The Scottish Government’s two main buildings in Edinburgh are both more than half empty most of the time, according to newly-released figures. The government’s headquarters at St Andrew’s House in Regent Road, where top ministers are based, and Victoria Quay in Leith, built to house hundreds of civil servants, have typical occupancy rates of around one-third. Figures released under Freedom of Information show the capacity at Victoria Quay was never more than 30.5 per cent used across...
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Monrovia – The newly-appointed Managing Director of the Liberia Medicines & Health Products Regulatory Authority, Dr. Luke Bawo, has stressed the need for human capacity-building within the entity. Making opening statements during an engagement meeting with members of the Senior Management Team of the Authority, Dr. Bawo stressed that at current, the authority is functioning []
The Midwest seems to draw out such darkness. Just read Adam Rapp’s new book “Wolf at the Table” and Cynthia Pelayo’s “Forgotten Sisters.” That’s just for starters.
Alex Garland’s speculative and apolitical action film might be a box office hit but it’s a frustratingly weightless experienceThe music video for MIA’s Born Free imagines a ginger genocide, with humvees of jackbooted, gas-masked stormtroopers raiding a high-rise housing complex to round up redheads. Even before the condemned are bussed out to the desert and used for target practice, the camerawork luxuriates in extreme content – needless collateral brutalization, a slow-mo closeup of a man...
PHARR, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Matt's Building Materials opened its doors two years after a massive fire destroyed the store. The original store was completely New Year's Day 2022. Multiple fire departments responded to the blaze, which took 30 hours to be extinguished. The grand re-opening took place Sunday at 404 E. Expressway 83, where the []
Today’s customers of the FinTech industry are no longer asking just for ways to accept online payments; they’re asking for “software-defined financial services.” So said Stripe co-founders Patrick Collison and John Collison Wednesday (April 24) during the opening keynote of the company’s annual user conference held in San Francisco. While they founded Stripe in 2009 to enable the acceptance of online […]
Scores of Vietnamese have been jailed for their support of the US-based organization.
China has ‘never issued empty promises’ and Pacific island states have the right to choose their cooperation partners, Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells reporters in Papua New Guinea
A former factory off Sheffield’s Netherthorpe Road could be knocked down to build a block of ‘luxury’ rent-only flats. Sheffield City Council has rubber-stamped plans for 158 build-to-rent apartments in place of the former William Rowland Ltd premises on Meadow Street, off Netherthorpe Road. The scheme by developer Beech Holdings, named ‘Sheffield Gardens’, will include 158 units of one, two and three bedroomed apartments available for rent only, including a private gym, landscaped courtyard and...
WEIRTON, W.Va. (WTRF) - The Cleveland Cliffs Weirton tin-plate facility officially idled on April 20th, laying off several hundred people, and leading its customers to look elsewhere. ”We just could not compete with the ruling from the ITC when they ruled against us, took away all the tariffs. It was like, if you're going to []
Founder of Project H.O.O.D. Pastor Corey Brooks joins the Steve Cochran Show to discuss Capitol Hill visiting Project H.O.O.D.’s new community center, Chicago leaders stepping up to support his mission, and how the new community center will help Chicago communities regain their confidence & self-belief.