Remote control airplanes were soaring through the sky yesterday at the Steinbach Fun Fly event.
There were plenty of passionate airplane enthusiasts at the event, including Andrew Rodriguez who has a collection of over 40 planes. Then there was Scott Haslem who built some fairly large planes, and his significant other Diana who crocheted pilots for the planes he built.
Another fun fact: some of the planes at the event could fly at over 150mph!
Enjoy these photos we took at the event! Make sure you send us your summer photos to win some awesome prizes that are being given away throughout the season during the Show Us Your Summer contest.
The philanthropist Judith Neilson has taken control of the $100m journalism institute she set up at arm’s length four years ago, after independent directors walked out en masse and leaked emails warned the organisation was spiralling “out of control”.
Staff and the media beneficiaries of the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas were left in shock by the departure of the directors amid uncertainty about what the institute’s new mission to promote “social change journalism” would mean.
The executive director of the institute, Mark Ryan, had the support of the independent directors but is unlikely to survive the upheaval.
On Tuesday the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald published a leaked email from Ryan to members of an international advisory council for the organisation, asking them to sign a letter to Neilson expressing concerns about its future.
“Those I spoke to late last week felt it was worth appealing to the patron before events spiralled out of control,” Ryan wrote. “Unfortunately, that ship has well and truly sailed.”
He attached another email from the American journalist Bruce Shapiro, an advisory council member, expressing “grave concern for the future of this crucial project” and alarm at “internal developments”, referring to the resignation of the directors.
Guardian Australia has confirmed the email is genuine. It is understood it was signed by four of the 12 members of the advisory council.
The chief executive officer of Neilson’s family office, Simon Freeman, told Guardian Australia Neilson wanted to move the organisation “in a slightly different direction”.
“Judith recognises the effort of what’s come to date, but has decided that she wants to move in a slightly different direction, which is more focused on social change journalism,” Freeman said.
Sources close to the organisation, who declined to speak on the record, said Neilson was keen to provide “proactive support for journalism that drives social change”, more in line with her support of various charities working in areas of slavery, homelessness, children’s health, affordable housing, climate change and food scarcity.
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It is understood Neilson, who is currently overseas, wants to become more personally involved in the activities of the institute and for it to focus more on the consumers of journalism rather than the producers, including non-English speaking communities and those in regional areas.
Freeman sent an email to staff on Tuesday with more detail about the new direction, which he said would be a “more direct and pragmatic focus on such areas as investigative journalism, photojournalism, grassroots media and enhancing access to quality journalism for those with diverse backgrounds”.
Freeman was appointed to the board after the four independent directors quit, leaving only two directors, both of whom represent Neilson’s interests.
The directors who quit were the former New South Wales chief justice James Spigelman, the Australian’s editor-at large, Paul Kelly, Free TV chief Bridget Fair and the former chief executive of the State Library of Victoria Kate Torney.
Neilson also wants to bring the governance of the institute more in line with her other projects, which have a non-independent board.
To 30 June 2021, the institute had distributed $2.5m in grants and had a total expenditure of $7.7m, according to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission.
Neilson, the billionaire owner of the White Rabbit art gallery in the Sydney suburb of Chippendale, announced in 2018 she would fund a $100m institute for journalism that would be independently run and would work with media organisations and journalism schools.
The institute has supported journalism by providing education, events and grants. Decisions made about what projects were funded were made based on criteria and determined by the institute and the board. Guardian Australia, like other media organistions, has had several projects funded by the institute, including the Pacific Project.
When she created the institute, Neilson said she supported “evidence-based journalism and the pursuit of truth in an increasingly complicated and confusing world”.
“I am delighted to support the establishment of this Institute and I will look to experienced journalists and other experts to manage and guide its work,” she said in 2018.
“I know that traditional forms of journalism are going through massive change and Australian journalism and intellectual life needs a shot in the arm.”
27 April 2022, 12:00–13:00 Central European Summer Time (virtual event)
Cancer is a major health, social and public policy challenge and successfully tackling it requires an understanding of all its determinants. Although commercial determinants are a relatively new field of study, there are emerging themes which are very important for cancer policy along the cancer control continuum.
Commercial determinants are those private-sector activities that affect the health of populations. They can have a negative impact, as commercial interests can trump nobler health goals.
So, how do commercial determinants affect cancer control policies in Europe? What are the challenges and opportunities for governing them along the cancer control continuum? Join our webinar to learn more.
Prevalence of cancer in the European Region
Cancer is responsible for a high burden of disease within the WHO European Region. In 2020 alone, 4.8 million people in the Region were diagnosed with cancer, of whom a staggering 2.2 million people lost their lives.
By 2030, these numbers are estimated to reach 5.4 million new diagnoses annually and 2.5 million deaths each year. Additionally, these numbers will most likely be an under estimate given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on delayed diagnosis and treatments. If efficient prevention and early detection strategies are in place, 30–40% of cancers are preventable. This is not being achieved due to cancer policy-making remaining quite far from what evidence and cost–effectiveness recommends, with treatment often being prioritized over prevention and early detection strategies, for example.
Cancer policy-making also differs significantly across the European Region, contributing to the widening of health inequalities within and between countries. Action on cancer prevention and control is a key priority to curb the burden of disease within the population of the European Region and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal target to reduce by one third premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases by 2030.
Keynote speakers
Marilys Corbex, WHO Regional Office for Europe
Monika Kosinska, WHO headquarters
Speakers
Gauden Galea, WHO Representative Office in China
Stuart Hogarth, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Richard Sullivan, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Moderators
Matthias Wismar and Erica Richardson, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
This event is intended for policy-makers, advisors, national experts, medical and health-care professionals, members of professional societies, researchers, advocates and representatives of nongovernmental organizations.
OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo speaks during the CERAWeek conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., March 7, 2022. REUTERS/Daniel Kramer
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HOUSTON, March 7 (Reuters) – OPEC has no control over the events that have led to the run up in global oil prices and there is not enough capacity worldwide to compensate for the loss of Russian supply, OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said on Monday.
Benchmark Brent crude prices surged on Monday, touching a 14-year high of over $139 a barrel as the United States and European allies considered banning Russian oil imports following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russia is the world’s top exporter of crude and fuel, shipping around 7 million bpd or 7% of global supplies.
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“There is no capacity in the world that could replace 7 millions barrels per day,” Barkindo told reporters at an industry conference in Houston.
“We have no control over current events, geopolitics, and this is dictating the pace of the market,” he said.
U.S., European and other governments exempted energy trade from sanctions to prevent already tight markets rallying further, but that has failed.
Traders have avoided Russian oil to avoid running afoul of future sanctions or unwittingly violating sanctions already imposed on Russian banks, companies and individuals.
With an outright ban, some analysts posit prices could rocket even higher. JPMorgan predicted Brent could hit $185 by year-end. A supply shortage would require prices to rise enough to cut demand. read more
“I have heard from several speakers here at CERAweek that current tightness in the market condition might be creating some demand destruction,” said Barkindo.
“Even as that might be the case, the other side of the equation is probably more critical at the moment, which is supply is increasingly lagging behind.”
When asked why the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies did not just end all restrictions on output at their meeting last week, Barkindo told Reuters the situation in oil markets had developed since the group met on March 2.
“Let’s see what happens at the next meeting,” he said.
OPEC and allies led by Russia, a group known as OPEC+, said after that meeting in a statement that markets were well balanced, and OPEC+ sources reaffirmed that earlier on Monday. read more
OPEC+ remained committed to market stability, Barkindo said. The group continued to unwind the deep cuts imposed at the height of the pandemic, he said. Production should be fully restored from the cuts in September, he said.
OPEC+ stuck to a plan for a modest output rise in April at the March 2 meet and ignored the Ukraine crisis in their talks. read more
The situation in the markets was likely to be a game-changer in the energy transition, Barkindo told reporters.
Access to capital for the oil industry has become more challenging, he said, but the crisis was showing the world could not afford to stop investing in oil and gas.
Most OPEC+ members have little spare oil production capacity at the moment, with the bulk of the extra capacity available in the Gulf states of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to the International Energy Agency.
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Reporting By David Gaffen and Marianna Parraga; Writing by Simon Webb; Editing by David Gregorio
HOUSTON — OPEC has no control over the events that have led to the run up in global oil prices and is committed to ensuring security of supply, OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said on Monday.
Benchmark Brent crude prices touched a 14-year high of over $139 a barrel on Monday as the United States and European allies considered banning Russian oil imports following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The situation in the markets was likely to be a game-changer in the energy transition, Barkindo told reporters at an industry conference in Houston
Sanctions already imposed on Russian banks have already left oil trade from Russia, one of the world’s top producers of oil and gas, in disarray. (Reporting By David Gaffen and Marianna Parraga; Writing by Simon Webb)
