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Saskatchewan’s first stand-alone hospice will accept its first patients this week, giving people near death a place of solace spend the remainder of their days.
Samaritan Place executive director Bette Boechler said the 15-bed Hospice at Glengarda is designed to provide a “missing component” in end-of-life care that lets patients be close to both family and medical care.
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“I want people to know this is not a doom and gloom place,” Boechler said. “This is where people come in and they’re living. And yes they will die but right now they’re still living, and we will do everything to make that life as meaningful as possible.”
Space the new frontier in renewable energy?
Scots energy group and ESA team up to use satellites to improve wind farm efficiency
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Could satellites be used to capture data from offshore wind farms to inform decisions made every day by the renewable energy sector?
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Scottish energy industrial development body Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG), have signed a memorandum of intent (MOI) to develop, analyse and implement space-enabled technologies to support the renewables industry.
The organisations plan to develop space applications to support renewable projects and explore the environmental sustainability of energy production and safety of operations.
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Methodism courses through Sujin Pak’s DNA “I am the granddaughter, daughter, and niece of multiple United Methodist elders and deacons on both the Korean and American sides of my family,” she says. Yet the church “was also my crisis of faith.”
“I too often saw a gap between what I understood to be the Christian message of love, hope, peace, and justice and the actual actions of various expressions of the church across time,” says Pak. As a vice dean at Duke University’s Divinity School, her alma mater, she tried to address that gap by, for example, welcoming LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and staff.
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