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Storm warning: Choose your Caribbean island wisely
A summer trip to the Caribbean has definite advantages. Cheap low-season flights to the region pop up constantly, and many of the region's hotels offer sharp seasonal discounts.But summer and early fall also are hurricane season. And at least one study is predicting that the run of storms in 2006 will be almost as treacherous as last year's record season.
According to a Colorado State University team headed by hurricane analyst William M. Gray, nine hurricanes will sweep through the Caribbean and United States this year, five of them major ones. In addition, 17 named storms and other less forceful tropical storms and depressions are expected.
In its own hurricane forecast issued late last month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that slightly fewer storms will hit this year than last, but still far more than average: at least eight hurricanes, four to six of them serious, and 13 to 16 named tropical storms.
Passionately in love
Are you passionately in love with your spouse? Whenever one has a passion for something, one would do anything to obtain or maintain it. If you have a passion for mangoes, you will drive miles to purchase some.If you have a passion for leather shoes, you will spare no end to purchase a pair, perhaps even to the point of not having other needed clothing; all because you have an insatiable passion for leather shoes.
It is the same way with relationships. To have a passion for your lover is to unselfishly, unreservedly, unquestioningly, and unconditionally love and serve him/her.
Do you realise that some people have more passion for leather shoes than they do for their own relationships? How do we know that?
We know it by the way spouses treat each other.
Twenty20 slug fest - Stanford's new regional tourney set for a ...
This all adds up to the inaugural Stanford Twenty20 Cup which gets going today at the Stanford Cricket Ground, located adjacent to the V.C. Bird International Airport and about five miles outside of the Antigua & Barbuda capital.It remains to be seen if this brand of fast-food cricket that has put thousands of bums on seats wherever the concept has been introduced will gain the same level of support from spectators in the Caribbean.
"Today cricket is no different than any other professional sport, and by that I mean it is - and has to be - entertainment, pure and simple," remarked Allen Stanford, the Antigua-based, Texas-born financier and developer of the competition, at the official launch on Saturday.
"It has to be exciting, and it has to be a commercially viable enterprise.
Winn-Dixie Files Plan of Reorganization
Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. today announced that it has filed its proposed Plan of Reorganization and related Disclosure Statement with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida. With this filing, Winn-Dixie is positioned to emerge from Chapter 11 protection as soon as late October.(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060629/NYTH075-a
Winn-Dixie expects to emerge from its reorganization with sufficient financing and liquidity to make significant investments in its current store base, to selectively open new stores, and to take other actions to position the business to compete effectively in its markets over the next several years. The company also expects to emerge with only a minimal amount of long- term debt on its balance sheet.
The proposed Plan of Reorganization represents the culmination of extensive negotiations with various creditors and creditor groups in Winn- Dixie's Chapter 11 cases.
Back with the Bruins
Recently graduated from high school and just home from a church group's trip to the Bahamas, Jordan Danks planned to spend last summer like any other 18-year-old. Danks just wanted to spend time at home, hanging out with friends, playing a little baseball and getting ready for his freshman year at the University of Texas.“I thought I was just going to have a laid back summer," Danks said.But the Texas coaches had other plans for their incoming freshman.The day after he got back from his church trip, Danks learned he was headed to Beatrice to spend his summer playing baseball for the Bruins. .Suspect dies after robbery attempt
A suspect, who was shot while carrying out a daring daytime robbery attempt yesterday morning, died just hours after the crime.According to Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of police with responsibility for crime, the fatal shooting took place after the male suspect along with two others attempted to hold-up CLT Communications on East Street. "There would have appeared to have been an attempted robbery shortly after 10:30 am," said Asst. Commissioner Ferguson. "Gunshots were fired in the vicinity of the store [and] one of the alleged robbers was shot in the process."
The suspect, whose identity had not been released up to press time, succumbed to his injuries around 3 pm on Friday. Police are continuing their investigations into the matter.
In other crime news a group of United States visitors was robbed at knifepoint early yesterday morning four days after two tourists were held up just four miles away.
Valley business briefs for July 11
PALM DESERT -- Leadership Coachella Valley, a program aimed at identifying and motivating future community leaders, is now accepting applications for its 10-month program that begins in September.One day each month from September through June, participants attend all-day sessions where important community issues are reviewed and discussed with various experts. Topics include team-building, economic drivers, arts, culture, health care, education and the environment.
Up to 35 emerging leaders are selected for the program, which costs $850, and the application deadline is Aug. 15. Information: Susie Harvey, 568-0320; www.leadershipcv.org.
Chamber to hold mixer
DESERT HOT SPRINGS -- The Desert Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce will host its July mixer July 19 at 5:30 p.m.