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Subscriber only Universities are bending the rules to admit school leavers who bombed out in this year s COVID-19 study chaos. Teenagers who missed out on studying their dream degree due to a low ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) are being urged to take a short bridging course or apply directly for entry. One university is admitting students based on teacher recommendations, rather than ATAR scores, this year. Others are counting community service and work experience towards university entry. Students who copped health or financial curveballs in 2020 can also apply for special entry on equity grounds.
That is amusing. Prentious. Obvious as well.
I just prefer to keep people from looking at my desks. Cables everywhere (I currently have 18 USB ports active in the desk). Hardware. Test equipment. Coffee cups. Pens & hardcopy. Laptops. Flash drives and external hdds. Phones. Pads. etc
Instead, they look at the lights above me or (at home) at a mini kitchen.
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Your workspace sounds like my workshop.
A litany of unfinished projects; flagon holders from repurposed pallets, a proof of concept star roller for making firework stars, containers of grape, willow and pine charcoal waiting for processing into biochar or aforementioned fireworks…, charcoal retort mark 2 nearly finished, remnants of quart bottles of home brew that became bottle bombs.
The first of its kind, a multi-country study has found that more than 75% of European adults don’t do any muscle-strengthening exercise at all, not even weekly.
The World Health Organization ‘suggests activities like lifting weights in a gym, push-ups, sit-ups and squats should be carried out at least two days a week to maintain good health and reduce the risk of chronic diseases’.
Nevertheless, data from more than
280,000 adults from 28 European countries showed that only 17.3 per cent follow the guidelines – 19.8 per cent of men and 15 per cent of women.
The study, led by the University of Southern Queensland in Australia, is the most comprehensive look at how much muscle-strengthening exercise adults across Europe are getting.
4BC announces new program and host for weekends
December 21, 2020 10:10
Brisbane listeners will wake up to a familiar voice on a brand-new program when radio presenter Spencer Howson begins hosting 4BC Weekends on Saturday, 16 January and Sunday, 17 January 2021.
Howson
4BC brings Queenslanders the stories that matter and news they can trust.
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experience presenting on Brisbane radio is revered, he’s a Brisbane local who is passionate
about local news, and he’s set to do big things in 2021,” said Max Dudley, 4BC’s Content
Manager.
“I’m looking forward to a new challenge, setting that early alarm again and getting back in
Australia and India partner on COVID-19 research
Photo: Unsplash/Prasesh Shiwakoti
AKIPRESS.COM - Australian and Indian researchers will work together to advance COVID-19 screening and study the future health effects of the virus, after a nearly $4 million investment by the Scott Morrison Government, Just Earth news reported.
The Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) has funded six new projects, including one to develop COVID-19 diagnostic technologies and another study of the longer-term effects on the hearts and lungs of patients who have recovered.
Other projects will develop risk management systems to protect farmers from disasters associated with climate change and demonstrate how food-drying technology using renewable energy can reduce pollution in the food-processing sector.