Journalist thrashed urinated upon by GRP men in UP
Shamli (Uttar Pradesh): Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel thrashed a journalist who was covering a train derailment near Dhimanpura in the early hours of Wednesday. GRP personnel who were present on the spot, abused, kicked and beat up Amit Sharma of News 24. They snatched his camera. The journalist said that the cops refused to listen to him and continued to thrash him. “I was locked up, stripped and they urinated upon right into my mouth,” Sharma said. Also Read – IAF receives its first Rafale fighter jet from France Several scribes rushed to the police station on learning about the incident and put the video footage of cops beating up Amit Sharma on the social media. The journalists also contacted senior officials at the police headquarters. Station House Officer Rakesh Kumar and GRP constable Sunil Kumar have been suspended and a probe has been ordered into the incident. The journalist was later released. Shamli’s Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar Pandey said that the senior officials had been apprised of the incident which was “unfortunate” and strict action would be taken against the accused.
Residents were advised to ‘get out, hold hands and get wet towels to put around themselves’, and control room operators were told they may need to adopt more “forceful and blunt language” to emphasise the necessity of evacuation.Phone operator BT was also made aware of the change so it could advise residents what to do.Ms Smith said from 2.30am until 4am the influx of calls was “utterly relentless”, adding: “There were tears. Lots and lots of tears.”Looking around, I can only describe the staff as looking broken.” Ms Smith, who was on call manager on the night, was paged at 1.15am and as she was on phone to the Control Room, which was temporarily based in Stratford because of maintenance work in their usual office in Merton, she heard it was developing rapidly and told colleagues she was on her way. Want the best of The Telegraph direct to your email and WhatsApp? Sign up to our free twice-daily Front Page newsletter and new audio briefings. 
She said they were “incredibly worried” the building could collapse, and made a “collective decision” not to watch any coverage of the fire on television.She said: “This was a conscious decision to remain objective to the job in hand.”The last thing we wanted to do was to cause panic or distress to the staff members who were still talking to residents inside the flats whilst the building burned.”A total of 344 calls relating to the Grenfell Tower fire were received by control room operators, a log seen by the inquiry showed. The inquiry was adjourned until Thursday, when Ms Smith will continue with her evidence.
Supsersize classes could become the new norm, it is feared, as new figures show that the secondary school population is set to swell to 3.3 million within a decade.The hike is fuelled by a baby boom in the early 2000s, as well as a high birth rate among women from immigrant communities.The bulge in the population of children has been making its way through the school system, passing up from primary to secondaries.Secondary pupil numbers are expected to rise by 14.7 per cent in the next 10 years, meaning there will be another 418,000 children in secondary schools by 2027, according to Department for Education’s (DfE) latest projections.–– ADVERTISEMENT ––The official forecast will spark fresh concern about the increased class sizes, as well as the squeeze on school places. Professor Alan Smithers, director of the centre for education and employment research at Buckingham University said that the “explosion” in the secondary school population means that class sizes will “almost certainly” rise.“It couldn’t have been a surprise [to officials] as they have seen the numbers coming through primary schools,” he said.“So there really ought to be some plans in place. In essence we are inheriting the whirlwind of Labour’s lax immigration policy.” In essence we are inheriting the whirlwind of Labour’s lax immigration policyProfessor Alan Smithers The DfE’s forecast said the increase in school pupil population is “largely driven by an increase in the birth rate rather than direct immigration”.It went on: “However, that birth rate is in turn affected by any increase in the number of children born to non-UK born women (compared to those born to non UK-born women). “The number of children born to non-UK born women increased by around 75 per cent between 2002 and 2013 (the years in which many children currently in schools were born), although this was a period of increased births generally.”Primary schools have seen an increase in pupil numbers in recent years, but this is now levelling off, the forecast said. There is projected to be around 4.5 million primary-age pupils by 2027, down around 112,000 compared to around 4.6 million this year. Prof Smithers added that the squeeze on school places will be felt more acutely in inner city areas than rural communities. “Population isn’t spread evenly throughout the country and people of different ethnic backgrounds tend to cluster with each other,” he said. “Many of the most affected areas will be the inner cities where lots of the new arrivals to the country have settled, with large families that will greatly increase demands on schools in those neighbourhoods.” A report published by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) earlier this year warned that there is a “growing sense of crisis” in teacher recruitment against a backdrop of soaring pupil numbers.Ministers have failed to “get a grip” on teacher retention, MPs said, adding that it is “particularly worrying” that the number of secondary school teachers has been falling since 2010.The report found that the DfE has a “disparate collection of small-scale interventions” to address the crisis in teacher retention, but these are “inadequate” and fail to address the underlying issues.A Department for Education spokesperson said: “This Government has driven the largest creation in school places in two generations and by 2020, there will be one million more new places across the education system than there were in 2010. Even with a significant rise in pupil numbers in primary schools in recent years, primary class sizes have remained pretty constant.” Secondary pupil numbers are expected to rise by 14.7 per cent in the next 10 years Want the best of The Telegraph direct to your email and WhatsApp? Sign up to our free twice-daily Front Page newsletter and new audio briefings.
Share240 Tweet Email Jun 12th 2018, 10:41 PM 17 Comments A MAN DUE to appear before Cloverhill District Court today has absconded from custody.The incident happened this evening when the man’s case was up for mention at the court in west Dublin.Sources have told TheJournal.ie that the man has not yet been accounted for and is wanted by the authorities. The Garda Press Office said that it was not aware of the case as yet.Investigations are ongoing. Man escapes custody ahead of court hearing It’s understood he escaped in a waiting car. By Garreth MacNamee Tuesday 12 Jun 2018, 10:41 PM A file photo of the sign for Cloverhill Court.
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DANIA BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) – The sunny weather brought more than just people to Dania Beach, Saturday.A shark sighting just feet from shore gave beachgoers quite a scare. Photos show the marine predator next to the Dania Beach Pier while families with children look at it.A 7News viewer posted video of the shark on Instagram.Officials have not reported any bites.
It’s strange to think that while Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence will be trapped in deep space in the film Passengers, most of its audience will be people on Earth. Luckily, people in space will be able to see it too.Sony Pictures said that it’ll be providing a copy of the film to NASA, which will send it up to the International Space Station for the astronauts to view.The marketing campaign for Passengers emphasizes the real-life science connections and studies backing them up. Sony is encouraging viewers to check out NASA’s exoplanet research and the search for a planet that can host human life, along with hosting astronauts and astrophysicists in events and on the red carpet. Pratt and Lawrence appear in a NASA PSA, which you can view below.Former NASA astronauts Garrett Reisman, Michael Massimino, and Nicole Stott will be attendance at the official premiere.In addition to the typical media events before a major motion picture’s release, Sony will also be hosting a science panel. Geek will be live streaming it on our Facebook page and on our website on Friday, Dec. 9 at from 12:15pm to 12:45 p.m PST.The panel will include cast members Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, and Michael Sheen, director Morten Tyldum, and writer Jon Spaihts. On the science side will be CEO of SpaceWorks, Dr. John Bradford and JPL NASA’s Dr. Tiffany Katari. Bradford and Katari will both talk about science elements exclusive to the film, including hibernation for deep space travel, and exoplanets.“The movie is about the very real possibility of traveling to a new home around another star,” said producer Neal Moritz. “It’s fascinating to discover the real science behind that–to see how astronomers are discovering exoplanets and finding ways that what we imagine could someday become a reality.”Geek will also be in attendance covering the event, which takes place in Beverly Hills at the Four Seasons Hotel.Passengers will hit Earth theaters on Dec. 21, 2016. Stay on target Twitter Can Possibly Determine How Successful a Movie IsThe Science in ‘Passengers’ is Close to Being in the ‘Imaginably Possible’ 
Bill Belichick decided to take in last night’s 103-99 Celtics win over the Cavs. He almost got taken out by LeBron James in the process.After James contested a rebound, his momentum carried him into the courtside seats under the basket where The Hoodie was seated. Luckily, James was able to stop himself from plowing over Belichick.It’s not every day you almost see legends collide. Literally.When asked for comment about the incident, Belichick repeatedly mumbled, “We’re onto Cincinnati.” Advertisement Check it out:LeBron James on almost sacking Bill Belichick: ‘I’m not taking no legend out’ #NBA #DefendtheLand #Patriots #NFL pic.twitter.com/hoT5wMYKxo— Jimmy Gower (@SoflaJimmyG) March 2, 2017
Jane McGonigalPhoto© Matthew Stylianou/Corbis OutlineIt’s not every day that a knock in the head leads to an entirely new approach to treating disease, but that’s what sparked SuperBetter, Jane McGonigal’s free online game, which introduced a radical new approach to the prevention and treatment of depression, anxiety and other neurological conditions.In 2009 McGonigal banged her head against a cabinet in her San Francisco home, sustaining a concussion that took nearly a year to heal. This led her to use her Ph.D. in performance studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and her experience building collaborative online games for the World Bank and the American Heart Association to develop a game that would allow her to play her way to better mental health. The result was SuperBetter, which launched at the 2012 SXSW Interactive festival. It asks players to set up progressive, daily goals for themselves and enlist friendsor family to keep them on track. Maria Flynn, Biotechnology Executive Linda Rottenberg, Entrepreneurship Advocate By Jenna Schnuer December 18, 2012 Linda RottenbergPhoto© Anna WolfWhen Linda Rottenberg graduated from Yale Law School in 1993, she knew one thing: She didn’t want to practice law. So off to Argentina she went–to work for Ashoka, an organization that supports social entrepreneurs. Tech entrepreneurship was booming in the U.S. But in Argentina? Rottenberg learned that there wasn’t even a word for entrepreneur there. “Everybody I was meeting who had big talent aspired to a government job,” she says.There was no venture capital. No role models. No support. That sparked the idea for Endeavor, the New York-based organization Rottenberg launched in 1997 with Peter Kellner, an investor who had witnessed the same lack of advocacy for entrepreneurs during a Harvard Business School trip to China. Endeavor finds what Rottenberg calls “high-impact” entrepreneurs around the world and supports them through intense mentoring–each participant gets his or her own board of advisors–and access to a network of local investors. Rottenberg, who serves as CEO, defines high-impact entrepreneurs as those with “the greatest ability to create jobs, generate revenues and become role models for the next generation.” Sophia Amoruso, Tastemaker By Jennifer WangSophia AmorusoPhoto© Marc RoyceIf Sophia Amoruso has her way, the world is about to get a lot more nasty. Last year the 28-year-old founder and CEO of Nasty Gal, an online purveyor of new and vintage fashion for women, rocketed to prominence from seemingly nowhere after scoring a $40 million round of funding from Index Ventures–investors in Skype, Dropbox and Blue Bottle Coffee. For a retailer with scant discounting and zero debt, Nasty Gal has racked up some seriously drool-worthy numbers: international sales of $128 million in 2012, four times higher than the year before; 535,000 Facebook fans; 420,000 Instagram subscribers; 68,000 Twitter followers; and more than 2 million monthly unique visitors to the website in September 2012.In 2006 Amoruso was in her garage, watching bids roll in for the one-of-a-kind vintage clothing pieces she had put up on her eBay store. Seven years later she’s got a view from Nasty Gal’s 10,000-square-foot digs in downtown Los Angeles, boasting arched windows, high ceilings and droves of impossibly cool guys and gals. The bob-haired, bright-lipsticked Amoruso herself arrives in a rock ‘n’ roll black flared miniskirt, blue sneakers and a rainbow-fringed shag jacket.At the heart of the brand’s success is Amoruso’s drive to satisfy the “crazy, freakishly loyal” community that clamors for Nasty Gal’s ultra-affordable, young-skewing new merchandise, which is curated from an array of up-and-coming designers, as well as vintage items from luxury brands. “I will never stop making things and imagining cool and trippy things for those girls, and that will become a bigger part of what we do,” she says.Right now Amoruso is on the hunt for more office space in the neighborhood to house her ever-expanding staff–150 employees and counting, with 65 hires in 2012 alone–including executive talent poached from Stella & Dot, Shopzilla, Amazon, Jawbone and Gap. That’s in addition to a 500,000-square-foot warehouse that opened in the fall in Louisville, Ky.; the launch of a mobile site; and the simultaneous debut of the biennial Super Nasty print magazine and the brand’s first in-house collection, Weird Science, featuring color palettes inspired by computer cables and prints based on data-corruption visuals.All this, Amoruso asserts, is just the beginning. “We are transitioning from a retailer to a full-fledged brand,” she says. “Part of the reason I got to where I am is I never set a goal or look at the top. I like figuring out how to do things myself, and I like the idea of creating an online brand that will last a long time.” Tara Hunt, Social Marketing Authority By Michelle Juergen Olga Koper, Nanotechnologist By Jennifer Wang 15+ min read Yael Cohen, Philanthropist By Gwen Moran Sophia Amoruso, TastemakerLinda Rottenberg, Entrepreneurship AdvocateOlga Koper, NanotechnologistYael Cohen, PhilanthropistMaria Flynn, Biotechnology ExecutiveTara Hunt, Social Marketing AuthorityJane McGonigal, Game Developer Tara Hunt, Social Marketing Authority Tara HuntPhoto© Lane HartwellBefore Timeline and tweets, before a blog was called a blog, before anyone even knew what a web browser was, Tara Hunt was there. Often labeled a pioneer of online and social marketing, the 39-year-old Canadian has been an observer of the realm’s development and a force in influencing it.Hunt says her own evolution has been “a combination of being enamored and obsessed with the social web and being in the right place at the right time.” She was able to experiment in online marketing early on at startups in Toronto and San Francisco, when numbers of followers and likes weren’t crucial to anyone’s bottom line. There, Hunt found that organic engagement–developing relationships with a community in a natural, hands-on way, rather than pushing a message or brand image–was the most powerful driver of customer loyalty. (She even wrote a bestselling book on the subject: 2009’s The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business.) Olga KoperPhoto© Tom McKenzieNanotechnology is all about small–manufacturing with atoms and manipulating materials no bigger than a billionth of a meter–but its potential is Brobdingnagian. Steve Jurvetson of powerhouse venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson has called nanotech “the next great technology wave, the next phase of Moore’s Law and the nexus of scientific innovation that revolutionizes most industries and indirectly affects the fabric of society.”At the crest of this wave is Olga Koper, research leader at Columbus, Ohio’s nonprofit Battelle Memorial Institute since May 2011 and holder of more than 30 U.S. and international patents for composition and applications of nanomaterials.Koper, who describes her research as a “humongous playground to apply science to change and improve lives,” isn’t your usual ivory-tower type. “A lot of academia and national labs are great at fundamental science but don’t know how to turn it into a product,” she says. “In business, you have to take calculated risks, have failures and learn from them, and you have to address actual needs of the market–not with a ‘nice to have,’ but a ‘have to have.'” Jane McGonigal, Game Developer By Grant Davis Sophia Amoruso, TastemakerLinda Rottenberg, Entrepreneurship AdvocateOlga Koper, NanotechnologistYael Cohen, PhilanthropistMaria Flynn, Biotechnology ExecutiveTara Hunt, Social Marketing AuthorityJane McGonigal, Game Developer “Games promote positive health aspects, optimism, social support and resilience,” McGonigal says. “We know games have the power to change the state of the brain, stimulating parts of the brain that therapy doesn’t.”Leaders in science are taking her work seriously. Last year The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center began clinical trials on the efficacy of SuperBetter to treat traumatic brain injuries, and the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center greenlighted a randomized controlled user study of the game to treat depression. Results from the UPenn study are expected this spring.According to McGonigal, the appeal of SuperBetter (which is played by 125,000 people worldwide) is that unlike many medications that treat such conditions, it has no side effects–and people always want to see what works better than current protocols. It’s a big promise, and to shepherd her game into the healthcare arena, McGonigal has taken an “entrepreneurial sabbatical” of undetermined length from her role as director of games research and development at Palo Alto, Calif.’s Institute for the Future.”Ninety-nine percent of teenage boys and 94 percent of teenage girls in this country play online games,” she says, equating the acceptance of gaming by the next generation to TV watching. She also points out that there are more than 1 billion people playing online games around the world. “And all these people are learning from their failures,” she says. “Gamers fail 80 percent of the time, but they keep playing. There’s a connection between becoming a good gamer, learning from failure and being better at making life a game.” The technology is being applied in numerous ways, such as developing a vaccination that includes the follow-up dose; taste-masking oral pills to neutralize flavor; and even working with antimicrobials for the U.S. Department of Defense to improve ready-to-eat meals for the Army.”It’s a challenge to get from the academic lab into a full-scale manufacturing process, so we’d like to be that facilitator of technology in the control-release space,” Flynn says. Eventually, she adds, “we’d like to see a turnkey system that can go into a lot of different places.”Flynn, who has an MBA and degrees in civil and environmental engineering, formerly worked in business development for international healthcare IT firm Cerner. Wishing to pursue an entrepreneurial venture, in 2008 she joined with co-founders Bo Fishback and Cory Berkland at Orbis. Her diverse background gave her the ability “to go into industries and learn quickly and put pieces together,” she says.”There’s a need for innovative working models, and I think an entrepreneurial setting is a great place to set that up,” adds Flynn, who for the past four years has also been involved in Pipeline, a community for Midwestern entrepreneurs in technology and life sciences. “Work with the best people you can, the best partners you can find, and stretch each other farther than you think you might be able to go.” Maria Flynn, Biotechnology Executive By Michelle Juergen This hands-on workshop will give you the tools to authentically connect with an increasingly skeptical online audience. Free Workshop | August 28: Get Better Engagement and Build Trust With Customers Now Sophia Amoruso, TastemakerLinda Rottenberg, Entrepreneurship AdvocateOlga Koper, NanotechnologistYael Cohen, PhilanthropistMaria Flynn, Biotechnology ExecutiveTara Hunt, Social Marketing AuthorityJane McGonigal, Game Developer We can only hope that one day soon there’ll be no reason to single out women as a specific category when we look at up-and-comers in the world of business. But the current reality is this: While the number of U.S. companies owned by women is increasing faster than those of other groups, those companies are responsible for just 6 percent of the country’s employees and 4 percent of revenue, according to a 2012 report commissioned by American Express Open. Meanwhile, many studies maintain that women have significantly reduced access to capital and encounter less favorable loan rates. And don’t get us started on the discrepancies in compensation between men and women performing equal work.As relevant (and dispiriting) as these financial truths may be, they are at odds with the fact that fundamentally women are a more powerful presence in business than ever, as a work force and as entrepreneurs, technicians and corporate leaders. Here, we’ve identified innovators from several significant sectors: science, technology, retail and health, not to mention social and business services. We are certain their contributions and influence will have a profound impact going forward. Maria FlynnPhoto© Ryan Nicholson/Wonderful MachineWhen you’re waiting for that pill to kick in to ease your migraine, dragging your kid kicking and screaming to the doctor for a booster shot or holding your nose to down a fish-oil capsule, Maria Flynn feels your pain. That’s why she’s in the business of making those experiences a bit more tolerable.Flynn is president and CEO of Orbis Biosciences, a Kansas City, Kan.-based startup that develops original controlled-release delivery systems for the pharmaceutical and consumer product industries. Traditional techniques for making controlled-release solutions (for things like medications, vitamins, flavoring agents and pest-control products) create non-uniform particles that can lead to variable delivery; Orbis’ technology creates microspheres of an exact uniform size, allowing for highly precise release rates and dosage control. Sophia Amoruso, TastemakerLinda Rottenberg, Entrepreneurship AdvocateOlga Koper, NanotechnologistYael Cohen, PhilanthropistMaria Flynn, Biotechnology ExecutiveTara Hunt, Social Marketing AuthorityJane McGonigal, Game Developer This story appears in the January 2013 issue of . Subscribe » Back in 2007 Koper joined the charter class of Pipeline, an invitation-only mentoring organization affiliated with the Kauffman Foundation and Microsoft, known for honing business-development skills in new entrepreneurs. As CTO and vice president of NanoScale Corporation, a spinoff of Kansas State University (where she earned her Ph.D. in chemistry), she led the development of commercial products. Among them were FAST-ACT, a nanopowder that absorbs and mitigates toxic and waste chemicals, and an in vitro cancer-diagnosis system–currently in animal and preliminary human testing–in which nanoparticles measure the activity of cancer-specific enzymes in blood and urine using luminescence.At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy-storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum-based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.”It’s exciting, because the research can make a huge impact in energy storage and the oil and gas industry,” she says. “Hopefully we’ll see products containing these nanomaterials in the market.”And not a (nano)second too soon. Sophia Amoruso, TastemakerLinda Rottenberg, Entrepreneurship AdvocateOlga Koper, NanotechnologistYael Cohen, PhilanthropistMaria Flynn, Biotechnology ExecutiveTara Hunt, Social Marketing AuthorityJane McGonigal, Game Developer Linda Rottenberg, Entrepreneurship Advocate Yael CohenPhoto© Jamie HodgeYael Cohen has a potty mouth, and she’s not afraid to use it. After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009, Cohen made her a “F*** cancer” T-shirt, then started a Facebook group by the same name. Before long, the group had more than 1,000 members sharing support. Four years later, and with nearly 66,000 Facebook followers, F*** Cancer has turned into a fast-growing nonprofit.The primary goal of the Vancouver, British Columbia-based organization is to spread the word about early detection. F*** Cancer has dozens of brand ambassadors using social media to encourage teens and twentysomethings to talk to their parents about getting mammograms, colonoscopies and other diagnostic screenings to “actively look for cancer, not just find it. Cancer is most curable at stage I,” Cohen says. But this isn’t your typical charity for the politically correct set. The organization’s cheeky attitude and Cohen’s seemingly boundless energy have attracted celebrities like One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush to help get the word out. The marketing is edgy: October’s “Touch Yourself” campaign in partnership with Women’s Health and Men’s Health magazines ditches traditional pink National Breast Cancer Awareness Month branding in favor of a naked woman holding her breasts, encouraging women to do self-exams for early detection.F*** Cancer’s December 2012 fundraising brought in roughly $500,000. Cohen has built trust among donors by posting an infographic on the organization’s website that tracks incoming donations and expenses. She says that kind of transparency is important to her community, which expects access to information about the organization’s activities and how its money is being spent.”For our parents and grandparents [cancer is] the ‘C-word,'” she says. “We want to shift away from that fear-based marketing and focus on the fact that approximately 90 percent of cancers are curable if caught in stage I.” Jane McGonigal, Game Developer Olga Koper, Nanotechnologist Now, says Hunt, who currently works as digital and content director at Tuxedo Agency in Montreal, the rules have changed. Companies want customers immediately, and they want to bypass the work it takes to get them. “Brands [are] vying for attention and throwing a lot of money trying to get that attention and bending the rules of the social sphere,” she says. “Social networks like Facebook, Tumblr and YouTube have built a lot of tools to help brands jump the line by paying a certain amount of money.” Those tools help support the ecosystem, so they aren’t necessarily bad, Hunt says, unless they prevent companies from learning how to truly engage with their customers.”When it comes to social, small is the new big,” she declares. Businesses that take the grassroots tack, “playing by the rules of engagement for building real relationships, not paid-for relationships,” are the ones with staying power. Hunt cites Zappos, the darling of social marketing, whose focus on little gestures results in dedicated and satisfied customers who are happy to spread the word.Hunt likens her industry to a pimply teenager: still making mistakes, still experiencing growing pains. Even her own recent startup, Buyosphere, has evolved, pivoting from a social retail platform offering insight into community buying patterns to a fashion-advice network. And as social marketing continues to find its footing, Hunt is happy to help guide it through adolescence. Sophia Amoruso, TastemakerLinda Rottenberg, Entrepreneurship AdvocateOlga Koper, NanotechnologistYael Cohen, PhilanthropistMaria Flynn, Biotechnology ExecutiveTara Hunt, Social Marketing AuthorityJane McGonigal, Game Developer The basic idea hasn’t strayed much from Rottenberg’s initial plan. “We had sketched out search, select, support, give back–that the entrepreneurs would start giving back to Endeavor,” she says. “On the big-picture level, it is almost exactly what we had envisioned.”But the program’s influence is even greater than Rottenberg could have imagined. Since its founding, Endeavor–which has 17 offices around the world and is aiming for 25 by 2015–has worked with 726 entrepreneurs. In 2011 program participants earned $5 billion in revenue and created 200,000 jobs. And they are starting to step up to the give-back portion of the program as well: In 2012 two Endeavor entrepreneurs each gave $1 million to their local offices. “They’re now mentors and angel investors themselves,” Rottenberg says.That reciprocation is at the heart of Rottenberg’s mission. “The No. 1 factor for catalyzing the [entrepreneurial] ecosystem is successful entrepreneurs investing and mentoring the next generation,” she says. “[It’s] even more important than institutional venture capitalists.” Yael Cohen, Philanthropist Sophia Amoruso, TastemakerLinda Rottenberg, Entrepreneurship AdvocateOlga Koper, NanotechnologistYael Cohen, PhilanthropistMaria Flynn, Biotechnology ExecutiveTara Hunt, Social Marketing AuthorityJane McGonigal, Game Developer Enroll Now for Free
Perth Airport Perth Airport has announced it has secured Broad Construction Services (WA) Pty Ltd to undertake the first stage of it’s A$300 million expansion works of the international terminal.The initial construction stage will begin in May 2012, and includes a major expansion of the incoming duty free retail shops, immigration area on the first level and the baggage reclaim hall.The expansion which is scheduled to be completed in 2014 will help alleviate the congestion in queuing and waiting times for its customers.Perth Airport chief executive officer, Brad Geatches said the expansion would ensure the airport was able to meet the rapid growth in international passenger numbers. “We are very aware that, due to the growth in international passengers to over 3.3 million in 2011, more than 220,000 up on the prior year, the current international arrivals experience is not what it should be,” Mr Geatches said.“We are committed to ensuring everyone who travels through Perth Airport has a high quality experience, so we are completely changing the arrivals journey and doubling the size of all processing areas.”Mr Geatches said Broad Construction Services is also currently working on the construction of the new A$120 million Domestic Terminal, which will service regional WA and some interstate routes from early next year.Additionally, in an effort to reduce congestion to the International Terminal, Perth Airport has just completed a new intersection between Tonkin Highway and Dunreath Drive.The A$10 million intersection is located to the north of the current Tonkin Highway/Leach Highwayintersection. The intersection allows passengers to travel between Tonkin Highway and the International Terminal, however, it does not allow access to the Domestic Terminals. “We are investing more than A$750 million over three years to expand Perth Airport, and thetransformation of the current International Terminal represents the first stage towardsachieving our vision of having all commercial air services operating from one convenient location by 2020,” Mr Geatches added.