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Mrs Hunts Cottage, on Maria Island, Tasmania. The house was built in the early 1900's. on the site of the former, convict era, magistrates residence (1846).
History
Ruby Absolum married Henry Hunt and they moved to the island in the mid-1920s. From about 1930 they lived in this cottage. After her husband became ill and her children left the island, Ruby stayed on alone from the early 1960s.
She became famous for running a pedal wireless — the only communication link between Maria Island and mainland Tasmania — sending telegrams and weather reports to Hobart. She was one of the very last permanent residents to leave the island (in 1968), just before it became a national park in 1971.
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ARLINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse minister van Defensie Pete Hegseth heeft maandag tijdens een onaangekondigd bezoek aan Israël een ontmoeting gehad met de Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu. Dat meldt Axios op basis van twee ingewijde bronnen.
Het nieuws over de reis van Hegseth komt een dag nadat de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zijn steun uitsprak voor Netanyahu bij de parlementsverkiezingen van volgende week in Israël. Het zijn de eerste verkiezingen sinds de Hamas-aanval van 7 oktober 2023.
Volgens opiniepeilingen gaat de coalitie van Netanyahu naar verwachting haar meerderheid verliezen.
Reuters kon het bezoek niet direct bevestigen. Het Pentagon wilde niet reageren, en de Israëlische ambassade in Washington reageerde niet direct op een verzoek om commentaar.
joshuark writes: Professor Christopher Marquis makes a provocative argument about business schools: "We need to abolish them." A 20-year business educator at Harvard, Cornell and Cambridge, Marquis argues in The New York Times and on LinkedIn that MBA programs sanctify profit-driven dealmaking at the expense of public life. "That's not the institution failing," he writes. "Sadly, it's the institution working." "Business school doesn't just hand out skills and a network," argues Marquis, "it quietly reshapes how people see the world, rewarding dealmaking, simplification, and optimization for financial metrics, while workers and communities become afterthoughts."
Marquis points to research suggesting that business-school-trained CEOs often benefit shareholders at the expense of workers, without delivering measurable improvements in company performance... "[W]hen a business-school-trained CEO takes over a firm, wages fall and labor's share of income drops, with no gain in productivity," writes Marquis. "In both the U.S. and Denmark, what passes for the 'managerial skill' of business-school graduates turns out to be a transfer of wealth away from workers and toward shareholders. Students deserve better than a machine that narrows their sense of what's possible."
Marquis points to research suggesting that business-school-trained CEOs often benefit shareholders at the expense of workers, without delivering measurable improvements in company performance... "[W]hen a business-school-trained CEO takes over a firm, wages fall and labor's share of income drops, with no gain in productivity," writes Marquis. "In both the U.S. and Denmark, what passes for the 'managerial skill' of business-school graduates turns out to be a transfer of wealth away from workers and toward shareholders. Students deserve better than a machine that narrows their sense of what's possible."
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