Looking for some gorgeous garden lighting? Come on you've done all the hard graft over the last few weeks, dug the weeds, mowed the lawn, planted up the borders and now it's time for the good stuff decorating!

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Bamboo Battery Candle Tiki Torch | Was 9.99 now 7.99Perfect for adding an exotic feel to your garden, you could line a path or surround a patio in these lovely torches. The candles are battery operated so really safe and the LED radiates a lovely flickering, authentic warm white glow.

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10 Warm White Carnival Solar Festoon Lights | Was 14.99 now 9.99 Festoon lights are perfect for adding a boho, festival vibe to your outdoor space and these Lights4fun ones are a bargain. You get 10 bulbs so it would be perfect for stringing over a door or around your potted plants to add a twinkle to your entryway.

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15 Drop Bulb Plug In Festoon Lights | Was 24.99 now 14.99 Yep, we really love festoon lights, but these ones are a little longer than the above option. You get 15 bulbs and each drops down slightly to give the impression they are almost floating. These also have 8 lighting effects to add even more twinklyness (we know that's not a word but it should be).View Deal

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100 Warm White LED Solar Fairy Lights Clear Cable | Was 11.99 now 9.99 If you are after some simple fairy lights, these are a great choice. They are solar-powered so can string them up anywhere, no need to be near a plug. There are 100 bulbs here, evenly spread over 10 metres so wherever you put them you will get a lovely warm glow across your garden.View Deal

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Set of 4 Warm White Solar Path Lights | Was 21.99 now 9.99 Maybe not as pretty as fairy lights, but these path lights are really practical and will still add warmth to your garden. They are solar powered so again, you aren't restricted as to where you can place them. We think they would look lovely slightly hidden amongst plants along a garden path or lawn edge to light up the shape of your garden in the evenings.View Deal

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Project L is a concept unveiled at the end of 2019 but, thanks to a partnership with Superyachts Monaco, it is ready to be built for the future owner. Pricing is available on request, and the brokerage firm promises a work of art, a sculpture on the water that challenges the classic silhouette of the yachting horizon that comes with all the features one would expect from a genuinely luxurious superyacht. Are you sold yet?

Thierry Gaugain boasts a two-decade-long experience with Philippe Starck and a portfolio that includes Sailing Yacht A, Motor Yacht A and Venus. Project L is similar to those only in terms of Gaugains apparent desire to break the mold on what a superyacht should look like and, in the process, overturn expectations.

Measuring 120 meters (393 feet), Project L aims to deliver the best performance of its class. It comes with hybrid propulsion and state-of-the-art navigation tech, which, in conjunction with the shape of the hull, would deliver impressive range at minimum costs and levels of pollution (both for emissions and noise). The exterior design is inspired by a pebble or a leaf, and is smooth and apparently entirely enclosed.

That last part is just an illusion, though. The exterior of the yacht is made up of vast expanses of glazing: one-way reflective glass. This ensures maximum privacy for guests and helps the vessel change shape by reflecting the surrounding environment and the changing light. The idea of using mirrors and reflective surfaces to create invisible yachts is not new, but Project L shows just how beautifully it can be put into practice.

According to the future owners desires, Project L can be made fully open, thus creating a direct connection to the ocean. The official renderings released so far show it covered under a cloak, with the brokerage firm saying that it will benefit from ample interconnected spaces inside. In fact, another revolutionary aspect about this superyacht is the fact that all living areas will be concentrated on just one deck and will connect to one another, creating flow.

Interior spaces will be designed to allow in as much natural light as possible, and all artificial lighting will adapt to the changing light outside, to promote calmness and relaxation. Exterior lighting will also change colors to reflect the passing of time and help the vessel blend in.

Accommodation can vary depending on the needs of the owner, ranging from 12 guests and 40+ crew, to 36 guests and 50 crew. Make no mistake about it, Project L is no dinghy.

Amenities will include a high-tech media room, a gym, two pools (one with freshwater and one with saltwater, situated on the extendable beach club at the rear), an indoor and an outdoor cinema (because just one cinema is not enough), helipad, drive-in tender garage packed with toys, a live performance area, a dive center, and polar gear room. Perhaps more impressively, Project L comes with a high-tech underwater media room (nemo room) and a submarine escape pod with a futuristic design to match the mother ship.

Focused on sustainable yachting, Project L comes with hybrid diesel-electric propulsion and long-range capabilitywhile gliding through waves with minimal levels of noise and vibration. Top speed is rated at 18 knots, and maximum range at 10,000 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 12 knots. High capacity waste management system is included to further support the vessels autonomy at sea.

Shes designed to be as smooth as a pebble, and silent on the water. Her original naval architecture allows Project L to glide through the water with hammer-like stability. Her low drag and seamless lines will ensure best-in-class levels of low noise and vibration, Superyachts Monaco says. Furthermore, Project L will feature a retractable ballast like a sailboat keel to adjust stiffness, roll time, feel and stability according to conditions, swell and wind direction when at anchor.In short, Project L promises to be as efficient as its beautiful and luxurious. Should it secure that inspirational owner, it will immediately go into construction.

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With all that sunshine and nowhere to go, people all across the country are taking full advantage of their gardens and getting ready for barbecue season.

Lidl and Aldi want to help you do just that this week with special offers on barbecue and garden equipment.

Both stores release a list of special offer items twice a week, proving very convenient for those of us who now consider doing the food shopping a grand day out.

Last week, Lidls sale on gym equipment was a roaring success as people across the country are taking advantage of their newfound free time to get in shape.

With the equipment in huge demand, items were sold out in record time, leaving many customers disappointed. So, if youre looking to have a garden party in the near future, check out these special offers and get into stores before they sell out.

From Monday, Lidl special buys include homeware, tech, and car accessories such as dashcams and in-car chargers.

Thursday is when all summer-themed stock will be going on sale in Lidl including garden furniture and barbecue food and equipment.

Meanwhile, Aldi will also have special offers on garden furniture, outdoor lighting, gazebos, tools sheds, and more this Thursday.

Even more garden accessories and equipment will be restocked on Sunday for people who are looking for a second chance to bag the summer deals.

Make sure to get into stores early this week to avoid disappointment and throw the garden party of your dreams just in time for the May bank holiday.

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Cape Girardeau public schools have earned accreditation for grades kindergarten through 12 from the North Central Association; this is the first year the district's elementary schools have been accredited; Central High School has been accredited since 1922.

Under a proposed pact between the city of Cape Girardeau and TCI Cablevision, the city would have whistle-blowing power to keep TCI from straying from stipulations of a 10-year franchise agreement; and TCI general manager Roger Harms, who was seeking a 15-year pact, has the peace of mind he was looking for after completing two years of negotiations with the city; both sides appear happy with a situation that has been in limbo since 1991.

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Wayne L. Martin was installed as president of the Cape Girardeau Jaycees at the organization's annual installation banquet and dance last night at a local restaurant; other officers installed by Jerry Reynolds, Region Eight vice president, were: first vice president, Dennis D. Henson; second vice president, Terry Begley; third vice president, Sam Gill; treasurer, James Estes, and secretary, L.R. Roper Jr.

A lawsuit has been filed by the contractor who built the first two units of Towers Dormitories against the supplier of the carpeting, which hasn't served satisfactorily; the State College Board of Regents is withholding $14,000 from the contractor, McCarthy Construction Co., because of the issue.

Pfc. Cletus M. Runnels, 26, was killed in the fighting in Italy April 15, the War Department advised his wife, Geneva Brown Runnels of Hickory Grove, near Millersville; he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Runnels of near Whitewater.

The Louis K. Juden Post, American Legion, has given the restored Fort D, near May Greene School, to the Girl Scouts to be used as the organization's headquarters in Cape Girardeau.

Police Chief W.J. Segraves and policemen Lee Atchinson, Irvin Wilson, Curtis Childs and Ruddle Adams are reappointed to those positions during a meeting of the city council; Will Cooper was also appointed to the police force.

Dr. C.B. Ruff, dentist, is moving his office from the fourth floor of the H.-H. Building to the second floor of the same building, to rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Rex Cunningham and Dr. C.H. Beatty, osteopaths; Ruff's son, Gene, who is studying in the school osteopathy in Chicago, will share the office with him when he returns here in June.

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The Waco Hippodrome brought first-run films back to Waco for the first time in six weeks this weekend, and ticket sales for a few screenings reflected a new reality: Sellouts measured in 20 tickets or fewer.

The Hippodrome resumed showing movies on its five screens and reopened its Raleigh restaurant after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott included movie theaters in an April 27 order. Abbott allowed limited reopenings for many Texas businesses and restaurants after weeks of shutdown to limit spread of the novel coronavirus.

Movie theaters were permitted to show films again, but only at 25% capacity and with social distancing measures in place.

For the Hippodrome, that means limited ability for ticket buyers to choose their seats and more frequent cleaning of seats, tables, restrooms and other places with customer traffic.

Still, a pent-up Waco interest in moviegoing kept the box office busy on its first day back.

Phones are kinda ringing off the hook, Hippodrome communications and design coordinator Molly Noah said.

Screening this weekend are Trolls World Tour, The Way Back with Ben Affleck, The Invisible Man starring Elisabeth Moss, the inspirational I Still Believe, and the Vin Diesel action film Bloodshot. Each film will have four screenings daily.

The 25% occupancy restrictions mean the Hippodromes theaters will sell out screenings at much smaller numbers about 50 seats for the main theater, 33 for the balcony theater and fewer than 20 apiece for the three newer screening rooms leading Hippodrome employees to recommend moviegoers call in advance about ticket availability.

While the movie theater was closed to the public, the Hippodromes staff spent the downtime preparing for customers return, repainting walls with an oil-based, less permeable paint; deep cleaning and sanitizing carpets and floors; and installing 22 sanitizing stations at theater entrances and exits, restrooms and the buildings elevator.

The theater became the first in Waco to return to operations as coronavirus measures started to allow limited reopening.

National theater chains AMC Theatres and Regal Cinemas, which run the AMC Classic Galaxy 16 and Regal Jewel 16 Cinema, respectively, have each made announcements targeting reopening dates in July. Premiere Cinemas, which operates Wacos Premiere Cinema 6, did not reply to questions about its reopening.

To comply with state reopening guidelines, the Hippodrome will determine seating spacing. Small groups may sit together with two empty seats between each viewer or group and alternate rows empty. Online customers will not be able to choose their seats, but box office personnel will determine seating to ensure proper spacing.

Those standing in box office lines must leave 6 feet between them, and theater personnel in the lobby will watch to make sure spacing is adequate, Noah said. Theaters will be cleaned and sanitized between each screening, and the Hippodromes bathrooms will be sanitized every two hours.

Social spacing also will be the rule at the Raleigh, where tables have been removed to allow more room between patrons, shrinking occupancy to 13 diners. The Hippodromes Hightop, however, will remain closed.

The Raleigh also will offer to-go orders and curbside delivery for the first time. Moviegoers can still order food and drink in the theaters and can order from the Raleigh to take into the theaters, Noah said.

The Hippodromes gradual reopening this week is the first local in-person moviegoing opportunity for many in Waco. Home quarantines and sheltering in place have led millions of Americans to replace regular visits to movie theaters with watching streaming video at home.

Video on Demand offerings, where viewers pay a fee to watch a film release online or over their television, also have seen a boost, with Trolls World Tour bringing in a surprising $100 million in Video on Demand rentals when it could not be shown in theaters.

Trolls World Tour now is one of several Video on Demand releases making their Hippodrome debuts this week. Noah said the Pixar animated film Onward had tied up several Hippodrome screens in the weeks before the shutdown, shouldering out releases including I Still Believe and The Way Back.

Now those films can come back.

As with so much during the coronavirus pandemic, no one knows for sure what is next. With Hollywood studios busy postponing their summer blockbusters into the fall and beyond, the next major film release still on the books is the July 16 premiere of Christopher Nolans Tenet.

Major theater chains have not announced any timetable for reopening, though industry speculation suggests chains may show a mix of classics and previously released films in the weeks before first-run movies return.

The film distributors that provide the Hippodromes movies may offer something similar, Noah said.

The situation for live concerts is even more uncertain. Most of the Hippodromes live concerts this spring have moved to dates in the fall and winter, but it remains unknown what concerts with audiences would look like with social distancing in effect. Noah said the theater plans to try more live streaming of performers on the Hippodrome stage in the weeks ahead .

The Hippodromes Austin Avenue neighbor Cultivate 7twelve will reopen Thursday with hours of noon to 7 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and a new exhibit by artist Katy Ward. The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum will reopen to the public Monday, and the Dr Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute is planning to reopen Thursday.

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. While restaurant and bar owners are worried about revenue shortfalls during this shutdown time, it is giving some the opportunity to make improvements that would have been difficult while open for regular business.

At Amys on Franklin, for example, owner Amy Word had large patio planting boxes made to match the rustic wood of the bar. The Cross-Eyed Cricket is remodeling their dining room. The New Frontier Restaurant in Daylight is putting in new bathrooms.

Up in northern Vanderburgh County, the Nisbet Inn is painting and printing new menus, and at Commanders Grill in Boonville, tall pub tables are being reduced to normal height to add more seating.

People relax on the front patio of Bokeh Lounge as they listen to Nick Hamilton, not pictured, play music in the Haynie's Corner Arts District neighborhood, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Hamilton performs for patrons every Wednesday night. (Photo: SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS)

A few places are making more significant changes or even readying a second location for opening.

The Bokeh Lounge on Haynies corner is readying a new menu and reconfiguring the whole kitchen to add a stone-floored pizza deck oven. The bar and restaurant was open for takeout for a short time after the shutdown started, but closed completely until after May 1 to work on changes.

Were sticking with the bar fare, but taking less popular things off the menu and adding the pizza, said general manager Jessica Nuffer. Ive been doing the fun stuff like looking at the numbers; we want to get back to a good solid core menu and come up with special breakfasts and dinners.

Adding the pizza equipment wasnt a simple procedure. The ventilation hood had to be expanded for the oven, a large mixer installed for kneading crust, a dough sheeter for rolling it, and a lot of equipment moved around in the kitchen to keep the flow workable.

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Nuffer and chef Dontae Hines are serious about offering a great pizza. Theyll be testing crust recipes and deciding on which they like best. It might be a crisp Una-style crust or something else.

Well start out with the basic pizzas pepperoni, vegetables, loaded with the basic toppings, and expand from there, Nuffer said.

In the future, she looks forward to trying more trendy pizzas, possibly a Detroit style, which is baked in a square pan with a fluffy, cheesy crust and warm sauce ladled on top after baking.

The new High Score Player Two: Classic Arcade has taken shape while the original High Score Saloon has been closed due to coronavirus.(Photo: Photo courtesy High Score Saloon)

High Score Saloon owners Clint Hoskins and Jared Neible have brought on a third partner, Colton Blanchard, and have spent the time readying their second location, called High Score Player Two: Classic Arcade.

Located on Mount Vernon Avenue in the same complex as the Be Happy Pie Company (how convenient), the new location will be for an all-ages crowd and all-day play will cost $10. A snack machine might be installed, but no food or beverages will be prepared onsite. If the building is booked for a private party, food may be brought in.

We didnt have to do too much at High Score, said Hoskins. We do a deep clean every month, so we just went down the day the shutdown was announced and threw out the perishables; weve been investing our time in the new place.

New carpet and a coat of paint went in fairly quickly. More time is being spent on the 35 games the High Score team had in storage, including Robotron, X-Menand Ninja Turtles. Repairing these and working on vintage pinball machines for customers are the order of the day.

Hoskins has no desire to open either arcade until conditions are very safe, so he hopes to have time also to upgrade the patio at the original High Score so its ready for a mid-summer opening.

The Silver Bell family restaurant in St. Wendel recently moved out some old tables to make way for new booths.(Photo: Photo Courtesy Sean Powers)

The Silver Bellfamily restaurant in Wadesville is doing extensive renovations to the front of house.

The tile floors in the dining room, bar and party room are being replaced with trendy new poured epoxy floors. The walls, which hold a collection of Powers family artifacts, are getting painted and patched but dont worry, the nostalgic items will be returned to their places.

Were adding new tables, booths and barstools too, said Powers. Weve never had booths before, so were excited about that. Weve been thinking about doing it for a while and accumulating things; we wanted to do it in a year or so after we had more time to plan it out, but were not going to find a better time to do it than right now.

The Silver Bell is still offering their full menu and daily specials, as well as family-style meals on the weekends, carry-out or curbside. Watch the Facebook Page at facebook.com/silverbellrestaurant/ for specials, hours and changes.

The Silver Bell is located at 4424 St. Wendel Rd.Phone: 812-963-0944

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In May 1990, a hillside on the Kent State campus burst with 58,175 daffodils for the first time. One flower was planted for each of the U.S. servicepeople killed in Vietnam.

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Families gathered on the Commons to see the enormous carpet of bright flowers. Parents squatted next to children and pointed. People brought photographs of their husbands, sons, and brothers and placed them among the daffodils. Veterans observed proudly, silently moved. And among them stood the man who made it all possible, sculptor and Kent State art professor Brinsley Tyrrell.

Tyrrell had been present for the May 4 shootings and their aftermath. The events of that day shocked him to the core. The idealism got knocked out of everything, he said. The excitement of being young that was in the air was all sort of sucked out.

So when the university announced in 1985 it would hold a competition to design a May 4 Memorial, Tyrrell began brainstorming ideas that might bring people together and help them heal. In Tyrells mind, a field of flowers could serve as a backdrop for the memorial just as the Vietnam War had served as the backdrop for shootings.

Although Tyrrells proposal was initially dismissed because he was not a United States citizen or permanent resident (he was teaching at Kent State on a work visa from England at the time), that didnt deter him. He wrote up another proposal and made an appointment with Kent State President Michael Schwartz.

Schwartz had been at the epicenter of the tension around the memorial. Those who protested the memorial, mostly veterans, believed that to honor fallen anti-war protestors was a sign of disrespect to those whod fought in the war. Those who advocated for the memorial believed those who died protesting the war, not those who fought in it, should be the ones honored.

Tyrrell believed the university could honor both.

On the day of Tyrrells appointment, President Schwartz looked apprehensive. You could just see that he was [thinking], Oh God, more of this! Tyrrell said. But as Schwartz read through the proposal, Tyrrell watched his apprehension disappear. Schwartz looked up at Tyrrell and said, I like flowers. This might work.

In addition to planting the flowers, the university installed a plaque that said, 58,175 daffodils along with Tyrrells name. The plaque had been buried until this year when the maintenance crew unearthed it. Tyrrell had assumed it was stolen.

Tyrrell said he never understood why the university refused to state the purpose of the daffodils outright on the plaque and suggested that perhaps a new one is in order. Were 50 years away and young 18-year-olds would not know what 58,17[5] daffodils means.

Unfortunately, the daffodil memorial doesnt look the same today as it did when it was originally installed. Daffodils need to be left alone six weeks after they bloom to rebuild their bulbs for the next year. Since the university mows the field immediately after the flowers bloom and does not fertilize it, far fewer than 50,000 daffodils return each year.

While student groups have volunteered over the years to plant a hundred bulbs here and there, Tyrrell said it is not enough to convey the colossal amount of American lives lost in Vietnam.

Fifty bulbs are pretty, he said. "A huge mass is something else.

Lyndsey Brennan is a graduate student in the journalism program at Kent State University. Joan Steidl is an assistant professor of Human Services Technology at Kent State University's Ashtabula campus.

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The Bellagio and New York-New York will likely be the first resorts that MGM Resorts International opens on the Strip once the Nevada Gaming Control Board gives casinos the OK to reopen to the public.

During the companys earnings call on Thursday, CEO Bill Hornbuckle told investors that MGM Resorts will not open all its casinos at the same time and will instead focus on a few hotels with different price points for rooms.

Then from there were talking about what other properties should open, if any, at that point in time, he said on the call. Well go slow. Well be responsive and responsible.

Even when resorts open, every restaurant at the property probably wont reopen, but those that do will have takeout options for food and drink.

The casino floors will look different too. Hornbuckle says Aria and the Park MGM installed new carpeting, which gave those properties a chance to move gaming tables and slot machines apart for social distancing. The Nevada Gaming Control Board may restrict the number of people inside a casino at one time once resorts reopen.

Hornbuckle remains optimistic that people will still want to visit Las Vegas once coronavirus is under control. He notes that about half of visitors drive to Las Vegas, and expects repeat customers who receive offers to stay at MGM Resorts hotels to be among the first to return. He also claims hotel bookings this fall and into 2021 remain strong.

Gov. Steve Sisolak extended Nevadas stay-at-home directive through May 15, and said casinos and resorts will open in phase three or four of his slow reopening of the state for business. Nevadas 441 casinos closed on March 17 when Sisolak called for all nonessential businesses to shut down to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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