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“That is all that we can aim for but that is what we are aiming for at this point in time and if we get there we will be very happy to be in a semi-final,” added Harte. |
“That is the challenge that is in front of us now, win a game in the last eight and be in the last four and if we can do that then I will be happy. |
“The team has been maturing over this past couple of years and they are getting better, there is no doubt about that. |
“But we have to get better to do better than what we have been doing up until now so if the improvement is enough to take us to where we want to go time alone will tell. |
Warwick Street Kitchen will be celebrating its first year under new management this month.''Photos by Jennifer Peel. |
Leamington’s Warwick Street Kitchen will be celebrating its first year under new management later this month. |
The staff and management will be marking the milestone on July 18 with a party. |
Lydia Papaphilippopoulos-Snape, who owns the business, reflects back on the year. |
She said: “I spent many years frustrated with the fact that great coffee and great, fresh food seemed to be separate things and that no one place seemed to do both. |
“After finding the location on Warwick Street, it became very clear to me that I needed to find someone who took food as seriously as I took coffee. |
“Head Chef, George, was the guy. After that it was the case of teaching the team everything I know and love about customer service and building a beautiful shop with an amazing vibe - basically, create somewhere where I would want to hang out. |
“We have created a menu of entirely homemade food. Everything from the home smoked salmon to the pastrami is made on site and every ingredient is sourced locally from other independent businesses. |
“Over 2000 people have followed us on Instagram and we have launched our monthly evening events where we serve Tapas style food and paired drinks – each one so far has sold out and been a massive success. |
Lydia added: “Ultimately, the reason we want to celebrate is to thank all of our amazing friends and customers who have welcomed us and supported us as we’ve developed. |
“Community is so important to us, it’s the sole reason that we use 100% local suppliers, because we believe that we should be supporting the community that supports us. |
“We will be running polls on Instagram in the week leading up to the day to decide our customers favourite doughnut fillings – the doughnut basket is yours on the 18th so get involved. |
“We will be decorating the shop and giving away mini-doughnuts with every purchase. As for the food, we will be running a special menu on the day of our favourite dishes from the past year so be sure to come down and see what’s on offer on the day. |
FILE - Tourists stroll past the remains of Pompeii's forum. |
Italian police have seized more than 2,000 ancient artifacts in a nationwide sweep aimed at dismantling a criminal gang that was operating throughout southern Italy and dealing in stolen archeological treasures. |
During their operation, police discovered a house that had been turned into a private museum packed with some 550 ancient finds, a police statement said. |
Three people were arrested.The investigation was launched after part of a fresco was stolen from the House of Neptune in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, near Naples, police said. |
Italian media reported the loss of part of a fresco of Apollo and Artemis in Pompeii last March. The police, who dubbed their investigation "Artemis", did not say if they had recovered the art work, which was hacked out of a wall. |
Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini hailed Wednesday's operation, which was coordinated by anti-mafia officials in Naples and involved some 142 police searches in more than 20 Italian cities and towns. |
"[This] has led to the recovery of thousands of archeological items and defeated a criminal organization dedicated to plundering southern Italy's cultural heritage," Franceschini said in a statement. |
Among the items recovered were decorated vases, coins and fragments of ancient buildings. Police also seized metal detectors and items they said had been used for illegal digs. |
Underlining the challenge faced by Italy in protecting its vast cultural wealth, authorities said on Wednesday that heavy rain had washed away part of a garden in Pompeii, which was buried under volcanic ash nearly 2,000 years ago. |
The damage occurred in an area that was due to be restored under the Great Pompeii Project - a 105 million euro ($119.9 million) plan partly funded by the European Union.The project has been delayed due to legal squabbles over who should carry out the work. |
‘Fish-tival’ fun: It’s all things grunion at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium’s Grunion Fish-tival. Prizes for top three grunion-themed hats. 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro. 7 p.m.-midnight May 30. $5. Call 310-548-7562. www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org. |
Chili cook-off: Bartels’ Harley-Davidson’s 11th annual chili cook-off contest; live music and chili; 11 a.m.-3 p.m. June 1; 4141 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. To enter contest, call 310-823-1112, Ext. 253 or go to www.bartelsharley.com. |
Lil Chefs program: The Simon Kidgits club will dish up a fun culinary experience for pint-sized foodies from 10 a.m.-noon May 31 at JoAnn’s Court, Del Amo Fashion Center. Children will learn about the craft of cooking with educational food-inspired activities ranging from cooking demonstrations to etiquette lessons. Ad... |
Author Fair: The El Segundo Public Library’s 14th annual Author Fair will feature 35 authors who will share and sign their books. Two author panels and a poetry corner are also planned for the event. There will be a children’s area featuring a drawing demonstration with author/illustrator Kathryn Hewitt and several chi... |
Beer festival: Shade Hotel will host the Waves of Grain Beer Fest, featuring more than 40 local and regional premium craft breweries, 3-6 p.m. June 1. Tickets are $40 pre-sale and $50 the date of the event. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will go to the Richstone Family Center, a charity dedicated to preven... |
Vintage Cartoon Festival: The Old Town Music Hall presents a celebration of Max Fleischer cartoons from the 1920s-1940s, presented in association with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and hosted by animation historian Jerry Beck. Highlights include several Academy Award-nominated films like “Popeye Meets S... |
Green Festival: The Port of Los Angeles High School Green Festival, presented by students, faculty and more than 35 invited sustainability groups, will feature a green car show, fracking info, speakers, organic food, a social media center and more. Other highlights include fruit tree giveaway while supplies last (with ... |
Cancer Survivors’ Day: Celebrate the day at participating Sizzler locations and the restaurant will donate 15 percent of sales to the American Cancer Society Relay for Life. Local locations are at 17544 Hawthorne Blvd and 2880 Sepulveda Blvd in Torrance; 831 E. Manchester Ave. Inglewood; and 5801 Sepulveda Blvd., Culve... |
Click here for a full list of things to do in the South Bay. |
Only to those not paying attention. |
No one around here should be unaware of the trend to make it a crime to have no bed and no bathroom. |
Maybe some locals were confused in 2006 when a national homeless-advocate organization infamously awarded Sarasota that year's “meanest city in America” title. That probably made some assume Sarasota was an exception, and that laws in most American cities were more tolerant during hard economic times that made homeless... |
My bet is that Sarasota's laws and police practices, bad as some have been, have been no meaner to the homeless than average. |
The meanness here just got more publicity. |
That bad publicity could have been offset recently by efforts to build a shelter to offer even the most chronic and dysfunctional homeless a “come as you are” place to legally sleep and shower and use a rest room. |
The lack of progress, thanks to strong outcry and resistance to every proposed site and plan, has revealed the political reality: For most, the commitment isn't so much to helping as it is to getting those weird homeless people to go where they won't be seen. |
So Sarasota is still an apt poster city for the problem. |
On the national scene, too, there is “a severe shortage of affordable housing and a lack of emergency shelter options in our communities, leaving homeless people with no choice but to perform basic acts of survival in public spaces,” said Maria Foscarinis, executive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness a... |
In a press release, Foscarinis calls it unconscionable that cities keep passing ordinances that turn necessary conduct into criminal activity. |
Numerous cities — a 47 percent rise — have laws restricting or prohibiting such things as sitting or lying down in public, the study says. |
Sarasota went through multiple versions of its own anti-sleeping law before it was able to get a local judge to accept one that, amazingly, outlawed public sleeping only if the sleeper had no other place to go. People snoozing recreationally on city park grass despite having nice beds to go home to, and credit cards in... |
That belied even the cynical old wisecrack, aimed at laws in France that banned sleeping under the bridges, which snarkily says the laws fairly apply to rich and poor alike. Here, we don't even have the pretense. |
The Law Center also says the nature of criminalization is changing nationwide — in a bad way. |
Sarasota's meanest-city ranking was bestowed two city managers ago. Tom Barwin, the current manager, wants to be more constructive but hasn't found a way to do so without riling someone. |
Now, he is hanging his hat on a theme that deserves serious attention: Chronic adult homelessness, and a lot of substance abuse, is a result of neglect of the mentally ill. |
That neglect resulted from a lack of community mental health funding. |
“I think we're becoming more sophisticated in our approach,” and that city and police officials now understand that many homeless people need psychiatric care. |
But does knowing that help? |
That handcuffs social workers and police alike. |
Mentally ill people on the streets tend to self- medicate with illegal drugs and alcohol. And whether they do that or not, they now break the law just by living. Criminalization is “the least effective and most expensive way” to address homelessness, said Tristia Bauman, a lawyer and primary author of the report. |
I'm sure we will do just that, just as soon as we find a legal and cost-free way to treat people humanely while making sure no one ever has to see them. |
TLC have defended their decision to re-record ‘Waterfalls’ with a Japanese pop singer. |
Last week, it was revealed that the band’s two surviving members, T-Boz and Chilli, remade their classic hit with J-Pop star Namie Amuro performing the rap originally performed by Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes, who died in a car crash in Honduras in 2002. You can hear the re-recorded ‘Waterfalls’ below. |
The new ‘Waterfalls’ will only be released in Japan, but Left Eye’s sister Reigndrop Lopes has claimed she wasn’t informed in advance. “I did not know about it until a fan posted it online. I mean, it would have been nice if they would have given us a heads up before being surprised,” she told TMZ. However, Lopes added... |
Now Chilli has come out to set the record straight and said the reason for the remake is because they don’t own the master recording’s to Lopes’ rap, and all requests to gain rights were rejected. |
Released in 1995, ‘Waterfalls’ became TLC’s most successful single, spending seven weeks at Number One in the US and peaking at Number Four in the UK. The song was covered by UK girl-group StooShe last year with T-Boz and Chilli making a cameo in the video. |
Last month (May), TLC revealed they are recording their first album of new material since 2002’s ‘3D’ with collaborators including Drake and Ne-Yo. The duo are set to make their live comeback next month at The Mixtape Festival in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which runs from July 26-27. |
The Thursday morning (Feb 26) overflight has revealed that the lava flow front remains stalled. The breakout along the north margin has widened but has not advanced since Monday. Smoke conditions were light with a light southwest wind blowing the smoke in a northeast direction. |
Posted on February 26, 2015. |
ITV’s chief executive, Adam Crozier, is stepping down after seven years at the helm of the UK’s biggest free-to-air commercial broadcaster. |
Crozier, who led a turnaround at ITV after the 2009 recession and successfully reduced the broadcaster’s reliance on advertising revenue by building up its production arm, will leave to pursue a portfolio of roles at private and publicly listed companies. |
His departure means both ITV and its nearest rival, Channel 4, are seeking new chief executives. Scottish broadcaster STV has also just begun the search for a new chief executive; while the top jobs at Sky and the BBC may be up for grabs within the next year. |
All told, the British TV industry is entering an unprecedented period of senior management upheaval, at a time when traditional broadcasters face ever increasing competition for viewers and revenue from digital interlopers including Netflix, Amazon, Google and Facebook. |
The next generation of leaders will be polishing their CVs and awaiting the headhunter’s call in this latest round of executive suite musical chairs, eying up jobs with annual remuneration ranging from BBC director general Tony Hall’s £455,000, to the £4.74m taken home by Jeremy Darroch, Sky group chief executive, last... |
Darroch is expected to move on after nearly a decade in the top job at Sky if the 21st Century Fox takeover wins approval later this year. At the BBC Hall, into his fifth year as director general, may also soon be considering his next career move. BBC directors general have traditionally served a five-year term, though... |
The first top TV job to fall vacant is likely to be at ITV, with Crozier departing at the end of June. Finance director Ian Griffiths will step up to chief operating officer and run the company for an interim period, while the chairman, Sir Peter Bazalgette, becomes executive chairman and oversees the recruitment of Cr... |
Channel 4 began its own search for a new chief executive in March, when it was announced that David Abraham was leaving after seven years. The broadcaster is understood to be aiming to appoint his replacement by the end of June, though no firm date for Abraham’s departure has been set. |
So the two recruitment processes are likely to overlap and some candidates may be considered for both jobs. |
Tamsin Garrity, an analyst at Jefferies, believes that with Crozier successfully setting ITV’s post-recession strategic direction – boosting digital income and building an international TV production business to reduce its over-reliance on TV advertising – a radical candidate is not on the cards. |
“Potential candidates are likely to have a background in production or digital, though ITV is now less likely to be looking for a transformation candidate given the strategy is well established,” she says. |
Griffiths, highly rated by the City, could be a strong internal contender. Potential external candidates include Simon Fox, chief executive of Daily Mirror publisher Trinity Mirror, who was linked to the ITV job before Crozier was appointed; and Erik Huggers, the former Microsoft, Intel and BBC digital executive now ru... |
Dame Carolyn McCall, the former Guardian Media Group chief executive now running EasyJet, and Nationwide Building Society boss Joe Garner, a former BT executive, could also enter the fray. |
At Channel 4, Jay Hunt, the broadcaster’s chief creative officer, and sales chief Jonathan Allan have put their hat in the ring to take over from Abraham, who took home £855,000 in 2015. |
Potential external candidates will have to be prepared for a move to Manchester or Birmingham if the government gets its way and relocates Channel 4’s headquarters from central London. |
They could include Anne Bulford, Channel 4’s former chief operating officer, who left in 2013 to join the BBC, where she holds the role of deputy director general. But Bulford may also have her eye on the top jobs at ITV and the BBC itself. |
Kevin Lygo, ITV’s head of television, who left his role as Channel 4’s director of television and content in 2010 after missing out on the top role to Abraham, may also fancy another tilt. |
Other names in the frame include UKTV boss Darren Childs – Abraham held the role before his surprise selection to run Channel 4; Tim Davie, chief executive of BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial arm; and Jane Turton, who runs All3Media, the producer behind Midsomer Murders, Skins and The Only Way is Essex. |
Rob Woodward, a former investment banker and Channel 4 executive, announced he was standing down as STV chief executive last week and has not publicly ruled out running for the Abraham’s job. |
If 21st Century Fox completes its £11.7bn takeover of Sky this year – which has become far less certain as Rupert Murdoch’s US empire becomes embroiled in scandal – then the odds are that Darroch is also likely to depart. |
However, Fox co-chairman Rupert Murdoch is likely to stick within his media empire to choose a successor. Andrew Griffith, Sky’s finance and operations chief, and Stephen van Rooyen, promoted last year to run the UK and Ireland business, would fancy their chances. Another highly-touted name is Jan Koeppen, chief of Fox... |
At the BBC, Hall has successfully negotiated new licence fee and royal charter deals and just helped put the finishing touches to a new unitary board to run the corporation, following the scrapping of the BBC Trust and the handing of regulatory duties to Ofcom. The 66 year-old may feel it will soon be time to bow out a... |
Internal candidates to replace him could include director of strategy James Purnell, head of news James Harding and head of content Charlotte Moore. However, only Bulford was given a coveted place on the BBC board. |
The original silver-backed Liberty Dollar is available again. Kathy Hicks of Live Oak, with her husband Wayne, have revived it through the new Liberty Dollar Network, which encourages sound-money supporters to exchange their U.S. |
Lace-front wigs, full wigs and weaves are a part of our world now, and they're not going anywhere. Hopefully, this article can help everyone get over it in a good way! Please let us add that "All" types of nationalities and genders wear them too! |
InterMountain Management and The Corky McMillin Companies are proud to announce the opening of Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton San Diego Airport Liberty Station, California. |
This will be the first time this workshop takes place in the United States outside of Silicon Valley with the aim of boosting the growth of startups in emerging tech hubs. |
Royse Contemporary is proud to present Observation & Imagination, their first large group exhibition examining the ideas of observation verses imagination, reflecting upon the artists perspective and creative process. |
Will Colleges Level the Playing Field After Admissions Cheating Scandal? |
Parents across the country are enraged over allegations of a multi-million dollar bribery scheme using wealth and fame to influence the admission of students into prestigious universities. |
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New Zealand based musician and producer Richard Le Fort launches meditation album on an offshoot of Cornwall-based Aardvark Records for healing music. |
Fame Labs Music is a hip hop label based in NYC that delivers music with the classic NYC underground hip hop sound featuring gritty lyrics that drop knowledge and soulful beats. |
We are pleased to be exhibiting our innovative Enterprise Warehouse Management Solution (eWMS) at booth #S5216, at Chicago's McCormick Place. ProMat features more than 1000 exhibitors, and booths and multiple educational sessions. |
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