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For the study report and policy brief click here -Patricia
By Susan Sandler | California Progressive Report
November 21, 2007
Do you feel that enough attention is paid to racial justice in schools? Is education policy in touch with communities of color?
With so many inequities and problems in our school system, it is difficult to cut through to the policies that are most strategic to transforming the learning experience for students of color.
Justice Matters and Linda Darling-Hammond and Diane Friedlaender of the School Redesign Network at Stanford University have released a new study, and accompanying report card, that get to the heart of this issue. High Schools for Equity: Policy Supports for Student Learning in Communities of Color seeks to answer fundamental questions about how education policy can best bring about racially just schools.
High Schools for Equity starts by looking at five California high schools that are giving low-income students of color the kind of education they deserve. These schools interrupt the status quo by providing learning experiences for students of color that are intellectually rigorous, responsive to their cultures, and relevant to their lives, communities, and specific learning needs. These schools connect learning to students’ interests, passions, and concerns.
For example, June Jordan School for Equity in San Francisco offers a course that focuses on the literature surrounding immigration to the United States where students explore questions such as “When do immigrants choose to assimilate? When do they reject conforming to American standards?” Such courses combine college-prep level thinking and skills with content that addresses questions that students and their families confront on a daily basis.
It was important that the study selected schools that took a wide range of factors into account rather than just choosing schools by test scores alone. Test scores are not necessarily connected to the high quality learning experiences that students of color deserve.
After selecting the schools, the study then identifies the policies that are most important to enabling all schools to provide the education that students received in these exemplary schools. Researchers asked what supports were provided by the district and the state that enabled these schools to carry out their work. What aspects of the policy environment were obstacles that the schools had to overcome in order to carry out exemplary practices? What policies are needed to move from a tiny number of isolated schools who are doing good work in spite of the system, to having all schools do such work in part because of the school system?
The resulting findings lay out a policy agenda that can not only move us away from the deep problems in today’s schools, but that also moves us toward a system that is centered on a vision of what learning should be like for students of color and all students. Rather than tackling each isolated problem in our school system in a piecemeal fashion, this policy agenda lays out a coherent set of policies that are most important for getting us to the schools that we ultimately want to have.
Justice Matters has also created a vehicle for bringing the ideas from the High Schools for Equity study into current public discussions on California education policy. Governor Schwarzenegger has named 2008 the “Year of Education.” A clear opportunity for big change has been spotlighted in California education policy, and in response, policy makers, committees, and organizations will be issuing policy agendas. Justice Matters has translated the ideas and lessons from High Schools for Equity into a report card framework for grading these policy agendas.
It is important that policy makers be held accountable for how their actions help or hurt students of color. The Racial Justice Report Card does this. It also brings important ideas into the discussion that are often left out. Mainstream education policy is often disconnected from an understanding of what strong learning experiences for students of color really look like.
Last Wednesday, we gave our first grade using the report card. We gave a C- to Superintendent O’Connell’s draft recommendations for closing racial gaps in education. We plan to issue a grade for the forthcoming recommendations of the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Education Excellence, as well as other proposed policy agendas.
The ideas behind the Racial Justice Report Card grew out of what is happening in schools that are doing right by students of color, and they keep policy connected to how it affects on-the-ground learning experiences.
The report card and the study are two steps in our long-term plan to make education policy focus on racial justice and get connected to the on-the-ground learning experiences of students of color, which we believe is at the center of a better education for all students in California.
Susan Sandler is President of Justice Matters, a San Francisco-based organization that works for racially just schools by developing and promoting education policy rooted in community vision. Justice Matters conducts research, develops policy ideas, and carries out public education activities and campaigns for policy change.


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Food fair at best, and expensive. Nachos are inedible. Fajitas nothing special. Doesnt appear to be particularity clean in general. We will never be back to this chain.
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Food is mostly OK. Service is fine. Reception is very poor as it can take 5 minutes for a Hostess to seat you in a mostly empty restaurant. Take your chances.
I stopped by here for dinner while on a business trip. Service was good and the food came out quickly and tasted pretty good. The electronic table check out worked really well and meant I didn't have to wait at all for my server to...More
We ate while visiting a family member staying at a nearby hotel. We actually ended up eating here two nights in a row. The kids loved the pizza and chicken fingers. I had margarita grilled chicken and shrimp and then the next night fajitas. I...More
The Hostess and waitress were terrific; professional and fun. Not a gourmet restaurant but a fun place, average to good food at reasonable prices. The Menu includes special pricing for different entrees on different days. We had the full rack of Ribs on Thursday at...More
My first visit to Chili's and I ordered food to go. I ordered Spicy shrimp tacos $11.98 including taxes, description says three flour tacos with spicy chile-lime shrimp & house-made cilantro slaw. Topped with pico, sliced avocado, cilantro & queso fresco. Served with citrus-chile rice...More
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I have eaten at this particular location several times during my stay here in Aiken, it's very close to the Hotel I'm staying at. The staff is very friendly, the service is very good and the food has always been spot on. I will visit...More
We had not been here for a while and decided to give it another try. We ordered the two for $20 which have several choices and an appetizer to split. The food was full of flavor and more that one could finish.

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We got invited to the White House!
Yes, that White House.
President Obama has called together business leaders from around the country to share their technological and management expertise and bring innovation to the public sector. The group will be meeting this Thursday at the White House’s Forum on Modernizing Government to talk about how to transform the government’s customer service practices. That’s a big task, and one that definitely needs doing.
We’re positively thrilled that our CEO, Wendy Lea, has been invited to share her ideas for leveraging technology to reduce costs, streamline processes, and improve customer service across the federal government. The event will be open to the media and attended by CEOs from a range of industries, Cabinet deputy secretaries, labor leaders, and senior White House staff.
What’s really great is that this event is specifically *not* a meeting of government consultants and government service providers. Instead, it’s about innovation around ideas specifically brought by people outside of Washington.
Hail to the chief, and congratulations to our own Wendy Lea!

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Up in the Borders, son-in-law Graeme Wallace and myself took a wee wander into the hills above Duns, searching for Edin’s Hall Broch, something very rare this far south.
Brochs are a type of stone roundhouse only found in Scotland. There are well over 500 of them, found mostly in northern and western Scotland and the islands. Only a handful exist in Lowland Scotland, hence our visit.
The exact date of the broch at Edin’s Hall is not known, but estimates suggest that it was built in the period 0 – 200 AD.
Surrounding the broch is an earlier fort dated circa 2,500 years ago. The fort measures approximately 130 by 80 metres, with 4.5 metre high double ramparts. The broch stands in an enclosure on one corner of the fort, clearly separated from the earlier constructions.
Towards the centre of the fort are the remains of another large round house, which was probably the most important building before the broch was constructed.
Although Edin’s Hall shares many features with the traditional broch architecture seen all over the north west of Scotland and the Orkney and Shetland Islands the massive size of the construction suggest that it may have been a hybrid broch/roundhouse.
Richard Strathie’s photo shows the massive construction of the broch, with guard chambers on either side of the entrance and storehouses built into the 5 metre wide walls.
Graeme Wallace took this photo, with me inside for scale. Newly built, the walls may have been 5 or 6 metres high, with a massive timber roof supported on a central pole.
Calum McRobert’s pic emphasises the extraordinary width of the rubble filled lower walls.
A common feature of broch construction is an integral spiral staircase climbing up to the wallhead.
Store rooms built into the walls.
Bridge over the Whiteadder river – yes, there is a Blackadder river too.
Pool below the footbridge.

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Let's face it, there's nothing glamorous about New York City sludge. It smells bad, it carries copper and lead, and lawmakers there won't have it.
But four years ago, this west Texas town of 650 learned that an Oklahoma company had won a six-year contract, with the state's approval, to dispose of New York's treated sewage on a ranch just north of here. Residents were leery at first, but promises of strict monitoring, 50 new jobs, and $50,000 a year in town spending money won them over.
These days, though, it's starting to smell like a Faustian bargain. New York has announced plans to ship even more sludge here for an additional 15 years. And this summer, Texas officials chose Sierra Blanca for another kind of dump: one that will house radioactive waste.
As stockpiles of hazardous materials grow nationwide, and as existing dumps hit capacity, Sierra Blanca won't be the first cash-poor town wooed by waste peddlers. Its experience, though, shows how treacherous a business it can be.
"Once you open the door, it's awfully hard to close it," says C. Wesley Leonard, chairman of the El Paso Sierra Club. "People have the idea now that the welcome mat is out here for them to send stuff that's not acceptable anywhere else."
Indeed, Sierra Blanca is poised to become the waste capital of Texas, and perhaps, the nation. The sludge farm here is the world's largest, covering 91,000 acres - an area that would be hard to cross in a day by foot.
On cool summer nights, when the wind blows south, an odor of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and feces wafts through town. The proposed 400-acre radioactive-waste site, east of town, lies on a floodplain above an active seismic zone.
But this is not just the story of a small, powerless town getting dumped on, both literally and figuratively. A fair number of townsfolk here support the sludge operation, and some of them are neutral about the radioactive waste, which will emanate from hospitals and the state's two nuclear plants, along with plants in Maine and Vermont.
After all, they note, Hudspeth County, where Sierra Blanca is located, is larger than the state of Connecticut and has a population of only 2,000.
"My feeling is you've gotta put it somewhere, and this is better than dumping it in the ocean," says June Barnett, proprietor of the A&M Motel on the town's dilapidated strip. "We'd rather have an electronics plant out here, but that's not realistic."
In some ways, the projects have helped the town. MERCO, the company that runs the sludge-spreading operation, has helped renovate the high school, donated computer equipment, created a scholarship fund, and given every town resident a Thanksgiving turkey. They've hired researchers from Texas Tech to monitor the soil, and have instituted a wildlife management program.
The proposed nuclear dump has brought even more bounty.
For the last two years, the Texas state commission charged with locating the site has donated a total of $1.9 million to the Hudspeth County development fund. The town boasts two shiny new firetrucks, an ambulance, a medical clinic, and is on the verge of installing sewers. State officials have assured residents that the health and safety risks are minimal.
But to some Sierra Blancans, the money and the parade of officials and scientists bearing reassurance is engaged in the worst kind of demogoguery, particularly in a majority Hispanic town where few people are educated, and 40 percent of all residents live below the poverty line.
"They call it a community-development package, but we call it economic blackmail," says local merchant Bill Addington, the dump's chief local opponent. "It's about personal gain, not what's good for the town."
According to Mr. Addington, the three-member panel of judges that runs the county signed petitions opposing the dumps before their election, but have since offered little resistance.
The impetus for placing the radioactive dump in Sierra Blanca, says one state official, had a lot to do with a statement by Judge James Peace that the town might be interested.
"That's the tragedy of the situation," says Mr. Leonard of the Sierra Club. "They go into these desperately poor communities and hold a carrot out, saying, 'Look, if you take this horrific crap nobody wants that's illegal where it's generated, we'll give money to benefit some people in your community.' That's not the future I want for the region I live in."
By all accounts, there's little or no support locally for the new sludge contract, which New York may award to a New Jersey company that has promised to do the job more cheaply.
And a recent public hearing about the nuclear dump drew 700 county residents, most of whom spoke against the proposal.
The city of El Paso, 90 miles to the northwest, is considering joining the fight against both projects, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Coahuila have sent emissaries to protest the nuclear dump, which would rest just 16 miles from the Rio Grande.
But most observers say it's up to the residents of Sierra Blanca to lead the charge.
John Fulton, a MERCO welder and a longtime resident who opposes the new sludge company and the radioactive-waste dump, says that's a tall order in a town that has always been so divided that it "can't get together on a good marble game."
Ms. Barnett, for one, says many longtime residents don't think the projects are such a bad idea, because they'll provide enough jobs to keep the town from blowing away, while making sure that it doesn't grow too much. "I like things just the way they are," she says.
To others, though, particularly younger residents with children, that's a woefully short-sighted view.
"The sludge was okay, but the nuclear dump I don't like," says Eva Ibarra, the night cook at Terry's Restaurant. "I think people have been corrupted by the jobs and the money, and the poor people don't know how to fight. If I had known this would happen, I never would have moved here."


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This is an image from Act V of the play Lucifer, wherein Michael speaks to Lucifer before he attempts to fight and overtake heaven.
Upon his shield, till Michael comes before Him, clad in glittering armor, like a God Amid a ring of suns: "Cease, Lucifer I Give God the victory. Lay down your arms And standard; yield to God. Come, lead away This wicked crew, this impious horde. Or else, Beware thy head!" Thus shouts he from on high."
Lucifer It is an influential and controversial work by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), the colossus of Dutch literature, regarded as a major influence on Milton’s Paradise Lost. In the story, Lucifer returns from Eden, his wings singed by the beauty of Adam and Eve’s world, longing for the pleasures of their flesh.
The artist, Johannes Josephus Aarts was a Dutch painter, illustrator, lithographer, engraver, etcher, writer, academic teacher and director, lecturer, sculptor and book-cover designer.

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Tomato pies are ubiquitous here in South Carolina, but what should I fall in love with in Rouen, except a French version of the Southern staple?
Longing for France, as I do, I made up my own version of the dish: more zucchini, less aubergine (eggplant)–appropriate for August in the South in so many ways.
2 zucchinis, chopped
1 onion, chopped
28 oz can crushed tomatoes
1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning, divided
1 Tablespoon Parsley
4 oz fresh goat cheese
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups breadcrumbs
Heat oven to 375 degrees, mix together breadcrumbs & 1 1/2 teaspoons Italian seasoning. Combine vegetables, crushed tomatoes and the rest of the seasonings in a baking dish.
Drop goat cheese on top of veggie mixture, then add breadcrumbs on top.
Bake for 35 minutes or so, until bubbly, remove from oven and let cool till just warm–the filling will firm up some, and the flavors will meld.
inspired by lunch special at Dame Cakes, Rouen, France.


Investing in education today, means betting on the School-Work alliance
Stefano Bolognini, Councillor for Metropolitan City Development, Youth and Communication, Lombardy Region; Giorgio De Rita, Director General of CENSIS; Ezio Delfino, School Headmaster and President of DiSAL; Paolo Lattanzio, Member of the Italian Parliament, Democratic Party; Gabriele Toccafondi, Member of the Italian Parliament, Italia Viva. Introduced by Ubaldo Casotto, Journalist and curator of the exhibition “School-Work Alliance. It is never too late”.
At the 2020 Meeting Mario Draghi called for investments in young people, i.e. in education. History shows that Italy has always recovered and grown after a crisis because it invested in schools. But what does investing in education mean today? In “Laborem Exercens” (the 40th anniversary of which falls this year), St. John Paul II said that “the organisation of human life according to the multiple possibilities of work should be matched by a suitable system of education and training, which above all has as its goal the development of a mature humanity, but also a specific preparation to occupy with profit a proper place in the great and socially differentiated work bench”. School and work cannot be two disconnected worlds; education is the common ground for their alliance.
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German (1484 or 1485 - 1545) Primary
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- figures - Representations of humans, animals, or mythical beasts, in any medium.
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Low-smoke, halogenfree ship-offshore/onshore cables with improved flame retardance and fire resistance
Cables with improved fire resistance and flame retardance have been developed. They will continue to function at least 3 hours even at temperatures up to 1000 C and do not propagate fire when tested according to IEC 332 part 3 1982, category A. Made with halogenfree materials they give off no corrosive gases and very little visible smoke in cases of fire. Cables are made for power, signal and instrument installations in hospitals, high rise buildings, railroad cars, subways, on board ship, oil rigs and oil production platforms. The offshore cables are specially constructed to withstand the rugged climatic conditions in the North Sea area.
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Pontypridd RFC won the SWALEC Cup for a second successive season in Sunday's final against Cross Keys at the Millennium Stadium as the region enjoyed a hat-trick of success of a huge day for rugby in Wales.
The win for Pontypridd saw the side become the first team to win the league and cup two seasons in a row.
Paul John's men avenged their 2012 final defeat at the hand of Keys with tries from Craig Locke and Gavin Dacey and 11 points from the boot of Blues fly half Simon Humberstone.
Earlier in the day Merthyr held out in a dramatic Plate final to beat Rhiwbina 29-26 at the same venue. Brett Chatwin and Sion Summers got Rhiwbina off to a flying start but they were eventually out-muscled by the Ironmen.
Louis Millar and Chatwin scored late tries to pull the Squirrels back to within three, but Merthyr survived a late scare to take home the Plate.
The Ironmen replied just moments later through full-back Fyle. The full-back dummied his way through the Rhiwbina's defence and touched down to pull his side back to within seven points.
It wasn't long before Merthyr's Flanker Davies found a gap in the opposition defence to complete their 12 point comeback.
Morgan scored his second try soon after, the speedy winger rounded his opposite man and dived over in the same corner. Way then crashed over for Merthyr's fifth try to seal the win.
In the Bowl Final, Clwb Rygbi Cymry Caerdydd beat Llantwit Major 16-10.
Oliver Jenkins kicked two penalties and Paul Davies went for the try, converted by Jenkins who went on to add a third penalty. Llantwit prop David Taylor scored a try with Ryan Evans converting and kicking a penalty.
Existing Season Ticket holders are advised that full details of all packages for the 2015/16 season have now been posted out to you and will arrive in the coming days - and that the deadline to renew your seat has now been extended!
Supporters are advised that Cardiff Blues will be holding a presentation on the field post match on Saturday afternoon to mark those players leaving the region, hand out caps and the end of season awards.
First team stars Cory Allen, Ellis Jenkins, Adam Jones and Kristian Dacey were among the special guests as Cardiff Blues held the Sphere Solutions Blues Tag Rugby Festival at BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park.
The players at Cardiff Blues will be hoping to play with some true Gallic flair for the rest of the Guinness PRO12 season - after the region teamed up with a successful French bistrot in the Welsh capital.
Cardiff Blues will be celebrating St David's Day when the region faces Edinburgh Rugby at BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park on Sunday afternoon (kick-off 12.45pm) - with hundreds of children invited as part of our Regional Schools Day.


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How To Find The Best Skincare Routine, According To A Dermatologist
But when you’ve already used an zits-preventing toner and/otherwise you’re planning to layer on a retinol, try spot-treating within the morning as an alternative so that you don’t irritate your skin. Regardless of whenever you apply them, ensure to tap them on before your moisturizer to allow them to really penetrate your skin and do their thang without having one other barrier to penetrate. Please, for the love of the wonder gods, take away your make-up and wash your face before slathering in your merchandise. “For components to correctly take in, you need clear skin that’s completely free of oil and dirt,” says dermatologist Mona Gohara, MD, associate medical professor at Yale School of Medicine.
Dr. Magovern is a giant fan of using alpha hydroxy acid to help brighten skin by sloughing off lifeless skin cells. It helps construct your collagen and improves radiance. If you are trying to include retinol in your skincare routine, Dr. Magovern says its best to use throughout your nighttime ritual. Retinol is a form of vitamin A that helps decrease visible wrinkles, brilliant spots and pore dimension.
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I carried out my EVS in Sicily for 8 months with Caritas de Agrigento, which is an Italian charitable organisation.
I left to join up with this organisation alongside two other French people from the Lille area and we were given lodgings within the charity with other volunteers who were working on the same missions as us: one was from Belgium, another from Germany and the third from Spain. So we began living as a 6-person intercultural community and the first difficulty we encountered was that of communication between ourselves as we tried to learn Italian. However, very quickly we discovered new expressions, recipes and lifestyles, and the whole added up to more than the sum of its parts, like a miniature Europe in one home.
For my part, I decided to go in for the adventure of an EVS despite being 28 years old as I had wanted for several years to experience life as a volunteer abroad and I had not thus far found time to do so. Indeed, first I studied for 3 years to become a social worker, then I was offered a job in my specialist field (immigration) which I could not refuse and finally an encounter during a trip to Central America which led me to live there for nearly a year. It turned out to be this year when I finally had the time to make the necessary arrangement to make my EVS experience a positive one.
I wanted to carry out a mission which was related to social work, particularly one which would involve work with migrants or children. When L’Adice (a French organisation providing opportunities for people to have a variety of experiences in foreign countries) proposed a project in Sicily I could hardly have dreamt of a better offer, because of the setting of course – the sea, the sun and the food – but mostly because Sicily is one of the main places where migrants arrive in Europe and I was very interested to see how the situation was managed there. I was assigned, alongside a fellow volunteer, to an activity called “casa della pace”, or “house of peace” in English, whose aim was to encourage non-violence, to promote interculturality, exchanges etc. We were the first volunteers to be recruited to this project which is new but which did not really come into being during our EVS. We carried out some research and activities, but in Sicily it can take a long time to set a project up and in the end it was somewhat frustrating.
Fortunately, I was able to participate in other activities which the organisation is also involved in, working with children at the games and toy library and also working at a helpdesk for foreigners at the organisation’s listening centre, which was a very valuable experience for me. It provided me with an opportunity to understand legislation regarding migration and asylum in Italy, to see at first hand the problems which arose on site, to speak to migrants who had arrived straight from Lampedusa and to get to know the hotspot system…
The intercultural meeting times for young people (spazio interculturale incontro giovani), which were organised twice per month, also allowed me to talk with people from many different backgrounds, to discuss a variety of subjects and to find out more about different cultures and ideas.
Carrying out my EVS in Sicily also allowed me to learn Italian and to explore a culture which was more different to my own than I had expected. I still struggle to fully understand Sicilians. I was able to meet people who were proud of their island and its culture which springs from the mixture produced by a series of invasions (by the Normans, Arabs, the Spanish etc.) and who were delighted to help foreigners explore it.
The main thing that I will take from this experience is all of the people I met and spoke with; it was rewarding and enlightening and broadened my horizons. Also my life alongside my housemates, all of the little moments and habits of daily life which you may sometimes become jaded with but which you end up missing, such as the shopping street which we went down so many times or the bars which ended up becoming stale for us, so well did we know the music which they continually played.
I feel that every experience gained in a foreign country and every time you meet a different culture is an opportunity to find out more about yourself through the eyes of others, realising what makes people differ but also what unites us. Every place that we spent time in became a bit like our home, a familiar place which has become a part of us. Maybe when we came back we didn’t quite feel the same as before or even entirely at home and maybe the temptation to head off again for new destinations can become stronger than reminder of a daily life which appears monotonous by comparison. Knowing how to come back home is perhaps the most difficult thing of all.

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The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD in charge of Agronomy, Dr Emmanuel Dwomo, has urged Cocoa farmers and stakeholders in the Cocoa industry in Ghana to support the Cocoa farms rehabilitation programme to derive the needed results.
He made the call in an interview as part of his four-day tour of the Western North Region to ascertain the progress of the Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme.
The visit took him to Sefwi-Bekwai, Sefwi Akontombra, Sefwi Juaboso, Sefwi Bodi and Sefwi-Esiam.
He said the Western North Region used to produce almost half of the country’s total cocoa production, but had reduced because of the cocoa swollen shot disease in the area, hence the need to support the Cocoa farms rehabilitation programme to help improve on Cocoa production in the area.
He expressed satisfaction in the programme and commended the leadership of COCOBOD and workers under the rehabilitation programme for the success, saying that what was done so far would increase the cocoa yield in the next two years.
Dr Dwomo announced that COCOBOD had increased the contract works under the programme from three months to one year to ensure job security and motivate the farmers to work harder.
He said weeding gangs under the programme would also be increased with the provision of additional Personal Protective Equipment to make the work more attractive and urged the farmers to give of their best.
“COCOBOD will soon pay social security and hospital bills of workers under the programme to secure them their future”, he added
He said COCOBOD was determined to make the Cocoa rehabilitation Programme a success to get more Cocoa beans for processing and exports.
Dr Dwomo also advised farmers to allow their cocoa trees affected by the Cocoa swollen shoot disease to be cut since that was the only way to treat the diseased cocoa trees.
The Deputy Chief Executive Officer further advised farmers and stakeholders not to politicize the Cocoa farms rehabilitation Programme and Cocoa issues since Cocoa was the backbone of Ghana’s economy.

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The HW110K from Weihrauch has caused quite a stir. Mark Camoccio takes a closer look to see what the fuss is about
The HW110 in its standard form is by all accounts, a very tidy rifle, although I must admit that before this test, I hadn’t properly tested one. I was, however, well aware of the concept and the thinking behind the design, as I was lucky enough to be invited to visit the Weihrauch factory in Germany, back in 2017, along with my old friends Terry Doe and Graham Allen, plus some other journalists. It was a totally absorbing trip, meeting Hans Weihrauch and his team, and seeing for ourselves the level of commitment and design work that goes into this company’s products.
Production of the HW110 was, of course, covered and witnessed, and with the action built around a main block constructed from ballistic polymer instead of traditional metals, it’s a massive departure for Weihrauch, and a seemingly risky strategy, given their standing and perception as an ultra-traditional manufacturer.
Times are rapidly changing though (look at 3D Printing!), and modern space-age materials are creeping into areas where simple metal constructs have always held sway. So, the HW110 project suddenly looks rather prescient. The factory visit in Germany coincided with Weihrauch’s release of their first PCP pistol, the HW44, and this radical design builds upon much the same polymer breech block base. As Hans Weihrauch explained to us, ballistic polymers are widely used in the firearms world, and these modern production methods represent the future for the company.
As it turns out, project HW110 has been extremely well received, as customers loyal to the brand realise the new approach doesn’t represent a threat to all they hold dear! On test here is the HW110K, which is a super-compact version that offers shooters a serious alternative specification.
Up close, this Karbine model (denoted by the ‘K’), really does look super-compact, with that ultra-short cylinder, and correspondingly short forend. Weihrauch’s own silencer comes as standard, and with a host of other features aimed at the serious shooter, this model gets a good start in life. A 2-stage trigger, 10-shot magazine system (two supplied), side-lever cocking, manual safety catch, and Picatinny scope rail, all make the spec sheet.
The ambidextrous sporter stock grabs the attention, and the black is actually rubber-coated wood, which feels very nice to the touch. Laser cut chequering features on the forend and pistol grip, and a solid rubber pad caps off the butt nicely. Weihrauch manufacture and fit their own barrels, and this model gets a fairly short 12.5” tube (16” on the standard model) running through a plastic support. I didn’t encounter any problems on test, but for peace of mind, if this was my own rifle, I would probably remove that support, just so I could see full clearance around the barrel. Allowing for the perfectly normal expansion of the cylinder, throughout the charge, is the accepted wisdom these days, and I lose sleep about such matters. No, really!
Finish-wise, the barrel gets proper chemical bluing, whilst the cylinder, as per the HW100 series, gets a different matte-black coating. As for the silver mag release catch and safety on the original model, these are now supplied in black, apparently as a response to customer feedback.
If you had to criticize Weihrauch’s HW100 model, it would be a fair observation to point out the fact that the receiver is a two-piece construction, and a potential source of weakness, in theory at least. The HW110 sees the new polymer receiver as a one-piece design, with the magazine housing enclosed within. Extra rigidity is therefore afforded, and with that Picatinny rail running the entire length, in one continuous strip, mounting a scope is a reassuring process, once you have the correct type of mounts that is. I can’t help thinking the trend for Picatinny/Weaver rails on airguns is overkill, but there’s no doubting the advantage of the positive relocating of a scope if it has been temporarily removed.
With glassware all bolted down, the final piece of preparation is to charge the main air cylinder. Weihrauch employs the same probe style of charging as their HW100 series, and it’s quick and efficient. Just pull out the small nylon plug in the inlet valve at the front of the cylinder, then fully insert the airline, complete with the charging adaptor probe supplied, and charge to 200 bar.
At this juncture, it’s worth pointing out that Weihrauch designed these models with removable air cylinders. They are meant to be charged in situ on the gun, yet are removable for testing further down the line. An unofficial testing regime of inspecting the gun’s cylinder after ten years has been adopted by the company, and this is what they recommend to their customers. It would seem good practice for the industry, given the age of some rifles now in circulation.
Filling the 10-shot magazine just needs a pellet to be pushed into each chamber, nice and flush. Then, to get the mag on board, pull the side-lever all the way back, and insert the magazine into its slot within the receiver, from the right side, whilst pulling up the mag retaining catch. This can prove a little fiddly if I’m honest, with the inserted mag occasionally needing a jostle to the side before the lever can be closed. Once the mag is in place though, cocking and cycling the ten shots, thereafter, is a slick operation.
In the aim, this pint-sized sporter feels amazingly versatile, but whilst I appreciate the ‘Karbine’ remit, I would still prefer a few extra inches on the forend. This would make no difference to the overall length, but would just accommodate the larger framed amongst us when at full stretch. As it stands, that front Picatinny accessory rail is a great feature, allowing lamping kit, lasers, or even weights to be attached. Weihrauch’s silencer, fitted as standard on this model, is well respected as one of the most effective on the market, and on test, the tiny report just added to the civilized experience overall. Clever things those hair curlers! Add in the fact that the multi-shot magazine system cannot be made to double load pellets, and the plus points of this premium product begin to seriously stack up!
As for the 2-stage trigger, despite the blade itself being plastic, it feels spot-on, and trips with a crisp, subtle release. A contributory factor for sure, in performance overall. The silky cycling of the side-lever is a massive confidence boost, and I had no blockages or misfires whatsoever on test, which speaks volumes for the integrity of the design.
As with the HW100 series, Weihrauch specifies the action as self-regulating, and states a guide of 60 shots in .177 and around 75 in .22. My test model came in the smaller calibre, and from a 200 bar fill pressure, I managed 78 shots over the chronograph, all within 19 fps, which is pretty impressive consistency. I used JSB-made Air Arms Diabolo Field pellets straight from the tin.
I decided to adopt the prone position for the main grouping, and then see how things shaped up from the kneeling and standing positions. Superb, ragged holes, around 9mm across at 40 yards from a rest was a great start. Plus, when I adopted the kneeling stance over my 25 yard range, I drilled groups easily within a 5p piece, showing the inherent accuracy of this pellet launching machine. OK, standing was always going to be tough, especially given my penchant for plenty of front weight, yet groups of around 1.25” weren’t a disgrace.
That silky, predictable trigger, and astonishingly muted muzzle report (especially given the short barrel) all add to the immensely satisfying experience. Also, given how those down-range groups were so easy to come by, I was genuinely sorry to see this one go!
Let’s face it, Weihrauch rarely disappoints, but the HW110K really is a superb airgun that’s cleverly designed, and brilliantly executed. How that tasty stock finish will survive snags and nicks in the field is my only real concern, for you simply can’t fault the performance on offer.


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When I say I’m a feminist, I get the eye roll and the “Ohhhhh, great”
When any of my male friends say they are feminists they get “Wow! It’s great that you’re standing up for women’s rights!”
reblogging for the fucking truth.
it’s like this with other things, too. I’ve been on the opposite side too, sticking up for the rights of others on different topics, somehow I’m more legit than they are, and it pisses me off. how the fuck will anyone get anywhere this way?
people don’t get what privilege is? this is! now you understand.


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Shay and I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean this afternoon, and I just loved it. Johnny Depp's inspiration for his character was Keith Richards, and you can really see it in his swagger/stagger and manner of speaking. In an interview, he said that pirates were the rock stars of their day, and Keith Richards was the ultimate rock star so he chose him to model the character on. Johnny and Orlando Bloom (Legolas from "our" movie) are nice eye candy. The costumes were great - the 1700s are my favorite period - lots of corsets and tricorn hats and puffy shirts. I just ate it up. Arrrrrr!
We went to see it at the Studio Movie Grill, one of those places that serve you food while you're watching the movie. I hadn't been to one before. I enjoyed it. They have a decent menu. I had a burger, fries, and raspberry iced tea. If we'd gone at night we could have had some Captain Morgan's rum - Arrrr!
Throughout the movie, I kept thinking of a friend of mine in Houston who would just love the movie. She's a big Rolling Stones fan, and I bet she'd love Johnny Depp's "Keith Richards". She also used to do costumes for plays in college and would have loved the costumes in this movie.
So when I got home I sat down to email her about it, only to find an email from her in my box. She's directing a community theatre production of The Hobbit down in Houston in August and September. It's her first directing gig, and she's nervous but excited about it. She's just about to start auditioning the kiddies for roles. She emailed me a couple of months ago, asking for suggestions of how to somehow include the character of Legolas in the play. She wanted to know more about links between The Hobbit and LOTR and also the Dwarves' names because apparently in the play they're referred to as stuff like Dwarf #3 or something. So I gave her the names and told her about later happenings in the lives of Balin in Moria and Gloin and how Gloin's treatment at the hands of the Wood Elves in The Hobbit came up at the Council of Elrond in the book and that Gimli was Gloin's son. I also suggested to her that she email news about her play to Xoanon@theonering.net and that if she did I'd get on the TORN boards and talk up her play a little.
Mom and Dad got a car with one of them newfangled CD players in it recently. My parents only have a few CDs that a friend burned for them on his computer so I bought some CDs for Dad's upcoming birthday today. He's of the big band era so I got him a CD with various artists of that time. But I figured he might want to hear something new. I bet he'd like Harry Connick so I got Dad one of his recordings, and then I got him something really "wild" (for him), my favorite Lyle Lovett CD, Pontiac. I hope he likes them.
We've been busy today, and it's not even evening yet!

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The president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, says only a miracle can deny the Black Stars qualification to the Brazil 2014 World Cup today.
"We haven't qualified yet but we will qualify. It will only take a miracle for us not to qualify,� the FA boss told the Daily Graphic yesterday at the team's J.W. Marriott Hotel in Cairo.
�Failing to qualify will be the biggest miracle we are yet to see but miracles don't happen like that. We have done our work very well and God will shower His blessings on the team to qualify,� Nyantakyi declared confidently.
He said during the Stars' training camp in Istanbul, one could see the determination and positive competitiveness among the players to do well, giving him hope of another good performance in today's game.
�I think we had a very good preparation in Istanbul and we will see the outcome of that today. Now, the focus is to qualify to the third World Cup and make history and that is the greatest motivation of the players.�
The determined Black Stars team and officials arrived in Cairo in the early hours of yesterday and are so far satisfied with the security arrangements put in place by the Egyptians.
"So far what we've seen confirms the arrangement we were told would be put in place and there has been a strict compliance with that.
"As soon as we arrived at the airport the security men met us right at the tube and we didn't waste time at all going through immigration� the passports were left behind and we boarded a bus straight to our hotel and there was adequate security around the team,� he disclosed.
The Ghana team was scheduled to train at the match venue behind closed doors last night.
Meanwhile, 11 security men from the National Security headed by security expert, Alhaji Lartey, have been deployed to provide adequate security for the Black Stars at their hotel in Cairo till the end of the assignment.
One of the security personnel who spoke to the Daily Graphic yesterday said more of their men were expected to arrive in Cairo with the supporters� groups today.
Source: Daily Graphic
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If you are one of the avid bikers and love to park antique pieces from bygone era in your garage, this 110 years old bike is a thing for you. Built in 1902, the historic Rambler Model B from the Indian Motorcycle Museum is in rare and original, un-restored condition. The bike was built by Colonel Albert Pope’s American Cycle Manufacturing Company which was based in NY is having original paint, thanks to the decades long careful preservation and protection provided by Indian Motorcycle Museum.
The Rambler Model B bike that marks the progressive journey of bicycle to motorbike boasted the extremely advanced production technologies of the times it was manufactured in. It was one of the first motorcycles to have long wheelbase for stability and it was really a high quality machine. Bike hasn’t been restored or repainted since it came into being in 1902 and has the distinction of being America’s first production motorcycle.
Featuring an engine that was designed and made by Cycle Manufacturing Company and frame of the motorbike was specially built and differs considerably from a bicycle frame. One of the world’s first commercial motorbikes ever built, Rambler Model B is not only the physical representation of American heritage, but is the rarest among the rare motorcycles ever built. Bonhams estimates the bike to fetch anything between $60,000 and $80,000 at Bonhams Las Vegas Motorcycle Sale on Thursday, January 10th, 2013.

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Deepika Padukone has worked under Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s direction for three back-to-back films
Priyanka Chopra has fondly recounted that it was her film “Dostana” which gave her the ‘desi’ epithet.
Sidharth Malhotra was last seen in a suspense-thriller drama “Ittefaq”
Sonam Kapoor says Akshay Kumar is the perfect person to play the lead role in “Padman”.
Karan Johar is debuting as a radio jockey on a private radio station as a “love guru”
Alia Bhatt is playing the main lead in Meghna Gulzar’s “Raazi”
Gael Garcia Bernal says working on “Coco”was an amazing experience.
Sujoy Ghosh has resigned as head of the jury of the Indian Panorama of the 48th International Film Festival
Deepika Padukone never imagined she would be a Sanjay Leela Bhansali heroine
Vidyut Jammwal starrer “Junglee”, about elephant poaching and ivory smuggling, has been locked for release on Dussehra


Former WNBA #1 draft pick and Russian prisoner Brittney Griner suited up for the Phoenix Mercury for the first time since being repatriated to American soil following her arrest and imprisonment for breaking the law overseas.
Long the subject of how she’d handle her eventual return to the court and address past national anthem controversies, Griner surprised many with her on-court handling of the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner.
Back in the summer of 2020, Griner shared a view common among Black Lives Matter that the anthem was rooted in racism. “I honestly feel we should not play the national anthem during our season,” Griner said during an interview in July of that summer. “I think we should take that much of a stand.”
“I’m going to protest regardless,” she added. “I’m not going to be out there for the national anthem. If the league continues to want to play it, that’s fine. It will be all season long, I’ll not be out there. I feel like more are going to probably do the same thing. I can only speak for myself.”
What a difference a few years and foreign prison stint can do for a person. Now, having felt the true sting of an actually harsh criminal justice system and perhaps realizing her wonderful blessings at home, replete with the right to partake in nominally illicit drugs without penalty and make far more money playing a sport nobody watches, Griner is turning heads with her maturation.
Indeed, she is sounding more and more like her former conservative detractors who felt little pity for what they saw as an entitled brat.
“Hearing the national anthem, it definitely hit different,” Griner said. “It’s like when you go for the Olympics, you’re sitting there, about to get gold put on your neck, the flags are going up, and the anthem is playing, it just hits different. “Being here today … it means a lot.”
“We looked at each other, and we just had chills,” Mercury coach Vanessa Nygaard said. “We were here last year for all of it. I’m getting emotional about it now. Just to see her back out there — it’s an absolute miracle. It was amazing. It’s giving me chills again.”
After the game, she also spoke about her performance on the court. “Not where I want it to be, but on the right track,” Griner said. “We’re making the right moves.”
To be sure, this is what many folks were hoping they’d see from Griner. She has been blessed with height and athleticism and is able to make a comfortable living in America because of it. Nobody cares about her identity as a black or lesbian woman, however much the left decides to make it an issue.
Still, though her left-wing activism and virtue signaling for the anthem might have changed, it doesn’t mean she’s entirely woken up to the many other narratives found within her political circles.
Brittney Griner claims it’s a “crime” to stop biological males from being able to compete against women in sports. pic.twitter.com/CTM9mV9nDz
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) April 28, 2023
“Good morning, Brittney. I’m Mr. Bill Rodin from ESPN… It’s really great to see you,” the bizarrely timid reporter begins as if he is speaking in front of royalty. “It’s good to know the prayers been answered. Um, question, um, you’ve always represented so much throughout your entire career by access, and, you know, being able to do stuff, and I hate to put one more thing on your plate, but, there are a number of states who are aggressively moving to prevent transgender athletes playing.”
“And I was wondering, again, I hate to put one more thing on your plate, but, in terms of it being on your radar where is that you’re gonna have a tremendous platform. But where it is that gon a be on your radar in terms of advocating for you know, athletes, transgender athletes, being able to play,” he said as he finally finished his softball, soapbox question.
Griner didn’t waste any time to respond: “Oh, I mean that that ranks high on the on the list of things that I’ll be fighting for and speaking up against, you know, everyone has – everyone deserves the right to play, everyone deserves the right to come here, sit in these seats and feel safe and not feel, um, like there’s a threat or they can’t be who they are or, um, like. Like it’s just all eyes on them. So I think it’s a crime honestly, to separate, um, someone for any reason.
“So I definitely will be speaking up against those that legislation and those laws that are trying to be passed for sure,” she finished.
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I came across this and always get asked what can I grow at home if I do not have a garden.. So here it is and all in one article too! Enjoy and lets get planting!!
By Rachel Cernansky – planetgreen.discovery.com
Growing your own food is exciting, not only because you get to see things grow from nothing into ready-to-eat fruits and veggies, but you also don’t have to worry about the pesticides they might contain, and you definitely cut down on the miles they—and you—have to travel.
As it turns out, with pretty minimal effort, anyone can be a gardener. My boyfriend and I are essentially first-timers this season and so far have the beginnings of strawberries peeking out, tomatoes are on their way, the basil’s about ready for a big batch of pesto, and once the last frost hits, the peppers, kale, spinach, chard, and mesclun will be on their way, too. All on a tiiiny little terrace.
If you’re up to the challenge—and it really isn’t much of one—growing your own food can be so rewarding. And so much cheaper! Just be sure to choose the right…
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Have you ever met anyone in your life who doesn’t like nature, flowers, flowing rivers, starlit sky, mountains and lakes… At least I haven’t! No matter how depressed or upset you are, there is an instant relief and soothing feeling the moment you connect with nature.
Few days back, when I felt exhausted after handling my kids all day long and the endless house chores, I decided to pass the buck to my husband and go out for a lone walk. While I was relishing the cool breeze and beautiful colorful trees on my way, a thought struck me hard – if the green trees and blue sky created by God gives me peace and calms my mind, why His other and most amazing creation human being doesn’t do the same? Why did I run away from my kids and husband to get peace from nature? Aren’t they a part of this nature too? Isn’t your ‘hard to please’ mom in law or your grumpy boss created by the same Supreme power too? Then why don’t we feel the same tranquility in their presence?
Now, it took me a few days to get the answer but I am glad that I got! I came across a video which explained that we accept everything in nature as it is. We don’t judge a tree by how crooked its branches are. We don’t find faults in the waves at the beach. Nor do we complain of how tall the mountains stand. We don’t want to change how things look and work in nature. But for the people around us, we want everybody to change. We complain, we nag, we criticize, we judge constantly! We don’t accept them, their imperfections and their behavior. So how can we enjoy something which is not acceptable to us.
I loved the concluding words of that video – the moment we accept the universe as it is, we become happy effortlessly. So just by keeping in mind that our family members and the other people we deal with everyday, are a part of this universe too, we might start accepting them and we won’t have to run away from them for peace.

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Johansen finalists in art competition
January 12, 2023
Jackson Hole Still Works (JHSW) has announced the finalists for their 2023 “Spirit of Wyoming” Vodka Label Art Competition. Eight finalist artists from eight different towns across Wyoming and Idaho have made the cut from an incredible array of entries.
The finalists for the next Jackson...


Hardline voices from the Heartland turn the tables on McCain and Kennedy during election cycle
By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | March 22, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John McCain have all but abandoned plans to cosponsor a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year, as McCain faces tough questions from conservatives on the presidential campaign trail about his support for immigrants' rights.
Kennedy, frustrated by the slow progress of his negotiations with McCain, is instead considering filing a bill on his own, modeled largely on the measure endorsed by the Senate Judiciary Committee last year. McCain is continuing to talk to Kennedy about immigration proposals, but the Arizona Republican has not committed to supporting Kennedy's approach.
The erosion of the unlikely political partnership that brought the liberal Kennedy and the conservative McCain (McCain is a big government liberal posing as a neoconservative -- Editor) together on immigration suggests a tough road ahead for passing a sweeping immigration measure this year. Further complicating efforts to find consensus, a group of Republicans is working with the White House to draft an alternative bill.
McCain's hesitancy about joining Kennedy on the same issue they worked together on in the previous Congress also speaks to an emerging dynamic in the Republican presidential race.
McCain has encountered anger from hard-line immigration foes on the campaign trail, particularly over an aspect in last year's bill that would have allowed most undocumented immigrants to work toward citizenship. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, one of McCain's rivals for the GOP nomination, has been especially sharp in his condemnation of McCain's approach to immigration.
Senator Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican who is supporting Romney's candidacy, said McCain appears to be learning that Republicans won't accept proposals that allow undocumented immigrants to gain legal status until the borders are secured.


14th August 2014
Mahela Jayawardene made just four in the first innings of his final Test as Sri Lanka fell to 261 for eight against Pakistan in Colombo on day one of the second Test.
11th August 2014
Pakistan bowler Saeed Ajmal has been reported for appearing to bowl with a suspect action during his side's seven-wicket loss against Sri Lanka at Galle International Stadium, an ICC statement has confirmed.
9th August 2014
Kumar Sangakkara scored his 10th Test double-century to leave Sri Lanka holding the upper hand against Pakistan in the first Test in Galle.
7th August 2014
Pakistan posted their highest first innings Test match total for eight years as they continued to hold the upper hand against Sri Lanka in Galle.
6th August 2014
Younus Khan struck an unbeaten century as Pakistan recovered from a stuttering start to close on 261 for four on day one of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle.


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We identify more than 30 day trips from Champaign-Urbana that could add a little spice to your summer.
You won’t leave your house, but you’ll feel like you did — take a virtual field trip to one of these Illinois locations.
Looking for family fun, but want to “get away”? Pack the kids in the car for a day trip to our neighbors to the West in Peoria.
The Peoria Riverfront Museum is just one of the gems this little city has to offer.


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For a portable gaming and entertainmentexperience unlike anything else, look no further than the Sony PS VITA ! This handheld console offers WiFi and 3G connectivity, allowing you to interactwith other gamers, friends and family using the multi-touch pad. Product details : – CPU: ARM CortexTM-A9 processor (quad core) – GPU: SGX543MP4+ – External dimensions: 182 x 18.6 x 83.5 mm – Touch screen: 5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, 16 million colours, OLEDmulti-touch screen (capacitive – Rear touch pad – multi-touch pad (capacitive pad) – Cameras: front camera and rear camera – Sound: built-in stereo speakers, built-in microphone – Sensors: six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axisaccelerometer), three-axis electronic compass – Location: built-in GPS, wireless location service support – Keys/switches: PS button, power button, directional buttons(up/down/right/left), action buttons (triangle, circle, cross, square),shoulder buttons (right/left), right stick, left stick, START button, SELECTbutton, volume buttons (+/-) – Wireless communication: mobile network connectivity (3G), IEEE 802.11b/g/n (wireless),infrastructure mode/ ad hoc mode, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR A memory card is required to play and save content on the PS VITA. (may require an EU/UK adaptor which is included free of charge)


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This 'Shine Bright’ decal / wall sticker with pink and gold crown is a beautiful image and message. Stick it on the wall, no framing required and you’re done! Add something special to your child's room. And if you want to move it, just peel it off and reposition it- it’s totally reusable and will not leave a sticky residue.
Decals are made of high quality, eco-friendly, woven, non-toxic fabric with a similar feel to canvas.
Easy to apply
Quote reads- Shine Bright
This ‘'Shine Bright’ decal / wall sticker measures 35.5 x 28.5 cm.

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I hope everyone is having a great easter! It's a great opportunity to catch up with friends and family, enjoy some good food, and indulge in a bit of chocolate - which is exactly what I have been up to. This is a recipe I have been wanting to try for a long time and I'm so glad I finally got around to it. These brownies taste rich and indulgent but are in fact really quite good for you.
- 2 cups cooked black beans
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup cacao powder
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tbs almond milk
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 tsp coconut oil
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup desiccated coconut to sprinkle on top
- Simply combine all the ingredients (except for the chocolate chips and coconut) together in a food processor and process until you get a smooth batter.
- Stir in half of the chocolate chips and then pour into a lined slice tray.
- Sprinkle with coconut and the remaining chocolate chips.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick is inserted and comes out clean.
- Allow to cool before cutting and serving.
Black beans are rich in numerous vitamins and minerals. As well as this they are high in fibre, folate, protein and antioxidants. Because of the high quantity of both fibre and protein, black beans aid in moving food through the intestines at a healthier pace, maximising digestive health. This also aids in blood sugar regulation. The abundance of soluble fibre in black beans is also beneficial for cardiovascular health as it has been found to aid in lowering blood cholesterol levels.


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What folks aren’t posting is why this is important. As a survivor of computing in the 80s, I’ll provide my votes:
The history and source of early computing is being preserved and opened up – vintage computing is huge right now and having the materials from that era are vital.
MS-DOS has a checkered history and does things in unorthodox manners at times. Looking at the source code, one can read the comments and see why PC-DOS (for IBM) and MS-DOS (Microsoft) differed.
There are efforts to save computing on old platforms. Some important code only runs on now ancient operating systems. Those system environments must be recreatable to be able to run the important software that was developed specifically for that OS and that era.
Do you believe this is an important step? Post in the comments below.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.

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Charli Damelio Photos Of Life Till Now? Bio, Career, and Personal Life
Here we are talking about Charli Damelio, her biography, career, and personal life.
Who Is Charli Damelio?
Charli Grace D’Amelio was born on May 1, 2004, in Norwalk, Connecticut to photographers Heidi and Marc D’Amelio, both of whom previously ran for the Senate in Connecticut as Republicans. Dixie, her older sister, is also famous on the internet. She has been dancing since the age of three and competed for nearly a decade before beginning her TikTok career in 2019. She had previously gone to the exclusive King School in Stamford, Connecticut, but after her TikTok fame, she started taking classes online instead.
Biography of Charli Damelio
Social media star Charli Grace D’Amelio was born in the United States. For more than a decade, she competed in the field of dance before she launched her social media career in 2019 when she began posting content on the video-sharing platform TikTok. Her dance videos quickly became popular on TikTok. She became the most popular content producer on the site until July 2022, when Khaby Lame surpassed her in popularity.
D’Amelio’s first acting assignment was a voice role in the upcoming 2020 animated film StarDog and TurboCat. She’s been in the spotlight as a leading lady since 2021 when she made her debut on the Hulu documentary series The D’Amelio Show. D’Amelio was a celebrity contestant on the 31st season of Dancing with the Stars in 2022, dancing partnered with Mark Ballas.
She has also written books, started a podcast, and created a line of nail polish, a mattress, a makeup line, a clothesline, and a multi-product business. She was the first user of TikTok to reach 50 million followers and the first to reach 100 million followers. Forbes reports that D’Amelio will be the highest-paid TikTok personality in 2022 and the highest-paid female personality in 2019. It’s been said that she’s the most popular user on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Career Life of Charli Damelio
D’Amelio’s debut TikTok video, posted in May of 2019, has the two of them lip-syncing to a song. In July of 2019, she uploaded her first popular video, a side-by-side collaboration with user Move With Joy. Since then, most of her uploads have been dance videos set to popular tunes on the service. She became even more famous in October 2019 as she posted footage of herself doing the “Renegade” to the song “Lottery” by K Camp. She was thereafter called the “CEO of Renegade” by TikTok users and wrongly credited with originating the dance, which led to widespread recognition of her work. D’Amelio attracted internet criticism for failing to give credit where credit was due after a New York Times biography of dancer Jalaiah Harmon revealed that she was the original inventor of the dance. With her sister Dixie, she recently joined the TikTok content company The Hype House in November of 2019.
In late 2019, D’Amelio signed with Outshine Talent, run by former Sony Music executive Barbara Jones; in early 2020, she and the rest of her family joined United Talent Agency. Bebe Rexha asked D’Amelio to join her onstage in November 2019 as she opened for the Jonas Brothers. In the same month, she launched a vlog channel on YouTube under her name.
D’Amelio was one of several famous faces to feature in a Super Bowl ad for Sabra Hummus in February 2020. She appeared in the Nickelodeon TV special #KidsTogether: The Nickelodeon Town Hall, hosted by Kristen Bell, and she and her sister collaborated with UNICEF on an anti-bullying campaign in March 2020. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine praised her efforts to promote social distance during the COVID-19 outbreak the same month when she collaborated with Procter & Gamble to launch the #DistanceDance challenge campaign on TikTok.
She was nominated for a Streamy Award in the category “Social Good Campaign” because of her work on the campaign. She also overtook American social media star Loren Gray to become TikTok’s most-followed user and the platform’s first to reach 50 million followers. When “We’re All In This Together” from High School Musical was performed on ABC’s The Disney Family Singalong in April 2020, D’Amelio was there to be a part of it.
In May of 2020, D’Amelio and her sister shared the news that they had signed a podcasting agreement with Ramble Podcast Network. They also appeared alongside other celebrities in LeBron James’s television show Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020. In the same month, she also stopped hanging out at the Hype House. D’Amelio plays Tinker in the upcoming 2019 animated children’s film StarDog and TurboCat, which will be released in the United States in June 2020.
She and her sister had a makeup line called Morphe 2 released the same month they teamed up with Morphe Cosmetics. In addition, in August of 2020, Charli and Dixie collaborated with Orosa Beauty to release a line of nail polishes called Coastal Craze. D’Amelio revealed the title and release date of her first book, Essentially Charli: The Ultimate Guide to Keeping It Real, for December 1, 2020, later that month. Abrams Books released the book. D’Amelio’s upbringing and family life were discussed along with issues of identity, cyberbullying, social media, and body image. A New York Times bestseller, the book did quite well.
Personal Life of Charli Damelio
D’Amelio claims to have an eating disorder. She has spoken out about being the target of fat-shaming comments. She spoke out against cyberbullying in a UNICEF ad, saying, “Some of the most painful remarks that I read about myself online are about my body shape, my body type, which hits close to home since I struggled a lot with body image, body dysmorphia, unhealthy eating habits.”
D’Amelio has been mystified by her sudden fame. She stated, during an interview with Variety, “I’m just a regular kid who a lot of people like to keep an eye on, I guess. I’m still trying to wrap my brain around it, but right now it just doesn’t add up.”
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Though some services may charge more depending on parts and labor, most typical repairs range from as little as $30 to around $70.
Does Best Buy fix headphone jacks?
Headphone Jack Installation, Support & Repair Services – Best Buy.
Can an earphone be fixed?
Cheap earbuds are disposable, but don’t toss out an expensive pair. If the problem is a broken connection, you can fix them yourself with a soldering iron and electronics solder. Allow the soldered connection to cool and then test the earbud.
What should I do when my earphones stop working?
Simply plug them into your audio source and try to listen to something. If they don’t work, you likely just mixed up the right and left signal wires. Sometimes the casing can fit a bit tight and push the wires together. None of the wires should touch each other or a contact that it’s not soldered to.
Why is my headset jack not working?
Check audio settings and restart the device There’s also a chance the problem isn’t with the jack or the headphones you’re using but has to do with the device’s audio settings. If this is the case, you’ll be able to sort it out in no time. The most obvious fix is to check if you muted your phone or put the volume down.
What are 3.5 mm headphones?
The 3.5mm headphone jack is an industry standard audio plug. Most commonly used for connecting a pair of stereo headphones to your smartphone or ‘piping’ your audio from your phone to an external amp either in your home or your car. Dependent on the number of connector rings, headphones can also include a microphone.
Are all 3.5 mm jacks the same?
Brief Description. Now-a-days 3.5mm is the universal audio jack size to be found in Smartphones, PC and Laptops. There are different types of 3.5mm audio jack available with different application like TS, TRS, and TRRS, but the most common that we see in daily life is TRS and TRRS.
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How to fix earphones when only one side is working Straighten out the earphone cord. Try another pair of earphones. Clean the headphone jack. Restart the device. Check the device audio settings. Check for the earphone damaged wires.
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How to Fix Headphones without Soldering Step 1: Cut the AUX cable. Step 2: Remove the rubber sheath. Step 3: Clean the varnish. Step 4: Cut the headphone cable. Step 5: Twist the wires. Step 6: Isolate the wires.
Why do my headphones keep losing in one ear?
There can be many reasons that a pair of headphones only play audio out of one ear. The most common reason for sound to only come out of one side is the wires near the audio jack have gotten bent back and forth so many times that it has caused a short in the wiring.
How do I fix my headphones not working on my computer?
Fix Headphones Not Working In Windows Preliminary checks. Use the Windows Troubleshooter. Use the Audio Troubleshooter. Check Sound drivers. Update or Rollback drivers. Update or Rollback Windows Updates. Perform a System Restore. Repair or Replace.
Why are my headphones crackling?
A loose or partially plugged in pair of headphones will often crackle due to a poor electrical connection. If certain bass or treble settings are set too high, the volume can max out and then cause cracking and popping noises and can actually harm your headphone speakers.
Why won’t my headphones connect?
On Android, tap the Settings cog next to a paired device and choose Unpair (or Forget, as it’s labeled on some phones). Recharge the battery. Try plugging them in and charging them fully before pairing, even if they say they have some battery left. Make sure both devices are compatible.
How do you fix earphones?
Ruling Out Phone or PC Settings Try another pair of earphones. The first step is to get a pair of perfectly working earphones and connect them to your device. Restart the device. Another simple fix you may want to try is restarting your device. Check the settings. Clean the headphone jack.
What does 3.5 mm look like?
Types Of 3.5 mm Plugs We’re all familiar with the standard headphone plug. It kind of looks like a bullet, there’s a sleeve, pointy tip, and rings. The number of rings is what sets apart 3.5 mm plugs from each other. The tip of the plug carries the audio signal(the audio input).
What is a headphone jack called?
A phone connector, also known as phone jack, audio jack, headphone jack or jack plug, is a family of electrical connectors typically used for analog audio signals. The standard is that a plug (described as the male connector) will connect with a jack (described as female).
Why do some headphone jacks have 3 rings?
Two rings mean stereo. These plugs have three pins, one for the left channel, one for the right, and one for ground. Three separating rings means you’ve got two stereo pins, and a microphone pin as well, and is the one you’re most likely to run into when you’re looking at smartphone earbuds.
Can I use headphones on 3.5 mm jack?
Amateur radios use this jack as a speaker-microphone, and some microphone units for musicians use this input. While not as popular as a universal serial bus (USB) port, this jack also is used to transfer data with some devices. Mostly commonly, the 3.5mm headphone jack is used for headphones and earbuds.
How do I know if my headphones are blown?
A headphone driver is blown when you can hear a rattle or distorted sound, or if they won’t work at all. However, it’s actually difficult to blow drivers as headphones aren’t designed for high output power, or extreme volumes. It’s more likely that your driver is dirty or has loose parts.


The Lensbaby Edge 35 Filter Adapter allows for the convenient use of 62mm screw-on filters with a Lensbaby Edge 35 Optic. After being fitted over the front of a Lensbaby Edge 35 Optic, this clamp-on adapter's locking lever provides a firm and reliable connection.
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|Front Accessory Thread||62 mm|
|Outer Diameter||2.7" / 68.58 mm|
|Weight||0.39 oz / 11 g|


Supervisors OK Plan to Clean Up Vandalism : Crime: Key features include ‘graffiti-free zones,’ diversion programs, a citizens complaint process and restitution.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted an anti-graffiti plan Tuesday that for the first time seeks to forge an alliance with cities, private agencies and citizens to combat graffiti vandalism countywide.
The plan calls for development of a model anti-graffiti ordinance for unincorporated areas of the county with the recommendation that each city in the county adopt the same ordinance. It also covers provisions for physical cleanup and deterrence, law enforcement tactics, diversion and education programs and establishment of a countywide anti-graffiti hot line.
A spokeswoman for Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti said his office will work with the county to implement recommendations, and a representative of Mayor Richard Riordan praised the plan and said the mayor would support the program in Los Angeles.
Some experts questioned whether the county can coordinate a task that involves hundreds of volunteer workers as well as public agencies.
“If they can do that in all the communities it would be great, but I don’t think it’s going to be as easy as it sounds,” said Norma Solis, who runs the graffiti-removal program for El Centro De Amistad, a Canoga Park-based community group.
“The paint, the sandblasters, the vans, the gas, the insurance, hey, all those things cost a lot of money and everybody has a different agenda,” she warned.
But Bob Wallin, a Caltrans engineer involved with graffiti removal, said the coordinated county effort is exactly what’s needed to avoid public and private agencies from duplicating efforts.
“We now have a complete package . . . that is far more comprehensive than anything we’ve ever done,” said Supervisor Deane Dana, who made the motions that the plan be developed and adopted. “The goal of everyone is that we reduce the amount of graffiti.”
Specific features of the plan include:
* Implementation of a pilot zero-tolerance program that would be phased in countywide. Under the program, targeted areas in each of the five supervisorial districts would be declared “graffiti-free zones” with all resources marshaled into cleaning up graffiti immediately.
* A countywide graffiti compliance program aimed at businesses. This would require employers to educate workers about restrictions on the sale of spray paint, markers and other paraphernalia to minors, place spray paints in inaccessible areas, remove graffiti from businesses within 48 hours, sponsor a neighborhood “graffiti-buster” group and provide money or gift certificates for those who call the anti-graffiti hot line.
* Coordination with the district attorney’s office, sheriff’s and probation departments and the Department of Children’s Services to develop diversion programs that would address the family needs of youthful graffiti vandals rather than prosecute them.
* Establishment of a citizen complaint and hearing process that would provide a non-judicial forum for graffiti-related complaints by citizens.
* Establishing a county policy to seek restitution from graffiti violators or their parents with the money used to repay victims and fund a reward program.
Dana said that the costs of the program have not been determined, but that the county is hoping to use existing resources and staff to carry out most of its programs.
The county has received donations of $2,500 from Pacific Bell and $2,000 from Familian Pipe and Supply for the program and commitments of $10,000 each from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Caltrans to fund the anti-graffiti hot line.
In other action Tuesday, the county delayed consideration of proposals by Supervisor Mike Antonovich that would restore million of dollars in funding to the sheriff’s and probation departments, the district attorney’s office and the coroner, all of which took cutbacks during the recent round of budget decisions.
Antonovich is proposing to pay for the restorations with recently discovered budget savings estimated at $80 million. The savings have sparked a new round of budget considerations and disagreements. Supervisor Gloria Molina has proposed that the money be used to restore funding for libraries and the general relief welfare program, among other things.
Consideration of both motions was delayed until the board’s next meeting.


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This pack contains one resin Cataphract miniature with extra weapons. It enables you to make either the standard, Scourge or Tank Hunter variant. The blister pack also includes the ‘Lord’ command option with ECCM capabilities. It stands 57mm tall mounted on its base and is 1/144 scale.
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- Additional weapon options
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MEDFORD, Ore. — For the first time, parents now have the option of vaccinating their children against COVID-19 at the Jackson County Expo Vaccination Site.
The vaccines are available for children aged 5 to 11-years-old.
“There are about 28 million kids between the ages of 5 and 11 in the United States, 337,000 of those are in Oregon,” said Jonathan Modie with the Oregon Health Authority.
Modie says parents who choose to get their children vaccinated are helping with stopping the spread of COVID-19.
“[It’s] really important that these vaccines be made available to 5 to 11-year-olds, it’s important to note that they can get sick and we have had deaths in Oregon among kids within that age group.”
He says not only will the pediatric vaccine help protect children from COVID – it will help the state combat the pandemic. “We know the vaccines can build a level of immunity that could potentially spill over into protecting someone from a new variant,” he said.
Though the pediatric vaccines are just being offered locally, children in other parts of the state have already been getting vaccinated.
Modie says over 74,000 children are vaccinated thus far, meaning nearly a quarter of the children in the state have gotten their COVID shots.
“High volume vaccination sites in southern Oregon, central Oregon, eastern Oregon, Portland metro area — we encourage folks to go to those events, they are free, they don’t have to have insurance, they can drive up, they can walk up and get a shot,” Modie said.
If you’d like to get your child or yourself vaccinated, the vaccination site at the expo is located at Gate 1.5.
It’s open Monday through Thursday from 12 – 6, and on Sundays from 11 – 4.
The site will be closed December 23rd – 26th due to the holidays.
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