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Q: Make a kibana chart field clickable + popup I currently have this Kibana chart

I would like to make it so that when I click on a path it opens up a popup to my local PC accessing the image in the path.
As I am a new user I am stuck on how to proceed with this, any ideas or guidance would be appreciated.

A: you should be able to do this with https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/managing-data-views.html#string-field-formatters, where you use a url formatter and then it would start with file://, then add your local path


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Home Extension Mimeo AY (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) Page 001
Extension Mimeo AY, no. 176 (May 1969)
AGRONOMY GUIDE
AY-176
Fertilizing Grasses with Nitrogen
C. L. Rhykerd, C. H. Roller, K. L. Washburn, Jr., S. J. Donohue, K. L. Collins, L. H. Smith and M. W. Phillips
Departments of Agronomy and Animal Sciences
Forage research the past five years has resulted in breakthroughs in hay yields, protein production, and longevity of stands. Hay yields of 8 to'
10 tons, or more, per acre have been obtained. Yields of this magnitude will result in a protein yield of 2,000 to 3,000 pounds per acre. With proper management and liberal fertilization, highly productive stands have been maintained for more than five years.
With the advent of lower cost commercial nitrogen fertilizer and the threat of the alfalfa weevil, an experiment was initiated on the Purdue University Agronomy Farm at Lafayette to investigate the yield potential of several cool-season grasses under intensive management. On April 8, 1966, Potomac orchardgrass, Kentucky 31 tall fescue, Lincoln smooth bromegrass, and reed canarygrass were seeded individually with oats as a companion crop. Currently herbicides are available for use with forage Seedings which make it possible to obtain three to five tons of forage the seeding year. The soil type was Chalmers silty clay loam. At seeding, 305 pounds of 25-25-0 was applied per acre. The oat crop was harvested for grain on July 22 and the straw removed.
Research Plots Established
In April, 1967, research plots were established on the four grasses and ammonium nitrate was broadcast at rates of 0, 12.5, 25, 50, 100, 200 and 400 pounds of actual nitrogen per acre per harvest. The initial application of nitrogen was in early April with the following applications being applied immediately after each hay harvest. The last cutting received no nitrogen after harvest.
Cutting Management
Cutting management depended upon the morphological characteristics of the individual grasses. Five cuttings were obtained annually from orchardgrass and tall fescue since these grasses head out in early May and the regrowth does not joint. This permits orchardgrass and talI fescue to be harvested at approximately five-week intervals. Smooth bromegrass and reed canarygrass head out about the middle to the latter part of May and the stems of the regrowth joint. Approximately six to seven weeks are required for stem elongation of these two grasses to ensure rapid regrowth and maintenance of stand. Therefore, only four cuttings of smooth bromegrass and reed canarygrass were obtained.
Title Extension Mimeo AY, no. 176 (May 1969)
Purdue Identification Number UA14-13-mimeoAY176
Title of Issue Fertilizing Grasses with Nitrogen
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Transcript AGRONOMY GUIDE Purdue University AY-176 Fertilization Fertilizing Grasses with Nitrogen C. L. Rhykerd, C. H. Roller, K. L. Washburn, Jr., S. J. Donohue, K. L. Collins, L. H. Smith and M. W. Phillips Departments of Agronomy and Animal Sciences Introduction Forage research the past five years has resulted in breakthroughs in hay yields, protein production, and longevity of stands. Hay yields of 8 to' 10 tons, or more, per acre have been obtained. Yields of this magnitude will result in a protein yield of 2,000 to 3,000 pounds per acre. With proper management and liberal fertilization, highly productive stands have been maintained for more than five years. With the advent of lower cost commercial nitrogen fertilizer and the threat of the alfalfa weevil, an experiment was initiated on the Purdue University Agronomy Farm at Lafayette to investigate the yield potential of several cool-season grasses under intensive management. On April 8, 1966, Potomac orchardgrass, Kentucky 31 tall fescue, Lincoln smooth bromegrass, and reed canarygrass were seeded individually with oats as a companion crop. Currently herbicides are available for use with forage Seedings which make it possible to obtain three to five tons of forage the seeding year. The soil type was Chalmers silty clay loam. At seeding, 305 pounds of 25-25-0 was applied per acre. The oat crop was harvested for grain on July 22 and the straw removed. Research Plots Established In April, 1967, research plots were established on the four grasses and ammonium nitrate was broadcast at rates of 0, 12.5, 25, 50, 100, 200 and 400 pounds of actual nitrogen per acre per harvest. The initial application of nitrogen was in early April with the following applications being applied immediately after each hay harvest. The last cutting received no nitrogen after harvest. Cutting Management Cutting management depended upon the morphological characteristics of the individual grasses. Five cuttings were obtained annually from orchardgrass and tall fescue since these grasses head out in early May and the regrowth does not joint. This permits orchardgrass and talI fescue to be harvested at approximately five-week intervals. Smooth bromegrass and reed canarygrass head out about the middle to the latter part of May and the stems of the regrowth joint. Approximately six to seven weeks are required for stem elongation of these two grasses to ensure rapid regrowth and maintenance of stand. Therefore, only four cuttings of smooth bromegrass and reed canarygrass were obtained.

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Aliyah Bet - Illegal immigration, also called Ha'apalah, conducted at the initiative of immigrant groups in Europe, the Jewish Agency and in some cases with the help of the United States and even the Nazis. In Palestine, Aliya Bet was organized beginning in 1939 by the "Mossad l'Aliya Bet" to bring immigrants to mandatory Palestine after immigration was restricted by the British White Paper of 1939.
Illegal immigration began on January 12, 1938, when the "Poseidon" brought 65 illegal immigrants who disembarked at Avihayil. At this time, the Jewish Agency operations were under the command of the Halutz department. Up to 1938, about 8,000 Jewish immigrants had entered Palestine illegally, to circumvent quotas that were already in effect under British emergency regulations before the White Paper of 1939.
Illegal immigration was organized by the "Mossad l'Aliya Bet" between 1939 and 1942, when a tightened British blockade and stricter controls in occupied Europe made it all but impossible, and again between 1945 and 1948. Even in the interim years, and especially in 1944, there were significant illegal immigration attempts.
It is a misconception to assume that the immigration was an initiative of the Zionist movement only, and it is certainly incorrect to say that the Zionist movement deliberately chartered bad ships to bring Jews to Palestine in unsafe conditions, when they could have been safe in Europe.
Before World War II, Romania's Jewish population was about 900,000. About half-a-million Jews perished in Romania during the war, some of them under the German occupation and in the territories ceded to Bulgaria and to the Soviet Union. Some of them were deported to Nazi death camps, but a large majority died in the pogroms organized by the State and the militia.
However, the persecution of the Jews in Romania began long before the war. Under the oppression of the Romanian Iron Guards (the equivalent of the German SS) the Jews began fleeing the country from the port of Constanza to Palestine in 1938. An Associated Press dispatch dated March 2, 1939 described the city of Constanza as a huge refugee camp with thousands of Palestine-bound Jews forming lines in front of travel agencies that sold tickets for fly-by-night shipping companies. This inaugurated an era of the so-called "coffin ships" as all the vessels chartered for this purpose were rickety, unseaworthy boats devoid of amenities, crammed 5 to 10 times their normal capacities, and their destination was, in most cases, fatal.
The Mossad L'Aliyah Bet was active in Romania too. The rickety, overcrowded, ancient boats full of refugees tried to reach Palestine. Many of the ships sank or were caught by the British or the Nazis and turned back, or shipped to Mauritius or other destinations for internment.
On May 28, 1939, the Haganah ship Atrato was captured by the British navy. At the time it had already brought 2,400 immigrants into Palestine in 7 trips. On August 22 the Betar (revisionist) ship "Parita" with 856 passengers arrived and successfully disembarked many of its passengers. About September 1, the Haganah's "Tiger Hill" likewise brought over 1,400 passengers. Each ship was greeted by a crowd of thousands, enabling many of the immigrants to lose themselves in the crowd. World War II had now started. Up to the beginning of the war, illegal immigration had rescued about 21,000 European Jews.
On January 23 and February 13, 1940, the British apprehended the ships Hilda and Sakaria and arrested and interned the immigrants.
In November, the British intercepted three ships sailing in convoy,: the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Milos, and transferred the passengers to the Patria, a captured French liner. To prevent the internment of the immigrants outside Palestine, the Haganah placed a small explosive charge on the ship on November 25, 1940. They thought the charge would damage the engines. Instead, the ship sank, and 252 lives were lost. A few weeks later, the SS Bulgaria docked in Haifa with 350 Jewish refugees and was ordered to return to Bulgaria. The Bulgaria capsized in the Turkish straits, killing 280.
The Salvador, another refugee ship out of Romania, sank in early December of 1940. According to one version of events, it went down in a storm. According to another version, it may have been torpedoed. Over 5,000 illegal immigrants entered Palestine in 1940, many more were caught and interned for the duration of the war.
During all of 1941, only about 4,000 Jews managed to enter Palestine. The Struma, a vessel that had left Constanta in Rumania with 769 refugees, got to Istanbul on December 16, 1941. There, it was forced to undergo repairs of its engine and leaking hull. The Turks would not grant the refugees sanctuary. The British would not approve transshipment to Mauritius or entry to Palestine. On February 24, 1942, the Turks ordered the Struma out of the harbor. It sank with the loss of 428 men, 269 women and 70 children. Apparently, it had been torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, either because it was mistaken for a Nazi ship, or more likely, because the Soviets had agreed to collaborate with the British in barring Jewish immigration. At this point, the Mossad l'Aliyah Bet apparently stopped its efforts. However, the illegal immigration efforts continued, including "private initiatives" and one by the US. Sometimes they met with success, and often they ended in internment or tragic failure. In early 1944, US President Roosevelt apparently authorized a cloak and dagger mission to rescue 50,000 Jews from Southern Europe. In fact, somewhat under 3,000 Jews in 8 ships under Turkish registry were rescued in this way, mostly from Romania. (see http://www.alpas.net/uli/struma/Ziarulturc.htm and www.jewishgen.org/romsig/New/Strumah.html. The ships docked in Istanbul, and the Turks provided rail passage to Syria. On August 5, 1944, however, the Mefkure, carrying 316 passengers and crew, and flying both a Turkish flag and a Red Cross banner, was torpedoed by Soviet submarine SC-215, in the Black Sea. Survivors were machine gunned while trying to escape.
Despite these setbacks, tens of thousands of Jews were saved by the illegal immigration. After World War II, illegal immigration efforts continued, in order to point out the inhumanity and senselessness of British policy, as well as to help displaced persons get out of Europe. American Machal volunteers bought and manned 10 of the 68 ships that participated in this rescue effort. These were the largest ships, and transported the most immigrants, bringing 32,000 out of over 70,000 immigrants who tried to come to Palestine after World War II. However, as they were the largest ships, they were also the most easily spotted, and this may explain why in all cases, the ships were intercepted and the passengers were generally interned abroad.
One of the Machal immigration ships was the Exodus (formerly "President Warfield"). In June of 1947, the British rammed the Exodus on the high seas. They towed it to Haifa where it was the subject of extensive publicity, generating public sympathy for the Zionist cause. The passengers were eventually disembarked in Hamburg. The incident set world opinion, and particularly US opinion against the British, and caused the British to intern illegal immigrants thereafter in Cyprus, rather than attempting to return them to Europe.
Synonyms and alternate spellings: Aliya Beth, illegal immigration.


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Q: What is the closest equivalent to a Gaussian distribution on a discrete domain? I find the Gaussian distribution easy to comprehend with its two parameters: the mean $\mu$ centres it and the stdev $\sigma$ spreads it. However, what is its closest equivalent on a discrete finite (or semi-finite) domain? It is also important for me to maintain the "parameters" $\sigma$ and $\mu$ on this discretized (and potentially bounded) space since I want to control its centre and spread.
PS: Going through the list of discrete probability distributions, some do look like "discretized" Gaussians but their parameters aren't quite the centre and spread used in Gaussians. Examples of this are the Poisson or the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distributions.

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VOICES: What will it take for local restaurants to survive in 2022?
Emily Mendenhall is the owner and general manager of Lily's Dayton in the Oregon District and Vice President of the Oregon District Business Association.
By Emily Mendenhall
Let's face it: the pandemic is not going away anytime soon. But Dayton's locally owned restaurants don't have to become pandemic casualties. We, restaurant owners, staff and customers can help restaurants survive in 2022. It won't be easy and it will take all of us to change long-standing habits, but I know we can do it.
How do I know? I've seen what the pandemic has done to my restaurant, Lily's. We went from Lily's Bistro, with a seasonal focus, to overnight becoming a carryout restaurant earning 80% reduced revenue for months, and then reopened in June 2021 as Lily's Dayton, a more budget-friendly, casual restaurant focusing on a tropical influenced bar program with menu items to match. But survival for my restaurant and all the locally owned and operated restaurants in Dayton will take more than a new name and a different menu. It will take the combined efforts of all of us.
Here are two big changes that will help locally owned restaurants survive in 2022: 1) Treat the people who work in restaurants better, and, 2) Charge a little more for dining out.
In the United States, we have a sad history of looking down upon service industry employees. Ask anyone who waits tables and they will have a story or ten about when customers have asked them what they do for their "real job." Alternately, one need only look at the federal minimum wage of $2.13 for tipped employees to know how undervalued the work is.
Do restaurants need to increase wages and pay staff better? Absolutely. Has my business like most others increased wages to entice talent to stay? You bet. And we are happy to see wages going up, because restaurant workers need higher wages. It's just wrong to ask the waitstaff, dishwashers and line cooks to carry this industry without paying living wages.
Better treatment starts with higher wages, but it does not end there. Every one of us can treat workers in the service industry with kindness, dignity, and respect.
This global pandemic has opened our eyes to the necessity of sick staff staying home. Yet, this means that we are forced to operate short-staffed, which leads to more stress on those at work. It's harder to greet guests as quickly or prepare food at the same pace as we could with a full staff. Fluctuating cost and unpredictable supply chain issues have also led to menu items needing to be altered or being unavailable.
I'm sorry to say there is no way to raise the conditions of restaurant workers without a modest increase in the cost of restaurant meals. A recent article in Time cites what I know all too well: restaurants operate on a razor thin margin, with most failing in the first 3 years. In the best of times, restaurants work on a profit margin of 3% to 5%. It is up to customers to be willing to pay more so responsible businesses can pay both their bills and their staff.
Hospitality, at its core, is about welcoming people and taking care of them. For this to happen in 2022, restaurant workers need to be treated better, with increased wages, paid sick days and kindness. Otherwise, they will end up continuing to leave the industry. Our guests have to help as well by treating staff a little more kindly, tipping generously and accepting that dining out in 2022 will have to cost a little more and may look a little different. If we all do our part, locally owned restaurants like Lily's Dayton will make it through 2022 and beyond.
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June 27, 2006 in Rendition by andrew
CIA flights 'must not reoccur'
From BBC Online
CIA flights have landed in European countries, Mr Marty says
Europe's human rights body has called for steps to ensure terror suspects never again "disappear into thin air" from European soil.
The Council of Europe accused states of colluding with the CIA on secret flights transferring prisoners to third countries where they could be tortured.
It urged governments and parliaments in each state to hold their own inquiries.
The US admits renditions have taken place but denies that people sent overseas are subjected to torture.
"People should not be allowed to disappear into thin air, regardless of the crimes of which they accused," said Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis.
"If we want to be safe we must be fair.
"The only effective measures against terrorism are those which stop more terrorists than they help to recruit."
Investigation 'duty'
Mr Davis said he would be making recommendations to the 46 member states later this year on how to introduce legal safeguards to prevent renditions or other human rights abuses by foreign security agencies.
Earlier this month, Swiss Senator Dick Marty published a report accusing 14 European countries of helping the CIA spin a "spider's web" of disappearances, secret detentions and illegal flights.
The report, based on air traffic logs, satellite images and personal testimonies said there was evidence that Poland and Romania had allowed the CIA to set up secret detention centres on their territory.
Most countries have followed Poland and Romania in denying any wrongdoing. Critics have pointed out that the report provides circumstantial evidence rather than any hard proof.
But the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe approved on Tuesday a resolution based on the Marty report, which said it had been "demonstrated incontestably" that secret detentions and illegal flights took place.
It calls for:
– In-depth inquiries at a national level
– A review of the legal framework regulating the intelligence services
– A review of agreements with the US on the use of military infrastructure to ensure they comply with human rights norms
– Efforts to develop "a truly global strategy" against terrorism, with the US
Member states are obliged to respond.
'Scalpel torture'
EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini, who took part in the debate, also said the flights were a "fact" which the member states had a duty to investigate.
Mr Davis said his own questioning of member states had revealed that no European country currently had adequate legal safeguards to prevent renditions occurring.
He said foreign security agencies were not subject to effective control, and that countries currently had no way of knowing whether aircraft in their airspace were being used for purposes compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
He also said there should be exceptions to state immunity in cases of serious abuses of human rights.
A video put together by human rights group Witness, including testimony from men who say they were tortured after being detained by the CIA, was shown on the sidelines of the session in Strasbourg.
Khalid El-Masri, a German citizen, recalls waking up in a prison in Kabul where he was told by an interrogator: "You are in a country with no laws… We can lock you up here for 20 years or bury you, no-one would know."
Binyam Mohammed, an Ethiopian citizen arrested in Pakistan for travelling on a false passport, is still being held at Guantanamo Bay.
In the film, his brother reads from a diary entry which talks about Binyam Mohammed being systematically wounded with a scalpel.
Mr Marty's inquiry will now be continued by a sub-committee of the Parliamentary Assembly.
A parallel inquiry by a European Parliament committee will also continue its work for at least another six months.
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Richard II June 28, 2006 at 08:08
Here's an interesting development in Iraq. As it's not a suicide attack or a car bomb going off, or Blair declaring that the Iraqis are basking in democracy, the BBC hasn't reported it – well, at least I couldn't find an article about it.
Oil Union Bank Accounts Frozen:
Overview here:
http://www.iraqanalysis.org/blog/2006/06/21/oil-u…
Article here:
http://www.basraoilunion.org/2006/06/iraqi-govern…
You can also read the same article on U.S. Labor Against the War's Web site:
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=1…
"We have just confirmed reports that the Iraqi regime has frozen all the bank accounts of the Iraqi oil workers' union, both abroad and within Iraq. Wave of anti-union activity by government. The Iraqi regime's decision comes in the wake of a series of anti-union measures, including the disbanding of the council of the lawyers' union, freezing the writers' union accounts and the September 2005 decree making all trade union activity illegal…This action follows in the footsteps of US administrator Paul Bremer. In 2004, Paul Bremer, the occupation's then pro-consul in Iraq, declared trade union activity in the state sector illegal…That decision re-enacted Saddam Hussain's 1987 decree banning workers' unions in the state sector by declaring them to be 'civil servants' rather than 'workers'. (http://www.basraoilunion.org/)
In a speech by Hassan Jumaa Awad at the International Peace Conference (http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/resist/2006/0111speech.htm), the president of the General Union of Oil Employees in Basra laid out the position of the union – a position the Iraqi people, apparently, agree with:
"We condemn terrorist attacks against our people and stress the importance of respecting human rights…We support the honorable resistance that targets and strikes at foreign military forces and seeks to drive the occupiers out."
First, this seems to be yet more evidence that America's ongoing attempts to shape Iraq's economy for the benefit of U.S. corporations is fueling attacks against the U.S. military. Second, maybe this is why the General Union of Oil Employees in Basra has had its assets frozen: Bush was handed a pretext by the president of the GUOE to classify the union as a terrorist organization: "We support the honorable resistance that targets and strikes at foreign military forces and seeks to drive the occupiers out."
I'm just guessing. Apparently no one yet knows why the union's bank accounts have been frozen.
In 2003/2004 Iraqi oil workers were earning a paltry $40 a month. They threatened to join the resistance if they weren't given a raise. America gave them an extra $5 a week.
Last year, Iraqi oil workers went on strike:
"Iraqi Oil Workers Hold 24-Hour Strike – Oil Exports Shut Down":
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13827&s2=…
"The strike is…reflective of the wishes of the vast majority of Basra's residents – for a higher percentage of Southern Oil revenue to be ploughed back into Basra's local economy."
Perhaps this is part of the reason why the people of Basra are so pissed off with the British.
Here is a fact sheet about the General Union of Oil Employees in Basra:
http://www.basraoilunion.org/2005/10/guoe-fact-sh…
Here's the position of the union on Privatisation:
"The privatisation of the oil and industrial sectors is the objective of all in the Iraqi state/government. We will stand firm against this imperialist plan that would hand over Iraq's wealth to international capitalism such that the deprived Iraqi people would not benefit from it…we are taking this path for the sake of Iraq's glory even if it costs us our lives. Iraqis are capable of managing their companies and their investments by themselves"
And here's its position on the previous regime:
"GUOE executive committee members, including its President, were part of the active opposition against Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, and many were imprisoned by the regime. The union has an ongoing battle with Ba'ath loyalist managers, and publicly opposes their continued presence in positions of authority, in particular in the oil industry."
In the days when Britain still had an empire, we exploited and extracted America's wealth. The Americans rebelled and kicked us out:
http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_account…
Why do Iraqis not have the same right?
If an Iraqi opposes the way the U.S. military conducts itself, and opposes the economic occupation, but is for his country, and for his people, America brands him a terrorist.
Everything is black and white with Bush and Blair.
Are unions a bad thing for Iraq? Are they stoking the violence and hatred? Not according to an article in the Economist:
http://www.economist.com/World/africa/displayStor…
"A free trade-union movement, argue members, would do much to help the country avoid the ethnic and sectarian disputes at grassroots level that threaten to escalate into civil war. Historically, both the members and leaders of Iraq's unions have cut across ethnic and religious lines."
The Iraqi government is making loud noises about national reconciliation.
Labour unions can play a large role in this.
So what is America and its allies in the Iraqi government trying to do? They are trying to smash the nascent trade union movement.
Iraqi children are selling their bodies to survive. This is good news for the West, because the worst thing foreign – and particularly U.S. and British – corporations could face is having to hand Iraq's wealth to the masses.
Contrary to U.S. propaganda, Iraqis are quite capable of running things themselves.
"Iraq's other resistance":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,14…
Extracts:
"The occupation forces and their allies in the Iraqi government see things differently. Plans are now afoot for sweeping changes to Iraq's oil sector, to give western oil majors access to its reserves for the first time since 1972.
"In August 2003 oil workers' unions organised a strike that stopped all production in southern Iraq for two days. The resulting bargaining power has been impressive, with the unions – which later merged to become the GUOE – successfully pushing for foreign workers to be replaced by Iraqis; the role of US companies in the reconstruction to be reduced; and wages to be raised to liveable levels.
"And the GUOE is uncompromising in its views on oil privatisation. As one oil worker told me, he and his colleagues have rebuilt their industry after its destruction in three wars, and in the face of extreme adversity. As a result they have a deep sense of ownership, which they will not willingly relinquish."
No wonder the General Union of Oil Employees (GUOE) must be smashed.
National reconciliation? The Iraqi government is talking out of its backside!
Bit of background information for anyone who's interested:
Fact sheet about the GUOE here:
http://www.corporatewatch.org/download.php?id=26
"Fuelling Resistance":
http://vitw.org/archives/928
"Oil in Iraq":
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/irqindx….
U.S. Labor Against the War have this to say concerning the freezing of GUOE's assets:
"USLAW asks unions, labor councils, state federations and labor and other social justice activists across the U.S. to protest the Iraqi regime's interference with and harassment of the GUOE and other unions that are fighting to defend the rights of Iraqi workers in their workplaces and the interests of Iraq's working people in society.
"Demand that the GUOE bank accounts be unfrozen, that Saddam Hussein's Law 150 be repealed and that labor rights be immediately recognized and fully respected in Iraq in accordance with internationally accepted ILO standards.
Send your protests to:
Jalal Talabani, President
Nouri al-Maliki, Prime Minister
Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, Parliament Speaker
Jawad Bulani, Minister of the Interior
c/o Embassy of the Republic of Iraq
1801 P St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20036 or
Fax: (202) 462-5066 or [email protected]
With copies to:
Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Secretary
2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520
Kindly provide USLAW with a copy which we will pass on to the GUOE in Iraq.
U.S. LABOR AGAINST THE WAR. 1718 M Street, NW, PMB 153, Washington, DC 20036. www.uslaboragainstwar.org; [email protected].
Forgot to give a summary of what the GUOE stands for (Note: the GUOE is now known as the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions):
"The Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU) is an anti-occupation, anti-privatisation and politically independent federation of Iraqi oil workers, who are fighting to resist both the corporations and the US/UK occupation forces. It is a non-sectarian federation that aims to unite all oil workers in Iraq, and has also worked to expel oil company bosses who were supporters of Saddam Hussein.
"Members of the IFOU face harassment, intimidation, and threats of death on a daily basis, and support from other groups, such as UK activist groups, is critical if independent trade unionism in Iraq is to survive."
Their website: www.basraoilunion.org
You can sign up to the Naftana email alert list here (Naftana – Arabic for 'our oil' – is the UK support committee for the IFOU):
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/naftana
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I think Bairstow could do a good job batting at 3.
If we put that team out, I'd actually be more worried about our bowling. Broad needs to up his game and Woakes needs to regain fitness and rhythm. I'm not convinced by any of the possible back up bowlers either. Roland-Jones was decent in seamer friendly conditions, but I reckon he'll be very easy to hit on flat Aussie pitches. Wood barely gets above 85mph in test matches. Jake Ball hasn't impressed me one bit in an England shirt. Finn hasn't been brilliant for Middlesex this year and he hardly has good memories of Australia.
The good news is that Starc, Pattinson, Hazlewood and Cummins all have injury worries and are unlikely to get through 5 tests.
It would be rather odd to do it now as he seems to have improved a lot over the last 12 months, I'm no keeping expert and have never done it in my life but his movements do seem more consistent with where the ball is going now and I'd put him ahead of Buttler now unless there's been a big improvement there that I haven't seen?
It kind of made sense when Buttler was imo a slightly better keeper as he also seems suited if anything to batting at 7/8 whereas I think most are of the opinion that Bairstow would be a good #5 or even 4 (certainly better there than the specialist batsman we've tried other than Root obviously) but I think now Bairstow would take it as a real kick in the balls if he had the gloves taken off him after working so hard to get his game up to the level it is.
Maybe, but it would still be a kick in the balls given that his keeping has improved out of sight and he is keen to keep keeping. Also, I don't see any evidence to suggest that his batting would be any better without the gloves, so the proposal effectively amounts to suggesting that Foakes would score more runs than a specialist batsman. I think there's now less chance than ever of Bairstow being picked as a specialist batsman, and it's a bore to see this old dead hobby-horse still being flogged.
I said it on the T20 thread yesterday and I'll say it here: Liam Plunkett should be part of the Ashes tour party and first reserve seamer.
6 first class wickets in 2017 is hardly a compelling case.
Like Buttler, who thinks a good ODI series will get him playing as the number 7.
I honestly think he's a better option on Australian pitches than Wood, Finn or the current 2015 vintage of Woakes we have.
It's not something I've thought about but it does make sense. I'd certainly expect him to keep his pace up for longer than Wood.
Wood is essential and can't see Woakes being much of a threat outside of Sydney. But you're right about Plunkett being the best reserve option. But I doubt anybody can predict what visionary picks this band of selectors will think are suitable for Oz.
Wood is not fit and can't bowl for five days. He's done as far as a test prospect is concerned.
Fitness is up to the ECB medics to decide. It's not reason enough to rule him out of selection. Certainly not at this stage.
Brown envelope to the ECB should do it.
Probably will play every test then.
Is that really the stat?
I agree that it doesn't really matter what JB wants, but trying to convert him into a specialist batsman is still a worse idea than it ever was.
It's the other way round, according to cricinfo he's averaging 51 batting first and 26 when England bat second.
I don't disagree with your general point about his feelings but if the mental process affects his batting is what I'd be more concerned about. He is an excellent outfielder though so there's that.
Re Bairstow, I can't see anyway that going into an Ashes series, England will suddenly decide to go back on what has been a relatively successful tactic. If Foakes or Buttler go, it will be as a reserve.
Yeah that's what I meant. He's worse when we bat 2nd, suggesting that after an innings of keeping his batting suffers, although that might well be due to the state of the game/performance of the side as a whole - e.g. England's 1st innings "effort" against South Africa at Trent Bridge.
I don't really buy the narrative that he would really be so precious about losing the gloves that his batting would go to pieces, or if he was so mentally fragile I'd be seriously worried about how he's going to cope down under, regardless of whether he keeps or not.
True. I wouldn't be surprised if either gets a game as a specialist bat (like in India) though.
I looked at Prior's overall stats for England and he averaged more than 10 runs more in matches we batted first in than he did in matches we batted second in. Perhaps it's a factor for many wicketkeepers. Perhaps it's a factor for many non-wicketkeepers too, since spending however many overs fielding is always tiring. In any case, I would be cautious about making conclusions from that particular stat about Bairstow, not just because of this but also because the sample of test matches in which he's been our wicketkeeper and we fielded first is so far just 9 games.


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The partner of a British hiker missing in France has said she could have been harmed by someone who "saw an opportunity in a lone female".
Esther Dingley, 37, vanished from Port de la Glere in late November while on a solo trek along the French-Spanish border.
Her partner Dan Colegate claims that despite the coronavirus lockdown in place at the time, the "possibility of Esther encountering an individual with a weapon remains".
"In such a mountainous location, there is no practical way to police anybody choosing to ignore the COVID-19 restrictions," he said in a statement issued by the LBT Global – formally the Lucie Blackman Trust.
"That doesn't mean that nobody could have been up there, and that somebody who was breaking the rules didn't see an opportunity when encountering a lone female hiker.
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"With the additional knowledge that nobody else should be nearby and so close to a road, an individual with a weapon could feasibly force somebody back to their vehicle."
Mr Colegate, who has been in a relationship with Ms Dingley for 19 years, said she may have come across a hunter.
The Durham-based couple had been travelling across Europe in a campervan together since 2014, but decided to embark on final separate trips before returning to the UK.
There has been no sign of her, with French police investigating three possibilities: an accident, voluntary disappearance, or someone else being involved.
Mr Colegate claims he spoke to her every day in the run-up to her disappearance on 22 November.
He has hit out at suggestions she may have gone missing on purpose, with a dossier of her case compiled by the missing person's charity claiming it would be "totally out of character, in every way".
"Esther has no motive or means to do so. She hasn't accessed any funds.
"There were no large cash withdrawals in the weeks/months leading up to her trip.
"She was already doing her own thing as part of her usual relationship with Dan. She didn't need to vanish to get time to herself," it said.
On the possibility of her suffering an accident, her partner claims she did the same route the previous day and is an experienced climber.
He said in a final emotional statement: "Since Esther went missing I have been lost in a world that no longer makes sense to me. Every aspect of my life and the future I dream of includes Esther.
"I never imagined that one day she would not come home."
If there is a powerful irony at work in the upcoming Ugandan presidential election, it is evident in the way a political upstart called Bobi Wine has rattled the confidence of Africa's third-longest serving leader, Yoweri Museveni, while simultaneously accepting that that he will not win the poll.
The 38-year old pop star turned parliamentarian is running as the presidential candidate for the National Unity Platform. It's a progressive political party founded earlier this year, with the charismatic singer as its leader.
And he has fired the imagination of many in Uganda – and right across Africa.
Unrest in Uganda ahead of the election
His campaign appearances draw thousands of people with a basic message about democracy, accountability, and the importance of elected officials following the law.
He represents hope and change in a country where the vast majority have only known Mr Museveni as their president.
"The Uganda we want to live in, what we call the new Uganda, is a Uganda where everyone is equal, the law treats us the same… a Uganda where we are respected and applauded on an international platform, not known for poverty, disease, corruption, and for dictatorship," he says.
"That's the Uganda that I envision – that we envision – as a generation."
To Western ears, Wine's manifesto does not sound particularly radical – but the public's enthusiastic embrace has unnerved the government.
The coercive apparatus of state has been deployed to quell his campaign activities, although the authorities say they're taking measures to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is Africa's third longest-serving leader, having taken power in 1986
Mr Wine said: "The election is being stolen and rigged, not will be (on election day), by the mere fact that I have been blocked from campaigning, that my posters are not allowed to be there, that I'm not allowed to have any billboards, that I am blocked from radio and TV stations, that I'm a presidential candidate who is not allowed to drive on main roads or even address people in towns."
Last week, journalists watched as Mr Wine was physically dragged out of his vehicle parked by the roadside.
Ten days ago, every member of Wine's campaign team was arrested on Kalangala Island, south of the capital Kampala, as he attempted to hold a rally.
Ugandan presidential candidate and pop star, Bobi Wine, who is campaigning to replace President Museveni, was arrested in November
He was not detained by the authorities, although he was flown back home in a military helicopter.
The unwanted detour is evidence that the authorities are trying to come to terms with Mr Wine's popularity.
When they briefly detained him in November for violating COVID-19 guidelines, unruly protests broke out in several towns, with police, soldiers and plainclothes gunmen killing at least 54 people in response.
Still, President Museveni, who effectively controls the security services – as well as the country's electoral commission – is not going to hand over the reins of power.
Curiously, the problem is one he himself recognised when he seized the presidency back in 1986: "The problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power."
The 76-year old, who brought a measure of peace and stability in the first years of his rule, now follows a well-trodden path.
A Bobi Wine supporter carrying a campaign poster during protests
Like the leaders of many other African countries, he has changed the country's constitution to perpetuate his rule.
Some analysts blame the continent's so-called "big man syndrome" – a sort of cultural respect for the powerful – but recent events in the US show the instinct to rule to be a universal.
The person in the presidential chair will never have enough time and will doubtless argue "the people still love me".
That is probably why Bobi Wine is such a threat to Yoweri Museveni.
The opposition politician's popularity cannot be contained with tear gas and rubber bullets.
Mr Wine says he is in this fight for the duration.
"We are going to get our freedom or we are going to die trying to get our freedom. Good enough. We are not violent and we are living in a generation where the world is watching."
In Uganda, running for the presidency can be a dangerous business – especially for pop star turned politician Bobi Wine.
The 38-year-old, who is the leading opposition in the country's upcoming presidential election, has told Sky News he has been targeted with bullets and tear gas and "miraculously" survived several attacks in the run-up to the vote.
Uganda's incumbent president Yoweri Museveni has been in power since 1986
"It's not out of fashion to put on a bullet-proof jacket and a ballistic helmet," he said. "It was an effort to secure my life some more. That is after I survived gun attacks more than once, more than twice, I was targeted. My car was riddled with bullets, flattening old tyres. And at one occasion, the military shoot into the windscreen of my car.
"Miraculously, I'm still alive and nobody was shot dead in my car. However, many of my close allies have been shot dead."
After making the improbable journey from the slums to the recording studios of East Africa, Wine – real name Robert Kyagulanyi – is now challenging the 35-year rule of Uganda's incumbent president, Yoweri Museveni.
His singing career, a genre he describes as "edutainment", took off in the early 2000s, with lyrics decrying urban poverty and political oppression, backed by catchy, feel-good beats.
Harnessing his musical fame to start a political revolution, he is promising equality, "a Uganda where we are respected and applauded on an international platform, not known for poverty, disease, corruption, and for dictatorship – that's the Uganda we envision as a generation".
Pop star Bobi Wine, real name Robert Kyagulanyi, is running for the presidency in Uganda
When Mr Museveni took power in 1986, he was praised as a visionary. But five presidential terms later, is he about to be unseated? In a country with one of the youngest populations in the world, Wine is certainly expected to do well.
However, he has been arrested multiple times during his campaigning. Mr Museveni has deployed the military to prevent what he sees as opposition attempts to create civil unrest that could cause regime change.
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The election "is being stolen and rigged", Wine claims.
"By the mere fact that I was arrested on the day of nomination, that I've been blocked from campaigns, that my posters are not allowed to be there, that I'm not allowed to have any billboards, that I'm blocked from radio and TV stations, that I'm a presidential candidate who's not allowed to drive on main roads or even to address people in towns – that's a rig."
Wine says he will continue, despite saying his life is at risk. "I live every day as if it's the last day. My life is threatened, the life of my wife is threatened, my close allies and everybody that associates with me.
Protests have taken place in Kampala, the country's capital
"But we keep going knowing that our lives do not end with us. So many people have already paid the ultimate price, and my life is not any much more valuable than the lives of the people of Uganda."
So undeterred, he is calling on Ugandans to vote and "change our country forever" when the election takes place on Thursday.
"This is our only opportunity," he said. "We are non-violent. So we are using this election as a protest to speak – and speak loudly."
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His response was that the most important thing a person can do every day is to invest in yourself. In particular, how are you better at the end of the day than you are at the beginning of the day?
What if you were an athlete who didn't train? If you went and played, you would lose to the people who did train.
To do this, figure out what you need to know, and how do you make yourself better? What are the things you need to know in order to be a better professional everyday.
So how do you actually identify the skills you need?
Once you see that road, how do you start to learn those skills?
And once you start learning those skills, how do you balance the rest of your life – which is already jam packed – with trying to get ahead?
It can seem extremely frustrating to figure out.
But that's not the only roadblock. Top performers in particular fall prey to another trap.
Part of what makes it tough is that these skills you need to get ahead are often soft skills. It can be things like your mindset, skills, connections, and experiences.
Soft assets are things you can't trade directly for money. They're the intangible contributors to career success: the knowledge and information in your brain; professional connections and the trust you've built up with them; skills you've mastered; your reputation and personal brand; your strengths (things that come easily to you). Hard assets are what you'd typically list on a balance sheet: the cash in your wallet; the stocks you own; physical possessions like your desk and laptop. These matter because when you have an economic cushion, you can more aggressively make moves that entail downside financial risk. For example, you could take six months off to learn the Ruby programming language with no pay— i.e., pick up a new skill. Or you could shift to a lower-paying but more stimulating job opportunity. During a career transition, someone who can go six to twelve months without earning money has different options— indeed, a significant advantage— over someone who can't go more than a month or two without a paycheck. Soft assets are more difficult to tally than cash in a bank account, but assuming your basic economic needs are taken care of, soft assets are ultimately more important. Dominating a professional project at work has little to do with how much dough you've socked away in a savings account; what matters are skills, connections, experiences. Because soft assets may be abstract, there's a tendency for people to underestimate them when pondering career strategy. –Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha (Startup Of You).
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The blog, "Billionaire Founder of LinkedIn Says This is The ONE Most Important Thing Professionals Should Be Doing" is such an interesting read and gives me a whole new perspective on how to go about making myself better. I would like to go through and answer several of your questions that you stowed upon ourselves by referring back to the brilliant book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. Hopefully I can add a bit of a different outlook on these questions and what they mean to me.
The first question I'm going to answer is on how you identify the skills that you need? I think Reid Hoffman offers some great answers to that question and I do partially agree with him. You always need to take a look in the mirror and tell yourself what you need to improve upon and how you can go about that. Discovering your intellectual arrogance is a great way and especially for a lot of people who maybe no one has ever been honest with. I think one of the main things you need to do is start by surrounding yourself by people who help make you better, not just by improving your work skills, but also as a person.
Unfortunately, by acquiring these people around you in your ever day activities, you need to be able to do the one thing that can be really tough sometimes. You must be able to trust others. Trusting someone in the workplace can be extremely hard. You more than likely don't know that person very well and they most likely don't know you, but trust can be very important. "Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team" (Kathryn). I'm aware that The Five Dysfunctions of a Team won't apply to every job, but as I mentioned earlier maybe it will apply to you as a person.
Usually when someone pushes you in life, it's because they care. Whether it's training for sports and it may seem like a coach is picking on you or when your mother makes you sit down and complete your math homework. When you're being pushed in life, it'll help you succeed and keep improving. However you also need to be aware of when someone is being toxic in your life and or team. To give you a quick example, the character Mickey from the book, is someone who is very good at their job. She is basically the best of the best on the team and excels at just about everything around the workplace. However referring back to when Mr. Hoffman talked about discovering your own intellectual arrogance, Mickey from the book hasn't discovered hers.
She was completely oblivious on how she acted around others. She was rude and looked down on her fellow employees, and was very inconsiderate and untrustworthy at the team meetings. The boss Kathryn thought that the company would crash at first if she was to fire Mickey due to how successful she is at her work. However she quickly learned that her toxic attitude was affecting everyone else's progress and outweighed her skills on the job. Soon after she let Mickey go, the team started bonding easier and making progress quickly. This is the perfect example of why you want to figure out your intellectual arrogance. Just because you're good at your job, doesn't mean that you're actually better for the company itself.
In order to have a great team around the workplace or at home with your loved ones, you also need to be honest with one another and don't be afraid to stray away from conflict. "Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal" (Kathryn). When it comes down to team building, Lencioni really does know it all. As I mentioned earlier you can use his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team for more than just a workplace reference, but an everyday life source. Even if you're experiencing discontent from children. Maybe there just not quite on board with whatever you're trying to preach as a parent. You can't be afraid to hold back in certain situations. It's as simple as this. "When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board" (Kathryn). As a bigger picture, you need to be able to express how you feel, let yourself be able to trust others, admit your mistakes, and understand what your skills are and what they aren't. That's basically the whole premise of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. In life we get placed in teams whether we know it or not. Your family is a team and your coworkers are a team. You need to be able to work as a team and act like a team. There is no "I" in team. That's how you will learn your skills and identify them.


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Texas Central Railway President Robert Eckels discussed some of the preliminary details for a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston last week. The high-speed passenger rail system would take 90 minutes to go from one end of the line to the other, saving passengers around two hours compared to driving between the two cities. Texas Central Railway is a private consortium that is promoting the project. Unlike many other high-speed rail projects across the country, the project in Texas would not receive any federal or state money to build the project. This includes not being eligible for the part of the $8 billion federal grant created in 2009 to promote high-speed rail in the country. The Texas DOT received part of that funding when the grant was created. The project will cost roughly $10 billion, and it will be financed through private funding.
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Developer Land Securities and Canary Wharf Group submitted a plan on Wednesday to fix the "Death Ray" coming from sunlight bouncing off the Walkie Talkie building. The 160-meter, 34-story office building located at 20 Fenchurch Street in London is currently under construction. Last fall, the skyscraper briefly became a tourist destination due to the car-melting light beam cast by the tower. The beam reached temperatures as high as 110 degrees Celsius in September, and it melted parts of parked cars and even set fire to a doormat at a barbershop. Temporary scaffolding was erected across the street to prevent the sun's rays from causing damage to nearby buildings and pedestrians, and all parking spots were fenced off so no other cars would be melted.
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Q: Returning empty arrow function on promise chain I am trying to understand a block of code here, which I believe is redundant code, which could be deleted but maybe I am wrong, here is the code:
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I believe the line:
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can be deleted right? the arrow function does nothing, the msgInfo is something that the previous then clause returns after calling myBroker.dispatch, and because of that, I could remove the line I mentioned right?
Can someone give me a clear explanation on this?
Why that line exists? Or explain why can't I delete it?
PS: the function getSomething and uploadData returns a promise, the dispatch function I am not so sure because it looks like this:
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  );

It returns only a object which is 'data' right? or does it return a promise as well, because it contains the then clause in the end?
This syntax notation using multiple 'then' and arrow functions confuses me,
Thanks a lot in advance!

A: The only reason I can think of for why that line would exist would be if the function this whole block is being used in is somewhere such that the resolve value of myBroker.dispatch should not be (or is better not) exposed to the consumer of the larger function. For example:
const thisModule = (() => {
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Here, the function getSomethingAndDispatchBroker can be called from outside, but perhaps the resolve value of myBroker.dispatch is better kept internal to the thisModule - either due to privacy, or due to code clarity - perhaps you only want users of the function to know if the Promise resolved (if the process succeeded), without telling them unnecessary details.
Still, if none of that is a concern, then yes, feel free to remove the .then(msgInfo => {}) line.


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Have degrees been put up for sale?
By Zahra Manji
Universities – a topic of national interest – are now a constant feature in the papers. Most recently, universities minister and Conservative MP, Sam Gyimah, has triggered an interesting debate.
Gyimah has been criticised for treating university degrees as commodities – products for sale – after introducing digital tools to assist students finding suitable degree courses. As helpful and forward-thinking as these tools may appear, the notion of finding 'suitable' degrees is heavily determined by the salary of the student post-graduation. From what has been said it seems Mr Gyimah believes, as many have come to realise, that the value of a degree primarily rests upon the monetary outcome it produces. Reports suggest he is planning to filter out the universities that do not perform to his standard by proposing to shut them down.
As students, we must be supplied with answers to what are now increasingly important questions: what is the real purpose of a degree? What constitutes a suitable university? Is it right to compare the university experience to a business of products and consumers, where the consumer is the student?
It seems Mr Gyimah believes, as many have come to realise, that the value of a degree primarily rests upon the monetary outcome it produces
One criticism of the universities minister is that he has put a fixed price on different degree courses based on future earnings. However, is a university degree merely a means to earn a certain amount? Should a degree not be classed as an opportunity to expand one's intellectual capability, to which there is no finite value?
For students, it can be frustrating to see a comparison of the university experience to a business deal, where there is an input and an output of revenue, and where the business can only be successful if the output reaches a certain monetary value.
Not only is this a mistake but students are also not consumers. Instead they are young adults, many of whom are uncertain of their future career prospects and choose a degree that piques their interest. There is no fixed rule book, no guide set in stone as to which degree will definitely earn which amount, for the same degree may achieve a very different outcome depending on the individual and their life circumstances. University should not be a money making business nor should it be an institute pressured into rearing students who obtain a specific salary. The question of what makes a degree valuable is an interesting one, but surely monetary outcome is not the sole or even the most important factor.
Finance remains a focal point of discussion surrounding degrees. For instance, claims have been made that those who cannot pay back their loans should never have been admitted into university. Although this may appeal to the common taxpayer, weeding out the 'wrong kind' of student may discourage the youth and even limit the number of accomplished graduates. In other words, Gyimah's plan to filter out the weaker students may actually have a counter effect, because for every group of "subsidy junkies", as explained by Peter Scott, there may be a spark of genius where you least expect it.
Of course this is only speculation, but it is important to be aware that narrowing the number of students and universities may not be the way forward. If students are not receiving "the value for money they deserve from higher education" then steps must be taken to improve a university's resources and ability to deliver, rather than shutting them down entirely. Making universities victim to narrow financial boundaries restricts all possible opportunity for creativity, and rules out the purpose of universities being a way to enhance individual growth.
Making universities victim to narrow financial boundaries restricts all possible opportunity for creativity
According to Gyimah, online tools that rank courses according to a gold, silver and bronze system will expose poor-quality teaching, therefore ensuring future students are aware of which universities are "lagging behind". On the surface level, this is a progressive step forward. Yet, in doing so they are assuming there is a direct link between low income and poor teaching.
Although there may be a positive correlation between the two, this does not mean one is the result of the other. This inevitably trivialises universities, ignoring the fact that a degree course is far more than a few statistics on a website. University brings with it a melting pot of people, from a multitude of backgrounds, classes, races and beliefs. This exposure is what creates a well-rounded graduate, equipping them with the rigor, creativity and open-mindedness required for the working world.
However, it is not these vital interpersonal relationships that are accounted for in Gyimah's new scheme. With Warwick University now ranked 4th best university in Europe by Times Higher Education (THE), Phil Baty, the Editorial Director of THE, said: "no other international ranking focuses entirely on teaching and learning", with Warwick's vice-chancellor "thanking everyone who helps make teaching at Warwick an experience that is so treasured and valued". There is no mention of income, getting value for money through salary, and having the ability to repay loans. Instead, this new ranking is very much focused on the multifaceted teacher-to-student relationship and the learning experience it brings.
This exposure is what creates a well-rounded graduate, equipping them with the rigor, creativity and open-mindedness required for the working world
The government should now aspire to recognise the right of the student: to pursue their interests and expertise, and to choose a degree through which they can unlock this potential post-graduation. Even this idea can be challenged since it suggests such 'privileged' students should be contributing back to the economy after being so lucky to attain a degree. However, the traditional view would argue this does not fully practice the right to education as we have understood it; we must not forget universities were first established to allow academic freedom and the liberty to explore intellectual interests, regardless of monetary outcome.
While this is true, Gyimah would say that we are no longer in a time of such freedom and must face the reality that while taxpayers fund our degrees, we as students should acknowledge the challenge of paying the country back, made easier by eliminating the degrees not capable of producing the necessary earnings. The middle ground between these opposing views is that universities should be allowed to charge for their courses with students as consumers, thus empowering universities to improve their product. And students are required to pay back, where able, the loans that have allowed them to be educated ensuring the tax man is recompensed for their investment in the country's educational future.
Most students generally have a positive university experience rather than focussing on a 'value for money'. And as Linda Drew says: "Value for money? What a grim, cold way to talk about universities".
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4 NY Jets free agents the team could still re-sign this offseason
By Justin Fried
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The NY Jets have made some serious noise in free agency this offseason signing impact players on both sides of the ball. The additions of players like Laken Tomlinson and D.J. Reed will go a long way toward improving a roster that was among the worst in the NFL a year ago.
Tomlinson should help solidify an offensive line that has the potential to be one of the better units in the league. Reed will bolster a secondary that hosts a number of young promising pieces.
The Jets weren't just active in bringing in new players, however. Somewhat surprisingly, the Jets opted to re-sign quite a few of their own internal free agents as well.
Players like Braxton Berrios, Lamarcus Joyner, Nathan Shepherd, Nick Bawden, Dan Feeney, Conor McDermott, Will Parks, and Joe Flacco further fill out the depth on the roster. And that's not even including RFA tenders such as Mike White.
The Jets seem primed to head into the 2022 NFL Draft with fewer holes and more depth than they had a month ago, and that's always a good thing. But could they do even more?
While we could probably rule out any potential major free-agent additions at this stage, the Jets could still look to re-sign a few more players who had roles last season.
Let's take a look at four Jets free agents who could still be brought back this offseason.


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