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Liverpool could receive only £4.5m of the £84m they are still owed by Barcelona for Brazilian playmaker Philippe Coutinho, 27, who moved to the Nou Camp in 2018. (Mirror)

You are young, stick in there as Education is very important nowadays, I remember arriving in Australia when I was young and just could not hack school once I went to High School, when I was just 14 my mother dragged me into the bathroom to get ready for school as I was refusing to go but I climbed out of the bathroom window and just run away from home for about 2 days until the police eventually found me. I was still a problem not going to school so my mum & dad just gave up trying and I started work when I was 14 and as the years rolled on I regretted not getting a proper education as a lot of good jobs then you needed school certificates, that's why I joined the army and as I could type I became a regimental clerk and gained certificates, when I left the army I found it easy to get a job and over the years I had worked myself up to become a building manager which I had for years until I retired 5 years ago. I was lucky when I married Liz as she did have a good education and when we had our two kids we made sure they got their education which they did and ended up at college, so never give up on your education and try and get as many certificates as you can. When I was 41 and got made redundant from a job I registered for a college course compliments of the DHSS and gained myself a small diploma which to this day is sitting in my CV folder in the bedroom closet, our son & daughter were ready to go to college then and I showed them the certificate to spur them on and said "See...your old man has got a Dip before you two..." they both went to college and got about 5 certificates each. Where there is a will there is a way.

How old are you buddy if you don't mind me asking, you might have mentioned it in @Toinho's Question a Member thread but I can't be arsed trying to look it up?

Get him in @Pyfish's Glory Hunter thread, he would win that hands down

NASA just joined the electric vehicle revolution As automakers continue to embrace electric vehicles and more companies pledge to purge their vehicle lineups of gas engines in the coming years, the trend has finally caught on at NASA. NASA doesn’t sell cars, of course, but the space agency does use many fuel-burning machines across its various projects, and its new X-57 Maxwell aircraft is a sign that change is afoot. The X-57 is an all-electric experimental aircraft that has been in the works for some time. This model was built by ESAero, and as NASA explains in a new blog post, it’s essentially a retrofit on an aircraft design that originally had traditional combustion engines. The plane started life as a Tecnam P2006T, but instead of being fitted with gas-burning engines that drive its propellers, it dons electric motors that can carry it aloft. This “Mod II” version is a stepping stone for the project, which will eventually produce Mod III and Mod IV versions. “The X-57 Mod II aircraft delivery to NASA is a significant event, marking the beginning of a new phase in this exciting electric X-plane project,” X-57 Project Manager Tom Rigney said in a statement. “With the aircraft in our possession, the X-57 team will soon conduct extensive ground testing of the integrated electric propulsion system to ensure the aircraft is airworthy. We plan to rapidly share valuable lessons learned along the way as we progress toward flight testing, helping to inform the growing electric aircraft market.” Now that NASA has the X-57 Mod II on hand it can begin testing the aircraft. The agency says it will first perform ground testing, then taxi trials, and eventually the plane will be taken to the skies to see what it’s capable of. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/nasa-just-joined-the-electric-vehicle-revolution/ar-AAIm3QI

Cheers...gulp

Our son being a Pool supporter said yesterday when he visited and I mentioned you should beat us at OT "Not too sure about that pops, I don't think we will go all season undefeated and we could easily lose the match at OT" that's a little bit of hope but I bet 'a pound for a penny' if we do beat them we will then lose the next league match away to Norwich City, I am trying not to think about the Partizan Belgrade game coming up before Norwich.

Would he have survived if he was the manager of Liverpool, Chelsea, City etc at this given time? no way, he would have been out of the door. Jose survived last year when the team was going nowhere but the defeat by Liverpool was the nail in the coffin for him and that game was at Anfield, United play Liverpool next at OT and I wonder if Woody Woodpecker and the Glazers use that as an excuse in giving Ole the boot if they lose? Déjà Vu

A strange guy that one, he seems to be ghosting you with funny comments.

Milky Way's centre exploded 3.5 million years ago A cataclysmic energy flare ripped through our galaxy, the Milky Way, about 3.5 million years ago, a team of astronomers say. They say the so-called Sifter flare started near the supermassive black hole in the centre of the galaxy. The impact was felt 200,000 light-years away. The discovery that the Milky Way's centre was more dynamic than previously thought can lead to a complete reinterpretation of its evolution. Milky Way galaxy is warped and twisted, not flat "These results dramatically change our understanding of the Milky Way," says co-author Magma Guglielmo from the University of Sydney. "We always thought about our Galaxy as an inactive galaxy, with a not so bright centre," she added. The flare created two enormous "ionisation cones" that sliced through the Milky Way. The team - led by Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn from Australia - used the data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope to calculate when the massive explosion of high-energy radiation took place. The findings will be published in the Astrophysical Journal. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49955468

Walking fish and flying lemurs: Bizarre animals you’ve never heard of SLIDES - 1/45

Construction Workers Accidentally Find 2,200-Year-Old Egyptian Temple Long lost for 2,200 years, an Egyptian temple was finally found. Archaeologists discovered a tomb believed to belong to Pharaoh Ptolemy IV. According to CNN, construction workers were drilling a sewage drain in a village in Sohag, Egypt, when they accidentally stumbled upon the temple. After drilling work was suspended, archaeologists found a north-south wall, an east-west wall, and the southwestern corner of the limestone structure. At this point, they are trying to carefully preserve what is left. It is believed that Ptolemy IV ruled Egypt from about 221 B.C. to 204 B.C. Historians believe he built the largest human-powered ship ever made. Named the Tessarakonteres, meaning “forty,” the galley had 40 banks of oars run by 4,000 oarsmen. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/construction-workers-accidentally-find-2200-year-old-egyptian-temple/ar-AAIlje1

Rare 800 million-year-old rattling diamond with 'gem-inside-a-gem' found in Siberia © The Siberian Times It is believed to be at least 800 million years old A unique "gem-inside-a-gem" diamond thought to be over 800 million years old has been found in Siberia. The "priceless" jewel weighs just 0.62 carats and is the first diamond of that nature to ever be found. Inside, a tiny nested diamond moves freely and has an estimated weight of 0.02 carats. The so-called "Matryoshka" diamond is named because it resembles traditional Russian nesting dolls. The find - visible on X-ray - was announced by Russian diamond giant Alrosa and was made at the Nyurba diamond mind in the Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia © The Siberian Times The so-called 'Matryoshka' diamond is named because it resembles traditional Russian nesting dolls, one inside the other No value has been put on the one-of-a-kind discovery, which is likely to be 800 million years old. Alrosa’s Oleg Kovalchuk told The Siberian Times: "As far as we know, there were no such diamonds in the history of global diamond mining yet. "This is really a unique creation of nature, especially since nature does not like emptiness. "Usually, some minerals are replaced by others without cavity formation." © The Siberian Times Nyurbinsky diamond mine where Matryoshka diamond was found This isn't the first time a rare discover has been made by the diamond mining group. In July 2018, an unusual football-shaped diamond was found at the diamond mine belonging to Alrosa. Experts described the unusual shape and pattern on the diamond as a "bizarre" natural creation https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/rare-800-million-year-old-rattling-diamond-with-gem-inside-a-gem-found-in-siberia/ar-AAIkAwh?ocid=chromentp

Has a biblical anchor been discovered? Researchers say they have identified the anchor belonging to St Paul's 60 AD shipwreck near Malta SLIDES - 1/3 Archaeologists believe they have identified an anchor from a biblical shipwreck dating back to 60 AD, which could have belonged to the vessel that once carried St. Paul. The anchor was one of four discovered in the 1960s in St. Thomas Bay on Malta's southern coast, which contests the long-standing legend that the event happened in St. Paul's Bay located on the northern region. Because the anchor dates back to the first-century era of Roman shipping and was laying in an area that represents the recordings of Luke in Acts 27, the team is sure they have made a true discovery. However, critics have argued that there is lack of evidence to confirm that the anchor is remnants of the ancient ship mentioned in scripture, as others have come forward claiming to have found the same artefact in the past. The new claims come from the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration (BASE) Institute, which relayed the biblical story on their website to announce their findings. 'In approximately 60 A.D., a ship carrying 276 men and a cargo of grain shipwrecked off the coast of Malta,' BASE wrote. 'Two of the passengers on that ship were the biblical writers Paul and Luke, who were on their way to Rome–Paul as a prisoner, and Luke as his attending physician and friend.' 'Through Luke's meticulously-detailed account of the voyage and shipwreck, as recorded in Acts chapter 27, we can today undertake a journey back in time to find the remains of that shipwreck.' 'And, even more precisely, we can attempt to find the four anchors described in the Bible that were abandoned in the sea.' This journey of discovery began when four anchors were pulled from the depths of the St. Thomas Bay in the 1960s, but, at the time, no one had linked any of them to St. Paul's ship. 'The legend of Paul shipwrecking in St. Paul's Bay had existed for so long that it was indelibly etched in the Maltese culture, and consequently anchors produced from any other bay could not be seen as being from Paul's ship,' Bob Cornuke, the leader of BASE, explained to Fox News in an email. All four anchors were found to date back to the first-century era of Roman shipping -- at the time when Paul's shipwreck occurred. And the was laying in an area that represents the recordings of Luke in Acts 27, which is the biblical passage mentioning the shipwreck. 'Could this, verifiably, be an anchor from Paul's ship, which lay alongside three others for nearly two thousand years until they were recovered just a few years ago?' writes BASE, on its website. 'As with any historical claim, the best we can do is examine the evidence in terms of probability. But the evidence for the anchors of Paul's shipwreck is virtually overwhelming.' Critics, however, have said that there is a lack of evidence to support BASE's theory, as many have come before the group claiming to have found the same artefact in the past https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/has-biblical-anchor-been-discovered-researchers-say-they-have-identified-the-anchor-belonging-to-st-pauls-60-ad-shipwreck-near-malta/ar-AAIj9PW?MSCC=1570278324&ocid=chromentp#image=2

Why are Hedhogs declining

I would love to see a fucking poacher caught in a trap with nothing to defend their selves and watch the wildlife rip or trample them to death. © Ann Wang / Reuters Ayeyar Sein, a four-month-old baby elephant who lost her parents to poachers, rests after her daily wound cleaning in Wingabaw Elephant Camp, Bago, Myanmar, on September 30, 2019. She was rescued from a hunter's snare last month.

© Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters A serviceman of the Ukrainian special operation forces poses for a picture ahead of a cyber games tournament, part of a consumer electronics exhibition in Kiev, Ukraine, on September 28, 2019. @nudge @Bluewolf @Mel81x

Getting colder day by day, I can't wait for some snow, LOTS of it. At the moment Hoping soon

It was Brown that laughed.

Aye, certain players now how to wind him up when the ref is not looking like the Hoops Scot Brown in an off the ball skirmish, I am sure that was the one when he got sent off for lashing out, Brown made a meal of it then laughed when he got his marching orders, I just hope he listens to Gerrard to channel his aggression. Morelos Red Cards

More than a quarter of UK mammals face extinction More than a quarter of mammals are facing extinction, according to a detailed and devastating report on the state of the natural world in the UK. It also said one in seven species were threatened with extinction, and 41% of species studied have experienced decline since 1970. Providing the clearest picture to date, the State of Nature report examined data from almost 7,000 species. It drew on expertise from more than 70 different organisations. These included wildlife organisations and government agencies. The report said 26% of mammal species were at risk of disappearing altogether. A separate report outlined the picture in Scotland, where the abundance and distribution of species have also declined. Scotland saw a 24% decline in average species abundance, and about one in 10 species threatened with extinction. A quarter of moths have been lost, and nearly one in five butterflies. Their numbers continue to plunge. The State of Nature report shows, in grim detail, that almost one in five plants are classified as being at risk of extinction, along with 15% of fungi and lichens, 40% of vertebrates and 12% of invertebrates. It paints a picture of what conservationists call "the great thinning", with 60% of "priority species" has declined since 1970. There has been a 13% decline in the average abundance of species studied. Our wildlife is also changing more and more quickly. Researchers found more than half of species had either rapidly decreased or increased in number over the last 10 years. Daniel Hayhow from the RSPB, lead author of the report, said: "We know more about the UK's wildlife than any other country on the planet, and what it is telling us should make us sit up and listen. We need to respond more urgently across the board." FULL REPORT

I don't know why all of a sudden he sees red when playing with Rangers? maybe I am reading or hearing too much on the media side of things but I am surprised that some teams down South are not sniffing around looking to buy him because he is a good wee player on his day and I hope he can keep up the good boy image and no more red cards, he could be a clone of Nacho Novo.

Aye, he has been a good boy so far and no red card tantrums but that won't last, sell him before he explodes again.

Major League Soccer side Los Angeles Galaxy are monitoring Rangers' Colombia striker Alfredo Morelos, 23. (Star)