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In December, Covid-19 infections in prisons in the United States hit a record 25,000 in one week. Among correctional staff that month, there were an additional 5,000 new infections a week, leading to spread in surrounding communities. According to a New York Times database, collectively, more than 580,000 people at correctional institutions have been infected. The prisoner death toll has now surpassed 2,000.
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Eleven months into the pandemic, the U.S. prison system has not gotten control of its rising caseload, which is likely still underestimated, according to The Marshall Project, a nonprofit journalism outlet focused on criminal justice issues. Doctors, attorneys, prison reform advocates, and public health researchers are increasingly concerned about one of the tactics that prisons are using to isolate symptomatic individuals: solitary confinement, the prolonged use of which is an intern
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A Kit Kat poster has marketers amused as they laud its innovative design for tapping into everyday experiences of living in a global pandemic.
The Kit Kat chocolate bar, which is owned by Swiss food and drink corporation Nestle, is featured on a bus stop poster in the United Kingdom and the image draws on the popular slogan “have a break, have a Kit Kat”.
The speculative advertisement was designed by brand strategist Sam Hennig for the Manchester-based organisation One Minute Briefs and was not commissioned by Kit Kat.
Rather than spelling out Kit Kat’s slogan, Hennig has displayed an image of a calendar that is full of back-to-back Zoom meetings, except for 3pm, where two pieces of the breakable chocolate bar are displayed.
Fresh Del Monte Produce Partners with Queensland University of Technology on Banana Disease Resistance Project
Partnership Set to Develop New Variety of TR4 Resistant Bananas
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. and BRISBANE, Australia, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., through its subsidiary Del Monte International GmbH, has partnered with Queensland University of Technology (QUT), located in Brisbane, Australia, to lead innovation toward the development of disease-resistant bananas. The partnership will help to identify new ways of growing bananas that are less susceptible to Tropical Race 4 (TR4), also known as Fusarium or Panama disease, and are more sustainable to our food supply.
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Subscriber only In a major coup for the Mackay region, nationally significant virtual reality technology will now be on hand for businesses to trial and integrate into their sphere. The major technical leap will allow companies in the region to explore and test out how they can incorporate virtual reality into their workplaces. Mackay s Resources Centre of Excellence has partnered with the Queensland University of Technology to design the virtual reality and augmented reality technology. RCOE general manager Steven Boxall said this was something industry did not have access to previously. Everyone hears of VR and AR and how it can be used in the industry, but for a lot of businesses, they don t have the time or money to develop the software then acquire the hardware to be able to implement that sort of training in their business, Mr Boxall said.