance of the inner lips can vary widely among women. It can be tiny lips that hide between the outer lips to large lips that protrude. Both types and anything in between are considered normal.
Most of us often think that our vaginal wetness comes from the vagina. In fact most of the lubrication comes from the Bartholin glands that line the walls of both vaginal lips.
4. Clitoris (Slang:"Little Man In A Boat")
It is a small bud-like formation between the inner lips and the clitorial hood. The clitoris is a small body of pink spongy tissue that is highly responsive to sexual stimulation. If you look carefully the clitoris and clitorial hood resembles a man's sex organ. The clitoris is the version of a mini penis and the clitorial hood resembles the foreskin of the penis.
The existence of the clitoris is solely for sexual pleasure. Therefore it is the "command central" of a woman's sexual responsiveness. Most women can achieve an intense clitorial orgasm either through their partner's oral and manual stimulation or "flying solo" (self-masturbation).
During sexual excitement, the clitoris extends and the hood retracts to make the bud more accessible. Much like the penis it becomes engorge with blood, doubles its size and transforms into a firm, erect "button" which is highly sensitive to touch!
It is normal for some women to have small clitoris and others to have larger ones where the clitoral hood does not completely cover.
This is the opening below the clitoris which is not related to sex or reproduction but for the passage of urine. It is connected to the bladder. As the urethra is situated close to the anus, it is good vaginal health habit to wipe from front to back after "passing motion" to avoid infecting the vagina and urethra with bacteria from the anus.
A traditional symbol of "virginity", it is a thin swatch of tissue that partially covers the vaginal opening. For some women it is a thin membrane that is easily torn by vigorous exercise or insertion of a tampon. Other women might be born with very thick hymens that need to be surgically removed before they can have intercourse or inserting a tampon.
This is a short stretch of skin starting at the bottom of the vulva and extending to the anus. It often tears during child birth to allow the passage of the baby.
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In October, Beijing vested Sansha prefecture with the police authority, effective Jan. 1, "to board, seize and expel foreign ships" within a vast jurisdiction that includes islands and reefs in the West Philippine Sea. Since Sansha's formation, China has increased its provocative moves against the Philippines, including the occupation of the Scarborough Shoal (115 miles from the Philippines coast) by 90 Chinese ships that barred Filipino fishers from their fishing grounds, and the dispatch of Chinese frigates to Ayungin Reef (105 miles from the Philippines).
Filipinos protest China's actions
By Rodel Rodis and Walden Bello (originally published here on July 23, 2013)
July 24 marks the first anniversary of China's creation of the Sansha prefecture to "oversee and administer" 1 million square miles of the South China Sea over which China asserts "indisputable sovereignty." If allowed to stand, China's claim will go down as the most brazen maritime territorial grab in history.


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The Oriental Republic of Uruguay is a small country located between Argentina to its west and Brazil to its east. Uruguay is slightly smaller than Victoria and is a relatively low-lying country with fertile plains and low hills, with its highest point, Cerro Catedral, reaching 514 metres above sea level. Uruguay's western border with Argentina is made up entirely by the Uruguay river and the Rio de la Plata Estuary. Uruguay's full name in Spanish means 'the Republic on the east of the Uruguay (River)', from which it gets its common name of 'Uruguay'. Uruguay's capital is Montevideo.
Uruguay's population is approximately 3.4 million (2015 est) and is made up of mainly European (88 per cent) and mestizo (eight per cent) people, with a small black population (four per cent). Roman Catholicism is the largest religion in Uruguay with around 47 per cent of the population identifying as Catholic although some of these identify as non-practising Catholics. Protestantism, Judaism and other faiths are also present. Spanish is the official language of Uruguay.
Uruguay is the number one country in Latin America on the World Prosperity Index (28th overall). Montevideo is the safest city in Latin America (28th safest world-wide). It has an export-oriented knowledge-based services economy with progressive social policies, a skilled workforce and a good track record of establishing new industries. Achievements include producing a sustainable forestry industry in the 1980s, globally competitive software and call centre export industries, and the fourth highest per capita expenditure on renewable energy allowing Uruguay to export electricity to Argentina.
Australia and Uruguay enjoy positive relations based on a number of shared interests and cooperation in a range of multilateral fora. Like Australia, Uruguay is a significant agricultural producer and exporter. Australia and Uruguay are members of the Cairns Group and cooperate in the World Trade Organization to advance global reform of agricultural markets.
Uruguay opened an Embassy in Canberra in May 1958 and Australia's first Ambassador to Uruguay, E.D. Mackinnon presented credentials on 17 July 1968.
Australia has non-resident diplomatic accreditation to Uruguay through the Australian Embassy in Buenos Aires and maintains an Honorary Consulate in Montevideo, which provides consular services to Australians in Uruguay.
Uruguay's political and labor conditions are among the freest on the continent. Uruguay rates highly for most development indicators and is known for its secularism, liberal social laws, and well-developed social security, health, and educational systems. It is one of the few countries in Latin America where the entire population has access to clean water. Uruguay's provision of free primary through university education has contributed to the country's high levels of literacy and educational attainment.
The Spanish first arrived in Uruguay in 1516, but resistance from indigenous inhabitants helped postpone full Spanish settlement until the early 18th century. Montevideo, founded by the Spanish in 1726 as a military stronghold, soon took advantage of its natural harbour to become an important commercial centre. Following secession from Spain in 1811, Uruguay was annexed by Portugal to its Brazilian territories. Claimed by Argentina but annexed by Brazil in 1821, Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil in 1825, and in 1828 the country became fully independent under the Treaty of Montevideo. During the rest of the 19th century there was a number of minor conflicts with neighbouring states, coupled with considerable inflows of (mainly European) immigrants.
Throughout much of the 20th century, Uruguay's two main political parties, the centrist Colorado and National (Blanco) parties, alternated in power. However, a military regime assumed control following a coup in 1973, and remained in power until 1985. The legacies of twelve years of military rule included an economy in severe decline and lingering human rights issues. Democracy was re-installed in 1985 and successive governments have worked to consolidate Uruguay's democratic institutions and stabilise the economy. In 2004, the left-of-centre Frente Amplio Coalition won national elections that effectively ended 170 years of political control previously held by the Colorado and Blanco parties.
Uruguay is divided into 19 "departments" with limited local self-government. The political system is based on a strong central executive branch, subject to legislative and judicial checks. No member of any branch of government can simultaneously perform official duties in another branch. The executive branch comprises the President, Vice-President and Council of Ministers. The President and Vice-President are chosen by direct popular vote for one five-year term (consecutive re-election is not permitted), and the ministers are appointed by the President. The legislative branch consists of a bicameral Parliament, comprising the 31-member Senate (upper house) and the 99-member Chamber of Deputies (lower house).
The next presidential and parliamentary elections will be held in October 2019.
The ruling "Frente Amplio" coalition was returned by a comfortable margin in late 2014 after successfully campaigning on Uruguay's strong growth in the previous decade of Frente Amplio governments. President Tabaré Vázquez's was inaugurated in March 2015 (previously serving as President in 2005-2010). The Frente Amplio (FA) is a centre-left coalition of 21 political groups. Since March 2015, however, government initiatives have been hampered by an increasingly divided Frente Amplio coalition, that has thwarted attempts to reduce public debt and rein in the fiscal deficit. Over the past five years inflation has remained at around eight to nine per cent (year on year). Real GDP growth remains modest, at around 1.4 per cent (year on year).
Uruguay has performed competently during its ongoing tenure on the UN Security Council (2016-2017). Uruguay also hosted the High-Level "Global LGBTI Human Rights Conference on Non Violence, Non Discrimination and Social Inclusion", co-chaired with the Kingdom of The Netherlands, in Montevideo in July 2016. This was the first time that the conference took place in Latin America.
Uruguay's most important political and economic partners are its neighbours, in particular Brazil and Argentina. Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela (now suspended) are full members of Mercosur, the Southern Cone Common Market, which also comprises associate members Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname. Mexico is an observer and Bolivia is in the process of becoming a full member. Together the five Mercosur countries encompass approximately 72 per cent of the territory of South America (12.8 million km2, equivalent to three times the area of the European Union) and close to 70 per cent of the South American population. It totals 285.0 million inhabitants and combined GDP of $3.5 trillion according to World Bank Data (2015).
Membership of Mercosur provides Uruguay with preferential trade access to the markets of Mercosur members and its associates. However, Uruguay has expressed an increasing dissatisfaction with the trading benefits that Mercosur has provided and increased protectionism from some other members, and has mooted external FTAs (an idea opposed by its Mercosur partners as inconsistent with Mercosur rules).
Uruguay is also a member of several regional organisations, including the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the Community of Latin America and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Organization of American States (OAS), that seek to advance a variety of regional political and economic interests.
In 2012, both Uruguay and Australia became observers of the Pacific Alliance, a group of outward-looking pro-trade liberalising Latin American economies comprising Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. In 2013 Uruguay announced its intention to pursue full membership of the bloc, subject to its Mercosur commitments.
Uruguay maintains positive relations with the United States, based on economic ties and regional cooperation aimed at combatting drug trafficking and terrorism. Uruguay and the United States have, in the past, put in place agreements to establish trade and investment relations, including the 2002 Joint Commission on Trade and Investment and a bilateral investment framework agreement, which entered into force in 2006.
Brazil is Uruguay's largest export destination, followed by China and Argentina. Opportunities had been lost with the shelving of education reforms and withdrawal from Trade in Services Agreement negotiations, however a renewed Free Trade Agreement with Chile (October 2016) is likely to attract Uruguay to Chile's services sector, while Uruguay takes advantage of Chile's openness to trade across the Pacific.
Australia is expanding its bilateral relationship with Uruguay through trade and people-to-people links, including student exchanges and academic linkages, particularly in the agriculture, energy, mining, and education sectors. There is a 30,000 people strong Uruguayan community in Australia. In 2015 there were 1800 short-term visitor arrivals from Uruguay, an annual growth of 8.7 per cent over five years. Uruguayan student numbers in Australia remain small, with a total of 35 students enrolled in Australian educational institutions as at December 2015.
In 2017 Deakin University will open its first Latin American office in Uruguay's capital Montevideo, including to support student exchange in the region more broadly. In November 2016 the Australian Studies Centre was launched at ORT University in Montevideo. The Sustainable Minerals Institute of Queensland University has provided advice to the Uruguayan Mining and Environment ministries with regard to environmental best practices and mine safety.
On 8 July 2016 an Arbitral Tribunal ruled in Uruguay's favour on a challenge brought by tobacco company Philip Morris. Australia welcomed the decision of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Arbitral Tribunal upholding Uruguay's tobacco regulatory measures and congratulated Uruguay on the outcome of this arbitration.
In 2012, Australia and Uruguay signed a Work and Holiday Visa arrangement (effective 2013), with a reciprocal quota of 200 visas annually.
Australia and Uruguay also work together on issues relating to the Antarctic, especially in efforts to address illegal fishing through the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
In 2001, the Australian Government established the Council on Australia-Latin America Relations (COALAR) which aims to enhance commercial, political and cultural relations between Australia and Latin America. Since its inception, COALAR has been active in promoting business, education, tourism and cultural links between Australia and Latin America. For updates on COALAR activities and information on the annual grants program, follow COALAR on Facebook.
From 2010 to 2014, Australia provided $100 million in development assistance to Latin America, including 250 Australia Awards scholarships. Under this program, five Australia Awards scholarships were awarded to Uruguayan students. From 2012 to 2016 nine Uruguayans have received Australia Award Fellowships. The regional program has now closed, though some activities which have already been funded will continue until 2017.
For further detail on Uruguay's development indicators refer to the World Bank.
For latest economic data refer to the Uruguay fact sheet [PDF 38 KB]
Uruguay's economy is highly dependent on agriculture and the economic cycles of its close trading partners and neighbours, Argentina and Brazil. It was severely affected by the Argentine debt default in 2001 (Uruguay repaid its outstanding debt to the IMF in December 2006). Uruguay's economic ties with Asia, in particular China, have grown substantially. Brazil was Uruguay's principal export destination in 2014 (taking some 17.6 per cent of Uruguay's exports), followed by China (13.3 per cent) and Argentina (4.8 per cent). China surpassed Brazil to become Uruguay's largest import source since 2013, with 18.5 per cent of Uruguay's imports coming from China in 2014, followed by Brazil and Argentina.
The Uruguayan economy has grown strongly since the 2001 Uruguayan banking crisis. Real GDP economic growth in 2013 was 5.1 per cent, dipping to 1.4 per cent in 2016. In 2013, Uruguay's total goods and services exports increased by around 1.4 per cent to reach a historic high of US$13.6 billion. The economy is based on solid macroeconomic fundamentals including strong reserves, low debt, high domestic demand and a diversified production structure. Recent economic growth has been broadly based, and the agriculture and livestock sectors are doing well. Initially this was due to growth in Brazilian and Argentine import demand as these countries recovered from their own economic crises. However, more recently the sectors have been buoyed by growth in the volume and value of Uruguay's agricultural trade with the United States. Uruguay's main exports include beef, oilseeds, cereals, wool, leather, dairy products and wood. Tourism and motor vehicles are also significant components of Uruguay's export sector.
In 2015 the government announced plans to expand Uruguay's wind energy sector and produce 90 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources. In less than 10 years the country has slashed its carbon footprint and lowered electricity costs, without government subsidies. Wind energy is now cost competitive in the nation, and is displacing the most expensive fossil-fuel generation.
Uruguay's GDP growth, political stability and low corruption levels have made it an attractive destination for investment. FDI has increased substantially in recent years, particularly in utilities, telecoms and finance. Uruguay is expected to continue attracting foreign investment through concerted efforts which include increasing transparency and the public-private partnership scheme. The government of Uruguay has introduced additional incentives for foreign investors including corporate income tax exemptions (of up to 100 per cent of the investment), tax free zones, free ports, free transit of goods and no foreign exchange controls.
Uruguay's economic fundamentals remain solid – especially in terms of regional comparisons. But Uruguay's exports have taken a hit with the commodity price slump and the ensuing deep recession in major trading partner Brazil, while FDI – after booming over the last decade – has plateaued.
Largely reflecting these external difficulties, there has been a steep drop in economic activity, with growth of 1.5 per cent in 2015 (down from 3.5 per cent in 2014 and an average 5.3 per cent 2010-2013) and further slowing expected this year. Despite the government's success in securing parliamentary approval of its mostly prudent five-year budget, efforts to rein in creeping inflation (which in February 2016 broke 10 per cent for the first time in many years) through fiscal austerity will be complicated by internal Frente Amplio opposition and are not very encouraging, at least in the short term.
Export earnings fell by 2.26 per cent and import values by 8.56 per cent in the third quarter of 2016, registering more modest declines than in the first half of the year, and suggesting—in conjunction with other positive economic data—that the worst of Uruguay's economic slowdown is over.
In 2015 Australia's two-way merchandise trade with Uruguay totalled around A$30 million. Australian imports from Uruguay totalled around A$20 million, mainly comprising edible products and preparations. In 2015 Australian exports to Uruguay were approximately A$9 million comprising mainly crude vegetable matter, electrical machinery and parts, and animal oils and fats.
Uruguay offers an attractive trade and investment environment, a very positive disposition to work more closely with Australia, and a history of successful commercial relations through companies such as NuFarm, INCAT and Cochlear and Petrel Energy. Through its geographical location and its membership of the continent's largest regional trading bloc, Mercosur, it provides strong links into regional markets.
Australia signed an MOU on Strengthening Bilateral Trade and Investment with Uruguay in 2010, and in 2011, the Uruguay-Australia Chamber was established. The Chamber, based in Uruguay, operates under the form of a non-profit civil association. It focuses on promoting and developing relations between Uruguay and Australia.
Australia and Uruguay participate in the CER-Mercosur Dialogue, bringing together Australia, New Zealand and Mercosur members (the most recent discussions took place in Brasilia in October 2012). The dialogue was established in 1996 as a mechanism to strengthen cooperation on global trade policy issues and to promote inter-regional trade and investment.
Similarities in the primary exports of Uruguay and Australia present opportunities for the export of Australian agriculture-related technology and services, including animal genetic material. One strategy for Australian companies looking to invest and trade in Uruguay is to extend existing interests they may have in Argentina and Brazil. Australian companies with existing interests in Argentina and Brazil may find that the close commercial ties that these countries have with Uruguay facilitate entry into the Uruguayan market.
New opportunities for Australian investment are opening up in the areas of agriculture, mining and infrastructure. The public-private partnerships initiative presents additional opportunities for Australian companies to invest in Uruguay through infrastructure projects, such as deep-water ports, roads, rail, river transport, energy (oil, gas and wind farms), irrigation dams, tourism infrastructure, recreational ports and marinas, hospitals and jails. Australian company Petrel Energy, in association with US Company Schuepach Energy International, has interests in significant oil and gas discoveries in Uruguay, particularly in the Norte Basin.
2017 will see President Tabaré Vazquez present at the 15th World Congress on Public Health, to be held in Melbourne on 3 April 2017.
In August 2016 Australian Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove, and Lady Cosgrove, visited Montevideo, where they attended a state lunch hosted by Uruguay's President, as well as visiting the Uruguay Peacekeeper Training Centre in recognition of Uruguay's active participation in international peacekeeping operations.
In April 2016, Victoria's Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, The Hon Telmo Languiller MLA travelled to Uruguay for the launch of the Australia-Uruguay Cultural House.
In November 2015, Uruguay's Minister for Industry, Energy and Mining, Carolina Cosse participated in the Victorian Government's International Mining and Resources Conference.
In May 2012 the Uruguayan Minister for Industry, Energy and Mining Roberto Kreimerman visited Australia for the inaugural Latin America Down Under conference. He was the first Uruguayan minister to visit Australia since Foreign Minister Enrique Iglesias García visited Cairns for the inaugural Cairns Group meeting in 1986.
In December 2011 the then-Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs Richard Marles attended the XLII Mercosur Summit in Montevideo.
The first bilateral Australian parliamentary delegation visit to Uruguay took place in July 2007. The delegation was hosted by the Uruguayan Parliament.


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Movie Review #856: As biting and fresh as it was in 1991, 'Boyz n the Hood' shows us how misconceptions about socioeconomic and race problems can lead to terrible tragedies.
By Red Stewart
|Crime, Drama
|Rated R (contains violence, profanity, mild sexual content)
|112 minutes
I recall someone once saying that when a white man commits a crime, he alone is charged, whereas if a black man commits a crime, the entire race is accused. I'm regrettably reminded of a day in my youth when some punks broke a window in the school bus I was riding, causing glass to go into my sister's eye, and I personally blamed the entire ethnicity of the culprits in a moment of emotional fury.
But "Boyz n the Hood" isn't really about racism in the mainstream sense. There are almost no white characters, and the ones that do appear don't play the role of a bigot. It instead focuses on the bigger socioeconomic issues and how overlooking the problems prevalent in these poorer communities lead to the endangerment of many adolescents.
The film is divided into two interconnected parts; the past and the present. Tre Styles is an intelligent kid unfortunately burdened with a bad temper that gets him into a lot of fights. Fearing that continuing down this path will lead him into a life or death situation, Tre's mom sends him to live with his divorced father, Furious, where he reunites with old friends "Doughboy" Baker, Ricky Baker, and Chris. Seven years later, Tre has become a responsible teenager because of Furious's parenting, whereas Doughboy and Chris have fallen into the gangster life.
"Boyz n the Hood" tells us in the beginning that 1 out of 21 black American males will die, most likely at the hands of another black American male. It's a startling statistic that casts a gloomy shadow from the beginning as you know all these characters are in danger every day of their life. This is a place where you band together not just for the sake of protection, but also to ensure you're avenged in the event that you are killed. Director/writer John Singleton's own experiences of growing up here more than resonate in the urban world of the film, from the gang-ridden neighborhoods to the perceived stigma of leaving behind your blood brothers for a different life.
The greatest thing he does with "Boyz n the Hood", however, is have this parental reflection that only adds to the sadness of the film. Furious has lived through this ghetto romanticism and seen all there is to that world; teen girls get impregnated by irresponsible jerks, the police have a "West Side Story"-bias, businesses treat citizens of the hood like a commodity, city blacks turn into Uncle Toms, and violence is the only masculine answer accepted by society. He doesn't want Tre to fall prey to that life, but at the same time Tre feels he has an obligation to his friends. The contrast plays up the drama naturally, and all the actors channel their evident past familiarities with the conflict excellently.
While it might seem like the film is about the effects of violence on the youth, at its core "Boyz n the Hood" is a coming-of-age story set in a poor neighborhood. Considering the tame upbringing many of us went through, it's a real eye-opener that painfully resonates to this day. Having gone to a high school that acted as a melting pot between the wealthier counties and the hood, I feel terrible for ever giving in to the many stereotypes that roamed the halls back then. This is a must-see film.


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I met one of our new neighbors last night – we've been seeing the two of them around for the last couple of weeks, but last night while on my nightly midnight potty /drinking/sniffing excursion, I finally met him face to face – all 300lbs of big ol' black bear. Mom was in the bathroom when she heard me giving him the what for. Now, she thought I had some measly possum or raccoon cornered, but when she looked out the window & spotted the big bruin, her little ol' heart skipped a beat. By the time she made it out the door, I already had things under control. I barked my most ferocious bark, I growled, I bayed at the beast and sent him packin' faster than my (3inch) legs could carry me. Hmmphhf! What a coward. Speaking of cowards, you might wonder where my trusty pack members were. I guess they felt they needed to guard the house, cause all three of them lay just inside the threshold of the open sliding glass door. Not a bark, not a peep outta any one of them. Thanks a lot, guys – don't worry – Me & Mom got it handled.
But then I noticed that the beast had knocked over and distributed the contents of the huge garbage can that sits by the shop. Now this garbage can is one of those big green plastic 80 gallon suckers and my only hope of getting in that thing is if I could fly. I was very impressed - Then it hit me! What if we joined forces? Just think of the counter surfing! The dumpster diving! Mom seems to think he'll be back now that he knows about the trash stash. Gosh, I hope I didn't offend him.
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Over 30,000 people marched in San Francisco Saturday, October 27, 2007 to protest the illegal wars in Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere waged by U.S. Imperialism.
See article from the S.F. Chronicle below
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Thousands march, "die" and rally in SF anti-war protest
Jim Doyle,Susan Sward, Chronicle Staff Writers
Saturday, October 27, 2007
(10-27) 17:17 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- On cue from a bullhorn's blast, thousands of protesters fell to the pavement on Market Street today in a symbolic "die-in" as part of a protest staged in cities across the country against the war in Iraq.
For about three minutes the demonstrators lay on the pavement, representing what organizers said were more than 1 million Iraqis killed since the war began in 2003. The protesters then resumed their march from San Francisco's Civic Center to Dolores Park.
March organizers put their number at 30,000 - old, young, workers, students, religious leaders. Police declined to give a formal estimate, but onlookers said the demonstrators definitely numbered more than 10,000. They filled up Market Street for several blocks, shouting that U.S. troops should be brought home and carrying banners decrying the war.
At the head of the marchers was a band of Native American drummers who pounded a steady beat as protesters chanted, "No more war!"
Before the march began, demonstrators gathered in front of City Hall to hear speakers berate the Bush administration and call on Americans to stand up against the war. Organizers said part of the reason for staging this protest was to mark that it is now five years since Congress voted to authorize the use of U.S. force in Iraq.
"Silence shows compliance," Nicole Davis, a leader of the Campus Anti-War Network group, told the crowd at the San Francisco event, which was organized by the Oct. 27th Coalition of several groups, including ANSWER - Act Now To Stop War and End Racism. "If you disagree with this war," she added, "it is your duty to stand up and let the world know."
Sarah Sloan, an ANSWER spokeswoman, said her group estimated the size of the crowd "based on the number of blocks - about seven - that the march takes up and the density of the crowd."
In New York, thousands demonstrated in the rain, marching to Foley Square. In Chicago an estimated 10,000 protesters gathered at Union Square Park and marched to the Federal Plaza. Organizers said anti-war rallies, sponsored nationally by a coalition of groups headed by United for Peace & Justice, also took place in Seattle, Salt Lake City, Jonesborough, Tenn., Philadelphia, Orlando, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Boston and other cities around the country.
"It would be one thing if it were just San Francisco, but it's not," Jim Haber, a Bay Area chapter representative of United for Peace & Justice, told The Chronicle when describing the national scope of the protest.
"We've helped organizers mobilize their communities in places like Jonesborough, Tennessee, and Salt Lake City, which you don't typically associate with anti-war demonstrations. This underscores the broad opposition to the war in Iraq."
At Dolores Park, hundreds of boots were placed in rows on the lawn to commemorate U.S. soldiers who died in Iraq. A name tag was attached to each pair of boots, and many of the boots had flowers placed in them.
At the park, demonstrators listened to speakers, including American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks and anti-war activist and congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan, who asked people to vote for her instead of her opponent, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Banks told his audience: "As I look out over this crowd, I see many young people. That gives me great hope." He said it was the young and the students during the Vietnam War in the late 1960s who took to the streets to help pressure the United States to end the war.
Anne Roesler, of the group Military Families Speak Out, said her son was a U.S. soldier who had been deployed to Iraq three times and returned with post-traumatic stress disorder. "This is Congress' war," she said. "They have the blood of this war on their hands - they are building their political careers with the blood of our loved ones and Iraqis."
Clarence Thomas, past secretary-treasurer of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10, said, "We have to take a lesson from the civil rights movement. We have to wake up and understand we are all in this together."
In the throng of San Francisco demonstrators was a trio of Code Pink members, including one attired as the Statue of Liberty, who belted out, "I am going to sing until the world is free, down by the riverside." One group, the Raging Grannies, entertained the crowd with protest lyrics sung to classic songs such as "Anchors Away." Labor groups made a special effort to turn out their members, with hundreds of workers showing up - among them sign installers, teachers, roofers, nurses, security guards and communication workers.
Sharon Cornu, secretary-treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council, said it would be the first time that seven Bay Area labor councils - San Francisco, Monterey Bay, North Bay, South Bay, San Mateo, Contra Costa and Alameda - worked together to urge members to demonstrate.
Though Bay Area labor groups have been involved in earlier protests against the war, Cornu said, this was the biggest effort yet. "More and more union members are seeing the war's impact on our schools, transportation and health care systems because money is being spent abroad that could be spent at home," Cornu added.
"We are working people - we make things in this country, and we want to be heard," said Oakland roofer Leroy Cisneros, echoing Cornu's words about the pressing need for expenditures on education and health care.
Another protester, nurse Wendy Bloom from Children's Hospital in Oakland, said, "Our priorities are distorted. We are spending billions on an unnecessary war instead of health care."
In the days before the protest, organizers used the Internet to spread their message with anti-war videos, including a two-minute short by the Culver City-based Brave New Foundation that called on people to "bring your families, your neighbors, your dogs" to the protest.
Another two-minute video entitled "Confront the War President" featured wrenching snapshots of the Iraq war's dead and dying, grieving relatives and the wounded. It included film clips of President Bush in interviews - one in 2006 saying, "To assume I wanted war is just flat wrong" and another in 2004 stating: "I am a war president. I make policy decisions here in the Oval Office on foreign policy matters with war on my mind."
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