The Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences is opening a laboratory in Boston. The move puts the institute in proximity to world-leading scientific institutions, such as Harvard University, MIT, and Boston Medical Center. As the first institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences to establish an overseas branch, IOCB…
And, of course, The Nightmare Before Christmas is a timeless classic that beautifully blends Halloween and Christmas in a visually stunning musical masterpiece. Made by Henry Selick (Coraline) and Tim Burton, the film follows Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, who is becoming bored of frightful festivities. When he stumbles upon Christmas Town, Jack decides to make Christmas his own, which leads to chaos. With its memorable characters, enchanting songs, and intricate stop-motion animation, this film is a perfect blend of spooky and festive, making it an essential watch for any Halloween or holiday celebration!
The Oelwein Chamber and Area Development hosted their 2024 Community Awards night at Transco Events on Frederick Wednesday evening during Business After Five commemorating the successful businesses in Oelwein and those that serve their community relentlessly.OCAD Executive Director Deb Howard opened the ceremony with a welcome to the new events center as attendees enjoyed dinner of soups, hors d’oeuvres and desserts. Sarah Lewis, events center committee member and OCAD board member and future president, gave an update as to happenings in the downtown corridor.Lewis gave thanks to all OCAD board members and recognized and thanked the Oelwein OCAD Ambassadors, typically known as the “Red Coats.” This group welcomes new businesses to Oelwein upon opening. Recently, the group has been quite busy, having multiple openings in the last two months alone.
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It was senior night at Bender Field on Friday and Meadville’s seniors had plenty to celebrate,Meadville defeated Warren 56-7 in a Region 6 matchup against Warren. The Bulldogs led 56-0 at halftime and allowed their junior varsity players to play the second half, which had quarters shortened to eight minutes. “We came out after a tough loss to General McLane last week and we wanted to get back and have some success,” Meadville head coach Ray Collins. “You want to show that you’ve shaken off the loss and see your kids execute and play hard and we did that. I was really happy with that.”
Meadville forced a three-and-out on Warren’s first drive. The ‘Dogs then scored on their first offensive play when AJ Feleppa hit a wide-open Amari Grenaway for a 43-yard pitch and catch. Shutting down Warren’s offense and scoring in just a few plays was a theme for Meadville. The Bulldogs scored four touchdowns in the first and second quarters. Warren managed a few first downs, but only got past half field on a drive aided by three Meadville penalties. “Warren is a young football team. It’s a group that’s struggling and trying to find their identity. So it was good in the sense that it got us back in the win column,” Collins said. “I am really happy for the seniors. These are guys that started their careers out 7, 8 years ago playing little gridders here. To see them play their final game on this field and for them to get a win and some individual success was good to see.”Jordan Lawrence, Bradyn Miller and Grenaway each scored a rushing touchdown in the first quarter. In the second quarter, Lawrence added another rushing touchdown and returned a fumble 21 yards for a score. Jacoby Thompson scored two touchdowns on the ground. In the half, Lawrence ran four times for 155 yards, Thompson three times for 45 yards and Miller three times for 37 yards. As a team, the starters averaged 20.75 yards per carry. Defensively, Landon Carter intercepted a pass. Meadville moved to 5-4 overall and 3-1 in region play with the win. The Bulldogs will play Erie, a Class 6A team, for a regular season finale on Friday. “I want to put together a good week of practice. This is the time of the year where it gets dark early, it’s cold out, I know open gyms for basketball start to whisper to the guys a little bit. But we have a lot of unfinished business left to take care of,” Collins said. “I’d like to see this season continue and the only way it’s going to is we have to continue to get better. We need head up to Erie, have a good showing up there and get a close win against a quality opponent so we know where we’re at going into the first week of November.” Warren 0 0 0 7 — 7Meadville 28 28 0 0 — 56First QuarterM — AJ Feleppa 43-yard pass to Amari Grenaway (Simon Farrelly-Jackson XP).
Absa Bank Ghana Limited has partnered with BEN Africa (Business Ethics Network Africa) to support the BEN Africa Conference, a leading ethics conference scheduled for November 2024. The conference will be hosted in Ghana, in collaboration with the Ghana Communications Technology University. The BEN Africa Conference, which was originally established at Nelson Mandela University Business…
SIU expands its global education reach by acquiring SDBS, which will improve online learning for students worldwide.
SIU has made a strategic move to acquire SDBS Swiss Distance Business School, with the obvious goal of expanding its active and premium online education services for students from around the world. It is in this broader vision of making learning flexible and accessible to meet today’s increasingly diverse student needs that SIU acquired the SDBS Swiss Distance Business School.
SDBS Swiss Distance Business School is regarded as one of the leading academies in the sphere of online business education. It develops the courses as an ideal instrument for all students seeking the necessary skills and core competencies to meet challenges within international business. It has been particularly successful in attracting working professionals, international students, and those in need of the flexibility that online learning can offer. With rich curriculum content hosted on state-of-the-art online platforms, SDBS has made sure that none of its students miss out on an excellent learning experience, irrespective of geographical location.
Swiss International University, accredited as an institution of higher learning by the Ministry of Justice in 2024, has grown rapidly into a dynamic force in global education. The university was created between 2024 and 2025 by the merger of several prestigious institutes and academies from different countries. Until now, the roots of SIU date back to 1999 when it took up the mission of providing quality higher education, accessible to students from all over the world regardless of geographical constraints.
This acquisition of SDBS Swiss Distance Business School is in line with the mission of SIU. SIU believes that with SDBS in its portfolio, online education reach will considerably rise upwards. More students can access the world-class programs of SIU both on campus and online. This widens the opportunities of SIU to offer high-class, personalized education to students from all over the world.
With this development, the SDBS has now become a part of SIU, opening up newer avenues for growth and innovation. The School will therefore enjoy better access to the extensive resources, worldwide network, and academic expertise that SIU has for expanding its offerings of programs to reach out to a greater number of students across the world. With this merger, SDBS will be well-positioned to play an active role in the aspiration of SIU to emerge as one of the leading providers of distance education.
The acquisition is a milestone for both organizations and testifies to the common commitment of both toward accessible, quality education. Being part of SIU, SDBS will continue operating under its highly recognized brand and benefit from the wider university’s strategic vision.
The acquisition of Swiss International University is another achievement in the work pursued by the SDBS Swiss Distance Business School for leadership in educational services on the international scene. SIU is a source of unrivaled education and will offer new learning opportunities-from traditional campus-based to innovative online programs-to students worldwide.
Alan Behr
Tribune News Service
There I was, at another lawyers’ gathering, listening to yet another recitation about how AI will change everything from our legal rights to our socks. Halfway through, I realized: For once the conference room did not look as dreary as an anteroom of an oversized funeral home. This one was quite distinctive, with charcoal gray wooden paneling and tan fabric wall coverings framing clean shelves lighted in amber and displaying Japanese-style vases. I should have expected no less because I had been brought to the Nobu, the only five-star hotel in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago.So impressed was I with this unexpected divergence from the banal, I did friends in town a favor by calling to say I would not be crashing in their spare room after all. Instead, I rolled my carry-on to the front desk, where I learned the hotel was a member of the Leading Hotels of the World — and, as luck would have it, I belong to their Leaders Club. This was obviously an invitation from providence to book a short stay. I rolled onward, into a “Zen Suite,” thereby detouring my business trip into an ad hoc experience of elegance.If that sounds self-indulgent, consider that business travel is not just tiring and professionally demanding. If what you are mostly doing is working somewhere other than home and maybe dining at restaurants you have not visited before, that is barely even what a travel writer would call travel — or trouble to write about. Being cut off from the familiar and having to look and sound your best while in a professional setting can also bring on a disquieting sense of loneliness, even in a crowded meeting room.
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By Dennis Fischman
If you’ve read any detective fiction at all, you’ve heard of Sherlock Holmes. You’ve probably made the acquaintance of Hercule Poirot. But do you know Lord Peter Wimsey? If not, you are in for a treat.
Picture a foppish looking British aristocrat, sporting a monocle. He’s the younger son of the late Duke of Denver, so he has not inherited any great responsibilities: only all the money he needs to drive a fast car, go to nightclubs, and compile a fabulous collection of rare books and manuscripts.
“Strong Poison” by Dorothy L. Sayers, HarperCollins, 1987, 240 pages (originally published 1930).
You would think he’s a blithering idiot, at first glance, but that’s his disguise. As author Dorothy Sayers remarks, Lord Peter knows that the easiest way to be smarter than you look is to appear a bit more stupid than you are. (“If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle,” he is aptly told.)
Underneath that façade is a man who wants to know everything, from how the drains work to what women really think and feel. Unlike the sleuth of Baker Street, Peter Wimsey understands the emotional life. He went through the horrors of WW I and came out of it with shell shock (what we today would call PTSD). With the aid of his former comrade in arms, now valet, Mervyn Bunter, Wimsey brings murderers to justice partly to heal himself, partly to restore a sense of order in a world gone mad.
Where should you start this series? If you’re a completist, you could meet Lord Peter plus Bunter and some of the other recurring characters at the very beginning, in Whose Body? If you’re interested in his family dynamics, you can see him save his brother Gerald in Unnatural Death. For a stand-alone novel that casts light on the modern advertising industry decades before Mad Men, read Murder Must Advertise.
My own recommendation is to start with Strong Poison, the first of the books that pair Peter Wimsey with mystery writer Harriet Vane. In this book, she is on trial for allegedly murdering her lover. In 1920’s Britain, that would be scandalous enough. What especially puts her under suspicion is that the murder was committed using a poison that featured in one of her own books!
Peter is convinced that Harriet didn’t do it. What’s more, he’s sure that she’s the woman he’s meant to marry. “What I mean to say is, when all this is over, I want to marry you, if you can put up with me and all that,” he says awkwardly.
But getting them together is going to be ticklish: first he has to make sure she isn’t hanged, and then, the two of them have to figure out whether owing her life to him is going to keep her from ever being free to love him, just for himself.
All that is on top of the differences in class and wealth between a lordling and a woman making her own living as an author – to say nothing of the notoriety that’s going to follow her the rest of her life. “‘I intend to marry the prisoner.” “What?” said the Duke. “Good lord what, what?” “If she’ll have me,” said Lord Peter Wimsey’”.
This is one of my favorite series of British mysteries, and it is a classic. Pick it up soon!
Dennis Fischman is a member of the Somerville Public Library’s Mystery Book Club and an inveterate reader.
Pune Book Festival 2024: Review Meeting Held At Fergusson College Ahead Of December Event | X/@PandeRajeshBJP
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajesh Panda, the organiser of the Pune Book Festival, took to X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday to announce that a successful review meeting was conducted at Fergusson College ahead of the December event. “An important review meeting for the second edition of the Pune Book Festival, to be held in December, was conducted at Fergusson College. During this meeting, various activities and management issues were discussed in depth. The team members present contributed valuable ideas to make the organisation of the festival more effective and constructive. Everyone discussed how they could enhance the glory of the festival with their ideas. Concrete plans were made to make this year’s festival even more spectacular and memorable than last year. All expressed a strong determination to create a confluence of literature, art and ideology,” he wrote. “All the preparations are underway so that the people of Pune can experience a memorable literary season,” he added.This year, the festival will be held from December 7 to 14 at the Fergusson College Grounds.
During last year’s festival, four Guinness World Records were set, including 3,066 parents simultaneously telling stories to their children for four minutes. The previous record of 2,479 parents simultaneously telling stories was held by China.
Additionally, 6 lakh people visited the Pune Book Festival last year, and books worth ₹11 crore were sold. Several prominent politicians, poets, authors and journalists attended the festival, which also featured children’s programmes, cultural performances, and thought-provoking literary sessions.
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