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Another 'ghostly' sighting of creepy face in window at Ye Olde Man and Scythe pub
Updated 6:41pm Wednesday 13th August 2014 in News By Jeremy Culley, reporter
The ghostly apparition at Ye Olde Man and Scythe's window.
THERE has been yet another "ghostly" sighting at Boltons spookiest pub.
A strange figure appeared at one of the pubs back windows upstairs while the live-in manager was on holiday and his replacement was downstairs.
The haunting, unexplained picture was taken by a neighbour of Ye Olde Man and Scythe in Churchgate.
It appears to show a face, with a beard and mouth, at the window, which is above a sink.
It is the third time Ye Olde Man and Scythe has reported a supernatural occurrence in the last eight months and underlines its international tag of Britains most haunted pub.
The pub first hit the headlines in February when a CCTV video released on YouTube seemed to show a ghost appear at the end of the bar in the middle of the night.
Then last month, a Portuguese tourist one of many intrigued visitors to the haunted pub since it shot to fame caught a mysterious flash of light on film which appeared at an upstairs window.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - A year ago, the defensive game plan for Pittsburgh was pretty simple: let all-everything defensive lineman Aaron Donald to go work and try not to get in his way.
Following a season during which he won every major award for players at his position, Donald took his 28.5 tackles for loss and 11 sacks to the NFL, turning a position of strength in 2013 into a question mark with three weeks left before the 2014 season opener against Delaware.
"We've talked before about replacing Aaron," coach Paul Chryst said. "You're not going to replace one guy's production with one guy, but collectively."
The Panthers also lost Donald's running mate on the interior line, Tyrone Ezell, who compiled 34 tackles, three for loss and a pair of sacks last year.
Even though the player known as "A.D." within the program departed, his impact still lingers. Defensive line coach Inoke Breckterfield says he invokes Donald's notorious work ethic relentlessly.
"He is a great guy to mold your game to or to just mold your mindset," Breckterfield said of Donald. "We come back to him all the time and he was a great example for the young guys."
Now it's time for Donald's understudies to take center stage. Khaynin Mosley-Smith and Darryl Render appear to have the inside track to run out of the tunnel with the starters on Aug. 30 when the Panthers face the Blue Hens.
"They have been running with the (first team)," Breckterfield said. "We are trying to roll in Tyrique (Jarrett) and Jeremiah (Taleni). We are trying to give everyone a shot and we just want (everyone) to play hard and fast."
Render, a junior, is one of the more experienced linemen after playing in all 13 games last season. He recorded 25 tackles in 2013, 2.5 for loss, and says he is always trying to take what he learned from Donald onto the field.
"Every day I come out and try to remember little keys (Donald) gave me with pre-snapping and post-snapping," Render said. "The (spot) I'm supposed to get and what I'm supposed to do when I get (there)."
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Coatings giant PPG Industries Inc. ( PPG ) announced that the Mutual of Omaha Regional Office in Miami, which is now known as Colonnade Plaza, is the first ever building to install the company's SOLARBAN glass. SOLARBAN glass is one of the first coated glasses designed in to block solar radiation and thus mitigate air-conditioning-related energy consumption.
SOLARBAN is a brand which includes a broad range of high-performance solar control, low-emissivity glasses, some of which also include PPG's proprietary triple-silver coating technology. PPG Industries' technology enables architects to design and build more sustainable buildings through their ability to transmit daylight and block solar heat, thereby reducing heating, cooling and lighting demands.
The architect who designed the eight-story Omaha Regional Office in Miami incorporated the elements in such a way that those when combined with the SOLARBAN glass will minimize solar heat gain in south Florida's plentiful sunshine, thus saving energy and enhancing occupant comfort.
PPG Industries released its second-quarter 2014 results last month. The company topped earnings expectations in the quarter on healthy results across major markets, notably Europe where earnings jumped 28%. Cost reduction measures and strength in the automotive OEM coatings market supported results.
Profit from continued operation (as reported) was $393 million or $2.80 per share in the second quarter, climbing roughly 24% from $318 million or $2.19 per share posted a year ago. Consolidated profit rose 13% year over year to $386 million or $2.75 per share. The improvement was led by strong performance in Europe as PPG gained from gradual economic recovery in the region.
Barring one-time items, the company raked in earnings from continuing operations of $2.83 a share in the quarter that topped the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.79. Revenues moved up 5% year over year to $4,082 million in the reported quarter. It fell short of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4,097 million. The company benefited from higher volumes across major regions in the quarter.
PPG Industries is a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock.
Better-ranked companies in the diversified chemical space include Celanese Corporation ( CE ), Johnson Matthey Plc. ( JMPLY ) and LyondellBasell Industries NV ( LYB ). All of them hold a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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When completed in 2017, L.A.'s Wilshire Grand Center will be the tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi. At 1,099 feet tall, the $1 billion, 73-story hotel and office building will just edge out L.A.'s current skyscraper king, the 1,018-foot U.S. Bank Tower built in 1989. L.A.'s tallest spires will be around the same height as as the Chrysler Building, built in 1930. By contrast, New York has seven towers that rise more than 1,000 feet (and more in the works). Which prompts the question: Why isn't L.A. taller?
Lagging market demand and a history of sprawling development are only part of the story. Two hazards native to the land, high winds and earthquakes, are deeply inhospitable to supertall skyscrapers. Which makes the design of an L.A. tower something approaching a high-wire act.
The Los Angeles Times has been following the construction of the Wilshire Grand and contends that it is "arguably the most complicated high-rise ever built."
The San Andreas fault passes 35 miles northeast of Los Angeles, and the city is at risk for major earthquakes. Because of the Santa Ana winds that blow down from the Mohave desert and the Great Basin, L.A. also gets gale-force winds on a regular basis. "Calculated to sway during powerful Santa Anas and absorb ground movement during the most severe earthquakes, it is wedded aesthetically and technically to the unique footprint of the region," the Times writes of the building. While other skyscrapers are often anchored by steel or concrete columns rooted in bedrock, the Wilshire Grand is built on a massive concrete slab. Reporter Thomas Curwen writes:
Its specifications were drawn up by engineers, who after calculating the height and weight of the tower and the forces associated with earthquakes and windstorms, determined that it needed to contain 21,200 cubic yards of concrete and 7.1 million pounds of reinforcing steel.
By some calculations, those ingredients are enough to build an entire 10-story office building.
Such a foundation required 2,120 truckloads of concrete, poured continuously into an 18-foot-deep hole two-thirds the size of a football field. The process, described afterward by a thermodynamics expert as "a logistical nightmare," earned a Guinness World Record for the longest continuous concrete pour, lasting more than 18 hours. While huge underground foundations are not unheard of in skyscraper design (the new One World Trade Center in New York is 1,776 feet tall and features concrete footings 200 feet underground), L.A.'s unique geography certainly makes for a complicated job.
[Image: Renderings via Wilshire Grand Center]
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You'd hope that a school of environmental studies would practice what it preaches. Well, Tel Aviv University's Porter School of Environmental Studies does so emphatically. Its newly inaugurated building is, it says, the first LEED Platinum-certified in Israel and the greenest in the Middle East.
Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) certification has become a widely recognized mark of environmental good practice in the design, construction, maintenance and operation of buildings. Amongst the LEED Platinum-certified buildings that Gizmag has recently featured, BioCasa 82 in Italy was claimed to be Europe's first LEED Platinum home, the Munich-based NuOffice was claimed to be the world's most sustainable office building and Dubai's Chance Initiative was claimed to be the world's most sustainable building overall.
The PSES building was designed in collaboration by Geotectura Studio and Axelrod Grobman Architects with the aim of being a "living laboratory." As well as providing spaces for education and learning, it was decided that the building should be a demonstrative educational platform in itself, with users and visitors able to examine the environmental technologies installed therein.
Amongst the public and education spaces in the building are an auditorium, a spacious atrium that can be used for meetings and exhibitions, classrooms, lecture halls, research offices, meeting rooms and offices. The temperature in the PSES building is regulated using a solar energy-powered air conditioning system, along with a structure design optimized for local conditions. Grey water, meanwhile, is recycled and reused elsewhere in the building.
In addition to a green roof, the building features an "EcoWall" which is described as an iconic element of the building's aesthetic, but is also a functional part of its environmental efforts. The EcoWall provides protection from the sun in the building's atrium, but also capitalizes on its south-facing orientation by hosting the array of solar panels used to power the building's air conditioning. Terraces along the EcoWall can also be used for experimental research.
The PSES building also features a striking Capsule element as part of its design. The Capsule is a 3D elliptical structure that's suspended in the building's atrium and that pokes out of the EcoWall. Housed in the Capsule is a workshop and meeting room with "state of the art multimedia technology." The external surface of the Capsule is covered in connected LEDs that are used to display environmental information, such as energy statistics of the PSES Building and pollution levels in Tel Aviv.
The PSES building was inaugurated in May and held its first graduation ceremony in June.
The video below shows an animated rendering of the PSES building.
Source: Porter School of Environmental Studies
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by GLENN FARLEY / KING 5 News aviation specialist
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Posted on August 13, 2014 at 7:31 PM
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EVERETT, Wash. Boeing executives, along with state and local officials including Governor Jay Inslee, knocked holes in the wall of a one-story office building built to house engineers who once designed the first 767.
The holes are real, but the sledge hammer whacks were largely ceremonial as they marked the official start of construction of Boeings massive composite wing factory for the new 777X airliner.
But while the company plans to tear down three buildings - one of which dates back to the design of the first 747 in the 1960s - work has already started.
In what was a large parking lot next door, heavy earth-moving equipment is already at work performing site preparation for the 1.3 million square foot factory that should be opened in 2016. What is to be called the Composite Wing Center should start producing its first part in 2017.
Boeing says some 90 dump trucks are making round trips every day, hauling some 70 loads of dirt into the site every hour to help level out the site. Some 80,000 cubic yards of dirt have been moved so far.
While some 190 construction workers are busy now, their ranks will swell to as many as 1,500 when construction is in full swing. Fourteen construction cranes will appear on Boeings Everett campus.
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MANILA - Will the Senate investigation on the alleged overpricing in the construction of a Makati City parking and office building lead to the impeachment of Vice-President Jejomar Binay?
According to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, any impeachment case against Binay will happen if there is sufficient evidence to warrant the filing of such a case.
"We will get there. Once we are done with this investigation, if we find anomalies committed by the Vice President then we can use this as a basis to file an impeachment complaint before the House of Representatives," he said in an interview on Mornings@ANC.
Trillanes said the issue of the parking building is a matter of public interest after it became the basis of a plunder case against Binay and his son, Makati Mayor Junjun Binay.
The Binays have denied the allegation, saying that Makati's resident auditor already said there is no overpricing in the P1.5 billion construction of the building.
"I believe this case is imbued with public interest because it involves the Vice President and a potential president of the country. It is high time that we investigate this so the public will know if these allegations are true," Trillanes said.
"On our part as legislators, we want to see the loopholes in the procurement law and legislate remedial measures to make sure this won't happen again," he added.
The senator, who filed the resolution calling for the investigation, said allegations of politicking should not deter senators from conducting the probe.
He pointed out that the Senate Blue Ribbon investigation on the P10 billion pork barrel scam "shocked the people" and allowed the public to see how lawmakers use priority development assistance funds.
"They were able to see the demeanor of the witnesses like Benhur Luy and make their own opinions about the matter," he said.
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Major office towers could be coming to an area already plagued by overlong construction and heavy traffic near Union Station.
The project, which is in preliminary zoning review stages by Hines Interests Limited Partnership, could bring at least one 48-storey office tower to the hub of Toronto commuting at 45 Bay St. and the block to the north across from Union Station.
Renderings of the plans, which have since been removed from the Hines website along with a page dedicated to the project, show a three-tower development across Bay from the Air Canada Centre, where a parking lot now stands. The tallest tower, which appears to be higher than the TD Canada Trust Tower, soars up from the current GO bus terminal and is linked to a 48-storey tower at the Bay Street lot by a retail podium above the Union Station train tracks. A third smaller tower is built up from the roof of the Dominion Public Building at Yonge Street.
Zoning review applications were filed on Aug. 8 for 45 Bay and 141 Bay, but have yet to be reviewed by city staff.
Hines spokesperson Allison Kimmell would not elaborate on the plans when contacted by the Star. We havent made a public announcement about this yet, so at this time were not commenting on it, she said. She would not explain why the project page was removed from the company website, a move noted by forum users at UrbanToronto.ca. It is not clear whether Hines is the only development manager involved with the massive three-tower design.
In 2012, lot owners Ivanhoe Cambridge confirmed to the Star that a 50-storey office tower was planned for the space, but would not elaborate. The company now confirms that Metrolinx and Ivanhoe Cambridge are working together for a new development of mixed-use office space that integrates transportation and a bus terminal, said vice-president of communications Michele Meier.
Anne Marie Aikins with Metrolinx also confirmed this, but noted retail is not part of 45 Bay. She did not say whether that means retail is not a part of the adjacent developments, which the plans reviewed by the Star suggest.
Aikins couldnt say when the project will begin construction as it is still in the very early stages, but assures that it wont start while Union Station is in its current chaotic state.
We would certainly assure that this would be as painless as possible. Before our shovels even run in the ground, Union Station will be finished, she said. Things are moving. I know right now it looks like mayhem.
While no proposal has been submitted to the Toronto planning department for the project, the publicly available zoning review applications outline some of the plans. One application, which proposes structures for a park above the railway, suggests rooftop green space is planned for the retail area connecting the two main towers above the train tracks.
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So, that beach vacation didn't pan out this year? Not to worry. Pittsburgh's got you covered. With summer winding down, here are some sandy staycation spots that don't require an expensive plane trip or hours in the car with screaming kids.
Anchors away!
Kelly's Down by the Riverside Saloon
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1458 Riverside Drive. Hours: 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Mondays-Saturdays, 9 a.m.-2 a.m. Sundays. Kitchen closes at midnight during summer.
Details: 724-728-0222 or http://www.kellys-pub.com
A gentle breeze ripples through the towering palm trees. Steel-band music plays as you wiggle your toes in the sand and sip a frozen tropical drink, watching the boats glide by.
It might not be the Bahamas, or even Myrtle Beach, but Kelly's Down by the Riverside Saloon in Beaver is a practical substitute when you need a few hours in a tropical paradise.
Every spring, owner Lisa Kelly plants a truckload of towering Florida-grown palm trees and replenishes the sand around the saloon's outdoor fantasy island retreat that overlooks a tranquil back channel of the Beaver River.
There's a full menu of sandwiches, salads and wraps, some with a Caribbean twist, and two popular weekly specials Sunday brunch from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the Monday-night special, all-you-can-eat crab legs, from 4 to 9 p.m.
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