Following their biggest-ever headline gig in Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens, Pillow Queens have announced an Irish national tour for later this year. The queer rockstars will travel to nine different venues all over the country, warming up the cold winter months with some of the hottest music around. The tour kicks off in Dogheda on November 21. From there, the group will head to Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Limerick, Cork, Belfast and Galway, before ending the run in Dublin on December 13. Tickets for the shows go on sale on Friday, July 26, and will be available from venue box offices, Ticketmaster…
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HOUSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit asking a federal court to require the owner and operator of three popular north Houston-area restaurants in Tomball and Spring – that allegedly used a portion of employees’ tips for business expenses, including condiments and takeout packaging – to pay back wages and damages to the affected workers.The allegations stem from investigations by the department’s Wage and Hour Division that found Tejas Chocolate LLC and Tejas Dragon Companies LLC collected the employees’ tips to distribute among them; however, the employer diverted some of the tips for business purposes in violation of the Fair Labor…
The new networks will support diverse teams of AMR researchers, ranging from specialists in agriculture, food and the environment to human and animal medicine, policy and behavioral studies, engineering and social science. Developing new approaches Together they’ll develop new approaches to tackling AMR across sectors and disciplines, including: culture economics behaviour biomedical and physical sciences design and engineering environmental sciences They will share £4.8 million from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), awarded as part of its tackling infections strategic theme. This programme will continue next year with a new opportunity for ambitious new transdisciplinary research programmes, drawing on a dedicated…
“Today is a good day for constitutional order and democratic culture in our country,” Justice Minister Marco Buschmann told reporters in Berlin on Tuesday. He added that democratic backsliding in Poland and Hungary, along with a debate on judicial reform in Israel, prove how courts should be protected against governments that are not prepared to accept their decisions. The deal illustrates growing alarm among many Germans over the rise of the AfD, which has gained in popularity even as it has grown more radical. The party is currently polling in second place nationally; in many regions of former East Germany, where three…
In May, a multibillion-dollar UK-based multinational called Informa announced in a trading update that it had signed a deal with Microsoft involving “access to advanced learning content and data, and a partnership to explore AI expert applications”. Informa is the parent company of Taylor & Francis, which publishes a wide range of academic and technical books and journals, so the data in question may include the content of these books and journals. According to reports published last week, the authors of the content do not appear to have been asked or even informed about the deal. What’s more, they say…
The Security Industry Authority (SIA) – the UK’s private security industry regulator – is encouraging everyone to show their appreciation to security operatives on International Security Officers’ Day, which takes place annually on 24 July. This follows a reception at the House of Lords (22 July 2024) to mark 20 years of SIA licensing. The anniversary event was sponsored by The Baroness Meacher, the first Chair of the SIA. The event was attended by SIA front line licence holders who were nominated by their peers in the private security industry for their contributions to improving standards in security and supporting…
The United States is designating two members of the Russian hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR) for their roles in cyber operations against U.S. critical infrastructure entities. Since 2022, CARR has conducted malicious cyber activities against Ukraine and governments that support Ukraine. In late 2023, CARR escalated its operations, claiming responsibility for compromising the industrial control systems of multiple U.S. and European critical infrastructure targets. CARR has since been responsible for a slew of malicious cyber activities against water supply, hydroelectric, wastewater, and energy facilities in the United States and Europe. Russia continues to provide a safe haven…
When you push “start” on your microwave or computer, the device flips right on – but major physics experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, don’t work that way. Instead, engineers and physicists need to take a few weeks every year to carefully reset the collider and all the experiments on it. I’m a CERN physicist who worked with my colleagues in the past few months on the reset process of the largest of the experiments, ATLAS. To collect accurate data about particle collisions and study some of the universe’s most…
In a world of alternative therapies and new-age spiritual practices, Tantra holds a special place. This concept is largely associated with techniques for improving your sex life – but there’s a lot more to Tantra than sex. Modern Tantric sex practices, or so-called neotantra (which began at the turn of 20th century), sit alongside the ancient philosophical tradition of classical Tantra, for which written traditions go back to the 8th century and oral traditions even further. Practitioners from both sides, or Tantrikas, have tended to view each other with suspicion. But they have much to learn from one another if…
The 33-year-old veteran of nearly 400 international appearances is excited to be playing on what he considers to be his home ground at Stormont, having grown up locally, and wants to put on a show for family and friends.“It’s a special occasion not just for me put for everyone in this part of the country, to host a Test,” Stirling said. “People in Belfast love their cricket, so hopefully the weather will play its part and we’ll have a good crowd come in.“For me, it’ll be one of the few chances to play in front of a wider group of…