Sentences with phrase «other island areas»

Pemuteran receives less rainfall than other island areas during rainy season and is too dry for rice cultivation.

Not exact matches

The Islands» Finest Finest Food Distributing Co. supplies thousands of New York City - area grocery and other retail stores with the most popular products from the Caribbean.

Landry's entertainment and hospitality divisions encompass popular destinations including the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier, Kemah Boardwalk, Aquarium Restaurants and other exciting attractions, coupled with deluxe accommodations throughout the Houston and Galveston area, including the luxurious San Luis Resort, Spa & Conference Center on Galveston Island.

Public schools across Long Island and other metro area suburbs already are winning high grades — and they've barely begun opening their doors — according to results of a back - to - school poll by Phi Delta Kappa, a global organization of professional educators.

The 42nd Senate district in the Hudson Valley is one of several seats Democrats in the state Senate hope to be competitive in this fall, with others around the New York City metropolitan area and on Long Island.

In addition to Rikers Island, the report listed other «worst offender» facilities, including the Greene County Jail in Catskill, the Buffalo area's Erie County Holding Center and Correctional Facility, the Dutchess County Jail in Poughkeepsie, and the Syracuse area's Onondaga County Justice Center and Penitentiary.

the Common Travel Area currently comprising the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man (this negotiation will also involve the other counterparty governments);

Through the Capital process, he has improved his productivity to a point where he has been able to plan out provisions for a trek to the other side of the island «to see what is on the other side» and when he leaves his isolated area and travels into uncharted territory, to his surprise, he discovers that he is not alone in this world.

But six others — Democrats David Valesky of Syracuse, Diane Savino of Staten Island and Jose Peralta of Queens, along with Republicans Thomas F. O'Mara of the Finger Lakes, Patrick M. Gallivan of Buffalo and Patty Ritchie of the Syracuse area — might hold onto theirs.

Before his fall, Skelos and other Republicans said the fund was going to be used for projects in their Long Island base — which they would help designate — and privately explained that they inserted it into the budget to offset $ 1.5 billion that Gov. Andrew Cuomo was directing to an economic development competition for upstate areas.

Long Island is known for, among other things, beautiful beaches, the site of the first «mass - produced» suburb in the U.S, the resort areas of the East End, notably the Hamptons and peaceful Shelter Island, and for farmland that allows Suffolk County to remain the top farming county in New York State in yearly produce.

The other seven Assembly races include three on Long Island, one in the Buffalo area and three in New York City.

In addition to Rikers Island, which is run by New York City, the report listed the other «worst offenders» as the Greene County Jail in Catskill, the Buffalo area's Erie County Holding Center and Correctional Facility, the Dutchess County Jail in Poughkeepsie, and the Syracuse area's Onondaga County Justice Center and Penitentiary.

The plan that the board approved today, and that Albany will now spend months deliberating on, would fund a new fare payment system to replace the already - obsolete MetroCard; put $ 2.9 billion toward finally finishing the East Side Access project that will allow Long Island Rail Road passengers to disembark in Grand Central; allocate $ 1.5 billion to begin work on the second phase of the Second Avenue Subway, extending it from 96th to 125th streets; and fund countless other nitty - gritty, state - of - good - repair needs across the system's 5,000 - square - mile service area.

When asked if other districts could have similar scenarios, Walcott mentioned districts in Orange County and in the Five Towns area of Long Island.

MIDLAND BEACH — Two years after Hurricane Sandy ripped through New York, devastating Staten Island and other waterfront areas, Mayor Bill de Blasio stood with other elected officials to tout the progress on recovery work around the city.

Naming Long Island Sound and the Peconic Estuary as one of eight national critical designation areas would help fund agricultural conservation efforts, habitat restoration efforts and the sustainable use of soil, water and other natural resources, according to Mr. Bellone's office.

There is no reason why the residents of Astoria and Long Island City can not be afforded the same level of service as residents in other areas of the city.»

One, VIncent Ignizio of Staten Island, dismissed the notion that people who live in an area have more of a right to park on the streets there than residents of other areas.

Federal prosecutors on Long Island have continued to look into other areas growing out of the Singh case, according to sources.

According to Jeanette Deutermann, founder of Long Island Opt - Out, that's because parents in other areas don't know their children don't have to take the test.

The area also includes the Staten Island Ferry terminal and has a slightly more urban, sometimes even hip, feel than other parts of the decidedly suburban borough: A major waterfront revitalization project will include «MRKTPL,» touted as «Staten Island's first artisanal food hall» and set to open in 2017.

The proposed cuts in those areas total over $ 750 million and, to be fair, New York spends more money on Medicaid than any other state — $ 2,283 per capita, compared to second-most Rhode Island's $ 1,659.

Maertz, an insurance litigation and trial attorney, said she wants to see more money come back to Suffolk from the state, adding that Long Island effectively is subsidizing other regions, especially New York City with the MTA payroll tax, as well as areas upstate.

There are three other «toss up» Congressional races in New York: the 19th Congressional district, which includes Oneonta, Cooperstown and large parts of the Hudson Valley; the 24th, which occupies the Syracuse area; and the 3rd, which is on northern Long Island.

Two other areas in Niantic Bay and near Cornfield Shoals could also be used for dredge material dumping instead of, or in addition to, the eastern Long Island Sound site.

Others alerted by the monarch are the Area Commander, Area A Lion Building and all Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) covering Lagos Island.

Since Sandy, millions of dollars in federal money have flowed to Long Island and other storm - affected areas of the Northeast for debris removal.

So Mr. Schwartz, who proposed a toll system for the East River bridges, came up with a «toll swap:» as new tolls were added to the bridges, existing tolls would be lowered on other bridges linking areas with few subway and transit alternatives, such as the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge linking Brooklyn and Staten Island.

But so far, the Danger Islands are unaffected by warming temperatures and should be designated a marine protected area as a safe haven for these and other penguins, the researchers write in Scientific Reports.

On other Hawaiian islands, only high - elevation areas have generally been cool enough to keep out the mosquitoes that spread avian diseases.

But because Jebel Barkal is a lone mountain, isolated from other buttes in the area and sometimes nearly engulfed by the Nile's floodwaters, the priests may also have seen it as the perfect metaphor for the primeval mound: the island where Amun pulled himself out of the waters of the Abyss and created the first gods by masturbating.

In other words, it is roughly the size of the island of Sardinia, the Home Counties area of southeast England — or less than half the size of my birthplace, the American state of Ohio.

That's the conclusion of NPS ecologist Mary Foley, whose team is studying the response of natural ecosystems in Fire Island National Seashore in New York and in Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia, Gateway National Recreation Area in New York City and New Jersey, and others.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

Based on all the evidence, the paper states, Earhart «was known to have been in the area of Nikumaroro Island, she went missing, and human remains were discovered which are entirely consistent with her and inconsistent with most other people.»

As a result, the Florida reefs recovered within two weeks, much faster than their counterparts in other areas of the Caribbean that did not experience the benefit of hurricane - induced cooling, such as those in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the researchers report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

This week, the freak weather has been repeated in other areas of northern Spain and the Balearic Islands, where the snow has fallen at sea level and 200 metres respectively.

After that heyday, the bears must have been split up into small, isolated populations — genetic bottlenecks — perhaps as they sought refuge on islands and other areas not covered by advancing glaciers during the most recent ice age.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

(C) mitigate the destructive impact of ocean - related climate change effects, including effects on bays, estuaries, populated barrier islands and other ocean - related features, through a variety of means and measures, including the construction of jetties, levies, and other coastal structures in densely populated coastal areas impacted by climate change.

On the other hand, many anaerobic microbes including methanogens are easily poisoned by oxygen, and the recent discovery of banded sediments with rusted iron on Akilia Island in West Greenland suggests that oxygen - producing, photosynthetic microbes (e.g., cyanobacteria) living on the surface of wet areas to gather sunlight may have developed by the end of this geologic period (3.85 billion years ago) despite continuing bombardment from space.

The tyrannosaurid dinosaurs likely evolved in isolation on the island continent, with incursions of the seaway separating small areas of land from each other.

DLDD affected and prone areas are expected to increase in the future, causing severe impacts on their economies, especially in the Least Developed Countries, Small Islands Developing States and other developing countries.

The Oliver Weston Company makes wonderful broth as well as many other delicious, traditional foods and they deliver in the city and tri-state area, as well as Long Island and Hudson Valley.

This large craftsman kitchen boasts, among other nice finishes, a beautiful hardwood floor that carries through to a sitting area opposite the kitchen island.

I didn't make a lot of photos and some will follow in other posts, but I feel like they describe how the hotel area and the island were.

This area couldn't have been more different from preppy Edgartown on the other side of the island, but it had so -LSB-...]

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