Monthly Archives: July 2013

Review: Cal is a slick calendar app that belongs on your iPhone

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Cal's main view shows you what events you have that day and how much time you have between them.Disclaimer: I hate the iOS Calendar app. Not only is it ugly—although not quite faux-leather ugly like its desktop counterpart—but it lacks any features that make it useful beyond creating a simple event. There are plenty of calendar alternatives in the App Store, and while many people have urged me to try Fantastical and Tempo on my iPhone, I have yet to find a calendar app that does everything I Read more [...]

£7k grant for Llanelli listed building

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A TRUST in charge of a Grade II listed building in Llanelli has been awarded more than £7,000 towards repairs. The Llanelli Railway Goods Shed Trust has been awarded a grant of £7,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), money that go towards the capital cost of the repair works to the Grade II listed Goods Shed. ​ cash support MP Nia Griffith with trust members at the building, including Eldon Phillips, centre. The Read more [...]

Top 10 tips for creating a Facebook event

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1. Use a Facebook page to create your event and add your personal profile as a host. Invitees have a link to see all of the other events you have created. Invitees have a link to like your page. Your personal profile can directly message all of the invitees (however, abuse of this feature can be seen as spam.) 2. Don’t make someone search for information on your event. Make sure the important stuff is at the top of the details section and can be seen without hitting “See More.” If there Read more [...]

Huntingdon and Haverhill listed for Crap Towns book

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Huntingdon town centre by Geoff Soden of ParamotorsUKMAYOR of Huntingdon Cllr Bill Hensley is fuming that the town has been nominated for the latest book in the Crap Towns series.Huntingdon and Haverhill are in the longlist of 100 towns put forward for Crap Towns Returned.Cllr Hensley said: “I am very, very shocked. I my opinion it is a load of rubbish.“If it was a crap town I certainly would not have wanted to be mayor.”Will Austin, Haverhill town clerk, challenged anyone who thought the Read more [...]

Apartment Buildings, the Latest in French Ideas

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Peter Gerard Stuyvesant was a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, a colonial governor of Dutch New York who had a farm at the northeast end of what is now Stuyvesant Street. When Peter Gerard died in 1847, he left no children, and his will settled a fortune upon 5-year-old Stuyvesant Rutherford (sometimes spelled Rutherfurd) as long as he took the Stuyvesant surname. Sources vary as to their relationship, but the boy’s mother was a Stuyvesant descendant, and Peter Gerard is often referred to as Read more [...]

Court Rejects EFCC’s Request to Seize Sylva’s Houses

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Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva By Tobi Soniyi  Justice A.R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja Thursday rejected an attempt by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to seize the  properties allegedly belonging to the former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva. The court rejected the bid on the grounds that the request amounted to an abuse of court process.                                    In Read more [...]