Christmas

• AtmosFX, the holiday decorating company known for inventing projection-based home decorating, is revealing all seven of the new digital decoration collections it will be releasing in 2024 with a very special "Halfway to Halloween Variety Show."
• SEATTLE, May 3, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- AtmosFX, the holiday decorating company known for inventing projection-based home decorating, is revealing all seven of the new digital decoration collections it will be releasing in 2024 with a very special "Halfway to Halloween Variety Show."
• With these seven new titles, AtmosFX will have 47 Halloween-themed decoration collections, and a total of 77 for celebrating holidays year round.
• The Halfway to Halloween Variety Show will go live online at 12 p.m. PDT on May 3, 2024, and can be viewed on the AtmosFX YouTube channel as well as on the AtmosFX blog .

• Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Singing Machine Company, Inc. (“Singing Machine”) (NASDAQ: MICS) – the worldwide leader in consumer karaoke products, today announced its results of operations for the nine-month period ended December 31, 2023.
• “We are pleased to provide a comprehensive update on the Company’s financial results of operations,” commented Gary Atkinson, CEO of the Singing Machine.
• The Company also incurred $0.4 million in expenses related to the closure and outsourcing of its logistics operations formerly in Ontario, CA.
• 4 million for the nine months ended December 31, 2024, as compared to a net loss of $1.7 million for the same period in the prior year.

• Prior to the partnership, Frasers Group was achieving at best a recruitment cycle more than double this figure, circa 23 days.
• Key highlights of the successful partnership between Frasers Group and SmartRecruiters include:
  Quality of Hire: With SmartRecruiters' hiring match score and quick shortlisting tools, Frasers Group achieved its most important metric—ensuring the highest quality of hires.
• Rapid Hiring: In the first year of the partnership (2021), Frasers Group hired 14,000 people with a time-to-hire of 23 days.
• Our partnership with Frasers Group reflects our shared commitment to transforming talent acquisition processes in the rapidly evolving retail landscape.

• A Muslim student at Michaela School in London has lost her High Court challenge against the school’s ban on prayer rituals.
• The school argued that the ban was put in place to avoid prayers “undermining inclusion”.
• But permitting religious diversity is a tradition in education in England.

Understanding secularism

• Michaela School has two-week holidays over the Christmas and Easter periods, and names them for these Christian festivals.
• The school week is Monday to Friday, which does not impinge upon the Christian day of rest.
• This is a version of secularism that benefits the members of one religion but not another.
• The state’s burgeoning financial involvement in education was accompanied by a pluralist approach to minority religions and denominations.

Matters of conscience

• It contained a conscience clause, allowing non-Anglican parents to withdraw their children from religious instruction.
• The end of Empire and the 1948 Nationality Act brought migrants to Britain from the Indian subcontinent.
• By the mid-1960s, Muslim children began to appear in schools in sufficient numbers that they were able to campaign collectively for the accommodation of their needs.
• And since the 1960s local education authorities and schools have accommodated Muslim needs within the same framework as those of Jews and Catholics.

Helen Carr does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.