ago, whose meaning it slowly devoured. The Market Square block bordered by Frederick, King, Scott and Duke Streets once held Kitchener’s Neoclassical City Hall and Farmers’ Market building, but in 1974 both were demolished and the Market Square Shopping Centre was built in their place as part of an effort to revitalize the ailing downtown. The City Hall offices moved into a high-rise office building across the street that was erected as part of the shopping centre development, and the Farmers’ Market was granted a portion of the shopping centre itself, with the primary produce section occupying the parking garage. Today, most of the building has been converted into offices. The City Hall and the Farmers’ Market both have new homes. Only a meagre offering of shops remain,downtown Kitchener only ever found form in the Market Square Shopping Centre. Market Square is the most complete and concrete repository of Kitchener’s attempts at re-imagining itself in the postwar period. It is a chimera of styles and ideas – the symbolic and aesthetic laboratory in which architects and city planners forged alternative visions of this city. This thesis is a case study examining the methods by which the city of Kitchener, Ontario attempted to reinvent itself through the Market Square, and what these attempts have left in their wake.

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Redevelopment: Trojan Horse Modernism in the Market Square

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John Lingwood, Market Square development, 1974, Kitchener, Ontario. High-rise building that held the City offices on left side of the street, shopping centre and Farmers’ Market complex on the right side.

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The Market


shift in architectural tastes away from traditional forms. The building’s architect John Lingwood was recognized for his modernist buildings throughout Waterloo Region, including the Ontario Court of Justice (1977), Laurel Vocational School (1968),[2] and the Toronto-Dominion Bank at the corner of King and Francis Streets. Early sketches of the Market Square by the developers, the Oxlea Corporation, depicted the building with a more modern aesthetic than the final product, using cement as the primary building material.[3] One can imagine how Lingwood may have actualized these sketches by observing his work on the brutalist Ontario Court of Justice. Like many other architects in Ontario, Lingwood took advantage of the new materiality and formal freedom offered by concrete.[4] The building consists of several ribbed, precast concrete levels stacked into animposing facade. Portions of the building are set closer to the street and others set further back like an imperfectly stacked column of building blocks. Such a novel use of concrete in a shopping centre would have had precedent at the time in Toronto’s celebrated Yorkdale Shopping Centre (1964) by John B. Parkin Associates. Regardless, in the final built product, Market Square was built in red brick rather than concrete, though it did retain Lingwood’s characteristic inclination toward austere geometric forms over traditional building types and ornamentation.

To observe many of the modern aspects of the Market Square, however, one must abandon the vision of it as a building entirely and instead consider the shopping centre as a phenomenon of modern city planning. In 1962, then planning director W.


rise to ubiquity, their topology catered to the new needs that this ubiquity presented, such as increased street traffic and parking. Meanwhile, an older downtown, whose design had been set in stone long before this shift, had to find ways to adapt. The Plan proposed that in order for downtown Kitchener to retain its significance in the region, a high-traffic ring road needed to be built around Kitchener’s downtown core, and the core itself needed to become a park-like pedestrian mall with a strict focus on retail activity.[6]

The Market Square Shopping Centre fit within these general goals of the new Gruenized downtown by offering a safe and beautified retail environment that segregated pedestrians from automobiles. The design of the building also embodied many specific city planning propositions putrenewal schemes. In his plan for downtown Fort Worth, Texas (1956), for instance, Gruen designed a second floor, outdoor pedestrian area – a “podium” or “artificial ground level” as he calls it – upon which the rest of the central business district was to be built.[11] Gruen intended for his podium to provide people with a place of respite from the noise, smell and danger of automobiles, but unlike suburban solutions to this problem, Gruen’s approach refused to relinquish the density and liveliness of the city. The first Market Square development mimicked this intention on a smaller scale, creating a second floor oasis for pedestrians.

The placement of a shopping centre in such a prominent place in the downtown also foreshadowed a broad shift in North American economic thinking


– the transition from a social market to a free market economy.[12] The architectural theorist Sanford Kwinter defines the social market as a society wherein economic activities are embedded in all social activities and directed by cultural organizations that occupy a specific time and place in the world.[13] During the first half of the century, Kitchener followed this economic/cultural model. Its downtown was the region’s centre of economic and cultural life, and there the economy and culture of the area were deeply interwoven. Before the construction of the shopping centre, the Market Square block epitomized this symbiosis of economy and culture. Containing both the City Hall and the Farmers’ Market, it was both a meeting place for political and cultural events as well as a place for theinto a social condition in which the market also takes precedence over social practices.[14] In other words, the system of economic activities embedded in social relations that prevailed in the first half of the century had to be inverted, into a system where social relations were embedded in economic activities. Shopping centres epitomizes this subsumption of social relations into the economy. Within the shopping centre, all human activities, transactional or otherwise, are considered within the scope of a financial output. Despite the presence of atriums, seating areas and garden arrangements – social areas that seem autonomous from the shops that constitute the rest of a shopping centre – these apparently innocuous areas are still designed with the goal of stimulating pecuniary activity. Sociologist Richard Sennett describes these areas


the early sketches intended, and the interior should similarly utilize red brick with garnishes of wood finish on elements such as furniture, appliances and pillars. Furthermore, Ratchford provided the building with a series of Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs painted on five-foot-square wooden plaques, hearkening to the history of the area as a Dutch settlement.[16]

In the first chapter of his book The Language of Postmodern Architecture, the architecture historian and architect Charles Jencks criticizes such use of superficial historical styles in developer architecture as a continuation of the meaningless, impersonal character of Modernist public architecture. Public architecture (exemplified by Pruitt Igoe in Jencks’ opinion) is known for its austere and uncompromising character. The CIAM and other Modernist architects they inspired believed in the ‘universal’ aesthetics of functionalist architecture withoutin the building’s design, the new owners, Cambridge Leaseholds Ltd., hired the Philidelphia design firm Cope-Linder and Associates[21] to renovate and expand the Market Square.

In 1986, Cope-Linder gave the Market Square “an overdue facelift” as one reporter put it.[22] The front entrance of the building, originally consisting of a piazza at the corner of King and Frederick Streets as well as an adjacent grand staircase, were removed, and the area they occupied was put under a two-storey steel and glass enclosure, complete with a matching clock tower intended to return a sense of place to the once-important intersection.[23] Two glass-covered pedestrian bridges were also built on the second floor to connect the mall and market building to an adjacent office building and the nearby Delta Hotel.

The renovation did


approach, drawing on theme-park-like imagery in his description.

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A highlighted map showing the area covered by the proposed arcade, stretching from the King Centre in the West to the Market Square in the East.

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Diebel’s dream of the pleasure dome over King Street more closely resembles the megamall’s conception of an architecture designed for the new desires of Homo Ludens, as seen in the West Edmonton Mall (WEM). Like a megastructure the megamall is a building on the scale of a city whose focus is the accommodation of a leisure class (though not an entire leisure society). However, whereas the megastructuralists sought pleasure through a radically adaptive, improvisational architecture, the megamall seeks pleasure through spectacle and simulation. The West Edmonton Mall pilfers Spanish Galleons and New Orleans Streets; it providesimagined this utopia of consumption as the city. It superimposed the mall science of the regional shopping centre – designed to produce profit at any non-monetary cost, including the widespread abandonment of urbanity – onto the modernist motivations of the megastructure movement – to create a new society to suit the needs of capital-M Man. This elision of the megamall and the megastructure finds its apotheosis in Michael Anderson’s film Logan’s Run. Anderson used an amalgamation of the Hulen Mall in Fort Worth, Texas and the Dallas Market Center in Dallas, Texas to create much of the megastructural bubble city in the film.[44] For Anderson and the people of Kitchener alike, it seemed as though the consumerist utopia (or dystopia if you are Logan) of 2274, where all


patchwork of the permanently disjointed.”[48]

Koolhaas defines this mutational, systematic approach to building as the death of architecture and the architect, in a sense: “Inevitably, the death of God (and the author) has spawned orphaned space; Junkspace is authorless, yet surprisingly authoritarian…”[49] Evoking Roland Barthes, Koolhaas insinuates that like writing, architecture has lost its filial origins – its author-God – and has become instead a rhizomatic phenomenon. Furthermore, just as the signifier in the Text has forever lost its signified, the architectural form has forever lost its intended function: “soon, we will be able to do anything anywhere. We will have conquered place.”[50] However, where Barthes sees the death of the author as an opportunity for the play of the reader, who could now engage with the Text unfetteredCollege, which has taken over one bank of shops on the main floor of the mall, exploited the superficial similarities between the topology of a school and that of a shopping centre. They converted a row of shops into a row of classrooms that are now closed to the central walkway of the mall, and converted the utility hallways behind the stores into the new main hallways of the school. Likewise, the aforementioned design consultation company that now occupies the entire bottom floor of the mall, adapted their office plans to the conventions of the shopping mall, rather than adapting the mall to their needs. To accommodate the gap in their ceiling that once served as a balcony overlooking the lower level of the mall, their floor plan


old City Hall mounted above the doorway of THE MUSEUM; Right: the clock tower of the old City Hall as a centre piece of Victoria Park.

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Even from its outset, the project has been a ruin of sorts. In an article written three years before the opening of the Market Square, artist Douglas Ratchford commented that he was surprised to hear about the project because only four months earlier, he had created a painting titled Market Place depicting the City Hall and Farmers’ Market in ruins from the perspective of a Mennonite horse carriage. In the article, Ratchford commented, “I painted it because I think that’s our society’s hang up. The loss of that building is going to affect us more than the people who use it, like theblock and their condition as archaeological records of decay and change over time. In redevelopment, the City Hall and Farmers’ Market, were completely wiped out and replaced with a new identity – the rationalized and Gruenized market/shopping centre. During the renovation and expansion, in order to improve the functionality of the shopping centre, Cope-Linder attempted to rebrand the building by erasing Lingwood’s design. In both cases, the original identity and the history of change in the building are jeopardized to some extent for the sake of function. Only in the recent adaptive reuses of the building have drastic changes been made while creating a dialogue between the past and present identities of the Market Square, as seen in the design consultation firm’s homage to the Garden Court of


Perpetual Spring. While functionality is crucial in architecture, in order to facilitate a sense of shared, built history in a city, renovations and reuses of public or pseudo-public buildings should attempt to provoke a dialogue about the origin of the building or the way that time has affected it.

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Alar Kongats, Hespeler Public Library expansion, 2007, Hespeler, Ontario. Left: exterior view, showcasing Kongats’ glass addition; Right: interior view, revealing the original Carnegie building inside the glass cube, like a ship in a bottle.

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In response to this challenge, two buildings come to mind that I believe fully engage with their history, rather than concealing it. The first, the Hespeler Public Library (1923) in Cambridge, Ontario, engages with its origin particularly well through a Brandian approach to renovation. To address hisruin exposes the hard truth of building reuse – it comes always at the expense of a partial destruction of the building. I call the Michigan Theatre’s new life as a parking garage a Benjaminian approach to reuse. Walter Benjamin wrote about the evocative character of the ruin in The Origin of German Tragic Drama. As Craig Owens synthesized Benjamin’s musings, “here the works of man are reabsorbed into the landscape; ruins thus stand for history as an irreversible process of dissolution and decay, a progressive distancing from origin.”[62] By leaving a sense of ruination when adapting a building to a new use, the building acknowledges the inevitable and sometimes tragic “distancing from origin” that a building must undergo. In the Michigan Theatre, the tattered 1920s ceiling has


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I am listening to the MOJO show on our local radio station. I am sure everyone remembers his touchdown and the atm withdrawl on the fieldgoal post. He said on his radio show that he was in downtown Kansas city and a bank refused to give him money because he was a jaguar. He was dead serious! So that is why he did that. He told them that he will make a withdrawl in the endzone, and he did. Kind of funny. He is on right now...

Yea, I did not understand why he was doing that. At first I thought it was to represent a phone booth and he was dialing a number. His nicknameis Superman. He wears a superman tee shirt under his jersey, but instead of an S he has an M in the diamond. So I thought it was about his nickname.

The guy just make plays! He is short but good God is he thick. He has legs a thick as Emitt Smith and move like Barry Sanders. He looks like a pinball when he runs through the line. If you listen to what the defender say about him, they say that they can not see him until it is too late.

They guy just make plays! He is short but good God is he thick. He has legs a thick as Emitt Smith and move like Barry Sanders. He looks like a pinball when he runs through the line.


administrator, look for:

• An appropriate education and learning.
• Experience in the field.
• Ongoing training to fulfill residents’ health and psycho-social needs.
• Administration capacity that fulfills those called for by the setup.

Generally, the number as well as kind of staff used in a nursing home will certainly depend upon the size of the center, the services supplied, and any type of special demands of the citizens. Usually, a team will consist of task directors, administrators, certified registered nurse assistants, food service managers, health/wellness supervisors, maintenance employees, nurses, and personal treatment assistants, along with acquired solutions from beauty therapists, dietitians, nutritional experts, physiotherapists, and also doctors. When reviewing the care team, look for:

• An adequate number to fulfill the 24-hour set up requirements of the locals.
• An adequate number toWilliam Rastetter

William H. Rastetter (born 1948), a scientist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, is the chair  of Neurocrine Biosciences, of Fate Therapeutics , and of Daré Bioscience, Inc.  in San Diego, California. He is a founding board member and investor in GRAIL, Inc. in Menlo Park, California, and served for a period as the company’s interim CEO (2017) and chair (2017-2018).. Rastetter is also
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He was a partner in the venture firm Venrock (2006-2013), and a trustee at Caltech (2015-2018).
He has served as a director (1998-2016) and as chair of Illumina (2005-2016).
He advises SVB Leerink and Illumina Ventures.

Between 1986 and 2003, Rastetter held positions as President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and director at IDEC Pharmaceuticals. At IDEC, Rastetter was a co-inventor


tempted to use performance-enhancing drugs. He attended Miami from 2002-2005 and said NCAA drug testing was extensive, and entered professional baseball following the 2005 Draft amid stringent testing by Minor League Baseball."It's never something that I sought," Braun said before showing a flash of his sense of humor and his well-documented self-confidence. "I would never do it because if I took steroids, I would hit 60 or 70 home runs."Other Brewers chose to stay away from the topic of Rodriguez including pitcher Chase Wright, who was traded from the Yankees to the Brewers earlier this month. He didn't regret missing Tuesday's media circus at New York's Spring Training camp."I'd rather watch it on television," said Wright, who played briefly in the big leagues with Rodriguez in 2007 butcommission in the RAF on 1 August 1919 with the rank of group captain. He commanded No. 16 Group from October 1919 and then No. 1 Group from February 1920 where he was responsible for organising two of the annual air displays at Hendon. He was promoted to air commodore on 1 January 1922, and served as chief staff officer at Inland Area headquarters at Uxbridge from February 1922 before being appointed Chief Staff Officer for RAF Iraq Command in August 1924.

Dowding was an accomplished skier, winner of the first ever National Slalom Championship, and president of the Ski Club of Great Britain from 1924 to 1925.

In May 1926 Dowding was appointed director of training at the Air Ministry. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of


and that his decision had been based on optimistic technical advice. Dowding's time in this office coincided with a period of rapid development in aircraft design and a growing fear that another major war was on the horizon. Although without scientific or technical training, he displayed a great capacity for understanding technical matters. He was promoted to air marshal on 1 January 1933 and advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 3 June 1933.

In July 1936 Dowding was appointed commanding officer of the newly created RAF Fighter Command, and was perhaps the one important person in Britain, and perhaps the world, who did not agree with British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's 1932 declaration that "The bomber will always get through". He conceived and oversawJoaquin Phoenix officially set to star in Joker origin film

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Joaquin Phoenix will portray mad Batman villain the Joker in a new origin movie, following months of rumours about the project.

The Walk the Line star has been attached to the film for quite a while, but he has consistently played coy about the gossip, telling Collider in April (18) he simply didn't know if he had the part.

All doubt has now disappeared after bosses at Warner Bros. signed a contract with Phoenix for the lead role in the DC Comics picture.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Joaquin will begin shooting the movie in New York in September (18).

The outlet reports the budget for the blockbuster will be in the range of $55 million (£42 million).

Todd Phillips, the man behind


the camera for the hit The Hangover comedy franchise, is directing the film from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver.

Studio bosses describe the plotline as an "exploration of a man disregarded by society (that) is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale".

Joaquin isn't the only star set to play the Joker in a new film - Jared Leto will reprise his Suicide Squad role as the villain in a standalone spinoff.

Phoenix has previously discussed Leto's work as the Joker and revealed he would take the character in a different direction than his predecessors.

"I think that genre, comic books, kind of lends itself to having different people play the same character and interpret it in a different way," he told Collider. "It's kindNOTE: This order is nonprecedential
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pool of QuadV, he has commentated a lot of events over the years, and will complete the caster's desk by joining Jason and Lauren there.

Scott "SirScoots" Smith is one of the pioneers of US eSports, being part of GotFrag, MLG and EG as well as having been on the LiveOnThree crew. Together with Duncan "Thorin" Shields, long time editor in chief of SK and now contributor at OnGamers, he will form the analyst crew in Katowice.

We are also happy to welcome Josh "steel" Nissan back to the team. Once again, he will take care of the observer camera and make sure you don't miss any of the action while the games are live.

Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner, Head of Commentary at ESL, said of the talent who'll be present atThe worst recession in three-quarters of a century is threatening to divide Britain more painfully than ever. Younger, richer households are gaining from lower inflation, house prices and mortgage rates, but at the expense of older, poorer fellow citizens. They are struggling to survive as they suffer relatively high price rises and a drop in their incomes as interest rates on savings hit zero and they see the equity in their homes destroyed by the property slump.

The spectre of a "two-nation Britain" – a subject talked of by Benjamin Disraeli in Victorian times – is conjured up again by the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies, which points out that older and poorer households are facing much higher average inflation rates than younger and richer ones, because the former


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Portuguese judoka Patricia Sampaio took the bronze medal at the World Junior Championships in Zagreb in 2017 and in 2018 in Nassau. Sampaio won the Junior European title in 2018 and 2019. She captured a bronze medal at the Grand Prix in Tbilisi in 2019. Patricia Sampaio (POR) was number 1 of the IJF World Ranking for juniors U78kg in 2018 and 2019. She clinched a bronze medal at the Grand Prix in Marrakech in 2019. She captured a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Marrakech in 201city centre is one of the last remaining Music Hall buildings in the UK. It is now a café-bar, however the elaborate decoration and stage have been preserved. The venue offers a great selection of food and drink and also a programme of events and performances. The site is made all the more unique thanks to the network of caves which run beneath it. I love to meet friends here and imagine the building in its heyday with entertainers on the stage.

This wonderful art and craft gallery in the north of the county offers a fantastic programme of exhibitions and activities. I admire their ambition and I am always impressed by the quality of the exhibitions they offer. The gallery also hold regular events including an essential Christmas


Craft Market. The Lime House Café nearby is equally essential to any visit I make and I’m particularly fond of the Chocolate & Guinness Cake.

The Park Tunnel

One of Nottingham’s more quirky landmarks is this tunnel carved into the sandstone ridge which borders The Park area of the city. The Park Estate was once the hunting grounds of the Duke of Newcastle before it was developed into an exclusive residential area. The Tunnel was developed to ensure the riff raff were kept out and to create a dramatic entrance to this enclave. Sadly it was never completed but a staircase leading to the northern end can be found on College Street, behind Derby Road. I love to take visitors to the city to this unique structure and share theReps recommend 42.5mpa grade cement for construction in the country

To achieve standard construction works in the country, the 42.5mpa grade cement should be used, the House of Representatives recommended yesterday.

According to the House, the reason for adopting the 42.5mpa grade is because there is no building code hence 90 per cent of construction work in the country is undertaken by non-professionals, majority of whom are quacks.

“It will serve the national interest better to adopt a particular cement grade which is less susceptible to misapplication as the standard cement in the country,” the lawmakers said, adding that “most stakeholders will prefer it if given the chance to choose between 32.5mpa and 42.5mpa.”

The recommendation of the House was sequel to the adopting of the recommendations of the report of Hon.


Yakubu Dogara- led ad hoc committee on Composition and Pigmentation of Cement (Cement Quality) which investigated the incidence of collapsed buildings in the country.

Lawmakers also recommended the quick passage of the National building Code Bill to check quackery, use of substandard building materials and also to serve as a tool for the regulation of the informal downstream sector of the construction industry.

The House also recommended that Standard Organisations of Nigeria (SON’s) governing council should ensure that all cement manufacturers in Nigeria retool and upgrade their production lines to start producing the 42.5mpa grade within a reasonable time considering the cost of social dislocation.

They further recommended that the government should create a cement fund from contributions of N10 per 50kg bag of cement produced in Nigeria and N20 onlyper 50kg of cement imported into Nigeria for the establishment of state-of-the-art laboratories in all the geo-political zones within the period of three years.

The fund, they said, should be managed by a task force to be set up by SON, the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), the Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON) and the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB).

The lawmakers said: “All cement packages must clearly and boldly indicate their grades, uses and expiry dates with tamper proofing on the packages to guard against repackaging by middlemen; SON should ensure that all cement distributions withdraw expired cement from their warehouses and markets and destroy them, “

They asked that the Federal Government set up a National Quality Assurance Programme, using designated agencies and


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The house is situated in a quiet, sunny position, enjoying good views in Ginzling, approx. 500 metres from the village centre, ski bus stop, pratice lift and toboggan run approx. 500m away, nearest guest house 300m.Leah Parsons said she took her 17-year-old daughter, Rehtaeh, off life-support on Sunday after she hanged herself last week. She said one boy took a photo of the alleged assault in 2011, and her daughter was subjected to bullying after it went viral.

Parsons is dissatisfied that police concluded there were no grounds to charge the four boys after a year-long investigation.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporal Scott MacRae said the investigation was completed in consultation with prosecutors and said there was insufficient evidence to proceed with charges.

Nova Scotia Justice Minister Ross Landry said he has no plans to review the case because he has no reason to doubt the integrity of the police investigation. He added he has yet to hear of any formal complaint from Parsons about the


The effects of density, rainfall and environmental temperature on body condition and fecundity in the common toad, Bufo bufo.
The body length and body weight of all adult common toads (Bufo bufo) breeding at a pond in south Dorset were measured between 1983 and 1993. Each toad was placed into one of four categories depending on its sex and whether it was either a first time breeder or an animal that had previously bred. The body condition of each male and female toad for each year was compared with the average body condition of all the male and female toads captured over the 11 years of the study so that between-year differences in condition could be detected. Changes in body condition were compared with changes in body condition were“citing example,” the Enterprise attempts to beam out Picard, causing the Tamarian captain to face the beast alone. Subsequently, he is gravely injured. After Picard is released from the grasp of the teleportation beam, he cares for the wounded Tamarian who still works to teach Picard his language. As he lies dying, the Tamarian captain is more concerned at bridging the language barrier than conserving his energy. For him, the ability to communicate supersedes life itself.

He urges Picard to share a story from his culture.

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Perceptive as always, Picard deduces Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra must be the myth of a friendship forged by two people poised as adversaries. He shares the 1800 BC Sumerian myth of Gilgamesh and Enkidu. In the Sumerian myth, the two enemies Gilgamesh and


Aztec myths told of a couple that survives a large deluge by hiding in a hollow vessel. In the Incan mythology of South America, a great flood Unu Pachakuti kills the first creations of their creator god after he has deemed them inadequate. His second attempt was humanity. One version of this tale has a man and woman escaping Unu Pachakuti by floating in a wooden box.

This is only one salient commonality among Earth mythologies and religions: a flood myth ‘rebooting’ humanity. Instead of using the commonalities among their cultures as a bridge to understanding, Spanish Conquistadors insisted their version of events were the gospel truth—Hernán Cortés forced the indigenous people he encountered to convert to his system of belief. What could have been a shortcut to understandingmuch about the plot or even the parameters of reality where it might dance – this is the director who blew Hitler’s head apart with a machine gun and incinerated the body in a blaze of nitrate film stock, after all. But that Tate’s name is already in reports, and that Tarantino met with Margot Robbie for the part, is what vitalizes the project’s possibilities. You see, for every loose adaptation, every novelization, every spin-off horror movie, not a single major Manson project has ever told her story. She is lost instead in the horror of that night – August 9, 1969 – her name some grim factoid, disordered by cause of death.

I know a lot – probably too much – about the Manson Family, their crimes, their


Photodynamic therapy for American cutaneous leishmaniasis: the efficacy of methylene blue in hamsters experimentally infected with Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis.
The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) using Methylene Blue (MB) as the photosensitizing compound and a Light-Emitting Diode (LED) in American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL). Hamsters were experimentally infected with Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis. After the development of the lesions in the footpad, the animals were treated with MB three times a week for 3 months. Ten minutes after each application of MB, the lesions were irradiated with LED for 1 h. The lesions were evaluated weekly by the measurement of the hamster footpad thickness. At the end of the treatment the parasitic load was quantified in the regional lymph node of the hamsters.the LCD panel and the lamp assembly. The lamp assembly includes a lamp, a lamp cover for covering the lamp, and lamp wiring for supplying a power source to the lamp. The lamp is arranged in the receiving container. The lamp wiring extends from an inside portion of the receiving container to an outside portion of the receiving container. The lamp wiring is connected to an inverter arranged outside of the receiving container.
The conventional lamp wiring is flexible making the lamp wiring difficult to handle. A securing projection is used for separating the lamp wiring during the manufacturing process for the LCD device. Lamp wiring is arranged outside of the receiving container, thereby increasing the size and weight of the LCD device.
The present invention is directed towards overcoming


Paris Residents Ask Commission to Widen Dangerous' Road

Paris, TN – A group of residents who live along Paris's Travis Boyd Road say the roadway is too narrow and they're asking the Henry County Highway Commission to widen it. According to the Paris Post-Intelligencer, the commission told a group of residents Monday they would need signatures from each person living along the road before the department could take action. Residents say high speed drivers and those failing to observe the road's stop sign is a fatal accident waiting to happen.Dallas and Los Angeles are the next cities to join Major League Rugby according to new Commissioner George Killebrew. The statement was made at a press conference in New Orleans on Wednesday to announce the Gold’s move to a new stadium in 2020. While both cities have been mentioned in past conversations, this is the first confirmation from the league itself that plans are moving ahead.

Killebrew’s reveal comes just days after he was confirmed as MLR’s chief administrator. He joined after a long career with the Dallas Mavericks and it is no coincidence. The Dallas franchise is understood to be backed by Donnie Nelson, the current General Manager and President of the NBA team. Dallas were part of the original membership group ahead of the inaugural 2018 MLR


season but despite paying league dues have yet to field a team in any capacity.

The LA Coast, headed by Stuart Proctor and Patrick McCullagh, announced their intention to field a team in the 2019 season but multiple factors led to the proposal’s demise. James Godfrey is the Chief Executive Officer of the new bid, an Australian heavily invested in New South Wales rugby. His organization is called Loyals Rugby, a brand they hope to expand to multiple ventures across the globe.

Both teams will be new ventures. Speculation was growing in recent months that the Austin franchise could be relocated after a winless 2019 season and off-field concerns, but they have been granted a stay of execution. With Dallas now confirmed and Houston bedded in with a new purpose-builtstadium, Austin will be under increased pressure to deliver in 2020. Multiple bidders outside of Texas have expressed interest, among them Las Vegas, where the league will host five regular season games across two weekends in February.

Details are also emerging of a bid from former RC Toulon majority owner Mourad Boudjellal for a team in Miami. The comic book magnate says he intends to have the team operating for the 2022 season under the RCT banner with direct links to the French Top 14 side. He recently sold his majority share in Toulon to Bernard Lemaître, a prominent investor in the pharmaceutical industry. Boudjellal named Lemaître and billionaire entrepreneur Christophe Lavigne, ironically a resident of Austin, as those who will be part of the group financing the project.

Questions


in the short-term with sizable rugby communities in Chicago and San Francisco, among others, currently frozen out. Meanwhile Canadian fans are desperate for a second team, a Vancouver franchise nowhere in sight with only the Toronto Arrows carrying the nation’s flag. The next six months will be vital for any group intent on getting its foot in the door.personnel will survey the area and determine the boundaries of the new Red and Yellow zones using Procedure 823-1-Alpha.

Due to the necessity of maintaining auditory alertness, no personal music devices or radios aside from necessary equipment are to be allowed at the observation site.

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SCP-823 was finally abandoned after the events of ██-██-████, also known as "Bloody Sunday," when the influence of the artifact in question reached a 20-year peak. Two hundred thirty-one (231) attendees were killed, and another seven (7) injured or maimed. A complete


corresponded to a loop or turn in the roller coaster's tracks. (dead)

One (1) individual recovered from under the "Thriller Chiller" roller coaster, dead of broken neck and massive cranial trauma caused by a fifty-foot fall from an inverted position. Individual was seated at the back of said roller coaster, and somehow managed to extricate self from the ride's safety harness halfway through the ride. (dead)

One (1) individual found dismembered inside the "House of Mirrors" attraction. Left arm was found sixteen feet to the north from the torso. Left leg was found inverted and attached to the ceiling by sinews. Right leg was found in the possession of Subject 79, partially consumed (forensic analysis indicates that teeth marks found on flesh and bone of said leg are human inA New Jersey man who admitted to raping and killing his 11-year-old neighbor was sentenced to life in prison Friday, three months after pleading guilty on the eve of his trial.

Twenty-year-old Andreas Erazo will have to serve 85% of his sentence, or roughly 64 years, before being eligible for parole, under terms of his sentence.

Andreas Erazo pleaded guilty to murder and aggravated sexual assault in February in the death of Abbiegail Smith in Keansburg, Monmouth County.

Smith was reported missing on the evening of July 12, 2017. Investigators found her body the next morning wrapped in a comforter on a roof near the apartment building where she and Erazo lived.

Erazo initially claimed he fatally stabbed the girl because he thought she was an intruder. He later conceded that was


false and confessed he raped and killed her.

Smith's father, Kenroy Smith, lives in Jamaica where he was deported in 2001 after a marijuana arrest. He and Abbiegail's sister, Kennish Smith, were denied temporary visas to attend the girl's funeral, despite Kenroy Smith's public plea to President Donald Trump. At the time, the State Department said it is prohibited by law from disclosing details about individual visa cases.something sensible about them: across the ocean in Britain, at Imperial College, almost exactly the same theory was being put together by Abdus Salam and John Ward. Each physicist individually was very accomplished. Ward, who was born in Britain but spent various years living in Australia and the U.S., was a pioneer of quantum electrodynamics. He is probably best known within physics for the “Ward identities” in quantum field theory, mathematical relations that enforce local symmetries. Salam, who was born in Pakistan when it was still joined with India under British control, would eventually become politically active and serve as an advocate for science in the developing world. They were frequent collaborators, and some of their most interesting work was done together, on the question of unifying the


forces.

Following very similar logic to Glashow, Salam and Ward invented a model with two different symmetries, one of which violated parity and the other did not, and which predicted a massless photon and three massive weak gauge bosons. Their paper was published in 1964, apparently without being aware of Glashow’s earlier work. Like Glashow, they broke symmetries by hand in their model. Unlike Glashow, they had no excuse for doing so: they were working literally down the hall from Guralnik, Hagen, and Kibble, who were concentrating full-time on spontaneous symmetry breaking.

Part of the failure of communication might have been due to Ward’s naturally reticent nature. In his book The Infinity Puzzle, Frank Close relates a revealing story told by Gerald Guralnik:

Guralnik and Ward were having lunch together inbe a little too cut and dried in their delivery. The narrative of the applicant's style has the flexibility of explaining the applicant more thoroughly and perhaps making mention of factors that might compensate for weaknesses or red flags in the person's style.

This is a highly assertive, results-oriented and perfectionistic individual. He/she is motivated by a strong need to achieve and also a fear of failing. He/she tends to be calculating and analytical in his/her approach to commitments. He/she will set demanding goals and will push him/herself and others hard to reach these goals. He/she will focus heavily on details and will tend to work well with numbers, facts or technical matters, but he/she will be de motivated by routine and repetition. He/she will get to know his/her


work very thoroughly. When communicating, he/she may be blunt or very direct and will be exact and precise, tending to spell out in detail his/her requirements. Skeptical of others, he/she will prefer to rely on his/her own judgment and will have difficulty delegating. He/she may be extremely work oriented. This person has an above average energy capacity, which means that he/she is capable of investing normal hours, and if he/she decides to do so, extra hours in his/her work without difficulty. In regards to his/her decision making style, he/she is a highly logical and is a very disciplined thinker, tending to emphasize his/her analytical and detail oriented style. The result being his/her decisions will be very well researched and calculated, but will usually be quite conservative. While he/sheMCCC Sports

Viking in the Spotlight: Soccer Player Eiichi Yamaguchi

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Sophomore Forward Eiichi Yamaguchi

West Windsor, N.J. – It’s been a full year since Eiichi Yamaguchi has worn Mercer green and gold, but the Mercer County Community College (MCCC) men’s soccer forward still has the magic touch.

Originally from Osaka, Japan, Yamaguchi joined Mercer as a midfielder in 2017. That season he led the Vikings to a 20-4-1 and the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region 19 Championship. His 29 goals were good for 3rd in the country, and helped earn him spots on the All-Region and Garden State Athletic Conference All-Conference Teams.

After missing the 2018 season for personal reasons, Yamaguchi returned to the Vikings lineup in 2019 as a sophomore and has quickly made his presence felt on the field.


Although there were numerous films about the Mafia starting in the early 1970s when their existence stopped being swept under the rug, many of those familiar to American audiences focused on the influence of organized crime in America. This picture provides an interesting look at the pervasive influence of the Mafia in their native Sicily, with its tendrils into all levels of politics and with a tight-fisted control that Tom DeLay would be proud of.

Crusading film director Giacomo Solaris (Franco Nero) has made a thinly fictionalized film about Sicilian State Prosecutor Alberto Traini (Marco Guglielmi) that exposes his Mafia connections and the corruptions of government that shield him and his works. Things look bad for Solaris, with the film being ordered shut down and himself under threat ofinfluence that he might be able to muster. But I suppose one could just take him as a generic powerful political figure and the film plays well enough. Where it does excel is in overlaying ordinary life, of people working and playing, with the utter corruption of the Mafia through the government of Palermo. Writer/director Damiano Damiani is obviously making a strong political statement about the state of affairs in Sicily at the time, with the people living in a state of nervous and helpless fear as the underworld pulls the strings on everything around them.

Nero seems a bit handsome for a directorial lead, but he does demonstrate a doggedness to the muckraking work that he does as a filmmaker. What the script excels at, and Nero carries


Date and time notation in Greece

In Greece the all-numeric form for dates is in the little endianness order of "day month year".  Years can be written with 2 or 4 digits. For example, either 24/5/2004 or 24/5/04.

The 12-hour notation is used in verbal communication, but the 24-hour format is also used along with the 12-hour notation in writing.  The minutes are usually written with two digits; the hour numbers are written with or without a leading zero.

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GreeceThe religious-spiritual self-image and behaviours among adolescent street children in Harare, Zimbabwe.
The present study sought to explore the relationship between street childhood and adolescent religious-spiritual self-image. In Zimbabwe, there has been a rise in street children population in the urban centres. The current study investigated whether adolescent street children live and work in an eco-developmentally risky context for the development of positive religious-spiritual self-image. This rise in street children population has been in the context of a socio-politico-economic crisis, which was marked by record inflation rates and the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The research objectives were to investigate the nature of religious-spiritual self-image for street-living adolescent children, and to determine the effects of self-image on the behaviour of street-living adolescent children. A psycho-ethnographic research design was employed in


Thursday, January 30, 2014

NAFTALI BENNETT GETS A BIG BOOST AFTER HIS QUARREL WITH NETANYAHU

A new poll, conducted by "Panels Politics" for the Knesset TV Channel, reveals that the crisis between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Economics Minister Naftali Bennett that began this Sunday and threatened to break up the coalition has apparently ended in Bennett's favor. [...]

The new poll reveals that following the political clashes, were a general election to be held Netanyahu's Likud Beytenu would drop one seat to 30 mandates, while Bennett's Jewish Home would jump to 17 seats - five more than its current showing.

And that's because Bennett was trying to be altruistic, far more than Netanyahu was.

However, there's an eyebrow raising discovery in all this catastrophe:

Reports by a senior coalition member who spoke onThe battle of Badr was the most important among the Islamic battles of Destiny. For the first time the followers of the new faith were put into a serious test. Had victory been the lot of the pagan army while the Islamic Forces were still at the beginning of their developments, the faith of Islam could have come to an end.

A new story of Islam. The story of the movement which was launched by Muhammad (s) in Makkah, and was consummated with the support of his cousin, collaborator, and vicegerent 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (a). It covers a period of ninety years from A.D. 570 to A.D. 661.

This is the first volume of the three volume series by Allamah Al-Majlisi, titled Hayat al-Qulub (Life of the Hearts). This


first volume is a collection of the details of the life and circumstances of all the Prophets (prior to Prophet Muhammad [s]) that we have access to through either the Qur'an or hadiths.

The Timeline, aims to capture the major events that have taken place during the course of Islamic History. It has been presented in a way that is easy to use and does not require any plugins. The first phase of the time line presents important events from the beginning of the life of the Prophet till 1000 AD.

The relation between the ideological and the theological realms in Islam. Theories of the Caliphate and the Imamate in Islam and the historical development of Shi'ism as a distinct school of Islamic thought.

This full length text is a verydetailed and comprehensive history of the early stages of Shi'ism. The author has extensively used primary historical sources as well as more recent academic works in order to present one of the most detailed accounts of early Shi'ism that is available in the English language today.

Hayat Al Qulub the third volume deals with the topic of Imamate, the appointment of the Imam (a.s.), the inerrancy of the Imams and the obligation of the people to obey them. After this the Author has collected all the verses of the Holy Quran whose Exegesis (Tafsir) points towards Ahlul Bayt (a.s.). He has supported his statements with traditions. This volume can be said to be a Special Tafsir of the Holy Quran.

A biography of the life of the Prophet Muhammad, including


a chapter on his ancestors, the settings of Hijaz at that time, and the events surrounding his birth. This well-researched text covers all important features of the Prophet's life and provides detailed reference where necessary.

Translated by Dr. Hamid Algar, includes leadership in Islam, leadership of the Prophet and appointment of Imam Ali, responsibility of the companions, necessity of Imamate, and interesting accounts of Imam's communication with the unseen including the story of Maitham al-tammar.

An historical analysis of the birth and upbringing of Prophet Muhammad [s], including an analysis of the extraordinary events that occurred during this time, before the descent of the first Qur'anic revelation upon him.

This text discusses how Shi'ism has been an integral and inseparable part of Islam from the time of the Holy Prophet (sa).The text provides several resources to show how Shi'ism began with the companions of the Holy Prophet (sa) and how its legacy still stands.

The text authored by Muhammad Al Tijani Al Samawi presents an english translation of the famous event of Raziyyat Yawm al-Khamees, known as Black Thursday which took place in the last days before the Holy Prophet's demise. It concerns an incident during the Prophet's illness when he asked for writing materials to dictate a will, but the people present around him said that he was talking nonsense. This event is a point of controversy between the two largest sects of Islam.

Outstanding work on the difficult situation that faced Imam al-Hasan (a) during his Imamate, and the events and political attitudes that led to peacemaking, as


mode of operation of the Islamic military in the battles that the Muslim community engaged in under the leadership of the Holy Prophet [s].

A Glance at the Methodologies and Principles of the two Muslims Schools of Hadith . A critical evaluation of the reasons why several Hadith from the Ahlul Bayt are not included in the Hadith Books of the Ahle Sunnah.

This text provides the reader glimpses of the journey back from the farewell pilgrimage heading towards Ghadir Khumm where the religion of Islam was perfected with the divine appointment of Imam Ali ibn Abi Taleb (AS) as Caliph and successor of the Holy Prophet (SA). The precious moments of selection, announcement, celebration, and public greetings are discussed as the reader reflects on this great event in thehistory of Islam.

This text, written by Dr. Hatem Abu Shahba and translated into English by Jerrmein Abu Shahba, sheds the spotlight on the immaculate character of the Holy Messenger (SA) and his inclination towards divine proximity before the Revelation (Be'that). The reader further realizes and appreciates the special secret relationship which Muhammad (SA) enjoyed with His beloved God long before his official inauguration as Seal of Prophets to deliver the universal message of Islam to all of mankind.

An in-depth study and analysis of the early Islamic history and caliphate and personalities of the first three caliphs based on Sunni sources in order to understand the difference between Shi’a and Sunni schools of thought.

Al-Ghadir is the place where the Muslims had stopped was at Ghadir Khumm. The Prophet then


delivered a sermon and appointed Imam Ali, peace be upon him, as his successor.

This text provides a brief study on the origins of Shi’ism and how the ideology of Wilayah came to existence, and the theological-juridical implications for the Islamic political thought in relation to the Wilayah of Imam Ali (AS).

This book corrects the claim made by those who say Yazid was Amirul Muminin (Commander of the believers), with proofs and evidence from the traditions (ahadith) of the Prophet (s) and the books of prominent Muslim scholars.

In this book, the author begins by describing both the Saba’iyyah legend and its originator (Saif ibn ‘Umar). Further, he throws some light on the narrations and the researchers who relied on such forgery in their historical and ideological research. The opinionsof the great scholars of Islam about the inauthenticity and the unreliability of Sayf ibn ‘Umar are also given.

Book Review of Hamid Enayet's 'Modern Islamic Political Thought' in which the author gives an account of Shi'ite political thought, and the differences between Shi'i and Sunni views on state, caliphate, and politics.

The text analyzes in details the political-religious place of Imam Ali in Islam, his spiritual relationship to the Prophet Muhammad and his contribution in establishing the Islamic State and the spread of the Faith of Islam; it discusses him as a Caliph and as a statesman, and also what was said about his policy and statesmanship and the causes which led to the accumulations of the difficulties which prevented him from reaching a peaceful and more lasting rule


tyrant that called himself a Muslim caliph, Yazid ibn Mu’awuiyyah (‘lan).

In this book, the author covers the history of Shi'i Islam from after the death of the Prophet . He discusses in detail the rule of the three Caliphs and of Imam Ali after that. He also delves into the history of the Ummayad rulers and their actions.

An elaborate thesis on how the purified Ahlul Bayt played their role in the post Prophetic era in building a virtuous Community. The series is comprised of 8 volume set. vol. 1 "Goals and Characteristics", Vol. 2 "General rules and Fundamentals" vol. 3 "General System of the virtuous Community" vol. 4 " The Security System of the virtuous Community" vol. 5 " The Economic System of the virtuous Community" vol. 6Pat Healy Discusses Making His Directorial Debut After Being An Actor For Over 20 Years

Pat Healy is one of those actors who has popped up in just about everything out there. For over 20 years, he’s racked up a resumé of 100 movie and TV roles including Shameless, Compliance, and Magnolia. So what makes a well-seasoned actor like that finally decide to step behind the camera and direct his first feature?

HitFix host Miri Jedeikin sat down with Healy to ask him exactly that. He makes his directorial debut with the screwball comedy/film noir Take Me, which he also stars in alongside Orange Is The New Black‘s Taylor Schilling. In the interview above, Healy discusses what drew him to this project about a man who specializes in simulated abductions.


right into a roadblock in Edmonton Alta, on Saturday September 30, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Police stated at round eight:15 p.m., a automobile rammed a site visitors checkpoint on Stadium Road close to 92 Street, putting an officer and sending him flying into the air.

“Suddenly and without notice and at a high rate of speed, a male driving a white, Chevrolet Malibu crashed through the traffic barricades that were separating vehicles from pedestrians, the vehicle struck the officer, sending him flying into the air 15 feet before colliding with the officer’s cruiser, again at a high rate of speed,” Knecht defined.

He stated there was an ISIS flag within the automobile. A photograph of that sort of flag seems beneath.

Knecht stated a person, believed to beon Wayne Gretzky Drive close to 112 Avenue. Knecht stated the officer realized the motive force’s identify was much like that of the Malibu’s registered proprietor, and the U-Haul truck took off, pursued by police in direction of downtown Edmonton.

“Throughout the chase, the truck deliberately tried to hit pedestrians in crosswalks and alleys in two areas along Jasper Avenue.”

An alley off 109 Street in downtown Edmonton. October 1, 2017.

Quinn Phillips, Global News

One witness stated the U-Haul got here dashing down 109th Street and careened east into the alley subsequent to a bar, hitting two people.

An injured particular person being loaded into an ambulance on Jasper Avenue close to 107 Street. October 1, 2017.

Nathan Gross, Global News

And at 107 Street and Jasper Avenue, another person was seen being loaded


Rosemary Billquist, 43, of Sherman, New York, was killed Wednesday as she walked her dogs by a man who told police he mistook her for a deer.

Thomas Jadlowski, a neighbor, told police he shot Billquist from 200 yards away, The Buffalo News reported. He rushed to her aid after hearing Billquist scream, calling 911 and applying pressure to her wound until help arrived.

The National Rifle Association was roundly criticized after the death, but responsible gun owners shared their experience and wisdom.

After sunset, from 200 yards with a pistol. Reckless, negligent & stupid. Hopefully some jail time will make him smarter, but doubtful. — Tom Logue (@TwentyHBCurlXup) November 25, 2017

How many times has it been said as a hunter and to a hunter. KNOW what you're about to shoot.Reactor vessel installation under way at Hongyanhe 5

20 March 2018

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The reactor pressure vessel for unit 5 of the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant has been delivered to the construction site in China's Liaoning province. Installation of the component began immediately.

The reactor vessel arrives at the Hongyanhe site (Image: CGN)

The vessel - measuring 13 meters in height, 4m in diameter and weighing over 300 tonnes - arrived by ship at the Hongyanhe site on 18 March. On arrival, the component - manufactured by Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Equipment Co Ltd - was transported directly to the nuclear island gantry of unit 5. China General Nuclear (CGN) said work to install the vessel began straight away.

CGN said this marks the start of peak installation of the main equipment for the unit's


nuclear island.

Unit 5 is the first of two 1080 MWe CGN-designed ACPR-1000 reactors that will form the second phase of the Hongyanhe plant.

Construction of Phase I of the plant, comprising four CPR-1000 pressurised water reactors, began in August 2009. Units 1 and 2 have been in commercial operation since June 2013 and May 2014, respectively, while unit 3 entered commercial operation in August 2015 and unit 4 in September 2016.

A ceremony to mark the breaking of ground for Phase II of the Hongyanhe plant was held in July 2010. Following a suspension in new reactor approvals and licensing in response to the March 2011 accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, CGN eventually received approval from the National Development and Reform Commission in March 2015 to build Hongyanhe units5 and 6. This marked the first approval for new reactors in four years.

Construction of unit 5 began on 29 March 2015, with construction of unit 6 starting in July the same year. Installation of the reactor pressure vessel of unit 6 is scheduled to begin by the end of this year. CGN said the second phase of the project is planned to be completed in 2021.

The Hongyanhe plant is owned and operated by Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Co, a joint venture between CGN and State Power Investment Corporation, each holding a 45% stake, with the Dalian Municipal Construction Investment Co holding the remaining 10%.

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expectation that banks undertake due diligence on their potential clients before they can fund them to support social and environmental accountability. Mining activities, if not properly managed can destroy the environment, illegally displace people; pollute air, soil, and water, as well as become the source of illicit financial flows.

The illegal trade in natural resources, especially minerals in the east of the DRC, is one of the factors that contribute to political instability and make it difficult to consolidate peace and democracy.

Behind SARW’s appointment are the various activities since 2010 to tackle the illegal exploitation of natural resources in the Great Lakes Region, the Alternative Summit on the margins of ICGLR Heads of State Special Summit.

The mining industry contributes significantly to the hardship experienced by black women in ruralWeezer Cancel January 2010 Concerts on Doctor's Orders

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Weezer have officially canceled the remaining concert dates on their Raditude tour as frontman Rivers Cuomo continues to heal following a tour bus accident that sent Cuomo and his assistant to the hospital. Citing doctor's orders, band nixed three stops in California and a tour-ending gig in Phoenix, Arizona in January 2010. Three December Weezer shows were immediately canceled after the accident.

According to Weezer's official Website, Cuomo is back in Los Angeles and recovering following a 48-hour bus trip back West from the Albany Medical Center in upstate New York. The trip to L.A. is documented in the latest Weezer Webisode "The Road to Recovery," which you can watch above. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Cuomo had to take a


Eagle's performance costs. Thus, as of January 1996, the District had paid Eagle a total of $3,142,022.[11] In March 1996 the CAB asked Eagle and DPW to prepare and submit detailed schedules of Eagle's actual costs and revenue associated with its recycling work. The Office of the Corporation Counsel (now known as the Office of the Attorney General) then requested the Office of the Inspector General ("OIG") to conduct an audit of Eagle's costs and revenue.
The OIG completed its initial audit on August 10, 1996, and the CAB reviewed it with the parties on September 17, 1996. The following day, the CAB ordered Eagle to produce additional documentation to support findings of allowability and allocability of claimed costs,[12] and directed the OIG to prepare a supplemental audit reportto as "The Cluster"; and that it "may have been collecting materials from the Washington Design Center." Given this information, the CAB also found that the testimony of Eagle's president that only one percent of the recyclables processed at the interim facility came from non-DPW sources was "not credible."
It is clear from the CAB's detailed analysis that there was substantial evidence to support its finding that the non-DPW jobs processed at the facility exceeded one percent, and that there was a rational connection between this finding and the decision that Eagle's "costs actually incurred" ought to be reduced by five percent. See Office of People's Counsel, 797 A.2d at 726. Moreover, the CAB was in the best position to evaluate the credibility of witnesses, and this court must


New Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter has assembled a group of leaders in the private, public and civic sectors to advise him in his on-the-job transition as the county's new top leader.

Coulter's new ten-person Transition Advisory Group will advise him on senior-level staff positions; appointments to county boards and commissions; and evaluate county department programs and organizational charts.

The advisory group includes:

Paul Brown, partner in eLab Ventures, member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, and a former vice president of capital markets at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation

Lisa Canada, political and legislative director, Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights

Sean Carlson, executive director of the Michigan Defense Center and a school board member of Huron Valley Schools

Jaimie Clayton, president and CEO of Oakland Family Services

Jeff Denha, CEOof Brass Aluminum Forging in Ferndale

Marcia Gershenson, vice chair of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners

Dave Hecker, president of the American Federation of Teachers Michigan

Gilda Jacobs, president and CEO of the Michigan League for Public Policy

Glenn MacIntosh, vice president for student affairs and chief diversity officer at Oakland University

Mary Zatina, senior vice president of government relations and community affairs at Beaumont Health

"We're bringing together a group of incredible people with impressive credentials who are a spectrum of business, nonprofit, and community leaders," Coulter said in a statement. "Their number one job will be to give me an impartial evaluation of the direction my administration should take Oakland County."

The Oakland County Board of Commissioners appointed Coulter to the county executive's position on Aug. 16, one day after the funeral


of longtime executive L. Brooks Patterson, who died in office due to complications from pancreatic cancer.

One of Coulter's immediate priorities is getting a county budget passed by the Sept. 30 deadline. Coulter's fellow Democrats hold a narrow 11-10 majority on the county commission.

Coulter had previously been mayor of Ferndale and director of external affairs at The Children's Foundation.

According to Coulter's office, the Transition Advisory Group will hold two meetings over the next month, starting next week.President Donald Trump has joined the gamer-centric, livestreaming platform Twitch, which is owned by Amazon, broadening the online reach of his rallies ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

President Trump’s Twitch channel currently features video clips from his Minneapolis rally on Thursday, including the president’s full hour-and-forty-five-minute appearance before the live crowd at Target Center in downtown Minneapolis.

The channel also features a promotion for the president’s upcoming rally in Dallas set for October 17.

President Trump’s rallies are also available to stream on YouTube, through the president’s official channel.

So far, the president’s Twitch channel has garnered nearly 46,000 followers since reportedly going live earlier this week.

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders also uses Twitch, having joined the platform earlier this year.

Twitch launched in 2011 and was primarily targeted at the gaming


BELFAST (Reuters) - A prison officer was injured by a bomb which exploded under his van in Belfast on Friday, police said, warning of a “severe” threat to security forces as the centenary approaches of the 1916 anti-British Easter Rising.

Police said the bomb went off shortly after the man started driving away from his home. The 52-year-old was undergoing surgery in hospital but his injuries were not life-threatening.

A 1998 peace deal largely ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland between Protestants who want to remain under British rule and Catholics favouring unification with Ireland, but violence sporadically erupts.

More attacks were “highly likely” in the coming weeks, Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin told a news conference.

“This could have been a fatality, the people who planned this wanted tocondemned Friday’s attack.

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster called it “disgraceful and despicable”. Foster’s father, a police officer, survived being shot by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the 1970s during the violent period known as the “troubles”.

Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, a former commander in the IRA during the troubles and a senior member of the nationalist Sinn Fein party, also condemned what he called a “despicable and futile act”.

In 2012, a Northern Irish prison officer was killed in a motorway shooting blamed on militant nationalists - the first such killing of a prison officer since 1993.

The victim of Friday’s attack worked in a training school rather than in a prison, Finlay Spratt, head of the Northern Irish Prison Officers Association, told Reuters.

“This is just terrible. What


Hanfeng Lake hydrology and water quality during the commissioning was divided into four periods by combining Hydrological and Morphological Variation characteristics with Water quality indicators time clustering analysis:May to August as T1 (river period); January, March and November to December as T2 (lake period); February, April and September as T3 (water level fluctuation period); October as T4 (algal blooms period) in 2015. Principal component analysis and stepwise regression analysis showed that Eutrophication of Hanfeng Lake was dominated by different dominant components at different times and the water quality index factor which has a significant effect on the Chl-a was also different. Cumulative contribution rates of principal components were 82.93%, 77.61%, 78.32%, 88.40% for each period, respectively. The main water quality indicators of T1 (river period) were DP, TP,Seatbelt use among military personnel during operational deployment.
This study analyzed the wearing of seatbelts among British Forces personnel in Iraq and explored the various factors that prevented their use. Questionnaires were administered to 237 British Forces personnel in southern Iraq from December 2003 to January 2004. Data analysis was by percentages. A total of 78% of respondents knew the seatbelt regulations (i.e., to wear seatbelts always). Respondents perceived the biggest threats to driving to be bad roads, speeding, security dangers, and Iraqi drivers. Seatbelt usage by drivers was 52% always, 25% sometimes, and 22% never. This was similar to usage by front seat passengers (52%, 27%, and 21%, respectively). The main reasons for not wearing seatbelts for drivers and front seat passengers were inhibition of exit and weapons.


for the White House in 2015.

Chris Christie, who never made it beyond New Hampshire, had strong fossil fuel support, with oil and gas interests accounting for 39% of the funds to his Super Pac.

The establishment candidate Jeb Bush, who dropped out of the race after his failure to rise out of single digits in the polls, obtained about 26% of the funds for his Super Pac from the oil and gas industry.

As for Marco Rubio, who picked up his first state on Super Tuesday, fossil fuel interests accounted for about 23% of the Florida senator’s Super Pac.

The donations – $107m through the course of 2015 – came from 124 billionaires or businesses that pumped a minimum of $100,000 each towards Republican presidential hopefuls through support groups or Superabout 7% of the funds into Clinton’s Super Pac last year, according to the filings. Clinton was criticised by Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley, her erstwhile rival, for taking funds from fossil fuel lobbyists.

The findings revealed the largely unseen power players behind the Republicans’ presidential hopefuls – led by the Wilks family in Texas.

The family, which made its fortune from making equipment used in fracking oil and gas wells, gave about $15m to a Cruz-supporting Super Pac in 2015.

Next in line among the big fossil donors to Cruz was Toby Neugebauer, the son of Texas Republican congressman Randy Neugebauer and cofounder of an energy investment firm which has invested heavily in the Barnett Shale – ground zero of oil and gas fracking in Texas. The younger Neugebauer donated


and cleanup of existing waste tire sites. At the meeting, the Department distributed notification forms and explained what was essentially an amnesty program whereby it would use monies from the Waste Tire Fund to remove tires from sites where the owner lacked financial capability. Mr. Fonte informed the Department at that time that he did not have the resources to remove the tires from his site.
On March 27, 1989, Mr. Fonte completed and submitted a Waste Tire Site Notification Form to the Department's Orlando district office. His attorney subsequently filed an application for a waste tire site closure permit. On the same date he filed his permit application, the Department entered a memo in his file indicating that such sites were to be "placed in limbo" pending furtheragency decisions on site prioritization and funding. Mr. Fonte never received notice of this memo or the Department's decision to defer action on his permit application. On August 8, 1989, the Department requested information regarding his permit application. He responded in writing to this request on August 17, 1989. The Department contends that it sent him a follow-up letter on August 30, 1989, requesting additional information. Mr. Fonte denies that he ever received the second letter. His attorney did not receive the second letter, and the Department stipulates that it never sent the letter to her. It *665 was the Department's normal practice to mail letters requesting additional information to the applicant's attorney. The Department's next action was a handwritten notation made by the Department on a permit


the additional information was not received. She decided that the issue was moot because the waste tire rule required site closure by July 1, 1990, and Mr. Fonte still lacked the financial ability to remove the waste tires from the site. Thus, she recommended dismissal of the petition despite the Department's failure to timely act.
The State removed the tires and closed the site in early 1993. Subsequently, on February 24, 1993, the Department entered its final order rejecting the hearing officer's finding that the agency had failed to timely act on the permit application and the conclusion of law that the agency was therefore subject to the default provisions, but for the July 1, 1990 deadline. The Department accordingly dismissed the petition and denied the permit application. Thisa pocketbook can guarantee final results. “.

First, a dashboard is a complex socio technical assemblage of actors and actants that work materially and discursively within a set of social and economic constraints, existing technologies and systems, and power geometries to assemble, produce and maintain the website. Second, the production and maintenance of a dashboard unfolds contextually, contingently and relationally through transduction. Third, the praxis and politics of creating a dashboard has wider recursive effects: just as building the dashboard was shaped by the wider institutional landscape, producing the system inflected that landscape.


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Prominent investigative journalist and EuroMaidan activist Tetyana Chornovol was attacked in the early hours of Saturday morning in Boryspil (near Kyiv). She was driving towards the village of Hora when another car forced her to the side of the road. There are slightly different versions: Mustafa Nayem seems to have spoken to her at around 3 a.m. and writes on facebook that she noticed she was being followed, and turned back towards Boryspil. It was then that the other car began ramming her and forcing her off the road. It appears that there were 2 assailants who set to beating her. The pictures unfortunately speak for themselves.

Chornovol is well-known for her investigative journalism on, among other things, the corrupt schemes behind the privatization of Viktor Yanukovych’s controversialLetters to the Editor - Oakdale - Lake Elmo Review

To the Editor,
My husband and I recently bought a home in Oakdale. When sharing with family members about the location of our home, we heard the question, you know what school district you will be in right? It was disturbing to discover that our school district, District 622, has the lowest per-pupil operating budget compared to the top 20 largest districts in the Twin Cities metro area.

To the Editor,
With the beginning of the 2016 legislative session only months away, I strongly encourage any high school junior with an interest in the political process to consider becoming a page in the Minnesota House of Representatives High School Page Program.

To the Editor:
Many have watched the lack of respect and civility here


route bus. Would residents and businesses along 4th Street N. in Oakdale like an explanation from their elected officials about the proposed so-called: bus rapid transit (BRT) along 4th St from 694 to Inwood Ave?

To the Editor:
The issue of Sunday alcohol sales is at the Capitol again this year. As the owner of a small retail liquor store in Oakdale, The Four Firkins, I’m very much in support of repealing this antiquated restriction.

As the former Oakdale Parks and Recreation Commission Chair I had the opportunity to work with city council member Paul Reinke. His extensive business and leadership experience are clearly reflected in his work in support and advocacy for the city.

Prior to 2014 under the Met Council’s Memorandum of Understanding, the population requirement for Lake Elmo wasOnce upon a time, a nice young man set off from his dad's fiancée's home before the NBA All-Star game to buy some Skittles and Arizona Tea for his stepbrother. Although the lad was seventeen, he looked like a cute twelve-year-old. Along came a burly ex-con racist vigilante who didn't like the idea of a young African-American male walking around his gated community at night. The cop-wannabe stalked the frightened boy, cornered him, and then shot him. But the racist police didn't arrest the murderer. The conscience of the nation was stirred. Protests erupted from coast to coast. The gunning down of young, unarmed black males by white Rambos -- and the occasional "white Hispanic" -- is an all-too-common occurrence in the US of A.

Now the MSM narrative


is unraveling, thanks to Al Gore's nifty invention, the internet. The average MSNBC viewer may not have the smarts and curiosity to do a Google search, but other people do. A lot of the searches wind up at the sites of the Orlando Sentinel and the city's Fox affiliate, Channel 35, both of which have provided good coverage.

Now other local papers are running stories about the "complexity" of the case.

We've learned a little more about Trayvon Martin. Since his record of suspensions and his posts and pictures, with tats and grill, from his Myspace and Twitter accounts surfaced on the web, columnists are less likely to enthuse about him, as a WaPo blogger did on March 18:

By all accounts, Trayvon was a good kid[.] ... He had dreamswho are curious know that the only eyewitness who called 911 reported that Martin was on top of Zimmerman, pummeling him. Zimmerman was crying out for help. The witness ran upstairs, heard a shot, and saw the guy who was on top dead on the ground. Zimmerman himself reported that the teenager suddenly confronted him and, after a brief exchange, decked him with one punch. Martin got on top of Zimmerman and began slamming his head against the concrete. The physical evidence corroborated the stories of the neighborhood watch captain and of "John": Zimmerman's back was wet and had grass stains, and he had a broken nose and lacerations on the back of his head. "I was yelling for help and no one came," he told police.

Recently, Zimmerman's


father was interviewed by Fox 35, and later by Hannity. He and family and friends who listened to the tape were positive that the voice screaming for help was his son's, he said, and he disclosed a further detail: as George was trying to squirm from the sidewalk onto the grass, his gun was exposed in his waistband. Martin saw it, his father reported, and said to Zimmerman something like "you're going to die tonight" or "you're going to die now." The nineteen-minute interview on 35 is worth listening to in its entirety.

A few days ago I wrote about how little interest there seems to be on the part of the media in reproducing maps of the crime scene. The explanation is pretty simple: looking at a mapwhile listening to the phone call raises some awkward questions about Martin's final five minutes. Some individuals have produced even more detailed maps than the one published by the Sentinel.

According to the audio released by the police, after Martin stared at Zimmerman and began to approach him, the teen took off in the opposite direction, toward the rear entrance of the community and toward the apartment he was staying in. The distance from where Zimmerman began his call, near the mailboxes by the clubhouse, to the apartment of Brandy Green, where Martin was staying, is roughly 850 feet. Someone in good shape could probably run the distance in less than a minute and walk it in two. From the start of Zimmerman's phone call, Martin had about six


minutes to get home. But the teenager was apparently not interested in returning to the apartment of his dad's fiancée and reporting the suspicious man to 911. He was shot about 550 feet from where Zimmerman began his call, about 300 feet from Brandy Green's apartment.

As to what happened in the interval between the end of Zimmerman's call and the first 911 call reporting a fight, Dan Linehan offers some plausible speculations, based on what Martin's father Tracy reported being told by the lead investigator and on Martin's girlfriend's account of her conversation with him. (This conversation was not reported until March 20, twenty-three days after the shooting, leading skeptics to claim that it may have originally included some incriminating statements.)

Then there's the matter of what Martin wasup to when Zimmerman spotted him. According to the watch captain in his call to the police, the teenager was wandering around aimlessly, staring at the homes, looking like "he was up to no good or on drugs." He was between the rows of townhouses, not walking down the sidewalk. According to the media's scenario, Martin was striding home from the 7-Eleven, clutching the Skittles and the can of tea.

What about the trip to the 7-Eleven? Some people have speculated that Martin didn't even go there, that "Skittles" and "tea" were code words for drugs. But Zimmerman does report him holding something, and apparently the can and candy were removed from the crime scene. The story about the Skittles originated with the lawyer for the Martin family, Benjamin


Crump. A spokesman for the law office confirmed that the information came from Martin's girlfriend, and also, he believed, from a call to Tracy Martin. The law office hadn't corroborated their account by looking at security camera tapes or at an electronic receipt from the store.

But a video does exist. The public relations director of 7-Eleven told me that, according to the company's manager of security, a store camera captured an African-American male (she wouldn't commit to "young") purchasing a bag of Skittles and a can of tea (she wouldn't say that it was "Arizona" tea). The hard disk with the video was removed after the story broke, and it has been subpoenaed by investigators for the state and/or county. The company has not made it available tostraight home after he first spotted the neighborhood watch captain, so, too, he apparently did not go directly to Brandy Green's apartment from the 7-Eleven. What exactly he was doing between the time he entered the gated community and the moment Zimmerman noticed him will probably never be known. Though there may be some plausible explanation for his behavior, the idea that he was simply returning from a selfless errand when he caught Zimmerman's eye seems less and less likely.

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Crime alert issued for sexual assault

Jun 9, 2010George Mauzy

The Ohio University Police Department issued a crime alert after a female student reported around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, June 8, that she was raped earlier that day between 2:15 and 3 a.m. at an unknown location.

The victim told police she remembers drinking with friends at Pawpurrs Bar on North Court Street on Monday evening. According to her friends, she left the bar with a tall white male at approximately 2:15 a.m. on Tuesday. The victim remembers riding in the suspect’s
vehicle, possibly a pick-up truck, for about 10 minutes until they parked in a secluded area.

She then recalls the male sexually assaulting her in the passenger seat of the vehicle before she blacked out. The next thing she remembers isthere is no mention in the emergency room records about her knees or any other part of her lower body hitting any part of the interior of the car.
Similarly, Blosfeld testified on direct examination that when she went to see her regular treating physician the day after the accident, her primary complaints were her head and lower back. She conceded, however, that the doctor's records indicated she complained of shoulder and neck pain. Likewise, while Blosfeld testified that she began experiencing problems with her sacroiliac and low back after the accident, she admitted on cross-examination that she had been diagnosed with sacroileitis, a joint disorder in the lower back, as early as two and one-half months before the accident.
There was also evidence supporting alternate causes of Blosfeld's injuries.


Blosfeld admitted on cross-examination that she had seen her primary treating physician at least 90 times in the three and one-half year period preceding the accident. While Blosfeld complained that the head injury brought pain similar to a migraine headache, she admitted on cross-examination that she had previously received treatment for migraine headaches.
Blosfeld testified about leg and hip injuries that necessitated surgery on both hips. However, she also testified that she fell in the bathtub approximately one and one-half years before her automobile accident, landing on her buttocks. This fall caused pain in her back and legs and was serious enough that she asked to be hospitalized. The pain from this fall persisted throughout the year and was sometimes so severe that Blosfeld could not walk. According toDr. Allan Lippitt, who operated on Blosfeld's sacroiliac joint following the automobile accident, it is unusual for a rear end collision to cause hip fractures such as those that necessitated Blosfeld's surgery. Thus, the jury could properly have concluded that these injuries were caused by a fall in the bathtub.
As for Blosfeld's complaints of sacroileitis and low back pain that required surgery, Blosfeld admitted that she had been diagnosed with sacroileitis prior to the accident and admitted that she had several times complained of the same exact pain in her lower back prior to the date of the car accident. Sacroileitis was the same diagnosis that Dr. Lippitt made that necessitated Blosfeld's surgery. Dr. Lippitt testified that he could not state with a reasonable degree of medical certainty


that the car accident caused Blosfeld's sacroiliac condition. According to Dr. Lippitt, even though he has seen this type of injury in accidents like Blosfeld's, it would be more common to have this type of injury as a result of falling on one's buttocks. In addition, Blosfeld's primary treating physician testified he could not state with a reasonable degree of medical certainty what symptoms were related to the automobile accident and what symptoms were not.
As for Blosfeld's neck and shoulder injuries, there was sufficient evidence from which the jury could have found that these injuries were proximately caused by an earlier car accident in which Blosfeld was involved. Blosfeld testified that as a result of her prior car accident, she was still having trouble with her neck andleft shoulder. These were the same two symptoms of which she complained the day after the accident.
Blosfeld's complaint that the accident at issue caused pain in her legs and feet was also contradicted by the evidence. Blosfeld testified that in 1992 she was exposed to toxic chemicals and that this exposure caused fibromyalgia to develop. Fibromyalgia caused pain in several parts of Blosfeld's body, including her legs. While Blosfeld attempted to differentiate the pain, testifying that the pain caused by the accident was a sharp pain rather than a muscle ache, she later described the pain she was still experiencing from the accident as "like a dull headache."
As for any emotional problems which Blosfeld experienced causing her a diminished enjoyment of life, Blosfeld testified that before the accident,


Lumbini – One of Four Holy Places Of Buddhism

Situated on the foothills of the Himalayas is Lumbini (Sanskrit for “the lovely”). Known for being the birthplace of Siddharta Gautama, whom we now commonly revere as Lord Buddha, Lumbini is one of the most sacred destinations for a Buddhist and many Buddhist pilgrims make it a point to visit the grounds, as it is what Mecca is to Muslims. However, centuries of neglect were faced by the lost site before finally being rediscovered in 1895 by a German archaeologist named Fuhrer, when he came he came upon a pillar erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka who had previously been there on pilgrimage.

Inscription On The Pillar

What the devout Buddhist-convert Emperor Ashoka had inscribed on the particular pillar was translated as“King Piyadasi (Ashoka), beloved of devas, in the 20 year of the coronation, himself made a royal visit, Buddha Sakyamuni having been born here, a stone railing was built and a stone pillar erected to the Bhagavan [“blessed one”] having been born here. Lumbini village was taxed reduced and entitled to the eight part (only)”. In addition to the pillar, he had also built four stupas.

Lumbini in Buddha’s time was a beautiful garden, and it is still one. It manages to captivate its visitors with awe and wonder to the place’s divine history. According to Pali and Sanskrit Literature, Maya Devi, while expecting Gautama Buddha, was spellbound to see the natural grandeur of Lumbini and as she experienced labor pains, she grabbed hold of a drooping branch of


long been a site of pilgrimage, as recounted often in the texts of Chinese travellers. It is not explicitly known why the place ceased to attract visitors after the 15th century but the existing Buddhists temples had deteriorated to ruins until rediscovery. In recent times, a number of beautiful shrines have been built by devotees from other countries. Cited by Lord Buddha himself, his birthplace is one of four holy places of Buddhism – with the others being his place of Enlightenment, First Discourse and death.

With all its holiness and beauty, Lumbini, which also happens to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, remains to be a place to be visited by a person of devotion and it should bring about not only spiritual enlightenment but solaceSoccer Camps

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Kate was likely suffering a learning disability, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Kate was thereafter evaluated by the school psychologist, Michael Childs ("Childs"). Childs' evaluation confirmed Tripps' determination. Childs mailed a copy of his evaluation to Kate's parents, but school officials apparently did not provide Kate's parents with information about their rights under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act at that time; nor did school officials then present Kate's parents with an "accommodation plan" (presumably an Individualized Education Plan ("IEP")). In late October, 1996, approximately a year and a half after Child's performed his evaluation, Kate's parents met with several of Kate's teachers. Following the meeting, Childs told Judith Frazier, Kate's mother ("Kate's mother"), that he was changing Kate's "504 plan." After Kate's mother informed Childs that sheknew nothing of the plan, Childs provided her with information concerning the plan the next day.
In the autumn of 1996, a number of incidents occurred that caused Kate distress. She was confronted by Morency, the "discipline matron," who "leer[ed] at her and invade[d] her privacy" when she telephoned her mother from school. The school nurse mentioned Kate's medication in the presence of other school staff, and the school secretary refused to give Kate lunch money that her mother had left for her, until Kate went to the nurse for medication. In November, Morency took Kate to the principal's office, where Kate was questioned. Feeling "agitated and claustrophobic," Kate left the principal's office and was subsequently suspended for her actions and for insubordination.[2] When Kate's mother asked Newburn, the


school principal, whether this last incident was related to Kate's disability, Newburn laughed at the suggestion, prompting Kate's parents to write a letter to the school complaining about Kate's treatment. Following the sending of that letter, Kate's parents, in December, 1996, met with Newburn, Childs, and Tripp. At this meeting, Newburn stated his belief that Kate had a behavior problem, rather than a disability.
Additional incidents occurred in the spring of 1997. In January, the vice-principal of the school told Kate she would be suspended for excessive absences and asked Kate to attend a School Committee meeting. In the plaintiffs' view, the School Committee was attempting to place Kate on probation and then expel her, rather than to provide the services to which Kate was entitled. Kate's parents andthe plaintiffs' counsel met with Newburn, Tripp, and other school administrators and teachers to discuss Kate's attendance. At that meeting, one of Kate's teachers established that Kate's attendance record in fact was incorrect: Kate had not missed the number of classes indicated in that record. The school thereafter corrected Kate's attendance record. At the meeting, Kate's parents also were given a report from Kate's gym teacher that described Kate as a "troublemaker" and a "non student." Although the report was removed from Kate's file at the plaintiffs' request, the plaintiffs assert that the report demonstrates that school meetings were held to discuss Kate at which her parents were not present.
In February, 1997, an incident occurred in the girls' bathroom at the school. Morency looked directly into a bathroom


stall that Kate was occupying, causing Kate great distress. The plaintiffs reported this incident, but no action was taken by the school. Following the plaintiffs' report of the incident, Morency "continued her practices" of "stalking," "approaching" and "scowling" at Kate.
*108 Additional events giving rise to the plaintiffs' claims occurred in the 1997-98 school year. In the fall of 1997, McCabe, Kate's guidance counselor, refused to allow Kate to transfer from one class to another, despite earlier assurances that the system was flexible as to transfers. During a meeting with Kate to discuss the transfer, McCabe told someone on the telephone that Kate had not taken her medication. When Kate's father later asked McCabe to identify the person to whom McCabe had spoken, McCabe refused.
At some point thereafter, ameeting was held to discuss Kate's educational program. The school's attorney, "Mr. Sullivan;" Kate's parents; Lynne G. Turner M.Ed., identified in the complaint as the Frazier's "advocate;" and Tripp all were present. At that meeting, Sullivan stated that Kate was not "safe" at school and presented to Kate's parents the option of off-site tutoring. Kate's parents reluctantly accepted this proposal. In the fall of 1997, Kate's parents received an unsigned copy of an IEP. Kate's parents accepted the plan, but Newburn refused to sign it until "ordered" to do so by Sullivan. On November 13, 1997, the plaintiffs' attorney sent a letter to the Fairhaven Board of Selectmen giving notice that the plaintiffs believed the Fairhaven School Department was negligent and in violation of M.G.L. c. 258 in


The Herd: Caron Butler recalls his first impression of a rookie LeBron James

Two-time NBA All-Star Caron Butler visited "The Herd" on Monday and recalled his first meetings with a young LeBron James while playing for the Washington Wizards.

LeBron and the Cavaliers eliminated the Wizards from the playoffs in three consecutive seasons, and Butler told Colin Cowherd that he could immediately tell that James was destined for greatness.

Caron Butler: LeBron is a guy who never ceased to amaze me

Caron Butler: “He’s going to keep coming, and he loves the challenge. Playing in Washington over the years, facing him three years in a row in the playoffs -- he’s a guy who never ceased to amaze me. And I knew he was special at a young age from just playinghim in the first round of the playoffs the first time. He was just different. He saw the game differently.

"Like, in chalk talk, we would say, ‘Make him a scorer.’ He could score the ball. ‘Make him a passer.’ That was his biggest strength, facilitating and finding guys.

"You look at that run that he had with Eric Snow and Larry Hughes and guys like that, they were great in their own right, but at the same time he made them better. I’ve never seen anything like it from a guy like that. It was just special.”

Colin Cowherd: “Do you remember the first time you saw him, period?”

Caron Butler: “First time I saw him was playing against the Sacramento Kings (in his first NBA game). And I watched the