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Desolation? and all the friends mentioned here December 2020. The end of an indescribable year in which everything has happened and, at the same time, in the repetitive routine of confinement, it seems that nothing happens. That nothing will happen ever again. A continuity of grey skies, and light completely hidden by four in the afternoon. It is like walking among ghosts, or being a ghost myself. I have taken to listening to what decades ago was my favourite music. I don’t know if it’s a m...

news Duterte’s war on drugs: global human rights coalition to aid International Criminal Court in Philippines inquiry Raissa Robles in Manila Filipino relatives of victims of drug-related killings hold pictures as they attend a Manila church mass in March 2019 in support of a complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte filed at the International Criminal Court. Photo: EPA-EFE Foreign-based church groups, lawyers and political leaders have formed the human rights coalition Inv...

My dad passed away last Christmas. He had been very sick, and we thought wed have him until spring, but Christmas Eve was the time he chose to go. A few months later, my mum and I went through his stuff and we ended up with seven sacks of clothes. I said to my mum, Colette would love all this stuff. I live in Delgany/Greystones, and Colette Stewart is a woman I met through the school my kids went to. I knew people donated clothes to her and that she helped the homeless, but that was it. I told...

© Kim Cessford/ DCT Media Paul Hastie who is a tenor at the St Pauls Cathedral is releasing a duet of him singing as 14-year-old against him now as a 47-year-old. There have been many famous Christmas duets over the years – but a Dundee tenor could be about to eclipse them all by singing alongside his teenage self. Paul Hastie, 47, is now collaborating with himself in aid of raising money for charity and to help locals to get into the Christmas spirit during a “challenging year for all”....

The largest public school district in western Massachusetts will remain fully remote through the winter.  The Springfield School Committee voted 5-2 Thursday night to continue with remote-only education for the majority of students through the entire third marking period, which ends April 8th, 2021, while holding out the possibility that smaller groups including special education and vocational-technical students might return to school buildings sooner. With COVID-19 cases soaring in Sprin...

ZiggyTec monitoring clean air in schools and nursing homes Updated / Tuesday, 15 Dec 2020 17:33 Journalist Boost My Business caught up with a tech start-up who have been using their smart buildings tech to monitor air quality in schools and nursing homes. Fiona Alston spoke to co-founder Kieran Murphy about what the company has been up to during the time commercial buildings have sat empty. ZiggyTec was founded by Kieran Murphy and Peter Murphy – non-related Bowie fans. They provided data on...

"Sometimes I try songs and they dont sound so good." Chris Cornell is speaking to an audience in Reading, Pennsylvania. Its 2013, and the Soundgarden singer is in the midst of a solo tour. Hes standing onstage with an acoustic guitar telling the story behind the next song in his set. The crowd is waiting on his every word. Cornell explains he was searching for the lyrics to U2s mega-hit "One" — except Google served him up the lines to Metallicas much grimmer … And Justice for All song by t...

Friday, 11 December 2020, 6:32 pm PH gov’t human rights summit, a deodorizer -ICHRP An international rights group called out the government’s “human rights” summit as another platform to save face after gaining global notoriety for human rights abuses. As the world commemorates the 72nd human rights day, International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) supports the Filipinos’ call for credible independent investigation on what’s happening in the country. “We fi...

December 11th, 2020 By David Knox 1 commentFiled under: News, Nightly News 7 Tasmania has won the ratings year in the island state, outranking ABC News, WIN News, Nine News and SBS World News. The highest rating bulletin for the year was on the 2nd of April with 112,216 viewers, equivalent to 21% of the state’s population. “It was a year of turmoil for us with the departure of both our weekday and weekend news readers. Jo Palmer had hosted the weekday bulletin since 2002 and was an insti...

Very creative guy. he had written -- he loved christmas. hes like irving berlin, jewish, but loves christmas. and he had 21 new christmas songs, very creative. and some of them quite touching. and i said, ill record them. so i recorded 21 new songs of christmas. this is one of them youre hearing. and it was fun. it doesnt look like christmas in l.a., but theres also "little drummer boy next door," the guy that gets a drum set for christmas and drives you crazy or the fruitcake that nobody wants ...