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UPDATE:Â Oklahoma tornado: Search for survivors continues
May 21st 2013 From BBC
Emergency workers in the US are continuing to search for survivors of the massive tornado that tore through a suburb of Oklahoma City on Monday.
Rescuers worked through the night in the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in Moore, the worst-hit area.
Neighbourhoods were flattened by [...]
The week of Monday, 13 May, GIS Spotlight goes on a mission to bring you culture, and revisits two icons in the Cayman landscape.
A haven of Caymanian history and culture flourishes proudly in Bodden Town. Take a trip with us to the Mission House, a beautifully restored building, full of artefacts and memorabilia from a [...]
From Designer Daily Via Colossal (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/05/composite-image-of-the-moon-taken-from-38-photos-reveals-solar-corona-during-a-total-solar-eclipse/)
Miloslav DruckmĂĽller*, a Czech photographer from the Brno University of Technology, created this stunning image. The photographer chose a remote location to get more clarity, and shot over 40 pictures he assembled to achieve this wonderful effect.
*From Miloslav Druckmüller “Total Solar Eclipse 2009, Marshall Islands, Enewetak Atoll, N 11deg. 21.546’, [...]
From Bahama islandsinfo
NASSAU, Bahamas — This Whit Monday, May 20th, 2013, fourteen (14) beautiful little angels will take to the stage of the Wyndham Rain Forest Theatre for the 10th annual Little Miss Bahamas Pageant doors open at 4pm. Dubbed the 2013 Pink Pearls, the eager contestants from all across the Bahamas are hoping to [...]
By Julie Zeveloff, Business Insider
Prince Harry arrived in the U.S. last week for a cross-country publicity tour.
He started in Washington D.C., where he visited the White House and wounded soldiers, before heading west to Colorado Springs and Denver, where he met with athletes and helped kick off the Warrior Games.
On the last leg of his [...]
The Coalition for Cayman (C4C), at almost the last minute, have released their manifesto that many of us believed they were not ever going to produce. They have certainly been quiet about it.
But wait, its not a manifesto. – it’s a PLAN. Not just any old plan. It’s the “National Priorities Plan”!!
Read on:
National priorities Plan [...]
By hipstomp/Rain Noe, from core77
Of all the reasons why I could never be a construction worker—not strong enough, can’t consistently wake up at 5am, don’t know how to catcall—preeminent among them is my deathly fear of heights. It was terrifying to watch this video of construction workers hoisting the spire onto One World Trade [...]
By Tom Purvis (13), From Bahama islandsinfo
Over 230 rugby players, coaches and parents travelled over for the tournament – players line up for the first day meeting and offical welcome by the Ministry of Tourism.FREEPORT, Grand Bahama — Last weekend, the Freeport Rugby Club held their 3rd Annual Junior Rugby International Tournament. It was a [...]
Haiti – anise
Apocalypse Now? Haiti as a new frontier for design
by Patty Johnson Core77
Core 77′s excellent series Apocalypse 2012: The End Starts Here saw ‘mild polemics’ and lively discussions used to demonstrate and suggest new roles for design at the beginning of the end of time. But what about designing in the apocalypse? Or, more [...]
A man has been arrested and is currently detained in police custody after an early morning raid on a house in East End.
About 5.45 am today (Wednesday, 15 May) officers searched a house in John McLean Drive, East End. During the search a flare gun, mask and bayonet were seized.
A 47-year-old man was arrested on [...]
