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Singer Jennifer Lopez and former New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez were reported on Friday to have split up after almost four years together.
Celebrity website TMZ, the New York Post’s Page Six and multiple entertainment websites cited unidentified sources close to the couple as saying the pair had called off their engagement.
State of the Gulf: Recreational fishers catching twice as much snapper as commercial - Niwa
12 Mar, 2021 06:00 AM
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Fishery officers seized a boat that was caught in the Hauraki Gulf with almost five times the legal limit of snapper this week. Photo / File
Fishery officers seized a boat that was caught in the Hauraki Gulf with almost five times the legal limit of snapper this week. Photo / File
Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz
Recreational fishers are hauling in twice as much snapper from the Hauraki Gulf as the commercial industry, according to the latest data from Niwa.
NPO tasked to promote GB cottage industry
Business
March 13, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The government has tasked the National Productivity Organization (NPO) to prepare PC-1 for developing and promoting cottage industry under the Gilgit Baltistan development package, an official said on Friday.
NPO Chief Executive Officer Alamgir Chaudhry said the objective of the project is to build the capacity of stakeholders of the selected crafts to develop and promote the GB cottage industry.
The Planning Commission developed the five-year plan in collaboration with the government of GB. The major sectors in the program include infrastructure, agriculture, tourism, health, education, higher education, energy and gems and precious stones.
COLUMBIA - Columbia College announced Friday that they will hold an in-person commencement ceremony at Mizzou arena on Saturday, May 1.Â
The University of Missouri is also planning to have in-seat graduation during two weekends. The ceremonies will be held May 7-9 and May 14-16.Â
MU and Columbia College held virtual commencement ceremonies last year for 2020 graduates.Â
The Dean for Student Affairs at Columbia College emphasized the importance of having an in-seat ceremony for these students. Unfortunately for our 2020 graduates, they came in at the tail end where things were just awful, Dave Roberts, Columbia College Dean for Student Affairs, said. So to now after a year be able to announce that we re going to be able to have an in-person commencement, we know for our students, the ability to walk across the stage at the end of this experience, especially after this year, to say I achieved this degree I ve worked really hard for it is very meaningful in a very mea
My childhood memories growing up in Grand Rapids, Minnesota are of days spent building forts in the woods, swimming in the lakes, biking along Sunny Beach Road in the summer and sledding down the many hills in the winter. A wonderful tapestry woven through and through by my parents who gave me the foundation in which to build my own life. Little did I know then that the seeds for my future career were being planted along the way.
I feel lucky to have had that childhood, where it was spent and the parents that helped guide me. My father, Robert Elkington spent his career as a teacher and principal. My mother, Dorothy was the keeper of the many household day-to-day responsibilities and later in life, had a career working as a bank teller. I watched them, without really knowing at the time how much I would one day be in awe of their talents, their sacrifices, and their goodness.  When you are young, the days are strewn out before you one after the other, like a