CRAZY CONTRAPTIONS

Monday 30th July 2012  9:00 AM

Discovery Centre
Science Exploration Camp

Get Set For A Thrill-Filled Summer!

Get set for a thrill-filled summer at the discovery center science exploration camp! each exciting week, discovery center offers unique, hands-on, lessons, laboratories, and activities, giving kids a chance to do fun interactive experiments and projects that put into action the principles of the scientific method....

Apple lifts curtain on iPhone 6, Apple Watch

Apple (AAPL) on Tuesday introduced two new iPhones, its long-awaited Apple Watch and a mobile payment system as part of a marketing blitz aimed at drumming up consumer excitement. Now the question is whether the new gear will live up to the hype...

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High heels change the way you walk permanently

The high-heeled shoe -- no other shoe has been recognized as a symbol of leisure, sexuality, style and sophistication. The formal invention of high heels as fashion is attributed to the short-statured French queen, Catherine de Medici (1519-1589). She donned heels two inches high that made her taller and gave her an alluring sway when she walked. By 1580, fashionable heels were popular and worn by...

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The gathering storm in the Caribbean

Pretty soon, the meteorologists will designate the names and the number of the gathering storms that will inflict their damage on the paradise-like, but fragile and battered Caribbean. Coming from the continent of Africa, the wind that takes strength in its voyage across the Atlantic will become a raging storm that may land either in Mexico or in the United Sates after ravaging several of the isla...

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Businesses 'treat cars better than computers'

Most people don't wait until they are stranded by the roadside to consider taking their car in for a tune-up.
Yet when it comes to information technology (IT) - the engine of any modern business - it seems common sense is far less common, according to a leading provider of hardware, software and IT services.
Though much neglected, maintenance is a vitally important aspect of any healthy IT system,...

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Businesses treat their cars better than their computers

Most people don?t wait until they are stranded by the roadside to consider taking their car in for a tune-up...

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The Hook Up

New ProvidenceHEART BALL: The 50th Annual Heart Ball will be held on Saturday, February 15 at the Melia Resort. Cocktails are 7:15 p.m. with dinner at 8:30 p.m.FESTIVAL RUM BAHAMAS: Festival Rum Bahamas, February 21-23 at Fort Charlotte, is an enticing mixture of local, regional and international rum exhibitors. During the three-day festival there will be product sampling, master classes on rum, b...

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The Hook Up

New Providence
HIGHGROVE SINGERS: A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols with The Highgrove Singers under the conduction of Adrian Archer and the Golden Gates Hand Bell Choir under the conduction of Navarro Gibson will take place on Sunday, December 22 at 6 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral, George Street. Music to be played will be by Bob Chilcott, Steve Pilkington, Benjamin Britten, Sean Ivory, Jan S...

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A Celebration of Bahamian Culture & 40 years of Independence

Join us as we celebrate everything that truly defines the essence of Bahamian culture. Saturday, June 29th 12 noon to 5 pm, a colorful All Tings Bahamian Cultural Expo will display mouth-watering foods, fruity drinks, artisan crafts, folklore, dance and more. There will be family fun activities for the kids, games for the adults including BINGO!

The All Tings Bahamian event climaxes with a MAS...

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Reported cases of child abuse rise

Reported cases of child abuse have risen in the past two years, according to Minister of Social Services Melanie Griffin.
Griffin told The Nassau Guardian yesterday that there have been 288 reported cases of abuse in New Providence and Grand Bahama between January and the end of May 2013.
She said there were 181 reported cases in New Providence and 107 reported cases in Grand Bahama. The statistic...

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