‘Remote working presented challenges – especially for document security’
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Paul Kearns. Image: Kefron
Kefron’s Paul Kearns discusses taking over the family business, expanding into the UK, and helping companies move to the hybrid world of work.
Paul Kearns is the managing director of Kefron, a Dublin-headquartered business that specialises in information and document management. The company has 120 employees across Ireland and the UK, and provides digital solutions to more than 900 businesses.
Kearns has worked in management roles in both Ireland and the UK. He is also non-executive director of i-Sigma, a trade association for secure information lifecycle management based in Arizona.
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On the night of Jan. 26, 2014, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk leapt onto the stage at Staples Center to accept the Grammy for album of the year.
Even though the French electronic duo’s faces were hidden behind white and gold robot masks, they couldn’t hide their elation as they waved back to cheers from Jay-Z, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar. Their album “Random Access Memories” and its smash single “Get Lucky” were crowning achievements in a career of immaculately produced dance music, played at pop-star scale.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the flatlands of L.A., far from the limos and gowns at Staples Center, Eddie Johns bedded down for the night.
Occupational therapist Aliya Drakes: See children first, not their disability
Sunday 2 May 2021
Aliya Drakes training and experience as an occupational therapist taught her how to structure her life in such a way that she doesn’t get overwhelmed, as frequently happens with people with autism. - PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB
As an occupational therapist (OT) Aliya Drakes encounters children with different personalities daily. And although they are mainly special-needs children, the philosophy of Opal Kids, the therapy practice she started in 2011, is to “see the child first” and not their disability.
“The way occupational therapy works is that we don’t need to have a diagnosis. We look at whatever the child is dealing with, how it’s affecting their day-to-day life. Everything that you do on a daily basis is your occupation. It could simply be trouble paying attention in school, or that their handwriting is bad, they have problems dressing or managing sensory things.
It’s been dry for days. The breeze gently ruffling the tops of maroon-coloured heather and clumps of tall, pale grasses is neither too strong nor too weak. There is a pleasing squelch to the moss-covered peat below. These are the perfect conditions for burning. Three gamekeepers from the Bingley Moor grouse estate in West Yorkshire begin their final burn of the afternoon – on land the government’s nature protection agency, Natural England,.