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Yahoo
13 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
VINCI Construction expands in Canada with acquisition of Peters Bros Construction
VINCI Construction has finalised the acquisition of Peters Bros Construction, a Canadian paving company specialising in roadwork services and asphalt products. This move is set to bolster VINCI's operations in Western Canada, particularly in the British Columbia interior region where Peters Bros is well-established. Peters Bros, founded in 1981 and headquartered in the Okanagan Valley, employs up to 140 people during peak season. The company, which primarily operates in areas such as Dawson Creek, Williams Lake, Merritt, Kelowna, and Penticton, reported annual revenues of approximately C$90m ($70.2m) in 2024. VINCI Construction already operates in the Vancouver area, as well as in Alberta and Saskatchewan. With British Columbia's population projected to grow by 50% by 2046, VINCI aims to meet the increasing demand for road infrastructure in the province. VINCI, a global player in concessions, energy solutions, and construction, employs 285,000 people in more than 120 countries. The company is involved in designing, financing, building, and operating infrastructure. In recent developments, Balfour Beatty VINCI's (BBV) tunnel boring machine, Mary Ann, completed the first bore of the 5.8km Bromford Tunnel, a significant step in the UK's High Speed Two railway project. A team of 450 from BBV achieved this milestone in under two years. Additionally, in April this year, VINCI Building was selected by Muse and Bury Council as the contractor for the over £100m redevelopment of the Longfield Centre in Prestwich, England. VINCI will commence work on the project, following initial stages led by Chroma Consulting, starting with the construction of the Travel Hub at the site. "VINCI Construction expands in Canada with acquisition of Peters Bros Construction" was originally created and published by World Construction Network, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
Irish Examiner
23-05-2025
- Health
- Irish Examiner
Author interview: Psychiatric care left wanting — ‘I lost so much' as a psychosis patient
When Mary Ann Kenny's husband John collapsed and died while out running near their home in Co Dublin, she was blindsided by the sudden and devastating loss. But for Mary Ann, the nightmare was only beginning. The circumstances of John's death and having to tell her two young sons had a profound impact on her and she struggled to cope in the aftermath. She was prescribed sleeping pills, sedatives, and finally anti-depressants, to which she had a severe physical reaction. Soon after, she experienced psychosis, believing her children had somehow been poisoned by her medication, and ended up in psychiatric care on two occasions. In her compelling and affecting memoir, The Episode, she describes how the whole experience, including being denied access to her children for a period, left her feeling dehumanised and even more traumatised. 'I felt cast out by society. I had no rights, I had no voice. And that is the greatest kind of trauma. On an evolutionary basis, we need to be part of a society,' she says. We need connection with other people. We need care when we're sick and that had been withdrawn from me. It is 10 years since John's death and Mary Ann's admission to a psychiatric hospital; her career as an academic is thriving and she and her sons, now teenagers, are in a good place. However, the anger she feels about her treatment stayed with her, which eventually led to her writing the book. She says: 'I couldn't put it behind me. It was consuming me and my every thought. I have a very strong sense of injustice, and so did John. 'When my involvement with psychiatric services came to an end, I felt liberated, but I was also full of questions about what had happened to me. 'I requested my files and I was enraged by what I read, about the way I had been treated as a person who had suffered a very sudden and tragic loss and was at the lowest point of my life. 'I felt I hadn't been treated with the compassion and care that I deserved. Yes, I lost John but I lost so much as a patient.' That astonishing lack of care and compassion towards a grieving wife and mother is evident throughout Mary Ann's treatment as recounted in the book. Kindness needed more than psychiatric treatment She acknowledges that while she did require psychiatric treatment, what she needed even more was kindness and most of all an opportunity to process the overwhelming accumulation of grief, uncertainty, and anxiety. She also felt tremendous guilt for relying on her friends and her own elderly mother who herself needed care. As she writes: 'What I needed most was to rest my tortured brain and my exhausted body.' Instead, the death of her husband was barely mentioned and she was subjected to endless questions and team meetings where some staff didn't even introduce themselves or acknowledge her presence. 'It was absolutely torturous and excruciating to me to be asked perpetually about my thoughts at a time when I was heavily medicated, seriously ill, and exhausted and unable to verbalise my thoughts anyway, and certainly not in front of a group of professionals, half of whom I might never have met before,' she says. Mary Ann received no talk therapy during her admissions and it was only when she left hospital and attended a cognitive behavioural therapy group that psychotic depression was explained to her. 'It is beyond belief,' she says. 'When I would say to people that I didn't get any therapy when I was in hospital, they would be like: 'What? You must have'.' It's shocking, and it's seems to be much more a feature of psychiatric treatment. She compares her experience to one she had when she was admitted to hospital for a serious injury two years ago. 'One of the big differences was that I was kept informed the whole time,' she says. 'I was never sent copies of any letters that went from my psychiatric consultant to my GP, whereas, when I had my physical injury, every single communication between my surgeon and my GP was copied to me so I was kept up to date the whole time. 'The first time I saw the equivalent letters for my psychiatric treatment, and I'm talking about my outpatient care as well over the following years, was when I requested my files. 'I was kept completely in the dark. It is all part of that dehumanisation and disempowerment.' According to Mary Ann, the psychiatric system views mental illness as a chronic condition, which is counter-productive to recovery: 'There was no sense from them that this was ever going to end — they did not hold out any hope that this would resolve itself.' They view the person who's mentally ill as a collection of symptoms — weight loss, insomnia, delusional thinking, in my case — and they treat those symptoms in a vacuum. When her brother visited her, he told her what she describes as the single most helpful thing that anyone said to her during her period in hospital. She writes: 'It's an episode… and an episode has a beginning, a middle and an end… you're now in the middle — and the middle is horrendous — but episodes always end, and this will end. 'No mental health professional ever said anything remotely similar in all the months I spent being treated by them. It would have helped if they had. 'As it was, my brother's mantra gave me hope. And it turned out to be true.' Mary Ann refers to being caught up in a mental health system that is itself sick. She says she would be 'delighted' if mental health practitioners and social workers read the book and learned something from it. 'I have been as fair as I possibly can to them,' she says. 'It is a hard position that they're in, but it is not black and white. 'I hope that they see that there is a human being at the heart of this particular mental health emergency and every mental health emergency — a human being who is suffering. 'We all need to have a bit more compassion — professionals and society.' She found the process of getting her experience onto the page cathartic to an extent but it was also a journey of discovery as she pieced together what had happened to her. 'I wanted to put my story on the record,' she says. 'There were other records — this is my record. But I had to unravel it. 'It was very therapeutic, it hugely aided my understanding of what had happened to me.' While she has achieved clarity, she says her experience in psychiatric care is never far from her thoughts: 'I still think about so many aspects of this story all the time. I think about John all the time and his death, it was his anniversary recently. 'It's spring again, the sun is shining, the clematis is flowering … and then the next few months come and it's July and I'm thinking, this is when … so it's never too far from my thoughts, any of it.' The Episode not only serves as a reminder that there is always hope but also as a way to remember her husband John and celebrate all that he brought to his family's lives. 'We are a very close unit and we have our sad moments, but we keep John alive and we talk about him a lot,' Mary Ann says. 'I wove whatever I could about him into this story. He would have been incensed about what happened to me but overjoyed by this book. 'His spirit lives on in it, it really does.' Read More Book Review: Danny Morrison looks at a history of psychiatry
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First Post
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- First Post
Mary Ann Alexander Releases 'The Lovey Dovey Song' – A Nostalgic Ode to Being Head Over Heels in Love
Mary Ann's journey from Kerala to becoming a global voice has been marked by courage, versatility, and authenticity read more Rising R&B pop artist Mary Ann Alexander is back with a vibrant new single, 'The Lovey Dovey Song,' a playful, heart-on-sleeve tribute to the bliss of falling in love. Produced by Shillong-based producer AdL, released through UnitedMasters, the track blends dreamy nostalgia with a bounce straight out of the golden age of 90s and 2000s R&B. In a time where emotional detachment dominates pop culture, The Lovey Dovey Song is a refreshing shift a warm, sincere celebration of affection and connection. Originally recorded as a casual demo, the song quickly found viral momentum online, striking a chord with listeners around the world and catching the attention of international artists like SZA, Craig David, and D Smoke. SZA hailed the track as 'a hit,' solidifying its global appeal. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Mary Ann Alexander, known for her emotionally rich voice and genre-fluid artistry, describes the track as 'a warm hug in musical form.' She adds, ''The Lovey Dovey Song' is about giving yourself permission to feel all the butterflies—unapologetically. It's soft, honest, and a little giddy. I wanted to bring back that pure feeling of love we heard in old-school records, but with a modern twist that still feels like me.' Mary Ann's journey from Kerala to becoming a global voice has been marked by courage, versatility, and authenticity. From her viral debut In My Zone to her Bollywood collaborations and festival performances across India, she has continued to evolve with each release—earning praise from peers and press, including Rolling Stone India who hailed her as part of 'the new generation shaping the future of music.' Following the experimental flair of Bling Bling and the cinematic depth of Sthuthi and Ulfat, The Lovey Dovey Song reintroduces Mary Ann's love for stripped-down, emotionally-driven R&B. The track marks yet another milestone in her growing discography, resonating with fans seeking something both timeless and true.
Fox News
16-05-2025
- Fox News
Ever had an email disappear? This is what to do on your Phone to fix it
Despite not wanting to be inundated by tons of emails, it's quite another thing to have emails you need to read or keep disappear suddenly. It's important to know why your emails are disappearing as much as it is important to figure out how to fix it. Mary Ann from Southport, North Carolina, had this question for us: "Help - my emails stored in individual email folders disappear on my iPhone 13 Pro Mail app. Why? Is there a fix so this won't happen again?" Though we've all wished that our inboxes would magically get read and cleaned up, we certainly don't want emails disappearing for no particular reason and without our knowledge. Usually, when something unexpected happens on our devices, it isn't just a one-person issue. That's why we thought it was important to investigate why your emails are disappearing and how to fix it, Mary Ann. If you're experiencing disappearing emails on an Android device, don't worry, we also cover solutions for Android users further down in this article. If your emails disappear from your iPhone like they did for Mary Ann, there are several reasons this could happen. But before you troubleshoot the many different potential culprits, the easiest one to start with is to restart your iPhone. Even though it may seem too easy, sometimes restarting your iPhone can restore your missing emails. To restart your iPhone for iPhone X or later: If that doesn't resolve the issue, try the steps below. While the iPhone usually keeps the mail setup process pretty simple, sometimes how we step up can cause problems down the road. Or even if we did set it up correctly, it just needs to be reset to get it working properly-the solution. Delete your email account on your iPhone, and then set it up again. Desktop mail applications usually use POP3, while most smartphones use IMAP protocol, which can cause conflict and mail disappearance. The solution to fix this problem. You'll need to see if your email is set up on any other devices using POP3. If possible, change all email account setups to IMAP on other devices. For example, on Mail on an iMac: Sometimes, emails can disappear with outdated iOS. The solution is to find out if your iOS is old and/or update your iOS by performing the following steps: Tap 'Software Update' If none of these resolve your disappearing emails, it may be a system error that can occur on any device. You can also contact Apple Support for further support if nothing seems to work. You can reset your device to start fresh to see if that will resolve the disappearing email problem. Check out How to factory reset my iPhone for step-by-step instructions on how to reset your device. While this article focuses on iPhone fixes, Android users can face similar issues with disappearing emails. Here's a brief guide tailored for Android devices: Settings may vary depending on your Android phone's manufacturer. By following these steps, most Android users can resolve the issue of disappearing emails and keep their inboxes under control. It is very disconcerting when emails start disappearing with no rhyme or reason from your phone. Not only does it keep you from getting information and responding in a timely manner, but it can also start causing consistent problems in your professional and personal life. Thankfully, there are several ways to troubleshoot this problem, from the most basic (restarting your phone) option to the most intense (resetting your entire device). Have your emails ever disappeared from your phone? How did you notice this? What steps have you taken to restore your email to its optimal functioning state? Let us know by writing us at For more of my tech tips and security alerts, subscribe to my free CyberGuy Report Newsletter by heading to Follow Kurt on his social channels: Answers to the most-asked CyberGuy questions: New from Kurt: Copyright 2025 All rights reserved.
South Wales Guardian
09-05-2025
- Automotive
- South Wales Guardian
HS2 marks major ‘nerve centre' milestone with completion of 3.5-mile tunnel bore
The 125-metre long, 1,600-tonne machine, named Mary Ann by the local community in a nod to the real name of Warwickshire-born writer George Eliot, broke through on Friday morning after 652 days and nights of construction work. The tunnel is the first of two bores of the Bromford Tunnel, running from the village of Water Orton in North Warwickshire to the Birmingham suburb of Washwood Heath, and passing under the area's motorway network and the River Tame. The tunnel breakthrough – HS2's first in Birmingham – is described as a significant milestone for the line, which will almost halve journey times between Birmingham and London, whilst freeing up track space on the West Coast Main Line for local, regional and freight services. Around 31,000 people are now employed on the programme across the 140-mile route, with HS2 estimating that the second bore of the Bromford Tunnel will be completed later this year by a second tunnel boring machine named Elizabeth. Following the excavation, teams will begin fitting out the tunnel with cross passages, concrete finishing works and base slabs, and emergency and maintenance walkways. At peak production, Mary Ann advanced at around 30 metres per day with construction teams reinforcing the excavated tunnel with more than 20,000 concrete segments each weighing up to seven tonnes. The precision-designed segments were manufactured at Balfour Beatty VINCI's pre-cast factory at Avonmouth near Bristol. HS2's Washwood Heath site, where Mary Ann broke through, is earmarked as the nerve centre for its operations, with a depot and control centre to service and store trains. Mark Wild, HS2 Ltd's chief executive, said: 'Today's breakthrough is a significant milestone for the project and I'm immensely proud of the men and women who have worked day and night to bring Mary Ann and her crew home safely. 'Washwood Heath is set to become one of the most important sites on the entire HS2 network – the point at which the railway will be operated, controlled and maintained using the very latest digital technology. 'HS2's construction is transforming the West Midlands, and the £10 billion investment boost it is already driving across the region will multiply in the years ahead.' Jules Arlaud, Balfour Beatty VINCI's tunnelling director, said: 'Today's breakthrough is a significant moment for Balfour Beatty VINCI, as we celebrate the arrival of our first tunnel boring machine into Birmingham. 'It's been a challenging drive beneath critical live infrastructure and through complex ground conditions. I'm incredibly proud of our entire team, whose expertise, dedication and resilience has made this possible.' Mary Ann excavated around one million tonnes of spoil to create the structure, which will become the longest railway tunnel in the West Midlands. In line with HS2's sustainability policy, the excavated earth is being reused to support construction of a nearby network of 13 viaducts. The excavated material is also being transported via dedicated haul roads to minimise the number of construction vehicles on public roads.
