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Central NY hotel management sent long-term residents scrambling to make rooms for migrant contracts

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Salina, NY — Mike Brown and Nikki Henry were amazed May 18 by a knock on their door at the Candlewood Suites hotel.

It was management with a message: The couple had a little over a week to clear out of the hotel room they’d been living in for months while they worked overnights at Amazon.

The company that owns the hotel made a deal to house migrants from New York City, according to lawsuits. Residents said the hotel management was clearing them out to make rooms for new ones.

Hotel management went through most of the building that day, guests said, knocking on doors of people who had called the home for months, and even years. Residents interviewed by Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard said they were paying rates that ranged from $700 a month to $2,100 a month to stay in one- and two-room suites with kitchenettes.

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Passion for Italy Podcast Episode #20 A Conversation About Rome · Passion For Italy Travel

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In this episode of the Passion for Italy Travel Podcast, Joe Mulinaro joins the PFIT team to discuss a recent trip to Rome. Joe invited a guest, his wife Lori, to discuss any positives and negatives she had with this trip.

Joe Mulinaro joins the Passion for Italy Travel crew. He will be having a number of guests join him to discuss their trip to Italy.
In this episode of the Podcast, Joe invites his wife, Lori, to discuss her recent trip to Italy where they visited Rome, Florence, Positano, and Capri.
In this first show, they discuss the Rome portion of the vacation. They start with their planning and flight.
The episode continues with five days of filling their agenda with all the major points of Rome.
Monti District, Santa Maria Maggiore, Spanish Steps, Piazza Republica, Altar of

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Thousands flee homes and hotels on Rhodes as fires spread

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Thousands of people have been evacuated from homes and hotels on the Greek island of Rhodes after wildfires engulfed large parts of the island.

The country’s fire service has described the fires as the most difficult it is currently facing.

It is estimated that more than 3,500 people have moved by land and sea to safer locations.

The island has been battling wildfires fanned by strong winds since Tuesday, amidst a heatwave in Europe.

No injuries have been reported, according to the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection in Greece.

It said visitors are being evacuated safely from the affected areas of Rhodes – which represent less than 10% of the island’s tourist accommodation – and are being redirected to other hotels on the island.

Five helicopters and 173 firefighters were operating in the area, with three hotels in the Kiotari area reported to have been damaged by fire.

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Authorities investigating after an American couple found dead in a Mexico hotel room

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Authorities are investigating after an American couple was found dead at an upscale resort on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula this week, Mexican authorities said.

The bodies of John Heathco, 41, and Abby Lutz, 28, were discovered in their room Tuesday at the Hotel Rancho Pescadero in El Pescadero, according to the victims’ family and a statement released from the Baja California Sur Attorney General’s Office, translated from spanish.

The couple, both from Newport Beach, California, were found dead about 9 pm at the five-star resort near Cabo. According to the office, investigators found no signs of violence in the room.

Heathco was found unresponsive in the shower and his girlfriend was found unresponsive in bed.

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A view inside the Hotel Rancho Pescadero in El Pescadero where the bodies of John Heathco, 41, and Abby Lutz, 28, were discovered inside a room on June 12, 2023. The couple died as a result of suspected poisoning, according to the Baja California Sur Attorney General’s Office.

A view inside the Hotel Rancho Pescadero in El Pescadero where the bodies of John Heathco,

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Sartiano’s Opens in The Mercer Hotel

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The Mercer Kitchen’s closing in December, after nearly 25 years inside the downtown staple The Mercer hotel, left a big hole in the SoHo dining space. The Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant has been a celebrity magnet, known both for its food and for its cool, downtown energy that has kept it buzzing for more than two decades.

Now, the iconic space has a new resident. Opening Thursday is Sartiano’s, an Italian American joint that aims to fill the shoes it occupies.

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The project is the most personal one yet for proprietor Scott Sartiano, who is behind members-only social club Zero Bond as well as clubs 1Oak and Up & Down and the restaurant Butter. Walking through the restaurant, Sartiano explains that he and his team wanted to respect the existing space while bringing their own spin to it.

“It’s such an iconic space, right — it worked and

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Home Office faces legal action over children missing from UK asylum hotels | Child protection

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Placing unaccompanied children in hotels run by the Home Office is “unlawful”, according to a legal action launched after hundreds of youngsters living in them have gone missing.

Launched on Monday by the charity ECPAT UK, the legal action argues that the Home Office has “no authority” to place unaccompanied children in asylum hotels, from where scores have been kidnapped by gangs.

earlier this year the Observers revealed how dozens of asylum-seeking children were abducted by criminals from a single Home Office hotel in Brighton. In total, more than 400 unaccompanied children have gone missing from hotels run by the Home Office. Some are believed to have been trafficked; others, who disappeared from the south coast, have been found as far away as Scotland.

Of those who have disappeared, 154 are still missing according to a parliamentary debate last Thursday, with their whereabouts unknown despite police efforts to locate them.

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Tourists Watch Russian Man Get Devoured by Shark on Egypt Beach

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Warning: This piece contains graphic videos that may be disturbing to viewers.

Tourists visiting the popular Egyptian resort of Hurghada watched a man get eaten alive by a shark just feet away from a crowded beach.

The incident occurred on the beach of the Dream Beach hotel, according to Russian media reports, which said the victim was a Russian citizen.

Russia’s consul-general in Hurghada, Viktor Voropayev, told the country’s TASS news agency that the fatal attack happened Thursday.

“A Russian died as a result of the shark attack,” he said, identifying the victim as 23-year-old “V. Popov,” who he said was not a tourist but had been living in Egypt for several months. Russian media reports named the victim as Vladimir Popov.

Terrifying footage of the encounter shows hotel staffers screaming for swimmers to get out of the water as the shark’s fin can be seen

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How these residents created an eco-friendly destination

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BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. − There’s a lot to love about Breckenridge. The mountain town is often considered one of the best ski resorts in the US and welcomes up to 1 million visitors a year.

Though “Breck,” as the locals call it, is charming and walkable – an uncommon feature for many mountain towns – the real focal point is, of course, the mountain itself: five peaks and the highest chairlift in North America, which reaches nearly 13,000 feet. Locals like to say the entire town is ski in, ski out.

Breckenridge may also be one of the most sustainable tourist destinations in the country, thanks to its dedicated community – as other ski resorts are grappling with climate change which threatens their very existence.

Residents have a habit of coming up with new, creative initiatives to push stewardship education, such as Precious Plastics, which gives unrecyclable plastic a second life,

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The Best Hiking Trails in Italy

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In this article we’ll lay out the best hiking trails in Italy from the north to the south. Italy is marked by clear blue waters, online mountain peaks, and vast meadows. The striking landscapes are an unforgettable sight, and beautiful hiking trails take you through the heart of Italy’s greatest natural wonders.

If you love trekking through the Alps or following a windy cliff side path, you’ll love the outdoor adventures Italy has to offer.

Hit the trails and start your journey on one of these best hiking trails in Italy:

The High Routes of the Dolomites

If you love the thrill of long-distance hiking at high altitudes, overlooking valleys below towering mountain peaks, consider trekking the Dolomites’ high routes. There are eight itineraries to choose from that take you as high as 3,000 meters, overlooking extraordinary places like the Marmolada or the Three Peaks of Lavaredo.

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Sator, Arepo, Tenet, Opera, Rotas · Passion For Italy Travel

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The Ancient Magic Square.

The church of San Pietro ad Oratorium is in the municipality of Capestrano about 40 km from L’Aquila. Left of the main portal there is a stone, a relic of the ancient 9th-century construction, inserted into the walls upside down. It contains the so-called ancient magical square, formed by five words of five letters each that can be read from left to right, from right to left, from top to bottom and from the bottom to top.

The five words “rotas – opera – tenet – arepo – sator” that means “everywhere-operates-holds-plow-sower”, have been variously interpreted, and some researchers thought that they hid the anagram of “Pater Noster”.

One likely translation is The farmer Arepo has [as] works wheels [a plough]; that is, the farmer uses his plow as his form of work.

The church was believed to be founded in 752 by Desiderius, the

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