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There have been 278 foreclosures in the county in the first nine months of 2012, which is almost the same as this time last year. Of that number, 97 have been in Rochester, which is the highest Q3 figure since the real estate market first showed signs of decline in 2007. |
The number of foreclosures in Dover, too, has also increased this year, from 36 to 47 but below the Q3 peak of 2010, when there were 59 in the first nine months. |
The good news for Strafford County is that the increased real estate activity has translated into increased revenues, partly through the small slice of RTT, but also through the cost of recording documents and with the provision of photocopies. Registry of Deeds revenues for the first nine months of 2012 are at $721,89... |
The improving figures concur with Realtor Bill Cormier of Hourihane and Cormier's experience. |
"We continue to get more activity," he said, "and it is broad-based, from mobile homes to properties in the $250,000 range. Appraisers are very busy. It's getting a bit more challenging to get a timely appraisal," said Cormier, as an indication of the busier real estate market. |
"It continues to feel like a gradual upturn and our inventory continues to grow," he added. |
We will always [digitally] scan all the lead actors in the film. We don't know if we're going to need them. We don't intentionally scan them as an archive process. It's for reference later. |
This might seem somewhat creepy, but it actually makes a lot of sense in today's filmmaking, and especially for a cinematic universe like Star Wars. Having digital scans of the actor's face can make certain things way easier down the line, and doing so upfront is just an example of Lucasfilm being smart and covering it... |
We shot it in multiple passes, and added a lot of digital stuff on top. As she's sucked out, she's a digital Leia. As we pull in closer, that's all Carrie. And flying back through the detritus, that was a mixture. |
In this instance, the digital scan of Carrie Fisher was blended with both her actual performance and the work of stunt doubles to create the most believable version of the scene. This is pretty cool because it still maintains the integrity of the actor's performance while making a shot happen that otherwise couldn't. T... |
While people have mixed feelings about that scene overall, to me at least, it looked more real than either of the digital recreations in Rogue One. That uncanny valley is still vast, but each new advancement makes it just a little bit smaller. There is probably a time in the not-too-distant future where the presence of... |
You can see the next chapter in the Star Wars franchise when Solo: A Star Wars Story hits theaters on May 25. For all the latest in the you that lives inside a computer, stay tuned to CinemaBlend. |
Oh say can you bee: Brooklyn Grange will host an “Introduction to Beekeeping” class on Feb. 18, where you can learn how bees like these produce honey. |
Home on the Grange: Brooklyn Grange hosts bees on its rooftop farm. |
This workshop has a lot of buzz! |
A rooftop farm in the Brooklyn Navy Yard will teach urbanites the secret to raising bees and harvesting their honey while in a crowded borough. And those who take the “Introduction to Beekeeping” class at the Brooklyn Grange on Feb. 18 may learn something from the way the industrious insects work together, said one of ... |
Brooklyn Grange keeps 30 beehives at different rooftop locations throughout the city, and its bee classes are among its most popular events, said Plakias. The class on Feb. 18 is designed for those who are totally new to the subject, covering bee anatomy, their role in the environment, and how much outdoor space you ne... |
Bees also require a source of fresh water near the hive, she said, and beekeepers must register their hives with the New York City Department of Health. |
Bees are dormant for the winter, so the beekeeping season in Brooklyn usually begins in April. But those seeking sweet returns must be patient, said Zinter — beekeepers typically harvest honey in the fall of the year after starting the hive. During the first year, the hive will need all its honey as a food source to su... |
Those who do not keep bees can still support the busy buzzers by buying local, said Zinter. |
Brooklynites can also support the green spaces that bees need, said Zinter. |
“Rooftop farms, gardens, parks. Support these spaces anyway you can,” she said. |
Zinter and Brooklyn Grange have a bee in their bonnet about the honey producers, bee-cause bees pollinate a wide variety of the vegetables and fruits that humans eat. |
“Introduction to Beekeeping” at Brooklyn Grange (63 Flushing Ave. at Clinton Avenue in Fort Greene, www.brooklyngrangefarm.com]. Feb. 18 at 11 am. $45. |
Yes, the more Bees the merrier. |
Less people and more natural and sustainable systems makes a better Brooklyn. Keep up the good work at Brooklyn Grange. |
You know what would be original? If the Brooklyn Grange was actually in Brooklyn.....not Long Island City Queens! |
LOOOOOOK ATTT MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm playing with bees on my Brooklyn playcation!! |
Atlantic Terminal Market is the other Bedford Avenue. |
Police in Mandera will continue holding a suspected Al-Shabaab spy for a period not exceeding five days, a Mandera court has ruled. |
Mandera Senior Resident Magistrate Dancun Mtai directed the police to produce the suspect in court on April 1 for mention. |
Police branded Mr Mahad Ahmed Adan, 34, an amniyaat (Al-Shabaab spy) after arresting him on Friday night in the outskirts of Mandera town. |
In a sworn affidavit, Mr Wilson Nyaga, a police officer from the Anti-Terror Unit (ATPU), said the suspect was arrested by police reservists who were on patrol. |
"The respondent was arrested on March 23, 2019 at about 10pm at Barwaqo Primary School by National Police Reservists who were on patrol," Mr Nyaga said in his affidavit. |
The officer has requested to continue holding the suspect for ten days to conclude investigation but the court only allowed five days on grounds that the respondent showed willingness to cooperate. |
According to the police, Mr Adan is a Somali national and a holder of Somali national identity card issued on December 3, 2018. |
In response, the suspect told the court that he had only come to Kenya to visit his family that stays in Mandera town. |
"I came by air to Dholo town before arriving at Bulahawa by road then crossing into Mandera together with my brothers who were in Bulahawa to receive me," he told Nation. |
People from both Mandera and Bulahawa crisscross the closed border freely at undesignated points despite it being manned by Kenyan police officers. |
"I arrived in Mandera at about 2pm and while I planned to report my arrival to police the following day, I was arrested at night. I am ready to be held and investigated," Mr Adan told the court. |
Mr Kennedy Amwayi, a state counsel, told the court that several documents found on the suspect were meant to deceive the police as he carried out his mission of collecting intelligence for Al-Shabaab. |
He had in his possession several Somalia documents including a renewal of short term contract, a Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation letter dated February 16, 2019 and a performance appraisal score card of the African Union dated January 20, 2019. |
"All these documents, police believe, are perceived to be of deceptive plan into acquiring information [from] Kenya for possible targets," said Mr Amwayi. |
Police said that intelligence leading to the arrest of Mr Adan came from Nairobi and that they needed ten days to collaborate it. |
Police will also be seeking to know if the suspect worked for Amisom as a translator for a period of ten years as he claimed. |
"The suspect claims he worked with Amisom (African Union Mission in Somalia) as a translator but this is yet to be proved by the Department of Military Intelligence officers in Kenya," said Mr Amwayi. |
The suspect will be held at Mandera Police Station. |
The dad joke is a delicate thing. Part knowing humour, part lack of humour, it's only requirement is that it ellicits not a laugh from its audience but the annoyed response: "Daaaaaaaaad". |
Imgur user UhBell has collected ten of the best from the internet's deep well of Dad jokes. Read 'em and weep. Literally. |
Taylor Swift promotes her new album '1989' in Times Square on October 30th 2014. Spotify founder Daniel Ek has responded to her decision to pull her music from the streaming music service. |
One week after Taylor Swift withdrew her entire catalog from Spotify, dismissing the music-streaming service and calling it “a bit like a grand experiment,” the company’s founder is fighting back. “We’re getting fans to pay for music again,” Daniel Ek argues in a new blog post, adding that Spotify’s 50 million users, i... |
Although Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Talking Heads’ David Byrne, Cracker’s David Lowery and others have ripped Spotify for paying minuscule per-stream royalties to artists, Ek blames record labels and others who own the music: “If that money is not flowing to the creative community in a timely and transparent way, that’s a... |
Ek quotes Thriller producer Quincy Jones: “Spotify is not the enemy; piracy is the enemy.” File-sharers downloaded Swift’s “Shake It Off” nearly 1.1 million times over the past two weeks, according to BigChampagne, which monitors activity on illegal peer-to-peer services. Spotify’s free service may be “completely disre... |
In his 1,800-word post, Ek also responded to Borchetta’s implication that Spotify should be flexible enough to post certain artists’ songs exclusively on the $10-a-month “premium” service — thus avoiding giving away music for free. |
NASA has received approval from the Obama administration to keep the International Space Station operational until 2024, four years longer than previously planned, according to reports. |
The space agency told the media about the extension of the ISS mission on a conference call Wednesday, Reuters reported. The Orlando Sentinel broke the story a day earlier, citing leaked NASA documents. |
The first modular component of the $150 billion space lab was launched in 1998 and the space station, a joint project of five global space agencies, has been continuously occupied by humans since November 2000. |
"Ten years from today is a pretty far-reaching, pretty strategic-looking vision," NASA Associate Administrator Bill Gerstenmaier said Wednesday, according to Reuters. "This extension ... opens up a large avenue of research onboard the station. It also changes the perspective for the commercial [transportation] provider... |
In recent years, cargo supply missions to the ISS have been conducted by private space firms like SpaceX, while Boeing is the primary private contractor for station diagnostics and maintenance. |
Commercial Spaceflight Federation president Michael Lopez-Alegria expressed approval for the decision to extend the operational life of the ISS. |
"The International Space Station is the crown jewel of NASA's human spaceflight program," Lopez-Alegria said in a statement. "This extension comes at a critical time and paves the way for the ISS to fulfill its extensive and multifaceted potentialas a research lab that will provide countless benefits here on Earth, as... |
NASA, which is already on the hook for about $100 billion of the estimated total cost of building and maintaining the space station from its planning stages in the mid-1980s through 2020, may have to spend about $3 billion a year to maintain the ISS from 2021 to 2024. Russia, the European Union, Japan, and Canada are o... |
Gerstenmaier did say that other space agencies contributing to the operation of the space station appear to be on board with the idea of keeping the ISS open longer. |
"We talk to our partners about this. They want to go forward with this. It's just working through the government approval," he was quoted as saying by Reuters. |
But NASA apparently has a contingency plan if its partners choose not to contribute to furthering the lifespan of the ISS. |
"We're prepared to do what we have to do if the partners choose to take a different path," Gerstenmaier said, according to the news agency. |
Indiana claims DHS scanned the state's electoral system tens of thousands of times without permission. |
Indiana is the newest state to accuse the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of trying to hack its state electoral system. |
The state’s IT team claimed that a DHS IP address repeatedly scanned Indiana’s system. The attempted hacks occurred tens of thousands of times over a period of 46 days, beginning while Vice President Mike Pence was still the governor of Indiana. |
“We know that between November 1 and December 16, we were scanned with about 14,800 scans, nearly 15,000 different times,” DHS Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson told The Daily Caller. |
Like Georgia, Indiana did not give DHS permission to scan. |
So why did DHS allegedly go for it anyway? |
Georgia also declined “help” from DHS regarding its election system. Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp believes DHS may have been trying to intimidate him with the scans before he publicly opposed election systems being labeled as “critical infrastructure” by the Obama administration. |
Lawson added that she is “very concerned,” but hasn’t decided whether or not to involve the DHS Office of Inspector General like Georgia did. |
Idaho: Hey, DHS tried to hack our election website, too! |
Indiana isn’t alone with such recent DHS hacking claims as Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney said he believes DHS may have attempted to hack its state election website around Nov. 8. It wasn’t a Russian IP address mucking around in the state’s affairs, but an IP address belonging to DHS, he said. |
Denney expressed frustration that DHS conducted penetration tests without any warning or permission, adding that other secretaries of state across the country are also really concerned about what the election system designation of critical infrastructure will mean in the long run. |
After Georgia accused DHS of trying to hack its computer network and voter registration database, and DHS denied it, West Virginia Secretary of State-Elect Mac Warner accused DHS of attempting to hack West Virginia election records too, just as agency had allegedly tried to hack Kentucky's. |
Percentage of the contiguous U.S. either in severe or greater drought (top 10% dryness) or extremely wet (top 10% wetness) during the period January – November, as computed using NOAA’s Climate Extremes Index. Remarkably, more than half of the country (56%) experienced either a top-ten driest or top-ten wettest year, a... |
CoreLogic “estimates flood losses in the U.S. this year at approximately $10.67 billion, based on various flooding and storm events recorded in the National Climate Data Center.” The extreme flooding was caused by the most extreme hydrologic conditions in the United States in history — most of the nation was in either ... |
More on our record wet/dry extremes in 2011 here: 2011 — Record for Wet/Dry Extremes in U.S. |
The Secretary-General is outraged by the continued killing and abduction of civilians by armed groups in the Beni area of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He condemns Saturday's killing of at least 11 civilians, including one boy, as well as the injury and abduction of several more during an... |
The Secretary-General is also deeply troubled by reports that on Friday, 19 October, two Congolese health workers helping to combat the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu were killed in Butembo when armed militia attacked the Congolese army unit to which they were attached. |
The Secretary-General calls on all armed groups to immediately cease attacks against civilians and ensure humanitarian access to populations in need. He reiterates, in particular, his support to civilians in areas affected by Ebola and insecurity. |
The Ministry of Public Works is advising of the following road restrictions that will be in place on Friday, May 25th for the Sinclair Packwood Memorial Cycle Race, the Bermuda Day Half Marathon Derby and the Bermuda Day Parade. |
Commencing at Somerset Road and travelling along Bridge Hill, Middle Road, Burnt House Hill, Harbour Road, The Lane, Crow Lane, into the City of Hamilton, leaving the City of Hamilton on Cedar Avenue, Marsh Folly Road, to Dutton Avenue. |
Commencing at Somerset Road and travelling along Bridge Hill, Middle Road, Burnt House Hill, Harbour Road, The Lane, Crow Lane, into the City of Hamilton, leaving the City of Hamilton then onto Cedar Avenue, Marsh Folly Road, Dutton Avenue and finishing at Bernard’s Park. |
Starting on Dutton Avenue and leaving Barnard Park area, the Parade will travel north on Dutton Avenue, west on Marsh Folly Road and South on Cedar Avenue into the City of Hamilton. |
This road closure is effective during the period Thursday, May 24th through Friday, May 25th, to prepare for the Bermuda Day Parade events. Motorists can expect that this road way will be used for setup of floats and other items for the Bermuda Day Event. |
Rooftop installations comprise growing percentage of the region's power supply. |
The annular solar eclipse is seen as the sun sets behind the Rockies from downtown Denver on May 20, 2012. |
Rooftop solar electric panels now generate enough power in New England that the region’s grid operator likely will need to fill the gap with other power plants when a solar eclipse crosses the United States on Aug. 21. |
Roughly a month from now, a total eclipse will take place, blocking the sun’s rays along a path from Oregon to South Carolina. The Northeast will experience only a partial eclipse, with 65 percent of the afternoon sun obscured. |
But, if it’s a sunny day, ISO-New England expects generation from the region’s 2,000 megawatts of solar to fade for nearly three hours. That short-term loss could roughly equal the output of the 1,244-megawatt Seabrook nuclear power plant, the largest generator in New England. |
The impact could be even greater on a national level, according to calculations by Bloomberg Technology. It found the eclipse could reduce output to 7 million homes. It calculated that more than 9,000 megawatts of solar power could go offline, equal to the output of nine nuclear plants. |
California, which relies on solar for roughly 40 percent of its power on some days, is gearing up to fill the gap. CASIO, the California Independent System Operator, will buy 200 megawatts of reserve generation from wind, natural gas and hydro resources, the agency says. |
The fact that preparations are being made in New England for a rare eclipse indicates that solar energy is beginning to make a real contribution to the region’s electricity supply, with much of it coming from rooftop-scale installations. By 2026, ISO-New England expects installed capacity to more than double. |
Solar remains a tiny portion of the region’s capacity. |
On a typically sunny day in Boston, with temperatures in the 80s, natural gas-fired power plants supply more than half the power in New England. |
Renewables contribute 5 percent or so, most of that coming from biomass and trash-fired generators. Solar is a small fraction. |
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