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Student nurses, midwives and allied health professionals, including occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, podiatrists and radiographers, currently do not pay tuition fees. They receive a mixture of a non-means-tested bursary, a means-tested bursary and a reduced-rate student loan to help with their l...
However, in a move first outlined by then chancellor George Osborne in November, bursaries will be replaced by loans in England to cover tuition fees and maintenance costs. The government claims this will allow the cap on student numbers to be lifted, creating up to 10,000 extra training places this parliament.
Health minister Philip Dunne said two-thirds of those who applied for a university nursing course were not currently offered a place and that the changes would give those in training about 25% more financial support while they studied.
The RCN general secretary, Janet Davies, said: “While our members are extremely unhappy with this model, it is positive that the government has listened to some of our concerns, including the transitional bursaries for postgraduates and hardship funds. But there is still a worrying lack of clarity on clinical placement...
Jon Skewes of the RCM said the midwifery body “unequivocally condemns” the decision. “We have grave concerns for the future of maternity services and the midwifery profession in England as a result,” he added.
Last month a coalition of more than 20 charities, medical and professional bodies and trade unions, led by the RCN, the British Medical Association, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Patients Association, wrote an open letter to then prime minister David Cameron arguing that ending bursaries for studen...
The coalition issued the letter ahead of the public consultation on the changes, which ended on 30 June.
Christina McAnea, head of health at the Unison union, said the consultation had been a sham and ministers had failed to listen to the profession’s concerns. “They seem not to care that in a few years’ time the NHS will be seriously short of nurses and there will be too few new recruits coming through to fill the gaps,”...
Nurses spent much of their courses working alongside paid colleagues, McAnea added, and were also unlikely to earn enough to ever repay their student debt. She warned that the change was likely to mean 2,000 fewer graduates a year, which would force the health service to spend more on agency staff.
In January, student nurses and midwives marched through central London in protest against the plans to axe the bursaries.
More than 160,000 people signed an online petition calling on the government to retain bursaries, and the issue was debated in the Commons on 11 January.
Carmel Lloyd, the RCM’s head of education, said at the time that the plans were appalling and would deter many from considering a career in midwifery. “The RCM is extremely disappointed that the government did not seek advice or consult with us prior to making this decision,” she added.
Violence ravaging Horn of Africa country had oil companies not wanting to risk opening up shop there for 20 years.
Petrol stations in Somalia have opened for the first time in more than 20 years. The violence that has ravaged the Horn of African country for decades meant that oil companies did not want to take the risk of opening up shop there.
Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal explains.
The legislative fate in Ottawa of the free-trade pact between Canada and the United States hangs on the results of a national election. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is expected to call that election this month, with voters going to the polls in November.
Both opposition parties, the Liberals and the left-of-center New Democratic Party (NDP), have promised to tear up the trade deal should they defeat Mr. Mulroney's Progressive Conservative government.
If the Conservatives win - and the polls indicate this is possible - Mulroney will quickly bring Parliament into session and ask it to pass the free-trade bill in time for the pact to take effect, as scheduled, at the start of the new year.
The Tory government took office four years ago after it won a sweeping majority in the House of Commons.
Liberal leader John Turner surprised both supporters and opponents of free trade in July by asking the Liberal majority in the Senate to stall the free-trade deal until an election is called. He says free trade is so vital an issue it should, in effect, be approved by the voters through an election.
The House of Commons passed the trade legislation Aug. 31 and sent it on to the Senate. Last Thursday, the Senate gave the second of three readings of the bill, with Liberal senators abstaining to make this possible. But the Liberal majority then sent the bill to the Senate foreign affairs committee for detailed study,...
The Conservatives are expected to attack the Liberals during the election for using the non-elected Senate to block the current free trade legislation.
Turner says the Liberals would instead seek trade liberalization through bargaining now taking place under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and through agreements with the US on specific business sectors.
The Conservatives deny any loss of Canadian sovereignty under the deal. Besides, they point out, the pact can be abrogated with six months' notice.
As to trade bargaining over business sectors, they say that a previous Liberal government under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau unsuccessfully tried this approach with the US. Any sectoral deal would require approval of other GATT members. Such approval is unlikely.
A poll released by the government this month shows that 51 percent of Canadians favor the pact, while 43 percent of them oppose it.
The latest political poll, taken late in August and earlier this month, found 37 percent of decided voters support the Conservatives, 33 percent the Liberals, and 25 percent the NDP. Another 5 percent favor other parties, according to the poll by the Toronto Globe and Mail and Environics Research Group Ltd.
With the three-way split of the parties, the Tories can win a majority of the Commons seats with only a few more percentage points of support from the voters.
With voter approval of the Conservative government increasing, the opposition parties are keen to have an election soon.
One politician guesses an election will be announced Thursday after the House passes child-care legislation that, the Conservatives hope, will win it women's votes.
Another politician picks Sept. 30, the day after Mr. Mulroney returns from addressing the United Nations General Assembly.
Paying tribute to the Thin White Duke, new David Bowie subway cards have been introduced in New York City.
As Brooklyn Vegan points out, brand new Bowie MetroCards are now available at Broadway-Lafayette station, just a few blocks from where the late legend used to live in SoHo for a portion of his life.
The entire Broadway-Lafayette station has been transformed into something of a tribute to the icon, too. Adverts for the ‘David Bowie Is’ exhibition – currently taking place at the Brooklyn Museum – decorate the station, and outside, there’s another giant mural.
Costing $6.50, the new MetroCards reportedly have a two ride minimum.
It’s not the first time that New York City has rolled out special MetroCards. Last year, they introduced Twin Peaks subway fare cards in homage to David Lynch’s cult show, along with another Supreme-branded card.
The other side of the Atlantic, the first statue of David Bowie was unveiled in Aylesbury Market Square earlier this year, close to the town’s Friars music venue where Bowie first debuted his Ziggy Stardust persona in the early 1970s. Within 48 hours of the tribute being erected, the statue was vandalised.
At this year’s Record Store Day – which takes place on April 21 – three rare David Bowie records are set for release, including an iconic live performance. Full information can be found on the David Bowie website.
There’s also an enormous beer hall-type bar with long table seating, a stage for music and trivia, darts, shuffleboard, pool and other games, two dozen TVs for watching sports, a separate restaurant with its own patio as well as outdoor seating around the volleyball courts for 250 out back.
And later this spring Marikka’s will add its own in-house brewery to make and serve up to six kinds of house beer. The brewery will be above the main bar, with windows so customers can watch the beer being made.
The project has cost nearly $6 million, he said, including a $2.3 million small-business credit initiative financed through the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority, which supported the project because it will create up to 30 jobs.
More than a year ago, that Marikka’s building was torn down to make way for the new one, which will open on Monday. Leagues for volleyball players are already pretty much filled after a sign-up announced on Facebook last week.
Groups have begun reserving the private room, which seats about 50, for parties. And several charity volleyball tournaments already are in the works.
Marikka’s menu will return with many of the same authentic German favorites including pretzels, potato pancakes, wurst and wienerschnitzel, and a few new items, said Morgan Middleton, director of operations for volleyball, events, entertainment and marketing.
The bar will feature about 1,000 different beers, including imports, and 20 taps, mostly imports, Tackett said.
And customers again will be able to take a run at Marikka’s beer-drinking hall of fame by working their way through all of them.
Those that do will join a select crowd honored on the wall over the dart boards, Tackett said.
Marikka’s restaurant will be open 4 to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 4 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, while the bar is open 4 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday.
Parking will be available on three sides, as well as in the adjacent lot after other businesses close and in another lot across Southland Drive.
The Columbia River Treaty talks between the U.S. and Canada will profoundly impact how the linchpin of the region’s economy is managed. Any major changes in the agreement will touch nearly everyone in Oregon, Washington state, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia.
Those negotiations stem from a provision in the original treaty that said in 2024 the system now used to reduce the risk of floods will change. Instead of being the first lines of defense against flooding, the Canadian dams will only be called on to hold back rising waters of the Columbia once the U.S. has done all it ...
We have mentioned more than once that when we are looking at homes with potential buyers, we are finding a lot of overpriced homes listed for sale on the market. To illustrate this point, we'll borrow from the classic line about relationships, "You can be right, or you can be happy." Without trying to sound too harsh, ...
What do we mean by that? We see some sellers become so fixated on what they think their home should sell for, they become unwilling to bend to the reality of the market staring back at them directly in their face. They seem determined to prove they are right, usually making the bold proclamation they will never lower t...
In fairness to homeowners trying to sell their homes, we understand how easy it is to believe your home will sell for top dollar and in a reasonable time frame. As we have stated in the past, determining in advance the most likely price at which a home will ultimately be sold is no easy task, in large part because pric...
This is why it is not only important to get an honest assessment of your home's condition, features and marketability, but to make sure you have an accurate understanding of the current market and how to use market statistics to guide your pricing strategy. With about 7,000 hungry, licensed real estate agents working o...
Here is what we are seeing on the ground every day, as we go in and out of homes with buyers. Their single biggest problem is finding a reasonably-priced home to buy, while they seem to have no problem finding a lot of overpriced homes listed for sale. We know that may come across as a somewhat vague description, but w...
From a seller's perspective, it is important to realize there is a lot of buyer interest in Cape Coral and Southwest Florida, and the vast majority of the buyers we talk with have come to the realization they are not going to be able to "steal" a nice, clean, well-maintained, move-in ready home in our market at bargain...
Put another way, the odds of sellers listing their home at too high of a price and finding a completely uninformed, out-of-town buyer for their home are pretty remote, in large part because of this thing out there they call the Internet. However, that doesn't seem to prevent at least some sellers from significantly ove...
It is pretty common to see homes listed for sale at 10 to 15 percent above what they ultimately sell for, and in that scenario, it will usually take at least one, fairly sizeable price reduction to attract an offer from a buyer. In fact, it is not uncommon to see some homes finally sell for 15 to 25 percent below the s...
When a home is reasonably priced in Cape Coral, especially if it is priced somewhere around $300,000 or less, it will go under contract with a buyer in 30 days or less, and often within several days or weeks of being listed for sale. The closing price in this situation will almost always be within 5 percent of the list...
One morning within the last month, we were showing a cash buyer an older, remodeled home listed for about $300,000. We found some flaws and shortcuts in the remodeling job, so the remodel was not perfect, but compared to other similar homes, this had "reasonably priced" written all over it. Later in the afternoon we ca...
In another situation, a seller who was shown how they could get above $500,000 for the home, found our price analysis to be completely inept when we told them they might be lucky to get what they bought the home for in 2004, which was around $400,0000. After over 2 years on and off the market, through multiple agents, ...
In another case, a recent headline read, "Condo Sale Shatters Naples Record," as an 11,698-square-foot penthouse condo with incredible views of the Gulf of Mexico sold furnished for $14,750,000. According to the report, this shattered the record sales price for a Naples condo, which was set in 2014. The condo was on th...
So even in Naples, it looks like you can be right, or you can get your home sold!
It was in Hawaii that I got my first exhilarating taste of passion fruit. The Maui market vendor's knife expertly sliced through the mauve skin at the top of the egg-sized fruit, revealing bright orange innards that reminded me of salmon roe. He quickly carved the sliced-off cap of the fruit into a scoop, and dipped it...
The first thing I noticed was the intoxicating tropical floral aroma. Then, at the first contact with my tongue, came the explosion of bright clean citrus with just enough sweetness to cut the sour. In the tangy gelatinous goo were many small crunchy seeds, which provided a nice textural contrast.
One slurpy bite led to another until the mauve skin was an empty eggshell. But I craved more, and so bought a whole bag of passion fruit, known as liliquoi in Hawaii, and snacked on them the rest of the day.
Later I learned that the passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) is native to South America, probably originating in the southern region of present-day Brazil. It was there, in the 16th century, that Spanish Catholics named it Flor de las cinco llagas, flower of the five wounds. Other missionaries expanded on this, and saw i...
Although the missionaries saw violence and suffering in the passion flower, its huge and elaborate blossoms have more pleasure than pain in their voluptuous beauty. The showy corolla highlights the architecture at the center, where the prominent female parts (stigmas and styles) float over the top of the male stamens. ...
For all its goodness, however, like so many plants and animals introduced into the delicate Hawaiian ecosystems, the passion fruit had invaded all of the Hawaiian islands a mere 50 years after it was introduced in 1880. Due to a plant virus, and high labor costs, the few passion fruit farms disappeared shortly after th...
While passion fruit grows well in California, Florida and other southern states, it generally can't take the cold winters of the temperate zones. The one exception is the Maypop (Passiflora incarnata), which is native to North America, and is the state wildflower of Tennessee. The most cold-hardy of the passion fruit f...
The name Maypop might have come about because the plant pops out of the ground in May and dies back in winter, ready to pop out again in May. Others say the name comes from "maracock," which was the Powhatan Indians' name for this plant.
If you live in the southern U.S., especially California or Florida, you will most likely be able to find passion fruit at your local farmers market. You also have a good chance of finding them in the produce section of ethnic grocery stores. If you strike out, you can find frozen passion fruit pulp in many grocery stor...
Or you can grow your own. The vigorous, vining plant is often used as an ornamental screen, or can provide shade cover on a pergola. With its showy flowers and delicious fruit, what's not to be passionate about?
The bright, strong taste of passion fruit makes it a great addition to any smoothie. It's especially good with creamy, custardy fruits such as mango, banana or cherimoya. Of course, you can use whatever fruits or greens you have on hand, but here's a starter recipe.
Cut the passion fruits in half and scoop all of the innards into the blender. Add all the other ingredients and blend. Because passion fruit has a lot of seeds, use a powerful blender at its highest speed to get a smooth smoothie.
Macaron Versus Macaroon: What's the Difference?
"Fight like hell for the living!!!"
RESISTANCE: TOGETHER WE CAN WIN!!!
With my friends now off to the city we're gonna shake the gates of hell!!!
About Me A queer, pagan, Anarchist! If you have anymore questions, ask me. There is a lot more to me I know I can't cover it all.
My Philosophy Consensus is the key to a better world, not elections.
What Gives Me Hope Seeing others who stand up to the powers that be. Whether they win or fail, their courage inspires me.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by I'd probably ask those who have traditionally been society's underdogs what they feel needs to be done. I'd encourage consensus based decision making.
What/who changed my life and why Don't go there, it's not going to be pretty.
Quotation "There will always be resistance. The next battle will always be near. As long as you have everything there will be those who have nothing to fear. And little by little, or maybe all at once, you will lose. Because our future is not yours to choose."
A dropped ceiling provides a professional look and a bit of sound proofing for your home.
4 Can We Make the Ceiling Higher in the Living Room?
A dropped ceiling, also known as a suspended ceiling, is often used in kitchens and finished basements as a way to hide wiring and duct work but to still provide easy access to it through removable panels. The trouble is that sometimes the ceiling hangs too low and truncates the room, making it appear smaller and more ...
Moving the dropped ceiling requires that you remove it and reinstall it at a higher height. To remove a dropped ceiling, break down the grid and remove it piece by piece. Start by removing all the grid panels and the cross pieces. Both simply rest on the runners, so you just push them up and to the side to remove them....
As you work, take care not to damage the materials. You will rehang the grid and unless you want to buy new ceiling materials, you don't want to damage the panels or the framework. Place your materials to the side in neat stacks as you remove them.
After removing your suspended ceiling, there will at least be nail or screw holes along the wall where the perimeter lip was attached. There may also be some discoloration or damage to the paint. Since this portion of the wall will now be exposed, you must repair it. Fill holes with spackle and a putty knife. Sand the ...
Once you remove your dropped ceiling, inspect the now exposed wiring, duct work and structural beams for any structural or mechanical issues, such as rotting wood in the beams, exposed wiring, or holes or rips in the duct work. With the ceiling removed, this is a good time to really get in there and tackle potential pr...
Raising the ceiling is just a matter of rehanging it at a higher height. The maximum height at which you can hang the wall is 4 inches from the main ceiling, or 6 inches if you plan to install a drop-in fluorescent lighting fixture. Measure the length and width of the wall at the new height to ensure the walls are even...
Since you are not installing an entirely new ceiling, you should not have to cut anything except the supporting wires to shorten them. Everything else should be ready to reattach.
Magher, Maria. "How to Raise a Dropped Ceiling in the Kitchen." Home Guides \| SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/raise-dropped-ceiling-kitchen-82061.html. Accessed 25 April 2019.
People considering standing for election as a councillor in the Melton borough are invited to a special information event next month.
The session will tell prospective candidates all they need to know about the roles of a borough councillor and a parish councillor.
Attendees will find out how they can influence how money is spent to improve services in the Melton area and how they can contribute to making their community safer.
There will be also be information available on how councillors can help regenerate the town centre and promote tourism across the borough.

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