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Global News
22-05-2025
- Global News
B.C. Crown prosecutors file workload grievance over ‘inadequate staffing'
The BC Crown Counsel Association says it has filed a formal workload grievance against the BC Prosecution Service over what it calls 'inadequate staffing' in its Okanagan and Kootenay offices. The association representing 550 Crown prosecutors across B.C. says that while staffing and resource shortages impact all of its lawyers, issues in Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton, Nelson and Cranbrook are 'particularly acute.' 2:34 Video released of attack on crown prosecutor It says the prosecution service has continuously breached its collective agreement with respect to managing staffing levels. Story continues below advertisement The association says that paired with an increasing workload in those growing communities, the issue is harming prosecutors' ability to prepare and bring cases to court in a timely manner. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy It says it is now seeking an arbitrator's declaration that the employer has breached the contract and must meet its contractual obligations by hiring more staff. Adam Dalrymple, president of the BC Crown Counsel Association, says the region needs 20 more Crown counsel to handle the current workload, representing a 25 per cent increase. 2:15 B.C. Prosecution Service releases bail data 'Our job is to uphold the rule of law in B.C. and keep the public safe to the very best of our ability,' he says in a news release. 'However, the workload is excessive, and a shortage of Crown Counsel threatens our ability to bring cases to court on time.' Story continues below advertisement Dalrymple says the conditions are also causing burnout among its members. 'These working conditions affect our ability to attract and retain more Crown Counsel,' he says. The prosecution service did not immediately respond to a request for comment. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 22, 2025.
Edinburgh Live
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Live
East Lothian venue to host Medieval event with live jousting
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Get the latest Edinburgh Live breaking news on WhatsApp Families are invited to Newhailes 18th century villa for a fun-filled day. Organisers for the June 14 event have promised several live historic performances as well as plenty of entertainment for the kids. As well as offering live jousting carried out by performers in Medieval clobber, the event will also include a falconry display and Punch & Judy show for the younger children. Tug'o'war, a beer tent, crafting activities as well as live music and dance will also be on offer for those in attendance. The National Trust Scotland (NTS), who operate the former Dalrymple family home, said: "Witness live-action jousts and gallant medieval knights battle it out to be crowned champion. Join Edinburgh Live's Whatsapp Community here and get the latest news sentstraight to your messages. "See what life was like at the medieval encampment where you could even catch a falconry display or learn a historical skill. "Fun for all ages, including Punch & Judy, Tug O War, Beer Tent, crafting, music and dance." On Newhailes House and Gardens, the NTS state: "Newhailes is a beautiful 18th-century villa set in the outskirts of Edinburgh. "It was the home of the Dalrymple family for several centuries, and has been in the care of the National Trust for Scotland since 1997. Sign up for Edinburgh Live newsletters for more headlines straight to your inbox "Careful conservation techniques have frozen the property in time, preserving the appearance of the house as it was when it was acquired by the Trust." Adult tickets are priced at £15 while kids tickets are available at £10 - non-NTS members will be charged £4 for parking. To explore the event, click here.
Mint
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
In the company of Indian masters
In 2019, writer and historian William Dalrymple curated a magnificent exhibition titled, Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company , at the Wallace Collection in London. It was the first of its kind to be held in the UK, bringing together a rich repository of art collectively known as 'Company paintings". Crucially, the show focused on identifying as many of the artists as possible instead of lumping them all under 'unknown", an orientalist shortcut that had been the default for years, pushing Company paintings into the realm of anthropological curiosity rather than fit subject for aesthetic and art-historical evaluation. A Treasury of Life: Indian Company Paintings c. 1790-1835 , currently on at Delhi Art Gallery (DAG), builds on Dalrymple's rigorous work by bringing together a wide array of Company paintings. Curated by writer and historian Giles Tillotson, it comes with a lavishly produced catalogue, with contributions by scholars like Apurba Chatterjee Jennifer Howes and Malini Roy, among others. Apart from juxtaposing works by Indian artists like Sita Ram and Chuni Lal against European originals that may have inspired and informed their style, the show makes a point about the nomenclature of 'Company painting". As Tillotson points out, the term refers to a timeframe—the 18th and 19th centuries—during which these paintings were made under the patronage of East India Company officers. The name is not to be confused as a stylistic category, which may be inferred from the misleading but oft-used term, 'Company school". Even a cursory look at the paintings makes it evident that the Company painters were invested in leaving their mark, however subtly, on the work they did, usually within a strict framework provided to them by their patrons, many of whom used the images as scientific references to build the Linnaean system of classification of species during this era. Some of the private collections—the Parlby Album, Zoffany Album or Fraser Album, for instance—served as personal memory-keeping, a record of time spent among the exotic flora and fauna of the empire. Yet others were proofs of the splendour of British life in the faraway colonies. A prominent example of the latter were the images of palaces and bungalows in Maidapur, a now-forgotten interface between 'the Mughal capital of Murshidabad" and 'the British capital of Calcutta", as historian Rosie Llewellyn-Jones puts it. Unlike their European counterparts dominated by the picturesque style of landscape painting, the paintings of British residences in this region are starkly delineated, with clinical precision of architectural blueprints. The still life paintings by the Murshidabad artists, along with images of caste and religious diversity of India, add freshness to the show. Especially arresting are the paintings from the south, which are not seen as often as the ones from Bengal. A Treasury of Life is on at DAG, Delhi, till 5 July.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
MCH hasn't seen large influx of measles
Apr. 11—Although measles cases are mounting statewide, Medical Center has only seen a handful of positive cases as of April 10, said Brenda Dalrymple, director of patient safety and infection prevention. But there haven't been any admissions yet, Dalrymple said. There are eight confirmed cases in Ector County. Of the three positive cases that MCH has seen, two were not vaccinated and one was. The hospital serves a 17-county area, but the three were Ector County residents. "The best prevention is the vaccine," Dalrymple said. Other preventative measures include good hand hygiene, staying hydrated, eating a healthy diet and doing things to help keep your immune system up, she said. Some people have talked about Vitamin A helping with measles, but Dalrymple said there isn't "actual scientific research to back that." Vitamin A is used mainly for skin and helps cells repair faster. Measles is very contagious and very airborne. "It will stay suspended in the air for up to two hours after a positive measles person has been through that area. That's what makes it so contagious, that it stays around for so long. The exposure time is very short. You don't have to be exposed to it for a long period of time to get infected," Dalrymple said. As of April 8, Ector County had eight confirmed cases of measles. Three or more cases is considered an outbreak. "We've reached some of the requirements for outbreak status. However, the state has not put us in outbreak status, so we're not considered an outbreak as of yet, but we are able to give emergency-use vaccines, the MMR, and we are now vaccinating (children at) 6 months," Health Department Director Brandy Garcia said April 8. Dalrymple said the most vulnerable population are children below the age of 5 months. "That's more of our high-risk population because they're too young to get the vaccine. And then, of course, there's the anti vaxxers that just choose not" to get the vaccine, Dalrymple said. The county's vaccination rate is 93 or 94 percent. Dalrymple said. "Of course, we've had so many people move in to the area over the last year or two, so I don't know what their vaccine status is," she added. A measles outbreak has been discussed for the past couple of years just because of the population increase. Nationwide, the virus had been considered eradicated since 2000. "It's becoming more accepted and more common for people not to get their vaccine," Dalrymple said. People have their own strong beliefs and "a lot of it may be due to lack of education and doing their own research, but there's so much access to misinformation now. That's a big part of it," Dalrymple said. "If you search something, you're going to find an article somewhere that is against it, even though there's a million other articles that support the vaccine, you're going to find that one that's telling you not to get it ... and I think it's just a lot of misinformation," she added. "And, of course, freedom of choice." The first measles vaccines were available in 1963 and it has become more effective over time. Dalrymple noted that it has been proven to be safe and undergone "all sorts of testing." There is a protocol for post-exposure. If you know you've been exposed and you are in a high-risk category there is a shot they can give you within the first 72 hours that offers some protection. In March, The Immunization Partnership Chief Strategy Officer Rekha Lakshmanan said the epicenter of the outbreak in Gaines County has high immunization exemption rates and has had for years. "If you look at the nine counties with confirmed cases. Sixty-seven (67) percent of those counties have school vaccine exemption rates above the state average," Lakshmanan said then. She said this matters because the research shows that vaccine exemptions cluster geographically, in neighborhoods, in schools and "they tend to cluster in faith communities." Tuberculosis crops up sometimes, she said. "We see a couple cases a year. We haven't seen a significant increase," Dalrymple said. She added that it has probably stayed the same for about the last 10 years. On the average they test and follow about 150 to 200 cases a year, but true positives are probably less than 15 to 20 a year, Dalrymple said. "I don't have those exact numbers, but ... the testing for tuberculosis ... takes a very long time because it's a slow growing bacteria. When we collect the specimen, we still have to wait six to eight weeks before we get a final result. We work a lot of them up, but not a lot of positives," she said. TB is also airborne, but not as contagious as measles. "You usually have to have a little bit more prolonged exposure to it," Dalrymple said. It's usually passed along among family members that live in the same household, people that you're in close contact with for an extended amount of time. If you have any TB bacteria in your body, it can be dormant or latent in your body for weeks, months, or even years, and you may not ever develop an active tuberculosis infection, Dalrymple said. "We have to have actual sputum cultures that grow out for six to eight weeks. There are also some blood tests that we call the TB Gold, which we can send off, and we get those results ... usually (within) five to seven days. And again, that will tell you if you have any of the bacteria growing or (been) exposed to it, but it doesn't confirm an active case," she said.
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘I'm selling my house': Texas retiree forced to return to work after losing $500K in investment-romance scam
Gary Dalrymple had just signed up for the dating site Silver Singles when Gianna, a pretty blonde female, responded to his smile emoji message, CBS News Texas reports. Immediately, from morning to night each day, the two texted, sharing things like their goals, family and life experiences. About two weeks into these all-day affairs, Dalrymple recalled Gianna asking if he knew anything about cryptocurrency. Feeling unpressured, he let her show him how to invest. I'm 49 years old and have nothing saved for retirement — what should I do? Don't panic. Here are 5 of the easiest ways you can catch up (and fast) Home prices in America could fly through the roof in 2025 — here's the big reason why and how to take full advantage (with as little as $10) Americans with upside-down car loans owe more money than ever before — and drivers can't keep up. Here are 3 ways to cut your monthly costs ASAP Dalrymple said he saw his funds increase as the relationship continued for a couple of months. At that point, Gianna asked him to borrow more money and continue. And so, with his family and friends in the dark on both his relationship and investing, Dalrymple cashed out his 401(k). By the end, Dalrymple had lost about $500,000, which he plans to repay by coming out of retirement full-time and selling his home, he told CBS. 'It's kind of tough … Why me? Why didn't I catch this? Why was I so shortsighted?' Sure enough, when the Better Business Bureau's (BBB) Monica Horton inspected the website through which Dalrymple saw his investments grow, she confirmed it was fake. It turns out Gianna isn't who she said she was but, instead, likely a group of scammers trying to steal from him, Horton explained. The scam Dalrymple experienced is a blend of romance-investment fraud, noted by Horton and the BBB's 2024 Scam Tracker Risk report. Investment was the top BBB-reported scam last year, with cryptocurrency involved in almost half (45.3%) of those reported. According to the study, investment and romance scams are some of the riskiest scams reported by consumers, with over 80% of those targeted in investment and cryptocurrency scams reporting monetary losses of a median of $5,000. What's more, the report reveals that 26.2% of those who reported investment/cryptocurrency scams said their scammer spent time building a romance or a friendship before taking their money. Read more: An alarming 97% of older Americans are carrying debt into retirement — here's why and 4 simple things you can do if you're stuck in the same situation Financial grooming is when a scammer builds a relationship with their potential victim before executing the scam. Investment/cryptocurrency and romance/friendship scams are two types of this behavior, often leaving victims confused and devastated. The good news is there are red flags to watch for: Relationship and trust building can take a while (weeks or months). During this time, the scammer will likely avoid communicating through any trusted or secure sites and apps or on the phone, and they won't show their face on video calls, as Dalrymple experienced. At this point, mentions of their financial success are typical and, eventually, victims are encouraged to try investing — usually in cryptocurrency, which Horton said crooks like to use, because, as she explains, 'it's untraceable, just like handing cash to a stranger.' These requests can seem small and insignificant at first but build up over time. As victims' investments grow, scammers will encourage even more investment of larger sums — until it's too late and the money is lost to theft via a fake platform. Victims of financial grooming are likely to be retargeted since scammers flag them as those who gave them money, Horton cautions. 'These fraudsters are going to continue to try and trick you and get more and more money.' More recently, scammers have been hiring people and only paying in cryptocurrency. Workers must first make deposits to their new cryptocurrency account, but they can't access employment earnings until more funds are added or other charges are paid. Want an extra $1,300,000 when you retire? Dave Ramsey says this 7-step plan 'works every single time' to kill debt, get rich in America — and that 'anyone' can do it Rich, young Americans are ditching the stormy stock market — here are the alternative assets they're banking on instead Protect your retirement savings with these 5 essential money moves — most of which you can complete in just minutes This article provides information only and should not be construed as advice. It is provided without warranty of any kind. Sign in to access your portfolio
