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Mr Berry is looking for outside funding for some of the construction work, and the government says it will consider helping out.
"It's a novel idea - it's really worth looking into," says Wendel Avisado, from the Housing and Urban Development Council.
"This is the first time ever there is a group of Filipinos who are in these circumstances, who would like this kind of assistance from the government. We will definitely subject this proposal to study and evaluation."
One way or another, Mr Berry is determined to make sure his dreams come to fruition.
"One day people will realise that even though we are small, we're thinking big," he says.
Samsung has introduced four new cameras in its NV line, all of which have optical image stabilization.
It may have taken them a little while, but Samsung has added optical images stabilization to its upscale NV line of compact cameras. As has become a bit of a trend, they are offering it in conjunction with digital image stabilization, which boosts ISO to help keep shutter speeds fast in an attempt to minimize blur due to subject movement, while the optical IS does its best to counteract blur to due to your shaky hands. Samsung has dubbed this combination Dual Image Stabilization and includes it in all of its new NV models, except the NV4, this year. All but the NV4 also sport Samsung's unique SmartTouch menu navigation system.
They seem particularly happy with their 10MP NV24 HD, which uses the H.264 codec to record video at up to 720p pixel resolution at 30fps. While HD is in the name of the product, if you want to output an HD signal to your TV without going through a computer first, you'll need to buy Samsung's HDMI CEC cradle for an extra $50. On the upside, you'll get a remote control with that cradle, so you won't have to get up off your couch to move through your images or videos.
More interesting than the high-def functionality is the NV24 HD's 2.5-inch AMOLED screen. If you've never seen this acronym before, it stands for Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode. OLED technology has been working its way up through other devices for a while now, but we haven't seen it really hit cameras yet. A color gamut chart at the Samsung booth boasts a significantly wider gamut for their AMOLED screen compared to the regular TFT LCDs used in their other cameras, though on the demo units images looked rather oversaturated. We weren't allowed to tinker with the demo units, so we don't know if user menu adjustments might be able to bring the saturation to normal levels.
The NV24 HD also has a 3.6X optical zoom lens covering an equivalent of 24-86.5mm and f/2.8-5.7, as well as face detection and self portrait modes. The face detection can see up to nine faces and use them to set focus and exposure, while self portrait mode can locate one face and won't let you shoot a picture unless that face is centered in the frame. Other features include 14 scene modes and sensitivity settings of up to ISO 1,600 at full resolution or ISO 3,200 if you don't mind that it cuts the resolution to 3MP. Samsung expects the NV 24 HD to be available this March for about $350.
Following up on last year's NV3, 2008 sees Samsung offering the 8MP NV4. Like its predecessor, the NV4 can play back video clips and MP3s, leading Samsung to call it a PMP (Portable Media Player) as well as a camera. There's even a tiny speaker built-in to the camera body, though your headphones would probably give you better sound. This ultracompact has a 2.5-inch LCD, 3X optical zoom lens, face detection and self portrait modes, along with 14 scene modes. The NV4 should hit stores in March for about $280.
Rounding out the new NV offerings are the 8.1MP NV30 and 10MP NV40. Both have 3X optical zoom lenses, 2.5-inch LCDs, 14 scene modes, 640x480-pixel 30fps video capture, and sensitivity of up to ISO 1,600 at full resolution and ISO 3,200 at reduced resolutions. The NV30 should hit stores in February for about $280, while the NV40 is expected in March for about $330.
Shawn Walker speaks to supporters after being introduced as the new men's basketball coach at Elizabeth City State University, Friday.
Elizabeth City State University officially announced in a Friday afternoon press conference that Shawn Walker Sr. is coming home.
Walker is back as the new men’s basketball coach for the Vikings, taking over for interim coach Dwayne Saunders and former head coach John Hill who was fired in April.
The 46-year-old coach played for the men’s basketball team from 1991 to 1994 before eventually being the program’s head coach for 12 seasons starting in 2002. He left in 2014 to pursue the opportunity of coaching Division I program Grambling State.
He was let go from the Louisiana school after three seasons and he’ll be back on the sideline after a year away from coaching.
ECSU put an in-depth search together trying to find the best person for the job. New athletic director George Bright said that there were more than 70 candidates for the search committee to go through.
It was a big committee that consisted of alumni, community members, faculty, administration staff and students. Four finalists were ultimately selected.
When all was said and done, Bright and the rest of the committee felt that Walker was the best possible decision.
Walker had a successful first tenure at ECSU as he led the Vikings to a Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship in 2007.
He arrived at Grambling State with the basketball program hit with sanctions and a lack of success in the years before his hire. He went from just two wins his first year to 16 wins in his third and final year.
The Tigers posted the best record in the Southwestern Athletic Conference last winter, Walker’s first year away from the team.
Due to NCAA APR sanctions, Grambling could not compete in the SWAC tournament championship last season.
Walker said there were no hard feelings for his departure at Grambling State and he was happy to see them further their success in the year he was gone.
The last year has been a year away from coaching for Walker. While he would’ve originally preferred to keep on coaching, he said that he learned a lot in his one year away from the sideline.
In that time, he was an elementary physical education teacher and he observed several basketball practices from middle school all the way up to Division 1 basketball.
The Assad regime has vowed it will "hunt" down the rebels it brands "armed terrorists" as 21 people were killed in Syria today.
The flashpoint city of Homs was taking the brunt of the crackdown today, with women and children fleeing a fourth day of heavy shelling.
At least nine civilians have been killed in the city already today. Since Monday more than 100 people have died in Homs.
Security forces are seeking to seize a key neighbourhood where rebel forces have a significant presence.
"The neighbourhood of Baba Amr has been undergoing shelling since early morning and there is a bid to launch an assault on the area where heavy gunfire can be overheard," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
It is the fiercest assault yet on the protest hub since the outbreak of a nationwide popular revolt against the regime of Bashar al Assad.
Clashes were continuing in districts near Damascus on Tuesday also.
The government has blamed the violence on "armed terrorist gangs" and has vowed to pursue its assault on Homs.
"Operations to hunt down terrorist groups will continue until security and order are re-established in all neighbourhoods of Homs and its environs and until we overcome all armed persons terrorising citizens and threatening their life," it added.
Abu Rami, an activist in Homs reached by telephone, said the shelling of the city had continued through the night.
"There are about four blasts every five minutes," he said. "Since this morning the shelling has been concentrated in the neighbourhoods of Baba Amro, Inshaat and Jubar.
"The humanitarian situation is dire. No one can move around. There are snipers everywhere," he added.
Hadi al-Abdallah, another activist, said residents overnight had taken advantage of a 30-minute lull in the shelling to recover the bodies of dozens of victims and immediately bury them.
"No one can leave Baba Amr as it is completely surrounded," he told AFP. "There are some buildings hit that we haven't been able to reach because of the intensity of the shelling.
"We don't know if there are wounded or dead inside."
He said one field hospital was still operating in the city but was lacking even basic supplies as well as blood.
"The army is trying to choke off the city before launching a final assault," he said.
Clashes were also reported in other parts of Syria on Tuesday including Hula, located in Homs province, where a 15-year-old boy was reported killed.
Eurozone nation struggles with unemployment and stagnation that some fear is becoming entrenched.
Europe's finance ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss ways of trying to revive the economy in the eurozone.
One of the zone's largest economies has suffered because of the downturn. The Netherlands is still in recession and unemployment lingers around eight per cent.
Al Jazeera's Emma Hayward reports from The Hague.
Strength training is an essential component to your workout regiment, especially if your goal is to lose body fat and build muscle. Not all exercises are created equal, which is why experts recommend doing multijoint movements called compound exercises to help you build muscle and burn more calories and fat.
You'll also need to make sure that you're doing the appropriate amounts of sets and reps in order to build lean muscle. Another extremely important factor is ensuring that you're lifting the right amount of weight. Simply telling you to lift heavy is subjective, which is why you should use the following guide to determine how to choose the correct weight for strength exercises.
A good indicator the weight you're using is too light is if you feel like you could do infinite amounts of reps without taking a break. While this may be great for your confidence, it's not going to help you build muscle. Common signs the weight you're lifting is too heavy are poor form and being unable to perform the designated sets and reps.
To help you get the most out of your strength sessions, you first need to know what your weightlifting goal is. Are you lifting for strength endurance, maximal muscle growth (hypertrophy), or maximal strength? From there, you'll be able to determine how much weight you should be lifting, along with the optimal set and rep range.
A general rule of thumb is to find a weight that challenges you during the final few reps of an exercise, but that can also be sustained for multiple sets. Another, more accurate, way to determine how heavy you should be lifting for your specific goal is to first determine the heaviest weight you can lift for three to five reps of a given exercise. For example, to figure out the weight you should be using for a barbell back squat, first figure out the heaviest weight you can lift with proper form for three to five reps.
Next, you'll need to enter the weight you lifted and the amount of reps you performed into a one-rep max calculator. The calculator will provide you with a list of percentages of your one-rep max. Based on your goal, you can use that information, along with the following chart, to figure out sets, reps, and weight. You don't have to calculate your one-rep max for every exercise, but I do recommend doing it for essential lifts like the squat, deadlift, bench press, and bicep curl.
Because you're strength training, you'll need to make sure that you increase your daily caloric intake to ensure your body is getting the accurate amount of macronutrients (especially protein) to help you build muscle. On average, you'll need to consume 0.5 to 0.8 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight. Be sure to consult your doctor before making any changes to your nutrition.
Top restaurant - The Clocktower restaurant in Harrogate.
Harrogate has scored amazingly highly against bigger cities in a UK-wide poll of diners.
Harden’s 100 Best Restaurants ranking, which was published independently of The Sunday Times for the first time, showed Harrogate has the UK's 12th largest number of high scoring restaurants and the 17th highest number of restaurants listed in the guide.
Harden’s is the country’s most comprehensive restaurant guide available in bookshops, with approximately twice the number of entries as The Good Food Guide.
The publication put London’s The Araki restaurant at number one and Bristol’s Casamia at number two.
Above £60 - The Clock Tower at Rudding Park, below £60 - The Orchid and Norse restaurant.
Other restaurants judged as providing very good value for money (achieving a score of 4/5) were: Bettys Garden Café, RHS Gardens Harlow Carr, Drum & Monkey, Graveley’s Fish & Chip Restaurant, Sasso and Stuzzi.
Harden's 27th annual poll of diners, surveyed 8,500 participants who contributed 50,000 reviews, which, as curated by the editors, form the basis for the inclusions and ratings in the guide.
The top restaurant cities in the UK by quality and overall coverage has Harrogate 17th top 'city' nationwide behind high-flyers Edinburgh, Manchester, Brighton and Glasgow.
Also featuring in the top restaurants list were Yorke Arms in Ramsgill-in-Nidderdale at number 19 and The Box Tree, Ilkley at number 39.
Before her beleaguered key-note speech at the 2017 Conservative Party conference, prime minister Theresa May walked onto the podium to Calvin Harris’s track ‘This Is What You Came For’, his 2016 collaboration with Rihanna.
Florence Welch also gave the Tories both barrels when her cover of ‘You Got The Love’ was used at the end of the same speech!
A more general condemnation came from indie hero Johnny Marr, who reacted with surprise in 2010 when then-Tory prime minister David Cameron publicly professed his love of Marr’s legendary group The Smiths.
It isn’t just Tories to which this trend applies. In 2008, Labour prime minister Gordon Brown thought he could get away with using Manchester band James’ iconic baggy hit ‘Sit Down’ from 1991 to soundtrack the party’s conference.
The band’s leader Tim Booth criticised Brown’s decision, saying he was “missing the point” of the song because ‘Sit Down’ is about “unity of people and spirit rather than healing the divisions of political parties”.
Donald Trump had to figure somewhere on this list again, inevitably. Devoutly liberal American indie outfit R.E.M. were furious to discover that the then-candidate Trump was pumping out their ‘80s hit ‘It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’ at rallies.
When lead singer Michael Stipe found out, he was economical in his response: “go f*** yourself”.
Politicians using pop songs without permission is not something exclusive to the US and UK. In Denmark, a far-right party decided to use the legendary Abba to soundtrack one of their rallies. Only this time, there was a little innovation involved, as they decided to re-write the lyrics to ‘Mamma Mia!’.
It didn’t work, though, as Abba’s songwriters Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus sued them. “Firstly, you cannot just rewrite songs as you like and secondly we want them to understand that we have absolutely no interest in supporting their party,” Andersson said.
The all-time best example of a politician being too dense to understand a song, Ronald Reagan attempted to use Bruce Springsteen’s iconic ‘Born In The U.S.A.’ for his re-election campaign in 1984. But despite being overtly anthemic and patriotic (that chorus and riff!), The Boss’s song was actually incredibly bleak, telling of a working class kid shipped abroad to fight in Vietnam, only to be dumped on the scrapheap upon his return.
Springsteen quickly rebuffed him, and has always been reluctant to perform the song live as it has always been open to misinterpretation as a national anthem.
Wooler U3A Chairman Joan Thomas was delighted to present Dr John Rhodes and Iris Rhodes with a cheque from members together with almost �150, the results of an impromptu retiring collection from those present.
At the most recent general meeting of Wooler U3A, members and guests filled the Tom Sale Hall at the Cheviot Centre to listen to an emotional and heartwarming presentation about the work of Mercy Ships UK by Dr John and Mrs Iris Rhodes.
Mercy Ships volunteers have helped over 2.5 million people since 1978.
Africa Mercy is the world’s largest charitable hospital ship with five operating theatres and state-of-the-art medical facilities, crewed by extraordinary volunteer surgeons, nurses and other professionals with a mission to increase access to health care throughout the world, serving the poor, regardless of race, gender or religion.
Wooler U3A Chairman Joan Thomas was delighted to present Dr Rhodes and Iris with a cheque from members, together with almost £150, the results of an impromptu retiring collection from those present.
Drake is still taking in Views from the top.
The Canadian rapper’s latest album remains No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a fourth straight week, and has now spent the most weeks at No. 1 for any album by a male artist in more than four years, according to Billboard.
Michael Bublé was the last artist to have more weeks at No. 1. He had five weeks atop the chart in 2011-2012 with Christmas. However, the last non-holiday album to spend more weeks at No. 1 was Eminem’s Recovery, which had seven non-consecutive weeks at the top in 2010.
Views moved 189,000 equivalent album units this week, 50,000 of which were in traditional album sales. It also earns the top four largest streaming week for an album ever.
Elsewhere on the Billboard 200, Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman debuts at No. 2 with 175,000 equivalent album units (129,000 in pure album sales). Both of her previous albums—2013’s Yours Truly and 2014’s My Everything—debuted at No. 1.
Beyoncé’s LEMONADE hits No. 4 with 99,000 units, while Rihanna’s ANTI rounds out the top 5 with 48,000 units.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — As the number of contenders wanting to challenge President Trump in 2020 continues to grow, a Hoosier mayor is also toying with the idea of making a run for the White House.
Last weekend, FOX59 caught up with Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-South Bend) ahead of a release party for his new book.
“Mayor Pete,” as he’s known around South Bend, has held that title since 2012. He’s now considering whether that experience could propel him to the White House.
“I think it’s very important to show what that intimate, local level might mean for the bigger picture,” said Buttigieg.
As the latest Hoosier to consider a run at national politics, Buttigieg, a Navy reserve veteran and an openly gay politician, might bring a fresh face to the political field. But he’s not a household name. That is a fact he’s quick to admit, as higher-profile candidates continue to declare.
Outside political experts say a lack of name recognition could prove to be a challenge for the 37-year-old mayor.
“One of the things he has to be able to do is convince folks that his local government experience as mayor of a good-sized city, but nonetheless still the mayor of a city, would translate well into the presidency,” said University of Indianapolis political science professor Dr. Laura Wilson.
But Buttigieg believes a mayor’s eye for detail is exactly what Washington, D.C. needs.
“It would really be a win if places like the U.S. Congress looked a little more like our local problem solvers did,” said Buttigieg.
And in looking at the current field, although still early, some experts say Buttigieg’s Midwest roots might also play to his favor.
Buttigieg is also hoping South Bend’s story, from its fall as a manufacturing boomtown to its recent revival, might also entice voters ahead of 2020.
“I tried to use South Bend’s story as an example of how the past and the future can relate,” said Buttigieg.

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