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AROUND 20 illegal structures along Kennon Road are now subjects for demolition by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Baguio City Engineering Office.

City Engineer Ireneo Gallato revealed they are now processing the demolition order of the illegal structures along Kennon Road. He said they had been sending notices to the squatters for them to voluntary vacate the area but to no avail.

With this, Gallato said they will soon have a meeting with the city government in order for DPWH to propose for officials to issue a demolition order. He added they will soon prioritize the demolition of the illegal structures which cause higher obstruction to motorists. He further said they will demolish illegal structures up until the Lions head.

Meanwhile, Gallato said there are also squatters along Marcos Highway which are the subject of a demolition order which he already signed. He said they are just waiting for the implementation of the order.

The district engineer disclosed they had been conducting Friday visits to all national roads in the city in partnership with the Philippine National Police and the Peace, Order and Safety Division of the Mayor's Office in order to remove temporary structures which cause obstruction.

During these visits, the team collects materials illegally displayed along national roads. This as the Highways official explained illegal vendors are the number one obstruction in the area.

Meanwhile, DPWH Regional Director Edilberto Carabbacan revealed yesterday their major problems which usually hinder the implementation of their programs are road right of way, illegal settlers, and encroachment of roads.

He called on those concerned to vacate the areas for the development of the region. He said in every development, there is always sacrifice attached to it.

Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on January 09, 2014.

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The protesters. | credits: Samson Folarin

The people of Ogede town in the Ogijo area of Ogun State have protested the demolition of structures owned by retired teachers in the area.

The crowd, waving leaves and chanting war songs, trooped out on Wednesday to show solidarity with the over 25 former teachers affected by the demolition.

Our correspondent learnt that the structures were demolished by the Oyekan family, a member of the royal family in the area.

The Oyekan family was said to have claimed that it was acting on a court order which transferred ownership of the land to it in 2009.

It was learnt that the family asked for a new payment of N250,000 for a plot of land and N125,000 for half plot of land.

One of the affected retired teachers, Mrs. A. Ogundipe, said the Oyekan family had agreed to allow them pay by installment.

She said despite the agreement, the family still demolished her building.

While fighting back tears, she said, On January 6, 2014, I got a telephone call that I should rush down to Ogede town. When I got there, I saw a caterpillar demolishing the two bedroom flat that I had built to window level. I could not do anything. I just started crying. I have no work. It is all I have built my whole life. All the tokens I have received from my children, I have thrown into that building and now it is gone.

Another woman, Mrs Akinsete Adenike, said she fainted after seeing her houses demolished.

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In Old Saybrook, its demolition day for an iconic restaurant.

More than a year ago, Hurricane Sandy flooded the shoreline, heavily damaging Dock & Dine. But the restaurant will be rebuilt at a higher elevation.

Both Hurricane Irene and Sandy give Dock & Dine a good beating. A year after Irene the restaurant bounced back, only to get destroyed again by Sandy. The final demolition is expected to start this morning and soon a new restaurant will be in its place. One that can withstand floods.

This past fall patrons said their goodbyes to a place thats been around since the 1940s. The memories of Dock & Dine will stay with its loyal customers, but the water-level walls and the view will not. After todays demolition, work on a new restaurant begins.

The new, 10,000-square-foot Dock & Dine will sit 15 feet above sea level compared to its 4 to 5 feet above sea level now, protecting it from flooding and storm surges.

Todays demolition will be bittersweet for the community as well as the restaurants current owners who have had it since 1987. The goal is to reopen the new restaurant in time for summer.

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Published: Thursday, 1/9/2014

BY MARK ZABORNEY BLADE STAFF WRITER

Harry Young, a builder of custom homes who coached and sponsored baseball teams from youth to, in recent years, adult players died Sunday in his West Toledo home. He was 82.

Mr. Young had cancer, but traveled to Fort Myers, Fla., in October for the World Series of Roy Hobbs Baseball. His team, Harry Young Builders, had a perfect record during the season and finished second out of 65 teams in the tournament. Whats more, Mr. Young was inducted into the Roy Hobbs Hall of Fame for his contributions to amateur adult baseball.

He was thrilled, his wife, Marlene, said. Its hard to explain about Harry, him and his baseball. He just loved baseball.

He learned of his illness early in 2013 but still coached his team in the Mid-American Masters Baseball League, for players age 45 or older.

It was a tremendous bunch of men, a pleasure to be around, Mr. Young told The Blade in December. They made me a winner one more time.

Mr. Young coached his sons when they were boys and continued through other age levels after they stopped playing. All told, hundreds of players were on Harry Young Builders teams from the late 1960s on.

His approach was old-school baseball, said David Perez, who first played for Mr. Young on an adult team nearly 20 years ago.

He definitely was a skipper, Mr. Perez said. The old school is you work hard. You go out and give 100 percent.

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Phare No. 1-9, by London based Dutch designer Simon Heijdens. The installation was commissioned by Perrier-Jout for Design Miami.

My practice is about countering the perpetual nature of architecture, said Simon Heijdens, a London-based designer. His hypnotic installation, consisting of nine glass vessels hung from the ceiling of a 600-square-foot booth, was a hit of the Design Miami fairand one of many temporary engagements with architecture on display during Art Basel week.

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Garrett Ricciardi, of formlessfinder, in front of the firm's entry pavilion for Design Miami.

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Heijdenss vessels operate like high tech lava lamps: electronic pulses dissolve dye in the water to form ripple patterns, which are based on data recorded by wind sensors outside the building. He spent a year creating the installation, which he said was on the border between graphics and sculpture, under the sponsorship of the champagne company Perrier-Jout. Next week, the piece will be in storage.

But whos to say the temporary installation isnt architecture? Outside the fairs massive tent, an entry pavilion by the young Brooklyn firm formlessfinderarchitects whose name is a kind of manifestoused a sand pile as ballast to support a roof on aluminum trusses. Below the roof were aluminum formlessfinder benches that Design Miami founder Craig Robins said he had decided to transplant to his Design District, where new buildings by the likes of Sou Fujimoto, Aranda/Lasch, Johnston Marklee, and Keenen Riley are under construction. Robins has the golden touch when it comes to picking architects: Aranda/Lasch, David Adjaye, and Snarkitecture have created Design Miami pavilions before going on to bigger things.

As a proving ground, the annual pavilion commission has come to resemble the Young Architects Program sponsored by MoMA PS1, the Museum of Modern Arts contemporary art space in Queens, New York. But if the Young Architects creationspavilions in the PS1 courtyardare aimed mostly at 20-somethings, Design Miami attracts an older, well-heeled crowd (including, this year, architectural grandees Jean Nouvel, Richard Meier, and Norman Foster).

Meanwhile, in a corner of the Design Miami tent, a show organized by Terence Riley, the former MoMA curator of architecture and design, featured detailed plans for an apartment complex in Coconut Grove, designed by OMA, as well as the losing designs of Nouvel, Christian de Portzamparc, and Diller Scofidio + Renfro. (Riley ran an informal competition on the developers behalf.) It will take time, and hard work, Riley said, for the slick models and renderings to become real buildings. Heijdenss installation will have come and gone before OMAs complex breaks ground.

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Post-Tribune Staff Report January 8, 2014 1:50PM

Emergency personnel look over a Mercury Grand Marquis driven by Shelby Street, 56, of Portage, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Street was merging onto eastbound Interstate-80/94 from southbound Interstate 65 when she lost control on the icy roads. The Mercury went off the road to the right and flipped over the retaining wall landing on its roof. Street had to be extricated and was taken to St. mary Medical Center, Hobart, with non-life threatening injuries to her face, police said. | Indiana State Police photo.

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A car going too fast for existing road conditions lost control and flipped over a Borman Expressway retaining wall and onto its roof, according to the Indiana State Police.

Preliminary investigation by Trooper Tim Grayson revealed that at approximately 10:05 a.m., Wednesday, a 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis driven by Shelby Street, 56, of Portage, had just gotten off the Interstate 65 southbound and was merging onto eastbound I-80 in the right lane when she lost control on the icy roads, police said. The Mercury went off the road to the right and flipped over the retaining wall, landing on its roof.

Street, who was wearing her seat belt, had to be extricated from her car. She was taken to Saint Mary Medical Center in Hobart with non-life threatening injuries to her face, police said.

The Mercury was a total loss.

A short time later, a tractor trailer driver going too fast for road conditions

lost control and wrapped his vehicle around an informational sign that spans the interstate.

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The livelihood of several skilled residents from Dallas Castle in rural St Andrew has been boosted following their contribution to the construction of a retaining wall in their community.

The erected wall and widened road have been considered a saving grace for commerce and job opportunities and have made travel on the August Hill road easier.

It was officially opened yesterday following six weeks of repair between September and November last year.

Dahlia Thompson, one of the females who worked on the project overwhelmed by males, quickly admitted it was hard work, but it was worth it.

"It was the hardest construction work I've ever done," she said with a chuckle.

"I threw stones and I lifted stones and I cleared the riverbed, and at one point, I worked with the welder and carpenters and lifted cement," she said.

Months earlier, the road was in such a deplorable state that taxi drivers left residents halfway into the journey.

"It affected people going to school and work because when rain fall, you would have landslides [and] so persons would have to struggle with their load. If you had baskets, you would have to struggle with them by yourself or ask somebody to help you. The drivers used to use it as excuse since they didn't want to come, but now it's fixed, so they have to go the full journey," she said proudly.

Michael Patterson was employed as a carpenter on the project and said the repair work was long overdue. He said prior to the repairs, only the brave would risk using the road.

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LONDON - Longer boats, decks for discos and underwater lighting are among the offerings yacht builders are hoping will help steer them out of a sales slump this week at the London Boat Show, the biggest British showcase for their wares.

It's all about new markets and tastes in Asia and Latin America at the cavernous exhibition center in the east of the city.

A 40-m (130-ft), 16.5-million-pound ($27 million) super yacht and the presence of Olympic gold medalist/America's Cup sailor Ben Ainslie are among the main attractions expected to lure some 100,000 enthusiasts to the show.

Not all the boats there will be extravagant; the Boat Show also still caters to family budgets.

But super well-heeled visitors can set course around these to inquire about having their more substantial yachts delivered without any cabinsoutfitted instead with disco dance floors and mini casinos, as increasing number of buyers are doing.

"It's to do with the personal taste of the owner. The whole thing is fun, you take these boats and put them on the water and the whole thing comes alive," said Carl Richardson, communications director of yacht builder Princess Yachts International.

Orders from fast-growing economies like China and Brazil have helped renew demand for floating palaces, which tanked after the economic crash of 2008, industry representatives said.

Princess, whose stand cost 1 million ($1.64 million) to build and is one of the main attractions, sold two of its 60-foot-plus yachts to British buyers in the first three days.

But the company is pitching for buyers from non-traditional markets with yachts to suit any taste.

"Five years ago customers had two or three different options. These days it goes on and on...from underwater lighting to personal water crafts," Richardson said.

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LONDON - Longer boats, decks for discos and underwater lighting are among the offerings yacht builders are hoping will help steer them out of a sales slump this week at the London Boat Show, the biggest British showcase for their wares.

It's all about new markets and tastes in Asia and Latin America at the cavernous exhibition center in the east of the city.

A 40-m (130-ft), 16.5-million-pound ($27 million) super yacht and the presence of Olympic gold medalist/America's Cup sailor Ben Ainslie are among the main attractions expected to lure some 100,000 enthusiasts to the show.

Not all the boats there will be extravagant; the Boat Show also still caters to family budgets.

But super well-heeled visitors can set course around these to inquire about having their more substantial yachts delivered without any cabinsoutfitted instead with disco dance floors and mini casinos, as increasing number of buyers are doing.

"It's to do with the personal taste of the owner. The whole thing is fun, you take these boats and put them on the water and the whole thing comes alive," said Carl Richardson, communications director of yacht builder Princess Yachts International.

Orders from fast-growing economies like China and Brazil have helped renew demand for floating palaces, which tanked after the economic crash of 2008, industry representatives said.

Princess, whose stand cost 1 million ($1.64 million) to build and is one of the main attractions, sold two of its 60-foot-plus yachts to British buyers in the first three days.

But the company is pitching for buyers from non-traditional markets with yachts to suit any taste.

"Five years ago customers had two or three different options. These days it goes on and on...from underwater lighting to personal water crafts," Richardson said.

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