Month: September 2022

Since launching their community grant programme, Ørsted has awarded more than £1 million to specifically fund projects relating to Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). The East Coast “Skills Fund” forms part of the company’s £465,000 East Coast Community Fund 20-year annual commitment and is part of the community engagement programme for Ørsted’s Hornsea and
0 Comments
Income at the National Trust rose more than £150m last year as it recovered from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the charity’s accounts show. Its annual report for the year to February 2022 shows that income rose about a quarter compared with 2020/21, from £507.7m to £643.3m. The trust’s income is still lower than
0 Comments
Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt are about to travel back in Hollywood history, again. The two previously worked together on Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Now, these two and a fun ensemble cast are traveling further back to the 1920s in the film Babylon. While this reunion of two of the best
0 Comments
The Handmaid’s Tale is closing in on its endgame at Hulu. According to The Hollywood Reporter, hit drama series has been renewed for a sixth — and final — season. “It’s been a very, very, very luxurious time that I’ve had to think about what happens at the end of this story and exactly how
0 Comments
New York City’s Premiere electronic music festival Electric Zoo just wrapped up this past Labor Day weekend. The 3-day zoo themed festival went off without a hitch. Electric Zoo knocked it out of the park this year with the talent selection they chose to book. There were a plethora of insanely talented artists that performed at
0 Comments
Rachel Aviv’s first book explores questions of self-knowledge and mental health, subjects she’s previously examined in her award-winning journalism for The New Yorker. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us is a stunning book, offering sensitive case histories of people whose experiences of mental illness exceed the limits of psychiatric terminology,
0 Comments
The America Library Association reported 729 book challenges in 2021 that impacted nearly 1,600 titles, the highest number of challenges the organization has recorded in 20 years. Despite this increase in challenges, only 43% of the librarians who took the School Library Journal’s (SLJ) 2022 Controversial Books Survey reported facing a formal book challenge— which
0 Comments
(CNN) — After two years of a pandemic, ever-changing travel restrictions and mandated Covid-19 tests, the summer of 2022 signaled vacations would finally be back in vogue. With most Covid-19 restrictions lifted, planning a vacation became easier and many trips that had previously been delayed for pandemic-related reasons were finally able to take place. But
0 Comments
Charities across the country have paid tribute to the Queen, who has died at the age of 96. Queen Elizabeth II was patron of more than 600 charities during her lifetime, including Cancer Research UK, the RSPCA and Girlguiding. Buckingham Palace announced the Queen’s death this evening, after an earlier statement saying doctors had grown
0 Comments
“I do think the studies will get paid, like they usually do, whatever they are owed. Because we are the suppliers and that’s usually what happens,” Lionsgate vice chair Michael Burns said Wednesday of the Chapter 11 filing earlier in the day by Regal Cinemas’ parent Cineworld. “Those things seem to go through the same
0 Comments
Bernard Shaw, one of the anchors who put CNN on the map, has died from pneumonia … according to his family. His family announced his passing Thursday morning, and said the pneumonia was unrelated to COVID-19. When CNN launched in 1980, Shaw was the network’s first chief anchor, and famously anchored presidential debates, and especially
0 Comments
In his third novel, Brooklyn-based Cuban translator and author Ernesto Mestre-Reed delves into Fidel Castro-era Cuba in a beguiling, meandering story that unfolds in dense and dizzying prose. Though challenging at times, Sacrificio is an invitation to slow down and pay attention. The rewards are plentiful for readers willing to give themselves over to a
0 Comments
This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
0 Comments
There’s a scene near the end of Olivia Wilde’s new film, Don’t Worry Darling, in which Olivia—a triple threat here, acting, directing, and producing—delivers a line that opened up a whole other dimension of the movie’s plot and also quietly tore at my heart. I was still thinking about it days later, when I read
0 Comments
Blancco’s erasure software enables the charity to ready donated devices to be shipped to African children, supporting the development of their digital skills, and promoting a circular economy AUSTIN and LONDON – September 7, 2022 – Blancco Technology Group (LON: BLTG), the industry standard in data erasure and mobile lifecycle solutions, has today announced it
0 Comments
The government should reform commissioning rules to help charities win and deliver public contracts, according to the think tank NPC. A paper, published this morning, argues that the Procurement Bill, which is being considered in parliament, could be used to ensure that social value and public savings are a part of commissioning decisions. It also
0 Comments
Reagan National Airport near Washington D.C. Leslie Josephs | CNBC The rocky summer travel season ended on a high note during Labor Day weekend with a surge in air travelers and relatively smooth operations across the U.S., according to data released on Tuesday. The Transportation Security Administration screened nearly 8.76 million people from Friday through
0 Comments