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Sinosphere | U.S. Professors Call on Colleges to Re-evaluate Confucius Institutes
U.S. Professors Call on Colleges to Re-evaluate Confucius Institutes
By Amy Qin
June 17, 2014 7:09 am June 17, 2014 7:09 am
Wu Qidi, Chinese deputy minister of education, spoke at the opening of the Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas' Edwards campus in 2006 with Kathleen Sebelius, then governor of Kansas, in the background. Credit John Sleezer/Associated Press, via The Kansas City Star
The American Association of University Professors is calling on universities to uphold principles of academic freedom by either terminating or renegotiating the agreements that have brought nearly 100 Chinese government-backed cultural and language programs called Confucius Institutes to campuses across the United States and Canada.
In a statement prepared this month by its Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, the A.A.U.P. argues that colleges and universities in the United States have sacrificed the independence and integrity of their institutions and staff by allowing the Chinese government to set guidelines for the recruitment and supervision of academic staff, the design of the curriculum and boundaries on debate within the Confucius Institutes.
"Confucius Institutes function as an arm of the Chinese state and are allowed to ignore academic freedom," the statement said.
"Most agreements establishing Confucius Institutes feature nondisclosure clauses and unacceptable concessions to the political aims and practices of the government of China," it added.
Widely recognized as one of China's most ambitious cultural diplomacy endeavors to date, the Confucius Institute program has been embraced by universities around the world as a cost-effective way to offer Chinese language and culture instruction to students. In less than a decade since the first institute was established in Seoul, South Korea, in November 2004, the program, which is heavily subsidized by the Chinese government, has grown to include more than 400 Confucius Institutes in over 100 countries and regions, according to the state news agency Xinhua, citing Xu Lin, head of the Confucius Institute Headquarters in Beijing.
But with its statement on Confucius Institutes, the A.A.U.P. joins a larger movement of universities and academics who have in recent years begun to push back against the program. Last December, the Canadian Association of University Teachers released a similar statement calling on universities to sever ties with the institutes, citing two instances in which universities in Canada either rejected or terminated an agreement to host Confucius Institutes over concerns about the program's threat to academic freedom.
In one of those cases, McMaster University in Ontario decided to close its Confucius Institute in 2012 after a teaching assistant at the university's Confucius Institute filed a complaint against the university with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario accusing the institute of discriminatory hiring practices. The teaching assistant, Sonia Zhao, alleged that by requiring her to conceal her belief in Falun Gong, a spiritual movement banned in China, the university was "giving legitimation to discrimination."
In an update on its website last summer, the university said the institute's hiring process "excluded certain classes of applicants, which is not consistent with the university's values of equality and inclusivity, nor with McMaster's anti-discrimination policy."
The A.A.U.P. statement cited a magazine essay about Confucius Institutes written by Marshall Sahlins, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Chicago, which was published in The Nation last October. Mr. Sahlins wrote that the Confucius Institutes "appear to have met more serious resistance in Canada and elsewhere than in the United States."
Beijing has appeared to be more accommodating in its negotiations with American universities, wrote Mr. Sahlins, especially when it has wanted to enlist a prestigious university such as Stanford University or the University of Chicago.
Despite the greater concessions, American universities still have found that agreements with Beijing often contain requirements that are at odds with their concepts of academic freedom. "There is a whole list of proscribed topics," June Teufel Dreyer, a professor of Chinese government and foreign policy at the University of Miami, told The New York Times in 2012. "You're told not to discuss the Dalai Lama — or to invite the Dalai Lama to campus. Tibet, Taiwan, China's military buildup, factional fights inside the Chinese leadership — these are all off-limits."
The sentiments expressed in the statements by the American and Canadian associations echo Mr. Sahlins's conclusion:
"Prominent CI hosts should take the lead in reversing course, stressing that the issues involved are larger than their own particular interests," Mr. Sahlins wrote. "By hosting a Confucius Institute, they have become engaged in the political and propaganda efforts of a foreign government in a way that contradicts the values of free inquiry and human welfare to which they are otherwise committed."
Although both associations' statements draw a comparison between the Confucius Institutes and other government-backed cultural programs such as the British Council and L'Alliance Française, an important difference, the associations note, is that the Confucius Institutes, unlike the others, are physically located on the university campuses.
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Q: Entity Framework add new propertie in existing list I am using this code in order to query through the database and inserting the values into a model:
  UserContext user = new UserContext();

 List<MitarbeiterDataModel> mitarbeiter = new List<MitarbeiterDataModel>();
 var users = user.Users.Select(x => new MitarbeiterDataModel{ Id = x.Id, Vorname = x.Vorname, Nachname = x.Nachname, Studio = x.Studio }).ToList();
 mitarbeiter.AddRange(users);

Now I have a list of employees which looks like this for example:
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| Id | Name | Opportunities  |
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| 1  | Tom  |                |
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| 2  |John  |                |
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My goal is to fill the Opportunities column as well. The problem is that these values are from another table. So I have to add them later somehow. Can someone tell me how to do this?
mitarbeiter.Where(x => x.Id == 1).Select(x => new MitarbeiterDataModel { Gelegenheiten = 2 });

'Gelegenheiten' means opportunities and is present in my dataModel which is MitarbeiterDataModel .
I tried it somehow this way... No success though:(

A: Like Jeff Orris said, you can join both tables, then create your viewModels like so :
UserContext context = new UserContext();

List<MitarbeiterDataModel> mitarbeiter = new List<MitarbeiterDataModel>();

var users = (
    from user in context.Users
    join opp in context.Opportunities on user.OppurtunityId equals opp.OppurtunityId
    select new MitarbeiterDataModel {
        Id = user.Id,
        Vorname = user.Vorname,
        Nachname = user.Nachname,
        Studio = user.Studio,
        Gelegenheiten = opp.SomeField
        })
    .ToList();

mitarbeiter.AddRange(users);

Of course, i don't know the content of your classes, so I made up some fields.

A: For the Legacy data I think you can use the SQL vernier to handle it, like
declare @Opportunitiesint
declare updatetrigger cursor for
select Opportunities from Gelegenheiten where ***
open updatetrigger
fetch next from updatetrigger into @Opportunities
while @@fetch_status=0
begin
update employees set Opportunities =@Opportunities where ***

fetch next from updatetrigger into @Opportunities
end
deallocate updatetrigger

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Riley Keough attends the 2015 Guggenheim International Gala Pre-Party, made possible by Dior, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York City, November 4, 2015.
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Actress and model Riley Keough, the eldest granddaughter of the iconic Elvis Presley, is creating her own legacy. She starred in the hit films Magic Mike and Mad Max: Fury Road and has nabbed the lead role in the upcoming Starz TV series The Girlfriend Experience, based on Stephen Soderbergh's film of the same name and coming out in 2016.
Famous for his ultra-feminine ready-to-wear designs, Norell was the first American designer to ever launch a fragrance. The original, Norell, debuted in 1968 and is a classic. It has been remastered as the new Norell New York, a floral scent made of more than 200 jasmine petals, orris butter, vanilla, and musk. In honor of the new scent, Baccarat has handcrafted 500 limited-edition perfumes, each bottle numbered and signed, every bit as glamorous as one of Norell's signature pieces.
So after this up-and-coming star's brush with one legendary artist, we just had to ask Riley, "What's on your Vanity Table?" Check out the slide show below for a look at her fragrance, Norell New York, and more of her favorite beauty items and destinations.
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Thiago Alcantara is a Spain international football player who currently features for Liverpool. He plays as a midfielder and is rated as one of the most promising young players in the world.
Thiago, the son of former Brazilian World Cup winner Mazinho, was born in Italy and grew up in Spain after moving to the Iberian nation at the age of five. He progressed through the youth ranks at Barcelona and played for the B team between 2007 and 2011.
Thiago made his first-team debut for Barcelona on May 17, 2009 when he was 18 years of age against Real Mallorca. He scored his first goal for the Blaugrana in a 4-0 victory over Racing Santander at Camp Nou. Thiago was promoted to the first team in the summer of 2011.
In 2013 he left Barcelona to join Bayern Munich where he spent seven years, making 235 appearances and winning the Bundesliga seven times.
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Q: Ordering in $\mathbb{C}$ Saff and Snider in their book define order axioms as below:

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*If $\alpha\neq 0$ then either $\alpha>0$ or $\alpha<0$.

*If $\alpha>0$ and $\beta>0$ then $\alpha+\beta>0$.

*If $\alpha>0$ and $\beta>0$ then $\alpha\beta>0$.

I have to prove the impossibility of ordering in $\mathbb{C}$. So suppose $i>0$. Then using (3),  $$i^2>0\Rightarrow -1>0\Rightarrow (-1)(-1)>0\Rightarrow 1>0.$$ Now I want to show that $0>1$ as well to get a contradiction. How do I proceed?

A: If $i>0$ then $i^2=-1>0$.
Then $-1*-1 =1 >0$
Then $-1+1=0 >0$
A contradiction.
If $i <0$ then $0- i >0$ (def.  $a>b\iff a-b >0$).
Then $-i*-i  =i^2= -1>0$ and $-1*-1=1 >0$ and $-1+1=0>0$.  A contradiction.
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First prove 1) if $x>0$ then $-x <0$ and vise versa.
Then prove 2) $x^2 > 0$ for all $x \ne 0$.
Then conclude $i^2=-1 >0$ and $1^2=1>0$ which contridicts 1).
Proof of 1) if $0 > -x \iff 0-(-x)=x >0$
Proof of 2) if $x > 0$ then $x^2= x*x>x*0=0$
If $x <0$ then $-x >0$ so $(-x)(-x)>0$ and $(-x)(-x)=x^2$.
(Of course, if you are really picky, you have to also prove $(-a)(-b)=ab $.)


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Then in 1970, Cincinnati hired Sparky Anderson to manage the Reds. George Anderson's nickname was fitting, because he sparked a strategic evolution better described as a revolution.
On their way to the National League pennant, the Reds recorded fewer complete games than saves, something that was unheard of in 1970. (Literally. Saves were not regarded as an official statistic until 1969.)
Anderson's reliance on a 10-man staff did not endear the new manager, at first, to the Reds' starters. "Captain Hook" was unfazed.
"My mother, I love her," Anderson once said. "But she don't pitch for me."
Fast forward to 2015, when Royals' starters ranked 24th in ERA and 26th in innings pitched. And yet Kansas City was the only team standing among 30 on Nov. 1.
Starters last season failed to pitch through the sixth inning 2,003 times — a record. There were 15,095 pitching changes — another record.
Given how starters are much more expensive and much less durable than their reliever counterparts, it's no wonder general managers devoted their offseason to beefing up already beefed-up bullpens.
As ESPN's Jayson Stark pointed out last week, seven teams — the Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Rangers, Athletics and Royals — picked up relievers who either led their former team in saves or served as the closer.
"It's been the wave. Let's face it," Boston's president of baseball operations, Dave Dombrowski, told Stark. "A lot of clubs have improved the depth of their bullpen, and it has paid off."
If there's a trend, it seems to me Dipoto's history — he and the Diamondbacks' Dave Stewart, who spent the bulk of his career as a starter, are the only general managers who were big-league relievers — qualifies him as the right man, at the right time, to oversee a team.
Dipoto's acquisitions of Steve Cishek, Joaquin Benoit, Justin De Fratus, Ryan Cook, Evan Scribner and Joe Wieland made no splash around the country or, for that matter, around the Seattle area. But all six have the variously intriguing potential to offer meaningful contributions to a bullpen that deteriorated from one of baseball's best in 2014 to one of baseball's worst in 2015.
"We did pack it with a little volume, so that in the event one of the guys we hope bounces back doesn't, we have other options," Dipoto said Thursday. "I think it's important to make sure that we've built enough depth to absorb the likely outcome, which is they're all not going to bounce back and have good seasons."
It's a kind of heave-it-against-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks approach.
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'The Cycling Wind', 'Douch' find way to KINOLUB Film Festival
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Produced at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 'The Cycling Wind' and 'Douch' have made it to the competition section of the International Film Festival for Children and Youth KINOLUB.
The Sixth edition of the KINOLUB Film Festiva will be held from 26 to 29 September 2021.
The 6-minute 'The Cycling Wind' animation is about a young wind that comes into possession of a bike, which helps the wind to blow even faster without spending much energy and to truly enjoy its time. freedom and the strength that bike give the wind allows it to embark on new adventures.
The Cycling Wind' had previously taken part at the 9th edition of Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Kids in the US, the 23rd Animac International Animation Film Festival in Catalonia region, in northeastern Spain, the 9th Annual Bike Shorts Film Festival in the US, the 34th Clermont-Ferrand film market in France, the 29th International Animated Film Festival 'Les Nuits Magiques' in France, the 15th Sardinia International Film Festival in Italy and Festival international de Rennes Court Métrange in France.