Highland Park Optimist International | Optimist Club wearing smog-gas masks at banquet, Los Angeles, circa 1954

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He joined numerous fraternal organizations including the Freemasons, Shriners, Knights Templar, Forty and Eight, and Optimist International.

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Optimist International is an international service club organization with 2, 900 clubs and almost 87, 000 members in more than 35 nations throughout the world.

Optimist International is also the sponsor of Junior Optimist Octagon International, designed for elementary through high school youth.

Optimist International is made up of autonomous Optimist Clubs that do work in their communities.

Following the International Convention in Reno, Nevada, the inaugural Optimist International Junior Bowling Championships ( OIJBC ) took place there.

Also in 2001, Optimist International introduced the Childhood Cancer Campaign to provide awareness and support of children battling cancer and the challenges their families face.

Optimist International signed up the first Friend of Optimists in 2005.

Also in 2005, the Optimist Junior Golf Program expanded to include the Optimist International Tournament of Champions for top-performing junior golfers ages 14 to 18.

Optimist International will be recognized worldwide as the premier volunteer organization that values all children and helps them develop to their full potential.

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Junior bowlers battled for the right to be called “ Optimist Champion .”

Kraus ' masterpiece is generally considered to be the massive satirical play about the First World War, Die letzten Tage der Menschheit ( The Last Days of Mankind ), which combines dialogue from contemporary documents with apocalyptic fantasy and commentary from two characters called " the Grumbler " and " the Optimist ".

In 2005, " The Optimist ", a short story written by Bina was published in an anthology called And the World Changed ( Women Unlimited / OUP ); an essay called " A Love Affair with Lahore " was published in an anthology edited by Bapsi Sidhwa called City of Sin and Splendour-Writings on Lahore ( Penguin India-Pakistani title Beloved City-OUP ).

“ The Intellectualism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Evolutionary Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender .” Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer.

Historically there been numerous publications that have risen and fallen including the literary society “ The Lion ”, a Jewish run school newspaper “ The Optimist ,” and “ the Usonian .” In 2005 Malden High School joined the Massachusetts Forensics League and now competes with a comparatively small team.

In yet others, for example the Optimist anyone may manufacture but tight controls of measurement result in strict one design.

Some other boats have a similar shape to a traditional punt – for example the Optimist training dinghy or the air boats used in the Everglades – but the most similar boat is the European Weidling a type that can be tracked back to Celtic boats built more than 2, 000 years ago.

" Optimist Clubs demonstrate their caring attitude by carrying out the mission of the organization, " By providing hope and positive vision, Optimists bring out the best in kids.

Optimist International's motto is " Friend of Youth " and the organization also uses the branding statement " Bringing Out the Best in Kids.

The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best ( 1759 ); Candide: or, The Optimist ( 1762 ); and Candide: or, Optimism ( 1947 ).

The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union.

After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.

From 1906 onwards, Jones was an active member of the International Phonetic Association, and was Assistant Secretary from 1907 to 1927, Secretary from 1927 to 1949, and President from 1950 to 1967.

An International Development Agency project called nabuur. com, started with the support of former American President Bill Clinton, uses the Internet to allow co-operation by individuals on issues of social development.

Although President Obiang signed a national anti-torture decree in 2006 to ban all forms of abuse and improper treatment in Equatorial Guinea and commissioned the renovation and modernization of Black Beach prison in 2007 to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners, human rights abuses continue. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International among other non-governmental organizations have documented severe human rights abuses in prisons, including torture, beatings, unexplained deaths and illegal detention.

* Hans van Baalen MEP ( VVD, Netherlands ): President, Liberal International

* 2002 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

* Timothy E. Lee – President, GM International Operations ( Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Africa, and Middle East )

Former Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Attorney General Mohamed Shahabuddeen served a 9-year term on the International Court of Justice ( 1987 – 96 ).

* Jacques Rogge, International Olympic Committee President ( 1942 –)

At the 2010 International Conference on Afghanistan in London, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he intends to reach out to the Taliban leadership ( including Mullah Omar, Sirajuddin Haqqani and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ).

As World Bank President Robert McNamara declared at the 1968 Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group that countries permitting birth control practices will get preferential access to resources, doctors in La Paz, Bolivia, called it insulting that money should be exchanged for the conscience of a Catholic nation.

The recommendations of the Brent Commission were endorsed by the United States Department of State and in 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt called for an international conference, the International Opium Commission, which was held in Shanghai in February 1909.

In October 1997, Indonesia and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) reached agreement on an economic reform program aimed at macroeconomic stabilization and elimination of some of the country's most damaging economic policies, such as the National Car Program and the clove monopoly, both involving family members of President Soeharto.

* http :// www. alphagalileo. org / ViewItem. aspx? ItemId = 83171 & CultureCode = en, First Woman President of the International Mathematical Union, August 2010, AlphaGalileo

Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee and sometime President

David Tolbert, the President of the International Center for Transitional Justice, was also appointed Deputy Prosecutor of the ICTY.

* 1914 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee ( d. 1999 )

He served as a professor at the Louvre School, a Member of the Conservation Committee, General Secretary of the International Experts, and President of the Restorers of France.

He was the President of SIL International from 1942 to 1979.

* 2009 – The International Criminal Court ( ICC ) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.

Robinson has been Honorary President of Oxfam International since 2002 and of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation EIUC since 2005, she is Chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development ( IIED ) and is also a founding member and Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders.

* 1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D. C., region.

In April 1988, President Reagan invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, freezing Panamanian Government assets in U. S. banks, withholding fees for using the canal, and prohibiting payments by American agencies, firms, and individuals to the Noriega regime.