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Mon, 19/06/2023 - 20:49

BOAMBEE Rural Fire Service (RFS) has received a cheque for $3,500 from Sawtell Bowling and Recreation Club from profits raised through its weekly seafood raffles. The funds will go towards the cost of laying a concrete slab for an extension being built at the fire station. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth...

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Mon, 19/06/2023 - 20:44

THE Homelands Tour, a travelling roadshow of multimedia, digital art, visual art, short films and a performing arts showcase, comes to Coffs Harbour in celebration of Refugee Week (18-24 June 2023). The tour is curated to raise awareness and understanding of refugee experiences through arts. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...

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Mon, 19/06/2023 - 20:44

The future of the web must be open. It is essential. But it is not inevitable.

Therefore, at the Drupal Association, we feel it is important for the Drupal Community to take an active role in promoting the Open Web because of how crucial its principles of open access, open standards, free expression, and digital inclusion are to the well-being of modern societies.

As such, we are proud to issue our Open Web Manifesto.

Over the past few months, the Drupal Association has collaborated with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert and invited the Drupal Community to provide input into an Open Web Manifesto. The goal is a public declaration of the values that undergird Drupal the product and Drupal the community.

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Mon, 19/06/2023 - 20:28
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Refugee Week, and the theme is compassion, celebrating the resilience of refugees and asylum seekers. However, it is disheartening to note that this year has also seen a significant increase in attacks on refugees’ rights, particularly digital rights. In previous years, the Home Office has used Twitter to […]
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Mon, 19/06/2023 - 18:56
Mainstream economists who want to defend their use of models often quote statistician George Box, saying that “all models are wrong, but some are useful.” But the important lesson taken from Box ought to be another quotation from the same paper: “since all models are wrong the scientist must be alert to what is importantly […]
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Mon, 19/06/2023 - 18:51
La philosophie n’est pas une science, ni ne peut l’être. Prétendre le contraire, c’est la vouer immanquablement à l’échec, comme elle l’est en effet, mais aussi à l’illusion ou à la mauvaise foi … Il n’y a pas de démonstration philosophique, et s’il y en avait ce serait la fin de la philosophie – puisqu’elle […]
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Mon, 19/06/2023 - 15:55

Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine? Newly declassified British Foreign Office files have added disturbing details to the history of Operation Gladio. The covert operation was uncovered in 1990, when the public learned that the CIA, MI6 and NATO trained and directed an underground army of fascist paramilitary units across Europe, […]

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