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#LivingstonRP attended a 2 car RTC at the weekend which highlights risks caused by standing water. Everyone ok, but both written off and lucky escapes for all.
One user also highlighted the risks of using cruise control while driving on wet roads. Helen Thomson pointed out that if a car is aquaplaning while cruise control is in use, the accelerator will be applied.
And never use cruise control in the rain, if you start to aquaplane the cruise control applies the accelerator.
The advice from the AA for drivers on wet roads is to try and avoid standing water wherever you can.
Drivers should also leave twice as much space between cars when the conditions are wet.
With heavy downpours over the weekend and more than 50 flood warnings active across the UK at the start of the week, motorists are also encouraged not drive in water any more than 10cm deep.
The AA’s guidelines state that it takes only an “egg cupful” of water to wreck an engine and can also damage electrics, effecting air bags and lights. They also recommend that you test your brakes as soon as you leave the water to ensure they are still working.
Scandal (9pm, ABC) - Season 4 opens with Fitz beginning his second ted with a plan to make positive change for the nation. But Millie is still having trouble dealing with her son’s death, and Olivia’s absence leaves a void on her team.
Sleepy Hollow (9pm, Fox) - In the Season 2 premiere, Ichabod is buried alive in a coffin and Abbie is in danger of spending eternity in purgatory. Also, Katrina is a reluctant guest of the Headless Horseman and Capt. Irving is in jail on a murder charge.
Parenthood (10pm, NBC) - The sixth and final season opens with Sarah and Zeek heading to Las Vegas to celebrate Zeek’s birthday, while Amber deals with adulthood and new life changes. There has been a lot of speculation that this final season will involve a death – perhaps Zeek’s – and the family coming to terms with that loss. I’m not at all sure I could handle that, but just in case, the hankies are ready.
Hyderabad: The beauty of the 340-year-old Hayat Bakshi Begum mosque of Hayathnagar, has been marred by buildings adjoining the premises and grass.
Though a protected monument and listed under the state department of archaeology and museums, some structures have come up along the mosque’s boundary wall.
Most occupants claim to be unaware of any rules barring them, and add that no authority ever stopped them.
Constructions now hide the 5-acre premises of the mosque and renovation work has halted midway.
No one from the department of archaeology has visited the mosque since work stopped around six months ago.
The mosque is named after one of the most famous royals of the Qutub Shahi times, the only child of Mohammed Quli Qutub Shah, Hayat Bakshi Begum.
The works were taken up with funds from the 13th Finance Commission grants. The `1-crore grant was to restore the minarets, plastering sarai rooms, and the roof, among other things.
In 2012, former CM Kiran Kumar Reddy had directed the department to make an estimate for complete renovation.
Works at the sarai in were halted stating non-availability of funds. Out of the 133 rooms, only 40 have been repaired, and the Hathi Bowli lies in ruins and is now filled with garbage and silt.
The EU will be worse off for lacking the strategic role of the U.K. following Brexit, Turkey’s EU Minister Ömer Çelik stated on May 12.
Çelik made the remarks in the British city of Reading at a panel focusing on post-Brexit Turkey-U.K. and EU-U.K. relations with Alan Duncan, Britain’s minister for Europe and the Americas, at the 7th Tatlı Dil Forum, a mechanism to improve cooperation between Turkey and the U.K.
Çelik said the EU will be devoid of British partnership in strategy following Brexit, but Turkey and the U.K., as two big democracies of Europe, will continue cooperation after Brexit, according to officials from the ministry.
Çelik reportedly underlined that it will not be possible for the EU to adapt to the changing international system without Turkey and the U.K.
He added that the U.K.’s departure from the union would affect bilateral ties due to Turkey’s Customs Union with the bloc and other regulations under EU law, while an independent free trade agreement is expected between Turkey and the U.K. in the post-Brexit era.
Officials from both countries are currently holding technical meetings to improve Brexit’s political, economic, commercial and legal outcome, the minister also stated.
Çelik attended a dinner on the evening of May 11 at the end of the first day of the 7th Tatlı Dil Forum with Duke of York Prince Andrew and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
It may seem like flu season is never ending, and you're not wrong. The virus is present year-round, and flu cases pick up every October, leaving us to fend off the nasty bug for months after. Experts recommend getting the flu shot as early in the season as possible, and luckily, there are many places that offer it at no cost.
Like doctors' offices and urgent cares, major pharmacies and grocery stores accept most medical insurance plans — and you won't need an appointment or have to suffer through a long line to get vaccinated. Keep reading for a list of the retailers offering free flu shots, and remember to check their guidelines on any age restrictions before you go.
Walgreens/Duane Reade: Walgreens and Duane Reade offer flu shots that are free with most insurance at their locations. You can find the location nearest you here.
CVS: The pharmacy offers free flu shots for most folks with medical insurance coverage, and some stores even offer a $5 off $25 purchase when you get the shot. Many CVS pharmacies are inside Target stores, and the same deal applies to those locations as well. You can find the one nearest you here.
Rite Aid: Rite Aid offers flu shots free with most insurances, and you don't need to make an appointment. You can find the location nearest you here.
Walmart: Walmart offers free flu shots with most insurances. You can find the store nearest you here.
Costco: Costco offers the flu shot free under most insurances, and you don't need a Costco membership to go to the pharmacy. You can find the warehouse nearest you here.
Sam's Club: Like Costco, Sam's Club offers free flu shots under most insurances and doesn't require a membership to go to the pharmacy. You can find the warehouse nearest you here.
Publix: The grocery store's pharmacies offer free flu shots covered under most insurances, as well as a $10 gift card for those who get the shot. You can find the store nearest you here.
Stop & Shop/Giant/Martin's: Pharmacies inside Stop & Shop, Giant, and Martin's stores offer free flu shots with most insurances. You can find the location nearest you here for Stop & Shop, Giant, and Martin's, respectively.
Kroger: Kroger Pharmacy's flu shots are free for most of those with insurance coverage. You can find the store nearest you here.
Food Lion: Pharmacies inside Food Lion offer free flu shots with most insurances. You can find the location nearest you here.
CANNABIS AND CANVASES: Puff, Pass & Paint, a Colorado-based company that offers art classes in which participants can bring marijuana, is hosting classes in the Boston area starting Saturday.
A Denver company that puts a weed-friendly spin on the paint-night craze is bringing events to the Boston area.
Puff, Pass & Paint encourages participants ages 21 and older to bring their own cannabis and light up, vape or eat marijuana edibles while they explore the creative process of painting. Owner Heidi Keyes started the company in Denver in early 2014 after Colorado legalized recreational marijuana.
The company also has operations in five other locations with legal recreational marijuana — Oakland, Los Angeles and Orange County, Calif.; Washington, D.C.; and Portland, Ore. In Phoenix, it runs events for medical marijuana users.
Puff, Pass & Paint does not supply cannabis to class participants, according to Keyes.
Weed “makes people more relaxed and more willing to be themselves” while painting, according to Keyes. “They just enjoy the experience more rather than worrying about creating a perfect painting,” she said.
But weed consumption isn’t required.
“It’s more just about creating a safe space where it is an option,” Keyes said.
Boston-area classes will be held at Kreative Kollective Studios, a private communal workspace for artists in Everett. Keyes will teach the first class Saturday, and then use local artists when weekly Saturday sessions start April 7. The two-hour classes accommodate up to 50 people and run $39 to $49, with all art supplies included.
Pass & Paint’s private events will operate outside control of the state Cannabis Control Commission, which is charged with regulating Massachusetts’ legal marijuana industry and is developing licensing regulations for sales set to begin in July and businesses that could include public social consumption operations.
Gov. Charlie Baker, House Speaker Robert DeLeo and other officials have called on the commission to hold off on licensing marijuana cafes, delivery-only businesses and mixed-use businesses such as cinemas and massage parlors that would offer marijuana products until an initial retail market is up and running. The commission will meet to review feedback it received to its proposed rules today through Wednesday. A final commission vote on its regulations is due next week.
Keyes’ company, which is affiliated with CannabisTours.com, also offers other classes including Puff, Pass & Pottery and Puff, Pass & Pastry cooking sessions in other markets, and plans to eventually expand its Boston-area operations.
“We’re going to start with the painting first and then go on to more legal creative classes and tours,” she said.
The following is a HHSS sports brief for the week ending April 6.
The junior Red Hawks badminton team had a solid start to the season with 13 of 16 players playing well enough on Thursday, April 5 at the pre-qualifier to move on to the Kawartha qualifier tournament this week. This will be hosted by HHSS (Haliburton Highlands Secondary School) on Thursday, April 12, starting at 9 a.m.
Honourable mentions go out to Ethan Glecoff and Hannah Riopelle for finishing first in mixed doubles and Rebecca Archibald and Melissa Brinkos for finishing second in girls’ doubles.
NICOSIA, Cyprus Cypriot authorities were putting the final touches to a plan they hope will convince international lenders to provide the money the country needs to avoid bankruptcy within days.
As well as trying to forge an overall financing package, lawmakers were meeting to decide the fate of the country's second largest lender Laiki which was hardest hit from its exposure to bad Greek debt.
Uncertainty over the position of Cyprus' European partners to the broad thrust of the country's new proposals formed the backdrop to Friday's discussions. There are also questions over whether Russia will be involved in any final package even though a two-day meeting between the finance ministers of Russia and Cyprus broke down with no agreement.
One concrete proposal is the restructuring of Laiki, which it is estimated will generate around 2 billion euros of the 5.8 billion euros ($7.5 billion) the country needs to raise itself. If the new package is agreed by international creditors, then Cyprus will be able to secure another 10 billion euros from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund.
A new package is necessary after Cyprus' parliament rejected a plan earlier this week to grab up to 10 percent of bank deposits.
The country needs to have the plan in place by Monday as the European Central Bank has said it will cut off emergency support to the banks. That could trigger their collapse and leave the Cypriot economy reeling. Many in the markets think that would mean the country would have to leave the euro with potentially damaging repercussions across the 17-country eurozone.
Worried Laiki employees gathered near parliament for a second day after the governor of the country's central bank announced that authorities would look to safeguard the bank's viable parts and isolate its toxic assets. The hope behind the plan is to staunch any possible contagion effects to the country's other lenders.
"The bank is finished, we'll lose our jobs and I'm worried about my kids," Laiki employee Nikos Tsiangos behind barricades and a cordon of police that have blocked the way to Parliament. "They've brought us to the brink, the Europeans wanted to destroy our economy and they've done it."
Apart from the bank's restructuring, lawmakers were looking at a number of other bills including one setting up an "Investment Solidarity Fund" and restricting banking transactions in times of crisis.
Together, they will make up at least part of the alternative plan Cyprus hopes will secure it the bailout money.
A vote on the bills was scheduled for Friday morning, but that appears to have been pushed back as lawmakers continue discussions.
Europe also appeared to turn up the pressure on Cyprus Friday. Luxembourg's finance Minister Luc Frieden told Germany's Inforadio that Cyprus "certainly must change a very great deal in its financial sector ..... I see among some euro states little financial room for more concessions to Cyprus."
Meanwhile, Cypriot efforts to clinch a contribution from Russia appear to have failed after Russia's finance minister was quoted as saying talks had broken down. Russia is a key player in Cyprus as Russian depositors have parked around 20 billion euros into the country.
Anton Siluanov, Russia's finance minister, said the Cypriots were seeking to get Russian companies to invest in a state-owned firm managing revenues from the island's newfound offshore gas deposits and give Russian companies a stake in that company.
Russian investors were not interested, he said. Cyprus also offered stakes in some of its banks, but Russian banks were not interested in that either. Siluanov also said they were not discussing the possibility of providing a new loan to Cyprus as the EU has set a debt limit for Cyprus.
However, there is still speculation that Russia may get involved in some way if the EU and the IMF sign off on the new Cypriot proposals.
The new Managed Hybrid SD-WAN offering brings together disparate forms of network connectivity with CenturyLink's SD-WAN platform and managed services in a bundled offering for partners and business customers.
CenturyLink Tuesday unveiled its Managed Hybrid SD-WAN, a set of packaged WAN offerings that consolidates disparate network services with CenturyLink's SD-WAN platform and managed services.
CenturyLink's Managed Hybrid SD-WAN lets businesses take advantage of their existing investments, such as MPLS, while injecting these network connections with next-generation network capabilities, according to Troy Trenchard, vice president of product management for CenturyLink. The offering is available through CenturyLink Alliance program partners.
Bundling SD-WAN instead of offering it as a stand-alone overlay service is a good idea for end customers and, by extension, partners, said Shane Stark, director of vendor and channel relations for Clive, Iowa-based Carrier Access, a CenturyLink Premier partner.
Carrier Access has many end customers using MPLS networks today, so offering SD-WAN that works with their existing network architecture means they won't have to make any drastic changes, he said.
"This is just another way to sell SD-WAN to current CenturyLink clients that might have MPLS. They can keep their MPLS and add in another broadband or fiber connection, and they won't have to change their whole network or have any potential interruption," Stark said. "I think it’s a good idea."
CenturyLink Managed Hybrid SD-WAN gives customers and partners a complete "as-a-service" hybrid SD-WAN offering because it includes CenturyLink's SD-WAN platform, powered by Versa Networks, with transport -- MPLS or broadband Internet -- and management for a bundled price, Trenchard told CRN.
"This is a great option for customers that are interested in a hybrid WAN approach and want the entire WAN to be supported by a single service provider," he said.
CenturyLink's Managed Hybrid SD-WAN joins the Monroe, La.-based provider's existing SD-WAN portfolio of services, which includes a stand-alone managed SD-WAN service -- CenturyLink SD-WAN -- that was rolled out in 2016. That SD-WAN service only includes the SD-WAN platform and management, Trenchard said.
"The [CenturyLink SD-WAN] is a good option for customers that want to bring and manage their own transport or plan to deploy SD-WAN in a configuration other than hybrid," he explained.
CenturyLink's full portfolio of managed security services, which includes security log monitoring and response services, can be integrated with the hybrid SD-WAN services, CenturyLink said.
BARCELONA will start El Clasico without Lionel Messi for the first time since 2007.
Messi is out with a fractured arm and manager Ernesto Valverde will need to find a way to cope without him for the next three weeks.
But the Barcelona players stepped up on Wednesday as they beat Inter Milan in the Champions League.
And Valverde says he is expecting another strong display from his team.
"We have already taken a step forward in that regard and I expect more from the squad,” he said.
"The supporters at the Nou Camp are essential because we know they will cheer us on from the start in El Clasico.
"With them behind us we are stronger as having 100,000 people on your side an helps."
Real Madrid have lost three of their last four league games but Valverde insists they remain a dangerous side.
"The more wounded Real Madrid are, the more dangerous they are,” he said.
"They have good players, a lot of options at their disposal and a great defence.
“They have enough quality to fight back and they are a great all-round team.
Barcelona defenders Samuel Umtiti and Thomas Vermaelen also miss out with injury.
Lionel Messi injury: Will Barcelona star be at Real Madrid clash?
Ousmane Dembele is favourite to play in Messi's usual position on the right side of the attack.
Barcelona have scored in each of their last 21 league games against Real (48 goals) but Real are unbeaten in their last three league games at the Nou Camp.
Barcelona have not won either Clasico without Lionel Messi (D1 L1) since his first appearance against Real Madrid.
Lopetegui sack: Are Real Madrid fans BACKING manager ahead of Clasico?
The row over the future of the British Grand Prix has highlighted the huge influence Bernie Ecclestone holds within Formula One.
BBC Sport profiles Ecclestone and Max Mosley, F1's other major powerbroker.

#LivingstonRP attended a 2 car RTC at the weekend which highlights risks caused by standing water. Everyone ok, but both written off and lucky escapes for all.

One user also highlighted the risks of using cruise control while driving on wet roads. Helen Thomson pointed out that if a car is aquaplaning while cruise control is in use, the accelerator will be applied.

And never use cruise control in the rain, if you start to aquaplane the cruise control applies the accelerator.

The advice from the AA for drivers on wet roads is to try and avoid standing water wherever you can.

Drivers should also leave twice as much space between cars when the conditions are wet.

With heavy downpours over the weekend and more than 50 flood warnings active across the UK at the start of the week, motorists are also encouraged not drive in water any more than 10cm deep.

The AA’s guidelines state that it takes only an “egg cupful” of water to wreck an engine and can also damage electrics, effecting air bags and lights. They also recommend that you test your brakes as soon as you leave the water to ensure they are still working.

Scandal (9pm, ABC) - Season 4 opens with Fitz beginning his second ted with a plan to make positive change for the nation. But Millie is still having trouble dealing with her son’s death, and Olivia’s absence leaves a void on her team.

Sleepy Hollow (9pm, Fox) - In the Season 2 premiere, Ichabod is buried alive in a coffin and Abbie is in danger of spending eternity in purgatory. Also, Katrina is a reluctant guest of the Headless Horseman and Capt. Irving is in jail on a murder charge.

Parenthood (10pm, NBC) - The sixth and final season opens with Sarah and Zeek heading to Las Vegas to celebrate Zeek’s birthday, while Amber deals with adulthood and new life changes. There has been a lot of speculation that this final season will involve a death – perhaps Zeek’s – and the family coming to terms with that loss. I’m not at all sure I could handle that, but just in case, the hankies are ready.

Hyderabad: The beauty of the 340-year-old Hayat Bakshi Begum mosque of Hayathnagar, has been marred by buildings adjoining the premises and grass.

Though a protected monument and listed under the state department of archaeology and museums, some structures have come up along the mosque’s boundary wall.

Most occupants claim to be unaware of any rules barring them, and add that no authority ever stopped them.

Constructions now hide the 5-acre premises of the mosque and renovation work has halted midway.

No one from the department of archaeology has visited the mosque since work stopped around six months ago.

The mosque is named after one of the most famous royals of the Qutub Shahi times, the only child of Mohammed Quli Qutub Shah, Hayat Bakshi Begum.

The works were taken up with funds from the 13th Finance Commission grants. The `1-crore grant was to restore the minarets, plastering sarai rooms, and the roof, among other things.

In 2012, former CM Kiran Kumar Reddy had directed the department to make an estimate for complete renovation.

Works at the sarai in were halted stating non-availability of funds. Out of the 133 rooms, only 40 have been repaired, and the Hathi Bowli lies in ruins and is now filled with garbage and silt.

The EU will be worse off for lacking the strategic role of the U.K. following Brexit, Turkey’s EU Minister Ömer Çelik stated on May 12.

Çelik made the remarks in the British city of Reading at a panel focusing on post-Brexit Turkey-U.K. and EU-U.K. relations with Alan Duncan, Britain’s minister for Europe and the Americas, at the 7th Tatlı Dil Forum, a mechanism to improve cooperation between Turkey and the U.K.

Çelik said the EU will be devoid of British partnership in strategy following Brexit, but Turkey and the U.K., as two big democracies of Europe, will continue cooperation after Brexit, according to officials from the ministry.

Çelik reportedly underlined that it will not be possible for the EU to adapt to the changing international system without Turkey and the U.K.

He added that the U.K.’s departure from the union would affect bilateral ties due to Turkey’s Customs Union with the bloc and other regulations under EU law, while an independent free trade agreement is expected between Turkey and the U.K. in the post-Brexit era.

Officials from both countries are currently holding technical meetings to improve Brexit’s political, economic, commercial and legal outcome, the minister also stated.

Çelik attended a dinner on the evening of May 11 at the end of the first day of the 7th Tatlı Dil Forum with Duke of York Prince Andrew and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

It may seem like flu season is never ending, and you're not wrong. The virus is present year-round, and flu cases pick up every October, leaving us to fend off the nasty bug for months after. Experts recommend getting the flu shot as early in the season as possible, and luckily, there are many places that offer it at no cost.

Like doctors' offices and urgent cares, major pharmacies and grocery stores accept most medical insurance plans — and you won't need an appointment or have to suffer through a long line to get vaccinated. Keep reading for a list of the retailers offering free flu shots, and remember to check their guidelines on any age restrictions before you go.

Walgreens/Duane Reade: Walgreens and Duane Reade offer flu shots that are free with most insurance at their locations. You can find the location nearest you here.

CVS: The pharmacy offers free flu shots for most folks with medical insurance coverage, and some stores even offer a $5 off $25 purchase when you get the shot. Many CVS pharmacies are inside Target stores, and the same deal applies to those locations as well. You can find the one nearest you here.

Rite Aid: Rite Aid offers flu shots free with most insurances, and you don't need to make an appointment. You can find the location nearest you here.

Walmart: Walmart offers free flu shots with most insurances. You can find the store nearest you here.

Costco: Costco offers the flu shot free under most insurances, and you don't need a Costco membership to go to the pharmacy. You can find the warehouse nearest you here.

Sam's Club: Like Costco, Sam's Club offers free flu shots under most insurances and doesn't require a membership to go to the pharmacy. You can find the warehouse nearest you here.

Publix: The grocery store's pharmacies offer free flu shots covered under most insurances, as well as a $10 gift card for those who get the shot. You can find the store nearest you here.

Stop & Shop/Giant/Martin's: Pharmacies inside Stop & Shop, Giant, and Martin's stores offer free flu shots with most insurances. You can find the location nearest you here for Stop & Shop, Giant, and Martin's, respectively.

Kroger: Kroger Pharmacy's flu shots are free for most of those with insurance coverage. You can find the store nearest you here.

Food Lion: Pharmacies inside Food Lion offer free flu shots with most insurances. You can find the location nearest you here.

CANNABIS AND CANVASES: Puff, Pass & Paint, a Colorado-based company that offers art classes in which participants can bring marijuana, is hosting classes in the Boston area starting Saturday.

A Denver company that puts a weed-friendly spin on the paint-night craze is bringing events to the Boston area.

Puff, Pass & Paint encourages participants ages 21 and older to bring their own cannabis and light up, vape or eat marijuana edibles while they explore the creative process of painting. Owner Heidi Keyes started the company in Denver in early 2014 after Colorado legalized recreational marijuana.

The company also has operations in five other locations with legal recreational marijuana — Oakland, Los Angeles and Orange County, Calif.; Washington, D.C.; and Portland, Ore. In Phoenix, it runs events for medical marijuana users.

Puff, Pass & Paint does not supply cannabis to class participants, according to Keyes.

Weed “makes people more relaxed and more willing to be themselves” while painting, according to Keyes. “They just enjoy the experience more rather than worrying about creating a perfect painting,” she said.

But weed consumption isn’t required.

“It’s more just about creating a safe space where it is an option,” Keyes said.

Boston-area classes will be held at Kreative Kollective Studios, a private communal workspace for artists in Everett. Keyes will teach the first class Saturday, and then use local artists when weekly Saturday sessions start April 7. The two-hour classes accommodate up to 50 people and run $39 to $49, with all art supplies included.

Pass & Paint’s private events will operate outside control of the state Cannabis Control Commission, which is charged with regulating Massachusetts’ legal marijuana industry and is developing licensing regulations for sales set to begin in July and businesses that could include public social consumption operations.

Gov. Charlie Baker, House Speaker Robert DeLeo and other officials have called on the commission to hold off on licensing marijuana cafes, delivery-only businesses and mixed-use businesses such as cinemas and massage parlors that would offer marijuana products until an initial retail market is up and running. The commission will meet to review feedback it received to its proposed rules today through Wednesday. A final commission vote on its regulations is due next week.

Keyes’ company, which is affiliated with CannabisTours.com, also offers other classes including Puff, Pass & Pottery and Puff, Pass & Pastry cooking sessions in other markets, and plans to eventually expand its Boston-area operations.

“We’re going to start with the painting first and then go on to more legal creative classes and tours,” she said.

The following is a HHSS sports brief for the week ending April 6.

The junior Red Hawks badminton team had a solid start to the season with 13 of 16 players playing well enough on Thursday, April 5 at the pre-qualifier to move on to the Kawartha qualifier tournament this week. This will be hosted by HHSS (Haliburton Highlands Secondary School) on Thursday, April 12, starting at 9 a.m.

Honourable mentions go out to Ethan Glecoff and Hannah Riopelle for finishing first in mixed doubles and Rebecca Archibald and Melissa Brinkos for finishing second in girls’ doubles.

NICOSIA, Cyprus Cypriot authorities were putting the final touches to a plan they hope will convince international lenders to provide the money the country needs to avoid bankruptcy within days.

As well as trying to forge an overall financing package, lawmakers were meeting to decide the fate of the country's second largest lender Laiki which was hardest hit from its exposure to bad Greek debt.

Uncertainty over the position of Cyprus' European partners to the broad thrust of the country's new proposals formed the backdrop to Friday's discussions. There are also questions over whether Russia will be involved in any final package even though a two-day meeting between the finance ministers of Russia and Cyprus broke down with no agreement.

One concrete proposal is the restructuring of Laiki, which it is estimated will generate around 2 billion euros of the 5.8 billion euros ($7.5 billion) the country needs to raise itself. If the new package is agreed by international creditors, then Cyprus will be able to secure another 10 billion euros from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund.

A new package is necessary after Cyprus' parliament rejected a plan earlier this week to grab up to 10 percent of bank deposits.

The country needs to have the plan in place by Monday as the European Central Bank has said it will cut off emergency support to the banks. That could trigger their collapse and leave the Cypriot economy reeling. Many in the markets think that would mean the country would have to leave the euro with potentially damaging repercussions across the 17-country eurozone.

Worried Laiki employees gathered near parliament for a second day after the governor of the country's central bank announced that authorities would look to safeguard the bank's viable parts and isolate its toxic assets. The hope behind the plan is to staunch any possible contagion effects to the country's other lenders.

"The bank is finished, we'll lose our jobs and I'm worried about my kids," Laiki employee Nikos Tsiangos behind barricades and a cordon of police that have blocked the way to Parliament. "They've brought us to the brink, the Europeans wanted to destroy our economy and they've done it."

Apart from the bank's restructuring, lawmakers were looking at a number of other bills including one setting up an "Investment Solidarity Fund" and restricting banking transactions in times of crisis.

Together, they will make up at least part of the alternative plan Cyprus hopes will secure it the bailout money.

A vote on the bills was scheduled for Friday morning, but that appears to have been pushed back as lawmakers continue discussions.

Europe also appeared to turn up the pressure on Cyprus Friday. Luxembourg's finance Minister Luc Frieden told Germany's Inforadio that Cyprus "certainly must change a very great deal in its financial sector ..... I see among some euro states little financial room for more concessions to Cyprus."

Meanwhile, Cypriot efforts to clinch a contribution from Russia appear to have failed after Russia's finance minister was quoted as saying talks had broken down. Russia is a key player in Cyprus as Russian depositors have parked around 20 billion euros into the country.

Anton Siluanov, Russia's finance minister, said the Cypriots were seeking to get Russian companies to invest in a state-owned firm managing revenues from the island's newfound offshore gas deposits and give Russian companies a stake in that company.

Russian investors were not interested, he said. Cyprus also offered stakes in some of its banks, but Russian banks were not interested in that either. Siluanov also said they were not discussing the possibility of providing a new loan to Cyprus as the EU has set a debt limit for Cyprus.

However, there is still speculation that Russia may get involved in some way if the EU and the IMF sign off on the new Cypriot proposals.

The new Managed Hybrid SD-WAN offering brings together disparate forms of network connectivity with CenturyLink's SD-WAN platform and managed services in a bundled offering for partners and business customers.

CenturyLink Tuesday unveiled its Managed Hybrid SD-WAN, a set of packaged WAN offerings that consolidates disparate network services with CenturyLink's SD-WAN platform and managed services.

CenturyLink's Managed Hybrid SD-WAN lets businesses take advantage of their existing investments, such as MPLS, while injecting these network connections with next-generation network capabilities, according to Troy Trenchard, vice president of product management for CenturyLink. The offering is available through CenturyLink Alliance program partners.

Bundling SD-WAN instead of offering it as a stand-alone overlay service is a good idea for end customers and, by extension, partners, said Shane Stark, director of vendor and channel relations for Clive, Iowa-based Carrier Access, a CenturyLink Premier partner.

Carrier Access has many end customers using MPLS networks today, so offering SD-WAN that works with their existing network architecture means they won't have to make any drastic changes, he said.

"This is just another way to sell SD-WAN to current CenturyLink clients that might have MPLS. They can keep their MPLS and add in another broadband or fiber connection, and they won't have to change their whole network or have any potential interruption," Stark said. "I think it’s a good idea."

CenturyLink Managed Hybrid SD-WAN gives customers and partners a complete "as-a-service" hybrid SD-WAN offering because it includes CenturyLink's SD-WAN platform, powered by Versa Networks, with transport -- MPLS or broadband Internet -- and management for a bundled price, Trenchard told CRN.

"This is a great option for customers that are interested in a hybrid WAN approach and want the entire WAN to be supported by a single service provider," he said.

CenturyLink's Managed Hybrid SD-WAN joins the Monroe, La.-based provider's existing SD-WAN portfolio of services, which includes a stand-alone managed SD-WAN service -- CenturyLink SD-WAN -- that was rolled out in 2016. That SD-WAN service only includes the SD-WAN platform and management, Trenchard said.

"The [CenturyLink SD-WAN] is a good option for customers that want to bring and manage their own transport or plan to deploy SD-WAN in a configuration other than hybrid," he explained.

CenturyLink's full portfolio of managed security services, which includes security log monitoring and response services, can be integrated with the hybrid SD-WAN services, CenturyLink said.

BARCELONA will start El Clasico without Lionel Messi for the first time since 2007.

Messi is out with a fractured arm and manager Ernesto Valverde will need to find a way to cope without him for the next three weeks.

But the Barcelona players stepped up on Wednesday as they beat Inter Milan in the Champions League.

And Valverde says he is expecting another strong display from his team.

"We have already taken a step forward in that regard and I expect more from the squad,” he said.

"The supporters at the Nou Camp are essential because we know they will cheer us on from the start in El Clasico.

"With them behind us we are stronger as having 100,000 people on your side an helps."

Real Madrid have lost three of their last four league games but Valverde insists they remain a dangerous side.

"The more wounded Real Madrid are, the more dangerous they are,” he said.

"They have good players, a lot of options at their disposal and a great defence.

“They have enough quality to fight back and they are a great all-round team.

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Barcelona have scored in each of their last 21 league games against Real (48 goals) but Real are unbeaten in their last three league games at the Nou Camp.

Barcelona have not won either Clasico without Lionel Messi (D1 L1) since his first appearance against Real Madrid.

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