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If you’re up to being inspired by an Oscar-nominated actress, then look no further ‘cause we’ve got you covered. If you’ve seen the film Carol, then you must know the visual feast and screen glamour it possesses. Set in the 1950s, Cate Blanchett plays Carol, an alluring woman who finds herself in a forbidden love affai...
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Step aside, Regina George: Courtney Shayne’s the real mean girl. The ruthless clique ruled the hallways of Reagan High School with Julie Freeman, Marcie Fox and Liz Purr, otherwise known as the “Flawless Four.” The three friends kidnap Liz on her birthday and accidentally murder her with a jawbreaker taped to her mouth...
Brighten up your look with Courtney Shayne’s vibrant style by copping Valextra’s Tammy Regina clutch from UNIVERS, Lilac platforms from Charles & Keith, Twilly Twill silk scarf from Hermès and these acetate frames from Charles & Keith.
The controversial 1997 film directed by Adrian Lyne (based on Nabokov’s novel) involves adolescent Dolores Haze and professor Humbert Humbert. Despite the disturbing subject of the film, which involves pedophilia, the adaptation’s mood and treatment possessed a certain charm — especially in the way Dolores was dressed.
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I have lived in the Newport Coast area of Newport Beach for more than 20 years. As an area resident, I have enjoyed the automated trash pickup the entire time. I also have experienced the manual trash pickup that Corona del Mar utilizes.
There is a marked difference between the two systems. With the automated trash pickup, the streets before and after pickup are cleaner. I happen to like the larger cans, though small ones that are much lighter are available.
With the larger cans, residents are less likely to overfill them, and animals have a tougher time getting into them. Additionally, it is more eye-pleasing to look down the streets on trash day and see the uniformity of the cans.
In Corona del Mar, the cans are smaller and of varying sizes, shapes and colors. And often they overflow. Because the operators of the automated trucks are not lifting heavy cans, this process offers a degree of safety to the workers and the residents.
In my area, we have enjoyed the service of an extremely friendly provider (CR&R;) for several years. On trash day, the hauler arrives in the morning to pick up the trash, and in the afternoon we see him again picking up the cans for recycling. He goes out of his way to give us a smile and help us with our extra trash, ...
I want the City Council to expand the automated service to all of Newport Beach. The whole city should reap the benefits that my family and neighbors have enjoyed.
The writer is the president of the Newport Coast Homeowners Assn.
If the motivation of the Newport Beach city administration is to cut expenditures by farming out trash collection, much more money could be saved by farming out policing to the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
I read with great sadness about the death of a worker on Hamilton Street, allegedly at the hands of a homeless individual. As I drive around Costa Mesa, I see homeless encampments and observe fights and arguments.
Recently, the city adopted a "mommy" policy of trying to deal with the homeless. While most homeless people are not violent, I have seen countless situations involving violence and theft of property.
When is Costa Mesa going to realize that a charitable-hand policy is never going to work? These people trash our parks and bus stops and intimidate law-abiding citizens. I have seen a few of our parks turned into encampments.
Sorry, but in my opinion, Costa Mesa needs to return to an aggressive, law-enforcement-oriented approach to direct the homeless to services and facilities that offer help. If they refuse, we should enforce the law stringently, making Costa Mesa an unwanted place to camp out. I'm tired of all this.
BC1, which is owned by Clyde Real Estate, extends to nearly 3,400sq m.
Two substantial detached production/office buildings formerly used as call centres by IBM at Ballycoolin Business Park in Dublin 15 will be offered for sale through agent CBRE.
The two buildings are separately owned: BC1 by Clyde Real Estate, headed up by Seán Gallagher, and BC2 by IBM.
According to Jarlath Lynn of CBRE, the timing of the respective sales is entirely coincidental but does offer an interesting opportunity, particularly for larger requirements given that the units are side by side and until recently were interlinked.
BC1 extends to 3,953sq m (42,551sq ft) on a low-density site of 3.l09 acres, while BC2 has a floor area of 7,977sq m (85,874sq ft) on 4.7 acres. Both buildings are laid out as open-plan call centre spaces with ancillary offices and other facilities. BC2 was most recently vacated in December and is in ready-to-occupy co...
Unit BC1 has a guide pride of €2.5 million while BC2 is valued at €5.5 million. Both units can also be leased on new FRI leases.
CBRE says the two buildings are likely to be of interest to the data centre business given that there are three data centres within 200m and one further similar facility and two more planned for sites within 500m. The excellent fibre connectivity in the area coupled with the sites’ expansion potential means that they a...
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t do moods, any more than he does changes of clothing. But on Wednesday at Oculus Connect, the virtual reality firm’s annual developer conference, the Facebook CEO struck a note that in anyone else you’d call defiant. "I am more committed than ever to VR,” he told the audience, adding, self-refere...
“No pressure,” laughed Stephen Levy, talking later on stage to chief Oculus scientist Michael Abrash.
“He didn’t say when,” Abrash, who apparently had only just heard the promise, replied tersely.
After an unhappy year for Oculus, which included the loss of original content division Oculus Story Studio, a change of CEO and the disappearance founder Palmer Luckey (the latter following allegations that he secretly funded a pro-Trump campaign group dedicated to abusing Clinton supporters online), Zuckerberg was the...
Yet if the black-and-Kryptonite colour scheme and teeth-rattling soundtrack led anyone to expect the supervillain-style launch of VR's long-awaited "killer app", then they would have been sorely disappointed. At Oculus Connect, the future was being built one brick at a time.
The most notable new addition was Oculus Go, a new cord-free headset that works on its own without a PC or a mobile. The device won’t change much for VR enthusiasts – it doesn’t have positional tracking, so it won’t allow you to do more than move your head – but it should help bring the technology to new audiences. Whe...
In a pair of Ikea-inspired show rooms in the bowels of the San Jose Conference Centre, Oculus showed off something much more advanced: the Project Santa Cruz headset, which contains four outward-facing sensors embedded in its edge. By mapping the space around it, this headset could make it possible to go into VR anywhe...
But although Santa Cruz should go to developers in 2018, the technical difficulty involved means its general release is a distant prospect. Here and elsewhere, tweaks and updates were the order of the day. Facebook’s head of social VR, Rachel Franklin, announced that Spaces, the company's social VR app, would come with...
Oculus Connect did not answer this question explicitly, but from the announcements it was possible to discern a pattern. Take, for instance, one of the most interesting updates: Dash, a new operating system that runs inside VR apps, making it possible to flick between them or work in two at the same time. Dash can also...
This might not sound like much, but, in a way, that's the point. Up until now, a lot of the effort in VR has been aimed at making experiences that transport people to alternate worlds. Dash goes the other way, by bringing VR closer to existing digital life. The idea doesn't seem to be that you would spend all your time...
Dash also brings Oculus's disparate VR experiences closer together, a feature it shared with several other new announcements. Oculus product manager Christina Womack showed off avatars and safety features (blocking, flagging and so on) that move from one app to another. This will help create some coherence on the often...
But while many in VR continue to dream of the Metaverse, these announcements seem geared for a future in which people pop into VR for tasks or meetings, then leave to go back to "real life". So what is the platform of the future? The answer may be found in the low-key release at Oculus Connect of a product called Faceb...
Starting today, Facebook will accept interactive three-dimensional media files. Sculpt a dancing hot dog in VR and you can not only post it as a standalone item in the News Feed, but also place it into other real-life scenes.
At Oculus Connect this was presented as a useful tool for Spaces: a way to share virtual objects from one Space to another. And perhaps, one day, it will be. Right now, however, it looked like something else entirely: not VR, but it’s cousin, augmented reality.
AR and VR are not inherently rival technologies. The development of one will help the other. (The spatial mapping needed for Project Santa Cruz, for instance, is one of the core components of workable AR headsets.) But there is a tension between them all the same. When AR succeeds, it takes energy and resources away fr...
Exact details on how this will work will be released over the coming days. But at this point in time it appears as if Facebook has followed Snap, Apple and Google and enabled mobile AR across its entire platform. Not everyone will engage with it, naturally. But if Zuckerberg is looking for a billion users, this is prob...
UPDATE (13th October, 10.20): The original version of this implied that Brendan Iribe had left Oculus. He is no longer CEO, but he remains at the company.
A mother has died after she and her three children were hit in a crosswalk Monday evening .
Las Vegas police reported Thursday afternoon that 25-year-old Fatima Ahmadi had died Wednesday at Sunrise Hospital.
Her 4-year-old son, Abdulwahab Noori, died shortly after the crash involving a pickup truck near Maryland Parkway and Katie Avenue. His two younger sisters, ages 2 and 3, are expected to recover from their injuries.
Police said the 74-year-old driver of the truck remained at the scene, passed a field sobriety test and is cooperating with the investigation. Police said it was the third fatal auto-pedestrian crash involving a child within a month.
Who’s Caring for BC’s Home Care Workers?
As province takes over service delivery, long-time worker fears job problems will persist.
‘People can’t live on two or three hours of paid work a day,’ says Deborah Diduck, who’s worked in the home care sector for two decades. She’s tired of the insecurity. Photo by Jake Sherman for The Tyee.
Big changes are coming to the way home support services are delivered in British Columbia, but a woman who has worked in the sector for two decades says they won’t solve serious problems hurting employees and clients.
When The Tyee’s Katie Hyslop won a major honour, here’s how she used the platform it provided.
What’s really needed are stronger laws to protect workers, said Deborah Diduck, who at 64 is approaching retirement age.
A low point for Diduck was getting called into work for a 90-minute shift on Boxing Day. It was typical of the company she worked for at the time, she said.
“I’ve been lucky to get one-hour or two-hour work days out of the company,” she said. “If you don’t take the work, then you might not get any more work. You’re stuck between a rock and a hard place.” Diduck said her pay rate has ranged from $14 to $22.
Diduck began doing home support work in 1996 on the Sunshine Coast. She has been in Victoria since 2013, where she worked several years for We Care, which is now a franchise of CBI Home Health. Most recently she has worked for Beacon Community Services.
While with We Care she was represented by the Christian Labour Association of Canada, which she found did little to standup for workers and in fact negotiated contract terms that she said made the job more difficult.
Beacon has been better than other employers in the sector, she said.
In the 1990s employment standards laws required that workers be paid for at least four hours every time they were called in to work. After 2001, the BC Liberal government reduced the minimum pay to two hours.
Diduck’s own health suffered. Her pre-diabetic condition became full-blown Type 2 diabetes, a development she blames on not being able to have a lunch break many days.
She had a heart attack. “They severely compromised my health,” she said.
She described homes with shelves that never got dusted and with room edges that never got vacuumed. “I’ve walked into apartments that were so filthy, and it was basically 22 years of legislated filth,” she said.
The time that a worker can spend in a client’s home is dictated by whoever is providing the funding, said Twyla Johnson, the director of operations in Victoria and Duncan for CBI Home Health, which was previously We Care.
Besides working for private clients, the company has been under contract to various public agencies, including WorkSafeBC, ICBC and the Public Guardian and Trustee. It has also done overflow work for Island Health.
Johnson said that many of the company’s registered care aides now end up working overtime, but that there have definitely been times where it was hard to give workers enough hours.
On Wednesday three health authorities — Vancouver Coastal Health, Fraser Health and Island Health — announced they would take over delivering home support services that had been contracted out for years. The change will bring them in line with Northern Health and Interior Health.
The BC Care Providers Association, an organization that represents companies working in the sector, said it wasn’t consulted on the change and expressed “deep disappointment” with the decision.
CEO Daniel Fontaine said the change wouldn’t provide the increased services and longer visit times that seniors want.
The BC Liberal opposition put out a press release saying the government is “reducing choice and driving up costs for seniors by moving private home support services into health authorities.” It accused the government of catering to the unions that had donated to the NDP.
Diduck said she’s not convinced the change will make a difference. The directives on scheduling were already coming from Island Health, she said.
Improving employment standards would have the added benefit of improving conditions for all workers, not just in one sector, she added.
Health Minister Adrian Dix said having the health authorities deliver home support directly makes sense for several reasons. Unionization didn’t factor in the decision, he said, noting the workers are unionized now and will remain unionized after the change.
Dix said the change would let health authorities improve scheduling and provide more stable hours for staff and seniors, making it easier to recruit employees.
Health Minister Adrian Dix says regardless of who manages the province’s home care health system, ‘the goal is to make it better.’ Photo: BC Government Flickr.
The existing contracts were coming up for renewal at the end of June for Island Health and a year from now for Fraser Health and Vancouver Coastal Health. While Beacon Community Services has been very good, there were a wide variety of contractors in the other two health authorities, he said.
“There were some issues with the way the contracts had been managed over time... that were certainly brought to my attention,” he said. Services were reviewed in each health authority and the recommendation was the same in all three.
Home support is essential for seniors and closely connected to the improvements the government is making to primary care, Dix said.
The decision will directly affect the care that some 29,000 people receive and will be supported through an agreement with the federal government that’s going to be formally announced soon, Dix said.
The move may add some costs, but there will also be efficiencies, so there’s unlikely to be a big difference in cost to the government, he said.
“This is for the clients. They’re my biggest priority. They rely on the service. They are often frail or elderly seniors. They need the service. They need it to be part of a continuity of care, and it makes sense for the health authority to do it,” Dix said.
The change will be good for workers in the sector as well, he said.
Dix acknowledged that bringing the services in-house wouldn’t on its own fix home support.
People like Diduck who are providing the service know that “if nothing changes but who the management is, then nothing will change,” Dix said.
Those changes may be coming within months.
The labour ministry launched a month-long consultation on Feb. 28 seeking comments on improving the employment standards law.
“To reflect modern workplaces and to ensure that employment standards are evenly applied and enforced, the Ministry of Labour intends to make changes to the act as early as this spring,” the announcement said.
It's not easy being a football referee, and it's not easy running a cafe in an age of online reviews.
Especially in Italy, famous for its passion for the beautiful game and its love of good cuisine.
So when referee Piero Giacomelli made two controversial decisions during Lazio's 3-1 home defeat to Torino in Serie A on 11 December, Lazio fans decided to retaliate - against his restaurant.
Fans were outraged by Giacomelli not penalising Torino's Iago Falque for handball and for issuing a red card to Ciro Immobile for headbutting Nicolas Burdisso.
On hearing Giacomelli ran a food-serving cafe in Trieste in northern Italy, angry Lazio fans took to the review site Trip Advisor and Google reviews to vent their frustration.
Since Lazio's defeat there have been a flurry of bad reviews for Cafe Rossetti, believed to be run by Giacomelli. Many posts appear to be directed at the referee personally, rather then genuine complaints by dissatisfied diners.
One Google review read: "Do you cook like you referee?"
Another reviewer posted: "This place is as bad as Giacomelli."
Others used the opportunity to mock the food and service even though there is no evidence to suggest those posting one-star reviews in the past few days had eaten there.
According to Italian news publications, including Rome-based newspaper Il Messaggero, there were also some negative reviews published on travel website TripAdvisor.
The restaurant is rated on the site as 'excellent' by 56% of reviews, at time of writing, and all 'poor' or 'terrible' reviews currently available on the site were posted prior to the match.
But Lazio fan website La Lazio Siamo Noi has screenshots of what it claims are reviews posted on TripAdvisor since the match and before their removal from the site, which are also being shared on Facebook.
It is not clear whether Giacomelli is still the owner of the cafe, and website Football Italia says he is no longer running the business. The Facebook page for Cafe Rossetti also appears to have been taken down.
The BBC have tried to contact Cafe Rossetti for comment.
In the hyper-local, online marketplace of Craigslist, niche objects for sale — everything from backgammon boards to easels — are only a few clicks and, if you’re lucky, within a few city blocks away.

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