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The nature reserve, which is looked after by the Wildlife Trust, has been closed as a result. |
Thousands of the insects were seen in Ivatt Way, Westwood at about 1pm yesterday. |
Sean Reddington (31), an MOT tester at Car World, was left trapped in a vehicle when the insects swarmed. |
He said: “I was bringing a car to the workshop, when I saw one or two bees. |
“The next thing I know there were thousands of them. |
“I just stayed in the car. I have never seen anything like it. |
“There were a couple of salesman coming over, but I think they thought better of it when they saw the swarm. |
“I don’t know where the bees came from, and they were gone in 10 minutes, and I don’t know where they went. They didn’t seem to all go in one direction. |
A spokesman for Peterborough based insect charity Buglife said the best thing for people to do if they see swarming bees is to leave them well alone. |
He said: “The swarms are caused when hives become overcrowded and the queen leaves with half of the worker bees to form a new colony. |
“They turn up everywhere from shop fronts, sheds, trees and even a recent case on a high street bollard- either for a temporary stop off or to start up a new nest. This is perfectly natural but there have been a lot of people reporting swarms this year. |
A free open day at Woodston Ponds, located off the Woodston Reach footpath, will take place on Saturday, July 18 between 11am and 3pm. |
FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 17, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Insurance.com, a car insurance comparison-shopping site that offers side-by-side policy choices for 14 carriers, has launched a new mobile platform that allows visitors to purchase policies with just a tap of their screens in as quickly as 10 minutes. |
"Comparing quotes on smartphones can be a minefield, especially if you want to see quotes from multiple companies at the same time," said Insurance.com Managing Editor Des Toups. "Most sites don't ask all the questions needed to show you a real rate you can actually buy, or they sell your phone number to a bunch of ins... |
The new Insurance.com mobile site features a simple walk-through about prior insurance coverage and vehicles, reviews discounts and coverage options, then displays rates from insurance carriers side by side. For those with questions or concerns, users can connect with a licensed agent at any point in the quote process. |
Insurance.com does not share shoppers' contact information. |
This no-hassle approach to auto insurance shopping allows customers to get real-time quotes anywhere, regardless of whether that's at an airport or a dealership, Toups said. |
"One in five of our customers use mobile devices," Toups said. "Our new platform allows them to compare rates and buy when the need arises." |
More than 1 million Insurance.com users have saved an average of $540, the company says, with policies sold through providers that include Progressive, Esurance, The Hartford, Travelers and 21st Century. |
To see the new platform or see side-by-side quotes, use your phone to visit Insurance.com. |
Insurance.com is owned and operated by QuinStreet Inc. (NASDAQ:QNST), one of the largest Internet marketing and media companies in the world. QuinStreet is committed to providing consumers and businesses with information they need to research, find and select the products, services and brands that best meet their needs... |
So what is all the fuss about, it is just another Scion xB or Honda Element right? Well, it is true that the Scion xB and Honda Element have been in the consumer market for many years now and have become a symbol of individuality, but Nissan plans to takes the Cube to another level through its styling, inside and out. ... |
The interior styling of the Cube is said to be designed after that of a Jacuzzi—and no I am afraid massaging seats aren’t among the options list. As you might have guessed, comfort is the desired feeling; Nissan tries to accomplish this by giving the passenger a place where they can lounge in comfort as they are whizze... |
At the 101st Chicago Auto Show, held in February of this year, the Sun Times SearchChicago.com reported that the starting price for the 2009 Nissan Cube will be $13,990. That is only $690 dollars more than the base MSRP for new 2010 Kia Soul, another new competitor in the market. They also reported that the initial off... |
Verdict—the 2009 Nissan Cube is a funky box style vehicle that has good cargo room, with a good entry-level price, and comfort. However, its unique styling is probably not for everyone. |
Looking for more? Check out the rest of our new and used car photos, reviews and more here at allsmallcars.com. And if you need financing, roll over to TheCarConnection.com. |
NEW YORK—Not even a superstorm can put a damper on Manhattan’s real estate market. |
The Financial District was crippled for weeks after Superstorm Sandy causing city, state, federal, and private resources to be poured into stormproofing efforts. But as time passes, it seems what’s out of sight is out of mind. |
Adie Kriegstein, a CORE real estate agent, said that a recent condo buyer started her search in Battery Park and then the Downtown area. Kriegstein said that her number one concern was: how did the building fare during Sandy? Ultimately, the client went for affordability. |
“Out of everything, she bought in the Seaport,” said Kriegstein. The area has some of the oldest buildings in the city and bore the fury of the storm surge that hit Manhattan. |
Although the building lost electricity and the lobby flooded during the storm, no stormproofing efforts were made afterward. Kriegstein said for those looking to buy real estate in New York City, concerns over future storms are not top of mind. |
“Price per square foot often trumps all,” said Kriegstein. The passage of time also seems to dim the memory of damage done. In Kriegstein’s experience, there were buyer concerns for about six months after Sandy, but they subsided along with the visible damage Downtown. |
But even when the storm first hit, prices weren’t affected, according to Pete Culliney, director of research at CityRealty. |
After the storm, Culliney got requests to look at his numbers in the aftermath for drops in prices, people leaving the area, et cetera. |
Culliney noted that at 250 West St., a building that had been three-quarters in contract before the storm, was expected to sell out before the end of the year. Then the storm hit. |
Electrical equipment was damaged because the basement flooded, but the lobby was fine. There were worries the pricing would suffer afterwards, but all of the contracts were closed after the storm and the rest of the contracts were snapped up without a discount, Culliney said. |
Living in Manhattan is costly, and so is moving a building’s mechanicals from the basement to the top. |
With dozens of residential buildings in progress, the influx of residents in the Financial District, and the memory of Sandy still fresh, one would expect stormproofing to be worked into new developments. |
Many developments did work the preventative measures in, and it has a lot to do with the types of buildings going up in the Financial District. |
“It comes down to the haves and the have-nots,” said Culliney. |
For example, the residential complex at 2 Gold St. and 201 Pearl St. were badly damaged by Sandy. This spring the owners installed a 13-by-11 foot $250,000 flood-proof door with nitrogen-fueled gaskets to protect their basement. Other buildings have taken measures to get the electrical equipment from the basement to hi... |
If anything, prioritizing preventative measures is increasing property value. |
“Sales prices and the number of closings have increased significantly in the past year and there is over a dozen new residential developments in the works in the Financial District alone,” said Ariel Cohen of The Ariel Cohen Team at Douglas Elliman. |
The demographic downtown is younger than that of Midtown, and price per square foot is still considerably lower. The current mutually-beneficial trend of residential and retail is causing the area to thrive as well. |
Over the past year, according to the Real Estate Board of New York’s Fall 2013 Retail Report, the Financial District saw the greatest increase in price per square foot at 69 percent, but is still far, far below the price of other neighborhoods at $257 per square foot. |
The Fifth Avenue Corridor saw an 18 percent jump from last year but holds its top spot as the most expensive with an average rent of $3,170 per square foot. |
Companies’ concerns vary a bit from residential. |
According to developers, Sandy brought up the issue of being able to provide spaces that can withstand business interruptions. |
Con Edison was not prepared for the storm and buildings with basement-level generators were out of power for a long time. Along with a reduced workforce, the connectivity of Con Edison’s grid had issues according to a utility workers union report looking at Sandy damage. |
Silverstein Properties, one of the largest developers downtown, touted its continuity plan after the storm. Tenants at 7 World Trade Center and 120 Broadway were able to return to their offices a few days after the storm. |
Jeremy Moss, Silverstein’s vice president of leasing, had stated the strategy was an expensive and time consuming effort that takes away from their core business, but sent a clear message business continuity was their priority. |
Transportation adds value to real estate as well, and with the Fulton stop changes underway malls like Westfield and Brookfield have signed on to the area. Westfield has been quiet about their leases, but Brookfield has announced tenants including Theory, Burberry, Hermes, and Salvatore Ferragamo. |
Conde Nast is headquartering in 1 World Trade Center along with the The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency and the federal General Services Administration. Media company GroupM signed on as 3 World Trade Center’s anchor tenant recently as well. |
Post-Sandy, the city directed a lot of attention and eventual funding to resiliency. Architects and designers are taking the issue into consideration as well, and some say the efforts aren’t looking long-term. |
Two years before Sandy, the Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center put together the “Rising Currents” exhibition with plans from five interdisciplinary teams. The project addressed the rising sea levels that will eventually diminish the amount of land along the waterfront. |
The stance the designers took was largely that infrastructure should allow the water to come and go–infrastructure that would probably change the value of property levels, as they included ideas like wetlands, hanging structures. |
Some parts of the city are already below sea level, like Chelsea where Kriegstein has sold real estate there for eight years. Unlike the Financial District, the visible damage was minimal so she didn’t hear the same concerns from buyers in Chelsea post-Sandy. |
“Property values keep going up and up—some of those buildings that were worst damaged have had bidding wars on the apartments there,” said Kriegstein. |
UPDATE: What Happened With The Slew Of Second-Position Castings This Season? |
It was a pilot season dominated by second-position castings. With close to 100 pilots casting at the same time – 83 on the five broadcast networks, 4 on TBS and several on other cable networks – competition for talent was so fierce, the broadcast networks went aggressively after actors on current series or even on othe... |
It is a risk – a studio can spend $5 million on a pilot, then get a series pickup only to find out that its star’s current show has been renewed and he/she is no longer available. But in a development certain to encourage even more second-position castings next season, all bookings of actors tied to other projects work... |
The problem is that My Boys’ upcoming fourth season will not premiere until July 25. TBS had both Spiro and Howard at their upfront in New York and the network brass have said they could renew the underrated comedy for a fifth cycle if it does well in the ratings. In either case, the fate of the series won’t be known u... |
Things are more complicated with Howard, who is one-half of the central couple on the comedy Perfect Couples. (Ironically, the other half is another actress cast in second position, Christine Woods from Flash Forward). It took awhile for the male role to be cast and I hear the network is happy with Howard. But with the... |
Wood’s FlashForward co-star Zachary Knighton is the male lead in ABC’s new comedy series Happy Endings where his new co-star Eliza Coupe was in second position to Scrubs, Numbers star Rob Morrow now toplines ABC’s new drama series The Whole Truth, Andrea Anders from Better Off Ted now stars on ABC’s new comedy Mr .Suns... |
Among those second-positing cases that ultimately worked out, there were two that are particularly interesting. Tyler Labine received an offer for the CBS comedy pilot Mad Love (then True Love) in January, more than a month before the premiere of his midseason comedy series Sons of Tucson. He turned down the offer out ... |
The second notable second-position case also involves Mad Love. This pilot season, Sarah Chalke was tapped to star in the ABC comedy Freshmen and then, in second position, in another pilot, CBS’ Team Spitz. She is going to star on a new comedy series next season, but it is not either of those, it’s Mad Love, which appr... |
And then there is the Lizzy Caplan situation on Mad Love. She did the pilot as a guest star. Normally, a guest-starring booking indicates a second-position casting to another series, and Caplan indeed is on Starz’s Party Down. But in this case, the guest-starring arrangement was strictly that – the actress had agreed t... |
But while most second-position castings worked out, there were some near misses, like the casting of One Tree Hill co-star Sophia Bush on the ABC comedy pilot Southern Comfort. Hill was renewed, which would’ve created a conflict with Southern Comfort had it been picked up. It wasn’t. |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger compared playing college football to an unpaid internship and said he supports a bill expected to be introduced in Congress that would give athletes more opportunities to earn money. |
In a series of tweets, the junior this week laid out the responsibilities that come with being a college athlete and the perceived inequities. |
Rep. Mark Walker, a North Carolina Republican, is expected to introduce a bill next week that would amend the tax code to remove NCAA restriction on college athletes being compensated for use of their name, image and likeness. |
Is LG About to Unveil an Unbreakable OLED Smartphone? |
If you've ever suffered that sick feeling of bending, cracking, or generally just breaking your smartphone, you're gonna love this. |
According to sources speaking to AndroidAuthority,LG Electronics will unveil a "major upgrade" to its G Flex smartphone at next month's annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. |
Before we get into the details, perspective is in order. LG in late 2013 officially announced the original G Flex, a curved device featuring one of LG Display's flexible, "unbreakable" plastic OLED screens, which themselves are made possible by materials and IP from OLED technologist Universal Display . |
But rather than curving from side-to-side likeSamsung's similarly timed Galaxy Round smartphone, LG's G Flex sported a more dramatic vertical curve, which the company spun as more closely following the contours of users' faces. Neither device was particularly popular, however, given a combination of limi... |
90 degrees of awesomeSo what makes the G Flex 2 any different? According to a separate report from ZDNet Korea, the G Flex 2 is expected to feature a rubberized chassis co-developed by LG Electronicsand LG Display, and capable of being bent at up to a 90 degree angle. |
Combine that chassis with the original G Flex's innovations -- namely its plastic OLED display and flexible battery-- and LG could be about to take a massive leap toward releasing the world's first virtually unbreakable smartphone. Or, at the very least, one that could render obsolete the kind of issues thatp... |
This would also be an effective answer to Samsung'srecently revealed plansto by the end of 2015 commercially launch a device featuring a flexible display that can be folded in half. That said, it seems at this point Samsung's focus is more on eye-popping functionality -- for example, a tablet that could fold ... |
Samsung's Galaxy Note Edge: Credit Samsung. |
Samsung also recently launched its Galaxy Note Edge smartphone, which at the time I dubbed the most exciting phablet yetbased on its status as the first to include truly useful functionality for the curved display, and for the futuristic devices that display portends going forward. |
For consumers at this point, it's difficult to tell whether Samsung's functionality or LG's durability would be of greater importance. That might depend on just how amazing and useful Samsung's impending new technology turns out to be. |
Challenges remain?That said, the durability of the G Flex 2 could depend in part on whether LG has identified a suitable protective cover for the plastic OLED display. Plastic OLEDs have proven extremely durable -- even withstanding multiple strikes from a hammer in early videos -- but they're still sensitive to e... |
Corning's Gorilla Glass was used to protect the original G Flex. But Corning only claims Gorilla Glass can be contoured and shaped without sacrificing strength, and it's unclear whether it can be repeatedly flexed if need be -- let alone over a device bent to a 90 degree angle. |
And while Corning's ultra-thin Willow Glass was designed to bend to that degree, it was not meant originally as a protective cover like Gorilla Glass was, but rather to be used inside a device as a substrate material on which the actual electronics are applied. In the case of flexible plastic OLEDs from LG Display... |
That is not to say Willow Glass could not eventually be used as a protective cover or encapsulation layer for the plastic OLED, but it almost certainly would not resist everyday damage as well as Corning's most popular primate-titled cover glass. |
In any case, if these reports are to be believed, we'll see exactly what LG has up its sleeve during CES from Jan. 6-9, 2015. Be sure to check back here at Fool.com for the latest on the event then. |
The article Is LG About to Unveil an Unbreakable OLED Smartphone? originally appeared on Fool.com. |
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An LAPD source said that homicide detectives have identified the person who murdered Nipsey Hussle as someone he knew. |
Good news! Yella Beezy is at home recovering after being released from the hospital following his drive-by shooting incident. |
Jeffrey Zeigler, a white man who shot at 14-year-old Brennan Walker, who was asking for directions, was found guilty of assault by a Michigan jury. |
Yella Beezy was hospitalized over the weekend after being shot "multiple times" while driving on the highway in Texas. |
The Broward County Sheriff's Office has released the surveillance video showing a group of men ambushing and killing rapper XXXTentacion as he was leaving a motorsports dealership in Deerfield Beach, Florida back in June. |
So what exactly is a 'zero-carbon' home? |
There are many descriptions of these new types of homes which should begin to spring up around the country next year. |
The first point is that the construction of the home may not be zero-carbon - but living in the home is. |
According to the Treasury, it is "a home which will over the course of a year generates enough power from renewable sources that it does not contribute to climate change". |
Typically, they will have solar panels on the roof, which provide more than 10 per cent of the power used in Britain's only zero-carbon development. |
To provide the rest of the power, they are likely to use a woodchip boiler, which uses not gas or electricity, like most boilers, but burns woodchips. |
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