uties of the committee range from preparing press releases, designing and posting banners, flyers, brochures, and promoting web-based media for AS events and services. Members of the committee will also act as liaisons between AS and local media.
The Student Equity Committee's goal is to create an inclusive and equitable campus. Together we will cultivate a greater understanding of diversity, anti-discriminatory practices, and empower others to become leaders. Join us now to be apart of this fundamental change!
Hello everyone! I would like to invite you all to apply for the Sustainability Committee this school year! As individuals, our daily lives may be affected due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we are challenged with a continuous environmental threat that is now visible. The Sustainability Committee will encourage students, faculty, and staff to act now before it is too late to minimize catastrophic challenges that will impact our near future and generations to come. By joining the Sustainability Committee, you will contribute to the fight against Climate Change. Within the Sustainability Committee, you will collaborate with your peers in research, planning, and implementing call to action by promoting participation to improve the Lancer experience and our environment as a synergy. Overall, we will improve our personal living conditions, but also help others obtain Environmental, Social, and Economic Justice.
The Finance Committee is in charge of keeping the ASPCC budget up to date as well as overseeing PCC’s expenditures. The committee will also create innovative events on campus that will contribute to student’s understanding of financial concerns. Members of the Finance Committee will be required to work together with other committees where finance concerns could emerge.
The Campus Activities Committee is an exciting opportunity to get the most out of your time while at PCC. Now more than ever due to COVID-19, having a space where you can go and be college students in a non-academic setting is paramount for students’ mental health and future successes. I'm looking for a team of creative and driven students. Whether you have years of event planning experience or even just an idea for an event, the Campus Activities Committee will be a diverse place where you will be alongside a team who plans, organizes, attends, and hosts events that grow from just a few simple ideas. I hope to hear from some of you soon!
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HARARE - Zimbabwe is living to the reputation of African countries "blessed" with huge diamond deposits yet their citizens remain poor.
Despite claiming to hold the world's biggest diamond deposits, Zimbabwe is one of the most failed states, at least according to Foreign Policy magazine, a United States-based research and publishing group.
The group put Zimbabwe as the fifth most failed state in the world for 2012, according to its top 10 most failed states index released recently. The non-profit group ranks 177 nations annually for their stability, human flight and abuse, economic decline, security and external intervention measures.
Zimbabwe claims Marange diamond deposits account for more than 25 percent of world diamond reserves and could last for 21 years at full exploitation. Yet the country has failed to back 18 percent of its cash budget from diamond proceeds as planned due to a lack of transparency and accountability on Marange mining activities. This has left social infrastructure such as public hospitals and schools that are in dire need of funding reeling.
Finance minister Tendai Biti had planned to use $600 million from diamond proceeds to support this year's $4 billion budget but says the money has not been forthcoming. Biti says the biggest miner in Marange, Anjin Investments, which is a joint venture between the Chinese government and Zimbabwe's government, has failed to remit a cent despite selling huge stockpiles. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai told Parliament yesterday that treasury had only received $25 million from other firms mining there.
African countries rich in natural resources but whose people live in poverty include Democratic Republic of Congo and Ivory Coast. The Foreign Policy magazine ranked war-ravaged Somalia last.
Every year, the Oscars typically give us a look at the Best Songs in a more fun way than other categories: live performances! But since they couldn’t get their stuff together to get a host who hasn’t offended millions of people (because did they even look at women for this position?), they’re trying to keep the runtime of the whole ceremony to a minimum.
That means we’re not getting all of the Best Song contenders performing, which doesn’t exactly make sense? If you’re trying to fill in for a missing host, trying to prevent anything outrageous happening on your live broadcast, wouldn’t you want to maintain the safe bet of just having songs being performed to help?
Beyond that, it isn’t fair to have two of the songs performed but not the rest. Sure, we’re all aware that the chances that any other song is going to beat A Star Is Born’s “Shallow” are very slim, and the only song that stands a chance is “All the Stars” from Black Panther, but still, that doesn’t mean we don’t deserve Emily Blunt singing onstage to make us feel better about the state of the world.
It just doesn’t make sense that “Shallow” and “All the Stars” are getting screen time but “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings,” “The Place Where Lost Things Go,” and “I’ll Fight” from RBG do not get the same treatment. They’re just handing us the only two contenders on a platter and saying, “These are the only two that stand a chance of winning,” which isn’t fair.
Sure, every year, there’s always a clear favorite in the category. Last year, it was “Remember Me” from Coco, and obviously, when the song won, we all weren’t shocked, but it didn’t stop us from enjoying the performances from the other nominees. This year, all of the nominees are incredible, and the fact that we’re only getting the two songs we already regularly hear on the radio is some b*llsh*t.
Look, I love “Shallow.” I sing it at karaoke regularly and have mastered Lady Gaga’s “ahhhhh” solo in the middle of the song. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to see other songs have their moment. Sure, most of us saw Mary Poppins Returns, but RBG and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs weren’t as widely viewed (or released, for that matter), so we may not have had the chance to hear these songs otherwise.
So now it’s on the audience to go and look up “I’ll Fight,” “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings,” and “The Place Where Lost Things Go”? Why not just nominate the entire soundtracks from Black Panther and A Star Is Born if you’re not going to give all the nominees their chance?
Play “Shallow” but also give The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and our favorite notorious lady their due.
Elon Musk got his wish with the successful launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch vehicle into orbit, creating some incredible images.
A new era of commercial spaceflight has begun, according to SpaceX and its founder Elon Musk, after the successful launch of the latest Falcon Heavy vehicle.
The space shuttle can hold not only a substantial amount of cargo on board, but humans, too.
Of course, the cargo on the rocket’s inaugural flight was pretty unique, with Musk deciding that rather than sending it up empty, he would strap in a Tesla Roadster car – emblazoned with the words ‘Don’t Panic!’ on its dashboard – with a spacesuit-wearing manikin dubbed Starman on board.
The Falcon Heavy took off yesterday evening (6 February) at 8.45pm IST from NASA’s Launch Pad 39A – the same one used by Apollo 11 – with more than 2m kg of thrust from its three core Falcon 9 boosters, containing nine rockets each.
During its ascent, anxious SpaceX staff waited to see Falcon Heavy reach the point of no return. They burst into celebrations once it had achieved a successful launch, with 100,000 spectators also watching what was one of the most anticipated rocket launches in the past few years.
Aside from its more than unusual payload, another key talking point of the mission was whether SpaceX could achieve the impressive feat of returning all three of its Falcon 9 boosters unscathed at two different landing sites.
This included the two side cores of the boosters returning to Landing Zones 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, as well as the final booster on the Of Course I Still Love You floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
This proved to be one of the few hiccups of the launch as, despite the successful – and impressive-looking – return of the two side boosters, the final one sadly crashed into the Atlantic ocean at nearly 500kph.
As for Starman and its cosmic journey, the camera strapped on board the Roadster returned some truly incredible scenes of the