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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 05:03

A NEW beer born in Coffs has landed exclusively on tap and in the bottle shops at the Moonee Hotel, the Toormina Hotel and the Sawtell Hotel. The summer-inspired craft beer is the product of a new partnership between the W. Short Hospitality Group (WHSG) and Woolgoolga Brewing Co. Advertise with News of The Area...

The post Woopi Brewing launch exclusive Coffs Coast beer appeared first on News Of The Area.

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 04:58

DISAPPOINTED by Council’s diluted motion to protect a small 0.5 ha patch of critically endangered ancient Lowland Sub Tropical Rainforest on the edge of the Coffs Bypass alignment between Shephards Lane and Gatelys Road, the Advocates for Grandpa’s Scrub urge the community to keep the pressure on. A revised motion was submitted by Cr Jonathan...

The post Council vote to find solution to save Grandpa’s Scrub, while minimising Bypass delays appeared first on News Of The Area.

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 04:52

ROOFING Matters apprentice David Hart has won a prestigious Bert Evans Apprentice Scholarship through the NSW Government. Just turned 20, David told News Of The Area, “It’s an honour to be chosen and I feel great. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02)...

The post Roof plumber apprentice wins Bert Evans scholarship appeared first on News Of The Area.

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 04:51

RESILIENT Communities, an OzGREEN program, has now ‘graduated’ its first cohort of community groups along the Coffs Coast, having run throughout 2022. OzGREEN’s unique program is based on 30 years experience and fosters the transition from feelings of sadness, helplessness and overwhelm into purposeful action. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...

The post OzGREEN’s Resilient Communities grow purposeful action appeared first on News Of The Area.

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 04:49

THE Refugee Learner Drivers program, run by the Australian Red Cross in Coffs Harbour, celebrated its five-year milestone on Wednesday 30 November. Some 20 past participants, a handful of current learners, volunteers, stakeholders, Red Cross leadership and donor representatives gathered at the Coffs Harbour office for an informal catch up. Advertise with News of The...

The post Five years of refugee learner driving with the Red Cross appeared first on News Of The Area.

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 04:46

PLANS are afoot to establish a city farm/community garden behind Park Beach Plaza on land owned by City of Coffs Harbour. A group of interested and committed people who would like to see this idea come to fruition are calling out to the community to come along to a meeting on site to hear about...

The post Growing a community space behind Park Beach Plaza appeared first on News Of The Area.

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 04:43

Thanks to 2129 contributors from 616 organizations resolving 4083 issues in the past two and a half years, Drupal 10.0.0 is available today! This new version sets Drupal up for continued stability and security for the longer term. All new features will be added to Drupal 10 going forward.

What’s new in Drupal 10.0.0?

Better looking on the frontend and backend

The new Olivero theme provides a modern look and feel. Olivero includes built-in support for multi-level menus and listings in responsive grids. The new administration theme, Claro, provides an accessible, clean interface for site management. The prior default themes Bartik and Seven are available as contributed projects if you wish to use them.

Screenshots of Olivero and Claro overlayed

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 04:00

The Diamond Anniversary celebrations continue with a range of merchandise devoted to the Third Doctor Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary celebrations are continuing at Forbidden Planet as their Diamond Collection enters its third phase. Each month features a host of merchandise for a different Doctor and it’s now the turn of Jon Pertwee: the Third Doctor. […]

The post Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Diamond Collection – The Third Doctor appeared first on Blogtor Who.

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 04:00

As 2022 comes to a close, panelists discuss the immediate prospects for the global economy, the dangers of a lost decade for developing countries and what needs to be done to put the SDGs back on track.

Moderator: Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Globalization and Development Strategies Division

UNCTAD Panelists:

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 03:41

Anomaly 6 turns every citizen on Earth into a potential “person of interest” to intelligence agencies, and thus a target for recruitment, surveillance, harassment, and much, much worse.

The post Shadowy US Spy Firm Promises To Surveil Crypto Users For the Highest Bidder appeared first on MintPress News.

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 02:54

Over the course of recent months, US lawmakers had a chance to come down strongly on the side of organized labor by backing railroad workers in their pursuit of paid sick leave. Instead, both Congress and the Biden administration opted to impose an agreement that the rank-and-file of four railroad unions, including the largest railroad […]

The post The Little Engine That Couldn’t Have Paid Sick Leave: How US Lawmakers Let Workers’ Rights and Health Go Off the Rails appeared first on Center for Economic and Policy Research.

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 02:37
How Showering Money on Both Parties Paralyzed Regulators

Late last week, Samuel Bankman-Fried, in the eyes of many our century’s answer to 18th-century fraudster John Law, Charles Ponzi, and the con artists who puffed tulips back in the Dutch Golden Age, allowed that he would be willing to testify before the House Committee on Financial Services. Curiously, for someone usually so eager to jump on stages where he could trumpet his determination to make the world a better place, Mr. Bankman-Fried was far more tentative about the possibility of appearing before the Senate Banking Committee.

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 02:15

On this special episode of The Watchdog, Lowkey discusses and later analyzes the role played by external actors in dictating the domestic political environment in the United Kingdom.

The post The British American Project and Fighting Back Against the Israel Lobby with Matt Kennard, Asa Winstanley and Huda Amori appeared first on MintPress News.

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 01:55

The fifth and final feature release of Drupal 9 brings a stable CKEditor 5 module, a command line theme generator and helps prepare for your update to Drupal 10. Bugfixes will be provided for Drupal 9.5 until June 2023 and security fixes will be provided until November 2023.

What’s new in Drupal 9.5.0?

CKEditor 5 support is now stable

Drupal 9.5.0 is the only feature release of Drupal that includes both a stable CKEditor 4 integration (labeled as the "CKEditor" module) and stable CKEditor 5 integration (exposed as a separate "CKEditor 5" module). CKEditor 4 has been removed from Drupal 10 and moved to a contributed project. The support overlap in Drupal 9.5.0 allows users to move to CKEditor 5 ahead of their Drupal 10 upgrade. (Sites may also install the CKEditor contributed project before upgrading to Drupal 10, but should take note that its security support will still likely end in November 2023.)

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 01:33

Hey, cheer up because it truly is a beauty! I’m talking about this country’s latest “stealth bomber,” the B-21 Raider, just revealed by Northrop Grumman, the company that makes it, in all its glory. With its striking bat-winged shape and its ability to deliver a very big bang (as in nuclear weapons), it’s our very own “bomber of the future.” As Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin put it at its explosive debut, it will “fortify America’s ability to deter aggression, today and into the future.” Now, that truly makes me proud to be an American. And while you’re at it, on this MAD (as in mutually assured destruction) world of ours, let that scene, that peculiar form of madness, involving... Read more

Source: Peace Is Not Our Profession appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 01:09
How has philosophy’s role in cognate disciplines been changing? We could ask this question about philosophy and political theory, or cognitive science, or business ethics, or theoretical physics, and so on. In the following guest post, the focus is on philosophy and bioethics. Authors Vilius Dranseika, Piotr Bystranowski, and Tomasz Żuradzki (Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University) examine the claim that philosophy’s role in bioethics is diminishing. They take a data-driven approach to the problem, looking at trends in how frequently philosophical work is cited, and how often especially philosophical topics are discussed, in bioethics literature. In addition to putting forward their view of the matter, they are seeking feedback from readers about this method and their particular application of it. Are Philosophy’s Glory Days in Bioethics Over? by Vilius Dranseika, Piotr Bystranowski, and Tomasz Żuradzki There is a familiar claim that, when compared to the early days of bioethics, the role of philosophy in bioethics has diminished. Let’s call it the Disconnection Thesis.
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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 00:26
In some fields—physics, geophysics, climate science, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty quantification in particular—there is a popular impression that probabilities can be estimated in a ‘neutral’ or ‘automatic’ way by doing Monte Carlo simulations: just let the computer reveal the distribution … Setting aside other issues in numerical modeling, Monte Carlo simulation is a way to […]
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Fri, 16/12/2022 - 00:15
Interview on Climate Change, the New Cold War and the Rise of China

I did an interview few weeks ago with Chris Oestereich, which he’s putting up in three parts. I listened to part three today and, while I rarely say this, I thought it was quite good and if you’re interested in any of these topics, probably worth your while.

 

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