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Despite putting off shopping for gifts, consumers in the south east would ideally like everything completed by mid-December (38 per cent) or the end of November (29 per cent).
But, if past records are to go by, 16 per cent will not have it finished until Christmas Eve.
Natasha Rachel Smith, consumer affairs editor for TopCashback.co.uk, said: “More consumers in the south east are favouring doing their Christmas shopping online instead of hitting the busy high street and with that brings the added benefit of being able to use voucher codes and cashback websites.
“However, digital distractions such as Facebook and scanning through news feeds is adding to the amount of time shoppers procrastinate.
Bethesda has just made millions of gamers very happy by confirming that the Fallout 4 release date will indeed be in 2015. We are delighted to find out that you’ll all be playing the game in time for Christmas, so you better start thinking about getting your pre-order in.
Without further do, the big date for the Fallout 4 launch is November 10, 2015. Given the scale of the game, we’re assuming that this is the global release date meaning that the Fallout 4 Europe release date should be November 10 too rather than three days later – we’ll update this if we’re wrong.
Bethesda made the big announcement during their pre-E3 press conference, with many fans already stating that ‘Bethesda has Won E3 2015’ and that the only way they can be beaten is if Valve shows Half Life 3.
We’re not sure about that, but they’ve certainly set the gauntlet before Microsoft and Sony take to the stage later this week. Now that the date has been set for November 10, you’ll need to decide what version of the game you want.
During their event, Todd Howard unveiled that the Fallout 4 Collector’s Edition would come with a physical Pipboy 3000 device. Brilliantly, it even allows you to slot your mobile device inside and run a Fallout 4 companion app as a second screen.
For now, watch the brand new Fallout 4 gameplay footage at E3 2015 and give us your reaction to the fact that it’s coming this year.
There were some fears that it wouldn’t be out until 2016, but thankfully we can all put those fears to rest. Fallout 4 is five months away!
Councillor Bryan Poole, Fife's education spokesperson, has a long list of schools with vacancies across Fife.
Fife’s education spokesperson has claimed that the region’s schools are struggling to cope with a “disgraceful” shortage of teachers.
Councillor Bryan Poole said he feared for the future of education across the country unless some sort of action to address the teacher vacancy crisis is taken soon.
Revealing there are currently 259 posts lying vacant in Fife alone, some of which were first advertised six months ago, Mr Poole said many Fife schools were in a situation “a lot worse” than Blairgowrie High School, which launched a desperate appeal for mums and dads with a maths or related degree to help alleviate its...
“It is unfortunate that it takes the shortage of a maths teacher in John Swinney’s constituency to highlight the challenge we are facing throughout Scotland with regard to teacher recruitment,” he said.
“At around the same time as Blairgowrie High is seeking to replace a maths teacher, Fife Council is sitting with over 250 vacancies in education — many of them vacancies in the STEM subjects including maths.
“I know of pupils in Fife who haven’t had an English teacher this session and I know of a number of schools that haven’t been fully staffed since last summer.
“Frankly that is a disgraceful position to find ourselves in. I have been banging on about this for months and months as many of my colleagues will be aware.
“I raised it personally with John Swinney in December last year and to his credit he firstly acknowledged the problem, putting it down to poor workforce planning — which I partially agree with — and has now begun to address the problem by increasing the number of trainee places and several other innovative schemes.
Mr Poole suggested that the situation had been keenly felt by schools right across Fife, although certain parts were worse off than others.
Some schools have been unable to fill up to a dozen posts, with some having advertised for staff in September and October, only to find a dearth of suitable candidates.
“Until we can get more teachers into the system our children’s education is going to rely and depend on the goodwill and commitment of our current staff,” Mr Poole continued.
“Dedicated as most teachers are there are signs that the pressure they are under is beginning to tell as, through no fault of their own, they are continually having to cover for teacher shortages.
“We are facing a very serious situation.
“We know from an educational perspective that good school leadership, great teaching and great teachers make the biggest difference to attainment in our schools.
“There is therefore a huge irony that just as the Scottish Government provide direct funding to our schools through the Pupil Equity Fund to tackle the attainment gap, there is not a spare teacher in the system to be employed to help tackle the attainment gap.
A Scottish Government spokesperson said: “The Scottish Government recognises some councils have faced challenges with teacher numbers.
“While teacher recruitment is a matter for local authorities we are taking a number of actions to help recruit and retain teachers, and widen the pool of available talent.
“To give all our young people the best opportunity of success, we need to have the right number of skilled teachers in our schools.
“That is why the Scottish Government worked with local authorities to increase teacher numbers this year, with an additional 253 teachers in Scottish classrooms, and are increasing student places for the sixth consecutive year, particularly in the subjects where they are needed most.
The catch is the embattled movie ticket subscription service is offering MoviePass Uncapped for a limited time as it adjusts its pricing structure yet again.
MoviePass has changed its movie ticket subscription plans yet again, this time bringing back its $9.95 Movie-Per-Day plan.
But there's restrictions for the new MoviePass Uncapped offering, including subscribers having to pay for 12 months in advance, and only being eligible to view 2D films offered within the MoviePass network.
The $9.95 plan is also promotional as it will cost $19.95 a month to see one movie every day after the limited offer expires. MoviePass Uncapped will also cost $14.95 if subscribers choose to pay monthly.
And the standard price for MoviePass Uncapped will rise to $19.95 per month once all the limited-time offers for the new plan expire.
"We are — and have been — listening to our subscribers every day, and we understand that an uncapped subscription plan at the $9.95 price point is the most appealing option to our subscribers,” Ted Farnsworth, chairman and CEO of MoviePass parent Helios and Matheson Analytics said in a statement.
The latest pricing change follows a cash crunch for Helios and Matheson and a plunge in its share price, and a big leg down for MoviePass after it launched in 2017 by offering as many as 30 tickets a month to the local cinema for the price of one.
MoviePass has also abandoned a three-tier pricing structure introduced in December 2018 where customers — depending upon where they live — would pay anywhere from $9.95 to $24.95 a month to see three movies a month for a total 36 movies a year.
Now MoviePass is no longer offering the Select, All Access and Red Carpet plans for purchase, retaining them only for users who subscribed to them.
NAPOLEONVILLE -- Behind the sharp shooting of Danyell Oliver and defensive play of Champagne Holmes and the rest of the Lady Mustangs, the visiting St. Amant Lady Gators were no match for Assumption Tuesday night.
The Lady Mustangs used that combination for a 56-41 non-district victory.
Oliver scored a game-high 26 points in the win for Assumption (6-3) going 9-for-16 from the field, 3-for-6 from beyond the 3-point line and going 5-for-8 at the free throw line.
The Lady Gators (2-5) were down by as many as 20 points at one time during the game as the Lady Mustangs dominated from the perimeter and under the basket.
"They played a lot of zone defense against us, and I thought we ran our offense well enough to get quality shots," Assumption coach Julius Aucoin said. "I�m very satisfied with our play tonight."
St. Amant coach Stacey Babin credits the Lady Mustang�s physical play for causing match up problems for her team throughout the night.
"After watching the junior varsity game, I told our team that they were going to be very physical and they were," Babin said. "We tried throwing different things at them, but they were just a better all around team."
The game would start with both teams slowly starting to figure each other out with only a total of eight points scored in the first two and a half minutes, but a 14-3 run would give Assumption an 18-9 first quarter lead.
St. Amant�s nine points came from going an anemic 3-for-13 shooting in the quarter with three points coming off free throws, something that has plagued the Lady Gators all season.
"That�s something the team has been struggling with all year," Babin said. "We get off to slow starts early in games and we have to work ten times harder to recover from it."
The Lady Gators found their stride in the second quarter, but it would not be enough to minimize the Assumption lead going into the half down 33-21.
After the break, the Lady Mustangs took that 12 point lead and turned it into 20 capped by a four-point play when Oliver hit a 3-pointer while fouled and made the free throw.
Although the Lady Mustangs never trailed in the game, the fourth quarter would be the only one that St. Amant would score more points than Assumption, 12-9.
Bridney Davis followed Oliver in scoring with 10 for Assumption, while Bria Turner finished with 16 to lead the Lady Gators followed by Began Poore�s 10.
One area that caused fits for both coaches were the number of turnovers committed during the game, Combined, both teams had 35, with some happening one after the other.
"One thing we are going to have to work on in practice is correcting those one handed passes in traffic," Aucoin said. "It�s still early in the season, and I�m confident we can polish what we need to in the next few games."
At Grand Isle, Leah Washington scored 29 points to lead the Lady Warriors to a non-district win Tuesday night.
Brittany Spotts finished with 18 points and 13 assists for Houma Christian (5-4), and Natalie Voisin added 13.
The Lady Warriors led 31-24 at halftime.
At Lafayette, Vandebilt�s Sumar Leslie scored 23 points and Shikera Ross added 18 as the Lady Terriers beat Teurlings Tuesday.
Vandebilt (6-1 overall) overcame a 28-22 halftime deficit by outscoring the Lady Rebels 34-16 in the second half.
At Morgan City, Terrebonne�s Alaina Verdin finished with 15 points and Jonquail Parsee added 14, but it was enough as Morgan City went on to win Tuesday.
At Chalmette, a 16-9 first quarter gave Chalmette a lead it never relinquished Tuesday.
The Lady Owls (5-1) went on to take a 34-22 lead after the third quarter and outscored CL (6-3) 23-12 in the fourth.
My own instinct is that the prospects of any serious diplomatic gains from any Iran strategy are too uncertain to be worth calculated pursuit, and one might as well use this as an occasion to take a possibly unproductive stand for human rights, without resorting to counterproductive aggression. But I think the aggressi...
Hundreds of Serbian policemen pounded villages in central Kosovo with mortar rounds today, set fire to homes and appeared to shoot at men indiscriminately in a sweep to stamp out a separatist movement of ethnic Albanians, according to those who fled the zone.
The attacks appeared to have left many dead.
Ethnic Albanians make up 90 percent of the population in the province, which was once an autonomous region of Yugoslavia, and many of them view the Serbian forces as an army of occupation. Frictions have grown violent since last week, when four policemen were killed.
The toll today was unknown because the police at roadblocks refused to let reporters enter the area. But in seven days of heavy combat, there have been at least 50 ethnic Albanians and 6 Serbian policemen killed. And there are strong indications that the number of dead on both sides may be much higher than the dozens o...
The sounds of heavy detonations and explosions, along with small-arms fire, could be heard about three miles from the area, and columns of smoke, apparently from burning houses, could be seen. Several attack helicopters passed overhead.
Hundreds of ethnic Albanians, mostly women and children, have fled the fighting and crowded into villages outside the area.
The leader of the ethnic Albanians, Ibrahim Rugova, charged today that Serbia had mounted the attacks to ''ethnically cleanse'' central Kosovo of the Albanians.
The Serbian interior ministry, in a statement issued in Belgrade today, said its paramilitary units and the police had destroyed a ''terrorist base'' in Donji and had ''liquidated'' a leader of the rebel movement, Adem Jashari, in the village of Prekaz.
The Jashari clan, which lives in Prekaz, has been targeted by the Serbs because of its suspected involvement in the armed movement, Albanian officials said.
In a small barren room in the village of Oshlan, 15 miles west of Pristina and a few miles from today's fighting, Riad Jashari, 17, lay wounded on a mattress on the floor, covered with a blanket.
Mr. Jashari said that when the police and paramilitary troops surrounded Prekaz, he fled, wearing one of his mother's dresses. The police say Prekaz, one of a dozen villages now surrounded by the Serbian forces, is a center of the rebel movement.
Mr. Jashari's mother, who sat caring for her son, said that as she ran from the village, she saw two elderly men gunned down by Serbian paramilitary men in black uniforms.
Western officials fear that the fighting could produce the type of rampages shown by Serbian forces in Bosnia during the war there. The Serbs said they had killed Albanians who were using machine guns, rocket launchers and sniper rifles.
The fighting began last week after the guerrillas ambushed and killed four policemen. The police and paramilitary units, enraged by the attack, went on a killing spree that left 24 people dead, including 10 members of one family. On Thursday, the police surrounded the Drenica region, west of the Kosovo capital of Prist...
The police said they had discovered four underground bunkers in Prekaz containing surgical supplies and operating tables. One bunker, the police said, was piled with weapons, and another harbored six armed rebels.
Is Kanye About To Enter The Streaming Wars?
Now his name is a commodity.
Yeezy Season clothing line, signature Adidas Yeezy 350 Boost, he can be partying in Paris while people stand in Calabasas socks.
Now as December marks the fourth quarter of 2017, Ye looks to diversify his portfolio early in the third quarter with a “Yeezy Sound” streaming platform. He claims big brother Jay and Tidal owe him $3.5 million in unpaid advances and bonuses for The Life of Pablo. The College Dropout may have studying big brother close...
At the moment we can’t decisively call this a Prince-style solo venture purely to market the curated Yeezy Sound or whether he would be looking to gather his own stable of talent. Sway give us a call if you know.
The Ministry of National Security in collaboration with Rondell Positive Music and the Peace Management Initiative (PMI) yesterday (May 10) conducted a Men’s Reasoning session at the Wembley Centre of Excellence in Clarendon.
The session was hosted specially for men from the parish and was geared towards encouraging them to consider their options and choose a better path for a more rewarding and purposeful life. The session also sought to help the men identify avenues of empowerment.
The reasoning session which was held under the theme, Plug into Purpose, Pursue True Power, forms part of the I am Purpose campaign recently launched by the Ministry in the parish.
Participants welcomed the initiative. "I am happy for today. I am happy to know we are not forgotten. I now believe I can be a change. I now see myself making an impact in society,” noted Kemar Stone, one of the participants.
The break-out segments which looked at encouraging participants to find their purpose, discover hidden talents, and identify the pathway to change was hosted by Ian ‘Ity’ Ellis and had featured sections conducted by Jamar Wright, Greg ‘Dunamis Reignz’ Grant, Courtney McLean and Rondell ‘Positive’ Allen. The sessions we...
This initiative is a part of the Ministry of National Security’s Five Pillar Crime Reduction Strategy with emphasis on Crime Prevention through Social Development.
Should fairways give way to highways?
Visitors who glance out the window when flying into an Australian city often see huge patches of vacant green land in some of the most crowded urban areas.
But many of these green spaces are not parks or wildlife reserves; they are golf courses. Some of them cover prime real estate worth hundreds of millions of dollars or more. Australian cities have some of the world's largest amounts of land devoted to golf courses, but there are growing calls to convert the land into p...
Several Sydney councils are considering plans to close courses on public lands to ease the demand for housing and provide playgrounds, picnic areas and walking and cycling trails.
The move has largely been welcomed by planning experts as a way to "share" the city despite warnings about the potential loss of some of the green space.
"It is not a bad idea to investigate other uses, especially if you have a space which is a public asset and which seems to be fairly lightly used," Professor Peter Phibbs, an urban planning expert at Sydney University, told The Straits Times.
"It's case by case. Some courses are still heavily used and may not suit recreational experiences and are doing a good job in terms of providing mediation of water and a good level of exercise."
In Sydney, 91 public and private golf courses cover about 38 sq km, but some are little used or are exclusively for members. This has prompted some districts such as Botany Bay, south-east of the city, to consider transforming the courses into public recreational grounds.
"Sydney has more golf courses within the metropolitan area than any other major city in the world," the mayor of Botany Bay, Mr Ben Keneally, told Fairfax Media. "They are wonderful, open spaces that are little used… I think it would make more sense to allow more people access to these beautiful spaces."