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Published by Sarah Yeoman at 7:00am 13th January 2019.
Search and rescue teams across Cornwall have been celebrating after being awarded money | for new equipment.
The Department for Transport announced that 57 bids to the Rescue Boat Grant Fund had been successful with £240,000 from the £1 million fund going to charities in the South West.
These included several in Cornwall with Bude Surf Lifesaving Club one of the beneficiaries.
The club received a total of £12,062.73 which will be used to buy a new inshore rescue boat, two engines and a trailer.
Announcing the news on the club’s Facebook page it said: “Bude SLSC, with the help of Surf Lifesaving GB, has been successful in securing funding for a new IRB from the Dept of Transport’s rescue boat fund. The grant of over £10,000 wil pay for a new boat, motor and trailer to replace our ageing IRB which has served the club well for over 20 years.
Cornwall Search and Rescue Team was granted £11,781.29 |
Stayart had a goal and an assist in Cary-Grove’s loss to defending Class 3A state champion Barrington on Friday in | the Class 3A Guilford Sectional championship game.
The Trojans lost a heartbreaker, 3-2 (3-1 penalty kicks) to Barrington. Stayart scored the Trojans’ first goal and assisted on Maggie Mason’s goal in overtime after C-G fell behind, 2-1.
Stayart finished her senior season with 15 goals and 10 assists.
1. Prairie Ridge (17-1): With head-to-head wins against everyone in the FVC, the Wolves finish the season atop the McHenry County-area rankings.
2. Cary-Grove (13-3-2): The Trojans very nearly ended Barrington’s sectional streak, which extended to 10 with the win over C-G.
3. Crystal Lake South (13-7): The Gators battled tough in a Class 2A sectional championship loss to Burlington Central on Friday.
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brightcove.createExperiences(); Vacation is starting unexpectedly early for Kelly Ripa after the bombshell news that that her Live! cohost | Michael Strahan is leaving their morning talk show for Good Morning America.
Ripa surprised viewers by not appearing on Wednesday’s broadcast, and sources have confirmed to PEOPLE that she will not be returning the rest of the week, as she heads to Turks and Caicos for a vacation with her family.
The host was already scheduled to be off the air on Friday and Monday to go on a “long-planned” 20th anniversary trip with husband Mark Consuelos, a source tells PEOPLE.
“It’s fortuitous that she had this trip planned with her husband,” the source says.
A second source adds that Ripa, 41, will “definitely” return to the show, but it’s unclear when.
“She’s being very mature about this and choosing not to talk a lot and to wait and see how this plays out,” says the source, who adds that |
Consumers who are monitoring their sodium intake will have to wait another year before receiving the help they expected in determining if certain foods fit into their diet | regimens.
Beginning July 1, the federal Food and Drug Administration was to have required that sodium content information be added to the labels of products that carry nutritional data. But the deadline for compliance has been extended one year to July 1, l986.
"The extension was based on requests from about 40 food manufacturers and supermarket chains who said they needed more time to comply," said FDA spokesman James Greene in a telephone interview.
Sodium is a mineral element that is indispensable to several body processes. It has a vital role in regulating body water and plays a part in heart action and conduction of nerve impulses.
But excessive use of the substance also could be a major factor in the development of high blood pressure. While the relationship between hypertension and sodium hasn't been definitely established, some studies have found that blood pressure falls when weight and sodium intake are reduced. "The general consensus of the medical community and the FDA is that everyone could benefit by reducing sodium consumption," said Greene.
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My best friend and I have a game we play called “humiliation.” It started when we were fresh out of school and beginning our first jobs. We’d call each other up and share stories about how, for example, a man had reached out with a smile after a sermon or a lecture, leaned in, and said, “I felt so sorry for you while you were speaking.” Sharing such stories disarmed them, ordering the confusion we felt in the moment into something more manageable. And laughing together was balm.
We don’t humiliate as easily as we used to. But we still have stories to tell. Whenever I open up my email to find a message from my friend with the word humiliation in the subject line, I mentally rub my hands together in anticipation and start searching my own recent past for a story to send back. It usually doesn’t take very long to find one.
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Missouri lawmakers are expected to consider legislation to restrict the use of drones near state prisons after recent sightings sparked concern among corrections officials that weapons or drugs | were being dropped inside the grounds.
Republican Rep. Mike Henderson introduced a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for anyone to knowingly fly a drone within 300 vertical feet and near the furthest perimeter of prisons, the St. Joseph News-Press reported. The legislation would also add felony charges for attempting to drop contraband into state prison grounds.
The Missouri Department of Corrections has reported 11 drone sightings near state prisons since 2016, but there have been no confirmed cases of dropped contraband, agency spokeswoman Karen Pojmann said.
"We haven't made any direct or confirmed connections between unmanned aircraft and contraband, but it's certainly possible that contraband has been brought in by unmanned aircraft that weren't spotted," Pojmann said. "Drugs have been found inside balls used for athletic activity, for example, or have appeared on the ground with no clear point of origin."
Henderson said the proposed legislation includes exemptions so law enforcement can fly drones over the facilities, should there |
Everton boss Roberto Martinez said Gerard Deulofeu would be sidelined "for some time" after suffering a hamstring injury in the 4-1 | win over Fulham.
The Spaniard, 19, made his second Premier League start of the season and was a threat before he was stretchered off as Everton climbed to fourth.
Martinez said: "We don't know how big the tear is going to be but we expect Gerard to be out for some time.
"It is unfortunate because I thought he was ready to play a big role."
Martinez added: "We are going to have to be patient and wait for him to come back in the final third of the season as strong as he can be."
Deulofeu was starting to become a key player for Everton this season, scoring in the 4-0 victory over Stoke last month, his first Premier League start.
The Barcelona loanee also came off the bench to scored a crucial equaliser in the 1-1 draw with Arsenal last Sunday.
Everton face Swansea, Sunderland and Southampton in December before travelling to Stoke on New Year's |
Google announced today that it has purchased Zagat. Zagat's maroon pocket-sized guides have been a staple of tourists and travelers | for decades, and now the reviews and ratings of restaurants, hotels, and other destinations can be incorporated into the vast "Googleverse". So, what does that mean for you and me?
Basically, Google will be able to integrate Zagat ratings and reviews, and combine them with comments and +1s from Google+ and the rest of your extended Google network to provide more valuable and relevant search results and content.
Zagat ratings and reviews will make Google Search and Google Maps more useful.
Zagat was Yelp before PCs were mainstream, and before there was an Internet to speak of--at least for mainstream, public use. It is a respected name in food and lodging reviews--the Consumer Reports of restaurant and travel ratings.
Google's Marissa Mayer, VP of Local, Maps and Location Services, declared in a post on the Official Google Blog, "Zagat provides people with a democratized, authentic and comprehensive view of where to eat, drink, stay |
Zane Benefits Inc., a leader in Defined Contribution Health Plans and Private Health Exchanges, announced its new website, designed to educate employers | , accountants, and health insurance professionals about the new federal regulations allowing simplified employer health benefits.
This was reported by prweb.com.
As group health insurance costs continue to rise, employers are looking for ways to offer health benefits at a lower price. Zane Benefits' online defined contribution health plan allows an employer to name its price.
Rather than paying the costs to provide a specific group health plan (a 'defined benefit'), employers instead fix their costs by establishing a monthly dollar amount (a 'defined contribution') that employees choose how to spend.
The new ZaneBenefits.com highlights the company's online health benefits software that enables small businesses to implement and administer a defined contribution health plan in less than five minutes per month.
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court completed final arguments in United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Case 11-398 on the constitutionality of the Health Reform law scheduled to take effect in 2014.
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Operator BAA says Heathrow airport is "jam-packed"
An airport on an artificial island in the Thames estuary could be the | answer to the overcrowding at Heathrow, London's mayor has suggested.
Boris Johnson believes the island solution could put an end to the need for a third runway at Heathrow.
Officials are looking at plans to reduce air traffic congestion at Heathrow and focus on a 24-hour airport off the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
Heathrow handles more than 500,000 take-offs and landings a year.
In his transport manifesto unveiled during the mayoral elections Mr Johnson had spoken about a possible new airport in the Thames estuary.
Mr Johnson said: "You can't endlessly expand Heathrow in the suburbs of west London and entrench what was really a planning error of decades ago.
"I'm looking at all the airports around the perimeter including the option of a new site somewhere in the Thames estuary, that's something I definitely think we should look at.
"What we are looking at is a way of solving this great capital's aviation |
CLEVELAND (AP) -- LeBron James hasn't slowed the Warriors, and he's hardly alone. |
Toying with other teams, Golden State has turned the NBA postseason into its personal playground, storming to a record 15 straight wins and moving within a victory on Friday night in Game 4 of another title and into the conversation of the best teams ever.
And although it appears James, playing in his seventh straight Finals, will again fall short of a championship, Cleveland's superstar isn't faulting the Warriors for adding Kevin Durant to a 73-win team.
He'd do the same thing.
"It's part of the rules," James said Thursday, hours after the Cavs fell 118-113 to slip into a 3-0 hole. "But is it fair? I don't care. It's great for our league. Right now, look at our TV ratings, look at the money our league is pouring in. I mean, guys are loving the game |
In January 1914, Aston Webb, architect of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the facade of Buckingham Palace and parts of Birmingham University, had a dream | . He told the London Society, a group of architects and others concerned with the improvement of the capital, how he was transported a century forward to the year 2014, where he saw “a beautiful sylvan line practically all around London”, with “a certain amount of open spaces, pleasure grounds” set aside by “town planning schemes”. He called it a “green belt”.
As futuristic fantasies go, it was prescient. London is indeed surrounded by a green belt, as are 13 other urban areas in England and 10 in Scotland, zones that forbid new development, except, as the policy wording has it, in “very special circumstances”. They occupy 13% the total land area of England, compared with the 10% that is urbanised.
Almost anyone you talk to on the subject agrees that the green belt is one of the great successes of planning, anywhere in the world. It has prevented the interminable |
"His work improved the quality of life for millions of people who’ve probably never heard of him, as well as helped save thousands of | fresh and salt-water species," said Lynda Lewis of her brother, Roy R. "Robin" Lewis.
Roy R. "Robin" Lewis III, a certified environmental professional and senior ecologist whose work was well known locally and internationally, died Sept. 24 at his home in Salt Springs. He was 74.
Lewis was a member of the National Association of Environmental Professionals, Society of Wetland Scientists and Ecological Society of America, and president of Lewis Environmental Services, Inc. Coastal Resources Group, Inc., among many other affiliations.
According to his sister, Lynda Lewis, he was born May 19, 1944, in Daytona Beach. He spent his early life in Jacksonville, where he graduated from Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in 1962. He earned a bachelor of science in biology from the University of Florida in 1966, master's degree from the University of South Florida in 1968 and pursued postgraduate work there at the Marine Science Institute until 1973. He was a professor of |
And Shawn knows all about it.
Camila Cabello has a "dirty secret" about her summer, and Shawn Mendes knows all about | it.
The Fifth Harmony member and the pop singer teamed up for the dramatic acoustic track "I Know What You Did Last Summer," which is all about a girl cheating on her boyfriend.
"He knows dirty secrets that I keep/ Does he know it's killing me?/ He knows, he knows," Camila sings before they both join in on the chorus. "I know what you did last summer/ Just lied to me, "There's no other"/ I know what you did last Summer/ Tell me where you've been/ I know what you did last Summer/ Look me in the eyes, my lover."
Their voices blend in perfect harmony delivering a pure pop track that will no doubt appeal to both of their massive fan bases. The song, which is the lead single off Shawn's Handwritten Revisited reissue (Nov. 20) was written backstage at Taylor Swift's 1989 World Tour, where Shawn was an opening act.
The two instantly clicked and wrote |
Saudi Arabia has stepped up its weapon supplies to three different rebel groups in Syria following Russian airstrikes, a government official told the BBC. It comes after | Moscow launched its Air Force anti-terror operation at the request of Assad’s government.
Rebel groups fighting the Syrian Army will receive an increase in modern, high-powered weaponry, including guided anti-tank weapons, a "well-placed" Saudi official told the BBC on condition of anonymity.
He said the recipients include Jaish al-Fatah (Army of Conquest), the Free Syrian Army (FSA), and the Southern Front. The official stressed that Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) and the al-Nusra Front would not be receiving any weapons.
The official did not rule out the possibility of supplying surface-to-air missiles to the rebels, which many in the West fear would fall into the hands of ISIS militants and be used to shoot down warplanes of the US-led coalition or civilian aircraft.
Meanwhile, a separate Gulf Arab official has expressed fear that Russia's military intervention in Syria will prompt a new jihad, or holy war.
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Standing 8611 meters (28,251 feet) in height, K2 is the second tallest mountain on the planet behind Everest. It also happens | to be one of the most difficult and deadliest peaks as well, which has earned it nicknames such as the “Savage Mountain” and the “Mountaineer’s Mountain.” But last week the savage was tamed when a record-setting 28 people managed to successfully summit on a single day.
Located in a remote region of Pakistan’s Karakoram range, K2 is only accessible for a brief period of time each year during the summer. Climbers usually arrive in Base Camp around mid- to late-July with the hope of taking advantage of a narrow weather window to reach the summit. In years past Mother Nature has not been so cooperative, often keeping anyone from reaching the top. Last year, only four climbers managed to climb the mountain and they were the first since 2008 when 11 people were killed in a tragic accident.
2012 has not been a particularly good year for climbers in Pakistan, as unusually cold and wet weather prevented many |
VILLAGE OF HARTLAND - The village board unanimously shot down a proposal by Neumann Developments Inc. to allow a plan for a | 126-unit ranch-style condominium development on 80 acres between Mary Hill subdivision and Winkleman Road.
The board also unanimously decided to change Hartland's comprehensive plan to show that KE will eventually connect on the north side of Highway K, ending a nearly 20 year-long disagreement with the county on where it would go.
Matt Neumann, CEO of Neumann Developments, had proposed that if the village would allow a plan for higher density, and change its comprehensive plan to reflect the county's plan for KE, he would build a long access road off of Highway K, across from Jungbluth Road, that would eventually be a part of the new Highway KE.
Once the board decided on March 26 that they would approve half of the proposal, Neumann said he will look to build a condo development with the maximum number of units that zoning would allow for, which he said is about 96.
But Village Administrator Dave Cox said that number would likely be lower.
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The 17th Karmapa can't travel, and China is to blame.
At the end of a cold Himalayan December in 1999, | a 14-year old monk made a phenomenal escape from a monastery in Tibet where his every move was patrolled by the Chinese. Fleeing by car, on foot and by horseback, he crossed some of Nepal’s most forbidding terrain and found his way to India, where he settled at the feet of the Dalai Lama, seeking teaching.
Since then, he has been under virtual house arrest by the Indian government, circumscribed in his movements, and now banned from travel to the West, where he has a large following—and to the seat of his Tibetan sect in Sikkim, a once-independent Tibetan Buddhist kingdom that India undermined and incorporated in 1975. The reason for India’s denial of the monk’s freedom of movement seems plain. In a word: it’s China.
The travel ban follows a thinly veiled warning by India’s foreign secretary to the Dalai Lama last week not to say anything provocative on a visit to Lad |
Every business depends on forecasting, whether its executives know it or not. How many new franchise stores should we open in 1990? Will we have enough | cash on hand in November to pay expenses? Will our current staff be adequate to meet manufacturing demand in 1992? When do we need to reorder widgets? Forecasts are intended to answer those questions.
Until recently, forecasting was the domain of specialists in the dark science of statistical analysis and mathematical modeling. These people pore over the historical numbers generated by a company - monthly sales figures, for example - and then put them in motion, trying to find patterns and models that can be used to predict what might happen a month, a year or a decade ahead.
For especially complex forecasting jobs, like predicting how much the West German economy will benefit from changes in Eastern Europe, it still makes sense to hire a specialist. But many executives are discovering that today's powerful personal computers can handle all but the most complex forecasting chores.
Business Forecast Systems Inc., of Belmont, Mass., (617) 484-5050, has created three programs for personal computers made by the International Business |
BARTOW - A teenage boy is dead following a shooting Sunday in Bartow. The Bartow Police Department has identified the victim as Armando | Cortez, 16.
BARTOW - A teenage boy is dead following a shooting Sunday in Bartow.
The Bartow Police Department has identified the victim as Armando Cortez, 16.
According to police, it appears Cortez was attending a birthday party at the Carver Recreational Center at 520 S. Idlewood Ave. When arriving at the party, he was preparing to park his vehicle in the open lot behind the Union Academy school at 1795 E. Walbash Ave. The lot is directly west of the party location and commonly used for parking, police said.
Investigators said that while driving his vehicle into the lot, Cortez was accosted by several unknown Hispanic males and a fight broke out. During the fight, Cortez was shot several times.
The victim was airlifted to Lakeland Medical Center for treatment of his wounds. He died at the hospital.
Bartow police say they do not know the reason for the fight.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British engine maker Rolls-Royce (RR.L) upgraded its 2018 guidance on a stronger than expected performance across | its business, saying that it could cope with the rising cost of fixing a problem with its Trent 1000 engines.
The company, which makes engines for large civil aircraft, military planes, ships, trains and for other industrial uses, said that both profit and cash flow would come in at the upper half of a guided range this year.
Shares in Rolls gained 4.4 percent to 1,031 pence at 0827 GMT, having reversed earlier losses to reach their highest level for over four years. They are up 24 percent in the year to date against a 0.9 percent fall in Britain's bluechip index.FTSE.
The upgrade to guidance comes despite the huge costs Rolls is incurring from durability issues with parts on its Trent 1000 engine which powers the Boeing (BA.N) Dreamliner 787 jet and that has left some planes grounded, angering airline customers.
Chief Executive Warren East has said Rolls was working to fix the problem.
He has spent the |
Two years off the endangered species list, bald eagles are becoming less of a rare sight on the South Shore. There are 25 pairs of bald | eagles in Massachusetts, said Simon Perkins, staff ornithologist at Mass Audubon, from one pair when it was restored as a species in the state in the early 1980s.
“They’re not common, but they are much less rare than they were 20, 30, 40 years ago,” Perkins said.
Joe Halpin saw one Saturday in his Birchbrow Avenue backyard, where it spent more than an hour in a tree near Wessagusset Beach.
Halpin sees plenty of cardinals, finches and other birds, but this is the first unusual sighting, he said.
Two bald eagles were seen within 15 miles of Boston during the annual Greater Boston Christmas bird count Saturday.
Breeding pairs of bald eagles live around the Quabbin Reservoir in Western Massachusetts and Assawompsett Pond in the Lakeville-Middleboro area.
Near the water is a natural place for eagles in the winter, |
The Celtics drafted Lester Hudson of Tennessee-Martin in the second round with their only pick in the NBA draft.
Ainge had been critical of | point guard Rajon Rondo a couple of days earlier, and while he tried to soften his stance by saying “I love Rajon,” there were all those persistent trade possibilities floating out there. It figured that the Celtics’ president of player personnel would be doing something, anything, rather than sit on his hands.
Ainge, after all, had made several draft-night deals over his tenure. That’s how he picked up Kendrick Perkins, Glen Davis and Rondo himself. Two days earlier, Ainge even said, “I wish we had a first round pick,” but it was wishful thinking.
In reality, Ainge doesn’t want to get younger. He’s had his fill. More than half his current roster is comprised of players with five or fewer years of experience and he doesn’t want to be locked into a three-year contract worth several million dollars. What Ainge is planning to do |
MERCEDES is on the hunt for a new partner for Lewis Hamilton after Nico Rosberg's shock retirement - but it seems unlikely to be | Australia's Daniel Ricciardo.
Ricciardo had his best season for Red Bull, finishing third behind Rosberg and Hamilton in the Formula One Drivers' Championship.
The 27-year-old is regarded as one of the best talents in the sport alongside 19-year-old teammate Max Verstappen.
But Red Bull boss Christian Horner said both were going nowhere as speculation mounts as to who will replace Rosberg.
"Our drivers are both on long-term contracts,” Horner told the UK Mirror.
Sebastian Vettel has also played down claims he could partner Hamilton at Mercedes in 2017.
Mercedes chairman Niki Lauda said he expected the team to have a replacement for Rosberg before the end of the year.
Another possible replacement is McLaren's Fernando Alonso but like Vettel he is under contract for next year.
"We certainly need a driver for the first test of the new car in February,� |
Britain's Eurovision hopes will no doubt be dashed as bloc voting sweeps a Balkan or Baltic act to victory on Saturday. What patterns do mathematic | ians spot in the voting?
Eurovision has long been known as a festival of political skulduggery.
Claims that Sir Cliff Richard was robbed of first place in 1968 because of General Franco's scheming is just the latest story in a long history of grumbling about questionable voting practices.
So much so that allegations of vote-rigging have become the subject of intensive academic inquiry. Sociologists, engineers, mathematicians and even a molecular geneticist have been trying to determine whether suspicions of neighbourly back-scratching are well-founded.
In last year's contest, when the UK came second - from bottom - even commentator Terry Wogan's sense of humour failed him. "Over the last few years, the scoring has undoubtedly become ridiculous," he spluttered. "The voting is so influenced by Baltic groups, and Russian groups, it's become unfunny really."
Serbia was the Eurovision 2007 winner - a result predicted by Dr Derek Gatherer, |
Are cell phones, video games, and other technology gadgets to blame for students’ poor critical thinking skills? Educators in Texas think so, | because fewer than half of North Texas students pass the short-response section of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), The Dallas Morning News reports.
Most of the TAKS consist of multiple choice questions, asking students only to fill in a bubble—a task they seem to ace. But students from low-performing districts to high-achieving ones stumble on the short-response section.
Some educators and testing experts say the low scores reveal a lack of critical thinking and communication skills. They also point to students’ shorter attention spans, on which they blame cell phones, video games, and less recreational reading. And teachers are frustrated because they feel pressured to teach skills most emphasized on the tests but an even bigger undertaking is how to engage uninterested students. “They can read but they can’t think critically about what they’ve read and apply it to the world around them,” says Sue Warriner, a 7th grade English teacher |
Roger Ailes forever changed conservative media and with it political discourse in America.
Roger Ailes, who died Thursday, forever changed media, and | with it political discourse in America.
Ailes birthed conservative television news coverage in the mid-1990s by launching Fox News and encouraged the careers of numerous pundits, such as Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. He left Fox News Channel defiantly last July following allegations of sexual harassment at the network. He was expected to resurface to repair his legacy, possibly bringing his style back to the airwaves or in political circles in some way.
By the time Ailes left the network, the future of conservative media had begun a fundamental shift with the Fox brand of journalism giving way to upstart online outlets such as Breitbart, IJR (Independent Journal Review) and The Blaze, founded by Fox News alum Glenn Beck. Many of them leaning farther right and attracting a legion of followers that helped propel Donald Trump to the White House.
Still, even with an abrupt ending -- the Palm Beach County, Fla. medical examiner ruling Ailes' cause of death bleeding on the brain brought |
Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we shake our head at the size of the fields in Del | Mar’s two stakes on Sunday.
Saturday’s surprising news on the firing of Michael Wrona as track announcer at Santa Anita is certainly the buzz of the local racing world. He was popular with most, but some found his style of packing plenty of extra information into a race call as more than they wanted.
A replacement will be announced early this week, perhaps as soon as Monday.
Wrona did reach out to the Times late Saturday, saying he wasn’t up for talking as “my head is spinning and my gut won’t stop churning.” During his tenure, he was classy and friendly and, certainly, everyone wishes him the very best.
As we wrote on Sunday, speculation has Frank Mirahmadi on the short list for the job. He is a Southern Californian who left a good gig at Oaklawn to audition for the Santa Anita’s job when Wrona got it 2016. |
The Town has completed the 2017 program year for the Community Development Block Grant program and is preparing Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER) for | the period July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018. The Town was awarded $283,342 in federal funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to address the goals and objectives of the Town of Barnstable Consolidated Plan for 2015 – 2019. The CAPER is a year-end report that outlines the accomplishments of the Town’s CDBG program and is available review and comments before the Town submits to HUD for approval.
The Draft CAPER will be available for review as of Thursday, August 16, 2018 on the Town website: http://www.townofbarnstable.us/CDBG or in the Planning & Development Dept. (PDD), 367 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Hyannis, MA 02601 between the hours of 8:30am and 4:30pm Monday through Friday. This location is handicap accessible.
The public is invited to attend a meeting to review the Draft CAPER on |
When Pixar Animation Studios began making features, they wanted to differentiate themselves in more ways than one from other animation companies. In the mid-1990s | , it was daring to make a full-length computer-animated feature, but Pixar knew there was another trend of modern animation that they should boldly sidestep. To quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail: no singing.
The Disney Renaissance of the 1990s was marked by Broadway-style songs in Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King and more. For a while, Pixar’s filmmakers would compromise with Disney, to the point where a song or two played over the soundtrack in their early films, such as Toy Story and A Bug’s Life. Nearly a quarter-century later, Pixar is the standard-bearer of American animation, only slightly delving into the musical genre with last year’s Coco. Though Pixar’s cautiously utilized songs in their films, they’ve had a very strong association with music, akin to Disney and its relationship with the late Howard Ashman, even if they intended to avoid such associations |
“Just after 4pm on Sunday 7 October, Police and other emergency services attended a scene on Warspite Avenue, where a man was located | on the road with critical injuries. A team of Detectives are working to establish how he sustained these injuries, but inquiries have established that he has fallen from a vehicle.
The man died last night of his injuries in Wellington Hospital and Police are now in a position to name him.
He was 19-year-old Sosiua Helotu Ula of Wiri, Auckland and Police extend their sympathies to his family and friends.
Wellington Police are still seeking the public’s help identifying anyone who may have witnessed this incident in Porirua on Sunday.
Mr Ula was taken to Wellington Hospital in a critical condition and died last night, Tuesday 9 October.
Mr Ula was described as solidly built, around 185cm (6 foot) tall, with a short black hair cut.
He had a small amount of facial hair on his chin.
Police are seeking to reconstruct Mr Ula’s movements before he sustained his fatal injuries, and |
SAINSBURY'S admission that its Christmas sales picked up only when it called a temporary halt to a costly and disruptive investment programme is | a revealing one.
Its multi-billion pound investment in overhauling systems and distribution centres is certainly necessary. But the upheaval is taking a heavy toll on performance.
Ensuring that the supply chain works smoothly is a key issue for Sainsbury's - and indeed for its rivals.
Quite simply, if consumers do not find what they want in their local store, they will move on swiftly to a better-stocked rival.
Supply chain director Martin White admits that 15 years of under-investment had left Sainsbury's network 'fossilised' and 'complacent', lagging behind rivals Asda and Tesco.
In a belated attempt to put this right, chief executive Sir Peter Davis decided three years ago to pump huge sums into 'radically changing' the network.
Britain's third-largest grocery chain concedes that the ambitious overhaul has been 'testing'.
Sainsbury faces an enormous task in trying to rectify the neglect of |
It's Claire’s first day of bus driver training. She admits to being nervous and is pleased when Ashley says he will pop out to | the end of the street with Joshua to give his wife a confidence boosting wave as she passes by. True to his word, Ashley patiently waits with son Joshua for Claire to drive-by but as her bus rounds the corner disaster strikes. Joshua slips from Ashley’s grip when he sees Schmeichel bounding across the road. Claire swerves in a dramatic attempt to avoid a collision with the youngster but despite her best efforts she is mortified to her a loud thud before the bus screeches to a halt? After hearing the collision, the residents quickly gather round the scene of the accident. Has her worst nightmare happened on her first day of training?
Shelley remains very much under Charlie’s control as the pair even move the sofa from downstairs into her bedroom so that she can be more comfortable as her enforced confinement continues.
Elsewhere, Jack has a holiday surprise for Vera. He shocks his long suffering wife when he announces he is taking his beloved pigeons to |
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BOURNEMOUTH’S Arts by the Sea Festival (October 14 -21) is organising a large recycling project with a sculpture | made of recycled plastic bottles.
The project called, Save Our Seas – Message in a Bottle, and in a testament to the times we live in, there will be no shortage of material to create the sculpture with.
This eye-catching recycling project has won a Wessex Watermark Award of £400 to help to pay for two workshops during the opening weekend.
‘Message in a Bottle’ is an awareness raising event on the use of plastics in our daily lives, its impact on the sea and is designed to provoke thoughts about how we can make a difference.
The public are invited to think about their own recycling habits and come along during the opening weekend and write their message on a bottle as part of the installation.
Wessex Water’s Flood Risk Coordinator Gillian Sanders will be presenting the cheque to Bournemouth Borough Council ‘s Festival’s Director Andrea Francis on Tuesday 19th September.
The Watermark Award provides funds for environmental |
Camera IconPotentially flammable cladding has been discovered at Fiona Stanley Hospital and will be removed.Picture: Michael Wilson.
Potentially | flammable cladding has been found from Fiona Stanley Hospital, only days after work began to remove similar material at King Edward Memorial Hospital.
In a statement Health Department director general David Russell-Weisz confirmed that aluminium composite panel cladding had been detected at FSH and would be removed.
It was found during a State-wide safety audit of cladding by the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, following the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London which killed 72 people.
The department is examining cladding from more than 100 buildings.
As part of the audit the Health Department had identified the need to undertake a preliminary fire risk assessment at the Fiona Stanley Hospital site.
The department said the assessment was received last week and identified ACP cladding across the site. Core samples of the ACP cladding were taken for laboratory testing to confirm their material type.
“Immediate action has been taken to ensure the ongoing safety of staff and patients within the hospital, |
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The fugitive Strasbourg man suspected of shooting people as he shouted "Allahu Akbar" at the French city's Christmas market is a criminal who | turned radical Islamist in jail, officials said.
A manhunt is continuing today for the suspect, identified by authorities as 29-year-old French citizen Cherif Chekatt.
He has 27 criminal convictions for theft and violence, officials said, and has spent time in French, German and Swiss prisons.
Now police are seeking him as the suspect who killed two people, and seriously injured several more last night. Police today released photographs of Chekatt as the hunt continues.
Neighbours believed that Chekatt's brother was a radicalised Muslim, but they remember the suspect as an ordinary local guy.
However to security agencies, Chekatt had represented a potential threat for some time, his beliefs hardened behind bars.
Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said the suspect shouted out "Allahu Akbar" during the attack.
"Considering the target, his way of operating, his profile and the testimonies of those who heard him yell 'Allahu Akbar', the |
After briefly working in SNCC’s Atlanta headquarters, Varela was assigned to Selma, Alabama to help educate and register black voters | in the “belly of the beast” of the battle for civil rights. Varela soon recognized an urgent problem: the images provided for voter education materials showed only white faces.
At first Varela asked various SNCC photographers to shoot new images. But she had a keen eye, and finally one of them asked her: “Why don’t you shoot the photos yourself?” She quickly learned, and in Varela’s work we see an evolution from utilitarian images, meant exclusively for training materials, to potently composed photos furnishing a sophisticated lens on the dramatic changes underway in 1960s Alabama and Mississippi.
Because she began working with SNCC as an organizer, Varela benefitted from an unparalleled access to her subjects, and her images reveal a unique insider’s perspective.
Throughout Varela’s life, she recognized the connections between struggles for civil rights everywhere. After leaving SNCC, one of her |
A structural steelwork installation company has been fined after an employee fractured his spine when he was struck by a steel plate which fell from a crane while | working at the University of Bedfordshire.
Luton Magistrates’ Court heard how the man suffered a back injury while carrying out work on a new metal staircase. The task involved using a crane to lift a steel sheet attached to a magnet, but the sheet became detached and fell, striking the injured person on the back. The worker has been unable to continue working as a steel fixer.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into the incident on 10 December 2015 at the Luton Campus, found the company failed to ensure that the lifting equipment was of adequate strength and stability for each load. Whilst the safe working load was 1000kg the magnet had to be de-rated to take into account the thinness and the length of the metal being lifted. The company also failed to ensure that the lifting operation was planned by a competent person, appropriately supervised and carried out in a safe manner.
HSE inspector Samantha Wells said: “This incident could so easily |
The first regional conference of the Second National Judicial Pay Commission was held in Mumbai on October 2. The conference was held to take inputs of judicial officers | of lower judiciary on pay scale, emolument, service conditions, retirement benefits, post-retirement jobs in judiciary, infrastructure and environment of the lower court and judicial working conditions. Judicial representatives from Gujarat, Goa and Maharashtra participated in the conference.
“By virtue of duties performed by judicial officers they are not equated with state government officers, even though it is essentially a state subject. Though there is revision of pay scales for employees of the central government, judicial officers are governed by old pay scales. We have given an interim report recommending interim pay benefits which are substantially benefiting the judicial officers. They are getting maximum DA of more than 140 percent against the existing pay scales and more than 30 percent of the basic pay,” said, Justice (retd) PV Reddy, chairman, Second National Judicial Pay Commission.
He also said that despite lack of proper infrastructure and utilities in villages and slow response from high courts and state governments, the commission is working expeditiously. |
statehouses across the country and each fight seems dirtier than the last.
We will take you to Texas and North Carolina.
nomin | ations come to an end.
Americans deserve better than Mitch McConnell`s political stunts.
don`t have a remedy, then you don`t have meaningful rights.
rights as toxic. They`re wrong.
And there are real consequences the NLRB. It oversees all kinds of cases.
work their way through to the NLRB.
two-pronged assault by conservatives in two different branches.
to actually function and issue decisions. Ah-ha!
And the Supreme Court has now agreed to take the case on appeal this fall.
Mitch McConnell gives them a vote, the NLRB is in limbo.
permanently inoperable the government body that oversees labor law.
they`ve been able to do that.
of us and then they started their terror campaign.
a board with recess appointees.
workers are out of luck.
And, Larry Cohen, president of Communications Workers of America.
Congresswoman, I |
Newswise — Imagine a home appliance that, at the push of a button, turns powdered ingredients into food that meets the individual nutrition requirements of | each household member. Although it may seem like something from science fiction, new research aimed at using 3-D printing to create customized food could one day make this a reality.
Jin-Kyu Rhee, associate professor at Ewha Womans University in South Korea, will discuss his new research and the potential of 3-D printing technology for food production at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual meeting during the 2018 Experimental Biology meeting to be held April 21-25 in San Diego.
3-D printing of food works much like 3-D printing of other materials in that layers of raw material are deposited to build up a final product. In addition to offering customized food options, the ability to 3-D print food at home or on an industrial scale could greatly reduce food waste and the cost involved with storage and transportation. It might also help meet the rapidly increasing food needs of a growing world population.
For the new study, the researchers used a prototype |
Following on with the new GTX 700 series, NVIDIA releases the new mid-range GTX 760 today. Check out the performance numbers in this review. |
NVIDIA did a really job of keeping the GTX 760 that is being released today under wraps. All throughout Computex 2013, the GTX 760 name is one that we didn't hear come up once. Out of nowhere, though, we start to see samples arriving. First we got an NVIDIA reference card sample and straight after we started seeing partners sending us over their versions.
As we always do, the first card we'll look at is the reference one from NVIDIA and from there we'll then take the time to overclock the model to see just what we're able to do with it. Overclocking the reference card always gives us a reference point of what a reference design card can clock like, compared to partner's cards, which go the extra mile by adding higher quality components to the PCB.
Being a reference card means that we've got no bundle to deal with. Instead we'll today just be moving straight onto the card itself to see just what exactly NVIDIA is offering. There's |
Theresa “Terry” M. Levesque, 87 of Nashua, passed away in the loving company of her 3 daughters on | Thursday July 12, 2018 at St Teresa Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Manchester after a brief period of declining health.
Terry was born February 19th, 1931 in Jamaica NY; the daughter of the late Charles P and Mary A (McGowan) Schmit. Terry was educated by The Sisters of the Dominican order; and worked briefly for The Great American Insurance Company in New York; prior to meeting and marrying Robert “Bob” Levesque on June 8, 1952; and embarking on a partnership supporting his career in the US Navy for 22 years. Service that took them to duty stations in Canada, Italy and the United States. Upon his Navy retirement, they moved back to his boyhood home of Nashua. Terry remained a loving and supportive wife and mother; raising a family of 5 children. She worked for many years as a caregiver in her home for a number of children who received as much love and guidance as her own.
Terry is survived by her children |
Canoe and kayak liveries will pay a permit fee to conduct business in Milford's Central Park if officials approve a proposed ordinance.
| A proposed ordinance regulating canoe rental businesses using Central Park would require livery owners to pay $25 for an annual permit.
Alan Heavner, who runs one of two canoe rental businesses in Milford, welcomes the regulations and permit fee. He picks up some canoe and kayak customers from the park, but operates his business out of Proud Lake Recreation Area.
Village Manager Christian Wuerth said the proposed ordinance limits each canoe livery to two vehicles at a time in the park. It spells out the information needed for a permit application, including a verification of insurance, hours of operation and number of parking spaces used in the park. It also prohibits the businesses and their customers from obstructing public access to the water, sidewalk or driveway, damaging park property, littering, jumping from watercraft, leaving a boat or trailer in the park while it is closed and posting livery company signs.
“The biggest thing from the village perspective is making sure everyone has property insurance and |
So what does that mean for older devices? Is Samsung not planning on showing them love? The good news is that Samsung will not be leaving everyone | behind. According to a report from SamMobile, it seems that the Nougat firmware update for the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge has already begun.
We’re not sure how far along the development is, but given that Nougat has yet to make its way to devices like the S7 and S7 Edge, there’s a good chance that we’ll probably only see the update in 2017, but that’s better than nothing, right? There was no mention of the Galaxy Note 5, but presumably if the S6 and S6 Edge were to get the update, so would the Note 5 and it’s really just a question of when.
We’re also unclear if there will be a beta program similar to what Samsung is doing right now for the S7 and S7 Edge, but we wouldn’t be surprised if there was. We’ll be keeping an eye out for it all the same |
Beyonce is going to be a mom once more! The singer shared a photo on Instagram today revealing a very pregnant belly (carrying twins no | less!), which begs the question—how has she kept her growing baby bump hidden all this time?!
Here’s Beyonce’s pregnancy reveal pic, where it’s easy to see the singer has not one but two babies on the way!
But prior to posting the pic, Beyonce kept a relatively low profile. She wasn’t even seen at her husband Jay-Z’s birthday party back in December, even though her mom Tina Knowles and biffle Kelly Rowland were there. Perhaps she stayed hidden because her bump was too big to hide?
For Christmas, the singer shared a series of pics of her wearing a dark navy dress. The color made it easy for Beyonce to hide her growing bump—she even wore a long black robe in some of the pics. Nobody suspected a thing!
Plus, Queen Bey kept throwing her fans off with posts showing her stomach looking flat and fit!
Maybe we all should have |
Looks from Balenciaga's Spring / Summer 2013 show during Paris Fashion Week on Sept. 27, 2012.
Cristóbal Bal | enciaga was a master, a genius whose avant-garde vision dictated fashion’s greatest trends and inspired generations of designers. With an incomparable creative talent, Nicolas has brought to Balenciaga an artistic contribution essential to the unique influence of the house.
The move is a “joint decision” according to the statement, though it’s certainly unexpected and caps off a year of musical chairs in the fashion industry, which saw Jil Sander return to her eponymous brand, Raf Simons move to Dior and Hedi Slimane take the helm at Saint Laurent.
The decision is surprising in part because Ghesquière has consistently turned out remarkable collections for Balenciaga since he assumed the position in 1997, when he was just 26. But beyond having the stamp of approval from esteemed fashion editors and critics, Ghesquière made Balenciaga covetable and cool among the fashionista set over the last 15 |
The decision to situate Speakers' Corner in Hong Lim Park was in recognition of its strong local character going back to 1876, a place | for storytelling, recreation, Chinese opera and domestic politics. Similar names notwithstanding, the intention was never to emulate London's Speakers' Corner, which its ardent supporters call the "most famous location for free speech in the world". The preference here is for only Singaporeans to use Hong Lim Park for public speeches or demonstrations without official sanction.
Most would agree that domestic issues, especially controversial socio-political issues, should be a matter for Singaporeans alone to debate among themselves. Lately, the Home Affairs Ministry has made it clear that foreign firms will need a permit to sponsor, publicly promote or get their staff to participate in events at the Speakers' Corner. There is scope for foreign entities to use the Corner but there are limits, given that sensitivities of race and religion need to be handled with care in multiracial Singapore. There are, for example, regulations against the palpable exploitation of religious matters at the Corner and elsewhere too. Complications are caused when other issues touch on religion. |
IBM most recent study found that large organizations undergo 1,400 DDoS attacks per week. What can be done do to stop this?
| IBM's recently discovered an alarming fact: distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are rapidly increasing. The company released a report that offers insight on the attacks and reasons to why they're being performed. According to the IBM Cyber Security Intelligence Index the average number of attacks on a single organization in a week is 1,400 attacks, with an average of 1.7 incidents per week.
DDoS Attacks? What Are Those?
You might be wondering, what exactly is a DDoS attack? And what's the difference between attacks and incidents? IBM defines attacks as security events that correlation and analytic tools identify as malicious activity trying to collect, degrade, or destroy information system resources or the data itself. This includes URL tampering, denial of service, and spear phishing. Incidents, on the other hand, are attacks that human security analysts review and deem a problem worthy of deeper investigation.
Malicious codes and sustained probes are the two most common attacks that make up for |
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — Martin Slumbers never went so far as to say that had Phil Mickelson hit a moving golf ball | in the Open Championship as opposed to the U.S. Open, his penalty would have been disqualification. However, when speaking to the media on Wednesday at Carnoustie Golf Links, the R&A chief executive left the impression that a penalty harsher than two strokes might have been applied—and would potentially come into play should a similar instance happen this week.
Mickelson has since apologized for his actions during Saturday at Shinnecock.
Slumbers said that he spoke directly to Mickelson about the U.S. Open incident last week when seeing him at the Scottish Open. Slumbers described the five-time major winner as contrite about what took place at Shinnecock, as he has been with the media in recent weeks after initially defending his actions when he took a stroke at his golf ball on the 13th green during Saturday’s third round before it had stopped moving.
“Not putting words in [his mouth], paraphrasing his words, |
A solid-state drive nearly quintupled storage performance and breathed new life into Stephen Shankland's laptop. The storage capacity is small, but | it's an upgrade you should consider, too.
Today I transformed my 2009 laptop into a machine that feels like it's from 2012.
All I did was rip out its 500GB spinning-rust hard drive from Seagate and popped in a 256GB Vertex 4 solid-state drive from OCZ. Now I'm kicking myself for not upgrading to an SSD a year ago.
If you're not up to speed on your PC components, here's the technical background on SSDs vs. HDs. For decades, hard drives handled storage chores by writing data as tiny magnetized patches on spinning platters. SSDs use flash memory chips instead, a design that can retrieve data much faster. The biggest drawback is the price: SSDs cost more and store less than hard drives.
My primary machine is a Retina-era MacBook Pro with a 256GB SSD, so I'm used to SSDs overall. What I hadn't appreciated was how much life an SSD can breathe |
SHOPPERS with a sweet tooth can bag a free Cadbury chocolate egg with Quidco's latest offer.
And with Easter just | around a corner, it could be the perfect opportunity to stock up on your favourite treats.
Quidco is giving new users the chance to get their hands on a Cadbury Ultimate Crunchie Bits Egg worth £12 for free.
To claim your sweet freebie simply click here and sign up to Quidco, before April 30 when the deal expires.
You’ll be taken through to Cadbury's gift direct shop where you can buy the Easter egg as normal.
Shopper will get their £12 cashback into your Quidco account within two weeks.
The Cadbury Ultimate Crunchie Bits Egg, which weighs 570g, was released in 2019 just in time for Easter.
It is made of a milk chocolate thick shelled egg with honeycombed pieces and comes complete with three bar of milk chocolate Crunchie bars.
If the Crunchie egg is a bit too much for you, Quidco has another Cadbury offer |
Day-care centers aren't just for napping and storytime anymore.
The Academy at Julington Creek, which promotes healthy eating, active | children and high academics, opened on Oct. 13, and just like its students, the staff is learning, growing and beaming with confidence about the new learning institution.
Lucinda Chapin, the owner of the day-care center, said she saw a need for an academic-centric learning center in Julington Creek. After a friend informed her of the plot of land for sale, she decided to take on the challenge.
"I want to give the opportunity for children to be somewhere where learning is fun," she said.
Chapin is also the owner of Children's Lighthouse, a similar center in Jacksonville.
The businesswoman grew up in a household where reading was a top priority; her mother was a reading teacher who taught her phonics early in life.
"Because I had that background, it was important for me to bring it into my business," she said.
Teachers at the center use a combination of different teaching methods, including A Beka |
The Scottish Professional Football League are expected to meet with the four Betfred Cup semi-finalists on Thursday to thrash out a solution to their | scheduling problem.
Hampden chiefs face a major dilemma over when to play the last-four clashes after Celtic and Rangers were kept apart in Wednesday night’s draw.
Celtic were paired with Hearts while Rangers will take on Aberdeen in ties due to be played over the weekend of October 27-28.
Both semi-finals normally take place at Hampden, one on Saturday and the other on Sunday, but both Glasgow clubs are in Europa League action on the Thursday night - leaving one of them with the prospect of being forced back into action just 40 hours after competing in Europe.
Celtic face RB Leipzig in Germany while Rangers will host Spartak Moscow and Light Blues boss Steven Gerrard insists it would be “unfair” to ask either of Glasgow’s big two to play again after just one day’s rest.
SPFL bosses are now set to meet representatives from all four clubs to work out a solution, with playing both |
There's a new streaming music service in town and this time, it's legal.
On Monday, Emusic.com (EMUS | ) signed the first licensing agreement for an interactive music service with the National Music Publishers Association. Emusic CEO Gene Hoffman said the streaming service will be integrated into the existing download service by mid-year 2001.
In July, the company rolled out its subscription service, which offers consumers unlimited downloads for a monthly fee ranging from $9.99 to $19.99. But requiring users to download, manage and store their own music can be seen as a drawback.
"You could build this into a business, but I don't think that people (would be) willing to pay $10 if this was just a streaming service," Hoffman said.
The streaming component, where users have the ability to determine how they want to listen to their music, will be added by the second quarter of next year, Hoffman said.
While other services also offer streaming, the flexible licensing agreement will allow Emusic to create a more user-friendly service.
"We have a new and additional |
Neighbors and officials gathered to help break ground on a Lou Malnati's slated to open near Midway Airport.
MIDWAY — | Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria will soon open near Midway International Airport.
The 5,000-square-foot restaurant is slated to open in spring 2017 on a former used car lot at 6456 S. Cicero Ave.
A number of dignitaries, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel, House Speaker Michael Madigan, Ald. Marty Quinn (13th) and Lou Malnati’s co-owner Rick Malnati, broke ground at the lot Friday morning.
Over the last year, a number of new developments have sprouted along Cicero Avenue. Panda Express recently bought a 16,000 square-foot lot at 6501 S. Cicero Ave., a property adjacent to the forthcoming Vib, a 74-room Best Western boutique hotel at 6501 S. Cicero Ave.
“With exciting developments like the Vib Chicago hotel and the addition of a Chicago staple like Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria, |
Carson Valley Senior Living Administrator Kaitlin Peitz, Medication Aid Rosa Hoyt, Wellness Assistant Krista Crabtree-Evans | , Medication Aid Jessica Burtt, Wellness Director Ana Hernandez.
Carson Valley Senior Living and Memory Care's team member, Rosa Hoyt, was recognized as the 2018 Caregiver of the Year by the Perry Foundation. Presented at the annual Perry Foundation Endeavor Awards dinner on June 20 at The Grove at South Creek, the award celebrates exceptional colleagues and communities for their outstanding contributions and achievements in post-acute and long-term care in Nevada. Carson Valley Senior Living, located at 1189 Kimmerling Rd., Gardnerville, is an assisted living and memory care community operated by Carson City, Nev.-based Mission Senior Living (MSL).
Hoyt joined the team at Carson Valley Senior Living as a medication aide last year.
"Rosa has left an impression on residents, families and team members alike with her amazing attitude, giving heart and hard work," said Administrative Assistant Neisha Arceo "Every single day we can count on her being |
Of all the elements that make up a links course, and particularly a British links course, none is quite so distinctive as the bunkering.
| On inland courses, bunkers can sometimes seem almost decorative, but links bunkers are at the heart of what The Open Championship is all about. The player who wins at Royal St George's this week will either be very good at getting out of them, or very good at not getting into them. Preferably both.
Links bunkers have a severity that the sand traps on parkland courses rarely match. Put your ball in a greenside bunker on a parkland course and you can often be pretty confident of getting up and down in two; do the same thing on a quality links course and you can send your score skywards.
How many Opens have been lost in the Road Hole bunker at St Andrews? How many times each day does Thomas Bjorn recall the trap by the 16th at Royal St George's where his chance of the 2003 title evaporated?
Tony Jacklin's Open victory at Lytham in 1969 was built squarely on his talent for recovery shots from |
Right in downtown Seattle is an effortlessly cool basement bar with a rock n' roll vibe.
SEATTLE — In Belltown, an effortlessly cool | basement bar with a rock n' roll vibe and unique drinks welcomes newcomers and regulars alike.
"The reason it feels so homey is because it's completely and one-hundred percent genuinely us," said Dave Flatman, one of The Screwdriver's three owners.
Rock n' roll memorabilia decorates the walls of the bar, which is partially a converted recording studio. Pinball, arcade games, a jukebox and friendly company keep visitors more than entertained.
"When people play the jukebox, which I absolutely love, they're digging through our records," said owner Chris Jones.
One of The Screwdriver's most popular drinks is called the Street Walking Cheetah, which owner Bryan Krieger described as "halfway between a screwdriver and an Amaretto sour."
Happy hour is from 4 to 7 every day, and a late-night midnight to 2 am special, where wells are $4.50, $2 Olympia tall boys, |
For months now, the status of Tristan Thompson and Khloe Kardashian's relationship was left unclear. Shortly before Khloe Kardashian gave birth to her | first daughter, True Thompson, the newborn child's father was caught up in a major cheating scandal that caused a considerable rift between the professional athlete and the mother's reality TV family. Khloe Kardashian earned a wealth of sympathy from fans everywhere, while Tristan Thompson earned no shortage of disdain -- particularly on his social media accounts. But it seems that the couple have learned to mend their troubles and form a healthy parenting relationship together. At least, that's the narrative being projected by the Kardashian clan at the moment. Recently, Khloe K posted a video of Tristan Thompson hanging out with his daughter, offering another glimpse at the baby and suggesting that the troubles between the celebrities are starting to fade away. Hopefully for good.
The Snapchat video, saved via Instagram, shows Tristan Thompson dancing and swaying to some soothing music, while cradling little baby True in his arms. It's not a long video, but it gives fans the indication that things may be mending between Khloe Kardashian |
You can still catch one of Chef Anthony Bourdain's well-loved shows on Netflix.
As the world continues to reel from the tragic | death of Anthony Bourdain, many fans have been revisiting his great work, from books to television. Now Netflix has announced it'll still be easy for fans to do so on its streaming service.
The run of the chef's CNN series, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, was to leave the streaming service on Saturday, June 16. But Netflix announced on Tuesday afternoon that they've reached an agreement to continuing offering the series for an indefinite amount of time.
Mashable has reached out to Netflix for additional details on the new deal.
The show ran for 96 episodes over 11 "seasons" beginning in 2013. CNN is airing the final episodes throughout the month of June. Bourdain was filming an episode of the show in France when he died.
Parts Unknown is an important part of Bourdain's legacy because it represents what he did so well: using his fame and platform not just to expose viewers to different cultures through the lens of food, but to educate them as well |
A worker at the Kiwi Bacon factory in Hamilton says more should have been done to save the business.
Goodman Fielder, which owns | the plant that makes the Kiwi Bacon and Hutton's brands, has told its 125 staff at the factory that they will lose their jobs at the end of March.
The company is selling its New Zealand meat division and workers were told in January that the site would close as a result of the sale.
The Australasian food giant intends to sell to Hellers, which has sites in Auckland and Christchurch, and has previously said the sale should be completed by the end of March this year.
Glen Bratton, who has worked at the factory for 16 years, says that while it's a relief to get a final decision on its future he believes the plant has been left to run down over the past few years.
"I think that maybe there wasn't enough done by Goodman Fielder to promote the brands, to promote the company, the sales team wasn't there. Basically, that's about it."
Mr Bratton said he believed the business could have survived |
I got into radio when I was very young, at 17. I was a deejay, and recording commercials [for local businesses] was | part of my job.
As I moved from station to station, I found there wasn't a lot of money. So I started doing TV commercials. And when I was 32, I finally left my last radio station to work out of my home studio [recording TV commercials].
I do a lot of commercials for national furniture retailers. I announce the big sales. I just did an infomercial for eDiets where I introduce people who had success on eDiets. I do car dealers and laser vision correction doctors. I did a voice-over for an animated medical documentary. I'm doing the on-hold system for [a bank], so while people are on hold, they're listening to me talking about the various things the bank is offering.
I probably send out a total of 25 invoices a month. To do a 30-second commercial in a local market could be $100 to $250 per commercial, depending on the size, and [bigger |
BIRMINGHAM-(MaraviPost)-The Malawi Queens ended its England test series by losing all matches.
On Wednesday night the Queens | went down again to England Roses in the final match of the three netball international series at the Genting Arena in Birmingham with a narrow 62-60 scoreline.
This was the first time in the three-match Series, the Malawi netball team started strongly and threatened a first win over their illustrious hosts but the Roses retained their composure to win a match which, at one stage, had seen them fall nine goals behind.
Having started on the back foot in the previous two games, the Queens came flying out of the blocks and caught England cold.
Led by an inspired captain Joanna Kachilika and towering up and coming GK Lauren Ngwira, Malawi Queena defended with remarkable discipline and intensity to make it tough for the hosts mid-court to feed the attack.
Malawi Queens suffered a major blow when mid-court chief negotiator Takondwa Lwazi hobbled off and was replaced by Rose Mkanda.
Injury struck again for Mal |
The Florida Department of Environmental Regulation has notified the city's utilities commission that its Glencoe Road water treatment plant won the Best Publicly Owned Water | Plant award for 1986.
The award, which is for the Central Florida district, was based on a state inspection and a self-evaluation by the plant's professional staff. Water quality was a major factor in the determination, officials said.
Water processed at the plant meets or exceeds all state and federal health standards, including bacteria count and chemical content. The water has excellent aesthetic qualities such as appearance and taste, inspectors said.
Rating standards also cover housekeeping, certification, public relations, maintenance, emergency operation, records and reporting, management, professionalism, training and safety. The plant received very high marks in these areas as well, officials said.
The plant also won the award in 1980, 1981 and 1984 but was ineligible for the competition in 1982 and 1985 after receiving the honor the previous years. New Smyrna Beach's plant was in competition with water plants of all sizes in the district, which includes Brevard, Indian River, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola |
Researchers have found a “breakthrough” drug combination for people with cystic fibrosis, but it has a catch, scientists who conducted | two separate studies wrote Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A three-drug cocktail could help cystic fibrosis patients live longer than they would taking just two of the drugs, which is current protocol, reported NBC News. But the current drug combination costs $300,000 a year, and with the third drug, the price will only go up.
“These results represent a major breakthrough in cystic fibrosis therapeutics, with the potential for improving health and possibly survival in all patients who carry the most common CFTR mutation,” Dr. Fernando Holguin of the University of Colorado wrote in an editorial that accompanied the research.
Many cystic fibrosis patients rely on help affording medicine from groups like the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation or personal crowdfunding efforts.
Cystic fibrosis is a rare disease that affects roughly 30,000 people in the U.S., according to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Cystic fibrosis is caused by a defective |
Have 101 utilities cut their rates thanks to the GOP tax bill?
By Louis Jacobson on Monday, June 11th, 2018 at 12: | 27 p.m.
For months, President Donald Trump has been touting the benefits of the tax law he signed in December. But in early June, he began expanding his argument beyond lower tax bills to lower energy bills.
On June 7, Trump tweeted, "$3 billion payoff: 101 utilities cut rates, credit GOP tax cuts." The tweet linked to a Washington Examiner article that in turn cited research by Americans for Tax Reform, a group supportive of the tax cut.
This isn’t the first time the White House has relied on Americans for Tax Reform for evidence of real-world impacts from passage of the tax bill. Previously, we looked at Trump’s statement that "since we passed tax cuts, over 3 million workers have gotten tax cut bonuses — many of them thousands and thousands of dollars." That talking point, gleaned from the group’s research, rated Mostly True.
The energy rate-cut list — which is a sub-list of the broader |
State Rep. Niraj Antani, R-Miamisburg, has requested an estimate to install air conditioners into every Ohio school, | according to a release.
In reaction to Tuesday’s early dismissals across the Miami Valley due to extreme heat, Antani sent a letter to State Superintendent Paolo DeMaria expressing his concern for the lack of air conditioning in schools.
“Today, a number of school districts in the Miami Valley announced early dismissals due to extreme heat. In the 21st Century, it is unacceptable for our school buildings to not be air conditioned. This is disrupting our students’ learning. As well, even on hot days that do not cause a school closure, the heat is creating a hostile environment to teaching and learning. Every school in Ohio should be air conditioned,” Antani said in his letter.
“I am requesting you and the Ohio Department of Education to report to my office a cost estimate to air condition every school building in Ohio that does not already have air conditioning,” he continued.
DeMaria, state superintendent of the Department of Education, has |
SAN FRANCISCO—Joyously celebrating after his hometown team defeated the Kansas City Royals to clinch the championship, local 2-year-old | Daniel Balane admitted to reporters Wednesday night that he never thought he would actually see the San Francisco Giants win a World Series in his lifetime. “I’ve waited my whole life for the Giants to win the World Series, and it’s just so surreal to actually see it finally happen,” said the 2-year-old toddler, adding that as far back as he can remember, the Giants have only been a mediocre National League team that couldn’t even make the playoffs. “Deep down, I always held out some hope that it could eventually happen, but after waiting for so long, you start to think they’ll just never get over the hump. So, when they finally won tonight, all that pent-up emotion just came pouring out. I still don’t think it’s fully sunk in yet. I mean, we did it—we’re world champs!” Balane went on to say |
III. The Claims of Moderate Realism.
The problem of universals is the problem of the correspondence of our intellectual concepts to things existing outside | our intellect. Whereas external objects are determinate, individual, formally exclusive of all multiplicity, our concepts or mental representations offer us the realities independent of all particular determination; they are abstract and universal. The question, therefore, is to discover to what extent the concepts of the mind correspond to the things they represent; how the flower we conceive represents the flower existing in nature ; in a word, whether our ideas are faithful and have an objective reality.
Four solutions of the problem have been offered. It is necessary to describe them carefully, as writers do not always use the terms in the same sense.
Exaggerated Realism holds that there are universal concepts in the mind and universal things in nature. There is, therefore, a strict parallelism between the being in nature and the being in thought, since the external object is clothed with the same character of universality that we discover in the concept. This is a simple solution, but one that runs counter to the dictates of common sense. |
Management students from tier II cities prefer to work for public sector undertakings (PSUs) over private companies because job security weighs most on their minds | , according to a survey.
The survey, conducted by industry lobby Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham), is based on responses from 500 students, 300 of whom were from tier II cities.
The findings are in contrast to those of management students from metros, who would prefer challenging assignments and fast-track growth that the private sector offers.
The study could help public sector companies, which are struggling to attract talent, partly because of relatively lower salaries, to refocus their recruitment strategies in smaller cities and towns so as to have a better success rate.
As many as 85% respondents in tier II cities such as Ghaziabad, Lucknow and Chandigarh said their first preference would be “Schedule A" PSUs including Oil and Natural Gas Corp., National Thermal Power Corp. and Steel Authority of India Ltd.
The remaining 15% felt their B-school background will give them an edge while competing at all-India levels for government jobs, |
The average millennial Facebook user spends over 30 minutes per day on the social network.
Two and a half years ago, everybody freaked out when | Facebook's (NASDAQ:FB) then CFO, David Ebersman, said the company was seeing a decline in daily usage among younger teens. To be sure, 2013 marks the beginning of the decline of Facebook as teen's "most important" social network. But that doesn't mean teens and young adults are no longer visiting Facebook.
A recent report from comScore shows that 18- to 34-year-olds in the United States use Facebook more than any other social network. That's not really a surprise, of course. Facebook counts 1.6 billion monthly active users around the world, which is 4 times bigger than its closest competitor, Instagram. More interesting is the fact that according to the comScoare data, millennials spend 2.5 times more time on Facebook than on the next-closest social network, Snapchat.
The average Facebook user spends over 1,000 minutes a month -- about 33 minutes per day -- on the social network. The next closest |
This bill will increase penalties to anyone caught ignoring a school bus with its stop arms extended.
INDIANAPOLIS (WTHI) | - News 10 is in Indianapolis to find out more about potential state laws that could impact you.
One of them targets your child's safety on and off the school bus. Aliva Stahl's family wants Senate bill 2 to become law after she and her brothers were killed after being hit while getting on their bus.
If passed, it would increase penalties to anyone caught ignoring a school bus with its stop arms extended.
The Senate Judiciary Committee met Wednesday morning to consider the bill, it passed committee unanimously and if you heard any of the testimony from the family, it's no wonder why it passed.
Michael Stahl is Alivia's father, he was the first to testify in support of this bill. Alivia was one of three children killed in Fulton County, Indiana. in this case, this bill would make it a felony to pass a school bus with its stop arm extended and cause injury in the process.
For Michael, he says this bill is one way Alivia can |
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein capped off her Music Worcester residency Sunday afternoon at Mechanics Hall. The last of her season-long “Thinking | Outside the Bachs” programs was built around five concertos for between one and four pianists, as well as additional pieces written or inspired by J. S. Bach.
Bach’s Concerto in F minor (BWV 1056), the afternoon’s only solo concerto, placed Dinnerstein front-and-center. She imbued its solo part with plenty of vigor, cleanly articulating the first-movement’s triplet figurations and ably capturing the finale’s sense of drive. The central Largo, with its touching melodic writing, sang beautifully.
For the C-minor Concerto for Two Pianos (BWV 1060), Dinnerstein was joined by Awadagin Pratt. The pair drew a shapely account of the score, Bach’s lower-voiced writing coming across with particular clarity and direction.
Dan Tepfer teamed up with Dinnerstein for the concert� |
An eight-hit attack wasn’t enough for the Truman softball team.
Host Staley scooted to a 5-2 | lead after three innings in setting up an 8-5 victory over the Patriots on Thursday.
“Hopefully, we can play better defensively,” Truman coach Amy Temples said of today’s game with North Kansas City. A victory clinches at least a tie for the Suburban Middle Six title.
“Kelsi Broyles got a lot of ground balls,” Temples said of the Truman pitcher. Four errors led to her and the Truman loss.
Brooke VunCannon, Bridgette McAuley and Olivia Brown each singled twice and Tori Zorich singled and tripled with one RBI in accounting for the eight hits for Truman (18-7).
RUSKIN 16, ST. MARY’S 3: Host Ruskin used a 13-run first inning to end a 1-10 St. Mary’s regular season. Nachelle Miller was the losing pitcher.
Kayla Terry had two |
Federal officials are hinting that public schools in New York state with high opt-out rates during last week's standardized tests could face financial penalties. |
But the state's top education official dismissed the possible loss of any funding as imprudent.
"I would say to everyone who wants to punish the school districts: Hold them to standards, set high expectations, hold them accountable, but punishing them? Really, are you kidding me?" said board of regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch.
Tens of thousands of parents across New York kept their children from participating in English/language arts standardized tests in grades 3-8.
For now, the threats coming from Washington are vague, at least publicly. But one thing is certain: Washington and Albany were clearly caught off guard by the high levels of students not taking the tests—70 percent or more in some districts.
In New Jersey, meanwhile, high school juniors opted out of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers exams at a rate nearly three times that of their counterparts in elementary and middle school, according to a preliminary report from the |
Why does Leap Year exist?
A look at how Leap Year evolved.
- The Earth’s journey around the sun takes longer than | 365 days; in fact it takes exactly 365.2422 days for our planet to complete its yearly track.
- Many figures throughout history have spent a great deal of time trying to calculate how we can make up for our lost days.
- The ancient Egyptian civilization was the first to establish a leap year.
- In 238 B.C., King Ptolemy III introduced a leap month into their lunar calendar. The Egyptians did this by adding one month every three years.
- Around 45 B.C., Roman Emperor Julius Caesar adopted this concept for the Julian calendar. However, rumor has it that around 10 B.C. the priests assigned to computing the calendar were adding one day every three years, as opposed to every four.
- This caused leap years to discontinue until 8 A.D., and thereafter they occurred every four years.
- The Julian calendar continued to be used for over 15 centuries, despite its inaccuracy.
- In 1582 the Greg |
EU referendum: Top City economist Ruth Lea quits anti-EU Economists for Britain group as rows escalate among eurosceptic campaigns | City | A.M.
Leading UK economist Ruth Lea has confirmed her resignation from a eurosceptic campaign group, telling City A.M. she wanted to distance herself from feuding anti-EU campaigns.
Lea, who is an independent non-executive director and economic adviser at Arbuthnot Banking Group, had chaired the Economists for Britain group – which is closely affiliated with the wider Vote Leave campaign organisation – since September 2014.
But Lea, an ardent eurosceptic, told City A.M. tonight that she handed in her resignation last week, saying: "I didn't want to get into the politics of the actual campaign groups. I wanted to be a completely independent speaker.
"I am going to be doing a lot of speaking engagements and I am still attached to a bank," Lea added. "I don't want to be involved in those disputes."
Vote Leave is one of three eurosceptic groups competing for official campaign status |
I’ve been to the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) twice so far - yes, that | was a stunt - and it is easily the second Blackest place I’ve ever been in life. The Blackest? I’m glad you asked. That would be in the southeastern quadrant of Washington, DC, where Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue intersects with Malcolm X Avenue; this corner features a liquor store, a park full of vagabonds, and the coup de grace: Popeye’s.
It is indeed, the Blackest place in America. In fact, I contend that the Blackest thing you can do in this country is eat some Popeye’s chicken wearing a dashiki while listening to DC’s own Marvin Gaye at this intersection. Ask about me. Photos coming soon.
It’s that there were so many Black people looking at so much Black stuff feeling so much Black pride in accomplishments of both those exhibited throughout the museum, but of the museum itself. It is a marvel. It’ |
It was a double celebration for the Aylings of Kirrawee this year. Jim and Olivia Ayling not only marked their 70th | wedding anniversary, but also their 92nd birthdays, both in October, 2018. Married in 1948 amid post-war turmoil, they moved into their Kirrawee home in 1951 when wild rabbits roamed the bare streets. Over the years they have witnessed many changes in Sutherland Shire. Always active in the community, they are keen members of several organisations including Probus and the RSL. Mrs Ayling still pursues her lifelong passion for knitting, while Mr Ayling enjoys woodworking and is dedicated to his two choirs, currently in rehearsal for the Messiah at the Town Hall. Together, they like to maintain their garden. The couple have five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. They celebrated with their daughters Susan and Yvette.
Champagne occasion: Olivia and Jim Ayling celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary.
It was a double celebration for the Aylings of Kirrawee this year.
Jim and Olivia Ayling not only marked their 70th wedding anniversary |
The May jobs report released Friday morning showed continued good news for the U.S. economy, as followers of President Trump’s Twitter feed | might have expected. Since the most recent recession began, unemployment rates have fallen steadily across demographic groups.
The overall unemployment rate hit 3.8 percent, the lowest it has been since April 2000. Since 1955, after a postwar period of below-3-percent unemployment, the rate has been lower than it is now — 3.8 percent — in 27 months. Before 2000, the most recent time the unemployment rate was so low was in 1970.
But another metric hit a historic number. The unemployment rate among black Americans is now at 5.9 percent, the lowest it has ever been recorded.
There are two caveats to that data point. The first is that the government began tracking the figure in 1972. The second is that the metric is volatile. Between December 2017 and January, it jumped nearly a percentage point. That complicated Trump’s frequent use of the figure to demonstrate how he has delivered for black voters during his State of the Union address. The number recovered in February |
MARYSVILLE, Ohio, Aug. 3, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company ( | NYSE:SMG), the world's leading marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products, announced today that its Board of Directors has approved an increase of the Company's quarterly dividend payment to shareholders.
The quarterly payment will increase 4 percent to $0.47 per share. The fourth quarter dividend is payable on Thursday, September 10, 2015 to shareholders of record as of Thursday, August 27, 2015.
"Our business continues to perform well and the increase in the dividend is an expression of our continued confidence," said Jim Hagedorn, chairman and chief executive officer. "Whether by returning cash to shareholders or driving growth in our core business, we remain focused on driving shareholder value."
With more than $2.8 billion in worldwide sales, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is the world's largest marketer of branded consumer products for lawn and garden care. The Company's brands are the most recognized in the industry. In the U.S., the Company's Scotts®, |
Eating cheese and yogurt may be a more beneficial form of dairy product than milk, suggest experts at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2018. |
People who eat cheese are more likely to live longer, but drinking a lot of milk can slightly increase the risk of developing coronary heart disease and death.
A team of researchers led by cholesterol expert Maciej Banach of the Medical University of Lodz in Poland, collected data from studies of 636,726 people on a long-term scale of 15 years. Their findings suggested that not all dairy is equally beneficial when it comes to your heart health.
Individuals who eat more fermented dairy products such as cheese and yogurt are at a lower risk of developing heart disease and Type-2 diabetes.
Drinking milk seems to increase the risk of coronary heart disease by 4%, according to the study, but consuming yogurt and cheese does not appear to be associated with negative health outcomes.
"Public health officials should revise the guidelines on dairy consumption," said Banach.
Are you on a diet? Are you craving for cheese? Good news to all cheese lovers, Feta cheese |
When the US under President Donald Trump expounds a new foreign policy vision it is natural to ask how this will affect its relations with Egypt.
| Both countries realise that, however their government administrations may change, they have certain interests in common in the Middle East and these compel them to work together to their mutual advantage, regardless of the differences between them over the means towards this end.
He also said that the US supports Egypt’s efforts to destroy the Islamic State (IS) in Sinai.
These two points bring us to two issues that have dominated the debate over US-Egyptian relations since the 1970s — “military aid” and “human rights”. Divisions over these two issues still exist and will probably continue to exist in both Egypt and the US.
In Egypt, those supporting strong relations with the US reject any linkage between “aid” and human rights which, some quarters in Washington argue, are core US values that Egypt should uphold.
The opposing camp maintains that without such a linkage sufficient pressure cannot be brought to bear on the Egyptian regime to improve human rights.
In the |
Base strengthening isn’t the most exciting exercise but pays off.
In the offseason, athletes often talk about working on their base training. | Your base is exactly what it sounds like — the foundation of your fitness that you build from the ground up.
It’s where your strength, stamina and endurance comes from, as well as where you gain your ability to recover quickly. Development of your base strength and endurance is critical for maximizing your athletic development as you shift off of your initial phases of training toward other elements such as speed, lactate threshold and power.
Having a solid base before you begin training such elements allows you to absorb more from your workouts, add more sets and intervals to your work and recover more quickly between workouts and even portions of your workouts. It can also prevent injury.
So where do you start with your base training? Whether you’re already fit or not, it’s always wise to shift into a phase of base training at least once per year. Many endurance athletes will devote multiple periods of their year to building up their base. Others simply pick a season to get after it, |
Celebrations were in order this week for the staff at in-toto Southport as they heard that they have won ‘Best Of | Houzz’ on Houzz®, the leading platform for home renovation and design.
In-toto Southport and in-toto Ribble Valley were chosen for their customer service by the more than 40 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz community.
In-toto Southport ’s Jane Miller said: "This is a huge honour for us.
"We work incredibly hard to design stunning, yet practical, kitchens; often working with architects to create beautiful new living spaces and providing expert advice along the way.
"Our number one priority is always customer service – so to be recognized by this growing community is a huge accolade for the entire team at both our showrooms."
The Award for Southport comes off the back of a major national design award won by the showroom at the end of 2016. A stunning design in a traditional range of furniture was awarded Kitchen Design of the Year, by the KBSA (Kitchen Bedroom & |
Beginning June 26, users will be able to download the beta or preview version of Windows 8.1 fairly simply, via the Windows Store. But | Microsoft officials confirm that upgrading to the final RTM build will include a gotcha—you’ll need to reinstall all of your apps.
Put another way, Windows RT users will be forced to reinstall all of the “Metro” apps (now known as modern apps) they’ve added to the OS, once the final RTM version is released.
And Windows 8 users will be forced to reinstall all of the modern-stype apps and all of the desktop apps they’ve added—a real pain for anyone with a well-populated system, according to ZDNet, which first reported the story.
However, if the average user opts out of the Windows 8.1 beta and decides instead to upgrade to Windows 8.1 when it is finally released, they will not be required to reinstall their applications, Microsoft representatives confirmed. The Windows 8.1 preview is meant for enthusiasts and IT pros.
Users theoretically would |
THE HASHTAG #RAKnomination was trending on Twitter in Ireland this afternoon as people reject the neknomination” drinking game in favour | of something more positive.
Ógra Fianna Fáil is one of a number of groups who have got on board to promote the approach and have advocated donating a pint of blood instead of filming yourself drinking a pint of alcohol.
RAKnomination refers to “random acts of kindness” and involves people doing just that and nominating others to do so.
A Facebook page dedicated to the idea was set up yesterday and already has a number of videos posted to it.
Another similar idea “nekdonate” has also reached Ireland as the video above shows.
The video shows David Stapleton donating €5 to Temple Street Children’s Hospital and then nominating two friends to do something similar.
Ógra Fianna Fáil has been more specific in asking people to donate a pint of blood to charity instead of drinking a pint of alcohol.
“This is an opportunity to turn something destructive into something more positive,� |
GOP senators are warning the president his trade war could fuel a recession in the 2020 campaign.
Republicans are trying to head off their next potentially explosive | conflict with President Donald Trump.
In a series of private meetings and conversations with Trump over the past few months, Senate Republicans have pleaded with him not to impose a new round of tariffs on foreign automakers — fearing they could debilitate Trump-backed states and cast the economy into a recession ahead of the 2020 election.
But Trump isn’t heeding the warnings so far.
Behind closed doors, GOP senators push back on Trump consistently when he brings up existing tariffs on steel and aluminum or potential tariffs on automakers, according to Republican senators. But Trump doesn’t back down from his position: He says the threat of tariffs gets the attention of trading partners — like China — who need to permit more imports of American products.
Whether GOP senators can head off another round of tariffs ultimately lies with the whims of the president. Administration officials have tried to reassure worried Republicans that the president has hit pause as he considers a trade report that would allow him to declare tariffs on the basis of |
Mom, however, would have a different reaction.
She would be concerned for her country.
There is nothing nuanced about the war of words | between President Donald Trump and many in the media.
But there’s a difference between leadership and self-aggrandizing pandering.
Still, some in the press bite the bait.
Bro, your sentiment is spot on. Your behavior and methods are not.
Her retort is what’s called in basketball a slam dunk.
If you go into journalism for attaboys, you’re an idiot. Heck, until the kinder, gentler 21st century many editors were just plain mean.
When I was an intern, the intern next to me sweated wildly on deadline. Our editor ordered him to go to lunch and never return.
I actually looked at his footwear. Phew. He was wearing Hush Puppies.
When I became a columnist, I received — and continue to receive — kind and thoughtful calls and emails. (Thank you.) But, of course, it was the nasty emails and phone calls I fretted |
TYLER, TX (KLTV) - The Wings Over Tyler Air Show is just days away and organizers are making last minute preparations as aircraft | s arrive.
All the way from Hill Air Force base in Utah, F-16s gave a small crowd at Tyler Pounds Regional Airport a preview of what's to come this weekend.
"We fly to a different strip of concrete every weekend so we use that time to familiarize ourselves with the actual area and then when it's time to fly the actual demonstration it's not brand new to us," said Captain Garrett Dover.
Dover has been in the U.S. Air Force for 7 years and flying F-16s for four.
"When I was six or seven years old I became completely addicted to aviation and set it as a goal to become a pilot. Now to have actually have made it into aviation, it's great to come back to other air shows to see other little kids who look upwards in awe," Dover said.
He said attendees are sure to leave impressed if you make it out to Sunday's show.
"We'll fly the F |
With a simple email to an in-house mailing list, last Friday Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Linux 6. There is, as yet | , no press release on the release, which is unusual as the company and its CEO usually tend to aim for maximum publicity.
The new generation Oracle Linux is largely a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL), which was released last November. New features listed in the release email and release notes are, therefore, already familiar from the original, for instance the use of Ext4 as the default file system, the support of XFS and the ftrace and perf tracing tools. One section in the release notes lists all the packages Oracle has modified to adjust the distribution's "look and feel" and remove Red Hat trademarks.
In the x86-64 version of the Linux distribution, Oracle has integrated a variant of the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel already familiar from Oracle Linux 5 – in certain tests, it's reported that the generation 5 kernel has been considerably faster than the Linux 2.6.18-based RHEL kernel. Oracle has also added modules to support its custom OCFS |
Background check for ammo purchases? It’s the latest gun-control proposal.
Background check for ammo purchases? It's the latest gun | -control proposal.
Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal plans to introduce legislation to require instant background checks for purchasers of gun ammunition.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, based in Newtown, did not return a call for comment late Tuesday afternoon. The National Rifle Association also did not respond to a request for comment.
Blumenthal said he has discussed the proposal with Vice President Joe Biden and others on the task force that President Barack Obama set up under Biden’s supervision to study the issue of gun violence. Blumenthal said he views this as one part of a comprehensive strategy to reduce firearms-related deaths.
While there have been noted failures in the background-check system, he pointed out that of the 100 million background checks that have been done in the past 10 years, some 700,000 purchases were blocked.
Blumenthal said it shows that less than one percent of the checks resulted in a “no” but the ones that did kept guns out of the hands of felons |
Robert A. MacLellan of Mattituck died Sept. 8 at Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He | was 68 years old.
Bob was born in New York City Jan. 23, 1950, to James H. and Mildred (Siebold) MacLellan. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and Queensborough Community College. From 1969-1972, he served in the U.S. Army, fighting in the Vietnam War.
He married Susan Goldberg July 17, 1976, in New Hyde Park. Bob worked as a manufacturing supervisor, owned a satellite TV business and was a real estate agent.
Bob was a member of BraveHearts at St. Francis Hospital, a support group for those recovering from heart surgery. Family members said he was a fan of NASCAR racing and classic cars.
Predeceased by his brother James D. MacLellan in 2016, he is survived by his wife Susan, of Mattituck; daughter Mindy (Mike) Viggiano; grandson Michael Robert Viggiano; and granddaughter Miley Blue Viggiano, all |
WELLINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - New Zealand’s overseas investment regulator on Monday turned down Tegel Group Holdings Ltd application to | buy land on which it planned to build a huge chicken farm in the country’s north, the firm said.
Tegel, in the process of being acquired by the local unit of Philippines poultry supplier Bounty Fresh Food Inc, wants to construct a farm capable of raising 9 million chickens a year for meat in the town of Dargaville.
That would make it one of the largest chicken farms in the country, but the plans have encountered stiff opposition from the local community, worried about potential noise and pollution as well as the impact on a nearby indigenous Māori meeting and burial ground.
A Tegel spokesman told Reuters by phone that the country’s Overseas Investment Office had told the company on Monday morning that it would turn down its request to buy the land, and that the reasons for the decision would be released later, likely by month-end.
The regulator did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
Shares in Tegel had edged |
Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury did some duets that may get a release in an album. A dream come true for fans of two icons who left | us too soon.
The tracks date back to 1983 when the two legends recorded the songs and later the tracks were stored in Queen’s vaults not to be heard of for decades.
Now, Queen’s former members Brian May and Roger Taylor are announcing they have completed the songs and are ready to release them to the public, pending authorization from the Michael Jackson estate.
Back in July of this year, Rolling Stone, quoting the Times of London, reported three duets recorded by the music greats were getting ready to see the light of day.
The demos were recorded back in 1983, according to the report, at Michael Jackson’s home studio, but as both him and Freddie Mercury were exceedingly busy during that time, a larger project never came to be.
“They were great songs, but the problem was time – as we were both very busy at that period,” Mercury said in an excerpt from Mercury: An Intimate Biography of |
Has the killing in Yugoslavia finally ended, or is the current cease-fire only a pause by tired soldiers to catch their breath?
A Western | diplomat in Belgrade is convinced that for all practical purposes, the bloodletting is over.
Across town, in another embassy, the assessment could not have been more different.
Both men acknowledged that any attempt to forecast the future of Yugoslavia is really a matter of studying an extremely cloudy crystal ball. Facts, they say, are not plentiful.
For his part, Yugoslav Defense Minister Veljko Kadijevic expressed a belief last Thursday that the cease-fire would hold.
Kadijevic said he and Presidents Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia ''fully agreed'' at a meeting last Wednesday how to put the cease-fire into effect and establish lasting peace. He gave no details.
Among the diplomats, optimists say the fighting between Serbia and Croatia may be over because the Serbian-led Yugoslav army is disintegrating, the Croatians have proved stronger than expected and both sides recognize the damage to their economies cannot go on |
A staff serves beverages at a Starbucks coffee shop in Seoul, South Korea, March 7, 2016. Picture taken March 7, 2016.
C | offee consumption may be in the genes.
Activity of a gene that lowers levels of caffeine-degrading enzymes in the liver is associated with how much coffee people drink, researchers say August 25 in Scientific Reports.
The more active the gene, called PDSS2, the less coffee people drank.
Researchers tracked the coffee-drinking habits of 1,207 people in remote Italian villages and 1,731 people from the Netherlands.
The researchers looked for an association between sipping java and people's genetic makeup. The Dutch quaffed, on average, more than five cups of filtered coffee per day; the Italians sipped about two cups of espresso.
In the Italians, 21 genetic variants in DNA surrounding the PDSS2 gene were linked to coffee consumption, Nicola Pirastu, of the University of Edinburgh, and colleagues found. The strongest-acting variant changed espresso consumption by 1.09 cups per day. Only five of the variants found in the Italians |
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