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The pandemic has forced many businesses to rethink their operations. Can business schools help guide them toward more sustainable practices? Advocating for the principles of sustainable business was complex even before a pandemic upended companies and communities around the world. Teaching these principles has become even more urgent during our current global crisis. At the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business in Indiana, we have long aimed to make the reali...

Timeless design partnership of Charles and Ray Eames Valentines Vintage View:  We celebrate the romance and creative expressions of the renowned design duo  Charles and Ray Eames in the 1970s. Picture: vitra.com Sun, 14 Feb, 2021 - 09:00 Kya deLongchamps Bobbing on a battered aluminium group chair that collides rudely with this knee-hole desk, I’m heady just writing about the romance and creative expressions of Charles and Ray Eames. As my teen puts it while perusing a photograph of the pa...

There is a five-alarm fire raging in Winnipeg. It’s coming from inside the fire halls. While the latest controversy to roil the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service centres on the actions of a single medic and firefighting crew during a critical-care call in the North End last fall, the context in which it sits is a turbulent 24-year marriage between two departments that were forced to become one. City misses deadline, taxpayers on the hook The City of Winnipeg has missed a chance to put ...

Kathleen Collins is clearly more familiar with the grain and textures of the little black world her film explores.

Subscribe Genome skimming approach shows promise in paper comparing DNA techniques By Hank Schultz FDA scientists have advanced the state of the art in the use of DNA identification techniques in a paper focusing on the verification of echinacea supplements. A gene skimming approach tested in the study showed promise over the up-to-now benchmark DNA barcoding techniques. The paper, titled  HPLC‐UV, Metabarcoding and Gen...

Student report examines COVID-19 spread in Chelsea, Mass. A report by Cristina Alonso, DrPH ’21, found two major reasons for the swift coronavirus spread in Chelsea, Mass.: the lag time between when people first noticed symptoms and when they got tested and the fact that about one-third of the positive cases were asymptomatic. Collaborating with the Chelsea Board of Health, Alonso looked at data on 3,302 COVID-19 cases in the city from March 9 to August 3, 2020. She found that people got test...

Canadian Equestrian Multi-Purpose Barn – Case Study S-5-PVKIT® 2.0 & S-5! X-Gard™ 2.0 Case Study from | S-5! The Project Bruce Goode, a retired cattle-ranch owner and airline pilot, recently downsized and purchased a small 8-acre equestrian estate with spectacular mountain and lake views of the Okanagan Valley area of British Columbia, Canada. The property features a new 3,500-square-foot, multi-purpose barn with a 24-gauge Cascadia Metals Black SMP Standing Seam Metal Roof. The spacio...

Sue Schlesman Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer 2021 11 Feb The story of David and Bathsheba is not a love story or at least it didnt start that way. It is told in the book of 2 Samuel 11. Here’s the plot summary, and it’s spicy enough for any Netflix series: King David stays home when he’s supposed to go to war. He can’t sleep (maybe because he’s not fulfilling his purpose?), so he goes for a walk on the ...

Yachting Monthly 0shares Updating your instruments, and the data you can see on them, neednt cost the earth. Sam Fortescue investigates how to upgrade your boats tech without spending a fortune Older boats have instruments of varying ages. Getting old to talk to new isnt straightforward. Credit: Graham Snook/Yachting Monthly All but a hardy bunch of self-confessed minimalist sailors would probably agree that they would like to modernise their boat by adding some ext...

2021-02-18 13:00:00 Innovations in strengthening health systems preparedness to address violence against women: learnings from providing accessible, quality, and gender-responsive services LSHTM Gender Violence & Health Theme: Health systems and service response to violence  Despite increasing recognition of violence against women (VAW) as a public health problem, health systems have been slow to track, anticipate, respond and prevent such violence. However, since the launch of the...