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News24 Business | Malls, retail spaces hammered by Covid-19, but online shopping gives warehouses a boost

Of the three commercial property segments, the industrial market is the strongest performer in terms of activity, an FNB Commercial Property Broker Survey found.




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News24 Business | TAKE A LOOK | Kyalami Corner owner to open new R210m mall in Roodepoort

The Kwena Square will cost R210 million. It will have 23 stores, a drive-thru RocoMamas and 407 parking bays.




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News24 Business | Halt to Amazon HQ: WCape MEC launches legal bid to restart construction

Western Cape MEC for local government, environmental affairs and development Anton Bredell has filed an application for leave to appeal a high court order suspending construction of a R4.5 billion project that will house Amazon’s Africa headquarters.




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News24 Business | SA's priciest rentals: Here's what you'll get if you cough up R300k per month

A survey shows a mansion in Constantia, Cape Town can fetch R290 000 per month, while on the Garden Route, one can pay up to R55 000 per day for short-term holiday rentals.




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College of Education faculty member part of team awarded $3.5 million grant

A Penn State College of Education faculty member is part of a multidisciplinary team across several universities that has been awarded a $3.5 million Transformative Research Grant from the Spencer Foundation to conduct a large-scale, five-year study on community-driven initiatives to teach Asian American studies in K-12 classrooms.




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Nicholas Palermo chosen as fall 2024 College of Education student marshal

Nicholas Palermo, a secondary social studies education major from Wexford, Pennsylvania, has been named the Penn State College of Education student marshal for the fall 2024 commencement ceremony.




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College of Education News: Sept. 25, 2024

Students, staff and faculty members from Penn State's College of Education share recent research and career achievements.




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College of Education Alumni Updates: Sept. 25, 2024

"College of Education Alumni Updates" highlights career achievements by Penn State College of Education alumni.




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JEDI Collaborative explores relationship between social justice and education

Ashley Patterson, associate professor of education and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Penn State, explored the intersection between social justice, equity and education during a JEDI Collaborative speaker series event at Penn State Lehigh Valley. 




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Research collaboration launches civil rights in education initiative

A new civil rights in education initiative, called AdvancED Equity, that focuses on advancing research to inform policy related to civil rights protections in the field of education, was recently established with contributions from Penn State.




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Q&A: 'HumIn Focus' series considers the societal value of higher education

The next episode of "HumIn Focus," a web series from Penn State’s Humanities Institute, will focus on “Teaching Humanity: The Social Value of Higher Education.” It premieres at 9 p.m. on Oct. 24 on WPSU TV and will be available for streaming.




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College of Education News: Oct. 30, 2024

Students, staff and faculty members from Penn State's College of Education share recent research and career achievements.

 




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News24 Business | 200 electric Ubers coming to SA next year, starting in Joburg

Uber will bring 200 BYD electric vehicles onto its platform in South Africa, starting with a pilot in Johannesburg in 2025.




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News24 Business | 'Food inflation has all but disappeared': Bidcorp flags record trading, 'excellent' SA result

Shares of Bidcorp, the food services giant founded by Brian Joffe, jumped almost 5% on Tuesday after it reported a record revenue performance for the four months to end October, including an "excellent" result from SA.




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News24 Business | Blue Ribbon owner Premier reports earnings jump but maize prices still a concern

Blue Ribbon and Snowflake owner Premier's interim earnings rose by almost a third on Tuesday as the group benefited from a focus on margin management, cost savings and continued investment in its assets.




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News24 Business | Court orders Nulaid owner Quantum to reinstate director it removed in boardroom war

Nulaid owner Quantum Foods has been ordered to reinstate a nonexecutive director it removed after requesting to see the legal advice it relied on in refusing a shareholders' meeting request for board changes.




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News24 Business | Growth-hungry Premier says it would even consider snapping up RCL, Libstar

Blue Ribbon and Snowflake owner Premier Foods is on the prowl for acquisitions, including the likes of JSE-listed food producers like Remgro-controlled RCL Foods, Libstar and RFG, if they ever become available.




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Q&A Collections: Reading Instruction

All Classroom Q&A posts offering advice on Reading Instruction (from the past eight years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post.




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Reading & Writing Instruction in the Age of the Coronavirus

Keep it simple, keep it flexible, and keep the routine familiar are among the suggestions three educators give in assigning students work while distance learning.




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Q&A Collections: Reading Instruction

All Classroom Q&A posts on Reading Instruction (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post.




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Plitidepsin: a Repurposed Drug for the Treatment of COVID-19 [Commentary]

Finding antivirals to reduce coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) morbidity and mortality has been challenging. Large randomized clinical trials that aimed to test four repurposed drugs, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir-ritonavir, interferon beta 1a, and remdesivir, have shown that these compounds lack an impact on the COVID-19 course. Although the phase III COVID-19 vaccine trial results are encouraging, the search for effective COVID-19 therapeutics should not stop. Recently, plitidepsin (aplidin) demonstrated highly effective preclinical activity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Its antiviral activity was 27.5-fold more potent than that of remdesivir (K. M. White, R. Rosales, S. Yildiz, T. Kehrer, et al., Science, 2021, https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/01/22/science.abf4058). Plitidepsin, a repurposed drug developed for the treatment of multiple myeloma, targets the host translation cofactor eEF1A. Plitidepsin has shown efficacy in animal models and phase I/II human trials. Although plitidepsin is administered intravenously and its toxicity profile remains to be fully characterized, this compound may be a promising alternative COVID-19 therapeutic.




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Colliding worlds

An OMer encounters a French woman who converted to Islam but misunderstands both Islam and the Christian faith.




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Connecting: Finding churches for Turks in France

While reaching out to Turks in France, one long-term worker feels like Apostle Paul: preaching in house churches and getting kicked out of a mosque.




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COVID-19 Has Left Thousands of After-School Programs in Jeopardy

Six in 10 programs worry they will have to shut down permanently, a survey finds—and that was before so many districts announced fall remote-learning plans.




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As Schools Recover After COVID-19, Look to New Orleans

Hurricane Katrina taught the city lessons that apply to education across the nation now, writes economist Douglas N. Harris.




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Classes canceled in Baltimore County after cyber attack




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Combining Literacy and Math Skills Through Thinking Logs (Video)

Thinking logs incorporate both literacy and math skills by asking students to write complete sentences explaining how they solved an equation and arrived at a solution.




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Counting Collections With Preschoolers: An Early-Learning Math Strategy (Video)

See how one preschool teacher helps her students learn how to count collections of objects.




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How to Talk to Students About the Coronavirus Without Scaring Them

What you say about the coronavirus depends on the child's developmental stage. Here are examples of the best age-appropriate language for discussing the pandemic.




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News24 Business | PODCAST | SA Money Report: Cash problems leave Comair’s future up in the air and its planes grounded

This week Carin Smith explains why Kulula.com operator Comair grounded its planes, and what it will take to get them back in the air.




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News24 Business | Discovery data shows over R3.2 billion paid for cancer treatment in 2023

Discovery Health Medical Scheme's (DHMS) 2023 cancer claims payouts were almost 19% higher than the previous year though the scheme says screening rates in South Africa have mostly returned to pre-pandemic levels.




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Equipped, excited and encouraged

Young people in Bangladesh learn to combine sport with their love for God, and one programme participant explains his enthusiasm for the experience.




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Patch Project creates 'mini forests' in Beaver County community

The Patch Project, an initiative between Penn State Beaver and local nonprofit Reforest Our Future, aims to restore natural elements to the local landscape. Ten small patches of forest will be planted around Beaver County. The project is being completed with funds from the inaugural Commonwealth Campus Undergraduate Community-Engaged Research Award.
 




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Consistent bedtime linked with better child emotion and behavior regulation

A consistent bedtime may be more important to a child’s ability to control their emotions and behavior than the duration or quality of their sleep, according to a new publication by researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development and Penn State College of Medicine. 




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Great Valley students’ sports analytics research poster wins second place

Two graduate students in Penn State Great Valley’s data analytics program, Praneeth Sunkavalli and Jainil Kakka, won second place for their research poster at a recent symposium hosted by the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences. For their research project, they used machine learning to analyze event data from soccer games to measure the success rates of a defensive tactic called "pressing," when players pressure their opponents in an attempt to regain the ball.




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Cognitive decline and loneliness linked in older adults over short time periods

Loneliness and cognitive performance were related in the short term for older adults, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development.




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Can everyday physical activity improve cognitive health in middle age?

Engaging in everyday physical activity has immediate benefits for brain health. Middle-aged people who participated in everyday movement showed improvement in cognitive processing speed equivalent to being four years younger, regardless of the activity's intensity level, according to a new study by researchers in the Penn State College of Medicine.




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Collaborative pilot funding available for translational science projects

Researchers at Penn State and from seven other institutions making the Consortium of Rural States (CORES) Research Collaborative are invited to apply for multi-institutional pilot awards for translational science research projects.




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Jack Kaye, NASA associate director, research, to give meteorology colloquium talk

Jack Kaye, associate director for research at NASA, is the speaker for the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science’s colloquium scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. He will give the talk “Integration of Vantage Points, Programs, and Approaches for Space-Based Earth Remote Sensing.”




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DeVos: Give Religious Groups Equal Consideration for Education Grants

The new U.S. Department of Education guidance creates a federal process for individuals and organizations to file complaints under the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act.




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Appeals Court Finds No Disparagement of Hinduism in Calif. Curricular Framework

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit turned aside a challenge to California's history and social science content standards and curriculum framework.




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Barrett Indicates Her Comfort With High Court's Recent Religion Decisions

Religious liberty, school choice, teachers' unions, and educational equity all came up at Amy Coney Barrett's high court confirmation hearing. She wasn't always asked to answer.




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A beacon of light for kids and teens

Children's club at the church in Tkvarcheli, which is held by MDT students, impacts lives of local children and gives them hope.




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Crocodile Island

Realising the need for biblical role models, OM partnered with a local church to send a couple, Kelvin and Florence, to Crocodile Island as missionaries.




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Reaching the community

The Bailie family serve with their local church as part of OM in Ireland's Philippian Project.




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Serving God through coffee shops and carpentry

Jose, an Argentinian worker serving in Southeast Asia, tells of how he entered overseas service and what he has seen God do through his not-so-typical ministry.




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Strength to overcome

During special Easter outreaches to women in red light areas, outreach workers go in the knowledge that Jesus is with them and His resurrection power gives hope, strength and life.




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Ways to 'Break Down Walls Between Classroom & Community'

Three educators share ways to connect their students to community engagement, including through project-based learning and community-service projects.




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Teaching Social-Emotional Skills Amid COVID-19

There are ways to attend to students’ social-emotional growth even when they are learning remotely or sitting in a classroom six feet apart. Ignoring those skills is a recipe for disaster.




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We Should Be Concerned About the Mental Health of Principals

All principals are dealing with COVID-19, and some are dealing with wildfires or hurricanes at the same time. Those issues, on top of increasing job demands, are pushing principals to the breaking point. We need to do something about that.