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Tiffany Budzisz developed her passion for the arts in early childhood. She started out painting ceramics atWhelan (Homeless Bird ) places her courageous and thoughtful narrator in Africa in 1919, just after the Great War and manages to place a new twist on familiar themes. "It didn't occur to me at that moment that I, too, might become an orphan. I think I believed that because Father was a doctor, he would let no illness come to our family." When 13 year-old Rachel Sheridan loses her British missionary parents, unscrupulous neighbors exploit her resemblance to their deceased daughter, Valerie, and send her to England to try to collect the inheritance from Valerie's ailing grandfather. What sets this familiar tale apart is Rachel's love of the African land, animals and Masai people, and the details that make Whelan's narrative come alive. The author ensures that


Rachel's lack of choices and her sensitive nature make her complicity wholly believable. Once in England, the girl's evolving relationship with the invalid grandfather heightens her sense of guilt about her assumed identity. However, when the villains are exposed, much of the novel's tension dissipates and the balance of the book reads somewhat like an extended epilogue. Still, Whelan's formidable and appealing heroine will keep readers rooting for her dream of a home with the lions of Africa. Ages 10-up. (July)Global powers pushed the world on the brink of a religious and civilization conflict by bringing up ISIL terrorists for their own purposes.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Islamic State project has grown out of the Arab Spring and has gained momentum under the double standards of certain world powers trying to reach their own goals in Asia and Africa, Russian Federal Security Service head Alexander Bortnikov said Wednesday.

“The international community has now hit a new geopolitical challenge, an international criminal group in the name of the Islamic State. This project, which grew out of the ‘Arab Spring,’ has gained momentum thanks to the double [political] standards of certain world regional powers by using ‘a terrorist battering ram’ to reach their own strategic goals in Asia and Africa,” Bortnikov said


during a security session with the special services from the Commonwealth of Independent States.

In late 2010, a revolutionary wave of anti-government protests began in the Arab world, which later evolved into the so-called Arab Spring, leading to political fragmentation and longtime rulers being forced from power in a number of countries, including Egypt, Libya and Yemen.

The most drastic consequences of the Arab Spring can be seen in Syria, where opposition factions tried to oust the country's president, Bashar Assad. As the opposition failed to overthrow Assad immediately, mass anti-government protests escalated into an open armed confrontation between government troops and allied militias on the one hand, and the Syrian opposition on the other.

The conflict is ongoing, and apart from fighting the opposition, Assad has also had to counterrise in threats and their invasion of Central Asia, Bortnikov said.

“The escalation in tensions in Afghanistan has brought on serious dangers. There are numerous criminal groups included in the Taliban movement on the northern borders of this country right now. Some of them have also [began operating] under the Islamic State flag, which has led to a sharp rise in the threat of terrorists invading Central Asia.”

Islamic State is a Sunni militant group, which seized large territories in Syria and Iraq, in 2012 and 2014, respectively. The group is known for its excessive brutality as well as for recruiting young people from all over the world, primarily via social media.

Some 20,000 to 30,000 foreign fighters are fighting alongside extremists against government forces in Syria and Iraq, according to


various estimates. Up from last year's estimates of no more than 15,000.

In August, the Russian Civic Chamber launched a hot-line to counter radicalization and protect young people from ISIL recruitment.

The following month, Russia, Syria, Iraq and Iran created the Baghdad Information Center to coordinate joint military action against ISIL. The four countries are represented by officers of the national armed forces, whose primary task is to collect and analyze data related to militant operations in the region.

On September 30, Moscow began pinpoint airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Syria following a request from President Bashar Assad.PBS Radio Festival 2017: One Small Step

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came to widespread attention when it was noticed that the proposed content of the book – the collected wisdom of the Reddit community called r/seduction and in particular the contributions of a certain Mr TofuTofu – were peppered with the most gruesomely misogynistic advice. Alex Hern at the New Statesman outlined the worst of it. Kickstarter has now removed the post and apologised, saying "the project has no place on our site".

The proposed book was horrible, but even the more mundane threads on PUA forums are peppered with nastiness. The phrase "last-minute resistance" is used in discussions of how not to take no for an answer. The PUAs insist that their advice is always framed with discussion of consent and respecting a woman's right to refuse, and itAbout the Cave Hill The Cave Hill dominates the skyline on the northern edge of Belfast. It stretches from Hazelwood in the north to Carr's Glen in the south. Most of its lower east side is comprised of the Belfast Castle Estate. The Cave Hill rises to almost 370 metres (1,200 feet) above sea level and offers superb panoramic views over Belfast and the surrounding areas. (For comparison, Slieve Donard is about 2,800 feet, Mount Snowdon is 3,560, Ben Nevis is about 4,400, Mont Blanc is 15,800 and Mount Everest about 29,000.) To the east is Belfast Lough and the North Down peninsula. To the south lie the Mourne Mountains. To the north and west lie the Antrim hills and the Sperrins. Roughly 25 miles to the north-east


lies the Mull of Galloway on the south-west tip of Scotland. This is a view of McArt's Fort from the north

The Belfast Hills range over four local authority areas, namely Antrim, Newtownabbey, Belfast and Lisburn. Only Cave Hill and Collin Glen have public park status"This program was founded on certain ideals." "They have been drowned by the noise and distraction of fame." "We got lost, caught up in the hype, the celebrity, the glory... and the relentless pressure to keep the streak alive." "The sophomore goes back to set up the screen for Tucker." "Tucker got a block." "Tucker has space." " Tucker breaks a tackle." " What a move!" "Forty-five up the middle." "One man to beat." "Throwing one deep down the middle, going for Jones." "Touchdown De La Salle!" "Absolutely unbelievable." "The greatest high-school performance I've seen in 15 years." "De La Salle High has won three titles in a row." "Their 48th consecutive victory." "To the fans, it's quickly becoming known as "The Streak."" "Tonight, they break a 22-year-old


Australia and the UK are discussing plans for the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to be sent to the Pacific amid tensions over China’s militarisation in the South China Sea.

The Australian defence minister, Marise Payne, and the foreign minister, Julie Bishop, have discussed joint naval operations in the Pacific region with the UK defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, during their visit this week.

In an effort to highlight the defence ties, Williamson and Payne visited BAe Systems shipyards on the Clyde in Glasgow to inspect new Type 26 frigates of the kind Australia bought last month in a £20bn ($36bn) deal, and the UK nuclear submarine base at Faslane.

At a joint news conference in Edinburgh on Friday, which included the UK foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, Bishop said there hadused force several times, resulting in dozens of deaths and several sunken ships. Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to “resolutely defend” the region. During the past few years, Beijing has dredged sand on coral reefs to transform them into islands that it uses as military bases, fitted with missile launchers, runways, barracks and radar facilities. The US has grown increasingly alarmed by the military build up. Washington has become involved in the disputes, backing those that oppsoe China and conducting naval patrols. In 2016, an international tribunal in The Hague overwhelmingly backed the Philippines in its dispute against Chinese control of atolls near its shores. However, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has looked to China as an economic partner and has not pursued the issue.

Citing an increased threat


"Writing My Story" is an original Oil on Canvas by Alexander Astahov. The piece is hand signed and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Measures approximately 40" x 30".

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Russian artist Alexander Astahov is known for his colorful, surrealistic style and his signature butterfly, featured in each of his works. His series of magnificent interiors pays tribute to the masters, including Miro, Chagall and Van Gogh.

Astahov was born in Petropavlovsk, Russia in 1955. He studied at the High School of Arts in Oryol from 1972 till 1977 and later completed Post Graduate study and work at the Moscow Surikov High Art Institute. In 1982, Astahov began working as an art teacher at the Bryansk School of Painting, where he specializes in graphical15 Washington Co. recreation projects in line for state funds

April 25, 2012|By HEATHER KEELS | heather.keels@herald-mail.com

WASHINGTON COUNTY — New softball field lights at Martin L. Snook Memorial Park, resurfacing of Boonsboro High School’s track and a “wall of honor” for a memorial park in Hagerstown are among a list of 15 Washington County projects in line for Maryland Program Open Space funds.

The Washington County Board of Commissioners approved the list of projects Tuesday.

The county is anticipating $745,515.95 in open space funds for fiscal 2013, Parks and Facilities Director James L. Sterling said.

The county can apply for the funds from the state after July 1, and it takes three to six months for state approval, so most projects funded with the grants will begin in the spring or summer


Swing music began as a form of jazz developed in the early 1930s and became a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States. Big Band Swing uses a strong rhythm section of double bass and drums as the anchor for a lead section of brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones, woodwinds including saxophones and clarinets, and sometimes stringed instruments such as violin and guitar, medium to fast tempos, and a “lilting” swing time rhythm. Large ensemble Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing style of bandleaders such as Benny Goodman and Count Basie became the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1945.

The term “to swing” is praise for music with a strong rhythmicLes Rencontres Cinematografiques de Cerbère-Portbou, a film festival that this year marks its tenth edition, announced its winners on Sunday 5th October. The Chilean filmmaker Ignacio Agüero, one of the two guest filmmakers at the 2014 Punto de Vista International Seminar, has won two awards for his film El otro día: a special mention and an artist-in-residence position at the Hotel Bellvedere Le Rayon Vert de Cerbère, the venue for Les Rencontres, which the director must complete before the next edition of the festival, in October 2015. Greta Alfaro, a director from Navarre, who took part in the Punto de Vista Festival in 2013 as participant in the Proyecto X Films showcase, received another special mention for her short film In Ictu Oculi. Other awards were presented to


Être vivant, by Emmanuel Gras, nominated by the Cinemaginaire festival (who also won an artist-in-residence prize) and Iranien, by Mehran Tamadon, nominated by Cinema du Réel.

Les Rencontres Cinematografiques de Cerbère-Portbou, a film festival that this year marks its tenth edition, announced its winners on Sunday 5th October. The Chilean filmmaker Ignacio Agüero, one of the two guest filmmakers at the 2014 Punto de Vista International Seminar, has won two awards for his film El otro día: a special mention and an artist-in-residence position at the Hotel Bellvedere Le Rayon Vert de Cerbère, the venue for Les Rencontres, which the director must complete before the next edition of the festival, in October 2015. Greta Alfaro, a director from Navarre, who took part in the Punto de Vista Festival in2013 as participant in the Proyecto X Films showcase, received another special mention for her short film In Ictu Oculi. Other awards were presented to Être vivant, by Emmanuel Gras, nominated by the Cinemaginaire festival (who also won an artist-in-residence prize) and Iranien, by Mehran Tamadon, nominated by Cinema du Réel.

At this festival, prizes are awarded by the filmmakers themselves, with the makers of short films choosing the winner of the prize for the best feature film, and the makers of the feature films deciding who will receive the prize for the best short film. The special mention awards are chosen by the festival organisers, who this year decided to delegate this responsibility to the winner of the artisti-in-residence prize at the previous edtion of the festival.

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Cinematografiques de Cerbère-Portbou, which took place between 2nd and 5th October in the border towns of Cerbère and Portbou, based its programme, as it has done in previous editions, around the “Carte Blanche” showcase sections presented by other documentary film festivals. Every year, Patrick Viret, director of the Cerbère festival, invites the participating festivals to choose one short film and one feature film out of those nominated at its latest edition, and to present them to audiences at Les Rencontres together with the directors of the chosen films. The Punto de Vista Festival has taken part for the first time this year as one of the guest festivals, and presented two films shown at two of the events held this year in Pamplona: Ni Nüzü, by Myriam Aycaguer(shown as part of the “foco punto de vista” season last March), and El otro día, by Ignacio Agüero (presented in February at the 2014 Punto de Vista International Seminar).

The short film by Greta Alfaro was part of the “Carte Blanche” showcase selection reserved by Patrick Viret himself.

Punto de Vista has also established further links with this French festival, thanks to the creation of the “Rencontres cinematographiques de Cerbère” award , through which one of the filmmakers presenting a film at the Official Section of the 2015 Punto de Vista festival can also take up an artist-in-residence position in the French border town. The winner of this prize will be announced at the closing ceremony of the Punto de Vista festival on 15th February 2015.


power outages as other places in Vermont.

By Monday afternoon, the Vermont Electric Cooperative (VEC) said that just 260 VEC members were without power. Line crews had repaired more than 35,000 outages since the storm, said spokesman Liz Gamache.

You could call last week’s storm the gift that kept on giving. After the initial mess was cleaned up, utilities warned that the heavy snow could continue to bring down trees and branches, causing more outages. And that’s just what happened.

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The Post Office in Craftsbury Common has strange hours these days. Residents say they are inconvenient, but the USPS says decreasing hours is the only way to keep some of these offices open. Photos by David Dudley

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by David Dudley

In May of 2012 the United States PostalService (USPS) implemented the Post Plan, which was devised to curb mounting debt, and prevent thousands of offices, many of them rural post offices, such as those in Greensboro Bend, Craftsbury Common, and Albany, from being shut down altogether. The USPS estimated that the plan would be up and running by September of 2014.

For many rural offices in Orleans County, the Post Plan means decreased window hours, which is affecting local businesses that depend on the Postal Service for shipping. Also, many employees have seen their hours cut, and people who work full-time are having trouble getting to the post office while it’s open.

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Judy Bevans, former chairman of the Vermont Democratic Party, looks on while Representative Sam Young of Glover reads a resolution honoring Francis Whitcomb of Albany.


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by David Dudley

ALBANY — At 91 years of age, Francis Whitcomb has held any number of titles, formal and otherwise: Lister, moderator, planning commissioner, justice of the peace, chairman of the Orleans County Democratic Committee, teacher, principal, farmer, sugarmaker, singer, advisor, father, and husband, among many others.

Mr. Whitcomb tried to add state Representative to that list, but the title eluded him through seven campaigns.

Sitting at the head of the kitchen table in his old farmhouse in Albany Monday, Mr. Whitcomb had the air of a preacher. He’s tall and was dressed simply, as though he were going to spend the day in the garden, in the sugarhouse, or engaged in one of his favorite pastimes, walking.

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Tyler Young of Irasburg smacks the ball in the Cal Ripken League at the Lake Region Youth Baseball five-team tournament held at Roaring Brook Park in Barton on Sunday. The Irasburg Angels played the Brownington Indians in the co-ed league for eight- to ten-year-olds. Photo by Natalie Hormilla

Memorial Day ceremonies in downtown Island Pond Monday included a speech from Representative Vicki Strong of Albany. Two students from Brighton Elementary School, who won second place in a recent contest sponsored by the Vermont Historical Society, took turns reading the names of 42 Vermonters who were killed from


cameras set up in the fire station, led investigators to Mr. Joerg.

The game cameras were set up because of an earlier gasoline theft. Although they were damaged in the fire, the photos were eventually recovered and included several images of an individual inside the firehouse at the time of the fire.

When Albany Fire Chief Donald Peters looked at the pictures he told investigators he believed the man might, in fact, be one of his firefighters. He identified the man as Elmer “Jim” Joerg, Lieutenant James Cruise of the State Police Fire Investigation Unit says in his affidavit. Mr. Peters also had gone by the Joerg residence and noticed an ATV in the yard that matched the description of an ATV a neighbor saw leaving the scene of thefire, police say.

Last Tuesday Chief Peters scheduled a mandatory meeting for all fire department members, in part to regroup and familiarize themselves with their new equipment. Also, a State Police fire investigator individually questioned firefighters, both past and present, in the hope of shedding some light on the fire.

Mr. Joerg was the only Albany Fire Department member who did not attend the meeting. Investigators were told that Mr. Joerg had been taken to the hospital by ambulance the day before with an unknown illness and was in a coma.

Sergeant Jeremy Hill and Lieutenant Cruise went to Mr. Joerg’s home where Jacqueline Joerg said her husband was still in the hospital. She indicated that she did not know the nature of his illness, but it could have been an


overdose of some sort or a suicide attempt, she told police.

Mrs. Joerg told police her husband had been very upset that “someone could have started a fire at the station and destroyed all the equipment.”

Investigators found a number of Natural Light beer cans in a barrel on the Joergs’ porch and more on the ground in front of his car. Later they saw a Natural Light can on the side of the road on the Hitchcock Hill Road in Albany and took it as evidence, noting the “born on” date was the same as that on the cans at Mr. Joerg’s house.

On another trip between the Joerg house and the fire station they noticed a second Natural Light can, again with the same “born on” date as thosecardboard with that, and ultimately lit the cab of fire engine number one, he allegedly told police.

Mr. Joerg said he then fled the scene and later returned as an Albany firefighter.

Monica Grondin told State Police Fire Investigator Detective Sergeant David Sutton she saw someone inside the firehouse about 1:15 that morning. After leaving the building, he started his ATV and drove along the shoulder of Main Street past her home with the headlights off, she said.

In the course of the first interview with investigators, Mr. Joerg allegedly told them “he set the fire because he had a problem with fire and thinks about setting fires often, and has urges to set fires that he is usually able to control.

“He also advised that he is a danger because he


a terrorist threat was reduced to disorderly conduct.

In Rhode Island in the 1990s Mr. Joerg pled no contest to assault with a deadly weapon and breaking and entering.

If released from jail, Mr. Joerg is ordered by the court to have no contact with any member of the Albany Fire Department and to stay at last 300 feet away from the fire station.

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Rita and Paul Martin at their home on the Eden Road in Albany. The Lowell Mountain turbines dominate the view behind them, though the camera used in this photo was barely able to capture them. Photo by Chris Braithwaite

by Chris Braithwaite

ALBANY — Jim and Kathy Goodrich have a nice home with a porch along the entire west side that overlooks acres of neatly trimmed lawn and, aboutEditor’s Note: On February 21, Smollett turned himself into police after being charged with filing a false police report. He is accused of allegedly staging an attack in Chicago with the help of two other people.

President Donald Trump has not responded to an actor’s account that he was attacked by racist and homophobic masked men who referred to Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan during the assault. Top Republicans in Congress have been similarly silent about the incident.

Jussie Smollett, an actor, musician, and activist best known for his role in the television show Empire, told police he was attacked in Chicago by two masked men early Tuesday morning. Smollett, who is Black and gay and plays a queer character on Empire, told police in a followup interview later Tuesday that


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Bomb strikes tourist bus near Egypt's Giza Pyramids

Egyptian police killed 40 alleged "terrorists" in a crackdown on Saturday after a roadside bomb hit a tour bus claiming the lives of three Vietnamese holidaymakers and an Egyptian guide. The suspects were killed in separate raids in Giza governorate, home to Egypt's famed pyramids and the scene of Friday's deadly bombing, and in the restive Sinai Peninsula, the interior ministry said. Friday evening's roadside bombing hit a tour bus in the Al-Haram district near the Giza pyramids killing the three Vietnamese holidaymakers and their Egyptian guide, according to Egyptian officials. Eleven other tourists from Vietnam and an Egyptian bus driver were wounded, the public prosecutor's office said. RFI correspondent Alexandre Buccianti has the latest from Cairo.Impact on workers, services spreads as US shutdown enters second week

By Patrick Martin

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The partial shutdown of the US federal government entered its second week on Saturday, with thousands of workers receiving short paychecks December 28 and 800,000 set to receive no pay at all when the next paycheck is due on January 11, 2019.

Both the Trump White House and the Democratic leadership in Congress are completely indifferent to the consequences for federal employees and workers at myriad government subcontractors, as well as the public at large, as the impact of the shutdown is felt more widely following the Christmas holiday.

Wednesday, December 26, was the first regular work day after the shutdown began at 12:01 a.m. Saturday morning, December 22. Workers with weekend work schedules including that


any action, other than issuing statements supporting the Democratic Party in the ongoing confrontation over the federal budget and President Trump’s demand for $5 billion in funding for construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border.

National Treasury Employees Union President Tony Reardon told the Washington Post he was disappointed that Congress was not in session working on a budget resolution, noting that members have told the union they are returning Christmas presents and taking other emergency steps to pay their rent.

The nine federal departments include six that are virtually shut down—Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Transportation and Treasury—and three whose operations are largely unaffected because they are engaged in functions critical to the operations of American imperialism both at home and abroad—Homeland Security (DHS), the Departmentto an invocation, then ended the proceedings without any discussion or action. Similar pro forma sessions are set for Monday, December 31, after which both houses will adjourn for the year.

Congressional leaders of both parties and the White House all agreed that there would be no action to resolve the shutdown until after the new Congress is convened on January 3, with a newly elected Democratic majority in the House and a slightly expanded Republican majority in the Senate.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is expected be elected House speaker on January 3 and has pledged that the first action of the new Democratic majority will be passage of a continuing resolution along the lines of one approved by the Senate unanimously last week—but then blocked by Trump—which would


radio talk show hosts. He has since escalated the confrontation in an effort to mobilize his fascistic base through appeals to anti-immigrant racism.

The president pursued this track even on his overnight trip for a photo op appearance with US troops at Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq, where he denounced the Democratic Party in front of the soldiers, claiming that while the troops were defending “another country’s borders,” the Democrats were unwilling to defend the borders of the United States.

There was virtually no response from either the Democrats or the corporate media to this brazen attempt to politicize the military and use it as a club against Trump’s critics at home.

On Friday, Trump continued with this theme, threatening to close the US-Mexico border entirely if the DemocratsAugoeides

Augoeides is an obscure term meaning "luminous body" and thought to refer to the planets. Aleister Crowley considered the term to refer to the Holy Guardian Angel of Abramelin; the Atman of Hinduism; the Daemon of the ancient Greeks. Robert Lomas associates the term with the Higher Self or soul of the individual.

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It appears that Porphyry used it and Thomas Taylor commented on it. The term is encountered in the literature of Neo-Platonic theurgy and was popularized in the 19th and 20th centuries by the Theosophists, Freemasons, and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

To quote Thomas Taylor's comment on Porphyry:

We are afterwards sent through ample Elysium, and a few of us possess the joyful plains: till a long period, when the revolving orb of time has perfected


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New research has shown a dramatic increase in the number of long-term cannabis users being admitted to hospital.

The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre has found the number of Australians seeking treatment with cannabis-related problems has jumped 30 per cent since 2002, with the incease in the rate of harmful use mostly among those aged over 30.

Overall, the rate of cannabis use has been dropping. Around 9 per cent of Australians have smoked the drug in the past year, down from 11 per cent in 2004.

But researchers at the University of New South Wales found that people using the drug are using more, and more often.

The study has been published online in the health journal Addiction.

Amanda Roxburgh, senior researcher at the university's National Drug and Alcohol Centre, saysBlog for Business

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Common Core standards stir discussion, debate

A project to develop national standards for K-12 instruction was a topic of debate in Jefferson City this week.

The discussion centers on the Common Core state standards. The standards were created as part of a project by the National Governors Association in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers. The project was aimed at improving student achievement in response to studies showing that many high school graduates were not adequately prepared to enter college or the workforce.

The standards for math and English language studies were released in 2010 and were adopted in Missouri and 44 other states. Most Missouri school districts have implemented the Common Core.

The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry as well as the U.S.


How Suez Canal will continue to change Mediterranean Sea

The Suez Canal has changed the Mediterranean Sea from environmental and economic perspectives since its opening 150 years ago, and these changes are only expected to worsen in light of the expansion of the canal.

Since the opening of the Suez Canal, the renowned waterway connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, its environmental impact has been a matter of concern, with the arrival of nonindigenous species from other regions.

Since the official inauguration 150 years ago, the number of species that have arrived through the canal — known as Lessepsian or Erythrean species — is estimated to exceed 400, according to different studies. This is a substantial migration that some observers warn is causing the most significant biogeographic change currentlyErythrean species started as soon as the canal opened, only a few established in the Mediterranean back then. It has only been in the last decades that the process has skyrocketed, and the number of alien species in the Mediterranean — not only Lessepsian — more than doubled between 1970 and 2015, bringing a new sense of urgency.

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According to professor Bella Galil, member of the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University, this acceleration has been facilitated by a Mediterranean Sea that is now more welcoming for alien species in terms of temperature and salinity. But also because the possibilities to arrive are higher due to the successive enlargements of the Suez Canal since its inauguration and the increase


10 wins shy of matching the school record for wins by a freshman and three short of tying the school mark for pins by a freshman. He will face No. 11 Matt Snyder of Virginia on Friday. Fought has won his last four matches, seven of his last eight, and 16 of his last 18.

"This will be a big weekend for Darrius and Coltin, and they're both very excited about it," Jordan said. "I'm really happy to see Coltin finally get some love in the rankings. He's wrestled well enough to be ranked, especially for a true freshman. Darrius has really wrestled well after getting off to a tough start. He finished second at the Southern Scuffle and has shown great focus and determination."

The other ranked wrestlers competingan alternative lorry park to help ease the backlog - but they dismissed reports that service personnel were poised to play any significant role.

Potential locations under discussions included the disused Manston Airport, in Kent, and Ebbsfleet International train station in north Kent.

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M20 closed coast-bound from J8 to J11 for the Operation Stack freight queue

Eurotunnel says its passenger services are operating to schedule

Freight services on the UK side face a journey of about three hours to France, with a normal service on the French side

DFDS Seaways says services on its Dover-Calais route are operating within 30 minutes of schedule

P&O ferries said its services are operating to schedule between Dover and Calais.

Eurostar trains are currently running on time

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the Road Haulage Association, said Mr Cameron's proposals were "just sticking plasters" and the situation was "out of control".

UKIP leader Nigel Farage told BBC Radio Leeds freight could start moving again quickly if lorries were diverted to other ports, such as Ramsgate, and travelled via Belgium.

Former foreign secretary Jack Straw told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that the Schengen agreement - which allows border-free travel throughout Europe - was "only ever going to work in good times... You now see the price that Europe is paying".

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Lucy Williamson, BBC correspondent, in Calais

After dark, the nature of Calais' challenge becomes clear. Hundreds of migrants walking together along the highway that leads to the Tunnel site.

To get there they need to cross several fences andA Marinwood third-grader returned to class in good health today after she was struck by a arrow while on a field trip to Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science Tuesday.

The arrow pierced the leg of 8-year-old Nadine Hairston, a student at San Rafael's Mary E. Silveira Elementary School, around 10:10 a.m. while she was climbing on a sculpture of a whale outside the science center, located at 1 Centennial Drive on the University of California at Berkeley campus.

She was taken to a hospital where the arrow was surgically removed. She was released midday Wednesday, school principal Will Anderson said today.
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Julia Morgan (1872-1957), California’s first licensed woman architect has more than 700 buildings to her credit, designed and built over a professional career spanning over four decades . A fellow


Peter visited the Bay Area when his older daughter was a Science Fair contestant here, and we got to know the bride, Laura, his younger daughter, when she and a friend visited Berkeley one summer while they were students.

The wedding became the catalyst for a family reunion of sorts. Her father’s four surviving siblings (plus a sizable representation of spouses, offspring and grandkids) showed up in Tallahassee. The older ones I remembered fondly from childhood, before our families moved away from St. Louis, and I enjoyed getting to know the younger ones and their descendants better. I was pleased to discover that they’re very nice people, all of them, good politics, sense of humor, smart, the whole nine yards of how you might hope distant relatives would turnout to be.

The ceremony was low-key but elegant, in the family garden, with a buffet for about 100 guests in the house afterwards. In the best contemporary tradition, the officiant was a friend of the family and the service was eclectic, readings drawn from a variety of sources, music by an Irish wedding band.

Oh, and did I mention that this was a two-bride wedding? The second bride was the other young woman who’d visited us in Berkeley a few years ago with our cousin who had now become her partner.
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[I sent this letter in reply to the" East Bay Express" which they will not print.]

You can't make it up. The promoters of "smart growth", who claim to be the environmentalists, are now calling for the undoing of


Afghanistan. What made this incident unusual was that the world learned their names.

Two brothers, 11-year-old Toor Jan and 12-year-old Andul Wodood, were walking behind their donkeys and collecting firewood in the Shahid-e Hasas district of Uruzgan Province when they were killed by weapons fired from a NATO helicopter. NATO explained the children were targeted because they were mistaken for insurgents. NATO killed their animals, too — perhaps under the mistaken suspicion they were "insurgent" donkeys.

Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, offered his "personal apology and condolences to the family of the boys who were killed." Dunford said the coalition took "full responsibility" for the deaths. This appears to have been an empty promise.
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March 8th is a celebration for a worldwide Women’sand Chief of Integrative Medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, cautioned that while Juice Plus is being "aggressively promoted to cancer patients based on claims of antioxidant effects", the supplement should not be taken by patients because it can interfere with chemotherapy, nor should it be considered a substitute for fruit and vegetables.
 Juicing (or Juice Therapy) – the practice of consuming juice made from raw fruit and vegetables. This has been claimed to bring many benefits such as slowing aging or curing cancer; however, according to the American Cancer Society, "there is no convincing scientific evidence that extracted juices are healthier than whole foods".
 Kombucha – A kind of fermented tea claimed to cure a variety of human illnesses including AIDS and cancer, however, these purported uses are not


sickness. The therapy has also been promoted as a cure-all for a wide range of conditions, including cancer, for which there is no evidence of effectiveness.
 Insulin potentiation therapy – the practice of injecting insulin, usually alongside a low dose of conventional chemotherapy drugs, in the belief that this improves the overall effect of the treatment.  Although it may cause a temporary reduction in tumor size for some patients, there is no evidence that it improves survival time or any other main outcomes.
 Krebiozen (also known as Carcalon, creatine, substance X, or drug X) – a mineral oil-based liquid sold as an alternative cancer treatment. According to the American Cancer Society: "Available scientific evidence does not support claims that Krebiozen is effective in treating cancer or any other disease.conducted research and were "unable to demonstrate any suggestion of efficacy for this shark cartilage product in patients with advanced cancer".
 Sodium bicarbonate (or baking soda) – the chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3, sometimes promoted as cure for cancer by alternative medical practitioners such as Tullio Simoncini. According to the American Cancer Society: "evidence also does not support the idea that sodium bicarbonate works as a treatment for any form of cancer. There is substantial evidence, however, that these claims are false." Edzard Ernst has called the promotion of sodium bicarbonate as a cancer cure "one of the more sickening alternative cancer scams I have seen for a long time".
 Urine therapy (or urotherapy) – the practice of attempting to treat cancer – or other illnesses – by drinking, injecting or


Mitch McConnell interview

By Jennifer Rubin

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has often been caught in the political crossfire. Liberals have portrayed him as the Darth Vader of the Senate, out to destroy their agenda, devious and intractable. Rock-ribbed conservatives complain that he's been too "squishy." Some groused that he didn't keep the Senate in Washington through the Christmas vacation to argue (and ultimately lose) the cloture vote on ObamaCare. Others were mortified that he backed a more conventional Republican candidate over Rand Paul in the Kentucky Senate primary. But McConnell may have outfoxed them all. Next month, the GOP conference in the Senate will expand to 47, and McConnell told me yesterday in his Capitol Hill office that the timing is "perfect to do entitlement reform," a longtime objectiveof his.

McConnell says the debt commission was important, not because of today's vote or because of all the particulars of the plan, but because of the tone it set. He explains: "I'm pleased they chose to underscore the dimensions of the problem by making such controversial and far-reaching proposals." He is cautious about specifying which aspects of the plan, or of the Ryan-Rivlin entitlement proposal, he would support, saying only: "I hope at least something comes of it."

Although his wily use of Senate procedure and staunch opposition to tax hikes and other parts of the Obama agenda have made him the bogeyman of the left, McConnell sounds like a man ready to deal. His reasoning is grounded in history and in simple politics. He recalls that when George


W. Bush was in the White House, he "couldn't find a single Democrat" willing to sign on to Social Security reform. When one party controls all of government, the temptation is too great for the minority party to sit back and take potshots. However, divided government, McConnell argues, "is the perfect time to do difficult things." He envisions that the Republican House will be sending over a lot of bills attractive to Senate Republicans. "Maybe we can do some of them. Maybe the president will sign some of them."

The key, he is eager to point out, is that 23 Democratic Senate seats are up for re-election in 2012. He observes: "The currency of the realm in this town is the president's job approval. If that is below 50percent, his party tends to fracture." He smiles: "Rumors tell us that is what is going on today." And he notes that the Democrats convened five long meeting to "argue among themselves." The Democrats running for reelection, he surmises, "may be interested in responding to what the voters were telling us in the election." He likes the phrase "restraining order" to describe what 2010 voters were hoping to accomplish, namely to halt the president and Congressional Democrats' liberal agenda.

Is Obama going to move to the center? McConnell says if a sober advisor were to visit the president, he'd tell Obama that his approval is low, he has "horrible credentials on spending and debt" and "maybe now is the time to do a Clintonian back-flip" to avoid being a


Mohammed should "go into the category of lessons learned." "It is one thing to satisfy the ACLU in the middle of a campaign," he observes. But it is another to protect the American people as commander in chief. McConnell prefers to try terrorists at Guantanamo. "We have a $200-million courtroom. I've never seen a $200-million courtroom," he deadpans. He says, to him, it is "largely irrelevant" that "they don't like Guantanamo in Europe." He smiles as he notes that the Obama administration on the war on terrorism, Iraq and Afghanistan "is edging right into where the previous administration was."

The reality of the 2012 presidential campaign schedule suggests that candidates will jump into the race sometime early next year. But McConnell doesn't buy the idea that this means businessFirefighter laid to rest in service steeped in tradition

On a perfect spring day in Baltimore County, surrounded by hundreds of his brother and sister firefighters and mourned in prayers thousands of years old, a hero was laid to rest Sunday.

Gene M. Kirchner, the 25-year-old Reisterstown volunteer firefighter who died Thursday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center of injuries suffered when he tried in vain to rescue a man trapped in a burning home, was buried in front of the Fallen Heroes Memorial at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens after funeral services at Har Sinai Congregation in Owings Mills.

Firefighters from as far away as North Carolina and New York crowded the synagogue, lined the procession route and saluted the casket at graveside before their comrade was buried.

They came to say farewell


to a young man whose sister remembered him as a "fun uncle," whose friends remembered him as the kid who always wore green so he could be distinguished from his twin brother and whose chief simply called him a hero.

"There is no greater love than when someone lays down their life for a friend," Chief Robert Murray Sr. of the Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Company told mourners in the packed synagogue, where uniformed firefighters filled about half of the roughly 1,000 seats.

Rabbi Benjamin Sharff, who conducted the service, described Kirchner in a single Yiddish word: mensch. Sharff defined the term as "a good guy, a person who does right by others."

Kirchner was one of the firefighters who responded April 24 to a house fire on Hanover Road. A volunteersince he reached adulthood, he apparently rushed to the second floor in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue an occupant trapped inside — later identified as resident Steven Starr, 58.

When a county response team arrived, they found Kirchner unconscious. He was taken to Northwest Hospital Center in critical condition, and later transferred to Shock Trauma. A little more than a week later, he died of his injuries.

Kirchner received a sendoff Sunday that was grounded in the traditions of the firefighting service.

Michael Robinson, division chief of the Baltimore County Fire Department, said each of the paid professional and volunteer firefighters had turned out dressed in their Class A uniforms — only worn on ceremonial occasions. Each firefighter's badge was taped over in black as a sign of respect, he said.

Robinson


said Kirchner was involved in the company's junior firefighter program for children ages 14-16, which included two of the chief's children.

"My kids really liked the guy. He took an interest in them," Robinson said. "He was in a family that's steeped in tradition related to the fire service."

After KIrchner was posthumously awarded the department's Medal of Honor by County Executive Kevin Kamenetz and fire Chief John J. Hohman, sister Shelly Brezicki spoke for the family. A volunteer firefighter herself, Brezicki told firefighters and civilians that "Green Gene" was the family peacemaker and a young man who could always be counted on to take his mother to bingo.

"Rest in peace, my little brother," she said from behind the flag-draped casket.

When the service ended, the coffin was wheeled out ofHar Sinai as dozens of bagpipers in full regalia played the Irish patriotic tune "The Minstrel Boy." In keeping with tradition, the casket was loaded onto a firetruck to begin the procession to the cemetery.

Along the route, which led down Greenspring Avenue and cross-county on Padonia Road, fire trucks and other vehicles parked at roadside at various spots, bearing the logos of departments from all over Maryland — and some from out of state.

Uniformed firefighters from Arbutus, Grasonville, Berwyn Heights and dozens of other communities stood at attention by their vehicles and saluted as the procession passed. Local residents stood by the road and waved American flags. Kirchner's co-workers from the Butler Transport Service, an ambulance company where he worked as an emergency medical technician, lined up to


say goodbye in their bright red shirts.

At the graveside services under a bight blue sky, a broadcast came over the fire radio announcing that Kirchner had completed his last watch on May 2 — the day he died. Five bells were rung three times as a signal that a firefighter had died in the line of duty — a tradition that dates to the days before radio, Robinson said.

As "Taps" was played, the guard of honor folded the flag that had covered the coffin and gave it to Hohman, who presented it to Kirchner's mother, Paulette Ohana, who caressed it. Kirchner's helmet, traditionally given to the family after a firefighter's death in the line of duty, was presented to his twin brother, Will, a fellow firefighter who worethe dress uniform of the Reisterstown company.

As Kirchner's casket was slowly lowered into the ground, his mother — sitting between Brezicki and her sister, April Lichtenberg — broke down in tears. But she composed herself as the rabbi recited the ancient prayer known as the Mourner's Kaddish and was the first of the family to carry out the Jewish tradition of pouring a small bit of soil onto the coffin.

"It's a great mitzvah we do because the dead cannot perform it for themselves," Sharff said.

After the funeral, Kirchner's cousin Oshrat Ohana of Rockville said the services had been "very touching."

"It was really nice to see a merging of the firefighters and the Jewish tradition together," she said. "It really sums Gene up."

A 31-year-old man who was sentenced to


Lilah Freedman, a young woman involved in the civil rights movements in the small North Carolina town of New Hope in 1966, was brutally murdered one night after a protest at the local university. The white man originally accused of her murder was never convicted and a great deal of mystery and racial tension has surrounded this cold case ever since. Now, in 1991, a State attorney thinks he has enough evidence for a surprising new indictment, throwing the small town into an uproar once again. Pete Johnson and Luke Stanley, two attorneys sharing a past with each other, Lilah Freedman, and New Hope, return seeking closure and redemption in their own lives. Pete, having watched an unfairly convicted client of his go to his death, is disillusionedindication that such conduct was a proximate cause of the adverse jury verdict.
The claim with respect to negligence in investigation concerns the failure to interview a young boy who, the taxi driver said in his statement, ran across the street from the southwest to the northeast corner of the intersection where the accident took place as the cab approached the stop sign at the southwest corner. The driver asserted he stopped not only for the stop sign but also because of the presence of the boy. Nothing further appears in the record to indicate that the boy saw the taxicab (which would be approaching from the rear as he was running) or knew whether it stopped, or that he had any information which would throw light on the


duty of an insurer to accept a proffered settlement which is within the available coverage has been expressed by courts throughout the country in two forms. One group espouses the rule that the carrier must act in good faith in considering offers to compromise. The other group has adopted the negligence test, that is, the carrier is liable for the excess judgment if it fails to settle when a reasonable man with unlimited exposure in the exercise of due care would have settled. Appleman, whose exhaustive work on insurance was published in 1942, says that the former was the old majority rule but that it is "tending to become the minority rule, being displaced by the rule of negligence." 8 Appleman, Insurance Law and Practice (1942), § 4712,pass through the intersection. After doing so, he proceeded to cross and when two-thirds of the way over, his cab was struck a heavy blow on the left side center and toward the rear by the front of Mrs. Myers' car, which he said she was driving at an excessive rate of speed in a northerly direction on Campbell Street. The impact was severe enough to spin the cab around, after which the Myers car went up over the southeast curb and struck the porch of a hotel located there, causing a portion of the porch to collapse. Police photographs of the cab showed extensive damage in its center and to both doors and the frame. Even the top was buckled in the direction from which the blow


came. The entire front and side of the cab back to the first door were unmarked from the collision. The nature of the damage furnished strong corroboration of the cab driver's assertion of Mrs. Myers' excessive speed.
*307 Shortly after the mishap, Mrs. Myers gave a signed statement to the insurer's investigator to the effect that she had not seen the taxicab until the collision was unavoidable. A passenger in her car who had been sitting in the right front seat signed a similar statement.
On the statements of these persons, the photographs and the inferences from the physical facts attending the mishap, plainly the carrier was justified in concluding that Mrs. Myers' claim of freedom from sole or contributory negligence was not a very credible one. But the defendant'sthe witness' statement and was aware of its contents when discussing the proposed settlement with the claims manager. Moreover, the witness had said that at the time of the accident he was sitting at an overhead railroad station waiting for his mother to come in on a train. The physical situation was such (according to the photographs) that one looking toward the railroad tracks would be looking away from the intersection  although the witness said the position he occupied directed his gaze toward the accident scene. In any event, the photographs also show the station platform to be a substantial distance away, that a large brick building is built right up to the sidewalk at the intersection and that its corner is about on a line with


the stop sign allegedly passed by the cab driver. It was undisputed that the witness did not *308 see the cars actually collide. And although familiar with his assertions, defense counsel testified that under all the circumstances of the case he felt, in terms of probability, a jury verdict for the defendant would result from the trial. It seems likely that the insured was not concerned about the outcome either from the standpoint of liability or excess verdict. The attention of the president of the insured was called by the carrier to the fact that the ad damnum clause of the complaint exceeded his policy coverage and that he was at liberty to engage his own attorney to cooperate with carrier's counsel. He declined the offer. Further, heto be paid depends upon two factors, responsibility for the accident and extent of the injuries and out of pocket losses. And when the settlement demand of $3,600 was submitted, the claims manager and the trial attorney had before them the results of defendant's investigation. The file revealed that after the collision Mrs. Myers was taken to the hospital. According to the history, there was no unconsciousness after the impact. On admission, she complained of pain in the left chest. X-rays revealed a simple transverse fracture of the left seventh rib with the fragments in good alignment and apposition. A hematoma (black and blue bruising) of the left elbow was also diagnosed.
An examination was made by defendant's physician about two months after the accident. The doctor said that


such simple fractures of the ribs usually heal in from four to six weeks. His findings showed a normal rib contour and no evidence of any injury at that time. Mrs. Myers complained of pain in the chest but the complaints were of such character as to convince him that they were not credible. And in her sworn answers to interrogatories in the damage suit, she said that she had "actually" recovered from the chest and rib condition. She said also in another answer: "I seem to have recovered as to injured chest and rib." On the occasion of the medical examination, she "pointed out the prominence of the left forearm below the elbow over *310 the tracheoradialis muscle as having been injured." There was not objective signof any injury present, however, and there was a completely normal range of motion in the left arm and shoulder. Moveover, there was normal pronation and supination of the forearm at the elbow and normal flexion and extension of the forearm at the elbow without complaint. But she complained of pain on the lightest pressure on the forearm and also when the doctor attempted to place her left hand and arm behind her back. Mrs. Myers is a practical nurse with hospital experience and on the basis of the doctor's study of her, he felt that she was definitely exaggerating her complaints. In this connection, she told him that no treatment had been given to the arm up to that time and it may be noted that no


such treatment is shown on the hospital record. She said, however, that she had been massaging it. In answering the interrogatories on this subject, she asserted "injury under left shoulder and arm probably permanent." At the trial of the damage action, no doctor spoke of a shoulder injury and no such condition appeared in the hospital records. Moreover, at that trial, her doctor diagnosed her ailment as "epicondylitis of the left upper extremity," commonly called "tennis elbow." But her complaint to defendant's examining physician was of the forearm below the elbow. And there was no mention of epicondylitis in the answers to interrogatories. At the trial also her orthopedic witness conceded there was no swelling about the left arm or shoulder and all motions of the arm andevidence and discloses that the injured party presented not only her own testimony but also that of her passenger, her treating physicians and the sole disinterested witness who testified that he did not see any boy run in front of the taxicab and that the assured's driver had come out of the stop street without stopping at all. The injured party testified fully as to the accident and her resulting injuries and as to her medical expenses, car damages and loss of earnings which apparently aggregated almost $2,500; she also testified that the statement which she gave to the insurance company was obtained by its investigator while she was under heavy sedation in a hospital bed and while she lacked her reading glasses. The insurance company did not


offer its investigator as a witness; indeed its only witnesses were the assured's driver who was a highly interested defendant in the proceeding and its doctor who was hardly in any position to controvert the testimony by the injured party's treating physicians as to the permanency of her elbow injury because, as he testified, he never made any diagnosis of the elbow injury. A jury could undoubtedly find from the trial transcript that the testimony weighed heavily in favor of the injured party on both issues of liability and damages; in this connection it is interesting to note that when Judge Hughes refused to interfere with the jury's verdict of $13,500 against the assured and its driver, he expressed the view that "there was a lopsided case herePriority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, AustraliaDept of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Hunter New England Area Health Service, Newcastle, Australia


Defendants, should be considered.
The portions of the complaint relevant to the pending motion are as follows:
10. Plaintiff filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). On January 26th, 2009, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a Notice of Right to Sue with regard to Plaintiff's claims. Less than 90 days have elapsed since the Plaintiff's receipt of her Notice of Right to Sue, and her subsequent filing of the original complaint in this matter.
11. Plaintiff is an individual woman who was at all times relevant herein an employee of defendant MONROE COUNTY, and a resident of the County of Monroe, State of New York....
14. Plaintiff has been employed by the defendant since February 1998 as a "Deputy Sheriff Jailor."
15. Plaintiff maintained a stellar workrecord during her entire tenure.
16. In or about December 27, 2007, Plaintiff was subject to graphic live sex in the workplace when a female visitor masturbated in front of a male inmate in violation of well established jail policies.
17. Plaintiff was compelled to watch as there was no supervisor present and was told by male co-workers to "just sit there."
18. While Plaintiff "sat there," she was subject to lewd comments by her co-workers who stated, inter alia, "wow, she must have her whole fist up there" and "wonder if she has any female hygiene problems."
19. That Plaintiff's co-workers failed to follow the chain of command in response to Plaintiff's requests to contact a supervisor.
20. The entire incident was preserved by video tape, and by filing her charge of


discrimination with the EEOC, Plaintiff duly requested that the video tape be preserved.
21. Plaintiff engaged in protected activity on January 14, 2008 when she complained to management about the events of December 27, 2007, and her co-worker's comments, which she believed in good faith constituted a hostile work environment.
22. Management failed to take any remedial action with regard to Plaintiff's good faith complaints.
23. The Plaintiff went on a compensable Worker's Compensation injury (major depression, anxiety disorder and NOS) which the Board[2] determined was *179 the result of Plaintiff's exposure to a hostile environment.
24. Thereafter, Plaintiff was subject to a continuous pattern of retaliation, including denial of work related leave ("Z time"), and has been compelled to return to work under the threat of discipline, despite her condition.
(Compl. ¶¶had a visit scheduled on the other side. Brown's visitor continued her actions throughout the visit and then I heard come from around the corner, "She's really going to town" "She better be careful she's going to bruise that thing" She's got damn near her whole fist in there" "Maybe she has a feminine hygiene problem?" A comment was directed at me "Why don't you go take a walk to the ODR." But to me, I'm in my assigned area, why should I have to leave? I heard Deputy Stirpe call via radio for Deputy Heh (working in property) and tell him there was property in visits waiting for him. Deputy Heh came into observation briefly then left. I continued to sit at the table, I said to


in a protected activity: reporting an incident of hostile work environment to her employer. Thus, as Defendants concede (Def.'s Mem. of Law, at 14), she had sufficiently plead facts to meet the first two requirements of a claim for retaliation. However, the parties disagree on whether the complaint meets the third and fourth requirements.
With regard to an adverse action, Plaintiff alleges that after January 14, 2008, when she left work as the result of what she alleges was a compensable injury, she states: "Plaintiff was subject to a continuous pattern of retaliation, including denial of work related leave ("Z time"), and has been compelled to return to work under the threat of discipline, despite her condition. (Dkt. No. ¶¶ 24[8])." (Pl.'s Mem. of Law, at 6.) As theRon Schwane/Associated Press

Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James called Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard an NBA superstar ahead of the teams' meeting Thursday night at the Moda Center.

Erik Garcia Gundersen of LeBron Wire passed along King James' response when asked about Lillard, who earned his third All-Star Game selection this season.

"He's a superstar in our league," James said.

Lillard is consistently one of the NBA's most productive players, but he rarely receives the type of attention given to the likes of LeBron, reigning MVP Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Houston Rockets' James Harden or the Golden State Warriors duo of Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant.

The 27-year-old Weber State product has also been passed in terms of outside hype by rising stars such as New Orleans Pelicans


call haplogroups) showed up in people living today.

The oldest branches, it turned out, were found mostly in indigenous Khoisan people living south of the modern Zambezi River, in what's now called the Kalahari region. Two hundred thousand years ago, paleoclimate records suggest that the area was a lush wetland mostly surrounded by less-inviting arid brushland. We now call this region Makgadikgadi. People whose mtDNA belonged to the haplogroups that branched out 130,000 years ago mostly came from northeast of that region, and people with mtDNA from the 110,000-year-old haplogroups mostly came from southwest of the Zambezi basin, along the western coast of South Africa.

Chan and her colleagues suggest that changing climates opened corridors of rainfall and vegetation that enabled people to start migrating out of the Zambezi "homeland"around 130,000 years ago.

There are some bones of contention

That's a clear, simple story, and simple explanations always hold a certain appeal. But this story ignores mountains of fossil, archaeological, and genetic evidence that Homo sapiens has been around much longer than 200,000 years and didn't actually originate in a single region of southern Africa. (Oops.)

"Although it's been touted as interdisciplinary, [the paper] ignores the swathe of fossil and archaeological evidence that supports an older origin for our species," paleoanthropologist Eleanor Scerri, of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, told Ars.

The earliest fossil from a member of our species may be about 300,000 years old, and it comes from a site called Jebel Irhoud in Morocco. That lines up well with genetic evidence, which suggests


anywhere. Different groups of early humans, scattered around the continent of Africa, had different combinations of "modern human" features. But, in all likelihood, nobody had the full set of physical traits that we think of as defining modern humans until between 100,000 and 40,000 years ago.

Based on genetic and fossil evidence, it seems most likely that that combination of traits took shape gradually, as diverse groups of early humans scattered around Africa interacted with each other over a few hundred thousand years. "Is there even any point in attempting to identify a specific locale of origin given that this is unlikely to tell the whole story?" asked archaeologist Patrick Roberts of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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A modern design horizontally divided purple blue and grey, along the hoist in a ratio approximately 1:1:6, along the fly 6:1:1. Centered adjacent to the hoist a large white wagon wheel with a gold bell in it, the area between the 8 spokes of the wheel colored blue in the fly half and the uppermost gap in hoist half; the other three gaps grey.


Parts of the 39,000 square mile series of cattle stations, he said, were in the Woomera prohibited area – a 47,000 square mile defence site in the state of South Australia which marks the largest testing range in the world. It was famously used for secret British nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s and remained dangerously contaminated for decades.37 Members of the Youth Leadership Institute and Partners inEducation swarmedover Daffodil Valley as they sorted trash into piles in March1999. Nearly all of the trashwas removed from the property, thanks to our volunteers.

The Daffodils have returned.

37 members of the Youth Leadership Institute and Partners In Education spent an afternoon cleaning up Daffodil Valley in the spring of 1999.

Ironically, we found three recycling bins among the illegally dumped trash.

It was one of the nicer thank yous we've ever received. In the Spring of 1999, just as the restoration of Daffodil Valley was getting underway, we noticed that they were back. One of our neighbors told us about the flowers, and how the hillside was once covered with daffodils in the spring. When the Illinois Raptor Center moved to


SINGAPORE - A group of students who were told that they would not get their O-level result slips as they had not paid a penalty for missing a school event will get their results after all.

The Whitley Secondary School students had missed their school's formal dinner night last November and were later asked to pay a $60 penalty for non-attendance, affected students told The Straits Times.

When they did not pay up, the school in Bishan threatened to withhold their result slips when results are released on Friday (Jan 12), they added.

But the school's principal Tay Yang Fern said on Thursday (Jan 11) the result slips of students who did not attend the event "will not be withheld when the results are released".

She also clarified that the dinner atHoliday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre - which students saw as a prom - was actually a formal dinner for students to practise newly acquired skills.

It was part of a development programme for the graduating students, which comprised a course on grooming and etiquette skills for the Secondary 4 cohort and interview and etiquette skills for the Secondary 5 students.

"The school acknowledged that some of the Secondary 5 students perceived that they had not been given the option of not attending the dinner, even though others had opted out in advance and hence did not have to pay for the dinner," Mrs Tay said.

"The school will engage these students and their parents for an amicable arrangement and necessary assistance will be extended in cases of financial hardship."

The Straits


Hagee who is the Pastor who left his wife and two small children and and married a women in his congregation on top of all that has no problem with Supporting solely the Jews to Live in Israel and Palestine.. He did this while was preaching to others that “Christians don’t steal or lie, they don’t get divorced or have abortions.” John Hagee was once the leader of the charismatic Trinity Church in 1975 and was the father of two children. John Hagee had an adulterous affair with a woman and admitted to immorality in front of his church. Pastor John Hagee then divorced the mother of his two children and married a younger woman (Diana Castro, now Diana Hagee) from that same congregation. Pastor John Hagee abusedhis position of trust and power to take to cheat on his wife. John Hagee married the woman he cheated on his wife with and immediately became the pastor of another congregation- the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio Texas. Rev John Hagee was kicked out as a minister with the Assembly of God organization for his admitted adultery. Needless to say his false supporters can find their own false justifications for this..

The same John Hagee who had said “All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.” But do first note that Jesus Christ who is God had himself had


gets now in return for his heretical ministry a $2.1 million dollar 7,969 acre ranch with not one, but FIVE lodges, a managers house, a gun locker, a smoke house, a skeet range and three barns. In the year 2001, John Hagee received $842,000 in salary and $414,485 in benefits making him one of the best paid Pastor. He certainly is trying to get all the rewards on earth very much unlike Jesus Christ and the Apostles too.

There is still no New Testament substantiation, or predict diction, prophecy that Israel would have their promised land returned after the Jews being evicted by the Romans from Israel. in the whole new Testament.. yet Rev Pat Robertson was telling John Kerry that pursuing peace strategies in the Middle East isJony Ive's much-hyped Christmas tree is underwhelming.

Apple's (AAPL) chief design officer -- the creative genius behind some of the company's most successful products, including the iPod and iPhone -- was tasked with designing a Christmas tree for the prestigious Claridge's hotel lobby in London.

Known for simplicity, Ive took a similar approach with the tree. In fact, it doesn't have any decorations. It's just... a tree.

While the tree is traditionally the hotel's main attraction -- after all, last year's creation by Christopher Bailey for Burberry included over 100 umbrellas and thousands of lights -- this year's inspiration comes from the environment around it.

Light boxes project large black and white photos of snowy birch trees in the lobby. Other smaller unlit trees accompany the immersive installation that's meant to make


Last August, French professional female fighter Souris Manfredi made her debut in the world of Burmese martial art lethwei. Since then, there’s no turning back as she fell in love with the sport.

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She was the lone female fight at WLC: King of Nine Limbs, the biggest lethwei event in history that also featured lethwei king Dave Leduc and UFC veteran Seth Baczynski. Her opponent was Cambodia’s Eh Yanut, and the stage was set for Manfredi’s biggest fight of her career.

Manfredi came out like a house on fire, unloading her full arsenal of strikes. In the second and third rounds, the fight became one that was fought in closer proximity, especially in the clinch. Manfredi proved she was the stronger combatant, pushing her opponent around the ring. She evenwere in a scrum and they were fighting for the ball, a jump ball. I had a view that it looked like he lost his balance but (Kogut) had a better view and then they looked at it. They looked at it so you would hope they made the right call.”

Thomas wasn't immediately available for comment.

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Just last month, Thomas received a two-game suspension after walking into the stands in Philadelphia to confront two fans who were heckling him.

On Friday night, without Thomas and star Bradley Beal, the Wizards lost to Portland, 122-103.

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first four sections of Quine's paper concern analyticity, the last two concern a priority. Putnam considers the argument in the two last sections as independent of the first four, and at the same time as Putnam criticizes Quine, he also emphasizes his historical importance as the first top rank philosopher to both reject the notion of apriority and sketch a methodology without it.[3]

Jerrold Katz, a onetime associate of Noam Chomsky's, countered the arguments of Two Dogmas directly by trying to define analyticity non-circularly on the syntactical features of sentences.[4][5][6]

In his book Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1 : The Dawn of AnalysisScott Soames (pp 360–361) has pointed out that Quine's circularity argument needs two of the logical positivists' central theses to be effective:

It is only whendog came into a classroom on the second floor, looked around and left.

1:47 p.m. Friday, May 27, 2016

Parent Maurice Page is awaiting more information at the school. His 15-year-old daughter Angie Page has texted him from inside the school saying that she's scared and doesn't know what's going on.

"I understand why communication is down, but as a parent it's just hell waiting here," he said.

2:30 p.m. Friday, May, 27, 2016

As of about 2:30 p.m. parents were being allowed on the grounds. Police believe Huron High School is dismissing classes for the rest of the day, but school officials have not officially confirmed that students will be released from the school at this point.

4:21 p.m. Friday, May 27, 2016

Huron High School Principal Janet Schwamb emailed Huron families with an


update on the incident. She said the students were never in any danger and noted all afternoon activities at the school had been cancelled.

"The Board of Education and Superintendent, Dr. Jeanice Swift, want to thank the multiple law enforcement first responders who ensured that Huron High School was safe and secure for all of our student, faculty, staff, and administration," Schwamb wrote.

She also thanked the teachers for their support through the day.

It's all clear at Huron High School following a lock-down today RE a suspicious person. Police are still there, but again: All clear. — A2 Public Schools (@A2schools) May 27, 2016

Huron really in lockdown — G-rizzle (@richbabby_) May 27, 2016

So apparently Huron is on lockdown... Wtf😑 — вαвуgιяℓ❁ (@ciaaaaarrrraaaa) May 27, 2016

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Former American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler has turned her 15 minutes of fame into a thriving career. Her hotly anticipated debut album, Small Town Girl, was released on October 31, 2006. She followed that up with 2008's Kellie Pickler, and she's currently on the road opening for Taylor Swift.


In 1897, in retaliation for the ambush of an ill-advised British diplomatic mission to the Kingdom of Benin in Nigeria, Britain attacked the capital. During the subsequent conquest, which marked the end of the Old Kingdom, thousands of sculptures were confiscated as “barbaric” and sent to Europe. The Menil’s tusk was among over 130 similar full-length carved ivories that were seized at that time. Few records were kept to describe the source of any of the artworks that were removed from Benin, but certain facts can be assumed about this tusk based on Benin’s customs, oral history, and the motifs carved upon its surface. It was apparently part of a memorial shrine established in the late eighteenth century by an extremely wealthy ezomo, the highest-ranking hereditary war captainAnother essential motif, used only by successive ezomos, appears twice at the bottom of the tusk. This figure has the curved legs usually reserved for royal heraldic emblems, but it has no crown and no royal bead appears at the center of his chest. Issuing from the side of his head, a serpent descends to grasp a bird. This unique motif, which would be “ungrammatical” on a royal tusk, indicates the ambiguous semi-royal status held by the successive holders of the ezomo’s title.

Another motif that is unique to tusks commissioned by an ezomo is a strange human-elephant apparition that appears on the left side, in the second row from the bottom, next to the image of a woman who holds up a rectangular mirror-charm. This elephant motif is


Vatican has warned of threats of "unprecedented gravity" to the Catholic Church in the United States, in the latest such censure in the lead-up to the US presidential elections.

"Concerted efforts are being made to redefine and restrict the exercise of the right to religious freedom," Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone said in a new charge seen by observers as targeting the Obama administration for allegedly denying Catholics the right to conscientious objection.

Pope Benedict XVI has told American bishops repeatedly over the last eight months that the compulsory provision for contraception in employees' health insurance included in President Barack Obama's health-care plan threatens religious freedom.

Cardinal Bertone's warning came in a message to the US-based Knights of Columbus, in an apparent bid to get the world's largest Catholic fraternal groupright to religious freedom, the Knights of Columbus have worked tirelessly to help the Catholic community recognize and respond to the unprecedented gravity of these new threats to the Church’s liberty and public moral witness. By defending the right of all religious believers, as individual citizens and in their institutions, to work responsibly in shaping a democratic society inspired by their deepest beliefs, values and aspirations, your Order has proudly lived up to the high religious and patriotic principles which inspired its founding.

Here is the journalistic question. The headline and the story on which it is based separate the first sentence in this passage from the second. Yes, the Church's liberty is being threatened, but only because these rights are shared in common with "all religious believers" in


After 51 years, the remains of Army 1st Lt. Alan Jensen Bardach have been brought back home.

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - After 51 years, the remains of Army 1st Lt. Alan Jensen Bardach have been brought back home.

The Indiana National Guard received the body of the Indianapolis man on Thursday.

Bardach was reported missing in a helicopter crash near Dong Ha on Jan. 8, 1968, five weeks after he began service in Vietnam.

He was officially listed as dead on June 8, 1968.

“When there are no remains, you have a natural curiosity after all this time whether or not this could be true,” said Bardach’s younger brother Neil.

The surviving family waited on the tarmac at Indianapolis International Airport as Bardach’s flag-draped casket was removed from the plane.

People at the airport waited atof the influences on and results of this sea change."

Check out eWEEK.com's for the latest news, reviews and analysis in programming environments and developer tools.

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to said goods since June 10, 1932.

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The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (127 USPQ 544) dismissed the opposition.

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Opposer took no testimony. By stipulation, the testimony for applicant was provided by affidavit. The affidavit of Lester Pincus, president of applicant-corporation, states that applicant has used its mark "SOCIETY DEBS" in commerce for shoes since 1950 and that shoes bearing the mark have been advertised in a trade journal, displayed at shoe manufacturer's trade fairs, and sold in "the largest retail department stores in the United States." Two exhibits attached to the affidavit are copies of advertisements for "SOCIETY DEBS" women's shoes.

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There is no dispute as to opposer's prior use or that the goods of the parties are the same. The issue here must, therefore, be resolved by a considerationto these definitions as to the meaning of the two words is of far less significance, we think, than is the fact that the words are commonly used words which create different impressions on the mind of the average purchaser.

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Opposer's mark "STYLISH DEBS", considered as a whole, attempts to associate opposer's goods with the mental impression of a stylish or fashionable young lady.3 This association, particularly in the clothing and shoe industry, is of limited distinctiveness as an indicator of source or origin of any one manufacturer. Such a mark may become a distinctive indicator of source or origin when so used. However, opposer's record here, except for its registration, contains nothing to indicate that the mark "STYLISH DEBS" has any distinctiveness other than that which attaches specifically


way of a suitable connecting system, and the actuating lever is pivotable about a pivot point in a first direction and also in a second direction which is perpendicular thereto, for producing the respective adjustment movements. Such a seat is to be found for example in EU patent application No. 0 022 933.
In that seat, pivotal movement of the actuating lever in the first direction makes it possible to adjust the angle of inclination of the seat portion of the seat or, by returning the lever by way of the starting position thereof, the angle of inclination of the backrest portion. Pivoting the actuating lever in the second direction provides for joint pivotal movement of the seat portion and the backrest portion to adjust the angles of inclinationSponsored Content

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Jonas Bonér is a programmer, speaker, writer, Java Champion and entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CTO of Typesafe, and starter of the Akka project and AspectWerkz AOP runtime (AspectJ).
Francesco Cesarini is the founder and Technical Director of Erlang Solutions. He is co-author of Practical Erlang Programming, a book published by O’Reilly and still finds time to teach at Oxford University.

Code Mesh London is an annual conference dedicated to non-mainstream languages and technologies. In 2013 it featured over 50 talks from experts in languages, libraries, operating systems and technologies that handle the programming and business challenges of today. Languages discussed include Haskell, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Rust, Go and Julia.


Louisa Gouliamaki, AFP | Piles of life jackets left by refugees who arrived to the island of Lesbos lie at a dump on March 15, 2017 almost a year after an EU-Turkey deal

Signed a year ago to halt the influx of migrants into Europe, a EU-Turkey deal now appears on shaky ground as Turkish ministers threaten to scrap it following diplomatic tensions between Germany and Turkey.

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Since Ankara and Brussels forged the controversial migrant deal in March 2016, many have hailed it a success for substantially lessening the flow of migrants, drastically reducing the number of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea and bringing European borders back under control.

Turkey took on the role of the EU’s migrant gatekeeper after it agreed to control the mass influx ofA Pakistani woman came forward accusing her husband of beating her and shaving her head after she refused to dance for him and his friends.

Asma Aziz, of Lahore, posted a video on social media on Tuesday, March 26 showing her visibly bruised face and shaved head. In the video she explained what her husband Mian Faisal allegedly did to her.

"He took my clothes off in front of his servants. The servants held me as he shaved my hair off and burned it. My clothes were bloody. I was bound by a pipe and hung from the fan. He threatened to hang me naked," she said, according to the BBC.

INDIA AND PAKISTAN'S FIGHT OVER KASHMIR: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE AND INSURGENCY

Aziz said she went to the police “to file


The archive stores a multitude of state documents, manuscripts and other items dating all the way back to the 11th century.

The Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents in Moscow is the country’s primary repository of manuscripts and records dating back to the Middle Ages and beyond, but the story of the archive itself is not short of interest.

The Saeco coffeemaker appears out of place in Yevgeniya Lykova’s office. Centuries-old manuscripts are scattered around chaotically, a vintage typewriter rests on a shabby cupboard. The coffeemaker is one of the few reminders of the modern world in this room full of antiques.

Every morning Lykova, a deputy director of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents (RGADA), enters the cream-colored building, originally built in 1886. She joined the archive soon aftersubjects to digitalization. When the RGADA finds its units in the list, a team of specialists prepares the documents, checks them manually for possible mistakes and scans them. Rosarkhiv then makes the material available on its website.

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The process is continuous. As of today, the RGADA has scanned three census records that contain the information obtained by the very first population censuses conducted in Russia from 1719 to 1764. Taken together, these three early censuses make up 5,000 books of 600-800 pages each, all written in 18th-century handwriting.

The archive has put some of the photocopies on its website. The online depository now offers a collection of unique documents dating back to the 10th century. The digitalized collection includes some of the earliest samples of ancient books, an


Election manifesto. Well, the SNP have been re-elected to the Scottish Parliament for over a year now, the General Election took place on 8 June, and the SNP still managed to get more votes than Labour, the Tories, and the Lib-Dems put together – and I am seeing no apparent movement on these promises.

Come on, Nicola. You’re dragging your heels, dear (as nice heels as they may be). It would be terribly embarrassing for Westminster to beat Holyrood to the post on this issue. Especially considering they already did so on same-sex marriage.

There has been a debacle about Bill Nye allegedly contradicting himself in his show Bill Nye Saves the World, in which he says that gender is on a spectrum, with some claiming that in his 1996family, and has not had her marriage annulled by a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

MB married in 1975, but did not start living as a woman until 1991, and underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1995. As a Christian, she prefers to remain married to her wife, with whom she has a family, “under the eyes of God”. Under the 2004 Gender Recognition Act, transgender people in the UK gained the right to have their gender legally recognised by a GRC. However, a GRC may not be issued to any transgender person who has not had their marriage annulled on the basis of gender change.

When MB applied for a state pension upon reaching the age of 60 in 2008, the DWP refused her application on the grounds that she is


disagree with her, I have to be the first to stand up to her human right to freedom of religion.

The former UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, continually maintained that we lived in a “Christian country” (not Scotland, dear ~ 39% “No Religion” at the last census, and rising). His successor, Theresa May, is equally a devout Christian. Whilst there is no written constitution in the UK, the entire Westminster government is linked to the Church of England, which is the established church of England, Wales and Cornwall (not Scotland or Northern Ireland), with the monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, as head of that church, and 26 Church of England clerics, the “Lords Spiritual”, sitting in the House of Lords. The English judiciary is likewise closely tied to the establishedthat MB annuls her marriage and applies for a GRC is an obvious infringement upon her freedom for thought, conscience and religion.

Article 8 states:

Right to respect for private and family life

1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

Article 12 states:

“Men and women of marriageable age have the


Honey Hunters

Monday, August 11, 2008

Keystone celebrated the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People on 9 August 2008. A special day-long programme was organised at the CSI Higher Secondary School grounds in Kotagiri. Over 600 people, elders, men, women and children, attended the programme. There were dance performances by the attending Toda, Kota, Irula and Kurumba community members. An exhibition on indigenous peoples was put up. Ms Selvi delivered the welcome speech and was the mistress of ceremonies. Mr Leo Roberts explained the significance of Indigenous Peoples' Day. Among the special guests were Mr Raju, the President of the Nilgiri Adivasi Welfare Association (NAWA), the President of the Kotagiri Panchayat, and the Tamil Nadu Minister for Khadi & Village Industries. As part of Keystone's programme of documenting indigenousknowledge, a book on Irula medicine was released on the occasion. A sumptuous lunch was enjoyed by all.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Keystone's Bee Museum in Ooty was inaugurated on 7 October 2006 by Ms Meena Gupta, Secretary, Ministry of Tribal affairs, Govt of India.

Befittingly, just before the inauguration, a honeycomb of Apis dorsata, the giant rock bees, appeared at the museum entrance.

The Bee Museum aims to impart nature education to school students as well as citizens from all walks of life. The museum would create awareness on conservation and livelihood based on eco-development approaches. It is the first of its kind, in terms of focusing on traditional knowledge and practices of indigenous communities.

The Bee Museum aims to be a vibrant space, with innovative workshops, live demonstration units of bees,


specimens and traditional as well as modern tools used in beekeeping and honey gathering. The Bee Museum network brings together indigenous honey hunters and school students.

In the long run, this conservation inititiave will help in the sustainable harvest of honey as well as the conservation of the honey bee species. It is hoped that the sowing of the seed of conservation in the minds of people involved in honey harvesting as well as of the young generation will surely bring about a significant change in the near future.Anthony Raneri and Chris Conley live in Singapore

In for a treat at Home Club

By Sara Aljaru

Fans of American punk rock band Bayside and rock band Saves The Day were in for a treat when Anthony Raneri (Bayside) and Chris Conley (Saves The Day) made their appearance at Home Club last Friday night.

The Sound Session, organised by Snowbird Productions, kicked off with appearances from young, local talents. James Barker and Rino Darusman from local band, Godzilla warmed up the crowd by playing songs from the band’s EP, Something New. Singer, songwriter and pianist, Chris Jones (These Brittle Bones) wowed the crowed with songs from his albums, such as Flecks and Anchor Bleed.

The biggest crowd drawer that the audience was waiting for finally came when Anthony Raneri appeared on stage


first, chatting with the crowd in between sets as he performed songs by Bayside such as Blame It On Bad Luck and Landing Feet First and also performed songs from his EP, New Cathedrals. Chris Conley went on stage next. Also his first time here in Singapore like Anthony, Chris’ made his session a fun and interactive one for the audience, accepting song request, making it a spontaneous one as well. The audience had a great time singing along with both singers and it was nothing short of a spectacular performance.

It was a great night for those who came, and the fans of the performers would definitely be expecting them to come again.

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Trump predicted ongoing talks would produce "a very good package" for Congress to consider when it returns from summer recess in September. He also suggested there is a better "feeling" for getting something done than after a school shooting that killed 17 students and staff members in Parkland, Florida last year.

"We don’t want guns in the hands of the wrong people," Trump told reporters before departing the White House for a pair of fundraisers in New York.

Trump called for "common-sense background" checks, but did not detail what that might include. But