The style of minimalism is a design approach that is characterized by austerity and laconism in decoration. It is mainly achieved through the use of functional furniture and interior objects, geometric shapes and a combination of usually not more than two basic colors. It is extremely important in such design to correctly divide the space. Minimalist interiors are usually compact, black or gray, and have a strict geometric shape.
The interior design in the style of modern minimalism implies a lot of space, so it is desirable to get rid of partitions in the room.
There is a need for massive windows to fill the room with enough light.
The color scheme is created using the game of halftones. The most common choice: white color combined with graphic gray.
Materials: chrome steel, glass, plastic, ceramics, artificial and natural stone, textured wood.
Table, sofa, furniture, and chandeliers in the style of minimalism have a simple geometric shape. Forms are allowed with a slight bend, but not a spiral.
Artsy decor and ornaments are not a choice. Walls can be decorated with a couple of minimalistic paintings.
The design is characterized by flat reflective surfaces. Each piece of furniture has strict proportions and color.
Instead of curtains, horizontal or vertical blinds are used.
The light is scattered. Neon or halogen ceiling lamps are often used.
The interior of the room in the style of minimalism is ideal for those who are tired of pretentiousness and craves for elegant simplicity. To do this, you should abandon the decor and non-functional parts. Minimalistic rooms are dominated by the spaciousness and a large amount of light.
Finishing with textured plaster, wide glossy tiles, paint or wallpapering is allowed. The walls can also be made of glass, concrete or natural stone with a relief.
The ceiling should not burden the interior and be bulky. Therefore, the content of complex elements in its design is unacceptable. It is best to paint it in a light color.
The laconism of such interiors in the best way can be expressed with the flooring without a pattern in natural colors. There are several flooring options: laminate, polymer coating, parquet, plain carpet, self-leveling floor and ceramic granite tiles. Different rooms allow different flooring. The bedroom will look comfortable with a long nap carpet.
The minimalist style in apartment design is about a streamlined shape and a large space while remaining cozy and attractive. Think about what furniture can be removed from the apartment without sacrificing comfort. Choose a few items of simple, concise form. Keep only functional items on the table and surfaces. If you correctly select all the decor details, you get a room where there is plenty of space, light, and air.
Following the principle of "less is more", get rid of objects that weigh down and distract. For such interiors minimalism in furniture is ideal. For example, a simple cabinet that can be built into the wall. As a rule, it has no back wall, and its shelves are attached to the wall. It is excellent if the cabinets and furniture seem to merge with the ceiling and walls, creating a feeling of free space. When choosing furniture, remember that personal items should be out of sight. Therefore, it is better to choose shelves with doors and closed racks, as well a low sofa.
A kitchen designed in the spirit of minimalism should breathe cleanliness and order. As in any other room, glutting with unnecessary objects is unacceptable here. Therefore, all household appliances should be hidden. The choice of materials is wide: natural stone, brick, wood. Glass and chrome steel are also often used in finishing.
Beige and white are the best for walls, which can be advantageously diluted with gray and brown pieces of furniture. The floor is covered with floorboard or tiles. The interior design of the kitchen in the style of minimalism implies the presence of furniture with simple shapes.
The perfect design of the bedroom involves a spacious room in which there is a lot of sunlight. It is advisable to choose calm, warm shades. There are combinations of lilac and beige, as well as gray and white. You can put a solid carpet on the floor.
The perfect minimal bedroom should be comfortable. The minimalist style in interior design of the bedroom is created by a small amount of furniture. It will be convenient to store things in the built-in wardrobes and bedside tables of a simple form. Mirror and fixtures can be mounted in the wall. It is advisable to choose the most simple curtains or use blinds.
The bed in minimalist style has a laconic form. Designers advise giving preference to a wide bed with a wooden headboard. Next to it, functional tables, on which lamps can be placed, will look good. Massive pot with live plants will be also appropriate.
Many houses of this style have a simple and functional layout, which provides a lot of space. Plain shapes, open floor plans, the virtual absence of interior walls, small storage rooms and an emphasis on high daylight access define interiors of a house in a minimalist style. This simple house design avoids many entrances and exits, and also has no bends or corners.
Minimalistic living rooms are the best in modern design as they bring the luxury of understated elegance to everyday life. With the right design, you will get a room with a positive, bright energy. Usually, for decorating the living room you can use classic shades: black, white, beige and gray. It is also permissible to introduce bursts of bold shades such as orange, red and green.
The interior design of the living room in the style of minimalism should be thought out to the smallest detail. It should harmoniously combine open space, rigorous forms, and functionality. Proper lighting is an important element of the living room. Large windows provide plenty of light, making your living room more visually large. TV is better to install on the wall while cabinets should be built-in. Also, pay attention to items with flat reflective surfaces. Furniture for the living room in the style of minimalism (sofa, chairs, coffee table) should have geometric shapes and smooth silhouettes.
The interior and bathroom fixtures are restrained and rigorous. The style does not tolerate the presence of more than two primary colors. Alternatively, you can choose a beige bath with a brown finish.
The flooring should also not be full of textures and colors. It is best to put tile or waterproof laminate. The interior design of the bathroom in the style of minimalism excludes paintings, bas-reliefs and more. There is a wide range of facing materials: wood, metal, glass.
It is important to limit the number of bath accessories. Shelves with roller shutters look neat and do not overload the room. Metal mounts for mirrors and towels fit perfectly. It is also necessary not to forget about ambient lighting. A minimal bathtub should be of a simple geometric shape without unnecessary details.
The design of an entry should also combine no more than two colors. You can take as a basis white, beige or milk. As for furniture, it is better to choose a functional wardrobe for outerwear and a shelf of regular geometric shape for shoes. To visually expand the space, you can purchse furniture with a mirror surface. The minimalist entry interior involves diffused lighting coming from the lamps merging with the furnishings.
Kids room in this style is ideal for a family with several children. If you choose functional furniture, you can significantly save space. To do this, you need to fix a few wall cabinets on the wall, which will store books. The design of a kids room usually starts with the selection of colors. As a rule, these should be light shades for walls. They can be painted or finished with light wallpaper.
The design of a teen room in the style of minimalism involves a folding bed. The advantage of such a bed is that its lower part extends to sleep and retracts during the daytime. Also, to save space, you can use furniture-transformer. Such a space will be a great place for games and creativity.


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Seasonal work is slim
WorkSource California's Wilshire office is busy with jobseekers working on resumes, but the odds of landing temporary work are down this holiday season.
NEW YORK – The odds of landing a part-time job at department store operator Bealls Outlet Stores Inc. this holiday season are slimmer than getting into Harvard: It's one out of every 45.
Don't think the chances are any better at 7-Eleven. One California store received more than 100 applicants in a week and a half for jobs that pay $8.50 per hour – and the retailer doesn't even usually hire holiday workers.
From department stores and convenience chains to call centers, managers who only a year ago had to scramble to fill holiday jobs are seeing a surge in the number of seasoned applicants – many of them laid off in other sectors and desperate for a way to pay the bills.
The flood of jobseekers comes even as the retail industry drastically cuts back on holiday hiring because of the drop-off in consumer spending, and the applicants – who differ from the usual pool of teens or stay-at-home moms looking for extra spending money – reflect the nation's fast-deteriorating job market.
"I thought it was going to be pretty easy, but I am not the only one looking for a job. There are thousands of us going for the same thing," said Kimberly Caparo of Chesterfield, Mich., who has applied for part-time jobs at Toys R Us Inc., Home Depot Inc. and Lowe's Cos. Inc. in recent weeks since she and her husband were laid off by American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc.
At UPS Inc., which is just starting to ramp up its holiday hiring, as much as 30 percent of the seasonal hires in the Northeast are coming from the ranks of the recently laid off, said spokeswoman Ronna Charles Branch. In the past, she said, applicants for holiday jobs at the world's biggest shipping carrier were largely students.
Jean Telfort, a 41-year-old Army veteran, has applied for dozens of part-time jobs, including at Macy's and Nordstrom Inc., with no success. He needs money to help pay the rent and to pay down his $60,000 credit card bill, which includes his college tuition charges.
"I am looking for anything to carry me over," said the Freeport, N.Y., who returned full-time to Hofstra University where he's pursuing a degree in public relations after serving 11 years in the Army. He expects to graduate in May.
Since the nation's financial downturn intensified in September, ramping up layoffs across several industries, a growing number of the unemployed have been turning to lower-paying jobs in the retail sector, which they thought could help them get by until they found full-time work in their specialized fields or retrain in other areas.
"It would be money coming in even if it's a little bit," said Caparo, 32, who's finishing up a college degree in business administration and does not plan to go back to the battered auto industry. "It's money that I don't have to take out."
But given the shakiness of the retailing industry amid a series of bankruptcies, store closings and liquidations, laid-off workers are even having a hard time finding any jobs. The situation got even tougher Monday, when consumer electronics chain Circuit City Stores Inc. filed for bankruptcy and said it would be laying off more people than previously announced.
The U.S. retail industry shed 38,100 jobs in October, bringing the total since January to 297,000, according to Michael P. Niemira, chief economist at the International Council of Shopping Centers. That accounts for 25percent of the 1.2million jobs lost in the U.S. so far this year. Yet retail employment only accounted for about 11 percent of total payroll employment – meaning the retail industry is losing a higher proportion of its jobs.
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class WheelTickOdometry {
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  WheelTickOdometry();
  WheelTickOdometry(DriveCalculator::ConstPtr driveCalculator, const double& wheelDiameter);
  ~WheelTickOdometry();

  void setDriveCalculator(DriveCalculator::ConstPtr driveCalculator);

  const Pose2D& getCurrentPose();

  const Pose2D update(const double& leftWheelTicks,
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  void reset(const Pose2D& zeroPose,
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Stingray's audio music channels to be added to Sky's line up
by Gustavo Hernández | Oct 18, 2019
Canadian Stingray has reached an agreement with Brazilian DTH Sky (AT&T) on the distribution of its audio music channels. In this way, Sky subscribers will have access to 300 audio channels in their TV sets and to more than two thousand audio channels in their mobile devices through Stingray TV Everywhere app.
"Stingray offering will allow our subscribers to enjoy their favorite music, whether it is samba, sertanejo or pop music", commented Sky Brasil Content Director Simoni Sobelman. According to the press release, Stingray Music (multiplatform service of Stingray) has channels with local music genres too.
The music service is offered to Pay TV operators and OTT platforms worldwide, included content for TV set and for TV Everywhere through SmarTVs, mobile phones and computers.


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James McKeown scooped the Grimsby Town Supporters Player of the Year award tonight.
James and Shaun Pearson picked up the main awards between them, while Andi Thanoj was voted as the Grimsby Town Supporters Young Player of the Year.
James McKeown was voted as the Official Grimsby Town website top player too.
Paddy McLaughlin's strike v Dartford was chosen as the Goal of the Season by our camera crew.
Highlights of the night will be on here soon . .


Back in January, I revealed my inclination to check my horoscope each morning before leaving the house. Today, I expand upon this routine: Facebook. Just as I can't help but check out Perez Hilton mid-day, I seem to automatically type in f-a-c-e-b-o-o-k-.-c-o-m as my sleepy eyes slowly open. I do this even though I'd generally like to click the highly-desired "dislike" button on most of the items on my news feed.
GQ recently published "Eighteen People You're Scared Of On Facebook," and boy, did they hit the nail on the head. As I flipped through the slideshow — Relentlessly Disingenuously Humble Self-Promoter, Misery Lady, Person Who Never Met A Facebook Quiz He Didn't Like — I realized that there are more than a handful of Facebook friends who GQ's hilarious feature described. That being said, I didn't really do anything about it but laugh.
Now, it's like we've hit the penultimate level of internet craziness. We just HAVE to take advantage of all these great tools ALL the time, don't we!?!?! You can pretty much assume that not only does someone have a Facebook account, but Twitter, too, and probably an old MySpace, AOL screen name, college-required blog floating around the www, Foursquare, iPhone apps, and MORE! In fact, if you don't, you're kinda lame.


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10-0 to the Wanderers!
The Chairgirls went goal crazy on Sunday.
Wycombe Wanderers Ladies smashed 10 goals past Basingstoke yesterday to return to winning ways after a two-week break from the action.
Having been defeated by fellow high-flyers Abingdon at the end of November, Andy McIntosh's side were without a game last weekend due to Sandhurst withdrawing from the league.
However, they showed no signs of rustiness, cruising into a 4-0 lead at half-time against Basingstoke before hitting double figures for the second time this season.
Chloe Ball struck twice on her debut after being called up from the under-18s side, while top scorer Tara Woodward bagged another hat-trick and Charlotte Bagshaw (two), Christina O'Connor (two) and Olivia Hall aso added their names to the scoresheet. See the full report below.
Their final game before Christmas sees them take on Wargave on Sunday, having beaten them 11-0 in the reverse fixture. The game kicks off at 2pm at Recreation Road, Wargrave, Berks, RG10 8BG.
Meanwhile Wycombe have been drawn at home to New Milton Town in the quarter-final of the League Cup on 13th January.
Team vs Basingstoke: Batkin, Jacobs, Dean, Hudson, Barette, Newberry, O'Connor, Bagshaw, Jacobs, Ball, Woodward.
Subs: Hall, Messitt, Southby.
The Ladies travelled to Hampshire to face Basingstoke in the league. They'd previously beaten the opposition 6-0 in the league and 1-0 in the cup, however the Blues had strict orders to not become complacent. The pitch was a new 3G facility in Whitchurch and the Blues wasted no time on a familiar surface.
Tara Woodward converted a deep cross from winger Chante Inniss at the far post in the third minute. Striker Chloe Ball made her debut for the Blues from the U18s team and took no time in holding back and bagged her first senior goal on the 17 minute mark. Woodward and Ball continued to link up well throughout. The Chairgirls led 4-0 at half-time with further goals by the Ladies captain, Charlotte Bagshaw, and Woodward's second.
Wycombe continued their ascendancy through the second half, sound in defence, more composed in midfield and finding space behind Basingstoke's higher line. Six more goals included two goals from Christina O'Connor smashing home a free-kick and drilling the ball low and hard into the left-hand corner. Bagshaw and Ball secured their second each, Woodward completed her hat-trick and Olivia Hall scored her first of the season.
A solid and powerful team performance, all the units linking and combining effectively and an extremely assured debut for Chloe Ball who deserved a hat-trick. The Blues travel to Wargrave next Sunday 16th December for their fourth away game in a row.
Risborough Rangers U18 2-1 Wycombe Wanderers Ladies U18
Wycombe Wanderers U18 narrowly lost at Risborough Rangers in the Berks and Bucks Cup. The home side scored with a free kick which keeper Eames got a hand to but couldn't keep it out. Haarburger slid in the equaliser from a quick counter attack set up by a powerful run from Lennard. Despite creating a number of scoring opportunities it remained level at half time.
Play was equal in the second half but it was Rangers who scored the decisive goal on 65 minutes, an unmarked finish at the far post was unlucky because the defence, up to that point, had been well organised by Coward and Boddy. The Blues changed shape and pressed hard to equalise but couldn't find a finish. The performance again showed progress individually and collectively on previous games.
The U18s take on Binfield U18 Wildcats on Saturday 15th December at home (OX9 3RN – 9:30am kick off).
Team: Eames, Johnson, Crombie, Coward Boddy, Lennard, Wyncoll, Haarburger, Harrington, Woodward, Steel, Priest
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Diane Keaton Biography
By Jeeya - Feb 10, 2020
Quick Facts Of Diane Keaton
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Diane Keaton is an Oscar-winning actor who has earned recognition for her contribution in several Woody Allen films and her dramatic performance in The God Father Series. She is also noted for her comedic hits like The First Wives Club and Something's Gotta Give. She has given more than four decades of her life to the American Cinema Industry. She is in the seventies but still not backing up from her work. Let's know more about her through this article.
What is Diane Keaton famous for?
An American film actress, director, and producer.
Her various accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
What age is Diane Keaton?
Recalling his early life, Diane Keaton was born in Los Angeles, California, in the United States in the year 1946. Currently, she aged 74 years old. She is the daughter of Jack Newton Ignatius Hall and Dorothy Deanne Keaton. Her father was a real estate broker and civil engineer and her mother was a homemaker and amateur photographer.
Similarly, She has three siblings namely, Dorrie Hall, Randy Hall, Robin Hall. Whereas, she belongs to American nationality and mixed (Irish- English- German- Scottish- French-Dutch) ethnicity. Further, Her birth sign is Capricorn.
Which institute does Diane Keaton go to study?
For education, Diane attended the Santa Ana High School and graduated from there in 1963. Then she enrolled at the University of Southern California.
How Diane Keaton become an actress?
Moving towards her career, Diane performed at nightclubs as a singer. Similarly, in 1968, she landed up a role in the Broadway rock musical Hair. She famously refused to strip in the role which though optionally required actors to perform nude at the end of Act I.
During 1970, she also performed in Woody Allen's hit Broadway stage show Play It Again, Sam.
In the same year, she also made her debut on the big screen as Joan Vecchio in the comedy film Lovers and Other Strangers.
Similarly, in 1971, she also essayed the character of Renata Wallinger in the short film Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story. She also performed in single episodes of two television series The F.B.I and Mannix respectively.
Eventually, she made a remarkable comeback in the comedy genre with the Woody Allen films as Linda in 1972 released Play It Again, Sam and Luna Schlosser in 1973 released Sleeper.
In 1974, she also reprised her role as Kay Adams in 'The Godfather sequel, The Godfather Part II.
During 1984, she did two films, The Little Drummer Girl and Mrs. Soffel. Besides that, some of her other films of the 1980s include 'Crimes of the Heart (1986), Radio Days (1987) and The Good Mother (1988). In addition, she starred in the 1987 hit comedy film Baby Boom which was written and produced by Nancy Mayers.
Moreover, she started the 1990s with reprising her role as Kay Adams in the 1990 released film The Godfather Part III. Similarly, she reprised the role of Nina Banks in the 1995 sequel Father of the Bride Part II.
She directed and acted in the 2000-released film Hanging Up. She went on to win the Modern Master Award at the 2001 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Some of her films in the 2000s include Town & Country (2001), The Family Stone (2005), Mama's Boy (2007), Morning Glory (2010), And So It Goes (2014), and Love the Coopers (2015).
Along with her big-screen flicks, she also continued to perform in several television movies. Some of her TV films of the 2000s include Sister Mary Explains It All (2001), Crossed Over (2002), and Surrender, Dorothy (2006).
She played Sister Mary in the 2016 television series The Young Pope. She also voiced Jenny in the animated film Finding Dory, a sequel to Finding Nemo.
She went on to appear in movies like Hampstead (2017), Book Club (2018), and Poms (2019). In 2019, she was cast to play an important role in the romantic comedy film Love, Weddings & Other Disasters.
Who is Diane Keaton married to?
Reflecting on her personal life, Diane has never married although she has had several relationships. She was in a relationship with Woody Allen in 1971, but the relationship didn't go well so they broke up in 1972.
Then, she was in a relationship with Al Pacino in 1971. The two had a turbulent on and off the relationship before finally ending the things in 1991. Similarly, she was in a relationship with Warren Beatty in 1978, but they broke up in 1980.
Moreover, she was in a relationship with Edward Joseph Ruscha in 1977. However, their relationship didn't last long and decided to put an end to their romance. She dated Steve Jobs in the 1970s but they broke up.
Lastly, she was in a relationship with Keanu Reeves in 2005 but the relationship didn't last long and they broke up. Therefore, she has two children namely, Dexter Keaton, Duke Keaton
How much is Diane Keaton's net worth?
Being a part of the entertainment industry, Diane earns an impressive amount of money and fame through her profession as an actress, screenwriter, producer, and director. Based on some online reports, his estimated net worth said to be $50 million at present. However, her salary is yet to be disclosed.
How tall is Diane Keaton?
Observing her body physics, Diane has a height of 5 feet 6 inches and weighs around 56 Kg. Similarly, her hair color is Blonde and her eye color is green. Further, her shoe size is 8.5 (US). Her other body information is yet to be disclosed.
She has never married.
She has adult-onset asthma.
She was part of the original cast of the Broadway musical "Hair" (1968).
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Where Is China Going, Given The MSCI Rejection
The MSCI rejected China's bid to become included with the MSCI Emerging Markets index while Pakistan has been included.
Although Chinese leaders have been working very hard in recent decades to become more and more a part of the world, there is concern that President Xi may be backtracking.
This may be a short-run case because of current political pressures, but China, for the longer haul, knows that it must open up, reduce capital controls and cooperate.
China has worked for years to modernize its economy and to change how it does business, in order to play the role in world markets it believes that it should be playing.
Last August, the International Monetary Fund moved to include the Chinese currency, the renminbi, in the list of currencies it accepts as reserve currencies. If this goes through, the renminbi will join the club of primary currencies like the US dollar, the British pound, the Japanese yen, and the euro as the only sanctioned reserve currencies in the world.
Chinese leaders were quite proud, as they well should be. China was becoming a member of the elite.
Now, however, it has received a setback to its move into world financial circles.
The MSCI, the Morgan Stanley Capital Index, a group that produces a number of market indexes, failed to include Chinese shares in its emerging markets index. It was a clear snub to China and a setback to China's plans to become a full member of the major economic nations of the world.
The snub seemed even worse as Pakistan qualified for the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
The primary reason for the difference in treatment: capital controls.
Even though the Pakistan stock market is only one-hundredth of the size of the market on mainline China, it was upgraded into the index because of the capital mobility in and out of the country.
Capital controls was one of the major reasons given for the denial of the Chinese market, although there were other factors like overly extended regulatory efforts and "unique local market practices."
In recent years, China has seemed to support the lessening of capital controls along with the efforts to expand the use of its currency worldwide, and along with the rapid growth of its export trade. These efforts have been consistent with the thrust of the central government to reduce barriers to trade, increase openness, and free up corporations and markets to compete with other areas of the world.
There is concern, however, that Chinese leaders, especially President Xi Jinping, have been reversing some of the government's positions on the move to freer markets.
Traces of this reversal have been noted by analysts over the past year or so as President Xi has moved to reduce corruption in both the political ranks as well as in the business circles. This has cost the leader political capital and he has gotten more resistance in recent efforts to free up the currency markets, as well as the capital markets. The August upheaval and resulting volatility especially caused President Xi and other Chinese leaders to question the speed at which changes were being made.
The one thing that we must remind ourselves about, however, is the Chinese tendency to think in terms of decades rather than months or years, as we do in our Western societies.
President Xi, I still believe, is committed to freeing up Chinese industry and Chinese markets over the longer run. Political needs may be delaying this for the short run.
China wants to become a world class competitor on the economic front and, deep down, its leaders know that this means that China will have to open up more, will have to become more competitive and will have to reduce controls on capital movements. I believe that it knows full well that unless it becomes more and more capitalistic in operation, it will not be able to achieve the position in the world that it wants.
I believe that it also knows that world trade and globalization are going to continue to expand, that information is going to continue to spread and that nations are going to have to work more closely together.
Just as we see that US policy makers are having to include Chinese actions and consequences in their decision-making process, as is the rest of the world; Chinese policy makers are going to have to be cognizant of how they are interacting with the rest of the world.
This, to me, is the world of the future. Some in Great Britain may want to leave the European Union, but the world is coming together not moving apart; and sooner or later, whatever the outcome of the vote, Great Britain is going to find itself more and more entwined with the EU.
And, the EU faces its own destabilizing issues and although it has a unified currency it does not have a unified political organization to back it up. Hence, it too faces the forces of disintegration.
But, as I mentioned above, the growth of world trade and globalization is not going to stop, even if it pauses for a moment. The flow of information throughout the world is not going to end, and this will bring us, for better or worse, even closer together. It always has and it always will.
And, within this world, nations are going to have to give up more and more of their national sovereignty and work more closely together. I think that the Chinese leaders really know this. It might just take us a while to get there.
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In his victory speech on election night, U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb said he would always remember the union members who helped him defeat two Republican incumbents in one year.
"Side by side with us at each step of the way were men and women of organized labor... I will never forget that. I will never forget that. Thank you," he told a cheering crowd overflowing a ballroom at the Hilton DoubleTree, 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.
In his first contest last spring, in a district that went for President Donald Trump by nearly 20 points and that had elected a Republican to the House for 15 years, Lamb received massive support in the form of door-knocking and phone banking from members of the labor union I lead, the United Steelworkers, and from several others, including the Service Employees International Union.
Lamb recalled that help when he listed his priorities on his website. They include, he wrote, "protecting Social Security and Medicare as well as fighting for good jobs and strong unions." And he spoke with pride of his connection to labor at his victory party, "These unions have fought for decades for wages, benefits, working conditions, basic dignity and social justice ... You have brought me into your ranks to fight with you... I am proud to be right there with you."
Unfortunately, he's an exception. Far too many so-called representatives of the people forget the working men and women who volunteered their valuable time to canvass and call and convince for them. They respond only to the demands of CEOs and Wall Street fat cats. Captured by big money, they neglect their roots, renege on their promises, obstruct organized labor.
That's how workers get crushed with crappy trade deals like NAFTA. That's how anti-union legislation gets passed. That's how OSHA is underfunded and the minimum wage is emaciated.
In this election cycle, union workers knocked on more than 2.3 million doors and distributed 5 million fliers at more than 4,600 work-sites to support labor-endorsed candidates. Many of them won. That includes more than 740 union members elected to political offices across the country, from Jacky Rosen for Nevada's U.S. Senate seat to Gretchen Whitmer and Tim Walz for governor's offices in Michigan and Minnesota. Like Conor Lamb, these newly elected officials can be expected to honor their labor roots.
This is important because even though Democrats won a majority in the U.S. House, some are talking crazy talk.
They're pushing for "open trade" and a "post-industrial economy."
Such corporate Democrats and spineless centrists treat blue-collar workers and American manufacturers like trash -- an annoyance they'd abandon, offshore, eliminate. They don't care about auto workers in Michigan or aluminum smelters in Kentucky or tire builders in Illinois.
Many of those workers voted for Donald Trump in 2016 because he promised to save their jobs. He has enacted tariffs on steel and aluminum designed to preserve these American industries essential to national defense, and $250 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports intended to pressure Beijing to stop stealing U.S. trade secrets and to stop compelling U.S. corporations to transfer intellectual property in exchange for access to the Asian market.
Those Presidential actions are vital to American manufacturing. They must remain in force -- except that Canada should be exempt from the steel and aluminum tariffs because it is an ally, not a threat.
But, in many other ways, the administration has injured workers.
Under this administration, the Labor Department has dawdled on qualifying more workers for overtime pay and diluted and delayed worker safety regulations. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has proposed making it more difficult for fast food workers to unionize and reversed a ruling that enabled small groups of workers to form unions.
The Supreme Court, with a Trump appointee, empowered corporations to strip workers of their rights to join together to sue employers and to sue them in public courts rather than submit to corporate-controlled arbitration. And the Supreme Court decided that public employees don't have to pay dues -- or even smaller payments in lieu of dues -- to labor unions that are required to bargain for them and represent them in grievances. The unions, the court decided, must provide free services to those who choose not to join.
Then there is the minimum wage. After nearly a decade stuck in cement, it is a degrading $7.25 an hour. Starvation wages. Corporations that pay $7.25 are welfare queens, padding their payrolls with government benefits including food stamps and Medicaid.
And there are multiple problems for workers in the proposed new NAFTA, aka, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). It's better than NAFTA. But not good enough. For example, starting in 2020, to receive zero-tariff treatment, 30 percent of labor to build cars and trucks would have to be performed by workers earning $16 an hour. That would gradually rise to 40 percent by 2023.
But $16 is too low to begin with, and it doesn't increase with inflation. That won't stop U.S. auto manufacturers from moving jobs to Mexico.
In addition, USMCA says Mexican workers must have the ability to organize unions and collectively bargain for better wages and working conditions. That's great, but Mexico must pass -- and enforce -- legislation for that to happen. And it has not. Wages in Mexico have been virtually flat since NAFTA took effect in 1994. American manufacturing workers should not be put in the position of competing for jobs with Mexican manufacturing workers laboring for $2.30 an hour.
This is, however, a new day with labor union members and a diverse group of Democrats taking the majority in the U.S. House in January. Among their great challenges is reversing the measures that have battered workers and their families. They have a great guide in Conor Lamb, who made his priorities clear on election night:
"I am a Pennsylvania Democrat, a proud Western Pennsylvania Democrat. This is the party of my grandfather. He believed in FDR, who taught us all that people have a right to know that their government walks on their side of the street. What that means is I will work on the problems our people face, secure their jobs and pensions, protect their families."
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Washington — OSHA submitted its permanent standard on COVID-19 for the health care industry to the White House Office of Management and Budget for final review Dec. 7.
The review by the OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is one of the final steps in the regulatory process before publication of the final rule in the Federal Register. The timeline for completion of the review is unclear.
OSHA has been working on a permanent standard on COVID-19 focused on health care workers for nearly a year, since withdrawing the non-recordkeeping portions of an emergency temporary standard Dec. 27. To put that into perspective, the average timeline for a typical standard from OSHA is around seven years, according to a 2012 Government Accountability Office study.
Also uncertain is what the final standard will contain, but it could mirror the ETS. The ETS applied to "settings where any employees provide health care or health care support services," such as hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Some exceptions were made for "nonhospital ambulatory care settings" where nonemployees are screened for COVID-19 before entering and individuals suspected of having or are confirmed to have COVID-19 aren't allowed to enter.
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The ETS required covered facilities to have a COVID-19 plan (in writing if an employer had more than 10 employees) that included a designated safety coordinator with the "authority to ensure compliance." Also required: Conducting a workplace-specific hazard assessment, monitoring and limiting points of entry in areas where direct patient care is provided, and developing and implementing policies and procedures to limit COVID-19 transmission.
Workers in facilities covered under the ETS had to be supplied with N95 respirators or other personal protective equipment when they were indoors, in a vehicle with other people for work purposes, or around people who were suspected of having or confirmed to have COVID-19. Their employers had to ensure workers remained 6 feet apart, or had to erect "cleanable or disposable solid barriers" when that wasn't feasible.
Employers had to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for cleaning and disinfection, and ensure ventilation systems were used properly, among other steps.
The ETS also required employers to provide workers with paid time off if they became sick, when they received a vaccine or if they needed to recover from any side effects from a vaccine. Employees who contracted COVID-19 or were contagious had to work remotely or "otherwise be separated from other workers if possible, or be given paid time off up to $1,400 per week."
In a Dec. 8 press release, labor union National Nurses United President Deborah Burger applauds OSHA for "fulfilling its commitment" and asks OIRA to complete the review as soon as possible.
"Protecting nurses and other health care workers is of paramount importance as we face an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations, in addition to high and increasing influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalizations," Burger said. "The pandemic is not over. We need a permanent standard to ensure that health care employers will protect all health care workers so they can do their jobs safely and so patients can get the care that they need."
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The shortcomings of a Eurosceptic editorial policy
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On 13th June 2012 the Daily Express made a gamble that the EU would be more unpopular with its readership than the United Kingdom's banking sector, when the newspaper published an article by Macer Hall on its website entitled: "NOW EU WANTS TO GRAB CONTROL OF BRITISH BANKS". This article can be seen at http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/326238/Now-EU-wants-to-grab-control-of-British-banks/ . The article was critical of proposed new powers that would allow the EU to regulate the banks, as well as being critical of what it described as "a swingeing new financial tax". This article was not just a vitriolic criticism of the EU, but also a criticism of creating any kind of mechanism that would effectively regulate Britain's financial sector.
When the article was published on 13th June the editorial staff at the Daily Express could not have predicted the extent of the IT systems failure at RBS and its subsidiary banks NatWest and Ulster Bank, or the revelations of the Libor fixing fraud at Barclays Bank and other leading banks. However the newspaper would have been aware of the PPI mis-selling scandal – which is likely to have affected many of its readers – as well as the financial crisis which became first apparent in 2007 around the time the Northern Rock bank got itself into trouble. The Daily Express was therefore arrogant to assume that its readership would not want to see effective regulation of the UK's banking sector, even if that regulation was to come from Europe.
The article did not explain to its readers why it is necessary for the EU to regulate banks within EU Member States – the reason for more stringent regulation is because there has been a massive failure of the global financial system, as a result of corruption, greed, and incompetence by some of the individuals who run the financial institutions. Although the UK is not in the Eurozone, it is still suffering from the same problems as other EU Member States in that tax payers money has been used to bail out failed banks, which has exacerbated the sovereign debt crisis, leading to a wider economic crisis. To break this cycle the EU must have more control over the banks, which should include sanctions such as the power to prosecute banking officials involved in fraud.
The Daily Express's article quoted the Eurosceptic Tory MP, Peter Bone as saying: "The political elite of Europe are completely barking and out of touch with ordinary citizens. The sooner the euro collapses and the European Union breaks up the better."
From this remark Mr Bone shows himself to be both barking and out of touch with ordinary citizens, because if the euro collapsed and the European Union broke up, the EU's internal market would also break up, creating even more mass unemployment which in turn would stoke up old nationalist hatreds. This in itself would kill Britain's export market to Europe and create even more unemployment at home. The break up of the EU could also lead to another world war emanating from Europe.
The Daily Express's article did not give its readers any specific details of what it described as the "swingeing new financial tax", perhaps because if its readers were better informed they might actually support the tax. This tax is probably the financial transaction tax (FTT) which has also been called the Robin Hood Tax. The European Commission proposed this tax on 28th September 2011. In a press release of that day ref: IP/11/1085, the European Commission gave its reason for the tax as follows:
First, to ensure that the financial sector makes a fair contribution at a time of fiscal consolidation in the Member States. The financial sector played a role in the origins of the economic crisis. Governments and European citizens at large have borne the cost of massive taxpayer-funded bailouts to support the financial sector. Furthermore, the sector is currently under-taxed by comparison to other sectors. The proposal would generate significant additional tax revenue from the financial sector to contribute to public finances.
Second, a coordinated framework at EU level would help to strengthen the EU single market. Today, 10 Member States have a form of a financial transaction tax in place. The proposal would introduce new minimum tax rates and harmonise different existing taxes on financial transactions in the EU.. This will help to reduce competitive distortions in the single market, discourage risky trading activities and complement regulatory measures aimed at avoiding future crises. The financial transaction tax at EU level would strengthen the EU's position to promote common rules for the introduction of such a tax at global level, notably through the G20.
The FTT which is not applicable to pension funds has rates of 0.1% for shares and bonds, and 0.01% for derivatives. The tax was approved by the European Parliament on 23rd May 2012.
The Daily Express might want its readers to believe that the EU is costly for British citizens, but if people do a little research for themselves they might find that the institutions of the EU are actually on the citizens' side. For many people the pain of being ripped off by the banks, would have focused their minds on the shortcomings of the Daily Express's Eurosceptic editorial policy.
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You have a touching faith that the Express cares in the slightest whether its propaganda is accurate or logical. It streams the consciousness of crazed xenophobe Richard Desmond direct to the British public, in an attempt to make them more like him. The sooner it collapses and breaks up, the better…
It's been five minutes and I'm still chuckling at the idea that the Express might do research before it writes an article.
Yes…. because the Eurozone has done such a good job with it's own banking system hasn't it? You know very well that the reason the British government wanted control was because they intended to impose stricter regulations on the banks than the EU does.
The EU makes a pig's ear of everything it touches, fishing regulations, CAP and worst of all it's monopoly money, which has left millions of Europeans without homes, jobs and hope.
Perhaps if the Eurozone were not quite so obvious in their intention of taking over each and every country in the EU and adding it to their dictatorship, it wouldn't receive such a negative reaction. The EU would like nothing better than to get it's hands on London's financial sector, it means millions of pounds in extra revenue for the EU if they can pull it off.
The EU should sort out it's own Ponzi scheme before interfering in other countries business. It's not Britain that's is bringing the rest of the world to it's knees, it's the Eurozone and it's dodgy currency.
"The Daily Express might want its readers to believe that the EU is costly for British citizens, but if people do a little research for themselves they might find that the institutions of the EU are actually on the citizens' side".
Nothing can justify the complete lack of democracy. The nannying, the rules and regulations. The EU is costing the UK millions a day, while our hospitals close. Whatever it is costing, it's not worth it. We no longer want to be fettered to these losers who are totally incapable of even auditing their own accounts.
WE WERE NOT ASKED FOR OUR CONSENT IN JOINING THIS DICTATORSHIP.
No, the EU is only interested in power, if it cared about it's citizens, Europeans in Greece, Italy, Spain and Ireland wouldn't be suffering while the Eurocrats wine and dine in luxury ferried around the world in private jets.
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Sue, do you honestly believe the British government wanted to impose stricter regulations on the banks than the EU? The whole ideological approach from British governments over the past 33 years has been light touch regulation, which has facilitated the kind of fraud we have seen connected to the mis-selling of dodgy financial products to banks customers, as well as the fixing of the libor rate. It is not just the EU that want to impose the FTT or Robin Hood Tax on the City of London, the tax is also supported by charities such as Oxfam, but the British government has resisted it. UKIP and Eurosceptic Tories do not want the speculators in the trading rooms of London taxed, even when the greed and excess of these traders has brought the global economy to its knees. The Eurosceptics believe that people such as Bob Diamond should be allowed the freedom to get even bigger bonuses at the expense of the rest of the population.
Where you get that idea is beyond me. George Osborne wanted to impose tougher requirements on banks, on a case by case basis, without having to ask permission from EU regulators first. He was supported by Sweden and Spain in this matter.
Truth is, the EU wants control of everything and throws a wobbly when it doesn't go it's way. France is whinging because if the UK imposes stricter controls, the markets will see it as less of a risk which in Barnier's eyes would make France less competitive.
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As I said previously, the EU has broken every rule in the book from allowing countries to fiddle their accounts prior to accession, to propping up banks which should have failed. The UK government are equally to blame (as is Wall Street). Remind me again how much OLAF has estimated has been embezzled from taxpayers money?
Socialism and corporatism go hand in hand and that's what is happening worldwide. The Robin Hood tax would be passed to taxpayers like me. Do you really think the banks or traders will pay the tax themselves? Of course not. The EU was obviously rubbing it's hands together with this one as Britain stood to contribute a massive 80% of the cash yield in the EU as a whole.
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Charities should never be funded by taxpayers money, it's tantamount to theft. Charities used to rely on voluntary donations and that has all gone horribly wrong. They are now as corrupt as the rest of the institutions. They should not be called charities but renamed as quangoes.
Finally, I believe that half the bankers and traders ought to be prison but then again so do half our politicians. Interference from the EU is not making things easier for people like me who want the whole political system changed. As far as I'm concerned, the whole bally lot of them are corrupt but the EU has top spot.
If the Robin Hood tax is implemented correctly it would not be passed on to other tax payers, because if the banks and traders did so they would be committing both fraud and tax evasion. If fraud and tax evasion is committed then the authorities have it in their power to prosecute the offenders. The cash raised by the tax could be used to police the financial system more effectively.
Unless it's implemented globally it will ruin our financial sector which pays a vast amount of tax. The markets would simply move to where they don't have to pay it. It's a lose, lose scenario. Sweden tried and failed to to do it. They lost so much money, they gave up.
I am the first one to denounce bankers and their unethical practices but let's be honest here, corporations, politicians, bankers and Autocrat, they're all at it. They get away with fraud, corruption and theft while we get hounded for a TV licence. The whole system sucks and the bigger government is, the more inefficient and expensive it becomes. The EU is that ultimate parasitical monster of all governments, it is neither needed nor wanted. There is no reason whatsoever why 27 countries can't get together round a table to discuss policy. The EU is a power trip for jokers like Barroso and Van Rompuy. Unelected, overpaid and unwanted.
your paranoia about the EU is really not helping your argument. The EU's entire apparatus is smaller than that of a mid-sized British town, its main institutions are elected either directly (EP) or indirectly (Council), and the Commission, which does about the same job as the British Civil Service, is just as legitimate as the BCS. Generalized ranting like yours is just ridiculous and makes people not take you seriously, so please spare us.
Thanks for your support Doreen. Sue, once the Robin Hood Tax is implemented at an EU level, then it would probably be implemented at a Global level through the IMF. I also think the best thing that could happen for London, would be for some of those unscrupulous traders to run away to a tropical island, while we could rebuild our economy and start investing in productive industry and technology again.
Paranoia has absolutely nothing to do with it. I simply don't see why 27 countries can't sit round a table and discuss policy. Why do we need some pompous unelected nincompoops in charge? Do they think we are children? The biggest joke of all is that it goes round preaching democracy, when it's a dictatorship, even the Americans saw the funny side to that one!
We have absolutely no need for an army of civil servants when each country could pick one of their "serving" politico's to do the job.
This is from 2007 so goodness only knows how many have been added since then.
"However, if you can find them, the official figures from the EU's "establishment plans" for 2007 (on page 6 of the DG Admin 'statistical bulletin') show that there are 42,548 temporary and permanent EU officials. In addition, it lists 8,123 "external" Commission staff, which are staff paid on appropriations – contract agents, seconded national experts, technical and administrative assistance etc, giving a total of over 50,000″ http://bit.ly/OjF7Gm
This was before Baroness Ashton's massive army of over 3,000 and she is now the second most highly paid woman in the world. How many more departments and quangoes have been added in the last 5 years?
You reckon we're not being ripped off?
It's you who are delusional. Why, when each country already had a diplomatic corps we needed another with that useless woman in charge is beyond me.
We've been lied to, had the truth hidden for years and denied our rights as free citizens of the UK and I'm furious. I did not ask to join the EU and I wasn't consulted. I was too young in 1975 when those who voted yes to the COMMON MARKET were asked.
Even then, the truth was with-held on the future plans for a political union. Guess why? BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE VOTED NO.
I resent being told how to live my life by anybody, and certainly not by some jumped up bureaucrat in a silk designer suit who was appointed to make the law.
There will be thousands of Britons partying when this project finally dies the death it deserves.
Nope, they can all FOXTROT OSCAR!
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Not going to happen, the British government need the revenue, why do you think they're so dead against it?
I am simply not a socialist. I don't believe in "progressive" politics. I don't believe that richer countries should give to the poorer ones at the expense of their taxpayers.
That is what "federalism" is, that is what the EU is. It has more in common with communism than it does democracy.
I am a libertarian at heart and the EU is completely the opposite in it's nature. I don't believe in a benefit system or free health care or education and I don't believe in "spreading the wealth" unless I'm asked in the first place.
Socialism is great, until you run out of other people's money – and that is exactly what has happened to the EU.
Jolyon Gumbrell is the editor of the website Jolyon's Review, which can be seen at http://www.jolyonsreview.co.uk . In July 2014 he graduated from the Open University with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History.
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The department of Anthropology is often cited as one of the best in Europe and the Art department is recognised as one of Britain's most prestigious. Goldsmiths University of London often ranks in the top five in the UK across all Art categories. An award-winning building housing IT, library and language-learning resources, and a state-of-the-art fitness centre is also on campus.
Seven former students have won the prestigious Turner Prize and the University was the starting point of the Young British Artist movement of artists in the 1990s. Other alumni can be found in all aspects of media and arts, from music to writing, such as Blur and Damien Hirst.
The University of Hull was formed in 1927, making us the 14th oldest university in England. With a proud history of academic excellence and of creating and inspiring life-changing research, we offer the perfect combination of heritage and high technology, setting us apart from most other universities.
Hull was named the UK's most affordable student city in the Natwest 2018 Student Living Index, and a single-site campus contains everything you need. We've invested £200 million on new facilities including a world-class library, a superb health campus, a state-of-the-art concert hall, on-campus student accommodation and new sports facilities.
An impressive 97.9% of international students at Hull go into work or further study within six months of graduating, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency.
Hull are incredibly ambitious about our research agenda. We take on the big global challenges – from health to habitats, from food to flooding and from supply chains to slavery.
Manchester Metropolitan University has a proud heritage dating back to 1824. It is one of the largest universities in the UK, with over 34,000 students enrolled, and is home to a diverse international student population from more than 130 countries.
The University is ranked amongst the world's top 200 universities under 50 years old (Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2020), which is a measure of its commitment to delivering and supporting quality research and teaching.
Manchester Metropolitan's campus is located in the centre of Manchester, amongst world-renowned music, arts, shopping and sports venues and the second largest Chinatown in the UK. Manchester is considered Britain's 'best city to live in' (Global Liveability Survey 2019 by the Economist Intelligence Unit) and one of the world's top 10 most exciting cities (Time Out City Life Index 2019).
The University is undergoing a £400m+ investment programme to enhance its teaching and research facilities, buildings and public spaces and 85% of Manchester Metropolitan's research has a 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent' impact.
Mander Portman Woodward, or MPW, is an independent college network based in London, Birmingham and Cambridge. Founded in 1973, it offers students an attractive and modern learning environment to study GCSEs, A-levels and university foundation courses. Nearly 1,000 students are enrolled across all three colleges, around a third of which are international.
All tutors at MPW are highly qualified to first degree or doctoral levels, and many are examiners for the subjects they teach. Study is focused on exams, and course notes are provided to help students better prepare for final examinations. Each student at MPW is assigned to a Director of Studies who will supervise student's welfare and academic performance.
The University of Northampton's mission to transform lives and inspire change seeks to ensure your time at University is fulfilling, satisfying and enjoyable. They offer industry-relevant courses, taught on a brand new campus. The University actively focuses on making sure you have all the support you need at this important stage of your life. Face-to-face teaching is enhanced by the latest developments in technology to give students flexibility in the way they learn. In addition, Northampton has a unique commitment to social impact, supporting staff and students to have a positive effect on the world. Courses and extra- curricular activity are designed to promote the idea that everybody has the power to make a positive impact on society – small changes that add up to make the world a better place.
The new campus - Waterside - is located just a few minutes' walk from Northampton town centre. It is purpose-built, designed to deliver a new personalised experience of teaching and learning, plus excellent opportunities to develop academic knowledge and life skills.
Queen's University Belfast is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of universities and is located in Belfast, the Northern Ireland capital. Queen's University was founded in its original form in 1845 and gained formal university status in 1908. 24,000 students from over different 80 countries are currently enrolled and the University was recently ranked 23rd on the Times Higher Education's list of the 100 most international universities in the world.
The University has won the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education on five occasions, while the institution is a Top 50 UK employer for women and leading UK universities in tackling the unequal representation of women in science and engineering.
Queen's University Belfast has a strong focus on employability, offering programmes such as Degree Plus, which recognises extracurricular activities and work experience as part of a degree, and numerous career workshops with employers and alumni.
The University of Reading offers world-class teaching and research across foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from within a stunningly beautiful award-winning campus.
Rated as one of the top 30 UK universities in the 2022 QS World University Rankings and The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021, the University of Reading has built an environment in which students from all walks of life can thrive and build a successful future.
Reading's dynamic and diverse student body is represented by an award-winning Students' Union, with sports societies, activities, student media and entertainment all provided in one of the best rated student venues in the UK. The main Whiteknights campus and London Road campus are situated close to Reading's town centre and are just 30 minutes from London Paddington by train. Whiteknights campus is located on 130 hectares of parkland, earning its eighth consecutive Green Flag Award in 2018.
Reading has a global presence, with two overseas campuses – including the University of Reading Malaysia – and links with organisations in nearly 50 countries.
St Mary's University, London is a modern, friendly institution with a caring atmosphere, a strong academic record and high student satisfaction rates. St Mary's mission is to provide a high quality academic and professional education, inspired by a Catholic ethos and values as London's only Catholic University.
Students of St Mary's benefit from over 165 years of tradition and expertise in teaching at a historic and scenic campus based in Twickenham. With a campus also based in Greater London, St Mary's is both local and global. St Mary's has nearly 6,000 students across four academic Schools offering 34 undergraduate degree programmes, 24 postgraduate programmes, available to study on a full-time and part-time basis, as well as study abroad and Erasmus programmes.
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The University of Surrey is a campus university located in the town of Guildford in the southeast of England. The University has great connections to London, just 35 minutes away by train. Named 'University of the Year' for 2016 in the Times & Sunday Times University Guide, there are around 16,000 students from over 140 different countries.
There are three faculties within the University: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences; Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences all offering a range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
The Manor Park site, is located just 20 minutes' walk away and is home to more student accommodation, the School of Veterinary Medicine and the £36m Surrey Sports Park.
Surrey was recognised as an 'outstanding' institution when it received a prestigious Gold award in the first ever Teaching Excellence Framework, which is testament to the passion for inspiring students and preparing them for a bright future.
The University of Westminster was formed from the Royal Polytechnic established in 1838. It is spread over four campuses, three of which are in central London. There are over 19,000 students from more than 160 countries on a variety of programmes, ranging from undergraduate and postgraduate courses, to tailored professional programmes and short courses.
Subjects maintain a strong vocational focus, with longer modules including work-based skills and integration with practical activity. Undergraduates are able to conduct research during their degree and the University has achieved fame for its media studies and fashion degrees, both of which are rated as being some of the best in the world. Having celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2013, Westminster continues to invest heavily in all facilities from accommodation to the restoration of one of the first cinemas in Britain within the Regent Campus.
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A39 crash which killed teenage boxer and passenger could have been caused by various factors
Danny Thomas was pronounced dead at the scene while his passenger Michael Berry passed away in hospital, an inquest has heard today
Updated 15:29, 12 DEC 2018
The scene of the fatal crash on the A39 (Image: sal adams)
A popular young boxer and his passenger died after clipping a curb and losing control of a Vauxhall Corsa causing the car to go careering across the road and hit a tree.
An inquest into the deaths of Danny Thomas, 18, and Michael Berry, 19, was held at County Hall on Wednesday (December 12).
Danny, from Roche, died in the Vauxhall Corsa at the scene on the A39 at Stickingbridge near Perranarworthal, between Truro and Falmouth , shortly before midnight on December 18 of last year.
Michael, from Bugle, was taken to Royal Cornwall Hospital at Truro and transferred to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth where he lost his fight for life in hospital two weeks later.
The inquest opened with a statement from pathologist Ilona Hopkins who recorded the cause of Danny's death as head and chest injuries. A sample of his blood revealed no alcohol had been consumed but that he had smoked cannabis relatively recently, although it was impossible to say when.
Groundworker Michael, who had in the past suffered with mental health issues, was said to have died as a result of bronchopneumonia caused by a head injury sustained in the crash.
Although there were no witnesses to the crash, the court was read a statement from Charlie Davis, who works at Penryn College and was travelling back along the A39 from a Christmas party with his passenger and workmate Jake Ash.
Inquest hears how various factors could have contributed to A39 crash which killed teenage boxer and passenger
Mr Davis noted that the road seemed dry but as he negotiated the bend he noticed some lights from the side of the road.
He stopped the vehicle and when he went to examine it with his torch he could hear groans from inside.
The statement read: "I recognised the groaning as someone in pain and decided to take a closer look. Jake was on the phone to the ambulance service and the Corsa had its driver's side on the road.
"I looked into the passenger side and could see a male lying flat with both legs outstretched. He was bleeding from his nose and ears."
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Mr Davis also described how he could make out another person of smaller build underneath the male.
Mr Davis and Mr Ash were joined at the scene by an Asian male who attempted to film the crash aftermath before they intervened.
Danny's girlfriend, who wished to remain anonymous, explained how she had been in the car that night, travelling with Danny, Michael and another friend known as Jay around the county that evening.
She described Cormac apprentice Danny as "well respected, with lots of friends" and said that she never felt unsafe in the car with him.
The car driven by Danny Thomas hit a tree next to the A39 and overturned
She said that she was dropped back at her home in Penryn before Danny and Michael headed home.
Giving evidence at the inquest was motor police sergeant Mellissa Inness, forensic collision investigator for the crash.
She said: "The vehicle was located in the offside curb and had done into the undergrowth. The front or nearside wheel had collided with the curb."
MPS Inness explained that after making contact with the curb the Corsa rotated across the road where it mounted slid along a verge, hit two poles and collided side-on with a tree which protruded into the car.
She said that her speed assessment calculated the Corsa was travelling at slightly over 71 miles-per-hour at the first tyre mark, with the speed limit being 60. MPS Inness did however state that she worked out the critical speed for the bend at 93 miles-per-hour, the speed that a vehicle could potentially negotiate the bend at without losing control.
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The Corsa was found to have no mechanical defects but the inquest heard how there was a possibility that one or more of the tyres may not have been inflated properly.
From the evidence, various police officers also stated their beliefs that Danny and Michael were not wearing seatbelts, although given the nature of Danny's injuries it is not believed that wearing one would have made any real difference in his case.
Adrian Roberts from Cormac told of how the section of the A39 in question had been resurfaced in 2016 and had never been listed as "an accident cluster site". He said that a previous fatal collision at Stickingbridge was as a result of a drunk driver and "could have happened anywhere". He did however state that Cormac had decided to revise lining and curbs there to help drivers to judge it better.
The scene of the fatal crash on the A39 in December 2017 (Image: sal adams)
Concluding the inquest, assistant coroner for Cornwall Andrew Cox said: "WPS Inness calculated the minimum speed the car was travelling at as 71 miles-per-hour which although over the speed limit is within the critical speed limit for negotiating the bend. So why did the car hit the curb and lose control?
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"It seems there are a number of factors that may have contributed. Firstly there is a trace of elements of cannabis in Danny's blood. He was able to drive in the hours leading up to the crash but it could have affected his ability to react. It is at least possible the cannabis affected his ability to respond.
Danny Thomas, pictured with Bodmin Boxing Club in 2013, died in a crash on the A39 between Truro and Falmouth just before Christmas 2017 (Image: Phil Monckton)
"The other factor is the possibility that one or more tyres were underinflated, and this could have had an effect on the ability to regain control of the car.
"It was bad luck that Danny Thomas and Michael Berry collided with the tree on the other side of the road. They could have on another day gone either side of it. The vehicle was subjected to a rapid loss of speed and they were not wearing seatbelts."
Mr Cox recorded the death of both men as a consequence of a road traffic collision before extending his condolences to Danny's mother and auntie who attended the hearing.
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Dozens of Sea Turtles Wash Ashore In Guatemala Beaches
A loggerhead sea turtle named Big Red heads to open water after workers from Miami Seaquarium, released it Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006 at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne, Fla. Big Red, who was rescued from Red Tide on the West Coast of Florida, was one of seven injured or sick sea turtles that were rehabilitated and returned to the wild Tuesday. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) ((AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee))
Guatemala's lush pacific coastline, home to a vast array of both flora and fauna, has recently been plagued by a tragic slew of turtle deaths that has dotted beaches on the country's southeast coast.
Since the first week of July at least 80 dead sea turtles have washed ashore on the beaches of La Barrona, Las Lisas, Chapeton and Hawaii, according to a statement released by the Guatemalan non-profit Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Association (ARCAS).
Experts cite the duel threat of underfunded, undermanned hatcheries and shrimp trawlers fishing close to shore.
"Many projects are lacking in the key elements necessary for the present community-based conservation system to function successfully," said Colum Muccio, ARCAS administrative director, according to the Guardian newspaper.
"I don't think it's a coincidence that when shrimp trawlers appear in the ocean that we begin having stranded turtles," he added.
While Guatemalan trawlers are supposed to use turtle excluder devices (TEDs), Muccio said this is difficult to enforce and fines are very light.
"We are currently working on instituting a ban on bottom trawling," he said. "This has recently been done in Belize, Costa Rica and Ecuador, and El Salvador doesn't allow them closer than three miles from shore."
A petition has been presented to the government of Guatemala by conservationists and researchers asking the government to take action to protect these turtles, including monitoring of shrimp trawlers to establish the impact on marine turtle populations.
"Sea turtles are also very much part of the identity of the local culture and local communities often take pride in their hatcheries and their contributions to save the sea turtle," Muccio said.