Sentences with phrase «location as an island»

Due to its geographical location as an island, building materials are expensive and much is imported.

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It began as a networking group and expanded to include a lifestyle blog, events and women - only retreats in luxurious locations such as Hawaii, Necker Island and Turks & Caicos.

As part of its continued commitment to the veteran and military spouse community, Starbucks today announced the locations of its next five Military Family Stores (MFS): Austin and El Paso, Texas (Camp Mabry and Ft. Bliss); Clarksville, Tennessee (Fort Campbell); Newport, Rhode Island (Naval War College); and Bedford, Massachusetts (Joint Base Hanscom).

As Stelios now lives between the Principality of Monaco and the island of St Barthelemy (aka St Barts) in the French Caribbean, he has invested over the last decade in a substantial real estate portfolio in these two locations.

The projects we photograph are as diverse as their locations, from just around the corner in downtown Vancouver, to Victoria and Nanaimo, across the border in Bellingham or Seattle, or out to the Gulf Islands, San Juan Islands, Sunshine Coast, and remote Coast Salish First Nations reserves.

WELLINGTON: New Zealand's booming tourism industry is emerging as a cornerstone of an economy hit by declining dairy exports, but the hordes descending on silver screen locations such as Hobbiton are stretching the small island nation's resources.

With a prime location in Hunter's Point, Alobar adds to the growing attraction of Long Island City, now recognized as one of the New York metro area's most desirable neighborhoods.

On the basis that the context of practice in BC would be important in relation to the challenges that midwives would experience and the strategies that they would use, midwives with at least 5 years» experience as a midwife in BC were selected from a list of registered midwives, to reflect possible variations in experiences between midwives working in urban and rural locations across BC (lower mainland, Vancouver Island, the interior and Northern BC), and between those working as solo, midwifery group and collaborative practitioners (midwives and family doctors sharing a caseload).

Staten Island Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis also called for a full accounting of de Blasio's previous trips to «Presidential primary hotspots Iowa and Vermont, and other locations for events not related to his official duties as mayor.»

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said, «Governor Cuomo continues to prove his dedication to putting Long Island at the forefront of the 21st Century by funding transformative projects that will create jobs, drive growth and position Long Island as a leading location for economic development.

U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D - Canarsie - Sheepshead Bay - Coney Island) is calling on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to abandon Georgia as a possible location for Amazon's second headquarters and come to Brooklyn instead.

The situation at Rikers Island has become «intolerable» and the site must be closed, Cuomo said — suggesting Wards Island as a possible location for a jail to help replace it.

Location scout Nick Carr, author of the popular blog Scouting NY, said that he often suggests directors use Staten Island as a film set.

The Legislature is scheduled to be in session on Monday and Tuesday, meaning Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, and Heastie, a Democrat from the Bronx, could be available to attend the Wednesday speech at an as - yet - undisclosed location in the Albany area.

Dubbed the «Drive for $ 15,» Cuomo's tour got started with a rally in Manhattan and then went on to stops in the Bronx and Long Island — with the governor at each location touting the $ 15 hourly wage as a way to instill fairness in the economy and bring much needed relief to workers.

That includes such locations as Muir Woods in Amherst, Grand Island Gateway Center and Whiting Industrial Park in Akron.

Wills said he chose the Sutphin Boulevard location as his headquarters not only because it is in the center of the district, but also because it is close to major public transportation hubs such as the Long Island Rail Road.

The situation at Rikers Island has become «intolerable» and the site must be closed, Gov. Cuomo said — suggesting Wards Island as a possible location for a jail to help replace it.

Cuomo, who visited the island Friday, has established a web page https://www.ny.gov/puertorico that lists organizations taking donations, as well as locations around the state where supplies such as flashlights and diapers can be dropped off.

After earning a degree in pastry arts from the Culinary Institute of America, she worked as a travel and food writer in locations ranging from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the South Island of New Zealand.

It is not only producing midplate volcanoes in the island chains above its location deep beneath the central Pacific but also has produced older volcanic chains now submerged in the northwest Pacific that erupted as the Pacific plate drifted over the central Pacific over the last 100 million years.

Scientists discovered prehistoric graffiti on Sulawesi Island in Indonesia that's at least 40,000 years old, potentially usurping Europe as the location of the world's oldest cave art.

This quotation explains why Darwin did not even bother to record the island locations of the few finches he collected (and in some cases mislabeled) and why, as Sulloway has pointed out, these now famous «Darwin finches» were never specifically mentioned in On the Origin of Species.

This location was chosen because it is one of the most Mars - like locales on the face of the Earth: the island is completely uninhabited and unvegetated; it receives almost no precipitation, and is thus nearly as dry as Mars; temperature extremes approach those of Mars; the impact crater where the station is located is similar to many such craters on Mars.

Officials from the Thirty Meter Telescope have selected the Canary Islands in Spain as the TMT's alternate location if a permit for Hawai`i is not granted by early next year.

Because the British samples in the 1,000 Genomes Project fall into three distinct clusters, reflecting three sample locations (from Kent, Cornwall and the Orkney Islands, as part of the Peoples of the British Isles project4, 21, Supplementary Note 4) 16, we fitted different trees to these different groups (Supplementary Fig. 8).

I frequent the Little Tokyo and Pasadena location more often than the rest but the macarons seems to be equally delectable across the four locations that I've been to (the two mentioned above as well as the Beverly Hills and Fashion Island locations).

The island, known as the Illicit Retreat, will offer married people a secure, secret location where they can go and meet partners outside of their marriage.

In recent weeks, Puerto Rico had been bandied about quite a bit as a shooting location for the HBO series, but as I hinted, the island will sub in for ever - topical Mexico.

They truly showcase how beautiful the location is and I love how he captures the island as the perfect backdrop to tell this thrilling story of survival.

As summer takes off across the Northern Hemisphere, it seems as good a time as any to pick up a game set in a tropical island locatioAs summer takes off across the Northern Hemisphere, it seems as good a time as any to pick up a game set in a tropical island locatioas good a time as any to pick up a game set in a tropical island locatioas any to pick up a game set in a tropical island location.

«Gold,» clearly pushing Matthew McConaughey as a potential Oscar candidate, was filmed in Bangkok, Sura Thani (a gorgeous location that is also the gateway to Indonesia's many islands), Albuquerque, Reno and New York City.

Smith had played Marjorie in Los Angeles and was in rehearsals for the stage version in New York as shooting began, juggling her schedule between the movie locations in Long Island and New York City.

The setting is the island and the nearby metropolis of Megasaki City, located somewhere on the coast of the Japanese archipelago (By the by, the film uses the location without much concern for specificity, as if Anderson simply chose it to give the film an «exotic» look and feel).

The island where Tempest takes place is as magical as the play itself, and Taymor underscores the dramatic and varied beauty of the Hawaii locations.

The Providence Journal does report that Allen has been looking at Beavertail National Park in Jamestown, Rhode Island as a possible location.

We know that Allen has been looking at an amusement park like Coney Island as a location for the new film.

The island makes yet another appearance in Donkey Kong Country Returns and Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, once again acting as the main location.

While the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot was set entirely on one island, this sequel will contain at least two different locations with one being Siberia, but deserts and forests have been teased as well.

More than twice as many students could name the island location of the most recent episode of Survivor than could locate Israel or Afghanistan on a map.

Accrediting schools in California, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Palau, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, Marshall Islands and other Australasian locations, the ASC WASC encourages and supports institutional development and improvement through self - evaluation as well as mid-cycle, follow - up and special reports, and periodic peer evaluation of institutional quality.

Fierro, who thinks nothing of working seven days a week and 14 - hour days, delivers dogs from three shelters (Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island) to locations as far as Vermont, Maine and Washington, D.C.

It is important to remember that some locations such as Hawaii, U.K. and other island nations have additional requirements, quarantine laws may not permit the entry or transit of animals.

Both trucks left Thursday for locations in Houston as well as the Barrier Islands and are expected to be in Texas by late Friday night.

For example, Island Trees Veterinary Hospital included these communities in their veterinary SEO, as well as created pages for the communities around Hicksville: Levittown and Bethpage, as well as for their physical location, Hicksville to reach out to customers in these neighboring communities.

We recognize that Pets Alive can provide valuable resources to the many rescue groups that have emerged on the island as high intake centers at our Middletown and Elmsford, NY locations.

As we sail to each location our well - informed guides will impart unto you their knowledge of the cultural and geological formation of the islands, and the steps being made to preserve it.

Beach towels, chairs and coolers provided, 32» full HDTV reception in the bedroom, secure key-less entry with your pre-selected private entry code (all guest codes are removed when guests leave), laundry facilities just steps away, manicured grounds, free parking, free cleaning, free wireless internet and a central island location for activities such as golfing, fine dining, scuba and snorkeling, visits to Lahaina, Kaanapali, Iao Valley, Wailea, Paia, Hana, Haleakaia and more.

But in some locations — such as at Cocos Island and near - shore waters off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica — this species is often seen lying stretched out on the sandy bottom, completely exposed in broad daylight.

The resort offers an oasis of exclusivity while providing convenient access to the island's lively downtown district in Nassau as well as nearby locations like Lyford Cay, Old Fort and Albany.