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Talking Point: Beach lovers, take note—the turquoise Mediterranean is just a half-hour drive away.
Pedigree: Luxe materials accentuate the clean lines of this 2013 house, designed by AD100 architecture studio Marmol Radziner and featuring hand-carved-leather floors, Japanese-ash paneling, and an onyx fireplace surround, among other distinctive surfaces. Expansive windows and a capacious outdoor entertaining space—co...
Property values: The firm also devised the 2.75-acre landscape, which is planted with an array of native cacti and wild grasses.
Talking Point: Environmentally friendly, the building is crowned by green roofs and is powered almost entirely by solar energy.
Pedigree: Set on the banks of exclusive Georgica Pond, this 1931 compound—dubbed Briar Patch—was crafted by architect Arthur C. Jackson. AD100 talent Peter Marino overhauled the estate in the '90s, transforming both the Georgian Revival main house and a second (four-bedroom) residence. Stylish touches like two-foot-wid...
Property Values: The 11-acre spread encompasses not only lush woodlands and lawns but also a swimming pool, cabana, and sunken tennis court.
Talking Point: With its series of picturesque porches, the home has numerous spots for relaxing and enjoying breathtaking sunsets and water views.
The Holy See Press Office released a statement May 21 responding to recent blog posts that, during his time as Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger told someone the Third Secret of Fatima was not completely published.
“In this regard, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI declares ‘never to have spoken with Professor Dollinger about Fatima’, clearly affirming that the remarks attributed to Professor Dollinger on the matter ‘are pure inventions, absolutely untrue’, and he confirms decisively that ‘the publication of the Third Secret of Fatima i...
On May 13, 1917, brothers Francisco and Jacinta Marto – 9 and 7 years-old – and their cousin, 10-year-old Lucia dos Santos, were with their sheep grazing near the Portuguese town of Fatima when they saw a figure of a woman dressed in white and holding a rosary.
After this first appearance, the Virgin Mary would come to the children on the 13th of the month from May until October. The message of the Fatima apparitions can be summarized primarily as a call to repentance and prayer.
In 1930, the Catholic Church proclaimed the supernatural character of the apparitions and a shrine was erected at Fatima. Pope Paul VI visited Fatima in 1967, and later Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI visited during their pontificates. Pope Francis plans to visit Fatima in 2017 in celebration of the 100th anniv...
A group of Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmentalists have put politics aside to fight a $15 billion World Bank plan to revive the Dead Sea, which is dropping by about three feet a year. The bank’s plan proposes building a canal or tunnel to link the salt-laden sea to the Red Sea in the south.
It may look calm, but the Dead Sea is shrinking rapidly and there’s a battle brewing among those who hope to save it. The environmentalists, members of Friends of the Earth Middle East, along with prominent businesses like Israel’s Dead Sea Works, believe the canal could destroy the sea’s fragile and unique ecosystem.
The Dead Sea, one of the saltiest bodies of water on the planet, is bordered by Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. While it doesn’t support marine life, it is bursting with minerals and salts which provide healing therapies for people suffering from cystic fibrosis to psoriasis.
Find out why the Dead Sea is shrinking and what plans are afoot to save it in ISRAEL21c‘s report, featured above.
1 The man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar. 2 He then brought me out through the north gate and led me around...
Know The Facts – you are right. In this story we have one mega-entity up against the other, both with interests. The DSW and its Jordan corollary are very much implicated in the destruction and drying up of the Dead Sea.
If I am not mistaken, the corporation known as the Dead Sea Works is owned by the multi-billionaire Ofer brothers. The Dead Sea Works mines minerals from the Dead Sea. The less water in the Sea, the easier it is to dig it up, the greater their profitability. DSW has been deliberately drying up the Dead Sea for years. T...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Police have identified the man they say punched and robbed an elderly woman on Christmas morning.
The NYPD says they’re looking for 50-year-old Marc Malone.
Investigators say Malone entered the victim’s Coney Island apartment and went through her belongings as she watched in terror.
Police say the victim, who is in her 80s, managed to push her emergency medical alert button, and that Malone snatched it and ran away.
Police say the victim is disabled and relies on home health aides.
FOX Sports West will again televise Angels games, including pre and post-game coverage surrounding all game telecasts, throughout the 2017 season.
All FOX Sports West Angels games are broadcast and available in High Definition. If you are not receiving game telecasts in HD and believe you should be, please contact your provider.
The Citi Golf has already made a 1000km journey to Uitenhage and is now about to get its passport stamped.
Jamie Orr meets VWSA communications boss Matt Gennrich at the AutoPavilion museum in Uitenhage.
It's fitted with a 225kW VR6 engine.
The Citi was also treated to a respray.
Johannesburg - Regarded as the holy grail of hot hatch festivals, Wörthersee is where the world’s wickedest GTIs meet each year and this year will see a unique blue-and-white South African creation strut its stuff as part of a three-continent tour.
The project is the brainchild of American automotive enthusiast Jamie Orr, who shipped a 225kW Passat 3.6-litre VR6 engine in from North America before finding a suitable donor car in the form of a 1991 blue and white Citi Golf.
His team then installed the imported engine along with a gearbox from a Golf 4 VR5, a limited slip differential and lightweight billet flywheel and clutch set-up.
The Citi Golf was also treated to a respray as well as an updated cabin with GTi Mk7 inspired seat fabric and upgraded brakes and steering components.
Following the build, which took about a week, Jamie took the Citi Golf to its first car show, the VDub Camp Fest in Bela Bela, before heading to the Uitenhage factory for a visit to the AutoPavilion museum.
The car will now be shipped to Germany, where some “finishing touches” will be applied before the car makes another 1000km journey to Wörthersee. Before leaving Germany for America, the Citi Golf will also visit factories, museums and the Nurburgring.
"While the Golf 1 enjoys a strong enthusiast following around the world, Citi Golfs are a rare sight even at Volkswagen fan events, that is why I wanted to buy restore, and share one as much as possible," Jamie enthused.
FC Halifax Town made it four wins out of five as they beat Dagenham and Redbridge 2-1 at The Shay.
It was a hard-fought win for Town against a plucky Dagenham side, with Jonathan Edwards notching the winner after Matty Kosylo’s first-half opener was quickly cancelled out by Tomi Adeloye.
Town always looked like they could score, and should have scored more, when they went forward, with their four attacking players interchanging well and carrying a threat.
The hosts didn’t control the contest like they did last time out at home against Maidstone, and as a result, made hard work of it at times.
The Shaymen are still a work in progress, which is to be expected five games in, but 12 points from a possible 15 represents an excellent start by anyone’s standards.
Like all the talk had been during the week, all eyes were on Simon Lenighan, who started after his move to The Shay prompted an angry reaction from some supporters, which in turn prompted a statement from the club defending their signing.
Quite a week. Almost enough to make you forget there was a football match at the end of it.
Town flew out of the blocks, creating two clear chances inside the first five minutes, but Dayle Southwell’s shot one-on-one was saved by Elliott Justham, and then Niall Maher’s header was cleared off the line.
By the time Kosylo eventually opened the scoring after half-an-hour, cutting in right-footed and firing in to the near post after Ryan Sellers’ long pass, Town had earned it with some creative forward play, especially by the impressive Southwell, who regularly found pockets of space in which to dictate attacks and driv...
But Dagenham’s equaliser burst Halifax’s bubble.
The visitors had come close, albeit sporadically, when Alex McQueen’s free-kick was tipped round the post by Sam Johnson, and Chike Kandi’s curling shot was deflected just wide.
But their equaliser came after hesitant defending, with The Shaymen not taking their chance to clear the ball, and Adeloye poked it in from eight yards.
Dagenham seemed to grow in confidence after that. There were fewer stray passes and nervy moments, and more attacks and pressure on the Town goal.
Adeloye went close shortly after the restart, but his header was tipped wide of the top corner by Johnson.
But Town regained the lead after building up a head of steam when Edwards’ flick goalwards from a whipped free-kick was brilliantly kept out by Elliott Justham, and then Maher’s shot was deflected over.
Nathan Clarke then met Ben Tomlinson’s corner with a bullet header, and Edwards got a touch to take it in.
This time, Town looked more controlled after scoring, and looked after their lead better having restored it.
There was still work to be done to preserve it though, with Halifax never comfortable until the final whistle as Dagenham pushed for another equaliser.
Halifax: Johnson, Hanson, Clarke, Brown, Sellers, Lenighan, Maher, Tomlinson, Southwell (King 90), Kosylo (Odelusi 89), Edwards (Preston 84). Subs not used: Rowley, McLeod.
Dagenham: Justham, Gordon, Robinson, Davey, Pennell (Hoyte 75), Wright, McQueen, Goodliffe, Adeloye, Reynolds (Leighton 84), Kandi (Romain 63). Subs not used: Moore, Bonds.
In his new and very frank book, fitness expert Daniel Zeman says boomer men "expect someone else to take care of their bad choices."
Daniel Zeman has been in fitness for 35 years, working in health clubs and hospitals, with corporate fitness programs and elite athletes like Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, the Vikings and Timberwolves.
During that time, the exercise physiologist from Minnetonka has watched with growing alarm as his fellow baby boomer men have under-exercised, overeaten and generally lazed their way through the essentials of good health.
Zeman, however, isn’t worried so much about boomer men.
He fears for Gen X, the millennials and the later generations, which will be burdened by millions of dumpy — and probably cranky — old boomers clogging nursing and assisted-living residences as they decline toward expensive deaths.
We talked to Zeman about fitness as a “moral obligation,” what he calls the failure of the fitness industry and why he’s pointing his finger at men. The conversation with Zeman, 61, was edited slightly for clarity and brevity.
Q: Why do you see it as a moral obligation to stay fit?
A: You have a moral obligation to anything where your actions affect others. In a democracy like the United States, with Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and health insurance, my poor health habits drastically drive up your health care costs.
Because of our choices, we will leave a bigger debt on our grandkids. Every nursing home in the United States will be filled with baby boomers who did not take care of their health. If they’re in assisted living and they don’t have $10,000 a month, which is today’s current rate, they’ll be on Medicaid, which means thei...
Q: Why is the health of boomer men so important now?
We now know that as many as 50 percent of the deaths from heart disease and cancer are preventable. Generations before can say they never knew smoking was bad for us, but today’s baby boomer, like the Titanic, can’t say, “I never saw the iceberg.” They are just neglecting to take care of their health and now expect som...
Q: Why are you focusing on boomer men?
A: Look at the Race for the Cure. Thirty thousand women on Mother’s Day walk for breast cancer. We don’t see that with men. We see men neglect their health care, and their medical screenings. We see them laugh off the idea that their gut got bigger.
Women have already set the bar on health care, as far as taking care of themselves. They have had medical screenings ever since they’ve gone through puberty. But men deny a lot of things.
Q: Is there hope for boomer men?
A: I think if you can show a man his quality of life can change, he’ll listen to you because that’s something that’s really important to them.
Q: You talk about the “failure of the fitness movement.” What is that?
A: The fitness movement has really been around in the Minneapolis area since before 1980. They still haven’t increased more than 15 percent of the population. The data are pretty clear.
They’re a failure in changing the health of the country. Obesity rates have tripled since the introduction of the fitness industry. Like 80 percent of America can’t walk for 30 minutes. So it’s hard to say the fitness industry has been successful improving health and fitness. It has sold T-shirts, memberships, juice ba...
Q: Is that why you say you’re in the behavior-change business?
A: I realized a long time ago that people don’t like exercise. I originally thought it was sort of like, “Build it and they will come, all “Field of Dreams.” But for behavioral change, you have to give them a reason to do an exercise program. What are you going to give them back?
And so now, the question that I ask people is, “What will you miss when you can’t do it anymore?” They’ll say, “I’ll miss going for hikes.” So, then you show them, “I’ll let you hike again if you do this exercise.” But the idea that they will come in and say, “Boy, I really miss step class,” no.
But in the behavioral change business, you have to realize you’re trying to get them into a habit and trying to make it connect to something they want. Then, you have to show them. “I’ll change your behavior and give you that in return.” We’re not selling them a spinning class. They don’t care about that.
Q: You talk about redefining exercise. What do you mean by that?
A: Redefining the term exercise is really understanding that if they give time for good health, they will get time back. As a boomer, you’re clearly playing the back nine holes of your life. Wasting time is not something you have any interest in doing.
Q: What are some simple changes men can make in their lives to stay fit and active?
A: You can’t smoke. You just can’t. It’s just disappointing that we still have that conversation.
The second thing I would tell men to do is have medical screenings, cancer screenings for skin cancer, colonoscopies. Get ’em done.
The third one I would say is maintain an ideal body weight. Find a body weight that allows you freedom of movement and you are not fatigued. Don’t rely on an exercise program to lose weight when you are overfeeding yourself. If your pants don’t fit anymore, it’s not because you’re not on an exercise program. It’s becau...
With 15 seconds remaining in the first half, Newark Valley quarterback Kyle Coffin finds Caden Bennett for the 69-yard touchdown before halftime.
Labor Day is done for another year. Back to work. Kids are ready to go back to school. Put away those geeky seersucker suits, plan on pulling the boat and winterizing the cottage and organize car pooling for school.
Squirrel hunting is good, albeit tough with so many leaves on the trees; bass are in fall feeding patterns; dove hunting is in down in Pennsylvania; and around here you can shoot up to 15 Canada geese a day through Sept. 25.
Canada geese fly over the dike near Elmira's Brand Park on their way to the Chemung River.
A 15-bird daily bag is a stretch of imagination for old hunters who used to count the days to mid-October, unpack and set dozens of decoys in a field in the dark, sit in blinds until sun-up, then shoot their limit of two birds and go home by 7:30 a.m.
21st century goose hunters in New York can target Canadas daily this month, and keep shooting until they tire of it.
OK, it’s not that easy. But these are resident Canadas, which means they are the ones you see all year on golf courses, in parks, messing up patios, etc.
Look the same; taste the same as the scrawnier brethren that will be migrating this way next month.
There are now more than 200,000 Canadas in New York year-around (the state would like to see 85,000) and they have gone from gamebird to nuisance.
The September seasons include extended shooting hours, and other special regulations.
You are going to need a 2018-2019 hunting license; 2) be registered for the 2018-2019 New York Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program (HIP); and 3) all hunters 16 years of age or older must have a 2018-2019 federal duck stamp signed across the face of the stamp in ink.
For a list of ways to purchase a hunting license or to register with HIP, visit the DEC website.
Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps are available at some post offices or on the U.S. postal service website.
Another rite of fall hereabouts is the Free Youth Pheasant Hunt held annually for a couple of decades at the Molyneaux Tree Farm in Endicott.

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