Commonwealth

The Proprietor/President of Cradle 2 Harvard International School, Abuja, Phrank Shaibu, at the weekend, stated that the 2022 Queen Commonwealth Essay ...

So, what it does is that it encourages them, it fosters bonding, it encourages writing skills and improvement in literary writing.” The Proprietor/President of Cradle 2 Harvard International School, Abuja, Phrank Shaibu, at the weekend, stated that the 2022 Queen Commonwealth Essay competition will enhance the literary skills of Nigerian students and bring out the best in them. Shaibu said this at the official launch and public presentation of the essay competition, which was hosted by Cradle 2 Harvard International School, on Friday in Abuja.

Daniel Gookin, Timothy Bigelow and Isaiah Thomas all exhibited courage, fierce tenacity, strength of character, and a strong sense of helping others and giving ...

He wanted this society to “enlarge the sphere of human knowledge, aid in the progress of science, to perpetuate the history of moral and political events, and to improve and instruct posterity.” The American Antiquarian Society was born in Worcester, where it remains today and where it has been sharing the story of America for over 200 years. But resting “under his own vine and fig tree” was not in the cards for Thomas. Instead, he launched a new chapter of his life, immersing himself in the history of American typography. He was repeatedly subject to threats of personal violence and his paper was referred to as “the sedition factory.” And yet he persisted. He would propose the establishment of a society to collect and preserve the documentary materials about America’s history. In part it was Thomas’s brilliance in understanding how to connect with common people throughout New England. He shunned the high brow and fancy writing that was common at the time and targeted toward the learned class. When there were protests in the streets against the Stamp Act, Thomas himself was suspected of inciting it and he was called in by the Sheriff who tried to intimidate him and reminded him he is not in New England anymore. It was one of the most “bold and treasonous” edicts of the time and came in the form of instructions given to Worcester’s representative, Timothy Bigelow, who was about to attend the Provincial Congress in Concord on October 5, 1774. It was the period of the Stamp Act of 1765, where the British Parliament sought to raise revenue from the American colonies by imposing a duty on newspapers and other legal documents. There was a parade, a 34-gun salute, a song written and sung by the Glee Club, and a procession of dignitaries who gave speeches in Bigelow’s honor. Many of the English had lost interest and were concerned by the exposure to violence and the remoteness of the place. It was fought between the English and several Native American tribes under the leadership of Metacom, or King Phillip, as he was known to the English. The war lasted for 14 months and, by population, it remains the bloodiest and most savage war in American history.

WHEN MASS GENERAL Brigham submitted its performance improvement plan on May 16, I thought what was proposed was “wholly inadequate.”.

Instead of a recipe using 2 teaspoons of salt, it will use 1 ¾ teaspoons.But that recipe doesn’t really address the salt problem. For quality control purposes, assume that a laboratory (run by the Health Policy Commission) is asked to do an ingredient analysis by taking one-quarter piece of the entire cake and analyzing it for its salt content. The baker is put on a performance improvement plan, which basically requires him to address the excessive salt issue. The hospital has a great reputation for its cakes, but it is also known for baking very salty cakes. High and growing prices and related spending for hospital services are not part of the commission’s review unless they are connected to contracts where the system’s primary care physicians are the attributed providers under rules established by CHIA, the Center for Health Information and Analysis.When Mass General Brigham decided to focus its plan on cutting spending solely tied to those contracts that the Health Policy Commission used in its analysis—and actually promised $70 million in savings—I worried that the hospital system was pulling a fast one. Part of the confusion is that when the Health Policy Commission arrived at its determination that Mass General Brigham is spending at a level $50 million above the state benchmark per year, that estimate was only for a portion of the hospital system’s total commercial spending.

Appeals indicate city ignores some records requests ... BOSTON MAYOR Michelle Wu took office promising greater transparency in her administration, but one ...

Even though the supervisor is legally empowered to conduct such reviews, the school district did not respond for two months and when it did respond it refused to provide the unredacted reports. When the city failed to respond, the person filed an appeal with the supervisor of public records, Rebecca Murray, in the secretary of state’s office. This reporter submitted two public records requests for reports from the Boston Public Schools related to sexual misconduct, bias, and other matters of equity. If the city is unable to manage the volume of requests it receives, then it needs to make changes to how it operates. In many instances, the city also failed to respond to the secretary of state’s office when it made inquiries as part of the appeal process. The secretary of state’s office, which adjudicates appeals, sided with the petitioners on 90 of the appeals and with the city eight times.