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Sabine 3.2 maybe it is the duty of the Government to look after people that can't work rather then the businesses? Maybe the Government a year into covid should have set up a webpage solely for wage -replacements and covid – isolation/quarantine payments that are so easy to use that even someone with lacking literacy skills, or less then best english skills can get onto it, fill out the forms and receive a payment if the criteria applies. In saying that, after April there will be 10 sickdays, and it will be the business costs to pay isolation costs. 10 working days = 1...

Announcing the 2021 Guest Editors for The Bulletin! The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) is pleased to announce Sascha Stronach and Yilin Wang will be The Bulletin guest editors in 2021.  Stronach will guest edit Issue #218, slated for September 2021 and Wang will guest edit Issue #219, slated for December 2021. L.D. Lewis was the first guest editor for The Bulletin, helming Issue #215, which was published in Fall 2020. SFWA Editor-in-Chief Michi Trota said, “I’ve admired Sascha’s and Yilin’s work in SF/F and am excited they’ll be bringing their uniqu...

Mayors and Poutini Ngāi Tahu reject mention of other iwi in new West Coast district plan 24 Feb, 2021 05:45 AM 4 minutes to read Milford Sound. Photo / Mike Scott Local Democracy Reporter Mayors and chairs working on a new district plan for the West Coast have rejected a suggestion that councils should deal with iwi other than Poutini Ngāi Tahu, over historic sites and wahi tapu. Planners presented draft policies for Māori use zones and sites of significance to the monthly meeting of the Tai o Poutini Plan Committee in Hokitika yesterday. The importance of those sections of the plan should...

This month with Chinese New Year, the Year of the Ox, falling on Friday, February 12, the figures are expected to be worse. Ngāi Tahu Tourism Dark Sky Project business manager Jared Simcox said typically over Chinese New Year they could expect a significant number of Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking customers. “This year we will most likely see a fraction of these customers,” Simcox said. Their early-mid December 2020 visitor numbers were close to what they expected overall from the domestic market with a modest increase in domestic travellers in December 2020 compared to December 201...

Although the incidence of polio acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) has decreased in India, the nonpolio AFP (NPAFP) rate has increased. Nationwide, the NPAFP rate is 11.82 per 100 000 population, whereas the expected rate is 1 to 2 per 100 000 population. Andre 5.1.1 A few questions: Assuming for the sake of argument that the apparent increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis is in fact due to the version of polio vaccine being used in India being the cheaper of vaccines available (this assumption is by no means a clear conclusion from the available evidence), do you...