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Girls on the Run

Girls on the Run Greater Boston registration for the fall season is now open inNewburyport for girls from Nock Middle School in grades six through eight. Girls on the Run is a physical activity-based, positive youth development program that inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident. It is a 10-week program that encourages personal development, team building and connection to the community.

This fall, the Newburyport location will be held at Motivate barre-cardio-cycle and will focus on the Girls on the Run Heart & Sole program. The fee for the fall season is $175 and scholarship funding is available to those who qualify. For more information, check out http://motivatebarre.com/heart-and-sole/.

Port Youth Hockey

Newburyport Youth Hockey is accepting player registrations for the upcoming 2017-18 Mite Instructional Hockey program. The goal of the Instructional Program is to teach girls and boys ages 5 to 9 basic hockey skills while creating a fun environment for both the children and their parents. Games and practices take place locally at the Graf Rink from Sept.-Feb. To register online, visit http://www.nyhl.org. For more information, contact Dick Tierney at 978-465-0128 or Rich Curran via email @rcamel18@comcast.net.

Storm tryouts

The New England Storm Jr. Olympic Softball Program, entering its 18th season of club softball, is currently conducting tryouts for the 2017-18 season. The Storm plays in summer weekend softball tournaments in the greater New England area. For details, visit http://www.newenglandstorm.org. Contact the director, John Gambale, at jgambale.nestorm@aol.com with any questions.

Learn to Skate

Merrimack Valley Skating Club is holding its Learn to Skate programs at the Graf Rink in Newburyport. Learn to Skate will take place on Mondays at 5 p.m. throughout the summer.

Classes begin the week of June 26. Visit http://www.grafrink.com for registration forms. Contact Nikki at 978-462-8112 or nikki@grafrink.com.

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2017-18 Greenville County Teacher of the Year Suzanne Billings, fourth-grade teacher at Plain Elementary.

Plain Elementary fourth-grade teacher Suzanne Billings is Greenville Countys Teacher of the Year.

Billings, who has 18 years of teaching experience, will now compete for state Teacher of the Year honors.

First runner-up is Anjosia Ellerbe, business education teacher at Wade Hampton High School. Second runner-up is Erin Rigot, a communications teacher at League Academy. Ashley Jenkins, a 10th grade world history teacher at Woodmont High School, was named third runner-up.

Billings daily mantra is Imagine. Create. Inspire.

Teaching is imagining the purpose of the knowledge, creating an understanding and desire to utilize this information, and then applying and inspiring uses for new learning, she wrote in her Teacher of the Year application. My reward in teaching is observing students who image, create, and inspire for themselves, not just for a teacher or parent.

Billings said seeing her father, a basketball and softball coach, implement mentoring skills in sports and focus on not just improving physical skills but also developing both character and self-confidence led her to become a teacher.

She realized the breadth of his influence when one of her teammates wrote her college essay about Billings father. She said my dad made the most significant impact on her personal development, Billings wrote. I knew I wanted to be like my dad and inspire others to achieve their best and positively impact their personal growth and success.

Billings creates a positive, inclusive classroom community. I ensure each student views him or herself as a speaker, listener, teacher, and supporter, she said. This community team environment instills ownership of learning and allows each students talents and abilities to shine.

Other Greenville County Teacher of the Year finalists were Scott Buhr, physics and earth science, Hillcrest High School; Jeremy Bowen, mathematics, J.L. Mann; David Dejesa, social studies-speech and debate, Riverside High School; Chancey Greco, sixth-grade English Language Arts, Greenville Middle Academy; Lauren Long, eighth-grade English, Hillcrest Middle School; and Thomas McAuliff, third grade, Taylors Elementary School.

In addition to an application and an interview, the 10 finalists were observed in the classroom by the judges.

Katie Inclan, a second-grade teacher at Plain Elementary, was named the elementary-level Emerging Teacher of the Year.

Greenville Middle Academy seventh-grade science teacher Matt Giacalone is secondary-level Emerging Teacher of the Year.

The Emerging Teacher of the Year awards are sponsored by Greenville Federal Credit Union and recognize second- or third-year teachers for outstanding performance. Each receives $500, a crystal award, and $500 for their school.

Issues that will test Greenville County Council in the coming year bubbled to the surface

Greenville County Schools board of trustees held its monthly meeting on Tuesday.

Council discussed a resolution to reject the expenditure of state funds for the U.S. Refugee

Anderson, Pickens and Spartanburg counties stay the same

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Linoy Ashram.(photo credit:AMIT SHUSSEL / COURTESY)

Israels Linoy Ashram picked up four more medals on Sunday in her final tune-up event before the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships later this month.

The 18-year-old took four bronzes in the FIG World Challenge Cup competition in Kazan, Russia, finishing all four apparatus finals in third place.

Ashram, who ended the all-around event in Kazan in fourth place on Saturday, registered a score of 16.9 points in the hoop final on Sunday, finishing behind identical Russian twins Arina and Dina Averina, who claimed the top two spots in three of the four finals.

Ashram ended the ball final with a score of 16.2, the clubs with 16.3 and the ribbon with 16.2.

Ashram will be brimming with confidence ahead of the World Championships, which begin in Pesaro, Italy on August 29, with her success on Sunday coming on the back of a breakthrough summer.

The gymnast won two medals at the recent World Games, taking a silver in the clubs and a bronze in the hoop. She dominated the Maccabiahs rhythmic gymnastics competitions last month, sweeping all five gold medals.

Ashram also took two medals at the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary in May, finishing third in the hoops and club finals.

Ashram will now be looking to become the second Israeli to win a medal at the World Championships. Neta Rivkin, who retired following the Rio Olympics last summer, won a bronze medal in the hoop final at the World Championships in 2011.

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Israeli gymnast Ashram wins four medals - The Jerusalem Post

The school run by the wife of Actor Rajinikanth was locked by the landlord of the building in Chennai on charges that the rent agreed to was not being paid.

The school authorities said they have decided to file a defamation case against the landlord for creating immense agony to the school and issuing false statements to the media.

About 400 children of Ashram, run by Latha Rajinikanth, have been shifted to another institution.

Landlord Venkateshwaralu claimed that the management agreed to pay the rent as per a court directive till they vacate the premises by May 2018 which they had not adhered to fully.

He said the school authorities did not pay the quantum of rent as agreed to.

The management said the school was functioning on the existing premises for more than a decade and that it had faced a lot of harassment in the recent past due to the family dispute of the landlord.

It is not just about the rent but it is about their exploitation of the situation and it is about asking unfair, unreasonable and exorbitant increment in rentals which we have been negotiating and speaking with them [landlord], a statement from the management said.

The management had decided to vacate the premises and negotiations were on to settle the matter. The landlord harassed them by using the media continuously when a civil dispute was pending in the court, the statement said.

Since the matter is sub judice, we would like to record this statement. Taking law into his hands and without any information, once again the landlord has created immense agony to the school, children, parents and to the management today, it said.

We will be filing a defamation case against the landlord for making false statements to the press. Apart from that, we will wait for the law to take its own course, it said.

We request the media and the public to understand the truth, it added.

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Latha Rajinikanth's Ashram school locked by landlord for 'non-payment of dues' - The Hindu

An ongoing tussle between the landlord and the school management led to the premises of the Ashram Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Guindy being sealed on Wednesday. The students were shifted to the schools second campus in Velachery.

C.H. Prabhakar, one of the joint owners of the building where the school has been functioning since 2001, alleged that the school had accumulated around 2 crore as rent arrears.

Mr. Prabhakar said that while their intention was not to harass the owners or disrupt the education of the children, they had decided to lock the premises on Wednesday morning. He said the owners will send a letter to the excise department stating that the institution was not functioning any more so that they did not have to pay service tax.

In a release, the school claimed that the management had already discussed about vacating the premises with the landlords, and added: We will be filing a defamation case against the landlord for making false statements to the press.

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Ashram school in Guindy locked up by landlord - The Hindu

In a fresh twist to the ongoing tussle between cabinet minister Satpal Maharaj and Madan Kaushik, the former Saturday alleged that the Haridwar mayor got the boundary wall of his ashram demolished and the garbage dumped outside its gate. He also demanded that those responsible are removed from their positions.

This comes two days after the supporters of the two BJP ministers clashed in Haridwar in which mayor Manoj Garg sustained injuries.

On one side, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is appealing people to clean up their surroundings under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. On the other hand, the Mayor is getting the garbage dumped outside the dwelling places of sants, Maharaj alleged.

The dwelling place of sants in question is Maharajs ashram in Prem Nagar area of Haridwar.

I have, therefore, demanded that the chief minister order an inquiry into the incident so that those responsible for it are removed from their positions, Maharaj, a senior BJP leader said in apparent reference to the Garg and the Haridwar Municipal Corporation workers.

Garg is a known supporter of Cabinet minister Kaushik who represents the Haridwar (city) assembly constituency. Maharaj happens to be the minister in-charge for Haridwar district.

The violent scuffle, in which scores of people were injured, ensued after supporters of Kaushik and Maharaj came to blows over removing allegedly illegal structures outside the latters ashram. The supporters of the two ministers have also got police case registered against one another.

It is unfortunate that the mayor got the wall around the ashram demolished. The action was taken on the false pretext that the town was getting flooded because of the wall, Maharaj said asking how could just one wall cause water logging in Haridwar.

Maharaj dubbed the action as an act of vendetta. What got his (mayors) goat is that I got re-tendering of a car parking in the Hari-ki-Pairi area done. The mayor had rented it out for Rs 1 crore, he alleged, adding that he invited open bids and the same car parking area was rented out on contract for over Rs 3 crore. Maharaj alleged that in a review meeting of Haridwar district recently Garg had said that he should have the right to rent out all parking lots so that he could manage the affairs of the city in a better way.

He (mayor) made that observation because he intended to augment the citys resources so that the employees of the municipal corporation could be paid their salaries, the mayors brother Maneesh Garg said.

Speaking on behalf of the mayor who is admitted to a hospital, Maneesh justified the action of getting the wall near Maharajs ashram demolished. It was a correct move because that wall had resulted in water logging in the city, he said. Maneesh claimed that the Municipal Corporation employees had garbage dumped outside the Ashram gate in reaction to Maharajs supporters violent attack on them and the mayor.

State BJP president Ajay Bhatt, however, sought to make light of the issue. Not much should be read into what Maharaj has said because it was said in the heat of the moment, he said adding that the issue, which was circumstantial, will be resolved. I will speak to them (Maharaj and Kaushik) and have invited them for a meeting, he told HT.

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To boost tourism, the Uttarakhand Tourism department is contemplating a Beatles museum at Chaurasi Kutia, the abandoned ashram of spiritual Guru Maharshi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh, where members of the world famous rock band The Beatles stayed in.

Uttarakhand Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj, announced on Tuesday that Uttarakhand Tourism department would develop a Beatles Museum at Rishikesh.

The move was probably inspired by The Beatles Story museum at Liverpool in England from where the members hailed. The Beatles Story, located in a two-storey building, is a major tourist draw.

The Beatles Story is also celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles visit to India and Rishikesh next year.

"A team from The Beatles Story had visited Rishikesh sometime back to finalise their programmes slated for next year," said Raju Gusian, a Beatles' fan and journalist who helped the team.

The Rishikesh ashram situated in the Rajaji National Park was thrown open to tourists in 2015 by the Uttarakhand forest department, attracting thousands of visitors. The forest department now charges an entry fee from each tourist for their visit to the 'ashram'. Each foreign tourist is charged Rs 600 and Indians have to pay Rs 150 per head. More than 10,000 tourists visited the ashram where the Fab Four composed songs for their iconic albums like Abbey Road, Let it Be and The White Album.

The Beatles, an English rock band, stayed here in 1968 for an advanced transcendental meditation (TM) training session under spiritual guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The legendary musicians John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr stayed in the ashram.

Unused for more than a decade after the lease of the spiritual guru expired in 2000, the ashram is being developed as an eco-tourism destination and a pilgrimage place for Beatles fans.

The bungalow of Mahesh Yogi, where the Beatles stars learnt meditation, would be a major attraction. The walls have been covered by graffiti on Beatles and Mahesh Yogi to remind the visitors of the significance of the place.

Mahesh Yogi was allocated 15 acre of forest land near Rishikesh for his ashram in 1961.The Indian spiritual guru became an international name after the four singers toured India to learn meditation in February 1968.

The Beatles boys came to Rishikesh for a three- month course, but none of them completed it. Ringo was the first to leave after only 10 days. Paul stayed for five weeks while John and George left after eight weeks.

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Uttarakhand plans to develop Beatles' museum at Mahesh Yogi's Rishikesh ashram - National Herald

By spinning a wheel in his Sabarmati Ashram, no one would have imagined that a simple man would spin the fate of malnourished, underprivileged and uneducated mass of people, trying to break the shackles of 200 years of British imperialism.

Draped in his Khadi shawl and dhoti, carrying a staff and showing a path to Indians, leaving their everything, unified for a single cause of a free India, Gandhi ensured that they all become part of the worlds largest and strongest democracy.

To quote Albert Einstein, Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth. Mahatma Gandhi, who evolved the philosophy of Satyagraha in South Africa and practised it successfully, landed at Bombay on 9 January 1915. And on 25 May 1915, in Ahmedabad at Kocharab in a bungalow, Gandhiji laid the foundation of Satyagraha Ashram, conveying both the goal and the method of service.

Gandhi, who was thrown off of a train in South Africa for refusing to move from his First Class seat to Third Class (even though he held a valid First Class ticket), knew that such discrimination against Indians was common practice and this personal experience gave him a reason to fight racial discrimination.

The first step towards an untouchability-free society was taken by Gandhi, when he himself admitted to Ashram an untouchable family of Dudabhi, his wife Danibehn and their daughter Laxmi, for which he faced strong opposition. All monetary help was stopped and even social boycott was threatened but Gandhi said, In the very beginning we proclaimed to the world that the Ashram would not countenance untouchability.

Gandhi conducted the Champaran Satyagraha and the strike of Ahmedabad mill-workers during this period. He left the Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March, 1930 with a vow not to return to this Ashram till India became independent.

He held consultations with the poorest of the poor and with the richest, the highest and the emissaries of the government. On 12 March 1930, at the age of 61 years, Gandhi travelled 320 km (200 miles) on foot for 24 days to Dandi to make his own salt, presenting a tough stand against the Britishers, who made it illegal for Indians to make their own salt.

Taking the final call on 8 August, 1942, Gandhi asked the Indians to do or die for poornaswaraj (complete Independence), by launching the Quit India Movement, as a result of which, India achieved Independence within a duration of five years.

Commemorating 75 years of Quit India Movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, The Independence struggle had seen people from all walks of life coming together. I urge lawmakers to rise above party lines and differences and contribute to Indias growth.

To mark the occasion, the Lok Sabha unanimously passed a resolution promising to work tirelessly in the next five years to build the India of Mahatma Gandhis dream. It was read out by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, We, the representatives of more than 125 crore people, resolve to take along every citizen in working towards building a nation as envisioned by Mahatma Gandhi and other freedom fighters by 2022, when we will celebrate 75th anniversary of our Independence. We shall remain committed and dedicated to build a strong, prosperous, clean and glorious India, which is free of corruption. We are committed to the welfare of all sections and promote harmony and patriotism.

Gandhi, a man who believed in dialogues, non-violence and truth, possessed the power to bring change in the society. To quote Gandhi himself, he told everyone, You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

It is very saddening when one realises that Gandhi is now limited only to currency notes or old history text books. To trap Gandhi and his Gandhivaadi beliefs would not only be insulting to a visionary but is also harmful to the vision of a free India. Gandhi lived his life on the 11 vows he had taken ~ truth, non-violence, swadeshi, fearlessness, removal of untouchability, Brahmacharya, control of the palate, non-stealing, non-possession and physical labour.

A country, once known as the Golden Bird, remained in the cage of imperialists for 200 years and when set free is still learning to fly high over the past 70 years. How far has India come and will go is very tough to say. But yes, Gandhivaad never failed to provide the light in the hours of darkness. As Gandhi said, I feel and I have felt during the whole of my public life what we need, what a nation needs; but we, perhaps of all the nations of the world, need just now, is nothing else and nothing less than character building.

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Gandhi and beyond - The Statesman

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