Pet ownership is a great way to add companionship to peoples' lives. Of course, there is a lot of responsibility involved, from walking your furry friend to feeding them the right nutritional food. Two of the most popular pets worldwide are cats and dogs, and deciding between them can be tough, but it's important to choose the right one for both their happiness and that of their owner.
Cats are independent creatures that can disappear for days only to mysteriously reappear. Dogs, on the other hand, are much more reliant on their owners. If you don't mind being constantly needed by your pet, then get a dog. However, if you like your space, then a cat is the better option.
When it comes to noise decimals, cats are a lot quieter than dogs. Dogs can often bark and howl, especially after moving to a new home. Of course, this does depend on the breed.
With cats, you may experience some loud purring, but that's about it. However, if a cat comes in contact with a dog, then there will be a lot of noise.
When trying to determine which pets are the best, you should keep in mind that dogs need constant attention and maintenance. You will need to play with them, walk them daily, feed them, and just be their friend. In contrast, cats require a lot less attention. They can spend a lot of time to themselves and are a lot less of a time investment.
Don't get a dog if you are simply too busy with work or other commitments. Nobody wants to get one and then feel guilty about not finding the time to walk it.
Around 10% of people have pet allergies, with cat allergies being significantly more common than dog allergies (about twice as much). Now, most people believe that these allergies are caused by fur. However, it is the proteins found in the pet's skin, urine, and saliva that are the true culprits.
Make sure you consider the other people in your house before getting either pet. Many people don't advertise their allergies so if you are unsure then just ask them directly. The last thing you want to do is get a pet and then find out a family member is allergic. The same goes for any regular friends and visitors to the house.
This category is pretty close. Both cats and dogs require an initial investment of roughly the same amount. Cats need scratching posts and litter while dogs need a leash and a dog bed or dog house if living outdoors. Both pets will require toys as well.
As for feeding them, dog food is more expensive, and more of it is needed. Just make sure you can commit to the financial side of pet ownership.
You don't want to get a pet that ends up as more of a problem than a companion. That's why you should consider the responsibilities and potential problems assorted which cats and dogs. Don't forget to consider the other people in your home. They may need reassurance or just not be compatible with a particular pet.


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The World Calls Me
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When the Princess Becomes a Queen
that girl named madie
"I am not that kind of girl." She exclaimed with passionate conviction.
"Well then, what kind of girl are you?" He asked curiously.
I am this kind of girl:
I am the kind of girl who dances on warm spring days in my favorite blue fuzzy socks, wearing one of my older brother's T-shirts and listening to Coldplay.
I am the kind of girl who feels happier when her five-year-old brother gives her a tiny blue forget-me-not than when a boy gives her a rose.
I am the kind of girl who wears her brother's baseball and golf hats for two reasons: 1- She doesn't have to do her hair and 2- They smell really good.
I am the kind of girl who writes poetry about sticky notes but always loses them before she can use them.
I am the kind of girl who is hopelessly and utterly romantic but finds that fictional boy characters always beat the real ones.
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I am the kind of girl who recites lines to all the best Disney movies and sings along to Mulan's songs.
I am the kind of girl who loves Chaco's and gets insulted when no one else seems to recognize the brand.
I am the kind of girl who watches calligraphy handwriting just because it is so beautiful.
I am the kind of girl who uses paperclips to pick locks when she accidentally locks herself out of her own room.
I am the kind of girl who forgets when Science homework is due and stresses out about doing it.
I am the kind of girl who loves chess, one of the reasons being that the queen is the most powerful piece of the board. (It can do everything)
I am the kind of girl who reads Erin Hanson poetry and cries, because words are completely, unexplainably wonderful.
I am the kind of girl who has an addiction to applesauce and eats out a big container in her fridge.
I am the kind of girl who wears a PJ shirt and slick pants while studying Latin verbs.
I am the kind of girl who listens to Adele and eats ice cream.
I am the kind of girl who eats celery and peanut butter for a snack.
I am the kind of girl who grew up on porch swings with orange popsicles and her older brother's best friends.
I am the kind of girl who buys postcards from anywhere and everywhere and leaves them tucked in books in her bookshelf because she has no one to send them to.
I am the kind of girl who makes sand sculptures of dolphins and flowers at the beach.
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I am the kind of girl who recites all the main bones in her body before she goes to bed.
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I am the kind of girl who paradox.
I am the kind of girl who believes that people are the best and worst forms of poetry.
I am the kind of girl who listens to Grace Vanderwaal and swings her little brother around in a circle.
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I am the kind of girl who studies with a lead pencil in her mouth.
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I am the kind of girl who writes everything in a neon green sharpie.
I am the kind of girl who writes too late and dreams too much.
I am the kind of girl who didn't know who Millie Bobby Brown was until last week.
I am the kind of girl who always loved white crayons because they only showed up on dark paper.
I am the kind of girl who painted on an old pair of shorts to make them DIY.
I am the kind of girl who knits when she is nervous.
I am the kind of girl who made a slingshot out of a hanger when she was eight.
I am the kind of girl who quotes Shakespeare as comebacks and Jane Austin as love advice.
I am the kind of girl who wears an old stretchy teal t-shirt with a salsa stain on the left sleeve on Sundays.
I am the kind of girl who gathers ferns and flowers to make crowns.
I am the kind of girl who dressed up in a toga one day when I was eleven.
I am the kind of girl who wears an old pair of Burks from a bargain shop.
I am the kind of girl who fishes every day she can with her older brother.
I am the kind of girl who loves the words "The" and "Okay."
I am the kind of girl who reads books for the Children's section at the library still because the creativity and magic they express is wonderful.
I am the kind of girl who got creeped out while reading Alice in Wonderland.
I am the kind of girl who spins around in a circle and says, "Laetus." (Happy in Latin)
I am the kind of girl who calls boys, "Arrogant toe rags" similar to what Lily Evans called James Potter.
I am the kind of girl who lets her sketch books grow dusty, and her hands never become clean.
I am the kind of girl who gets lighting inspiration for stories and poetry.
I am the kind of girl who never does anything but swim at a pool.
I am the kind of girl whose dream job is at a library, bookstore, or bakery.
I am the kind of girl who slips little notes in her library books in case one day she will meet her best friend in the best place.
I am the kind of girl who walks around the house at 3.am. just wondering at the stillness of it.
I am the kind of girl who rather have penpals then people email her.
I am the kind of girl who listens to Lost Boy by Ruth B. and cries than the girl who cries over a chipped nail.
I am the kind of girl who watches Broadway shows, then the kind of girl who watches Stranger Things.
I am the kind of girl who lays on her brother's bed and watches him play video games.
I am the kind of girl who spends Friday nights at home and doesn't go to parties.
I am the kind of girl who loves rainy days.
I am the kind of girl who likes hot showers because they are the best place for thinking.
I am the kind of girl who loves the name "Wednesday."
I am the kind of girl who loves watching sports.
I am the kind of girl who says "Tushie" and "Tootles."
I am the kind of girl who loves eggrolls, lasagna, chicken salad, Italian food, and Mexican food.
I am the kind of girl who loves canoeing.
I am the kind of girl who loves metallic pens.
I am the kind of girl who loves the smell of lavender and lemons.
I am the kind of girl who reads Fault in our Stars when she is done with homework.
I am the kind of girl who cries when hearing about WW2.
I am the kind of girl who makes little notes and hearts for her friends.
I am the kind of girl who thinks that times like 8:44 are special.
I am the kind of girl who likes a.m. better than p.m.
I am the kind of girl who loves sleep.
I am the kind of girl who rather aviod boys.
I am the kind of girl who loves little kids.
I am the kind of girl who loves adjectives.
I am the kind of girl who can punt a soccer ball.
I am the kind of girl who can crash a golf cart.
I am the kind of girl who loves writing calligraphy and other funky writing styles.
And I am the kind of girl who is utterly fascinated with you.
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International Halal Showcase 2009 (MIHAS).
MIHAS is being held at the MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Centre here.
The exchange of the MoU will be witnessed by the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
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providing synergies and opportunities for strengthening Islamic trade.
intra-OIC trade by 20 percent by 2015.
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ARTFUL BLOGGER: Who said art teachers can't paint? Jinny Yu struts her stuff at Patrick Mikhail Gallery
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Jinny Yu, "Bent", 24"x17.5", oil on aluminium, 2011.
During a recent visit to the Canada Council Art Bank, I fell in love with a magical painting by Jinny Yu, an associate professor of visual art at the University of Ottawa.
At a giant six feet by six feet, there was a lot to love.
This new acquisition by the Art Bank had echoes of 1960s op art but with a far more contemporary feel. The green and black geometric shapes painted on a sheet of aluminum also spoke of computerized circuit boards or intersecting DNA tracks. They formed a complex puzzle that, if stared at too long, would begin to dance before your eyes.
The painting is called Story of a Global Nomad (De Vonk I). Its creator certainly is a global nomad. Yu was just 12 when she came with her family from South Korea to Montreal. She was educated at Concordia University in Montreal, York University in Toronto; for the last six years, she has been teaching in Ottawa. (more…)


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By LJ Taylor on	 May 25, 2014 Games
The closest thing the gaming scene has to Christmas is right around the corner. The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is taking place from the 10th to the 12th of June in Los Angeles and millions will be watching online as the biggest names in video game development gather to show off their upcoming games.
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are obviously the ones to watch out for, as the latter two attempt to catch up to the formidable lead Sony has taken since the start of the shift to the current generation of consoles last November. After a couple of tepid releases, the thing that will really shift the balance will be the upcoming exclusives on each platform. An iconic game that will move consoles is really what everyone is looking for at the moment.
Firstly, Sony will look to preserve it's lead in the market with an update on the games it showed last year as they approach imminent release. The racing game DriveClub is expected to be present along with gameplay from the Victorian steampunk shooter The Order: 1886. It is also rumoured that there will be new entries in the Uncharted and God of War series which, along with the imminent release of the massively hyped Watch_Dogs, should ensure that Sony remains a strong competitor in the field.
Microsoft will be playing catch up after a disastrous presentation last year. To succeed this time, they'll need to focus much more on games for the system, which is why they'll be showing off sequels to some of their classic exclusives. The recently announced Halo 5 will be there, along with Fable Legends and Forza Horizon 2. On top of this there are rumours of a Gears of War 4 which, combined with the new Call Of Duty game, would complete the trio of shooters that made the Xbox 360 so popular. They'll be looking to fill the dry spell until then with the wildcard third person shooters of Sunset Overdrive and Quantum Break.
This E3 is really make or break for Nintendo after dismal sales of the WiiU despite having a year's head-start on the competition. The "console-selling game" is even more important for them. Luckily, they have a few titles that may fill that role. Mario Kart 8 is launching just before E3, Super Smash Bros WiiU will be prominent, including a tournament at E3 itself, Bayonetta 2 will put a more mature-orientated game on the console and rumours of a new Legend of Zelda title and a Pokemon Fighting game will certainly draw interest to the system. If Nintendo pull it out of the bag this year, there's no reason why they wouldn't be able to make a U-turn in the market.
Essentially, it's all still to play for in the console war. Let's not forget about the multiplatform titles appearing however. Look out for Dragon Age: Inquisition, Batman: Arkham Knight, Destiny, Assassins Creed: Unity, Far Cry 4 and as always, if you're incredibly optimistic, Half Life 3.
LJ Taylor
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U.N. launches another record humanitarian appeal that will likely fall short
The United Nations issued another record appeal, asking for $22.2 billion in humanitarian crisis response funding for 2017. The appeal is 10 percent higher than last year's $19.7 billion appeal, which is only half funded, despite immense need.
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Migration summit failed: 2 weeks later nothing has changed
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'Leftover' Turkish-Armenian voices
The Hurriyet Daily News has referred to two books related to the Armenian genocide – "My Grandmother" by Fethiye Çetin and "Varsen Oruncakcıel: The Last Remaining Arapgirtsi" by Mayda Saris.
"Fethiye Çetin grew up believing she was of "pure" Turkish stock, until one day her aging grandmother, Seher, took her aside and revealed that she had in fact been born an Armenian Christian, originally named Heranuş Gadaryan. Plucked from a death march as a young girl in 1915, Seher was raised as a Muslim by a Turkish gendarmerie commander and his wife, only to become aware of her true origins later in life. Some estimates suggest that there are hundreds of thousands of "hidden" or "Islamized" Armenians still living in Turkey, so this story may not be as unique as it may first seem. What is certainly remarkable, though, is that Çetin's elegiac account of her grandmother's story found a wide audience when it was published in Turkish in 2004, (going into its tenth print run in 2012)," William Armstrong writes in an article published by the Hurriyet Daily News.
The first section of "My Grandmother" offers gentle, sepia-tinged descriptions of Fethiye's rural upbringing with her family in the eastern Turkish province of Elazığ: her beautiful sisters; her grandfather whose mood always depended on how full his stomach was; her grandmother, the charismatic matriarch of the family, powerful but taciturn, as if always harboring the secret that would one day be revealed to Fethiye. The central revelation in fact doesn't come until midway through the book, but when it does Çetin writes that what she heard "did not fit with anything I knew. It turned the known world on its head, smashing my values into a thousand pieces." Seher, or Heranuş, was one of the "leftovers of the sword" of that traumatic period; only one of her sisters was also spared, while the rest of the family was killed off. The second part of the memoir consists of Çetin trying to digest the meaning of this heritage, and also trying to forge a reunion of the two sides of a family which now – like so many Armenian families – is "scattered like pomegranate seeds" across the world.
Armstrong continues that "It's a quietly powerful work, modest but courageous." There are no unnecessary fireworks or forced emotions. "There's little in the way of direct politics and no recriminations: I don't think the word "genocide" is mentioned once in the entire book (and that's not because of Turkish laws against these things). It's simply a human story, told in a very humane, unshowy way."
An ostensibly similar, (though slightly less high profile), book is "The Last Remaining Arapgirtsi," published in 2011 in the form of an extended interview with 95-year-old Varsen Oruncakcıel. Oruncakcıel was born in the village of Arapgir in the eastern province of Malatya, and was just one-year-old when the events of 1915 took place.
Over the course of the book, she gives simple, unembellished descriptions of both the difficulties and the joys of a long life spent between Arapgir, Malatya, and Istanbul. Family photographs are included, and while they show a lot of frowns and furrowed brows, they equally show a lot of smiling and celebrations. Although profoundly affected by the tragic shadow of 1915, Orancakcıel describes her life as being "colorful" – full of music, dancing and entertainment. Perhaps what is most striking about the book is this gentle confounding of the easy presumptions one might have about the nature of her story.
Neither of these books is concerned directly with the events of 1915, but it is their account of the effect on the "leftovers" that makes them interesting.


The Minnesota Humanities Center was founded in 1971, when the National Endowment for the Humanities began providing funding for state-based humanities programs.
The Humanities Center has always been a champion of education. Through the 1970s and 80s, our programming involved a range of education exploring Minnesota's people, sociology, and history in relation to the nation's. Televised and in-person programs strengthened how educators approach their content and classrooms, and examined rural-metropolitan worldviews.
In the 1990s, our public programming expanded. Traveling exhibits, international speakers, published books, and public events examined our nation and state's diverse, difficult histories and potential future. After decades sharing offices in downtown St Paul, in 1996 the Humanities Center created its current home, a full-service event center in a former wing of Gillette Children's Hospital.
The new millennium bore new successes. New resources and experiences created in partnership with Minnesotans include an Emmy-winning Iron Range documentary, a nationally-recognized exhibit about the history and present of Dakota-U.S. treaties, a range of popular illustrated books for Hmong and Somali youth, and a collection of incisive prose and poetry exploring Minnesota's African American literary tradition, Blues Vision, in bookstores now.
The Humanities Center continues to engage our state's communities by exploring "absent narratives" —voices often left out or marginalized. Veterans' Voices amplifies Minnesotan military Veteran experiences through storytelling, workshops, and awards. We Are Water MN is an exhibit examining the practical, spiritual, and environmental roles of water in our lives. K-12 Education continues our education legacy through workshops, online learning, and field trips that examine the manifold cultures alive across Minnesota.


(Clearwisdom.net) Not long ago, the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group (www.falunhr.org) submitted a report to the United Nations and world governments about multiple cases of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities forcibly administering harmful drugs to Falun Gong practitioners. The report reveals the plight of twelve Falun Gong practitioners who were illegally detained in detention centers, forced labor camps and prisons in Qinghai Province, Hubei Province, Shandong Province and other places. During their detention, these practitioners were subjected to forcible administration of harmful drugs and torture, which resulted in their organ's atrophies, disability, mental breakdown and even death.
Torture by administering drugs and psychiatric torture is one of the major methods the CCP has been using to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. To make the practitioners subdue, the CCP makes use of concerted efforts between the hospital system and prison system to conduct this persecution, so that the persecution becomes even more covert and heinous.
1. Ms. Fan, Lihong: 29 years old. While she was incarcerated at the Qinghai Women's Forced Labor Camp, Ms. Fan was sent to a mental hospital where she was force-fed with harmful drugs and tortured, thus passed away.
2. Ms. Li, Guixiang: While she was detained at the Qinghai Women's Forced Labor Camp, she sustained wounds all over her body, and thus had difficulty walking.
3. Ms. Li, Jing, in her 60s: While she was detained at the Qinghai Women's Forced Labor Camp, Ms. Li became muddle-headed, agitated restlessly, she grasped the wall and gnawed the table.
4. Ms. Wang, Shujuan: While she was detained at the Qinghai Women's Forced Labor Camp, the guards stealthily put toxic chemicals into Ms. Wang's bowl of soup. Just one sip of soup caused her mouth to foam and her tongue to become numb. Her hands, legs and feet felt cold, numb, and painful. Her body suffered serious damage and her legs still feel numb and very painful.
5. Ms. Zhang, Xuefeng: While she was detained at the Qinghai Women's Forced Labor Camp, Ms. Zhang was injected with nerve-damaging drugs, resulting in her mental disorder and death.
6. Mr. He, Wanzhu: While he was detained at the Qinghai Men's Forced Labor Camp, the guards surreptitiously poisoned his meals. As a result he had tightness in his chest and his mouth became numb.
7. Ms. Luo, Fang: While at the Qinghai Women's Drug Rehabilitation Forced Labor Camp, after she was beaten and tortured, she was carried into the camp clinic, and was injected with unknown drugs. She became mentally disordered, gnawed at the table and crawled under the bed and table.
8. Ms. Li, Yuanping: While she was detained at the Qinghai Province Women's Drug Rehabilitation Forced Labor Camp, after she was shocked by electric batons and seriously injured, Ms. Li was forced to take round white pills. Afterwards she had nausea, felt numb, tired and weak, and could barely walk. Her speech and movement were stunted, and her reaction time and memory declined.
9. Mr. Ping, Chunfeng, a staff member at Qinghai Normal University: While he was detained at Duoba Town Forced Labor Camp between 2002 and 2003, he told people twice that he was injected with poisonous drugs and his food was laced with poison, which caused him muddle-headed, Mr. Ping died in 2005.
Since March 2006, Falun Gong practitioners who were released from the Hubei Province Jail have mostly been sent to the Jianghan District Brainwashing Center in Erdaopeng, Hankou. During this period of persecution, these practitioners experienced severe dizziness and agitation, tachycardia. Practitioners' resting heartbeat reached over 100 beats per minute; their physical reaction was not in accordance with their psychological condition (such as experiencing rapid heart beats while one's mind is obviously clear and not nervous), their faces were swollen and showed red spots--a phenomenon of detoxification.
1. Ms. Meng, Lijun: She was sentenced to 10 years in jail. While incarcerated at the Shangdong Women's Jail, she was injected with and fed nerve-damaging drugs, causing her to lose almost all her memory.
2. Mr. Jiang, Guobo: While he was detained at the Weifang Forced Labor Camp, he was subjected to drug harm. His food was mixed with harmful drugs that caused severe damage to his nerve system, blocked his bowel movement and urine, harming both his mind and body. On April 14, 2006, Mr. Jiang had symptoms of a serious heart attack and was at the brink of death. He was released on medical parole.
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The science fiction and superhero film, Turbo Kid, was released in 2015. It is only now beginning to be recognised as being a highly entertaining cult gem. The most recent praise was given by the film critics of Red Letter Media.
Turbo Kid is set in an alternate future, where the world has become a wasteland, after a war between humans and robots. The story focuses on one young man named Turbo Kid, as he tries to survive out on his own. He uses a bicycle to get around this barren landscape.
Bicycles and the act of cycling feature heavily throughout the film. It is a significant part of the storyline and the world in which the characters inhabit. It is set in the future where no cars exist. Therefore, the only way for both the heroes and villains to get around is by cycling.
At one point, the main character is chased by dangerous bandits, while on a bicycle. There are several other action sequences which feature the act of cycling. During the movie, the main character acquires a laser wrist gun. He uses this to dispatch many adversaries who are riding bicycles.
Later on in the film, he meets a new friend, and love interest, in a quirky girl called Apple. They both bond by cycling together. A montage of them enjoying this activity is used to help them develop a deep relationship with each other.
The film establishes how vital cycling is from the very beginning. In the opening sequence, Turbo Kid is shown to be riding up ramps to gain air on a BMX. It harks back nostalgically to the sports films of the 1980s, that often relished in characters performing stunts. Turbo Kid even has freeze frame moments during these scenes to imitate earlier movies.
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Boston. Beacon Press. 1967. Black and white photographic illustrations, 374pp, index, remainder mark upper edge, good copy in worn dustjacket, few tears upper and lower edges, spine faded. In this book the author, Raymond Firth, who spent a year living among the Tikopia from 1928-29, has brought together a broad... More about Tikopia Ritual and Belief.
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The Work of the Gods in Tikopia.
Melbourne. Melbourne University Press. 1967. Second edition revised. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 492pp, bibliography, index, very good in little worn dustjacket with sunned spine. First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a.... More about The Work of the Gods in Tikopia.
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Solomon Islands, New Britain, and East New Guinea Journal. January 7, 1960 to May 6, 1960.
Bethesda. Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health. 1967. 207pp, covers light wear and browning to edges, reprint with addenda of the 1964 ed; a good copy in spiral binding. 22 x 28cm. Journals... More about Solomon Islands, New Britain, and East New Guinea Journal. January 7, 1960 to May 6, 1960.
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Blazing The Trail In The Solomons.
Sydney. Dominion Publishing. 1935. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 170pp, name of prior owner front pastedown, endpapers little marked where dustjacket has been sellotaped down, good copy in little damaged dustjacket. Letters of Rev McHardy written while a missionary in the Solomon Islands during the late twenties and early... More about Blazing The Trail In The Solomons.
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Determinants of Choice in Adoption and Fosterage on Bellona Island.
n.p. 38pp (99-136), appendix, notes, bibliography, good copy of a stapled reprint. Reprinted from Ethnology Volume IX, No. 2, April, 1970. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 149907).	More about Determinants of Choice in Adoption and Fosterage on Bellona Island.
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Our Failing Neighbour. Australia and the Future of the Solomon Islands.
Barton, ACT. Australian Strategic Policy Institute. 2003. Maps, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, 60pp, paperback. Very good. Chapter headings include: Australia's policy challenge; Indentifying Australia's interest; Policy paradigm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 151378).	More about Our Failing Neighbour. Australia and the Future of the Solomon Islands.
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Expanding ART access: increasing costs
The HIV treatment gap: estimates of the financial resources needed versus available for scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in 97 countries from 2015 to 2020.
Dutta A, Barker C, Kallarakal A. PLoS Med. 2015 Nov 24;12(11):e1001907. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001907. eCollection 2015.
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) released revised guidelines in 2015 recommending that all people living with HIV, regardless of CD4 count, initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART) upon diagnosis. However, few studies have projected the global resources needed for rapid scale-up of ART. Under the Health Policy Project, we conducted modeling analyses for 97 countries to estimate eligibility for and numbers on ART from 2015 to 2020, along with the facility-level financial resources required. We compared the estimated financial requirements to estimated funding available.
Methods and findings: Current coverage levels and future need for treatment were based on country-specific epidemiological and demographic data. Simulated annual numbers of individuals on treatment were derived from three scenarios: (1) continuation of countries' current policies of eligibility for ART, (2) universal adoption of aspects of the WHO 2013 eligibility guidelines, and (3) expanded eligibility as per the WHO 2015 guidelines and meeting the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS "90-90-90" ART targets. We modeled uncertainty in the annual resource requirements for antiretroviral drugs, laboratory tests, and facility-level personnel and overhead.
We estimate that 25.7 (95% CI 25.5, 26.0) million adults and 1.57 (95% CI 1.55, 1.60) million children could receive ART by 2020 if countries maintain current eligibility plans and increase coverage based on historical rates, which may be ambitious. If countries uniformly adopt aspects of the WHO 2013 guidelines, 26.5 (95% CI 26.0 27.0) million adults and 1.53 (95% CI 1.52, 1.55) million children could be on ART by 2020. Under the 90-90-90 scenario, 30.4 (95% CI 30.1, 30.7) million adults and 1.68 (95% CI 1.63, 1.73) million children could receive treatment by 2020. The facility-level financial resources needed for scaling up ART in these countries from 2015 to 2020 are estimated to be US$45.8 (95% CI 45.4, 46.2) billion under the current scenario, US$48.7 (95% CI 47.8, 49.6) billion under the WHO 2013 scenario, and US$52.5 (95% CI 51.4, 53.6) billion under the 90-90-90 scenario. After projecting recent external and domestic funding trends, the estimated 6-y financing gap ranges from US$19.8 billion to US$25.0 billion, depending on the costing scenario and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief contribution level, with the gap for ART commodities alone ranging from US$14.0 to US$16.8 billion. The study is limited by excluding above-facility and other costs essential to ART service delivery and by the availability and quality of country- and region-specific data.
Conclusions: The projected number of people receiving ART across three scenarios suggests that countries are unlikely to meet the 90-90-90 treatment target (81% of people living with HIV on ART by 2020) unless they adopt a test-and-offer approach and increase ART coverage. Our results suggest that future resource needs for ART scale-up are smaller than stated elsewhere but still significantly threaten the sustainability of the global HIV response without additional resource mobilization from domestic or innovative financing sources or efficiency gains. As the world moves towards adopting the WHO 2015 guidelines, advances in technology, including the introduction of lower-cost, highly effective antiretroviral regimens, whose value are assessed here, may prove to be "game changers" that allow more people to be on ART with the resources available.
Editor's notes: This is a complex and important paper that seeks to understand the financial requirements necessary to: a) continue countries' current policies of eligibility for ART, b) roll out universal adoption of certain aspects of WHO 2013 eligibility guidelines, and c) expand eligibility as per WHO 2015 guidelines and meeting the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS '90-90-90' targets.
The authors estimated the number of adults and children eligible for and receiving HIV treatment, as well as the cost of providing ART in 97 countries across six regions, covering different income levels. They estimated that 25.7 million adults and 1.57 million children could receive ART by 2020 if countries maintain the current eligibility strategies. If countries adopted WHO 2013 eligibility guidelines, 26.5 million adults and 1.53 million children would be on ART by 2020, and if they adopted the 90-90-90 scenario, 30.4 million adults and 1.68 million children could receive treatment by then. The financial resources necessary for this scale up are estimated to be US$ 45.8 billion under current eligibility, US$ 48.7 billion under WHO 2013 scenario and US$ 52.5 billion under the 90-90-90 scenario. The estimated funding gap for the six year period ranges between US$ 20 and US$ 25 billion. In this study, the costs of commodities were taken directly from data collated by other organisations. No empirical cost estimates of service delivery were made. Nor was there an attempt to understand the cost implications of the development synergies and social and programme enablers that may be needed to increase the number of people living with HIV knowing their status. The new WHO recommendations need to be actively pursued if we are to meet targets, rather than passively continuing with "business as usual".
Nonetheless, the findings of this study highlight the gap between guidelines written by WHO and very real programmatic obstacles on the ground. There is evidence to suggest that universal test-and-treat strategies could lead to substantially improved health outcomes at the population level, as well as potentially being cost-saving in the long-term. However, as the authors have illustrated, it would require increased levels of funding. What needs to be explored further now is how to overcome the logistical hurdles of rolling out such an initiative. Changing systems and practices is costly and takes time. Health workers will have to be retrained, data collection strategies will have to be revised. Expanding treatment may also mean increasing the number of health staff working on this initiative, which has an opportunity cost that may reverberate in other parts of the health system. Substantially altering health service provision, particularly in weak health systems, may have knock-on effects with unexpected and unintended consequences.
WHO guidelines serve a vital purpose of giving us a goal to aim for. But studies like this one help us know if and how we can get there.
Issue: HIV This Month 2015 #12 - December 2015
Categories: Global / multilateral and bilateral responses, Health care delivery, HIV testing, HIV Treatment
Related Regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania
Related Countries: Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, United Republic of Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Renewed prevention efforts needed for key populations in Latin America and the Caribbean
Epidemiology of HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean.
De Boni R, Veloso VG, Grinsztejn B. Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2014 Jan 3. [Epub ahead of print]
Purpose of review: The aim of the present review is to update HIV/AIDS Epidemiology in Latin America and the Caribbean highlighting the concentrated aspect of epidemic in the region.
Recent findings: Among general population, HIV prevalence in Latin America is at stable levels (0.2-0.7%). The Caribbean still has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world (<0.1-3%), but incidences have declined around 49%. This is not the current situation for high-risk key populations; most incident cases occur among MSM. Available data on transgender women suggest that they are the most-at-risk group. Female sex workers still have a 12-fold chance of being HIV positive compared with other women. IDU prevalence was revised to 0.45%, but non-IDU has been suggested as a mediator between sexual risk and HIV.
Summary: The increase in treatment coverage (mean is at 63%) resulted in modifications of HIV/AIDS epidemiology. New strategies to seek, test and link key populations to care are urgently needed and targeted interventions to prevent HIV expansion among them must be adopted. These strategies should consider the particular situation regarding social inequalities, discrimination and violence that pervade the HIV epidemic among key populations.
Editor's notes: This review highlights recently published data on key populations in Latin America and the Caribbean, including men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender women, female sex workers and people who inject drugs. HIV remains a concentrated epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean with MSM and transgender women being the most vulnerable populations. Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage has increased to over 80% in several countries, a renewed focus on prevention, especially among key populations, is needed. It is estimated that prevention efforts currently only receive 15% of HIV public spending in this region. Culturally appropriate efforts are needed to identify and prevent HIV infection among key populations, and to better understand transmission dynamics of neglected groups such as transgender women.
Issue: HIV This Month 2014 #01 - January 2014
Target: Reduce sexual transmission
Categories: Epidemiology, Health care delivery, HIV testing, People living with HIV, Sexual transmission and prevention
Related Regions: Latin America
Related Countries: Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela


Dr. Emmanuel Lalande serves as the vice president for enrollment management at Benedict College. In this role, Dr. Emmanuel Lalande leverages more than a decade of experience in higher education administration to provide comprehensive solutions for increasing the school's enrollment.
In recent years, higher education institutions worldwide have experienced declining enrollment as a result of shifts in demographics. One way that colleges and universities can reverse this trend is to utilize technologies that improve accessibility and student engagement.
For example, virtual tours and online student portals can make it easier for busy applicants to explore what a school has to offer. These tools also give prospective applicants a way to "visit" college campuses outside their state without having to travel.
Digitizing the application process is another way to attract more students. By employing online application hubs for enrollment and financial aid, colleges can make it much more convenient for students to complete forms, send transcripts, and check the status of their application.
E-mail and mobile apps help colleges communicate with prospective applicants and encourage them to complete enrollment requirements before the deadline. Early engagement also builds school spirit and welcomes students into the community before they finish applying.


The involvement of parents in the education of children is vital, but as they move on to secondary school communication channels are fewer and the independence which comes with growing up weakens the links. This article describes how technology can strengthen the links so that parents are in touch with schools and are kept up to date about what is happening with their children.
Parental communication is a topic high on the agenda for schools nationwide; Becta strongly recommends that secondary schools provide online reporting functionality, a form of parental engagement, by September 2010. Primary school counterparts should follow suit by the start of the 2012 academic year. Stuart Abrahams, business development director of Groupcall, discusses the importance of parental communication and the various ways it can improve school efficiencies.
Apart from the cost savings to schools, which are imperative, parental messaging addresses Ofsted requirements such as Parental Engagement, Safeguarding Children and On-line reporting, which should be on all schools' agendas.
An essential element of a child's education is their parents. Parental encouragement and involvement in the school day, such as interest in what lessons the child has and assignments that have to be completed, will increase the likelihood of the child being engrossed and encouraged in their education.
At different stages of an academic career, parents have differing degrees of involvement. Once students have started secondary school, they develop a new level of independence and this can sometimes signal the start of a breakdown in parental involvement. In contrast, with younger children, parents often collect their child and drop them off at the school gate providing teachers and parents with regular contact and communication. Many secondary school students make their own way to school and may not be particularly forthcoming with information about their schooling activities with parents. There are fewer opportunities for parent-teacher liaisons and as a result there is an increased need for alternative methods of communication between the two parties.
Research undertaken by the DCSF, 'Parental Involvement in Child's Education' (2007) highlights that only 51 per cent of parents feel involved in their child's school life. What about the remaining 49 per cent; where is their involvement? Children whose parents are actively involved in their school life are more likely to feel engaged and want to succeed. In 2008 former minister Jim Knight announced that the Government is introducing online reporting in order to "deepen the school-parent relations." New guidelines seek to provide children with a positive and effective education and for this to take place a good level of communication is essential between the school and its parents.
For children whose parents are not involved in their school life, there are a number of possible detrimental effects that may result. Children may become disengaged and lose motivation, which in turn could result in a negative perception of learning. Once a child has entered into this pessimistic view of education, unauthorised absences can occur.
Manchester City Council, an example of a forward-thinking local authority, had a number of key considerations when addressing unauthorised absences and parental relationships within the city. It wanted to improve parental engagement for local schools and their parents, whilst ensuring this could be achieved in a cost-effective way.
Manchester's school network of 167 primary and secondary schools now boasts the innovative parent communication solution. Effective technology systems that instantly and directly inform the parent or designated carer of a child's absence are proven to boost attendance figures and parental relationships within the school. Through texts, multi-lingual voice calls and emails, to their mobile phones, landlines or computers, the system's capabilities certainly take Manchester schools towards achieving Becta's targets for parental engagement as part of its 2010/2012 agenda.
Parental communication systems are proven to reduce staff workloads by enabling an electronic form of contact so that staff can address unauthorised absences. This is a daily task which can take over an hour with traditional forms of communication, but at the click of a button the time is reduced to minutes. More cost effective than traditional forms of correspondence, such as letters and telephone calls which carry additional costs, schools can ensure substantial fiscal savings through state of the art communication systems. This was a key consideration for Manchester.
"Manchester schools have saved hours of administration time by being able to contact parents and carers effortlessly and in return having information about pupils' attendance quickly transferred onto their school's MIS systems. Something that had previously taken hours was now being concluded within minutes. Administrators are now having spare time to concentrate on other tasks but, more importantly allowing everyone concerned to know where each pupil is within minutes of the registers being taken," described Vince.
Ultimately, it is a school's duty of care to establish effective relationships with key stakeholders in a child's education pathway. Parents are a powerful component of the teaching equation; through highly innovative and cost effective technologies schools can achieve the forthcoming Becta targets.


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Fort Morgan hands Brush first Legion loss of…
Fort Morgan hands Brush first Legion loss of summer
Brandon Boles / Fort Morgan Times
Nick Castenada (5) throws a pitch for the Fort Morgan Mustangs in their Legion baseball game against the Brush Beetdiggers on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at Sunset Park.
Nick Norris (12, left) of Fort Morgan tags out Jasiah Henry (28, right) of Brush at first base for a pickoff in the fourth inning on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at Sunset Park.
By Brandon Boles | bboles@prairiemountainmedia.com and Fort Morgan Times | Boulder Daily Camera
PUBLISHED: June 13, 2018 at 9:59 pm | UPDATED: April 24, 2019 at 11:27 am
BRUSH — Three runs in the first inning set the tone for the Fort Morgan Mustangs in their Legion baseball game with the Brush Beetdiggers on Wednesday.
It turned out to be more than enough run support for their pitcher, Nick Castaneda.
Brush, who scored nine runs or more in all three games so far this summer, was held to two hits and two walks against Castaneda. Fort Morgan would get the win 7-0 to improve to 5-2 this summer.
"I think we are playing well so far," Fort Morgan coach Matt Hawley said. "We've played some pretty good teams so far, and we've been playing good baseball. I'm encouraged with where we are at right now."
The Mustangs got after Ben Garrett in the first inning to strike first. Two walks to open the game were followed by a two-run double from Isaac Linker. He would score in the next at-bat with Alex Ortega hitting for a double.
"As soon as we could get something on the board right away, that relaxes everybody," Hawley said. "It takes the tension off and allows them to go out and just play baseball. That was huge for us in the first inning."
From there, it was Castaneda who stole the show Wednesday night.
Brush was retired in short order in four of the seven innings they hit. Despite getting a first-pitch strike only 45 percent of the time, he worked backed to get into favorable counts most of the night. The contact that was made by the hitters for Brush resulted in routine fly balls to the outfield, popups in the center of the infield, or ground balls that led to quick outs most of the night.
"He (Castaneda) was moving the ball in and out," Hawley said. "He had great movement with his fastball and was mixing in the curveball really well. I thought he kept them off-balanced."
When Castaneda did allow runners to reach, he got help from his defense to get the base runners out quickly. On three occasions, a runner on first base for Brush was either picked off or thrown out trying to steal second base. Ben Garrett reached with a leadoff single in the second inning, only to see his courtesy runner get picked off. Nick Wellen reached base with a walk right after and was thrown out by Alex Ortega at second base.
Jasiah Henry became the third victim on the base paths in the fourth inning when he got picked off at first base after reaching with a single.
"Those killed us tonight," Brush coach Brad Wolf said. "Those are the routine stuff we have got to make. We didn't execute tonight, but I'm optimistic we'll fix it."
Henry's single in the fourth was the final hit of the game for the Beetdiggers. They would not get another base runner until Carson Rule reached with a walk in the seventh. The team would struck out five times.
In Wolf's eyes, his team did not have the same approach they have shown in the first three games of the summer.
"We lacked some confidence today," Wolf said. "We just didn't do it today. (Fort Morgan) wanted it more."
The Beetdiggers are off the rest of the week. As for Fort Morgan, they will travel to Butch Butler Field in Greeley over the weekend for a pair of double-headers against the Skyview Wolverines and the Northridge Grizzlies. The Mustangs were successful against both teams in the spring season with a 4-0 win over Skyview in the regular season and a wild 8-7 win over Northridge in the regional semifinals.
"Those are some big ones coming up," Hawley said. "We're going to come out and play hard to see how we do."
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Faced with the question of whether to tie the knot, some long-lasting Vermont couples have answered, "Not!"
Bobbie Lanahan and John Douglas, for example, are enjoying their 22nd year of unwedded bliss. Lanahan, a 65-year-old artist and writer whose mother was the only child of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, was married previously and says she feels no compulsion to do that again. Douglas, a 74-year-old filmmaker and photographer, has never heard wedding bells ringing for him. He has two children from earlier relationships with two women — neither of whom he married.
But it isn't as though Lanahan and Douglas have never felt tempted to certify their union with a marriage license. "We've talked about it, even gotten engaged and made a prenuptial agreement, but somehow can't seem to do it," Lanahan says.
An unusual living arrangement, which was highlighted in a 2011 New York Timesstory, may help account for the longevity of the couple's unsanctioned alliance.
They commuted for 18 years between Douglas' lakeside home in Charlotte and Lanahan's spacious house in Burlington. But a few years ago, when Douglas was no longer able to pay what he says was nearly $30,000 a year in property taxes, they decided to cohabit at Lanahan's place. To accommodate the needs of two older adults deeply set in their ways, they built a sizable wing onto the house, where Douglas hangs out much of the time. He crosses an enclosed bridge to his partner's part of the home, where they eat and sleep.
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Casa Bouquet is two years old now and I want to thank my readers! I'm joining as a co-host with Katherine from Katherine's Corner and some of my blogger friends for the In the Bag Giveaway starting May 26 at 7 am MST until June 23.
I'm joining my friend Katherine from Katherines Corner and the Katherines Corner Shop for her In the Bag Giveaway.


(Salina, KS 09-16) Salina Arts & Humanities, in collaboration with downtown stakeholders, announces the next Friday Night Live concert event on September 30th. Friday Night Live is a series of arts and entertainment programming for Salina residents and visitors designed to increase attendance and participation in arts-related events and to strengthen partnerships with local business owners in the downtown arts district.
Each week, Friday Night Live will feature music and/or poetry events in restaurants, bars, outdoor plazas and other venues. The FNL series is a combination of free-admission events sponsored by Friday Night Live plus cover-charge events presented by local businesses, promoted through Friday Night Live stakeholders.
This week, the Friday Night Live concert features Randy Baldwin and a group of local players including members of Salina-based group A.M. Baldwin does not classify his music into any one genre, but feels that his songs assume their own "life" as color is added by the musicians he surrounds himself with, playing styles including country, Southern rock, bluegrass and rock 'n' roll. His influences include everything from the Beatles to John Denver and Led Zeppelin to Barry Manilow. This performance will mark the final outdoor show for the fall-winter season of Friday Night Live.
The concert is free of charge and takes place at Campbell Plaza, 123 S. Santa Fe, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The concert is being held during an adjacent ticketed event, so please enter on the east side of Campbell Plaza for free admission. Check the Friday Night Live and Salina Arts and Humanities Facebook pages for possible same-day weather delays or postponements.
Also occurring this Friday is a community-organized event called Feast on the Fe-- a celebration of local food, music, and film making. Admission to the Feast is by pre-purchased button only (event sold out as of 9/20/16) down the 100 block of South Santa Fe. There will be barricades, way-finding signs and volunteers to assist patrons in getting to the Friday Night Live concert on Campbell Plaza if they are not attending the Feast.
Stay tuned for upcoming announcements about the rest of Friday Night Live programming for the fall months. For more information, call Stacy Ash at Salina Arts & Humanities at 785-309-5770.


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Jasper ends regular season on high note
Photos by Kayla Renie/The Herald
Jasper's Claire Knies shoots the ball during Tuesday's girls basketball game in Jasper. Jasper defeated Princeton 59-33. For more photos from the game, click here.
By JONATHAN SAXON
jsaxon@dcherald.com
JASPER — It's always great if you can leave your best party trick for last, and the Jasper girls basketball team did just that in beating the Big Eight Conference rival Princeton Tigers 59-33 Tuesday for a final win to cap off the regular season.
"I thought we did some good things," Wildcats Coach Jessica Mehringer said. "We saw some things we'd been working on in practice that we want to be able to execute on Tuesday in the sectional. We got a lot of people minutes. We did a lot of good things today. We're really happy with what we saw."
The Wildcats (12-11, 2-3) pounced quickly as junior guard Hannah Schwenk and senior guard Claire Knies sparked a 7-0 start. Sophomore center Cortney Dove maneuvered inside for the first score for the Tigers (5-13, 0-5), and junior forward Keyana Hardiman followed up with another basket. The Wildcats ended the first quarter with consecutive threes from Schwenk and senior guard Brooke Nottingham, which netted them a 13-4 lead.
Knies opened the second stanza with a pair of free throws, along with a bucket from Schwenk for good measure. Dove got another post score, but the Wildcats hit back with a 7-2 run via Nottingham, Schwenk and junior guard Kendyl Ruhe. Dove and freshman guard Tabi Thompson scored the final six points of the quarter, but the Wildcats owned a 25-15 lead at halftime.
Dove found room for an and-one play that got the Tigers within seven, but Nottingham and Knies combined for a 9-0 run to widen the gap. Further scores from Knies, and junior forwards Kylee Vaal and Ava Noblitt tightened Jasper's grip on the game. The Tigers did get five points from junior guard Hannah Sisk along with four points from Dove to close the quarter, but they found themselves looking up at a 42-30 hole at the end of the third period.
Vaal and senior guard Isabelle Blazey knocked in five of their six shots from the free throw line, while Knies and Nottingham added on to put the Wildcats up by 21 points. Sisk scored the lone 3-pointer for the Tigers, as they were outscored 17-3 to close the game.
Jasper's Brooke Nottingham dribbles the ball during Tuesday's girls basketball game in Jasper. Jasper defeated Princeton 59-33.
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Dove paced the floor with 18 points. Nottingham finished with 15 points. Knies led the Wildcats with 17 points, while picking up six rebounds.
"We pressed early and just got after it," Knies said. "I thought we did a good job."
"We came out with a lot of intensity," added Schwenk, who had nine points and six rebounds. "We just came together as a team to get the win."
The win not only allowed the Wildcats to end the regular season on a three-game winning streak, but it also gave them four victories in their last five outings. The positive momentum the Wildcats have built has them looking ahead with great optimism as they open sectional play Tuesday against the defending champion Castle Knights (14-7). Jasper suffered a 45-33 defeat to Castle on Dec. 5, but they think they have what it takes to cultivate a different result in the rematch.
"The girls are really locked in and feeling confident," Mehringer said. "You can tell by their demeanor, how they're handling themselves and how they're communicating with one another. They know what they need to do to win that first sectional game. We're going to do everything in our power to make it our ball game."
"We have to know that we can win," Schwenk added. "We just have to come there, play our best ball and give them what we've got."


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Rory McIlroy's PGA Championship bid in doubt as scan reveals injury flare-up
By Robert Jones
A scan has revealed that the back problem Rory McIlroy had at the Players Championship was a recurrence of his injury from earlier this year.
McIlroy said yesterday evening that an MRI scan had revealed "no new injury, rather a low grade response to the rib joint I injured earlier in the year.
"As of now I am still entered into the BMW PGA Championship."
The Ulsterman said he would decide early next week whether he was "in a position to compete" at Wentworth. The European Tour's flagship event takes place from May 25-28.
The World No.2 revealed on Friday that he was feeling discomfort in his back and he went on to finish in a share of 35th place, 12 shots behind winner Kim Si-Woo of South Korea.
Ian Poulter, meanwhile, is looking forward to planning a "very long schedule" after overcoming injury problems in "the toughest stretch" of his career.
Poulter, 41, was runner-up at the Players Championship after missing four months last year with a foot injury. He said: "It's been miserable, really hard - but we're getting there."
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Talking trash in D.C.
Julie Lawson is working to keep our streets and waters clean
By Rebecca Chillrud | March 29, 2018
Julie Lawson collects samples of microplastics while at Trash Free Maryland. Now directing the Mayor's Office of the Clean City in D.C., Lawson coordinates litter reduction efforts throughout the District. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
"Leave it better than you found it" is a motto Julie Lawson has lived by since she was a kid, when picking up all on-site trash was the rule of family camping trips. As an adult, Lawson first became involved in trash efforts through volunteering with Surfrider, an organization of surfers that works to keep beaches and waters clean for use. Organizing large cleanups and heading up advocacy campaigns inspired her to make a career change from running her own design firm to the environmental world.
"I found that [volunteer organizing] would get me to get up at six in the morning and go make calls to people I didn't know, and get me out of my comfort zone," says Lawson, speaking of her passion for her career change, "whereas my past work didn't do that, so it was very obvious [that clean environment advocacy was what I wanted to do]."
Lawson went on to found Trash Free Maryland, an organization focused on reducing trash pollution. There, she worked with businesses, nonprofits, government agencies and residents to reduce trash in Maryland–but she didn't spend all her time behind a desk. Wanting to understand the abundance of microplastics in the Chesapeake Bay, she went out in the field with a manta trawl (a net resembling a manta ray that is used to collect samples) to skim the water's surface and collect any microplastics that were present. Every single sample she collected contained plastic, illustrating the magnitude of the problem.
Lawson's latest project is directing the Mayor's Office of the Clean City in Washington, D.C. More than a third of the Chesapeake Bay watershed's population lives in the D.C. metro area, so the District plays a key role in the quality of the Bay. The Office of the Clean City works on coordinating litter and trash reduction efforts across the numerous D.C. government agencies.
Lawson has always been good at breaking down silos and making connections others may not see. While at Trash Free Maryland, she worked on a program that connected litter cleanup and substance abuse rehabilitation in Baltimore. Now in D.C., she works to streamline efforts across agencies from Small and Local Business Development to Parks and Recreation.
Promoting Community and Environmental Stewardship
Involving communities in stewardship is vital to protecting the environment. At the Office of the Clean City, Lawson gets to promote stewardship among District residents. The office's most popular program, Adopt-A-Block, encourages groups to "adopt" a block and conduct regular litter cleanups. Residents are eager to give back to their communities, and Lawson says they don't have any problems recruiting for the program.
This local eagerness is reflected in the hard data of Chesapeake Bay Program's Citizen Stewardship Index. The Index shows that D.C. has the highest citizen stewardship score of any watershed jurisdiction, based on the personal actions residents take, volunteer efforts and advocacy efforts.
Lawson is working to make stewardship as easy as possible by building a city-wide tool sharing library and making sure trash bags are available for Adopt-A-Block participants at every rec center. She's also planning to ensure program participants are recognized for their work.
Adopt-A-Block appeals to a wide range of people, and volunteers are incredibly diverse. Groups ranging from fraternity alumni to church members to motorcycle clubs are involved in the program. One reason may be that residents are motivated by serving their local communities more than protecting the environment. Lawson sees the broader message of civic pride and community service as a great way to get more people involved. Though these groups may not be motivated by water quality or environmental protection, healthy waterways and a clean environment remain important outcomes of their efforts. Connecting their work to environmental goals can help restoration programs identify more like-minded people and activities.
Progress in the District
Through a combination of efforts from the government, businesses and residents, D.C.'s waterways have made incredible progress since Lawson first joined Surfrider. "Ten years ago, you didn't see nearly as much recreational use," she recalls. "I would run along the river and I'd overhear people saying, 'That water's disgusting.' And now there's lines at all of the boathouses."
Part of that improvement is due to the success that D.C. has had with reducing plastics, including banning plastic foam products that cannot be recycled and implementing a bag bill that requires a five-cent charge for disposable plastic or paper bags. These policies target plastics that often end up as litter in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers.
D.C. is also protecting water quality by targeting sewage overflows. Some parts of D.C. use combined sewer systems, which transport both sewage and stormwater. During large storms, the pipes may not have the capacity to handle the increased flow, and the excess sewage and rainwater is discharged directly into rivers. The District is tackling this problem through the Clean Rivers Project, which includes the Blue Plains Tunnel and recently-completed Anacostia River Tunnel. The project diverts overflows away from the Anacostia, reducing the discharge of sewage into the river by more than 80 percent.
While this progress is incredible, Lawson still sees work to be done. "My big picture, ten-thousand-yard goal is swimming beaches for everyone in D.C.," she says. Taking the time to go paddling or just get on the water helps her to stay motivated in working towards that goal. Though her work now focuses more on land, she has decorated her office with a map of the Anacostia watershed and a sample jar from the Atlantic garbage patch. "That's what I'm doing this for," she says. "Bring it back to the water."
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Rebecca Chillrud
rchillrud@chesapeakebay.net
Rebecca is the Communications Staffer at the Chesapeake Bay Program. She has a Master's in Climate Science and Policy from Bard College and a Bachelor's in Geological Sciences from SUNY Geneseo. Originally from upstate New York, she currently resides in Washington, D.C.
Thank you Julie for caring about the waterways in your part of our beautiful country. In June we begin a cruising trip from Englewood, Fl to Metro Detroit and found your article while researching the Chesapeake Bay. I always assumed that most of our Countries waterways were in good shape, and I was surprised to read that other areas have problems similar to what we are facing in Lake Erie. We are recreational boaters and spend our summers boating in Lake Erie and Lake St Claire and our winters boating the Florida Gulf Coast ICW. Come mid summer the center of Lake Erie has a pitiful area of bright green slime/algae that we have to cruise through to get to the islands of Ohio. It is said to be due to the fertilizers from the Ohio Lake Erie watershed. Lake St Claire, the Detroit River and continuing 15 miles into Lake Erie from the Detroit river is absolutely beautiful blue water (as is the whole of Lake Erie for the first months of the boating season). I hope at some point someone such as yourself takes an active role in bringing back Lake Erie. I am 61 and I remember when I was a child (1960-70's) Lake Erie was so polluted we could not swim in it. The beaches were full of dead fish. My parents still took us to the State parks for holidays. Once I snuck in the water and came out with clear balls of jelly in my swim suit. That's how bad it was. Needless to say the picnic was over for me for that day. Lake Erie was eventually cleaned up, we swam and boated freely, but the algae blooms began a few years ago. I hope your big picture of 10,000 yards of swimming beaches for everyone in DC becomes a reality sooner rather than later. I will think of you when we reach the Chesapeake and keep up the great work!!!
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Now smoking in a doorway cross the street, I watch Cristina leave: She stumbles out the door and down the stoop, sways sideways like a crab…Grows sober as she peers around, pretends not even to be looking: calm, she lights a cigarette, and plays she's taking in the night.
… She looks so damn ridiculous, I can't announce myself!
Oh! Pray to be alive still.
He sits there, waiting for an answer.
Standing like stone at Prytania and Terpsichore…Wishing they'd won that Civil War.
… In New Orleans, they dance to Koko Taylor. Sit out on their civil porches, naked, flood their war-torn streets… Don't never go to Bourbon or the Quarter but to sweat.
I think of vulnerability with Rivka. Also trust, and caring… Rivka seemed to care a lot. While others might flop noisily, then want only to crash (like me)… Warm Rivka'd stay awake, engaged. Sit cross-legged in the middle of the bed, like a Thanksgiving prayer… Or splay out like a cat about to side-stroke cross a swimming pool… Or simply lay beside me. But the whole time, with great eyes on mine, like we were meaning something.
Husbands all wave dumbly from bland stations. Love steams in and out.
Kids twist the scene, and scream, and make us long for infancy ourselves … We go on waving dumbly.
Years, like chestnuts, crash and shrivel pointlessly into the earth. We join them finally, most of us, with never having tasted Carmen Aragon.


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Riverdale Season 6: Latest Updates On Archie's Whereabouts In The Show
Where is Archie on tonight's Riverdale season 6 episode, and is it really possible that KJ Apa is leaving the show outright?
Well, let's start by answering the first question: Archie is dead. Or, to be specific, "Rivervale" Archie is dead. The most important thing to remember right now is that the entirety of this five-episode crossover event is set within an alternate reality.
What is happening here does not equate to what is going on in the actual show's canon universe. Does that mean that there are no consequences? We have to see on that, but it does feel by and large like this entire event was a construct of Riverdale wanting to find a way to dip their toes into the supernatural world.
Also, the scripts for these first five episodes may have been written in a way to allow Apa to spend some time at home with his newborn baby. We'd be shocked if he has a huge part in the next few episodes, but we'd be even more shocked if he is gone when the second part of season 6 airs in 2022. What is Riverdale without Archie? We've heard nothing to suggest that Apa is leaving the show in the long-term, so we'll keep crossing our fingers and hoping to see him again.
For the time being, just prepare to enjoy all of the genre-bending strangeness of the next several episodes. Also, here is what to expect outright in episode 2:
THE HAUNTING OF RIVERVALE – A vengeful spirit from folklore, La Llorona arrives in Rivervale to terrorize the rainy town. Betty (Lili Reinhart) and Toni (Vanessa Morgan) find themselves in the specter's path and must seek Cheryl's (Madelaine Petsch) help to protect the children in Rivervale, including Baby Anthony. Meanwhile, Jughead (Cole Sprouse) and Tabitha (Erinn Westbrook), along with Veronica (Camila Mendes) and Reggie (Charles Melton), experience their own hauntings that begin to put a strain on their respective relationships. Drew Ray Tanner and Casey Cott also star. This episode was written by Janine Salinas Schoenberg and directed by Gabriel Correa (#602). Original airdate 11/23/2021.
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