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text: Krakow, Poland - England will attempt to reach the last four of a major tournament for the first time in 16 years on Sunday as they face Italy in a heavyweight Euro 2012 quarter-final collision.The burgeoning confidence within Roy Hodgson's youthful squad is tempered by the knowledge that England have rarely progressed beyond the last eight of major tournaments, with three quarter-final exits in the past 10 years alone.But after winning Group D ahead of highly-rated France and extending their unbeaten run to five games, England head into Sunday's test in Kiev with a mounting sense of belief that they can prolong their stay in the tournament."If we can go about the job in the way we are doing at the moment we will make a game of it and who knows what will happen," Hodgson said."It will be another even encounter, another game that will swing either way. The good thing is we are there, we are taking part and still in the competition and we want to be in the competition because we have really enjoyed it."A potential headache for Hodgson is that no fewer than five key players are walking a disciplinary tightrope heading into the match.Steven Gerrard, Ashley Cole, Ashley Young, James Milner and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are all just one booking away from missing a potential semi-final against either Germany or Greece.However, Hodgson will instruct the players in jeopardy to ignore the threat of suspension for fear it could inhibit their performance.Hodgson will harbour the biggest concerns over his captain Gerrard, the Liverpool star who has lit up England's performances so far with a series of inspirational displays from midfield.Gerrard has set up three of England's five goals at these championships while at the same time shielding his team's defence effectively with Scott Parker.Hodgson is expected to field the line-up which started in the 1-0 win over Ukraine on Tuesday, with the more defensively minded Milner holding his place on the right side of midfield ahead of Theo Walcott.Italy coach Cesare Prandelli meanwhile has been forced to reshuffle his defence following the injury to rugged centre-back Giorgio Chiellini, who is likely to be replaced by Leonardo Bonucci.Prandelli is wary of an England side which he believes have found the "right equilibrium" while maintaining the Azzurri have nothing to fear."We all know the English character, they never hold anything back but they also have some good creative players," he said.In an ironic reversal of traditional stereotypes, Italy head into the game with plaudits for their attractive style ringing in their ears while England have been lauded for their defensive obduracy.Italy's veteran midfielder Daniele De Rossi believes England still bear the hallmark of former coach Fabio Capello while remaining under the influence of former Inter Milan manager Hodgson."England are a very Italian team," De Rossi said. "You can see the signs, from Fabio Capello to now, with Hodgson. "One is Italian, one worked in Italian football. Hodgson was managing in Italy with Inter Milan, so his teams know how to play defensively and then attack. They will have very good players on the flanks but also be a really compact team. It won't be easy."The key battleground is expected to be midfield, where England are likely to require second striker Wayne Rooney to drop deep to prevent Parker and Gerrard from being outnumbered."The particular challenge with Italy is in the midfield area where they have a lot of very gifted and experienced players, players who are technically good on the ball, and they're basically a central team," Hodgson said."We're going to have to be careful we don't get outnumbered in that area and they don't play around us ... We have to be aware of that.""We're fully aware we're meeting a technical and experienced team, and a team that's been together for a while. But we'll prepare for the challenge they give us and we'll try and give them a few little headaches of our own."


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I know, I know: you've heard the mantra "Always wear your seat belt" since you graduated driver's ed umpteen years ago. Problem is, many truck drivers still DON'T wear them - about 41%, according to figures compiled by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) last year.
Yet it's the lowly seat belt that's the final line of defense in not only preventing a driver from getting killed in an accident, but also reducing the severity of any injuries sustained in a wreck. And all it takes is just three second - three MEASELY seconds - to buckle up, thus vastly increasing your chances (and that of your drivers) to not only survive a crash but suffer fewer injuries as well.
Farmers Insurance just completed an in-depth study of seat belt effectiveness using 2006 fatal crash data compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation to back this up - and while it looked mainly at car and light-truck occupant stats, the lessons for truck drivers are still really profound, I believe.
"Once again, we find strong statistical evidence that seat belts remain the most important protection for the driver," noted Kevin Mabe, staff economist at Farmers, who headed up the insurance carrier's analysis. "We found that when a driver used a seat belt, the odds of a fatality dropped nearly 70% compared to a driver who did not."
Mabe said Farmer's analysis incorporates a logistic econometric model with forty-one variables, accounting for factors such as road and traffic conditions at the time of the fatal accident, location and time, accident events, vehicle specifics, driver demographics, and safety features. "Controlling for these additional external factors allows us to more precisely isolate the degree to which safety belts save lives," he explained.
Several other factors showed significance in decreasing the odds of a driver's death, Mabe said. For example, rear-end collisions proved less deadly than head-on or "T-bone" collisions. Larger vehicles, such as trucks, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), and vans, appeared to protect the driver better than a typical automobile due to their larger size (Duh!). Dry roads, in contrast with wet roads, decrease the odds of a fatality by over 10%, suggesting that drivers should use caution when navigating slick roads.
Other factors increased danger on the roads. "Nighttime and winter driving tended to produce more deadly accidents, and drivers should continue to exercise additional caution," Mabe noted. "Certain accident events, such as rollovers, ejections, and vehicle fires, greatly reduce the survivability in an accident. Motorcycle accidents showed remarkably increased mortality rates compared to other vehicles."
Not all factors proved predictive, he stressed. While driver height and weight appeared to have little influence on the outcome of the accident, age plays an important part. "Older drivers, as well as young new drivers, have an increased risk. But in the end, a driver's three-second choice to 'buckle up' will more than double his or her chances to survive a severe accident."
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Hello,I'm really new to this whole topic.I from Ireland and we don't really have any systems like this here yet. No TiVo to get people thinking!I've read around a lot on this topic and I have a question that may be answered some where but I just can't seam to find it.If you have a HD supply coming into your CORE box how do you network that quality around your house?My understanding is that normal networking is used to stream media to another room, does this mean that you just use your 10/100 ethernet? If so you lose HD quality?Or could you stream HDMI over something link 1 Gig LAN?Thank you,Derry


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Iceland is a constitutional republic and a parliamentary democracy in which citizens periodically choose their representatives in free and fair multiparty elections. The judiciary is independent.
Elected officials control the police force, which scrupulously observes and enforces the laws that ensure protection of human rights.
Iceland has a mixed, open economy that provides residents with a high standard of living. The leading exports, fish and other marine products, account for almost 70 percent of export revenues. An abundance of cheap hydroelectric power provides a comparative advantage for the main manufacturing activity--aluminum smelting. Aluminum is the second leading export. Growth was expected to exceed 5 percent in 1999.
The Government generally respected the human rights of its citizens, and the law and judiciary provide effective means of dealing with individual instances of abuse. Human rights monitors expressed concern about the Government's frequent use of solitary confinement for remand prisoners. The Government is taking steps to deal with violence against women. Some societal discrimination against women persists, especially in the area of equal pay. Instances of suspected trafficking in women were reported.
Section 1: Respect for the Integrity of the Person, Including Freedom From:
a. Political and Other Extrajudicial Killing
There were no reports of political or other extrajudicial killings.
b. Disappearance
There were no reports of politically motivated disappearances.
c. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment are prohibited by law and do not occur.
Prison conditions generally meet minimum international standards.
In a February report, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) expressed concern during its visit to the main prison (Litla Hraun) in Reykjavik in 1998 that nearly all detainees still were being placed in solitary confinement while their cases were under investigation. While the average duration of solitary confinement was between 2 and 3 weeks, the CPT noted that in some cases, solitary confinement lasted up to 3 months. While in solitary confinement, prisoners cannot leave their cells, except for short periods of time to exercise alone or to use the showers, and are not allowed to listen to the radio, watch television, or receive visitors other than their lawyers and prison officials. In November the supervising doctor at Litla Hraun wrote to prison authorities, warning that the mental health of several prisoners awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges could be in danger due to the extended time that they were expected to spend in solitary confinement.
In a preliminary response to the CPT report on September 30, the Government argued that solitary confinement was absolutely necessary in some circumstances to keep suspects from tampering with witnesses, destroying evidence, or hindering the investigation. On the other hand, it conceded that "in the vast majority of cases" incarceration alone was sufficient to protect the integrity of witnesses and evidence. However, the Prison and Probation Administration's own statistics show that solitary confinement was the rule rather than the exception during the first 9 months of the year: more than 90 percent of the 87 persons taken into custody were put into solitary confinement at least initially.
With the closing of the Sudumuli remand prison in 1996, the Government passed a law in 1998 that allows pretrial detainees to be incarcerated with the general prison population. Some human rights monitors claim that this law is inconsistent with the country's obligations under the European Human Rights Convention and European prison rules issued by the Council of Europe. Construction of a new prison in Reykjavik is planned for these detainees.
Juveniles who are 15 years of age or older can be sentenced to prison terms, but the vast majority of juvenile offenders are given probation or suspended sentences, or agree to attend a treatment program instead of going to jail. In the rare instances when juvenile offenders are incarcerated, they must be confined with the general adult prison population due to the lack of a separate detention facility for juveniles. In its February report, the CPT stated that it was "very concerned" about the current situation and recommended that the Government take "immediate steps...to ensure that juvenile prisoners are held separately from adults."
The Government permits prison visits by human rights monitors.
d. Arbitrary Arrest, Detention, or Exile
The Constitution prohibits arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile, and the Government observes this prohibition.
e. Denial of Fair Public Trial
The Constitution and law provide for an independent judiciary, and the Government respects this provision in practice.
There are two levels of courts. The Ministry of Justice administers the district courts, while the Supreme Court guards its independence and fairness by administering itself. All judges, at all levels, serve for life.
The judiciary provides citizens with a fair and efficient judicial process. Juries are not used, but multijudge panels are common, especially in the appeals process. Depending on the seriousness of the charges, a panel can include from three to five judges. Defendants are presumed innocent. They are provided access to legal counsel of their own choosing with sufficient time to prepare their defense. For defendants unable to pay attorneys' fees, the State assumes the cost. Defendants have the right to be present at their trial, to confront witnesses, and to participate otherwise in the proceedings. No groups are barred from testifying, and all testimony is treated alike. Trials are public and are conducted fairly, with no official intimidation. Defendants have the right to appeal.
There were no reports of political prisoners.
f. Arbitrary Interference with Privacy, Family, Home, or Correspondence
The Constitution prohibits such practices, and the Government generally respect these prohibitions. Violations are subject to effective legal sanction.
Section 2: Respect for Civil Liberties, Including:
a. Freedom of Speech and Press The Constitution provides for freedom of speech and of the press, and the Government respects these rights in practice. An independent press, an effective judiciary, and a functioning democratic political system combine to ensure freedom of speech and of the press, including academic freedom.
b. Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association
The Constitution provides for these rights, and the Government respects them in practice.
c. Freedom of Religion
Although the official state religion is Lutheranism, the Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government respects this right in practice. The salaries of Lutheran ministers are paid by the state. Citizens 16 years of age and above are presumed to be members of the state church and are required to support the church by paying a tax, unless they designate another religious denomination to receive their tax payment. The religion tax payment of persons who choose not to belong to any specific, organized religious group goes to the University of Iceland. Religious instruction in Christianity is required in the public schools, although students may be exempted.
d. Freedom of Movement Within the Country, Foreign Travel, Emigration, and Repatriation
The Constitution provides for these rights, and the Government respects them in practice.
Although neither the Constitution nor the law include provisions for granting refugee or asylee status in accordance with the 1951 U.N. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, in practice the Government adjudicates cases in accordance with their principles. The Government cooperates with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Committee of the Red Cross, and other humanitarian organizations in assisting refugees. There were no reports of the forced expulsion of those having a valid claim to refugee status. In view of the country's geographic isolation and the lack of direct transportation from any traditional source of refugees, the question of first asylum rarely arises. However, the Government reported that 13 individuals arrived during the year and requested asylum. None was found to qualify for refugee status (several cases were still under review), but some were granted temporary entry on humanitarian grounds. Some human rights monitors criticized the arrest and prolonged detention of a Kurdish asylum-seeker, but the Directorate of Immigration, which has responsibility for processing applications for asylum, stated that it had no choice but to turn the individual over to the police for investigation because he had no identity or travel documents and refused to cooperate with the authorities.
The Directorate of Immigration, which traditionally was a part of the national police force, became an independent agency on October 1. The Directorate is responsible for issuing passports, visas, and residence permits and for processing applications for asylum, while the police and customs now have responsibility for manning passport control points for those coming into and going out of the country. However, the police and customs are required to consult with the Directorate of Immigration about individuals arriving without valid visas or passports before refusing them entry. Human rights monitors say that it appears that some of the individuals who were refused entry upon arrival at the international airport during the year were not afforded their legal right to appeal their denial of admission.
In addition to accepting 20 to 25 UNHCR-designated "quota" refugees, the Government admitted 72 Kosovar refugees into the country during the year. Local government authorities in the towns where refugees settle take a strong interest in helping them adapt to their new environment. The Icelandic Red Cross, in cooperation with the Refugee Council of the Ministry of Social Affairs, developed a support family program, whereby at least three Icelandic families are enlisted to assist each refugee or refugee family. The refugees immediately are granted work permits and assisted in finding jobs. For the first year, they also are given free housing, utilities, and health care and receive a stipend so that they can participate in a special half-day Icelandic language course every day that is designed especially for them. Refugees generally are successful in assimilating into society, but their children drop out of school earlier than children of citizens.
Section 3: Respect for Political Rights: The Right of Citizens to Change Their Government
The Constitution provides citizens with the right to change their government peacefully, and citizens exercise this right in practice through periodic, free, and fair elections held on the basis of universal suffrage. The most recent elections to the Althingi (unicameral Parliament) were held in May.
Women are underrepresented in government and politics, but no legal or practical impediments hinder their participation. Of the 12 government ministers, 4 are women, and women hold 23 of the 63 seats in Parliament. The Women's List (WL), an activist feminist political party whose establishment in 1983 led to a significant increase in the number of female parliamentarians, joined an electoral alliance with other left-leaning parties in the May elections. The WL plans to merge eventually with the other left-leaning political parties to form a single entity to challenge the more conservative parties. Women's issues have moved into the mainstream of political debate, and all of the major political parties now have at least one woman in a prominent leadership position.
Section 4: Governmental Attitude Regarding International and Nongovernmental Investigation of Alleged Violations of Human Rights
A number of human rights groups operate without government restriction, investigating and publishing their findings on human rights cases. Government officials are generally cooperative and responsive to their views.
Section 5: Discrimination Based on Race, Sex, Religion, Disability, Language, or Social Status
The country's ethnically homogenous population is strongly egalitarian and opposed to discrimination based on any of these factors. The law and practice generally reflect this attitude. However, concern is voiced that the rapidly increasing number of foreigners being brought into the country to meet the labor shortage in fish processing and other less desirable occupations could lead to future problems, especially in the event of an economic downturn. Some 14,000 people of foreign origin now live in the country (approximately 2 percent of the population). During the last half of the year, the Directorate of Immigration was issuing new residence and work permits at the rate of more than 200 per month. Many of these "temporary" workers come from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and the Directorate of Immigration expects most of them to seek to remain permanently rather than return to their countries of origin.
Violence against women continued to be a matter of concern. A public women's shelter offers counseling and protection to victims of domestic violence and their children. Approximately 400 women and 150 children came to the shelter during the year, 100 of whom sought shelter while the rest asked for counseling or information. At a rape trauma center, 400 women and children seek assistance annually. Both facilities are financed by national and municipal governments, as well as by private contributors. The Reykjavik City Hospital emergency ward has a special staff to care for rape victims. It reports approximately 100 visits per year associated with incidents of sexual abuse.
A police program to train officers in correct interrogation procedures in rape and sexual abuse cases appears to be addressing prior concerns that police indifference and hostility to female victims did not assure proper attention and consideration for victims of such abuses.
Many victims nevertheless decline to press charges, and even more forgo trial, fearing publicity in this small, tightly knit society. With an increasing number of interracial marriages, mostly involving Icelandic men and Asian women, there is concern that these new Asian immigrants are not assimilating well into local society. Concern that these women might be vulnerable to mistreatment led the city of Reykjavik to begin offering them emergency accommodation and assistance, which includes information on legal rights, language training, and an introduction to Icelandic society and norms.
There were indications that some women were trafficked to work as striptease dancers or prostitutes against their will (see Section 6.f.).
In the labor market, the rate of participation by women is high. In part this reflects the country's comprehensive system of subsidized day care, which makes it affordable and convenient for women to work outside the home. Despite laws that require equal pay for equal work, a sizeable pay gap continues to exist between men and women. A survey by a union in Reykjavik showed that women, on average, earned 30 percent less than men. A 12 percent difference in pay is attributable to the fact that men work 4.2 more hours per week than women, but the rest of the gap is unexplained.
The Government demonstrates its strong commitment to children's rights through its well-funded systems of public education and medical care. School attendance is compulsory through the age of 15. About 85 percent of students continue to upper secondary education, which is financed completely by the state. The Government provides free prenatal and infant medical care, as well as heavily subsidized children's care. In 1994 the government created the Office of the Children's Ombudsman in the Prime Minister's Office, with a mandate to protect children's rights, interests, and welfare by, among other things, exerting influence on legislation, government decisions, and public attitudes.
There is no societal pattern of abuse directed against children.
In an effort to improve the rate of prosecution of child sexual abuse and lessen the trauma to the child, the Government in 1998 established the Children's Assessment Center. The objective of the Center is to create a safe and secure environment where child victims feel more comfortable talking about what happened to them and are not subjected to multiple interviews. The Center brings together police, prosecutors, judges, doctors, and counselors, as well as officials from the Child Protection Agency of the Ministry of Social Affairs. Prior to the establishment of the Center, barely half of the cases dealt with by the Child Protection Agency were sent to the police for investigation, just a third went to the prosecutor, and only 10 percent ever went to trial. Now some 75 percent of cases are sent to the police for investigation, and the authorities anticipate a corresponding increase in the percentage of cases being prosecuted and sent to trial.
People with Disabilities
Disabled individuals are not subject to discrimination in employment, education, or the provision of other state services. A 1992 law calls for the disabled to have the right to "all common national and municipal services" and provides that they be given assistance to "make it possible for them to live and work in normal society with others." The law also provides that the disabled should receive preference for a government job when they are equally qualified, or more qualified, than regular applicants. Building regulations updated in 1998 call for public buildings to be accessible. However, the country's main association for the disabled complains that the provisions related to building access often are ignored because there is no penalty for noncompliance. Access to new buildings tends to be good, while efforts to make old buildings more accessible have lagged.
Section 6: Worker Rights
a. The Right of Association
Workers make extensive use of the right provided by the Constitution to establish organizations, draw up their own constitutions and rules, choose their own leaders and policies, and publicize their views. The resulting organizations are controlled neither by the Government nor by any single political party. Unions take active part in Nordic, European, and other international trade union bodies. With the exception of limited categories of workers in the public sector whose services are essential to public health or safety, unions have had and used the right to strike for many years. Approximately 80 percent of all eligible workers belong to unions. No strikes occurred during the year, but there were a handful of work stoppages.
b. The Right to Organize and Bargain Collectively
Union membership is not impeded in law or practice. Employers are required to withhold union dues (1 percent of gross pay) from the pay of all employees, whether they are members of the union or not. This is because union dues help support, among other things, an illness fund to which everyone is entitled.
The various trade unions and management organizations periodically negotiate collective bargaining agreements that set specific terms for workers' pay, hours, and other conditions. The current 3-year collective bargaining agreements expire in February 2000. In recent years, the Government has played almost no role in the private-sector collective bargaining process, other than generally to encourage wage restraint that would help to limit inflation.
Labor courts effectively adjudicate disputes over contracts and over the rights provided for in the 1938 Act on Trade Unions and Industrial Disputes, which prohibits antiunion discrimination. By law employers found guilty of antiunion discrimination are required to reinstate workers fired for union activities. In practice the charges are difficult to prove.
In 1996 the Parliament passed legislation updating the labor laws and bringing them into compliance with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. There are no export processing or other special economic zones. c. Prohibition of Forced or Compulsory Labor
Forced or compulsory labor is prohibited by law and does not occur; however, some women reportedly were coerced to work as striptease dancers or prostitutes (see Section 6.f.), and work permit practices could leave workers vulnerable to abuse by employers (see Section 6.e.). The law prohibits forced and bonded labor by children, and the Government enforces this prohibition effectively.
d. Status of Child Labor Practices and Minimum Age for Employment
The law prohibits forced and bonded labor by children, and the Government enforces this prohibition effectively (see Section 6.c.). The law requires children to attend school until the age of 16 and prohibits the employment of younger children in factories, on ships, or in other places that are hazardous or require hard labor. This prohibition is observed in practice. Children 14 or 15 years old may be employed part time or during school vacations in light, nonhazardous work. Their work-hours must not exceed the ordinary work-hours of adults in the same occupation. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration enforces child labor regulations.
e. Acceptable Conditions of Work
No minimum wage is mandated legislatively, but the minimum wages negotiated in the various collective bargaining agreements apply automatically to all employees in those occupations, whether they are union members or not. Union membership is so extensive and effective that labor contracts afford even the lowest paid workers a sufficient income for a decent standard of living for themselves and their families.
Workers are protected by laws that effectively provide for their health and safety as well as for unemployment insurance, paid vacations, pensions, and reasonable working conditions and hours. The standard legal workweek is 40 hours. Work exceeding 8 hours in a workday must be compensated as overtime. Workers are entitled to 10 hours of rest within each 24-hour period and to a day off every week. Under defined special circumstances, the 10-hour rest period can be reduced to 8, and the day off can be postponed by a week, in which case the worker has a right to 2 additional hours off in the following week.
Health and safety standards are set by the Althingi and administered and enforced by the Ministry of Social Affairs through its Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which can close down workplaces until safety and health standards are met. Workers have a collective, not an individual, right to refuse to work in a place that does not meet the criteria of occupational safety and health. Firing workers who report unsafe or unhealthy conditions is illegal.
However, in the case of newly arrived foreign workers or refugees (i.e., those who have been in the country for less than 3 years), human rights monitors expressed concern that the Government's practice of issuing the applicable work permit to the employer rather than to the individual concerned could leave the worker vulnerable to abuse by the employer.
f. Trafficking in Persons
The law does not specifically criminalize trafficking in persons; however, a number of provisions in the Penal Code can be used to prosecute such cases.
Trafficking in women is suspected in connection with the growing number of foreign women who enter the country to work in striptease clubs. With the recent opening of several new striptease clubs (there are now 11 clubs altogether), the police expressed concern about the 500 women who entered the country during the year to work in these establishments. It is suspected that some of the women--especially those from Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union--were coerced to work as striptease dancers or prostitutes against their will.
Regulation of these clubs has been lacking, in part because striptease dancers can enter the country and perform without a work permit for up to a month under an exemption given for "artists." The Government plans to close this legal loophole.
By year's end, there had been no arrests in connection with these activities.
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If the standard boot-from-CD install method doesn't work for you
(or you just don't like it),
help is now here. This document serves to
provide a repository of alternative Gentoo Linux installation techniques
to those who need them.
Or, if you prefer, it serves as
a place to put your wacky installation methods. If you have an
installation method that you yourself find useful, or you have devised an
amusing way of installing Gentoo, please don't hesitate to write something
up and
Download Smart BootManager
Either compile the package from source or just grab the binary. There are several options that can be utilized while creating your boot floppy, as seen below.
sbminst [-t theme] [-d drv] [-b backup_file] [-u backup_file] -t theme select the theme to be used, in which the theme could be: us = English theme de = German theme hu = Hungarian theme zh = Chinese theme ru = Russian theme cz = Czech theme es = Spanish theme fr = French theme pt = Portuguese theme -d drv set the drive that you want to install Smart BootManager on; for Linux: /dev/fd0 is the first floppy driver, /dev/hda is the first IDE harddisk driver. /dev/sda is the first SCSI harddisk driver. for DOS: 0 is the first floppy drive 128 is the first hard drive; -c disable CD-ROM booting feature; -b backup_file backup the data that will be overwritten for future uninstallation; -u backup_file uninstall Smart BootManager, should be used alone; -y do not ask any question or warning.
# sbminst -t us -d /dev/fd0
Now simply place the floppy in the floppy drive of the computer you'd like to boot the LiveCD on, as well as placing the LiveCD in the CD-ROM and boot the computer.
You'll be greeted with the Smart BootManager dialog. Select your CD-ROM and press ENTER to boot the LiveCD. Once booted proceed with the standard installation instructions.
Further information on Smart BootManager may be found at
Booting from the
Boot from the Knoppix CD. It generally does a really good job of hardware detection. Although, you may have to add some boot options.
By default Knoppix boots into a KDE 3.0 desktop. The first thing I did was open a konsole and typed
Next, I su to root and typed
I then typed
# mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
Burn a LiveCD iso.
Get the latest portage snapshot from
You'll also need a package list for the stage packages. Place the following dl-list.sh script on the same medium as the portage snapshot, you'll need it later.
#!/bin/bash # set your defaults here: user_defs() { # portage directory (without a trailing "/"): portage_dir="/usr/portage" # default download mirror (without a trailing "/"): gentoo_mirror="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" # default sourceforge mirror (unc, telia, belnet): sourceforge_mirror="unc" # fix gnu mirror entries gnu_url="ftp:\/\/ftp.gnu.org\/pub\/gnu" } #------------------------------------------------------------ # function to remove temporary files cleanup() { rm -f $temp_file_1 $temp_file_2 exit $1 } # set user defaults user_defs # set the complete url for the sourceforge mirror # (the \'s are needed because this goes in a sed command) sourceforge_mirror_complete="http:\/\/$sourceforge_mirror.dl.sourceforge.net\/sourceforge" # initialize counters num_files=0 num_alt_urls=0 total_size=0 # initialize lists (arrays) declare -a def_urls_arr declare -a alt_urls_arr # create 2 temporary files temp_file_1=`mktemp -t dl-list.XXXXXX` || cleanup 1 temp_file_2=`mktemp -t dl-list.XXXXXX` || cleanup 1 # run "emerge -p <args>" (too easy to forget the "-p" in the command line...) emerge -p $@ > $temp_file_1 || cleanup 1 # remove the lines that do not contain the word "ebuild" sed -n -e '/ebuild/p' $temp_file_1 > $temp_file_2 # count how many lines were left num_ebuilds=`wc -l $temp_file_2 | sed -e 's/\(.*\) \(.*\)/\1/'` # extract the useful information from those lines: category, package and version #sed -e 's:\(.*\) \(.*\)/\(.*\)-\([0-9].*\) \(.*\) \(.*\):\2 \3 \4:' $temp_file_2 > $temp_file_1 sed -e 's:\(.*\) \(.*\)/\(.*\)-\([0-9].*\):\2 \3 \4:' $temp_file_2 > $temp_file_1 # display starting message :) echo -n "Generating list " >&2 # process each package in turn while read category package version rest do # form the name of the digest file digest_file="$portage_dir/$category/$package/files/digest-$package-$version" # process the contents of the digest file while read md5_flag md5_sum file_name file_size do # form the default url to download the file def_urls_arr[$num_files]="$gentoo_mirror/distfiles/$file_name" # increment the file counter num_files=$(($num_files + 1)) # update the size accumulator (in kilobytes) total_size=$(($total_size + $file_size / 1024)) done < $digest_file # form the "ebuild depend" command line ebuild_depend_cmd="ebuild $portage_dir/$category/$package/$package-${version}.ebuild depend" # execute the "ebuild depend" command $ebuild_depend_cmd || cleanup 1 # form the name of the dependency file dependency_file="/var/cache/edb/dep/$category/$package-$version" # read in the 4th line from the dependency file, # which contains the official download urls alt_urls=`head -n 4 $dependency_file | tail -n 1` # ignore empty url list if [ -n "$alt_urls" ] then # split the urls list into $1..$N set $alt_urls # process each url in turn for i in $@ do # remove the (use)? strings from the url list alt_url_tmp=`echo "$i" | sed -e '/\?$/d'` # remove the "mirror://gnome" urls alt_url_tmp=`echo "$alt_url_tmp" | sed -e '/^mirror:\/\/gnome/d'` # remove the "mirror://kde" urls alt_url_tmp=`echo "$alt_url_tmp" | sed -e '/^mirror:\/\/kde/d'` # remove the "mirror://gentoo" urls (already included) alt_url_tmp=`echo "$alt_url_tmp" | sed -e '/^mirror:\/\/gentoo/d'` # translate the "mirror://sourceforge" urls into valid urls alt_url_tmp=`echo "$alt_url_tmp" | sed -e "s/mirror:\/\/sourceforge/$sourceforge_mirror_complete/"` # translate the "mirror://gnu" urls into valid urls alt_url_tmp=`echo "$alt_url_tmp" | sed -e "s/mirror:\/\/gnu/$gnu_url/"` # ignore empty urls if [ -n "$alt_url_tmp" ] then # add the url to the list alt_urls_arr[$num_alt_urls]=$alt_url_tmp # increment the alternate url counter num_alt_urls=$(($num_alt_urls + 1)) fi done fi # a progress bar :) echo -n "." >&2 done < $temp_file_1 # display ending message :) echo " done." >&2 # display default urls list for i in ${def_urls_arr[@]}; do echo $i; done | sort # display alternate urls list for i in ${alt_urls_arr[@]}; do echo $i; done | sort # display totals echo "Totals:" $num_ebuilds "ebuilds," $num_files "files," $num_files "default urls," \n $num_alt_urls "alternate urls," "${total_size}Kb." <&2 # remove temporary files and exit cleanup 0
Follow all instructions of Gentoo Install Doc up to
Open a new console (Alt-F2), we will continue with the Install Doc up to running the bootstrap.sh script.
Go back to the first console (Alt-F1, without chroot) and mount a second CD on
# umount /mnt/cdrom # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/mnt/cdrom2 # mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/gentoo/mnt/cdrom2 # cp /mnt/gentoo/mnt/cdrom2/portage-$date.tar.bz2 /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage # cp /mnt/gentoo/mnt/cdrom2/dl-list.sh /mnt/gentoo/usr/sbin # cd /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage # tar xvjpf portage-$date.tar.bz2 # chmod +x /mnt/gentoo/usr/sbin/dl-list.sh
Switch back to the F2 console. Now if you try to run bootstrap.sh it will fail because it won't be able to download any files. We will fetch these files somewhere else and put them in /usr/portage/distfiles (on F2 console).
You need a list of Stage1 packages: glibc, baselayout, texinfo, gettext, zlib, binutils, gcc, ncurses plus their dependencies.
Now use the dl-list.sh script to generate the package list that you need. Then copy the subsequent list to a floppy.
# dl-list.sh glibc baselayout texinfo gettext zlib binutils gcc ncurses > stage1.list # mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy # cp /mnt/gentoo/stage1.list /mnt/floppy # umount /mnt/floppy
Take the floppy to the computer that has fast access and feed this list to wget:
# wget -N -i stage1.list
Once you have obtained all the files, take them to the computer and copy them to
You will need a network card on the diskless client that uses the PXE protocol to boot, like many 3com cards. You will also need a BIOS that supports booting from PXE.
Create directories: The first thing to do is to create the directories where your diskless system will be stored. Create a directory called
# mkdir /diskless # mkdir /diskless/eta # mkdir /diskless/eta/boot
DHCP and TFTP setup: The client will get boot informations using DHCP and download all the required files using TFTP. Just emerge DHCP and configure it for your basic needs. Then, add the following on
option option-150 code 150 = text ; host eta { hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00; fixed-address
ip.add.re.ss; option option-150 "/eta/boot/grub.lst"; filename "/eta/boot/pxegrub"; }
For TFTP, emerge
INTFTPD_PATH="/diskless" INTFTPD_USER="nobody" INTFTPD_OPTS="-u ${INTFTPD_USER} -l -vvvvvv -p -c -s ${INTFTPD_PATH}"
Setup GRUB: To provide PXE booting I use GRUB. You have to compile it by yourself to enable the PXE image compilation ... but that's quite easy. First, get the latest version of the GRUB source code (
# tar zxvf grub-0.92.tar.gz # cd grub-0.92 # ./configure --help
In the options you will see a list of supported network interface drivers. Select the driver compatible with your card. Herein referenced a $nic# ./configure --enable-diskless --enable-$nic # make # cd stage2 # cp pxegrub /diskless/eta/boot/pxegrub # nano -w /diskless/eta/boot/grub.lst
default 0 timeout 30 title=Diskless Gentoo root (nd) kernel /eta/bzImage ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=
ip.add.re.ss:/diskless/eta For the nfsroot option, the IP address is the one of the server and the directory is the one where your diskless client files are located (on the server).
Setup NFS: NFS is quite easy to configure. The only thing you have to do is to add a line on the
# nano -w /etc/exports NFS file systems being exported. See exports(5). /diskless/eta eta(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
Update your hosts: One important thing to do now is to modify your
127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.10 eta.example.com eta 192.168.1.20 sigma.example.com sigma
Reboot the server on a Gentoo LiveCD. Follow the standard install procedure as explained in the Gentoo Install Howto BUT with the following differences. When you mount the file system, do the following (where hdaX is the partition where you created the /diskless directory). You do not need to mount any other partitions as all of the files will reside in the
# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
Stage tarballs and chroot: This example uses a stage3 tarball. Mount
# cd /mnt/gentoo/diskless/eta/ # tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/stage3-*.tar.bz2 # mount -t proc /proc /mnt/gentoo/diskless/eta/proc # cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/diskless/eta/etc/resolv.conf # chroot /mnt/gentoo/diskless/eta/ /bin/bash # env-update # source /etc/profile
Kernel configuration: When you do the
- Your network card device support - Under "Networking options" : [*] TCP/IP networking [*] IP: kernel level autoconfiguration [*] IP: DHCP support [*] IP: BOOTP support - Under "File systems --> Network File Systems" : <*> NFS file system support [*] Provide NFSv3 client support [*] Root file system on NFS
Next configure your diskless client's
# nano -w /etc/fstab /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
Bootloader. Don't install another bootloader because we already have one - pxegrub. Simply finish the install and restart the server. Start the services you'll need to boot the new client: DHCP, TFTPD, and NFS.
# /etc/init.d/dhcp start # /etc/init.d/tftpd start # /etc/init.d/nfs start
For the new client to boot properly, you'll need to configure the bios and the network card to use PXE as the first boot method - before CD-ROM or floppy. For help with this consult your hardware manuals or manufacturers website. The network card should get an IP address using DHCP and download the GRUB PXE image using TFTP. Then, you should see a nice black and white GRUB bootmenu where you will select the kernel to boot and press Enter. If everything is ok the kernel should boot, mount the root filesystem using NFS and provide you with a login prompt. Enjoy.
In order to install Gentoo from your existing Linux distribution you need to have chroot command installed, and have a copy of the Gentoo installation tarball or ISO you want to install. A network connection would be preferable if you want more than what's supplied in your tarball. (by the way, a tarball is just a file ending in .tbz or .tar.gz). The author used RedHat Linux 7.3 as the "host" operating system, but it is not very important. Let's get started!
We will first allocate a partition to Gentoo by resizing our existing Linux partition, mount the partition, untar the tarball that is mounted, chroot inside the psuedo-system and start building. Once the bootstrap process is done, we will do some final configuration on the system so as to make sure it boots, then we are ready to reboot and use Gentoo.
The root partition is the filesystem mounted under
# mount /dev/hdb2 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb2 4.0G 1.9G 2.4G 82% / none 38M 0 38M 0% /dev/shm
As we can see, the partition mounted as
Parted is an utility supplied by the GNU foundation, an old and respectable huge project whose software you are using in this very moment. There is one tool, however, that is extremely useful for us at the moment. It's called parted, partition editor and we can get it from
Look up on that page the type of filesystem you want to resize and see if parted
can do it. If not, you're out of luck, you will have to destroy some partition
to make space for Gentoo, and reinstall back. Go ahead by downloading the
software, install it. Here we have a problem. We want to resize our Linux root
partition, therefore we must boot from a floppy disk a minimal linux system and
use previously-compiled parted copied to a diskette in order to resize
Get tomsrtbt boot/root disk (free of charge) from
# mkfs.minix /dev/fd0 480 inodes 1440 blocks Firstdatazone=19 (19) Zonesize=1024 Maxsize=268966912
We will now proceed with the build of parted. If it's not already downloaded and untarred, do so now and cd into the corresponding directory. Now run the following set of commands to build the utility and copy it to your floppy disk.
# mkdir /floppy; mount -t minix /dev/fd0 /floppy && export CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -static" && ./configure && make && cp parted/parted /floppy && umount /floppy
Congratulations, you are ready to reboot and resize your partition. Do this only after taking a quick look at the parted documentation on the GNU website. The resize should take under 30 minutes for the largest hard-drives, be patient. Reboot your system with the tomsrtbt boot disk (just pop it inside), and once you are logged in, switch the disk in the drive with your utility disk we have created above and type mount /dev/fd0 /floppy to have parted under /floppy. There you go. Run parted and you will be able to resize your partition. Once this lenghty process done, we are ready to have the real fun, by installing Gentoo. Reboot back into your old Linux system for now. Drive you wish to operate on is the drive containing the partition we want to resize. For example, if we want to resize /dev/hda3, the drive is /dev/hda
# mount /dev/fd0 /floppy # cd /floppy; ./parted [drive you wish to operate on] (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-9787.148 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 2953.125 primary ntfs 3 2953.125 3133.265 primary linux-swap 2 3133.266 5633.085 primary ext3 4 5633.086 9787.148 extended 5 5633.117 6633.210 logical 6 6633.242 9787.148 logical ext3 (parted) help resize resize MINOR START END resize filesystem on partition MINOR MINOR is the partition number used by Linux. On msdos disk labels, the primary partitions number from 1-4, and logical partitions are 5 onwards. START and END are in megabytes (parted) resize 2 3133.266 4000.000
Once you have resized, boot back into your old linux as described. Then go to
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Fat History Month, 'The Future' – Free MP3 Download
Fat History Month's sophomore LP, 'Bad History Month,' arrived on the heels of much praise for their debut album, 'F---ing Despair.' As the album titles might indicate, this Boston indie-rock duo doesn't take itself too seriously, or maybe it takes itself entirely too seriously — it's hard to tell.
Jeff Meff (guitar, vocals) and Bob Hobby (drums) create songs that are smart, satirical and incredibly witty, and they pair them with all-over-the-place arrangements that somehow manage to work together seamlessly. It's like Modest Mouse, but without all the anxiety. Take for instance 'The Future,' a track we're offering as today's free MP3 download, in which Meff wails the opening line, "We live in a world where all the toilets flush themselves. It's for your safety." Comparisons aside, these guys have something that's entirely their own.
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Vitamin B12 is a very complex molecule. Besides cobalt, it also contains carbon, oxygen, phosphorus, and nitrogen. Cobalamin is stable to heat, though sensitive in heated acid or alkali solution, slightly sensitive to light, and destroyed by oxidizing and reducing agents and by some heavy metals.
Vitamin B12 was isolated in 1926 as the factor that treated a feared disease, pernicious anemia--termed "pernicious" because it could be fatal, most often from neurologic degeneration. But the substance cobalamin, when given orally (actually liver was used as the cure; it contains high amounts of B12), did not cure all of the people with the disease, and some people still developed pernicious anemia. It was later found that a mucoprotein enzyme produced by the stomach (by the parietal cells that also make hydrochloric acid) was also needed for vitamin B12 to be absorbed into the body from the intestines. This enzyme has been termed the "intrinsic factor," while vitamin B12 is the "extrinsic factor." Aging, stress, and problems with the stomach or stomach surgery weaken the body's ability to produce the "intrinsic factor"; also, some people appear to have a genetic predisposition that makes them more prone to pernicious anemia. Hydrochloric acid helps the absorption of B12; if acid production is weak, the absorption is lessened. Calcium and thyroid hormone assist as well. Pregnancy, absorb this important vitamin. Aging more
likely lessens some of the many factors needed for ideal absorption of B12, so deficiency symptoms are more common in older people.
Cobalamin is absorbed primarily from the last part of the small intestine, the ileum. In the blood, it is bound to a protein globulin to be carried to the various tissues. The body actually stores vitamin B12, so any deficiencies may take several years to develop. The
highest concentrations of B12 are found in the liver, heart, kidney, pancreas, brain, testes, blood, and bone marrow--all active metabolic tissues. The "red vitamin" is very important to the blood.
Cobalamin is made in nature by microbial synthesis--produced by bacteria in the intestinal tracts of animals and stored in their tissues. Some B12 is made during fermentation of foods as well. Cobalamin is the naturally occurring vitamin B12. Cyanocobalamin, as B12 is often known, is actually the commercial variety of B12 and contains a cyanide molecule attached to the cobalt. B12 is not synthesized but, like penicillin, must be grown in bacteria or molds and then processed. Other forms of B12 include hydroxycobalamin (technically, vitamin B12a), aquacobalamin (vitamin B12b), and nitrocobalamin (vitamin B12c).
Sources: Vitamin B12 is found in significant amounts only in the animal protein foods.
B12 is also manufactured by bacteria in the human intestines, but it is not known how much we can naturally absorb and utilize from that source. In general, digestion and absorption must be good for adequate B12 to be obtained. Many laxatives and overuse of antacids can reduce absorption and deplete stores of B12.


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Reviewing one of the latest DVDs to come out of WWE headquarters, in a way, is an exercise in futility.
You see, this particular DVD, The History of the WWE Championship, is a virtual guarantee on a fan's wish list. Anyone who has grown up, and still is, a wrestling fan will want to get this three-disc set.
So what do you do then, when you have a guaranteed seller? Well, if you're a writer like me, who is a wrestling historian, you look for a trend in the matches included and look to see if they are a true indicator of the overall scope of what it presents.
To me, WWE Home Video has accomplished that -- there is no question that the disc is an accurate portrayal of what the belt, and moreso the company, has been doing over the 40-plus years of its existence.
You see, the vision of WWE is that the company has been as much focused on the showmanship as it has been the actual in-ring abilities of the superstar holding the title. This has been very evident in cases where a wrestler is not as much a wrestling general as they are a good hit on the mic or are dripping with charisma.
As you look back through the matches on this DVD, that becomes clearly evident. "Superstar" Billy Graham, Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior and others, you see a lot more characters than wrestlers. Yes, there were strong wrestlers like "Macho Man" Randy Savage, but the reasoning behind these talents getting their runs with the title had a lot to do with happenstance. In Savage's case, it was Hogan going off to do a movie. When it came time for Bret Hart and his battles, it was to use the smaller guys amidst the steroid scandals.
While Hart, who is featured in a couple wicked matches, was the start of the rebirth, It was truly Shawn Michaels who was the launching pad of the "new generation" that saw more of a focus towards the wrestler than the sports entertainer. The two of the three consecutive Michaels matches (Hart, Steve Austin) illustrate this with some technical brilliance, capped by the personalities of the wrestlers. The theoretical exception that makes the rule here is Mankind, but even here you see a great in-ring exhibition, rather than the U.S.A. rally you see in Hogan versus Iron Sheik.
Going forward into the Attitude Era, we have Triple H, Rock, Kurt Angle and Austin heavily shown, again illustrating the emphasis on competent wrestling. Each of these guys had the character build, but the difference between Hunter and the Superstar, for example, are night and day. Move forward to the InVasion Era and the Brand Split, and you still see that continuance in the likes of Angle, Brock Lesnar and Chris Jericho. Even the character of all characters in the '90s, The Undertaker, comes in as more of a ring performer than stage performer than he was at any point in his career. Each of these bouts is entertaining and, with the removal of the storyline context which is necessary for a lot of the characters, stands the test of time.
That's not to say that there weren't characters during these periods. For every Owen Hart there was a TL Hopper and for every Chris Benoit there was a Kane. In most of these cases, however, the wrestler, rather than the entertainer, wore the gold. The same was largely the case in the pre-Hogan era (Graham being the exception), where the Iron Shiek and Sgt. Slaughter (in the '90s) was a go-between champ, much like Kane was during the Austin era. The challengers, meanwhile, like Ivan Koloff and Sgt. Slaughter (in the '80s), were never really considered threats to the purity of the "sport."
So then, is the period of matches from the mid-'90s to the early-2000s a blip on the otherwise cartoonish timeline that WWE has carried? In some ways, yes; but in other ways, no. If you look at the pre-'80s matches, you see that indeed there were pure wrestlers who had long runs with the title like Bruno Sammartino, Bob Backlund and Greg Valentine. In their cases, there were certainly characters like Sgt. Slaughter and Ivan Koloff, but these were largely the rule as opposed to the exception.
Unfortunately, at the end of the DVD we see the re-introduction of the gimmick era with John Cena holding the title. Argue Cena's charisma all you like, but even he will admit that his technical abilities are not at the levels of the Triple Hs, the HBKs, the Harts or the Angles of that era. Really, all that WWE needs is the strong evil foreigner heel that Hogan had in Sheik for the comparisons to really be capped.
Of course, the battle between character and wrestler is not necessarily a bad thing. Like it or not, the vast majority of us got into wrestling because of Hogan. We might've stuck around because of the Savages and Harts, but the Warriors brought us in. WWE has to be commended for highlighting both of these types of competitors in The History of the WWE Championship, ensuring that fans of both genres pick up this collection.
Match listing:
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Renewed my BLS certification with First Coast CPR and I couldn't be happier. I completed the e-learning component of the BLS at home and came in to perform the skills portion in the classroom. Rachel was an excellent instructor and gave me real-time feedback during my CPR performance. I now feel much more confident in my life saving skills. Thank you!
Michele Helvey
By far the best BLS class.The instructor Cherie was awesome which made the class fun, informative and full of laughs.
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This was my first time taking this class but it was so very well planned, thought out and an awesome learning environment. The instructor Rachel did an amazing job helping each of us and I highly recommend this facility!
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Excellent class! Carlos is a great instructor. I really appreciated how interactive the class was, to make sure that we were each competent and comfortable with the skills that we were learning.
Eunice Poon Song
Loved that Carlos kept us entertained while teaching this class. He's a great instructor and made it easy to learn for the new ladies and gents. I will return to First Coast CPR for my next renewal.
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I took the CPR Class and learned so much. Asley was awesome and very knowledgeable. I really wished I would have taken it years ago when my daughter was born. If you have taken a CPR class yet, sign up now...someone's life may depend on it.
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Rachael was an amazing instructor. She taught a class of 10 teachers and had the patience of a saint. Thank you � Highly recommended.
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Highly recommend First Coast CPR for all CPR/AED/Lifesaver courses. The staff is truly knowledgeable, helpful and has so much experience. Often times the material in these classes is redundant and boring, but First Coast CPR really strives to keep you engaged.
Elizabeth Hazel
I attended yesterday and I thought the course was very thorough and hands on. The class was very entertaining and it went by quickly. Rachel is an excellent instructor and very friendly. I will be back for my two year renewal. Thanks!
Karen Wise
Had to renew for work and nursing school and it was the best choice I could've made. Quick to the point and hands on. The instructor was knowledgeable and made it as enjoyable as possible
Alanna Roberts
This was such a great class! Carlos made it fun and interesting. I highly recommend to any one needing CPR training!
Jill Sommer Fore
Instructors did an excellent job in keeping us engaged. They also use great teaching tactics that help with knowledge retention.
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The training was the BEST CPR training I have ever attended. EXTREMELY informative, well worth the time...and also entertaining..instructors made a dull but necessary training fun!! I recommend this to EVERYONE!!
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I took the class for renewal. By far the best class i have attended and for the price it was Very Very informative and LOTS of hands on. Andrew and Kipp were AWESOME!!!. Thanks guys! Will definitely recommend.
Lorie Robichaux
Carlos is an awesome instructor. He made the class enjoyable.
Ralaundra Young
Took the BLS for Healthcare Providers and I thoroughly enjoyed the class. It was more hands on and the videos are updated from the last time I took the class. Heather was a great instructor and she was super funny!!! Side note: consider adding "No Kids Allowed inside the classroom and/or no unattended children allowed." I got upset when the lady got upset at Heather about her sick child. The nerve of her!!!
Robert Woodard
A great place to re-certify for my CPR. I am a yoga teacher and I like to have this certification just in case. The facility was clean and organized. Everyone was very nice and knowledgable!
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What a thorough, well-taught class. I did the hybrid class so my First Aid training was online (it is a lot of information so have plenty of time when you start it). When I arrived at the class, Carlos was ready to test me and give constructive feedback. I was really impressed with his patience and expertise in teaching CPR/AED. He connected with each student and was able to correct us in a way that didn't condemn us. His use of humor was well-timed and appreciated!
Merrill Rumba
In class right now great atmosphere and enjoying classmates and learning how to save lives all at the same time
Melvin N Amanda Strowbridge
This was by far the best CPR class I have ever taken, the atmosphere was a true classroom setting, and the instructor (Rachel) was on point in pointing out the resent changes so when you walk out the door, you recall them out loud. She also made it fun with a little Bee Gee action. I did this class on 1/31/17 and can't wait to go back, like seeing a good movie again. Thanks
Stephen Mutaali
I became CPR certified at FC CPR and then went on to take the instructor's class, which is a hard to find class in our area! The atmosphere there is super professional, yet they have a fun learning environment. I would recommend them to anyone and everyone! They even have free gourmet coffee and healthy snacks!!
Rebekah Austin Kerr
Thorough..concise abd to the point. Knowledgeable instructor. CPR dummies at every table to be utilize throughout the lesson. Engaging and real-life scenarios.
Marla Harris Knowles
I have taken several CPR classes and even taught First Responder. It is hard to make this material enjoyable but you guys pulled it off. It was a great atmosphere and facility. I would definitely recommend you in the future
Leah Halan
Awesome CPR class yesterday. Instructor was Heather and she was excellent. She made things simple and made sure everyone understood everything before moving on. Class is held in a great environment with snacks and drinks as well. Great mixture of lecture, video, and hands on learning.
Alohilani M Elizabeth
Class isn't your tipkcal boring class, Carlos made it fun and knowledgable.
Danie Lee Kimmel
We had five shift managers go to First Coast CPR to get their certification in First Aid/CPR/AED for Adult/Child/Infant. All of them were able to do it on the same day, and it went off without a hitch. Perfect for corporate training.
Nathan Zwerling
Love the interaction. Very informative. Would use company again
Karon Richards Jones
Very interesting, the class was informative and fun at the same time. Loved everything about it!!!
Lexus Mitchell
The class was great! Very informative and valuable information. The instructor, Carlos, kept the attention of the class. We were allowed a lot of hands on practice too. Two thumbs up! ��
Adrienne Denise Hammond
Thank you for your timely and professional class, I appreciate it.
Anne Berglund
Best CPR class I've been to in the 42 years I've been an RN! Great mix of lecture and hands-on. Great facilities, snacks and the staff are professional and knowledgeable. I was sooo pleased that they included a section on what to do with opiate overdoses since that is at epidemic proportions! VERY up-to-date and well taught!
Deborah Grace Werner Whitney
Great place, the Instructors was great. Plus free snacks
Gene Allison Barnes
My first time completing a CPR course since 2007. No one judge you if you make a mistake. As Andrew says, everyone is there to learn and help each other. Everyone was very helpful. Andrew, Rachel, and Carlos Rock!!!! The best CPR class. Very fun and hands on!!!! After you complete this course you will feel ready and prepared to save a life. Also, Flexible course times and days available to fit in everyones schedule.
Kensha Collins
I recently took a course at the Jacksonville location and thoroughly enjoyed my experience. The teacher kept the students engaged by presenting material using verbal, visual and hands on techniques. I learned a lot and feel more confident in my CPR/AED skills.
Michelle Carter
And engaging and friendly staff is what makes their classes great! They mix up video instruction and hands on practice throughout which helps the time go by quickly, and the staff keeps it entertaining. The facility is also great, there are bathrooms, water, and snacks available. Would recommend and will return to them when my certification is up for renewal!
Cassidy Cramer
You guys are amazing, thank you so much for the class! I had a really good time, I came in not expecting much but was genuinely surprised with how fun it was.
Wesley James
I had a great experience with First Coast CPR. I came in needing the certification for work and not giving it much thought, but walked out feeling prepared and well equipped to perform high quality CPR. The facilitators were great and created an atmosphere where I felt comfortable and enjoyed learning from them. I'd highly recommend them to all!
Kyle Lance
The instructor (Andrew) was veth knowledgeable. All staff members were pleasant. Complimentary snacks and drinks! Andrew took the time to answer questions.No boredom-the class was up and active. Would highly recommend this agency to everyone.
Cat Michael
I took this class and enjoyed it. Carlos was great!
Yvette Kimberly
I had an incredible experience with First Coast CPR! The class was SO informative and I now feel equipped to handle emergencies that may occur. Carlos was an excellent and very humorous teacher!
Shelby Burnsed
Great class. No wasted time. Rachel (instructor) was knowledgeable, ppleasant, and answered all our questions. Carlos worked with our club to find a time that worked for our members in 2 locations. Feel much more comfortable doing CPR now and can't believe how much it has changed from years passed. Highly recommend this class for both people looking for a refresher and those who have never learned CPR before.
Lisa Elwell
This was the best CPR class I ever took and I highly recommend First Coast CPR
Julian Dove
Great class today!!! HIGHLY recommend First Coast CPR!!!
Stephanie McDonald
The class was fun and very informational. The instructor was very funny. Definitely recommend!!
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Most of the prize money will go to new research and a company party, but CureVac also plans to use some of it to build an exhibit honoring Friedrich Miescher, a 19th century Swiss scientist whose discovery of nucleic acids isn't widely known.
So-called inducement prizes have become more common in recent years; the idea is to raise awareness of a particular social, scientific, or technological problem, and spark innovation to solve it—without prescribing how. Unlike research grants, they are accessible to anybody, not just to bona fide academics or business players. The vaccine prize, awarded at a ceremony held here on Monday, is the first time the European Commission has adopted the idea. There will be more such prizes under Horizon 2020, however, the commission's new 7-year research funding program.
The commission launched the vaccine award to encourage innovators to solve the "cold chain" problem: According to the World Health Organization, up to half of all vaccine doses are wasted worldwide, partly because they are not transported and stored at a steady, cool temperature. Of the 12 teams that had submitted a full application, several focused on improving refrigeration systems. But CureVac claims it can do away with that need altogether by producing vaccines that are stable at room temperature for long periods of time.
The company is developing immunotherapies for cancer and prophylactic vaccines against infectious diseases, both based on RNA molecules. The central idea is to encode an antigen as RNA and inject that into the skin of the patient, whose own cells then produce the protein that triggers an immune response, either to kill tumor cells or to prevent an infection. CureVac's most advanced project is a prostate cancer therapy that is now entering a second phase II clinical study; a vaccine against rabies is in phase I tests. In November 2012, the company also showed, along with scientists from the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, that the technology could lead to a new generation of flu vaccines.
CureVac CEO Ingmar Hoerr says the E.U. competition opened his eyes to the potential of RNA-based vaccines for developing countries. In its application, the company showed how stable RNA-based vaccines are. Experiments demonstrated that, even after being stored at 40ºC for 6 months, their rabies vaccine protected animals from viral infection. "We weren't aware that we had vaccines [with such potential], because we were concentrating on the demands of western countries," Hoerr admits.
Jury member Penny Heaton, director of vaccine development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said CureVac's RNA technology had "the potential for a large and positive impact on public health," in a statement released by the company on 10 March. Hoerr says that the recognition lends the technology more credibility. "When we started the business, some people were laughing at us, saying: '[RNA] is an unstable molecule, I'll never believe your data, it will never become a drug because it's so costly,' " he recalls.
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CHICAGO, International Home & Housewares Show 2010, PANTONE ColorWatch Display (Lakeside Lobby Level 3) – March 15, 2010 – Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company (NASDAQ: XRIT) and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, today introduced PANTONE® VIEW home + interiors 2011, a trend forecast containing the nine most directional color palettes for home furnishings and interior design in 2011.
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I was just up a Dillon beach today practicing on the beach with my new kite (12M Cabrinha Crossbow). I just got it and wanted to see how the bridle works, bar pressure, etc, but didn't want to head out in the chop given that I'm still a learning grommet and thought I'd be in over my head. So I was practicing on the beach.
I'm on the beach and loving it, until cranky old kiter starts yelling at me for using a 12M in 10 knots on land. I mean really yelling at me, calling me unsafe, a danger, breaking the rules on "his spot". Long story short, he says that anyone kiting a kite bigger than 6m on land is a jackbooted thug.
I had lessons in Morocco and had a lot of practice time with a kite on dry land (learn the one thing then the other was their motto), but I don't want to be a schmuck about things, so I wanted to ask whether it's a really bad idea to be practicing on land with my kite?
It's a bow kite so I've got the ability to depower completely, and have been able to modulate the power generated amazingly well, much better than on the Boxer's I was on in Morocco.
Can I get you guys to weigh in?