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If youve had to cancel your beach vacation this year, dont worry, theres some good news brimming on the horizon. Seychelles International Airport has reopened for tourists and the group of 115 islands is now officially COVID-free. If youre still keen on social distancing (which you should be), you can ensure your vacation is free of strangers. JA Enchanted Island Resort, a luxury property set in Sainte Anne Marine Park in the Seychelles, is offering guests the opportunity to book an entire island for themselves.

The 20,000 square metre resort has announced new island rates starting from EUR 9,950 (about Rs8.5 lakh) per night for up to 24 guests. That works out to about Rs35,000 per person per night. The rate includes breakfast only.

The resort says it has all necessary precautions regarding sanitisation and social distancing in place as per local government guidelines.

Note that Seychelles has announced a gradual easing of travel restrictions as of 1 June 2020. But only travellers from low-risk countries will be allowed entry for the time being. All visitors are required to send their COVID-19 test results to the Seychelles Department of Health before arrival. Visitors will be subjected to strict entry screening including completion of a health check form, symptomatic check and temperature scanning. Government guidelines mean you cannot change accommodation during your stay.

JA Enchanted Island Resort is owned by Gujarati businessman Sunil Shah who has built this slice of paradise to reflect traditional Creole culture. Shah spent six months studying old Creole homes and buildings before deciding on a design. Conceptualised by Kozhikode-based architect Tony Joseph, the resort blends into its lush green surroundings.

The villas are built to fit around the islands natural landscape. There are 10 villas on the island, some fitted with a private pool and garden plus a private dining gazebo, all with direct access to the beach.

On the island, theres plenty to do. For the adventurous, theres snorkelling, diving, paddle boarding and kayaking. If you just want to sit back and relax, there are catamaran cruises and a spa perched on a hilltop. When it comes to food, you wont be disappointed. Guests on the island can enjoy authentic international and Creole-Seychellois dishes at the resorts Bounty Restaurant, pool-side snacks at Castaway and a variety of bespoke, private experiences including breakfast in bed, moonlight dinners and private barbecues.

The private island experience is available from 1 July 2020.

For bookings, call +248 4672727 or email reservations.eir@jaresorts.com

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Greece is one of the European countries that has managed to slow down its COVID-19 infection rate and contain the virus early on.

As Insider's Sophie-Claire Hoeller reported, the country went into lockdown early, and it credits this move for having a relatively low number of coronavirus cases and related deaths. According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, Greece has seen 3,049 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 182 related deaths.

Now, the country is set to welcome all tourists from June 15, when international flights to Athens and Thessaloniki are expected to resume and it's offering cheaper flights to visitors by cutting transportation taxes this summer, which means it could become more popular than ever as travel becomes safe again.

If you're trying to avoid other tourists especially as social distancing rules still apply then swapping overcrowded hotspots for lesser-known gems might be the best way to go.

Greek islands like Kythira or Folegandros, and cities like Kavala, remain off the radar of most tourists, yet still serve as gorgeous summer destinations.

Mostly frequented by locals or an elite of seasoned travellers, they offer beautiful beaches with crystalline waters, verdant peaks, and precious archaeological sites, in a delightful blend of nature, history, and culture.

Here are eight non-touristy places to add to your Greek bucket list.

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New York state homeowners know that the windows in their home are not only there to let in light and fresh air, but also to provide protection from cold, heat, and moisture. As one of the most important features of your home, window replacement should be at the top of your list of maintenance projects.

Here are the top reasons why homeowners consider replacing old windows with new:

For all types of window replacement, it's best to rely on the expertise of a qualified contractor. Here's what you can expect:

1. Single Window Pane Replacement

Although it can be time consuming, single window panes are easy and straightforward for an experienced contractor to replace. The replacement process will vary depending on the type of window frame your home has. Wooden frames are still found in many older homes, while newer homes are being built with aluminum or vinyl frames for their durability and low maintenance.

While many Connecticut homeowners are ready to DIY, why take the risk? A window contractor has the experience, materials, and tools to do the job right the first time.

For window replacement, find a professional contractor in New York state.

2. Replacing Double Pane Windows

Double pane windows aren't as simple to replace as single panes. Even when only one pane is broken or cracked and needs to be replaced, in most cases both panes will need to be removed using the necessary skills and tools. Condensation and foggy windows are another problem that can occur when seals are damaged, leading to more issues and expensive repairs down the road if not repaired.

Leaving double pane problems to a contractor means you have peace of mind that windows are replaced safely and correctly.

3. Replacing Picture Windows

Picture windows are your view to the outside, providing you with plenty of natural light throughout your home. Due to their size, picture windows, whether single or dual-paned, require a professional with special equipment to replace these large sheets of glass. Keep in mind that materials and labor costs for picture window replacement can be quite costly, so contact at least three window contractors for written estimates.

Need help with window replacement? Leave this home repair job to a professional and call a HomeAdvisor window contractor in New York state.

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Chilmark voters go the polls today to take action on two school spending questions and re-elect a selectman.

Polls opened at noon and will close at 6 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center.

Voters enter via the ramp into the stage area, instead of the front door as usual. Face masks are required.

Running unopposed, incumbent selectman Warren Doty tops the ballot. There are no races for the nine other elected positions. There are currently no candidates for the positions of fence viewer and surveyor of wood, lumber and bark.

The ballot question asks voters to exempt two expenditures from the provisions of Proposition 2 1/2, one for $169,136 to pay for the towns share of window replacement at the Chilmark School, and a second for $5,216 to pay the towns share of replacing the dust collection system at the regional high school.

Town clerk Jennifer Christy said 37 voters had requested absentee ballots and 66 voters requested early ballots.

Turnout was light Wednesday on a sunny, cool June day.

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With the NBA resuming from 31st July, players will finally hit the court after a three-month hiatus. Because of this long gap and concerns of the virus, GMs have been asking for roster flexibility.

Two weeks ago, ESPN had reported about a GM survey. When asked if the playoffs should have expanded rosters or teams should have more of an ability to replace players sidelined by injury or illness, only two teams voted for neither option. Twelve voted for expanded rosters, and 16 voted for an increased ability to replace players who are injured or sick.

GMs also wanted to include the two-way players into these plans of a season resumption. Finally, 16 teams had voted for two extra sports on the rosters, while nine voted for one and the remaining five voted for three.

On 8th June, Adrian WojnarowskiandBobby Marks of ESPN reported that the NBA has taken some of these suggestions and started a Transaction Window.

The Transaction Window will involve all 30 teams, not just the Orlando-bound ones. Theyll have one week to sign free agents (who have had a contract at some point in this season), and convert two-way and 10-day contracts into standard contracts. But only the teams with roster spots available already can make these moves.

The Spurs, who just lost LaMarcus Aldridge to an injury, can pick up a replacement as well as another player since they have a roster spot open. Similarly, the Nets will also be looking at replacements for the injured duo of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.

The biggest rumor so far is the potential return of DeMarcus Cousins. His injury status is uncertain, but even a 60-70% fit Boogie is a valuable asset to any team. He could be exactly what the Spurs need now, with Alridge out.

But his connection with the Los Angeles Lakers, despite his waiver, cannot be ignored. He is still on their group chat and was likely to join them next season. However, the Lakers do not have a spot currently to sign him, so others can swoop in. Miami Heat, reportedly, are also interested in signing him but like the Lakers, they do not have a roster spot free as of now.

Other players who are available include Trey Burke, Troy McDaniels, Iman Shumpert, and Isaiah Thomas,

One flaw of this transaction window is that free agents who havent had a contract at all this year are not eligible. So veterans like Jamal Crawford and JR Smith cannot be signed according to the current rules.

Crawford became the oldest player to drop 50 last season and has shown he still has the quality at 39. Meanwhile, Smith can still provide a solid 3&D option off the bench. So, a change in rules could help teams add these veterans to their roster. The Nets could use a scorer like Crawford in the absence of KD and Kyrie. Whereas, Smith can be useful for the Thunder, who are lacking a quality backup wing player, or the Jazz, who have lost sharpshooter Bojan Bogdanovic to injury.

One last tweak that GMs are seeking is an extended roster. They want the spots to go beyond 15 spots in case someone gets injured or gets affected by the virus. This would let the Heat and the Lakers sign Boogie without releasing anyone. With less than two months left for the season to start, one cannot rule out a fairytale return for DeMarcus Cousins or Jamal Crawford.

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. A local company is hard at work replacing the smashed out windows downtown following the vandalism that occurred overnight Saturday.

Violence broke out this past weekend after a peaceful protest at Rosa Parks Circle wrapped up. Destruction and vandalism happened throughout the city into Sunday morning.

Now, the folks at Vos Glass are putting in overtime to get many of the smashed out windows replaced.

Easily we've looked at and measured over 500 broken units, said Dave Turner, Co-owner and President of Vos Glass. Probably several hundred thousand dollars worth of glass.

The whole process will take several weeks time. While the company expects to finish most by June, some of the projects will trail into July.

They're all custom. They all have their own sizing and have special orders. So it's quite a deal," Turner said.

Meaning that the manufacturing process can take some time.

Lead times are varying right now, from typically two weeks," Turner said. "Some of the units like the art museum, Fifth third, are probably four to five week lead time items. They're just real special pieces of glass and take a long time.

He says some of the jobs downtown have been quoted over $100,000.

And while Vos Glass did have to slow some operations in the past few months because of COVID-19, Turner says they have maintained steady business.

We were fortunate to have a full year already. We really weren't looking for more," he told FOX 17 Thursday. "And that's why, you know, some people ask the question, do we really want to do this, but the leadership team said we have to do this.

Turner says he has been very proud of the ways his crews have stepped up to take on these extra jobs.

I think that, you know, what happened Sunday with so many people coming out to help clean up. I think that kind of put the hope back into it. So, it did for me, I was encouraged by that, Turner said.

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ITHACA, N.Y. As Cornell's new North Campus dormitories take shape, the next phases of its North Campus Residential Initiative are becoming more clear; next on the to-do list, an extensive renovation of Balch Hall.

The 167,000 square-foot Collegiate Gothic dorm at 600 Thurston Avenue is the last all-female freshmen residence maintained by the university. Completed in 1929, Balch Hall serves as a visual focal point for those passing over the Thurston Avenue bridge. Its ivy-covered stone walls and mullioned windows have provided a proper thematic backdrop for countless Cornell photos, and its famed central archway has served as the makeshift stage for hundreds of decent if slightly off-key acapella performances.

However, as with many of Cornell's older dormitories, deferred maintenance has been a concern. Some features, like the ancient wrought-iron closet racks to store fancy hats, have a quaint old-fashioned charm. Leaks, outdated utilities and physical impediments for handicapped students and visitors are not so charming.

Cornell is aware of this. While most of the attention to their North Campus redevelopment has been on the new structures and 2,000 new beds, the plan also calls for renovations to several existing buildings. As soon as the first phase of the brand new dormitories are ready for occupancy, Cornell plans to begin renovating its older residences, with Balch Hall being first on the list.

According to Site Plan Review documents filed with the city, the "full-gut renovation" includes replacing all the windows, replacing and rebuilding some gutters and non-structural exterior walls, general masonry repair new accessible walkways, landscaping and lighting improvements. On the inside would be four new elevators and modernized mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection systems. The interior reconfiguration would increase Balch's student capacity from 436 to 470 beds, and the university hopes to obtain LEED Gold certification with the improvements in energy efficiency.

For those concerned about Balch's collegiate charm, visually the exterior changes will be fairly minor. Since Balch Hall is visible from the Arts Quad Historic District, the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission will weigh in, though only in an advisory role. The new elevators will result in four new dormers designed to match the rest of the building. The new handicap-accessible path will result in the removal of four mature trees. The Balch arch stairs and other exterior stairways will be rebuilt with similar materials as before.

Assuming all goes to plan, the renovated Balch, which will remain an all-female dorm, would be ready to welcome freshmen again in August 2022, as the renovation work shifts to other existing North Campus dorms (Clara Dickson Hall).

Goody Clancy Architects of Boston is in charge of design work, with local firm T.G. Miller providing the civil engineering work, and Cornell favorite Thornton Tomasetti of New York on tap as sustainable design consultant. IBI Placemarking of Boston will be the landscape architect.

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A new report from Bloomberg this week claimed that Apple is planning to announce the transition from Intel processors to ARM chips in the Mac lineup this month at WWDC 2020. While theres still more than a week before the Apple event, tech analysts are speculating on how Apple will make this transition and what are the potential benefits and downsides.

John Gruber (Daring Fireball) points out the fact that Apple may reveal its plans to bring ARM chips to the Mac at this WWDC doesnt necessarily mean that the company will release any new hardware this year.

Apple needs app developers to get ready for ARM Macs with a new version of Xcode, otherwise this new Mac wouldnt have any compatible apps at launch. He compares this to the end of 32-bit support on macOS, which was first announced by Apple back in 2018 and discontinued last year with macOS Catalina.

Some developersthe smart onesare effectively ready to go, and will be able to recompile their apps for ARM as soon as Apple makes a new version of Xcode available. But others will need time. I mean just look at all the consternation this past year over MacOS 10.15 Catalina dropping support for 32-bit softwarea transition Apple announced several years in advance.

An architecture transition will certainly have an impact on which apps will continue to work with new Mac models. When Apple migrated from PowerPC to Intel processors, the company offered a way to emulate legacy software on newer Macs with Rosetta. But now, Gruber thinks Apple will focus only on ARM-ready software.

If I had to bet right now, Id say no, there will be no x86 emulation on ARM Macsand that factors into why Apple is pre-announcing this transition months ahead of releasing hardware. But thats just my guess. In the 90s in particular, and the 2000s to a lesser degree, there was a lot of important third-party software that wasnt easily ported. I dont think thats as much the case today.

Developers and users may think there are a lot of things that will change with ARM-based apps. For Gus Mueller (The Shape of Everything) not much will change, actually. There are still several apps, including Apples own, that still use the Cocoa framework and are written in Objective-C rather than Swift, so its very unlikely that Apple will require ARM apps to be rebuilt with Swift or SwiftUI at first.

Cocoa is the framework that drives pretty much every app on MacOS. Without NSWindow, without NSView, youve got no apps on the Mac [] SwiftUI is barely one year old. Look at how long its taken Swift to get to a point where its not incredibly painfully to use. [] Objective-C isnt going anywhere anytime soon. Too much of MacOS and too many important applications rely on it.

The idea of a Mac that can only run Catalyst apps, which are basically apps ported from iPadOS, is also unlikely. While there are great apps available for iPad, not all of them are as advanced as the native Mac versions, so forcing users to use them would be a drawback.

This would be a serious downgrade for users of these apps on MacOS, and would be a major departure from the way the apps currently behave on MacOS. And even with Catalyst, its still a lot of work for an iPad app to look and feel like a Mac app.

Mueller believes that Apple will probably let almost every app to be updated to run under the ARM architecture, except for legacy apps like the ones based on OpenGL.

OpenGL and OpenCL have been deprecated for a while now in favor of Metal. Apple will use this opportunity to drop them.

As Dieter Bohn wrote on The Verge, there are already some Windows computers running on ARM processors that can give us an idea of what Apple should and shouldnt do with the Mac lineup. On the Windows side, the experience of using a computer with an ARM processor is still not good. There are performance issues and although some 32-bit apps can be emulated in ARM, 64-bit apps cannot.

Speaking of things Apple wouldnt want: ARM-based Windows computers are slower. [] Weve all been assuming that Apples much-vaunted prowess at making fast ARM chips for iPads will translate well to Macs, but theres no guarantee thats true until we get to test them ourselves.

He mentions that Microsoft still has plans to keep both ARM and x86 versions of Windows for a long time, as the vast majority of computers still runs with Intel or AMD processors and companies are unlikely to change that any time soon.

The problem is that since Windows ARM is not going to replace Windows x86, developers are not committed to updating their apps to take advantage of ARM hardware. Apple, on the other hand, has plans to update all the Mac line-up with ARM processors in the coming years.

When ARM-based laptops and tablets started getting released, the message was Heres a cool new thing you can get if you want, but the reliable old thing isnt going anywhere. Thats the Windows way. [] Windows on ARM simply isnt getting the developer attention and support that standard Windows gets, both within Microsoft and outside it.

There are still many questions about Apples transition from Intel to ARM, but hopefully they will all be answered at WWDC 2020 on June 22nd.What are your thoughts on Apples plans to replace Intel with ARM processors on Mac? Let us know in the comments section below.

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