James Calleja, chief executive of the Malta Qualifications Council, is fourth from left. The Malta Qualifications Council held the second partners meeting of its Leonardo da Vinci project EQF-Frame (European Qualifications Framework - Flexible References and Methods of Evaluation) in Barcelona. MQC is leading the project, which attempts to align tourism studies qualifications to the EQF together with five other partners from Austria, Slovenia, Spain, Italy and Greece. The project is led by the chief executive of the Malta Qualifications Council (MQC), James Calleja. The project will now move into its third phase with the production of the EQF-INFO Tool, the manual on the alignment process of tourism studies qualifications to the EQF and the preparation of an international information session which will take place in Malta in December next year. MQC is also involved as partner in two other Leonardo projects focusing on the qualifications of security personnel led by Lithuania and on the design of qualifications in electronic engineering aligned to the EQF headed by Austria. read more
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Engineer and inventor Pascal Cotte virtually strips away centuries of sometimes sloppy restoration work to provide a digital image of a painting as it may have left the artist's studio — an abiding question among art historians and art lovers about such masterpieces. Though a major piece in the Czartoryski collection, nagging doubts persisted over how much of "Lady with an Ermine" was da Vinci's own hand and how much was that of his assistants. Cotte's conclusion, based on a virtual version he built as close as possible to the original, suggests it is nearly 100 percent da Vinci's handiwork. But Cotte's scan confirmed the existence of fingerprints which had fuelled Polish experts' long-held belief that the majority of the work was da Vinci's, she said. He recently took part in an international study of what is arguably the world's most famous painting, da Vinci's Mona Lisa, which hangs in the Louvre museum in Paris. Franck and Cotte believe da Vinci may originally have painted the ferret-like animal lower down the portrait of the woman thought to be Cecilia Gallerani, who was the mistress of the Duke Lodovico Sforza of Milan. read more
Over 500 years have passed and nowhere in the world do Leonardo’s words resonate with greater truth than in Bayview Hunters Point, where a civil war for environmental justice swells in numbers, showing those who cannot - and will not - see the error of their ways. The Gita depicts the beginning of the great war to save justice and civilization, in which Arjuna, a prince and warrior for the forces of justice shrinks on seeing his nearest relations, teachers and friends in the opposing army. A class action lawsuit filed by Wartnick Law Firm on behalf of plaintiff George Donald Porter, whose contributing cause of death was pulmonary asbestosis, was settled out of court. His source of exposure was determined to be the warehouses sited on the Hunters Point Shipyard where friable man-made asbestos is present and documented in environmental studies including the Finding of Suitability to Transfer for Parcel A. read more
