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Photo from Oakley Van Oss / Summit High School For Summit High School teacher Oakley Van Oss, education is about giving students the tools to improve the world around them — literally. In his construction technology and welding classes, Van Oss lets students take reins on various hands-on projects. “To give kids the opportunity to have their first experience creating projects and fabricating, I feel like is just giving them this lifelong potential of making their own personal space and thei...

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Advertisement Robert Lloyd’s Larry King piece was the best I’ve seen — it really got to the nub of what made him good, and popular. Great comparison with Craig Ferguson — I had forgotten how good those conversations between them were. It was also nice that it didn’t dismiss or ignore his post-CNN work, as others have. It touched on his colorful life but didn’t overemphasize it at the expense of understanding what made him tick. I understood him better after reading this remembrance,...

By Chantal Wagner Starting on February 1, parents can register their kids for the 2021/2022 school year, and they can once again sign up online. This is the second year for online registrations for both the Medicine Hat Public School Division (MHPSD) and Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education (MHCBE). The local school divisions expect registrations to be faster this year, being families already have their log-in information for the online portals. MHPSD Superintendent Mark Davidson says about...

“Brainstorm and describe what attributes you have that would be attractive to an investor – a picture of the lawnmower you will use to mow the yard … perhaps some photos of the space you currently reside in, particularly if it’s a house sharing situation and we love pet resumes,” she said. With so few available rental properties having an edge over other applicants is vital. While some people are offering more rent than advertised, tenants are being told it does not guarantee success....

With vacancies rates dipping below 1% in parts of the region and a surge in demand, competition for rental properties is fierce in South East Queensland....

DreamVu Launches New Omnidirectional 3D Vision Systems; Provides World’s Largest Field of View with 3D Intelligence Share Article The only 3D cameras in the world to provide such a large field of view. And with the accelerating deployments of autonomous mobile robots, system costs and time to market have never been more competitive. These products from DreamVu provide much-needed answers to address the expensive and complex sensor stacks in autonomous systems. The DreamVu Difference “The ne...

Nov 30, 2020 Having been an adult college student, I appreciated the opportunity to let people who are interested in going back to college find out how it’… Trump President Donald Trump reacts to the crowd as he steps on to stage for a campaign rally at Smith Reynolds Airport on Tuesday, Sep. 8, 2020 in Winston-Salem, N.C. Andrew Dye Journal Trump President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Smith Reynolds Airport on Tuesday in Winston-Salem. Andrew Dy...

Houston’s Original Nasty Woman Hortense Sparks Ward fought for women’s rights and permanently changed Texas law in the process. By Emma Schkloven 12/14/2020 at 6:00am Published in the December 2020 issue of Houstonia They say well-behaved women seldom make history. Such an expression couldn’t be truer of Judge Hortense Sparks Ward, the 20th-century version of today’s nasty woman, who forever changed the lives of women in Texas during her unprecedented legal career. â€�...

ALLEN R. BALIK My first exposure to Australian wines came in the early- to mid-1980s when they began to appear in local markets. Overall, with a few noteworthy exceptions, I found them overly extracted, alcoholic and more like chewing on oak than enjoying the fragrance and subtlety of other wines I was accustomed to at the time. This was a period when elegance and grace still reigned in our North Coast and much of Europe, so Australian wines represented a counterpoint to what I felt...