MOULTRIE, Ga. – Colquitt County students dominated the 2021 Southwest Georgia Regional Science Fair last month, coming home with 80% of the awards presented. Additionally, five Colquitt County students were
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2:40 PM March 8, 2021
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3:54 PM March 8, 2021
Roy Brame, Norfolk County Councillor for Thetford East, has resigned from the council and as a Conservative member.
- Credit: Norfolk Conservatives
A county councillor has resigned and quit the Conservative party, for “a change in direction” and to spend more time with his family.
Roy Brame, Norfolk County councillor for Thetford East, has resigned from the council and as a Conservative member.
Mr Brame, who was elected onto the council in 2017, said: “I have resigned as a county councillor and I am no longer a member of the Conservative association. I am now an independent district councillor.
How Untamed Branches Are an Apt Symbol for Our Turbulent Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/t-magazine/branches.html
How Untamed Branches Are an Apt Symbol for Our Turbulent Times
Instead of the cool refinement of a simple bloom, they offer a more imposing and irrepressible sort of beauty.
A monumental tangle of lichen-covered mountain laurel and flowering pink-and-white quince branches created by Emily Thompson of Emily Thompson Flowers in New York City.Credit.Photo by Kyoko Hamada. Set design by Theresa Rivera
By Ligaya Mishan
March 5, 2021
THE QUINCE ARE half-naked, half in flower. The blooms stand out bright white, points of focus in the broad dark, but the branches are the story: the anatomy of spiky boughs, and the angles and cantilevers they contorted themselves into during their life outdoors, reaching for the sun. Some of them are five feet high and set in their ways, resistant to the touch. “You’re wrestling a tiger,” says the New York-based floral design
AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of Kuwait Insurance Company S.A.K.P.
AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of a- of Kuwait Insurance Company S.A.K.P. (KIC) (Kuwait). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable.
The ratings reflect KIC s balance sheet strength, which AM Best assesses as very strong, as well as its strong operating performance, limited business profile and appropriate enterprise risk management.
KIC s balance sheet strength is underpinned by its risk-adjusted capitalisation at the strongest level, as measured by Best s Capital Adequacy Ratio (BCAR). Further support to the balance sheet strength assessment stems from KIC s consistent internal capital generation and prudent reserving. Offsetting factors include KIC s high dependence on reinsurance, although the associated counterparty risk is partially mitigated by the use of a reinsurance panel of strong credit quality. In addition,