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Charter Communications� community television station, Charter TV3 ( www.chartertv3.com) has named Millville native Melissa Toupin as a member of Worcester News Tonight�s news team. She received her bachelor�s degree in communications from Curry College, Milton. She previously served as host of Kraft Sports Productions�... |
Marlborough Hospital of Marlboro has named Ellen C. Carlucci of Northboro as director of development. She was previously involved in fundraising for the American Heart Association, with events including the Central Massachusetts Heart Ball and Heart Walk. She also worked in fundraising for 15 years at health care, not-... |
Whitinsville-based Unibank ( www.unibank.com), which also has branches in eight other communities, has named Christine Prunier of Douglas, formerly of Millbury, as vice president and director of human resources. She has more than 25 years� experience in the banking industry and was most recently vice president and huma... |
The College of the Holy Cross ( www.holycross.edu) of Worcester has named Kathleen M. Carney as its director of library services. She previously worked at Boston College for more than 20 years and was most recently its associate university librarian, supervising 26 librarians and more than 40 support staff. Before that... |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute of Worcester ( www.wpi.edu) has named Mark P. Rice, Ph.D., its dean of business. Previously dean of the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College for the past six years, he was also the Frederic C. Hamilton Professor for Free Enterprise. Before that he was a member of the l... |
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Oh, how I envy the highland gardeners who can dine on freshly picked broccoli from their gardens. What a special taste broccoli adds to a meal, and it’s loaded with nutrition, too. Broccoli is a good source of vitamins A, C, E and K, as well as niacin, calcium, iron and potassium. Recent studies suggest broccoli contai... |
If you live in a region 1,000 meters or more above sea level, don’t miss the chance to grow this beauty in the home garden. |
What with today’s rising food costs, growing broccoli at home also makes good economic sense. Here are some tips on how to make broccoli flourish. |
The earliest varieties of wild broccoli originated around the Mediterranean Sea and were spread across Europe during the Roman Empire. For centuries, gardeners and farmers selected and bred varieties to create the broccoli we know today. |
In Costa Rica, agricultural supply stores offer hybrids that grow well here. If you plan to collect seed from your own broccoli plants, which is easy to do, I’d suggest you have someone send or bring you organic seeds of standard varieties from abroad. Seed catalogs offer a wide variety of standard and hybrid seeds for... |
It’s best to get your seeds started in flats of prepared potting soil. When they are about five to 10 centimeters tall, transplant them to a cup or pot of rich compost soil. Keep them well watered for two weeks, then transplant to the garden beds. |
Broccoli loves the cool weather of the highlands. Warmer temperatures tend to make the heads of broccoli flower quickly. |
Tropical gardeners often grow broccoli under shade to keep the soil temperature from rising. The soil should also have additions of dolomitic limestone, known as carbonato de calcio dolomítico in Spanish. Use light additions of two to five kilograms per 10 square meters to raise the pH to 6.0. |
Each plant should receive at least one pound of compost fertilizer. Broccoli is a heavy feeder of water and nutrients, so watering your plants with compost tea will also help boost growth and production. |
Foliar-spraying the leaves of broccoli plants with seaweed extract (extracto de alga marina), as well as extract of citrus seed oil (Kilol) will help prevent leaf diseases that often attack the plants. Both these products are safe, approved for organic agriculture and available at leading farm supply stores around the ... |
When your plants are ready to harvest, clip off the main head and leave the plant in the garden. In about two weeks, the plants will produce another harvest of smaller broccoli heads. |
Gardeners who live in mid-range elevations can take advantage of Romanesco or Italian broccoli. “De Cicco” and “Sessantina Grossa” are favorite varieties that do well under warmer conditions, though the broccoli heads are smaller. |
For information on tropical home gardening, visit www.thenewdawncenter.info or e-mail Ed at thenewdawncenter@yahoo.com. |
There is a “growing interest” among Canadian property and casualty insurers in the United States market, while on this side of the border, Aviva plc has became the Number 2 P&C insurer in Canada and the loss ratio in Canadian commercial P&C deteriorated 14.3 points in 2016, A.M. Best Company Inc. suggested in a report ... |
“Anecdotal and statistical market data for the past 18 months indicates growing interest among Canadian P/C insurers in the U.S. market,” ratings firm A.M. Best said in its special report, Canadian Property/Casualty and Life Remain Stable as Economy Rebounds, While Housing Market Bears Watching. |
Intact Financial Corp. announced May 2 it agreed to acquire Plymouth, Minn.-based OneBeacon for US$2.3 million. OneBeacon is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and majority owned by White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd., which announced May 2 it intends to “vote its shares” of OneBeacon in favour of Intact acquiring ... |
Another Canadian-based firm expanding into the U.S. is SCM Insurance Services Inc., which announced in 2016 it is opening a Chicago office and announced May 3, 2017 that it is acquiring St. Louis-based claims adjuster Nixon & Company Inc. SCM companies include, among others, data vendor Opta, engineering services provi... |
An acquisition of OneBeacon “will allow Intact to leverage the combined companies’ specialty lines experience while improving opportunities for additional scale in existing markets,” A.M. Best said in its report. |
OneBeacon’s operations include International Marine Underwriters of New York City. In addition to ocean and inland marine, OneBeacon also writes general liability, auto, surety and professional liability. |
In the Canadian P&C market, consolidation has “remained strong, with scale, diversification, and expertise among the recurring rationales for M&A,” A.M. Best said in its special report released Aug. 31. |
Aviva Canada completed its acquisition of RBC General Insurance Company in 2016, leaving Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank as the only Big 6 bank that writes home and auto insurance. Aviva now has a deal with the Royal Bank of Canada Insurance in which Aviva Canada provides policy administration and claims services. |
The RBC General Insurance acquisition “presented Aviva with an opportunity to achieve additional scale and market share in Canada” and “solidified Aviva’s spot” as the second-largest P&C insurer, when measured by direct premiums written, A. M. Best said. |
The four Canadian P&C carriers with the greatest market share, in order, in 2016, were Intact, Aviva, Desjardins and TD, with $8.3 billion $5.1 billion, $4.5 billion and $3.0 billion in direct premiums written each, A.M. Best reported. |
The Cooperators, Wawanesa and Lloyds each had $2.8 billion in direct premiums written last year in P&C while Economical and Travelers ranked ninth and 10th with $2.1 billion and $1.5 billion respectively. |
The P&C industry in Canada had net premiums written of $41.1 billion last year, up 4.1% from $39.6 billion in 2015, A.M. Best reported, while the combined ratio deteriorated 2.7 points, from 95.5% in 2015 to 98.2% last year. |
The loss ratio in personal lines increased from 54.8% in 2015 to 60.6% last year and in commercial lines the industry-wide loss ratio was up 14.3 points, from 60.1% in 2015 to 74.4% in 2016. |
Can the arts help Marie Louise Muir understand her autistic daughter’s world? |
Michael Rosen finds out what can be learnt about communication from people with autism. |
Michael Rosen on communicating with people with autism or profound learning difficulties. |
John Waite asks why parents of some autistic children are trying unproven therapies. |
John Harris talks to Penny Andrews, who was only diagnosed as autistic in her thirties. |
John Harris of the Guardian talks to autism specialist Professor Simon Baron-Cohen. |
Comedian John Williams finds unexpected joy in his autistic son's view of life. |
Robyn Steward takes us into her world of autism, music, art, travel, fun and independence. |
David Mitchell talks about how Naoki's book helped him make sense of his son's autism. |
Does the history of our ideas about autism reveal more about ourselves than about autism? |
Does the history of our ideas about autism tell us more about ourselves than about autism? |
Having translated Naoki's book, David Mitchell describes how it must be to have autism. |
Jim meets psychologist Prof Uta Frith, whose work changed how we view brain disorders. |
Back in September 2016, Adobe has announced its latest Flash Player technologies for the Linux platform, synced with the Mac and Windows builds. Well, it seems that the time has come and the company has finally released the Flash Player version 24 for Linux. |
It seems that Adobe has updated the Flash Player Linux for Firefox (NPAPI) and Flash Player Linux for Chromium (PPAPI) to version 24.0.0.186. We remind you that this is also the latest Adobe Flash Player version for Apple’s macOS and Microsoft’s Windows OS. |
So yeah, it seems that the Adobe Flash Player is finally at its latest version on GNU/Linux distributions. Now, the question that most Linux users are asking is that if they should install it on their computers, as the Adobe Flash Player has always been considered a security risk. |
We have to agree that not many websites have switched to HTML5 yet, so we can say that it is always a good idea to install the Flash Player on your computer if you want to view the Flash content that’s available on most of the websites. |
At the same time, we’ve already noticed that big companies have started to ditch the Flash Player in favor of HTML5, which means that it is just a matter of time until Adobe’s tool will “die”. We remind you that Google has decided to ditch the Flash Player from its Chrome browser, but you are still allowed to manually ... |
If you are using Adobe Flash Player on your device we suggest you to download and install the latest STABLE version on your computer. The company is now trying to fix all security issues that they find, but it seems that there are so many issues with this application that the problems never seem to end. |
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East Point has secured a grand final spot in AFL Goldfields Women’s Competition after defeating Gisborne. The Dragons are set to face rivals Redan in a first-versus-second showdown at Mars Stadium on Sunday. Both teams only had the one loss in the home and away season, against each other, but Redan defeated East Point ... |
East Point has secured a grand final spot in AFL Goldfields Women’s Competition after defeating Gisborne. |
The Dragons are set to face rivals Redan in a first-versus-second showdown at Mars Stadium on Sunday. |
Both teams only had the one loss in the home and away season, against each other, but Redan defeated East Point in a semi final. |
In Sunday’s preliminary final at Alfredton Oval, it was Gisborne that kicked the first goal of the match and had the lead at quarter time. |
But the Dragons were able to settle as the game progressed and made their opportunities count on the scoreboard to build a lead in the second quarter. |
East Point coach Michael Colville described the Bulldogs as a very strong and talented team despite the 18-point winning margin. |
“We were just able to get the ball out and open the game up a bit more and then play a bit more freely, which helped us run over the top of them,” Colville said. |
“For us as a team the focus was to stay the course and not get our heads down. |
Colville was impressed with Zoe Russell’s attack on the contest and tackling, while Jasmine Coleman’s rebounding game across the half back line was pivotal for the team, and Emily Boswell starred in the ruck. |
With all the players available for selection, Colville now faces the challenge of picking a grand final side. |
“We’re coming off three tough finals games now in a row, so there are going to be some sore bodies,” he said. |
“There will be some upset people who won’t get a game, but hopefully they understand it is a team sport and they still feel part of it. |
COMPETITIVE: Gisborne's Alana Preston and East Point's Jessie Cartledge in a ruck contest during Sunday's preliminary final at Alfredton Oval. |
Colville said the players were very excited after the preliminary final, knowing there was another week of football to go and a chance at premiership glory. |
“I feel Redan and East Point, the top two teams all season, are deserving of a chance to play off in a grand final,” Colville said. |
As many moviegoers already know, August can become a bit of a dead period when the high of May, June and July ends in the summer blockbuster season. That tends to leave room for one or two sleeper hits to sneak in and win the box office, and this year it looks like Jon Turtletaub's The Meg is the August film to beat (a... |
With that in mind and an incredibly impressive $45 million domestic opening in the bank, it's time to dive into the aquatic monster movie to figure out what went right to allow The Meg to overperform. We have several different points to address, so let's get started with the film's accessible rating. |
It's hardly a secret that the PG-13 rating arguably casts the widest possible net for an audience these days. Intense enough that it appeals to the adults, while still tame enough to remain entertaining to a reasonably young viewer, PG-13 monster movies like The Meg have something for just about everyone, which means t... |
Though Jason Statham arguably is not quite up to the level of someone like Dwayne Johnson in terms of box office star power, he's still an incredibly bankable action hero who has opened some of his biggest movies over the course of the last few years. He alone has international appeal, but The Meg is also boosted by st... |
The Meg is not a particularly complicated movie in terms of the ideas that it attempts to get across to the audience. It's about a group of humans facing off against a seemingly insurmountable monster from the depths of the ocean, and by its design, it doesn't really attempt to do much more than that. Sure, the odds of... |
To be specific, this type of high-concept horror that can cross cultural barriers. Though The Meg and A Quiet Place are two very different movies, they are actually cut from the same cloth in the sense that they are well-executed monster romps centered on very simple premises. John Krasinski's masterful, near-silent th... |
Make no mistake, there have been some great summer blockbusters this year, including films like Avengers: Infinity War and Mission: Impossible -- Fallout. That said, there has still been a notable lack of the traditional summer films -- the Steven Spielberg-esque blockbusters like Jaws and Jurassic Park that appeal to ... |
Morgan Freeman and Peter Dinklage face off in a lip sync rap battle in a new Super Bowl ad for Doritos and Mountain Dew. |
Phil Murphy says he is working toward a "stronger and fairer economy and society" in New Jersey, what he called "the most diverse state in the United States." |
DJ Khaled celebrated his 42nd birthday with celebrities including Ryan Seacrest and Sean "Diddy" Combs. |
Longtime New York Yankees star and new Miami Marlins owner Derek Jeter received a grand welcome to Miami Thursday from Diddy. |
Faith Evans has announced a new duets album titled "The King & I" that will feature unreleased vocals from late hip-hop icon Notorious B.I.G. |
Q-Tip announced A Tribe Called Quest will release its final album in November, saying the record will allow them to "complete our paths of rhythm." |
Sean 'Puff Daddy Combs' reunited with his Bad Boy Family onstage Friday to kick-off "Today's" 2016 Citi Concert Series. |
Busta Rhymes was jailed after allegedly flinging a container of protein drinks at a fellow gym goer Wednesday night. |
Rapper Busta Rhymes cut his head when he fell off the stage at a concert in New York this weekend. |
Singer-songwriter-producer Pharrell Williams and his longtime girlfriend Helen Lasichanh got married in Miami this weekend, Us Weekly reports. |
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes (born May 20, 1972), is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes. He is best known for highly skilled rapping technique, which involves rapping at a... |
Busta was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, to Jamaican parents Geraldine Green and Trevor Smith in 1972. He went to Uniondale High School class of '92. |
Hip-hop crew Leaders of the New School began recording in 1989 and released their debut album A Future Without a Past in 1991 on Elektra Records. In early 1992 the group appeared on A Tribe Called Quest's posse cut "Scenario," in which Busta's climactic verse propelled him into the cultural consciousness. In 1993, they... |
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Busta Rhymes." |
Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was voted out by the Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan Tuesday and Congress is maintaining its surge in Madhya Pradesh too. Tune in as ET's Rakesh Mohan Chaturvedi analyses what, now almost clear, 2018 assembly polls outcome means for the BJP. Track #ElectionsWithET. |
Asia has built much of its success on cheap, plentiful rice. But the supply of the region's most important food crop is declining steadily, and prices are going up - putting a strain on the region's poor. However, rice researchers say the situation is not hopeless, as Claudia Blume reports from VOA's Asia News Center i... |
Improved seeds and farm technology, better irrigation, and fertilizers led to the so-called green revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, rice yields went up dramatically in Asia, and prices dropped. Economists say lower prices for rice, the staple food of most Asians, was one of the drivers of the continent's... |
But experts warn the era of cheap, plentiful rice is coming to an end. Robert Zeigler is a plant pathologist at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. |
"If you look at prices, if you look at global stocks, if you look at yield trends, if you look at what important rice producing and consuming countries are doing, such as India, which basically blocked its exports, I would say the indications are that we are entering an era of much tighter rice supplies. There is no do... |
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