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Based on recent discourse, the war in Ukraine is still bearing on people’s minds, although not mentioned often in conversation.
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New revelations show the former prime minister went to great lengths to stop separatists
You think you know a story. You think you’re sick of a story. Then you are told the story again, with more distance and also with more detail — and you’re hooked. In the Name of Gerry Conlon (RTÉ 1) told a complicated story very well. And God knows it was very complicated — three sets of innocent Irish people, most of them part of the working class in Britain, were wrongly convicted of appalling crimes. It was a long struggle before they started to get released from jail.
Since its inception in 2001, the focus of the University of New Orleans Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences (PIES) has been on addressing coastal and environmental issues. A three-year, $568,000 grant for the Louisiana Board of Regents will help PIES be better suited to tackle problems facing coastal communities in New Orleans and elsewhere by providing state of the art instrumentation and equipment.
The Foundations Portland precinct is located on the site of the former Portland Cement Works, one of Australia’s oldest cement plants, which opened 160 years ago and operated until 1991. Comprising a group of heritage-listed industrial buildings set among limestone lakes in Portland’s historic town centre, the 86-hectare site underwent an extensive clean-up after the plant’s closure, before being acquired in 2014 and rezoned for residential and commercial use. The site is now undergoing a regeneration similar in scale to that of Redfern’s Carriageworks.