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Second fight with Manny Pacquiao as Floyd Mayweather announces on Instagram

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao are finally ready for their rematch. (Reuters)

It’s been three years since Floyd Mayweather Jr. handily defeated Manny Pacquiao in one of the most hyped bouts this century.

Now, the 41-year-old undefeated boxer is ready to give Pacquiao another shot at taking him down. At least according to his Instagram, that is.

Mayweather-Pacquiao II is on

In an early morning video posted on social media, Mayweather (50-0, 27 KOs) announced he’s coming out of retirement for another fight with his one-time rival.

The video shows both Mayweather and Pacquiao, 39, discussing a rematch with Mayweather telling his opponent he doesn’t want to hear anything about a hurt shoulder this time — a reference to Pacquiao’s team announcing after the fight that he had suffered an injury during training.

That fight was shown in pay-per-view and totaled more than 4.6 million buys, breaking viewership records in the United States.

Mayweather’s big payday

Back in 2015, Mayweather’s contract guaranteed him a purse of $100 million for the fight, though he ended up earning more than double that after defeating Pacquiao by unanimous decision.

He can likely expect to earn an even higher amount this time around. During his last fight against Conor McGregor, Mayweather took home another guaranteed $100 million just for showing up. That number reportedly rose to over $300 million after his technical knockout of McGregor in the 10th round.

By contrast, Pacquiao (60-7-2) went home with $160 million after his first fight against Mayweather. Those numbers can surely expect to go up for the rematch.

The Filipino boxer last fought Lucas Matthysse in July, earning his first knockout victory since 2009.

source: https://ph.news.yahoo.com/floyd-mayweather-announces-second-fight-manny-pacquiao-instagram-131948309.html

“You will Have Five Times More Than Soldiers”, Duterte On Teachers’ Salary

After a significant increase on the salary of military and police personnel, President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his promise to increase the salary of public school teachers next.

During a speech before public school teachers and Principals in Davao City on May 4, Duterte was heard saying, “I will raise your salary next,” to which the crowd loudly cheered on.

However, the President said doubling their salary may still not be possible at this time.

“But it would not be doubled. We can’t afford. I’m not blaming anybody, but simply there are too many Filipinos. We lack resources,” he said.

In a Cabinet meeting in Malacañang last January, Duterte had earlier said he wanted to increase teachers’ salaries.
He later affirmed it on the said speech even saying that he wanted to increase it by up to seven-fold.

“Remember, your pay will improve, honest, wait for it, but it will be incremental. It cannot be done at once, you are too many. You will have five times more or seven times more than soldiers,” he said.

Earlier this year, the President specifically instructed the Department of Budget Management and all other agencies to find means to increase the salary of teachers after the second reform package has taken place.

At that time, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque did not disclose how much increase the President wanted for the teachers.

“He did not say how much but he says that they will have to be tangible results of any implementation of the second tax reform package and he said that that should be the increase in teachers,” he said, “But judging by what he wanted for the PNP and the AFP, it could be that he is also aiming to double the entry salary for teachers.”

Source: Inquirer – Duterte to public school teachers: I will raise your salary next
Inquirer – Duterte wants wage increase for teachers, Roque says

A challenging place of courage

How does this toad live ... without a head?

Credits: Jill Fleming / Twitter

An adult toad found in a Connecticut forest recently shocked researchers when they realized he was crawling without a face. Yes, just a toad without a head: No eyes, no nostrils, no jaw, no tongue. But how does he survive?

The photos and video of the amphibian, posted on the Twitter account of American herpetologist Jill Fleming, are surprising. On these images, published on February 27th, Jill Fleming reveals a toad - Anaxyrus americanus - without a head, and without any sign of an open wound. The amphibian seems perfectly healthy. On the video, we can see it evolve in nature as if nothing had happened. Discovered in a Connecticut forest in April 2016 by the scientist, he has "a small hole as a mouth", a remnant of his former oral cavity, reports the site Mashable .

But how did the animal become like that and survive? For Jill Flemming, it is possible that the malformation of this specimen is due to its misting, the name given to the period of hibernation of reptiles. The toad's head may have been devoured by larvae of flesh-eating flies, called Lucilia bufonivora . The injury could also have been inflicted by one of the many natural predators of the toad during the mating, such as American snakes or mink. For some reason, the predator would not have finished the job and the toad could become active again in early spring - the amphibians are incredibly resilient.

If the toad was wounded just before or during the brum, the traumatic injury would have had plenty of time to heal. If the toad had been active at that time, the story could have been very different. The cases of headless animals surviving for a certain time are certainly rare, but exist. The proof :

Jill Fleming@salamander_jill

28 Feb

Still puzzled by this find from 2016! An apparently “faceless” toad. Kept hopping into things. Had a small mouth hole- maybe esphogus/glottis (no maxilla or mandible, I think)? It was early spring so I think it must have come out of brumation like this. Any thoughts herp Twitter? pic.twitter.com/bFSLlakhs1

Jill Fleming@salamander_jill

Found the video. pic.twitter.com/cZJhDWEzOm

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WHO warns against unknown Disease X

The World Health Organisation has revealed in a statement, a mysterious "Disease X", capable of causing a global pandemic in the future. The organisation released a list of diseases it considers posing a high risk to the public due to their potential to spark an epidemic and the limited treatment available to combat them. This came from an expert committee set up by the organisation, to identify pathogens with the ability to spread and kill many people without any available remedies.

Viruses such as Ebola, Zika, Lassa fever and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which have raged in recent years, are included as serious threats. However, WHO has included Disease X in its priority list for the first time this year after a review by health experts in February. Disease X is not a newly discovered threat, but an imaginary virus, which could emerge in the future and cause widespread infection across the globe. "Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease," WHO said in a statement. It added that healthcare officials were planning for a currently unidentified threat now to ensure research and development preparedness. "History tells us that it is likely the next big outbreak will be something we have not seen before", John-Arne Rottingen, chief executive of the Research Council of Norway and a scientific adviser to the WHO committee, told The Telegraph of the UK "It may seem strange to be adding an ‘X’ but the point is to make sure we prepare and plan flexibly in terms of vaccines and diagnostic tests. "We want to see ‘plug and play’ platforms developed, which will work for any, or a wide number of diseases; systems that will allow us to create countermeasures at speed."

Rottingen said Disease X could come from a variety of sources, although it was most likely developed through zoonotic transmission, where an infectious disease, which usually afflicted animals, jumped to humans. Ebola and salmonella infection are both zoonosis, as well as HIV, thought to have been transferred to humans from chimpanzees and monkeys in the early 20th Century.

'Game of Thrones' won't return for its final season until 2019 as HBO officially confirms

HBO has confirmed that "Game of Thrones" will return in 2019.
The eighth and final season will only be six episodes in total.
The exact time of year it will air is still unknown.

It's official — "Game of Thrones" fans will have to wait until 2019 for the eighth and final season of HBO's hit series. In a press release sent out Thursday afternoon, HBO confirmed the longstanding reports that "Game of Thrones" will not be returning to television this year.

Previously, HBO programming president Casey Bloys had indicated that 2019 was a likely possibility. "Game of Thrones" star Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) also said the series would air in 2019.

Here's the full press release from HBO:

Your readers may be interested to know that the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones" will return for its six-episode, eighth and final season in 2019.

Directors for the new season are: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, David Nutter and Miguel Sapochnik. Writers for the new season are: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman and Dave Hill.

Season seven credits: The executive producers of "Game of Thrones" are David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger and Bernadette Caulfield; co-executive producers, Bryan Cogman, Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis and George R.R. Martin.

The final season of "Game of Thrones" will be six episodes in total, though fans should be thrilled to know each episode might be more than an hour in length. "Game of Thrones" sound designer Paula Fairfield broke this important news at the first annual Con of Thrones.

According to Fairfield, the final season could consist of six feature film-length episodes.

Though we don't know details of the episode order or length, an individual with knowledge of the situation tells INSIDER that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss themselves will likely direct the final episode of the series.

Benioff and Weiss have already co-directed two "Game of Thrones" episodes: The season four premiere ("Two Swords") and the third episode of season three ("Walk of Punishment").

Miguel Sapochnik will also return to direct two of the final "Game of Thrones" episodes. Sapochnik is the notable director of the series' most acclaimed episodes: "Hardhome," "Battle of the Bastards," and season six finale "The Winds of Winter."

Sapochnik was unable to return for season seven due to scheduling conflicts, so fans should be thrilled to see he's back for the final installment of the series.

The third and final director for "Game of Thrones" season eight is David Nutter, who helmed season three's devastating Red Wedding chapter, "The Rains of Castamere," and the award-winning finale of season five, "Mother's Mercy."

We'll have to wait out the year for the final installment of HBO's biggest hit series of all time. For those of you impatient to learn the fates of your favorite characters, read our list of 21 key predictions we have for season eight in the meantime.

Read the original article on INSIDER.

Amazing 10 Pictures Of Things Seen Really Close Up

Do you remember in grade six how they probably made you cut up onion skins and stuff and made you look at them under a microscope? That was really cool, right? I miss those good old days of school.

I always wished we could have looked at more things like that, maybe spent the entire grade six science program learning about what things look like up close. Of course, I was just a child though, so when I expressed my strong feelings about this, nobody listened.

But it turns out there are people who do that for their jobs or have the means to do it for fun, and they are kind enough to share their findings with the world.

1. Chalk.
Sidewalk chalk and blackboard chalk used to be made from soft limestone!