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'No health risk': PM talks up 'free' childcare as learning set to continue for months to come
News 'No health risk': PM talks up 'free' childcare as learning set to continue for months to come
11:29pm, Apr 2, 2020 Updated: 5:59pm, Oct 1
It's hoped more than 80 out-of-school hours services will be able to stay open with the new funding. Photo: AAP
Samantha Maiden
Childcare and schools remain safe for children to attend, according to the Prime Minister, as he unveiled a $1.6 billion plan to extend ''free'' childcare to all workers during the COVID-19 crisis.
The ''free'' childcare will start from Sunday and will be offered even to parents who do not send their children to childcare or after-school care while they are working from home.
Despite widespread panic among parents and some teachers over the risk of COVID-19 spreading in schools, Scott Morrison on Thursday insisted there was ''no health risk to children going to school or childcare''.
"What we always have said in the health advice has been very clear and it has not changed," Mr Morrison said.
"There is no health risk to children going to school or going to childcare. So that hasn't changed. Absolutely no change.
"The health advice is clear. Children can go to childcare and children can go to school."
Related: Research finds coronavirus could spread by talking and breathing
Sydney primary school student six-year-old Oscar stays focused online on Tuesday. Photo: AAP
He urged those parents calling for tougher lockdowns and for schools to be closed to keep in mind changes had to be sustainable and remain in place for six months or longer.
"We are one of the few, if only, countries that have been talking about the coronavirus pandemic as being one that we are going to have to live with for at least the next six months," the PM said.
"I have been very clear about that.
"I really want Australians to understand that we need to be in this for the haul. It will be months."
Parents will secure "free" childcare and be able to keep their booking even for after-school care regardless of whether they attend.
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Education Minister Dan Tehan confirmed the changes on the ABC's 7.30 program.
"So if you have a place with a childcare centre, and you want to keep your children at home, then you will get that continuity with that centre through the pandemic," Mr Tehan said.
Childcare centres will have to guarantee that they will stay open and provide care for essential workers.
The definition of essential workers will include anyone who has a job outside the home – whether that is a supermarket cashier, a nurse, a doctor, a public servant, a journalist or a food delivery driver.
The definition of essential workers is broad and captures any worker who has a job they cannot do from home.
It may also include families working from home who need toddlers cared for while they work.
"We will be ensuring for those parents who are still in that position where they are needing that childcare, it will be free," the Prime Minister said.
"If you have a job in this economy then that is an essential job.
"It is important that all of those parents who have children, that they get access to childcare and those facilities will be there for them."
The expert medical advice is that schools should remain open at this time. pic.twitter.com/7IIxm6YC3C
— Dan Tehan (@DanTehanWannon) March 19, 2020
Most childcare centres will also secure the JobKeeper payment, which means taxpayers will subsidise childcare workers' wages by $1500 a fortnight.
"We're putting a new system in place as of Sunday night," Mr Tehan said.
"So we'll be mothballing the old system and putting in a completely new system.
"What a parent will be able to do in that situation is they'll be able to keep the continuity with their childcare centre, but they don't have to attend and they will not be charged fees."
Mr Tehan offered no guarantees school children would physically return to school in Term 2.
"So we'll work with the state and territories who have the jurisdictional responsibility for this and we will make sure that we've got the best possible arrangements in place so that they will continue their education in term two,'' Mr Tehan said.
Mr Morrison again said there were no "health reasons" why children could not be at school, and that terms would resume after the Easter break even if it was via distance learning.
"One of the things I've been most adamant about is that the virus is going to take a lot of things from us in the months ahead – I do not want it to rob our children of their education," he said.
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Biden Urges 'Guardrails' Against Conflict in Virtual Xi Summit
Then-Vice President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping (Lintao Zhang/AP)
by Aurelia End and Sebastian Smith Monday, 15 November 2021 08:33 PM
President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping opened a virtual summit Monday with an appeal for better communication between the superpowers and "guardrails" to avoid conflict.
Speaking from the White House to Xi on a television screen, Biden said they must develop "guardrails" to "ensure that the competition between our countries does not veer into conflict, whether intended or unintended."
He said they would have a "candid" discussion.
Xi, speaking from Beijing, called Biden "my old friend," but said the rivals must work more closely.
"China and the United States need to increase communication and cooperation," he said.
The two leaders have spoken by phone twice since Biden's inauguration in January but with Xi refusing to travel abroad because of the pandemic, an online video meeting was the only option short of an in-person summit.
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Biden was going into the summit, expected to last a couple of hours, "from a position of strength," after months of rebuilding alliances with other democracies to contain China.
The meeting is "an opportunity to set the terms of the competition with China" and to insist the leadership in Beijing "play by the rules of the road," Psaki said.
Most of the attention in the build-up to the meeting has focused on the sparring over Taiwan, a self-ruling democracy claimed by China. Biden's aides have cast the summit as an opportunity to help prevent tensions from escalating.
Biden will "make clear that we want to build common guardrails to avoid miscalculation," a senior US administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters.
However, the White House sought to temper expectations, with the official saying that the summit "is not a meeting where we expect deliverables to be coming out."
Biden, a veteran of foreign policy issues during his decades in politics, has often said phone conversations are no substitute for face-to-face meetings.
Xi has not left China for nearly two years, and Biden sharply criticized his absence at the recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow and G20 summit in Rome.
Relations between the superpowers plummeted during the presidency of Donald Trump, who launched a trade war with China while assailing Beijing's response to an international probe into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Biden has recast the confrontation more broadly as a struggle between democracy and autocracy.
He got a boost on Monday when he signed into law a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, the biggest of its kind in more than half a century. Biden describes the initiative as an important step in catching up with years of intensive Chinese government investments, thereby proving that democracies can compete.
"The world is changing," he said. "We have to be ready."
While the day-to-day tone is more measured than in the Trump era, tension over Taiwan is threatening to escalate into dangerous new territory.
China has ramped up military activities near Taiwan in recent years, with a record number of warplanes intruding into the island's air defense zone in October.
The United States says it supports Taiwan's self-defense but is ambiguous about whether it would intervene to help directly.
"Any connivance of and support for the 'Taiwan independence' forces undermines peace across the Taiwan Strait and would only boomerang in the end," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a telephone call heading into the weekend.
And China's foreign ministry on Monday put the onus on Biden to improve relations.
"We hope that the US will work in the same direction as China to get along with each other," foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters.
The US administration official signaled Biden would be "very direct" on what he called "China's coercive and provocative behavior with respect to Taiwan."
But the official also stressed the two nations had room for cooperation in various areas, such as climate change.
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My mother is a primary school teacher. Like many teachers, she brought a lot of her job home with her, and that played a major part in my identity. I don't know if it's cheating to choose her as a teacher who inspired me, but it becomes very hard to determine where the parent ends and the teacher begins.
Being raised by a teacher is a very particular type of childhood. I always seem to have an inherent bond with any other teacher's child I meet; I wouldn't be surprised if there were a "15 things only teacher's children get" Buzzfeed article about it.
Naturally, the schoolyard rules enforced at home are always the first signs of a teacher-parent. If you see a parent walking down a street with their children walking in single-file line behind them, you can almost always bet that parent is a teacher. If an adult raises their hand to interrupt a conversation, there's a pretty good chance one of their parents was a teacher. Fortunately, my mother brought much more than compliance home with her.
My mother placed an extremely high value on learning at home. She seemed to know the answers to every question my obnoxiously inquisitive younger self had, but not only would she give me an answer, she would do her best to ensure that I actually understood it.
In the rare events that she didn't have the answer, we would go look through her books for an answer, and there were many, many books. As a child, I didn't realize the value of a parent not only tolerating the torrent of questions I had, but willing to put in such a committed effort to find the answers.
And don't get me started on how amazing it was to have access to pretty much every book from my mom's stash of free samples given to her by publishers.
For my first two years in school, I was in my mom's room at school. We seemed to quite quickly settle on an unspoken agreement that I could do whatever I wanted provided I didn't get in her way teaching the rest of the class.
Once I moved on to being taught by other teachers however, I had a lot of difficulty conforming to the structure of a regular school day in a way that most of the kids had already adjusted to. Because the entirety of my schooling to that point had been open and unstructured, it was a culture shock to discover that there was a "wrong way" to learn.
I spent more time trying to pretend I was paying attention than I spent learning in school. For the next few years, my academic performance was let's just say, below average.
About halfway through fifth grade, my sixty-something-year-old teacher retired and was replaced by Mr. Boyle, a recent graduate in his first ever full-time position. I honestly can't say whether it was that the older teachers I had before were especially out-of-touch or he was unusually enthusiastic, but Mr. Boyle brought a total shakeup to the class structure.
Having the class chant something repeatedly until it was ingrained in their heads, but had lost all meaning (is this still a thing? I hope it isn't!) was discontinued. Mr. Boyle replaced this childish approach with incentives and variety. Nearly every day would have a half hour allotted to things that were considered "unnecessary (but encouraged)" in the curriculum; the bits and pieces of drama in particular helped me come back out of my shell and express my thoughts and ideas within the class environment.
Art finally evolved from "color in this picture" to include several types of crafts where the focus was as much on figuring out how to use the materials as what you actually produced. Of course, I had a long string of overly ambitious unfinished projects, but to this day, I still play around with the crafts I first encountered there.
Most importantly, Mr. Boyle seemed to have an understanding that if I was learning and not disrupting, there was no need to force me into adhering to a certain style. I was granted a level of trust that I felt a need to prove was worthwhile.
With Mr. Boyle's cultural and structural changes, I was suddenly participating in class in a way I never had up to that point. My academic performance turned around, as I remembered I could love learning things taught in school and that there was no right way to learn.
In the years that followed, my relationships with teachers continued to be erratic, but I credit Mr. Boyle with getting me re-engaged in school. I'm forever grateful to him.


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Am I surprised? No. Am I disappointed? Sure.
The first time home buyer tax credit, which has been credited with adding 355,000 home buyers to the market so far that would not have bought a home without it, and which is under heavy pressure on Capitol Hill to be extended and expanded past its Nov. 30 deadline, has been a haven for criminals.
What I thought would be a snoozer hearing in a House Ways and Means subcommittee this morning has incensed and amazed me. Testimony from the Hon. J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, reports hundreds of millions of dollars, yep, your and my tax dollars, have been paid out to scam artists and just plain cheater buyers through the housing tax credit.
I am aware that our entire tax system is played by criminals as well as usually law-abiding citizens who just want to cheat themselves into a few extra dollars.
There's no way any tax credit could exist without some fraud, but what gets me here is the lack of foresight that the IRS showed in implementing at least some filters to rid this particular credit of the most audacious fraudsters.
Mr. George began his testimony, "I am very concerned by the findings of our audit in the states that are involved."
Total so far: $643 million paid out in potentially fraudulent claims.
And don't forget, many many home buyers have not yet filed their returns.
So were some of these mistakes? Perhaps.
But Linda Stiff, Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement at the IRS, testified before the same committee that "The IRS has already identified over 160 potential schemes resulting in scores of criminal investigations. We have also selected more than 100,000 returns for examination." She then told the committee that 8000 taxpayers are under "criminal investigation."
When asked buy a committee member if she thought the fraudulent claims might just be honest mistakes, she replied, "Based on what we've seen thus far, it's too early to weigh in."
"In a memorandum that TIGTA issued to the IRS on November 25, 2008, we recommended the IRS ensure that information on each line of the Form 5405 [the home buyer tax credit form] was transcribed for paper returns and that the information from the form be used to validate claims for the First-Time Homebuyer Credit. We also recommended the IRS require that taxpayers attach documentation to substantiate a home purchase in order to verify eligibility for the Credit. In a response to our memorandum, the IRS disagreed with both of TIGTA's recommendations...the IRS considers the requirement to supply documentation burdensome..."
Until May of this year, the IRS did not have filters in place to identify whether or not those claiming the credit were in fact first time buyers. When Mr. George's people looked into that, they found the 74,000 taxpayers "had entered information on their individual income tax returns for one of the prior three years ...including deductions for home mortgage interest, real estate taxes, deductible points and qualified mortgage insurance premiums."
I'm thinking those are kind of hard to miss, when they're on the IRS's own forms!!
And even when the IRS implemented examination filters to identify erroneous claims in May of this year, "the age of the taxpayer receiving the Credit was not one of the specific filters implemented..." says Mr. George's report.
Once again, a no brainer there. Let the children of the world unite and buy U.S. homes!
"Administering the FTHBC poses challenges similar to those the IRS confronts with other refundable credits --namely, it has a number of eligibility rules and the Federal government lacks third-party data sources which can be used to verify taxpayers' eligibility for the credit."
There is no question that the first time home buyer tax credit juiced the housing market in 2009. Almost 1.5 million buyers took advantage of it, and through the credit the government added nearly $10 billion in home purchasing power to a housing market that was on life support.
As we debate the pros and cons of an extended or expanded home buyer tax credit, we must scrutinize the filing process itself further and spend as much time debating the safeguards for said credit as we do its potential merits.


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#DearPeyton: Coaches, teammates, fans and family thank Peyton Manning in his own words
by: Matt Adams - Web Producer
Posted: Apr 28, 2016 / 12:50 PM EDT / Updated: Apr 28, 2016 / 12:50 PM EDT
As former Colts and Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning says goodbye to the NFL, Gatorade is honoring No. 18 with his own words.
During his Hall of Fame career, Manning sent numerous handwritten letters to coaches, teammates and fans for a variety of reasons. Gatorade took the sentiments from those letters, had the recipients read them and then combined them into one big "thank you" letter for Peyton.
The tribute is set to an instrumental version of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'." Good luck watching it without tearing up!
The video includes former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy along with former Colts teammates Jeff Saturday and Brandon Stokley. Saturday said he realized Peyton was a letter writer in training camp. Both he and Stokley joked that Peyton could spend some time working on his handwriting.
"I got this letter from Peyton right after I retired," Stokley said. "It just means so much more, and it just shows you the type of person that he is."
"I thought it was a pretty awesome thing that he thought so much of somebody to put a handwritten letter together for them," Saturday said.
"(Peyton was usually) reaching out to his teammates, the fans, the staff. You can ask the equipment men. I guarantee you they've gotten letters from Peyton Manning," Dungy said. "In my 31 years in the National Football League, I don't think I've met anyone as thoughtful as Peyton Manning."
Here are the people who participated in the #DearPeyton campaign:
Tony Dungy – Peyton's Indianapolis Colts head coach, 2002-2008; Pro Football Hall of Fame Inductee; current NBC Analyst
Jon Scott – Peyton's friend and current Indianapolis Colts Vice President of Equipment Operations
David Cutcliffe – Peyton's quarterback coach at University of Tennessee, 1994-1997; current Duke Head Coach
Pam Frenzel – Mother of Tyler Frenzel; Peyton befriended Tyler – diagnosed with leukemia – during a visit to the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent in Indianapolis and remained in close contact with Tyler until his death in 2004 at age 9
Jeff Saturday – Peyton's Indianapolis Colts teammate, 1999-2011; NFL center, 1992-2012
Eli Manning – Peyton's brother; current New York Giants quarterback
Demaryius Thomas – Peyton's Denver Broncos teammate, 2013-2016; current Denver Broncos receiver
Derek Jeter – Peyton's friend; fellow Gatorade athlete; New York Yankees shortstop, 1995-2014
Brandon Stokley – Peyton's Indianapolis Colts and Broncos teammate, 2003-2006 and 2012 respectively; NFL receiver, 1999-2013
Archie Manning – Peyton's father; NFL Hall of Fame quarterback, 1971-1984
Chris Mortensen – Peyton's friend; current ESPN NFL analyst
Brandon Washington – First recipient of PeyBack Foundation Scholarship; currently a graduate student at University of Indiana
The videos below give some background on Peyton's letters from the people who read them:
Balanced Purdue holds off Penn State 80-72
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Sasha Stefanovic led a balanced attack with 15 points, Trevion Willilams had a double-double and Purdue held off rusty Penn State 80-72 on Sunday.
It was Purdue's first home game since Christmas Day and the first game for Penn State since Dec. 30 after four conference games were postponed due to cornavirus concerns across the league.
Idea of NFL Combine in Indianapolis is "dead"
by JoJo Gentry / Jan 17, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS - For the first time in 33 years, the NFL Combine likely will not take over Indianapolis.
Sports Illustrated Senior NFL Reporter Albert Breer reported Saturday the idea of having the combine in Indianapolis in any sort of traditional manner on time is dead.
Pacers' Oladipo trade finalized, LeVert out indefinitely after MRI reveals small mass on kidney
by Phil Nardiello - Senior Sports Producer / Jan 16, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS - The Pacers' Victor Oladipo-Caris LeVert trade is now official, but the new guard's Indiana debut will be on hold.
An MRI shows a small mass on the 26-year-old's left kidney. He will be out indefinitely to undergo more tests.
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Man Exposes Self at Dunkin' Donuts Drive-Thru in Dover, New Hampshire
By Allison Freedman	• Published at 12:35 pm on April 7, 2016
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A New Hampshire man faces charges after exposing his genitals to employees as he went through the drive-thru of a Dunkin' Donuts.
Todd Kent, 30, was arrested for indecent exposure in connection with the March 27 incident on Portland Ave. in Dover.
Employees had provided police with a description of Kent and his vehicle.
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Detectives were told Kent returned to the coffeehouse-chain, driving a different vehicle, on March 28. Witnesses were able to provide a registration number.
Authorities obtained an arrest warrant for Kent, who turned himself into police headquarters without incident on April 7.
Kent, of Dover, was released on $2,500 personal recognizance bail. He'll be arraigned on June 6.


Former U.S. President Barack Obama's love affair with hoops has been more than documented.
This college basketball season, President Obama has been spotted sitting courtside at a Duke game where he watched superstar forward, Zion Williamson play against the North Carolina Tar Heels.
During Obama's presidency, he's checked out a few Washington Wizards games, as well.
The former Senator from the state of Illinois has also been graced the seats at the house that Michael Jordan built, the United Center in Chicago where he checked out the beloved Chicago Bulls.
CBS Sports analyst, Clark Kellogg, a former standout at Ohio State, who played three seasons in the NBA with the Indiana Pacers played against Obama in a game of HORSE at the White House during a live broadcast before the 2010 NCAA Tournament.
"One of the great thrills I've had through basketball," Kellogg told me.
Obama got the win in the game of HORSE. "I let up," Kellogg told Fred Ennette of the Unnecessary Roughness Podcast last year.
"There are a few basketball friends right now that still, whenever they see me bring that up and they look at me with disdain and they ask me how did you let that happen," joked Kellogg.
Clark Kellogg tells me that Obama's gift is his basketball mind.
For those keeping score at home, Obama is not just a hoops fan.
As per The Postgame's Jeffrey Eisenband, in the late 1970s, Obama played on both the J.V. and varsity teams at Hawaii's Punahou School, eventually winning a state championship in 1979.
"He's clearly a fan and understands the game because he plays it," Kellogg told me.
During Obama's presidency, many sports teams have also relished in the opportunity to visit the White House after winning a championship.
The former President loves the game, but here's the million dollar question: Who does he play like?
"He was really athletic, ran good, jumped good," former Occidental College head men's basketball coach, Mike Zinn told the Los Angeles Times in 2008.
Obama went to Occidental for two years before transferring.
"He wasn't a great outside shooter," said Zinn.
"He had a nose for the ball, always came up with loose balls and rebounds inside. So if he got 10 points in a game, most of them were probably under the basket. He didn't hit jump shots from 15 feet or anything like that.
Times have changed. Guess what? 44 now has range!
"I only saw him shoot," Clark Kellogg told me.
CBS Sports analyst, Clark Kellogg tells Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson that former U.S. President, Barack Obama is pretty clutch on the basketball court.


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YIDFF 2015 International Competition
Us women . Them women
An Interview with Julia Pesce (Director)
The Long and Beautiful Process of Filming the Family
Q: Is the extended family form as we see in the film common in Argentina?
JP: I think my family is special, even in Argentina. Women dominate my extended family—men were always on the outside and never were at the core. It is a unique community. I wanted to record my family onto film and share it with everyone, showing the possibilities of this kind of human kinship.
Q: It took you five years to make the film?
JP: I felt this long process of directing the camera at my family and editing continually to be a beautiful one. I first became determined to complete the film as a professional filmmaker when my grand-aunt died—I mention it in the opening narration. I had been shooting footage from before her death, but I made up my mind that I would continue filming when she actually passed away.
Q: When did you decide to end the shooting?
JP: It was when my sister gave birth to a baby, my niece. While shooting, I felt that it would be the final scene of the film. Later when I tried different variations in the editing, the baby's birth seemed like the most natural ending to the film and so I decide to stop shooting there.
In the film, the childbirth is only a few minutes long, but actually it took around 12 hours. It went on from 10 am till midnight. I never intended to use the early part of her labor. I wanted to show the impressionable second half. I made sure to film in a way that the audience would be able to focus singularly on the delivery itself. I minimized the movement of people in the frame and set the camera apart from the mother as if it were just watching over the birth. I think it turned out to be a strong scene that incorporates various layers of meaning.
Q: We don't really figure out who is who in relation to each other—was that intentional?
JP: Yes. I could foresee that the audience could be confused without understanding the relation between family members. Nevertheless I thought it would be more intriguing not to know who is who. In that community, my aunt is sometimes treated like a mother, sometimes like a daughter. I wanted you to experience the richness of the shifting roles of the characters.
Q: Towards the end, in the scene where the family watches home movies, we see you as you are filming them. Why did you include that scene?
JP: I myself belong to this community. In the making of the film, I thought hard whether I should show myself filming or not. I didn't want to force an unnatural scene for the sake of appearing in it. I contemplated on how I could put myself in the film in the most natural way.
My aunt always loved to record family events on film, like Christmas or trips to the beach. It was a common occasion for the family to sit down and watch home videos together. That's why I thought if my own image appeared in the home video that everyone is watching, that would be the smoothest way of including myself in the film. Through that scene, I was able to show that I myself am a part of this community, too.
(Compiled by Yamane Hiroyuki)
Interviewers: Yamane Hiroyuki, Ishizawa Kana / Interpreter: Watanabe Ayaka / Translator: Fujioka Asako
Photography: Uno Yukiko / Video: Kimuro Shiho / 2015-10-09
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Mayor leads fact-finding mission for West Midlands Centre of Excellence
The Mayor of the West Midlands has led a fact-finding mission to a construction academy as part of the development of a new national centre for construction excellence in the Black Country.
Andy Street visited the Berkeley Group's West London Construction Academy, in Southall, to understand how the Academy has worked in partnership with the industry to respond to skills development challenges facing the construction sector.
He was particularly interested in how the challenges for the construction industry could be further addressed by the ambition to establish the West Midlands as the world leader in state-of-the-art construction, based around a proposed National Centre for Construction and Development Excellence at the University of Wolverhampton's Springfield Campus.
Mr Street, the former CEO of John Lewis, visited the London construction academy with Tony Pidgley CBE, the founder and chairman of housebuilder Berkeley Group, which set up the academy.
The Mayor said:
"The Black Country and its coal was at the forefront of the industrial revolution in the 1800s. Now, in the 21st century, it is time the region reclaimed its place as a world leader in construction.
"By establishing this centre in the Black Country we will be doing just that, with students able to learn state-of-the-art construction techniques and apply them to derelict brownfield sites across the region. Soon our workers will be in demand across the world, remediating polluted sites and building skyscrapers.
"But this will only work if our proposed National Centre for Construction and Development Excellence is truly world class. To make that happen it is crucial we do our homework first, which is why I visited the highly-regarded West London Construction Academy to see how they are tackling the skills challenge facing the construction sector.
"It was a very beneficial visit, and I cannot wait to see our national centre start to take shape."
The proposed National Centre for Construction and Development Excellence will be part of the University of Wolverhampton's £100 million investment in a construction super-campus at the former Springfield Brewery incorporating the West Midlands Construction University Technical College and the Elite Centre for Manufacturing Skills Hub as well as the new School of Architecture and Built Environment and the proposed National Brownfield Institute.
The exact plans for the new centre are under development but once established it will ensure that the West Midlands is at the forefront of modern construction, creating high skilled jobs that contribute to sustainable development and help the region meet its target of 215,000 new homes by 2031.
Professor Geoff Layer, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton, said:
"Our vision for Springfield is that it becomes a hub for excellence in construction and the built environment on a national and even international scale.
"There is a huge amount of brownfield land across the Black Country and wider West Midlands and we are looking forward to helping play an integral role in identifying and unlocking that land's potential for regeneration and in particular supporting ways to address the housing shortage.
"Springfield itself is a perfect example of how brownfield land can be transformed and regenerated supporting jobs and the regional economy."
Councillor Ian Brookfield, City of Wolverhampton Council Leader, added:
"The development at the university's Springfield Campus will make it an internationally significant centre of excellence for the construction industry - and is a major game-changer for our city.
"At a time when the need has never been greater for skilled workers in the construction sector we will have an asset in our city that will boost skills and jobs for people across the city, region and internationally.
"This development takes the city to the next level by making it a UK urban innovation hub.
"We will become the go-to city for expertise in getting more former industrial land ready for development and raise the skills bar in this sector.
"We're working closely with colleagues at the university and West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to develop this campus and ensure this part of the city benefits from the £4.4 billion of investment on site or planned in Wolverhampton.
"The council's announcement of the major residential development, The Brewers Yard, on brownfield land neighbouring Springfield Campus, will also provide hundreds of construction jobs for people."
Article credit: West Midlands Combined Authority


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Opera Theater of Cape Cod Presents La Bohème preview concert
Presented by Opera Theater of Cape Cod at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, Wellfleet MA
Opera Theater of Cape Cod (OTCC) presents Giacomo Puccini's opera classic La Bohème in a preview performance on Friday, August 30, 7:30 pm at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, Wellfleet.
Launching its second season as Cape Cod's professional opera company, Opera Theater of Cape Cod (OTCC) presents Giacomo Puccini's opera classic La Bohème in a preview performance on Friday, August 30, 7:30 pm at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, Wellfleet. Two mainstage performances are held on Friday, September 6 and Saturday, September 7, 7:30 pm at The Studio Theater at The Tilden Arts Center, Cape Cod Community College, 2240 Iyannough Road, W. Barnstable. The production is conducted by
Launching its second season as Cape Cod's professional opera company, Opera Theater of Cape Cod (OTCC) presents Giacomo Puccini's opera classic La Bohème in a preview performance on Friday, August 30, 7:30 pm at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, Wellfleet. Two mainstage performances are held on Friday, September 6 and Saturday, September 7, 7:30 pm at The Studio Theater at The Tilden Arts Center, Cape Cod Community College, 2240 Iyannough Road, W. Barnstable. The production is conducted by Music Director Joseph Turbessi, with stage direction by Ethan DePuy, produced by Eileen Christiansen.
"We are dedicated to producing opera of the highest quality, in a way that is accessible to modern audiences and speaks to their experiences," shared Joseph Turbessi, OTCC Co-Artistic Director.
OTCC's production of La Bohème, the timeless Giacomo Puccini classic, is performed by a roster of the brightest rising opera performing artists in the New England region. The opera explores a group of struggling artists as they navigate making ends meet, friendship, love and loss. As one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide, La Bohème's music is treasured by opera fans. The universal narrative of this beloved opera is also the inspiration for the score and book of the hit musical RENT.
Opera Theater of Cape Cod brings La Bohème's story to life incorporating the English National Opera's translation of the piece, allowing audience members who are new to opera to understand and enjoy the performance in the most more accessible way possible. OTCC's staging propels the story into present day at carefully chosen venues that enable the production to fully immerse the audience in the music and drama.
Cast in the performance are Sarah Joyce Cooper (Mimi), Fran Rogers (Rodolfo), Hannah Carlson (Musetta), Scott Ballantine (Marcello), Fred Furnari (Colline), Matthew O'Donnell (Schaunard) and Miles Rind (Benoit/Alcindoro).
OTCC's founders Joseph Turbessi, Ethan DePuy and Eileen Christiansen collectively fuel a wide range of artistic and administrative experience. Turbessi is a versatile musician in the greater Boston area, maintaining a career as an opera conductor, a vocal coach, a collaborative pianist and organist. He also serves as music director for Old South Union Church in Weymouth. DePuy brings a unique dramatic style to his work in pieces ranging from the Baroque period to today. DePuy is a highly sought-after tenor soloist for operas and concerts in the New England area and beyond, as well as providing stage direction for OTCC's inaugural production. Besides performing regularly as a soloist in New England, Eileen Christiansen is an active administrator and board member for several New England artistic non-profits, and leads a thriving voice studio in Melrose.
As a new chamber opera company dedicated to bringing high quality and accessible opera performances to the Cape Cod community, OTCC's vision is to enrich Cape Cod's vital art scene with exquisite singing and storytelling. The company's founding members are on a mission to ignite the Cape community's passion for opera, from longtime opera lovers to audience members new to the art form.
For more information, visit operatheaterofcapecod.com, 617-429-4026, or follow Opera Theater of Cape Cod on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Tickets to all La Bohème performances are $30, available on Eventbrite at eventbrite.com/e/opera-theater-of-cape-cod-la-boheme-tickets-66758001981 (Wellfleet) and on Artful.ly at artful.ly/store/events/18353 (Barnstable), and at the door limited to capacity. The mainstage performances are approximately 90 minutes in length. This program is supported in part by grants from the Wellfleet, Eastham, Chatham, Brewster, Truro, and Orleans cultural councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
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So Long, Pronto Bike Share
A Pronto station circa 2016 with bike docked and ready for rental. (Photo by Ryan Packer)
Today marks an unusual day in Seattle: we are shutting down an entire mode of transportation. Two and a half years after Pronto! Cycle Share launched in Downtown Seattle, Capitol Hill, and the University District with 50 stations and 500 bikes, operations will cease at midnight tonight after the Seattle City Council set a sunset clause into the operating funds for the system last year. The fact that such a famously bike-friendly city is pulling out its entire bikeshare system and calling it quits is pretty unusual, and disappointing. But despite the fact that every Seattleite you pass on the street probably has a different answer as to why bikeshare in Seattle failed, the decision to ultimately pull the plug was political, not practical.
Making bikeshare work, even in a city that requires helmets, has hills, and where it rains, is not about cracking a cryptic enigma. It's about making it easy to use, and competitive with other modes. Pronto was stuck in a pilot phase for two and a half years, always in stasis because its future was never certain: it was the victim of its own self-fulfilling prophesy of defeat.
The initial 50 station system (that only grew by four stations in the entire operating period) was arrayed in a way that did not make using the system seamless. You really had to work to make a trip pencil out as opposed to hopping on a bus or just walking. No Pronto stations were on the same block as a Downtown Link station, with the exception of a short-lived station at the back end of University Street where its presence offended the caretakers of the war veterans' memorial. That debacle was emblematic of the entire city's approach to accommodating the system.
A year ago, when the city council voted to purchase the assets of the bikeshare system from Motivate, the operator, in order to keep the system operating, there was frustration that the financial state of the system had been kept from the public for months. But overall, the city council and the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) seemed optimistic that bikeshare's downward trajectory could be reversed if it simply were allowed to operate under normal levels of debt and sustainably expand like any other bike share network. And SDOT spent much of the past year working to make that happen, ultimately deciding that starting over with new equipment would be the best way forward. "We know how bikeshare works." SDOT transit director Andrew Glass-Hastings told the Seattle Bike Advisory board late last year.
Ultimately, however, it was the mayor's office that decided having the albatross of bikeshare hanging around the executive branch's neck during an election year was not worth the benefits that Pronto could provide. Late last year during budget season, the council set a deadline that operating funds for the current system couldn't continue past March 31st. In January, they announced that the money that was dedicated to expansion would fund other transportation projects. Sources confirm that the mayor's office did not consult with the offices of any council members who might be working on expanding bikeshare, like sustainability and transportation committee chair Mike O'Brien or committee member Rob Johnson. The decision was made and executed with no public comment heard despite extensive pro-bikeshare comments that were provided last March as expansion was debated.
Any that's how we got to where we are now. Downtown Seattle transportation is about to head into an unprecedented phase, with the One Center City committee tasked with figuring out how to move people around Downtown as more buses move to surface streets and construction projects ramp up. Bikeshare has not been listed as a resource on any planning documents released by the joint committee headed up by King County Metro, SDOT, Sound Transit and the Downtown Seattle Association. Bikeshare could have been a small but integral component of the new master plan for Downtown, particularly as new focus turns to expanding the Downtown bike network. But, as I have covered prior, One Center City appears mainly at this point about minimizing impact on drivers Downtown, not on optimizing other modes.
But does bikeshare have a future in Seattle? On behalf of The Urbanist, I have been trying to get answers from Seattle councilmembers on what might be the path back to having a sustainable system. The mayor has said he remains "optimistic" about bikeshare's future, but after the mayor pulled the plug, I was more interested in what the legislative branch, that was largely not consulted on the matter, has to say about it.
Rob Johnson, avowed transportation wonk, was the most circumspect in his statement:
Recently, Mayor Murray announced that he would be redirecting $3 million in funding from a re-launch of the bikeshare program, effectively marking the end of bikeshare in our city. While I am glad that funds are being invested in Safe Routes to School and bicycle and pedestrian improvements, I believe that this represents a missed opportunity to provide the residents of our growing city a reliable, low-barrier, and environmentally friendly transportation alternative. As I mentioned in my initial blog about bikeshare in Seattle, "Why Investing in Bike Share Matters," the City now must repay the Federal Government a $1M grant contingent on bike share, an unfortunate use of tax-payer dollars.
I would like to emphasize that governments at all levels subsidize nearly all other means of transportation–including cars, buses, trains, and airplanes; what we choose to invest in tells our residents what we're prioritizing. It is encouraging that the Mayor "remains optimistic about the future of bikeshare in Seattle"–I will work hard to ensure that optimism turns into real investment that provides Seattle with the full range of safe, healthy and sustainable transportation alternatives.
Sally Bagshaw, famous for biking to work on her electric bike, had this to say:
For the future of good bikeshare, it makes sense to invest in infrastructure to make our City a place where people feel safe riding bikes. Bikeshare has been successful in other cities (Washington D.D., New York City, and Miami, to name a few) and I would like to see a robust program in Seattle when we are ready for it. The City's system will need to provide users a quality service, starting with many station locations, high quality bicycles to climb hills, integration with the ORCA pass system, and a safe and connected bike network. We need to make smart investments now to put on the path for success.
Transportation chair Mike O'Brien, in a sit down interview, told me that he fundamentally believes that bikeshare can work in Seattle, and is convinced that improvements to our biking infrastructure will lay the ground work for a successful bikeshare network. It is clear he is one of the most full-throated advocates on the council for bikeshare, but remains pragmatic about how quickly it can return.
Whether or not that is another city-funded venture, or a private bikeshare operator that comes in and gives Seattle a try, it remains to be seen. What is clear is that Seattle should learn from its brief foray into the bikeshare world and look to other successful systems. There is no need to reinvent the wheel here, but a great bikeshare system does take some tender love and care.
Personally, as a daily Pronto commuter and weekend joy rider, I am disappointed to see Seattle step back from this sustainable transportation mode, and hoping that this is merely a dip in the road instead of a cliff.
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Periedo es una localidad del municipio de Cabezón de la Sal, Cantabria (España).

Está situado a 90 metros de altitud y su población es de 126 habitantes. Se encuentra a 5 kilómetros de la capital municipal.

Periedo con los barrios de Casar y Cabrojo ya aparecía como una de las ocho aldeas que formaban el distrito administrativo del valle de Cabezón, dentro de la merindad de Asturias de Santillana, en el Becerro de las Behetrías de 1352.

La iglesia parroquial, bajo la advocación de San Lorenzo, es la más antigua del municipio, pues consta iniciada en el siglo XVI. Se concluyó en el XVII. En esta iglesia se encuentra enterrado el violinista Jesús de Monasterio, que residió en la localidad vecina de Casar de Periedo. Junto a ella hay un tejo perteneciente al catálogo de árboles singulares de Cantabria.

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes: What Went Wrong?
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' news that they were divorcing after five years of marriage took the world by storm on Friday. As their marriage is set to end, Us Weekly looks back on their love story.
Unlike some Hollywood romances, Cruise, 49, and Holmes, 33, had no qualms about sharing their love and lust-filled honeymoon stage with the world. "I'm in love," an extremely giddy Cruise told Oprah during a 2005 episode where he famously jumped on the couch, unable to contain his excitement.
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"We've never seen you behave this way before!" the talk show host exclaimed as he jumped on the set's couch. "The boy is gone!" Toward the end of his segment, the audience, with Oprah's encouragement, chanted for Holmes to come out and join him on set. Cruise ran backstage and brought her out, and they immediately made out for the cameras.
Later, he told ABC News, "[Katie] is just magic. And I really think that all men should celebrate their women. They should all jump on couches for them. When you find that woman, you should absolutely be unabashed about it. That's how I feel about it."
It was indeed a fairytale romance for the actress as well. In an October 2004 interview, Holmes, who was engaged to actor Chris Klein from 2003 to 2005, told Seventeen magazine, "I think every little girl dreams about her wedding. I used to think I was going to marry Tom Cruise."
PHOTOS: More celeb couples who have called it quits this year
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise on April 12, 2011 in New York City. Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
The following year, her dreams came true: Cruise popped the question on top of The Eiffel Tower in Paris on June 17, 2005.
"I've found the man of my dreams. From the moment I met him it just felt like I'd known him forever," she gushed to W magazine two months later. "I was blown away. He's the most incredible man. He's so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I've never laughed, and he's a great friend."
Even Cruise's kids — Isabella, 19, and Conor, 17, with ex-wife Nicole Kidman (whom he divorced in 2001) saw that their dad had something special. "After I began dating Kate, Bella looked at me and said, 'Don't let this one go. She's the one," Cruise told Good Housekeeping in 2006.
PHOTOS: Tom and Nicole's Hollywood romance
In April of that year they welcomed the daughter, Suri, who would become one of the most famous (and stylish) tots in Hollywood and tied the knot seven months later.
"She has Kate's lips and eyes," Cruise said in Vanity Fair's September 2006 issue when they revealed pics (taken by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz) of Suri for the first time. "I think she looks like Kate."
Fast forward six years, and Holmes is now reportedly asking for sole legal custody and "primary residential custody" of their only daughter in her divorce documents.
PHOTOS: Tom and Suri's cutest moments
As their divorce starts to show signs of a rough road ahead, it's hard to believe that in Cruise's most recent interview with Playboy for its June issue, the Rock of Ages actor gushes about his wife.
"She is an extraordinary person, and if you spent five minutes with her, you'd see it. Everything she does, she does with this beautiful creativity. She's funny and charming, and when she walks into the room, I just feel better. I'm a romantic. I like doing things like creating romantic dinners, and she enjoys that. I don't know what to say — I'm just happy, and I have been since the moment I met her. What we have is very special."
Indeed, as suggested by a statement released by the actor's rep, Cruise seems blindsided by the filing.
"Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children. Please allow them their privacy," the rep statement said.
To see more of their sweetest moments, watch the video above.