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Romanian government survives no-confidence vote by lawmakers
Romanian Premier Viorica Dancila smiles after a parliament session that debated a no confidence motion against her cabinet in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. The Social Democrat government survived a no-confidence vote called by opposition parties following weak results by the ruling party's candidates in the European Parliament elections last month. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Romanian Premier Viorica Dancila takes off her glasses during a parliament session debating a no confidence motion against her cabinet in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. The Social Democrat government survived a no-confidence vote called by opposition parties following weak results by the ruling party's candidates in the European Parliament elections last month. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
BUCHAREST, Romania – Romania's government has survived a no-confidence vote by lawmakers, as opposition parties did not gather enough support in parliament for their motion to oust Prime Minister Viorica Dancila.
Two hundred lawmakers voted Tuesday against the coalition led by the Social Democrats, who underperformed in last month's European Parliament election and saw their leader, Liviu Dragnea, sent to prison after a corruption conviction.
The opposition needed votes from more than half of all 465 lawmakers to pass the no-confidence motion.
It was the third time Dancila's government, which also includes the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, has survived such a challenge.
Romania will elect a new president this coming fall. Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in 2020.


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By Claire Jackson on	 November 29, 2019 &nbspAnalysis	Features
Inspired by the centenary of the women's right to vote in the US, New York Philharmonic tells Claire Jackson about its 'vital' commissioning project.
When the BBC Proms announced that half of all new commissions will go to women composers by 2022, there was consternation among some members of the industry. Sally Cavender, vice-chairman of Faber Music, told The Telegraph in the UK that such a quota was unnecessary because there has been a "huge recent expansion of opportunities" for female composers and "the playing field is relatively level in terms of opportunities and encouragement." According to Cavender, the BBC's pledge to reach a 50/50 balance on new Proms commissions means that opportunities for talented men "will have to fade regardless of their talent or pre-eminence, given that there is only so much space in programmes for new music."
Perhaps the UK needs to take a leaf out of the New York Philharmonic (NY Phil)'s book. The orchestra is dedicating swathes of programming to new music and its current season is a colourful whirl of exciting concerts that blend old and new repertoire, from a broad range of contemporary composers. One example is the recent premiere of Bryce Dessner's Wires, an electric guitar concertante piece with the composer as soloist. Wires was paired with Sibelius's First Symphony in a gloriously contrasting programme, followed by a late-night musical offering of pieces by Dessner, Kaija Saariaho, Berio and Meredith Monk under the orchestra's innovative 'Nightcap' series.
"It's critical for a high-profile orchestra to incorporate alternative kinds of music, concert formats and locations," says Deborah Borda, the enterprising president and CEO of NY Phil.
The Nightcap series invites audiences to end their the evening, 'with a drink and an intimate musical exchange in the glow of the skyline as seen from the Kaplan Penthouse.' Just like a well-made Manhattan cocktail, this blended approach to curation is nicely rounded – with a kick.
Jaap van Zweden conducts New York Philharmonic in world premiere of Julia Wolfe's Fire in My Mouth © Chris Lee
The cherry on top of the NY Phil's commitment to contemporary music is Project 19 – a long-term initiative to commission and premiere 19 new works by 19 women composers, inspired by the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment that gave American women the right to vote. Project 19 is thought to be the largest women-only commissioning initiative in history.
"Project 19 is vital," says Jaap van Zweden, NY Phil's music director, with an emphasis on vital. "It's time that women's voices be increased in the area of composition and the celebration of the right to vote for women in the US is the ideal occasion."
Project 19 officially launches in February 2020 when Van Zweden leads the NY Phil in three world premieres. First up is Nina C Young's commission, which is performed on 5, 6, 8 and 11 February; Pulitzer Prize-nominated Tania León's commission follows (13, 15, and 18 February), featuring with a special Nightcap event curated by León (15 February). The Project 19 commission by Ellen Reid – co-founder of Luna Composition Lab, a mentorship programme for young self-identified female, non-binary, and gender non-conforming composers – will then receive its premiere (20-22 February).
"I am excited about Project 19," enthuses Borda. "It's remarkable to think it was only one hundred years ago that women got the right to vote in America, and in looking at our own business, it was not until the mid-1960s that women could play in major American orchestras. We've made tremendous progress as we now also see women conductors on the podium, but one of the areas where you can statistically examine the discrepancy is in the number of pieces by women composers performed on the concert stage: last season less than 3% of the work performed [in the US]was by women composers."
The other 16 commissioned composers are Unsuk Chin, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Joan La Barbara, Nicole Lizée, Caroline Mallonee, Jessie Montgomery, Angélica Negrón, Olga Neuwirth, Paola Prestini, Maria Schneider, Caroline Shaw, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Joan Tower, Melinda Wagner and Du Yun.
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Sen. Sharp comments on State Ed. Dept. decision to exclude writing scores from A-F
Sen. Ron Sharp, R-Shawnee, issued the following statement after state Superintendent Janet Barresi announced the 5th- and 8th-grade writing scores would be excluded from the calculation for the A-F report cards for public schools this year. The decision arose from concerns about the writing test scores from testing vendor CTB-McGraw Hill.
"I want to thank the State Department of Education for listening to the concerns raised by educators in my district and across the state.
Senate President Pro Tem responds to federal government decision to deny extension of No Child Left Behind waiver
Senate President Pro Tempore Brian Bingman today said the federal government's decision to deny the extension of Oklahoma's No Child Left Behind waiver will punish the state and further an agenda to control schools.
The decision could force Oklahoma schools to reexamine their budgets to comply with federal regulations. Bingman said the denial was a political statement intended to punish Oklahoma for implementing reforms that empower parents and communities and encourage the adoption of more rigorous educational standards.
Op-Ed: A Convention of the States may be our best chance to reign in the federal government
In recent months, candidates for elected office across Oklahoma have promised to fight against our ever-expanding federal government and its growing intrusion into our lives. Invoking the language of our founders, they lament the loss of state sovereignty but rarely recommend workable solutions to the problem. Our nation's founders always feared an oppressive federal power and taught us that it's our duty to free ourselves from oppression and reestablish our union.
Senate leader appoints Sen. Simpson to NCSL veterans task force
OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate President Pro Tempore Brian Bingman recently appointed Sen. Frank Simpson to the National Conference of State Legislature's (NCSL) Veterans and Military Affairs Task Force. The task force examines issues affecting military-community relations and the health and well-being of veterans.
Legislators focus on welfare reform in Oklahoma
Three state legislators are working with a conservative think tank to ensure that welfare is used as the temporary safety net that it was designed to be rather than a long term crutch. Last week, Sen. Rob Standridge worked with the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) in hosting a forum on welfare reform in Oklahoma along with Rep. Jason Nelson and Rep. Tom Newell. The featured speaker was conservative political activist Star Parker who discussed her visionary ideas on empowering those trapped in the welfare system.
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The Oklahoma Aging Partnership (OAP), a nonpartisan coalition of organizations dealing with aging issues, has released its annual report. The organization includes the Oklahoma Alliance on Aging, the Oklahoma Silver Haired Legislature Alumni Association, AARP Oklahoma and the Oklahoma State Council on Aging. State Sen. Kim David is among those lawmakers who helped win passage for bills OAP identified as important to Oklahoma seniors.
Newberry: unemployment reforms will produce savings for Oklahoma employers next year
Sen. Dan Newberry today said most Oklahoma employers will pay lower unemployment taxes in 2015, due in part to key unemployment measures signed into law in recent years. Reforms have strengthened the state's workforce system and unemployment insurance trust fund, allowing for lower unemployment benefit payments, he said.
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published by inigoart.com September 1, 2017
It is back-to-school time and I would like to wave the summer goodbye in the gentlest way possible, featuring Cartas y Atardeceres (Letters and Sunsets) by Diango Hernández. The ongoing project exists online. The artist sources photographs of modern architecture and superimposes his characteristic graphic waves inspired by letters as a literary genre as well as actual letters from relevant personalities.
"This is a project proposal, a sort of collage. Something I am currently developing which involves buildings that I consider remarkable. Special places that my imaginary letters just activate."
Diango Hernández was born in 1970 in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, where he studied industrial design. His path changed when he opted for an artistic career and decided to travel abroad, before settling in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he currently lives and works. His work includes drawings, paintings and sculpture depicting colourful sea waves, tropical fruits, sunsets and birds. These reduced graphic marks of Latin American motifs border the commonplace and yet they are doorways to a conversation about colonial heritage, the costal breeze, the light by the seaside and the fluid cross between reality and fiction.
I came across the project through Instagram, where the artist shares some of his works, and this prompted our personal correspondence…
Dear Diango,
My name is Marina and yesterday night we had a brief exchange on Instagram, when you shared a photograph of the complex La Muralla Roja in Calpe from your Cartas y Atardeceres project. I had seen other posts that you had shared of buildings in Japan and thought they were real. Thanks for clarifying! The truth is that the project, although unrealized, does not lose any merit. I think it actually gains on poetic charge. I have tried to find information about it on your web page but I have not found it. I would love to know more, if possible.
Dear Marina I love that you like Letters and Sunsets. This is a rather 'silent' project -social media, is perfect for this kind of reflection-. The limits of fiction and therefore of the real dissolve kickly these days, the 'Here and Now' is more a 'There and Then'; everything reminds us of something else.
Cartas y Atardeceres (Letters and Sunsets) activates images, it pushes us to look at a familiar image again. In any picture there is always a small space available for art, a corner, a window or an apparently empty wall.
P.S: I have taken the images from the web they lack photographic captions. Just warn you, I don't want you to have troubles because of that. Here I send you a few images.
Thank you so much for your interest and sensitivity!
Thank you Diango!
I will publish them with pleasure. And thanks for letting me know regarding the credits. May I ask you a question? When you refer to these paintings as letters, do you have in mind literary references or personal writings that translate into pages of waves? Or do you write in waves in the same way that you paint them on a canvas or paper?
Super! The letter or missive as a literary genre interests me a lot. The basis of these works are letters of all sorts: love, farewell, friendship or just story-telling. Many are also political or have been written by personalities. As for example, Che's farewell letter to Fidel or José Martí to his friend Manuel Mercado.
"My dearest brother, I can write now. I can now tell you with what tenderness and gratitude and respect I love you, and to that house that is mine, and my pride and obligation. I am in danger of giving up my life for my country every day because it is my duty, because I understand it and I have the courage to do it. To prevent, in time, with the independence of Cuba, that they spread throughout the Antilles the United States and fall, with that force, on our lands of America. Everything I have done until today, and I will continue to do, is for that. It has had to be done in silence, and indirectly, because there are things that to be successful must be hidden."
Manuel Antonio Mercado was a dear friend of José Martí since 1875, year when Martí had moved from Cuba to Mexico. Almost two decades later, on May 18th 1895, hours before José Martí was gunned down by Spaniard troops while fighting for Cuba's Independence during the Battle of Dos Ríos, he wrote a letter to Mercado expressing his final thoughts to gain Cuba's Independence. Martí's letter was published posthumously.
Diango.
I was reading today a lot about Marti's life and ideas. I found it fascinating. I must say, Spanish schools don't teach much about their colonial past sadly.
I will include this excerpt in the article. This one is rich in personal, political and historical implications. If there are other letters that you find you would like to see the images together with, maybe with a different tone: romantic, anonymous, inspirational, etc… Please feel free to let me know.
Thank you so much for your openness.
Dear, you are right that's from Martí to Mercado. Indeed, there's so much to read and learn from such kind heart!
Please use the material in the way you like it. I am totally open regarding how writers use my or any thought, somehow that's one of my weak points.
Thank you so much for everything! Your blog is tremendous, love it! I think I even took images from it once….
P.S: This is a letter I have used in several projects. It is from John Steinbeck to his son.
Good luck and thank you again.
New York November 10, 1958
Dear Thom: We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.
First — if you are in love — that's a good thing — that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second — There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind.
The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release strength in you and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn't know you had.
You say this is not puppy love. If you feel so deeply — of course it isn't puppy love.
But I don't think you were asking me what you feel. You know better than anyone. What you wanted me to help you with is what to do about it — and that I can tell you.Glory in it for one thing and be very glad and grateful for it.
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.
If you love someone — there is no possible harm in saying so — only you must remember that some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into consideration.
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another — but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.Lastly, I know your feeling because I have it and I'm glad you have it.
We will be glad to meet Susan. She will be very welcome. But Elaine will make all such arrangements because that is her province and she will be very glad to. She knows about love too and maybe she can give you more help than I can.
And don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
Love, Fa
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©2017 Diango Hernández
Diango Hernández's work is in the collection of Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany | The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA | Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany | Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany | PAMM, Miami, USA | Artpace, San Antonio, USA | Museum of Fine Art Huston, Huston, USA | Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany | Kunstsammlung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany | INHOTIM, Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, Brazil | MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy | CAB de Burgos, Burgos, Spain | Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein | Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany | Rheingold Collection, Duesseldorf, Germany | Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Germany | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon, (MUSAC), Spain | Collectión Bergé, Madrid, Spain


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// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

/**
 * @fileoverview
 * 'settings-kerberos-accounts' is the settings subpage containing controls to
 * list, add and delete Kerberos Accounts.
 */

import 'chrome://resources/cr_elements/cr_action_menu/cr_action_menu.js';
import 'chrome://resources/cr_elements/cr_button/cr_button.js';
import 'chrome://resources/cr_elements/cr_icon_button/cr_icon_button.js';
import 'chrome://resources/cr_elements/cr_toast/cr_toast.js';
import 'chrome://resources/cr_elements/policy/cr_policy_indicator.js';
import 'chrome://resources/polymer/v3_0/iron-flex-layout/iron-flex-layout-classes.js';
import 'chrome://resources/polymer/v3_0/iron-media-query/iron-media-query.js';
import '../../settings_shared.css.js';
import './kerberos_add_account_dialog.js';

import {CrToastElement} from 'chrome://resources/cr_elements/cr_toast/cr_toast.js';
import {I18nMixin, I18nMixinInterface} from 'chrome://resources/cr_elements/i18n_mixin.js';
import {WebUiListenerMixin, WebUiListenerMixinInterface} from 'chrome://resources/cr_elements/web_ui_listener_mixin.js';
import {DomRepeatEvent, mixinBehaviors, PolymerElement} from 'chrome://resources/polymer/v3_0/polymer/polymer_bundled.min.js';

import {loadTimeData} from '../../i18n_setup.js';
import {Setting} from '../../mojom-webui/setting.mojom-webui.js';
import {Route, RouteObserverMixin, RouteObserverMixinInterface, Router} from '../../router.js';
import {cast, castExists} from '../assert_extras.js';
import {DeepLinkingBehavior, DeepLinkingBehaviorInterface} from '../deep_linking_behavior.js';
import {getImage} from '../icon.js';
import {recordSettingChange} from '../metrics_recorder.js';
import {routes} from '../os_route.js';

import {getTemplate} from './kerberos_accounts.html.js';
import {KerberosAccount, KerberosAccountsBrowserProxy, KerberosAccountsBrowserProxyImpl, KerberosErrorType} from './kerberos_accounts_browser_proxy.js';

const SettingsKerberosAccountsElementBase =
    mixinBehaviors(
        [
          DeepLinkingBehavior,
        ],
        RouteObserverMixin(WebUiListenerMixin(I18nMixin(PolymerElement)))) as {
      new (): PolymerElement & DeepLinkingBehaviorInterface &
          I18nMixinInterface & WebUiListenerMixinInterface &
          RouteObserverMixinInterface,
    };

class SettingsKerberosAccountsElement extends
    SettingsKerberosAccountsElementBase {
  static get is() {
    return 'settings-kerberos-accounts';
  }

  static get template() {
    return getTemplate();
  }

  static get properties() {
    return {
      /**
       * List of Accounts.
       */
      accounts_: {
        type: Array,
        value() {
          return [];
        },
      },

      /**
       * Whether dark mode is currently active.
       */
      isDarkModeActive_: {
        type: Boolean,
        value: false,
      },

      /**
       * The targeted account for menu and other operations.
       */
      selectedAccount_: Object,

      showAddAccountDialog_: Boolean,

      addAccountsAllowed_: {
        type: Boolean,
        value() {
          return loadTimeData.getBoolean('kerberosAddAccountsAllowed');
        },
      },

      accountToastText_: {
        type: String,
        value: '',
      },

      /**
       * Used by DeepLinkingBehavior to focus this page's deep links.
       */
      supportedSettingIds: {
        type: Object,
        value: () => new Set([
          Setting.kAddKerberosTicketV2,
          Setting.kRemoveKerberosTicketV2,
          Setting.kSetActiveKerberosTicketV2,
        ]),
      },

    };
  }

  private accountToastText_: string;
  private accounts_: KerberosAccount[];
  private addAccountsAllowed_: boolean;
  private isDarkModeActive_: boolean;
  private selectedAccount_: KerberosAccount|null;
  private showAddAccountDialog_: boolean;

  private browserProxy_: KerberosAccountsBrowserProxy;

  constructor() {
    super();

    this.browserProxy_ = KerberosAccountsBrowserProxyImpl.getInstance();
  }

  override connectedCallback(): void {
    super.connectedCallback();

    this.addWebUIListener(
        'kerberos-accounts-changed', this.refreshAccounts_.bind(this));
  }

  override ready(): void {
    super.ready();

    // Grab account list and - when done - pop up the reauthentication dialog if
    // there is a kerberos_reauth param.
    this.refreshAccounts_().then(() => {
      const queryParams = Router.getInstance().getQueryParameters();
      const reauthPrincipal = queryParams.get('kerberos_reauth');
      const reauthAccount = this.accounts_.find(account => {
        return account.principalName === reauthPrincipal;
      });
      if (reauthAccount) {
        this.selectedAccount_ = reauthAccount;
        this.showAddAccountDialog_ = true;
      }
    });
  }

  override currentRouteChanged(route: Route): void {
    // Does not apply to this page.
    if (route !== routes.KERBEROS_ACCOUNTS_V2) {
      return;
    }

    this.attemptDeepLink();
  }

  /**
   * @return The icon to use for the error badge.
   */
  private getErrorBadgeIcon_(): string {
    return this.isDarkModeActive_ ?
        'chrome://os-settings/images/error_badge_dark.svg' :
        'chrome://os-settings/images/error_badge.svg';
  }

  private getIconImageSet_(iconUrl: string): string {
    return getImage(iconUrl);
  }

  private onAddAccountClick_(): void {
    this.selectedAccount_ = null;
    this.showAddAccountDialog_ = true;
  }

  private onReauthenticationClick_(event: DomRepeatEvent<KerberosAccount>):
      void {
    this.selectedAccount_ = event.model.item;
    this.showAddAccountDialog_ = true;
  }

  private onAddAccountDialogClosed_(): void {
    if (this.shadowRoot!.querySelector('kerberos-add-account-dialog')!
            .accountWasRefreshed) {
      this.showToast_('kerberosAccountsAccountRefreshedTip');
    }

    this.showAddAccountDialog_ = false;

    // In case it was opened by the 'Refresh now' action menu.
    this.closeActionMenu_();
  }

  private refreshAccounts_(): Promise<void> {
    return this.browserProxy_.getAccounts().then(accounts => {
      this.accounts_ = accounts;
    });
  }

  /**
   * Opens the Account actions menu.
   */
  private onAccountActionsMenuButtonClick_(
      event: DomRepeatEvent<KerberosAccount>): void {
    this.selectedAccount_ = event.model.item;
    const target = cast(event.target, HTMLElement);
    this.shadowRoot!.querySelector('cr-action-menu')!.showAt(target);
  }

  /**
   * Closes action menu and resets action menu model.
   */
  private closeActionMenu_(): void {
    this.shadowRoot!.querySelector('cr-action-menu')!.close();
    this.selectedAccount_ = null;
  }

  /**
   * Removes |this.selectedAccount_|.
   */
  private onRemoveAccountClick_(): void {
    this.browserProxy_.removeAccount(castExists(this.selectedAccount_))
        .then(error => {
          if (error === KerberosErrorType.NONE) {
            this.showToast_('kerberosAccountsAccountRemovedTip');
          } else {
            console.error('Unexpected error removing account: ' + error);
          }
        });
    recordSettingChange();
    this.closeActionMenu_();
  }

  /**
   * Sets |this.selectedAccount_| as active Kerberos account.
   */
  private onSetAsActiveAccountClick_(): void {
    this.browserProxy_.setAsActiveAccount(castExists(this.selectedAccount_));
    recordSettingChange();
    this.closeActionMenu_();
  }

  /**
   * Opens the reauth dialog for |this.selectedAccount_|.
   */
  private onRefreshNowClick_(): void {
    this.showAddAccountDialog_ = true;
  }

  /**
   * Pops up a toast with localized text |label|.
   * @param label Name of the localized label string.
   */
  private showToast_(label: string): void {
    this.accountToastText_ = this.i18n(label);
    this.shadowRoot!.querySelector<CrToastElement>('#account-toast')!.show();
  }
}

declare global {
  interface HTMLElementTagNameMap {
    'settings-kerberos-accounts': SettingsKerberosAccountsElement;
  }
}

customElements.define(
    SettingsKerberosAccountsElement.is, SettingsKerberosAccountsElement);

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tv DW News - News Deutsche Welle November 30, 2017 6:00pm-6:16pm CET
i p t twenty clique a book i don't think. tells them to and. i feel them telling the famous potato. this is data we're news live from but then the top level agreement when people smuggling in libya the european union and the african union and to stop refugees risking their lives crossing the mediterranean just migrants and refugees facing abuse will be evacuated from libya also on the program pope francis arrives in
bangladesh and urges the world to act on the right hinge of refugee crisis once again without mentioning the right enjoyed by next. u.s. president donald trump is accused of promoting islamophobia after he returned with some video made by an extremist british group it's also got him into iraq with britain's prime minister. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. the african union and the european union have agreed on an emergency plan to dismantle people smuggling networks and repatriate stranded migrants in libya as a two day summit and is in the city of abidjan in ivory coast the un recognized government of libya promised to allow u.n. agencies a to access. to refugee camps in areas under its control it said it would
also investigate media reports of migrants being opened office slaves you countries have promised to pay for the rape repatriation of migrants and refugees from libya to the home countries elsewhere in africa j w correspondent max hoffman is in abidjan conference about summit welcome max tell us what came out of the closing press conference. well there was a lot of back patting a lot of thank you a general will for more cooperation but if you really look at the conclusions there's not a whole lot in there there are no numbers for example how much does the european union really want to invest in africa we're hearing the number of forty billion to forty four billion euros within the next years but that would require the participation of the private sector so that's not a given and also it seems like the african union or some african countries at least weren't willing to give commitments for good governance for example or for the
control of migration flows so what we're seeing here are the old front lines only difference might be that there is a larger will because of the migration crisis with the european union to really change things and the issue of end for slavery and human trafficking was high on the list of priorities we'll talk about that in a second first of all is the french president emmanuel macro. this is human trafficking carried out by africans against africans and the situation must stop what the african union the european union and the united nations have decided this evening is to act decisively first and foremost with extreme urgency to evacuate from libya all those who can and want to be evacuated and help them to return to their country of origin. we will stand in solidarity with others in this emergency operation which will be conducted in the coming days and weeks. it's often it's an interesting choice of words those who want to be a documented because it does seem to promise to stand people back to the very countries whose horrors they've just spent their life savings trying to escape. yes
but if you talk to some of those that came back from libya for example from here from ivory coast and we did that in the past days many of them are completely disillusioned they said had i known what awaited me in libya i would have never gone up there so they are being made promises they think that the better life will be easy to achieve for them and then they find hell i mean we talked to the head of the e.u. commission the president of the u. commission and he put that pretty precisely he said you have these people trying to find a better life and what they find in libya is hell so most of the people coming back from libya aren't that unhappy to come back from there such agreement that has been over the last two days appears to benefit you are a few immigrants knocking on their doors how the african countries besides perhaps live in libya benefited from that the last two days. well in one word very shortly and that's been the same for the last decades it's about money it's
about investment and the european seem to be quite serious about wanting to invest more in some specific african countries of course their countries of origin for example where most of the migrants come from to give them a future in those countries of course the dilemma is always the same how exactly do you invest so that makes a difference for those countries but you know like i said at the beginning phil there seems to be this willingness with the europeans maybe for the first time ever because they really have something to lose here because if the demographic development continues as it as it is predicted in africa and the economies just don't follow then there will be much higher migration numbers that we're experiencing at the moment max hoffman and abidjan thank you. pope francis has become the first pontiff to visit bangladesh and more than thirty years the rohinton refugee crisis is set to dominate his visit the countries hosting hundreds of thousands of rangers were living in makeshift camps after fleeing million man
arriving in bangladesh pope francis called for decisive international action to solve the crisis but once again in deference to me and the avoided using the term. pope francis is asia tour has taken in two sides of a desperate humanitarian crisis. on the one side me and maher accused of systematic ethnic cleansing of the hanjour. and on the other bangladesh rolling out the red carpet today has welcomed almost a million of those who fled addressing the bangladeshi president the pope heaped praise on his host but again disappointed observers when he chose not to say the name revenger. in recent months of generosity and solidarity which is a whole mark of bangladeshi society has been seen most of vividly in its humanitarian mission to
a massive influx of refugees from rakhine state providing them with temporary shelter and the basic necessities of life of. their own. where the pontiff goes so goes the church's followers by any means necessary amid the excitement ahead of the pope's mass tomorrow high hopes that his visit will bring a solution to the crisis. there but. the visit will be fruitful for bangladesh if he comes and solves the problem about the ranger refugees. the port ended a part of the paying his respects to the assassinated founding father of the nation . on friday he will come face to face with the range of lose limbs. on his take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. media say the white house is considering replacing secretary of state rex tillerson with the current head of the cia reports say it's unclear whether president trump
has given his final approval but if true it would be the biggest administration shakeup since he took office the relationship between mr trump and was to tell us that has reportedly been strained for some time. protesters in the philippine capital manila have held a rally against president of brodrick and deter plans to launch an unconstitutional crackdown against his opponents the protest was organized by rights groups who also condemn the possible return of police operations in the president's war on drugs. prosecutors are investigating the suicide of a boston crime leader as u.n. war crimes tribunal they say preliminary tests show the substance he drank was a lethal chemical. drank from a small bottle seconds after the judges upheld he's twenty year jail term for war crimes later died in hospital. and a lawyer for a former bosnian croat a general who took his own life at the u.n. war crimes court yesterday especially doesn't know how he brought the fatal liquid
as i said slower than drank the substance containing chemical after his own guilty verdict was upheld in croatia opinions are divided muslim victims of the war voiced hope that the verdict would be would help reconciliation in bosnia but many crimes feel the guilty verdict is unfair. hundreds of person in croats gathered for a candlelight vigil in central must one of the keep battlegrounds during the former yugoslavia is years of civil conflict they came to mourn a man the international community called a convicted war criminal for his one time comrades the former general slobbered and proud jack was nothing short of a war hero who gave his life for an ideal. as a charlatan oh such a man. he was a true soldier just like all of us who fought for croatia we never attacked anyone we were defending our homes i was defending muster in shocking scenes on wednesday probably drank poison shortly after the judge at the international war transcribe
you know confirmed he would serve a twenty year sentence he later died from the effects of the poison for other person eons his action confirmed his guilt. i think this was an act of a coward he couldn't face the truth or the verdict he shouldn't have done it but the court has confirmed all the allegations that probably is a war criminal in croatia as parliament in zagreb lawmakers observed a minute's silence the prime minister clearly unhappy with the court's verdict. so we don't we're sorry for the events that occurred yesterday in the courtroom for moral reasons he took his own life he has sent a message on what he thinks about the verdicts in our opinion also it is unfair probably x. suicide and his own chapter in courageous troubled history but a wider reconciliation still seems a distant prospect. the british government has revealed to us president donald
trump for the tweeting islamophobia videos from bush's far right extremists videos from the group calling itself britain first for to show muslims assaulting people and damaging christian symbols was the trump responded to the criticism again on twitter telling britain's prime minister theresa may she should focus not on him but on what he called the destructive valley call islamic terrorism is taking place within the united kingdom and strong is also facing criticism from american muslim groups of selling division and pushing muslim lives at risk. but you haven't heard of britain first before you bought the i love this tiny stream we screw person received enormous publicity from donald trump's retreats true it's got nearly forty four million followers that think a budget from the social media is welcome federici federica so tell us that who britain first one of the stars so feel britain first is a far right alter nationalist party in the u.k.
of the campaign against immigration they say they want to ban islam from the country and you can understand must all their agenda by just looking at the kind of content that they share on their social media platforms such as this video here with the caption muslims burn christmas tree in belgium another example muslim migrant sets goals hair on fire so all of these videos and posts accuse muslims of violence and being criminals and a lot of this stuff i feel has been already debunked as misleading or even fake and we should keep in mind that britain for us is a marginal group they claim to have a few thousand members in real life they have a bigger following on social media especially on facebook but they do remain a marginal voice at the three videos the three races videos that trump said yesterday where i knew shelley posted to twitter by the deputy need. there of the group data franzen you can see her now she calls herself
a soldier of christ and she has been previously convicted of abusing verbal abusing a muslim a woman not trying to retreating has given friends and of course a huge boost in twitter followers she went from having fifty thousand to almost eighty thousand in just a day and trump isn't among these followers interesting lee and we don't really know what he is to britain first exactly what's clear though is that he's given them a much bigger voice. brings problems a choice to make a return to his control to say on those that read tweets but she did stay clear of deepening the controversy front that we were together does not mean afraid to say when we think the united states to go to rome and to be very clear with them on very clear retreating from britain first was the wrong thing to do.
so fredricka that statement just repeated what downing street said yesterday but aside from being the wrong thing to do the videos themselves have been described as yes that's right phil one of the videos in particular the one that claims to show a muesli migrants a beating up a young man on crutches that has been promptly debunked as a fake and you can see here a statement by the dutch embassy in the u.s. they posted this message on twitter saying facts do matter the perpetrator of the violent act in this video was born and raised in the netherlands he received and completed his sentence under dutch law and beyond that the dutch media also reported yesterday that the attacker is not even a muslim and so feel the issue has of course caused a huge debate it has also attracted the attention of the un now and the top human rights official there has to day said that he has condemned what he describes the spreading spreading hatred through tweets fredricka about your thank you. this is
day w. news is still to come produce a group opec agrees to extend output cuts spent zealand will be out talking to an analyst and i'd start whether we will save the tying goal at the petrol pumps. we'll do that and your business update which is on the way i'll be back at the top of the hour with all of the day so well just to self a good day. every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word i looked in the. rico is in germany to learn german why not learn a simple online on.
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INFINIPINIONS: Is being a nerd that bad?
Being a nerd (being overly smart for one) has been given a bad name for a long time now and it is still going on. Nobody wants to be nerd as they show on the popular media, being smart with glasses and clumsy and not being able to fit in with the crowd. They have been portrayed as not being good looking and always being obsessed about something that other people would find unpleasant or unappealing. Why can't a nerd be beautiful and what is wrong with wearing glasses that most of the nerds are made to look like it? And also the amount of bullying that these poor nerds endure at the hands of other people is appalling and nobody seems to care about it. Bullying is not just physical but mental too and when it is time to come to make the complicated decisions these same folks have no choice but to turn to nerds for help. It is way beyond time right now to change the image of the nerds because they are actually the ones running this world. You can have all the strength in the world but you cannot compete with the smartness of a person no matter how weak he/she is. And you don't need to show the nerds as being not beautiful because beauty and brains can also go together. Nerds have more to contribute to this world then other people because we need the nerds to create smart things and they should be shown in a positive light. Not all nerds need to be on the fringes of society and it is amazing that how they have been portrayed by the media industry the same for all these years. All the nerds are in fact studying in the top level universities and colleges and this should be enough to show the power of the brain over strength.


Andrew Galloway has been a member of Cornell University's English Department since receiving his PhD from U. C. Berkeley in 1991. He has written numerous essays on medieval English, Latin, and French literature and culture from the tenth to the fifteenth century, especially Piers Plowman, Chaucer's poetry, Gower's poetry, and their fifteenth-century followers, as well as essays on medieval historical writing such as a chapter in the Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (2002) and, recently, entries for the Brill Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle.
For seven years he edited the annual volumes of The Yearbook of Langland Studies, and he provided the translations of the Latin verses and glosses for the new 3-volume edition of Gower's Confessio Amantis by Russell Peck (2000-2005). His monographs include The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman: Volume 1 (2006), and the short introductory monograph Medieval Literature and Culture (2006); later this year will appear under his editorship The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture.
He is currently working on other edited volumes plus studies on medieval ideas of need, medieval dream visions, London literature, Gower's uses of classical literature, and a history of Middle English literature.
Andrew Galloway has been a member of Cornell University's English Department since receiving his PhD from U. C. Berkeley in 1991. He has written num . . .
The high-profile cases of plagiarized dissertations recently featured in Integru and elsewhere are typically those from fields—the sciences and economics, especially—where substantial social and professional power is at stake. But what about the humanities? These cases should not be ignored. The standards should be no different from those in the sciences or any other field. If we say that plagiarists in the humanities might be due a bit more compassion, on the grounds that such humanities PhDs are less likely to go on to jobs with major political or economic importance, then we are simply endorsing the marginal position that the humanities too often occupy in modern culture in general. Humanists deserve at least the same standards as anyone else. They can even be credited with inventing such standards. Such were the efforts, for example, by Renaissance philologists and writers who sought to define the actual canon of works by ancient authors as distinct from the numbers of works that medieval writers with greater or lesser disingenuousness foisted on those ancient writers.
As putting this question into an historical and cultural frame like that suggests, such standards are neither eternal nor transcultural. Context matters for definition, and for judgment. As a scholar of western medieval literature and culture, I am very conscious of many aspects of this issue; the world I study involves a lot of recycling of materials, and not at all necessarily for lazy or naive or self-serving reasons. In early medieval culture, for instance, when a monastic artist illustrates a sacred book, it can be a mark of humility to copy a picture from another book as exactly as possible. The problem then is that some artists were better than their models, and perhaps less inclined to be entirely submissive to their perhaps less cultivated abbots. (For the curious, I take this example from Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work, [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992], pp. 90-92.) In that context, the most interesting and talented originality often appears in very fine details rather than broad conceptions; such originality is actually not what the artist is supposed to be doing, and the pressure to stifle such pride is strong. Even forgeries of writs in medieval culture are not necessarily outright theft or misrepresentation, although they can be that as well.
Our modern culture has, at least officially, a different ethical imperative than such cloaking of oneself in the mantel of others' ideas. Thus when I confront modern cases of plagiarism about medieval literature and culture, a completely different set up assumptions apply than in the culture itself—and rightly so. Modern plagiarism in the humanities is no better than a counterfeited coin or a stolen patent—or a plagiarized piece of scientific research. At the same time, humanists might be forgiven for wondering about the context in which such modern plagiarized work appears (including the crafting of critical writing as well as the research behind it). Humanists are trained to think about the social context and institutional settings for the development and circulation of ideas and writing. Can we, then, offer something to the broader questions about plagiarism in all intellectual fields?
For instance? I unfortunately know many, thanks to my role for some years as chair of the Academic Integrity Hearing Board of the Arts and Sciences College of Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, where I was charged with presiding over the "hard" cases of undergraduate plagiarism that reached that Board. That work led me to reflect on the structures and pressures that can lead to undergraduate plagiarism, or help fend it off.
I'd like to think I have made some changes. One of the results of this experience in my own teaching was (to put it generally) my redoubling of efforts to be attentively involved in the development, the process, of students' work, rather than simply accepting finished products. Another was to allow and foster experimentation, and even failure, at least at a first try, rather than insisting on polished perfection. Those two principles (and I much prefer them to the routine use of plagiarism-checking databases, although those have their uses) are in general much more easily brought to bear on doctoral work, where slow development and trial and error is much more frequent and routine than is usually possible in undergraduate work. Possibly for that reason, I am quite sure that I have never seen plagiarism in doctoral work I have supervised, as opposed to the numbers of times I have seen it in undergraduate work. Partly, of course, the latter numbers are simply because of my role in holding hearings for an entire College. I would expect, however, that this ratio is fairly common.
Recently, however, I was presented by Integru of a case of a dissertation in my area of the humanities from a university in Romania, which has spurred these reflections. For this case, I confess, stumped me. Not because I am not qualified. In fact, I am not only quite familiar with the particular field, I even know the work of the particular scholar whose dissertation (from over four decades ago!) was the source recycled by the Romanian doctoral student in question [ed. the person is now a lecturer]. Moreover, I have the qualifications of the experience mentioned, where as a chair of the Board I had to help assess often quite tricky cases and appeals concerning academic integrity. But this case stumped me precisely because—like some of the other publicized dissertations from higher profile cases—it was so blatant. It pointed to the need, or, at any rate, my need, for better understanding of just how such a case could have occurred. Surely it did not appear in a vacuum. Or perhaps it occurred because there was too much of a vacuum of some crucial kind, an absence of checking and critiquing of the kind that every intellectual field must have to survive.
Asked about what "outcome" I could imagine for this case, therefore, I could only reply that the most productive outcome I could think of would be a searching investigation of the structure of advising, funding, mentoring, assessing, critiquing, and defending doctoral or any academic work at the institution in question. Only then might I propose any structural changes. One simple step, however, might be adding the requirement of international external examiners of all humanities doctoral theses, as is common enough. A more labor-intensive step would be requiring regular consultations between students and their faculty chairs and committee members.
Modern work in the humanities in general deserves the same kind of rigorous scrutiny and thus praise or blame as any other field. We humanists need to study our own contexts of knowledge production at all levels, and to compare research institutions transnationally as well as nationally. If the evidence suggests a systemic problem, the topic is ripe for a more searching understanding of structures of support and critique—of the kind of systemic cultural inquiry that humanists are, in their own research at least, often trained to undertake.
But these matters are, of course, not just for humanists. Scientists, economists, political scientists, and many others are often equally trained to ponder and criticize the wider structures and contexts for supporting and critiquing ideas—indeed, sometimes better trained or more accustomed to doing this than humanists.
As I hope is obvious, I offer such views not as an opinion or guidance based on any real knowledge of the circumstances of what I encountered, but quite the opposite: as an invitation for further investigation and clarification by others. I'm convinced that academics in all disciplines as well as the knowledgeable general public would have much to offer in reply, just as I'm sure that the discussion will help my own understanding of what fosters a "culture" of intellectual integrity—or its opposite—in any time or place.
He also provided one of the independent reviews for Integru.org in Review 10: Olesia Mihai – PhD thesis copy/paste plagiarism.
This contribution makes two critical points. Firstly, that high ethical standards are essential in all areas of intellectual endeavour, not just in the hard sciences. And secondly, that preventing poor academic practices like plagiarism through careful teaching is better than identification after the event.
A general culture of academic integrity has yet to take root in today's Romania. Identifying and exposing cases involving those who teach the next generation is an essential part of pushing for improvement – which is why the Integru site is so very important.
Distinguished journalist, Ms Alison Abbott, is right that the preventing poor academic practices like plagiarism through careful teaching is better than identification after the event.
Meanwhile in Romania the solving of present misconduct cases is expected by all honest academics as a way of preparing a better future. For this there is Integru.org.
I would like to see that Nature, in its scientific impartiality, would be interested to publish about using a fake doctor title by Norica Carmen Godja, a manager of scientific area from an Austrian company, even is a Romanian with the Austrian citizenship, in order to get funded by EU programs-Clean Sky.
Her fake doctor title was changed by EU Commission in Mrs after I wrote more times, but not this is a problem. The problem is maybe more grave than that in which someone wrote the references at the end of dissertation. Using a fake doctor title is named imposture and it is punished by law. Why nobody noticed this?
I am just a computer scientist, I have nothing to do with the current universities here in Romania (besides the fact that I graduated CS at the Institute Politehnica of Bucharest).
I'm writing you this comment because I believe it is worth investigating this.
1. The intellectual elite was replaced brutally by the communist regime with individuals who had other 'virtues': the ability to bend before the Party, the ability to lie and denaturate the truth.
2. At those time, Ro was an enclave. Very few people had full access to foreign books; it was those people above that were placed in positions from where they could have access to the information published 'outside', in the western world. This is especially true in sciences.
Reproducing the work from 'outside', those individuals gained more power and more privileges. Of course, since they believed at that time nobody will check, they just did copy-paste. Hooray. Those individuals soon started to form aurae, aquiring entire circles of disciples, all based on the theft above. They were promoted even more.
This status perpetuated until after the Romanian Revolution of 89; they were still not able to understand that the world has changed around them. They still believed we are isolated, on our own island, therefore they continued to act as before.
Lack of punishment, lack of power of people exposing plagiarism, the relative omnipotence of such 'field masters' plus all the above requires a real investigation (and -why not – may be a subject of some sociology phd thesis).
We all know how poor and shrunk were the humanities in the Romanian universities before 1989. Their expansion after that moment was remarkable but decorated with some peculiarities. My teachers wanted very much to specialize in some field or another. It was so much to recover. So, many of them thought seriously of finding a field, as narrow as possible, and became a professional in that field. Each shall approach some of the big unexplored sea of the humanities and secure their position as specialists and chair holders. So far, so good. Now think of a large sea with many, many small boats. For me, nothing yields more uncertainty than this image. Only poor communication is possible. Little collaborative effort can emerge in front of a storm. No critical support. It was like that in the humanities (it still is, I would say). No wonder that some find themselves tempted to pick someone's very specialized and quasi unknown (at least in the local geography) contribution, say a PhD thesis from the 80s, and to show it as their novel contribution to the field, their accreditation as specialist. The supervisor is in another boat, not so far from her pupil, but far enough and he can barely distinguish what is original in that contribution and what is not. This magical concept, i.e. inter-subjective validation of one's scientific activity, requires at least two people engaged in collaborative research (or, to maintain the analogy, at least two people in the same boat). More than two is better. A whole globalized community watching on my little boat is the best I can wish for my peers.
Andrew, thank you for the interesting approach of the subject. It is a good "food for thoughts" and I hope for the right people who should understand that a scientific title have nothing in common with their personal ambitions (either political or in the university), but with their capability to express new ideas and made known their real contribution to a certain field. However, I have to admit, I feel rather uncomfortable seeing the name of my country, Romania, beside the word "plagiarism" in the title. As a tribute for the many Romanian scientists who worked and are working honestly for the good of all of us and for the Romanians with important contributions in all the scientific areas, fields and domains yesterday, today and tomorrow I feel that is not correct to point a finger on this country as a whole (as in the title), for the shame that should be on some people representing, in my opinion, in the best case, themselves and not the country. It is well known that the plagiarism is a present virtually in all the countries, and pointing a finger on a particular one (in this case Romania) I believe is not fair. Thank you again for the interesting lecture, opening the dialog for matters sometime considered as "tabu".
@Adrian: Your comment baffles me.
First, Prof Galloway's article and title simply narrow the scope to that of the plagiarism in Romania, and is actually written from quite a fair perspective. The title to me looks pretty much perfect. There is no finger pointed at the country as a whole, but at a phenomena that exists in Romania, regardless of how thick or thin it is in comparison with other countries.
Those authors DO represent the country too, and not only themselves.
I don't think it's necessary to remind of the almost endless stream of Romanian research ministers (!!!), prime minister, rectors, deans, "researchers" etc., but just in case, remember Ioan Mang, Corina Dumitrescu, Ecaterina Andronescu, Victor Ponta, Leonard Azamfirei, Constantin Copotoiu, Klara Branzaniuc, Aurel Ardelean etc etc etc? … who still refute any plagiarism or misconduct despite blatantly clear evidence!
All of them very much also represent the country Romania. It is them and their actions that make you (and all of us) feel some shame when seeing "Romania" next to "plagiarism" in the same sentence, and it is THEM, THEIR INSTITUTIONS and STATE INSTITUTIONS who you should target your anger/disappointment/shame to and do something about it.
I for one feel ashamed that such international personalities like Professor Galloway are taking precious time out of their schedule to go beyond the line of duty and try to clean the mess which happens to be in our back yard. As I see it, they're not doing it for Romania, nor for the worthy academics there, but out of a sense of respect and duty for the academic profession and title.
Quite frankly, we should be thankful to them for stating facts and doing things that we didn't or still don't have the courage to face and do … for that, shame on us!
Integru.org is doing a fantastic job by exposing thieves like the ones above, while experts like Professor Galloway are providing the immensely needed authority. The fact that "Romania" and "plagiarism" are in the same sentence should not make us resentful, but instead should make us contribute to fixing the actual problem.
I think it's time we all did. Integru.org and its experts are doing a fantastic job!
p.s. I will support the Integru.org portal by recommending and inviting experts I know. I don't yet feel enough of an expert in my field to answer review questions.
@Adrian Petrica: Since you asked for my opinion, then yes, of course I fully accept that there is a culture of plagiarism in Romania. The sooner all of us accept that, the better. Prof Galloway may defend his point if he wishes.
The argument you portray continues to baffle me, as I see it skewed and dangerous (if not even harmful). In short, it sounds like "the country is not 100% rotten, so let's not say that if there are exceptions, and leave the matter alone" … and it is precisely what has been happening in Romania for more than half a century: nothing has been done about it. It continued to flourish and now we have a prime minister with a plagiarized PhD and a whole stream of high, medium and low profile cases like him in pretty much all universities across the country!
Ethics wise, the academic environment in Romania is awfully rotten, and I will not have a debate about exceptions. The first step in fixing any problem is pointing out and admitting that there is one. This step is most efficient if the ones who do the pointing out that there is a problem are authoritative voices. That's why Prof Galloway's contribution (both in Review 10 and also in this article) and of all the other international experts on Integru.org is so crucially important.
Remember, we are responsible for this dreadful state too. Let's wake up, and then do something about it.
p.s. And please let's not compare Romania with Germany in this regard, neither regarding the plagiarism culture (i.e. scale), nor regarding doing something about it. We all know what happens in Germany once such cases are being exposed.
Dorin S, I was just about to post the same ideas, but you outlined them better than I could have. I completely agree with you, with the fact that ethics wise Romania is in a dreadful state, that the misconduct scale should make us shiver with shame – being widely spread both vertically and horizontally – and that we need to wake up and do something about all of it.
I'd like to comment on Professor Galloway's point, which basically says that prevention is better than reaction.
Such a climate makes one wonder "what can really be done to stop this?" And let's not forget, stopping it woulnd't be enough, we need to improve it after that. Sure, prevention is better than reaction, but we're facing a really deep and wide problem which requires actual measures.
In my opinion, these crooks exist because the people allow them to … the people voted for Victor Ponta (plagiarist, then prime minister, still prime minister) and for Ecaterina Andronescu (plagiarist, then minister of research, now puppeteer)! So as Dorin correctly said, the people too are responsible for the current state. In my opinion, the public perception has to change before we can hope for any actual change. How do we do that?
Well, dear Professor Galloway, to me it seems like the hope is coming from you and authoritative voices like you. I'm not saying it's the only way (although frankly, I can't quite pinpoint another) but this could really work. Like Dorin, I also hope that more of us realize the importance of this and start contributing.
I too appreciate this platform, Integru.org, and I too appreciate you and the heavy-weights like you for having taken the time to offer reviews on Integru.org.
(*) I should point out that the previous minister of research, Dr Daniel Funeriu, this time a respectable academic internationally (unlike the atrocious and plagiarist Ecaterina Andronescu), made some very impressive steps towards cleaning and improving the romanian academic system, including prevention e.g. by requiring external international reviewers for research grants. It was going in the right direction. Andronescu reversed most of his measures after Ponta and his crooked gang came to power last year, by issuing ministerial orders. For example, following Integru.org's Review 5 of the plagiariazed research grant asking for 600,000 USD of public funds, Ecaterina Andronescu eliminated the foreign reviewers saying they are too expensive. The funny thing is that all reviewers have been paid the same sum, regardless of geographical location or nationality.
I agree with most of Dorin and Tudor's comments, but I would be hesitant to use the term "culture of plagiarism" because it might suggest that plagiarism might be programmed into Romanians' DNA. I know that it was not what Prof. Galloway was conveying in his articled but it might be misconstrued.
I also disagree with Dorin assessment that plagiarism at this scale has been the norme in Romania for the past century. Plagiarism did exist before 1989, but it has grown at an explosive rate only after the political changes.
With this caveat in place, I do agree that plagiarism has reached epidemic proportions in Romanian academia, and there is a real danger that the culture at large may become imune to the stigma attached to this phenomenon.
There is resistance to this phenomenon from within the academia, mostly (but not only) from pre-1989 trained individuals. However, the immense political pressures render these efforts impotent. For example, the University of Bucharest took up the case of Mr. Ponta and concluded it was plagiarism but the powers that be thought otherwise. This to me shows that the academic autonomy of Romanian university is de-facto non existent.
I think that Integru.org is a first important step for two reasons. It brings back in the spotlight the the stigma and immorality of plagiarism. More and more newspapers are quoting Integru findings. The recent resignation in Iasi shows that the public opprobrium can have an effect.
As importantly, Integru is at this moment the only place where intellectuals from inside Romania and beyond its borders can approach and hope that suspicions of plagiarism will be given the attention they deserve, without the fear of political intimidation I sensed in some of my friends bravely on the academic barricades in Romania. Integru makes it easier for the Romanian diaspora to help their colleagues back in Romania who still care about this issue.
Integru alone cannot dramatically change things. Some structural changes are badly needed. Real academic autonomy springs to mind. Rigorously enforced academic honor codes of the type used in many US universities can also help. This is a bit tricky because enforcing ethical standards requires individuals whose reputation is beyond suspicion.
Next, we need to have some concrete data to better gauge the right prescription.
While many of us believe that plagiarism is widespread, none of us have a real idea what widespread means. Take for example the doctoral dissertations in the last 20 years: how many of them are plagiarized, 1%, 10%, 20%? I have to admit that I do not know what organization in Romania can carry such an investigation.
Are the very bureaucratic promotion criteria and the dismal lack of resources aggravating the plagiarism phenomenon? If say a chemist or a biologist is to publish in a high impact journal, yet she has no appropriate resources to conduct research, how can that person make genuine and honest progress?
Im my view there is no immediate solution to this problem, and at some point politicians need to get involved. There has to be a critical mass in the Parliament that thinks that this course leads to the destruction of Romanian education, culture and reputation. How big are the odds of this happening? In my estimation they are discouragingly low. On the other hand I am sure of one thing: if everyone is quiet about this, nothing will change. That is why I am a bit more optimistic since Integru appeared on the scene.
It s interesting to see that the same authors from CEST-Wiener Neustadt did not publish the periodic and final reports and publications on CORDIS webpages. It seems for them the rules are not really rules.
The authors are: Dr Erich Kny, Mrs (ex-Dr) Norica Godja.
I can not beleive that it is possible to get funded for a research project and give back 0 results.
Finally, after one year, the periodic and final report for one of projects were added. Waiting for the other reports and publications.
It's clear that the rules are not the same for all. some of scientists or non-scientists, but self-titled as a "doctor", are supported in EU research, get funded, publish or not the reports, articles, conferences, etc. Nothing touches them, They are over law. Keep the eyes on them!
As I have read the many very interesting and insightful comments, I have gained a yet deeper respect for the courageous and thoughtful editors reading and organizing Integru, and for those many Romanian academics and intellectuals who are intent on pondering structural changes in the circumstances that promote intellectual integrity. My deepest misgiving is that my term "culture" in the title might seem to imply something unchangeable. "Culture" is a slippery and easily distorted term, though still I believe a useful one in some discussions. As I meant to show in the column itself, my intention was simply to think in terms of systems and quite changeable structures and assumptions, in the humanities in particular but other fields too (as many of the comments indicated), rather than exclusively focusing on individual cases. I have wanted more than once to jump in and say how much I love Mircea Eliade (responsible for the first "opening" of my mind as a youth), and many another Romanian genius and artist. Integru has displayed for me some of the intellectual courage and acuity that constitutes the true Romanian cultural tradition, which I have been grateful for the opportunity to encounter anew.


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Comparing Night and The Pianist Essay
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3. Example 3 – The Pianist: Study Guide
The book, Night, and the movie, "The Pianist," share many thematic similarities. Both stories have themes in which man is evil to man, the will of the main character to survive and overcome evil is present, and the ability of some people to still be compassionate to each other during these times of evil. In Night, Elie Wiesel, the narrator and main character, is sent to a Nazi concentration camp where many Jews were exterminated.
He also shows compassion towards his father and has an unbelievable will to survive. "The Pianist" is a little different. In it, the main character has to endure harsh treatment at the Warsaw Ghetto and after he is released, he goes into hiding in hope that he will survive the Holocaust and the war.
One of the main thematic similarities between Night and "The Pianist" is that man can be so evil to other people. Both pieces take place during the Holocaust, where Nazis set out to kill all Jews in Europe, which was known as the Final Solution. Most people found it unbelievable that man can do something so evil to man. In Night, Elie is in a concentration camp called Auschwitz where 12,000 Jews were killed a day.
He had to endure very tough conditions during his stay there. In "The Pianist," the main character is at first put into a Jewish Ghetto and later on, he must survive while in hiding from the Nazis. In both of the stories, the main conflict is due to a man versus man struggle.
Another theme that is included in both, Night and "The Pianist" is the will of the main character to survive and overcome the evil. Both characters overcome tremendous obstacles and their heart, will, and strength are tested to an unbelievable degree. In Night, Elie is sent to ghettoes, has to ride in packed cattle cars, is separated from his mother and sister, and has to endure tough conditions in the concentration camps.
It is said to be true that the Holocaust was one of the most tragic and significant events in recorded history. Personal memoirs like Night by Elie Wiesel and The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman gives vivid images and clear views on those epic catastrophes. which allows us as readers to acquire a better understanding of what really transpired during the 1340s. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, wrote his book on a collection of personal experiences that moulded his life. He was about twelve years old when his entire world was turned upside down.
In the spring of 1944, the German army occupied Hungary (Night, Wiesel). A series of oppressive laws were forced on the Jews_the community leaders were arrested, Jevvish valuables were confiscated. and the entire Jewish population was forced to wear a yellow star, which told everyone else around them they were in fact Jewish (Night, Wiesel). Eventually. the Jews were confined to small ghettos. After days of facing starvation and disease, the Nazi's and the Hungarian police herded the remaining Jews into cattle cars bound for the death camp, Auschwitz (Night, Wiesel).
Spending a huge portion of his life suffering through the hardships in the death camps, Elie experienced losses within himself. His innocence was stolen from him at such e young age and he was forced to from up at such a fast pace. He quoted, "They passed me by, one after another, my teachers, my friends, the others, and some of whom had once feared, some of Whom I found ridiculous, all those lives had shared for years. There they went, defeated in their bundles, their lives in tow, having left behind their homes. their childhood.
They passed by me like a beaten dog. with never a glance in my direction. They must have envied me,\" (Night, Wiesel). This statement, made at such a young age. symbolized terribly the conditions must have been Especially for that realization to be made my innocent twelve-year Loss of faith and innocence were common themes portrayed throughout Night. File and his family tried to fully rely on God during their rimes in the death camps, but in the midst of all the madness and cruelty keeping the faith became practically impossible. Oh, God. Lord of the Universe, take pity upon us… said, Wiesel.
Elie's experience in the concentration camps eventually leads to his loss of faith because he decides that he cannot believe in a Cod who would allow such suffering (Night, Wiesel During the Holocaust, the world was blind to the horrors of what was really happening in Germany, personal memoirs like Night help readers create a better understanding of what really came to pass.
Another personal Holocaust memoir that validates a collective experience is The Pianist, by Wladyslaw Szpilman. Szpilman was a very talented pianist for the Polish Radio (The Pianist). Wladyslaw SpiIman and his family, along with all other Jews living in Warsaw, were forced to move into a "Jewish Warsaw Ghetto (The Pianist). Once all the Jews were confined within the ghetto, a wall was constructed to separate them from the rest of the city (The Pianist).
Szpilman managed to find work as a musician to support his family. One day, the Szpilman\'s set deported the death camps, but they are fooled about What is really coming their way (The A friend of the S7piIman family was a part of the police force that was directing the Jews to The trains, grabbed Wladek from the group and told him to run, separating him from his family forever (The Pianist). Szpilman spent the rest of his days in hiding, and also as a labourer in the ghetto.
The Pianist, the motif and theme of loss of faith and loss of identity are frequent in the novel and the movie. Wladek quoted, "Mother looked dreadful, although she was apparently fully in control of herself Her hair, once beautiful and always carefully tended, had hardly any colour left in it and it was hanging down in strands over her careworn wrinkled face.
The light in her black eyes seemed to have gone out, and a nervous twitch ran down from her right temple and over her cheek to her mouth. the ad never noticed it before, and it showed how distressed Mother was about the scene around us," (IMDB). When he started this, it showed the readers how much of a strain the Holocaust was on everyone enduring it, That quote also symbolizes how WladeKs loss of identity picked in towards his mother.
The Pianist allowed readers or viewers to see the tragedies. as well as the plus sides and positives that you can get out of crisis' like the Holocaust. Night and The Pianist serve as valuable sources of literary nonfiction that validate a collective experience by displaying the personal background of events that actually happened during the Holocaust, These memoirs portray the themes of loss of innocence, loss of faith and loss of identity helping the readers and viewers try to grasp what actually happened.
Example 3 – The Pianist: Study Guide
1. Wladyslaw Szpilman – a Polish pianist and classical composer that battled through life in Warsaw as a Jew.
2 Father – the father of Wladyslaw S7piIman; taught music lessons as a job.
3. Mother – the mother of Wladyslaw Szpilman; taught music lessons as a job.
4 Regina – the sister of Wladyslaw S7piIman; she had a job as a lawyer.
5. HaIina – the sister of Wladyslaw Szpilman; taught music lessons as a job 8 Henryk – the brother of Wladyslaw Szpilman; taught English as a job.
7.Majorek – delivers sacks of potatoes to the city daily while smuggling ammunition underneath them.
8, Czeslaw Lewicki a former colleague from the radio station; gives Wladyslaw Szpilman a bachelor flat to hide in.
9. Mrs. Malczewska – brings Wladyslaw Szpilman supplies while he hides.
10. Zbigniexw Jaworski – a former colleague from the radio station; allows Wladyslaw Szpilman to stay with him for a while.
11 Helena Lewicka – Mrs. Jaworsk*s sister-in-law; looked after Wladyslaw Szpilman when he was under ailment.
In 1934, Spielman tours Poland with IJS violinist, Bronislav Gimpel Writes a memoir about his journey of survival through the holocaust in Warsaw of 1945, shortly after World War IL In 1935, he joins Polish Radio, where he worked as a pianist performing classical and jazz music Resumes his job at Polish Radio in I g4S after the war has ended In 1931 he was a student of the prestigious Academy of Arts in Berlin, Germany, where he studied the piano Receives an award from the Polish Composers Union in 1955 for composing 40 songs for children.
In 1939, he was a celebrity and a featured soloist at the polish Radio Retires from touring in 1986 and devotes his life entirely to composing His compositions included orchestral works, piano pieces, but also music for films, as well as around SO songs, which were very popular in Poland Died July 6, 2000 When Wladyslaxny Szpilman Escapes Death I The police officer allows S7piIman, Henryk, and Father to live because just like Szpilman, he is a musician himself.
2 A police officer pulls Szpilman away from going aboard the train to his death and allows him to escape through the open gates of the compound that led to the streets. 0n the verge of death with the ailment, Helena Lewicka comes and takes care of Szpilman's terrible condition, Which gradually recovered his health.
4, As a woman was beating down Szpilman\'s door and asked for the pass that he needed to live in the flat he was staying in, he pushed past the woman, ran down the stairs, reached the entrance, and ran out into the street. Journal Entry I 16 August 1942 The day had finally come around for my family and me to be carried out at the collecting centre, yet only Henryk and Halina were passed as still fit to work.
Soon, Father, Regina and were told to go back to the Once we had arrived, the building was surrounded and the sudden sound of a whistle in the yard raided our ears. At this point, there was no use in struggling anymore. I had done all possibly could to keep my loved ones and myself safe but there was no use in trying to anymore. Hopefully, at least Halina and Henryk would live better lives than the rest of us. The Germans have control of our fate now and it had obviously been that way from the outset. We on our clothes are quick as shouts and shots were broadcasted throughout the yard, urging everyone to hasten.
Mother had packed a small bundle with anything that could be of use, and then we scattered the stairs. From this point on I knew that our lives would be hanging from a branch of impetuous death. Once we had arrived at the Urnschlagplatz, it was still quite empty. People scurried around in search of any water that they could find. Decaying corpses blanketed the floor, encompassing the compound in a horrific aroma of death. Bereavement would soon be within our reach. As our lives slipped away from us, my family and settled down comfortably awaiting the arrival of the train gut then, as am waiting. cannot believe my eyes!
In the new group for resettlement ee Halina and Henryk! Alas, all have done to help protect part Of my family has gone to waste; had failed my family once again. Engulfed with grief, the train had finally arrived. My family and I made our over to the train when someone had called my name and grabbed me by the arm. cried out for Papa but all he did was wave goodbye to me Terrified by being separated from all of them, the police officer tells me to make a run for it tempestuously. rook a glance at the open compound leading to the streets and dashed towards them. I had escaped death yet again. Journal Entry 2 June 1+13
A couple of days ago, I had wondered whether or not the Germans were really going to come. My nerves boiled with the thought of them arriving. Sometimes wished they would have come as soon as possible. These torments were just too much for me to suffer any longer_was ar a Breaking point! That night had geared my way of suicide to hinging myself rather than jumping off of the balcony.
TO me, this death seemed easier, just a quiet and simple way to live this hell hole. Without turning on the light, scrutinized the room in search of something that could serve as a rope, and I finally had found one behind the bookshelf.
But then, at eleven on a Friday morning a few days later, as I was lying on the couch after an almost insomniac night. heard shots going off out in the street. I scurried to the window and was suddenly alarmed by the number of soldiers the flooded the entire width of the street. They shot chaotically at the cræjd that was trying to flee.
After a while, some SS trucks drove into and surrounded a large section of the street that just so happened to be the section where my building was standing as well, Groups and Groups of the Gestapo officers filed into all of the buildings in that section and brought men (Jews) out of them one by one.
They had entered my building too. On that note was sure that the Gestapo officers would find my hiding place and my life would be over with Before they made their way into my room, pushed a chair over to the bookshelf so that could reach the picture hook more easily, prepared the noose and walked over to the door to listen out for them.
The Germans' shouts echoed on the staircase a couple of floors down Half an hour later everything had quieted down again looked out my window and was shocked in disbelief at what was going on, The blockade had been lifted and the SS trucks had driven away. The Germans had not come.
The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe and North Africa along with other groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators. "Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program", progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by the Nazis. The Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question".
He continues to pray to God—he prays not to become as cruel as Rabbi Eliahou's son, for instance, and his vocabulary still reflects a kernel of faith in God. It seems that Eliezer, at his core, still maintains a kind of belief in God (Weisel).
The Pianist, a film by Roman Polanski, teaches its audience that a certain law of film–that a movie should have a proactive hero–doesn't apply.
The Pianist is based on the memoir of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a noted Polish classical pianist who survived the Holocaust. He made it through, not because of his ability to fight, but because of a fortunate string of accidents. Szpilman spent the length of the war in various closets and sealed-off flats; at one point in the film, he sleeps cramped in a cold fireplace, wedged in by a bookcase next to some live ammo and mortar shells.
Wladyslaw has one strong characteristic. His solitude as a classical musician helps him–barely–to survive this nerve-racking isolation, particularly when he's like a ghost haunting a cleared-out city. The word "heroism" has no meaning in such a deadly situation. The moral of The Pianist is "God wants us to survive. At least that's what we have to tell ourselves" (The Pianist).
During the German blitz, Wladyslaw is recording Chopin for the Polish radio. A bomb blast breaks open the studio, signalling the arrival of the Nazis.
It is said to be true that the Holocaust was one of the most tragic and significant events in recorded history. Personal memoirs like Night by Elie Wiesel and The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman gives vivid images and clear views on those epic catastrophes, which allows us as readers to acquire a better understanding of what really transpired during the 1940s.
Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, wrote his book on a collection of personal experiences that moulded his life. He was about twelve years old when his entire world was turned upside down. In the spring of 1944, the German army occupied Hungary (Night, Wiesel).
A series of oppressive laws were forced on the Jews—the community leaders were arrested, Jewish valuables were confiscated, and the entire Jewish population was forced to wear a yellow star, which told everyone else around them they were in fact Jewish (Night, Wiesel). Eventually, the Jews were confined to small ghettos. After days of facing starvation and disease, the Nazi's and the Hungarian police herded the remaining Jews into cattle cars bound for the death camp, Auschwitz (Night, Wiesel).
Spending a huge portion of his life suffering through the hardships in the death camps, Elie experienced losses within himself. His innocence was stolen from him at such a young age and he was forced to grow up at such a fast pace. He quoted, "They passed me by, one after another, my teachers, my friends, the others, and some of whom I had once feared, some of whom I found ridiculous, all those lives I had shared for years. There they went, defeated in their bundles, their lives in tow, having left behind their homes, their childhood.
They passed by me like a beaten dog, with never a glance in my direction. They must have envied me," (Night, Wiesel). This statement, made at such a young age, symbolized how terrible the conditions must have been. Especially for that realization to be made by my innocent twelve-year-olds.
The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe and North Africa along with other groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators. "Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program", progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by the Nazis.
The Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, so much so that the phrase "six million" is now almost universally interpreted as referring to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to seven million (Duiker et al. 431-436). Both Elie Weisel's novel Night and Roman Polanski's film The Pianist play decisive roles in the portrayal of this horrid and brutal instance in world history.
Wiesel makes a distinction between the Holocaust victims' control over their fate and their -control over their actions. He believes man does have control over his moral choices, even when faced with the extreme circumstances of the Holocaust. Although he empathizes with the Jews who behave brutally, killing each other over crusts of bread in their fight to survive, he does not condone their behaviour.
At the same time, one senses that Eliezer, and Wiesel, feel there are definite limits to the victims' control over their fate. It would be disrespectful to those who died for ElieÐ'–or Wiesel himselfÐ'–to claim any credit for surviving. For this reason, Night chronicles and emphasizes the set of lucky circumstances that led to the survival of one among many. The memoir is filled with bizarre coincidences. Years after the Holocaust, Eliezer randomly meets the woman who gave him comfort in Buna. In Gleiwitz, Eliezer once again meets Juliek.
Eliezer's teacher, Moshe the Beadle, somehow escapes the Nazis and returns to Sighet to convey to the town an unheeded warning. Perhaps the most bizarre coincidence of all is Eliezer's survival. He is fortunate enough, on his arrival in Birkenau, to meet a man who tells him to lie about his age. Despite Eliezer's small size, he does not succumb to cold or exhaustion and is not chosen in any of the selections, though many who are healthier than he is being sent to the gas chambers (Weisel 63-109).
In the novel, Eliezer says that the Holocaust "murdered his God," and he often expresses the belief that God could not exist and permit the existence of the Holocaust ( Weisel 73). Elie Wiesel and Eliezer are not exactly the same, but Eliezer expresses, in most cases, the emotions that Wiesel felt at the time of the Holocaust. It is fair to say that Night contains a profound skepticism about God's existence. Yet Eliezer is not enlightened by his rejection of God; instead, he is reduced to the shell of a person.
Likewise, Akiba Drummer, upon abandoning his faith, loses his will to live (Weisel 73). Wiesel seems to be suggesting that the events of the Holocaust prove that faith is a necessary element in human survival, because it preserves man, whether or not it is based in reality. Faith, Wiesel seems to say, enables hope, and it is always necessary for the prisoners to maintain hope, in order for them to maintain life.
Even when Eliezer claims to abandon God as an abstract idea, he remains incapable of abandoning his attachment to God as an everyday part of his life. He continues to pray to GodÐ'–he prays not to become as cruel as Rabbi Eliahou's son, for instanceÐ'–and his vocabulary still reflects a kernel of faith in God. It seems that Eliezer, at his core, still maintains a kind of belief in God (Weisel).
The Pianist, a film by Roman Polanski, teaches its audience that a certain law of film–that a movie should have a proactive hero–doesn't apply. The Pianist is based on the memoir of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a noted Polish classical pianist who survived the Holocaust. He made it through, not because of his ability to fight, but because of a fortunate string of accidents. Szpilman spent the length of the war in various closets and sealed-off flats; at one point in the film, he sleeps cramped in a cold fireplace, wedged in by a bookcase next to some live ammo and mortar shells.
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