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Here’s one hurricane-related blackout you’ll actually enjoy!
Leske’s Bakery in Bay Ridge is staying open as Hurricane Sandy barrels toward us, and workers are offering a free blackout cake — a three-layer chocolate confection with chocolate icing first whipped up in Flatbush’s legendary Ebinger’s Bakery — to the customer who leave the best comments on the store’s Facebook page.
“Stuck at home in Bay Ridge? Come visit us, or leave a comment below. The four best answers get a free blackout cake after Sandy leaves,” the page reads.
The stormy competition was the brainchild of Leske’s manager and culinary consultant Harry Hawk, who said the first-place winner will be the commentator who gets the most likes.
His employees will pick the other three winners, said Hawk, who saw the blackout cake contest as a silver lining in the ever-encroaching storm.
As of 2 pm, more than 30 people have commented on the Facebook post.
“Making room in my crowded fridge for Blackout cake is giving me a reason to turn off the non-news...thanks, Leske,” wrote Jeanne Marie Patrick.
So far, the comment with the most likes was written by Jennifer Kruger, who used the ancient art of haiku to express her love for the pastry shop on Fifth Avenue near 76th Street.
Leske’s Black and Whites,” Kruger wrote.
Hawk encouraged anybody stranded in Bay Ridge to seek some sweet-filled shelter at the five-decade-old bakery, which recently reopened after closing for several months as the store’s ownership changed hands.
But be warned: Sandy’s power may be stronger than one’s desire for Danish kringles.
“The gas for the ovens is controlled by electricity, so if the power goes out, we won’t be baking,” said Hawk.
Best wishes for a quiet night without any damages, for all people on the east coast from good old Germany.
I am so glad to see that Leske's is still in business. I lived in Bay Ridge for many years before retiring to Puerto Rico.
I loved Leske's. My daughter and I would go there every Saturday moring for rolls, donuts, cakes and cookies. My daughter favored the cupcakes. I loved the raspberry layer cake.
Mostly sunny this morning then becoming cloudy during the afternoon. High near 80F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph..
Cloudy. Low around 55F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
On Wednesday, Feb. 6, the N.C. Department of Labor recognized Foothills Industries as a participant in the Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP) for more than 10 consecutive years. The program recognizes companies for a commitment to the safety and health of their employees.
Consultative Services Bureau Chief Kevin O’Barr presented company officials with a special plaque with Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry’s signature during a presentation at the company’s headquarters held on Feb. 6. Consultative Services is recognizing those companies that have been in the program for 10 years or more t...
The SHARP Award is designed for small to mid-size businesses. Companies that qualify for the award show that they have developed and maintained good safety programs for workers. To qualify for the program, injury and illness rates for the site must be below the national average for the industry, and NCDOL safety and he...
The mission of Foothills Industries is to provide vocational and life-skills training and employment for persons with disabilities in order to maximize independence and employment while providing quality products at competitive costs and on-time delivery to their customers.
Cindy Wilcox should be ashamed of herself and leave La Cañada! Her outrageous attack against teacher Gabrielle Leko is utterly malicious and without basis. Leko is now, and always has been, one of the finest, fairest and most decent teachers in the district. You cannot teach in a school like La Cañada (with its cadre o...
By using the bully pulpit of her position, Wilcox assumes some deluded souls will give credibility to her claims. Remember, Wilcox admits she never personally heard any of the comments [she] relies on to trash Leko. Her hearsay is unsupported in any credible way.
Gabrielle Leko has influenced the lives of thousands of students over her many years of teaching. Is Wilcox claiming that out of the thousands of students Leko has taught, not a single student has ever filed a complaint substantiating in any way these slanderous allegations? Her claim that they are “afraid” is just pla...
I am outraged that any newspaper would print any of the defamatory tripe spewed by Wilcox. It is my hope that Leko will hire an attorney to sue Wilcox for libel and slander and hold her accountable for the malicious lies she has told and the damage she has attempted to do to a fine teacher.
Wilcox should be investigated and universally condemned for her callous and cowardly attack on Gabrielle Leko.
89, of Ewa Beach, HI, died in Pearl City on November 17, 2018. She was born in San Miguel, Bulacan, Philippines. Funeral services to take place in Manila, Philippines.
Venom, the movie that is definitely real and not an elaborate early April Fools’ hoax, will be based on some very real comic book storylines.
Director Ruben Fleischer has the unenviable task of bringing the popular Spider-Man antihero to the big screen, sans Spider-Man. Thankfully, he has a plethora of Venom comic book arcs and issues to draw from. But no one Venom storyline will do — he’s going to adapt two.
There’s a lot of pressure on Fleischer to not only deliver a good Venom movie — which boasts a star-studded cast of Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, and Riz Ahmed of all people — but to also kick off Sony’s Spider-Man-adjacent cinematic universe. That’s a difficult enough job to do even before you consider that most of Ve...
To assuage fans’ confusion, Fleischer and Hardy appeared via satellite at Sony’s Comic-Con panel in Brazil to speak about Venom and what comic book arcs they’ll be drawing from for inspiration. Collider reported that those comic book runs are Lethal Protector and Planet of the Symbiotes.
A refresher course: Venom: Lethal Protector was a 1993 limited series by David Michelinie with art by Mark Bagley, Ron Lim, and Sam DeLarosa. This was the series that marked Venom’s turn from ambiguous villain to full-fledged antihero, with Eddie Brock’s Venom striking a deal with Peter Parker to leave each other alone...
In Planet of the Symbiotes, published two years later and penned again by Michelinie, Earth is invaded by an army of symbiotes, forcing Venom, Spider-Man, and Scarlet Spider to team up to stop them and investigate a series of murders that Venom believed himself to have committed. Carnage makes an appearance too, bondin...
It’s already clear where these comic books storylines inspire Venom based on the vague details that we’ve learned about the movie. Hardy confirmed that the Venom movie will be set in San Francisco, so we can expect the premise to begin akin to Lethal Protector, while it’s been rumored that Carnage will be the film’s ma...
The cast of the Venom movie is rounded out by Reid Scott, Jenny Slate, and Scott Haze. The script is penned by Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner, and Kelly Marcel. Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach are producing the movie, along with Amy Pascal.
Venom is set to hit theaters on October 5, 2018.
Apparently, Jersey is were it's at, at least for solar power installations this year: PV Magazine reports on new stats for US solar power installations, showing that New Jersey has knocked California down a notch.
In Q1 2012 New Jersey installed 173.8 MW of solar power, while California installed 148.4 MW. Arizona, Massachusetts, and Tennessee round out the top five positions, each installing a fraction of what was installed in California and New Jersey.
In both New Jersey and California, commercial installations form the overwhelming majority of new installations.
In total for the US, 506 MW of solar photovoltaic power was installed in the three months of the year, an increase of 85% over what was installed in the same period in 2011. For the year as a whole, the Solar Energy Industries Association forecasts 3,200 MW of new installations.
The report cites falling prices and the federal Investment Tax Credit as driving the increased installations so far this year. SEIA's Tom Kimbis also notes that, "Solar leasing is really taking off in many states in which it is legislatively allowed, and solar companies are lobbying hard to see that is made available n...
In the first three months of 2012 the Garden State installed roughly 20 MW more solar power than the Golden State.
Lowe's is pulling the plug on all 99 Orchard Supply Hardware stores in the U.S.
The decision comes just seven weeks after Marvin Ellison took the helm as president and CEO of the home improvement chain, after he spent four years as CEO of J.C. Penney.
"While it was a necessary business decision to exit Orchard Supply Hardware, decisions that impact our people are never easy. We will be providing outplacement services for impacted associates, and they will be given priority status if they choose to apply for other Lowe's positions," Ellison, who had also previously w...
Orchard's 4,000 employees were told of the closures on Tuesday, according to local media reports.
Acquired by Lowe's in 2013, Orchard Supply Hardware stores will start closing Thursday, with the closures expected to be completed by February 1, the end of the company's fiscal year. Primarily based on the West Coast, the chain helped Lowe's expand into markets including California, Florida and Oregon.
The decision, along with a plan to overhaul inventory at its namesake stores, prompted Lowe's to trim its yearly revenue outlook, with the retailer now projecting an increase of 4.5 percent, as opposed to its previous forecast for a sales boost of 5 percent.
Lowe's competitor Home Depot last week reported upbeat results. Both retailers, which are viewed as barometers for the housing market and consumer spending, have recently described strong demand for their products.
"We posted solid results this quarter by capitalizing on delayed spring demand," Ellison stated in the release.
Lowe's net income climbed 7 percent to $1.52 billion in the second quarter, with net sales rising 7 percent to $20.89 billion.
In an earnings call, Ellison said he is overseeing a strategic review that will involve possible sales of real estate and other holdings that don't fit into its core retail business. "We must create a true expense reduction culture here," he said.
Investors embraced the moves, which Lowe's anticipates will increase free cash flow by about $1 billion, sending shares of the company up 8 percent in midday trading.
Five people died overnight in the Gaza Strip in continuing clashes between militiamen linked to rival factions.
In Gaza City, Hamas gunmen attacked the headquarters of security forces closely associated with political rival Fatah.
Fighting between the governing Hamas faction and Fatah has left close to 30 people dead since Thursday.
It is the worst violence since Hamas came to power a year ago and has halted attempts to hold talks on forming a Palestinian national unity government.
The violence escalated after a Hamas member was shot dead outside a mosque in Khan Younis, sparking clashes in the southern town for many hours between Hamas and Fatah supporters.
Gun battles continued there and in the north of the Gaza Strip until daybreak.
In Gaza City, parts of the town were plunged into darkness as an electrical transformer was knocked out during the fighting overnight.
Several local commanders were reported to have been kidnapped and both factions have set up roadblocks around the offices and homes of their leaders.
Palestinian Information Minister Youssef Rizka, of Hamas, warned that the two sides were close to civil war.
Hamas and Palestinian President and Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas, have agreed to mediated talks proposed by Saudi Arabia on Sunday but no date has yet been set.
The two factions had been making renewed efforts to form the national unity government which would satisfy the demands of international donors.
Hilary Cook at Barclays stockbrokers replies: A p/e ratio is the price of a share divided by its earnings per share (eps is the company's after-tax profits divided by the number of shares in the issue).
Share price of 100p, eps of 10p = p/e of 10. Share price of 100p, eps of 5p = p/e of 20 - ie more expensive on a p/e basis for the same share price.
Yield = dividend per share (dps) divided by the share price. Dps 5p, share price 100p = yield of 5%, dps 2.5p share price 100p = yield of 2.5% - ie more expensive on a yield basis for the same share price.
Aditya Vikram Birla, chairman of the $2.3 billion Birla Group and an advocate of expanding Indian economic activity abroad, has died. He was 51.
Mr. Birla, widely regarded as one of India's most successful businessmen, died Sunday in Baltimore.
He was "among the best and brightest citizens of India," said Finance Minister Manmohan Singh.
Mr. Birla initiated the first Indian joint-venture company in Indonesia, a textile plant in the Philippines, moved into palm-oil refining in Malaysia and built advanced plants to manufacture viscose rayon fiber in Indonesia and carbon black in Egypt.
This year he signed agreements with AT&T to provide telephone and cellular services in India.
With a 100 percent recycled building material (50 percent recycled wood; 50 percent recycled polyethylene plastic both post-consumer), NewWood has invented a composite material. This wood plastic board could change the building industry. They have identified over 100 new applications or uses for it ranging from green h...
As the photo above shows, it works well with a CNC Router for that Dinosaur model. It could easily be a container/box for various electronic projects instead of wood and then topped with a piece of acrylic. The board itself has no glues because the polyethylene melts into the wood particles (pretty impressive). I’m goi...
For the woodworking maker and hobbyist, it could provide a kid-safe material for table tops, playhouses, and more. I’m ordering a sheet of it to test out a small playhouse and may raffle it off at an upcoming fair. It comes in a bit more expensive than OSB or plywood; however, you could probably make the argument that ...
Hat tip to my friend Sean Aydlott at the CNC Router custom manufacturing shop Cut It For You. He showed me a 4x8 sheet of this material and it made me think of all sorts of maker uses for it. Brainstorm with me below in the comments. I think they’ll have thousands of uses for NewWood very soon.
Thousands of fans clamoured to watch Rolf Harris play a lunchtime slot in the sun at Glastonbury today (June 27), during which the veteran peformer even rapped.
The Aussie drew a vast crowd to the Jazz World Stage which stretched all the way to the food stalls and into nearby footpaths.
Harris was introduced by MC BB Manik, who lead chants of “I say Rolf, you say Harris!”, before the man himself emerged to huge cheers.
The show was the fifth time he had played at Glastonbury, the last being in 2002. “G’day!” exclaimed the musician/artist, before playing ‘Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport’ while playing his trademark wobbleboard.
BB Manik later returned to the stage as Harris explained that he had known the young rapper since he was christened, before the pair performed a rap version of ‘Pavlova’ together.
“What a sad, sad week for the world, Michael Jackson passing on,” he said later in the set, paying tribute to the late singer who died on Thursday (June 25).
After thanking his backing band, Harris ended his set with a second “British version” of ‘Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport’ – essentially the song’s lyrics sang to the tune of ‘Land Of Hope And Glory’.
slandering one of his own.
Then again, that was just an American thing — until it wasn’t. Now the scandal haunts Chile and Honduras, Ireland and France, Kenya and Tanzania, Australia and New Zealand.
organisations serving in Australia between 1950 and 2010 — according to a report by an Australian royal commission).
if you want” — into who knew what about the criminal activities of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, yet still allowed his rise to one of but 200 cardinals in the Church.
A lone wolf howling in the wind? It seemed so at first — till the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops essentially called for the same.
Then again, that could just be an American thing . . . And of course, none of this deals with the clerical financial scandals that have so far gained little press time. Compared to paedophilia cover-ups, swindling the widow’s mite hardly makes a headline.
The hierarchy, it would appear, has lost all moral authority. The institutional Church is crumbling. And, some might add, it’s all their fault — those out of touch bishops who protected their fellow deviant shepherds, those celibate princes who favoured institutional reputation over the gathering of God’s innocent lamb...
It’s no use blaming the bishops. Given a similar era, culture and attitude, you and I would have done the same. Sins reflect the historical circumstance of the age. It is only in retrospect that we can be smug about an earlier age.
one else for the redemption of Israel before the coming of Our Lord himself.
In other words, we’ve no room for self-righteousness, to think ourselves better than the other. Be it known: I’m not here to defend the indefensible. If crimes have been committed, may they be investigated; may justice ensue.
Having said that, however, we’re in this together. There is only one reason for the very existence of the Church: to witness to Jesus, born of flesh and blood from the womb of Mary. Today, our institution is wounded.
Our most devoted clerics walk in shame for the sins of their brothers. Our most faithful laity are embarrassed, angry and despondent with the Church they have loved throughout their lives.
Still, together, clergy and lay, in sack cloth and ashes, in prayer and in fasting, on bended knee before the altar, we must admit our personal, corporal and historic sin — we must ask God’s forgiveness and plead for his mercy — so that we may fulfil the only reason we exist: to witness to the world God’s saving love i...
Perhaps what is needed is a day of silent prayer — no talk, no homily, no reflection, no moralising, no attempt at meaning whatsoever; no liturgy, no petitions, no blessing, no music; and no food — just a people united in silence before the tabernacle of the Blessed Sacrament.
Dan Stollenwerk is the head of the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at St Peter’s College, Auckland. He holds a doctorate in Theology from the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain.
In 2017, Sebastian Thrun, an adjunct professor at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in California, unveiled a deep learning algorithm that can identify skin cancer as accurately as dermatologists with years of training. The algorithm was designed on a computer, but its creators want to make it available o...

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