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Simon Cooper, chief executive, On the Beach said: “After conducting an extensive engagement initiative with all our employees, we are all absolutely thrilled with our new. |
“Not only will they provide a fantastic working environment for our current employees but will also enable us to attract the very best talent from Manchester and around the rest of the UK. |
“At heart On the Beach has always been a Manchester-based business, and now we are a business based in the heart of Manchester. |
ADT Workplace design and delivery teams worked in partnership with On the Beach to create the vibrant and intelligent workspace, which totals 34,507 square feet. |
Douglas Doane, 68, of Amarillo died Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd. |
Charlie Joe Grantham, 78, formerly of Vega died Saturday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Big Spring. Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd. |
Glen W. Chiddix, 81, of Plainview died Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, in Lockney. Services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday in Grace United Methodist Church in Plainview. Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Park in Plainview. Lemons Funeral Home of Plainview. |
Gordeena Faye Gleason, 89, of Amarillo died Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Happy Cemetery in Happy. Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St. |
Bill Stafford, 90, of Amarillo died Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Llano Cemetery. Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd. |
Charles J. "Chuck" Albus, 83, of Pampa. Rosary will be at 7 p.m. in Carmichael-Whatley Colonial Chapel. Memorial Mass will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. Final salute is by Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus. Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors of Pampa. |
Vanah Marie Brooks, 24, of Quanah. Services will be 11 p.m. in Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Quanah. Burial will be at a later date. |
Imogene Harris Day, 88, of Amarillo. Services will be at 10 a.m. in LaGrone-Blackburn-Shaw Martin Road Chapel, 1505 Martin Road. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery. |
Leroy Wayne Frazier, 85, of Pampa. Services will be at 11 a.m. in First Assembly of God. Military honors are courtesy of U.S. Army of Fort Hood. Burial will be in Fariview Cemetery. Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors. |
Matilde Gutierrez, 78, of Amarillo. Services will be at 9 a.m. in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Ivy Chapel, 2800 Paramount Blvd. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery. |
Calvin Richard Honea Sr., 82, of Amarillo. Services will be at 11 a.m. in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Ivy Chapel, 2800 Paramount Blvd. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery with military rites by Disable American Veterans Chapter 26. |
Hal T. Houston, 91, of Amarillo. Services will be at 11 a.m. in Memorial Park Funeral Home Chapel of Memories, 6969 E. Interstate 40. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. |
Letha Hannah Kachel Howe, 102, of Louisville, Colo. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. in Pioneer Cemetery in Beaver, Okla. Clark Funeral Service of Beaver. |
Daniel Mata Sr., 52, of Arlington. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. in Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 2100 N. Davis Drive. Burial will be in Moore Memorial Gardens. Wade Family Funeral Home. |
Nelson David McDaniel, 66, of Canyon. Services will be at 10 a.m. in Brooks Chapel. Burial will be in Castro Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Dimmitt. Brooks Funeral Directors of Dimmitt. |
L.F. "Fate" Shannon, 94, of Amarillo. Services will be at 10 a.m. in First United Methodist Church of Dimmitt. Burial will follow in Castro Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Dimmitt. Colonial Funeral Home of Dimmitt. |
Allie Nevaeh Stanley, infant, of Hereford. Graveside will be at 10 a.m. in Rest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Hereford. |
Grover "Pa" Thomas, 75, of Silverton. Celebration of life services will be at 10 a.m. in First Baptist Church of Silverton. Burial will be in Silverton Cemetery. Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Tulia. |
You can take the chef out of Singapore, but you cannot take Singapore out of the chef. |
Singaporean Cherish Finden flies the country's flag high at The Langham, London, where she is executive pastry chef. |
Many of her dainty pastries and desserts highlight local flavours such as pandan, coconut, lemongrass and pineapple. |
On the telephone from London, she can hardly contain her excitement when speaking about her favourite local desserts such as tau suan (split mung bean soup) with youtiao or fried crullers, pulot hitam (black sticky rice) with coconut milk and tau huay (soya beancurd). |
The desserts - along with chicken rice, laksa and Old Chang Kee curry puffs - are on her foodie wishlist when she returns to Singapore next month for the World Gourmet Summit (WGS). |
While the WGS Charity Dinner she is participating in is sold out, there are still places available for her hands-on afternoon tea workshop at cooking studio ToTT on April 17. |
She is looking forward to showcasing what she calls the "grandmother way of making traditional jam", as well as scones. |
The Shatec graduate worked with Mr Peter Knipp, the founder of WGS, at the Raffles Hotel from 1995 to 1997. He used to be the hotel's executive chef. |
Lured by the "food paradise" that is London, she moved there in 2000. |
"There are so many big names in London such as Gordon Ramsay, the Roux brothers, and they range from classic to avant garde cuisine. I wanted to learn more about Michelin-starred restaurants," says Finden, who declines to reveal her age, and only says that she is "young and lovely forever". |
She and her English husband, a financial director, have a 13-year-old daughter. |
Certainly, she has come a long way from 15 years ago, when diners were surprised that their tea spread had been prepared by a Singaporean. |
In her years there, she has been named the Craft Guild's Pastry Chef of the Year in 2012 and appeared on MasterChef and Junior Bake-off. |
At The Langham, the innovative chef is constantly rolling out new creations such as a Bunny sunny side up chocolate Easter eggs. |
The hotel's tea room called Palm Court does 100 covers daily from Mondays to Wednesdays. Tea is usually fully booked from Thursdays to Sundays, with five seatings a day. |
Classic scones are served, together with a variety of sandwiches and pastries. |
She says: "We plan the menu six months in advance. So it's odd to plan for Christmas in the hot summer. I don't have the mood to create for winter." |
Finden, who returns to Singapore annually to visit her family, notes that Singaporeans are appreciating desserts and sweets more, compared to when she first left. |
So she does not rule out returning should the opportunity arise. But with her creations, the award-winning chef - whose celebrity clientele includes Lady Gaga, Jessie J, Kylie Minogue and Justin Bieber - is also quite a trendsetter in London. |
She says: "Many chefs come to see what we do. We set the standard. Being Singaporean, I'm a bit kiasu as well, I always want to be in the front." |
Bruce Banner's angry alternate self gets a new anthology series featuring the work of creators including Alan Davis and Jim Starlin. |
Starting this summer, you’ll have even more opportunity to not like Bruce Banner when he’s angry. Marvel Entertainment has announced the launch of a second series centering around the scientist and his emerald-hued alter ego, titled Savage Hulk. |
Following the similarly titled Savage Wolverine, Savage Hulk will be an anthology series giving creators a chance to tell that Hulk story they’ve always wanted to but never quite found the outlet for. |
The series launches with a storyline by Alan Davis, a long-time Marvel creator whose work includes runs on X-Men, Fantastic Four and Avengers, with a second story by Jim Starlin that launches the character into space to deal with the threat of Avengers’ post-credit cameo character Thanos. |
Savage Hulk launches in June. |
The Pontiac G8 sedan and Ute will live on as the Holden Commodore SS V-Series in Australia with the trademark Pontiac grille. Oh, and there's a wagon. Photos of the badgeless beasts below. |
We're not sure what hurts the most: the existence of the Pontiac G8 we're never going to get, the Sportwagon we'd have killed for, or the fact that these are all essentially GXP-spec vehicles. Prices range from approximately $41,600 for the Ute to $50,000 for the Sportwagon. It hurts to look. |
A study by University of Miami psychologists published in June 2017 in The Journal of Neuroscience revealed that brain signals in specific regions change over a lifespan in ways that might be important for maintaining flexibility. |
A release from the university notes that the brain is a complex organ–a network of nerve cells, or neurons, producing thought, memory, action, and feeling. How does this complex system change from childhood to adulthood to late life in order to maintain optimal behavioral responses? |
These questions were put to the test by a group of University of Miami psychologists who studied hundreds of fMRI brain scans, from two separate datasets, to see how the variability of brain signals changes or remains the same during a human lifespan. |
The UM team analyzed hundreds of brain scans of participants, ranging in age from 6 to 86, who were all in a “resting state,” which means they were not engaged in any particular task while in the fMRI scanner. The publicly available data, which is freely available to neuroimaging researchers, was acquired from the Nath... |
By analyzing the resting-state fMRI data, the researchers were able to see how regions of the brain change from moment to moment and how those changes show a pattern across age and participants. Their results demonstrated that, instead of an overall decrease in variability with aging, as earlier studies showed, the bra... |
“As certain areas of the brain become more variable, it seems to compensate in some ways for the other parts of the brain that are decreasing,” said Aaron Heller, an assistant professor in the Psychology Department and senior author of the paper. |
“These patterns of variability that we notice in the brain signals are what we think relates to the ability to respond to new challenges in the environment,” added Nomi. |
Heller says that the next step is to test whether these patterns of variability have an impact on behavior in ways that are important to understanding lifespan, aging, emotional regulation, and developmental disorders such as autism. |
Since Jean-Claude Van Damme's Volvo ad went viral this week, many commenters have wondered whether the action star's spectacular stunt is real. The answer from Volvo: Indeed it was, though it wasn't nearly as dangerous as it looked. |
How? Van Damme was actually connected to safety lines that you can't see in the video. Small platforms on the trucks' side mirrors also propped up Van Damme's feet. |
"Epic Split," which was released on Nov. 13, is up to 8.2 million views on YouTube. The ad is part of a series of stunts by Volvo Trucks. A previous video, "The Ballerina Stunt," (below) has received 7.4 million views since August. |
With climate change already damaging Virginia’s economy, endangering citizens’ health, and threatening coastal cities, a new issue brief shows that if the Old Dominion were to meet its already existing voluntary energy goals, the state would actually beat the carbon emission targets in the U.S. Environmental Protection... |
The brief also shows Virginia has a tremendous economic opportunity in fighting climate change, which could create 5,600 new jobs in 2020 alone by crafting a strong state plan to meet new federal carbon pollution standards that invests in clean energy, expands energy efficiency, and develops a cleaner, 21st century eco... |
Virginia is already suffering from the extreme weather linked to climate change. In 2012 alone, Virginians paid $1,079 per taxpayer in federal taxes to clean up from extreme weather events, according to the brief. Sea level rise could damage the state’s coastal cities, possibly rendering the homes of more than 35,000 f... |
Fortunately, Virginia can easily meet the carbon emissions limits set forth in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan thanks to its potential to harness renewable energy and energy efficiency. |
And create an estimated $55 billion to $93 billion of nationwide economic benefit in the year 2030, according to an EPA analysis. |
In addition to the issue brief, PJM—the operator of the world’s largest electricity market, which includes Virginia—recently released an analysis concluding that Virginia can generate net revenue from the Clean Power Plan by 2020 through a market-based allowance-trading program among PJM states. In such a regional plan... |
Since 2005, changes in the nation’s power supply and Virginia policies have already resulted in a 15 percent reduction in carbon pollution from power plants. |
Virginia spent almost $1.3 billion in 2012 to import coal and gas to burn in aging fossil fuel power plants. |
Investments in cost effective energy efficiency could save Virginia businesses $531 million in 2020 alone. |
To read the full state issue brief, please click here. |
What did you do for Memorial Day? |
Discussion in 'Mayberry Lounge' started by CoffeeAndBeer, May 27, 2014. |
How did you honor the country's fallen warriors? |
Got invited to a BBQ. Good wine, good food, good company. |
Went to breakfast with my pops. Did some grilling for lunch. Then spent the rest of the day pondering life. |
Use the search function, you noob. |
Lifted and watched WWE. Murrica! |
what's it like not knowing any minorities? |
lol. The guy that took that picture is and was making jokes about being the only black dude there that weekend. |
Laughed at all Facebook posts that resemble this thread, partied all weekend, and took it easy memorial day. |
That's a lie. I see another black dude to the right. |
Got off work early then slept. Found out yesterday was memorial day earlier today, thanks facebook. |
worked 9 to 8 and went home to whine about it. |
we don't have that here. |
Don't get me wrong, the Poseidon is probably the coolest-looking patio heater I have ever seen, but the media player? The unit is 2m tall, and it looks like someone duct-taped an iPhone to it. |
The product page doesn't mention the actual size of the screen, but you would surely burn to death trying to watch anything on this. Outside of that bizarre addition, the Poseidon from Chillchaser has a lot going for it. Features include: carbon fibre heating tubes that reduce power consumption and cut emissions by up ... |
Throat cancer is defined as cancer affecting the main part of the throat, the pharynx or the larynx, commonly called the voice box. According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 24,000 people are diagnosed with throat cancer each year. It’s not unusual to confuse the early signs of throat cancer with a cold, ... |
Your chances of developing this type of cancer increase if you have been infected by the human papilloma virus (HPV), smoke, chew tobacco, drink alcohol excessively, have poor dental hygiene or have been exposed to asbestos. |
If your doctor suspects that you may have throat cancer, she may recommend that you undergo endoscopy. During the endoscopy procedure, a thin, flexible tube containing a miniature camera is inserted into your throat. The images that the camera captures are transmitted to a video monitor, allowing your doctor to get a c... |
If your doctor sees suspicious areas during laryngoscopy or endoscopy, she may collect a small tissue sample for testing. X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerized tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) scans may also be used for diagnostic purposes. |
Treatment depends on the location of the cancer and the stage of the disease. Radiation therapy works particularly well with throat cancer and many people undergo this therapy, particularly if the cancer is detected during the early stages. During radiation therapy, high-dose x-rays are aimed directly at the throat to ... |
Endoscopic surgery can be used to remove tumors in the early stages. If cancer is not detected until the later stages, it may be necessary to remove part of the throat or all or part of the pharynx. Removing the pharynx will affect your ability to speak and you will need to work with a speech pathologist to develop new... |
One of America’s favorite pastimes is changing rapidly. |
When it comes to shopping, more Americans are skipping the stores and pulling out their smartphones and tablets. Still, there’s more on the horizon for shopping than just point-and-clicking. |
No one thinks physical stores are going away permanently. But because of the frenetic pace of advances in technology and online shopping, the stores that remain will likely offer amenities and services that are more about experiences and less about selling a product. Think: Apple Inc.’s stores. |
Among the things industry watchers are envisioning are holograms in dressing rooms that will allow shoppers to try on clothes without getting undressed. Their homes will be equipped with smart technology that will order light bulbs before they go dark. And they’ll be able to print out a full version of coffee cups and ... |
“Physical shopping will become a lot more fun because it’s going to have to be,” retail futurist Doug Stephens says. |
Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru says stores of the future will be more about services, like day care, veterinary services and beauty services. Services that connect online and offline shopping could increase as well, with more drive-thru pickup and order-online, pick-up-in-store services. Checkout also will be self... |
Some stores are taking self-service further: A store in Seattle called Hointer displays clothing not in piles or on racks but as one piece hanging at a time, like a gallery. |
Shoppers just touch their smartphones to a coded tag on the item and then select a color and size on their phone. Technology in the store keeps track of the items, and by the time a shopper is ready to try them on, they’re already at the dressing room. |
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