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During the month of May, NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, will observe Mental Health Month to raise awareness of mental illness.Video: #CureStigma PSA – :60One in five adults in the United States lives with a mental health condition.This year, NAMI is launching “CureStigma” a new campaign that builds on the successful #StigmaFree initiative and positions stigma as a “social virus” that is spreading across America. Stigma is a sign or sense of disgrace that sets someone apart from others. Navigating life with a mental health condition can be tough, and the isolation and blame that is often encouraged by stigma can create huge challenges to moving forward in one’s recovery journey.“Stigma is dangerous for the millions of Americans affected by mental health conditions. It causes people to feel ashamed for something that is out of their control, prevents them from seeking help, and even takes lives,” said Mary Giliberti, CEO of NAMI. “Although stigma is a virus that anyone can be exposed to, we do have a cure, and that is compassion and understanding. We need to talk openly and raise our voices, so we can put an end to the fear and shame, and cure stigma once and for all.”The campaign incorporates a new series of nationwide public service announcements (PSA) featuring NAMI Celebrity Ambassadors from film, television, music, and sports including Utkarsh Ambudkar, Andrea Barber, Maurice Bernard, Corinne Foxx, Clark Gregg, Jamie Gray Hyder, AJ Mendez, Sonya Nichols, Mauro Ranallo and Stolar. The PSA encourages viewers to visit curestigma.org, where visitors can take a brief quiz to see if they “are infected” by stigmatizing beliefs. Visitors will also receive information about how to “spread the cure” and will gain free access to a special emoji/sticker pack for their mobile phones.Key mental health statistics include:1 in 5 adults in the United States lives with a mental health condition.1 in 25 (10 million) adults in the United States lives with a serious mental illness.60 million people in the United States face the day-to-day reality of living with a mental illness.Half of all lifetime mental health conditions begin by age 14 and 75 percent by age 24, but early intervention programs can help.Additional facts and citations are available at Mental Health by the Numbers.“The perception of mental illness won’t change unless we act to change it. So during Mental Health Month, we are asking everyone to join with NAMI to #CureStigma,” said Giliberti.For additional information about Mental Health Month, to take the CureStigma quiz and to access CureStigma resources, please visit [curestigma.org.
-with files from The Canadian Press (Wankeek Horn-Miller at a conference in 2013. Courtesy Facebook) APTN National NewsThe national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls has lost another high-profile member of its entourage.Waneek Horn-Miller, a former Olympian who was working as the inquiry’s director of community relations, is the latest person to leave the commission.The national inquiry is tasked with exploring the root causes of violence toward Indigenous women and girls.A spokesperson for the inquiry says Horn-Miller’s departure is due solely to family reasons.For weeks, the commission has faced questions from concerned family members who say they have lost faith in the process, which is expected to take at least two years and cost $53.8 million.In an open letter released today, additional family members called on the commission to start over from scratch, citing the resignation last month of one of the commissioners, Marilyn Poitras.The commissioners say they are moving ahead with their work and receiving feedback from families, including through a national advisory circle.The families said a meeting with Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett where they expressed concerns that families were being ignored didn’t go well.“Prime Minister Trudeau, we are asking you today to give us back our Inquiry. We have met with Minister Bennett and she has refused to listen clearly to what families are saying,” the letter states.“Instead, she has been relying on minor tweaks and small changes to a deeply-flawed process.”The Trudeau government called the national inquiry after taking power in late 2015 that is supposed to address why so many Indigenous women and girls have been murdered or gone missing in the last three decades.An RCMP review of police files across Canada from 1980 to 2012 found over 1,100 Indigenous women had been murdered or were still missing.That number has only grown since.But the inquiry has faced multiple delays and criticism from First Nations leaders, families and advocates over the inquiry’s scope, lack of communication and multiple staff leaving since five commissioners were appointed last summer.That includes former commissioner Marilyn Poitras who stepped down this summer questioning the inquiry’s structure.“To meet its mandate, the inquiry must now undergo a hard reset and the current commissioners must respectfully resign to create space for families and communities to heal from the colonial approach that was adopted and instituted,” the families said to Trudeau. “We need to reset this inquiry and build it up – in a good way – from the communities directly affected by continued violence against Indigenous women and girls.”Contact APTN National News here: news@aptn.ca
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court has invalidated a permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross two national forests, including parts of the Appalachian Trail.A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Thursday that the U.S. Forest Service “abdicated its responsibility to preserve national forest resources” when it approved the pipeline crossing the George Washington and Monongahela National Forests, and a right of way across the Appalachian Trail.The ruling quoted “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss, saying the Forest Service is trusted to “speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”A Dominion Energy spokesman said the company is reviewing the ruling and had no immediate comment.The natural gas pipeline would run through parts of West Virginia, North Carolina and Virginia.The Associated Press
During Thursday evening’s Question Time Mr Dimbleby asked Mr German to stop shouting over others, telling him: “Don’t shout out, I’ll bring a microphone to you in a bit. But if you keep shouting out nobody can hear you.”At one point Mr German lambasted the panel, saying: “All the pundits, all the academics, all the commentaries, all the politicians, the career politicians represented gathered around this panel here tonight, guaranteed that Theresa May’s gamble would pay off, that she would come back with a majority of 100 seats, 120 seats – that Corbyn would be buried under a landslide.”Jeremy Corbyn has proven that anti-austerity policies are popular – that’s the question. The Tories and the Blairites lost that election.” Mr German, 56, had said that if elected he would not accept the £67,060 salary paid to MPs at the time but take the ‘average wage of a skilled worker’ instead. Audience member is told to leaveCredit:BBC 
When David Dimbleby tells you to go, YOU GO. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/8Dv1Gauw3I— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) June 22, 2017 His Facebook page includes posts criticising the Monarchy and the Queen, describing her as “parasitical.”In one post Mr German said: “Under a socialist society, there would be no place for these parasitical, ancient symbols of privilege.”He has also posted links to online article about the Grenfell Tower disaster claiming the tragedy which last week killed at least 79 people was the result of the Government’s austerity policies. 
Want the best of The Telegraph direct to your email and WhatsApp? Sign up to our free twice-daily Front Page newsletter and new audio briefings. Around 40 minutes into the programme, being broadcast from Plymouth, Mr Dimbleby lost his patience and told Mr German it was time for him to go.It is thought to be only the second time a Question Time audience member has been ejected from the programme.Now it has emerged that Mr German is a committed campaigner for the Socialist Party and supporter of Jeremy Corbyn.In the 2015 general election he stood as a candidate for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in Taunton Deane, polling just just 118 votes. Last year Mr German had a conviction for causing criminal damage quashed by a judge who ruled he had been wrongly found guilty by magistrates of scratching the paintwork of a BMW car during a road rage incident.Judge James Patrick overturned the original sentence imposed by Taunton Magistrates’ Courts which saw Mr German ordered to pay a total of £970 in fines, compensation and costs.Mr German, who had accused his opponents of using his conviction as a “political weapon”, said at the time: “I now look forward to being able to spend my time more productively in building both the Socialist Party and TUSC and assisting in the process of defending Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party against the co-ordinated attacks of the Tories, the Blairites and the right wing in the Labour Party.” An audience member kicked off BBC Question Time by its presenter David Dimbleby is today revealed as a hard-line left wing activist with a long record of campaigning against the Conservative Party.Steve German was asked to leave after repeatedly heckling the panel and shouting that the Tories had lost the general election.When the pro-Remain campaigner Gina Miller began talking about the hung Parliament Theresa May will have to deal with he shouted: “She’s a zombie Prime Minister!” The Question Time audienceCredit:BBC
A new portable self-contained Pow’R-LOCK™ hydraulic jacking system rated for heavy lifts up to 181 t has been released by Enerpac South-East Asia, featuring full-time automatic load holding protection for optimum safety in operation. The PL-Series Pow’R-LOCK Portable Lifting system with full-time locking capability is designed and purpose-built to provide safe and secure lifting for heavy off-highway machinery including trucks, tractors, civil engineering machinery and implements.Pow’R-LOCK accomplishes its load-holding protection by utilising a control system (patent pending) that maintains the position of a rotating locking collar near the cylinder base, providing a mechanical lock regardless of cylinder movement and control cycle. The heavy-duty lifting system integrates into a rugged mobile cart with a high capacity and compact 700 bar (10,000 psi) hydraulic cylinder and an air-driven hydraulic pump unit with complete valving and control systems. The units, the two versions of which feature strokes of 356 and 622 mm,are described as ideal for companies where time and safety are paramount, such as mining and energy, oil and gas, heavy infrastructure construction and heavy transport.“Machinery servicing can be time consuming and hazardous task if not undertaken properly,” says Enerpac. “Frustrating problems can arise both in workshop situations where space is at a premium, and in remote situations where normal plant services and lifting surfaces are not available. A solution to such problems is offered by the easily manoeuverable, self-contained, Pow’R-LOCK Lifting Jack system, which can be used in even the tightest locations and over rough terrain where recommended safety procedures are followed. Pow’R-LOCK is unique in that it provides autonomous locking of the load through all stages of lifting and lowering. No operator intervention is required to activate or energise the locking system – they just lift or lower the load. If anything hazardous occurs, the Pow’R-LOCK system is there to hold the load.”Key Features of Pow’R-LOCK include:• Redundant lowering valves, PO (pilot operated) check and counter-balance, to add safety to the retract operation• Pow’R-LOCK locking system provides autonomous protection during lift, lower and hold function• Pneumatic operation for use in potentially hazardous environments (in consultation with Enerpac)• Patented cylinder and control technology provides double-acting lock-nut protection with low collapsed heights• Nitro-carburisation provides additional corrosion protection on the cylinder• Simple two-button operation for raise and lower functions• Integrated tilt saddle to reduce side loading and extend the life of the jack in extreme situations• Large base plate, which increases contact with the ground, distributes load, resists tipping and achieves a stability factor that allows Pow’R-LOCK to be classified as a vehicle support stand• An ergonomic six-position handle which maximises leverage and hand clearance under vehicles when positioning to a lift point
Facebook Twitter: @NeosKosmos Instagram The Greek people spoke. If not with one voice, with an overwhelming majority of 61 per cent to 39 per cent.Opinion polls suggesting a tight margin between the two camps were way off the mark, and as the result became clear in the early hours of Monday morning, Australia awoke to the historic news.What followed was an unprecedented amount of media attention focused on Greek Australians and their opinions. Neos Kosmos presents a few of those reactions.“By voting no, they voted for their independence,” Theo Bourboulis, owner of an Oakleigh travel agency told The Australian.Mr Bourboulis said friends of his in Greece preferred more hardship, rather than having their future decided by others.“They don’t want to be controlled. They don’t want someone saying ‘This is how you’re going to run your life’ … but they have a hard road ahead of them.” George Fakos, owner of the Aroma restaurant nearby, said the feedback he received from his customers clearly supported the ‘NO’s.“It’s about being sovereign again, governing themselves,” he said.“We hear people say ‘I would rather be miserable with our own currency than someone else’s’. People are concerned about the way they have been dictated to.”Mr Fakos spoke of a visit to Greece last year where he found a community in despair.“They had given up hope for the future, hope for their children.“Now I think there’s a sense of hope. They are holding on to the thought that they’re going to be self-governing again”, said Mr Fakos.Sky News buttonholed retailers in downtown MelbourneEmmanuel, the owner of a Greek sweet shop on Lonsdale Street, said the result meant “they [Greeks] can have a lot of problems in the future for many years”.Spiro, boss of the souvenir store next door, had a different opinion.“I think it’s the greatest day in Greece’s history for many, many years now. I think we are free people. “We expressed our right to democracy; we’ve made our case to the world and to Europe,” Spiro added.Perth’s Michael Petridis, a finance officer in Athens before coming to Australia in 2012 with his wife and two daughters, told The West Australian that conversations between school students in Greece typified the situation.“Children in Greek schools do not talk about their future careers or study plans, they ask each other what country they are going to move to.”“[Greeks] have voted yes to everything that Europe has wanted since this started,” he said. “Now the crisis has only got deeper.”In Queensland, 62-year-old Spero Bartzis celebrated the referendum result by hosing down his Brisbane driveway for two hours.According to the online newspaper The Betoota Advocate, this is “a Southern-European practice – also know as ‘the Greek broom’ “.“The moment I heard the news I went straight outside and turned on the tap,” said Mr Bartzis.“I could think of no better way to celebrate my Greek pride than by hosing down my new concrete driveway for two whole hours.”
Sexualité : 2 étudiants sur 10 ont des rapports non-protégésUne nouvelle étude concernant le rapport des étudiants avec la sexualité a montré que deux jeunes hommes étudiants sur dix ont des rapports non-protégés, un résultat important face aux différentes campagnes de prévention ayant déjà eu lieu en France.Au total, les étudiants masculins ont été 20% à déclarer ne pas toujours utiliser un moyen de contraception lors d’une relation sexuelle, tandis qu’un peu plus d’une étudiante sur dix explique avoir déjà fait l’amour sans être protégée. Ces résultats sont issus d’une étude publiée par l’Union nationale des mutuelles étudiantes régionales qui a cherché à mieux connaître le comportement des étudiants face à la sexualité.Ce résultat est d’autant plus surprenant que les 12.000 étudiants interrogés sont 90% à se déclarer suffisamment informés des différents contraceptifs existant, tirant à 47,4% leurs informations d’Internet, tandis que 35,2% des sondés demandent à quelqu’un de leur entourage et 25% à leur famille. L’étude montre également que les étudiants ne sont pas les plus soucieux de leur santé. Ainsi, seulement 33,5 % des étudiantes consultent un gynécologue régulièrement alors qu’une visite annuelle est souvent recommandée tandis que 63,3% n’ont jamais effectué un test de dépistage. Un peu plus de 3 étudiantes sur dix ont déjà eu recours à la pilule du lendemain précise Le Parisien, tandis que 3,3% d’entre elles ont subi une IVG. Parmi les causes de ce manque d’attention aux soins, les étudiants montrent du doigt le manque de moyens financiers.Le 8 février 2011 à 16:58 • Emmanuel Perrin
Recommended for you Worst fears as a tourist is murdered in Providenciales; ten homicides for 2019 Related Items:kenrick walters, Kentley walters, murder Freeport Man Killed in ‘The Ghetto’, Homicide Count Now At 100 Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsApp Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsAppProvidenciales, 07 Jan 2015 –Kentley Walters’ family is asking for more information to help in the investigation of the murder of the 19 year old since December 27th. There have been no arrests in the case. Kentley’s big brother, Kenrick Walters on Monday in a press conference, even called for the perpetrators of the crime to turn themselves in. “…we urge you to come forward as face justice. We cannot understand what dark forces led you down the path of taking an innocent life, but despite the tremendous hurt and loss that we feel, we harbour no hate towards you…” Bahamas Police takes 10 to court for murders and other crimes, including a couple for cruelty to a child
TwitterEven as India is petitioning the UK authorities to extradite fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is currently hiding out in a mansion near London, the subject has been high on the agenda of the government at the G20 summit currently being held in Hamburg, Germany.#G20Summit Partners in Growth- PM @narendramodi in conversation with @POTUS & @theresa_may ??????@MEAIndia @StateDept pic.twitter.com/AVykF0Mgbl— India in USA (@IndianEmbassyUS) July 8, 2017On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed upon his British counterpart Theresa May to ensure the return of Vijay Mallya, and ensure the UK’s cooperation to bring back economic offenders, according to a PTI report.Both leaders also talked about the complete range of India-UK ties. In a tweet after the meeting, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay said the Prime Minister asked for UK’s “cooperation for return of escaped Indian economic offenders”, the PTI report stated.Asked whether India seeking cooperation from the UK was limited to Mallya or whether Lalit Modi was also mentioned, PTI reported Baglay as telling reporters, “I don’t want to get into the specifics but the phrase used in the tweet is escaped economic offenders and it is plural.”At its hearing on Saturday, Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London fixed the trial date of Vijay Mallya’s two-week extradition trial date for December 4 after hearing that all the evidence in the case has finally been received from the government of India and reviewed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).Chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot demanded the CPS now pull the evidence, which runs into 2,000 pages, together and summarise it by the end of July.In April, Mallya had attended a central London police station for his arrest and was released on conditional bail a few hours later after providing a bail bond worth 650,000 pounds, assuring the court of abiding by all conditions associated with extradition proceedings, such as the surrender of his passport and a ban on him possessing any travel documents.India and the UK have an Extradition Treaty, signed in 1992, but so far only one extradition has taken place under the arrangement — Samirbhai Vinubhai Patel, who was sent back to India last October to face trial in connection with his involvement in the post-Godhra riots of 2002.
BNP candidate M Rashiduzzaman Millat. Photo: UNBThe Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the High Court order that stayed the candidature of BNP candidate M Rashiduzzaman Millat from Jamalpur-1.The seven-member bench led by chief justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed ‘no order’ after hearing of an appeal filed by Millat against the HC order.Now, he will not be able to contest the election, said his lawyer barrister Abdullah AL Mamun.The Election Commission allowed his candidacy after his nomination was rejected by returning officer.Later, Awami League candidate and former information minister Abul Kalam Azad challenged his candidature at the High Court as Millat was convicted in a corruption case.Following his writ, the HC stayed his candidature on 13 December.
In this handout photo taken and released by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) Communication Department on 19 July 2019, Indian politician Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (C) participates ia a sitting in protest at Narayanpur District, Mirzapur, after being stopped to meet the victims of a shooting which took place over disputed patch of farmland in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Photo: AFPCongress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi was on Friday detained after police stopped her while going to Sonbhadra district in Uttar Pradesh to meet survivors of caste violence, party supporters said.As police led her away, a defiant Gandhi told reporters that she won’t be cowed down by the police action and vowed to go Sonbhadra. “The cops stopped me,” she said from inside a car.But a senior police officer said that Gandhi had not been detained.The Congress leader’s alleged detention came after she met some of the injured from the Gond community at the Banaras Hindu University Trauma Centre in Varanasi.In this handout photo taken and released by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) Communication Department on 19 July 2019, Indian politician Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (C) looks on as she is taken in an official vehicle after being arrested at Narayanpur district, Mirzapur. Photo: AFPAt least 10 people, including three women, died and over 24 were injured in a clash between Gond and Gujjar communities over a land dispute in Sonbhadra district on Wednesday.After meeting the injured in Varanasi, Gandhi proceeded for Ubhbha village in Mirzapur. There, she was stopped by the police.Annoyed over the lack of permission to visit Sonbhadra, Gandhi and her supporters squatted on a road in Narayanpur area in Mirzapur.Gandhi told the media: “I just want to meet the families of the victims. I even said I will take only four people with me. Yet the district administration is not letting us go there.”They should tell us why we are being stopped. We will continue to sit here peacefully,” she said.Police have arrested 24 people in connection with the violence. A case has been registered against 78 people.
A bakkie crashed off a bridge on the Pieters / Colenso road yesterday evening (December 16).Public Safety, together with other emergency officials, were on scene.The injured were stabilised on scene before being transported to hospital for further medical treatment.It took officials over an hour to clear the scene of the crash. WebsiteWebsiteWebsite WebsiteWebsiteWebsite WebsiteWebsiteWebsite Click to receive news links via WhatsApp. Or for the latest news, visit our webpage or follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Join us there!
ExpressVPN have announced the results of a VPN versus non-VPN User Study of 1,020 Americans. The new study reveals that more than 80% of consumers don’t always read the terms of service (ToS) when creating new accounts on websites. Other ToS data includes:– Less than 35% of consumers trust brands to uphold their ToS(42% for those ages 18-34 and less than 27% for those ages 55 and older)– More than 42% of consumers think that brands often change ToS without telling the user(Only a 5% range of difference in all age groups)– VPN users are twice as likely to read ToS as compared to non-VPN usersOther notable data from the study show that VPN users are generally more savvy, confident and aware of their security and privacy vs. those that do not use VPNs, including that:– VPN users are nearly twice as likely to disable the microphone and camera on their smart home devices (versus non-VPN users).– More VPN users are aware of Facebook’s ability to predict their sexual orientation and political party affiliation (versus non-VPN users).“The majority of consumers still have low awareness of data security and regularly engage in online behaviour that puts their personal information at risk,” stated Harold Li, vice president, ExpressVPN.“Anyone using the internet should take measures to protect their privacy and security, including fundamentals like using a VPN to secure their connection, using two-factor authentication for important online accounts, and checking privacy settings on social media.”When it comes to personal technology, the study finds that:– 64% of VPN users are confident in the security of their iPhone/iPad, versus less than half 49% of non-VPN users.– 63% of VPN users are confident in the security of their Android phone or tablet, versus 52% of non-VPN users.– 37% of VPN users are confident in the security of their router versus just 21% of confidence from non-VPN users.Finally, the study finds that 30% of Americans say they now use a VPN (up from less than 20% in a similar 2018 study) with more than half using a VPN either specifically to thwart hackers or for protection and confidence when using public Wi-Fi. Another 42% use VPNs for preventing sites from tracking them (based on IP address). Additionally, it reveals that those using VPNs are able to have more confidence in their online security:– 84% of VPN users use public Wi-Fi, 22% use it every day, while just 60% of non-VPN users have used public Wi-Fi, with only 10% using it every day.– 53% of VPN users have shopped online on a public Wi-Fi network and are twice as likely to do so versus non-VPN users (26%).
WebsiteWebsiteWebsite WebsiteWebsiteWebsite WebsiteWebsiteWebsite More taxi-related protests expected this morningShots fired to move protestersCars come to a standstill in Newcastle Road Workers from Lasher Tools are on strike.Previous reports of a large group of men armed with traditional weapons in Bloukrans Road has turned out to be striking workers. This has added to the confusion surrounding the Steadville protestsThis story will be updated once we have more information.Related stories:
Sport aside, former North Carolina legendary basketball coach Dean Smith is an icon that transcends the coaching profession. The man won 879 games, served as a head coach at one institution for over 35 years, and mentored the lives of countless young men, along with a lengthy list of various other accomplishments.The impact he had on players, coaches, and complete strangers before his passing simply cannot be measured.Earlier today, the following picture started to make its rounds on Twitter, illustrating that Smith is making an impact, even after his physical presence has left this earth. Classy! RT @ChestPassDemps: Coach Smith willed his trust to send a $200 check to each of his former players pic.twitter.com/16WyzrZvR1— Doug Samuels (@CoachSamz) March 26, 2015It’s not often that you see a head coach with a resume like Smith’s reach out to every single one of his former players like this.Just when you thought the legend of Dean Smith couldn’t get any bigger, or more unbelievable. What a great gesture from a legend who already had a firm place in the history of great coaches, and people. AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Sponsored By Connatix
Tonga’s Nishi Trading Company successfully trialled its frozen taro, fries, pumpkin and hummus in the local market in Nuku’alofa late last year. The response has been overwhelmingly good.“Using your own local market for product development is important to see how people respond to the product” says Nishi’s Marketing Expert Joanna Bourke, Executive Creative Director of CocoNew The Agency.“It’s been easy to sell the frozen taro to hotels and restaurants who say the product is easy and convenient to use,” Miss Bourke says .Nishi wanted to get its products out there and started producing for the local market, promoting it via social media she says.Nishi Trading Company Limited is a family owned. Nishi is one of Tonga’s biggest exporters of butternut, butterkin, and pumpkin with markets in Japan, New Zealand.But local market-testing the frozen products is important or it could be destined for failure when exported Ms Bourke said.Nishi Trading launched a healthy eating campaign a few years ago, encouraging people to eat more fresh produce, reduce obesity and other weight related illnesses.Ms Bourke said in the past pumpkin and butternut is generally not part of the daily Tongan diet or staple foods in Tonga.Rather locals prefer sweet potato, breadfruit, taro and cassava. But Nishi is working on changing the mindset that pumpkin is healthy for humans instead of solely for exports or as animal feed.They are re-educating local taste towards eating more fresh produce butternut, squash and pumpkin as part of a healthy diet. A recipe book filled with a variety of recipes providing recipes for cakes and muffins using the pumpkins own natural sweetness rather than added sugars was also produced from different sources to give people ways and ideas of using the frozen product.A pleasant surprise from the promotion was the unexpected success of Nishi’s Pumpkin Hummus made by Jenny Nishi, Minoru’s wife who wanted to show an easy way of using pumpkin. The hummus product and recipe was posted on their Nishi Trading Company Facebook and Instagram pages.It sold like hotcakes at the local supermarket. But the simple, pumpkin, chickpeas, lemon combination was a way to show people how to use the frozen products and give them a kick start into producing their own foods.“We don’t want to give them processed foods, we want people to go home and prepare food themselves” Ms Bourke said.Nishi’s Pumpkin Hummus so impressed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ambassador who after sampling the hummus at a lunchtime demonstration by Mr Nishi, invited them to the Gulfood Show at the Dubai World Trade Centre, 17-21 February.In addition, Nishi’s successful team were also personally handpicked by the Queen and King to be part of the organising committee for Tonga’s delegation to the six-month World Expo in Dubai in October 2020. Tonga’s delegation will be situated in the Opportunities section of the World Expo.A great start for 2019 that started with local trials for Nishi’s frozen products.For more information please contact PTI NZ Trade Development Manager Ian Furlong on ian.f@pacifictradeinvest.co.nzThe post Positive response to local Tongan frozen produce trial appeared first on Discover the South Pacific.Source: Blog
India was the first destination Adventure World Travel explored with guests 40 years ago, and the new 2019 India, Sri Lanka and Nepal collection continues that relationship, with a focus on wildlife and heritage properties in the region. Adventure World TravelBrochuresindiaNepalSri Lankawildlife The new brochure includes a wildlife-focused section that includes the new 4-day Kaziranga Land of the Rhinoceros tour which boasts some of India’s best wildlife. Brochure highlights include even more opportunities to spot tigers, snow leopards and Asiatic lions in the country’s world-renowned national parks. Also new for 2019, the 5-day Andaman Islands Discovery which offers travellers the chance to experience the incredible beauty of this remote and mostly uninhabited part of the world, staying on Radhanagar Beach, a slice of tropical paradise located on Havelock Island.Adventure World has added a 13-day Sri Lanka Tea, Sea and Safari trip for 2019, allowing guests to experience the country’s best cities with stays in unique heritage properties. A highlight of the trip is a hot air balloon ride over spectacular landscapes and historic sites.
12sharesHome > Events > Education Events > Students from Crete Discover the World of Greek TourismThe Tipping Point (TTP) in collaboration with the G & A Mamidakis Foundation recently held an educational program on Crete for students wishing to explore the potential of pursuing a career in tourism.Chania, CreteTTP’s mission is to empower today’s youth to consciously take their most critical once-in-a-lifetime decisions, also preparing them for the workplace of tomorrow.Its initiative, dubbed “Connecting schools of Crete with the world of tourism”, brought together – through live video calls – experienced tourism professionals with students of seven schools from the areas of Lasithi, Rethymno and Chania. The main topics of discussion focused on the ways Cretan tradition connects with tourism, how hotels operate, defining fishing tourism and more.Meanwhile, senior executives of bluegr Hotels & Resorts and LoveGreece.com formed a community of 31 mentors representing key sectors – including agriculture, entrepreneurship and folk art – and shared their experience with the students, answered questions and offered their expert opinions on the opportunities offered in the tourism sector.According to the G & A Mamidakis Foundation , the students and teachers found the initiative was of great significance, since tourism is a key sector of the island’s economy and many young people think of pursing a career in tourism.The G & A Mamidakis Foundation supports educational actions and training initiatives that promote Greece’s cultural wealth, link tourism with culture, protect the environment and support its human capital.