Spring may still be several weeks away but that isn’t stopping the Flat Rock Model Train Depot and Museum from kicking off its spring schedule in early February, with the announcement of a fan favorite. Thomas the model train, along with his friends, will chug their way to the depot, beginning at 1 p.m. on Feb. 4. “The Flat Rock Train Club members promise the new Thomas exhibit will be the best one yet,” said Pat Simeck, who oversees the exhibit. “They have purchased an extensive collection of Thomas memorabilia for the occasion.” Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas…
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A young woman has died just four days after getting engaged on a romantic holiday in South Africa after using the wrong spoon to stir her tea.Jess Prinsloo, 24, is thought to have died as a result of her acute dairy allergy just days after her partner Craig McKinnon, also 24, proposed at the God’s Window viewpoint in Mpumalanga on December 27.After saying yes, marketing executive Jess, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, celebrated with her fiancé for several days before travelling to her mother’s house in Johannesburg on December 30.But after coming into contact with dairy, she went into anaphylaxis, an allergic reaction in which…
South Africa 141 for 5 (Kapp 52, Luus 30, Connell 2-17) beat West Indies 97 for 8 (Matthews 23, Klaas 4-21, Mlaba 1-10) by 44 runsWest Indies’ batting woes continued as they went down to South Africa by 44 runs in the second match of the women’s T20I tri-series in East London. After Marizanne Kapp’s fifty propelled South Africa to 141, Masabata Klaas’ four-wicket haul helped them bounce back from the opening game defeat to India.Kapp lifts South AfricaA spin-heavy West Indies restricted South Africa to a competitive total on a slow and sluggish surface at Buffalo Park. After being…
As South Korean families prepare to take positions at the Hyundai plant, community members in Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham and Effingham counties must be ready to welcome them with open arms. More than 100 “team members” have already moved to the area.The Savannah Joint Development Authority, the Development Authority of Bryan County, World Trade Center Savannah and the Richmond Hill/Bryan County Chamber of Commerce hosted a seminar Tuesday morning to discuss ways the community can be of assistance.Work assignments can be anywhere from two to five years and although the stint is short, guest speaker Jeanne Charbonneau, who spent nearly two…
Emma Nzioka, a Kenyan performer and DJ known as Coco Em, was looking forward to the Terra Sagrada festival in Cape Verde for nearly a year. Some of her favourite African artists, such as Boddhi Satva, would be playing.But Nzioka did not make it to the festival last month, or out of the country, for that matter. At the check-in counter in Kenya, she was told she could not board her flight unless she bought a return ticket with the same airline (she had one with another airline) to “prove” she would return home. Although Nzioka was going to Cape…
With its colourful numbers and hands helpfully labelled minute and hour, a children’s learning clock from Oyster & Pop, a family firm in Devon, is sold online for about £20. A Rolex Oyster watch, on the other hand, calls itself a “superlative chronometer” and costs nearer £5,000. Rolex is demanding that the smaller company change its name, however, arguing that people might think the Teignmouth children’s clocks have something to do with the Swiss watchmaker. Oyster & Pop, which also sells wall charts, fraction sets and highlighters, was set up in 2021 by Emma Ross-McNairn and her sister Sarah Davies.…
The Centre will provide free bilingual coaching to 200 eligible candidates for the Group-II examination at the TS BC Study Centre, Hyderabad. Published Date – 07:43 PM, Sat – 21 January 23 The Centre will provide free bilingual coaching to 200 eligible candidates for the Group-II examination at the TS BC Study Centre, Hyderabad. Hyderabad: The Telangana State BC Employability, Skill Development and Training Centre, popular as BC Study Circles, has extended the last date for submitting online applications for free coaching for the TSPSC’s Group-II examination. The Centre will provide free bilingual coaching to 200 eligible candidates for the…
A chance discussion on a starry evening in Botswana, Africa, in 2019 launched an unlikely writing project that teamed the creator of the Mutts comic strip with the Dalai Lama and a prominent La Jolla couple.Cartoonist Patrick McDonnell was on a safari with Jerry Cesak, former “Jeff and Jer” radio personality, and Jerry’s wife, Pam. The men were colleagues on the National Humane Society board at the time.As talk turned to the beauty and exotic creatures around them, Pam related a comment by the Dalai Lama, whom the Cesaks had visited in Dharamshala, India, where the Buddhist leader has lived…
The threat of deadly terrorism in Africa has grown from strength to strength, with the frequency of attacks rising exponentially. By the counts of African Union’s Algiers-based African Centre on the study of terrorism, Africa witnessed a 400 percent rise in attacks, fueling a 237 percent rise in deaths between 2012 and 2020. And civilians are bearing the brunt of much of these violent attacks by the perpetrators, but also sometimes from counterterrorism operations. According to the Centre’s 2022 Mid-Year Africa Terrorism Trends Analysis, 433 out of the 699 terrorist attacks perpetrated during the first half of 2022 were launched against civilians.…
Gallery contains 1 image × Photo 1 of 1 africom_logo_jpgrelease_thumbnail Photo by: U.S. Africa Command Public Affairs At the request of the Federal Government of Somalia and in support of Somali National Army engagements against al-Shabaab, U.S. Africa Command conducted a collective self-defense strike on Jan. 20, 2023.The strike occurred approximately 260 km northeast of Mogadishu near Galcad, Somalia where Somalia National Army forces were engaged in heavy fighting following a complex, extended, intense attack by more than 100 al-Shabaab fighters.The combined actions by partner forces on the ground and the collective self-defense strike is estimated to have resulted in…