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This Thursday, Edith Prague will be visiting Harrington Court to discuss aging issues with our residents. The local community is invited to attend. There will be light refreshments (coffee, etc…) afterwards.
In the Main Dining Room
Harrington Court Genesis Healthcare
59 Harrington Court
The Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus will hold auditions on Wednesday, September 3, at the auditorium in Leamy Hall, U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Interested singers should contact ECSC President Kathy Walburn at ecscpresident@gmail.com to reserve an audition time. Those auditioning will be notified of the results prior to the first rehearsal which will be Wednesday, September 10, from 7-9 PM at the same location. Please prepare a classical selection of your choice, excluding show tunes. Examples of acceptable pieces are hymns, arias, or selections from other classical works. Candidates will be asked to sight read a short selection chosen by Mark Singleton, ECSC Chorus Director. An accompanist will be provided.
Singers pay $75/year. Dues are waived for students. Other costs include the musical scores and sheet music for each concert. The Chorus will be performing a concert entitled “Mozart’s Unfinished” featuring Mozart’s Requiem and Solemn Vespers for a fall concert on Saturday, November 1, 2014, on the campus of Connecticut College. The Chorus will also be featured in the April 25, 2015, Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra concert of “Carmina Burana” at 8 PM the Garde Arts Center in New London.
289 State Street, New London, CT 06420
Tel: 860-443-2876
Fax: 860-444-7601
The Elm Shakespeare 2014 Gala & Auction opens for bidding on August 14, 2014 at 8:00 AM EDT Time.
Our auction supports Free Shakespeare in the Park and Elm Shakespeare’s educational programs. This is an exciting and fun way to help Elm, and to win cool items!
We’ll be adding new items to our auction for you to preview as the auction date approaches. Check back often to see what’s new. Feel free to place a Watch on your favorites, so that you’ll know as soon as bidding begins!
CONWAY 28528, SC (08/11/2014) — Bailey Frankewicz, of Waterford, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
Frankewicz was among some 305 candidates for graduation at Coastal Carolina University’s Summer 2014 commencement ceremonies.
Arne Flaten, Ph.D., professor of art history and chair of CCU’s Department of Visual Arts, was the commencement speaker. He was the HTC Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Lecturer at Coastal Carolina University in 2013, and in 2014 he was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA).
Coastal Carolina University is a dynamic, public comprehensive liberal arts institution located in Conway, just minutes from the resort area of Myrtle Beach, S.C. The University offers 66 areas of study toward the baccalaureate degree and seven master’s degree programs in accountancy, business administration, education, marine and wetland studies, and writing. The University will offer its first Ph.D. program, in marine science, in fall 2014.
More than 9,400 students from across the country and the world interact with a world-class faculty, and enjoy a nationally competitive NCAA I athletic program, an inspiring cultural calendar, and a tradition of community interaction that is fueled by more than 120 student clubs and organizations.
Coastal Carolina University was founded in 1954 as Coastal Carolina Junior College and became an independent state university in 1993.
Learn more: http://www.coastal.edu/
Recent important, interesting and unusual real estate news stories from the U.S. and world media. See it all at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com
Florida Home Prices Back To Peak In 2019
According to a new report from Zillow, Florida home prices peaked in 2006 and hit bottom in 2011. The real estate website analysis states that Florida home prices are currently 36 percent below the peak levels and predicts prices will return to their 2006 peak in 2019. Zillow believes that Florida will perform better than most of the United States.
Top 10 Surging U.S. Housing Markets
Realtor.com selects the ten U.S. areas where they expect a strong housing market surge. From Reno, Nevada to Albany, New York and Washington D.C.
Sweet Domino Sugar Sign Coming Down
The forty-foot Domino Sugar sign at their former Brooklyn factory that has been seen by millions of New Yorkers and visitors since the 1920s is coming down as development progresses on a new housing development. The plant closed in 2004. The sign will be refurbished and moved to a new location at the project.
America’s Top 10 Counties
According to the real estate website Movoto, the #1 county in the United States is Loudoun in Virginia. Rankings are based on factors such as unemployment rates and housing expenses. Loudoun is a suburb of Washington D.C. and has had the highest county median income since 2007. Virginia also has the #3 county.
New York’s Most Expensive Building
15 Central Park West is one of New York’s most expensive and historic buildings. It was the first building in New York after The Depression that was constructed for rich people and is still home to the city’s wealthy. Units sell at over $6,000 per square foot and rent for $18,000 to $40,000. Famous residents include Alex Rodriquez, Mark Wahlburg, Sting and many of the country’s top financial CEOs.
Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch For Sale
It appears that Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch is going on the market for about $60 million. Jackson lived at the ranch until 2004 when he sold it to avoid foreclosure. The estate includes 22 buildings but most of the amusement attractions including the Ferris wheel were removed by his children and replaced with a Zen garden. Jackson died in 2009.
Top CEOs Make Florida Their Home
According to the Florida Realtors Association, 50 percent of the top ten preferred home locations for top CEOs are in Florida. The top Florida area is Vero Beach – Sebastian at #3 on the list. The leading preferred area is in Bridgeport – Stamford – Norwalk, Connecticut.
Weird But Wonderful Homes
Bankrate has photos of six unusual and special homes.
The New South Florida Condo Boom
Over 10,000 new condos are already sold in South Florida since the market began to recover in 2011. According to “The Real Deal,” at least 23 new condo buildings have already sold out and 25 more are at least 90 percent sold out. Today’s buyers are usually required to make a 50 percent down payment, compared to just 10 percent during the previous Florida condo boom.
National Home Prices Increase 7.5%
National home prices increased 1 percent in June, up 7.5 percent since June 2013. Although home prices have been on a steady rise since 2011, they are still over 25 percent lower than their peak in 2005-06 for Nevada, Florida, Arizona and Rhode Island.
Opie’s Furniture For Sale
Ron and Cheryl Howard just sold their Greenwich, Connecticut home for the asking price of $27.5 million and are now selling the furniture too. There is a website at One Kings Lane.
Montana Compound Without Heat
An architect who designed an Arizona home without air conditioning has now come up with a Montana home that doesn’t have a central heating system.
Celebrity Home Features
Neil Patrick Harris has a magic man cave, Kenny Rogers has a Roman spa, Ron Howard has a sports barn and Robin Williams has two safe rooms. Curbed has a look at special celebrity home features.
Florida Celebrity Homes
Other than California and New York, Florida is home to more celebrities than any other state. Celine Dion, Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh are just a few of the dozens of celebrities who have homes in Florida.
Trump’s Atlantic City Boarding House Problem Sold at Auction
Back in the days when everyone thought Atlantic City would be a gold mine, Donald Trump had to build his casino around Vera Coking’s boarding house. Mrs Coking turned down millions of Trump money and a free Trump condo. Things didn’t work out so well for either Mrs Coking or Mr Trump.
Miami Home Prices Increase 13.2%
A total of 60 new condo towers are either under construction or planned for the downtown Miami area. According to Standard & Poors Case Schiller Index, Miami home prices are 13.2 percent higher than 2013.
Where the Hamptons Stars Live
Curbed has a map to the Hamptons celebrity homes. See where Kelly Ripa, Howard Stern, Calvin Klein, Martha Stewart and thirty other stars live in the Hamptons.
Top 10 Expensive U.S. Homes
TV reality’s “Million Dollar Listing” agent Ryan Serhant has the most expensive home for sale in the United States at $118 million. Curbed has the scoop on America’s top 10 real estate listings.
Celebrities Sell Their Homes To Celebrities
Celebrities frequently sell their homes to other celebrities. In 2011, Ellen DeGeneres bought Brad Pitt’s Malibu beach home for $12 million. She sold it just a year later to Ryan Seacrest for $37.5 million. Christina Aguilera bought a Beverly Hills estate from Ozzy Osbourne in 2007. Jessica Simpson bought another Osbourne home, Adam Sandler bought his house from Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, and Salma Hayek once bought one of Kelsey Grammer’s homes.
New York’s Tallest Towers
One World Trade Center is the champion. The Empire State Building is in second place and the Bank of America Tower in third place. The Real Deal has a look at New York’s tallest skyscrapers.
The Good Thing About Plastic Couch Covers
Many baby boomers remember the thick plastic covers that their mothers used to protect their prized 1960’s living room chairs and couches. Say what you will how tacky they might have been, the resale shop owners where these items are now landing as the aged mothers die are thrilled to have them. Many still look brand new.
A Trip To See Fallingwater
In 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright was given a budget of $30,000 by the owner of Pittsburgh’s Kaufmann Department Store to build their family home over a waterfall in rural Pennsylvania. Wright ended up spending $150,000.
New York’s Condo Competition
The latest upscale New York City condo towers have several advantages over the condo buildings that were most popular just two years ago.
Home Sale Prices Increase 4.3%
According to new data from the National Association of Realtors, U.S. home sale prices in June were 4.3 percent higher than June, 2013. Median prices have increased for 28 consecutive months. However the pace of home sales decreased a bit.
Paulson Pushes Home Hownership
Money guru John Paulson told CNBC that home ownership is the best investment a person can make. Ironically, Paulson became famous and made a fortune in 2007 when he bet that the U.S. housing market was headed for a crash.
See all these stories and much more at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com.
The Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise sailed back into Dutch territorial waters on August 9 after over 300 days in Russian custody. The ship had been held illegally since taking part in a peaceful direct action against state owned oil company Gazprom, as it tried to drill the world’s first oil well in icy Arctic waters.
Several members of the so called ‘Arctic 30’ were there to greet the ship and boarded the vessel in Beverwijk, near Amsterdam.
“This is a joyous day for me, for my friends and for the millions of people around the world who campaigned for the release of the Arctic 30 and the Arctic Sunrise”, says Dutch climate and energy campaigner Faiza Oulahsen, who spent two months in Russian prison last year on piracy and then hooliganism charges following the protest.
“The companies and governments who seek to exploit this vulnerable region for profit have tried to silence the growing call to protect the Arctic for future generations. But they have not succeeded. And they will not. The Arctic Sunrise will sail again. By now more than 5 million people worldwide have spoken out for Arctic protection.”
Oulahsen went on to thank the broad sweep of civil society organizations and individuals who spoke out on behalf of the activists including 11 Nobel peace prize winners, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and a host of senior political figures from across the world.
“We are both incredibly grateful for the huge level of support we received, and conscious that many others have not been so lucky. I would like to use this opportunity to support the many other peaceful environmental activists who remain oppressed or imprisoned for their beliefs, both in Russia and around the world.”
The activists saw the ship for the first time since it was seized by Russian security agents on September 19th 2013. The ship will now sail to the harbour of Amsterdam, accompanied by a fleet of Greenpeace supporters in small vessels.
In Amsterdam the Arctic Sunrise will host a humble, but festive homecoming ceremony. On board the ship is a samovar, a traditional Russian tea-pot. The tea-pot, engraved with the words ‘MY Arctic Sunrise – From Russia with love’, will stay on board, as an ongoing symbol of support and care from the Russian Arctic defenders. Once the Arctic Sunrise arrives in Amsterdam, members of the Arctic 30 will drink the ceremonial first cups of tea from the samovar.
In a few days the ship will be moved to a shipyard in Amsterdam for much needed repairs. Even though captain Daniel Rizzotti and his crew have worked hard for several weeks in Murmansk to make the Arctic Sunrise seaworthy again, much acwork still needs to be done. Within two weeks Greenpeace expects to have a thorough idea of the extent of the damages.
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With August being Child Support Awareness Month, August 12 being International Youth Day and the United States having the second highest rate of relative child poverty among economically developed nations, the leading personal finance social network WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2014’s Best & Worst States for Underprivileged Children.
To study the living and economic conditions of youth in each state, WalletHub ranked the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia across 16 key metrics, ranging from infant death rates and children in foster care to child food insecurity rates and percentage of maltreated children. By bringing key issues to the forefront, WalletHub aims to engender change and galvanize groups to act on behalf of society’s future propellers.
Children’s Living & Economic Conditions in Connecticut (1=best)
For the full report, please visit:
http://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-states-underprivileged-children/5403/
photos by Josie Kapral
The Mystic River Mudheads handed out the Mudhead Benefit Regatta Sailing Instructions to the tunes of some great Blues and Rock N Roll. In its 5th year, the Racer’s Jam has become a fun staple of the weekend – all in support of Center for Hospice Care.
The Racer’s Jam, under the tent at Mystic Shipyard, brought appearances from many talented Mudheads including: Bob Austin-LaFrance (guitar/vocals), Mike LaChance (bass), Bruce Harvey (harmonica), Sean Burridge (drums), Toby Halsey (guitar), Jonathan “Sledge” Smith (guitar), Goffe Briggs (harmonica/vocals) and special guest, Chris Leigh on guitar and vocals. Leigh is the co-founder of the Mystic Blues Festival and lead guitarist for Eight to the Bar. Additional special appearances by Bob Davis founder of Sails Up 4 Cancer; and Frank Murphy, current Mudhead Commodore on their rendition of the Rolling Stones’ Sympathy For The Devil.
The Mudheads formed in 1976 to help promote their cause – sail boat racing and camaraderie. They have grown into arguably the most active racing fleet in the Northeast. Their mission: promote camaraderie and fun among members by encouraging competitive sailing, managing quality races, fostering member participation in racing at all levels, and hosting memorable social events.
Visit www.mudhead.org for information about upcoming events.
