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50.den madeira

Dnes je opat krasne rano 1000. Smer cvicisko.Latinak akurat koncil bol tu este chvilu jeden chlapik a neskor dosla fajn baba.Ta robila len cviky na brucho podobne tim co robim na ubytku.Dnes som vynechal bicykel nech si koleno este oddychne




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51.den madeira

Po ranajkach smer cvicisko. Dva dni po sebe robit tie iste cviky je blbost no co uz.Na plac prichadzalo stale viac a viac ludi. Tolko som tu este nezazil.S vytahanimi rukami smer supermarket.Takze ruska su neni povinne bo dost ludi ich nemalo




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52.den madeira

Zdrave ranajky salat syr hriby do seba hodene okolo 1100 kedze som isiel neskoro spat.Po jedle dokukanie prvej serie a smer mini prechadzka do parku santa catarina.Vonku opat genialne pocasie.Najskor som sa chcel v parku zvalit do travy al




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Around the Adriatic Croatia Split Monday 2019 April 8

Leaving Mostar was almost sad because we had enjoyed the compact city as a group and on our own. We headed into the hills where towns or villages lined the road for a considerable distance. Rain was falling for the whole drive. I noticed none of the unr




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53.den madeira

Dnes horsie pocasie zatiahnute.Vcera som nakonec kukal mh az do 1.00 co sa podpisalo na mojom neskorom vstavani az o 1100.Na cvicisku len jeden clovek neskor zacali prichadzat dalsi.Bicykel uz uplne vypusteny.Pri poslednom cviku ruckov




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54.den madeira

Opat som siel spat okolo 0100 a budicek nieco okolo 1100Uz dlho sa neozvala octavia s jej skolkarskima problemami. Cul zas riesila jedneho holandana ktory sa jej lubil aj sa k niecomu schylovalo ked bola u nho ale jak vacsina sikmookych mentalne zaost




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Planning a Road Trip to Pai for Our Family Visit in November

I'm so excited to be planning a road trip to Pai this coming November My husband and I are planning a trip for his family when they visit from Australia and I'm so excited to show them around We'll be driving from here in Chiang Mai to




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While I Was Reading . . .

Okay so in a moment of sanity I actually decided to take it a bit easy yesterday and not run around like a mad man probably a result of having climbed a 7000ft mountain Hua Shan the day before. So I spent half of yesterday visiting the Army of Terra




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Head Shoulders

I is an English teacher now.Today will be my third day of teaching and I am starting to get the hang of it. OK not really. Putting the kids at ease making them laugh and helping them with their pronunciation is not a problem I seem to ha




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Secunderabad Living

The past week has been pretty busy even though all the students are taking exams. About a week ago two other American girls came to stay at this convent with me. They're from Washington DC and New York and they've both just graduated from college this pa




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Kakadoo National Park

Sunday 3rd October Kakadoo.Well the much anticipated Kakadoo was a major disappointment after Litchfield and Katherine National Parks. Granted it is the dry season so the waterfalls wetlands and rivers are not at their best but in our opinion it




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canada

Still sitting in Victoria counting the days. We leave Wed.




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another day in paradise

Bula everyone from Fiji Tropical isle very hot amazing resort. We finally came out of the jungle and the rain. There was no phone reception TV or anything else apart from trees toads frogs crocs and box jellyfish called stingers which can sting you to dea




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An adventure in Khao Sok National Park

The journey from Koh Samui to Khao Sok was pretty much a nightmare we were woke up arround 730 by someone who couldn't speak english pointing to a piece of paper that said 800 bus. We had booked on the 12 o'clock bus and had arranged to pick our washi




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Muscat Sink Hole Wadi's Wahiba Sands

Hi Allhere are some pictures of Oman. It took me a while to find a fast enough internet connection to upload them. I will write a bit more when I have a bit more time. Everything is good so far and I'm enjoying the sushine. Sometimes it's a little too




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An Epic Adventure in TransitParanoia in Thailand

So when I last blogged about our wonderful stay on Phu Quoc Island I was writing from an coffee shop in Saigon on Friday afternoon. I wasn't aware at the time but we had begun what would basically be 51 hours in transit as we blundered our way to an isla




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New Zealand Way to Taupo over Gisborne East Coast Road Opotiki and Rotorura

Arrived in Hasting we're slept on a nice Campsite near a Beach. The german Couple was 3 Days before us there. Manu and Vera are now 9 Month in NZ and have a Working Visa for 1 Year. On the next Day our 2 Vans heading to the North. We visit the Peninsula Ma




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Carlsbad Caverns

Greetings from Carlsbad NM We made it here yesterday from El Paso Texas. It was an easy 160 mile day. We are staying at the Carlsbad RV Park just outside of Carlsbad. It is an OK park. There are lot's of oil worker staying here. Many are from Texas. It




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How is this paradise It is but how

Would you stay in a place like thisAccommodation cramped dorms with outside toilets and showers only cold water and no soap or toilet paper. They were permanently dark and filled with comically offensive graffiti also without locks o




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First day on the road

Well we successfully cycled over San Bernadino Pass and down into Italy biked on to Milan and spent a few days in Italy Lake Maggiore and Tuscany being the highlights. I couldn't really post any updates for a number of reasons Internet not availab




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Expo and a whole load of catch up

It has been 6 weeks since we all started at Dulwich College and the time has just completely and utterly flown away. I can't believe it has been almost 2 months since we moved into our lovely new apartment in Jinqiao and our new life on 'the dark side' if




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Paddling in the Yellow River

Hi AllWell with the weather being so beautiful at the minute we decided to go to the Yellow River yesterday. It's only 20 km north of the city. So we hopped onto a bus which was stuffed to the gills seriously the driver could only just shut the doors




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Time for the emperors-in-waiting who run Facebook to just admit they're evil | Charlie Brooker

Facebook's emotion study reveals it is hopelessly disconnected from emotional reality: that people get upset when people they care about are unhappy

Alex Hern: The final straw for Facebook?

This weekend we learned that Facebook had deliberately manipulated the emotional content of 689,003 users' news feeds as part of an experiment to see what kind of psychological impact it would have. For one week in January 2012, some users saw chiefly positive stories (kitten videos, brownie recipes and assorted LOLs), while others were force-fed despair (breakups, health woes and seal-clubbing holiday snaps). And guess what happened?

"The results show emotional contagion," decided the scientists.

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2014 is so horrible, nothing can cheer us up. Not even Simon Cowell with a bucket on his head | Charlie Brooker

Russia v Ukraine, Isis, Boris Johnson, Cliff Richard and Ebola – there's not much to be cheerful about right now, though the ice bucket challenge is working overtime

Ah. Right. Looks like I picked a bad week to draw inspiration from current affairs for this knockabout comedy column. The news is rarely a warehouse of carefree chuckles but at the moment it's like an apocalyptic playlist on perpetual shuffle, with one harrowing crisis overlapping another. Palestine, Libya, Syria … it's all horrifying and upsetting. Not a single nice thing has happened all year, except the recent stealth launch of Cadbury's Wispa Biscuits, and even "stealth launch of Wispa Biscuits" sounds like a terrible euphemism for breaking wind.

The planet is currently playing host to countless alarming crises. There's the nail-biting tension of Russia v Ukraine, a depressing standoff overseen by facial-expression-avoider Vladimir Putin. I don't know if all the strings connecting Putin's face muscles to his brain were accidentally severed during a tragic smiling accident years ago, but I've seen brickwork convey more emotion.

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The leaders’ debate: option paralysis and the wriggling opinion worm | Charlie Brooker

What sort of person can’t decide who to vote for, but can rate how much they like whatever they’re hearing out of five, and wants to sit there tapping a button accordingly?

As the general election scuttles closer, the campaign grows more confusing by the moment, so it’s good that last week’s seven-way leaders’ debate brought some much-needed mayhem to the situation. Not so long ago we were bemoaning the lack of choice in a two-party system. Now we’ve got option paralysis.

It had its moments. Nigel Farage complained about foreigners with HIV who enter Britain and immediately start wolfing down expensive medicine: greedy as well as sick. You’d think Farage might welcome immigrants with grave illnesses on the basis that they’re less likely to hang around as long, but apparently not. Say what you like about him – say it, write it down, daub it in 3ft-high cherry-red letters up the side of a prominent overpass on his regular commute if you must – but it’s undeniably refreshing to see a politician determined to speak his mind, indifferent to the absurd constraints of spin or basic human empathy. Never mind HIV sufferers – how much is Britain spending on refugees with cancer? Maybe he could put that statistic on a sandwich board and patrol the country in it, perhaps while ringing a bell and loudly commanding passersby to picture a nation under his command.

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Get ready for Crudstergram! Charlie Brooker's gadgets to save the world

The Black Mirror creator invents exciting products to transform your life – from the workout that makes you feel like a saint to the world’s cleverest toilet

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but happiness is in sharp decline. Many people blame technology for our woes, and it’s not hard to see why. The internet is nothing but deranged screeching and fascist memes sitting atop a plateau of moldering desperation masquerading as ironic meaninglessness. No one has smiled in real life since 2011. But wait! Silicon Valley is waking up to the negative effect its products can have on us, and like the good Samaritans they are, they’re unveiling a whole new range of products aimed at making us feel good about ourselves. Here is an exclusive look at just a few of the cool gizmos and rad gadgets due to be unveiled at next year’s CES Consumer Electronics Show and featured in news reports, and then in shops, and then in your house before you even know it.

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Social Design Award 2018: The Final Dash in Our Readers' Competition!

Joint activities, joint projects and improved cooperation: SPIEGEL ONLINE and SPIEGEL WISSEN are looking for the best ideas for creating a vibrant neighborhood. Send us your proposal by August 31!




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Detecting Linux kernel process masquerading with command line forensics

Guest Post: Learn how to use Linux command line to investigate suspicious processes trying to masquerade as kernel threads.



  • <a href="https://blog.apnic.net/category/tech-matters/">Tech matters</a>

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Corona Crisis: We Should Be Adopting Stricter Measures, Not Loosening the Lockdown

People are growing increasingly impatient over the coronavirus lockdown, and politicians are now debating whether to loosen measures. From a scientific point of view this is a disaster. Measures should actually be tightened until we know more about the virus.




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Hogle Home Safari: Adaptations




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Is the Supply of Charitable Donations Fixed? Evidence from Deadly Tornadoes -- by Tatyana Deryugina, Benjamin M. Marx

Do new societal needs increase charitable giving or simply reallocate a fixed supply of donations? We study this question using IRS datasets and the natural experiment of deadly tornadoes. Among ZIP Codes located more than 20 miles away from a tornado's path, donations by households increase by over $1 million per tornado fatality. We find no negative effects on charities located in these ZIP Codes, with a bootstrapped confidence interval that rejects substitution rates above 16 percent. The results imply that giving to one cause need not come at the expense of another.




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The Spread of Coronavirus: Eastern Europe Prepares for the Inevitable

Many countries in Eastern Europe are taking drastic measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 -- in part because their health-care systems may not be up to the task.




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Madrid Hospitals Struggle to Handle Surge of Corona Patients

In Spain, the number of coronavirus deaths is climbing faster than in Italy. Dr. Inés Lipperheide is fighting to save her patients in an overcrowded intensive care unit. She reports conditions straight out of a "horror film."




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I dressed and went for a walk -- determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

Raymond Carver, writer, poet




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Should schools adopt "detracking" math teachers

A number of school districts in the US are "detracking" math teachers, which rotates teachers through classes, allowing them  -More




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3 principles of adult learning to guide teacher PD

Three principles of adult learning can help facilitators engage educators in effective professional development, writes Shann -More




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The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy -- by Joseph S. Shapiro

This paper documents a new fact, then analyzes its causes and consequences: in most countries, import tariffs and non-tariff barriers are substantially lower on dirty than on clean industries, where an industry’s “dirtiness” is defined as its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per dollar of output. This difference in trade policy creates a global implicit subsidy to CO2 emissions in internationally traded goods and so contributes to climate change. This global implicit subsidy to CO2 emissions totals several hundred billion dollars annually. The greater protection of downstream industries, which are relatively clean, substantially accounts for this pattern. The downstream pattern can be explained by theories where industries lobby for low tariffs on their inputs but final consumers are poorly organized. A quantitative general equilibrium model suggests that if countries applied similar trade policies to clean and dirty goods, global CO2 emissions would decrease and global real income would change little.




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Ischgl, Austria: A Corona Hotspot in the Alps Spread Virus Across Europe

The Austrian winter-sports mecca of Ischgl is well known for its parties. But after helping spread the virus across Europe, the town's reputation is changing to one of incompetence and greed.




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Joe Castiglione, a childhood Yankees fan turned longtime Red Sox broadcaster, talks about the great rivalry that is currently on pause

Joe Castiglione saw his first baseball game in the Bronx.




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A New Method for Estimating Teacher Value-Added -- by Michael Gilraine, Jiaying Gu, Robert McMillan

This paper proposes a new methodology for estimating teacher value-added. Rather than imposing a normality assumption on unobserved teacher quality (as in the standard empirical Bayes approach), our nonparametric estimator permits the underlying distribution to be estimated directly and in a computationally feasible way. The resulting estimates fit the unobserved distribution very well regardless of the form it takes, as we show in Monte Carlo simulations. Implementing the nonparametric approach in practice using two separate large-scale administrative data sets, we find the estimated teacher value-added distributions depart from normality and differ from each other. To draw out the policy implications of our method, we first consider a widely-discussed policy to release teachers at the bottom of the value-added distribution, comparing predicted test score gains under our nonparametric approach with those using parametric empirical Bayes. Here the parametric method predicts similar policy gains in one data set while overestimating those in the other by a substantial margin. We also show the predicted gains from teacher retention policies can be underestimated significantly based on the parametric method. In general, the results highlight the benefit of our nonparametric empirical Bayes approach, given that the unobserved distribution of value-added is likely to be context-specific.




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Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading -- by Jeffrey Clemens, Lisa B. Kahn, Jonathan Meer

We explore whether minimum wage increases result in substitution from lower-skilled to slightly higher-skilled labor. Using 2011-2016 American Community Survey data (ACS), we show that workers employed in low-wage occupations are older and more likely to have a high school diploma following recent statutory minimum wage increases. To better understand the role of firms, we examine the Burning Glass vacancy data. We find increases in a high school diploma requirement following minimum wage hikes, consistent with our ACS evidence on stocks of employed workers. We see substantial adjustments to requirements both within and across firms.




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Lufthansa CEO on How Coronavirus Has Radically Upended the Aviation Industry

The coronavirus pandemic has inflicted massive damage on the aviation industry. But Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr says that the German flag carrier is in a good position to survive, even if it will take several years for the industry to recover.




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The science of Sundance: Digging into a theory the coronavirus was spreading early in Utah




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Hear the news of the week with The Tribune Friday morning on KCPW’s Behind the Headlines




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How would Utah’s gubernatorial candidates lead the state out of COVID-19?




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Letter: Who wants what they did at 17 made public?




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BYU’s Alex Barcello broke his wrist at the end of the college basketball season; he’s now healed and ready for what’s next




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Utah man pleads guilty to vandalizing Logan Latter-day Saint temple




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Letter: Bad things happen when we aren’t looking




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Letter: Reason wins in Canada