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Financing Sustainable Business with Biomass Technology

As a carbon-neutral energy source, biomass technology is helping organizations generate electricity and heat while reducing their carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions.




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What’s Next? EU, US and Colombia Show They’re Moving Forward with the Paris Agreement

Less than two weeks after 175 nations signed the pivotal Paris Agreement on climate change, a question lingers: What happens now?




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Gut Instinct: Human Microbiome May Reveal COVID-19 Mysteries

Days before a national lockdown in the U.S., Daniel McDonald realized his life’s work had put a unique tool in his hands to fight COVID-19. The assay kits his team was about to have made by the tens of thousands could be repurposed to help understand the novel coronavirus that causes the disease. McDonald is Read article >

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Gut Instinct: Human Microbiome May Reveal COVID-19 Mysteries

Days before a national lockdown in the U.S., Daniel McDonald realized his life’s work had put a unique tool in his hands to fight COVID-19. The assay kits his team was about to have made by the tens of thousands could be repurposed to help understand the novel coronavirus that causes the disease. McDonald is Read article >

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Bible Questions and Answers, Part 66 (Selected Scriptures)

Check here each week to keep up with the latest from John MacArthur's pulpit at Grace Community Church.




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The Supernatural Birth of Jesus (Selected Scriptures)

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Bible Questions and Answers, Part 65 (Selected Scriptures)

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Your Responsibility to the Church, Part 1 (Selected Scriptures)

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Your Responsibility to the Church, Part 2 (Selected Scriptures)

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Your Responsibility to the Church, Part 3 (Matthew 16:15–19)

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Your Responsibility to the Church, Part 4 (Matthew 16:15–20)

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Your Responsibility to the Church, Part 5 (Matthew 16:15–28)

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The Big Picture of Salvation (Galatians 3:15–18)

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Bible Questions and Answers, Part 67 (Selected Scriptures)

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Thinking Biblically About Social Justice (Panel Q&A) (Selected Scriptures)

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Does the Bible Permit a Woman to Preach? (1 Corinthians 14:33-38)

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Bible Questions and Answers, Part 70 (Selected Scriptures)

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Bible Questions and Answers, Part 71 (Selected Scriptures)

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Bible Questions and Answers, Part 72 (Selected Scriptures)

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Thinking Biblically About the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interview with John MacArthur (Selected Scriptures)

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Bible Questions and Answers, Part 73 (Selected Scriptures)

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EWC50 Spotlight: 'Going Green' at the EWC: Student Fellows Lead the Way for Environmental Sustainability

EWC50 Spotlight: 'Going Green' at the EWC: Student Fellows Lead the Way for Environmental Sustainability

Sustainable EWC initiative volunteers help manage the Center’s recycling efforts.

"It is my firm belief that change comes from our own community--recycling in the EWC community is an example of this,” stated Mariko Miyahira, EWC Participants’ Association (EWCPA) Sustainability Co-coordinator. “By collecting bottles, paper, and other recyclables, EWC participants are putting their beliefs into practice, and we are making change within our community."

 




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Inouye: APEC Promotes Stability in Asia Pacific Region

Inouye: APEC Promotes Stability in Asia Pacific Region
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN (Nov. 12, 2010) – Speaking yesterday at the 2010 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Yokohama, Japan, U.S. Senate Appropriation Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawai‘i) said the meeting comes at a time when “the interdependence among the world’s economies have reached a level never seen before.”




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Spotlight on the EWC Arts Program: Textile Exhibit Provides Insights into Lao-Tai Indigenous Culture

Spotlight on the EWC Arts Program: Textile Exhibit Provides Insights into Lao-Tai Indigenous Culture

Patricia Cheesman, guest curator, giving a tour of the exhibit.

Master weaver Dalounny Phonsouny “Aire” Carroll demonstrating traditional Lao weaving techniques in the EWC gallery.

These photographs are from the Cosmic Creatures exhibit featuring Lao-Tai women wearing traditional textiles. -- Grandmother Lasa, 2004 (Patricia Cheesman).




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Spotlight on the EWC Arts Program: EWC Exhibit Highlights Alumna Ann Dunham’s Pioneering Research in Indonesia

Maya Soetoro-Ng, daughter of Ann Dunham, shares insights about her mother's handicraft collection.The mother of President Barack Obama, EWC alumna S. Ann Dunham (1942-1995), is recognized in her own right for her outstanding work in anthropology, which focused on the small craft industries in Indonesian villages. “This exhibit shows how much she really valued the labor of the people,” noted EWC Curator Michael Schuster.




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Global employment briefing: Saudi Arabia - February 2016

Ministry of Labour makes numerous labour law changes The Ministry of Labour made a number of changes to labour law with effect from 18 October 2015. Amongst other things, the amendments cover disciplinary procedures, training, Saudization privileges...




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Lawbite: Faraday – magnet for concerned developers?

Faraday Development Ltd v West Berkshire Council [2018] EWCA Civ 2532 Relevant background: The Court of Appeal has issued a decision that has rendered a development contract between a Council and a private developer for the regeneration of an indust...




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Lawbite: Highly prized possession

Farakh Rashid v Teyub Nasrullah (Acting as Executor of the Estate of the late Mohammed Rashid) [2018] EWCA Civ 2685 The Court of Appeal has decided that a registered owner of land can also be in adverse possession of the same land. The late Mohammed...




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Lawbite: Can Brexit frustrate a lease?

Canary Wharf (BP4) T1 Ltd v European Medicines Agency   The impact of Brexit upon property disputes has not been wide ranging thus far.  However, a case which is set for trial in the early part of 2019 may alter that position and potential...




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Lawbite: Make sure you get good service!

UKI (Kingsway) Ltd v Westminster City Council [2018] UKSC 67 Although on the topic of service of a rates notice, this Supreme Court case provides general guidance on the service of notices, relevant to most property cases. A local authority served a...




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Lawbite: No modification of restrictive covenant

The Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust v Millgate Developments Ltd and others [2018] EWCA Civ 2679 The Court of Appeal has refused to allow a property developer to modify a set of restrictive covenants, reversing the decision of the Upper Trib...




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Lawbite: Less is not more when it comes to Qualifying Long Term Agreements

Bracken Hill Court at Ackworth Management Company Ltd v Dobson [2018] UKUT 333 (LC) The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has upheld an appeal from a management company and determined that contracts of less than 12 months are not Qualifying Long T...




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Lawbite:Language, context and background knowledge should not to be disregarded

Ashtead Plant Hire Company Limited v Granton Central Developments Limited [2019] CSOH 7 This case involves a landlord and tenant dispute over the proper construction of the rent review provisions in a lease of commercial premises.  The parties ...




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Lawbite: Successful submission that payment wasn’t required

Ramoyle Developments Limited v Scottish Borders Council [2019] CSOH 1 A local authority entered a contract to sell an area of land for regeneration.  Either party to the contract was entitled to withdraw from the sale if the purchasers failed t...




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Lawbite: When Final means final!

Cine-UK Limited v Union Square Developments Ltd [2019] CSOH 3 A landlord and tenant couldn’t agree revised rent due in terms of a rent review. An expert surveyor was appointed to determine the issue in accordance with the provisions of the lea...




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Lawbite: Re London Bridge Entertainment Partners LLP (in Administration) [2018] EWHC 3200 (Ch)

At the end of last year the High Court was asked to decide the proper meaning of a rent deposit deed relating to a deposit of over £2 million. The deposit allowed the landlord security for, amongst others, "any proper loss which the landlord m...




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Lawbite: From Paving to Possession to Proprietor

Shirley Ann Thorpe v (1) Harald Nobert Frank (2) Lesley Frank [2019] EWCA Civ 150 The Court of Appeal has recently found that by paving an area an individual had done enough to establish that she had acquired the land by adverse possession. The Clai...




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Lawbite: Ready, willing and able?

Robert James Oakley, Carolyn Oakley, Jonathan Mark Page, Union Pension Trustees Limited, Morgan Lloyd Trustees Limited v Harper McKay Developments Limited [2018] EWHC 3405 (Ch) The Court recently had to consider whether claimant sellers were entitle...




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Lawbite: Do fence me in!

Churston Golf Club Ltd v Richard Haddock [2019] EWCA Civ 544 The Court of Appeal has overturned both the High Court and earlier County Court decisions and found that a covenant to fence should not be treated as a fencing easement capable of binding ...




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Lawbite - Reasonable prospect of development taking off at airfield

Warwickshire Aviation Ltd & 6 Ors v Littler Investments Ltd [2019] EWHC 633 Tenants of an airfield recently failed in their appeal to the High Court to show that their landlord wasn’t able to oppose new leases being granted to them pursuan...




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Lawbite: (Ad)Vantage Point

(1) Giles Duncan Fearn (2) Gerald Kraftman (3) Ian Mcfadyen (4) Helen Claire McFadyen (5) Lindsay Urquart –v- The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2019] EWHC 246 (Ch) The High Court has dismissed a claim by residents of luxury glass-fron...




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Lawbite: Forming an oral agreement

Wells v Devani [2019] UKSC 4 Earlier this year the Supreme Court unanimously decided that the claimant, Devani, an estate agent and the defendant, Wells, a property developer had entered into a binding oral contract. The parties were introduced by a...




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Lawbite: A little bit of relief for BHS

(1) SHB Realisations Ltd and (2) GB Europe Management Service Ltd v (1) Cribbs Mall Nominee (1) Ltd and (2) Cribbs Mall Nominee (2) Ltd. The County Court recently considered a claim for relief from forfeiture involving premises previously occupied b...




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Lawbite: No place for the real world in this business rates negotiation

Telereal Trillium v Hewitt (Valuation Officer) [2019] UKSC 23 By a majority 3:2 decision, the Supreme Court has overturned the decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of Telereal Trillium v Hewitt (Valuation Officer) [2018] EWCA Civ 26. The case...




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Lawbite: Is Compensation in the Pipeline?

Ury Estate Limited v BP Exploration Operating Company Limited [2019] CSOH 36 A landowner raised a court action against BP seeking compensation for their inability to develop land due to a presence of an oil pipeline.  The proposed development w...




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Lawbite: Do you know your AGAs from your GAGAs?

Co-operative Group Food Ltd v A & A Shah Properties Ltd [2019] EWHC 941 (Ch) A recent case saw the court wrestle with the difficulties sometimes encountered with guarantee provisions and the way in which they are drafted. The landlord A & A ...




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Lawbite: When is it reasonable for a landlord to enter their tenant’s demise?

Windsor-Clive v Rees [2019] EWHC 1008 (Ch) In considering the scope of a landlord’s reserved right to enter premises let to their tenant “for all reasonable purposes”, the High Court has held that the right to do so must be...




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Lawbite: A case of mistaken identity

Seafood Shack Ltd v Alan Darlow [2019] EWHC 1567 (Ch) A lease of restaurant premises was granted to a company that did not exist; there was no legal basis for correcting the lease, and the similarly-named company claiming rights was held to have non...




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Lawbite Oral agreement did not extinguish right of way

Pezaro & Anor v Bourne & Anor [2019] EWHC 1964 (Ch) The High Court has held that a right of way was not extinguished where a landowner had relied on an oral agreement made with the previous owner of the land which benefited from the right of...




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Twin Truths: God's Sovereignty and Man's Responsibility (John 3:11–21)

This morning we’re going back to John chapter 3, so open your Bible,