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The National Animal Interest Alliance is holding its two-day conference here. NAIA is a group that includes professionals in veterinary medicine, animal agriculture, medical research, nutrition, wildlife management, sporting associations, dog and cat associations, education, and entertainment.
President Patti Strand said Terrell's talk will be "big picture" and "inspirational."
Reedy Creek has filed permits for work that looks like it could be related to an expansion of Disney World's Coronado Springs Resort.
The application says there will be a new stormwater management pond and expansion of another pond to accommodate future impervious area within Coronado Springs. Disney would not give further details.
The hotel's website notes that it will be undergoing "a refurbishment" beginning in the fall.
Wet 'n Wild is winding down. The water park, which will permanently close on Dec. 31, will stop operating Wednesdays and Thursdays starting next week. There will be two exceptions. The water park will remain open Nov. 23 and Dec. 28.
Wet 'n' Wild is winding down. The water park, which will permanently close Dec. 31, will stop operating Wednesdays and Thursdays . There will be two exceptions. The water park will remain open Nov. 23 and Dec. 28.
Wet 'n Wild is owned by Universal Orlando, which plans to open the Volcano Bay "water theme park" next year south of its Cabana Bay hotel.
Universal has not yet announced plans for redeveloping the Wet 'n Wild property on International Drive. City of Orlando spokeswoman Cassandra Lafser said last week the city has not received any plans from Universal. Executives from owner Comcast Corp. have indicated they want to build many more hotel rooms, though, and the land could provide a place for that.
Wet 'n' Wild drew 1.3 million visitors last year, making it the world's 10th busiest water park, according to an annual report from the Themed Entertainment Association and AECOM.
Leaders of the proposed iSquare Mall + Hotel signed an agreement with Retail Street Advisors to start the search for possible tenants.
The developer of the long-delayed iSquare hotel and mall says the project has been delayed as he tries to bring the project within budget.
Abdul Mathin says the project ended up with an estimated $500 million cost. The budget for development is under $400 million.
Mathin said the project is undergoing value engineering to try to trim costs, but the overall scope of the project is still intact.
"There are many ways to change the look and the design, keeping the same conceptual design," he said. "Now we have a pretty good grasp on all our efforts. The entire team worked tirelessly to bring this to fruition.
"At the same time we have to satisfy our investors, lenders, making sure this is a feasible project, not an overblown project and a failure."
The tinkering "does not compromise the luxury, five-star vision, seven-star vision," he said. Mathin has repeatedly called his project at International Drive and Kirkman Road a "seven-star" hotel, a designation not generally recognized in the industry.
Mathin had originally hoped for a fall 2015 groundbreaking.
Middlesbrough home meeting with the leaders had the national media making a beeline for the Riverside. Here’s a flavour of what they made of Boro’s display.
Middlesbrough changed the name of their stadium for the day — but it failed to improve Tony Pulis’ lousy home record.
Boro turned the Riverside into Captain James Cook Stadium to support the local tourist board and a number of charities.
But the name change failed to ignite Boro’s fading play-off bid as Onel Hernandez’s lethal second-half strike pushed Norwich a step closer to a dream Premier League return. His effort gave Daniel Farke’s Championship leaders a second successive win on Teesside.
And it opened up a 23-point gap on Boro, who slipped out of the top six for the first time in 235 days.
An evening billed as a celebration of Middlesbrough’s once powerful international influence was hijacked by a Cuban winger and a Finnish forward who have made Norwich their home.
Reminders of Teesside’s history as a breeding ground of explorers and industrialists were everywhere but, with the stuttering home side failing to rise to the challenge, two visiting imports assumed centre stage.
While Onel Hernandez’s beautifully executed second-half goal secured Norwich’s seventh straight win, sending Daniel Farke’s Championship leaders five points clear, Teemu Pukki did a fine job de-stabilising Boro’s back five - and derailing their play-off ambitions.
The Riverside was renamed the Captain James Cook Stadium for the day as part of an initiative to promote the much underrated attractions of the surrounding Tees Valley - and perhaps inspire Tony Pulis’s squad to expand their recently contracting horizons.
At times Pulis’s high pressing side played the more convincing football but they struggled to test Tim Krul and needed to remain wary of those moments when Norwich’s rapid short passing game really clicked and Pukki was able to drift in behind Dani Ayala and company.
Daniel Farke’s side maintained their serene progress towards the title, at the same time casting further doubt on Middlesbrough’s readiness to accompany them into the Premier League via the play-offs.
The Canaries were far from their fluent best, but that makes this win all the more notable, as they proved too big an obstacle for the hosts to surmount.
A goal from Onel Hernandez nine minutes into the second half stretched the Canaries’ advantage at the top of the Championship to five points over Leeds, with Sheffield United a further two points back in third as promotion looks increasingly certain.
Onel Hernandez’s second-half goal condemned Boro to a fourth consecutive defeat and heaped further misery on manager Tony Pulis.
Boro slipped to eighth and look way off a side who can mount a serious promotion challenge.
A place in the play-offs is now looking highly doubtful as a diet of dour play takes its toll.
Results in earlier kick-offs had dumped the Teessiders out of the top six for the first time since August 9. They have won at home just once in the league this year. Pulis’s team have not seemed to be busting a gut to get to the Premier League lately but they showed more hunger to do the dirty work off the ball early on here, before flagging.
The winning goal came in the 54th minute. That it was created by errors added to the anger of Tony Pulis, whose Middlesbrough side have now lost four in a row.
Twice his players had opportunities to clear their lines, first when Ashley Fletcher kicked weakly and then when Jonny Howson was robbed by Hernandez on the corner of the home penalty area. The Cuban dummied to shoot and then let fly from 18 yards with his right foot. The shot flew through two sets of legs and into the net. Pulis cursed. It was one of their better displays but the gap between top and eighth, to where they sank in defeat, is 23 points.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council should adopt a resolution establishing an international fact-finding mission to Xinjiang, the region of China where up to one million Turkic Muslims are being arbitrarily detained, a group of nongovernmental organizations said in a joint statement to UN member states today.
China should recognize that only an international fact-finding mission can separate facts from fiction and set the record straight.
During the next session of the Human Rights Council, from February 25 to March 22, 2019, the Council will consider the outcome report of China’s November 2018 Universal Periodic Review, at which Chinese officials denied allegations of grave human rights violations in Xinjiang.
The Chinese authorities have detained Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims – outside any legal process – in “political education” camps for their perceived disloyalty to the government and Chinese Communist Party. In those camps, they are subjected to forced political indoctrination, renunciation of their faith, mistreatment, and, in some cases, torture. Numerous UN experts, treaty bodies, and the High Commissioner for Human Rights have expressed grave concern about the situation in Xinjiang and called for unrestricted access to the region.
The statement was issued by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Service for Human Rights, and the World Uyghur Congress, and is being endorsed by a broad range of organizations regionally and globally.
It was only a matter of time before something came along to fill the void left by the closure of Great West Warehouse on 20th Street, four years ago.
On 33rd Street West, the commercial street that borders Saskatoon’s Mayfair, Caswell Hill and Hudson Bay Park neighbourhoods, a four-block stretch has transformed into a quirky collection of vintage, second-hand and specialty shops, antique dealers, and purveyors of made-in-Saskatchewan artisanal goods.
Some of those elements have had a presence on 33rd Street for decades — shops like Mayfair Hardware and Christies Mayfair Bakery — but lately a troop of new arrivals has joined the party, including an antique dealer forced to relocate from the Broadway area because of commercial redevelopment.
Some are newly created ventures. Super Thrift opened last November and recently celebrated its grand opening. For owner Majken Cooke, this is business number three along the 33rd Street strip. She also operates the 33rd Street Market and Stanley Estate Dispersal.
“We will always be an eclectic area of the city, which is part of its vibrancy,” Cooke said.
Her own transformation to 33rd Street merchant began as a jewelry-maker and weekend vendor in the original 33rd Street Market, where artisans paid for their own spaces. When the landlord asked for a firmer commitment, she took on the lease — essentially buying the business, she said. In July 2014 she moved it to its present location, a plain little raised bungalow fronting 33rd.
The 33rd Street Market morphed into a consignment shop, handling the goods of more than 15 small businesses. Then, people with antiques to unload began offering to sell them to her. Cooke soon learned people had no place to sell the rest of their belongings when they were downsizing, so she started Stanley Estate Dispersal, holding on-site sales and sometimes purchasing estates outright.
She ended up with a warehouse packed with inventory, “3,000 square feet full to the rafters,” she said. The City of Saskatoon would not let her sell retail out of the warehouse, so she set up Super Thrift, which is open seven days a week.
The shelves inside are filled with typical household castoffs: old silver teapots; crystal and glassware; furniture and lamps; electronics and household appliances — some hardly or never used.
For Cooke, the choice to set up on 33rd Street was a natural one — she needed someplace affordable. The successful lobby to keep the street from turning into a no-parking major traffic artery also helped. Four lanes of heavy traffic would have hurt small business, and affected everything from playgrounds to the public library, she said.
The lobby effort “shows how much people care about this area,” she added.
“That would have been the worst thing that could happen to 33rd is having it a four-lane major street, because businesses would never be able to survive with that much emphasis on traffic,” Gould said.
Cooke calls the 20th Street demographic “hipster,” saying the 33rd Street demographic is as eclectic as the businesses taking root there — young families, retirees, low income earners, comfortable members of the middle class, and the homeless.
Brom said in the last six months she has seen three new businesses open on 33rd Street: along with Super Thrift, there’s Pokey’s Pinball Cafe, which serves Cuban food, and Restless Gypsy Vendors, where artisans sell things like non-toxic beauty and personal care products.
Asked what she thinks is driving the street’s transformation, Brom said young couples are moving into the neighbourhood and renovating their homes, and they like unique stores.
She hopes the revival will lead to renovation of other buildings, she said.
Brom herself moved onto Avenue I almost seven years ago. At the time, she was mainly occupied with “upcycling” furniture and home decor items. That led to her current gig running The Whimsy Store. It offers upcycled furniture (older pieces given funky new looks with paint, rhinestones and such), and a variety of other goods handcrafted in Saskatchewan.
Across the street, at Kicks n’ Fits, Tyler Comber offers what he calls “urban streetwear,” an array of T-shirts, sweat shirts, quilted vests, boots and sneakers. He carries a local brand, Toon Town, that incorporates historical photos in its designs, as well as the Success brand from Montreal and several other Canadian brands.
He opened three years ago, also attracted by the low rent and high traffic of the area.
“It’s nice to see this area coming up. I’m excited,” Comber said.
Meanwhile, the BID is now in its third year of operation.
It’s starting to gain momentum. This spring the street will be spruced up with banners and a logo, benches, bike racks and flower pots. Bollards will be added to street corners to improve safety for pedestrians.
Sometime this year, the BID plans to hire a part-time executive director, taking some of the load off the volunteer board of directors.
A young driver has been taken to hospital after his car hit a dry stone wall and flipped over onto its side in an early morning crash near the National Coal Mining Museum in Overton.
The man, said to be in his early 20s, is believed to have suffered only very minor injuries after the accident but had to be hauled out of the vehicle by emergency rescue crews from Dewsbury and Ossett at around 1am this morning.
Fire crews said the driver lost control of his vehicle, a blue Toyota Yaris, after his tyres lost their grip on a slippery part of the surface on New Road. No other vehicles were involved.
Watch Commander Steven Mitchell, from Ossett Fire Station said: “We were called to the incident at around 1am this morning and found the young gentleman and conscious and in remarkably good spirits considering what had happened to him. He was very, very lucky.
December 31, 2005 Fed chief Alan Greenspan is gone; podcasting is here; health care costs are crippling manufacturers; Google is a success story; and big-name executives go to jail. New York Times columnist Joe Nocera reviews the year in business with Linda Wertheimer.
December 30, 2005 Farai Chideya talks to John Dimsdale of Marketplace about the biggest technology stories as 2005 comes to a close. Microsoft is reporting more flaws in its Windows operating system, Sony has tentatively settled a class-action lawsuit over the company's copy protection software on CDs, and USA Today reported this week that more than 50 million Americans have been exposed to identity theft through database break-ins.
December 30, 2005 We reflect on some of the show's more memorable moments.
December 30, 2005 Our Foolish words of wisdom to look before you leap into investing.
December 30, 2005 We open up the Fool Phones for your financial questions. In this week's installment, we talk about how to start a brokerage account and a fashionable investment called Chico's.
December 30, 2005 For workers with traditional pension plans, this was the year many had to face a harsh reality. About a quarter of a million people saw their pensions turned over to a government corporation, meaning lower benefits in the future.
December 29, 2005 Unhappy investors have forced the Knight Ridder newspaper company to put itself up for sale. Profits are healthy, but level. Now, the Newspaper Guild of America is exploring whether it can put together deals to purchase as many as nine of the company's newspapers.
December 29, 2005 Security and Exchange Commission Chairman Chris Cox has a plan for corporations to publicly reveal executive benefits and pension valuations. Nell Minow, a stockholder activist and co-founder of the Corporate Library, discusses Cox's new plan.
December 29, 2005 Investigators say many of the government-backed loans made to small businesses after Sept. 11 went to recipients who may not have qualified for the terrorism-recovery program. And many of them didn't know they were tapping into funds from an effort to help businesses affected by the terrorist attacks.
December 29, 2005 Farai Chideya talks to John Dimsdale of Marketplace about sales figures for existing homes sales, released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors. For the month of November, the sales of previously owned homes fell by 1.7 percent nationwide, signaling a moderate slowdown in the housing market.
December 29, 2005 Tony Cox looks at financial rule changes that could affect your pocketbook next year. He's joined by economist and author Julianne Malveaux and Matthew Scott, personal finance editor for Black Enterprise magazine.
December 29, 2005 Insurance investigators say cars and trucks have been taken out of flood zones after Hurricane Katrina and sent to used car lots nationwide. It's not illegal to do this if the damage is disclosed, but sometimes it's not. Used-car buyers are being urged to take precautions.
December 28, 2005 Union leaders reach agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority late Tuesday on a tentative new contract for transit workers in New York City. Part of the deal will require workers to pay more for their health care. Union members went on a three-day strike before Christmas. WNYC's Beth Fertig reports.
Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts discusses how SpaceX is expected to carry more than 20 new experiments to ISS and how a Russian Soyuz rocket successfully sent three astronauts to the ISS.
SpaceX, the rocket company headed by Elon Musk, plans to lay off about 10 percent of its more than 6,000 employees, a spokesperson said on Friday.
Last month, SpaceX launched its first national security space mission for the U.S. military, using a Falcon 9 rocket to carry a $500 million GPS satellite made by Lockheed Martin. It was the company’s 21st launch of 2018.
This isn’t the first time the company has made job cuts, however:, In June, Musk fired seven members of the senior management team, reportedlyover disagreements about the pace of work on the Starlink satellites.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the company planned to raise $500 million in funding, pushing its value to $30.5 billion.
Musk also made headlines in June at his other company, Tesla, when it announced it was cutting 9 percent of its employees as part of an organizational restructuring aimed at reducing costs and boosting profits.
The full results of the X Factor results are in – and it wasn’t even a close race.
Jamaican singer Dalton looked dumbfounded as he was crowned the winner on Sunday night, and will now release a cover of Power of Love with James Arthur.
However, it turns out that he should not have worried, because after coming in third in week one, he was without fail in the top two every single week.
Week Four was overall his weakest week – coming in a mere second in both rounds – but apart from that he was number one week in and week out with the viewing public.
He was eventually crowned the winner with 41.3% of the vote, with runner-up Scarlett Lee earning 31.3% and Anthony Russell coming in third with 27.4%.
However, Anthony, who was with Dalton in his category and mentored by pal Louis Tomlinson, wasn’t far off his tail – and nearly always came in second behind him.
In fact, he was the only participant in the show’s twelve finalists to ever overtake Dalton to the number one spot.
During the week two final, the difference between them stood at a painfully tiny 0.4%.
It was only in the last week that Scarlett sneaked in and knocked him from his spot in second place, cementing him in third instead.
Dalton is now in the race to win Christmas number one with his winner’s single, which is out now.
Catch Up with X Factor on ITV Player.

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