Nursing home operators are raising concerns about their ability to comply with a 60-day deadline requiring facilities to install generators that can provide electrical power for at least 96 hours in the event of an outage.
In early November, the first of four advanced polar-orbiting satellites known as the Joint Polar Satellite System will be launched from California, the result of a collaboration between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.
Hurlburt Field – 27 years of service. 13 assignments. Countless deployments with joint special operations units and even a stint at Harvard University.
In the classrooms of Gulf Pointe Latin School, there is no chance of hearing the chime of a cellphone. There are no laptops or tablets either. No computers.
We are in a time when our country seems so divided; racial outcries, black, white, Muslim, Christian, Atheists, whose life matters, sexism and so much more. The voices of today’s generation are all muddled by what they believe, all speaking at the same time and over everyone else’s voice. We cannot hear each other speak, we do not listen to the words nor the intent behind the words. And if we do not agree, we protest or kneel or shout in the streets. But every color has shed blood for the flag and it is what unites us under God.
My father, a naturalized citizen, a U.S. Navy veteran of World War I, loved our country, our national anthem and honored our flag. He instilled patriotism in his children. His heart would break to learn of the #1 story, 200 NFL players kneeling at recent ballgames.
We have a column by Inkie this week. She can’t write every week – because she is too busy playing and napping. My husband and my daughter pop in to the office occasionally during the week – but not to see me. They want to see Inkie. My husband doesn’t know how we get any work done. “I fully expect that one week you will just have pictures of Inkie and some press releases – and that is it,” he said. Nope, that won’t happen.
A day after Irma had cleared south Florida, Teresa Focaracci, her son, his girlfriend and their friends headed back home from the Springhill Suites on Navarre Beach. They were six people, five large dogs and a cat crammed into two cars, and rode out the storm in the hotel.
