Page 82 - Simon James News Today

LGH implements blood labelling standard and BloodNet interface in TrakCare Written by Kate McDonald on 18 January 2021. Tasmania’s Launceston General Hospital has been able to cut the time it takes to receipt and record blood products by 75 per cent using the new blood labelling standard with a digital interface in its TrakCare laboratory information software to the National Blood Authority’s (NBA) BloodNet online ordering and inventory management system. The Information St...

First-time home buyer and entrepreneur Jessie Wong fills her house with locally made art and glass. Jessie Wong picks up the phone from a tent, where she is eating gingernuts for breakfast because the rain is too heavy to venture outside. The 27-year-old founder of luxury bag brand Yu Mei is holidaying with her friends in Hahei. After the holidays she will be returning to her first home, which she bought with partner Jack Fisher, just before Christmas. Their house is a 1904 character villa tha...

Jack Barron and Luke Fogarolli sentenced for Canterbury gang attack on German student Daniel Ezzedine  |  Updated: 16:17, 15 January 2021 Two teenage thugs have together been sentenced to more than 12 years behind bars for leaving a German student brain-damaged in a vicious gang attack. Jack Barron smashed Daniel Ezzedine in the face with a bag likely loaded with bricks, while Luke Fogarolli took a running stamp on the 17-year-olds head. Daniel Ezzedine suffered brain damage in the attack Bar...

By Harry Holmes2021-01-13T11:53:00+00:00 Defra said 25% of supermarket deliveries were delayed for several days when the UK-French border closed in December Supermarket lorries returning to Europe to restock will be prioritised at the border under new government proposals to avoid food shortages caused by post-Brexit disruption. The new ‘Expedited Return Scheme’ would allow empty lorries that supply the major retailers to jump ahead of traffic jams at Dover and the Eurotunnel so they can ...

Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 09.18 EST It is a mystery that HG Wells’s characters would have been quick to leap on, but one that would doubtless have enraged the fastidious Wells himself: what is the origin of the quote chosen by the Royal Mint and attributed to him on the new Wells £2 coin? Intended to mark 75 years since the death of the author, the coin has already been criticised for depicting the “monstrous tripod” featured in The War of the Worlds with a fourth leg, and for givi...

i think david crockett was more genuine than the down home candidates we have today. i will tell you this. he was a lot brighter. [applause] i think he would probably be astounded by the dumbing down of the country because he was always trying to improve himself. we found his copy of metamorphosis. this guy who has been beat -- portrayed as a bumpkin. there was something really very compelling about this man. that is what drew me to him. all of those qualities i liked in davy crockett ...