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DISABLED people deserve to have a voice, an organisation has said. The FDF Centre for Independent Living is a grassroots organisation providing support and advice for vulnerable people across North Wales. Throughout the pandemic, the organisation had to adapt to help those who were left ‘isolated from the world’. Founder Jan Thomas said: “During the pandemic our work has been mostly online supporting the most isolated, lonely and vulnerable individuals whose independence was taken away in a heartbeat on 23rd March 2020. “For the previous three years we had been encouraging d...

Strong result in MBIE Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund Giant, carnivorous land snails,  Powelliphanta traversi. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has awarded three Massey University research projects nearly $750,000 from the Te Pūnaha Hihiko: Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund. The fund aims to strengthen capability, capacity, skills and networks between Māori and the science and innovation system, and increase understanding of how research can contribute to the aspirations of Māori organisations and deliver benefit for New Zealand. Of the 16 grants, Massey University ...

So today I have had: a txt alert 10 min after the local Tsunami Sirens started in my Community, about a half hour after the last quake that put my region in harms way. Excellent work a txt alert once it was deemed safe to return home, gratefully received. a PM begin a PRESS Conference (not a Covid briefing) of all the days happenings detailing some of todays important issues an announcement of the carefully thought out by experts decision to complete the full 7 days lockdown as advertised (some people criticised the shortness of the previous 3 day lockdown) Some people just love a good cheese...

As first-year students flooded onto campuses around the country this week, gripped with uncertainty and curiosity about their new lives, I too returned to university to learn. For the first time since what feels like forever, but in reality was 1997 when I finished my PhD, I am now a bona fide university student. It’s confronting to go back as an undergraduate online student (I’m doing a BA, through my own university, Massey University). But at the same time, it’s exciting and new. And for me, with a science background, stepping into the humanities is a whole other world.

More evidence that UBIs work The report is back on another Universal Basic Income trial, this time in the USA. And as with the others, it shows that this policy works: After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and reported lower rates of anxiety and depression, according to a study released Wednesday.[…] When the program started in February 2019, 28% of the people slated to get the free money had full-time jobs. One year later, 40% of those people had full-time jobs. A control group of people who d...