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Scotland’s islands, some of the most beautiful places in the world, are failing socially and economically. Evidence of the decline is falling and aging populations, reducing numbers of people in work and fewer young families. Businesses close as do rural schools. There is an increase in demand for healthcare which isn’t there. Once the downward spiral starts it is difficult to stop. The Scottish Government, despite its protestations, has most of the levers it needs to address the issue but it has failed to use them with anything like the required focus and determination. The UK Government needs to play its part too and quite possibly would if the SNP stopped trying to kick its head in. The first thing to do is diagnose the problems properly. The key issue is both social and economic. Urban areas provide a dynamic environment in which people have a choice of jobs and how they socialise which rural areas - despite their many charms - struggle to match. The second issue is practical, getting to our islands swiftly and reliably seems beyond us. Read more Depopulation in Scotland's Highlands and threat of new Clearances Highland depopulation: 'I know I'm part of the problem' The islands should have more power to manage themselves. Some individual islands may be too small (but not, for example, Arran) to self-govern but logical groups of islands should have more powers devolved to them to largely govern themselves. The Scottish Government will say the islands can’t possibly do this. The Scottish Government needs to get humble - it has failed to serve the islands well. All Governments hate devolving power. The “too small” issue can be dealt with by the islands procuring services from other councils and public bodies. The funding which is currently allocated to providing services to the islands needs to be transferred to them so that they have the money to back up their choices. CalMac and CMAL must be part of this transfer of power. The SNP Government’s failure to build ships competently is only part of the problem. Vested interests have created over-large and over-manned ships some with absurd dual fuel systems which ply on inadequate timetables to far from perfect terminals. CalMac, CMAL and their funding should be given lock stock and barrel over to the control of the islands they serve. Let them make the decisions and live by them, they cannot screw it up any more than the Scottish Government has. The Scottish Government needs, sometimes on its own but sometimes with the help of the UK Government, to act decisively in order to really change the potential of our islands. Energy is key to island prosperity (Image: free) First, let’s stop the political gesturing. Sticking Gaelic on police cars and road signs in areas of mainland Scotland where 99.9% of people don’t speak Gaelic is just nonsense. Get rid of it, spend the money saved on supporting Gaelic speakers in places where they actually live. Next, energy. For obvious reasons the Scottish islands don’t have natural gas supplied to them. When they are allowed to by the Scottish Government people in the islands tend to burn logs otherwise they use electricity which is expensive despite the Scottish Islands and their surrounding waters generating more than they use. Take the roughly 5 pence per kilowatt hour of environmental levies currently loaded on to electricity bills and put them onto gas prices which currently have virtually none. The net cost to consumers as a whole would be zero but, as well as encouraging the move to heat pumps, people in urban areas would tend to pay a bit more for energy and people in very rural areas would benefit. Perfect. When a developer gets permission to build a windfarm on or near a Scottish island they should be required to supply the islanders with electricity at half the normal price. Wind energy schemes are now so big the cost would hardly be noticeable. The key thing is to focus on moving economic activity to the Islands. The state has a pivotal role to play here. When the Scottish Government spends money or provides it to its many client organisations it should ask itself if the activity being funded could - and therefore should - be done in the islands. Civil servants will always say it’s too difficult, there are not the facilities or the people with the right skills. This is precisely the point, the infrastructure will be built and the people will come if the need and the jobs are there. Initially, it will cost more money but it won’t be long before increased economic activity will outweigh this cost. Finally, you have to do something radical to kick-start the process. After a bit growth would gather pace of its own accord. If jobs, schools, good transport and healthcare can be added to the existing sense of community, safety, space and beauty success is absolutely possible - but something is needed to shove the process along. Read more Kinlochleven community call for urgent help to halt decline 'The Scottish Government sees the Highlands as a cash cow' Tax is the key. Introduce a single flat income tax rate of 10 per cent for all those who live on the islands. By “live” I mean properly live - more than two-thirds of all days in the year - not just visit occasionally. Disposable income on the islands would immediately be boosted which would itself increase economic activity and create jobs. New people would arrive to take advantage of the perk and their spending power would add to the transformation. More houses would be built, more cafes, more shops, more electricians and plumbers, more teachers, more doctors. There is an upfront cost, no use pretending, but because some of the new arrivals would come from other parts of the UK and further afield rather than just Scotland the tax they would pay would be incremental to Scotland’s coffers. Not just the islands but all Scotland would win. With imagination and bravery it could be done. Guy Stenhouse is a notable figure in the Scottish financial sector. He has held various positions, including being the Managing Director of Noble Grossart, an independent merchant bank based in Edinburgh, until 2017
Right-wing crypto investor David Sacks to steer Trump’s policies on AI and cryptoDayle Haddon, an actor, activist and trailblazing former “Sports Illustrated” model who pushed back against age discrimination by reentering the industry as a widow, has died in a Pennsylvania home from what authorities believe was carbon monoxide poisoning. Authorities in Bucks County found Haddon, 76, dead in a second-floor bedroom Friday morning after emergency dispatchers were notified about a person unconscious at the Solebury Township home. A 76-year-old man police later identified as Walter J. Blucas of Erie was hospitalized in critical condition. Responders detected a high level of carbon monoxide in the property and township police said Saturday that investigators determined that “a faulty flue and exhaust pipe on a gas heating system caused the carbon monoxide leak.” Two medics were taken to a hospital for carbon monoxide exposure and a police officer was treated at the scene. As a model, Haddon appeared on the covers of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Esquire in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the 1973 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. She also appeared in about two dozen films from the 1970s to 1990s, according to IMDb.com, including 1994’s “Bullets Over Broadway,” starring John Cusack. Haddon left modeling after giving birth to her daughter, Ryan, in the mid-1970s, but then had to reenter the workforce after her husband’s 1991 death. This time she found the modeling industry far less friendly: “They said to me, ‘At 38, you’re not viable,’” in 2003. Working a menial job at an advertising agency, Haddon began reaching out to cosmetic companies, telling them there was a growing market to sell beauty products to aging baby boomers. She eventually landed a contract with Clairol, followed by Estée Lauder and then L’Oreal, for which she promoted the company’s anti-aging products for more than a decade. She also hosted beauty segments for CBS’s “The Early Show.” “I kept modeling, but in a different way,” she told The Times, “I became a spokesperson for my age.” In 2008, Haddon founded WomenOne, an organization aimed at advancing educational opportunities for girls and women in marginalized communities, including Rwanda, Haiti and Jordan.’ Haddon was born in Toronto and began modeling as a teenager to pay for ballet classes — she began her career with the Canadian ballet company Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, . Haddon’s daughter, Ryan, said in a social media post that her mother was “everyone’s greatest champion. An inspiration to many.” “A pure heart. A rich inner life. Touching so many lives. A life well lived. Rest in Light, Mom,” she said. The Associated Press
On a podcast with BBC’s Nick Robinson, Meta’s president of global affairs, is “playing an outsized role in both the election and now the formation of the new U.S. administration.” On a podcast with BBC’s Nick Robinson, Meta’s president of global affairs, is “playing an outsized role in both the election and now the formation of the new U.S. administration.”The consequences of their actions are severe, with each of the convicted graduates facing a 10-year prison sentence. This serves as a harsh reminder that betraying one's country and compromising national security is a serious crime that will not be tolerated. It also sends a strong message to others who may be tempted to follow a similar path, that the repercussions of such actions are dire and far-reaching.
According to witnesses, the female master's student arrived in the village under enigmatic circumstances, appearing disoriented and emotionally distraught. She allegedly told villagers that she had managed to escape from her captors and sought refuge in the village as a last resort. Concerned for her well-being, the villagers took her in and provided her with temporary shelter, while also alerting the authorities about the alarming situation.HOUSTON, Nov. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Epsilon Energy Ltd. (“ ” or the “ ”) (NASDAQ: EPSN) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a dividend of $0.0625 per share of common stock (annualized $0.25/sh) to the stock holders of record at the close of business on December 16, 2024, payable on December 31, 2024. All dividends paid by the Company are “eligible dividends” as defined in subsection 89(1) of the Income Tax Act (Canada), unless indicated otherwise. Epsilon Energy Ltd. is a North American onshore natural gas and oil production and gathering company with assets in Pennsylvania, Texas, Alberta, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. 281-670-0002 Jason Stabell Chief Executive Officer Andrew Williamson Chief Financial Officer
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Canadian companies excited about AI but slow to adopt it: AI tech leaders TORONTO — The co-founders of two of Canada's top artificial intelligence firms say companies in the country are buzzing with excitement around the technology but turning that enthusiasm into products and tools takes too long. Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press Nov 26, 2024 12:50 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Nick Frosst, co-founder of Cohere, is shown at the AI company's offices in Toronto on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young TORONTO — The co-founders of two of Canada's top artificial intelligence firms say companies in the country are buzzing with excitement around the technology but turning that enthusiasm into products and tools takes too long. Nick Frosst, co-founder of Toronto-based enterprise AI business Cohere, says the pipeline to get AI from an idea to implementation is lengthy. "A lot of the times when I start to deal with a Canadian company, they say, 'We've got to get an AI strategy. We've got to build AI,'" Frosst said at the University of Waterloo's Tech Horizons Executive Forum in Toronto on Tuesday. "Then, it takes a long time to get from some high-level room that says we need this thing to an actual implementation that's sitting in production, saving their employees time or ... delighting their users." Nicole Janssen, the co-founder of Edmonton-based AI firm AltaML, has had a similar experience. She estimates it takes 18 months for companies reaching out to her business to commit to using AI and then another 18 months to start doing something with it. "Then people get tired of this thing that's not giving them a return on the investment and it falls to the wayside," she said. Tech leaders have long lamented the slow rate of adoption for their products in Canada, especially when compared to the U.S. Some have blamed the pace on a lack of funding, while others have said it's a matter of culture. Frosst said it's hard to narrow down what's hampering the rate of adoption. Culture could be part of it, but he said, "I want to be clear that I don't necessarily think that cultural thing is bad." "Some of the things that I really like about Canada is that we're slow and a little conscientious," he said. "But it also has downsides and one of the downsides is five quarters of real GDP per capita decrease." Those GDP declines have sparked a discussion about whether Canada is facing a crisis in productivity because it is lagging behind the U.S. and many other Nordic nations. Frosst estimates large language models — the underpinning of AI, which use massive data sets to recognize, translate, predict or generate text and other content — could make a big dent in Canada's productivity woes. He said LLMs alone will "augment" about 20 per cent of knowledge-based jobs, which include teachers, doctors, financial analysts and marketing consultants. But to ensure LLMs and AI are "an absolutely massive opportunity" for Canada, Frosst said the country must not squander the foundations that have been laid for it. Canada, for example, has long been known as a hotbed of AI innovation because of its focus on AI research and talent development. Much of that work has happened through the Vector Institute and Mila, AI organizations based in Toronto and Montreal, respectively, which AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio are deeply involved in. Cohere has received funding from Hinton, who recently won a Nobel prize, and Frosst was one of his proteges. "Some of the best minds are still here, some of the best institutes ... are here, but we have fallen behind in adoption," Frosst said. At the same time, every other nation is gaining ground. "It's kind of table stakes at this stage," he said. "America is doing it, the whole world is figuring out how to increase productivity with large language models, and although that technology came from here, we've been a little delayed in adopting it." To reverse the problem, Janssen urged business leaders to get moving — and quickly. "Don't ask the question, 'What am I going do with AI?' but, 'What am I going to do with AI by the end of the year?'" she said. "Because if we don't get started, we are going to fall behind and our productivity challenges are going to be so much more." This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 26, 2024. Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? 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