Two-thirds of older and disabled people in England who turn to their local councils for help with care are turned away, figures show. Only 144,000 of the requests for help resulted in them being admitted to care homes or given home help for tasks such as washing and dressing. Of the remainder about 220,000 got …
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There is a computerised melody- making software , developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, called ALYSIA, that is unusual in taking lyrics as its starting point and adding an automated tune. The system matches the metre of the melody with that of the lyrics. The originators hope to create a system capable of …
To The Daily Telegraph With Brexit, the problem for my structural engineering consultancy business is not the collapse of the construction industry. Far from it, our order book is overflowing. The problem is getting staff. Last year we advertised for civil engineering graduates and attracted 80 applications, only two resident in Britain. The same has …
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you’re heading”. To be fair, I think Trump does know where he is heading; he is consolidating the rule of the rich and the big corporations. Question: when will the distressed people who voted for him realise that they have been conned? At what …
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50% of British 13- to 19-year-olds have never written a thank-you letter; 26% have never written a birthday or Christmas card. 58% think writing by hand is too slow to bother with. 9% say they don’t own a pen; by contrast, 74% have a tablet and 89% a smartphone. (Bic/Daily Mail) It is the “never having written a thank you letter” that is disappointing. …
