Split (1)

train · 2.59M rows

text stringlengths 12 61.1k
A Wairarapa olive oil company has proven it has the good oil, scooping the top prize in the New Zealand Extra Virgin Olive Oil Awards.
Kate and Mark Bunny, owners of Loopline Olives, won the Best in Show prize on Saturday with their picholine variety olive oil.
The awards, which are run by Olives New Zealand, the national organisation for olive oil growers, recognise excellence in certified extra virgin olive oil.
The couple, who previously ran sheep and beef farms, took over the 4ha of groves in 2009.
The property has about 960 trees, with five varieties of olives. Mrs Bunny said she was surprised to receive the Best in Show prize as it was the first time they had entered the competition.
"We are so excited, we are actually just blown away - thrilled, delighted, honoured."
"To have these awards is a complete honour, it's amazing."
One of the reasons for their success was the grove's Opaki location and a good growing season, with plenty of sunshine and not much wind, she said.
"In the past year we had a wonderful crop ... and the Opaki plains are warm and retain the heat - we are in a great location."
Loopline Olives also received a silver medal for its picual variety oil.
The pair were not the only Wairarapa winners, with growers from the region taking 30 medals at the event.
Masterton-based The Olive Press won best processor and Tauherenikau's Juno Olives received best label.
River Grove, Olive2Oil and Kilrae Olives also received Best in Class prizes.
Olives New Zealand executive officer Gayle Sheridan said the Wairarapa region has the largest number of groves in the country.
"I think that this year was obviously a good year for Wairarapa . . . another thing to be fair is you have actually got a good press [The Olive Press] in the Wairarapa."
Overall, Wairarapa olive oil growers won 40 per cent of the awards at the competition.
Rawalpindi : Punjab, finally, seemed to have found a true police leader. Dr. Syed Kaleem Imam, one of the most decorated and professionally sound police officer, enjoying an unblemished service record, recently removed from the office of the Inspector-General National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP), has been dire...
Indeed not a ‘bed of roses’ this office would be for him at this critical juncture when the nation is preparing to go for the general elections and the political parties have already been hollering about the ‘political intervention’ by the police department, particularly in the Punjab.
So, he would be constantly under the ‘media microscope’ on one hand while on the other he would be facing the ire of politicians for anything going wrong during the elections, indicating any involvement of the Punjab Police.
But the people who know him for a while and those from the circles he moves in, somehow has an unprecedented faith in his competence and abilities and believe that he was the best choice to fill the office at this time.
“I believe he is the right choice at this moment to lead the Punjab Police and would take decisions without any influence to uphold the image of the department,” said a senior officer of Police Service of Pakistan (PSP).
Dr Syed Kaleem Imam had served in high profile appointments nationally and internationally. He has done his PhD in Politics and International Relations, with LLM in Human Rights Law from SOAS UK, LLB and has done his Masters in Philosophy.
He shot to prominence at the beginning of his career while serving in different districts of the troubled province of Balochistan as SP Sibi and Nasirabad and SSP Quetta. He used to lead the force from the front when he launched the operation against the gangs involved in kidnapping for ransom. The operation against th...
Later, while serving as the SSP in Rawalpindi he established the ‘Elite Force’ and again he was the ‘Leader’ and not the ‘Boss’ for his team. He, probably, was the first SSP of Rawalpindi who confronted some ‘black sheep’ in the media and refused to budge against tremendous pressure launched against him by the media at...
He had twice served as the SSP Islamabad, as the Deputy Director (Immigration), as the ‘Chief Security Officer’ (CSO) to the Prime Minister, as Director National Police Bureau (NPB) as well as the Inspector-General (IG) Islamabad Police. Till recently he was serving as the Inspector-General NH&MP.
He has been awarded two gallantry awards, the Quaid-i-Azam Police Medal and the President’s Police Medal besides receiving ‘Tamagha-i-Imtiaz’ for distinct service.
He represented Pakistan abroad in some of world most difficult stations as ‘Commissioner’ in Darfur, Sudan where he was conferred with three UN peace medals.
He has also remained PTF president and is presently Vice president of police service of Pakistan Association.
He is rated as top police professional blending competence, integrity, with team work, and takes initiative, and is known as an important member of the ‘police think tank’.
Macromedia Flashand its namesake file formatredefined the Internet browsing experience five years ago with scalable vector animations. Of the products in our roundup, Macromedia Flash 5 is the most difficult to learn, but because it also has the most powerand is the only reviewed product with internal scriptingit's...
ActionScript, Flash's scripting language, can drive simple cues and navigation controls and includes conditional logic, variable evaluation, and live text input fields for Web application development. Macromedia provides an expert input mode and debugger for users who feel comfortable working with ActionScript. For the...
Like many of the other products in our roundup, Flash has a workspace that includes a composition window (a stage), a timeline, a toolbox, and myriad floating palettes in which you set object attributes. You organize a movie using discrete object layers and scenes.
Flash 5 introduces drawing tools familiar to graphic artists, namely a Bezier pen and curve editing, but the program employs an unconventional drawing and painting paradigm for vector objects. Fills and strokes, for example, are treated as separate objects. When you place multiple objects on the same layer, objects hig...
Automated tweening is also a bit different from what we found in the other applications we reviewed. Flash 5 automatically converts objects to symbols when you use the Motion Tween command. You can then insert keyframes and generate the intermediate frames. Symbols, which are stored in a library, reduce the final file ...
Flash 5 imports many vector and raster formats and is conveniently synergistic with Macromedia FreeHand. Flash 5 preserves FreeHand layers, interprets individual pages as scenes, and converts objects to symbols, making compositions a snap to animate. You can also launch Macromedia Fireworks from within Flash 5 to edit ...
When it's time to publish your movie, you'll find that Flash provides more output options than other programs. In addition to a SWF file with a handy HTML container, Flash 5 lets you export video. And like its sibling program, Macromedia Director, Flash can generate a projector, which is a standalone EXE file that cont...
There’s growing frustration among lawmakers about the not-yet-opened state prison in Fort Madison. Representative Bobby Kaufmann, a Republican from Wilton, says he has an email that confirms water pipes froze at the facility this week — information that contradicts a written statement issued by the Department of Correc...
Kaufmann is chairman of the House Oversight Committee, a panel that launched an investigation of problems at the state prison in January. Kaufmann said the committee is going to seek more detailed information from state prison officials as well as top administrators in the agency that’s overseeing the construction proj...
“I will have an extensive list of questions for both agencies to answer,” Kaufmann said.
Last week the director of the Department of Administrative Services appeared before the committee and said she did not know the answers to most of the questions committee members posed to her. Today the committee’s meeting room was packed with other legislators who do not serve on the panel, but have become interested ...
The state’s new maximum security prison was to open nearly a year ago, but problems were discovered with the facility’s heating, cooling and ventilation systems. The latest problem cropped up this week when cold air was discovered seeping into the facility’s recreational building and adjacent “mechanical alleyways.” St...
Sir Michael Somare's opposition grouping in Papua New Guinea is complaining of what it calls intense intimidation by the O'Neill government.
The rival grouping expects police intimidation of members to get worse after contempt proceedings were filed this week against Prime Minister Peter O'Neill and his cabinet among others.
They are accused of defying December's Supreme Court ruling that Sir Michael was unlawfully removed from office in August.
Former Chief Justice and an MP in the Somare faction Sir Arnold Amet says he has not been intimidated himself lately but others have experienced ongoing harrassment, including threats of arrest.
"In the court proceedings that are running, the police presence at the court houses has been overly excessive and lawyers and principal parties to these proceedings have been harrassed and intimidated by the armed police presence."
Different organizational departments all serve key functions within a company. Find out about different organizational departments with help from an experienced business professional in this free video clip.
This is Mark Stevens, CEO of The Marketing Firm, MSCO and I'm here to talk to you today about different organizational departments and I'm sort of two minded about this discussion because I hate the word department but it is so often used in business that we need to address it because when you refer to a function in yo...
Mark Stevens is a bestselling author and a popular media commentator (CNBC and Fox Business) on a host of business matters including marketing, branding, management and sales.
[Departments] \| What Departments Are Needed to Run a Business?
[Depression] \| How Did People Make Money in the Depression?
Spartanburg Youth Theatre is presenting "Hansel and Gretel," directed by Betsy Kneisley and adapted by Madge Miller, a version of the Brothers Grimm tale that isn't so grim.
The Spartanburg Youth Theatre has a fairy tale to tell. There's a wicked stepmother, a suggestible but well-meaning father, a magical witch, some clever children, and yes, even a fairy.
The group is presenting "Hansel and Gretel," directed by Betsy Kneisley and adapted by Madge Miller, a version of the Brothers Grimm tale that isn't so grim. In fact, in spite of the witch's evil plans, it's a fun and funny show that likely will please a wide range of people.
The play takes place outside a very poor town somewhere in the German countryside. Hansel and Gretel live with their father and stepmother in a tiny hut, and all are without enough food to survive.
This portion of the set (co-designed by Kneisley and technical director Kevin Moore) is on the apron of the stage, in front of the curtain. It is not until the stepmother decides to abandon the children in the forest in order to keep more of the family's food rations for herself that the curtain is opened and the wondr...
The majority of the play takes place outside of the witch's house of sweets, complete with Pop-Tart door, gumdrop bushes and sugar-cone tree. These colorful, innocent touches are juxtaposed with a wrought-iron cage and large stone oven. It is here that the siblings, with assistance from a cat who was once a girl, and a...
This is director Kneisley's seventh show with the Youth Theatre, but for the two young stars of the show, this is their first time on the stage.
Ashton Stephens, 9, who plays the role of Gretel, met Kneisley for the first time at an acting workshop at the Spartanburg Day School. The director was impressed with her, and was impressed again when Ashton shined in her audition.
For her part, Ashton says she has enjoyed the process greatly and has no worries about performing in front of a crowd. She is impressed with the speed in which the set was constructed, as well as the quick-change costume work of an off-stage transformation scene.
Nathan Earl, 10, who portrays Hansel, is following in the footsteps of an older brother who worked with the Youth Theatre in the past. He suspected he would enjoy his time on stage, and he has. His favorite scene involves crawling in, through and around the large smoking oven again and again, tricking the mostly blind ...
The kids are joined by Sayaka Reed, 10, as the girl turned into a cat, and Casey Calvert, a senior at Dorman High School who plays the witch. Sayaka and Casey have worked with the Youth Theatre before, and both agree that the people they perform with are what keeps them coming back.
"It's a little scary, but more exciting," Casey said about her first leading role.
She has high praise for her young co-stars, but she sometimes wonders where the boundless energy comes from. "Nathan, especially, is very energetic," she said.
Kneisley is proud that this version is tamer than the original story.
"The witch is funny, not scary," she said, "and the kids don't purposely kill her like in a lot of versions." It's a tale that's told with a lot of energy and will evoke lots of laughs, but it's their tale. If you think it sounds interesting, you should hear them tell it.
Macedonian club Vardar hosted Norway’s Rosenborg in blah blah blah oh wow, look at this cute doggy that interrupted the game!
Someone’s a good boy, isn’t he!
Someone loves a good belly rub now doesn’t he?
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Using a smoke bomb and a handgun, a hooded gunman dressed all in black opened fire during "college night" at a country music bar in Southern California, killing 12 people and sending hundreds fleeing in terror, authorities said Thursday. The gunman was later found dead.
Patrons screamed in fear, shouted "Get down!" and used barstools to smash second-floor windows and jump to safety as gunfire erupted at the Borderline Bar & Grill, a hangout popular with students from nearby California Lutheran University. The dead included 11 people inside the bar and a sheriff's sergeant who was the ...
The killer — a 29-year-old man whose name was not immediately released — deployed a smoke device and used a .45-caliber handgun, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
By the time they entered the bar again, the gunfire had stopped, according to the sheriff. They found 12 people dead inside, including the gunman. It was not immediately clear how he died, Dean said.
Shootings of any kind are extremely rare in Thousand Oaks, a city of about 130,000 people about 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Los Angeles, just across the county line. The shooting happened on college night at the Borderline, which according to its website was offering lessons in country two-step dancing Wednesday.
The bar, which includes a large dance hall with a stage and a pool room along with several smaller areas for eating and drinking, is also close to several other universities, including California State University Channel Islands in Camarillo, Pepperdine University in Malibu and Moorpark College in Moorpark.
Hemel Town FC have been gazumped by National League outfit Bromley in their attempts to bring former Portsmouth man Ben Chorley to Vauxhall Road.
The 6ft 3ins centre-back made 32 appearances for Pompey after joining them from Stevenage in January 2014.
He began his career with Arsenal and also had spells at Wimbledon and Tranmere.
Tudors manager Dean Brennan admitted he was ‘devastated’ to miss out on Chorley’s acquisition, saying: “We were devastated really because he would have taken us to the next level in that department; he was Portsmouth’s club captain last year.
“Everything was agreed and we had sorted everything with his agent, but then Bromley came out of nowhere and offered him a better deal.
The Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles will celebrate their NFL title during a June 5 visit with President Donald Trump. These visits were seen by media as joyous occasions when Democrats, like sports junkie Barack Obama, were in office. But now they view the visits as something like a road game before a hostile a...
Conor Orr of Sports Illustrated thinks the time of championship teams would be better spent doing positive things elsewhere.
"Now that the Eagles are in the process of working out a visit to the White House after some doubt as to whether it would happen at all, we can resume fighting about it," Orr writes. "Should these kinds of things be mandatory for everyone or should they happen at all? Do we even care about the players who are talking a...
"But the current president has drawn out a backlash among athletes (and the general public) that has obscured the pomp and circumstance to a level that makes having the current photo opportunity and rubber chicken dinner monologue in the rose garden seem a little tone deaf, even if there are many players and coaches wh...
"It begs the question: Is there a better use of everyone’s time?" Orr would like to see the president "in a room with the athletes who represent well the diverse ideas and backgrounds of the nation he governs."
The current setup, Orr writes, is disingenuous because "a player's heartfelt concerns" are not addressed during the speedy 15-minute meet and greet. The one team that has the right idea about the whole thing is the NBA champion Warriors, who feuded with the president and did not go to the White House. Orr writes.
"The Warriors seemed to have the only solution that made universal sense, and at least some Eagles seem to be following suit, planning to turn the day off into something positive elsewhere. Maybe the logical end to the White House visit really is upon us, but if that could lead to the birth of Post Championship Communi...
CBS Sports' Dayn Perry in 2015 when the San Francisco Giants visited the Democrat: "And a fine time was had by all!"
David Smith, The Guardian: "Hosting America’s champion sports teams offered some light relief for Obama from the burdens of office. He welcomed the Warriors to the ornate east room, watched over by portraits of George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt, where recent public events have included a press conference with th...
Serena Marshall, ABC News: "The Golden Warriors are now taking to social media to show off their excitement with some tweets and videos."
Tim Daniels, Bleacher Report: "The reigning MLB champion Kansas City Royals will hope a visit Thursday to the White House with President Barack Obama to celebrate their 2015 World Series triumph can provide the spark they've been looking for heading into the final months of the regular season."
Cindy Boren and Marissa Payne, The Washington Post, when the Cleveland Cavaliers visited Obama in November 2016: "The scene was light given the seriousness of the other guest Obama welcomed to the White House earlier in the day. President-elect Donald Trump and Obama met in the Oval Office for the first time to begin t...
A St. Tammany Parish official who was arrested on a sexual battery charge resigned Wednesday (Sept. 12) from his post on the Slidell Memorial Hospital Board of Commissioners.
David Mannella, 58, of the Slidell area, was arrested Tuesday and was released from the parish jail in Covington that night on $10,000 bond, the jail record shows.
On Wednesday, state Sen. Sharon Hewitt announced that Mannella had resigned as vice chairman of the board that oversees the hospital.
"As chairwoman of the appointing authority for the (hospital) district, I have received Mr. Mannella's letter of resignation and will initiate the process of filling his position immediately. We are ready to move forward and intend to have a replacement appointed within the next 90 days."
Mannella also serves as chairman of the St. Tammany Planning and Zoning Commission.
Parish President Pat Brister, who appointed Mannella to the planning and zoning panel, called Tuesday for him to resign from his positions on public boards and commissions. Members of the Planning and Zoning Commission - who are not government employees but receive a $50 stipend for each meeting - make recommendations ...
Hewitt, who chairs the appointing authority that selects members for the hospital board, had called for Mannella's resignation as well.
The Sheriff's Office has released few details about the case.

Subsets and Splits

No community queries yet

The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.