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“I think it is a rotten idea,” Lambert, 46, says. “The NDIA should bugger off and leave people with disability with enough money to be able to live an ordinary life like everyone else in Australia.” Lambert, who took part in an independent assessments pilot scheme with her mother, Laurel, lives with cerebral palsy, an intellectual disability, a hearing impairment and epilepsy. The new mandatory but free assessments will begin in the middle of the year and will apply to new applicants and, later, the 440,000 participants already on the scheme. The National Disability Insura...

Revolutionary map expanding statewide internet access 6 days ago UGA’s Vinson Institute leads the way for Georgians to get connected   Wide swaths of South Georgia lack access to high-speed internet service. But where are the most households lacking broadband access in the state? Fulton County. Thanks to a groundbreaking map — the first of its kind in the United States — community leaders and telecommunications companies in Georgia can now easily identify broadband dead zones down to a single address and expand access to those areas. “Approximately 10 percent of the population of Ge...

Tue March 16, 2021 - Midwest Edition #6 Giles Lambertson – CEG Correspondent An overlook of the open cut, where rock will be deposited from the 4,850-ft. level excavation. (Sanford Underground Research Facility photo) International science came to the Black Hills of western South Dakota, because that's where the deep hole is. Over the last century, the hole — Ross Shaft — was sunk 5,000 ft. to give access to lateral tunnels from which gold was extracted from sedimentary rock to a depth of 8,000 ft. Now the opening into the earth is being repurposed into an entranceway for a highly-...

Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña De la Pena confirmed that he bagged the two awards from the PFPA, a group of various resulted professional associations in the country, during the 8th PFPA Distinction and Excellence Awards.  “Maraming salamat po sa Philippine Federation of Professional Associations (PFPA) sa mga parangal na iginawad sa akin ngayong araw na ito, ang Professional Distinction Award at ang Professional Excellence Award (Thank you so much to the  Philippine Federation of Professional Associations (PFPA) for the awards gi...

Committee Reports House Education Committee The House Education Committee, chaired by Representative Matt Dubnik (R-Gainesville), met this morning to consider two bills and hear a presentation from State School Superintendent Richard Woods. HB 32, authored by Representative Dave Belton (R-Buckhead), amends O.C.G.A. 20-2-251 to require the State Board of Education to create a teacher recruitment and retention program by providing a refundable tax credit of $3,000 per qualifying teacher per year, for up to five school years. The department must pick no more than 100 schools from the list of qua...