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With Valentine's Day just weeks away, couples are on the prowl for the best ways to spoil their sweethearts. Trust a local who knows her ladies and her spas: a couple's massage is the ultimate Valentine's Day gift.
From outdoor spa casitas to interactive treatments and side-by-side deep tissue massages paired with champagne and chocolate covered strawberries, San Diego spas master the mix of romance and relaxation and Valentine's Day is the perfect time to partake in all the fun.
Discover the top San Diego spas for couple's treatments
Sè Spa: Take it from a girl who knows her spas, Sè Spa at the Palomar Hotel is one of the sexiest destination spas in San Diego. A variety of Studio Sutra Sojourns take place within an ultra-private suite. The 90-minute Puja Ritual includes a couple's massage and soaking tub for $300; and the interactive Rasul Clay Therapy is $130. Couples have additional time to spend in the candlelit room with a double head steam shower, soaking tub and daybed.
Blue Marble Spa: San Diego's premier 100% all natural day spa is a top choice for Valentine's Day pampering this year. The Hyatt Regency Mission Bay's signature spa, Blue Marble is offering a new package, Coming Up Roses, which invites couples into a private suite for supreme indulgence. Take the plunge with the Couple's Water Massage Ritual, a 90-minute signature treatment for two that features the renewing essential oils of rose, sandalwood and chamomile, priced at $300. Add on a bonus for your sweetie, such as the Pomegranate Manicure & Pedicure for $79 or the Moisture Drench Rose Facial for $99. As the grand finale, enjoy a chef's selection of spa bites and a complimentary glass of wine. These holiday treatments are available February 11-14.
Rock Spa: The Hard Rock Hotel's petite yet powerful Rock Spa offers a unique experience for couples titled Your Body is a Wonderland. Within a lavish private couple's suite, begin your romantic treatment with a glass of champagne while you paint your masterpiece of mud on your partner's body canvas. Once the mud has been applied, enjoy a cascade shower to get clean … or a little dirty, your choice. When you are ready, spa therapists return to the suite and complete the treatment with a relaxing 50-minute massage. Rock Spa also offers a deluxe Rock of Love package for couples. This 4.5 hour spa-cation includes body exfoliations, body wraps, customized massages, personalized facials, scalp massages and elixirtini cocktails served with seasonal berries and organic chocolates.
The Spa at Rancho Bernardo Inn: This luxury resort boasts a 10,000-square-foot lush oasis with a tranquil garden, saline pool, and five private, temperature-controlled casitas. The revamped spa menu offers two ways for couples to play this Valentine's Day. Spa-goers with a serious sweet tooth should opt for the 80-minute Chocolate Indulgence package, which includes a warming dark chocolate and orange body scrub and wrap, ginger-vanilla massage and cinnamon scalp oil. Or dare to order the 80-minute Forbidden Fruit package for two, which boasts a lemongrass and ylang ylang massage and forbidden rice and ginger foot scrub. Both spa packages are priced at $380 per couple.
Aviara Spa: The Park Hyatt Aviara's luxurious Couple's Spa Suite was designed with romance in mind, and boasts such amenities as an intimate lounge area with a marble fireplace and shower for two, an attached treatment room with side-by-side massage tables and a private outdoor patio with a spacious whirlpool Jacuzzi. Within the comfort of your private suite, order off the spa's "Bespoke" menu, featuring completely customized massage and skin care treatments.
Victoria Rose Spa: Who knew a 114-year-old historic building could house one of the most romantic spas in San Diego? If you're into Victorian antiques and stained glass showers, this spa is perfect. Victoria Rose Spa offers a variety of treatments designed for couples. The Deluxe Decadence package begins in a private candlelit whirlpool room where chocolate covered strawberries and sparkling spirits await. After your privacy time, the therapists arrive to perform a one hour side-by-side massage with aroma oils. This Deluxe Decadence package is $250 for 2.25 hours.
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"What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority."
"A little saint best fits a little shrine, / A little prop best fits a little vine, / As my small cruse best fits my little wine."
"Your description should include detailed directions on how to execute the prank, its intended response, and any props necessary to pulling it off. Keep it clean -- the focus of the contest is good humor and fun."
"I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character."
"Smoking is just a prop or wardrobe that helps identify a character as a bad guy. They have to do whatever they can to make the audience feel that this is a despicable person who is fighting or challenging the hero."
"Call it counter-deflationary action. Call it an anti-double-dip dose. Call it a pro-asset-price-prop. Call it a consumer caress. One thing for sure is the Fed is running out of reasons for simply holding policy steady at already historically low rates."

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Half a century later, Clarkson biologist Michael Twiss is among a corps of scientists charting the environmental change the Seaway and hydroelectric power projects have wrought. Global commerce for the Great Lakes brought with it scores of invasive species. "A ship coming from the Baltic may carry an uninvited international hitchhiker," says Twiss.
One of those hitchhikers, says Twiss, was the zebra mussel - a small aquatic animal originally found in Russia. The mussel arrived around 1988 and began to breed. Since each female produces one million eggs a year, the burgeoning mussel population has had a drastic effect on the ecology of the Great Lakes.
For instance, the mussels changed the aquatic food supply by filtering phytoplankton, and markedly increased the clarity of Great Lakes water in the process. But the cleansing deprived other species of food. "This caused lake trout to starve," says Twiss, an associate professor of biology and director of the Great Rivers Center at Clarkson University. He said the mussels have also turned some beaches into "middens," or dumps of empty mussel shells.
The zebra mussel population is controlled in part by the appetite of another species that also arrived via the Seaway - the round goby, a fish native to Eastern Europe's Black and Caspian Seas. The goby showed up in 1990 and began to feast on the mussels. This kept the gobies well fed and helped to control the zebra mussel population, but produced yet another environmental shift. "Things like the sturgeon and the small mouth bass are thriving because they eat the goby," Twiss explains.
It is a case of one thing leading to another, and Twiss wants to better understand how this constantly evolving system works. It is familiar territory; Twiss, a Yankee who grew up on the north shore of Lake Huron in Canada, has been around the Great Lakes all his life. Now he is trying to find out what makes the system tick, with a particular focus on the understudied, 115-mile International Section of the St. Lawrence River which forms part of the boundary between the U.S. and Canada. But Twiss and his research colleagues recognize that the environmental change wrought by invasive species can't be easily reversed.
Rapid ecological change has been a constant in the region since the arrival of European settlers. Since the 1800s, more than 136 invasive fish, algae, invertebrate and plant species have colonized the Great Lakes, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. An early arrival was the sea lamprey, an eel-like primitive fish with a vampire's eating habits. The lamprey hooks its prey with its sucker mouth, drills a hole with its teeth, and then drains its victims of fluids and blood. Its prey includes salmon, lake trout and sturgeon. The lamprey, which was discovered in Lake Ontario in the 1830s, may have entered through the Erie Canal.
But the St. Lawrence Seaway set off a new round of upheaval by allowing foreign invaders to reach the Great Lakes as stowaways in ship ballast, the extra water that ships carry to control stability in the water. When this water was dumped, invaders were set loose. The zebra mussel is believed to have arrived this way. New regulations now control where ballast can be emptied, but they came too late.
The Seaway was built to spur the economies of adjoining states and Canadian provinces by allowing ocean ships to travel unimpeded from the Atlantic to Duluth, Minnesota. It was created by removing roadblocks in the St. Lawrence River, among them the Long Sault Rapids, a 10-mile stretch of white water in the International Section 25 miles from Clarkson. When the Seaway was done, it formed a vast system that included the St. Lawrence River, all five Great Lakes, and adjoining water links such as the Detroit River. The Seaway can now handle vessels roughly two-and-a-half football fields long.
The Seaway changed the region's economy by turning the St. Lawrence into a watery highway for a region of 33 million people. Oil, chemicals, gravel, iron ore, grains and finished products such as wind turbines now move along the waterway. Since its opening, the Seaway has carried some 2.3 billion tons of cargo. The Seaway's key advantage is cost. Big ships use less fuel than trucks or trains to haul cargo, and produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions as well. Future regulations to force ships to use cleaner fuel will make this type of transportation even more favorable.
But when the Seaway's 50th anniversary arrived, the media focused on the undesirable changes it had brought. One of these changes came with the damming of the Long Sault Rapids, which allowed the installation of locks to handle big ships. "They drowned the rapids," says Twiss. This removed the natural fluctuations in water levels, so that cattail marshes took over sections of the river where fish once spawned.
It might seem logical to simply restore fluctuating water levels, and Twiss says several plans to do this have emerged. But Twiss cautions against haste. The danger is that fixing one problem may create another. One sticking point is that wetlands are a natural reservoir for mercury because they aren't flushed by changing water levels. The river has been dammed for half a century and a lot of mercury has accumulated. "It potentially would be released in bulk if the water were allowed to rise and fall more naturally," Twiss says.
It would amount to "yet another disturbance, when we already don't understand fully how things work now," Twiss adds. He is working with colleagues from the University of Ottawa to study the area where the rapids once lay. But even as they work, other changes may be taking place.
"It's like bobsledding," observes Twiss. "You can't get off, and it changes direction so rapidly it is difficult to keep your bearings. For a scientist, it's very challenging. Just when you think you understand the system, something else happens."


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I've been a cosplayer for the past 9+ years, and have been seriously costume designing for the past two. By background includes illustration, graphics, costumes, fibers, and fashion. I try to associate all of these areas in all the costumes I design.
My main focus in cosplaying is making a character real—how would the outfit be made functionally, is there historical content behind it, what the character is wearing it for and what types of materials would it be made in. I want to create a living being, not always just make a two-dimensional sketch into an outfit.
The costumes on here that aren't me the ones I've made for my significant other Rtis. She puts up with my cosplay quirks and allows me to dress her up, so she needs some kudos for that ;)
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Deutsche Telekom Waited Two Days After AT&T-T-Mobile Died to Court MetroPCS
Deutsche Telekom didn't sit around wallowing in the wake of its failed mega-deal to sell T-Mobile to AT&T.
According to a federal filing by MetroPCS today, Deutsche Telekom contacted Credit Suisse, MetroPCS's bankers on Dec. 21, 2011 — just two days after Deutsche Telekom and AT&T officially killed the $39 billion T-Mobile deal.
Here's how the filing, which is loaded with companies expressing interest in MetroPCS, describes the initial approach:
On December 21, 2011, Deutsche Telekom contacted Credit Suisse, which had represented MetroPCS in connection with a previous transaction in which Deutsche Telekom had been involved, and requested that Credit Suisse convey to MetroPCS that Deutsche Telekom was interested in meeting with MetroPCS to discuss potential strategic opportunities involving Deutsche Telekom's subsidiary T-Mobile and MetroPCS. Later that day, Credit Suisse conveyed Deutsche Telekom's interest to a senior executive of MetroPCS.
So while the rest of world speculated on the future T-Mobile, the German telecom had already picked itself up by its bootstraps and started on its new path.
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Great taste - slight hint of strawberry and no fishy smell or aftertaste. High in DHA- very good for brain development-may improve your child's cognition and behaviour. No measuring spoon supplied.
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giants have either launched, or are in the process of launching cloud-based
storage services for music, media and documents. Fierce competition has moved
to the digital world in regards to music especially, and none of the big
players want to be left behind.
released its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player in March, which
offers 5 GB of online storage for free. It also saves MP3's from Amazon's store
automatically to the cloud along with other uploaded files like music, photos,
movies and documents. Amazon customers can also upgrade to 20 GB for one year
through the purchase of an MP3 album from Amazon.com. But Amazon
encountered legal issues
with record labels when it failed to obtain new licensing
rights. Amazon has since met with these labels to discuss legal matters.
was expected to launch a cloud storage service as early as last Christmas, but
held off due to its licensing-related search for a subscription service.
Currently, Google is still in talks with Warner Music Group, EMI Group,
Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. In addition, reports have
noted that a change in upper management may be contributing to the delay. On
April 1, Larry Page, co-founder of Google, became chief executive while Eric
Schmidt was moved up to executive chairman.
Now, Apple
is stepping into the cloud storage ring with a completed online
music storage locker that reportedly will be released before Google's cloud
system, and reports are saying that Apple will call it
iCloud. This tip comes from the rumor that Apple may
be the recent buyer of the domain iCloud.com.
online music storage system will allow iTunes users to store music on a remote
server and access it from several different devices.
was originally owned by Xcerion, which is a Sweden-based desktop-as-a-service
company. Recently, Xcerion renamed its service CloudMe and bought the domain
CloudMe.com on April 5.
anonymous source, who is close to Xcerion, said Apple bought the domain iCloud.com
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Peano Continua with Unique Symmetric Products
Let $X$ be a metric continuum and $n$ a positive integer. Let $F_{n}(X)$ be the hyperspace of all nonempty subsets of $X$ with at most $n$ points, metrized by the Hausdorff metric. We said that $X$ has unique hyperspace $F_n(X)$ provided that, if $Y$ is a continuum and $F_n(X)$ is homeomorphic to $F_n(Y),$ then $X$ is homeomorphic to $Y.$ In this paper we study Peano continua $X$ that have unique hyperspace $F_n(X)$, for each $n\geq 4.$ Our result generalize all the previous known results on this subject.
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Salaam all,
Hope everyone is doing well. I had a question about the different names of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). As we all would know that there are 99 attributes of Allah (SWT). I was not aware of the fact that there are different names which the angels used to call Prophet Muhammad (SAW). Can someone please clarify for me what the "names" are referring to and when and from where these come from.
Note: Please keep in mind I did not mean to compare Allah's attributes as being similar to the Prophet's (SAW) names.
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ahmed is second name of prophet muhammad.
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Walaikum Salaam
Charmsahead, am not aware if there are different names which angels used. Can u let us know its authenticity ?
About names of Prophet Muhammad {sallal lahu alayhi wasallam}, i found the following at Islamtoday
The names of our Prophet (peace be upon him) cited in the hadîth related by Jubayr b. Mut`im are five. He relates that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: I have five names: I am Muhammad, I am Ahmad, I am al-Mâhî for Allah eliminates disbelief by me, I am al-Hâshir since all people gather under me at the day of Judgment, and I am al-`Aqib. [Sahîh al-Bukhârî (3532), Sahîh Muslim (2354), Sunan al-Tirmidhî (2842) and Musnad Ahmad (80/81/84)].
These are the authentic names of the Prophet (peace be upon him) that he cited himself. There are other names stated in the Quran. Ibn Hajar writes: The other names of the Prophet (peace be upon him) which are mentioned in the Quran are: al-Shâhid, al-Mubashshir, al-Nadhîr, al-Mubayyin, al-Dâ`î ilâ Allah, al-Sirâj al-Munîr, al-Dhikr, al-Rahmah, al-Ni`mah, al-Hâdî, al-Shahîd, al-Amîn, al-Muzammil, and al-Mudaththir. More names came in the hadîth related by `Abd Allah b. `Amr b. al-`As which is al-Mutawakkil.
Other famous names are: al-Mukhtâr, al-Mustafâ, al-Shâfi`, al-Mushaffa`, al-Sâdiq, al-Musaddiq and others.
Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned other names in his book Zad al-Ma`âd such as al-Qâsim, al-Dahûk, al-Qattâl, `Abd Allah, Sayyid Walad Adam, Sâhib Liwâ al-Hamd, Sâhib al-Maqâm al-Mahmûd. However, these are all descriptions and not really names.
What the questioner said regarding 99 names is not substantiated by any authentic hadîth related from the Prophet (peace be upon him).
Ibn Dahiyyah writes in his book devoted to the prophetic names: Some people said that the Prophets (peace be upon him) names are equivalent to Allahs names (i.e., 99 names)... "If someone were to search for them, he would find them to be more like three hundred names.
He then goes on to enumerate these names in his book, referring them back to his sources in the Qurân and in different biographical works. He also mentioned the proper way of pronouncing these names and their meanings.
This is as far as I can go in this matter, and may peace and blessing be upon our Prophet Muhammad.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: All the descendants of Adam are sinners, and the best of sinners are those who repent."
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May. 28 (BusinessDesk) – Fonterra Cooperative Group, the worlds biggest dairy exporter, cut its forecast 2014 milk payout by 2.9 percent and said it expects the payout for the 2015 season to tumble to $7 per kilogram of milk solids, reflecting …
Fonterra cuts 2014 milk payout forecast to $8.40, flags $7 for 2015
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May. 28 (BusinessDesk) – Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest dairy exporter, cut its forecast 2014 milk payout by 2.9 percent and said it expects the payout for the 2015 season to tumble to $7 per kilogram of milk solids, reflecting a decline in world dairy prices and increased global supply.
Auckland-based Fonterra cut its forecast for the current season ton $8.40/kgMS from the previous estimate of $8.65/kgMS, which would have been a record. Its dividend forecast was kept unchanged at 10 cents a share, having been slashed by two thirds in December, and the dairy producer affirmed its guidance for earnings.
"Dairy commodity prices have come off the peak reached in early February this year, as global supply and demand have rebalanced," chief executive Theo Spierings said in a statement. "The shift in supply and demand over the past few months showed that volatility continued to exert a strong influence over the global outlook for dairy."
Dairy product prices have dropped 23 percent since Fonterra's board forecast a record milk payout in February. The board had used its discretion that month to keep the forecast payout 70 cents lower than what it would be using calculations from the regulated milk price manual, citing a production mismatch where the price of whole and skim milk powder surged ahead of higher margin products such as cheese and butter.
"After seeing recent improved stream returns on powders and other products, and considering the level of risk likely in the remaining three months of the financial year, the board has decided to reduce that 70 cent gap by 15 cents, to 55 cents," chairman John Wilson said today.
The kiwi dollar edged up to 85.51 US cents after the announcement, from 85.38 cents immediately before. The forecast 2015 payout is in the middle of the $6.50 and $7.50 per kg/MS expected by economists, according to Bank of New Zealand.
Dairy product prices fell to a new 15-month low in the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction last week.
Fonterra said it expects milk supply for next season of 1.6 million kgMS, up 2 percent on the current season forecast of 1.58 million kgMS. Supply was also likely to increase in other markets.
"There is currently more milk available for the international market to absorb," Spierings said. "We expect demand from China to remain strong. In Russia, there will be pressure on the balance between imports and local production. These factors are expected to continue influencing the supply-demand balance."
Units in the Fonterra Shareholders' Fund, which gives investors exposure to the group's dividends, rose 1.4 percent to $6 yesterday, and have gained 3.5 percent this year.
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a Sun Ultra-80 under Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8), using NAGWare f95 v4.2(470) and Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 2001/05/15;
a Sun Ultra-30 under Solaris 6 (SunOS 5.6), using NAGWare f95 v4.1(345) and WorkShop Compilers 4.2 30 Oct 1996 C 4.2.
|-- in.html |-- doc --|-- un.html | |-- nag_fn_un.3 | |-- libnagfl90.a | |-- nag_mod_dir --|-- *.mod | | |-- source ---|-- *.f90 |-- examples --|-- data -----|-- *.dat fnsol04d9l --| |-- results --|-- *.r | |-- scripts ---|-- nagexample | | |-- bin ------|-- * (directories of FLEXlm binaries | | for supported platforms) | | | |-- enduser.pdf (FLEXLM End User Manual) | | |-- license ---| |-- index.htm | | | |-- flexfaq ---|-- *.htm (FLEXlm FAQ) |-- htmlman --| | |-- *.htm (FLEXLM |-- flexuser --| End User |-- graphics Manual)
The following shows the directory/file organization of the PDF documentation materials as they will be installed.
|-- images --|-- *.gif | | |-- release4.html (main index) | | | |-- genint --|-- *.html (introductory material) NAGdoc --| |-- html --| | | |-- library_contents --|-- *.html | | | | | |-- [c01-c29]_fn04.html (chapter indexes) |-- fn --| | |-- genint --|-- *.pdf (introductory material) | | | |-- library_contents --|-- *.pdf |-- pdf --| |-- indexes --|-- *.pdf (KWIC and GAMS) | |-- [c01-c29] --|-- *.pdf (chapter, module and procedure files)
compiled library: 12.6 Mb module information files: 6.3 Mb example program material: 4.3 Mb scripts: 0.1 Mb library documentation files: 0.1 Mb PDF documentation files: 20.2 Mb licensing materials: 21.0 Mb
To install all library material use the Unix tar utility, e.g.
tar xvf /cdrom/fn04.tar(assuming the CD-ROM has been mounted as /cdrom).
The object library (libnagfl90.a) should be moved to a directory, such as /usr/lib, in the default search path of the linker, if possible, so that linkage is convenient. Alternatively, a symbolic link can be made, e.g.
ln -s /fnsol04d9l/libnagfl90.a /usr/lib/libnagfl90.a
The module information files (nag_mod_dir/*) are supplied in pre-compiled module form. They should be moved to a suitable location so that access is convenient, e.g.
mkdir /usr/local/lib/fl90_modules mv nag_mod_dir/* /usr/local/lib/fl90_modulesor, a symbolic link can be made, e.g.
ln -s /fnsol04d9l/nag_mod_dir /usr/local/lib/fl90_modules
The -I"pathname" option should then be specified on each f95 invocation (where "pathname" is /usr/local/lib/fl90_modules) to tell the compiler where to find the modules.
Alternatively, the files may be moved to the same directory as the pre-defined modules supplied with the compiler.
The script nagexample refers to the local directory containing the example programs. The file should be copied to (for example) /usr/local/bin, modified to reflect the local installation, and its protection set to world execute.
The man page, which directs users to the HTML form of the Users' Note, should be moved to a directory in the man search path, e.g.
cd doc mv nag_fn_un.3 /usr/man/man3
In order to enable the software, NAG will issue you with a license key. The license key is a simple text file (usually called license.dat), containing details of the software that will be enabled.
A short term (demonstration or trial) license key contains one or more lines like the following:
FEATURE NAG_FN NAG 4.000 30-nov-2002 0 CBDA2041DC1BC45D2B68 "ANY" DEMOSpecifically, it does not have any lines starting with the word SERVER and is referred to here as an uncounted license key. Longer term uncounted license keys must be locked to a specific computer, i.e. they will enable the software on one computer only. These license keys include the FLEXlm hostid of the computer instead of the word DEMO above.
To apply for a longer term license key, contact one of the NAG Response Centres quoting the product to be licensed and the FLEXlm hostid for the computer. To obtain the FLEXlm hostid, select the appropriate lmutil program from the platform specific directory under the license/bin/ subdirectory, and run it with argument lmhostid:
license/bin/sun4_u5/lmutil lmhostid
On systems without an ethernet card, use the arguments lmhostid -long.
Once you have obtained the license key, store the text of it in a file, say /usr/local/lib/nag/license.dat.
The location of this file must be made known to the NAG application by setting the environment variable LM_LICENSE_FILE to the full pathname of the file before the application is invoked.
For example, in the C-shell, type:
setenv LM_LICENSE_FILE /usr/local/lib/nag/license.dator in the Bourne shell, type:
LM_LICENSE_FILE=/usr/local/lib/nag/license.dat export LM_LICENSE_FILENo other actions are required to install an uncounted license.
Further details about FLEXlm and how it may be configured to suit your local circumstances are included in the FLEXlm End Users Guide supplied in the license/htmlman/flexuser/ subdirectory.
tar xvf /cdrom/pdf.tar(assuming the CD-ROM has been mounted as /cdrom).
You may wish to move the PDF documentation files to the same location as that for other NAG products.
The following material should also be made accessible to users:
compiled library:
libnagfl90.amodule information files:
nag_mod_dir/*.modexample program material:
examples/source/*.f90 examples/data/*.dat examples/results/*.r scripts/nagexamplepdf documentation files
Note that the example material has been adapted, if necessary, from that printed in the NAG fl90 Manual, so that programs are suitable for execution with this implementation with no further changes. Making the example material directly available to users provides them with easily adaptable templates for their own problems.
On-line documentation is provided, in PDF form, with this implementation. Please see the Readme file on the distribution medium for further information.
The NAG Response Centres are available for general enquiries from all users and also for technical queries from sites with an annually licensed product or support service.
The Response Centres are open during office hours, but contact is possible by fax, email and phone (answering machine) at all times.
When contacting a Response Centre it helps us deal with your enquiry quickly if you can quote your NAG site reference and NAG product code (in this case FNSOL04D9L).
The NAG websites provide information about implementation availability, descriptions of products, downloadable software, product documentation and technical reports. The NAG websites can be accessed at
http://www.nag.co.uk/, http://www.nag.com/ (in North America) or http://www.nag-j.co.jp/ (in Japan)
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I have the notification area in the panel in Xfce on Fedora 16, x86_64, current and up to date. The problem is that every time I restart the computer the icons in the notification area are different. For example, last time I rebooted I had icons for what I wanted in the notification area:
Bluetooth manager
Network Manager
Volume Control
But after rebooting the Volume Control icon is missing, although sound is working fine. Sometimes I get icons for things that I don't want, like Ibus input method. Also, I have checked several applications to be hidden in the properties dialog box for the notification area, yet their icons still appear. (The icon is also turned off in the application, for those that offer the option.)
In attempting to fix this just now I cleared the list of known applications. This left me with Network Manager Applet, Xfce Power Manager, and Bluetooth. Note that at the moment the Xfce Power Manager icon does not appear in the panel, even though the notification area roperties says it does appear. Furthermore, having cleared known applications I can't find any way to restore the list, nor can I find any way to add applications to the list.
I would really like this notification area applet to function reliably, but I can't figure out the secret to make it behave consistently. Any suggestions?
Linguistics on Linux!
Does anyone know where the configuration file for the Notification Area panel widget is located and what it is called?
Linguistics on Linux!
Stored in the xfce4-panel xfconf channel. Xml of this is written to ~/.config/xfce/xfconf/xml-... blabla.
Stored in the xfce4-panel xfconf channel. Xml of this is written to ~/.config/xfce/xfconf/xml-... blabla.
Thanks. I could add the volume control if I knew the name to launch it.
It also appears that the volume icon is apparently not running, even though the box for it is ticked in Settings Manager > Session & Startup > Application Autostart > Volume Icon (Show desktop volume control). If it is checked, and I rebooted less than an hour ago, why would it not be running?
I used to have a little loudspeaker icon in the notification area. If I clicked on it I got a little slider where I could quickly adjust the sound without having to open the whole, confusing pavucontrol applet. It disappeared and I want it back! That's all I'm trying to do here.
Linguistics on Linux!
Well, I finally got it fixed. It turns out that the applet is called "volumeicon." So I went into Settings Manager > Session & Startup > Application Autostart and added it to the list. After rebooting I had TWO volume control icons. WTH?
Of course, the original one was still checked as well, so evidently two instances got started. But before adding the second one the first one never started at all, even though its box was checked.
This is not the first time I have had strange behavior with applications auto-starting. I think there is a bug in the Application Autostart settings.
Linguistics on Linux!


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Following todays failed launch attempt the Mission Management team have discussed the prospects for launching the Atlas V with twin RBSP spacecraft in the next few days. Bearing in mind that Hurricane Isaac is hurtling across the Caribbean and heading for landfall on the south west coast of Florida in the early hours of Monday morning the managers have decided to wait out the storm.
The Atlas V will be rolled back to the Vertical Integration Facility for protection from the outer edges of the Hurricane as it passes through. The new launch date has been reset for Thursday August 30th at 4:05 EDT (8:05 GMT). This needs final confirmation after obtaining approval from the range.
With this launch date it is likely that the rocket will be rolled out to the launch pad again on Tuesday when Hurricane Isaac will be making landfall once again on the Panhandle in the northern part of Florida.
The official statement from ULA follows: READ MORE »


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Family Doctor—American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.familydoctor.org
National Kidney Foundation http://www.kidney.org
Health Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca
The Kidney Foundation of Canada http://www.kidney.ca
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in adults. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at:
http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115336/Chronic-kidney-disease-CKD-in-adults. Updated August 23, 2016. Accessed September 28, 2016.
Pendse S, Singh AK. Complications of chronic kidney disease: Anemia, mineral metabolism, and cardiovascular disease.
Med Clin N Am. 2005;89(3):549-561.
Snyder S, Pendergraph B. Detection and evaluation of chronic kidney disease.
Am Fam Physician. 2005;72(9):1739-1746.
Zandi-Nejod K, Brenner BM. Strategies to retard the progression of chronic renal disease.
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2005; 89:489-509.
8/26/2014 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115336/Chronic-kidney-disease-CKD-in-adults: Heiwe S, Jacobson SH. Exercise training in adults with CKD: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Kidney Dis. 2014;64(3):383-393.
4/6/2016 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115336/Chronic-kidney-disease-CKD-in-adults: Park H, Adeyemi A, et al. A meta-analytic assessment of the risk of chronic kidney disease in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus. J Viral Hepat. 2015 Nov;22(11):897-905.
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CNN.com – FDA panel: Keep Vioxx, Celebrex, Bextra on market – Feb 18, 2005
WASHINGTON (AP) — The popular painkillers Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx all pose a risk of heart trouble, but should be available to those who need them, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
The panel strongly favored keeping Celebrex on the market, split over Bextra and favored Vioxx — which is currently not on sale — by a vote of just 17-16.
"The data is very compelling," Vioxx is substantially worse than the others, meeting chairman Alistair J.J. Wood of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine said.
The panelists voted 31-1 to keep Celebrex on sale and, after a revote, favored Bextra 17-13 with two abstaining.
I've read that some patients with severe arthritis were devistated when Vioxx was pulled, willing to trade an increased risk of heart disease for daily mobility.
Now, who's going to prescribe these? Not ER docs. My guess it'll be rheumatologists, and some internists with a long history with a patient, and even then, with billboards up with 'Lawyer' and 'Vioxx' in close proximity, restraint will be the order of the day.


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All quotes tagged Economical
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"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it"
"I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared."
"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder."
"When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
"Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent."
"The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one."
"If ignorance paid dividends most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics"
"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics."


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35-40 - 43-31
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Ticker) -- The New Jersey Nets can possibly clinch the Atlantic Division title on Friday when they host the New York Knicks at Continental Airlines Arena.
The Nets (43-31) have a 6 1/2-game lead over Miami (37-38 ) and can secure the division title and the second seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs with a victory and a Heat loss at Detroit on Friday.
New Jersey edged Washington on the road on Wednesday, 103-99 in overtime, for just its second victory in eight games.
Richard Jefferson collected 28 points and a season-high 14 rebounds for the Nets, who rallied from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit. All-Star forward Kenyon Martin, who had missed six games with right knee tendinitis, played 12 minutes but sat out the second half with soreness in the knee.
The Knicks (35-40) are in seventh place, one game ahead of eighth-place Boston (34-41).
New York, which is opening a three-game road trip and plays five of its final seven games on the road, has alternated losses and wins over its last six games.
On Monday, the Knicks edged Portland, 92-91, as Tim Thomas scored 26 points and Stephon Marbury added 23, eight assists and seven rebounds and forced Damon Stoudamire into an airball on the final play of the game.
The Nets had won 11 of 12 in the series, including the first two encounters this season, before the Knicks posted a 79-65 home triumph on March 19. The Nets were without Kidd and Martin in that contest.


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Bicycling enthusiasts in southeastern Massachusetts continue to work toward the long-term goal of creating a 22-mile bike trail connecting Taunton to Fall River.
The Taunton River Trail, as it has been called, would allow bicyclists to get off public roads and peaceably travel between the cities, while enjoying the scenery and nature along the water.
Bicycling enthusiasts in southeastern Massachusetts continue to work toward the long-term goal of creating a 22-mile bike trail connecting Taunton to Fall River.
The Taunton River Trail, as it has been called, would allow bicyclists to get off public roads and peaceably travel between the cities, while enjoying the scenery and nature along the water.
"The Taunton River Trail will be a great recreational resource for the residents of Taunton, Dighton and Somerset," said Al Lima, who leads the Taunton River Trail Committee, a group dedicated to bringing the 22-mile path to fruition. "It really is quite scenic along the Taunton River. The hope is to not only create a bike path, but to preserve open space and to provide opportunity for historical interpretation of the Taunton River area."
There are several obstacles in the way of creating such a trail, the most important of which is funding. But Lima and his associates are working incrementally to outline the trail with street paths marked by signs, informational kiosks and pavement markings.
"The overall goal of a 22-mile bike path is a bit down the road," said Lima, who has been involved with the effort since his group was formed about two years ago. "These things sometimes take a decade from time of conception to actual opening of the bike path. We hope to at least have a bike route sooner than that. Then we will work to get the bicycles off the road onto a path as soon as possible."
The effort, which is supported by the Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District, is contingent upon securing federal funding funneled through the state's Department of Transportation and Department of Conservation and Recreation, but there are other priorities taking precedent right now, including bridge and intersection projects. Lima estimated that such an off-road path could cost as much as $700,000 per mile, a daunting figure which is elevated in part because the proximity to the Taunton River presents wetlands concerns.
"We'd like to get people off of 138 as quick as possible, particularly in Dighton," said Lima, of Fall River, who retired as a city planner before becoming an avid bicyclist. "It's a rather narrow and heavily trafficked road on Route 138 in Dighton. But, like I said, it could take a while."
To do this, Lime said he is looking to cut a path through Sweets Knoll State Park. What's needed is $200,000 for the 25 percent of the cost for the design stage and permits.
A transportation planner at SRPEDD said his organization is currently in talks with DCR about potential funding for a 2-mile bicycle path section going through the Sweets Knoll land, which was donated to the state and designated as a state park in 2010.
But first, SRPEDD and the Taunton River Trail Committee are talking to Dighton's Public Works Department about the possibility of putting up signs, at no cost to the town. Lima also said that his group plans to attend a Dighton Board of Selectmen meeting next to hopefully get their blessing to place four information kiosks along the Taunton River Trail in June. The kiosks would be paid for by the National Park Service and will also serve toward the goal of receiving a federal Wild and Scenic River designation.
SRPEDD Transportation Planner Adam Recchia said his agency supports the Taunton River Trail for environmental, recreational and transportation reasons.
"It's in our regional transportation plan," Recchia said. "It's sort of the crux of the north-south piece in our main bicycle plan. … The air quality benefits of having more people commuting by a mode that has virtually no emissions is definitely a plus, and also giving people who can't afford a car another way to get somewhere and access jobs. We don't have any bus lines that go from Taunton down to Somerset.
"Obviously, there is a big recreation part as well, especially with this path. It has scenic views of the Taunton River, and cool old industrial areas that it will go by in Taunton," Recchia said.
Lima said that in the grand scheme of two-wheeled, pedal-powered transportation in Massachusetts, the hope of cycling idealists is to connect the Taunton River Trail to a large path that leads all the way to Boston.
"That's a much, much longer-range plan," he said. "It's really a regional system we have in mind. It will be implemented in pieces, and one of the big pieces is the Taunton River Trail."
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text: PMSL. You are taking Murray hate to new levels - brilliant. So if he wins, Murray's slam wouldn't be diminished - but he wouldn't be an 'elite' player who 'won' his slam. OK - there's nothing remotely incoherent about that statement. I often wondered what kind of bitter pish you'd come out with if Murray ever won a slam - now I guess we can all see. If Murray wins he'll have beaten two top ten players - unlike Roger in his first slam, who only faced one top ten player. I guess Roger wasn't an 'elite'player until he 'won' some subsequent slams - as the criteria you seem to want to apply to Murray this year would surely have also applied to Roger in 2003.


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Resubmitting as per emperor's instructions ^^
(Kuchiyose no Jutsu:Gurusu ) Summoning : Eagles
Summoning Animal:Eagles
Scroll Owner:Gaara of konoha
Other Users who have signed contract:None at the moment
Summoning Boss if existing:Al capone (if approved)
Other Summoning Animals tied to contract: Two face Franky
(Kuchiyose no Jutsu- Arukapone) - Summoning Jutsu -Al capone
Rank: S
Chakra cost:45
Damage points:N/A
Description:After biting there thumb and wiping it on a tatoo on there arm the user will summon Al Capone the King of Eagles who rules the land of Mount Chicagoicas.He is a majestic bird with wing feathers as sharp as a sword and shine with the lustre of gold and due to his katon affinity his tail feathers are always on fire and provide a source of light and inspiration.Al has a wingspan of 20 metres and is about 15 metres in length and weighs nearly 190 kilos.Al bears the coat of arms of Mount chicagoicas on his belly. Al is able to fly at speeds of about 100 km/hr,even at such high speeds he is able to perform mid air maneovers and is extremely agile.Its huge claws and sharp beak are able to tear up any human to shreds,due to Al's enormous strength.Al being an eagle also has sharp eyesight and can spot a rat from a height of 2 miles and also see through mist(can see through the hidden mist but not if sight deprevation is also used in conjunction with the hidden mist).Al being a huge bird can create huge gusts of wind upto A rank by flapping his wings(but doesnt count as a move).But its natural affinity is Katon so Al Capone can perform all Katon jutsus that the user can upto A rank(counts as a move).Al being a huge bird can carry upto 5 people on its back at a time.All in all Al capone is a ferocious and frightning eagle who despises the human race but he holds special respect for Gaara of konoha whom he is bound to eternally.
*can only be summoned twice per battle
*Al can stay on the battlefield for 4 turns only
*will go back home if hit by a S rank jutsu
*can only be taught by Gaara of konoha
*Al can perform the A ranked gust of wind only thrice in a battle
*Al can perform the katon jutsus 5 times per battle
For references:
Al is a phillipine Eagle,the most awesome bird and also known as the king of birds.The eagle stands a meter high, weighs anything from four to seven kilograms and has a grip three times the strength of the strongest man on earth. With a wing span of nearly seven feet and a top speed at 82 kilometers per hour, it can carry unsuspecting monkey and carry it off without breaking flight.Source http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/latest-...ain-cause.html
Philippine eagles inhabit tropical rain forests and are well-adapted to life in dense foliage. Despite their great size, they have short, broad wings and a squared-off tail that allows them to rise almost vertically between trees and maneuver with great speed and agility through branches and vines. They are adept at snatching monkeys or other mammals or birds from trees.Source:http://www.bagheera.com/inthewild/van_anim_phleagle.htm
(Kuchiyose no jutsu-Shurui Na kao-Furanki) Summoning jutsu:Two faced franky
Rank: S
Chakra cost:45
Damage points:N/A
Description:After biting there thumb and wiping it on a tatoo on there arm the user will summon Franky who is the brother of Al capone and is the underboss of the eagle force in Mount Chicagoicas.He wears a red cloak with a sleeveless black shirt and black pants.The red cloak also carries the mark of Mount chicagoicas.His sense of sight is similar to his brother and can see through thick mists(hidden mist jutsu,but if sight deprevation jutsu is also used then he is unable to view the opponent).He is 6 feet tall and is capable of flying with great speed and agility as it has wings on its back at a speed of nearly 70 km/hr ,and he can only carry one person.His feathers are irediscent and glow because of his raiton affinity.hence wherever he goes light follows him.He stands on his legs and carries a huge warhammer in his hand which can crush through defensive doton jutsus of B rank and below, as he possesses the strength similar to his brother Al capone.Franky also possesess natural affinity towards raiton and can perform raiton jutsus upto A rank(counts as a move).Franky is a dark and maniacal eagle who when gets angry,ravages everything in his vicinity.The only other organism he is afraid of is his brother AL capone,whom he respects and loves with his heart due to which he is also started being friendly with Gaara of konoha due to which he has granted Gaara a mental link with him,due to which,their mind becomes one and they can share each other's thought.
*can only be summoned by Gaara of konoha or who posesses the eagle contract
*can only be summoned once in battle
*Franky will go back to mount chicogo. after 5 turns
*will go back to mount chicagoicas if he suffers damage from a S rank jutsu.
*Franky can only use raiton jutsus 4 times when summoned
*the breaking of any doton jutsu of B rank and below counts as a move and also can only be done 3 times in a battle.
*Franky also possesess the ability to flash raiton from his body that can surprise,blind and disorient the opponent like a flash bang,the flash of light lasts two seconds and can only be used thrice in a battle, and doesnt count as a move and wont affect the user since he knows when the flash would occur.
*both franky and AL cannot be summoned together
Type: Attack
Chakra cost:40
Description:This is a conjunction style jutsu alongwith Al capone in which the user for starters have to be in contact with the summon then the user will perform 3 handseals focussing doton chakra in his body and then stream it into Al who releases a blast of fire from his beak with perfect timing and so the fire and earth combine as they travel creating a high pressure stream of lava(40 cm radius) that travels fast,towards the opponent causing serious burns and damage rendering the opponent helpless and in agony.
[B]*can be used three times per battle
*can only be performed if Riding Al capone
*requires the eagle Contract
Rank: S
Chakra cost:40
Description:This is another conjunction style jutsu performed alongwith Franky Two Face.In his jutsu the user for starters needs to have body contact with Franky,then as the user places his hand on franky ,the user streams a large amount of suiton chakra into franky and simultaneously Franky(he has hands as stated in his description) will perform 3 handseals and in perfect unison with the user's suiton chakra will expell a stream of condensed water from his beak(45 cm radius)with lightning in it(franky's affinity is lightning) which travels fast and can shock and paralyse the opponent severely disabling him from continuing the battle.
*can only be used thrice per battle
*can only be taught to a eagle contract holder by Gaara of konoha
*requires Franky to be near the user
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It is colorful!
Ceres you *****, ignoring me!
Ceres, you're back? Your sister is fine? Lawrd, do you have xfire? Log in, I wanna catch up (Syetactic/Synsane).
Just going to set you on my ignore list due to the colors in your posts.
haven't heard of you since 12 days ago, are you still watching?
where do you apply for your job? i want to join human.
It seems as though my insanity is imminent.
NATEDOG!? Im not sure actually.
Who on earth is Syndrome?
Don't be silly. Just take a good long shower. :x
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Barbarians Rugby
Baabaas call on Tindall and Qera
ESPNscrum Staff
February 28, 2012
Mike Tindall will line up for the Barbarians © Getty Images
Gloucester Rugby have confirmed that Mike Tindall and Akapusi Qera have received a call up from the Barbarians to face Ireland in May.
The match - taking place at Gloucester's Kingsholm - will see the duo run out in front of a home crowd to take on an Ireland side preparing for their summer tour of New Zealand.
Tindall is currently out of the interanational reckoning while Qera turned out for Fiji in the recent World Cup. The pair will be joined in the Barbarians by former Gloucester and Bath fullback Iain Balshaw.
John Kirwan will coach the side and the likes of Shane Williams, Lewis Moody and Joe Rokocoko will all feature at some point in their three match tour.
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write off debts and allow to ordain to lead a holy life. Angulimala killed 999 people, which is much wrong than bankruptcy IMHO.farmer wrote: Perhaps the OP should ask what effect bankruptcy would have on his practice.
For big banks, few million$ (or $100K) dollars is almost peanuts. No hurt here. Poor economy can bankrupt even a good business, and it is not the business owner's fault that economy tanked in 2008 caused the business to go seriously into debt.Would he be burdened by remorse? Guidance from a wise friend could be very helpful, since it is easy to be deluded about this sort of thing.
As I grow older, I understand more and more that it is hard to live really idealistic life in this material world. It is eat or be eaten. The law of the jungle. Its just how samsara works. Remorse is weakness and will allow others to tramp over you, materially at least. If one is nice, then others will walk over you. "You are nice, so you obliged to me. Aren't you? Your a good guy, right? If so, be a good guy and give me...."
This is one of the reasons why monk's life is so much better. You don't need to do most of worldly stuff. The worldly life is almost a trap. They make you take as much debt on you as possible, so you would pay off accrued interest and principle for the rest of your life to feed fat cats. What's so good about it?
It is almost impossible not to be in debt, even if this debt is "only" a mortgage with interest, of course.


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I love the idea that some people think that I'd written twenty five tutorials in advance. No chance! They're written the night before, with a few spare that I can use on nights where I'm busy having a life.
I guess each tutorial takes about three hours or so to write. It does help that I have some excellent modules to work with - the very nature of the calendar means I don't have to deal with things I don't want to.
I figure I averaged between 2 and 6 hours on each of those, just writing, not counting the "grok" time for the underlying modules.
The odd typo may give away the fact that they've been rushed a bit but to be honest the quality is so good that I wouldn't have guessed they were written the night before. Many kudos on these!
Two feature requests: 1) email reminders because I hate forgetting it one day and reading two the day after. Opening yesterday's box make it feel a little less "special" (ok, I use my agenda software instead, but I prefer mail
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Then I ran out of time. But hey, that's life. Now I'm too busy doing JIT advent calendar writing, and I'm really worried about mucking with a live site.
However a) I will have these next year b) If plans pan out you won't have to wait that long for something similar to return.


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I know someone already made a thread with an issue like this, but I've tried fixing my laptop and its still not working. For start I've checked all the cables, broadband modem is working (no router), I can access internet on this second laptop. I have an issue with my new laptop Toshiba satellite A500 13F, its a Vista 32, ZA Security Suite version is 90.083.000 the latest version I can download. As long as I dont install ZA, restart the laptop and start using it, internet will work but after that, it will disconnect. I already tried right clicking on ZA tray icon and click on Reset, checked if everything is set to Trusted in Zones tab and nothing works. I have also tried using Self-service support and none of the suggestions will fix my issue.
The strange thing is that even if I shutdown ZA, it will still continue disconnecting internet. The only way for internet to function normally is if I put it back to a restore point. I really dont know what is wrong, I am aware of the issue Windows update had with ZA, but now I've already tried twice, once without updating anything and I still get the same issue. Now I'm running restore point for the third time. I bought the ZA product and I would really like to use it cause I will be going to Africa and firewall protection is important. I'm not sure how reliable is Windows firewall.


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The following discussion focuses on Uruguayan history from the time of European settlement. For treatment of the nation in its regional context, see Latin America, history of.
Before the arrival of Europeans, the territory that is now Uruguay supported a small population estimated at no more than 5,000 to 10,000. The principal groups were the seminomadic Charrúa, Chaná (Chanáes), and Guaraní Indians. The Guaraní, who were concentrated in the subtropical forests of eastern Paraguay, established some settlements in northern Uruguay. The Charrúa moved to the shore in summer to fish and gather clams, fruits, and roots and moved inland in winter to hunt deer, rheas, and smaller game with bolas (stones connected by short ropes that are thrown to ensnare prey) and bows and arrows. Bands of eight to 12 families under a chief lived in villages of five to six houses made of matted windscreens. The Charrúa were known for their ferocity in battle, which they exploited to expand hunting grounds and capture women and children from other villages.
The first European to explore Uruguay was the Spanish navigator Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516, who, along with several of his men, was killed and eaten by Charrúa or Guaraní warriors. Ferdinand Magellan anchored at the future site of Montevideo in 1520, and Sebastian Cabot led a Spanish expedition up the Río de la Plata in 1526, but they found the Banda Oriental del Río Uruguay ("East Bank of the Uruguay River") unattractive for settlement because of a lack of mineral wealth and the absence of Indians who could be readily enslaved or compelled to serve European interests. Jesuit and Franciscan missions were not established in Uruguay until the 1620s. By that time, however, the indigenous population had begun to collapse, as European diseases killed thousands.
Cattle from neighbouring regions, allowed to roam freely in Uruguayan territory, multiplied over the years until their numbers reached the millions. This process is said to have originated in 1603, when a governor of Paraguay, Hernando Arias de Saavedra, shipped a number of cattle and horses downstream from Asunción and the animals were landed on the Uruguayan riverbank. They were subsequently hunted for their hides by transient gauchos of mestizo ancestry. Groups of bandeirantes (explorers and slave hunters) from Portuguese Brazil also made incursions into the region and occasionally attacked the missions there. In 1680 the Portuguese established Colônia do Sacramento (Spanish: Colonia del Sacramento) on the Río de la Plata opposite Buenos Aires. There they carried on a contraband trade with Spanish settlers, who were collecting great quantities of silver from the mines of Upper Peru (now Bolivia). Spanish authorities countered this move by founding San Felipe de Montevideo as a fortified city in 1726 and attacking Colonia, which subsequently changed hands several times before being ceded to Spain in 1777. Montevideo became the major Spanish port of the South Atlantic, and the process of dividing the Banda Oriental into huge unfenced ranches began. In 1776 the Banda Oriental became part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, the capital of which was Buenos Aires; however, Montevideo was still allowed to send shipments directly to Spain rather than clearing them first at Buenos Aires.
By 1800 there were approximately 10,000 people in Montevideo and another 20,000 elsewhere in Uruguay. About one-third of the total were African slaves, most of whom worked on estancias (ranches), in saladeros (meat-salting operations), and in households. Uruguay's small but growing middle class included petty merchants, artisans, and military officers of mestizo and European ancestry. At the apex of society were wealthy traders, bankers, estancieros (ranch owners), and high-ranking government officials. Most of the elite originated from—or principally resided in—Catalonia, the Basque Country, the Canary Islands, and other Spanish European lands. Few Indian groups survived into the 19th century; the last large-scale massacre of Indian peoples occurred at Salsipuedes in 1831, and by mid century scant vestiges of indigenous culture remained.
Montevideo, with its Spanish military and naval contingents, was a royalist stronghold when a movement for independence broke out in Buenos Aires in 1810. In the interior of the Banda Oriental, the fight against Spain was led from 1811 by José Gervasio Artigas, commander of the Blandengues, a mounted corps that the Spaniards had originally created to police the region. Artigas's small army, which soon included a battalion of freed African slaves, was supported by rural inhabitants, antiroyalist Montevideo leaders, and an army from Buenos Aires. Following victories in the interior and in Montevideo, Artigas promoted a loose confederation of provinces of la Plata, but he also considered forming a rival confederation centring on Montevideo. These plans, coupled with Artigas's growing power and egalitarian policies (including redistributing estanciero land to freed slaves and other poor Uruguayans), made him a threat to elites in Uruguay and centralists in Buenos Aires, who acquiesced when Portuguese Brazilian forces took over the Banda Oriental in 1820, and Artigas was driven into exile.
"Brazilianization" was resisted within the Banda Oriental and by Uruguayan exiles as well. Argentines felt increasingly threatened by the Brazilian presence, and their government was compelled to support Juan Antonio Lavalleja, one of Artigas's exiled officers, and his "33 orientales" when they crossed the river to free their homeland in 1825. The ensuing war was a stalemate, but British diplomats mediated a settlement in 1827, and in 1828 a treaty was ratified creating Uruguay as a separate state and a buffer between Brazil and Argentina; the nation's strategic location also served British interests by guaranteeing that the Río de la Plata would remain an international waterway. On July 18, 1830, when the constitution for the Oriental State of Uruguay was approved, the country had scarcely 74,000 inhabitants.
Uruguay's first years of independence were disastrous. Twenty years of war and depredation had greatly reduced cattle numbers, and the lands and fortunes of many colonial families had been destroyed. Both Argentina and Brazil still coveted Uruguay. The factions of the first and second presidents, José Fructuoso Rivera and Manuel Oribe, battled each other in what became known as the Guerra Grande ("Great War"). Oribe's adherents, who displayed white colours, became the Blanco ("White") Party and controlled the interior. Rivera and his followers used red colours and became the Colorado ("Red") Party, based in Montevideo. The Blancos, supported by armies of the Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, besieged Montevideo during the period 1843–51. The Colorados were aided first by France and England, then by Brazil. When in 1851 the Guerra Grande ended without a clear victory for either side, the Uruguayan interior was devastated, the government was bankrupt, and the disappearance of an independent Uruguay had become a real possibility. Intellectuals wanted to abolish the political parties that had brought the country to such a low point, but the war had made too deep an impact on ordinary Uruguayans, who had become polarized into Colorados or Blancos. In 1865 the Colorados, aided by a Brazilian army, ousted the Blancos from power; however, the Paraguayan dictator, seeing that action as a threat to the regional balance of power, sparked the War of the Triple Alliance (1864/65–70), in which Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina combined to defeat Paraguay. Uruguayan commerce was disrupted by the war, as well as by persistent political disputes, a civil war known as the Revolution of the Lances (1868–72), and Brazilian and Argentine involvement in Uruguayan affairs.
Development accelerated during the latter part of the 19th century as increasing numbers of immigrants established businesses and bought land. Partly through their efforts, sheep were introduced to graze together with cattle, ranches were fenced, and pedigreed bulls and rams were imported to improve livestock. Earnings from wool (which became the leading export in 1884), hides, and dried beef encouraged the British to invest in railroad building and also helped to modernize Montevideo—notably in its public utilities and transportation system—which thereby encouraged additional immigration. In 1876 the Uruguayan armed forces took over the government and, aided by improved communications, began to establish firmer control over the interior. However, public support for the regime eventually waned because of the brutality and corruption of some of its leaders, and a civilian Colorado government returned to power in 1890.
Blanco demands for a larger role in government escalated into the Revolution of 1897, led by Aparicio Saravia, which ended when the Colorado president, Juan Idiarte Borda, was killed by an assassin not associated with the Blancos. Although conflicts between Colorados and Blancos continued to impede economic development, by 1900 Uruguay's population grew to one million—a 13-fold increase over the level of 1830. The Colorado leader José Batlle y Ordóñez was elected president in 1903. The following year the Blancos led a rural revolt, and eight bloody months of fighting ensued before Saravia was killed in battle and government forces emerged victorious. In 1905 the Colorados won the first largely transparent legislative election in 30 years, and domestic stability was finally attained.
Batlle, who had become a Colorado hero, took advantage of the nation's stability and growing economic prosperity to institute major reforms, including increasing state intervention in economic matters. His administration helped expand cattle ranching, reduce the nation's dependence on imports and foreign capital, improve workers' conditions through far-reaching social reforms, and expand education. In addition Batlle abolished the death penalty, allowed women to initiate divorce proceedings, augmented the rights of children born out of wedlock, and reduced the political influence of the Roman Catholic church—reflecting growing trends toward social liberalization and secularization in Uruguay.
Batlle had two terms (1903–07 and 1911–15) in which to initiate his policies, but, realizing that his program might be reversed by a future president or dictator, he promoted a constitutional reform to end the presidency and replace it with a plural executive, the colegiado. Batlle's audacious plan split the Colorados and reinvigorated the Blanco opposition, and in 1916 the colegiado was defeated in the country's first election by secret ballot. Batlle retained a significant amount of prestige and support, however, which allowed him to strike a compromise that partly rescued the colegiado; thus, in a constitution promulgated in 1918, executive responsibility was split between the president and a National Council of Administration.
A consensus government emerged with policies that were more cautious than innovative, except in social legislation. Higher living standards were supported by a ranching economy that had stopped growing, a dilemma hidden by the high export prices of the late 1920s.
In 1930 the Colorado presidential candidate, Gabriel Terra, successfully maneuvered through the political vacuum created by the death in 1929 of Batlle, who had held an increasingly complex political and governmental structure together. When the effects of the Great Depression hit Uruguay, President Terra first blamed the plural executive's economic policies and then, supported by Blanco leader Luis Alberto de Herrera, carried out a coup in March 1933 that abolished the National Council and concentrated power in the hands of the president. Terra's dictatorship, followed by the presidency of his brother-in-law General Alfredo Baldomir during the period 1938–42, formulated a conservative response to the Great Depression. The state interfered with labour unions, postponed social legislation, preserved as much as it could of the British market for Uruguayan meat, and halted government attempts to nationalize foreign, mainly British, enterprises in Uruguay. The government advocated free-market principles but was compelled to play a more direct role in the economy. It apportioned scarce foreign exchange, built a hydroelectric dam, and tried to ease unemployment and maintain political support by hiring public employees under a system of political quotas. Hard times also sped migration from the interior to Montevideo, where industrial development was encouraged. As a result of these factors, Uruguay emerged from the 1930s with a more urban population and a larger government bureaucracy.
At the onset of World War II, European nations began eagerly to buy Uruguay's meat, wool, and hides, bringing a period of genuine prosperity. A new constitution in 1942 allowed all political parties to operate freely. The war also strengthened Uruguay's manufacturing sector, which employed nearly 100,000 people by 1945. Increasing numbers of urban workers joined labour unions, and corporatist "salary councils" arranged for higher wages. The presidential election of 1946 was won by Tomás Berreta, a Batllista (member of the Colorado Batllista Party, founded by Batlle in 1919). After his sudden death, Vice President Luis Batlle Berres, Batlle's nephew, became president.
During the early 1950s the Korean War stimulated high wool prices on the U.S. market, creating another economic boom for Uruguay. The resulting prosperity enabled the government of Batlle Berres to purchase the British-owned railroads and public utilities, inaugurate new state enterprises, encourage industrialization, subsidize agriculture, and reduce food prices. Unemployment virtually disappeared. A constitutional reform in 1951 replaced the presidency with a nine-member plural executive, the traditional cornerstone of the Batllista program. During this period Uruguay combined a strong democracy with the highest income per capita in Latin America. However, in the mid 1950s, when the end of the Korean War lowered wool prices, Uruguay's ranching economy declined, as did the standard of living. Politicians, responding to voters' demands, tried to keep consumption up, first by spending Uruguay's foreign exchange, then by taking out foreign loans and devaluing the peso. Economic conditions deteriorated: annual inflation rates rose above 60 percent, public services broke down, industries closed, and large numbers of labourers and professionals emigrated.
Voter dissatisfaction brought the Blancos to power in 1958 for the first time since 1865. Although reelected for a second term, the Blanco administration failed to improve conditions, and in 1966 a new constitution was ratified, returning the country to the presidential system. Elections in that year brought new leadership under Colorado conservatives, but inflation and a production slump continued to grip the country, precipitating increasingly stronger protests followed by a government crackdown on students and unions. During this period guerrilla attacks were initiated in Montevideo by the Tupamaros, a leftist group named for Túpac Amaru II, an 18th-century Inca who had rebelled against Spanish rule. When the police could not stop the Tupamaros, the government unleashed the military, which defeated them in a systematic and brutal counterinsurgency campaign. Economic problems persisted, however, and in 1973 the military wrested control of the government from the nation's discredited politicians.
The military acted with a ferocity and thoroughness previously unknown to Uruguay. Thousands of people were arrested—reputedly giving the nation the highest ratio of political prisoners to population in the world—and numerous human rights abuses were perpetrated, including torture, killings, and disappearances. The junta also outlawed political parties, dissolved unions, and heavily censored the media in order to strengthen its hold on power and force a new economic outlook on the citizenry. The regime held wages down, forbade strikes, attracted capital from foreign banks and lenders by setting high interest rates, and encouraged industrialists and ranchers to borrow and modernize. Though real wages fell and many businesses failed because they could not compete with cheap imports, the policy had some successes, including an increase in manufactured exports, a building boom, and Montevideo's reemergence as a banking and financial centre; in addition the government built roads and other public works. In 1980 voters rejected the military's proposed new constitution in a plebiscite—much to the military leaders' surprise, because they controlled the media and severely restricted the political opposition. The plebiscite greatly damaged the regime's legitimacy.
Economic conditions also deteriorated. In the 1980s foreign loans became more difficult to acquire, and Uruguayan trade was limited when Argentina's economy suffered a downturn, caused partly by the Falkland Islands War (1982). The military government, despite previous assurances, was compelled to let the exchange rate of the Uruguayan peso fall. Businesses, ranchers, and the government saw their debts dramatically increase. With Uruguay's economic crisis worsening, the military reluctantly negotiated a return to democratic rule.
Julio María Sanguinetti, a Colorado Batllista, was elected president in November 1984 and inaugurated the following March. Sanguinetti attempted to appease the military—and to safeguard against a coup—by sponsoring a general amnesty (1986), despite calls for criminal trials. Uruguay's enormous foreign debt inhibited economic recovery, but Sanguinetti refused to embark on dramatic economic programs that would have entailed high risks. A referendum in April 1989 upheld the amnesty law, but the Colorado Party lost the subsequent presidential election to the Blanco candidate, Luis Alberto Lacalle.
The Lacalle administration (1990–95) carried out economic reforms and made Uruguay a member of a regional economic bloc, the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), in 1991. Uruguay's economy grew markedly, largely because of trade with its Mercosur partners, but the country also became more vulnerable to economic shifts in Brazil and Argentina. Lacalle's policies were seen as a threat to Uruguay's long-standing welfare system, and voters in a referendum rejected his plan to privatize the state-owned telephone company. This defeat, coupled with charges of government corruption, brought about a roughly three-way split in the 1994 elections between the Colorados, the leftist coalition Broad Front (Frente Amplio; FA), and the Blancos. Sanguinetti was elected to a second nonconsecutive term (1995–2000), and a constitutional amendment in 1996 simplified the method for electing the president (the old "double simultaneous voting" system, which had effectively combined primaries and final elections, had unfairly favoured the traditional parties). The Colorados retained the presidency in 2000 following the election of Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, son of Batlle Berres and great nephew of José Batlle y Ordóñez. Meanwhile, the FA held onto the mayoralty of Montevideo, which it had controlled for a decade.
In 2005 Tabaré Vázquez became Uruguay's first leftist president, having secured a win in the 2004 presidential election. In concurrent legislative elections, the coalition of left-wing groups led by Vázquez—the Progressive Encounter–Broad Front (Encuentro Progresista–Frente Amplio; EP–FA)—won a majority in both houses of the General Assembly for the first time. During his term, Vázquez was credited with improving an economy that had been beset by years of negative growth; financing social programs; and investigating disappearances, murders, and other crimes committed under the military regime.
In the first round of the presidential election in October 2009, the EP–FA's presidential candidate, José Mujica, a senator and former left-wing guerrilla, won just less than half the vote, which was not enough to avoid a runoff election against the runner-up, former president Lacalle of the Blanco Party. In a referendum, voters also rejected the proposed revocation of an amnesty law shielding military officers from prosecution for human rights abuses during the period of military rule. The amnesty law had been approved by voters in a 1989 referendum. In the November 2009 runoff election Mujica was elected president of Uruguay with more than half of the vote.
Under Mujica's leadership, the country continued to experience economic growth and low unemployment rates. In 2011, after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights declared that the amnesty law was incongruent with the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, the Uruguayan Congress passed legislation annulling the amnesty law. Investigations into human rights violations under military rule were begun; however, in February 2013 the future of those investigations came into question when the Uruguay Supreme Court ruled that significant portions of the 2011 legislation were unconstitutional. In May of that year, Mujica signed a bill that made Uruguay the second country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage.


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I've acquired a Mac with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of 667 MHz DDR2 RAM, and OS X 10.7 for testing purposes at work. Of course, my first priority is to get something that will install the utilities I use on other Unix-like operating systems, and my next priority is to keep the workload light since I'm at work on December 24th.
I'm looking at MacPorts, Fink, and Rudix. I've ruled out Homebrew because it relies on files supplied by Apple, which exponentially raises the breakage potential.
What are people's thought on those three? Do they play nice with installed alongside each other, or do they conflict with each other?


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Around this time last year, Directioners everywhere were feeling kinda blue because One Direction's Harry Styles had been linked to Taylor Swift. Well, Haylor is long over but now, Directioners are reacting to the new girl in Harry's life: Kendall Jenner. Some people are denying they're really together (including them), while others are jumping right to their 'ship name: Kenry. What do you think of them together, if they really are dating?
With all these new rumors about Harry's love life, M thought it would be the perfect opportunity to look back at some of Harry's most romantic quotes of all time. He hasn't been too shy about sharing his thoughts and ideas about love and believe us, these 7 quotes will DEFINITELY make you swoon over the adorable Brit. ;)
Click through the gallery to check out Harry's most romantic quotes ever. But proceed with caution -- these quotes just might make you faint! Which one is your favorite? Share it with us in the comments!


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Situated close to Bangkoks Don Mueang Airport, Amari Don Muang Airport
Hotel is among the most popular meeting venues on this
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This Bangkok hotel offers value-for-money accommodation with great facilities, including a swimming pool with garden views, as well as broadband and wi-fi internet access. The hotel also provides superb dining options, with two restaurants and one cocktail lounge.
The Don Mueang Airport, Bangkoks former international airport, currently serves many domestic flights.
|A favourite Bangkok hotel for business and leisure alike,
Amari Don Muang offers 423 guest rooms and suites of a variety of
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138 Deluxe Rooms - Approximate size 32 square metres.
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|Zeppelin Restaurant -
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Enjoy tasty international cuisine in a stylish contemporary setting overlooking the garden. Zeppelin restaurant has something for every taste, with an extensive a la carte menu for lunch and dinner every day. In the mornings from 6:00 to 10:30 Zepplin, also serves a gourmet breakfast buffet to keep you fuelled for your day or recharged for an early morning flight.
Open from 6:00 to 24:00 everyday.
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