the sides, brick is laid in running bond.The rear annex was built in the early 1940s and houses a kitchen and a staircase, which replaced the original stairway to the second floor meeting room.

In 1929 the Masons offered to share the building with the Halifax Woman’s Club, which still uses it today as its headquarters. In 2002 the club sponsored a fundraising campaign to help Masons with a restoration of the building.

Until the mid-1900s, lodge members held meetings on or around the first full moon of each month. This gave members “moonlight” for those riding on horseback or walking to and from night meetings. However, this practice prompted the community for many years to call the meeting place, the “Moon Lodge.”

The Lodge lost its charter for several yearsdiscover for and about himself.

At its core, Freemasonry is simply an attempt to make the world a better place, one man at a time. For that man, it can become as simple or as complicated as he himself desires. It's not for everybody. Maybe it's for you.

"Brother Chris Hodapp's [blog]...is thought provoking and is often the first place on the web where new ideas and matters of interest are posted."

He received his college education at Indiana University, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles Valley College, California State University at Northridge, and Indiana/Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Chris spent twenty-three years in advertising as a commercial filmmaker for Dean Crow Productions, shooting and editing close to 1,000 commercials, music videos and feature films. He has written scripts for corporate and


non-profit clients, and his voice has appeared in countless television and radio commercials.

He was the editor and a contributor in 2004-5 to "Laudable Pursuit: A 21st Century Response to Dwight Smith"by the Knights of the North, a Masonic leadership think-tank focussing on modern lodge solutions. He has written for Indianapolis Monthly, Masonic Magazine, Templar History, the Scottish Rite Journal, the Knight Templar Magazine, the Indiana Freemason , the Phylaxis, and numerous other publications.

Hodapp and Alice Von Kannon developed episode outlines for the History Channel program, Brad Meltzer's Decoded in 2010, and contributed material on conspiracies and secret societies for TruTV and the American Heroes Channel. They have both appeared on National Public Radio, the History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and the American Heroes Channel - most recentlyin 2017 on America: Facts vs Fiction.

He and Alice live in Indianapolis with their very French poodle, Wiley.

I am a Freemason and a member of both the regular, recognized Grand Lodge of Indiana F&AM and the United Grand Lodge of England. However, unless otherwise attributed, the opinions expressed in this blog are my own, or of others expressing theirs by posting comments. I do not in any way represent the official positions of my lodges or Grand Lodges, any associated organization of which I may or may not be a member, or the fraternity of Freemasonry as a whole.

Be aware that no one person may speak on behalf of Freemasonry or present their opinion as being the "official" position of the fraternity, unless it is a grand master,


missiles and plasma beams rain all over the place, culminating in stabbing the Metal Gear in the head, then sliding all the way back to the ground and stylishly sheathing his blade just as the UG splits in two and explodes behind him. And this all happens as the first boss, which takes place ''[[EstablishingSeriesMoment five minutes into the game]]''.

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** The ending of this fight deserves a mention as well. RAY, still not finished, grabs Raiden in its "mouth" and hurls him into the side of a nearby clock-tower - so what does Raiden do? Simple: He takes off like a bullet, running down the collapsing building as missiles and plasma beams rain all over the place, culminating in stabbing him grabbing his blade that was already stuckin the Metal Gear in Gear's head from the head, previous clash, then sliding all the way back to the ground and stylishly sheathing his blade just as the UG splits in two and explodes behind him. And this all happens as the first boss, which takes place ''[[EstablishingSeriesMoment five minutes into the game]]''.

** It's very easy to forget, but Raiden only gets his new state of the art cyborg armour ''after'' this, meaning he was using old outdated cybernetics during that fight.

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** It's very easy to forget, but Raiden only gets his new state of the art cyborg armour ''after'' this, meaning he was using old outdated relatively subpar cybernetics during that fight.

Reason: His standard cyborg body in MGR is actually a step-up from the MGS 4


body, which is described as "functionally obsolete" when you look up its entry in the MGR customization screen. Thus "outdated" is inaccurate; it's simply designed for low-intensity bodyguard work (i.e. cost-efficiency), per its description.

* [[spoiler:Armstrong]] proving how strong his [[spoiler:nanomachines]] are by blowing up [[spoiler:Metal Gear EXCELSUS]] with a single, superpowerful punch as he finishes his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Raiden. The line he shouts as he charges his punch adds even more awesomeness to the scene.

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* [[spoiler:Armstrong]] proving how strong his [[spoiler:nanomachines]] are by blowing up [[spoiler:Metal Gear EXCELSUS]] with a single, superpowerful punch as he finishes his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Raiden. The line he shouts as he charges his punch adds even more awesomeness to the scene.scene while being equally hilarious at the same time.

* One of the mostFor PIOS

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MtG champion Stanislav Cifka says Hearthstone is more exciting and complex and less RNG than Magic

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In an interview taken during DreamHack Bucharest, prominent Magic: The Gathering deckbuilder and Pro Tour champion Stanislav Cifka expresses opinions about Hearthstone which are probably not that popular in the community.

To Magic: The Gathering fans, Stanislav Cifka is a well-known name. The Czech player made a break-out appearance during the 2012 Return to Ravnica Pro Tour, playing the so called "Eggs" deck, a complex deck, requiring absolute perfection in its execution. Cifka's choice of the "Eggs" was also not a random one - being a high-ranked chess player (ranked top 2,000 in the world and top 50 in his country), his name is synonimous to the analytical playstyle, atreasured quality for any card game player.

With the boom of Hearthstone, the MtG champion makes furtive steps into the competitive scene of Blizzard's CCG. A member of the Czech team Eeriness, Cifka plays his first televized match in July, a 1-2 loss to Ekop in TakeTV's Gentlemen's Cup. Juggling between Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone, Cifka is yet to make his HS break-out but this doesn't mean he doesn't have wisdom to share.

Cifka and I make acquaintances on the second day of DreamHack Bucharest, his first even Hearthstone offline event. As we get the small talk out of the day about how happy he is to meet all the Hearthstone players (and some Dota 2 personalities as well as he loves the game a lot), we dive into


is probably not something that many community members of both games would express. Magic: The Gathering has been on the market for more than two decades and features intricate rule system, a plethora of mechanics and thousands of cards to choose from. While the latter supports Cifka's quote about the deckbuilding differences, his claim about Hearthstone's difficult compared to Magic honestly surprises. Just a day later in another interview with GosuGamers, however, Tempo Storm captain and former Magic player Andrey "Reynad" Yanyuk would also confirm Cifka's words, saying the actual gameplay in MtG is simpler than Hearthstone.

Gameplay depth is not the only thing Hearthstone excels at, Cifka states. The game is also less random the MtG, despite the latter having virtually no RNG-based playable cards in any oftruth” — was nonviolent, noncooperative, but never passive. It was a form of protest that was active, requiring immense courage of its adherents at the same time it required the full acknowledgement of the rule of law. Gandhi mounted protests to laws he felt were unjust and immoral, but submitted to the rule of law because, in the end, he believed that the most cherished principles of law either did, or could be made to, align with justice. When laws were unjust, he believed that nonviolent civil disobedience could call attention to this discrepancy, shining a bright light on ideas of justice that would accord with widely shared ideals rather than narrow imperial interests. By exemplifying these ideals in his actions, he believed the truth would eventually win.


The Lambda Literary Awards - (LGBTQI) 2018

The Lambdas have been announced! These books are marked as the best queer fiction by the Lambda Literary Society. Both winners and nominees have been included to broaden your reading experience. Read the rainbow!

Description: "Fleeing a turbulent life in Los Angeles, twenty-four-year-old writer John Rechy accepts an invitation to a private island from an admirer of his work. There, he joins Paul, his imposing host in his late thirties, his beautiful mistress, and his precocious teenage son. Browsing Paul's library and conversing together on the deck about literature and film during the spell of evening's "blue hour," John feels surcease, until, with unabashed candor, Paul shares intimate details of his life. Through cunning seductive charm, he married and divorced an ambassador's daughterand the heiress to a vast fortune. Avoiding identifying his son's mother, he reveals an affinity for erotic "dangerous games." With intimations of past decadence and menace, an abandoned island nearby arouses tense fascination over the group. As "games" veer toward violence, secrets surface in startling twists and turns. Explosive confrontation becomes inevitable."--Publisher's description.

Description: Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane. Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his


present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials-early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films-Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. In tracing the twinned genealogies of blackness and transness, Snorton follows multiple trajectories, from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved black women by J. Marion Sims, the father of American gynecology,to the negation of blackness that makes transnormativity possible. Revealing instances of personal sovereignty among blacks living in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of cross dressing and canonical black literary works that express black mens access to the female within, he concludes with a reading of the fateof Phillip DeVine, who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993, a fact omitted from the film Boys Don't Cry out of narrative convenience.

Description: In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring peoples shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as wildly undisciplined, Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. She explores her past, including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life, and brings listeners along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.

Description: "Amy is stuck in a rut.


After graduating, she never left her temporary job at the motorway service station. Daily visits from a mysterious woman are the highlight of her days. Until one day, when the mystery woman vanishes. Amy investigates the disappearance and makes a shocking discovery. Suddenly, she's being framed and no-nonsense Claudia McAllister is being sent to arrest her. Will Amy's unique approach to evading capture prove successful?"--Amazon.com.

Description: When her father is diagnosed with Hungtington's disease, eighteen-year-old Vanni abandons her plan to flee her small New Mexico hometown after high school graduation and instead spends the summer keeping herself busy with part-time jobs and boys, but that changes after she meets Leigh, whose friendship dares Vanni to ask herself big questions and make new plans.

Description: After a rough breakup, Todd Addisonback. And Sebby's abusive ex is just waiting to catch Sebby alone. Todd and Sebby must decide what's worth fighting for, what's worth sacrifice, and what's worth compromise, or their relationship will begin and end with a broken heart.

Description: Before Grace Henderson began working as a tailor in her father's bespoke suit shop in Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn, she established a hard and fast rule about not dating clients. The edict is an easy one for her to follow, considering the overwhelming majority of the shop's clients are men. But when Dakota Lane contacts her to commission a suit to wear to her sister's wedding, Grace finds herself tempted to throw all the rules out the window. Dakota Lane works as a bicycle messenger by day and moonlights as a


male model. Her high-profile career, gender-bending looks, and hard-partying ways garner her plenty of romantic attention, but she would rather play the field than settle down. When she meets sexy tailor Grace Henderson, however, she suddenly finds herself in the market for much more than a custom suit.

Description: Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley's face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes--the moment she hears him speak of his crimes--she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her reaction, she digs deeper anddeeper into the case.

Description: In the midst of the Occupy movement, Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of inappropriate intimacies ensues, including an erotically charged correspondence and then collaboration with an extraordinarily gifted and troubled musician living in Germany.

Description: As with the first volume of Transcendent, Lethe Press has worked with a wonderful editor to select the best work of genderqueer stories of the fantastical, stranger, horrific, and weird published the prior year. Featuring stories by Merc Rustad, Jeanne Thornton, Brit Mandelo, and others, this anthology offers time-honored tropes of the genre--from genetic manipulation to zombies, portal fantasy to haunts--but told from a perspective that breaks the rigidity of gender and sexuality.


0) at which transitions between these foliage types occurred, with the traits termed "last juvenile node" and "number of intermediate nodes." While measuring phase change traits, the height to each transition was also recorded to enable direct comparisons with previous studies ([@bib27], [@bib28]).

Flowering was quantified in terms of time and node that plants reached reproductive maturity, as well as the timing of flowering each year once reproductive maturity had been reached. These traits were scored in the flowering seasons beginning in 2009 and 2010. "Flowering precocity" represented a simple presence/absence of flowers at the end of the flowering year at each site and "node to first flower" was the node at which the first flower bud occurred. The proportions of flowers open, and yet to open, were recordedServices Group, specialised in recruitment and training in the energy and marine industry.

2012 also saw EIVA strengthening its contribution to the education of future specialists focusing on a broad range of marine survey competences. Through partnerships with Aarhus University, College of Charleston and University of Washington in the US, the company has created a number of internships and made itself available in connection with training and competence development.

In 2012, EIVA launched a new ROTV product range, ScanFish III, which has received much attention, and a number of systems were delivered during the year. Moreover, the company has a range of new hardware and software solutions on the drawing board for 2013.


something demonstrably false — such as women earning less than men for the same work — we are all the poorer. It is time to discard false myths about women.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth is an economist who served in the administrations of Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, most recently as chief economist of the Department of Labor from 2003 to 2005. She is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing writer for various publications, includingRealClearMarkets.com , the Washington Examiner and Tax Notes. She is co-author of Women’s Figures: An illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America.Sistan-Baluchestan province, where Chabahar is located.

The province is home to a Sunni minority in the largely Shi’ite country, and it has also long been plagued by violence from both drug smugglers and separatists.

The U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group and Iranian state media reported that Sunni Baluch militant group Ansar al-Furqan had claimed responsibility for the attack.

Tehran accuses its Sunni-led regional rival Saudi Arabia and its arch-enemy, the United States, of funding Sunni militants, a charge Riyadh and Washington deny.

Iran has threatened to hit militant bases in neighboring Pakistan unless Islamabad took action to secure its border area, which Tehran says has become a safe haven for anti-Iran groups to operate.


A Classic Bearnaise Manor House With River Frontage

4 Bedrooms ; Beautifully Presented ; Large Barns ; River Frontage

PROPERTY DESCRIPTION

A beautiful Bearnaise manor house full of period charm with spacious living accommodation, vast outbuildings and one hectare of land with direct river access. The property is situated just a short 5km drive from the 14th century fortified town of Navarrenx, voted one of « les plus beaux villages de France ».

The village house, dating from 1876, can easily accommodate a large family with several reception rooms on the ground floor and four good size bedrooms on the first floor. The ground floor study and the second salon both open directly onto the south facing terrace and the private land beyond, leading to the little river that runs through theThey were trained beforehand in two three-hour sessions (with information about the aim and structure of the program, the method of coaching, and exercises in coaching) and during the year in 3 three-hour peer learning sessions. The focus of the mentoring groups, derived from the goals of the educational program, was that students were supported in structured exchange, discussion and reflection concerning their practice experiences and that they used portfolios.

**(3)** ***Structured use of portfolios:*** In order to direct the students towards the aspects of their authentic experiences they should reflect on, the portfolio learning was structured around Tasks, Personal Profile and Behavior. The Tasks were linked to patient encounters in order to give students a clear message of what was expected. To stimulate personalised reflective learning the students


were obliged to write a Personal Profile about their extracurricular activities and the perceived relationship of these activities and their future functioning as good doctors. The Professional Behavior part of the portfolio required the students to write a self-reflective paper based on written feedback from teachers and peers received during several small-group learning sessions and by on-the-job supervisors during the care clerkship.

**(4)** ***Assessment*** forms were structured around three dimensions: task performance, aspects of communication, and personal performance.[@CIT0027] The students wrote self-reflection reports based on their feedback forms and kept records of their study progress and their professional and personal growth.

**(5) The** ***workload*** of a full-time student during one academic year is calculated to be 60 ECT credits. The workload for this professional and personal development program was calculated0.74 and 0.83, a satisfactory reliability according to the standards for testing of the American Educational Research Association. The range of students' total scores in this study vary between 14 (very low reflection) and 70 (very high reflection).

***Procedure-***First-year students in the exposure group were invited by their coach to complete the questionnaires at the end of a group coaching session in the first month, the ninth month and the fourteenth month of the curriculum. First-year students in the control group were asked to complete the questionnaires immediately after sitting for written examinations; for the second-year students in the 21^st^ and 28^th^ months; and for the third-year students in the 33^rd^ and 40^th^ months of their respective curricula. The measurement moments, given in terms of study time (months), are


shown in Figure [1](#F0001){ref-type="fig"}.

![Measurement moments in study time (months)](MEO-13-0279-g001){#F0001}

There were 394 first-year students participating in the exposure group of the study (response 98%). However, not every student in the exposure group completed the questionnaires at every measurement moment: 139 students completed it once, 150 twice and 105 three times: in total 754 measurements. As a consequence, 254 students participated at the first, 237 at the second, and 265 at the third measurement moment. The control group consisted of 403 students: 198 second-year students (response 63%) and 205 third-year students (response 60%). However, not every student completed the questionnaires at every measurement moment: 300 students completed it once and 96 twice: in total 493 measurements. As a consequence, of the second-year students, 78 participated at the first and 172Israeli strikes on positions in Syria killed 10 people on Sunday, including three Syrian soldiers and seven foreign fighters, according to an activist group, and they were later followed by further strikes in Homs province, state media said.

According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Israeli missiles fired from warplanes struck areas south and southwest of the capital Damascus where Syrian troops and supporting Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters were stationed.

Syrian state media also confirmed the strikes.

Israel "renewed its aggression by firing several missiles on the eastern countryside of Quneitra," the official SANA news agency reported. "The aggression resulted in the martyrdom of three soldiers and the injury of seven others in addition to some material losses," it added.

Citing the Observatory, meanwhile, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that


seven Iranian and Hezbollah fighters had also died.

Syria later on Sunday accused Israel of also targeting an airbase in Homs province, in the second attack over the past 24 hours, state media said, as reported by AFP.

The strike on the T-4 airbase "killed one soldier, wounded two others, and damaged an arms warehouse," a military source told state news agency SANA. It said the attack also destroyed a rocket warehouse.

In addition to the Syrian army, Iranian fighters and Hezbollah paramilitary forces are also stationed at the airbase, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The attack comes hours after Israel announced that it had carried out air strikes on Syria's side of the Golan Heights in response to rare rocket fire from the neighbouring country.

The Israeli militaryhad earlier said it had responded to two rockets fired from Syria at the part of Mount Hermon in the occupied Golan Heights.

The army said it fired on "two Syrian artillery batteries, a number of observation and intelligence posts on the Golan Heights, and an SA-2 aerial defence battery".

"During the strikes, an Israeli aerial defence system was activated due to Syrian anti-aircraft shooting. None of the rockets exploded in Israel," it added.

A statement from the military said it held the Syrian regime accountable "for every action taken against Israel".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the strikes on Syria.

"We won't tolerate fire at our territory, and respond forcefully to any aggression against us," he said.

Though not a major party in the eight-year-long war, Israel has nevertheless


carried our hundreds of air strikes in Syria, mostly against Iranian and Hezbollah positions, as it attempts to prevent Iran from entrenching itself in the region.

On 27 May, Syria said Israel carried out a missile attack in Quneitra, the province which also includes the Golan Heights, most of which is occupied by Israel.

On 17 May, SANA reported that Syrian air defences intercepted and downed a number of Israeli projectiles.

The strikes came amid continued tensions between Iran and the United States, Israel's closest ally.Onus put on police to cut out caravans in Little Rock

Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. gave Police Chief Keith Humphrey the job of enforcing his prohibition on caravans in an executive order Tuesday.

Scott issued the order in response to several large gatherings that occurred over the weekend, which he said could have exposed many people to the coronavirus.

"We've never had anything to the magnitude of what happened the other day," Humphrey said, referring to the caravan of vehicles near Asher Avenue and South University Avenue that was captured on social media video.

Scott's order prohibits a "group of five or more vehicles" that travel together with the plan to leave the vehicles for "recreational purposes or purposes other than employment, medical visits or grocery shopping."

Little Rock police will


A California professor at Fresno State University gleefully jumped to social media to attack recently deceased First Lady Barbara Bush calling her a “racist” and a “witch” before laughing at critics of her posts and saying she will never be fired because she is a tenured professor.

Fresno State Professor Randa Jarrar first took to Twitter on the day of the announcement that the former first lady passed away to attack Bush saying: “Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal. F**k outta here with your nice words.”

Her tweet garnered more than 2,000 replies in only a few hours with many calling for the college to fire her for her hate-filled attack on Barbara Bush.

Jarrar, an author andBottled 'Gangajal' from Rishikesh has vanished from the shelves within two days of India Post having launched the sale from its 47 head post offices throughout West Bengal.

"We have seen a surprising demand for this bottled Gangajal from Rishikesh... We started selling it from Sunday and by Tuesday the stock was totally sold out," Chief Post Master General, West Bengal Circle, Arundhaty Ghosh said.

Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Manoj Sinha on Sunday launched the new scheme which made the Ganga water easily available at all the post offices across the country.

Two varieties of Gangajal one bottled in Gangotri and the other one in Rishikesh, some 300km downstream were available.

The Gangajal, packaged in bottles of 200ml and 500ml in Rishikesh, were sold from the city's General Post Office


(GPO) and 46 other head post offices including Howrah, Midnapore, Tamluk and Siliguri.

"The demand is quite high and we were unable to match it because the supply was quite meagre for the first batch," Ghosh said.

While the city saw 15 bottles of 'Gangajal' collected in Rishikesh vanishing on the first date, five bottles of 200ml were sold out within minutes in Siliguri.

"Those bottles we have sold so far were bottled in Rishikesh. We are yet to receive those bottled in Gangotri.

But the response was very encouraging," the CPMG said.

On the reasons behind the "sold out" of the Gangajal, Ghosh reasoned that "the great sentiment associated with the holy water of the Ganges from Rishikesh".

The 200ml bottled Gangajal from Rishikesh is priced at Rs 15 while the 500ml costsbottles packed in a beautiful box at the doorstep." For bottles online, one need to pay the charges equal to that of charges of the Speed Post.

"Here, in West Bengal online charges are likely to vary depending on the distance. There can be a price difference," another official at the Postal department said.

According to Ghosh, this will definitely be a big boost for business of the Postal department.

The initiative was taken up by the Narendra Modi government to deliver the holy water from the Ganga at the doorstep of every Indian across the length and breadth of the country using the vast postal network.


The Dublin Barrister Leading the Refugee Response in Iraq

By Anna Harvey | 03 June 2015

Over two decades, Grainne O’Hara has gone from assisting Guatemalan refugees return home to responding to the enormous refugee crisis in the Middle East.

Now the Deputy Director for UNHCR in Iraq, the Trinity College graduate talks to Anna Harvey about responding to the displacement of 2.9 million people inside Iraq, working in 40 degree desert heat and her longing for fresh, Irish milk.

How did you initially become involved with UNHCR?

I joined UNHCR in 1994. I was called to the Bar in 1992 and had been working in different capacities with the Free Legal Advice Centre (FLAC) in Dublin since 1985. With FLAC I gained a lot of experience with the social side of lawworking on issues like social welfare, labour and family law. I wanted to spread my wings a bit and gain some international experience and refugee law was a particular interest of mine. Ireland was a different place back then. There was no UNHCR office in Dublin and asylum-seekers were few and far between in the homogenous society that was Ireland in the mid-90s. I started applying to all sorts of NGOs like Concern and Voluntary Service Overseas.

At first I was disappointed to learn that there was not a lot of demand for a freshly minted Irish lawyer with few practical skills that would be of use to NGOs running large-scale professional operations overseas.

But then I hit upon the United Nations Volunteer scheme run at that time out of


Mexico. I stayed in Mexico City for two years and learnt a huge amount about two of the core activities of a UNHCR Protection Officer – status determination and resettlement. I was in and out of migration holding centres all over Mexico interviewing asylum-seekers from every corner of the world. And then the opportunity came up to move to Chiapas in the south of Mexico to work with the Guatemalan refugees who had been living in camps there since fleeing their homeland during the brutal civil war of the 80s. By the time I reached Comitan in mid- 1996, close to the Guatemalan border the deep south of Mexico, the Guatemalan peace process was coming to a satisfactory conclusion and with the signing of a comprehensive agreement inOslo that same year the way was opened for sustainable voluntary return. And that is what I worked on for the next 3 years in a programme that assisted tens of thousands of Guatemalans to go home to collectively purchased farms and start their lives anew. Simultaneously we worked on the naturalization of tens of thousands more who decided to avail of the generosity of the Mexican government to stay on and locally integrate in the communities that had hosted them for close to two decades.

At the conclusion of my contract in Mexico I was deployed to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYROM) in one of the Emergency Response Teams activated for the Kosovo Emergency. There I saw the other end of the refugee life cycle working


within a team that had to respond to the needs of hundreds of thousands of desperate civilians streaming out of Kosovo in the spring of 1999. But that conflict thankfully reached a quick conclusion and by summer we were working to help people return home. And I too made the journey to Kosovo in the winter of 1999 and stayed there for two years working with threatened minority communities. Then it was on to a four year stint at UNCHR HQ in Geneva where I took on the maritime portfolio in the Department of International Protection. I worked on everything to do with stowaways and rescue-at-sea and we made some progress with improvements in the international legal framework but as we see so shockingly with the crises insuffering of minority communities like the Yazidi who have been particularly hard hit. Sexual violence is increasingly used as a weapon of war; a means to defeat and brutally humiliate anybody seen as an enemy. We have seen that in conflicts all across the globe from the Balkans to Congo and many other places. Iraq has seen the same with the brutalization of women and girls but also men and boys.

Aside from the direct threat of sexual violence of the conflict itself women and girls face a myriad of other problems. Early marriage and the pressure to work to help sustain the family draws many girls out of school cutting short their education and with it their prospects for a brighter future. For the numerous widows left to


she was bothered by an assumption she was from a certain background based on her last name or appearance.

Although a Vietnamese neighbour who received a letter in Vietnamese did not appear to be offended about his letter when he spoke to Mrs Jacobs about it, he agreed his correspondence must also have been tailored to his surname.

"She [Ms Evangel] may have been told that because this is a culturally diverse area, it would work to her advantage," Mrs. Jacobs said.

But she pointed out that she would prefer to see Ms Evangel out at Chinese New Year celebrations and taking part in cultural events rather than sending letters in different languages based on assumptions.

Ms Evangel said letters were sent out in Chinese, Vietnamese and Serbian languages.

"Community leaders recommended doingthis as there are some people in the area who aren't so fluent in English," she said.

Ms Evangel said members of culturally diverse community groups identified people with names they thought were from certain backgrounds from the electoral roll and would therefore speak certain languages.

However she said most of the foreign language letters were sent out with an accompanying version in English.

"There was a hiccup in the office and one set of letters was sent out without the English translation," Ms Evangel said.

"It's a shame because it was a bit of a slip-up during the hectic lead up to the election."

Ms Evangel said she received a small handful of complaint letters about the matter but many more "thank yous."

She said she had meant well by sending the letters


PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A U.S. Navy sailor from Rhode Island remains missing two days after being reported overboard from a guided-missile cruiser off the coast of North Carolina.

Petty Officer Christopher Clavin of Lincoln went overboard Tuesday afternoon from the USS Normandy, which is based in Norfolk, Virginia.

His mother, Theresa Iafrate, identified him to The Providence Journal on Thursday.

His mother says the 23-year-old graduated from Lincoln High School and went straight into the Navy.

The Navy said in a statement that Clavin went overboard during a training mission about 80 miles (128 kilometers) offshore. A search involving an aircraft carrier with four helicopters, a U.S. Coast Guard medium endurance cutter and guided missile destroyers.

Military officials say the search has covered 2,500 square miles (6,475 square kilometers), and will continue.Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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Homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia in 1993, but anti-gay sentiment remains strong and intensified after a law was introduced in 2013 prohibiting dissemination of "propaganda" legitimizing homosexuality to minors.

As fans prepare their trips after Friday's World Cup draw, the FARE network, which monitors FIFA fixtures for discriminatory behavior, said it will produce a guide spelling out the threats to be prepared for in Russia.

"The guide will advise gay people to be cautious in any place which is not seen to be welcoming to the LGBT community," FARE executive director Piara Powar said.

"If you have gay fans walking down the street holding hands, will they face danger in doing so? That depends on which city they are in and the time of day.

"The guide will also include some detailedgay pride flags can be unfurled.

"There's nothing in the regulation from FIFA that prevents anyone from entering the stadiums with non-political messages," Addiechi said.

FARE has also has long-standing concerns about the reception black and ethnic minority fans will face around games in Russia.

"Do go to the World Cup, but be cautious," Powar said. "There are two elements to it - one towards people of color and other element is far-right nationalism. Far-right extremist groups have had around 300 people banned from attending the World Cup.

"After years of denial about racism, the Russian FA is finally taking action - a group under Alexei Smertin has been addressing the issue and fines have been issued."

Research for the 2016-17 football season by FARE and Russia-based SOVA showed therewere 89 racist and


far-right incidents at Russian games, slightly below the two previous seasons.

Russian champion Spartak Moscow was punished by UEFA for monkey chants in a recent Youth League game against Liverpool.

Spartak was also fined for discriminatory chants against fans from Russia's North Caucasus in a domestic cup game last month.

Anti-discrimination observers will be deployed at the June 14-July 15 World Cup where matches can be stopped or abandoned if racism persists after warnings inside stadiums.

"The World Cup must be inclusive, respect human rights, must respect the rights of everyone including minorities," Addiechi said.

"We have the assurance from the Russian organizing committee and the Russian authorities that everyone will feel safe, comfortable and welcome in the country."shoot bejan till after bejan was diving past him... SEENT THE WHOLE THING.

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i see the hit on the knee but there is paint spraying from what seems like the player in the proto pants so from that it would lead me to belive he was shot in the third picture so a trade not playing on


tQ Invitational

Stream: zanderfever as well as others

Misc: The tQ Invitational is an invite as well as qualifer tournament. It will pitch the best of the professionals with the best of the amateurs. 16 players from the top of the starcraft 2 skillset and teams will be invited to play against 16 players who qualify from the four preceeding tQ Qualifiers. The qualifiers and main event will all be streamed and commentated. The main thread for the tQ Invitational contains updated information on the main tournament as well info for all of the qualifiers. As of right now players such as ROOTDdoRo, coLAntimage, FXOSheth and others have been confirmed. Thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=188158 Stream: zanderfever as well as othersMisc: The tQ Invitational is an invite as well as qualifer tournament. Itwill pitch the best of the professionals with the best of the amateurs. 16 players from the top of the starcraft 2 skillset and teams will be invited to play against 16 players who qualify from the four preceeding tQ Qualifiers. The qualifiers and main event will all be streamed and commentated. The main thread for the tQ Invitational contains updated information on the main tournament as well info for all of the qualifiers. As of right now players such as ROOTDdoRo, coLAntimage, FXOSheth and others have been confirmed.

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other states that are off on June 7th."

Sanders called California the "big enchilada," adding that the delegate-rich state is "enormously important."

But he maintained his campaign has had great success over the past several months and vowed to continue battling for delegates.

"You know, my campaign has been written off from before we started. Nobody thought we would do anything," he said in the interview, which aired Sunday.

"We've now won 20 states, primaries and caucuses, and I think by the end of the process, we may win half of the states. So we're going to fight till the last vote is cast and try to appeal to the last delegate that we can."

Sanders said he hopes to go into the Democratic convention with a majority of the pledged delegates, callingit a "symbolic victory." The Vermont senator also said his messages are resonating with people in the country and touted his poll numbers in head-to-head match-ups with presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE.

He has vowed to remain in the race even though Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Momentum growing among Republicans for Supreme Court vote before Election Day Warning signs flash for Lindsey Graham in South Carolina MORE has a large delegate lead.


Pro se defendant loses DUI trial in New London

A New London jury deliberated for less than an hour Tuesday before finding an Uncasville man guilty as a repeat offender of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Christopher M. Sutera, 53, had pleaded not guilty and represented himself at a trial before a jury of six at the New London Superior Court lower-level courthouse on Broad Street.

Prosecutor Sarah J. Bowman had elicited testimony from East Lyme patrolman Mark Comeau, who pulled over Sutera on July 4, 2012, and administered field sobriety tests in the commuter parking lot adjacent to Interstate 95's Exit 74. Comeau said Sutera, who smelled of alcohol and had glassy, bloodshot eyes, told him the tests would be difficult for him due to a medicalcondition, but opted to proceed. Comeau said Sutera swayed and held his arms out to balance himself while performing the one-legged stand and failed to perform the heel-to-toe movement required in the so-called walk-and-turn test. Sutera refused to take a Breathalyzer test. He initially said he would submit to a urine test but later refused it, according to Comeau.

Sutera did not call any witnesses in his defense. After the jury announced its verdict, Judge John M. Newson raised Sutera's bond to $30,000, cash or surety, and he was taken into custody. As a repeat offender, he faces 120 days to two years in prison when he is sentenced June 30. Sutera had previously been convicted of drunken driving in Superior Court in Danielson in 2006.


IESS and C3SS co-host International "CLaMSS" Conference

19 March 2018

A two-day international conference on the theme ‘Climate, Land use, Mining and Sanitation for Sustainable Development (CLaMSS)’ was held at Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies conference center from 27th-28th February 2018. The conference was organized by the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS) in partnership with the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies (C3SS).

The aim of the conference was to bring together stakeholders involved in environmental and sustainability research, practice and policy, to discuss and share ideas and research findings on key aspects of climate, land use, sanitation, water, mining and sustainable development.

The conference brought together participants from Rwanda, Liberia, Benin Republic, Kenya and the host country, Ghana. Participants included researchers, graduate students, representatives of governmentThe Club Softball team was created in 2017 for students to play competitive, collegiate level softball while also engaging in exercise and a team environment without the NCAA commitment. The team is in it's inaugural season and looks to play other schools within the area. Tryouts will be open to all eligible and interested students.


gun in the first episode, or the Rookie who was gonna die and the droids said: "Do we take prisoners?" the clone says: I.....Don't." BOOOM. The droids from now and than can be annoying, but I'm getting use to it.

I was wondering about the Snips name too. Obviously Anakin started using it in the movie. Maybe I should watch that again. Maybe it's because she can be...snippy? Talking back and all?

EDIT: This was entered at wikipedia:

She adopts a highly informal attitude towards her new Master and tends to address individuals by nicknames; for example, Anakin is dubbed "Sky Guy" and R2-D2 is referred to as "Artooey." Anakin in turn refers to her as "Snips," in reference to her snippy attitude when they first met.

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In 2016, Sellner was studying philosophy in Vienna. He dropped out of law school.

Activism
In 2006 he installed swastika stickers with another person on the synagogue in Baden, Lower Austria. Also stickers with a swastika and the inscription "Legalized It" as well as stickers with a coat of arms and the letters AJ (for "Aryan Youth") were used. The accomplice later stated in an interrogation that they had "wanted to do something" when they heard about the conviction of the British Holocaust denier David Irving. Sellner admitted the act and did 100 hours of community service in a diversion at the Jewish cemetery in Baden, which is why the public prosecutor's office renounced a criminal trial.

In 2008, he helped a leading Austrian neo-Nazi group hinder liberal demonstrations andThe Scary Short Stories Blog by award-winning author Andrew Barger (that would be me). It's where I discuss the scariest stories in the supernatural genres. I emphasize classic scary short stories. I also provide insight into the origins of the stories and the authors behind them. Visit AndrewBarger.com to check out my books and to be scared.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Best Ghost Story 25 from 1800-1849

Coming in at spot 25 in my countdown of the Top 40 ghost stories published in the English language for the first half of the nineteenth century is The Sexton of Cologne by George Soane (1789-1860). It was first published in 1826 and was still being published as late as 1871. The scary ghost story is based upon old legend and George Soane was


the first to codify it into the English language. Given its high level of writing, compelling characters and shocking ending, it is one of the best ghost stories for this period.

This is the only known picture of George Soane, the son and rebel family member of the famous architect, John Soane. From my research, I peg him as one of the most underrated authors of the supernatural from 1800-1849. I selected his horror story "The Lighthouse" to be included in The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849. "The Sexton of Cologne" is his best ghost story and I hope you enjoy it.LADERA RANCH – About a dozen children and their parents enjoyed a fun pajama storytime at the Ladera Ranch library Tuesday. Guest story teller Steve Wright read books and volunteers from Tesoro High School played games and sang songs. The next free storytime is 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 4.

Mia Rogel, 6, with her brother Jayden had fun during storytime Tuesday. MARIE EKBERG PADILLA, FOR THE REGISTER
Tesoro High School volunteers Hillary Jaruszewski, Nicole Baggett and Niharika Verma play games with the participants at the library. MARIE EKBERG PADILLA, FOR THE REGISTER
Scout Boutwell, 2, reads a book during storytime at the Ladera Ranch library Tuesday. MARIE EKBERG PADILLA, FOR THE REGISTER
Isabel Joines, 3 months, was the youngest participant at the pajama storytime at the Ladera Ranch library Tuesday. MARIE EKBERG


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Logan Brown, 18 months, sits in mom Jennifer's lap during storytime Tuesday. MARIE EKBERG PADILLA, FOR THE REGISTER
Volunteer Steve Wright reads to children during pajama storytime at the Ladera Ranch library on Tuesday. MARIE EKBERG PADILLA, FOR THE REGISTER
Volunteers and participants sing a song during the library event Tuesday. MARIE EKBERG PADILLA, FOR THE REGISTER
Jakob Joines, 2, sit in his grandma Helen Carrigan's lap during storytime at the library Tuesday. MARIE EKBERG PADILLA, FOR THE REGISTER
Tesoro High School volunteer Hillary Jaruszewski, who is also with the Rotary Club, plays a game with the kids Tuesday. MARIE EKBERG PADILLA, FOR THE REGISTER

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tragedies will beAII receptor binding in several brain regions but binding was decreased in homogenates from the preoptic area and septum-thalamus blocks which encompassed structures (median preoptic nucleus, organum vasculosum, and subfornical organ) implicated in central actions of AII. The sex specificity of the effect of estrogen was dependent on sexual differentiation of the brain. Manipulation of the neonatal hormone environment, which alters this brain differentiation, also altered the characteristic responses of the two sexes to estrogen. Neonatal androgenization of females, which causes masculinization and defeminization, resulted in animals which as adults no longer responded to EB with decreased drinking. On the other hand, preventing the development of a male brain by neonatal castration produced animals which as adults tended to decrease their drinking following estrogen. In summary, this study


16 additional clones. The remaining 3 clones had either regions that were not covered by sufficiently good traces (1 clone), or no traces of quality were present in the first place (2 clones).

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When the outcome of the two analyses is compared, only a small number of clones show differences. The same clones were accepted by both approaches. One clone harboring an in-frame deletion was accepted because a BLAST analysis against GenBank indicated that it represents a documented variant for that gene. All clones manually rejected were also rejected in ACE; however, ACE rejected 4 additional clones that were not rejected in the manual analysis. In ACE these 4 clones were reported as being \'no match\' with their target sequence, and upon automatic BLAST analysis in ACE were markedUNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.                                                                     No. 95-5240

RONALD GOODMAN,
Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Middle District of North Carolina, at Durham.
James A. Beaty, Jr., District Judge.
(CR-94-267)

Argued: March 8, 1996

Decided: May 10, 1996

Before ERVIN and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and YOUNG,
Senior United States District Judge for the District of Maryland,
sitting by designation.

_________________________________________________________________

Affirmed by unpublished per


curiam opinion.

_________________________________________________________________

COUNSEL

ARGUED: Thomas Norman Cochran, Assistant Federal Public
Defender, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellant. Lisa Blue
Boggs, Assistant United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina,
for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Walter C. Holton, Jr., United States Attor-
ney, Timika Shafeek, Assistant United States Attorney, Greensboro,
North Carolina, for Appellee.

_________________________________________________________________
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See
Local Rule 36(c).

_________________________________________________________________

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

Ronald Goodman pled guilty to robbing a bank in Durham, North
Carolina, on October 28, 1994, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a).
The district court sentenced Goodman as a "career offender" to 151
months imprisonment, concluding that his earlier convictions in July
1976 for use of a handgun in the commission of a crime, in violation
of Md. Ann. Code art. 27, § 36B(d), and in July 1981 for bank rob-
bery qualified as "crime[s] of violence" within the meaningPalestinian prisoners on the front lines: 69 years of resistance to ongoing Nakba, struggle for return and freedom

On the 69th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the occupation of 78 percent of Palestinian land by Zionist forces and the forced displacement and expulsion of 750,000 to one million Palestinians from their homes and lands, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network emphasizes our solidarity with the Palestinian people’s ongoing struggle for return and liberation.

Throughout these 69 years of settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, the Nakba has been an ongoing event – of continuing conquest of Palestinian land and ongoing attempts to erase Palestinian identity and existence by driving the people from the land. 69 years of the Nakba also means 69 years of Palestinian prisoners’ imprisonment and resistance in Zionist jails.


Since 1948, one million Palestinian prisoners have been jailed by the Israeli occupation, all of them strugglers for Palestinian freedom and Palestinians holding fast to their identity, land and existence. This marks a direct line of continued struggle, from that of the Palestinian prisoners in British colonial jails imprisoned for demanding their self-determination and national rights, free of colonization and occupation.

Today, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are not only on hunger strike for their basic human rights. They are the first line of struggle for the right of return of millions of Palestinian refugees, denied for nearly 70 years, and for the liberation of Palestine’s land and people. The history of Palestinian resistance to the Nakba, the history of the Palestinian revolution, is the history of Palestinian prisoners.the indigenous Palestinian people.

In the Arab states surrounding Palestine where Palestinian refugees had fled, early Palestinian revolutionaries struggling for their return to Palestine and the liberation of their land faced yet more repression and complicity. In the early years of the Palestinian revolution, the Jordanian regime imprisoned thousands of Palestinian strugglers in an attempt to suppress the resistance from the borders of Palestine. Legendary Palestinian leaders like Abu Maher al-Yamani, who was imprisoned numerous times by the Lebanese government, and Abu Saleh al-Assadi, whose history of returning to Palestine and back to Lebanon was later fictionalized, also faced repeated imprisonment. Palestinian revolutionary leaders like George Habash, Wadie Haddad and Hamdi Matar faced imprisonment in Arab jails on multiple occasions.

The struggle of Palestinian prisoners has also reflected both the


international nature of the struggle and the worldwide displacement of Palestinian refugees denied their right to return. The United States, European powers and other colonial and imperialist states have aligned with the Zionist movement, the Israeli occupation of Palestine and its ongoing Nakba: the confiscation of land, racist laws and apartheid structure in Palestine ’48, the imprisonment of one million Palestinians, the attempt to erase Palestinian identity and existence in Jerusalem, the siege on Gaza and the denial of the right to return for millions of Palestinian refugees. This is also reflected in the labeling of Palestinian resistance movements as “terrorist organizations” and the imprisonment of Palestinian strugglers – often refugees themselves – by the same states whose economic, military and diplomatic complicity and support makes ongoing Israelisettler colonialism and apartheid possible.

From the imprisonment of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah – Lebanese struggler for Palestine, inspired by the Palestinian revolution and its leadership in the Arab struggle – for 33 years in France, to the persecution of Rasmea Odeh, former political prisoner and current-day community leader, and the Holy Land Five in the United States, the Palestinian political prisoners in international jails are also prisoners of the ongoing Nakba and resisters struggling to bring it to an end. These veterans of struggle continue to live today, including the first wounded prisoner of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Israeli jails, Sakhran Sakhran, imprisoned in 1966 and held for many years before winning his freedom in a prisoner exchange; today, he continues his struggle in


the Palestinian community in diaspora.

As we mark the 69th anniversary of the Nakba and approach 70 years of the Palestinian catastrophe of settler-colonial occupation, and as we also mark 50 years of the expanded occupation of all of Palestine and the Syrian Golan Heights, and as we mark 100 years of British colonization and its alliance with Zionism in Palestine through the Balfour declaration, Palestinian political prisoners are leaders of the struggle for Palestinian freedom, for the right of return of Palestinian refugees and the liberation of all of the land of Palestine.

The Strike of Dignity and Freedom: Resisting the Continuing Nakba

There are currently approximately 6300 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, part of the 1,000,000 imprisoned since 1948. 1500 of them launched a hunger strike, now in itsPalestinian refugees struggling to return to their lands, for the liberation of Palestine. We stand with the Palestinian prisoners who are on the front lines, facing harsh repression with their bare bodies and empty stomachs. And we pledge to escalate the campaigns for boycott, divestment and sanctions, for the isolation of the Israeli state and its ongoing Nakba, and for the boycott of the corporations, like HP and G4S, who continue to profit from that Nakba and its systems of imprisonment and oppression. We pledge to organize, mobilize and escalate our solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners and the Palestinian people everywhere in the world – for return, for liberation, for the reversal of the ongoing Nakba, the freedom of the Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian people and all of


The management consulting firm Bain & Co. was recently voted the second-best workplace in the US, according to Glassdoor rankings.

In the 10 years since Glassdoor began issuing the rankings, Bain has placed first three times and has never fallen outside the top 10.

A combination of colleague support, flexible work environments, and high pay help make the company so fulfilling.

I was less than a minute into my first conversation with Danny Hong when I realized I was in the presence of a man who unapologetically loved his job.

Hong and I were sitting in a pristine conference room on the 43rd floor of the Grace Building, a towering midtown Manhattan skyscraper that overlooked both ends of the island. Hong had a warm, easy smile and fine black hair that fellover his ears. His enthusiasm for his work caught me off guard, but it shouldn't have. Hong's workplace is one of the best in the United States.

Hong is a partner at Bain & Company, a titan in the world of management consulting and, according to this year's Glassdoor Employees' Choice awards, the second-best place to work in the US. The Boston-based company is no stranger to the distinction. In the 10 years Glassdoor has issued its rankings, Bain has never fallen outside the top four. This year's second-place finish follows a three-time finish at No. 1, the first being in 2012, the second in 2014, and the third in 2017.

In the popular conception of great workplaces, that is surprising. Tech companies such as Facebook and Google — whose


his passport on his way to London last year, so many people in the New York office offered to get it to him in Boston that he had to pick the least senior person from a long list of possible lifelines to be his courier. He made his flight without delay.

Bainies come to respect this safety net from the beginning. On day one, when young associate consultants walk into the office, their orientation teaches them about Bain's culture of support. They learn the company motto, "A Bainie never lets another Bainie fail," which was repeated to me unironically whenever I asked why Bain is so great.

Bain's New York office has plenty of small breakout spaces for people to work. Sarah Jacobs

'Build your own Bain'

In addition to making peopleare dozens of framed, black-and-white photographs of Bainies' children assembled into two giant mosaics.

Joseph White, the director of workplace strategy, design, and management at Herman Miller, believes those kinds of adornments are what turn a polished office into a shared, homey space. "You can use the physical environment to tell a story, so that as you move through it you learn more and more about the organization," he says.

An Austin Powers cutout watches over the "Groovy BayBay." Sarah Jacobs Benefits make everything sweeter

A little over a year ago, Danny Hong returned from a second stint on paternity leave after his son Pablo was born. While he was away, he didn't answer a single work email, nor did he feel compelled to, he said. "I left the city for


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Second, my Infernape I have on Platinum. Infernape is one of the cooler newer PKMN in my opinion, and it's female (female starters are quite rare). I love the nickname I gave it: "Chi".

I have two that tied for my most prized. The first is my Charizard from my Blue version. I traded him up to my Silver eventually and he was the best pokemon I ever had. He was lvl 100 and I never lost with him. Unfortunately, the battery in my Silver cartridge died and so did Charizard. My other most prized pokemon is the Groudon I caught in Ruby version years ago. I still have it, it is at lvl 97, and I am about to move him up to Platinum.


under "No-Go" areas and no oil and gas activity will be allowed, official sources said.

Sources said 30 per cent of the 7,645 square kilometre KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block in the Krishna Godavari basin overlapped with the Navy's firing and exercise area and was branded a "No-Go" zone by the Ministry of Defence.

MoD was of the view that any exploration and production activities near its Naval Base would hamper surveillance and detection operations and the noise generated due to exploration activities would also compromise the sonar and other radar functionalities.

RIL agreed to relinquish 495 sq km of area that fell in the "No-Go" area, following which Navy agreed to realign the boundary required for naval operations for its proposed base to allow oil and gas activities in the remainderSUNY Plattsburgh Lecturer Selected for Kent State Award

Andrea Simms is a 2008 graduate of Kent State’s master’s in special education program
and a current Ph.D. candidate at the university. She has worked in the field of education
for 13 years, spending much of that time in the Bahamas as a generalist teacher, an
intervention specialist and a professional development consultant. Simms is now a
lecturer in SUNY Plattsburgh’s teacher education program.

As a teaching consultant, Simms facilitated numerous face-to-face and online trainings
for teachers and administrators throughout the Bahamas. In doing so, she addressed
the implementation of academic interventions for struggling students and the provision
of positive behavior interventions and supports for students who exhibited challenging
behaviors.

Simms also worked with the language arts curriculum team from the Ministry of Education
in the Bahamas to revamp the curriculum by


incorporating adaptations and modifications
for students with disabilities. In addition, she served as a mentor for first-year
teachers and prospective teachers at The College of The Bahamas.

Her extensive work with students, parents, teachers, prospective teachers, school
administrators, district superintendents, Ministry of Education officials and faculty
at The College of The Bahamas, resulted in Simms being named the country’s Ninth National
Teacher of the Year in April 2010.

“I am honored to have received this award from Kent State University,” Simms said.
“At the same time, I am also mindful that my journey in academia has only just begun.
Therefore, I see this award as a motivator for me to continue to push forward with
vigor as I learn, instruct, research and serve. I am very happy to be at SUNY Plattsburgh,
and I am grateful for this opportunityBoard of Agriculture Approves Permit Conditions for Transport of Soil from Hawaii Island Posted on Mar 29, 2016 in Main

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March 29, 2016

HONOLULU – The Hawaii Board of Agriculture today approved permit conditions for the movement of all soil from Hawaii Island, which were added to the current interisland quarantine to prevent the spread of rapid ohia death (ROD), unique strains of the fungus, Ceratocystis fimbriata. The restriction on soil may affect those traveling to the Merrie Monarch Festival and purchasing potted plants on Hawaii Island. Potted plants that are in soil-free potting media may be transported interisland; however, if the potted plant contains soil from Hawaii Island, transport will be prohibited except by permit. Agricultural inspection is also required of all potted plants, cuttings and shoots for replanting.

Today,


do. The information is also available on the department’s website at: http://hdoa.hawaii.gov/blog/main/reportingohiawilt/

The Merrie Monarch Festival runs from March 27 to April 2 and the multi-agency ROD working group will have a booth at the festival for the collection of ohia material.

ROD, also known as ohia wilt, was first noticed in 2010 in Puna. In 2014, the fungus was identified as Ceratocystis fimbriata by researchers at USDA-ARS. In 2014, it was estimated that the disease covered approximately 6,000 acres from Kalapana to Hilo and exhibited tree mortality rates of more than 50 percent. Currently, it is estimated to infect about 34,000 acres. So far, the disease has not been found on other islands. It is not known how the disease entered the state or where it came from.

Travelers seekingIn her profile of Anna May Wong for Hollywood Magazine in January 1938, columnist Louise Leung concluded of the actress, "If anyone can claim to be self-made, she can." Indeed, as the first Chinese American film star, she had to be. Multi-lingual, fashion forward, politically engaged, witty, and often outspoken against the limited roles offered to people of color, Wong worked tirelessly within a system that did little to help her succeed. And although Hollywood never made her a true leading lady, her hard work and talent – evident even in low-budget features like Daughter of Shanghai (1937) and Dangerous to Know (1938) – nevertheless made her an icon.

Born in Los Angeles in 1905, Anna May Wong (born Wong Liu Tsong) grew up alongside Hollywood and spent her


childhood infatuated with the movies. In 1921, after working for a few years as an extra, she dropped out of school to pursue acting full time. Although she worked steadily through the 1920s, anti-miscegenation laws prevented her from kissing an actor of another race on screen, and she was mostly relegated to stereotyped supporting roles, like that of the treacherous Mongol slave in Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad (1924). In 1928, frustrated by this lack of opportunity, Wong left for Europe, where films like Piccadilly (UK 1929) and The Flame of Love (UK 1930, aka Road to Dishonour) – her first talkie, which she recorded in English, French, and German – made her an international star.

When Paramount offered her a contract in 1931, Wong returned to Hollywood,hoping to capitalize on the prestige she had built in Europe. However, despite strong performances in big-budget films like Shanghai Express (1932), she remained only a featured player. Adding insult to injury, studios often considered Wong for a part, only to give it to a white actor in "yellow face"; for example, the female lead in MGM's adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth (1937), which Wong had long coveted, went to German-born Luise Rainer. So although she continued to act in Hollywood, Wong frequently returned to the stage and Europe in search of better opportunities, and in 1936 – after the Good Earth disappointment – she spent nine months touring China.

In 1937, Paramount offered Wong a new contract (she had been dropped as a cost-cutting measure


some years before), initiating what she called the "Third Beginning" of her film career. This time, the studio placed her in B films, where she posed less of a financial risk, but where she also found more freedom to promote positive portrayals of Chinese characters. The first of these films was Daughter of Shanghai, in which she played Lan Ying Lin, a young woman who teams up with Detective Kim Lee (Philip Ahn) to investigate her father's murder and halt a smuggling ring. Written by Gladys Unger and Garnett Weston, the film was partly an attempt to capitalize on the contemporary vogue for Chinese themes, but it was also designed to give Wong an active and sympathetic character. "I like my part in this picture better than anyI've had before," she explained to Hollywood Magazine, "because this picture gives the Chinese a break." She similarly told Modern Screen, "I feel that the real Chinese should be shown to the audiences of the world, if only to correct false impressions of the past. And so, with this thought in mind, I was happy to appear in 'Daughter of Shanghai.'" Paramount also touted the fact that the Chinese consul in LA had approved the screenplay; this was a significant change for Wong, whose previous films had been criticized and banned by the Chinese Nationalist government for their "disgraceful" depictions of Chinese womanhood. For these reasons, then, as the Library of Congress explained upon selecting it for preservation, "Daughter of Shanghai was more truly Wong's personal vehicle than


any other of her films."

Wong then immediately went to work on another B thriller, Dangerous to Know, in which she played Madam Lan Ying, a gangster's mistress. The film was an adaptation of On the Spot, a play by prolific English writer Edgar Wallace, and Wong had in fact played the same role in both the London and Broadway stage versions back in 1930, just before her return to Hollywood. (Incidentally, Dangerous to Know also served as promotion for Paramount's upcoming The Big Broadcast of 1938 by prominently featuring the song "Thanks for the Memory.")

Daughter of Shanghai and Dangerous to Know both performed well at the domestic box office, but because they were B films – each shot in about a month by low-budget specialist Robert Florey inlate-1937 – neither received much critical attention. Variety concluded of the former, for example, that it wasn't "half bad" for a "frankly second-rate offering," while the New York Times dismissed the latter as a "second-rate melodrama, hardly worthy of the talents of its generally capable cast." In Europe, however, where Wong was still a big name, both films garnered much better reviews. Evidencing her continued popularity in Germany, Dangerous to Know even received a stamp of approval from the Nazi Ministry of Culture.

Wong continued to appear in low-to-mid-budget films through the 1940s – including a few anti-Japanese propaganda films – and then moved into television, where she briefly starred in her own series, The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong (1951). In 1960, with the offer of a significant role


in Universal's adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Flower Drum Song (1961), which boasted an all-Asian cast, Wong seemed poised for another Hollywood comeback. However, when her health – damaged by years of drinking and smoking – took a turn for the worse, she had to withdraw from the project, and she died of a heart attack in February 1961.

While some have criticized Anna May Wong for being complicit with Hollywood's stereotyping of Asian characters, others – including the Asian-American Artists Foundation and the Asian Fashion Designers – have heralded her as a pioneering figure. In films like Daughter of Shanghai and Dangerous to Know, Anna May Wong demonstrates her undeniable talent, style, and tenacity, making it clear why Kay Francis would name her as one of theFriday, October 31, 2008

Two things happened today which made me decide on this post. First, I was in court waiting on a friend of mine when I struck up a conversation with an older African American gentleman. He was there supporting his grandson who was being tried on a drug charge. He asked me if I was a lawyer, I said yes, and we took it from there. I never like to answer legal questions to people I don't represent, so I changed the subject. I asked him what he thought of the upcoming elections, and if he thought his O ness was going to win. "Yes lawd yes", he told me. "Honestly man, I can't wait for November 4th to get here, I just hope and pray


they die, we all die.] If you feel intimidated, then go with family, friends, and neighbors to vote. Take a video camera, a cellphone, and the numbers of YouTube and watch-the-crooks organizations on speed dial. If you need to, take a bodyguard, a police escort, and a lawyer. If you distrust the police, then call the civil rights organizations (like the NAACP, SCLC, CORE, and PUSH), the Southern Poverty Law Center, and other organizations with experience in dealing with violence. If the violence is open, contact bloggers with video capability and YouTube. In the 2000 election, the American news media did not bother to cover the disenfranchisement of blacks in Florida. The international news media did cover it but most Americans have never seen those reports. Therefore bloggersno other perspective to take - which is why everyone should read Field."

"Half a century after Little Rock, the Montgomery bus boycott and the tumultuous dawn of the modern civil rights era, the new face of the movement is Facebook, MySpace and some 150 black blogs united in an Internet alliance they call theAfroSpear.

Older, familiar leaders such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, are under challenge by a younger generation of bloggers known by such provocative screen names as Field Negro, thefreeslaveand African American Political Pundit. And many of the newest struggles are being waged online."~Howard Witt-The Chicago Tribune~

"I had no idea, for example, of the extent of the African-American blogging world out there and its collective powers of dissemination.But now, after


want to settle permanently with some relatives already living in the new country.

Sometimes, people are even forced by the government of the country they are living in or by some external body to migrate.

Political factors also play an important role in this at times.

The point based system of immigration

Some countries follow the point based immigration system for issuing the visa. It is a means of regulating and monitoring the process of immigration to the country. Canada was the to introduced this system in the year 1967. In the previous times, the country was facing the problems of discrimination based on race and country of origin, but as the revolution came in, it brought with it this system of point based immigration. The revolution helped in forming of lawsJimmy Neesham brings up a half-century for Otago against Central Districts at McLean Park, Napier, in March. Photo: Hawke's Bay Today

All-rounder Jimmy Neesham has opened up about his decision to walk away from Otago cricket and the disillusionment he felt when he was overlooked at national level.

The 27-year-old fell out of love with cricket last season. It started when he got the message from the top he needed to dominate at domestic level before he would be considered for higher honours again.

Instead of providing the gentle nudge he needed, he went into games with a chip on his shoulder and it did not bring out the best in his game.

''I think I was pretty bitter about getting dropped from the Black Caps unit and obviously not being picked


team in late December.

He had a two-week break before the one-day tournament resumed and it proved to be a tonic. The left-hander rediscovered his touch with the bat post-Christmas and was happy with the second half of the season.

The right-armer was content with his bowling effort as well. While he did not get the wickets he would have liked, he was pleased he was able to bring down the runs per over conceded off his bowling.

''Even though I've lost my New Zealand Cricket contract and people will think I'm at a low ebb of my career, I think I've never felt more optimistic about how I'm going.

''I hope I will see more of that improvement in this season coming up and, hopefully, I'll get some more results.''

Staleness, logisticsEnergy announced that its sub-critical brown coal Flinders Operations (the Northern 554-megawatts and Playford B 240-megawatt power stations) and its Leigh Creek coal mine would cease operations beyond March 2018. And then just this month Alinta moved the date up, saying Leigh Creek would close this November and that it would shutter Flinders by the end of March 2016.

South Australia will transition abruptly at that moment from sub-critical brown coal making up 13 percent of its coal-generation capacity to zero. While gas remains the dominant electricity-generation fuel source in the state (despite recent announcements that 719 megawatts of gas-fired generation are being withdrawn from the market), the state’s combined share of wind and solar photovoltaic energy will increase from 35 percent of generation capacity to 48 percent by


a legal entity with the rights, duties and liabilities of a living person. In 2017, the same court recognized the Ganga as a living entity and entitled to the same rights as other living entities. The Supreme Court subsequently overturned that order.Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been fined $25,000 for walking onto the court and yelling at Nuggets guard J.R. Smith at halftime during Tuesday night's game in Denver and for actions afterward, the league announced Friday.

Cuban took offense Tuesday when Smith threw an elbow that barely missed Mavericks forward Antoine Wright late in the first half.

Cuban said Wright could have been severely injured and that he was going to ask the league to suspend Smith. The NBA said Thursday Smith would not face discipline for the incident.

Cuban responded to the fine Friday with a tongue-in-cheek post on his blog, blogmaverick.com.

"The NBA tells me a tech should have been called on you for throwing the elbow and that I should pay a 25k dollar fine because owners aren't


supposed to get mad. Ever," Cuban states in the blog post, which is written as a letter and begins with "Dear JR."

Nuggets coach George Karl has said he was OK with Cuban's stance but took exception to him calling out a player from an opposing team.

Part of the fine also stemmed from Cuban's language toward an official as he exited the court after the Mavs' 99-97 loss at the Pepsi Center -- something Cuban has denied.

Cuban could be seen mouthing an obscenity shortly after Chauncey Billups made two free throws with 2.2 seconds left for the game-winning points following a highly questionable foul call against Jason Terry.

"In the spirit of the joy of my getting fined and your not getting the tech, have the Nuggets PR folks contactA Navy veteran who lost his job as a cybersecurity contractor for the federal government after he was arrested by a troubled Ferguson police officer is suing the St. Louis suburb, claiming multiple violations of his constitutional rights.

The lawsuit, filed by lawyers with the Missouri-based civil rights group ArchCity Defenders, alleges the Ferguson officer unlawfully arrested Fred Watson, 37, five years ago after Watson finished playing basketball with friends. Watson alleges the Ferguson officer and city prosecutors put him through “pure hell” since Aug. 1, 2012, because Watson declined to provide his Social Security number to the hot-headed cop, who detained him as he was sitting inside his parked car cooling off.

The officer who arrested Watson, Eddie Boyd III, had resigned from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department


improper from the beginning, it also exposes encounters that start as constitutionally defensible but quickly cross the line. For example, in the summer of 2012, an officer detained a 32-year-old African-American man who was sitting in his car cooling off after playing basketball. The officer arguably had grounds to stop and question the man, since his windows appeared more deeply tinted than permitted under Ferguson’s code. Without cause, the officer went on to accuse the man of being a pedophile, prohibit the man from using his cell phone, order the man out of his car for a pat-down despite having no reason to believe he was armed, and ask to search his car. When the man refused, citing his constitutional rights, the officer reportedly pointed a gun atActress | Drop Zone

Claire was born in London, England. Her father is English and her mother is German. They moved to Canada when she was very young so even though she has a British passport she considers herself a Canadian. She went to school in Toronto and grew up around the High Park area. She worked as a model in ...


Supporters for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders‘ Presidential campaign met near downtown Orlando today, in what was the first meeting to establish a grassroots network here in Central Florida for the Hilary Clinton alternative.

The event was held at Gaston Park, just off of Lake Ivanhoe and had about twenty attendees. The group took turns introducing themselves, exchanging information and why they’ll be supporting Sanders for President instead of the former Secretary of State and presumed frontrunner in Clinton.

Similar meetings were recently held in Tallahassee, Gainesville, Titusville, and Tallahassee. One is expected to take place soon in Miami. However, for Presidential candidates in both parties, the main battle is expected to take place in the I-4 Corridor from Tampa to Daytona Beach.

“Orlando is immensely important, people underestimate our importance, Simply,to get the marque angels to invest
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The optional criteria for the tennis racket is to maximize the performance while minimizing the risk of injury.
In general, tennis rackets employ a frame with strings, or a frame, a head, a handle, and strings. Such construction of the tennis racket affects the load to the hand, the arm, and the shoulder of the tennis player. The loads by the incoming tennis ball on the tennis racket results—vibration, shock, and twisting
These loads are determinates of the risk for injury.
The vibrations result from the strings and from the oscillation of the racket frame. These types of oscillations create an adequate level of resulting energy and require the muscle activation to withhold such reaction. The frame structure has influence on the amplitude of the vibration. Therefore, gripping the handle tighterMichigan football's Jim Harbaugh is right. Time to expand College Football Playoff

Shawn Windsor | Detroit Free Press

Show Caption Hide Caption Jim Harbaugh on why Michigan football is playing better Michigan Wolverines football coach Jim Harbaugh speaks to the media on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, in Ann Arbor.

Jim Harbaugh has a plan. And if his Michigan football team upsets Ohio State Saturday – and you love his Wolverines – you're going to wish that plan was in place.

If it were, U-M would be playing for a spot in the College Football Playoff. Rewarding a team that is considerably better than it was two months ago.

You know, as it’s supposed to happen in team sports, only doesn’t happen in college football, at least not at the Football Bowl Subdivision level.

Maybe


the 53-47 Republican Senate, absent new facts or changed public opinion, there are far fewer votes for removal than in 1868.

Polling shows voters oppose impeachment by nearly 2-1 margins, similar to when Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998. Both parties thought impeachment would help them politically.

Clinton’s job approval rose sharply, but his personal ratings slumped badly. The former helped keep him in office, while the latter hobbled his chosen successor, Al Gore, two years later.

Speaker Newt Gingrich forecast big gains, but Republicans lost four seats in November 1998, and Gingrich lost his speakership. But Republicans held on to their House majority that year and in the next three congressional elections.

Those largely positive results reflect late 1990s contentment and the fact that both parties had intellectually serious arguments inand most recently in 2004.

World visibility of the transit of Venus on 5-6 June 2012. Spitsbergen is an Artic island – part of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway – and one of the few places in Europe from which the entire transit is visible. For most of Europe, only the end of the transit event will be visible during sunrise on 6 June. (Image credit: Michael Zeiler, eclipse-maps.com (via ESA))

When Venus is in transit across the solar disk, the planet appears as a distinct, albeit tiny, round black spot with a diameter just 1/32 that of the sun. This size is large enough to readily perceive with the naked eye; however, prospective observers are warned to take safety precautions (as with a solar eclipse) in attempting to view


the silhouette of Venus against the blindingly brilliant face of the sun. Special glasses or telescope filters must be used at all times.

Prior to local sunset, observers who are located over much of North America and the northwestern part of South America will be able to observe at least the opening stages of this most unusual celestial phenomenon. [Venus Transit of the Sun: A 2012 Observer's Guide (Infographic)]

The entire transit will be a west-to-east passage (right to left) taking six hours and 40 minutes. The sun will be above the horizon for the whole transit for much of Greenland and far-northern portions of Canada, all of Alaska and Hawaii, central and eastern Asia, New Zealand and the eastern half of Australia. For these last three regions, the transitwill occur on June 6.

The sun rises with Venus already on its disk for western Asia, the eastern half of Africa and virtually all of Europe on the morning of June 6. Interestingly, as seen from Iceland, the beginning and end of the transit will be visible, but the sun will set prior to, then rise after, the middle of the transit.

One region that will miss the transit is a large portion of South America. From places south and east of an imaginary line drawn between Morawhanna, Guyana, southwest to Tacna, Peru, the sun will unfortunately set before the transit begins. In addition, a large part of western Africa as well as Portugal and the western half of Spain will also miss out, because from there the transit


to conserve. His family's usage is lower than the average American family, as they do not utilize the many electronic gadgets of most American homes. Mr. Miller stated that one of the greatest misconceptions about solar energy is that, "It will run only a few lights." Mr. Miller can show that a complete household can be efficiently served by solar.

There are several different sects of Amish in this area, and not all would be permitted the use of solar energy; however, the more progressive Old-Order Amish, New Order, and New-New Order certainly do avail themselves to these technologies. It is ironic that the Amish, considered the US's most primitive life-styled people, those who resist change, represent the largest consumer group utilizing solar power in the United States; areThe Barn Inn.

The East Holmes Veterinary Clinic has been serving Berlin and the surrounding area since 1986, which began in the basement of Dr. Eric Shaver and his wife Cheryl's home, and has now expanded to three facilities consisting of 5 doctors and 20 staff members.

The main office is located in Berlin, which is where the surgical and major medical cases are seen. The Millersburg satellite facility offers appointments for wellness, outpatient care, and grooming. Also at the Millersburg location and Red Ruff Ruff Inn is a Laundro Mut, a 24 hour automated self serve dog wash.

The East Holmes Veterinary Clinic works hard to make sure of the comfort and wellness of your pet so you feel secure leaving your cat, dog, or small animal in their care,


whether its a medical condition or you just need a pet sitter for a weekend.

Call The East Holmes Veterinary Clinic today for hours and availability (330)-893-2057.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Plan now to attend the Wounded Warrior Project Memorial Day Event Sunday, May 25, 2014, in Holmes County, Ohio, at the Guggisberg Swiss Inn in Charm. Guggisburg Swiss Inn will be donating all net proceeds to the Wounded Warrior Project on this special Memorial Day event honoring and helping wounded soldiers.

Guggisberg Swiss Inn

Family-fun festivities at The Guggisberg Swiss Inn will begin Sunday,
May 25 at 4 p.m. with roasted hotdogs and s'mores, silent auctions,
a split the pot drawing, and donated gift baskets for bidding throughout the day
that will provide donations to the Wounded Warrior Project. As a finale,
at dusk you willand Apple Hill Acommodations

In collaboration with the Guggisberg Swiss Inn, the Millersburg, Ohio, Barn Inn Bed and Breakfast, invites all to support this worthy cause and consider accommodations at the historic Barn Inn; a distinctive bed and breakfast offering gracious Amish-Country hospitality. The Barn Inn also offers family and group accommodations for four to ten people at their Apple Hill location. Call The Barn Inn at 330-674-7600 for group accommodations.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Just over a thirty minute scenic drive along Ohio State Route 83 from Millersburg, the village of Coshocton offers a variety of historic attractions and shopping venues for visitors to Amish Country looking for a place to spend a Sunday. Guests of the Millersburg Barn Inn Bed and Breakfast are invited to take the short trip


for even more historic and unique shopping experiences.

Home to four wineries, a beautiful public park with an attached aquatic center, and historic Roscoe Village, Coshocton county has a place for families and friends of all ages to enjoy. The rich history of Roscoe is what makes Coshocton County a true extension of Ohio's Amish Country.

Founded in the 1800s as a canal town and later restored in the 1960s, Roscoe Village hosts event, tours, and plenty of shops as an affordable getaway to another time. While many shops in Amish Country are closed on Sundays, Roscoe Village is open seven days a week, year round. A complete chart and map of the village and shop hours is available here:http://www.roscoevillage.com/Roscoe%20Village%20Hours-rv.pdf

Sunday hours for the shops in Roscoe Village differ only slightlyfrom the weekday hours; opening hours are typically an hour later, and closing is an hour earlier. Between shopping, plenty of tours and attractions are available throughout the day, including the Johnson-Humrikhouse Museum (home to the Newark Holy Stones) and the Horse-Drawn Monticello III Canal Boat Ride at Lake Park. Visitors are also invited to dine at Roscoe's own Steak n' Stein restaurant, The Warehouse.

The Historic Roscoe Village is truly an extension of Ohio's Amish Country, offering insight into the canal days of the 1800s. Roscoe was once a bustling port along the Ohio and Erie canals before the flood of 1913 destroyed much of the local canals and halted their use permanently. Now visitors have the chance to experience a restored version of the village, home to


of Palestine is of prime concern of the Muslim World, adding that the US is committing a great mistake [by] supporting Israel,” according to IRNA.

He said that Iran and Saudi Arabia had heavy responsibility for bringing about Muslim solidarity and helping bolster relations among the Islamic nations.

For his part, Kharrazi briefed the Saudi crown prince on the situation in the region and the Muslim World, and said that “strong relations between the two powerful Islamic Nations would serve to promote relations among the Muslim nations and their cooperation on the international scene.”One of the great contrasts of the Olympic Games is that while they bring out the best in athletes, they often bring out the worst in host cities. This past week offered a sharp reminder of this dynamic, with fresh revelations that the National Security Agency engaged in indiscriminate surveillance during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. This was no mere quirk of history. The Olympics-induced state of exception has long afforded government authorities enormous leeway to break norms and bend laws.

If, as appears likely, Paris and Los Angeles are awarded the 2024 and 2028 Games respectively, the cities should bear in mind the events in Salt Lake City and not sleepwalk to the optimistic rhythms of the IOC. It’s time to face up to the


Second, private companies are more than willing to go along for the ride. Finally, the truth can take years to unearth.

Since the 2002 Salt Lake City Games – the last time the US hosted the Olympics – the country has cartwheeled forward with intensified surveillance measures. This should fuel serious public concern in Los Angeles. But the only group raising the issue is NOlympics LA, led by activists from the Democratic Socialists of America and their coalition allies. The LA bidding team simply avoids the subject.

The truth is that the Olympics are at an inflection point. The promise of memorable athletic performances is no longer enough. The terrain around the Games has shifted mightily in the last decade, with activists, academics, and elected officials asking tough questions duringRenaud (Desmarets)

Renaud, ou La suite d'Armide (Renaud, or the Sequel to "Armide") is an opera by the French composer Henri Desmarets, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 5 March 1722. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, is based on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata. The opera is a sequel to Jean-Baptiste Lully's Armide (1686).

The libretto had an influence on Antonio Sacchini's opera Renaud, first performed in 1783.

Sources
 Libretto at "Livrets baroques"
 Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881,  page 570.

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Tabatha Bull is the new president-CEO of the Canadian Council of Aboriginal Business

Tabatha Bull has been named the new president and CEO of the Canadian Council of Aboriginal Business (CCAB).

Bull is a member of the Nipissing First Nation near North Bay, and has served as CCAB’s chief operating officer for the last two years.

She succeeds J.P. Gladu, who announced his resignation in December after taking the role of CEO at Bouchier, one of the largest Indigenous-owned contracting firms in the Athabasca Oil Sands region.

The CCAB announced Bull’s appointment on March 20 in the context of the current global COVID-19 pandemic.

“I am honoured to be the next president and CEO of CCAB and to continue our efforts to help move the Indigenous economy forward,” Bull said in a newsLandmark Hotel was built in 1973, originally known as the Sheraton Landmark. It changed to its current name in 1997, and is owned by Hong Kong-based property company Asia Standard International Group.

The closure of this dining establishment will leave Vancouver with only one revolving restaurant—the Top of Vancouver at Harbour Centre (555 West Hastings Street). It is still in business and also offers views of West Coast mountains and the ocean.