I hope the Legislature is getting close to the end of this session.
We are working to complete the budgets that must be passed before we adjourn. There are about 25 budgets that are still on our calendar. Several of these are Health and Welfare and Education budgets. Tuesday the House debated H 354, the public schools budget. This budget is for K-12 teacher pay and other items. The budget failed on a tie vote of 34-34 with two people absent. I voted for this budget because I believe that our teachers are doing a good job. The bill failed because of the fear that teachers may be teaching âcritical race theoryâ. I can find no one in District 32 that is teaching critical race theory. I voted for the bill because it is a budget bill not a policy bill. The negative debate was about policy not the money and a budget bill is not the place to address policy! The policy should be determined by the education committee, or the local school board. I donât support teaching critica
Change in mindsets, establishing norms needed to get diners to return their trays, say experts Toggle share menu
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Change in mindsets, establishing norms needed to get diners to return their trays, say experts
Trays and used utensils were left behind by diners when CNA visited Clementi Market and Food Centre on Feb 4, 2021. (Photo: Ang Hwee Min)
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SINGAPORE: Beyond initiatives to nudge diners into returning their trays, an overall change in people s mindset is needed for such plans to work, said observers.
It was announced on Friday (Apr 16) that coffee shops and food courts will get funding to install tray return facilities.
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FILE PHOTO: Unreturned trays are seen at a hawker centre. (Photo: Ang Hwee Min)
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SINGAPORE: Coffee shops and food courts looking to install tray return facilities will soon be able to apply for funding to alleviate some of their costs.
The National Environment Agency (NEA) and Singapore Food Agency (SFA) announced on Friday (Apr 16) a scheme to defray 50 per cent of the costs of installing tray return facilities, such as stations, racks or trolleys, as well as the purchase of trays. It is capped at S$2,500 per premises.
Using internally developed 3D image visualization software, a multinstitutional team of researchers led by Dr. Tom Turmezei, PhD, of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the U.K. found that 3D maps of the knee joint space width distribution correlated highly with structural joint disease. Taking less than 10 minutes to perform, the method was feasible and reproducible, detecting joint space width differences as low as ± 0.1 mm. It is reliably learned by novice users, can be personalized for disease phenotypes, and can be used to achieve a smallest detectable difference that is at least 50% smaller than that reported to be achieved at the highest performance level in radiography, the authors wrote.
Chauvin says he won’t testify at murder trial in Floyd’s death as defense rests its case Published 7 hours ago
In this image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, and defendant, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin address Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill during motions before the court Thursday, April 15, 2021, in the trial of Chauvin, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. Chauvin told the judge he will not testify on his own behalf. (Court TV via AP, Pool)
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Print article MINNEAPOLIS Former Officer Derek Chauvin chose not to take the stand as testimony at his murder trial ended Thursday, passing up the chance to explain to the jury and the public for the first time what he was thinking when he pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck.