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Get inspired at Fashion Summit (HK) 2024 — Redress
Join us at Fashion Summit (Hong Kong) to explore the theme ‘Power Up Sustainable Fashion Business’.
Bringing Sustainable Fashion to the Forefront: Redress Empowers Emerging Talent in Shanghai — Redress
Redress Alumni Designers Wowed a Packed-out Runway at Shanghai Fashion Week In front of a hushed crowd of 550 from the fashion industry on 16th October 2024, five Chinese emerging brands brought to life their circular designs on the runway. It was the Redress Design Award returning to Shanghai Fashion Week for the first time in 12 years to spotlight the innovative, sustainable collections of select Chinese Alumni designers.
Announcing the Redress Patrons Programme — Redress
We are proud to announce the launch of our Redress Patrons Programme, an ongoing initiative designed to cultivate a network of industry leaders across Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region. This programme aims to secure diversity funding from prospective Patrons while providing influential figures with valuable insights into sustainable fashion practices.
Redress Student Ambassador Programme offers sustainable fashion experience — Redress
Redress is honoured to be one of the official grantees of the 2024 HSBC Hong Kong Community Partnership Programme (HKCPP) programme. Secondary school students in Forms 4-5 (Grades 10-11) are welcome to join this new programme! Students will learn about fashion’s environmental impact, sustainable entrepreneurship, and restyling secondhand clothing, with support from experts in the industry. The programme will run from November 2024 to February 2025.
Explore how climate change impacts mountains with ‘The Last Glaciers’ documentary — Redress
In partnership with HKOutsider and Mott 32, Redress is pleased to announce the global launch of the cinematic impact and adventure documentary ‘The Last Glaciers: Journey to the Extreme’. The film explores the relationship between climate change and mountain environments, chronicling an epic adventure through 12 countries, shot over seven years, as a group of filmmakers and extreme athletes investigate how and why glaciers are disappearing and what this means for humanity.
Redress Designer Residency explores fashion waste in Hong Kong — Redress
Building on our goal to empower emerging fashion designers to create circular products, Redress is spearheading a new Designer Residency programme. This project supports a selection of Redress Alumni designers through collaborative projects that develop their skills and knowledge, whilst showcasing solutions for waste and providing valuable cross-cultural exposure.
Get Redressed Month 2024 Impact Report Released — Redress
Our Get Redressed Month 2024 Impact Report is out now! Our campaign message ‘Your Clothes, Our Planet’ invited Hong Kong consumers to rethink the relationship between themselves, clothing, and the environment, and discover more sustainable ways to embrace fashion in their daily lives.
Pei-Wen Jin x UNIQLO: ocean-inspired embroidery for clothing longevity — Redress
Redress Alum Pei-Wen Jin was selected from a shortlist of 24 Redress Alumni to be part of an Artist-at-Sea mission last summer, embarking on a six-day scientific expedition focused on the pressing issue of microplastics. Working alongside other artists and marine scientists aboard the research vessel Falkor (too), Pei-Wen’s journey in the Pacific near the Panama Canal was part of the Ocean Rising initiative with Schmidt Ocean Institute and Nekton, which connects culture with the ocean.
COVID-19 Vaccines and Pregnancy
Editor's note: This article was sponsored by the Washington State Department of Health. For most people who want to have children, pregnancy is both a joyous time and one fraught with hormone-fueled anxiety. From what foods to eat (and avoid) to what kinds of exercises are okay during pregnancy, expectant parents want to know they’re doing everything they can to not only give their baby the best chance at a healthy gestation, but also that they are doing no harm.
Have We Lost Our Manners? 5 Important Social Skills All Kids Need to Master
The pandemic has impacted society in so many ways, and after the last year and a half of relative isolation, even the most polite and mannerly kids are struggling with basic social skills. To be clear, socially acceptable behavior is not stagnant, said published author and etiquette expert Deborah King, founder and CEO of Final Touch. “Our core values haven’t changed… kindness and respect are still values.
How Parents Can Support Their Child’s Safest Possible Return to In-Person School
Editor's note: This article was sponsored by the Washington State Department of Health. Anxious parents likely applauded Gov. Jay Inslee’s announcement in August about the vaccination requirement for school employees, but this far into the pandemic, no one expects that this requirement alone will be enough to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in our schools.
Essential Steps to Safeguard Your Child Returning to In-Person Learning
Editor's note: This article was sponsored by the Washington State Department of Health. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reports that there has been a sharp drop in standard vaccinations since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as many kids have missed out on routine doctor’s appointments.
Oncogenic mutations drive intestinal cancer initiation through paracrine remodeling
Three articles in Nature show that intestinal stem cells with cancer-promoting mutations could shape the surrounding normal tissue in their favor to promote clonal fixation and field expansion, raising the possibility of developing therapeutic strategies that maintain or enhance the health of normal cells to out-compete the mutant cells.
Kids Are Back in School: Local Parents Tell Us How It's Going
Local schools are slowly reopening again due to a recent emergency proclamation that requires all area schools to provide an in-person learning option (at least 30 percent of instruction time) by April 19, 2021. Several districts have already invited students back under various hybrid-learning structures. We spoke to three local families about the return to in-person school to see how it’s going.
Barriers and facilitators of implementing an antimicrobial stewardship intervention for urinary tract infection in a long-term care facility
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4 Buzzworthy New Movies to Watch With Your Kids This Fall
It has been quite a year for our kids and it’s hard to keep them isolated from all the bad news. Just like us, kids are struggling and trying to find their own sense of calm amid all the chaos of 2020. A good movie can help us all escape for a little while and can even offer some opportunities for parents and kids to have conversations about tradition, identity, gender and culture. Not to mention the fact that watching a movie with your kid can be a wonderful bonding experience.
Embedding simplified antimicrobial stewardship order sets improves antibiotic prescribing
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Local Parents Are Scrambling for Child Care and Educational Options This Fall
At the time of writing, most school districts have opted to begin the 2020–21 school year with distance learning only. A few are offering two options: a hybrid model or online-only. The amount of definitive information coming forth from area school districts is proving to be achingly slow ahead of a September start, and many parents are still waiting for more details before they can act, though some are putting out feelers for organizing local learning groups.
Gardening With Kids: Easy Steps to a Fruitful Home Garden
As the weather warms up, my family has been looking for more to do outside. Like many families, I've got my eye on growing a garden in our backyard. We’ve done this in the past, with varying degrees of success, but this year I have a few new goals. I want to fully engage my kids, enticing them to enjoy healthier eating, and I'll throw in some biology and weather science while we’re at it. And it'd be great if the effort will actually supplement my regular grocery shopping this summer and fall.
Bay Area’s only Hubei-style restaurant stays open despite coronavirus fears
Hu Bei Restaurant is in a small strip mall on El Camino Real in Millbrae that’s known for its Chinese restaurants. It’s the only one in the Bay Area, however, to specialize in the food of the Chinese province known as the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. When Nina Wei opened Hu Bei just under three years ago, she envisioned a meeting place for people passionate about the culture of the province in central China, with its unique cuisine full of freshwater fish and specialty vegetables.
What Israelis saw when they saw me: Chinese. Dangerous.
Featured Post ‘CORONAVIRUS’ someone screamed. I turned around, and saw a teenager snickering at me. What can we learn from this? Mar 12, 2020, 3:30 PM Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post.
REI Boathouses Offer Affordable Family Fun On the Water
Who doesn't want to spend some of our spectacular Northwest summer days out on the lake? For families with kids who are good swimmers or even kids just starting to learn (all wearing life jackets, of course), a family outing on Lake Washington makes for a safe and idyllic summer adventure. Local outdoor giant REI makes it easy for families to try out a variety of water sports — without the lofty investment of buying your own equipment.
How Chinese restaurants are shut out of the organic food movement
Californians consider it a sacred duty to question where their food comes from, how it has been farmed and what it has been fed. But in his 15 years as a serial Chinese restaurateur in the Bay Area, no one has ever asked Allen Shi how his chickens were raised. “You’re the first!” Shi says, chuckling, when I ask him.
Touchdown! 10 Places for 12th Families to Cheer on the Seahawks
Photo credit: Michele Coates While it's fun to have family and friends over to watch the Seahawks, there's something about hanging out in a sea of blue and green that makes screaming at the television that much more thrilling. Cheer together and swap high-fives with strangers after an amazing play. Console each other after an unfortunate interception. Bonding over a common sports team with a room full of strangers is an experience many fans want to share with their kids. But where to go?
Tired of the Same Ol' Indoor Play Space? Check Out This New Spot
Despite the development boom that has exploded in Bonney Lake and along nearby sections of State Route 410 over the last few years, families in the area have typically had to head down off the plateau (or north to King County) to find indoor play options for their children. With the opening of Kidz Happy Hour in November, however, there is now a local option right in town for rainy-day fun — plus it serves the local community as a birthday party venue.
Seattle Children's Theatre Offers Sweet Surprise in 'The Velveteen Rabbit'
Author Margery Williams wrote "The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real)" in 1922. As with any childhood classic, her themes of identity and transformation, set against the backdrop of a child's love for one cherished toy, are timeless. The story continues to resonate with and enchant readers today, nearly 100 years later. Seattle Children's Theatre's production of "The Velveteen Rabbit," on stage now through Dec.
BrickCon 2022: What Families Need to Know About Seattle’s Lego Convention
Attention, Seattle-area Lego fanatics! Find inspiration for your most awesome creations at our local Lego convention, BrickCon 2022. BrickCon is back in person and taking place Saturday–Sunday, Oct. 1–2, 2022. BrickCon is a Lego expo catering to Lego enthusiasts of all ages, featuring eye-popping Lego displays by master builders. Two decades of bricks Billed as the longest-running fan-based Lego convention, BrickCon is a Lego lovefest where master builders and hobbyists show off their creations.
New We Rock the Spectrum Play Gym Welcomes All Kids
Have a kid who can't get enough swinging, jumping and zip-lining? The new We Rock the Spectrum Kid's Gym, which opened last month in Federal Way, delivers not only these opportunities but also climbing walls and nets, a trampoline, kid-sized exercise equipment and much more — all designed to get those wiggles out.
Bellevue's Gourmet Food Court: Should You Take the Kids?
Families with small children in search of an affordable meal appealing to both kids and adults might not think of Bellevue's upscale Lincoln Square as a dining destination. But that perception is changing, thanks to the new Lincoln South Food Hall. Here, both kids and adults can find something to please. Sitting kitty-corner from Bellevue Downtown Park and its pheonomenal playground, the food hall on Lincoln Square South's second floor is comprised of six kitchens.
Chinese restaurants in the Bay Area: Interactive map
575 Yunnan Eatery, Saratoga Cuisine: Yunnan Signature dishes: Crossing Bridge Noodles with Chicken, Crossing Bridge Noodles with Fish and Pickled Vegetables (on the whiteboard), Crossing Bridge Noodles with Pig’s Intestines (whiteboard), Wood Ear Mushroom salad, Pig’s Ear slices (whiteboard) Food-lore fans will want to order 575’s Crossing Bridge Noodles with a choice of meat and skip the menu’s WW II origin story.
Roundtable: How do you order regional Chinese food off a confusing menu?
At Noodle Shanghai in San Mateo, daily specials are written in Chinese characters on a chalkboard affixed to the wall. At Noodle Shanghai in San Mateo, daily specials are written in Chinese characters on a chalkboard affixed to the wall. It’s one thing to read a short blurb on a great restaurant and another to be confronted with a bewilderingly long menu, trying to figure out what to order while everyone else at the table does the same.
How China’s many regions have changed how Bay Area eats Chinese food
Cloudland Rice Noodle in Newark offers one snapshot of Chinese food in the Bay Area today: Order the restaurant’s signature crossing-the-bridge noodles, and a waiter will tip a plate of fat noodles and thinly sliced meats into scalding chicken soup at your table, sometimes setting down a plate of fried Yunnanese cheese next to the bowl.
How China and Taiwan now transmit food trends to California
The most recent Chinese food trend to make it to the United States is restaurants specializing in roasted whole fish. The concept is like hot pot, but instead of a communal broth, each table gets a large fish served on a miniature grill. Toppings — like chile peppers, onion and peppercorns — are piled high, and the fleshy fish is a conduit for all these flavors.
Q&A with Daihong Zhao, a Sichuanese culinary master
In Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, Daihong Zhao was a culinary instructor specializing in Sichuan-style “small eats” such as dandan noodles and twice-cooked pork. In Sichuan, high school students studying culinary arts learn from a textbook he wrote about these dishes. Over the years, he has taught hundreds of students how to cook his native cuisine, and many have gone on to open Sichuan-style restaurants all over the world. Chef Zhao immigrated to the United States 17 years ago.
Iran nuclear program deal: What it means for the country and the rest of the world
Iran has reached an interim agreement with six world powers, led by the United States, to temporarily halt its nuclear program for six months in return for the easing of sanctions. The deal was reached after weeks of diplomatic talks in Geneva. So what implications does the agreement have for Iran and the rest of the world? The deal is a six-month agreement between Iran and the six world powers of the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany in the grouping known as the P5+1.
Australian couple's Walk Like an Egyptian video goes viral ... in Egypt
A Brisbane couple whose Walk Like an Egyptian holiday video went viral in Egypt is delighted they could give the country's struggling tourist industry a shot in the arm. Zoe Russell and Brad Moore visited Egypt in early 2016 as part of a year-long world trip. They fell in love with the country. While they were there they even got engaged.
Your say: Major parties' paid parental leave schemes
Your say: Major parties' paid parental leave schemes Curated by April Chan Updated August 20, 2013 09:45:04 Tony Abbott has announced the Coalition's Paid Parental Leave scheme that will come into effect in mid-2015 if the Coalition is elected.Do you support the Coalition's policy?
Election 2016: The campaign explained in emoji
The election in emoji Haven't been paying attention this campaign? Get up to speed as we look back emoji-style. On May 9, Malcolm Turnbull called a double dissolution election, dissolving both houses of Parliament and naming July 2 as election day. He was able to do so because legislation to reinstate the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) had been rejected by the Parliament twice. While the trigger for the election, the ABCC has not featured prominently in the campaign.
Election 2016: The campaign explained in emoji
Haven't been paying attention this campaign? Get up to speed as we look back emoji-style. On May 9, Malcolm Turnbull called a double dissolution election, dissolving both houses of Parliament and naming July 2 as election day. He was able to do so because legislation to reinstate the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) had been rejected by the Parliament twice. While the trigger for the election, the ABCC has not featured prominently in the campaign.
Spectacular polar stratospheric clouds lighting up Norway skies
Auroras are famous for their beauty — but a lesser-known, though equally amazing, northern phenomenon has been taking place recently. Spectacular photos have emerged of polar stratospheric clouds (PSC) over Tromso skies in Norway. The photos were taken at 10:30am, according to photographer Truls Melbye Tiller, due to the polar nights currently taking place within the northern polar circles.
Koala finds cool roadside refreshment from rainwater after Adelaide heatwave
How much can a koala bear? One was captured on camera getting a cool drink in Adelaide after record-breaking temperatures. The city broke the record over the weekend for its longest December heatwave on the books, with four consecutive days over 40 degrees Celsius. Paul Jansen was driving along Valley Road in Hope Valley on Sunday morning when he spotted the koala on the side of the road.
Nangua the Francois' Langur, one of the world's rarest monkeys, born at Taronga Zoo in Sydney
One of the world's rarest monkeys has been born at Taronga Zoo. Nangua the Francois' Langur, named after the Mandarin word for pumpkin, was discovered in mother Meili's arms on November 7. Langurs — also known as Francois' leaf monkeys — are usually born with bright orange hair, which is thought to make it easier for adults to identify and look after infants. Their hair slowly changes until it becomes black when they are about one-year-old.
Five dark and gruesome fairytales behind classic Disney movies
While we're all familiar with the 'Disneyfied' versions of fairytales, the family-friendly movies leave out some of the darker and more gruesome details from the original novels and fairytales. Take a look at the original versions of these five classic tales: Glass slippers, an endearing fairy godmother and helpful mice is what usually comes to mind at the mention of this story.
Unbroken: Author Laura Hillenbrand discusses film adaptation of WWII vet Louis Zamperini's life
Despite spending 47 days on a life raft in the Pacific and two years as a Japanese World War II POW, it was not the story of former Olympian Louis 'Louie' Zamperini's life itself that was intriguing but the way he told it, author Laura Hillenbrand says. Hillenbrand, whose 2010 bestselling biography on Zamperini forms the basis of Angelina Jolie's new directing effort, Unbroken, said she still remembered her first phone call with him.
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