The Committee for Communities visited two local homeless projects on the 8th December 2016 to mark Homelessness Awareness Week 2016.

The Health Committee held its meeting this morning at the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology at Queen’s University, Belfast.

The Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Infrastructure has welcomed the £30 million funding boost for infrastructure detailed in the October Monitoring statement.

The Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Infrastructure has today visited the Connswater Community Greenway to see how the park is improving the quality of life for local people.

The Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Robin Newton, MBE MLA tonight welcomed Carl Frampton to Parliament Buildings for an event with young people.

dklaughman has added a photo to the pool:

Well that's quite the combination.
Return Day in Georgetown, Delaware.

More info about Return Day at:
www.returnday.com/

dklaughman has added a photo to the pool:

From the website: www.returnday.com/

Although the date of the first RETURN DAY in Georgetown is uncertain, it could have been as early as 1792. The State Law in 1791 removing the County seat from Lewes along the Coast to the a more geographically centered site, later named Georgetown, required all votes to be cast in the new County Seat on election day. The same voters would "return" two days later to hear the results - hence the name RETURN DAY. In 1811, voting districts in the individual hundreds were established, but the Board of Canvassers presided over by the Sheriff would still meet two days later in Georgetown to announce the final tally.

ArchBeat interviews Dr. Frank Munz, the author of "Middleware and Cloud Computing: Oracle Fusion Middleware on Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Cloud."

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