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W HOTELS UNVEILS ARCHITECTURAL ICON IN AUSTRALIA'S CAPITAL CITY WITH THE OPENING OF W SYDNEY

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Friday, October 13, 2023

SYDNEY, Oct. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- W Hotels, part of Marriott Bonvoy's global portfolio of over 30 extraordinary hotel brands, today announces the highly anticipated opening of W Sydney. Located in a dramatic curved structure rising over Darling Harbour, W Sydney is set to become a coveted destination for travelers and Sydneysiders alike, bringing new energy and a modern take on luxury to the city and harbour waterfront.

Key Points: 
  • SYDNEY, Oct. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- W Hotels , part of Marriott Bonvoy's global portfolio of over 30 extraordinary hotel brands, today announces the highly anticipated opening of W Sydney .
  • "W Sydney marks our W Hotels brand's triumphant return to Sydney, a long-awaited addition to our robust portfolio in Australia, following our recent debuts in Melbourne and Brisbane," said George Fleck, Vice President and Global Brand Leader of W Hotels.
  • Located within The Ribbon and designed by acclaimed Australian architects, Hassell, W Sydney rises above the roadways to hug Darling Harbour.
  • "W Sydney reimagines luxury for a new era, creating a vibrant new scene for Sydneysiders and visitors to the city," says Craig Seaward, General Manager of W Sydney.

Bradfield's pipedream: irrigating Australia's deserts won't increase rainfall, new modelling shows

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Our recently published research shows irrigating Australia’s deserts would not increase rainfall, contrary to a century of claims otherwise.

Key Points: 
  • Our recently published research shows irrigating Australia’s deserts would not increase rainfall, contrary to a century of claims otherwise.
  • This provides a new argument against irrigating Australia’s deserts, in addition to critiques on economic and environmental grounds.

The Bradfield scheme

    • The person most widely credited with the idea is John Bradfield, the civil engineer who designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
    • The Queensland Liberal National Party campaigned on a policy to build a Bradfield-like scheme in the last state election.
    • Despite our fascination with it, the Bradfield scheme has well-documented problems.

Would it increase rainfall?

    • Would the Bradfield scheme increase rainfall in central Australia?
    • In our model of the Bradfield-like scheme, we permanently filled the region around Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre with water.
    • Our simulations showed no significant increase in rainfall.

Why no rain?

    • But in our simulations, irrigating the surface led to evaporative cooling of the air.
    • The colder air did not rise as much, and rainfall was suppressed.
    • In our simulations, the water evaporated and was blown all over the Australian continent by wind.
    • But our study shows no plausible engineering scheme would be capable of making it rain enough to do so.

A journey of discovery and identity formation: The Dictionary of Lost Words makes its wonderful stage debut

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Thursday, September 28, 2023

The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme as she navigates the patriarchal world of Victorian England.

Key Points: 
  • The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme as she navigates the patriarchal world of Victorian England.
  • While her father and colleagues construct the Oxford English Dictionary, Esme begins to form her own dictionary – particularly the words spoken by women and the working class who have been excluded.

A brilliant innovation

    • We first see her as an ingénue child hiding under the large desk of the eminent lexicologists.
    • Her direct address to the audience draws us into her perspective of what is occurring around her.
    • In a brilliant innovation from designer Jonathon Oxlade we see words handwritten and projected from a camera hidden within a lamp above the central desk.

A beautiful realisation

    • An inspired touch is having the ensemble move slowly behind key monologues and duologues, adding intricate detail.
    • When Esme gives birth we see her mouth magnified by the live camera, in a close-up that amplifies the intensity of the birth.
    • Cobham-Hervey is supported by a fine ensemble who succinctly double up as required in Laughton’s economy of writing.
    • This is a very clever realisation of Williams’ novel for the stage and gives great power to key moments of this epic story.

Corsight AI and AusComply Help Identify Gambling Self-Excluders with Facial Recognition at Sydney's famed ArtHouse Hotel and Gregory Hills Hotel

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Leading facial recognition provider, Corsight AI , today announced its partnership with AusComply securing more than a dozen clubs and pubs so far this year including two well known entertainment venues in Sydney, the heritage-listed ArtHouse Hotel and Gregory Hills Hotel .

Key Points: 
  • Leading facial recognition provider, Corsight AI , today announced its partnership with AusComply securing more than a dozen clubs and pubs so far this year including two well known entertainment venues in Sydney, the heritage-listed ArtHouse Hotel and Gregory Hills Hotel .
  • Strategic partner and compliance software provider AusComply championed Corsight’s technology for both hotels’ operations.
  • “After reviewing many facial recognition systems from several countries over the years, I’ve chosen to integrate Corsight’s facial recognition.
  • Approximately seven million Australians gamble regularly, while approximately one percent - or 193,000 - could be considered problem gamblers.

MightyTips.com signs player sponsorship deal for Huddersfield goalkeeper Jacob Chapman

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Monday, September 25, 2023

LONDON, Sept. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MightyTips.com, a prominent global betting site aggregator, announced its new player sponsorship with Jacob Chapman from Huddersfield Town AFC .

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, Sept. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MightyTips.com, a prominent global betting site aggregator, announced its new player sponsorship with Jacob Chapman from Huddersfield Town AFC .
  • The Australian goalkeeper replaces another Huddersfield player Scott High on MightyTips.com's sponsored roster, after the former was loaned out to Ross County FC.
  • Chapman is the fourth Championship player sponsored by MightyTips.com after Lewis Travis of Blackburn Rovers, Dimitrios Goutas of Cardiff City, and Liam Palmer of Sheffield Wednesday.
  • Jacob Chapman, born in 2000, started his football journey with semi-professional Sydney United 58 and Marconi Stallions.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Indiana Introduces Anthem Link Virtual First Health Plans, Helping Members Access Convenient, Affordable Care Options

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Monday, September 11, 2023

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Indiana today announced its Anthem Link Virtual First health plans to eligible members in select commercial health plans.

Key Points: 
  • Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Indiana today announced its Anthem Link Virtual First health plans to eligible members in select commercial health plans.
  • These plans give individuals affordable access to virtual care options, including access to a symptom checker driven by artificial intelligence, routine wellness care, and chronic condition management, along with behavioral healthcare.
  • Through Anthem’s digital health platform, Anthem Link Virtual First health plans can connect care data from various visits and providers throughout the healthcare system.
  • Members can expect virtual first plans offered by their employers that provide a variety of cost-share options including no-coinsurance for virtual care, guiding members to more affordable, high-quality digital care.

What's to stop Philip Lowe moving to a private bank after he leaves the RBA? It's what his predecessors did

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Surely Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe won’t move to a private bank after his term as governor ends next week.

Key Points: 
  • Surely Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe won’t move to a private bank after his term as governor ends next week.
  • Banks such as Westpac, NAB, the ANZ and Macquarie Bank deal with the Reserve Bank all the time.
  • Every one of the four banks I just mentioned has employed either a former Reserve Bank Governor or Treasury Secretary.

Perceptions matter when a Governor moves on

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      The RBA has kept interest rates on hold.
    • Philip Lowe’s predecessor, the man to whom he was deputy, Glenn Stevens, finished up as Reserve Bank Governor in September 2016 and joined the board of the Macquarie Bank and Macquarie Group in December 2017.
    • Stevens’ predecessor as governor, Ian Macfarlane, finished as head of the Reserve Bank in September 2006 and joined the board of the ANZ bank in February 2007.
    • In 2021–22 Philip Lowe was on a package of $1.037 million including superannuation and a salary of $890,252.
    • On retiring from the Reserve Bank in 1968, its first governor HC Coombs, chaired the Council for the Arts and the Council for Aboriginal Affairs.

Strong political leaders are electoral gold – but the trick is in them knowing when to stand down

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Monday, August 28, 2023

The photographs and their hostile treatment in The Daily Telegraph the next day by journalist Alan Reid were damaging.

Key Points: 
  • The photographs and their hostile treatment in The Daily Telegraph the next day by journalist Alan Reid were damaging.
  • Reid decried Calwell’s “night watch” as “a sad commentary on the decline in status of Labor’s parliamentary leadership”.
  • Leaders of the major parties invariably attempt to project strength, insight and control.
  • Just weeks before the 2007 election campaign, Labor’s Kevin Rudd unilaterally decreed that he alone would appoint his ministry, rather than the caucus.
  • In other words, the shift of power from party members and cabinets to leaders exercising unfettered authority from the top.
  • Yet he surrendered the WA premiership earlier this year, having led Labor to its most electorally dominant position in its history.
  • Mostly, though, leaders have to be endured long past their popular high-water mark, because, well, they’re irreplaceable.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Introduces Anthem Link Virtual First Health Plans, Helping Members Access Convenient, Affordable Care Options

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Monday, August 28, 2023

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut today announced its Anthem Link Virtual First health plans to eligible members in select commercial health plans.

Key Points: 
  • Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut today announced its Anthem Link Virtual First health plans to eligible members in select commercial health plans.
  • Anthem Link Virtual First plans give individuals affordable access to virtual care options, including access to a symptom checker driven by artificial intelligence, routine wellness care, and chronic condition management, along with behavioral healthcare.
  • Through Anthem’s digital health platform, Anthem Link Virtual First health plans can connect care data from various visits and providers throughout the healthcare system.
  • Members can expect virtual first plans offered by their employers that provide a variety of cost-share options including no coinsurance for virtual care, guiding members to more affordable, high-quality digital care.

Recce Pharmaceuticals Doses Patients in Phase I/II Clinical Trial of RECCE® 327 for Diabetic Foot Infections

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Thursday, August 24, 2023

The trial is underway at Liverpool Hospitals South West’s Sydney Limb Preservation and Wound Research Unit.

Key Points: 
  • The trial is underway at Liverpool Hospitals South West’s Sydney Limb Preservation and Wound Research Unit.
  • “The topical dosing of R327 in multiple patients in Australia’s largest DFI study is another welcomed advance to the Company’s infectious disease portfolio of clinical programs,” said James Graham, Chief Executive Officer of Recce Pharmaceuticals.
  • Each year the High-Risk Foot Service (HRFS) at Liverpool Hospital manages approximately 800 patients presenting with complex foot disease, with over 80% occurring in people with diabetes.
  • Furthermore, foot ulceration leads to 85% of diabetes-related amputations.2 Treating diabetic foot diseases in the U.S. costs $9-13 billion every year.3