MIL-OSI USA: Senator Rand Paul Meets with President Trump
Source: United States Senator for Kentucky Rand Paul FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 16, 2019 Contact: Press@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) issued the following statement after meeting with President Donald J. Trump regarding the United States’ involvement in Syria and Afghanistan: “I have never been prouder of President Donald Trump. In today’s meeting, he stood […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Duckworth Presses EPA Nominee Andrew Wheeler over EPA’s Efforts to Prevent Ethylene Oxide Emissions Testing & Undermine Renewable Fuel Standard
Source: United States Senator for Illinois Tammy Duckworth January 16, 2019 Duckworth questioned why large, profitable oil refineries are receiving “hardship waivers” exempting them from Renewable Fuel Standard requirements [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today questioned Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator nominee Andrew Wheeler during his Senate confirmation hearing over the EPA’s […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Australia: A near collisionv
Source: Australian Transport Safety Bureau The ATSB is reminding pilots of the limitations of the see-and-avoid principle, and encourages the use of airborne collision avoidance system (ACAS) technology after two Cessnas were involved in near collision south-west of Darwin Airport on 6 December 2017. This serious incident occurred, when a Cessna 210 and a Cessna […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Boost kids’ skills and memories with weekly game night
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Hetty Roessingh, Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary The winter months are an ideal time to turn your attention inward and think of how you can establish something new for your family to do together indoors. If you can find the right thing, perhaps it will […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: It’s time for a new way to regulate social media platforms
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Natasha Tusikov, Assistant Professor, Criminology, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada When it came to our online lives, 2018 was revealing in its dysfunction. The just-expired year’s parade of scandals at Facebook alone was relentless — Cambridge Analytica, its inflation of video-viewing stats that have been credited […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: How designers can plan healthier communities, together with Indigenous families
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Caylee Raber, Director of Health Design Lab, Emily Carr University We know that there is a vast gap between the health of Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous Canadians; in fact Indigenous children fall well below national health averages for Canadian children. Indigenous advocates and researchers have extensively documented causes […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Corporations don’t seem to understand Indigenous jurisdiction
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By D.T. Cochrane, Lecturer in Business and Society, York University, Canada Indigenous jurisdiction is at the centre of the dispute over the Coastal GasLink pipeline. The same is true of the Trans Mountain expansion. In both cases, the corporations involved have misunderstood or misrepresented the risks associated with jurisdictional […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Homophobia in the hallways: LGBTQ people at risk in Catholic schools
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Tonya D. Callaghan, Associate Professor, University of Calgary Recently, a Calgary woman filed two human rights complaints with the Alberta Human Rights Commission. The employee, Barb Hamilton, says she was pushed out the Calgary Catholic School District (CCSD) because of her sexuality and was refused employment on the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Translation: Dakar Rally 2019 – Stage 9, Pisco – Pisco
MIL OSI Translation. Region: Germany / Germany – Source: BMW Group Press Release Dakar Rally 201916. January 2019 Rally Dakar 2019 – Stage 9, Pisco – Pisco MINI John Cooper Works Rally Crew Joan, Nani ‘Roma / Alex Haro finishes stage 9 in second place and remains second in the overall standings. Five MINI crews […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Translation: “Nitrogen oxides and fine dust are the main problem today”
MIL OSI Translation. Region: Germany / Germany – Source: Forschungszentrum Julich40 years after the first smog alarm: Interview with atmospheric researcher Astrid Kiendler-Scharr Jülich, 16 January 2019 – 40 years ago, on January 17, 1979, Germany had its first smog alarm. The air in the Ruhr area was particularly heavily polluted: in Duisburg, 1,400 micrograms […]
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