Two days ago, I was sitting on a bench overlooking the Atlantic Ocean watching sizable waves smash onto the sandy beach and talking to a recently retired friend about, no kidding, Social Security. …read more
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The fourth tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season was born west of the Cape Verde Islands in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean on July 24. NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite provides continuous views of the Atlantic Ocean basin and captured an image of the newborn storm. …read more
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Picture two residential beach communities on the New Jersey shore: Bay Head and Mantoloking, which sit side-by-side in Ocean County on a narrow barrier island that separates the Atlantic Ocean and Barnegat Bay. …read more
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Smile and say, “Cosmic cheese!” From 898 million miles away, NASA’s Cassini-Huygens spacecraft will snap a portrait of Earth July 19 from between Saturn’s rings as North America and the Atlantic Ocean repose on the sunny side of Earth. …read more
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The snakehead is an invasive species of fish from Asia that is threatening the delicate ecosystem of the Potomac River that flows through Washington into the Atlantic Ocean. …read more
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There’s nothing I enjoy more while traveling than exploring a new destination with a vigorous early morning run. Here’s a few of my top spots to embrace the day. Cape Town, South Africa: It doesn’t get more beautiful than this picturesque city in the Southern Hemisphere; it also happens to be a runner’s paradise. The promenade along the Atlantic Ocean coastline takes you through the tony towns of Sea Point, Bantry Bay, Clifton and Camps Bay. If you’re staying along the V&A Waterfront area, there’s an easy 5k run from the Waterfront to the town of Sea Point. On weekends you’ll find plenty of like-minded runners out there along with soccer players, surfers and an all around buff looking crowd.
Margaret Thatcher, who served three consecutive terms as Great Britain‘s prime minister, died Monday at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke. She was remembered in America, and in Britain, as a bulwark not only against Communism in the 1980s but against the growth of the state — an ideology that will long outlive her on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
By gCaptain, Subscriber SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Coast Guard rescue crews combined efforts Saturday with the 800-foot Panamanian flag automobile carrier, Heijin, and the 600-foot Russian flag chemical-tank ship, Tanais Leader, to rescue four men attempting to row across the Atlantic Ocean from Senegal to Florida . …read more
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Public television in the Cape Verde Islands says U.S. authorities operating at sea have arrested a former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin in international drug-smuggling operations.
Radiotelevisao Caboverdiana reported late Thursday that Buba Na Tchuto and four other Guinea-Bissau nationals were apprehended aboard a yacht in international waters in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
It said they took the five to nearby Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony, from where Tchuto was flown to the United States.
Telephone calls to the Cape Verdean government and police rang unanswered Friday.
Kristine Marsh, a spokeswoman at the United States Embassy in Dakar, which oversees diplomatic relations with Guinea-Bissau, declined to comment, referring reporters to the U.S. Justice Department.
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Spanish, Portuguese and British police boarded a ship loaded with nearly two tons of cocaine destined for sale in Europe and arrested nine people, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.
Specialist agents, including members of Britain’s Serious Organized Crime Agency, conducted a dawn raid on March 15 while the ship was in the Atlantic Ocean, some 700 miles southwest of Portugal’s Cape Verde islands.
“It is the largest operation so far in 2013 in our fight against drug trafficking,” said Ignacio Cosido, Spain‘s director general of police.
Five crew aboard, four Brazilians and one Korean, were arrested and four alleged organizers — including the suspected Venezuelan mastermind — were rounded up the next day in the northern Portuguese city of Porto.
“He is a well-known person,” Cosido said of the main suspect. “He has a background in drug trafficking and is an important member of that world.”
Cocaine bales hidden in a bow locker and a backpack with a large amount in U.S. dollars were seized. The cocaine arrived at the naval dockyard of the Canary Island port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on Saturday, Cosido said.
The gang included a large group of Venezuela-based cocaine suppliers, the ministry statement said.
Earlier Saturday Spanish authorities said they had also seized 590 kilograms (1,300 pounds) of cocaine discovered inside a sailboat moored at a private dock and arrested two Eastern European men aboard.
The suspects were identified only as a 60-year-old Bulgarian and a 30-year-old from Serbia, one of whom was armed with a loaded 9mm pistol.
The operation began when a suspicious vessel sailing in international waters was found heading toward Spain‘s Mediterranean coast.
Agents observed the yacht entering the Sotogrande marina in southwestern Spain without lights and tying up at a private jetty. Investigators acting under instruction from a court in San Roque also searched several houses in that city and in Marbella.
The judicial authority ordered the suspects’ imprisonment. The arrest took place last week but an exact date was not given.
The Interior Ministry says Spanish, Portuguese and British police have boarded a ship loaded with nearly two tons of cocaine destined for sale in Europe and arrested nine people.
Specialist agents, including members of Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, conducted a dawn raid on March 15 while the ship was in the Atlantic Ocean, some 700 miles southwest of Portugal‘s Cape Verde islands.
Four Brazilians and one Korean crewman aboard were arrested and four alleged organizers — including the suspected Venezuelan mastermind — were rounded up the next day in the northern Portuguese city of Porto.
Cocaine bales hidden in a bow locker and a backpack with a large amount in U.S. dollars were seized.
The gang included a large group of Venezuela-based cocaine suppliers, a ministry statement said Saturday.
(Phys.org) —It’s has been know that massive increases in emission of CO2 from volcanoes, associated with the opening of the Atlantic Ocean in the end-Triassic Period, set off a shift in state of the climate which caused global mass extinction of species, eliminating about 34% of genera. The extinction created ecological niches which allowed the rise of dinosaurs during the Triassic, about 250-200 million years ago. …read more
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The giant rocket engines that propelled mankind to the moon have been retrieved from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, is responsible for this voyage to the bottom of the sea, which recovered two huge F-1 engines. …read more
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A group led by Amazon's CEO has recovered from deep in the Atlantic Ocean rocket engines that powered the NASA Apollo moon missions in the 1960s and 1970s. …read more
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions has recovered vintage Saturn V F-1 rocket engines from the Atlantic Ocean floor. …read more
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432 Park Avenue Launches Official Sales Campaign with Over One Third of Residences Under Contract
Tower to Become Tallest Residential Building in the Western Hemisphere
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CIM Group and Macklowe Properties announced today the launch of the residential condominium sales campaign for 432 Park Avenue and the opening of the sales and marketing center located at 767 Fifth Avenue. The much-anticipated project has been quietly marketing units for sale and over one third of the residences are under contract. With an expected completion in 2015, the extraordinarily graceful 1,396-foot tower, designed by Rafael Viñoly, will become the tallest building in New York City and the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere.
A rendering of 432 Park Avenue. ©dbox for CIM Group & Macklowe Properties (Photo: Business Wire)
Located on Park Avenue between 56 th and 57 th Street, 432 Park Avenue is surrounded by world-renowned retailers offering the best of fashion, art and design. The slim and elegant square tower will ascend 96 stories and is being constructed using architectural concrete, steel, and glass. All windows measure an expansive 10 feet by 10 feet, flooding residences with abundant natural light and providing spectacular views of Central Park, the Hudson and East Rivers, Atlantic Ocean, and many iconic Manhattan buildings and avenues.
In the tradition of New York City‘s finest apartment houses and hotels, residents will enjoy 30,000 square feet of amenities including a private restaurant, outdoor garden for dining and events, spa and fitness center with sauna, steam and massage rooms, 75-foot swimming pool, library, lounge, billiards room, screening room and performance venue, children’s playroom, and boardroom. In-suite catering, concierge, 24-hour doorman, and valet parking services will be provided by the building’s handpicked staff.
Residences include private elevator landings, separate service entrances, eat-in kitchens, windowed his-and-her bathrooms and large master suites with adjoining dressing rooms. Interior finishes include 12.5-foot finished ceilings, solid oak flooring, custom hardware, and the highest quality natural materials. Kitchens feature custom cabinetry, Miele stainless steel appliances, Dornbracht fixtures, and marble countertops and flooring. Master bathrooms are fitted in book-matched slabs of Italian statuario marble and …read more
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Last year was a tough one, but all things considered, Richard Cannon, a New York City firefighter with roots to Ireland, says the luck of the Irish has been on his side.
After all, it was three years ago when he met his fiancé at the Long Island Irish Festival in September that marks the half-way point before St. Patrick’s Day.
He bought a home in Breezy Point, a modest one-story house in earshot of his father’s, and renovated the property for the better part of three years.
He paid $50,000 on furniture, another $30,000 on a deck and spent hours working on the home that only three months after its completion, would be ruled unsafe by the New York Department of Buildings and be required to be torn down.
“I cried for days,” Cannon said, wearing a blue cast on his right wrist as a result of tearing three tendons at work. “My home was a buffer for my neighbors’ houses.”
Breezy Point is a part of the Rockaway peninsula on the southern coast of New York — and one of the hardest areas hit by last October’s Superstorm Sandy. The small community made international headlines when a huge fire destroyed 80 to 100 homes.
Cannon visited his property on St. Patrick’s Day and pointed his hand with the cast to Graham Place, the route the Atlantic Ocean took to flood his home.
“The water came in right there,” he said, gesturing to the road like a witness would describe a crime scene. “It turned there and…well, here’s my house.”
Cannon said he had prepared for the Storm by stacking sandbags around his house before leaving for a trout-fishing trip in upstate New York.
“I thought, at worst, it would be like (Hurricane) Irene where we got a little water,” he said. “I never expected this.”
When you talk to Breezy Point residents, without fail, there’s a point in the conversation where they demonstrate how high the water levels reached in their home. They raise their hand to their stomach or knees, or chest, like they’re measuring snow,
“My entire first floor was under water,” Donald Ryan, who lived in the beachfront community for 67 years, said. “This was the worst I’ve ever seen.”
St. Patrick’s Day in Breezy Point is traditionally subdued. Most residents either celebrate in New York City or, on the first weekend of March, at local bars in the Rockaways.
This year, residents in the country’s most Irish zip code, with 54.3 percent having lineage to Ireland, used the day to dress in some variation of green and take time to consider their post-Sandy lives.
“I think this year, there’s a sense of a rebuilding spirit,” Fr. Sean Sockiel, 27, who was assigned to Breezy Point‘s St. Thomas More Church. “The storm hit us on a Tuesday, and the church was packed on Sunday.”
Sockiel, who was just ordained a priest months before Sandy, said he had something of a baptism by “fire, storm and water.”
“My main mission has been to help the children,” he said. “They’ve been very strong …read more
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