In a matter of weeks, fifteen Lindeners will be owners of their own homes as contractors are performing finishing touches on the housing units that were built by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA).The 15 houses are the first set of 60 two-bedroom flat and elevated houses, located in Phase Three, Amelia’s Ward.The housing units that will be completed in a matter of weeks in Amelia’s WardThe project is being done in four batches with each group expected to take approximately 120 days to complete.Contractor Michael Bonds from Michael Bonds Construction which was awarded a contract to complete three of the houses, described the process as “very smooth,” with no hiccups from the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA).“The process was very smooth, even with payments. Our payment was on time and everything was done accordingly and with high expectations,” Bond relayed.Other contractors noted that the entire project created a positive spin-off since over 80 Lindeners were employed by the four contractors, while the busy environment also attracted hucksters and food and beverage vendors.Construction of these housing units commenced after access roads, electricity and water supplies were made available in the area.Thirty of the 60 will be flat concrete houses which will cost $5.3 million and the other 30 will be concrete houses on stilts. These will cost $6.3 million. Some $100, 000 of those respective costs will go towards paying for the land.Owners had to be prequalified at commercial banks for the units and priority was given to youths and Government workers. Two such persons are Registered Nurse Abigail Thompson and Nigel Newton, a mechanical engineer employed by the Regional Democratic Council (RDC).Thompson told the media that she is a mother of two and applied eight months prior to pre-qualifying. “Don’t give up, apply once you reach the age, you might be selected.It makes me feel honoured to be selected today, to own my own home soon,” she said as she encouraged other youths to do the same.In 2019, CH&PA will be commencing similar construction in the Wisroc Scheme.The process of getting the lands transferred from the Wisroc Housing Cooperation via the Guyana Lands and Survey Commission to the CH&PA is currently underway. read more

0Shares0000Karius made two dreadful errors in Liverpool’s 3-1 Champions League final loss to Real Madrid last May © AFP/File / FRANCK FIFEPARIS, France, Mar 13 – On-loan Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius has taken his complaint about unpaid wages by Besiktas to FIFA, world football’s governing body told AFP on Wednesday.A report on goal.com said that the German was taking legal action against the Turkish giants over four months of wages he claims are outstanding. The 25-year-old joined Besiktas on a two-year loan deal last August in a bid to resurrect his career after a catastrophic display in Liverpool’s Champions League defeat by Real Madrid.FIFA “confirmed” it had been contacted by the player, but said it would not comment further as investigations are in progress, according to a spokesman.Karius has made 26 appearances for Besiktas in all competitions this season, and started their last game on March 10. But has been widely criticised in Istanbul with his head coach Senol Gunes joining in.0Shares0000(Visited 1 times, 1 visits today) read more

It rounds of an incredible week for the towering striker, who has managed to land himself a role as the Green Goblin in the animated Hollywood blockbuster ‘Spider-Man New Generation.’He will lend his voice to the iconic villain with the film due for release in cinemas on December 12.Confirming the news on Twitter, the 32-year-old wrote: “I am very happy to announce that I will be lending my voice to the Green Goblin in the film Spider-Man New Generation, December 12th at the cinema!” Where Ancelotti ranks with every Premier League boss for trophies won REVEALED It means the 32-year-old forward now has 33 goals in 87 matches for his country since making his international debut in 2011.Giroud, who sits fourth in the all-time list for France, has some way to go before he surpasses the record held by former Arsenal star Thierry Henry, with 51.Having vowed to stay and fight for his place at Stamford Bridge, Giroud will now be hoping to add to his solitary goal for the Blues this season, a header in the 1-0 win over BATE Borisov in the Europa League. Latest Football News MONEY Forbes list reveals how much Mayweather, Ronaldo and Messi earned this decade Olivier Giroud equalled the goal-scoring record of the legendary Zinedine Zidane when he netted a penalty in France’s 1-0 win over Uruguay on Tuesday night.The Chelsea striker converted his 52nd minute spot-kick to help the World Cup winners end the year on a high having missed out on qualifying for the Nations League finals. Olivier Giroud scored the winner for France against Uruguay BEST OF Every time Ally McCoist lost it on air in 2019, including funny XI reactions ADVICE no dice RANKED Which teams do the best on Boxing Day in the Premier League era? huge blow Ronaldo warned Lukaku how hard scoring goals in Serie A would be before Inter move REVEALED Oxlade-Chamberlain suffers another setback as Klopp confirms serious injury 1 Son ban confirmed as Tottenham fail with appeal to overturn red card Top nine Premier League free transfers of the decade read more

Look to the centre of the picture for Robert’s Easter bunny!When Robert McClean looked skywards he knew there was a real Easter feeling in the air.Robert was out snapping away in the Co Donegal countryside as he regularly likes to do.But little did he know a perfect picture was about to come ‘hopping’ across his screen as he snapped at Derryreel, Falcarragh. When he looked at his camera there was a great cloud picture of an Easter bunny.‘I’ve showed it to a few people and they all spotted the bunny in the picture. It’s just a great time of year to see such a picture,” he said. ROBERT’S EASTER BUNNY PICTURE HAS HIM UP IN THE CLOUDS! was last modified: March 28th, 2013 by StephenShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:cloudEaster bunnypictureRobert McCLeam Falcarragh read more

DES MOINES, Iowa – The Drake University women’s basketball team is in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) for the second-consecutive season. Drake (22-9) will host Sacred Heart (20-12) at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 17 at the Knapp Center in the first round of the 64-team postseason tournament. This is the first-ever meeting between Drake and Sacred Heart. Drake was edged by Missouri State, 65-61, in the semifinals of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament this past Saturday. The Lady Bears made four free throws in the final minutes to pull out the win as they went on to win the MVC Tournament by beating UNI the next day. Freshman Sara Rhine (Eldon, Mo.) had a great game against MSU with 19 points and 13 rebounds for her fifth career double-double as Rhine was named to the MVC All-Tournament team. Drake has previously appeared in the WNIT 11 times, including making a run to the WNIT final four in 1999. The Bulldogs own a 13-12 all-time record in 25 WNIT games. One year ago, Drake lost to Eastern Michigan, 80-70, in the first round of the WNIT after nearly rallying from a double-digit first-half deficit to the Eagles. Sacred Heart is making its second-ever appearance in the WNIT after previously being in the tournament back in 2012-13. The Pioneers rebounded from a 2-10 start to the season, their worse in program history, by winning 18 of 20 games to close the season to win the Northeast Conference regular season title. Sacred Heart lost to Robert Morris, 56-51, in the NEC title game. Redshirt junior Hannah Kimmel leads the Pioneers in scoring at 16.7 points per game and in rebounding at 7.7 per game. The winner of Drake vs. Sacred Heart will face the winner of Nebraska vs. UNI, who play Thursday night in Lincoln, Neb. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for youth (ages 3-18). All seats are reserved seating throughout the Knapp Center. Fans purchasing tickets online may pick their own seats then enter the arena using their credit card or Flash Seats app at the gate in order to avoid ticket office and will call lines on game day. Parking for the first-round WNIT game will be free and is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Print Friendly Version read more

Drake (23-4) clinched its first outright Missouri Valley Conference regular season championship since the 1999-2000 season with a 70-57 victory over UNI last Friday at the Knapp Center. The MVC regular season title is the first since 2007-08 (shared with Evansville and Illinois State) and the sixth overall for the program. The Valley on ESPN3 Live Stats DES MOINES, Iowa – The No. 22/22 Drake University women’s basketball team hosts Missouri State Thursday night at 7 p.m. in the first of two remaining games this regular season. The game will be broadcast on The Valley on ESPN3 and on the radio on Praise 940. Drake is the No. 1 seed for next week’s Hoops in the Heartland Tournament, March 9-12, where the Bulldogs will try to win their first MVC Tournament title since 2007. If Drake wins the tournament in Moline, Ill., it will be the first time since 1999-2000, the program has claimed both the regular season and MVC tournament titles in the same year. Drake Game Notes Story Links With the win over UNI, Drake set the program record for the longest winning streak at 17-straight games, breaking a tie with the 1996-97 Drake team. The winning streak ranks fourth all-time in MVC history. Wichita State has the top streak at 20 games set back during the 2013-14 season. The 2016-17 Drake team, which is 16-0 in MVC action, can be the first Valley team to ever go undefeated in MVC regular season play if it beats Missouri State and Wichita State. Three teams (Wichita State in 2014-15, UNI in 2010-11 and Drake in 1997-98) have gone 17-1 in league play since the MVC started in 1992-93, but no team has ever gone 18-0. SIU went undefeated in conference play in back-to-back seasons in the 1980s but it was when teams played in the Gateway Conference. Missouri State (16-11, 12-4 MVC) will be either the second or third seed at the MVC Tournament. The Bears need to win Thursday and then beat UNI Saturday night for a chance to beat the Panthers in a tie-break should the two finish with identical records. MSU has won 12 of its last 14 games. Junior Liza Fruendt leads the Bears in scoring at 15.5 points per game. The Bulldogs will close out their regular season on Saturday against Wichita State at 2 p.m. After the game against the Shockers, Drake will honor its three seniors Caitlin Ingle (Runnells, Iowa), Cortni Rush (Mason City, Iowa) and Lizzy Wendell (Blue Springs, Mo.). Print Friendly Version read more

Fianna Fáil has accused the Government of completely ignoring apprenticeship programmes over the past four years.Charlie McConalogue TDThey also claim that Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan is trying to win back support for her party by promising to extend the scheme to new sectors.New figures released to Fianna Fáil through Parliamentary Question reveal that the number of apprenticeships fell by 30% between 2010 and 2014. The party’s Education spokesperson Charlie McConalogue says these figures are a damning indictment of the scant attention given by this Government to the apprenticeship programme.“Successive Ministers have been shockingly slow to realise that an apprenticeship system is vital in dealing with Ireland’s acute long-term unemployment problem. However, it appears to have fallen off the Government agenda and has only resurfaced now that a General Election is on the horizon.“While Higher Education will continue to be the primary pathway for young people to skilled employment, it does not suit everyone and employers value vocational training. However this Government has failed to build on the programmes that have been offered to date and have allowed participation to fall off without introducing any changes to the existing programmes or expanding them until now. The demand from the technology and business sectors has not been fully utilised or valued and its role and contribution is not well understood by this government.”He added that while the proposal by the Apprenticeship Council to expand apprenticeship categories is welcome, the announcement is a drop in the ocean of what is required to deal with what is fast becoming Ireland’s largest economic problem. “Government, education providers and industry must work together to ensure these new apprenticeship areas are fast tracked immediately,” he said.GOVERNMENT IS COMPLETELY IGNORING APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMMES – McCONALOGUE was last modified: August 2nd, 2015 by StephenShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:Charlie McConaloguedonegalfianna failTD read more

SAN JOSE — Sharks defenseman Brent Burns is riding a four-game point streak going into Saturday’s game against the New York Islanders after he was held off the scoresheet in San Jose’s first three outings.Burns said he’s not doing anything different, and Sharks coach Pete DeBoer agrees.But some Sharks players have noticed a slight change in Burns’ game. They feel of late he’s been paying greater attention to detail and been more direct in his approach.“He just seems like himself, he really … read more

Pick a date for the rise of a land mass: 3 million years or 30 million years.  Either one will work, depending on the current evolutionary assumptions, if one is to follow the logic of an article on the Discovery Channel website.  Here’s how it began:The geologic rise of the Ethiopian Plateau may have happened millions of years later than thought, and just in time to nudge along the evolution of modern humans, say the authors of a new study.The old date of 30 million years was accepted for some time, but the human evolution experts had a problem with it:Some previous estimates of the plateau’s age put its rise at around 30 million years ago – far too early for it to have directly affected the immediate ancestors of Homo sapiens, who arose in the valley just a few million years ago.Paleoanthropologists needed a more recent date, because their scenario pictured our ancestors walking across a savanna (grassland).  The need to walk upright in wide open spaces, instead of swinging in trees, was supposed to be a driving force in our evolution.“So (human ancestors) had to walk across that savanna,” said Royhan Gani [U of Utah].  And walking on two feet, as independent studies have shown, is the most efficient way for an ape to cross large distances.To get the timing of the geological forces in sync with the evolutionary model, some drastic adjustments were needed.  The geologists went looking for evidence to get the savanna formed much more recently, and found some:Using elevation data collected by the space shuttle, orbiting satellites and radioisotope dating of various rock layers found in the walls of the Nile River Gorge, the researchers believe they have narrowed down the timing of the final phase of the plateau’s uplift to less than three million years ago.    That’s just in time to cause the drying out of east Africa and the creation of the pedestrian-friendly savannas on which humans evolved.The University of Utah husband-and-wife team decided it was acceptable to radically overturn previous assumptions:To arrive at the more recent date, the researchers turned the question upside down.  Rather than dating the plateau’s uplift directly, they studied the effects of the one thing in the region that responds instantly to any change in elevation – the Blue Nile River.Of course, tweaking one factor by a factor of 10 is bound to cause problems elsewhere in the model.  This means the Nile Gorge – a mile deep in places – had to form much, much faster than earlier thought.  No worries; adjustments can easily be made by mixing in a little catastrophism:Ultimately, they determined that the Blue Nile eventually carved out more than 22,400 cubic miles of rock from the area, not at a constant rate, but in three pulses that reflect major geologic events.  The last phase, which began six million years ago, may have been caused by foundering of a deep part of the earth’s crust, which let the plateau rise like ship losing ballast.This got the plateau up 3,000 feet in short order, just in time for evolving humans to come down from the trees and have a place to walk:A simultaneous drop in the Rift Valley’s elevation also contributed to the drying, said geologist Martin Williams of the University of Adelaide in Australia.    “The African Rift has been going down and widening,” Williams told Discovery News.  “The real drying out of Ethiopia proper began 3 to 2 1/2 million years ago.”  Just in time, perhaps, to drive the evolution of our ancestors.So now everyone’s happy: the evolutionary geologists, the evolutionary biologists, the evolutionary anthropologists, and the Discovery Channel animators.Caught in the act!  You thought geologists knew about the dates of mountains, canyons and plateaus, didn’t you?  Here you just saw them make an order-of-magnitude adjustment to an accepted age just to keep the apeman-to-human myth intact.  This huge fudging operation was blessed by none other than the Geological Society of America.  Now you know why the “Related Links” at the end of the article lists a human evolution website, and “PBS explores human evolution,” and “More on hominids from the BBC.”  Do you really think for a million nanoseconds that these geologists were unbiased seekers of the truth, converging independently on the actual date of this plateau by strict adherence to empiricism?  No; Charlie is backstage calling the shots, and they’re all in this racket together.  If you don’t believe it yet, look at a summary of the GSA paper published by EurekAlert:More than three million years ago, early hominins evolved the ability to walk upright and in doing so started us along the evolutionary path that eventually gave rise to Homo sapiens.  It was Darwin who first suggested that a change of climate, giving rise to vast, arid, savannahs, may have spurred on human evolution all those millions of years ago.  But what caused that change of climate?  Could the formation of one of Earth’s most spectacular landscapes, the Ethiopian Plateau, have been responsible for development of the great African grasslands?  And if so, what were the geological processes that led to the formation of the plateau?  To answer these questions, Nahid DS Gani of the University of Utah and colleagues turned…There you have it.  The rest of the story is just window dressing.  We won’t even need to unpack the idiotic idea that a geologic event is somehow going to make men out of monkeys.  They had their minds made up: the human-evolution story needed a dry savanna, so the evolutionary geologists cooked one up for them on command.  It didn’t matter that they have to turn their old date upside down and shrink it to 10% of its former value.  Nothing is too costly to offer in sacrifice to Father Charlie.  The summary ended, “The timing of plateau formation coincides with and is therefore probably related to the change in climate that gave rise to the African savannahs and ultimately to human evolution.”  Charlie’s wish is their command.  “Ironically, Gani and colleagues had to turn to outer space to determine that the geological processes that spurred on human evolution lay deep within Earth’s mantle.”  They’ll ascend to the heights of heaven, or descend to the depths of the earth, to honor their idol.    The only bright side of this article is a subtle confirmation of creationist geology.  The creationists have been saying for years that the Grand Canyon was formed rapidly by catastrophic processes.  We’ve seen the secular geology crowd slowly coming around (09/16/2005, 07/02/2002) and dropping their age estimates like a rock in free fall (from 100 million to 5 million to less than a million).  Now, this story alluded to evidence that the “Grand Canyon of Africa,” the Nile Gorge, was not formed by uniformitarian gradualism, but by catastrophism as well.  Shove aside their moyboy lingo (09/16/2005 commentary footnote), because it is worthless.  They weren’t there, they don’t know, and their ulterior motives are driving the show.(Visited 12 times, 1 visits today)FacebookTwitterPinterestSave分享0 read more

Veteran Odia actor Debu Bose passed away following a prolonged illness, at a private hospital in Hyderabad on Wednesday. He was 75. Bose had worked in more than 120 films, television shows and innumerable plays. His family said the actor had suffered heart attacks on two earlier occasions and was kept on ventilator support in the hospital. The actor had started his career with Odia movie Tapasya in the 1980s.Multi-talented Bose also worked as a choreographer for the Odia film Man Ra Akash. He was a disciple of Odissi dancer Late Guru Kelurcharan Mohapatra. His characters in Suna Chadhei, Sahari Bagha, Kaveri, Phula Chandana and Chaka Bhaunri won the hearts of millions. Born on December 2, 1942, the actor was associated with a regional theatre group ‘Diganta’ and had directed many plays.Directors, producers and actors expressed grief over the demise of the veteran actor. “Bose was my mentor and his departure for heavenly abode has left a huge void in the Odia film industry,” said Pradyumna Lenka, a prominent actor. read more