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VANCOUVER — After realizing she’d won a $39.5-million Lotto Max jackpot, Michelle De Roma did something most winners don’t — she put the ticket in an envelope in a safe place and waited a week to claim her prize.
The mother of three from Surrey, B.C., says she wanted to focus on enjoying the holidays and celebrating her husband’s birthday before their world shifted.
“This will change our life,” she said Friday at a news conference.
De Roma plays the lottery about every week and the winning Lotto Max numbers were randomly generated through a quick pick. She bought the ticket at Tsawwassen Mills shopping centre in Delta while doing some Boxing Day shopping.
When she realized she had the single winning ticket matching all seven numbers in the Dec. 28 draw, she told her husband first.
“I just hugged my husband because he’s the one who supported me all the way with this. He just said, ‘Wow!’ And then hugged me and kissed me,” De Roma said.
De Roma said she hasn’t told her children yet but she wants to use the money to build a good life for them, and also travel to Rome to see St. Peter’s Basilica and the Coliseum.
All lottery winners have 52 weeks from the draw date printed on their ticket to come forward to claim their prize.
The odds of winning a Lotto Max jackpot are one in 28,633,528 per play, the B.C. Lottery Corp. says.
De Roma said she considers the win an “amazing blessing,” and had hoped for a miracle whenever she bought lottery tickets.
She plans to continue playing the lottery.
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A GIANT Second World War truck used in the Allied liberation of Europe will be up for auction next month.
The 1943 International Harvester M5 Half-Track Personnel Carrier has been given a valuation of up to £110,000, no doubt thanks to its history of service immediately following D-Day.
Originally operated by the Polish 10th Regiment Dragonders during the war, it was adopted by the French Army once peace was restored and stationed in French Guyana, South America for decades.
Running on both front wheels and rear tank-like tracks, the truck is powered by a massive 7.4-litre straight-six engine, which was given a full overhaul by the Bugatti Works in the 1960s.
After passing through a number of different collectors, it was acquired by military vehicle enthusiast Ivo Rigter in 1987.
Rigter spent the next 25-years restoring the vehicle, and claimed to have put more than 2,500 hours of work into the truck to get it back to its immaculate original state.
Still covered with markings from the Polish forces, it also shows a tribute to Polish agent Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, who worked for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the war.
The truck will be auctioned off by H&H Classics Duxford Imperial War Museum on November 15.
The son of prolific English character actor Ian Redford, Sam Redford was inspired to perform from an early age. He made his screen debut in 1999 with a small role in the TV movie "Second Sight," which starred Clive Owen as a detective desperately trying to mask the fact that he's going blind. Three years later, Redford scored a supporting role in the Kathryn Bigelow-directed submarine drama "K-19: The Widowmaker," which co-starred Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson. After a string of one-off roles on British television, Redford landed a supporting role in the kooky biopic "Color Me Kubrick," which featured John Malkovich as John Conway, a man who famously and flamboyantly masqueraded as director Stanley Kubrick to win attention and free swag in the early 1990s. Next Redford broke into American television, playing the role of Plymouth mayor William Bradford on the History Channel docudrama "The Mayflower." After a recurring role on the American soap opera "One Life to Live," Redford reteamed with Bigelow on "The Hurt Locker," an independent drama about U.S. Army bomb squads stationed in Iraq that went on to win six Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture. With these successes, Redford has chosen to stay in the U.S., continuing to appear in American productions like the R-rated restaurant comedy "The Slammin' Salmon" and George A. Romero-hosted horror anthology "Deadtime Stories."
To what kind of abyss has the country of France sunk?
11 French Jews - women, men, children, elderly – have been brutally murdered in the last ten years. The most recent victim is Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor stabbed multiple times and left in her burning Paris apartment. The French authorities are now investigating it as anti-Semitic crime. What else can the stabbing of an old Jewish woman and burning her to death be? She died horribly, like the victims of the Islamic State in Syria.
If these 11 Jews had been blacks or immigrants or Muslims, their stories would have become a universal warning against intolerance, racism, ethnic and religious hatred, the journalists would have had their photos on the front page, poets would have written verses about them, politicians would have dedicated schools and roads to them. Instead they are only French citizens of Jewish origin.
We are paralyzed, speechless, in the face of their violent deaths. But do not mistake it for shame, it is only our disgrace and our submission.
In a France under siege even the death of its Jews is made opaque and enveloped in a Kafkaesque mystery. It took months for the authorities to recognize that Ilan Halimi, tortured and burned, had been killed because he was a Jew. What deep abyss of a country has France become?
Since 2001, in Europe (including Russia), there have been 2,365 victims of terrorist attacks and 8,800 injured. This is what Le Monde recounts after a massacre in the south of France, where a gunman killed 4 people in a supermarket.
I would recommend that our progressives, who are so very alarmed about the democracy that they see dying under Donald Trump, for Brexit, for the fake news and for the Russian trolls, to go and do their “resistance” in Paris. There the only and real fascism of our time is at work.
Apr. 21 7:34 PM PT8:34 PM MT9:34 PM CT10:34 PM ET22:34 ET2:34 GMT10:34 7:34 PM MST9:34 PM EST8:34 PM CST10:04 PM VEN6:34 UAE (+1)9:34 PM CT-Tyler Olson allowed one run on two hits in 0.2 innings as the Cleveland Indians lost to the Atlanta Braves 11-5 on Sunday. Olson struck out one, ending the game with a 3.86 ERA and 1.71 WHIP on the season.
Apr. 14 2:45 PM PT3:45 PM MT4:45 PM CT5:45 PM ET17:45 ET21:45 GMT5:45 2:45 PM MST4:45 PM EST3:45 PM CST5:15 PM VEN1:45 UAE (+1)4:45 PM CT-Tyler Olson allowed one run on two hits and two walks in 0.1 innings as the Cleveland Indians lost to the Kansas City Royals 9-8 on Sunday. Olson did not strike out a batter, ending the game with a 2.84 ERA and 1.26 WHIP on the season.
Apr. 12 8:29 PM PT9:29 PM MT10:29 PM CT11:29 PM ET23:29 ET3:29 GMT11:29 8:29 PM MST10:29 PM EST9:29 PM CST10:59 PM VEN7:29 UAE (+1)10:29 PM CT-Tyler Olson allowed one run on two hits in 2.0 innings as the Cleveland Indians lost to the Kansas City Royals 8-1 on Friday. Olson struck out two, ending the game with a 1.50 ERA and 0.67 WHIP on the season.
Apr. 9 12:45 PM PT1:45 PM MT2:45 PM CT3:45 PM ET15:45 ET19:45 GMT3:45 12:45 PM MST2:45 PM EST1:45 PM CST3:15 PM VEN23:45 UAE2:45 PM CT-Tyler Olson did not allow a hit or walk in 1.0 scoreless inning as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Detroit Tigers 8-2 on Tuesday. Olson did not strike out a batter, ending the game with a 0.00 ERA and 0.50 WHIP on the season.
Apr. 6 4:34 PM PT5:34 PM MT6:34 PM CT7:34 PM ET19:34 ET23:34 GMT7:34 4:34 PM MST6:34 PM EST5:34 PM CST7:04 PM VEN3:34 UAE (+1)6:34 PM CT-Tyler Olson did not allow a hit or walk in 1.0 scoreless inning as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 7-2 on Saturday. Olson did not strike out a batter, ending the game with a 0.00 ERA and 0.67 WHIP on the season.
Apr. 3 1:16 PM PT2:16 PM MT3:16 PM CT4:16 PM ET16:16 ET20:16 GMT4:16 1:16 PM MST3:16 PM EST2:16 PM CST3:46 PM VEN0:16 UAE (+1)3:16 PM CT-Tyler Olson allowed one hit and one walk without giving up a run in 1.2 innings as the Cleveland Indians lost to the Chicago White Sox 8-3 on Wednesday. Olson struck out three, ending the game with a 0.00 ERA and 1.00 WHIP on the season.
Mar. 30 2:17 PM PT3:17 PM MT4:17 PM CT5:17 PM ET17:17 ET21:17 GMT5:17 2:17 PM MST4:17 PM EST3:17 PM CST4:47 PM VEN1:17 UAE (+1)3:17 PM CT-Tyler Olson did not allow a hit or walk in 0.1 scoreless innings as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Minnesota Twins 2-1 on Saturday. Olson did not strike out a batter, ending the game with a 0.00 ERA and 0.00 WHIP on the season.
John Charles (Chuck) Lowrey passed into Heaven on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, after a hard fought battle with lung cancer.
Chuck was born Nov. 26, 1963, to JoRene (Wingo) Lowrey and Charles Hayden Lowrey in Shawnee.
Chuck’s dad and grandpa Kelly Wingo taught him to hunt and fish at an early age and he loved noodling for huge catfish, nevermind the teeth/scars. He frequently hunted for quail, pheasant, dove, turkey, bobcats, and deer. Chuck loved passing these skills on to his sons, Chase and Nick, and enjoyed many days in the field with best friend, Garry Dockrey and cousin Steve Wingo.
Chuck graduated from Shawnee High School (1982) and lived his entire life in Shawnee. He was a building contractor all over central Oklahoma. Chuck had a larger than life personality and was deeply loved by his family and friends.
He was proceeded in death by his mother and step-father, JoRene and Lyle Sherburne; grandparents Roxie and Kelly Wingo, William A. and Margaret Lowrey and brother, Richie Clarkson.
Chuck was survived by his wife, Patricia (Patty) Roundtree Lowrey; sons, John Chase and Nickolas Lane Cole Lowrey; parents, Charles and Shirley Lowrey; sisters, Kellianne (Robert) Weaver, Suzanne (Cody) Simmons, Celeste (Jimmie) Enochs; aunts and uncles, Donaleta (Bill) Stewart, George (Sunnye) Wingo, Bill (Dee) Lowrey. Nephews, nieces, and loving cousins are also survived by Chuck.
Chuck requested to have his body donated to medical research.
A celebration of life will be held at Aydelotte Baptist Church on Saturday, Feb. 15, at 2 p.m.
"I'm not a technology wonk, but I respect technology and can anticipate what positive impact it can bring if we use it as a tool instead of a toy."
When officials hooked up Brewster, Neb., to the state computer network, they thought it would be the biggest thing to hit the town of 22 since the opening of Uncle Buck's, a lodge and steak house where cowboys rope steers in back of the restaurant.
Nebraska officials discovered soon after the value-added network link was established there in the late 1980s that demand for the service was lagging. The system allowed Brewster residents to apply for car titles electronically at the local courthouse. It was set up on a Monday, but it wasn't until the following Friday that anybody in Brewster showed up at the courthouse to get a car title.
"There's just not a great demand in Brewster for high-performance fiber wiring,'' Rod Armstrong, state information technology coordinator, said with a laugh.
Recently, as the state looked to provide high-bandwidth fiber for 89 of its 93 county seats, officials figured Brewster could get by without the advanced technology.
Nebraska officials have been given credit in recent years for understanding both when and where large-scale information technology initiatives are going to work. The state is known for its long stretches of terrain without hills or valleys, but flat certainly isn't the word to describe the state's approach to IT. Nebraska is known for a host of innovative and sometimes off-beat solutions to problems that states across the country are facing.
The state has gained national attention for using a cigarette tax to fund information technology. Specifically, $11.4 million of the tax revenue will pay for year 2000 computer conversion expenses, to ensure state systems will work once the next century begins. The state now is looking at having all the needed date-code fixes and tests completed by Jan. 1, 1999, to allow a year to correct any unexpected glitches.
Nebrask@ Online (www.nol.org), with Lincoln, Neb.-based Nebraska Interactive as the prime contractor, costs $900,000 a year to run but doesn't use a dime of general fund tax dollars. Instead, a $3 fee charged to users to get a driver's record contributes toward the service. Insurance companies, for example, frequently need that information.
Nebraska is in the top five states in providing computers for students, with a computer for every 6.5 students, according to research released this year by Denver-based Quality Education Data. The national average is a computer for every 10 students. The state fares even better with multimedia computers, ranking third by providing one for every 11.5 students - twice better than the national average, QED reported.
In late 1996, the state converted its satellite public television signal, eyeing a directive from the Federal Communications Commission to have all public TV stations go digital in the next six years. By going from analog to digital, the state freed up bandwidth that it now leases to states like Michigan.
Upcoming is N-Focus, a virtual one-stop shop for social services benefits. Whether the application is for food stamps or welfare, applicants will have their eligibility information entered into a computer to automate the benefits process and reduce the need for multiple case workers. The prime contractor on the project, which is now a pilot project in southeast Nebraska, is Chicago-based Andersen Consulting.
But innovations aside, the town of Brewster's experience mirrors that of the state. The consensus is that Nebraska's technology is well on track. It's the people who need to catch up with it, said Chris Hoy, the state's technology coordinator for community information.
A recent technology conference brought 100 workshop presenters to Kearney, Neb., one of the most wired areas in the state. Its integrated services digital network's bandwidth can support a number of high-end telecommunications tools, including voice/video transmission. But not one of the 50 vendors who attended asked for their booths to be hooked up to the network. They didn't have anything to show off that needed it, Hoy said.
As many states are finding, it's an evolution to get people acquainted and comfortable with the digital revolution.
The state hasn't officially tracked the spending for IT, but officials estimate it at $75 million to $100 million.
Increasing bandwidth for 89 of 93 counties on its state computer network.
Using $11.4 million in cigarette tax revenue to fund year 2000 computer compliance.
Converting public television satellite signals to digital, and selling freed up bandwidth space to other customers like the state of Michigan.
Establishing N-Focus, a streamlined social services benefits application system.
Brazil soya traders agreed to extend a moratorium on buying soya linked to Amazon destruction this week and Greenpeace was quick to give them a big thank you from the world.
International companies such as McDonald’s are happy, and companies like Nike, Wal-Mart and Carrefour are asking for more.
Major companies are standing up to say that they don’t want beef and leather that is linked to Amazon destruction, including international super players Nike, Wal-Mart and Carrefour.
One step forward, a few more to take, and the Amazon could be protected to prosper and help the world again.
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15 SHIPS SAIL TODAY WITH 5,000 ABOARD; Leviathan Starts on First Voyage of 1925 Season After Coming From Dry Dock. 10 LINERS GOING TO EUROPE Wife and Daughter of Governor Smith Among the Tourists -- Five Vessels Leave for the South.
Like most of my great ideas, this one began in the shower. Rather, it’s not really that it was an idea I had in the shower, so much as it was an idea that I had applied to my shower, and would now be applying to the rest of my life. Basically, I wanted to live with less. I know, I know—living minimally is all the rage right now; there isn’t a person in New York who doesn’t have either an opinion of or an experience with Marie Kondo’s decluttering bible, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, which recommends that we all give up those things in our homes that “do not spark joy.” And really, what New Yorker doesn’t welcome, if not already obsess over, the concept of paring down to the essentials? For most of us here, space is at a premium, and the simplest way to access more of it (other than having one of those dreams in which you discover that your apartment has a whole extra room—or even wing!—which you’d never noticed before; I love those dreams) is by getting rid of as much stuff as you can bear to part with—just like that, your storage needs will be solved!
But this wasn’t simply about space issues for me (although it wasn’t not about space issues, because I do live in New York). For me, the real reason I had recently had to get rid of all the soaps and shampoos and scrubs and conditioners I had amassed over the years was that there was some ingredient in one of these not inexpensive, usually heavily perfumed products that was inflaming my skin and turning the back of my ears red and making me itch all over. And so because I’m not the most patient person and didn’t really feel like figuring out which ingredient (or ingredients) was the offending agent, I just got rid of everything all at once. Suddenly, my bathtub—formerly lined with three different kinds of body wash, four scrubs, an ultra-conditioning hair masque, three types of shampoo, and two conditioners—held only two products: a huge bottle of Dr. Bronner’s Lavender soap, and a smaller, but no less long-lasting bottle of Wen cleansing conditioner, which takes the place of both shampoo and conditioner. My skin had started to behave again, my shower routine was stream-lined (which doesn’t mean shorter; there’s still nothing I like more than standing under hot, streaming water), and I felt a new sense of peace with one part of my life. So why not turn the same kind of attention to the rest of my cluttered existence?
In The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Kondo exhorts readers to strive for perfection as they clean out their homes. This feels, in many ways, like the opposite of what so many other lifestyle experts will advise you to do. Baby steps, they’ll tell you, get rid of one thing a day. Kondo reminds us that if you tackle projects bit-by-bit, you will then wind up working on them forever. This, to put it bluntly, sounds like actual hell to me. Plus, Kondo says something designed to appeal to people like me i.e. huge procrastinators who like to do everything at once in one big work-dump: This method of a massive clean-out is ideal for people who are not “diligent, persevering types” and it’s ok for perfection to be a goal just this once. Which, to be honest, is something I’ve been waiting to hear my whole life. Unhealthy as it may seem (and be!), perfection has long been my goal, and while I know there are countless ways in which perfection is unacheivable and maybe even undesirable, it soothes my obsessive mind to think that I could actually facilitate a certain kind of perfection in my own life. And all it would take is getting rid of a few ratty T-shirts and saying goodbye to all those “back-up” black tights I keep around for when I haven’t washed my favorite pairs.
So, I began to Kondo-ize my life. There were areas where it was simple enough—beauty supplies for one. I was ruthless going through my medicine cabinet, sweeping away every half-filled tube of moisturizer and used-once-or-twice-and-then-forgotten eye shadow. All those Sephora samples that I had taken and blithely left perched on a bathroom shelf where they had remained for months and months? Gone. The extra hair-dryer that I keep just in case my other one dies, even though it doesn’t work very well and I don’t ever blow dry my hair except on days cold enough that it would freeze if I went outside with it still wet? Also gone. Soon, all I was left with was a Konjac sponge for washing my face, one face oil (Butter Elixir), one moisturizer for my face (Aesop Camellia Nut Facial Hydrating Cream, because it is the best), deodorant (Soapwalla natural deodorant, because same), one moisturizer for my body (Egyptian Magic Cream), a tinted moisturizer (Laura Mercier), mascara, (Tarte Amazonian Clay), eyebrow gel (Benefit), and two lip pencils (both Nars, Dragon Girl and Belle du Jour). Oh, and Blistex, because that’s the best lip goo with the worst (but also best?) name.
Maybe this still sounds like a lot to some people; I don’t really know. But I do know that every one of those products are now the only things I use, making my life, my medicine cabinet, and, I guess, my face and body, feel much less cluttered already. Plus, the fact that I only use a handful of items guarantees that should I ever lose those things, I’ll be able to replace them easily enough.
And, in fact, that kind of mentality, the whole “what would I do if I lost everything tomorrow” one, was really helpful in getting rid of so much other stuff too. I said goodbye to pots and pans whose non-stick coatings had seen better days; I recycled old cell phones and a laptop and tons of batteries that weren’t AA or AAA and which were nearing their expiration dates; I got rid of towels I never used and blankets that had stayed folded and put away on out-of-reach shelves; I rounded up pillow inserts that had no matching covers, and pillow covers with no matching inserts, and put them all in a bag for donation. It was liberating. It was glorious. It was easy. The hard part was still to come.
I don’t know how many books I have. Under a thousand, definitely. Under 500, probably. But I have a lot. I’ve read most of them, though not all. I’ve long since gotten rid of the college textbooks with their yellow “USED” stickers on the spine. I no longer have books that I picked up off people’s stoops, or on my lobby’s giveaway table, books that never wound up getting read, books that I only took because they were free. Marie Kondo says that before you get rid of any of your books, before you decide if they deserve to be kept, you must take them all off their shelves and stack them on the floor. This way, you see, you can interact with them. Your gaze won’t simply skim their titles; you will be handling them and really sensing their worth. This is the only way to know if they bring you joy.
And so I did this with my books. I did this with books that I kept because I had loved them as a teenager and adult, and look forward to my own children reading. I did this with books that I inherited after my father died, full of pages of his marginalia—sometimes just an exclamation point placed next to a Pynchon paragraph, sometimes whole sentences written at the end of a chapter of The Invisible Mans. I did this with a book I have never read, because it was given to me by a man who claimed I’d hurt him, so he sent me this book, but we never spoke again; I worried what reading that book would make me want to do. I took down all these books and realized that I didn’t want to get rid of any of them. That if I were to have some sort of clutter remain in my life, this would be it. I wanted perfection, yes, but not at the cost of losing not just the things that didn’t bring me joy, but those that brought me pain, regret, or were reminders of profound loss. These books are a reflection of my life, and I wanted it intact, messy though it was. Kondo never claims that tidying up your life will have the end result of tidying up your mind. In fact, she says the opposite—no amount of cleaning will ever ease the turmoil that goes on inside you. This is obvious, maybe, but it also felt like a relief to read. It was permission of a sort to hold onto the things that mattered most, whether or not they were strictly necessary. The books stayed; my closet was next.
This should have been the easy part, in a sense, because I’ve done it before. I’ve gotten rid of bags and bags of clothes that didn’t quite fit (mostly due to overzealous use of the dryer; some things really ought to be hand-washed), or that had small stains, or tiny rips, or that were just never, ever, EVER going to be something I could ever imagine wearing again. And it started out easy, it really did: Disposing of skirts that I couldn’t imagine myself wearing again or shoes that had never really fit that well to begin with was simple. But as I got deeper into my closet, I started to unearth the things that had a different meaning for me than the “spark of joy” that Kondo believes in. Most of these clothes had once been associated with joy, but were now inextricably linked with sorrow. Most of these clothes had been my father’s, and I had taken them from his closet in the days and weeks after he died, wanting to preserve whatever I could of how it felt when I would reach out to him for a hug, my cheek brushing on the soft suede of his fall jacket, my arms against the silk of one of the garish Hawaiian shirts he favored in the summer. These were the things I could have gotten rid of, that were there purely for sentimental reasons, but that were also the only things in my closet that I would have saved from fire or flood or, you know, swarm of locusts. This was the kind of clutter that would, along with my books, prevent me from attaining perfection. And this was ok.
Loved the final 2 paragraphs. Perfection can be too sterile to be a worthwhile goal. There is a difference between keeping a tsotchke and things that are meaningful. It sounds like you have found an admirable path through your possessions.
Then there’s this. Living in a 90 square foot apartment.
“Getting rid of things may be easy for Rowell—Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up could be considered her bible. . . ” Sold.
instead of ordring us to stop hoarding the little that we have.
—and in the process to become even more invisible in their cold cold eyes.
Thank you for the validation. My friends know that I’ve been trying to clear the clutter for years and until I read your article, I assumed it was an either/or situation. One gets rid of all clutter, or one becomes part of a “hoarder” TV program. Your article has motivated me to continue and not feel guilty about the things I want to keep, such as my father’s tattered flannel shirt that I wear when doing laundry in my apartment’s basement. He died 16 years ago and I was just thinking about getting rid of it, but not going to until it’s so threadbare that I would be arrested for indecent exposure. I also keep his pipe in an ashtray in my hallway. I framed a skeleton key from the house where I grew up in Detroit and it hangs on my wall along with other memories from my childhood. I also framed two dolly plates that were my mother’s when she was a child. I was told to take pictures of these things before throwing them away. A picture of my dad’s flannel shirt? Nope.
Censoring comments now? It’s ok for hipsters to be everyday offensive but when someone throws it back at their face, its angel advocate won’t let the comments through. GTFO.
Thousands of people enjoyed an evening of classical and contemporary music in the grounds of Castle Park, Bangor at this year's BBC Proms in the Park on Saturday 10 September.
An audience of 4,000 were treated to a musical outdoor extravaganza headlined by Lesley Garrett, who was joined by some of the most accomplished and well known names in classical and contemporary music.
Now in its 10th year this was the first time the hugely popular outdoor musical concert was staged in the grounds of Castle Park, Bangor and featured performances from Northern Ireland's own Barry Douglas; Australian-born guitarist Craig Ogden; the Ulster Orchestra, under the baton of David Brophy and acclaimed singer/songwriter Declan O'Rourke.
This year with support from North Down Borough Council, BBC Proms in the Park teamed up once again with the Ulster Orchestra on a grand scale to present a night of popular classics.
BBC Northern Ireland's Noel Thompson and Claire McCollum presented the concert with the Ulster Orchestra and was broadcast live on BBC Radio Ulster.
The event was part of the BBC's prestigious Last Night of the Proms celebrations – ambitious live events to mark the end of the world's largest classical music festival.
Local concert goers were able to view sections of the Last Night of the Proms from the Royal Albert Hall throughout the night on a giant video screen in the grounds of Hillsborough Castle.
BBC Proms in the Park in the grounds of Castle Park, Bangor was recorded by BBC Northern Ireland and will be shown on television later in the year.
The Mayor of North Down, Councillor James McKerrow said he was delighted and proud that Bangor had played host to such a spectacular event: "Proms in the Park 2011 in Bangor really was a night to remember. All those who attended enjoyed a truly spectacular evening of outstanding musical entertainment.
In the sprawling hills of Fauquier County, Va., sits a tiny town called Hume, population 263. Beginning this weekend though, you'll likely hear a lot more about this quaint community.
Hume Vineyards celebrates its grand opening Saturday at noon after three years of loving labor.
Owner and winemaker Stephane Baldi, who grew up in French wine country, brought his appreciation for quality wines to Virginia. With his wife, Andrea, by his side he is realizing their dream with the vineyard's opening.
"Hume Vineyard is the culmination of our dream, the combination of our passion for wine and our love of the Virginia Piedmont, of our spirit of innovation and experimentation, of our goal to craft outstanding wines, and of sparing no hardship while doing it."