The original Castlevania for the NES from 1986 was the starting point of a franchise that, much like its main antagonist, refuses to stay buried. A trendsetter in platformers, the series went through many changes over the years to stay fresh, but one version that tried to freshen up the game wound up stinking like […]
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Contractors can start building tower blocks with some gaps in design details under the new building safety regime, the regulator in charge has said. In a webinar explaining how the new rules for higher-risk buildings (HRBs) will work under the regime starting in April, Neil Hope-Collins, the operational policy lead for HRB building control authority
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Sam Barnes is a partner and national head of cost management at consultancy RLB UK Last year wasn’t the best of years to be a contractor. The last seven months of 2023 saw major contractors such as Henry Construction, Buckingham and Michael J Lonsdale go into administration, and in November, Laing O’Rourke posted a £288m
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One of the funniest things about the album Talkie Walkie is that it turns out, the two guys in the band Air — Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel — were not trying to be funny with that title. Translated from French, a “walkie walkie” is a “talkie walkie.” Yes, it scans as a kind of
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Making Feedback More Palatable For Online Learners Providing feedback to online students is a complex process. The independent nature of online learning means that students can be more sensitive to having their work critiqued. While there are ways of increasing online student resilience, it’s also helpful to focus on your methods of giving feedback. The
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Tolent has lost a tribunal case after it failed to consult Unite before making hundreds of redundancies when it entered administration last year. Unite was a recognised trade union for skilled, unskilled and craft employees of Tolent, the £200m-turnover contractor based in Gateshead that collapsed in February 2023 following difficulties with inflation and a loss-making
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Aramco is looking to seal more downstream deals in Asia, particularly in China and India, as it bets on continued demand growth in its most important market for long-term buyers of its crude, the Saudi oil giant’s Downstream President Mohammed Al Qahtani told Bloomberg in an interview. Saudi Aramco,
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Asia-Pacific markets mostly declined Friday as electric vehicle stocks in the region dropped for a second day, while investors also digested inflation data from Tokyo. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 dived 485.9 points, or 1.3%, to 35,751.07, after the January inflation reading from Tokyo came in softer compared to December. Tokyo’s data
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The Chinese government has approached Iran’s leadership to seek help with ending Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea. This is according to a Reuters report citing unnamed sources from Iran. “Basically, China says: ‘If our interests are harmed in any way, it will impact our business with
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A Scottish court has upheld an adjudication that found an Amey joint venture should have been paid £1.8m over a delayed electrical substation project. Amey Power Services and UK Grid Solutions built a new electrical substation building and associated infrastructure in Fort Augustus, near Loch Ness in the Highlands, under the name GE Amey JV.
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