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North West Correspondent A new online jobs portal which aims to attract people to make new lives in the west of Ireland has been launched by the Western Development Commission. More and more people have been working remotely because of the pandemic, it says, and maybe now is the time to consider a permanent and viable move west with benefits including some of the lowest housing costs in the country. Westernjobs.ie is a one-stop-shop giving jobseekers all they information they need about opportunities in the region and the benefits of moving there. For employers, it is a window to the pool of ...

FARMKENYA INITIATIVE Sugarcane farmers in Muhoroni transporting cane to the milling plant after harvest. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] Sugarcane farmers in Busia County have called on the Agriculture ministry to ensure they are paid Sh4,040 per tonne of cane delivered to milling factories as directed by Cabinet Secretary CS Peter Munya. The farmers claim a private miller, Busia Sugar, is paying them less money through brokers from Kakamega, Vihiga, Eldoret, Bungoma and as far as Uganda. Busia Sugar is said to have forced the brokers to write a commitment letter to supply cane at Sh3,500 per tonn...

Space Force to Absorb USAF Command to Run Launches, Research The Space and Missile Systems Center will become Space Systems Command. LAS VEGAS — The U.S. Space Force will soon absorb an Air Force command that will be repurposed to lead areas of endeavor from research to launches.  On Thursday, Space Force officials revealed new details about the long-planned transfer of the Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center, which will this summer be renamed Space Systems Command, or SSC. The command will remain a three-star post, but the deputy job will get bumped up one rank to tw...

Soaring Downtown Office Vacancies Pushing Developers Toward Apartment Conversions The strategy of converting office buildings to residential has taken off in the suburbs and in some of D.C.'s emerging submarkets, but it has been difficult for developers to make conversion projects work in the city's central business district.  That dynamic appears to be changing, some developers and experts say, as the elevated office vacancy in the downtown market makes conversion projects more appealing.  Courtesy of Helen Kozak The Watermark apartment...

Posted: Dec 19, 2020 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 19, 2020 This propeller driven surface machine, better known as the Lorch Snow Plane, was patented in 1935 by Karl Lorch in Spy Hill, Sask. It sits on display at the Moose Jaw branch of the Western Development Museum. (Western Development Museum)