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the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) The original Trafficking Victims Protection Act was signed into law in 2000 to address human trafficking concerns. It was subsequently reauthorized during both the Bush and Obama Administrations in 2003, 2005, 2008, and 2013. The TVPRA of 2008, signed by President Bush, responded to concerns that unaccompanied children apprehended by the Border Patrol "were not being adequately screened" for eligibility for protection or relief in the United States. The TVPRA also directed the development of procedures to ensure that if unaccompanied children are deported, they are safely repatriated. At the outset, unaccompanied children must be screened as potential victims of human trafficking. However, as described further below, procedural protections for children are different for children from contiguous countries (i.e., Mexico and Canada) and non-contiguous countries (all others). While children from non-contiguous countries are transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for trafficking screening, and placed into formal immigration court removal proceedings, Mexican and Canadian children are screened by CBP for trafficking and, if no signs of trafficking or fear of persecution are reported, may be summarily returned home pursuant to negotiated repatriation agreements. The TVPRA in 2008 also ensured that unaccompanied alien children are exempt from certain limitations on asylum (e.g., a one-year filing deadline). It also required HHS to ensure "to the greatest extent practicable" that unaccompanied children in HHS custody have counsel, as described further below—not only "to represent them in legal proceedings," but to "protect them from mistreatment, exploitation, and trafficking."
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Free seasonal flu shots offered in Frankfort
The Franklin County Health Department will hold a free, drive-through flu-shot clinic Thursday night in Frankfort.
Vaccinations will be available from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Commonwealth Credit Union branch office at 101 Sower Boulevard, Frankfort.
If you aren't in line by 7:30 p.m. you won't be able to get a vaccination, department officials said.
You don't have to be a Franklin County resident to get a shot, and there are no limits on who can get the vaccine for seasonal flu, other than the general rule that children younger than 6 months are not eligible.
Vaccine to combat H1N1, or swine flu, is expected to be available about mid-October. That vaccine will be given first to a priority group, including pregnant women, health care workers and those caring for children younger than 6 months old.
Health officials are recommending that most people receive both flu vaccines to be best protected during the winter flu season.
John Lile, the Franklin County Health Department's preparedness coordinator, said the department is offering free vaccinations to reach people who ordinarily might not get flu shots. The drive-through clinic also will be good practice for the department staff in case mass inoculations against H1N1 swine flu become necessary later this year, he said.
The Fayette County Health Department is not planning drive-through vaccinations for seasonal flu, department spokesman Kevin Hall said. However, the department might hold a drive-through clinic for H1N1 vaccine when it becomes available, he said.
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The PGA Tour of Australasia will discover new territories in 2016 as it heads up to Papua New Guinea for the first time. The South Pacific Export Radler PNG Open will become a fully-fledged PGA Tour of Australasia tournament after many years of being an effective pro-am event.
To be played at the Royal Port Moresby Golf Club, which efficaciously hosted the Pacific Games last year.
To be played at the Royal Port Moresby Golf Club, which fruitfully hosted the Pacific Games in 2015, Tour Professionals will be competing for a minimum of AU$140,000 and Official World Golf Ranking Points when they tee off from 21-24 April, 2016.
"The PGA Tour of Australasia continues to grow and offer Tour Professionals opportunities to compete in quality tournaments," said Brian Thorburn, CEO of the PGA of Australia which oversees the Tour.
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"The PNG Open has for many years been run successfully as a pro-am on the Choice Hotels PGA Pro-Am Series but its elevation to the Tour sees the prize money become official on the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit, the application of Official World Ranking Points and as such it is expected the tournament will receive a boost in the strength of field competing for the title."
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Alberta will lead Canada's economic recovery this year while Ontario will perform in the middle of the pack, the Conference Board of Canada predicts in its spring provincial outlook for 2014.
Overall, Canada's economic momentum is expected to pick up during the summer and fall and continue to improve in 2015, the board said in a report released Tuesday.
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Alberta will lead the charge as investment in oilsands starts to level off and oil exports accelerate, the Ottawa-based think tank said. The province's economy is forecast to rise 3.5 per cent this year and a further 3.1 per cent next year.
Ontario, with its large government deficit and sluggish business investment, will continue to face challenges and will grow just 1.8 per cent this year but rise to 2.7 per cent next year, the report said.
Higher provincial spending on roads and other public projects should help boost growth, the report said, citing plans laid out in the province's May 1 budget. The Ontario government planned to spend $13 billion a year for the next 10 years, which should help create jobs and improve transportation networks, the report said.
That budget didn't pass, but newly re-elected Premier Kathleen Wynne has promised to reintroduce it now that her government has a majority mandate.
Ontario should also benefit from a strengthening U.S. economy, along with a lower Canadian dollar relative to the U.S. currency, the board predicted.
Across Canada, economic growth is expected to pick up in 2015, with real gross domestic product rising 2.6 per cent.
The Bank of Canada is unlikely to raise its trend-setting interest rate until late next year, the board also said.
The rate, which has been at 1 per cent since September 2010, is far below the 4.75 per cent level seen in 2007, before the Great Recession hit.
The Canadian dollar will remain relatively stable at around 91 cents U.S., assuming ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine do not worsen, the board also predicted.
All provinces are facing the challenges of aging populations, the report said, citing the rising demands on health care. While the federal government is on track to balance its books next year, provincial debt-financing costs have steadily increased to nearly $33 billion a year.
Among the provinces, Atlantic Canada is starting to recover after several years of dismal performance, while Newfoundland and Labrador's economic expansion is cooling.
Saskatchewan, which has been a growth leader in recent years, will make little progress this year in the face of weak potash prices and the aftermath of a strong 2013 crop, the board said.
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Simone Gbagbo, the wife of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, was sentenced today in Abidjan to 20 years in prison for assisting her husband.
What was Laurent Gbagbo`s crime?
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42% of people in Cote D`Ivoire live below the poverty line in a country hailed as the `Ivorian miracle'. The administration of Africa`s longest serving leader, Felix Houphouet –Boigny, has been a miracle for the Jacques Foccart business network, Vincent Bollore and France. This administration has helped to rob Africa of some of its greatest leaders and heroes including Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and Ahmed Sekou Toure of Guinea. His administration assisted in the attempted coup in 1977, led by French mercenary Bob Denard against Mathieu Kerekou of Dahomey. Houphouet-Boigny fully supported the United Nations led operation in 1960 called the Congo Crisis, which resulted in the death of Patrice Lumumba and the presidency of Moise Tshombe in Katanga. He assisted in the secession of Biafra, Nigeria and after forging economic ties with apartheid South Africa, attempted to sway all other members of the OAU into doing the same. His role within the early years of the OAU was one of the primary destructive agents against African unity and the length of his regime did little for his country and everything for France. This administration has halted progress and development in West Africa, while under Houphouet `s moderate` leadership, incestuously close ties with the de Gaulle and Pompidou governments, ardent anti-communist and ardent pro colonialist foreign policy have miraculously perpetuated the status quo of African development for Africans. The `Sage of Africa` as Houphouet-Boigny was known affectionately by his western friends, also supported UNITA in Angola. For all these efforts UNESCO created in his honour the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize awarded for the "safekeeping, maintaining and seeking of peace". By the time he died he was worth between $7 and $11billion.
With such an unchallenged Francophile record, it is no wonder the UN became so involved in the events after the eventual death in 1993 of this "openly unpatriotic son of Africa." Operation restore status quo of Francophile policy, under the banner of UNOCI (United Nations Operation in Cote D`Ivoire).In 2000 Laurent Gbagbo is elected by popular demand. Laurent Gbagbo blocked with reinforced concrete the underground tunnel which had long since connected the presidential headquarters to the French embassy. His intention was to do the same with Cote d`Ivoire`s politics.
President Laurent GbagboAlassane Ouattara
Within 2 years a previously unheard of, mysterious and extremely well equipped rebel force begins a gunpoint coercion in the north of the country which leads to the outbreak of civil war. Thousands of deaths, mayhem and extreme violence until Gbagbo brokers peace talks which lead to the 2010 elections. As incumbent president, Laurent Gbagbo is the popular candidate but his opposition is Alassane Ouattara, former prime minister appointed by Houphouet-Boigny in 1989 and representative of the rebel movement. Bizarrely Alassane Ouattara is declared the winner according to the electoral commission controlled by the UN. These results are also treacherously recognized by the African Union and ECOWAS, giving transparency to the inclinations of these organizations of African disunity. Gbagbo denounces the results and accuses conspirators of electoral fraud and an international (French) plot to overthrow his government. Civil war and déjà vu of bodies fill the streets, thousands die. French president Nikolas Sarkozy denounces Gbagbo as a regime, accuses him of orchestrating the civil war and says his opposition to the election of Ouattara is a scandal.
"It was horrible, terrifying, inhuman. Pretending that they are providing aid to Cote d`Ivoire, they use this as an excuse to overthrow its president. They could have done things differently to solve this problem. Diplomatically for instance. Simple negotiations could have been enough to resolve this issue. Why have they chosen to use so much violence.it is unacceptable. It`s our responsibility, as Ivoirians to solve certain domestic problems, like those related to internal politics. And we can solve them alone. It's unacceptable that foreigners decide to solve our problems in our stead." Source: resident of Abidjan on Documentary `France in the Dark` by Silvestro Montanaro, YouTube, `This is documentary is in English under the heading -How France Maintains 14 African Countries Under Slavery`, uploaded by arok bigo.
The UN upon France`s request mandates France to restore law and order. Eyewitnesses to the UNOCI operation observe UN helicopters bombing the presidential quarters. They clearly remember UNOCI on the helicopters. They also bomb the national television HQ, military camps that house soldiers and their families, university campus and even grocery stores, (whilst running a very similar operation in Libya). With the assistance of UN troops the rebel army in the north marches on and takes Abidjan at a bloody cost. Later the French government denies bombing the home of Laurent Gbagbo, who along with family members is arrested. "We only destroyed dangerous military bases which threatened the population and which together surrounded the presidential palace. We had to do it." Sarkozy and installed French-proxy- president Ouattara shake hands, turns out they know each other well. Cote D`Ivoire maintains all is well in the country and order is restored. Laurent Gbagbo is now like Charles Taylor awaiting trial in the Hague for crimes against humanity. A handful of African leaders spoke out that the trial of Gbagbo was not in the name of justice , Thabo Mbeki of South Africa was one and stated that :"What was really despicable was France`s involvement in the conflict." He also commented that the 2010 election should not have been held , an opinion shared by the former government as conditions in the rebel held north were far too unstable(intimidating). "If you vote for Gbagbo, we will come and kill you", this comment was made by a voter living in one of the northern regions, this is what the rebels told people before the election. These people already had good reason to believe them. Voting for Ouattara was done under extreme duress and intimidation. There is ample proof of this, displaced people, murders, burnings, destroyed villages and the testimonies of thousands. Representatives of Gbagbo`s government were murdered in droves. Those who do not flee to Mali or the capital endure rape, violence or death.
Not to be defeated, the Ivorian supporters of democracy and Gbagbo, carry out their own scrutiny of the election results. Cote d`Ivoire`s Constitutional Court acting on their findings of grossly fraudulent figures (thousands of people unaccounted for) declare Gbagbo the actual winner of the 2010 election. The homes of lawyers, journalists and Gbagbo`s supporters are ransacked if not destroyed. Meanwhile this decision taken by the country`s Constitutional court is declared invalid by Ouattara, the UN and France. Those loyal to democracy, truth and Gbagbo with the bravery that is required to speak out, men who served in Gbagbo`s government are maintaining the following: That the last 10 years of civil war and bloodshed in Cote D`Ivoire is the work of France, violence and unrest orchestrated to result in the ousting of Cote D`Ivoire`s anti-imperialist president. That the rebel forces and the French `are two face of the same coin`. They maintain that French intelligence created a false flag situation in which nine French soldiers were killed in a bombing raid on a French military base, an event blamed on Gbagdo`s government forces. What France did in retaliation of these nine deaths was to completely wipe out the governments air force, completely destroyed it. France has always declared this a ridiculous conspiracy, however the French lawyer who represented the families of the four French soldiers also arrived at the conclusion of French Intelligence being the source of command to carry out that particular raid.(Raids were being carried out by government forces in the north to destroy rebel bases.)
With Gbagbo captive and `missing` and Ouattara in power, French troops are stationed in Abidjan as peace keepers. The people want their president back, the man they love, Ivoirians continue to protest in vast numbers, agitated but non-violent until in march 2011 when French soldiers open fire on an unarmed mass gathering. Hundreds of people are injured, nine are killed. Foreign troops firing on the soil of Cote D`Ivoire, firing on Ivoirians, unarmed protestors. And the UN, AU, ECOMOG stand by and remain mute…………..
So exactly who are the rebels?
When Silvestro Montanaro in his documentary, France in the Dark`, asked this question of people, their reply was "The truth kills here. We tell you the truth, you go and tomorrow someone kills us". This is the climate now of Cote D`Ivoire. The truth, this film maker did obtain, however. When government forces reclaimed rebel held territories in the north in 2002, munitions boxes were found labelled: France Ministry of Defence for the French Embassy in Burkina Faso. In payment Burkinabe soldiers have taken Ivorian land, plantations and new government forces have `removed` the previous inhabitants as Gbagbo supporters and traitors. One villager alone can account for 130 deaths in his village. The rebel forces` atrocities are slowly coming to light as Ivoirians are piecing together the events of the last few years. Video footage and testimonies reveal the depths to which Ivoirians were subjected, massacres of chained people, women, children and the old, burned alive. These atrocities took place in regions under the supervision of UN forces, as was the case in Rwanda, all the UN troops did was to collect the dead, sprinkle them in lime and bury their numbers with bulldozers. As in Rwanda, the UN camps will to be found stationed just a few hundred meters from the multiple mass graves which is also the location of the massacring.
Countless people will testify to the fact that white faces were in the rebel ranks, will testify to the fact that the UN helicopters along with French troops were targeting government strongholds. Positive sentiment for `the blue helmets` does not run high in Cote D`Ivoire. In the former rebel held regions where people feel free to talk, it is of general consensus that French forces and `blue helmets` were engaged in ground and air combat and that were it not for the support of those forces, the Burkinabe rebels would not have made progress. France and UN provided the logistics for the rebel operation. Ivoirians KNOW this. After the rebels took control of a major city in the north, Duekoue, raped, burnt and murdered, worse was still to come in an ethnic cleanse of Gbagbo stronghold (those who had been brave enough to vote for Gbagbo in the election), the Guere tribe. Survivors report this genocide lasting one week in Duekoue but continuing for many weeks in the villages. Again as in Rwanda, ID cards disclose ethnicity. Village after village after village after village have testimonies of the murders of Guere people. All men were targeted, all male children, aged anywhere between fifteen and three months old were shot in front of their wives and mothers who in turn were humiliated with rape. Women and female children were not killed in numbers as great, but were still included. Testimonies to these killings, all share another story, again mirrored in Rwanda. "Did the UNOCI not come to the aid of the civilians, were they not aware of what was going on, did they not attempt to protect you?"…."No, no! When they (the rebels) were entering our homes and were killing us, the helicopters were circling above, they saw everything, but did nothing. No they did nothing and they were the only ones to whom we could ask for help." A woman from Duekoue explains how as she and other woman were being beaten and raped right in front of a "blue helmets camp", a blue helmet soldier came out and told the rebels "not here, not right in front of the camp, wherever you want, but not here." Over 1000 people are in mass graves in Duekoue. These graves contain the decapitated bodies of fathers, mothers, children and even babies. Each body has a living witness to remember the decapitation of her children, fathers, husbands and sisters. While being interviewed one mother, thin and harrowed recounts her witness to the death of her children. She tells the interviewer with tears streaming and the crowd around her with faces drawn in distress, that her children were so beautiful. She says their names one by one.
Gbagbo`s sealing off of the French access to the riches of Cote D`Ivoire had included the refusal to privatise the refinery and to put the country`s off shore oil reserve of an estimated 20 billion barrels out to tender on the world market and not into the hands of TOTAL.
Gbagbo had decided to move on from Houphouet-Boigny`s Francophile policy, he had made an attempt at dissolving the agreements reached, contracts signed in 1960 whereby the colony of France was granted independence on condition that France enjoys privileged economic rights and is consulted on all matters economic, decides to who Cote D`Ivoire can sell its products and produce. Cote d`Ivoire is the world`s third largest producer of coffee and the top global producer of cocoa. In 1998 under World Bank Structural Adjustment policies this cocoa market had to be `liberalized`, i.e. cocoa marketing board removed, small scale farmers removed, foreign private (MNC) interest catered for. Gbagbo reverted this blatant robbery but the situation has since reversed back in favour of the WB and MNC`s and of course Cote D`Ivoire no longer has control over the cocoa sector, mainstay of its economy. Labour rates of cocoa growers have plummeted, strangely enough the price of chocolate in Europe has rocketed. A cocoa grower will be paid 1 euro per kilo of cocoa beans, today in 2013, while a 200g bar of chocolate will sell in Europe for anything upwards of 2.5 euros. The cocoa growers have never eaten chocolate it is beyond their means. All chocolate in the world`s top producer of cocoas country remains imported, Gbagbo`s plans for a chocolate factory have been put on hold. It is not just the cocoa sector that is no longer owned by Cote D`Ivoire, every single sector is run by French companies, banks, food, distribution, transport, ports etc. France even prints the currency and a Frenchman is permanently in position as director of the central bank, which is French.
The documentary from which this information has been taken is LA FRANCIA IN NERO by SILVESTRO MONTANARO.
This EXACT same operation has been mirrored in Sierra Leone and Liberia and Mali. It is being repeated to this day, on this day in the Central African Republic.


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It's been a sad week here at TechHub, a week when we had to watch one of our resident members give up his dreams, and call it a day for his startup, Shnergle. The product wasn�t getting the traction it needed, and upon a lot of analysis the guys behind it assessed that it wasn�t likely to do so without unacceptably high levels of investment.
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Juan Goytisolo, Novela, música y poesía
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Las notas que a lo largo del tiempo ha ido escribiendo Juan Goytisolo han servido para alimentar una obra en la que ha manifestado interés por las más distintas formas de expresión y por el pensamiento (the notes written throughout the time by Juan Goytisolo served to feed an opera that expressed interest for the most varied forms of expression and thought).
An amazing essay by Juan Goytisolo about the relationship between novel, music, and poetry. Witnesses are called in the stand, to give testimony with their work, among others Faulkner (cadence and use of similes), Broch (the concept of novel as a vast poem, his Death of Virgil), Lowry (Under the Volcano, with its dark clouds like swans), Cervantes (if, with rare exceptions, the pre-Cervantes story was like a musical instrument of a single rope, our first writer invented another kind of telling the story, in which various instruments combine harmoniously: the symphonic variations of those that would be imposed much later, in the narrative of the 19th century), Joyce (Ulysses marking a turning point that stamps the expiration date at the repetition of narrative forms of Balzac and Galdós), Valéry (defining the poetry as an oscillation between feeling and sound), Baudelaire (poetry as a range of distinct registers, excluding any rhetoric and didactic), Kundera (shrinking the vocabulary and deepening the syntactic relationship within it), and not only them, also Eliot and San Juan de la Cruz, and Góngora, and others too, and all this within a column in La Cuarta Página del País, shrinking and deepening on the traces of Kundera:
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All these subjects are slightly different yet all are related. You will find that future posts will be heavily influenced by these topics. I'd like to touch upon all of them so that you can get a bit of background before I get to work on improving myself.
Weight is an issue that I have struggled with my entire life. When I was in sixth grade, at age 12, I first realized that I was overweight. This is when I began my first diet. From then on, my body continued to change, getting smaller, then bigger, over and over, like a sort of cycle. I don't recall ever reaching the point of obesity until about 5 years ago. I've continued to gain weight since then.
Currently, I am the largest I've ever been, with a body mass index (BMI) of 37.6. This puts me in the obesity category. I cannot fathom how I did this to myself. I can't remember when exactly I lost control and allowed myself to become this massive version of me. I have destroyed my body and I fear that some consequences of my overeating will leave an imprint on my body after I lose the weight.
Naturally, body image is closely linked to weight. I have always detested my appearance, even when I was smaller. I have never been thin enough. Now, I look back at those old photos of me and I wish that I could be that size again, but at the time, I remember feeling like I was too fat. There is always something wrong with my exterior. Especially now.
There is this term that I have encountered recently: "BBW" or "big, beautiful woman". I find it hard to believe that anyone can be labeled as "big" and "beautiful" simultaneously. If you ask me, fat is not attractive. Fat is a condition, an illness, a curse. I am not big and beautiful, I am big and disgusting, an eyesore.
Will I lose weight and think of myself as beautiful? Most likely, no. There is a seemingly endless discussion about the media and its influence on women and I will never be as flawless as the girls on the screen or in the magazines. And what about when those girls gain weight, say 5 pounds? The reporters and writers are vicious with their criticism, splashing the "news" all over our television screens and tabloid mags. What is the biggest toll that all this weight drama takes on the non-famous? Our self-esteem, our confidence, and sometimes, our sanity.
Sanity, or lack there-of, leads to my next topic: diets. People attempt all kinds of crazy diets to try to reach perfection. I am not excluded. On my first attempt, at age 12, everything I ate had to be 5 grams of fat or less, I didn't pay attention to calories, and I lost weight. I then tried the 20 grams of fat per day diet, at 14. Again, I was successful. My parents took me to the pediatrician so that he could tell me that I didn't need to lose any more weight. The following summer, I continued on my diet and I continued to be successful. So successful, that in high school, a girl who had been hospitalized for anorexia, actually sat with me one day at lunch to make sure I ate. At the time, it made me angry, now, I miss that concern.
When I gained again, I went to Weight Watchers and lost again. I continued to gain until my freshman year of college, when I tried throwing up. It was so satisfying one night when I ate too much Chinese food and then got rid of it. But that didn't last long, family and roommates began to suspect. Towards the end of sophomore year, I joined Weight Watchers Online. I lost some weight, and that following summer, I joined the program and attended meetings. I lost a decent amount of weight. After that, my weight slowly increased. Two years later, I joined again, lost some weight, and then quit and gained. I think I joined 3 more times after and was unsuccessful. When I moved out and lived alone for a year, in 2007, I lost weight when I wasn't even trying, because I was the one buying my food and there was nothing in my apartment to tempt me. When I moved back home though, my weight increased incrementally, to my current state.
On this site, you will encounter a great deal of resolutions concerning weight loss, diet changes, and body image improvement. Thanks for reading and wish me luck!


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This past weekend we spent three days in Breckenridge, CO for the Fourth of July and my cousin's wedding...and wow, is it ever beautiful! I don't know if I have ever breathed in air as fresh, crisp, and clean. We stayed in a stunning cabin in the mountains and were able to get a couple of fantastic hikes in as well as spend some time exploring the adorable little town of Breckenridge. Their Fourth of July wedding was high up the mountain at 10 Mile Station and offered phenomenal views of the surrounding Rockies. At the end of the night as we were being shuttled back to our cabin we were able to watch the Breckenridge fireworks show {without having to deal with the usual Fourth of July crowds}. It was a perfect getaway!
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Travel :: Breckenridge, CO
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Beautiful photos, the one of the river is stunning! I've never seen so much movement in a picture! xxxReplyDelete
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Grading: Most courses are graded on an A-F basis. Some courses are graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory (pass/fail) basis. A grade of F in a course means there have been no credits earned for that course.
In addition, a student has the individual option to select up to ten credit points each semester to be graded on a satisfactory/ unsatisfactory basis other than the standard system. A student may, however, use only 30 credit points of these satisfactory/ unsatisfactory options toward the total number of hours required for graduation. (Courses offered only on the satisfactory/ unsatisfactory basis do not count toward the 30 points.)
Grade Point Average
In all cases of academic recognition (except for Class Rank Points system) a student's grade point average (GPA) is of fundamental importance. GPA is the sole criterion in all cases except National Honor Society and class rank based on class rank points. Induction into National Honor Society considers scholarship, character, leadership, and service. Class Rank Points consider awarding of points for the grade a student earned in a course, the number of credit hours earned and whether the course was weighted or unweighted.
Class Rank (Not applicable for class of 2021 and beyond)
The Lincoln Public Schools Board of Education approved this system for determining class rank. Below is an explanation of the system that began for students in the class of 2005.
- Class rank will be calculated by a class rank points system.
- The weighted grades system will remain the same.
- The transcript will continue to show a student's GPA as un-weighted and weighted.
- Each course that a student takes will be assigned class rank points. This is determined by the grade that the student receives in the course and the number of credit hours earned. (see charts below)
- Weighted courses will receive more class rank points than un-weighted courses.
- Class rank will be determined by the total of a student's class rank points and will be placed in order from highest total to lowest total.
- A cap of 280 hours would be placed on class rank points. This cap is figured on a student taking 7 courses for the 8 semesters of high school.
- If a student has earned more than 280 hours, the courses with the lowest grades and hours would be dropped. These grades will still be figured as part of the student's GPA.
- Courses taken pass/fail will not receive any points in the class rank points system.
- It is possible to have a higher GPA than another student and still be ranked lower because of the number of classes that student has taken.
- The class rank points system rewards students for taking weighted courses as well as a full schedule of classes.
Class Rank Points for 5 Hour Courses
A limited number of classes in the Lincoln Public Schools curriculum provide for weighted grades. In these courses, only a grade of "C" and above is weighted. A = 5.0 B+ = 4.5 B = 4.0 C+ = 3.5 C = 3.0
Honor Roll
To be on Honor Roll a student must carry a minimum of 25 credits of approved classes with a semester grade point
average of 3.5 or better.
Scholastic Letters
Scholastic Letters are awarded to those students who achieve a weighted semester GPA of 4.0 or better for at least
25 credits of approved classes for any two consecutive semesters while at Lincoln Northeast.
Top 3% (Not applicable for class of 2021 and beyond)
These students are honored for having the highest-class rank in their grade.
Seven Semester Honor Roll
Graduating seniors are honored at commencement for having achieved Honor Roll status for each of the
previous seven semesters.
National Honor Society
Membership in National Honor Society is a mark of student achievement. It signifies high standards of
scholarship, service, leadership, and character. Students are eligible for membership in the National Honor Society if they have achieved at least a 3.5 GPA for at least four semesters of high school work and completed an information form showing evidence of service, leadership and character. A committee of five teachers approved by the principal (or a designee) selects members for induction as first semester juniors or seniors.


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Mugabe wants to be president until he's 99, die when he's 100
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe will allow the southern African country elect its next leader democratically, although that won't be soon as Mugabe intends to live at least eight more years and spend all in power.
"Why successor? I am still there. Why do you want a successor? I did not say I was a candidate to retire," Mugabe said in an interview with state broadcaster ZBC TV late on Thursday.
"In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way to lead the party. They have to be appointed properly by the people, at a gathering of the people, at a congress."
Mugabe, who has led Zimbabwe for 36 years was chosen in 2014 to lead his party for another five years, which automatically makes him the ZANU-PF candidate for Zimbabwe's 2018 presidential vote. His wife, Grace, who has risen very fast in the ruling party leading to fears the president may be paving way for the first lady to take over. Mugabe has dismissed this.
"Where have you ever seen that, even in our own culture, where a wife inherits from her husband?" the former liberation fighter said.
If he wins in 2018 and completes another five-year tenure — his last under a new constitution — he will be 99 and ready to retire. He told ZBC TV he wanted to live to 100.
"I am happy because I am about to reach the age I want. You know the age I want to reach – 100 years. So only eight years remain," Mugabe said.
Critics have blamed Mugabe for Zimbabwe's economic woes, stressing that some of his policies drove the once promising economy into an eight-year recession. Now in the twilight of his presidency, Mugabe hopes to put the economy back on track. His government has increased the threshold of foreign investors on the stock exchange from 40 percent to 49 percent. The government has also moved to curb illegal funds transfer and illegal mining, as well as access loans from international lenders to stabilize the economy.
Zimbabwe's slow growth will continue in 2016, according to the World Bank. The forecast is 1.5 percent, lower than government projection.


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VDB TV presents: Invalid data — dreaming through the gaps
As part of Video Data Bank's ongoing commitment to the presentation of groundbreaking moving image art, VDB TV presents this free online program of curated video works (1997–2012) that are concerned with media and mediation, technology and collaboration… and all things in between. This program was originally curated for Uncommon/Commons, an incubator for skills and knowledge-sharing that responded to the themes of the commons and "commoning", held at the 2014 College Art Association Conference in Chicago.
"Since we realize that mediation is everywhere, and involves both the physical — sea, air, earth, humans — and new media or electronic forms, how have the endless streams of pixilated films and videos changed the way we experience our hypervisual world?"
— Eugenia Marketou
These artists' videos appropriate material from social media platforms such as YouTube, cell phones, surveillance cameras, video games, and found footage, to address the issues surrounding the politics and proliferation of what Hito Steyerl calls the "poor image."
The program was curated by Video Data Bank Executive Director Abina Manning and Greek curator, activist, and interdisciplinary artist Eugenia Marketou.
About VDB TV:
VDB TV is a rotating series of groundbreaking programs presenting essential video art, streaming free for the first time to the general public on the Video Data Bank website. From early media pioneers, to sensational contemporary artists, VDB TV provides unprecedented access to the culturally significant Video Data Bank archive of over 600 artists and 6,000 video art titles. VDB TV is curated by prominent programmers and moving image art specialists from around the world. To advance accessibility to the VDB collection, all programs included within VDB TV feature closed captions for the hearing impaired.
VDB TV is supported in part by a Media Arts award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how NEA grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.


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Just 14 years old, Rupa has already endured significant hardship in her young life. When she was a little girl living with her parents in their home village outside of Kathmandu in Hetauda, her mother fell very ill and passed away. With no other immediate family who could take care of her, Rupa was sent to live with a distant 'uncle' in Kathmandu.
Before she died, Rupa's mother asked Rupa to promise that she would go to school and study hard, and Rupa has taken this to heart. She understands the value of education, and every one of her teachers has remarked that she is creative and intelligent beyond her years. "Given the right opportunity," her class teacher told us, "Rupa could be Prime Minister of Nepal".
At home, however, Rupa's situation was precarious. Before and after school, she was required by her uncle to work in a tea shop, and when she got home she was responsible for all the household chores. Her uncle put a roof over her head but did little else to support or care for her, while lavishing attention on his two daughters, neither of whom made time for Rupa. She began to fall behind in school, and the lack of so many things that every child should be entitled to – a loving and supportive home, regular healthy meals, friendship – was taking a toll on her.
NCEP worked for two years to try to help Rupa find a long term solution in which she would be in a safe, happy and healthy environment to go to school. In spring 2012, during a visit to Nepal by NCEP Edmonton Chapter member Lorna Thomas, we were able to find one. Lorna and Raju worked with Bina Basnet, the founder of Orchid Garden Nepal – who also runs a small hostel for girls in vulnerable situations – and found a place for Rupa. Ms. Basnet, a visionary woman described by friends and family as having a "heart of gold", has been thrilled with Rupa's progress; not only is she excelling in school, she has also shown great talent in art and dancing, and aspires to be a choreographer. But more than that, Rupa is happy. She has blossomed into a warm, friendly, hard-working girl who is always smiling and has made many friends. She sees Raju as an uncle, and we have been told that she often asks about Lorna, Bonnie, Sandeep and Luke in Canada. Finally, at age 14, Rupa has a chance to enjoy her childhood again.
NCEP Field Volunteer Tashi sits with Rupa.
Rupa and her once-guardian chat with visiting NCEP Co-Founder Sandeep.
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With the Cavs – Celtics 7-game second round series tipping off this Saturday night, I've posted below – in no particular order – my top -7 reasons I hate the Celtics…
Dirty Players, Dirty Team: I can agree with Joakim Noah on two things. It is true that Cleveland does not get all that many vacationers, and its also true that Kevin Garnett is a dirty player. And I'll take Noah's comment one step further, the whole team's dirty…just ask Ray Allen. Don't be at all shocked when the game plan includes collective shots at LeBron's funny bone elbow on Saturday.
Paul Pierce: Lotta reasons here, I'll just name a few. His team was awful before his GM went out and traded for two superstars, and now all of the sudden he is allegedly one of the greatest Celtics ever…huh. This is after he quit on seasons, and led teams towards finishes in the Draft Lottery. You can give LeBron the 11 worst players in the NBA and he'll finish outside the lottery, guaranteed. Besides that, all that crying during the ring ceremony was pathetic, and so was this whole mess, Willis…
more after the jump…
Eddie House: Look I know he was traded this season for a guy who's most known for consistently winning a contest that nobody wants to take part in year after year, but you – Celtics – did choose to associate yourselves with a guy like this for as long as you did. And people don't forget that stuff. Biggest clown in the Association…shouts out to Rafer Alston – what's up Skip!
Rajon Rondo: The impressionable young PG has been influenced by Mr. Anything is Possible, and displays streaks of shadiness in his game on the regular. But more than that, it's really not necessary to where your headband upside down Rondo. Kris Kross thinks this fad won't catch on…put Jerry West back up on his feet, and go ahead and shoot that open three…because the Cavs will be giving it to you all series long.
Kevin Garnett the Celtic: What happened to you KG? I used to think you were cool 10 years ago. Well, I know what happened. You're getting crushed in your battle with father time, you've lost a step – or six – and you know it, and you're compensating by morphing into that step on his toes, jersey grabbing, cheap shot dropping, old man in the 20 something rec-leage that's out there still trying to prove his J-V coach wrong 30 years ago for cutting him, as a junior. And part of me almost gets all that Kev…but why do you have to be so angry about it all the time?
Glenn Big Baby Davis: We didn't forget about all that crying you did on the sidelines last year, Baby. Nor did we forget that bout of hilarity about kiddie rides at Disney Land, or that whole taking your shirt off at the victory parade move. C'mon Glenn. Oh, and you also sent Shaq to the shelf for thirty some games this season on a move that could serve to illustrate my first point…but I won't get into to all that, Baby. Just promise to not cry this series…its awkward for everybody.
You traded us Jiri Welsh: Thanks for that. You knew we had a general manager at the time who was willing to draft guys like Trajan Langdon and Luke Jackson in the lottery and you took advantage of him. You felt it not only necessary to start Jiri Welsh for 44 games that season to make him look legit, but you then convinced Jim Paxson to trade his 2007 first round pick for him…I hope Jim's brother John does you like he did Del Negro for that theivery.
I'm sure by Monday I'll have seven more but that's all for now. And make no mistake, starting Saturday, this will be a battle war hotly contested series


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Wellness Complete Health Natural Healthy Weight Chicken and Whitefish Recipe Dry Cat Food
Cats that are overweight tend to have less energy and put a lot of strain on their small bones and joints. Wellness Complete Health Natural Healthy Weight Chicken and Whitefish Recipe Dry Cat Food helps your cat lose and maintain a healthy weight. You will see a difference in your cat's life after they are put on this food. This recipe has lean deboned chicken and whitefish as the main meat protein to help ease digestion as well as help shed those pounds. This recipe also includes vitamins and nutrients to help bone and joint support such as glucosamine and chondroitin. The more your cat loses weight, their bones and joints are going to feel so much better that they will regain their energy again!
Why We Love It:
- Healthy-weight specific recipe that has lean chicken and whitefish to keep them satisfied as well as glucosamine and chondroitin to help ease bone and joint pain
- No by-products, fillers, soy, corn, artificial preservatives, colors or flavors.
- Made in the USA
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What our pets eat feeds the soul and protects the body. That's why Wellness takes carefully selected, authentic ingredients from trusted sources to create an ideal nutritional balance with lean, healthy proteins, probiotics, omega fatty acids, fresh fruits and veggie antioxidants, and vitamins and nutrients. With over 200 varieties of foods with high quality proteins like salmon, beef, rabbit, and duck, in grain-free limited ingredient, dry and wet formulas, Wellness can offer every dog and cat something special and perfect just for them. Using only whole foods, with no wheat, corn, soy, preservatives, artificial colors and flavors, or empty calories, Wellness is the face of a new generation in pet food.
IngredientsDeboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Rice, Ground Barley, Ground Rice, Whitefish Meal, Natural Chicken Flavor, Tomato Pomace, Chicken liver, Oat Fiber, Cranberries, Olive Oil, Chicory Root Extract, Cranberry Extract Powder, Cranberry Fiber, Flaxseed, Potassium Chloride, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Thiamine Mononitrate, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Beta-Carotene, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B-12 Supplement), Choline Chloride, Minerals (Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Sulfate, Iron Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Manganese Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulfate, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Dried Kelp, l-Carnitine, Lactobacillus Plantarum, Enterococcus Faecium, Lactobacillus Casei, Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Taurine, Rosemary Extract.
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Fastacash provides a global social payments platform which allows users to transfer value (money, airtime, other tokens of value, etc.) along with digital content (photos, videos, audio, messages, etc.) through social networks and messaging platforms.
The company has developed a patent pending link generation technology that enables the value transfer with a secure link.
As a technology enabler, Fastacash partners with companies and brands in the payments, remittance, consumer products, social and gaming industries to bring its technology to end users.


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DETROIT -- The drive to reduce vehicle weight now includes the old-fashioned lead-acid battery.
Supplier Johnson Controls Inc. is working on a lightweight battery that could be ready in about a year.
Brian Kesseler, president of the Milwaukee company's Power Solutions unit, said JCI engineers are working on a battery that cuts weight 25 percent. A typical car battery weighs about 39 pounds.
"Today's batteries are overdesigned, and the specifications required by automakers date back to the 1960s," he said Tuesday at the North American International Auto Show.
Thinner engine oil, fuel injection, electronic ignitions and other improvements to car engines enables them to start quickly in freezing temperatures.
But automakers require batteries to crank an engine for 20 seconds in cold weather. That is no longer a good measurement for cold-weather performance, Kesseler said.
The battery is one the heaviest components under the hood, weighing more than the alternator, starter or air conditioning compressor.
Ford's introduction of the lightweight aluminum F-150 at the 2014 Detroit auto show this week has placed another high-profile spotlight on weight reduction.
"Everyone is looking at reducing weight," said MaryAnn Wright, JCI's vice president of engineering and product development. "That's the first lever you pull."
The cost may not be lower initially for a lightweight battery, she said, because removing weight increases costs for engineering, manufacturing and possibly materials, depending on the chemistry used in the battery.


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Adjunct Professor
Biophysics: statistical mechanics of DNA, stochastic gene expression, cell cycle in yeast. Bioinformatics of gene regulation in evolution and development morphology of early vertebrate development, embryonic stem cell colonies as a model for the early embryo.
- Physics
Graduate Fields
- Physics
- Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP)
In collaboration with Laboratory of Molecular Embryology at Rockefeller, we are studying how cells cooperate to form embryos. The complexity of shape and cell types that we recognize in the adult organism develops progressively from the minimally structured egg. Although the genes that direct the patterning process have been known for a decade or more, a quantitative understanding of how they work together to make patterns is far from understood.
Since we know the molecular signals cells use to communicate, we can use microfluidic technology to apply them to cells with any time dependence we can program and then follow the cellular response with time-lapse microscopy. In this way we discovered that a ubiquitous cell signaling pathway is adaptive, i.e., it responds to a lagged time derivative of the signal, not its absolute level, contrary to textbook accounts. To look at patterning on embryonic scales, we have caused human embryonic stem cells to differentiate on micropatterned substrates and observed spatial patterns develop with instrinsic length scales.
In parallel my group develops geometric models for dynamical systems that make the patterns one finds in developing embryos. Computational network evolution is one technique we use to find these models, when simple introspection does not suffice. We would like to characterize all models that can be 'learned' by gradient search, which is an extreme form of Darwinian evolution. All members of the group are from Physics or Computer Science, and many transition to experiments when then join the effort.
All projects involve a tight integration of experiment, data analysis and modeling, see my Rockefeller web site (http://www.physics.rockefeller.edu/siggia) now a bit dated, for more details of specific projects or consult Pubmed.
"Fluctuations and supercoiling of DNA", Marko JF, Siggia ED, Science, Jul 22;265(5171):506-8 (1994).
"Stretching DNA", by Marko JF and Siggia ED, Macromolecules, 28, 8759 (1995).
"Polymer models of meiotic and mitotic chromosomes", Marko JF, Siggia ED, Mol Biol Cell, Nov;8(11):2217-31, (1997), PMCID: PMC25703.
"Geometry, epistasis, and developmental patterning", Corson F, Siggia ED, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2012 Mar 20, PMCID:PMC3326455.
"Predicting embryonic patterning using mutual entropy fitness and in silico evolution", François P, Siggia ED, Development, 2010 Jul;137(14):2385-95.
"A Balance between secreted inhibitor and edge-sensing controls gastruloid self-organization", F.Etoc, J Metzger, A. Ruzo, C. Kirst, A. Yoney, Z. Ozair, A. Brivanlou, E. Siggia, Dev Cell 2016 (to appear).
"A method to recapitulate early embryonic spatial patterning in human embryonic stem cells", Warmflash A, Sorre B, Etoc F, Siggia ED, Brivanlou AH, Nat Methods. 2014 Jun 29. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3016. Epub 2014 Jun 29, PMCID:PMC4341966.
"Encoding of Temporal Signals by the TGF-β Pathway and Implications for Embryonic Patterning.", Sorre B1, Warmflash A1, Brivanlou AH2, Siggia ED3, Dev Cell. 2014 Jul 23. pii: S1534-5807(14)00342-6. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.05.022. Epub 2014 Jul 24, PMCID: PMC4165855.


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My new blog has launched!
I am so thrilled to finally reveal the new look of my blog. As you might have read in my previous post, I was quite unhappy and needed a change. Quitting the blog was never really an option for me but I wanted to create a website that I was excited about and that made blogging fun again. This design makes me so so happy and I cannot wait to dive back in again.
As you can see, I did not include all the previous posts I did on my old website, simply because I wanted a fresh start and wanted to create a slightly different content in the future.
I really hope you like my new blog as much as I do! And if you haven't already, go subscribe! That way you'll never miss what I have to ramble about!
ALSO: On another exciting note: My professional Makeup Artist website has launched as well! Go have look: www.patriciasarahmeyre.com
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Recovery after Heart Disease
Most people continue their lives normally after a first heart attack. After the procedures, surgery or medication, every patient goes through a recovery phase that will ensure the healthy state of his cardiovascular system. These procedures start in the hospital. After the surgery, each person spends between three and twelve days at the clinic for recovery, tests and supervision. Depending on the severity of the case, medication for different pain or factors will be administrated. The doctor might even change the medication plan, according to the current needs.
The emotional health might be affected after a heart attack. The majority of people pass through negative feelings like depression, anxiety or fear. It is recommended to consult a specialist in mental health and to talk about these feelings with close friends or family.
A specialist in the heart recovery will recommend special physical activity. Special equipment will monitor the stress level on the heart and the rehab doctor will tell you what exercise group is adequate for your state, and how often you should perform physical activity. Usually, a routine composed of sessions between 30 and 35 minutes, three to five times a week will strengthen your heart and reduce the risk of other heart attacks. Activities such as bike riding or brisk walks will keep you healthy both mentally and physically.
Eating a heart healthy diet is another important recovery step. More vegetables, fruits and whole grains rich with fiber should be introduced in the daily meals. Processed meats, fats and sugar are to be avoided. A nutritionist or a dietitian can help you find delicious recipes that are good for your heart. You should also do periodic check-ups for the cholesterol and triglycerides levels in your blood.
An important, but hard step is to quit smoking. The market is saturated with alternatives to tobacco that can help you reduce the nicotine in your blood.


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Red Sonic Festival – dirty groovesFriday, April 12th, 2013
My work dirty grooves has been programmed in a concert of music by BEAST composers as part of Red Sonic – First edition 2013. It will be played on 15.04.2013 in the 21:00hrs concert.
The Red Sonic festival is in its second year and runs from the 11-21 April at the Red Gallery, London. The week long programme of presentations and concerts focuses mostly on acousmatic music featuring work from the BEAST studios in Birmingham, music from Mexico and Latin America and seminal French composer Francois Bayle in a showcase concert.
Also featuring on the programme are field recordings presented by Peter Cusack and a multimedia work by Elinrós Henriksdotter.
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Struggling to find the perfect Father's Day gift? Join us at mmm... and Glug in the Grainger Market this Saturday 20th June where we will be on hand for a tasting session and helping you to choose and ideal present for Father's Day. We can answer any questions you might have about the brewery or the beers, or just for a chat and a sample.
From midday you can call into the shop and try our range of bottled beers, including our brand new 330ml special edition bottles:
Strawberries & Cream - At 3.8% this extra pale ale carries serious flavour, we used lactose and vanilla for a sweet and creamy base, and added a crazy amount of fresh strawberries.
Caribbean Stout - This 6.5% rum and raisin chocolate stout is rich, luxurious and packed with flavour. Deep chocolate notes support the rum soaked fruit in this boozy stout, with hints of burnt sugar on the finish.
Belgian IPA - A bold, hop forward beer brewed and dry hopped with a great combination of hops including Cascade, Nelson Sauvin, Chinook and Citra. Fermented to a substantial 7.2% with a Belgian ale yeast, this beer is a hybrid of two classic styles.
We'll also have plenty of our usual bottled beers to try from the hoppy Pacifica Pale to the luxurious Mocha Milk Stout. We can tailor the perfect gift pack for Father's Day with the combination of beers and glassware to suit you, and you can take the opportunity to try some beers you might not have sampled already. See you on Saturday!


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I had some trouble again.
Tuesday I had no power due to some work
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And yesterday I couldn`t download the pictures I made
But today is another day
and I will succeed in placing this post.
This week the pattern is Granny spike stitch
from Bunny Mummy.
It`s an easy one which looks great.
We are going to make the granny square from the first week
and in round three we will start with the spike stitch.
I made 7 rounds.
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Pet Connection: Are you into pet trivia? Here are some tidbits to share
"Did you know?" That's always a great conversation starter, especially when it's about our pet pals.
Here's our contribution to your next water-cooler gathering, barbecue or cocktail party:
• Cats rub on people, other cats and even other animals as a sign of affection. They may do it most insistently when we are about to feed them, but they also do it just to say, "Hey, I like you."
• In mythology and folklore around the world, dogs are associated with the afterlife. They were believed to act as guides to the underworld and howl as a warning of impending death. The jackal-headed Egyptian god Anubis was a protector of the dead.
• Lionfish are popular to keep in aquariums, but if released into the ocean, they can wreak havoc on reefs, eating up other fish that are important to reef health.
• According to a 2013 survey by the American Pet Products Association, 32 percent of dog owners take their pets with them in the car when they are away for two or more nights.
• By the numbers, freshwater fish are the most popular American pet, with 145 million found in U.S. homes. If we're talking mammals, cats are most numerous: They number 95.6 million. Dogs are nipping at their heels with 83.3 million.
• Canine ergonomics is the study of how working dogs learn to traverse rubble and other environmental hazards or barriers, all the while using their nose and then indicating finds to their human teammates.
• Nearly half of pet owners – 45 percent – buy presents for their dogs or cats for Christmas or Hanukkah, but only 20 percent celebrate a pet's birthday with a gift, according to a 2013 survey by the APPA.
• The color of a goldfish will fade without exposure to sunlight or full-spectrum artificial light.
• Rabbits love to run and twist in the air, then land facing a different direction, an activity that rabbit lovers call "binking."
• Hamsters eat grains, greens, vegetables and fruits, plus the occasional insect or other form of protein. A good daily diet might include a tablespoon of commercial food, a few leaves of lettuce, spinach or other greens, a small, thin slice of apple, and a broccoli or cauliflower floret.
• The word for the sound a cat makes is similar in many languages. In English, cats "mew"; in India, cats say "myaus"; in China, "mio." In some Arabic-speaking countries, the word is "naoua," and in Egypt it's "mau."
• In no particular order, 10 of the most pet-friendly cities in the United States are Santa Fe, N.M.; Laguna Beach; Portland, Ore.; Seattle; San Francisco; Boston; Colorado Springs, Colo.; San Diego; Charlotte, N.C.; and Austin, Texas.
• Letting your dog give you kisses is probably less germy than letting a human lick your face, according to our veterinarian pal Dr. Patty Khuly, who practices in Miami. But skip playing kissy-face with your pooch if your immune system is compromised by illness or recent surgery.
• The most popular reptiles kept as pets include red-eared slider turtles, ball pythons, iguanas, bearded dragons, corn snakes, Burmese pythons and redtail boas.
• Kittens start out meowing at their mothers when they want to eat, but it doesn't take long for them to learn to meow at people for food – or anything else they want!
The buzz
A new law in Minnesota requires commercial dog and cat breeders to register with the state Board of Animal Health. Starting next year, they must also obtain a license. It is the first time that the state has had specific regulations regarding commercial breeding.
According to a report by The Associated Press, the new law establishes specific standards, including clean water and good ventilation, collars that fit comfortably, and a requirement that sick animals be separated from healthy ones. "The goal is not to punish people," says state Sen. John Marty. "It's to make sure animals are treated humanely."
• Arthur, a 4-year-old flamepoint Siamese cat, needed a kidney transplant, but he was rejected from two transplant programs because his body did not properly absorb Cyclosporine, a drug that reduces the risk that the body will reject the new organ. But at the University of Georgia's Veterinary Teaching Hospital, he became the second beneficiary of a new procedure: an injection of feline adult stem cells derived from his own fat. The stem cells have an anti-inflammatory effect and can lessen immune response, reducing the risk of rejection, says John Peroni, a board-certified large-animal surgeon and associate professor at UGA.
• A new study published in the journal Physiology and Behavior suggests that staying at a kennel might not be as stressful for dogs as we think. They may even view their "vacation" as exciting. Factors measured to evaluate stress levels included skin dryness, nose temperature, core body temperature, levels of stress hormones, and behaviors such as lip licking, paw lifting, yawning, shaking and restlessness. The dogs were more excited at the kennel than they were at home, researchers found, but not necessarily because they were stressed.


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Observe, if you will, these lovely diamond-lace hand-knitted socks. By any reasonable standard of measurement, they would be considered beautifully executed. Suppose, gentle readers, that I told you these were made by my friend Margaret M. in the 1960s, when she was an eleven-year-old stripling? Would you not agree that this is a truly awesome accomplishment?
She brought them by today. I urged her to wear them, now that they've been knocking around for 40-odd years. "It's time," I said. (They still fit.)
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The book of Numbers started out with God ordering Moses to take a census of all the Israelites of military age who were able to bear arms. Then jobs were assigned to the priests and the Levites, and the leaders of the tribes all gave initial offerings at the dedication of the tabernacle. The Israelites were ready to march on the Promised Land.
It didn't happen, though.
The Israelites doubted God's ability to deliver the powerful Canaanite nations into their hands, and they rebelled. After countless rebellions and doubts of both God's power and intention to take care of them, this was the final straw for God. The entire generation (aside from Joshua and Caleb) was sentenced to die in the desert as punishment, with only their children seeing the Promised Land.
Over the next thirty-nine years, the Israelites (both the generation of the Exodus and their children) were anything but model citizens. Immediately after hearing their punishment, some of them claimed that they were once again pious and deserved to enter the Promised Land. Against Moses' orders, they set out to do so, and were slaughtered by the Canaanites and Amalakites at Hormah.
Then many of them joined in Korach's rebellion against Moses and Aaron. After God sent signs to show that Moses and Aaron were the chosen leaders of the community and caused the ground to open up and swallow Korach and his followers, the Israelites rebelled once again, blaming the deaths of Korach and his followers on Moses and Aaron. For ignoring such a clear and obvious act of God, God sent a plague upon them. After the plague abated and the Israelites repented, things went smoothly for a time until the Israelites once again doubted God's ability to provide for them. For this God sent poisonous snakes after them, and the Israelites eventually repented.
In addition to this, the Israelites have also recently lost two of their leaders, Miriam and Aaron, and with them, the miraculous gifts God provided on their merit. On behalf of Miriam they had had a travelling well, providing them with easy access to water in the middle of the desert, and for Aaron God had granted them the ananei hakavod, pillars of cloud that surrounded them on all sides and served to both protect and guide them. Upon hearing of the loss of the ananei hakavod, other nations took this as a sign that the Israelites were no longer under God's protection and immediately sought to make war with them (Ta'anit 9a), leading the Israelites into a string of unwanted wars.
Finally, at the end of last week's parshah, many Israelites abandoned God in favor of worshipping the idol Baal-peor, and are punished for it with another plague. When even that does not deter the Israelites, Aaron's grandson Pinchas takes matters into his own hands and stabs and Israelite and a Midianite while they are engaged in publicly desecrating the Tent of Meeting. Finally the Israelites turn back to God, and the plague ends.
In this week's parshah, God again commands Moses to take a census of all the able-bodied men of military age in the community, once again preparing the people to march into the Promised Land. Despite all of the ups and down of their relationship, all of the times the Israelites turned away, God did not abandon them. When the fortieth year came, God's promise to the Israelites and their forefathers was fulfilled. Sometimes in our lives, we feel distant from God. We feel that God has turned away from us, or that we have turned away from God. In these times it is important to remember that God does not abandon, just as God never abandoned our forefathers. "God is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit (Ps. 34:19)." "For God will not cast off God's people, nor will God forsake God's heritage (Ps. 94:14)." "God, being merciful, forgives iniquity and does not destroy; time and again God restrains God's wrath and does not arouse all of God's rage (Ps. 78:38)." "God delivers; the King will answer us when we call (Ps. 20:10)."


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After just three of its first 10 matches this spring, the Barton College women's tennis team turned Saturday's regular-season finale against Southern Wesleyan University into a formality at Barton Tennis Complex.
With their fifth straight win and eighth in the last nine outings — all against NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas opponents — the Lady Bulldogs, with just seven players on their roster, secured the No. 2 seed for next weekend's league tournament following a 7-2 victory.
Four of Barton's seven wins came by either retirement or default, as the Lady Bulldogs ended the regular season finished 13-9 overall and 9-2 in conference play. Although third in the final standings behind No. 1 Chowan University and No. 2 Emmanuel, the latter remains ineligible for postseason play in Conference Carolinas. Thus, Barton ascends to the second spot and will face No. 7 seed SWU (7-11, 4-7 CC) at Palmetto Tennis Center in Sumter, S.C., in one of four Friday quarterfinals.
On the men's side, Barton wrapped up its regular season with wins in three of its final four matches, doubling up the Warriors on Saturday with a 6-3 victory. The Bulldogs, 6-12 overall and 4-6 against conference opposition, finished with the No. 7 seed. One year after running through the conference tournament en route to an NCAA tournament bid, Barton will take on No. 2 seed and archrival University of Mount Olive at noon, also at Palmetto Tennis Center. A scheduled nonconference match at Div. I East Carolina, originally set for Sunday, was canceled.
Southern Wesleyan (6-14, 2-8) grabbed the No. 8 and final men's seed into the tournament field.
Even though the Lady Bulldogs held a 2-1 lead entering the singles portion of their match, little doubt existed as to the outcome. With SWU's default at No. 3 doubles, that also translated to a second default at No. 6 singles. Sophomore and team captain Marissa Stevenson, who won her 13th consecutive match, was not tested against SWU's Jennifer Ball in the No. 2 position. Stevenson owned a 4-0 lead against Ball in the first set before the latter retired. It moved Stevenson to 17-2 on the season in just her third match at No. 2 singles, completing an unbeaten conference season at 11-0. She had previously played No. 3 before making a late-season switch with junior Vanessa Sanoja.
"It's more difficult when you keep moving positions, number 2 and number 3," Stevenson said. "But as captain, I think I needed to show the team how it's done and lead the team to get the victory. It was tough having the first few matches we had as losses because they were really good teams. But as we went into conference, we knew how important it was to start getting victories, to get the confidence throughout the rest of the season."
After five losses by a 5-4 margin last season, Barton has posted a 2-1 record in such encounters in 2018.
At No. 4 singles, freshman Ada Vargas picked up another win via retirement against SWU's Chyna Jones. The clincher was in the No. 5 spot as Claudia Capellades turned in a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Jessica Sparks. Sanoja battled through her share of mental moments after the outcome was clinched to get a hard fought 7-5, 7-5 verdict against Kristi Cooper at No. 3.
Instead of a Senior Day observation for a pair of teams lacking a fourth-year player, Barton's men finished off a regular season that featured eight of nine underclassmen, with junior Jesus Gil as the elder statesman.
A 2-1 advantage after doubles boosted the Bulldogs to victory after the Nos. 3-6 positions finished matters for the Bulldogs. It was Gil that turned in the toughest win of the bunch, needing three sets to dispatch Sam Dekker at No, 4 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Freshman Diego Agudelo at No. 3, freshman Alessandro Gerbino at No. 5 and sophomore Ermanno Galimberti at No. 6 all prevailed in straight sets to get Barton the clinching points. Gerbino won his 10th match in 13 tries at No. 5, the best winning percentage of any Barton player at any flight with at least three matches played.
Galimberi won his fourth straight match to finish 5-4 in singles, all at the No. 6 spot.
"The future looks pretty bright," first-year Barton head coach Lee Underwood said "I've got to bring in a better top of the lineup with the men's team. With the women's team, I've got to add to our depth."
Underwood's assessment of the men's roster is backed by an 8-27 combined singles showing from the top two seeds this season, However, that figure turns to a competitive 38-27 ledger with the Nos. 3-6 positions considered. The Bulldogs are 22-32 in doubles, with losing records at every flight.
"We're deep, but if you examine where we win, we usually pick things up from three on," Underwood said. "But we're so even throughout the lineup. I really need somebody to take the reins at one."
Sophomore Rory Gaydon, Barton's No. 1 for the entirety of the year, was taken into a third set after the outcome was decided by SWU's Urs Widow. A super tiebreaker was played in lieu of a third set, with Widow prevailing 4-6, 7-6, 10-5.
Urs Widow (SWU) def. Rory Gaydon 4-6, 7-6, 10-5; Siggy Menzel (SWU) def. Oscar Marmestedt 6-4, 6-0; Diego Agudelo (BC) def. Daniel Bolivar 7-5, 6-3; Jesus Gil (BC) def. Sam Baker 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Alessandro Gerbino (BC) def. Stan Grzesio 6-3, 6-1; Ermanno Galimberti (BC) def. Joseph Olatunji 6-1, 6-4
Widow-Menzel (SWU) def. Marmestedt-Agudelo 8-1; Gaydon-Gil (BC) def. Grzeslo-Bakker 8-6; Galimberi-Martijn Eleveld (BC) def. Ben Smith-Daniel Bolivar 8-1.
Alexia Rodriguez (SWU) def. Daria Avram 6-4, 6-1; Marissa Stevenson (BC) def. Jennifer Ball, ret.; Vanessa Sanoja (BC) def. Kristi Cooper 7-5, 7-5; Ada Vargas (BC) def. Chyna Jones 6-1, ret.; Claudia Capellades (BC) def. Jessica Sparks (SWU) 6-1, 6-1; Whitney Hamilton (BC) by default.
Avram-Stevenson (BC) def. Rodriguez-Ball 8-4; Cooper-Jones (SWU) def. Sanoja-Vargas 8-6; Capellades-Hamilton (BC) by default.


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Find out about some of the larger transport projects Council is undertaking to improve our travel network.
The new central city is compact, people and cycle friendly and buzzing with activity. Come in and take a look.
The Roads of National Significance (RoNS) is being implemented by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA).
A network of major cycle routes is being built connecting suburbs, shopping areas, businesses and schools.
The Council has a number of roading projects underway across the city.
Bus priority gives buses right of way over other vehicles when a road is heavily used.
We're planning how we manage additional traffic in the St Albans, Edgeware and Mairehau areas when the Christchurch Northern Corridor opens.