Dementia Australia
Locals are getting ready for the Hobart Memory Walk & Jog 2021, which will be held on Saturday 13 March 2021 at the Regatta Grounds.
The course is family-friendly, suitable for all levels of fitness, and there will be prizes for the top fundraisers, as well as raffles, plenty of entertainment, food stalls and special guest appearances from Memory Walk & Jog mascot Al the Elephant.
You can choose to take part as an individual or get a team together, and select whether you take part in a 2km or 6km walk, or 8km run.
Currently there are an estimated 11,500 people living with dementia in Tasmania. With that figure projected to increase to about 16,700 by 2058, events like Memory Walk & Jog play an important role not only in funding support, but also in raising awareness of dementia.
For Ethan Casperson, his first experience with a random roommate did not go as planned.
According to Casperson (freshman-electrical engineering), he originally wanted to room with his friend from high school, but he had to go random when his friend decided to stay home for the semester.
âI talked to [my new roommate] over the phone, and he seemed pretty fine,â Casperson said. âWhen I went up there, I immediately noticed that I did not like this guy.â
Casperson said his roommate was a âslob,â and he would frequently bring people into their room without notice.
âAfter probably like a month and a half, I just went home because my classes were online anyway,â Casperson said. âI just didn t want to deal with it.â
Coast Guard stops 8 Cuban migrants off the Florida Keys
Coast Guard stops 8 Cuban migrants off the Florida Keys
Gwen Filosa
Thu, February 11, 2021, 6:14 PM
The U.S Coast Guard stopped eight Cuban migrants in a boat off the Upper Keys this week.
They were sent back to Cuba.
A good Samaritan on Monday alerted Coast Guard Sector Key West to the people in the “rustic vessel,” the Coast Guard reported.
A Station Islamorada rescue crew was launched “due to concerns of safety of life at sea.” A Customs and Border Protection crew also arrived on the scene.
Seven men and one woman were found in the boat south of Islamorada and transferred to the crew on the Coast Guard Cutter William Trump, which brought them back to Cuba on Thursday, the Coast Guard said.
Since 2015, the Myanmar Media Program (MMP) has been working to increase the sustainability of the media sector in Myanmar by improving the business and management capacity of independent media. An initiative of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), it seeks to support a dozen independent media organisations - a mix of national and local news outlets of different sizes and media types - with intensive mentoring and various forms of tailored technical assistance aimed at improving their business and management capacity. An additional two dozen media have access to a less-intensive capacity building programme designed to fit their specific needs. Funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the programme will continue until the end of 2022.
Saturday, 13 February 2021, 7:37 am | Scientists Warning Europe Friday 12 February 2021 - Scientists Warning Europe (SWE) have issued an open letter
to Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, asking for much stronger leadership in the face
of catastrophic climate change and growing ecological collapse. This endorses the . More