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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of 178 trusts nationwide set to receive a share of 600m to tackle their maintenance backlogs.

It will get 1,515,000 to spend on 25 projects, covering critical maintenance and improvement works.

Outdated ventilation plant and controls at Thomas Linacre Centre will be replaced and water systems at Wigan Infirmary and Wrightington Hospital will be upgraded.

Leaking flat roofs at Wrightington Hospital, Wigan Infirmary and Thomas Linacre Centre will be replaced, and a trust-wide window replacement programme will start at Wrightington and Leigh Infirmary.

Other work includes a new boiler plant at Wrightington, improved cafe at Wigan, and a fire alarm and emergency lighting upgrade at Leigh.

Medical gas systems plants will also be replaced at all sites.

David Evans, the trusts director of estates and facilities, said: I am delighted that the Government has recognised the importance of additional investment to help us address the on-going condition backlog issues across the trusts estate.

The NHS estate is both extensive and complex with many of our buildings and engineering services being built and installed many years ago.

Ongoing investment in the estate is critical in ensuring compliant, high quality and reliable facilities for our clinical teams to treat patients and the continued commitment to fund these critical maintenance and improvement works is welcomed.

The national investment is part of 1.5 billion capital funding announced in the summer, which includes plans to modernise mental health facilities, expand A&E capacity and improve infection control ahead of winter.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: Alongside delivering on our manifesto commitment to build 40 new hospitals and 20 major hospital upgrades across the country, this investment will help our NHS build back better.

These crucial maintenance projects will deliver immediate benefits and provide NHS staff with the facilities they need to provide world-class care to their patients this winter, helping ensure the NHS is always there for you when you need it.

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SINGAPORE: There were 49 cases of fallen windows across Singapore between January and November this year, the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) said in a joint media release with the Housing and Development Board (HDB) on Friday (Dec 11).

Thirty-two of these involved casement windows,or windows with a side that is hinged to a frame.

Sixteen cases were of fallen sliding windows, while the remaining incident involvedlouvre windows or those with horizontal panels.

No injuries were reported from these incidents, said the agencies.

The number of cases reported in the first 11 months of this year is not far from the 51 incidents in the whole of 2019.

Over the past few years, the number of fallen window cases we see yearly remains at about 50 cases.While there has not been an increase in numbers, there has also not been any improvement," saidBCAs director of facade engineering and technology departmentLee Chee Weye.

BCA said the key causes of fallen casement windows included corrosion in aluminium rivets in casement window fittings."Corrosion compromises the strength of the rivets, rendering it unable to hold the casement window panels firmly in place," said the agency.

Since 2004,a retrofitting order issued by BCA requireshome owners to replace all aluminium rivets in casement windows with stainless steel ones.

In the case of fallen sliding windows, investigations showed that there was a lack of proper safety stoppers and angle strips to keep panels within the tracks.

"Sliding window panels without these safety features in place detached and fell when homeowners applied excessive outward force in opening or closing the windows," BCA added.

Home owners can face a penalty of up to S$5,000 and/or a jail term of up to six months for failing to replace all aluminium rivets in casement windows with stainless steel ones.

In cases of fallen windows due to lack of maintenance, home owners can face a fine of up to S$10,000 and/or a jail term of up to a year.

Since 2006, 378 people have been fined and 92 people prosecuted for fallen windows, noted the authorities.

"The risk of injury from falling windows is high and is not a trivial matter," the agencies said, adding that home owners and occupants should check and maintain their windows regularly.

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ALBANY -- Congregation Beth Emeths biggest sanctuary has seven floor-to-ceiling stained glass windows, cascades of hundreds of hues of blue dramatically symbolizing the cosmos, skies and oceans during Creation. Floating in the abstract colors are realistic and detailed stained glass scenes of men, women and children celebrating holy days and worshipping. Those scenes were rescued from Temple Beth Emeths 19th century building on Swan and Lancaster Streets.

International authority on stained glass art, Robert Sowers, worked to incorporate those highly detailed human stained glass scenes into the towering blue, green, purple and white abstract designs. The building was dedicated in 1957 and has optimistic, midcentury modern elements like swooping, curved roofs, lots of light and glass.

Even on a gray snowy afternoon, the stained glass shimmers with light.

The realistic scenes are vibrant against the blue background. A beautiful woman gleaning golden sheaves from a field of grain smiles down at visitors.

Yes, thats Ruth from the Bible, an old window from the previous building explains synagogue maintenance director Steve Squires.

He explains that when the old windows included the names of the people depicted, those names were removed before the smaller windows were incorporated into the abstract cosmic windows.

Now, without names, we can see them just humans, just people who are part of all Creation, he adds.

Squires has worked for the synagogue for 30 years and knows all about the treasures it holds.

One of the most fascinating is the Torah scroll displayed in the lobbys glass case. It belonged to Czechoslovakian synagogue but was stolen by the Nazis for Hitlers museum curators. Squires explains that Hitler dreamed of building a Jewish Museum that would showcase the art, religion and culture of an entire population he was determined to murder.

He had curators who kept meticulous records of each object that would go into the museum, said Squires, who remembered that when the Torah scroll was rescued and given to Beth Emeth the tag written by the Nazi curator was inside the box with the scroll.

He leads visitors into a nearby Wolk Hall (named after Rabbi Samuel Wolk, who sadly died right before the 100 Academy Road buildings dedication) where three Tiffany windows sparkle in the darkness. Three wooden doors leading outside were removed and replaced by the Tiffany windows that fill the door frames. One window depicts a life-sized Moses. Visitors have the odd sensation of standing a couple of feet from and eye-to-eye with Moses. His red and burgundy robe and the greenish blue gems surrounding him have the rich pigments that helped make Tiffany famous.

Squires says a Metropolitan Museum of Art researcher came to Beth Emeth to examine the three windows. But she was more astonished by a sample of Tiffanys fabric art owned by Beth Emeth. Its also displayed in a glass case: a silky Torah cover in a shade deep rose with Hebrew words embroidered on it. The researcher said examples of Tiffany's fabric art were rare.

A lot of people dont know that Tiffany made robes, prayer shawls and Torah covers for synagogues, Squires says.

A hall table is loaded with Hanukkah gift bags and little sacks packed with gelt (chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil). Most of the celebrations will be via Zoom but at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec.13, there will be a drive-up Menorah lighting worshippers can enjoy safe and warm in their cars.

Just down the hall, a group portrait of the greatest Jewish baseball heroes crowded in front of one dugoutand most of them autographed their portraits. Sandy Koufax and his signature are front and center. Even better, the artist painted the portrait of every person who bought the work of art into the stands. movie director Rob Reiner and talk show legend Larry King are among the famous buyers painted into the stands. They autographed the painting hanging in Beth Emeth.

The synagogue also has striking sculptures outside the building. But Beth Emeth education director Shara Siegfeld, who looks forward to giving tours of the synagogue when the pandemic ends, says the stained glass windows seem to have an especially powerful impact on visitors.

"When all the sunlight is streaming through, the sensory experience is amazing," she says.

In this pandemic year, when so many have lost loved ones, the Creation windows stir the emotions. Those small windows showing nameless humans set against the vast, blue cascade of Creation remind visitors of how brief one individual life is in the thousands of years before and after one person's birth and death. Yet, as Siegfeld points out, the feeling inspired is somehow reassuring because the small, human scenes are so brightly luminous.

In one, two children and a rabbi gaze at candles burning with orange flames surrounded by gold haloes. In another, a stained glass portrait of three men in prayer shawls, their expressions are so vivid. Its the same expression the children have.

Its awe, says Siegfeld - the awe at how valuable an individual life can be, even if its just one fragment in a huge creation.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Danielle Benson is eternally grateful her life was spared on Thanksgiving, after the minivan she was in got caught in the crossfire of a late-night shooting outside the Troost Market.

"I was praying that I don't get shot," Benson said Tuesday. "I couldn't even get down there because my seat was too far up."

Benson's son and brother were still inside the convenience store when the gunfire stopped. It would eventually cost a man his life and this mother of eight children lost her own way of getting around.

"We got to get to the store and during this Corona[virus pandemic], we can't ask people for rides," Benson said. "We have to literally pay out of pocket to ask people to take us to the store."

But that might soon change.

"She was in the wrong place; wrong time," Jean Peters Baker, Jackson County, Missouri, prosecutor, said.

Peters Baker's office is working to raise money to replace Benson's minivan through a GoFundMe campaign.

"While we can replace doors and windows, we can replace tires, sometimes we cannot replace vehicles," Baker said, referring to the Caring for Crime Survivors program created in 2018. "So thats why were asking for others to help us, even in small amounts, to help us get there."

Other members of the community also are stepping up.

A KCPD spokesperson told 41 Action News they have identified a person of interest in this case. As detectives search for the suspected killer, the departments social workers are helping Benson's family.

"I know a lot of people say stuff about the police, but just seeing how they helped me in this situation I know all of them [are] not bad," Benson said.

The prosecutor's office, with the help of community members, launched the GoFundMe campaign Wednesday afternoon.

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By Monica Laliberte, WRAL executive producer/5 on Your Side reporter

While landscape re-dos, painting and organizing are typically among the most popular home projects, there are a few chores you should see to regularly to keep your family safe.

Start in your laundry room. The washer and dryer are workhorses that need attention to keep from causing you a flood, or worse, fire.

According to the National Fire Protection Association, dryers spark nearly 17,000 fires each year. So at least once a year, vacuum and clean out the air duct and port in the back of the dryer.

Cleaning the lint out of your dryer can actually help the appliance run more efficiently and dry better and cleaning the duct work in particular can help prevent dryer fire, says Paul Hope with Consumer Reports.

Next, check the water hoses on the back of your washer. They should be replaced every five years. If they look brittle, swap them out with a braided, stainless steel version.

Check all doors for loose hinges and tighten screws.

If they just spin, try this contractor tip: Remove the screw and coat two to three toothpicks with wood glue, then push them into the screw hole. Break off the ends that stick out. Once it dries, tighten your screw back in.

In the bathroom, unclog the shower head by soaking it in distilled vinegar for an hour.

For grimy grout and caulk, try a bleach pen.

"If you find that bleach doesnt get out all the stubborn stains from your bathroom, it may be time to re-caulk or even re-grout between the tiles. Caulking is an easy job you can do yourself in an hour or two. While re-grouting between tiles is usually a job best left to the pros, said Hope.

Finally, clean the windows. Choose a cloudy day. Full sun could increase streaks, so can using an ammonia-based cleaner.

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Tempered Glass Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2020-2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global tempered glass market grew at a CAGR of 6% during 2014-2019. Looking forward, the global tempered glass market to be negatively impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. From 2021 onwards, we expect the market to recover and grow moderately during 2021-2025

Tempered glass refers to a type of safety glass that is treated by tempering to impart high durability and strength. The tempering process, involving thermal or chemical treatments, compresses the glass surface, thereby reducing the risks of breakage. Tempered glass is more efficient than the conventional annealed glass in terms of heat resistivity, design versatility, lightweight, scratch resistance, and tensile strength.

Owing to these benefits, it has diverse applications across various sectors, including consumer electronics, automobile, home furnishing, construction, etc. Rapid digitalization coupled with the increasing penetration of smart consumer electronics such as, smartphones, laptops, tablets, etc., is primarily driving the demand for tempered glass.

Furthermore, the increasing awareness towards several structural properties such as durability, thermal shock resistance, tensile strength, etc. has catalyzed the product demand in the automotive and electronic sectors. In addition to this, rapid development in the construction industry has led to the increasing utilization of tempered glass as a durable building material in doors, windows, facades, skylights, etc.

Both developed and developing economies are experiencing high demand for tempered glass owing to the rising construction activities including smart housing projects and increasing demand for smart consumer electronics. Rapid urbanization and rising government expenditure on infrastructural development is also contributing to the escalating market growth in these regions.

Furthermore, remodeling activities across these markets have also led to the replacement of traditional glass with tempered glass in both residential and commercial infrastructures.

Moreover, the rising usage of tempered glass for automobile manufacturing, owing to its lightweight and high strength is further catalyzing the market growth.

Key Questions Answered in This Report:

Key Topics Covered:

1 Preface

2 Scope and Methodology

2.1 Objectives of the Study

2.2 Stakeholders

2.3 Data Sources

2.4 Market Estimation

2.5 Forecasting Methodology

3 Executive Summary

4 Introduction

4.1 Overview

4.2 Key Industry Trends

5 Global Tempered Glass Market

5.1 Market Overview

5.2 Market Performance

5.3 Impact of Covid-19

5.4 Market Forecast

6 Market Breakup by Type

6.1 Plain Glass

6.2 Coloured Glass

7 Market Breakup by Shape

7.1 Flat Tempered Glass

7.2 Bent tempered Glass

8 Market Breakup by Application

8.1 Construction

8.1.1 Market Trends

8.1.2 Major Types

8.1.2.1 Residential

8.1.2.2 Commercial

8.1.2.3 Industrial

8.1.3 Market Forecast

8.2 Automotive

8.2.1 Market Trends

8.2.2 Major Types

8.2.2.1 Rear Window

8.2.2.2 Slide Window

8.2.3 Market Forecast

8.3 Home Appliances

8.3.1 Market Trends

8.3.2 Major Types

8.3.2.1 Refrigerators

8.3.2.2 Washing Machine

8.3.2.3 Microwave and Oven

8.3.3 Market Forecast

8.4 Gadgets

8.4.1 Market Trends

8.4.2 Major Types

8.4.2.1 Smartphones

8.4.2.2 Tablets

8.4.2.3 Laptop and Computers

8.4.3 Market Forecast

8.5 Others

9 Market Breakup by Region

10 SWOT Analysis

10.1 Overview

10.2 Strengths

10.3 Weaknesses

10.4 Opportunities

10.5 Threats

11 Value Chain Analysis

12 Porters Five Forces Analysis

12.1 Overview

12.2 Bargaining Power of Buyers

12.3 Bargaining Power of Suppliers

12.4 Degree of Competition

12.5 Threat of New Entrants

12.6 Threat of Substitutes

13 Competitive Landscape

13.1 Market Structure

13.2 Key Players

13.3 Profiles of Key Players

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As part of our series The 46th, the hosts and guests on The Argument are debating what America under a Biden administration might and should look like.

This week, Ross Douthat is joined first by Jane Coaston, formerly of The Weeds, and future host of The Argument. Together they discuss the reasons for widespread theories of voter fraud among the Republican electorate and what led to such a moment. Then, the senior elections analyst of Real Clear Politics, Sean Trende, joins the pair to discuss the future of Trumpism and whether anybody else can capture the Republican Party quite like Donald Trump. And finally, Jane recommends building your character and your calf muscles.

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Ive been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they intersect. Im a Catholic and a conservative, in that order, which means that Im against abortion and critical of the sexual revolution, but I tend to agree with liberals that the Republican Party is too friendly to the rich. I was against Donald Trump in 2016 for reasons specific to Donald Trump, but in general I think the populist movements in Europe and America have legitimate grievances and I often prefer the populists to the reasonable elites. Ive written books about Harvard, the G.O.P., American Christianity and Pope Francis, and decadence. Benedict XVI was my favorite pope. I review movies for National Review and have strong opinions about many prestige television shows. I have four small children, three girls and a boy, and live in New Haven with my wife. @DouthatNYT

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Copper thieves sent the Spaghetti Bowl into darkness a month ago, but work is underway to have the lights back on by the end of the year.

The replacement comes at an estimated cost of $300,000. The first cost of repairs was estimated at $70,000 for equipment and $70,000 for labor.

We now plan on having all 20 freeway light pole masts located near the downtown Las Vegas Spaghetti Bowl interchange corridor rewired by months end in time for New Years Eve, said Tony Illia, Nevada Department of Transportation spokesman. The increased figure is partly due to new security measures being installed in conjunction with the copper wire re-installation.

Illia declined to detail any of the new security devices so as not to inform possible thieves.

Law enforcement has made several arrests of suspected copper thieves since the outages occurred.

Thieves using power tools and other devices to speed their work stole enough wiring to knock out lighting several weeks ago, leaving only about 30 percent of the freeway lights illuminated along the Spaghetti Bowl corridor and creating a significant safety hazard for motorists.

As state crews worked to restore wiring and lighting, thieves struck again, delaying repairs that NDOT had hoped to be completed by Thanksgiving.

The price of copper has reached $3.29 per pound, up 55 percent from $2.13 per pound five years ago.

We are committed to Nevada motorists staying safe and connected, while undertaking the added theft deterrent measures, Illia said. Meanwhile, we advise motorist caution and attentiveness if traveling through the Spaghetti Bowl corridor at night.

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By Jon Mark Beilue| Amarillo Globe-News

In less than nine months, in time for the Fall 2021 semester, West Texas A&M Universitys contribution to downtown Amarillo will be in full swing. A No Vacancy sign might as well hang from the door of the Harrington Academic Hall WTAMU Amarillo Center at Eighth Avenue and Tyler Street.

We will be full, said WT President Dr. Walter Wendler. For all practical purposes, we will be full to the top. There will be no more unused space. There will be hundreds of students and faculty in and out of that building all day long.

Construction and remodeling have begun on the final of three major pieces to occupy the Amarillo Center WTs School of Nursing. When completed by summer 2021, junior and senior nursing students will be in classes and labs on the second floor, first floor and basement of the building that was formerly the Commerce Building.

We are obviously looking forward to relocating there, said Dr. J. Dirk Nelson, Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. With the build-out and renovation, we will have 25,000 square feet dedicated to the bachelor of science nursing curriculum.

That renovation will include a new skills lab, simulation lab, assessment lab, debriefing room, seminar room and classrooms in addition to office space for 20 to 25. Students, faculty and staff also will benefit by being closer to the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and Amarillos two largest hospitals Northwest Texas Healthcare System and BSA Health System.

Our nursing faculty is second to none, and it will be nice for them to be in a facility like this, Wendler said.

Over the past five years, graduating WT nursing students have a 96.56 percent passing rate on the NCLEX (National Council Licensure Examination), the test for entry-level nurses. The national average is 86.41 percent.

Our passing rate for the test is among the highest in the state of Texas, Wendler said. You cant do much better than 96 percent. You tell people youre doing better than that and they think youre lying.

Most of the nursing faculty is in Old Main on campus, but by the fall semester, they will be entirely out of there and relocated either in the Amarillo Center or the Bivins Learning Nursing Center on campus. The Bivins Center will continue to provide classes in pre-nursing for freshmen and sophomores.

The nursing program will join two departments within the College of Nursing and Health Sciences that have been there since the Amarillo Center opened in March 2019 the Department of Communication Disorders and the Center for Learning Disabilities.

Previously, Communications Disorders was located in the Virgil Henson Activities Center above the swimming pool.

Not ideal, said department chair Dr. Brenda Cross.

The relocation to downtown Amarillo may have positively impacted the WT Speech and Hearing Clinic, a major part of the department, more than any other group.

Moving the clinic was probably the biggest consideration we had to make, Cross said. So many of our clients are from Amarillo, so driving to Canyon did not seem like a big deal. But many physicians were not referring their patients to us because of the drive.

The WT Speech and Hearing Clinic is an outpatient clinic for speech, language and swallowing therapies where services are provided by graduate student clinicians who are supervised by licensed speech-language pathologists and audiologists.

Moving downtown has definitely opened us up as a referral source for local physicians, Cross said. Our client population in the last 1 years has more than tripled. Weve always seen the rural area patients, but weve definitely picked up a larger percentage of Amarillo patients.

Like nursing, pre-communication disorder students go through a second admission prior to their junior year based on grade point average and application. In past, upper-level students transitioned to classes from Old Main to the Activities Center to the Jack B. Kelley Student Center.

We were all over the place for classes, Cross said, so to be able to stay in one building, to have the clinic adjacent to all of our classes, has been seamless.

The other group the Center for Learning Disabilities actually had the shortest move. They were located in the former Chase Tower, less than a block away, but a little move means a lot.

Its been a wonderful opportunity, and one of the greatest differences is the clinic space we have now, said Dr. Michelle Simmons, director of the center and the Lanna Hatton Professor of Learning Disabilities.

The Center for Learning Disabilities focuses on three areas: working with parents and families for those in the home with a learning disability, providing student workshops, and assisting teachers with strategies to help those students to better cope and learn.

We have improved accessibility and a better useability of space, Simmons said. Its a welcoming and beautiful presence for what we do, which is to support and increase opportunities for students with learning disabilities, specifically with reading and attention disorders.

There are other entities in the Amarillo Center, including graduate programs in social work and psychology, and the Small Business Development Center. But the three largest departments will be together. Not only will several hundred be in one building daily to add to downtown commerce, but theres an expected synergy from all together.

We feel a little isolated being the only full-time program here, but having another complete program here from the same college in the building will bring a sense of a more WT feeling, Cross said. We can collaborate in clinics and class. It will make it feel like more of an extension of the main campus instead of out here feeling like its an island sometimes.

Editor's note: This column originally appeared on the WT website.

Do you know of a student, faculty member, project, an alumnus or any other story idea for WT: The Heart and Soul of the Texas Panhandle? If so, email Jon Mark Beilue atjbeilue@wtamu.edu.

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Real estate technology and services company Orchard announced Thursday its adding both home insurance and warranty services to its product offerings. The move comes on the heels of Orchard raising $69 million in funding with a stated goal to become the real estate industrys Amazon.

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Orchards home insurance and warranty services join its existing suite of products, which include a home loans division, title insurance and search tools, all integrated into its consumer-facing dashboard, which launched in September.

At Orchard, were radically simplifying the way people buy their homes, bringing the entire experience, from start to finish, into the 21st century, Court Cunningham, the CEO and co-founder of Orchard, said in a statement.

Cunningham added that Orchards customers have expressed a desire to integrate more parts of the homebuying process into the Orchard platform. Adding home warranty and insurance allows those consumers to have the option to get everything they need to buy a home with Orchard, according to Cunningham.

Orchards insurance offering isnt direct-to-consumer, rather the platform will allow consumers to find the plans that work best for their needs. Consumers fill out an online application within the Orchard platform and receive an email with a side-by-side comparison of options.

Through Orchards warranty platform, customers can buy a protection plan to shield them from many major expenses.

All of the services, as well as associated documents required, are all integrated within the Orchard platform, making tasks like providing proof of insurance so the home loan can close on-time more seamless, according to the company.

Orchard aims to serve dual-track consumers both buying and selling a home at the same time. The company operates in essentially three phases: a modern search platform, enabling customers to buy before they sell with a guarantee, and an all-digital close.

Orchard, which is headquartered in New York City, currently serves customers in Colorado, Georgia and Texas.

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