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Harper militarizes again and Justin Trudeau thinks that's ok!
Shocking media reports today! Harper is sending soldiers to Ukraine and he is sending uranium to India. Once again we have it? On the heals of his undying support for Netanyahu, Harper is aligning himself with the most rightwing leaders in Europe and Asia. And it would appear, from Mr. Trudeau's comments today in which he refuses to engage in a coalition with the NDP under Thomas Mulcair because their politics are so different, and his published support of the Harper move to send soldiers to the Ukraine that Trudeau and his party are now definitely seeking to embrace ultra conservative politics. It's time for anyone who has been thinking "strategic voting" to realize that including Trudeau's liberals in a strategic voting plan will do nothing to invigorate the process of reinforcing and expanding peace and equality in Canada and around the world. While Harper is singing the same tune he's been signing since arriving on the political scene Trudeau brings shame to the memory of Lester Pearson and others. Will Elizabeth May and Thomas Mulcair consider forming an alliance?
allolulu CANADIAN POLITICS, Politics and Culture Leave a comment April 15, 2015 1 Minute
Gwen Giesbrecht
Gwen Giesbrecht is a parent, owns a small business and is an active advocate for public education and strong communities. She is a longterm resident of Grandview-Woodland.
Gwen's involvment with Public Education includes working with other stakeholders in the Vancouver School District as member and past chairperson of the Vancouver District Parent Advisory Council ( DPAC ), the COPE education committee, and the Justice not Charity working group.
Currently Gwen is President of the Britannia Community Services Centre board of management and Chair of the Britannia Secondary Parent Advisory committee. Britannia has an integrated model for community service delivery and works closely in partnership with the VSB, the VPL, the COV, and many local organizations. She is a leader in the Public Education Project, and stands up for families and community.
In her role as a parent representative to the VSB, Gwen has consistently worked to ensure that the voices of families, especially those that have barriers to advocating on their own behalf, are heard.
Ms. Giesbrecht truly believes that the best opportunities for lifelong learning and support for all students should be available, accessible and equitable. She believes that there is not a more important achievement for a society to aspire to than working to provide the means for every individual to the reach the fullest potential of their abilities.
allolulu Politics and Culture, Resistance through movements and art Leave a comment October 15, 2014 1 Minute
For those who think young
Before its too late. Harper 's got to go!
I'm concerned that many young folks in my own family, particularly my great-nieces and nephews, don't understand what a serious threat Stephen Harper and his Conservative government in Ottawa pose to our way of life in Canada.
Since Harper became Prime Minister, his government has screwed up things up in every important area of our lives, from health, education, workplace security and the environment to the cost of housing.
These days, how many of you can afford to go to college or university, learn a trade, or develop a technical or creative skill without applying for a giant bank loan that will take years to pay off? And given what is happening in the work force today, do you think you'll have enough money to support your own kids over the course of their education? For the first time in Canadian history, you will likely have a lower income than your parents did.
How many of you today have health plans through your workplace that pay health premiums, with or without extended health? Who pays for your dental work? Can you afford to go to the dentist on a regular basis? How many of you—or your parents or grandparents—need prescriptions you can't afford to fill?
Right now, the government in Ottawa is looking for ways to make the oil companies richer while they gut the Canada Health Act. Our tax dollars used to support one of the best health care systems in the world. No more! The Conservatives today are cutting $36 billion dollars from Canadian Medicare. Every person who buys anything from books to shoes to a muffin and coffee has to pay the GST. But how come banks get bailed out, corporations squirm out of paying taxes, and those who have money make more money as a result?
The next federal election will be held sometime in 2015. We've got one year to make some choices about who is going to manage our country. Think about it carefully. What kind of future do you want for yourself and for your kids and grand kids?
I'll be blogging about these issues in more detail over the next few months. Stay tuned!
allolulu Politics and Culture Leave a comment May 17, 2014 May 18, 2014 2 Minutes


If there is a secret skill in garage saling, it is the ability to pick the rare items of real value from the detritus of suburbia. People laugh when I say that a typical garage sale can have 10,000 items as it seems like a preposterous number.
Lidless Tupperware, non-stick pans that have lost their non-stick, blenders, short pants, white pumps, soccer cleats, VHS tapes of Night Court recordings, a black particle board media stand with glass magnetic latch doors that came with a 32" TV, half pads of stickie notes, cheap PC speakers, shirts given away at a business retreat, stadium seats, power adapters, plastic ice chests, knock-off Rollerblades, mountains of t-shirts, turntables missing the stylus, disposable box cutters, videotape rewinders, garden hoses missing one end, jeans that never fit right, socks, half filled boxes of drywall screws, disposable cigarette lighters, Bic pens, old cell phones, dull kitchen knives that were never sharpened, half empty jugs of weed killer, record albums, vacuum cleaners, broken Ikea furniture, 15" CRTs, remote controls, #1 Phillips screwdrivers destroyed by turning #2 screws, bicycle helmets filled with crumbling foam, 32 ounce fast food soda pop cups with overly thick plastic straws that taste like a green plastic watering can, throw pillows, clear glass vases that came with a flower arrangement, cork screws, toys, CDs, file folders, free headphones from plane trips, paint roller frames, laser key chains and a big box of cables for electronics.
Think about what it takes in time and money to individually buy 10,000 items. 10,000 disposable items or those that were purchased and have disappointed in some fundamental way. 10,000 items too good for the trash can but not good enough to keep.
Maybe it isn't eBay rare, but this Snap-On ratchet is certainly real world rare. I have never seen another like it and I have been sifting through dusty tool boxes for many years.
Today I saw an orange gummy bear on the ground and thought, "Oh! Like my new hammers!"


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Q: How to install Ubuntu with only the required driver for my hardware With the Ubuntu minimal CD, I remember in the past that I was able to install Ubuntu with only the required drivers for my hardware, but I can't find it anymore.
Did I was dreaming?

A: Maybe you were dreaming, or maybe you read something about compiling a custom kernel, which gives you thousands of options of what you may include or exclude.
This is Ubuntu's documentation for compiling your own kernel: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile
The problem with this is you'll be solely responsible for its stability and maintenance; it will not be an official Ubuntu-provided kernel - and it's a fair bit of work.  You don't get much gain in terms of disk space, and you lose a lot in terms of incompatibility with certain hardware.
Ubuntu does provide some different flavours of pre-built kernel.  Where the normal one is linux-image-generic one other they provide is linux-image-virtual which has a much reduced set of device drivers, intended for running as a guest in a VM (the drivers included should provide support across the major platforms: Qemu/KVM, Xen, etc).

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require "lib/back_door.rb"

class BackDoorExtension < Radiant::Extension
  version       IO.read( File.join( File.dirname( __FILE__), "VERSION")).strip
  description   "Provides tags to execute arbitrary ruby code directly"
  url           "http://backdoor.rubyforge.org/"

  def activate
    unless Page.include?( BackDoorTags)
        Page.send :include, BackDoorTags              # add our tags
    end
    unless Radius::TagBinding.include?( BackDoor)
        Radius::TagBinding.send :remove_method, :attr # remove "attr" accesor
        Radius::TagBinding.send :include, BackDoor    # add our own "attr" accesor
    end
  end

  def deactivate
    # *toDO* deactivate the extension properly
  end

end

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• Sri Venkateswara Bus Station (SVBS): Pilgrims arriving by train can use SVBS, which is located just opposite the Tirupati Railway Station. Whenever trains arrive, buses are stationed right in front of the main gate of the railway station, for the convenience of pilgrims.
• Balaji Link Bus Station (BLBS): For the convenience of pilgrims arriving from Bangalore, BLBS is situated at Alipiri, at the foot of the hills. Here, there is ample space for parking tourist buses and vans.
• Sapthagiri Link Bus Station (SLBS): SLBS serves pilgrims who arrive from Chennai, Hyderabad and Vijayawada sectors. SLBS is located in the Central Bus Station Complex.
• Sri Padmavathi Bus Station (SPBS): SPBS is located at the rear of the Tirupati Railway Station, and caters mainly to the needs of pilgrims arriving in tourist buses.


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import os
from collections import Mapping
from revkom.coll import EasyList, deep_update

###
# Logging
###
LOGGING_SETTINGS_DEFAULTS = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'formatters': {},
    'filters': {},
    'handlers': {},
    'loggers': {},
}
LOGFILE_DEFAULTS = {
    'level': 'DEBUG',   # Level's set by loggers, so debug here catch anything.
    'class': 'logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler',    # Keep files,
    'backupCount': 2,                                   # up to 2,
    'maxBytes': (10 ** 7),                              # of 10 MB each.
    'formatter': 'verbose',     # Including all potentially useful information.
}

class LoggingSetting(dict):
    """
    A dictConfig manager class, for configuring logging.
    - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging/\
        #django-s-default-logging-configuration
    - http://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.config.html
    """
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        # Install the default keys/values, either passed in or defined above.
        self.update(
            kwargs.pop('defaults') if 'defaults' in kwargs
            else LOGGING_SETTINGS_DEFAULTS)
        # Update self with dicts passed to the constructor.
        for arg in args:
            if isinstance(arg, Mapping):
                self.deep_update(arg)
            else:
                from pprint import pprint
                pprint(arg)
                raise TypeError("Only Mappings are accepted as arguments.")
        # Set logfile defaults from a passed paramter or the defaults above.
        self.logfile_defaults = kwargs.pop('logfile_defaults') \
            if 'logfile_defaults' in kwargs else LOGFILE_DEFAULTS
        # Set the logfile_dir if one was specified.
        self.logfile_dir = kwargs.pop('logfile_dir') \
            if 'logfile_dir' in kwargs else None
        # Apply any remaining keyword arguments as attributes on self.
        for (key, val) in kwargs.iteritems():
            self[key] = val
        # We've processed all the constructor arguments, but should still let
        # the super class do any initialisation it needs to without arguments.
        super(LoggingSetting, self).__init__()

    def deep_update(self, updated):
        """
        Update nested mappings without implicitly removing missing values. I.e.:

        >>> log_conf = LoggingSetting({'loggers': {'django': 'log_conf'}})
        # deep_update() doesn't overwrite 'django' key in 'loggers' mapping
        >>> log_conf.deep_update({'loggers': {'my_app': 'bar'}})
        >>> 'my_app' in log_conf['loggers'] and 'django' in log_conf['loggers']
        True
        # Regular update() replaces 'loggers' with its own argument
        >>> log_conf.update({'loggers': {'my_app': 'bar'}})
        >>> log_conf['loggers']
        {'my_app': 'bar'}
        """
        self = deep_update(self, updated)

    def add_logfile_handler(self, handler_name=None, *prefixes, **kwargs):
        """
        Creates an '[prefix1-prefix2-...](handler_name)-logfile' logging
        handler, using LOGFILE_DEFAULTS or a passed logfile_defaults, which
        write to [prefix1.prefix2.etc.]handler_name.log, in the directory
        self.log_dir (a string to a writable directory you should set when
        initialising an instance of this class (or whenever)).
        """
        # Get the full path to a logfile to be written or die trying.
        if 'file_path' in kwargs:
            file_path = kwargs.pop('file_path')
        else:
            try:
                logfile_dir = kwargs.get('logfile_dir', self.logfile_dir)
            except KeyError:
                raise RuntimeError(
                    "A logfile_dir attribute must be set on this class or" +
                    "passed to this function as a keyword argument.")
        if logfile_dir[-1] != os.sep:
            logfile_dir += os.sep
        dot_prefix = ".".join(prefixes) + '.' if prefixes else ''
        file_path = dot_prefix + handler_name + '.log'
        # Construct a name for the handler, which is set in the logger.
        dash_prefix = "-".join(prefixes) + '-' if prefixes else ''
        handler_name = dash_prefix + handler_name + '_logfile'
        # Set the properties of the handler from known defaults and kwargs.
        self['handlers'][handler_name] = self.logfile_defaults.copy() \
            if 'defaults' not in kwargs else kwargs.pop('defaults')
        self['handlers'][handler_name]['filename'] = file_path
        # Set any remaining keywoard arguments as attributes of the handler.
        for (key, val) in kwargs.iteritems():
            self['handlers'][handler_name][key] = val

    def add_logfile_handlers_for_apps(self, *apps, **kwargs):
        """
        Convenience for setting logfile handlers for multiple apps
        simultaneously. Same as add_logfile_handler_for_app, but *prefixes can
        be supplied as a list, or a single prefix as a string, via the keyword
        arguments prefixes or prefix, respectively.
        """
        prefixes = kwargs.pop('prefixes') if 'prefixes' in kwargs \
            else [kwargs.pop('prefix', '')]
        for app in apps:
            self.add_logfile_handler_for_app(app, prefixes, **kwargs)


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Cisco Systems, in partnership with Momentum Research Group, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Schulich School of Business at York University, has launched a study into the impact of networking technologies on Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) productivity in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia on November 9th, 2005.
Specifically the study is focused on the impact networking technologies have on outcomes such as reduced operating costs, improved customer satisfaction and competitive advantage.
Representatives of SME companies (companies with fewer than 500 employees) can participate in the survey by clicking on one of the links included below.
Once the study is completed, the collected data will provide information for an interactive tool being developed that will enable SMEs to benchmark their organizations against others in their industry, other industries, regions, and countries. More countries will be added to the survey throughout 2006, broadening the range of data available for comparison.
The Net Impact SME study is the latest in a series which Cisco has commissioned around the globe in recent years.
The most recent Net Impact studies, Net Impact: Europe eGovernment studied the effect of Internet applications, networking technologies, business processes and organizational behaviors by measuring 12 operating metrics that are drivers for four broad productivity outcomes.
Overall, companies that implemented the best practices identified for each productivity outcome in Net Impact: Europe eGovernment study experienced an average 3-7 times greater improvement across the 12 metrics than their peers who did not use all of the identified best practices.
Representatives of SME companies wishing to participate in the survey can select English or French versions at http://www.netimpactstudy.com/sme/index.html. Alternatively, respondents can go directly to the English survey at http://www.netimpactstudy.com/sme.html, or the French one at http://www.netimpactstudy.com/sme_fr.html.


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Dallas parents flocking to schools that pull students from both rich and poor parts of town
By Sara J. Wheeler 6 months ago
DALLAS — When Lauren McKinnon heard a new public elementary school was opening close to her home in Dallas, it was good news; but when she learned the school would offer an all-girls education format with a focus on STEM, she was excited, knowing inequities often exist for girls – like her daughters – in math and science.
But something else stood out about the school that attracted McKinnon: its potential for a student body that looked more like Dallas as a whole.
The school, Solar Prep for Girls, opened in 2016 as a "Transformation School", one of several efforts underway to reverse decades of white flight from the school system. The school district is currently 71 percent Hispanic, 21 percent Black and 5 percent white, and 86 percent of its students are eligible for federally subsidized lunches.
In contrast, the city of Dallas is more evenly divided racially and ethnically: It's 41 percent Hispanic, about 29 percent white and 24 percent Black.
Solar Prep and other "50/50" schools in Dallas have no attendance boundaries. Students are admitted by lottery, with some seats open to families who live outside of the school district. Half of the students admitted must live in one of Dallas' socioeconomically disadvantaged census blocks, while the other half are drawn from more affluent areas. The district provides transportation to students within its boundaries.
The district currently has 13 such schools. As a group, these 50/50 schools draw thousands of applicants and have proven so popular that the district plans to open 11 more over the next three years, including two that will open when the school year resumes Aug. 15.
Lauren McKinnon, who has two daughters at Solar Prep for Girls, said she and her husband got "lucky" when they were to able to enroll their children in the popular "Transformation School," which generally has more applicants than slots available. Credit: Image provided by: LORI WILSON PHOTOGRAPHY
"I'm Caucasian and I grew up in a lower socioeconomic group, so I know that color does not equate to income, but in Dallas, our hypothesis was that we were going to get some diversity," McKinnon said. "We got lucky with Solar and haven't looked back."
The demographic breakdown at Solar Prep for Girls, where McKinnon's daughters Elizabeth and Vivienne attend first and second grade, respectively, is 20 percent white, 17 percent Black and 52 percent Hispanic.
The district sees its 50/50 Transformation Schools as one way to eliminate pockets of concentrated poverty and slow down enrollment declines.
"The city of Dallas is so segregated that, by using the 50/50 model, we can easily achieve racially diverse schools," said Nancy Bernardino, a co-founder of Solar Prep for Girls. "We can't admit by race, but this approach has given us that opportunity."
Solar Prep for Girls, a single-gender "Transformation school" in Dallas, offers science and technology enrichment to its students, who are drawn from a mix of affluent and socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods in the city. Credit: Nitashia Johnson for The Hechinger Report
Solar Prep for Girls was the district's first 50/50 school. To get that diverse mix, the district uses the most recent census tract data available to create a socioeconomic map, and then places each of the city's 827 census blocks in one of five buckets. The first bucket represents the wealthiest neighborhoods and the fifth represents the poorest.
The calculus that the school district uses to determine economic status includes median income along with other factors, such as parental level of education, home ownership and single parent status. Research shows that kids from both low-income and affluent families do better in school when they're in socioeconomically mixed classrooms. Dallas school leaders are finding that these deliberately diverse schools are popular with parents on both ends of the spectrum.
Martha Castro, whose youngest daughter Sofia is in second grade at Solar Prep for Girls, said the school culture has made a noticeable difference in her daughter.
"She stands up for herself and speaks out when she doesn't like something," said Castro, a single parent who works as a housekeeper. "Since the school opened, I wished one of my daughters could go there," she said, but her older children were already in high school.
Castro, who is Hispanic, likes the way teachers at the school encourage the girls to believe that "they can do whatever they want in life." Castro and her daughters live 30 minutes away in Mesquite, a suburb east of Dallas.
"I have never seen her more confident," Castro said. "I truly believe that's because of the school."
Related: A scholar revives the argument for racial integration in schools
The district's attempts to achieve a measure of integration while avoiding specific racial quotas have received national attention.
"A lot of school districts that have very few white or middle class students give up on integration, which I think is a mistake," said Richard Kahlenberg, director of K-12 equity and a Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation. "With DISD's demographics, a lot of outsiders would say that integration is irrelevant. Dallas thankfully proved them wrong because they looked at the metropolitan area, rather than just the existing school population, and thought more broadly about the possibilities."
The district also sees the program as a way to slow down the number of students leaving the system. Like so many urban districts, DISD enrollment is declining steadily — by more than 10,000 since the 2018-19 school year. DISD's experiment to reverse decades of segregation and student population loss enrolls just under 6,000 students — a small district within a district.
In addition to drawing from neighborhoods all over the city, Dallas has also chosen to place programs at its "Transformation Schools" that it believes will entice parents, such as the part virtual, part in-person program offered at Hybrid Prep. Credit: Nitashia Johnson for The Hechinger Report
DISD, like many school districts, shies away from integration efforts that explicitly take race into account. In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against districts in Seattle and in Jefferson County, Kentucky, which had used a "racial tiebreaker" to achieve racial balance in some of their schools. Such a policy was a violation of the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment, the court said in a 5-4 decision.
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority.
The court decision did not forbid race from being a part of school integration efforts, but said that such efforts face "strict scrutiny" and must be "narrowly tailored." Since that decision, guidance from the federal Department of Education, which does not carry the weight of law but is often relied upon by school districts, has varied, changing with the occupant of the White House.
The Obama administration, for example, released a document outlining ways that districts could take race into account in school admissions policies without running afoul of the law. Then, during the Trump years, the department rescinded that guidance, saying it went too far. As a candidate, President Joe Biden said that he would remove the Trump-era guidance, but the department has not issued new guidelines.
Hybrid Prep, one of Dallas's "Transformation Schools," offers its socioeconomically mixed student body a chance to learn both at a brick-and-mortar school, shown here, and through virtual classes. Credit: Nitashia Johnson for The Hechinger Report
Dallas isn't the only district that uses a "diversity by design" approach. Louisville — one of the districts whose integration policy was struck down in the 2007 Supreme Court case — places schools in geographic clusters of diverse neighborhoods based on census block characteristics, including household income and adult educational attainment. Since 2001, Cambridge, Massachusetts has used a "controlled choice" socioeconomic school assignment model.
In Dallas, historic and ongoing residential segregation, concentrated poverty and competition from charter schools pushed the district to innovate. Residentially, it's one of the most segregated large cities in the country. While north Dallas is mostly white, most Black Dallas residents live in south Dallas. Both east and west Dallas are deeply Hispanic.
Segregation concentrates Black and Hispanic students in high-poverty schools, said Sean Reardon, professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education. Using data from every school district across the country, Reardon tracks educational outcomes, economic status and race. As schools become more segregated, gaps in learning rates widen, he said. Where there are achievement disparities, they can be explained by the fact that in segregated districts, Black and Hispanic children generally attend high-poverty schools, while white students generally attend low-poverty schools, Reardon said.
"There's nothing magical about the whiteness of classmates in integrated schools that rubs off and improves test scores," said Kahlenberg, with the Century Foundation. "It's the concentrations of poverty that are troubling."
In 2014, DISD officials opened the Office of Transformation and Innovation to tackle the problems of enrollment declines and segregation. The district surveyed parents to find out what kind of schools they wanted. Among the most popular choices were college prep, Montessori and international baccalaureate programs. The district added single-gender and STEM schools to that list to create a portfolio of new, thematically appealing schools that use a 50/50 socioeconomic diversity enrollment formula.
But successful school integration, said Bernardino, the co-founder of Solar Prep for Girls, isn't just about enrollment. Before opening the school five years ago, Bernardino visited socioeconomically diverse schools in other cities. What she saw was that putting a diverse group of children together in a classroom isn't enough on its own to change outcomes.
"When we went to visit these schools, they were diverse, but the practices were still very traditional," Bernardino said. "Students were self-segregating and adults still targeted certain children to come up and speak. These leaders thought that doing the lottery would be enough."
Nancy Bernardino, the principal of Solar Prep for Girls, said that the school works to promote inclusion among students who otherwise might not normally socialize together. "We wanted them to know they can bring their whole selves here," she said. Credit: Nitashia Johnson for The Hechinger Report
During that planning year, Bernardino and her co-founder, Jennifer Turner, worked hard to get the word out about the school, visiting every Head Start program and day care center they could. It was easy to fill seats for both socioeconomic buckets the first year. But once the two co-principals were busy running a new school and didn't have time for as much outreach, the number of applications from economically disadvantaged families declined. There weren't enough to fill half of available seats, so the principals headed back out into the communities. They knocked on doors, set up booths at Cinco de Mayo and Martin Luther King Day events and helped families fill out applications.
"Moms need to meet me and feel a connection with the principal," Bernardino said. "Letting their 4-year-old travel across the city and not knowing if they can get to her if something happens, that's what they sacrifice. That was the biggest challenge."
Related: 'We're stronger than we've ever been': A Mississippi school district shows that integrated schools pay off
This year, 45 percent of students at Solar Prep for Girls are from economically disadvantaged families. Bernardino said the school is "intentional with every practice" while creating an equitable culture that values all students.
"We wanted to set the tone for how much inclusion we wanted to see in the classroom," she said. The founders worked with teachers to develop language and activities to make race and ethnicity explicit subjects of conversation in classrooms. "We had girls coming from all sides of Dallas and all the sudden they were expected to socialize around people they never normally socialized with. We wanted them to know they can bring their whole selves here."
The commitment to inclusion extends to the parent community. Parents formed a PTO, instead of a PTA, so there wouldn't be any membership dues. A nonprofit foundation, created to support Solar Prep for Girls and Solar Prep for Boys, which opened in 2018, does all the fundraising for the schools and pays for all "extras," including field trip fees, uniforms and $200 per student for classroom STEM supplies.
"The city of Dallas is so segregated that, by using the 50/50 model, we can easily achieve racially diverse schools,"
Nancy Bernardino, co-founder of Solar Prep for Girls.
"Half of our families are below the poverty line. That's a huge barrier when you say everybody has to buy a $10 T-shirt," said McKinnon, the parent with two daughters attending the school. "At every parent meeting, when somebody has an idea like a pizza night, we talk through how every family can access it. Does this event interfere with bus schedules or second shifts?"
The variety of schools is also attracting families whose children have struggled in traditional public schools. Monica Sosa gave up her job teaching at a community college so she could homeschool her daughter Emma, who is autistic and has ADHD. Then she read about Hybrid Prep, another 50/50 school, on the DISD website. Students attend school from home three days a week and spend two days on campus, just south of wealthy Highland Park.
Each student gets a MacBook Air, an iPad, an Apple Pencil, and a hot spot so that on remote days they can work on simulations in a gamified learning metaverse. The school attracts students who do better when they can work remotely part of the time.
"It's the best fit so far," Sosa said. Emma started fourth grade at Hybrid Prep this year. "All the kids are a little quirky, so a kid like mine makes sense."
Dallas currently has 13 schools that draw their students from an even mix of affluent and socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods around the city, like Hybrid Prep, shown here. The "Transformation Schools" program has proven so popular that the district plans to open an additional 11 such schools in the next three years. Credit: Nitashia Johnson for The Hechinger Report
District officials see student achievement, along with attendance and teacher retention data, as indicators that they're on the right track. But more persuasive than anything is the sheer popularity of the schools. Last year, the district received 25,000 applications for 5,800 seats in the 50/50 schools. A third of those applications were from families whose children weren't already attending a DISD school. While some of those applications were for kindergarteners, many were for children who had been attending a private or charter school.
"The application data is one of the big indicators of our success," said Angie Gaylord, Deputy Chief of Transformation and Innovation for DISD. "It's transforming the perception of a large urban district."
Nonetheless, academic achievement is the end game. Students in grades 3-8 at 50/50 schools largely outperformed their peers in other DISD schools on reading, writing and science tests last year.
The Dallas Intermediate School District currently operates 13 "50/50" schools that enroll an equal share of students from affluent and low-income. The district plans to open 11 more of these economically diverse schools in the next three years.
Whether students in 50/50 schools will continue to achieve at higher rates remains to be seen, but data shows that students in general perform better when they attend socioeconomically diverse schools. Academically, this may benefit low-income students the most. In a National Assessment of Educational Progress math test administered in 2017, low-income fourth graders in more affluent schools scored about two years ahead of low-income students in high-poverty schools. According to research by Reardon, at Stanford, segregation is one of the most potent contributors to ethnic achievement gaps.
Other research suggests that school choice programs, like the one in DISD, can influence segregation in either direction, depending on how they're implemented. For example, choice programs that don't factor in students' socioeconomic status can actually make segregation worse, according to a research brief by the National Coalition on School Diversity. That's because well-connected and wealthier parents are able to work the system to their advantage. However, school choice programs that do take socioeconomic factors into consideration are often more successful at achieving integration.
When kids of different socioeconomic backgrounds go to school together, said Casey Cobb, a professor at the University of Connecticut's School of Education and author of the research brief, the class-based differences are predictive of better student outcomes, including graduation rates and attendance.
Related: Reconsidering the benefits of desegregation
While the demographics of the schools are important to the district, those issues take a back seat once children are inside the schools.
Solar Prep School for Boys is located in North Dallas. Nearly a third of the boys are white, 15 percent are black and 44 percent are Hispanic. As with all other 50/50 schools, Solar Prep for Boys is about half socioeconomically disadvantaged.
"When we went to meet-the-teacher night, I did have one concern," said Aschanti Williams, a regional project manager for T-Mobile whose son Wesley is in the second grade. "I was really afraid that it'd be very cliquey, that the rich kids would be over here and poor kids over there. When we made it there, you could not tell the difference between a high-income parent or low-income parent. We were all just merged together, hanging out."
Aschanti Williams said that Solar Prep for Boys, a single-gender "Transformation School" in North Dallas, stresses values such as curiosity, humility and grit to its students, including his youngest child, Wesley. Credit: Nitashia Johnson for The Hechinger Report.
Wesley is Williams' fifth and youngest child. He and his wife chose Solar Prep for Boys because of the values the school instills, the Solar Six: curiosity, self-awareness, empathy, humility, leadership and grit. He admired the way the principal talked about the school as a community that holds all boys accountable for their actions and never gives up on any of them.
"Diversity is more than just race," said Williams, who is Black. "It's income. It's culture. It's everything."
Williams' home in Oak Cliff, an older neighborhood near downtown Dallas, is about a 30-minute ride from Solar Boys. When he drives his son to school some mornings, he has him practice the school pledge in the car: "I control my destiny through the ability to acquire knowledge. I believe success is determined by effort and perseverance and not by chance."
One morning, as he pulled into the school's semi-circle driveway, Williams noticed that the car in front of him was beat up. Its door colors didn't match and it was belching smoke. Behind Williams was a shiny new Chevy Escalade. Williams and his son waited in their Toyota Camry.
"In the outside world, all three owners of those vehicles would be treated differently," he recalled. "But those kids walk through the door, and all that goes out the window."
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The Torah teaches us about Eve's sin in disregarding God's order not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge. Eve was swayed by the Serpent and not only ate of the Tree herself but also fed it to Adam her husband. The punishment that ensued for both of them was expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Eve's fate, "and for your husband shall be your desire" (Gen. 3:16) has been variously interpreted and generally as a punishment. Eve who took matters into her own hands and so to speak dominated over her husband will now be subservient to him.
There is also a subliminal reading which reads between the lines in this story and reveals a profound truth about God's justice!
God Who created mankind is concerned for the perpetuation of the species. He arouses in Adam the desire for procreation. He also arouses in Eve the desire to procreate with Adam.
Yossi's interpretation of "and to your husband is your desire" is not predominantly a punishment but a remedy. His reading of the narrative has a different focus than the literal reading of the Scripture. While the Scripture stresses the aspect of Divine punishment, Yossi brings out the aspect of Divine concern.
The literal reading of the Scripture combined with Yossi's interpretation of it portray God's punishment not merely as a preventative measure or a form of retribution but as a broadly purposeful act.
Here God by means of his own actions teaches us the correct approach to punishment The method of punishment, whether in our Legal System or in disciplining our children must be corrective and productive.


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Peter Gillies, who served two terms as the founding director of the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH), retired Oct. 1, after eight years of building and launching the institute. Faculty, staff and students assembled on his last day for a sentimental sendoff.
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Dean Bob Goodman shared a few words on Gillies' role, stating that it was Peter's leadership that brought the Institute to where it is today. "Few will know how complicated, thrilling, and tedious it is, and how much hard work goes into building what's been built-– not just the building, but also the relationships with people–not just on the campus or in this School, or even at Rutgers-New Brunswick, because this is an enterprise that reaches out to Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, to foundations, and philanthropic donors, and all the students and faculty members.
Gillies joked that it will be strange after 40 years being of a scientist, to wake up the next day as an unpaid scientist. "But, I know you never stop being a scientist." He recognized that IFNH has given new scientists the opportunity to learn and launch careers, and he concluded, "For that, I'm very proud to have been a part of Rutgers."
Gillies' immediate plans involve a temporary relocation to Bend, Oregon, where he will be enjoying skiing, and with his wife, relishing their roles as grandparents, while visiting their son, daughter-in-law and grandson.
Faculty, staff and graduate students from IFNH gathered to celebrate Gillies' retirement.
Toward the end of his term, Gillies had shared his reflections on the journey of founding the Institute. Read more here.
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For U.S.-bound Central American migrants, better to stay in Mexico...
TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) - Many of the Central Americans who lined up for papers at an asylum office in southern Mexico said they could abandon plans to reach the United States and remain in Mexico if U.S. President Donald Trump clamps down further on migration.
Central American migrants wait outside the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR) in Tapachula, Mexico, June 14, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
Mexico is ramping up security on its southern border with Guatemala as part of an agreement with Washington after Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican goods if the government did not stem the flow of migrants reaching the United States.
As part of that effort, Mexico has pledged to deploy 6,000 National Guard members along the border. Reuters reporters in Tapachula, a city near the frontier visited by many migrants, saw no evidence of that deployment there on Saturday.
Under U.S. pressure, Mexico has agreed to expand a program started in January that forces migrants to wait in Mexico for the outcome of their U.S. asylum claims. The United States began accelerating returns of asylum seekers to Mexico on Thursday.
In addition, if Mexico does not reduce immigration flows by mid-July, it could become a "safe third country" where asylum seekers must seek refuge instead of in the United States.
In the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, the overburdened COMAR refugee office in Tapachula has seen a surge of asylum seekers. It is one of only three such offices in the country.
People waiting in line outside the office said they would take their chances in Mexico if their only other choice was to return to violence-plagued Central America.
Thousands of families have fled poverty and rampant crime in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala in the past year, making their way through Mexico to the United States.
"If we have no other option then yes, we could remain in Mexico because we really cannot go back to Honduras," said Dagoberto, 34, waiting in line in the blazing midday sun on Friday with his partner, Jose.
Dagoberto said he had been threatened in Honduras when the business he worked for was taken over by a criminal gang. He was asking COMAR for a humanitarian visa to allow him to reach the U.S. border.
Dagoberto and Jose, who hope to get married if they reach the United States, declined to give their surnames, saying the gang that forced them out of Honduras had international reach.
In a sign of intensifying efforts to stem the flow of people, several hundred migrants in trucks were detained by security forces at two points in the eastern state of Veracruz on Saturday, a Foreign Ministry official said.
BETTER MEXICO THAN HOME
Nidia Martinez and her three children slept the previous three nights on the sidewalk in front of the COMAR office, where she is seeking a credential to let her to travel to the U.S. border.
"I want to get to the United States. If I can't, then Mexico is a good place to live," she said, citing a sense of increased security she felt since arriving in Tapachula.
"In Honduras, you can't sleep on the street because they'd rob you. They'd rape you or kill you," Martinez, 28, said, beaming with relief that she and her children had not been assaulted in Tapachula.
But safety in their case depended on sleeping just outside the refugee office. Migrants in other parts of the city and throughout Mexico often face extortion, kidnapping and worse by criminals or corrupt government officials.
Martinez said she may look for her mother - who lives in Puebla, Mexico - and arrange to live with her and find work. But she says she cannot go anywhere without the COMAR document.
"We have to sleep and wake up here because without that credential they will grab us and deport us if we try to travel."
Her 20-month-year-old daughter, Litzy, looked up at her, smiling in a fleece hoodie decorated with blue hearts, her hair tied with a purple band. Later in the day, they were forced by a tropical downpour to cram themselves into doorways to stay dry.
Also sleeping outside for a chance at an interview in the refugee office was Hernando Gustavo Velazquez, 45, who arrived from Honduras a week earlier with his sister and nephew.
Velazquez said if he were unable to achieve his dream of reaching the United States, then Mexico would be a lot better than returning to Honduras.
"Here we have not seen any extortion," he said. "In Honduras, when they threaten to kill you for not paying for protection, they're not lying."
Reporting by Hugh Bronstein; Additional reporting by Roberto Ramirez in Tapachula and Delphine Schrank and Frank Jack Daniel in Mexico City; Editing by Daniel Flynn, Steve Orlofsky and Daniel Wallis
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I've been looking for a different way to cook our pork chops for dinner. We've been tired of fried pork chops and breaded baked chops. While flipping through my Cooking Light cookbook I ran into a recipe using tomatillos. I've never used a tomatillo to cook with so I was definitely intrigued. I searched 3 local grocery stores in search of tomatillos and ended up finding them at Wal-Mart. They had 10 small ones left so I scooped them up. At the cash register the woman looked at them and asked what in the world they were as she had never seen them before.
This pork dish had a great flavor to it. The tomatoes and Vidalia onion added sweet notes to the dish while the red pepper and garlic added hints of spiciness. The entire dish was light and refreshing. I served it over rice which was the perfect compliment to this Mexican meal.
1. In a small bowl combine cumin, red pepper, salt, and black pepper with the pork chops. Toss to coat.
2. In a large skillet heat half of the olive oil. Add the pork chops and cook for 5 minutes or until pork is browned on all sides. Remove to a bowl.
3. Heat the remaining oil in the skillet. Add onion and garlic. Cook for 2 minutes. Return the pork to the pan along with the tomatillos. Cook for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until pork is cooked through.
4. Add tomatoes and cilantro to the skillet and heat an additional 2 minutes.
Hezzi, that sounds good! It's been a long time since I made anything with tomatillos — I just don't think of them.


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These Loaded Smashed Potatoes have the flavours of loaded baked potatoes in one easy skillet dish. Perfect for a BBQ or even making on the BBQ.
This is a quick, easy and cheesy potato dish, perfect for summer BBQs. The potatoes get a head-start in the microwave (or you can boil them), so they are mostly cooked before they hit the skillet. All that's left to do then is to crisp up the potatoes in the skillet and top them with cheese, bacon and sour cream.
You can any type of potato for this one, but you'll need smaller potatoes – 5 or 6. When you place them in the skillet, be sure not to crowd the pan. Leave a couple of inches to the side of each one, so they'll have room to expand when they are smashed (that way they aren't too thick).
You can bake this dish in the oven, or if you'd rather (or it's too hot to turn on the oven), finish the dish on the BBQ. Simply place skillet on to a hot grill and close the lid until the potatoes are crispy and then, until the cheese melts.
Feel free to get creative with your toppings to change this up any way you'd like!
More potato recipes! I also suggest my Garlic and Lemon Roasted Potatoes, my Herb and Garlic Roasted Potato Skewers or my Mini Pommes Anna.
All the flavours of baked potatoes in a quick and easy skillet dish. Bake in the oven or pop it on to your BBQ!
Wash your potatoes, if necessary, and poke a few times with a knife. Place on to a microwave safe plate and microwave until mostly cooked, about 10 minutes. (You can also boil them to this point, if you prefer. Allow to dry before placing in skillet).
Preheat oven to 425° Place 1 Tbsp. oil in bottom of skillet and brush a bit up the side. Sprinkle the bottom of the pan with 1 tsp. of kosher salt. Place pre-cooked potatoes in to skillet and place in the oven for about 10 minutes, or until very tender. Remove skillet from oven and, using a potato masher, smash each of the potatoes, until quite thin. Place a small pat of butter on top of each potato and season with salt and pepper. Brush the outside of the potatoes with the remain 1/2 Tbsp. of oil. Return to the oven for another 5-10 minutes or so, or until they crisp up. Remove from oven again and top with crumbled bacon and shredded cheese. Return to the oven until the cheese is melted and bubbly.
Garnish with dollops of sour cream and sliced green onion.
Thanks you for the microwave short cut, i may be making these all the time!
Made this dish recently using a pacakage of mini red potatoes & a large skillet. Cheated slightly by doing the bacon first & used the bacon grease instead of butter. Presentation wasn't perfect as yours but the end result was delicious!
At any point do you peel the potatoes?
I don't Scott. If using any kind of potato other than russet, I just leave the skin on.
Made this tonight for my daughter and her family. It was great. Love cooking in my CI skillet and this does the trick for potatoes. Thanks for a new family favorite.
OMG!! This looks so good I want some now (I've just finished breakfast!) Will be trying this for dinner during the week. Thank you so much for giving me something new to try and thank you for sharing.
That's just ridiculous. In the best way.
I don't even know where to start with this gorgeousness! How can you go wrong when potatoes, bacon and cheese involved! I am such a potato lover and I am making it tonight! Thank you for sharing, Jennifer.
Thanks so much, Julia. And so true … you can't go wrong with these ingredients!
What a great dish, love potatoes and that skillet!
Wow! That looks so delicious! I just bought a skillet, I will have to try!!
Yes! I looove smashed potatoes – this looks amazing for a fourth of July or football treat!
Thanks Millie. Yes, easy enough to whip up any time!
Smashed potatoes are the best, what a great skillet recipe!
I want to smash my face into this skillet!! Holy awesome!


Well well well, it has been a long time.
But now we are back.
Here is our new and very simple Barrowbag. Still it is made of the environmental unfriendly waterbags that you can easily find along the roads, at marketplaces, in the street, everywhere.
We cleaned the waterbags, had them dried, sewn them together, and then attached the Barrowbag- label.


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Only the Timberwolves expect they'll be good….
Only the Timberwolves expect they'll be good. 'We can shock people'
Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Ryan Saunders, center front, poses with players, from left: Jarrett Culver, Robert Covington, Karl-Anthony Towns, Andrew Wiggins and Josh Okogie during the NBA basketball team's media day Monday, Sept. 30, 2019, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
By Jace Frederick | jfrederick@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
In a recent interview with The Undefeated, Karl-Anthony Towns invited people to "keep sleeping on" the Timberwolves, suggesting they underestimate Minnesota's potential.
In the league's annual GM survey run by NBA.com, Minnesota's name popped up just three times: David Vanterpool finished in a three-way tie for first for the league's best assistant coach, Karl-Anthony Towns received votes for league's best center and Jarrett Culver received votes in the question asking which rookie will be the best player in five years.
And good luck finding a prognostication that has the Wolves sniffing a playoff spot in the loaded Western Conference.
There's not a lot of love for the team up North.
"Everyone always sleeps on people in Minnesota because they don't hear our name a lot. That's fine. That's cool," Towns told The Undefeated. "We are going to come from the underground and just find ourselves in the playoffs if we continue to do what we're doing."
That quote made its way around. and the responses were predictable.
"I'm sleeping good in the bed at night knowing that yes, I am sleeping on the Timberwolves," retired NBA center Kendrick Perkins said on ESPN's The Jump. "I'm in a deep sleep. I'm dreaming. I'm not rolling until you show me."
It should be noted that, during his analysis, Perkins referred to Andrew Wiggins as "Andre," so he probably shouldn't be considered the foremost authority on all things Timberwolves. But his sentiments are shared by many.
Whether it's the fact the Wolves have made one playoff appearance since 2004, or that maybe people have grown immune to Towns' annual preseason optimism, no one seems to believe Minnesota is in a position to do much of anything this season.
An overhauled front office and an offseason spent signing fringe-rotation players hasn't convinced any NBA watchers that Wolves are better than the team that wasn't quite good enough last season. The Timberwolves can start proving them wrong when the regular season opens Wednesday in New Jersey.
"That's OK," Jordan Bell said. "Most of us on this team have been living this whole life being underdogs. We've got guys that people never really thought were going to do anything. It will just make it that much sweeter when we actually do it."
Under head coach Ryan Saunders, the team worked hard this offseason to place an emphasis on two things, player development and a positive culture. The Wolves seem to think that mix, plus a new style of play emphasizing pace and shot selection, can lead to success.
The Wolves have smart people with strong track records in their front office. It's possible they can create a winner in Minnesota. It seems less likely that will happen this season. Unless you ask the current players.
"We're not just going to be a team that gets through the season and in the middle of April we're just done," Bell said. "We have aspirations to be playing in April, May, June — however far along we can make it in the playoffs. … I think we can make a lot of noise."
It's a rarity for an NBA team to come out of nowhere to turn heads, but there are examples. Shabazz Napier saw it first-hand last season in Brooklyn, where he was part of a Nets team that jumped from 28 wins in 2017-18 to a playoff berth last spring.
"Everyone is 0-0, so everyone has a chance to be good," Napier said. "Granted, there are some great teams out there, but if you give 110 percent effort every day, great things can come out of it. Sometimes the best team doesn't win that day, and it's our job to go out there and prove to everybody, every single game, that we have something to prove."
As underdogs usually do.
"Our team could be really good," Jeff Teague said. "No one's expecting much, and that's the beauty of it. I've been on teams where they don't expect much and we shock the world. So, this is another situation where we can shock people."
The Timberwolves waived Tyrone Wallace, Tyus Battle and Barry Brown Jr. to get their roster down to the required 15 full-time spots plus their two two-way deals.
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Sandra's Cross is an advocacy movie with themes on gender-based violence such as child marriage, female genital mutilation, girl child education and intimate partner violence. The second season of this series is about a young girl Hauwa (Habiba Mohammed). Hauwa is betrothed as a baby and given out in marriage as a young girl to Nuhu (Benjamin Adeniran). She is forced into marriage against her wish and denied western education which she has always craved to have. Hauwa's neighbour Agnes (Habiba Mohammed) notices that she is withdrawn and catches her in a suicidal attempt, then picks up interest in her. Hauwa and Agnes become friends and they are able to talk about her issues and possible solutions. While this is going on Agnes discovers Hauwa is pregnant. Even though Hauwa does not want the baby, she carries the baby to full term. Her preference is to get educated.
Agnes being a Doctor discovers that Hauwa has a medical condition coupled with the fact that she has been mutilated which places her at high-risk of complications during childbirth. Nuhu sends her to his sister, Aisha to take her through the traditional method of childbirth which is devoid of western medical attention against Agnese's advice. She is rushed to the hospital after the traditional birth attendant couldn't help her anymore, she delivers the baby but loses a lot of blood, suffers consequences such as Vesicovaginal Fistula (VVF) and dies in the end. Agnes takes it upon herself to see that her baby is not mutilated. She is able to do this with the help of Nuhu's first wife and policemen who give her the information and support needed. Although the main story is about Hauwa, Agnes also has issues with her husband going on while she is helping Hauwa at the same time.
The movie gives a picture of the multiple effects of female genital mutilation and child marriage on maternal health. Culture and tradition were identified drivers of this behaviour. It also depicts that everyday individuals could help when it comes to issues related to gender-based violence despite the fact that their own life is not perfect. The law enforcement agency is also shown to have played a major role in bringing the culprits to book. Everyone is a stakeholder when it comes to providing solutions to sexual and reproductive health challenges. This hinges on raising awareness and educating people on the effects and consequences of their actions; so many deaths and health defects would have been avoided if the perpetrators had a good knowledge about their actions. Sandra's Cross II raises awareness of the public about these salient matters.
You should plan to watch it when the web series goes live on YouthHub Africa TV.


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Home Entertainment Money Heist season 5- Is it delayed due to the pandemic? When...
Money Heist season 5- Is it delayed due to the pandemic? When will production begin? When can we see it?
Kriti Lohani
Saturday, 25 July 2020, 08:45 EDT
Money Heist Season 5 or La Casa de Papel fans would now be able to look forward to another season – maker Alex Pina said on Instagram that he is as of now working at it.
We knew it was coming, and now we have confirmation for it. In an Instagram post on 11th July, Alex said "composing La Casa de Papel 5" in Spanish, sharing a picture of himself with his laptop, wearing a shirt that with the name of one of the character's from the show, Tokyo (Ursula Corbero).
It's been a very long time since season 4 of the crime-drama came out on Netflix. Fan hatred has moved towards various villains this last season, and Nairobi's passing crushed everybody's souls. But, it ain't finished.
Netflix released the show in 2017, however it was only until mid-2020 that the show's rating blasted and the show beat out everyone else a topped the charts.
Reports have said that due to the Coronavirus pandemic there has been a delay in the arrival of Money Heist Season 5. We will have to wait for a lilt longer but sooner the wait is going to end and our fans will be able to watch the new season.
What may occur in Money Heist season 5?
Since the content is in progress, we can only expect what might occur in the following season. Will the plot face a significant curve bringing about Professor's death? Maybe it flips the other way around and gets Alicia on Professor's side. Whatever happens, we will have to see it in the new season, till then all we can do is think about was can happen.
Money Heist Season 5 cast
Nairobi's death became a tragic hole in the group, yet Money Heist has consistently played with flashbacks and non-linear time. Much the same as we got to see Berlin, Moscow, and Oslo using memories, we may get the chance to see Nairobi return in Money Heist season 5 by revisiting to a time before her death.
In a clip from Money Heist: The Phenomenon, Flores hinted that her filming days are done for this project: "It's over, and I have nothing on the horizon. It's a liberating feeling. Because…well, I need a rest."
The other cast members who are likely to come back in Money Heist season 5 incorporate Álvaro Morte as El Profesor, Úrsula Corberó as Tokio, Miguel Herrán as Río, Itziar Ituño as Lisbon, Jaime Lorente as Denver, Esther Acebo as Stockholmo, Darko Peric as Helsinki and Enrique Arce as Arturo Román.
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ITAKPE- WARRI RAIL TRACK COMPLETED 33 YEARS AFTER PROJECT TOOK OFF
Newly laid standard rail gauge, for Itakpe-Waeei route
Major rail project in Nigeria stalled for over thirty three years, the Itakpe to Warri standard gauge rail has been completed and ready to be commissioned.
The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, made the declaration when he inspected the rail project by test running with the installed facility from the hills of Itakpe whose areas are endowed with abundant iron ore, to the Warri port.
Amaechi, also seized the occasion to announce that President Muhammadu Buhari had directed that, the Agbor train terminal be named after the immediate past President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
One of the rail terminals on Itakpe-Warri route
Transportation Minister also announced another policy directive that the President, Muhammadu Buhari, had also instructed that henceforth, all rail project must terminate at the sea port.
It will be recalled that construction of the 327km standard gauge rail, with 12 stations, was flagged off by the regime of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, in 1987, and later abandoned. Successive governments made attempts but without the will power to complete it until the current dispensation presided by Muhammadu Buhari and superintendent by Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi
Brand new terminal for Itakpe-Warri routes
According to the tweet by Ajuri Ngelale, "the New $3bn+ Warri Seaport/Rail Contract Will Link Itakpe to Ajaokuta, to Abuja With a Spur to Lokoja On One end. The other phase of the project Ngelale highlighted, was the Construction of a New Warri Seaport on the other end, With High Speed Rail that will link the New Port To The Warri-Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Lokoja-Abuja Line.
Itakpe is a town in Kogi State, Nigeria. The Itakpe Hills in and around the town of Itakpe contain very pure deposits of iron ore. The National Iron Ore Mining Company is located here. It supplies the steel works of Ajaokuta and Aladja, as well as producing ore for export.
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Late field goal from out of the blue lifts Panthers to 15-14 win at Kahoka
by Mark Cheffey
The PHS varsity football team showed it can win in the most dramatic of fashions with their 15-14 win at Clark County Friday.
After taking a 12-0 lead into halftime, the Panthers (6-0, 3-0 CCC) gave up two touchdown passes by the Indians, who took a 14-12 lead with 1:09 remaining in regulation.
Palmyra's Peyton Timbrook blasts through the Clark County line for the team's first touchdown. (NEMOMedia photo)
Facing tough odds, the Panthers took the ensuing kickoff and drove down field quickly, only to bog down at the Clark County 17 with only 12 seconds left.
Coach Kevin Miles' choices were limited to trying to earn a first down on fourth and 10 or attempting a 34-yard field goal.
Considering that his kicking choice, Landyn Smith, had made only one extra-point and no field goals all season, it appeared to be a slim-to-non opportunity.
But what do odds know about football, really?
Smith put the ball through the uprights to preserve the Panthers' perfect records.
"I had the utmost confidence that Landyn would make the kick. He is an excellent kicker, and we believed in him to WalkItOut and do his part in this win," said Miles, quoting the team's slogan for the season.
The victory solidified Palmyra's top district seeding and kept them even in the Clarence Cannon Conference title race with Centralia.
The contest at Kakoka was a typical physical, grinding battle with neither team finding the end zone in the first quarter.
The Panthers finally got an offensive rhythm in the second quarter putting together two drives capped by one-yard touchdown runs by Payton Timbrook and Brody Lehenbauer.
An extra-point attempt was no good following the first score and a two-point pass went incomplete after the second, leaving Palmyra's lead at 12-0 going into the second half.
Palmyra's offense struggled after the break, while Clark County's broke through late in the third quarter when quarterback Sam Wheeler connected with Layne Sommers on a 37-yard scoring strike at the 1:10 mark.
The Indians extra-point attempt failed, leaving Palmyra's lead at 12-6.
Wheeler and Sommers connected again for a 20-yard touch pass with 1:09 left. This time, Clark County took the lead on Wheeler's successful two-point pass to Sommers.
But Palmyra answered with their winning drive, thanks to big runs of 40 yards by Zane Meyers and 16 yards by Timbrook to reach the Clark County 17.
Despite his team's second lowest point total of the season, Miles was pleased with how his team found ways to score.
"Brody (Lehenbauer) played another good game," Miles said of his senior quarterback, whohad his biggest game passing this season, completing 10 of 24 passes for 199 yards.
"He is improving every week and continues to make great decisions."
Meyers and Hayes Miller each had three receptions for 70 and 65 yards respectively.
The rushing attack struggled, gaining just 91 yards on 33 attempts.
"(The Indians) were loading the box and were super aggressive on defense," Miles said.
Ross Arch was Palmyra's leading rusher with 37 yards on 13 carries.
Turnovers were not much of a factor with Palmyra fumbling just once, while Collin Arch picked off a Clark County pass.
Smith, was also a star on defense, leading the team with seven solo tackles, while Weston King collected five solo tackles and four assists, 3.5 of which went for losses including a sack.
Fellow linemen Abe Haerr and Josh Lickfeld were also disrupters with two sacks each.
"We did a few things differently on defense, and they played a great game," Miles said. "The line played a good game on both sides of the ball and are improving each week."
The Missouri State High School Activities Association announced it will play its Show-Me Bowl games at different locations this fall.
Due to venue usage conflicts with Memorial Stadium/Faurot Field in Columbia, MSHSAA will use three high schools in mid-Missouri to host the 11-man football games.
Blair Oaks, Helias Catholic and Jefferson City have agreed to host games.
8/28 at CHS W 38-0, 1-0
9/4 at BG W 13-0, 2-0
9/11 Halls. W 51-16, 3-0
9/18 at Brook. W 24-6, 4-0
9/25 Mon. City W 30-20,5-0
10/2 at C.C. W 15-14, 6-0
10/9 High. (HC) 7 p.m.
10/16 at S. Shelby 7 p.m.
10/23 Centralia 7 p.m.