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Campfires are fun, but they can be unpredictable. How about a portable firepit you can control with your phone? The BioLite FirePit can burn wood or charcoal, features adjustable flame control, and even doubles as a hibachi. |
Of course, backyards are perfect for grilling. Cookouts and barbecues deserve their own separate list of smart grills, smokers, and other handy ways to cook outdoors. If you want to step up your meat game with technology, check out our guide to the best barbecue and grilling gadgets. |
Even with the threat of Brexit on the horizon there are “opportunities in the UK which are untapped from an Irish perspective”, Enterprise Ireland has said. |
The State agency, which helps Irish businesses deliver export sales, noted that growth in the north of England was faster than any other region in the UK and offers considerable opportunity for Irish export businesses. |
Speaking at the launch of the agency’s report Northern Powerhouse: Business Opportunities for Irish Companies, Enterprise Ireland chief executive Julie Sinnamon said that while the agency was focused on encouraging businesses to have a more diversified market strategy, “the UK is Ireland’s most significant export marke... |
The report highlights opportunities for Irish businesses across a range of sectors including the construction of 500,000 new homes, the development of new life-sciences and healthcare facilities, the supply of engineering products and major rail and road developments including the HS2 railway connecting the north of En... |
Northern Powerhouse is an initiative by the UK government to rebalance the country’s economy. James Stewart, a director of KPMG’s global infrastructure practice, suggested the plan was politically necessary to address economic disparities in the north of England compared with other regions. “I can’t think of another co... |
Brian Crowley, the chief executive of TTM Healthcare, a global healthcare recruitment company based in Ennis, Co Clare, with a significant UK presence, said that when he opened a UK arm of the business he initially chose London. “If I was to do it again I’d probably choose the north of England first,” he told Enterpris... |
At least 105,000 people are directly employed in the UK by Irish companies. The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys, suggested that as Brexit negotiations continued the UK would remain the largest export market for Irish businesses. “The Irish Government and our export agency Enterprise ... |
“[The] Northern Powerhouse report underscores the extent of the business and partnership opportunities for Irish companies, with the north of England, an area that is growing at a significant rate and outpacing all other parts of the UK,” Ms Humphreys added. |
Marina Donohoe, Enterprise Ireland’s UK and Northern Europe director, told The Irish Times the UK option was attractive to a number of companies who were not necessarily in a position to sell into the wider European market. |
“Notwithstanding the threat of Brexit, [the UK] economy is in growth mode and it’s on our doorstep,” Ms Donohoe said before highlighting that it was still encouraging clients to reduce their dependency on the UK and to diversify as they scale and grow. |
Enterprise Ireland is planning a trade mission to the north of England in April in an effort to strengthen the presence of its client companies in the region. |
Group projects are important to perfect your skills in teamwork. Sometimes it’s rough, so MOVE has some tips for working with others. |
It’s the light at the end of the tunnel — it’s finally the beginning of May and summer vacation is on the horizon (even if the weather doesn’t necessarily agree). There are just a few obstacles between now and lying on a beach, though: finals, term papers and dreaded group projects. In comparison to group projects, fin... |
Group projects are always a gamble. Who will be your chosen teammates? What are their homework habits? How do everyone’s personalities mesh together? MOVE has tips (and memes) to help you out with every typical group member personality, which will help you all get that project finished. |
This group member always wants the least to do but all of the grade. It stinks if someone isn’t pulling their weight in the project like they should. One way to counteract The Lazy One from walking away with only the responsibility of the title slide is to sit down as a group on the very first day with the project rubr... |
The rubric has every piece of the project in detail, and the group should split all of the responsibilities accordingly. Since this is taking place in a face-to-face meeting, it won’t be as easy for The Lazy One to slip away without much to do because everyone else will be there to hold them accountable. So split up th... |
This group member is somewhat sneaky, unless you know this person well. Sure, The Procrastinator will do their fair share of the project, but you may never see it until a half-hour before the whole thing is due. And it may or may not even be good, because they probably started it that same day. |
To prevent a headache, when everyone has their parts of the project, move up the deadline a couple of days so everyone can swap pieces for editing. If everyone agrees to the editing deadline, have the whole group put reminders in their phones and planners. The Procrastinator will get his/her part of the project in by t... |
Everyone is busy this time of year, but there’s always that one group member that has an extraordinarily busy schedule. This isn’t necessarily a bad characteristic, but this student is never available for group meetings or going out and collecting the work. If this is the case, make sure this person is able to have the... |
There will always be a Control Freak in a group project. Always. Otherwise, how would things get accomplished? But sometimes The Control Freak may go too far. They may nag the rest of the group about their parts of the project, take on a large portion of the work or complain about doing most of it. This person can actu... |
A new novel giving a no-holds-barred account of the horrors of the American Civil War and its aftermath has already set the critics talking. |
Documentary thriller about the sport of Competitive Endurance Tickling hits the big screen! |
TickleFilmer and former competitive endurance tickling casting director David Starr appears in a critically acclaimed documentary about the "sport" of tickling. |
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Tournament held at Miami Beach Golf Club generated $24,000 in aid for Haiti. |
Local tea shop and eatery, Lucky Tea Café is announcing the addition of sushi to their menu coming in June. Adding sushi isn't the only change coming the café. |
The 1st annual Miss & Mrs Perfect Lady USA Beauty Pageant crowning and red carpet is set on Saturday, June 4, 2016 at Envision Center in Van Nuys from 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm. |
Technicolor was a prominent member of Marvel's team for their latest blockbuster release: Captain America: Civil War. |
Bane-Welker Equipment, LLC was recently recognized as the large business of the year at the 2016 Crawfordsville/Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner. |
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Prodigy's 2nd Generation toteTRACK delivery solution is now available on it's new iOS app platform providing an even slicker interface that is easier to use and loaded with enhanced features. |
The Government of Akwa Ibom State through the Ministry of Environment & Mineral Resources in collaboration with Water Safety Initiative Foundation, Africa Clean Energy Summit and The Environment Communications Limited is hosting the First Akwa Ibom State. |
Set in beautiful Costa Rica, WholyFit intertwines our desire to focus on Our Lord and Savior and our need to move. WholyFit designed their workouts inspired by yoga with an enlightening twist of reciting scripture throughout each workout. |
Celebrates the 75th Anniversary of Lamarr's remarkable patent. |
Fashion Week Brooklyn F/W2016 Season Finale! |
Amazon has a new Alexa for hotels. This is the new way to order room service. |
Amazon has developed a new Alexa for Hospitality to let hotel guests order room service, get their rooms cleaned and much more at the sound of their voice. |
The nightstand iPad was once the most advanced technological feature in a hotel guestroom. |
Now, Amazon is stepping in to change that. This week, Amazon announced that it has developed Alexa for Hospitality, a new version of its Amazon Echo smart speaker, for hotels, vacation rental companies and other players in the hospitality field. The voice-activated virtual assistant device that many people have adopted... |
So far, Marriott International has signed on to test the new product this summer at select properties in several of its brands. Among the specific hotels that Alexa is testing the product: the Charlotte Marriott City Center in North Carolina and the Marriott Irvine Spectrum in California. It will also be featuring the ... |
Two Roads Hospitality, which has brands such as Thompson Hotels, is also testing out the new Alexa. |
“Customers tell us they love how easy it is to get information, enjoy entertainment, and control connected devices by simply asking Alexa, and we want to offer those experiences everywhere customers want them,” says Daniel Rausch, vice president of Amazon. |
Calling maintenance and housekeeping for towels, refreshments, etc. |
Even before Amazon developed this new product, hotels have been adopting Alexa. For Instance, the Inn at the Pier in Pismo Beach, which opened last year, has had an Alexa in each room since its debut. |
So far, Two Roads Hospitality is trying out Alexa for Hospitality at two of its properties, Thompson Seattle and The Liaison Capitol Hill, a Joie de Vivre hotel in Washington, D.C. |
The company plans to roll out Alexa for Hospitality at additional North American properties throughout this year and into 2019. It may even expand it internationally. |
LAST night American TV host Jimmy Fallon took to the stage wearing a ‘See you Jimmy hat’ in honour of Tartan Week in a New York nightclub. |
THE Tartan Week celebrations reached the halfway point last night - but the party in New York showed no signs of slowing down. |
On Saturday, thousands of tartan-clad runners raced through Central Park in New York to mark the start of Scotland Week across the USA. |
Scotland Week 2015 runs until Sunday 12th April and one of the highlights of the week is the Tartan Day Parade , which attracts hundreds of pipers, thousands of marchers and many more cheering from the sidelines. |
The celebrations kicked off on Monday when America and Canada celebrated Tartan Day as thousands marked the contribution of Scots and their descendants across both nations. |
Events during the week include a series of daily recitals in Bryant Park from Scottish performers including Lanark & District Pipe Band, whose youngest band member is 10-year-old Jack Paton. |
Today comic maestro Billy Connolly is to be honoured with a Great Scot Award by the National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA at their the annual fund-raising dinner. |
Tomorrow morning Scots piper Craig Weir has the extraordinary honour of playing his bagpipes at the 9/11 memorial, in honour of those who lost their lives. |
Then tomorrow night Scottish contemporary style will be celebrated when Gordon Milllar , the founding father of fashion movement Scot Street Style, hosts a chic party in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. |
Friday also marks the start of the hugely anticipated Ellis Island annual exhibition organised by the Clan Currie Society. This year it features notorious Scottish pirate Captain William Kidd and is sponsored by Scotland Now. |
We are also the proud sponsor of the Tartan Day Parade on Saturday and will join the marchers through the centre of Manhattan. |
Outlander star Graham McTavish will be this year's Grand Marshal at the prestigious event . |
#NYTartanWeek is happening. Lots of #Outlander fans coming into town the next few days to support @ASFevents @grahammctavish and sponsors. |
Previous Grand Marshal’s include actor Kevin McKidd , in 2013, and Scottish kilt maker Howie Nicolsby, in 2014. |
The celebrations every April was originally set up to up to mark the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath on April 6, 1320 and upon which America’s Declaration of Independence is based. |
This year, as Scotland marks the Year of Food and Drink , Belhaven will be the official beer of the New York Tartan Day Parade Events. |
The New York Tartan Day Parade began 17 years ago with a handful of people walking down a sidewalk, and has now grown to thousands of people celebrating in events throughout the city and further afield. |
Tartan Day celebration are held around the world from Arbroath to Argentina, although none quite match the New York spectacle, which even include a Scottie and Westie dog parade. |
Alan Bain, President of the National Tartan Day New York Committee, said: “I remember well the first Tartan Day Parade along the sidewalks of Third Avenue. |
Linda Jenner says she was driving home on I-19 from dinner with her husband and friend when a car began making it's way from the other direction and across the median. |
"All of a sudden these lights, this car is coming at us. My husband was driving and he hit the brakes and moved over." |
Jenner says her husband pulled over immediately and the car crashed into the driver that was directly in front of them. |
"And it hit so hard, so loud that there was debris flying everywhere so we pulled over and got out and a whole bunch of people were running because the car that got hit was turned upside down in a ditch." |
The Department of Public Safety says the crash killed one person and seriously injured another. They are continuing to invesitgate. |
"It could have been us." |
The Arizona Department of Transportation says there are currently several construction projects on I-19 and say they're working to improve traffic efficiency and safety for drivers. |
The net result, pollster John Zogby found, is a race that’s neck and neck, with McCain supported by 42 percent; Obama by 41 percent; Libertarian Bob Barr by 2 percent; and independent Ralph Nader by 2 percent. Another 13 percent supported other candidates or were undedcided. |
-Among Catholics, Obama lost the 11 point lead he had in July and now trails McCain by 15. |
The question, obviously, is whether that erosion will continue as voters continue to learn more about Obama, and see him less as a media phenomenon, and more as a conventional, but very liberal, Democrat with little practical experience. |
Washington Capitals Hockey Player Scores Winning Goal, Draws Racist Tweets : The Two-Way Washington Capitals hockey player Joel Ward scores winning goal and is subjected to racist remarks on Twitter. Ward, who's black, says the comments didn't ruin his day. |
Washington Capitals right wing Joel Ward, center, is mobbed by teammates after his game-winning goal against the Boston Bruins. |
Hockey fans in the nation's capital are savoring an underdog victory: last night, the Washington Capitals knocked the Boston Bruins, last year's Stanley Cup champions, out of the playoffs. Nearly three minutes into overtime, Caps right winger Joel Ward fired a puck past Bruins goalie Tim Thomas, ending Boston's hopes f... |
For a very few Boston fans, the disappointment morphed into vitriol - on social media. Vile tweets against Ward appeared on Twitter, notes Capitals Outsider - and one of them was a death threat. |
Joel Ward is black, playing in a professional sport that is overwhelmingly white. |
Outraged social media users have thronged web pages, offering messages of support. Today the Bruins released a statement condemning the comments. So did the Caps: "We are aware of some of the racial comments that were made following our overtime victory last night and are outraged by those individuals who expressed suc... |
It was rough going. And not when I was playing in Montreal or Toronto, but when I went to the states, in Chicago, in Detroit and in New York, you know, I experienced the racial slurs and remarks that were directed towards me. But, you know, I had geared myself up for that and I told my self, Willie, you're a black man ... |
O'Ree spent two seasons with the Bruins: in 1957/58 and 1960/61. |
Meanwhile, Joel Ward told USA Today while he was shocked by the comments, "it didn't ruin my day". He added: "I'm definitely getting a lot of support...there have been a lot of Boston fans who have supported me, which is very cool to see. No hard feelings from me. This is a game." |
When Aaron Proctor started his Boba Fett Web site as a teenager in 1996, the San Francisco native wasn't expecting many visitors. After all, the "Star Wars" bounty hunter had only five lines in the original trilogy, and his apparent death in "Return of the Jedi" was the interstellar equivalent of slipping in the bathtu... |
A year later, www.bobafett.com became so popular that Boba himself came calling. Jeremy Bulloch, the man behind the mask in the films, showed up on Proctor's birthday. |
"He was in town for a convention," Proctor recalls. "He invited me to sit at the table with him and Darth Vader. I can't even tell you how special that was." |
For thousands of "Star Wars" fans, Proctor's opportunity to roll with Boba Fett is better than anything short of a moment alone with Princess Leia in her Jabba the Hutt slave costume. In the movies, the bounty hunter does little more than deliver Han Solo's frozen body to the aforementioned Hutt. But Boba Fett collecti... |
Bulloch, living proof that there's no such thing as a small role, is as baffled as anyone about the phenomenon. |
"I originally was told that the role of Boba Fett was to take just a few days," says Bulloch, who spends several weeks each year signing Boba Fett photos and memorabilia on the convention circuit. "At the time, I never thought the name Boba Fett would be talked about so much. ... I am now getting letters from Poland, H... |
"He's no good to me dead." |
"What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me." |
"Put Capt. Solo in the cargo hold." |
When director George Lucas released his tricked-out remastered trilogy last year, Boba Fett's screen time was expanded appreciably -- but he still appears for only 95 seconds in "The Empire Strikes Back," 34 seconds in "Return of the Jedi" and a blink-and-you'll-miss-him cameo in the original film. |
During his time on screen, Boba fires six shots with his blaster, five of which can be seen missing their intended target. He briefly entangles Luke Skywalker with a grappling hook, but it's a hollow victory -- in a bit of bad acting that was common to Mark Hamill's performance, Skywalker keeps his arms on his sides an... |
So why have more than 25 separate Boba Fett Web sites emerged over the years? And why does the "Official Price Guide to Star Wars Memorabilia" list Boba's "The Empire Strikes Back" action figure as the most expensive (worth up to $280), while C-3PO costs $115 and Lando Calrissian maxes out at $90? |
Proctor, now an aspiring cinematographer at UCLA, said his initial attraction to the character was visual: Despite some weird-looking accessories (is that a blaster on Fett's left arm, or an ATM?), Boba Fett's battle-worn armor makes him cooler-looking than anyone else in the series. Proctor points out things such as t... |
"There's this high sense of design and mystery that goes along with Boba Fett," Proctor says. "He's somebody to the side of the spotlight. Somebody who is there and aware, and then jumping in and reacting when it's necessary." |
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