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Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Friday expressed deep sense of sorrow and grief over the sad demise of wife of Ghulam Muhammad Manika, former Federal Minister, reported APP. In his condolence message, the chief minister prayed that may Allah Almighty rest the departed soul in eternal peace and grant co... |
Punjab Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) on Friday approved four development schemes of health & local government sectors with an estimated cost of Rs1760.949 million. These schemes were approved in the 48th meeting of the PDWP of fiscal year 2017-18 with Chairman P&D Muhammad Jahanzeb Khan in the chair. Secr... |
A sparkling lights switch-on is set to bring fairy tale magic to Spilsby this Christmas. |
The festive season will start at the weekend with a ‘Once Upon a Christmas in Spilsby’ celebration. |
The event is a joint venture between Spilsby Town Council, Spilsby Rotary Club and the Spilsby Business Partnership. |
On Saturday, the Rotary Club is holding their Cracker Day from 10am to 2pm in the Franklin Hall. |
Then at 2pm there is carol singing around the Franklin Statue. |
The popular outdoor Christmas Market is scheduled to start at 2pm and run until 6pm, with the lights being switched on at 5.30pm. |
County Linx Radio will be bringing their Radio Bus and stage and there will be a special performance by the students from Linkage. |
Mayor of Spilsby Coun Mark Gale says residents should expect the best Cracker Day yet. |
He said: “W’ve spent a lot of money this year on the lights because the old ones were not fit for purpose. People expect to see a good switch-on, so we bit the bullet and it will be an investment for the next seven years. |
“Coun Andrew Wright and his wife have done a tremendous amount of work towards sorting the lights and I’m really grateful to them and all who are helping. |
Visitors are reminded the High Street in Spilsby will be closed from 12pm to 8pm for the event. On street parking is not permitted on High Street during the event. Lincolnshire County Council have advised that buses will be diverted down Boston Road for the duration of the event. |
The Market Place and Buttercross Car Parks will be closed from midnight on December 1 until the event is finished. Parking will still be available in the Boston Road, Post Office Lane and Robin Hood (Reynard Street access only) car parks. |
Endangered black-footed ferrets soon will hunt prairie dogs at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge — a sign that land once deemed America’s most toxic now is considered truly clean. |
Federal wildlife managers confirmed this week they’re poised to release 30 captive-bred ferrets in September onto the 27-square-mile refuge, a former Army chemical weapons and Shell pesticides plant that became a superfund environmental disaster 8 miles from downtown Denver. |
The ferrets will help control prairie dogs that are threatening newly restored native prairie, each eating 100 to 150 prairie dogs a year, refuge manager Dave Lucas said. Eventually, the refuge will support 160 of the federally protected ferrets, Lucas said. |
Two years of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service negotiations with Denver and Commerce City have allayed fears that ferrets escaping into adjacent greenways could create legal tangles for future development. |
A deal’s been reached shielding cities from prosecution should an escaped ferret accidentally be killed. Denver and Commerce City officials on Thursday said they are fully supportive. |
At the refuge, the ferrets and prairie dogs still will be blocked from a fenced, 1,084-acre area where contaminated materials are buried under a clay cap. That area remains under Army control. An Army crew patrols it daily, monitoring groundwater and filling in holes. |
A live ferret exhibit, partly underground, has been designed with Denver Zoo guidance to help visitors see ferrets. |
“The idea is you are underground where ferrets are going,” said zoo biologist Brian Aucone, senior vice president for animal care and conservation. “There’s definitely an opportunity here for engagement with visitors at the arsenal and for thinking about humans and how we can act for the environment and be better stewa... |
For decades, arsenal weapons and pesticides production leaked toxic chemicals that contaminated soil and water, forcing a $2.1 billion cleanup completed in 2012. |
Fish and Wildlife since 2007 has been working aggressively to establish a full range of native species, starting with bison. |
The ferrets will join the herd of about 80 bison, including eight new calves, along with growing populations of eagles, migratory songbirds, heron, rabbits, ducks, mice, snakes, coyotes, deer, geese, badgers, owls and frogs. |
This will mark a significant step in a multidecade rescue of ferrets — a species that historically hunted on Colorado grasslands. Poisoning and habitat loss drove them nearly extinct by the 1980s, until a Wyoming rancher found a small group. Federal biologists took 18 and bred them at a federal conservation center nort... |
The feds now are focused on releasing carefully conditioned ferrets into the wild on large open spaces. |
Their elongated bodies and super-sensitive snouts let them slink at night through underground tunnels to prairie dog dens. They clamp their teeth into sleeping prairie dogs and devour them. |
To make sure soil at the refuge is clean enough, refuge managers commissioned a study last fall. Lucas said soil sampling confirmed no contamination. |
The release is happening as refuge managers finalize a master plan for the future. |
Only 4 square miles of the refuge is open to the public today. Refuge officials proposed to open more than half the terrain — if that can be done without hurting efforts to establish a full range of native species. Public planning sessions are scheduled in June. |
But the wildlife generally is thriving despite being in metro Denver. |
Federal land managers have relied on the selective grazing by bison, prescribed wildfires, seeding, irrigation — and occasional herbicides — to restore native vegetation. |
This week, federal workers on all-terrain vehicles buzzed around a prairie dog colony. They aimed nozzles into burrows, spraying a white flea-killing powder — in preparation for ferrets. Fleas can carry plague that prairie dogs could spread to ferrets. |
If the ferrets imported to the refuge prove particularly adept at hunting, researchers plan to capture them and return them to the federal center near Fort Collins to use in breeding. |
Buff colored with black legs and feet and a black-tipped tail, the black-footed ferret has a white face with dark band across eyes and short, rounded ears. |
Did you know? Ferrets are nocturnal, sleeping up to 21 hours a day and hunting prairie dogs during the night. |
Source: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Dept. |
VAIL VALLEY, Colorado –With the Vail Valley and the high country now at its most photogenic, the Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign is offering an extra incentive to get out into it with a camera. |
The campaign, which is pushing to expand the federally protected wilderness surrounding the Vail Valley, has announced a three-season photo contest for amateurs and professionals. Entries will be judged by a panel including renowned landscape photographers John Fielder and David Hiser. |
The photo contest will run in three seasonal cycles — summer, fall and winter – with separate deadlines and judgings. The deadline for the first, the summer cycle is Sept. 18. |
Submitted images must be of, or taken in, one of the 40-odd areas around the White River and Gunnison national forests that the Hidden Gems Campaign is proposing for wilderness designation. The group leads free hikes of the areas each weekend. |
General landscapes, closeups and wildlife shots are all acceptable, with special consideration going to photos that capture the “essential hidden gemness” of the area, Kindcade says. |
Winners in the amateur division will get to participate in a one-day photo workshop next summer with one of the contest judges, and their images will be featured in Hidden Gems gift cards and in a future exhibit. The winning professional images will be presented as large-format prints to members of the Colorado Congres... |
Additionally, there will be a “people’s choice” prize of a $250 gift certificate to a local retailer. |
For full contest guidelines, as well as a hike schedule and detailed information about the wilderness proposal areas, see the Hidden Gems Campaign Web site, http://www.whiteriverwild.org. |
If a bloodsoaked, phantasmagorical acid-nightmare inspired by heavy metal album covers and featuring a primal, chainsaw-wielding Nicolas Cage sounds like your kind of crazy, then Mandy is the film for you. |
It's likely to inspire fervent adoration and outright disdain in equal measure. Telling the story of a furious lumberjack on a quest for revenge against a cult of religious fanatics, the film is awash in garish neon colours and thrums along to an intense heavy-metal score. |
The film is outright exhausting with the amount of arresting visuals that blare from the screen – and also because it is at least half an hour too long. |
Visually Mandy is often transcendent, unleashing mind-bending, LSD-inspired sequences that are some of the most purely psychedelic you'll see on screen this year. |
So it's unfortunate that this inspiration doesn't extend to the film's storyline, a testosterone-soaked and frequently reductive yarn that arguably wastes its best character, the titular Mandy, the coolest metal-chick you'll ever see, by reducing her to the object of desire of a bunch of screaming, angry dudes. |
For a film of such audacious visuals and moments of high-wire insanity, it's unfortunate there wasn't as much care put into telling a richer story. |
And then, of course, there's Nicolas Cage, Mandy's not-so-secret weapon. The man who never turns down an opportunity to be a total madman, Cage is totally bonkers here in the best possible way – a psychologically imbalanced anchor in a cosmically nightmarish world. |
Did I mention this film was nuts? |
Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane is really, really, really feeling himself. Guwop went to social media to this week to show fans how much weight he shed since getting his body right two years ago. |
Gucci hopped on Instagram Thursday with a must-like before/after shot of himself. |
Over the past few days, Gucci has flooded his Instagram page with shirtless shots. |
Earlier in the week, Gucci’s wife Keyshia Ka’oir gushed over her hubby’s body. |
This week, Gucci flooded his Instagram page with a ton of shirtless pics. |
The beauty industry can be more style than substance when it comes to supporting the kinds of great causes that International Women’s Day brings much-needed attention to. So ignore the femvertising and support brands that back up their posturing with action. Here are three that deserve a look. |
Bobbi Brown’s Pretty Powerful Campaign for Women & Girls is linking up with Lulu Guinness, the designer famous for her lip and lipstick motifs, this International Women’s Day. The irresistibly sweet Bobbi Brown x Lulu Guinness make-up bag contains two Bobbi Brown bestsellers, its Smokey Eye mascara and Art Stick in Bar... |
If your budget won’t stretch to that set, there is always the option of Elizabeth Arden’s March On Beautiful Color lipstick in Pink Punch, a shade chosen by Reese Witherspoon. Proceeds from the limited-edition lipstick, which costs €26, will be donated to UN Women. |
For a smaller but no less meaningful contribution, you could pick up L’Occitane’s Solidarity Balm (€6 at L’Occitane stores around Ireland). The orange-blossom-scented balm, with neroli and vanilla, is useful for dry cuticles, elbows, knuckles or any little patches of dusty-looking dry skin – particularly useful in thes... |
I have been reading the book “The Honest Spy” by Andreas Kollender. This is a fictionalized account of Fritz Kolbe, one of the most important informant the allies had during WWII. It demonstrates the courage, fear and bravery for one man to stand for justice and the global good. His longing to return to familial life a... |
As the daughter of a man who grew up on a Michigan farm and enlisted in WWII, serving in the CBI theater as an officer, I grew up hearing little of the particulars of my father’s service but I did hear about the war. |
The question that occurred to me then and has never been answered is, “Why would a whole group of people agree to these horrible acts of inhumanity and violence?” Why are we starved to make another human being less than. |
Now my fear, angst and concern blossom as our nation has appointed a misogynist, xenophobic, active racist, bombastic, vengeful bully as the president of the United States and he has a following, a following called “The Base.” The Base of our Nation, founded by activists, is equality and justice. Concepts that continue... |
To have Congressional praise of Donald Trump as a “man of action”and the moral turpitude that resides in those two words should alarm us all regardless of party affiliation along with the concerns of the vertebral integrity of Congress to hold said president accountable. |
The Ambassador to Humanity has hung himself. |
What does that say about us--and him? |
I guess you don’t ever know what kind of worms are in someone else’s brain. I have heard that many? lots? a number? of people contemplate suicide. I have never. But there is still some inkling in my psyche that there is an “aw f*ck it all, what does it matter” point. |
I find myself saying goddammit Bourdain, you were an inspiration to the planet - why? |
I have always thought that running away seems a much better solution than suicide. Most bad situations are caused by our relationships with other people. Why not just move somewhere else, quit that obnoxious job, leave grad school, divorce, etc.? |
I guess the only thing you can't run away from is yourself. |
DUDLEY — Local teen author and "vlogger" Mandi Lynn began writing her debut novel at age 13. Three and half years later, her young adult paranormal novel, "Essence," was in print. |
Once a draft is finished, Mandi's advice is to step away and let it simmer before starting the next. She talked about what she called "midbook syndrome" — when inspiration wanes and thoughts of abandoning the story haunt. The cure, she said, was to keep writing anyway or step away for a bit. |
Nate Axelrod (3) and the Ohio Wesleyan men’s basketball team will face Benedictine in a sectional final after picking up a pair of NCAA Division III tournament wins over the weekend. The game is set to tip at 7:30 p.m. (CST) Friday night. |
The Ohio Wesleyan University men’s basketball team will compete in a sectional semifinal of the NCAA Division III tournament, it was announced by the NCAA on Sunday. |
Ohio Wesleyan will face Benedictine (Ill.) in a sectional semifinal game at 7:30 p.m. (Central Standard Time) on Friday at the Dan and Ada Rice Center on the Benedictine campus in Lisle, Ill. Friday’s other sectional semifinal matches Alma (Mich.) against St. Norbert (Wis.) at 5 p.m. (Central Standard Time). The winner... |
Ohio Wesleyan (25-4) was an at-large selection to the NCAA Division III tournament. The Battling Bishops advanced to the final 16 teams by defeating Pitt-Greensburg, 114-68, on Friday and Lynchburg (Va.), 97-94, on Saturday. Ohio Wesleyan shared the North Coast Athletic Conference championship with a 15-3 record, the B... |
Benedictine (28-0) won the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference tournament, defeating Milwaukee School of Engineering by an 83-57 count in the championship game. Benedictine went 20-0 in the NACC during the regular season. The Eagles received a first-round bye in the NCAA Division III tournament and advanced to the... |
Alma (23-6) won the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association tournament with a 62-54 win over Trine in the championship game. The Fighting Scots were 12-2 in the MIAA during the regular season, finishing in second place in the conference standings. Alma advanced to the third round with a 74-60 win over Denison on ... |
St. Norbert (25-2) won the Midwest Conference tournament, defeating Carroll, 71-69, in the championship game. The Green Knights won the MWC championship with an 18-0 record during regular-season play. St. Norbert advanced to the third round with a 77-58 win over Northwestern (Minn.) and a 63-61 verdict over St. Olaf (M... |
The winner of Saturday’s national quarterfinal game will advance to the national semifinals, to be played on March 18 in Salem, Va. |
When was the last time you flashed a fake smile at the office? |
For some, it may be just another mundane aspect of work life — putting on a game face to hide your inner unhappiness. But new research suggests that it may have unexpected consequences: worsening your mood and causing you to withdraw from the tasks at hand. |
In a study published this month in the Academy of Management Journal, scientists tracked a group of bus drivers for two weeks, focusing on them because their jobs require frequent, and generally courteous, interactions with many people. |
The scientists examined what happened when the drivers engaged in fake smiling, known as “surface acting,” and its opposite, “deep acting,” where they generated authentic smiles through positive thoughts, said an author of the study, Brent Scott, an assistant professor of management at Michigan State University. |
After following the drivers closely, the researchers found that on days when the smiles were forced, the subjects’ moods deteriorated and they tended to withdraw from work. Trying to suppress negative thoughts, it turns out, may have made those thoughts even more persistent. |
But on days when the subjects tried to display smiles through deeper efforts — by actually cultivating pleasant thoughts and memories — their overall moods improved and their productivity increased. |
Women were affected more than men. Dr. Scott suspected cultural norms might be at play: women are socialized to be more emotionally expressive, he said, so hiding emotions may create more strain. |
Research suggests that an inauthentic smile to hide unhappiness can further worsen your mood. |
Santo Domingo.- The National Weather Office (Onamet) on Mon. said that Isaac became a hurricane Sun. night and is currently located around 1,980 kilometers east of the Lesser Antilles. |
Isaac’s maximum sustained winds are 120 kph, moving west at 20 kph. |
The Onamet said Isaac maintains its projected path through the Central Caribbean on Thursday. |
Meanwhile Hurricane Helene is located about 480 kilometers southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, moving west -northwest at about 28 kph, with maximum sustained winds of 140 kph. |
The Isabella County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a fatal one-car rollover crash that occurred around 3:30 a.m. Saturday on N. Shepherd Road just north of Beal City Road in Denver Township. |
A 1999 Jeep Wrangler driven by Thomas Gary Painter, 22, Mount Pleasant, was traveling northbound on Shepherd when he lost control, began fishtailing, left the roadway and overturned. Painter was ejected from the Jeep and the vehicle ended up rolling over on him, pinning him underneath it. He died as a result of the cra... |
Deputies say Painter was not wearing his seat belt and that speed and alcohol were factors in the crash. |
Passenger Adam Jacob Cronkite, 17, Mount Pleasant, was wearing his seat belt and was not injured in the crash. |
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