The Windsor Unified Sports program, designed to foster friendships and understanding between those with disabilities and those without by placing these student-athletes on one unified team, recently won a state title in its division during the Special Olympics basketball tournament this past month at the Gold Crown Foundation facility in Lakewood.
Highsnobiety and Semi Permanent take over Paramount House Hotel
May 10, 2021 10:15
Semi Permanent and Highsnobiety have launched a two day experiential hotel takeover at Paramount House Hotel, Sydney, with experiences including an NFT exhibition from Flume.
The announcement:
Semi Permanent and Highsnobiety launch a two-day experiential hotel takeover bringing together global artists, designers and creators to present a vision for the future. Launching May 26 and 27, A Semi Permanent Hotel presented by Highsnobiety features interactive and immersive in-person experiences, as well as exclusive digital content for the global community.
The 48-hour takeover of Sydney’s Paramount House Hotel brings music, fashion, cinema, art and design under one roof with specially curated exhibitions, installations, talks, performances, film screenings, and tastings, and celebrates the people, brands and ideas driving change towards a better version of our future.
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A series of reports have emerged on failures with Australia’s quarantine systems, which have left the nation exposed to importing COVID-19 into the community.
Some travelers have been left shocked by lax processes pertaining to Sydney’s hotel quarantine:
Australians returning from overseas have described weaknesses in Sydney’s hotel quarantine system which they fear could contribute to the spread of coronavirus.
… many returned travellers who have recently been through the quarantine system say they would not be surprised by a breach of the system…
Kashi Somers, who returned to Sydney from New York City in early November, felt compelled to write to the NSW Health department after being “shocked” that the driver of her bus from the airport to the hotel was not wearing a mask.
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Ms Somers also claimed she saw several members from the ADF who weren t wearing their masks correctly.
Another returning Australian, Noelle Faulkner, who d come back from the UK in November, said she was surprised at how relaxed the system was, adding her bus driver was also not wearing a mask.
Some returned travellers said their bus driver wasn t wearing a mask when transporting them to hotels for quarantine
One man staying in a Sydney hotel for his two week quarantine is seen collecting a bag of food At the hotel, while we were waiting, this military guy was like motioning for me to stand closer so he could talk to me, she said.
âI was at the Marriott and someone from the police came on the bus and read us out all the details and the manager of the hotel came on, they were both wearing masks. Throughout the check-in process the staff, the army folks and the police folks were all wearing masks.â
Similarly, Shaffira Gayatri, who returned from Jakarta in September, said the overall experience had felt âas secure as the circumstances allowedâ.
âIn terms of getting to the hotel from the airport it was quite structured [and] pretty clear. The police and the army were also informative,â she said.
She did have one âconfusingâ encounter during her stay in quarantine, however. Early in her stay she had called hotel maintenance to fix her alarm clock. The hotel worker had arrived in full PPE. Realising the gravity of the situation, when the alarm clock broke a second time she called maintenance again but this time left it outside.