Today, more than 90 percent of enterprises have deployed or are planning to deploy a cloud solution. As enterprise cloud deployments grow, however, requirements for manageability expand. Public cloud/service provider features are now becoming very relevant to large enterprises because they have massive user bases, many different departments, even sub-companies, and different geographic regions. They need internal tracking and billing mechanisms, and they need control over which resources each user can access.
Managing resources across multiple clouds.
To overcome these challenges, a cloud platform should meet several management requirements.
A cloud is a collection of shared resources, and fundamentally, running a cloud requires managing user access to those resources. There are several aspects of management to consider.
Infrastructure management – A cloud will likely leverage new as well as existing server, storage, and networking resources. The goal of a private cloud management system is to maximize flexibility in integrating and managing these resources. For example, cloud administrators need to be able to use existing as well as new servers and storage systems, and they shouldn't be constrained in terms of which servers and storage systems they can use to enable or scale the cloud.
User management – Cloud administrators need the ability to manage users individually as well as in groups, dedicating specific resources to specific users and groups as needed. Groups can be development teams, business units, departments, or even sub-companies, and users may belong to more than one group.
Server/CPU management – Each node in a cloud cluster is shared by multiple applications and users. Server and CPU management allows administrators to control how many users can access a server or even a specific CPU core in a server, and to dictate what levels of computing service each user gets.
Networking management – An effective management system should allow cloud administrators to control networking resources on a per-user basis, determining how much bandwidth each user or application gets, which levels of QoS each user or application gets, and which logical networks any individual user or group can access for security enforcement.
Storage management – Most enterprises tier storage depending on the needs of the data being stored. Different users require different levels of storage performance, such as slow spinning disk storage (SATA or SAS) or fast flash storage (SSD or NVMe), and applications such as Data Recovery or Backup must have dedicated storage resources. A cloud administrator should be able to optimize the use of storage resources across the enterprise to best meet the needs of each user, group, or application, and should be able to scale with individual storage systems.
Billing management – Large organisations need to be able to charge departments for cloud resource usage. This is a fundamental capability for tracking total cost of ownership (TCO) for the cloud platform and associated infrastructure.
Multi-cloud management – Most organisations use multiple clouds, incorporating both public and private cloud resources into their cloud deployments. An effective cloud management system allows for workload mobility and access control across multiple clouds through a single user interface. A large company might have a large data centre in North America, with regional data centres in other countries. Users need access to local resources, but also the ability to "burst up" into different data centres and sets of resources.
By managing all aspects of cloud operations, enterprises can maximize the use of their existing hardware, ensure that all users have access to only the resources they need and have the governance and security they require for successful operations. As enterprises expand their use of cloud technology, they need greater management capabilities to maximize infrastructure investments and ensure that all users get access to the compute and storage resources they need without over-provisioning or starving applications. With the right cloud management platform in place, they can achieve these goals.
Dr. Julian Chesterfield is the Chief Scientific Officer at OnApp, responsible for Emerging Technologies Research and Development, specialising in server virtualisation, storage and network IO. After completing a PhD in Computer Science at Cambridge University, he became an early member of the Cambridge based tech startup XenSource, subsequently acquired by Citrix, where he was the storage architect for the XenServer and open source Xen products.


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Leicester City v Wolves Preview
Wolves will look to extend their unbeaten run to five games on Sunday as they head to the King Power Stadium to face Leicester City.
The Foxes look to be one of Wolves' sternest tests yet, however, with Brendan Rodgers' side sitting second in the Premier League table after an impressive 4-1 win at Elland Road on Monday night.
Kick off in Leicester is at 2pm on Sunday and is available to watch on Sky Sports.
Wolves form
Having stuttered and spluttered their way through the opening six games of the season, Wolves looked back to their best in last Friday's win over Crystal Palace.
Rare first-half goals from debutant Rayan Ait-Nouri and Daniel Podence were enough to give Nuno's side a third win in four following what was their best outing of the campaign so far.
Ait-Nouri's introduction to the starting XI looks to have given Wolves some much-needed balance and attacking output on the left-hand side, with Romain Saiss struggling as a makeshift wing-back in the draw against Newcastle a fortnight ago.
Since suffering a humiliating 4-0 defeat to West Ham at the end of September, Wolves have conceded just one goal in four games and look to be back to their defensively solid best.
If Nuno's side are to take anything away from the East Midlands on Sunday, they need to stay wary of Leicester's counter-attacking capabilities, while also looking their usual potent selves on the break.
Leicester form
Leicester are currently enjoying their best-ever start to a Premier League campaign, sitting three points prettier than at the same stage of their title-winning campaign five years ago.
The Foxes have enjoyed impressive away successes at Manchester City, Arsenal and Leeds already this season while maintaining a 100% record in their Europa League group, where they have beaten Zorya Luhansk, AEK Athens and most recently Braga on Thursday.
Rodgers' side have had a shaky start to the season in their own ground, however, with a 3-0 defeat to West Ham and a 1-0 reverse against Aston Villa coming either side of the October international break.
As ever, Leicester's key man is last season's Premier League top scorer Jamie Vardy, although the 33-year-old has yet to score a goal against Wolves in his career.
At the other end of the pitch, teenage centre-back Wesley Fofana has impressed since joining from St Etienne in the summer, with the Frenchman sure to make Raul Jimenez work for any goalscoring chances.
Leicester v Wolves team news
Nuno has no fresh injury worries ahead of Sunday's trip, with Joao Moutinho surviving an ankle injury following Luka Milivojevic's red card challenge last Friday.
Jonny remains Wolves' only absentee, but the Spanish international is unlikely to be seen until early 2021.
Following an impressive performance against Palace, it's likely Nuno will resist chopping and changing his starting line-up.
Leicester, on the other hand, have numerous long and short-term absentees. Daniel Amartey, Timothy Castagne, Caglar Soyuncu, Ricardo Pereira and Wilfried Ndidi are all certain to miss Sunday's game, but Jonny Evans is expected to return after missing the wins against AEK Athens, Leeds and Braga with a back injury.
Wolves line up prediction: Patricio; Boly, Coady, Kilman; Semedo, Dendoncker, Neves, Ait-Nouri; Podence, Jimenez, Neto.
Leicester v Wolves head to head
Sunday's game will mark Wolves' tenth trip to the King Power Stadium, with only one of the previous nine visits seeing Wanderers leave with three points. Goals from Seyi Olofinjana, Michael Kightly, Andy Keogh and a Gareth McAuley own goal sealed a 4-1 win for Wolves on the final day of the 2006-07 season, with the win granting Mick McCarthy's side a play-off semi-final against West Brom.
Wolves' last visit to Filbert Way was on the opening day of last campaign, with the sides contesting a goalless draw. The match is best remembered for Wolves' first VAR-disallowed goal, as Leander Dendoncker's would-be winner was chalked off for handball against Willy Boly.
Leicester v Wolves prediction
With two evenly matched sides coming into the game off the back of impressive victories and performances, there is a case for either team to come out on top.
Leicester have the better record this campaign and have performed impressively against big sides away from home, but their struggles at the King Power Stadium could cost them on Sunday.
While Wolves picked up an impressive win at Elland Road on their last away trip, their lacklustre performances in previous games will be exploited by a clinical Leicester attack. As they have done in previous games against the Foxes, Nuno's side will have to keep Jamie Vardy quiet if they are to have any success in the East Midlands.
With both teams' strengths being on the counter-attack, it will be interesting to see which side, if any, will take the initiative and attempt to control the game from the offset. As the away team, Wolves will likely be happy to sit off and let Leicester attack them for the majority of the first half at least.
Although the game looks too close to call, Leicester could play into Wolves' strengths and Nuno's side look the most likely of the two to pick up another win.
Score prediction: Leicester 0-1 Wolves
James Wynn is part of the Talking Wolves editorial team – you can follow him on Twitter here.
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Education Budgets | News
Florida Department of Education Proposes $441.7 Million in New Technology Funding
By Leila Meyer
The Florida Department of Education has made a budget request for more than $440 million in 2013 to pay for computers, broadband connections, and other high tech equipment to ensure the state's public schools are sufficiently equipped for digital learning. The state Board of Education will vote this week on the budget proposal that requests more than $800 million in new funding, including the $441.7 million for technology upgrades.
Details of the proposed technology initiative include:
$239 million in grants to help school districts upgrade their wireless infrastructure;
$151 million to increase network bandwidth; and
$51.7 million to lease more than 300,000 computers to prepare for new electronic exams that will replace the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).
The technology funding would be distributed equally among the state's school districts, so districts that have made their own plans to pay for technology upgrades would receive the same funding as other districts.
Before proposing this technology initiative, the board had been studying for months ways to help districts meet state technology mandates. Many students in Florida still use paper-based materials, such as printed textbooks, and are expected to progress through the material at the same rate as their classmates, according to information released by the Department of Education, whereas in a digital learning environment, there are more opportunities for students to learn at their own pace.
Representatives from both parties have stated that technology upgrades for school districts should be a funding priority, and Governor Rick Scott has said that he would not cut funding to education.
Leila Meyer is a technology writer based in British Columbia. She can be reached at [email protected].
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The rush to digital transformation during the pandemic, paired with a sharp increase in cyberattacks, has created a perfect storm for cybersecurity in education — and an expensive one. Not only have the costs of ransomware attacks skyrocketed to the six-figure range, but cyber-insurance premiums have also jumped as much as 300% for organizations that don't have best-in-class security controls in place. Bottom line: It's more important than ever to have a robust cybersecurity strategy in place on campus. Tune in to learn everything you need to know to get there. Read more...


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'A leftwing Labour leader could raise the Liberal Democrats from the dead'
By NewsHound | Wed 29th July 2015 - 10:42 am
So runs the headline in the Guardian over a piece today by Mary Dejevsky:
A return to more leftwingery for Labour could create more ideological space for the Liberal Democrats and foster a stronger electoral identity for both parties. But the disaggregation of British politics would not necessarily stop there. Before the election, many Tories openly hankered after olden days. They could well renew their clamour, once the victory glow wears off and the Europe referendum looms. The chief beneficiaries of more vacant centre ground would again be the Liberal Democrats. The only question then would be whether Tim Farron had grown into a leader able to capitalise on liberalism's new appeal.
You read the full article here.
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Alisdair McGregor 29th Jul '15 - 10:56am
The article is interesting, but it presumes that:
1) The Authoritarian Blairites would leave the Labour Party and try to join us
2) We'd want them.
We don't really have anything in common with the Blairites. Happy to take their voters, thô
Martin 29th Jul '15 - 11:24am
I do not think the UK electoral system works in the way the author presumes.
Overall Corbyn's election would be bad for Lib Dems. Look at the comments below the article if anyone needs the evidence: the cyberwonk denunciation of Lib Dems as enemy collaborators would only be encouraged. Under Corbyn, Labour would be widely seen as unelectable which would deter voters from voting Lib Dem for fear of a result that could bring Labour back into government.
A Labour party that is intent on winning would recognise that it needs Lib Dems to take seats off the Conservatives in many parts of England . This would mean abandoning the demonisation of Lib Dems and an acceptance that with Lib Dem influence the coalition did more or less follow Labour's economic prescriptions as outlined by Alistair Darling.
It might seem paradoxical, but Liberal Democrats would benefit more from a Labour party that is focussed on winning.
David Raw 29th Jul '15 - 11:26am
Agree with Alisdair.
Blair and his chums are currently (apart from a certain disappearing peer) the most discredited politicians in Britain.
It's important to differentiate between the tabloid demonisation of Corbyn and the actuality of his policies. Radical Liberals can agree with much of what he says – as they can with Caroline Lucas. In Scotland, Nicola succeeded with a poweful critique of austerity and the demise of the old Labour Party. Food for thought there.
Interesting also to follow the career path of such old SDP characters as Andrew Adonis, Andrew Lansley of NHS fame, Chris Grayling (who banned books for prisoners) , and of course the sole surviving Scottish Tory David Mundell just to mention a few.
We ought to be careful what we wish for.
Richard Underhill 29th Jul '15 - 11:31am
This is a serious article, with some omissions. Commentators need to fill space in newspapers and stimulate debate, but we do not need to take their advice. We have elected a leader, so let him get on with doing his job. We should unify behind him and campaign for Liberal Democracy. It is also undesirable to try to reposition ourselves relative to a moving target, or two (or three).
This is a matter for the Labour Party. Tories would be wise to keep out of it until they know the results. Labour should check its new members to try to find out whether some are members of a rival party, which is presumably not allowed.
The Labour leadership elections have focussed too much on the UK level and not enough on the election/s in Scotland for the politically difficult job of leading Scottish Labour MPs and MSPs at the same time in different places with different rules and different electoral systems.
paul barker 29th Jul '15 - 11:48am
People simply looking at (stated) policies get a completely false idea of Corbyns ideology. I come from the same background as Corbyn, brought into politics by 1968 & while I have moved , all the evidence suggests Corbyn hasnt. He wants to refigure Labour into a "mass" revolutionary party. That doesnt mean we cant co-operate on particular policies as long as we remember just how illeberal & anti-liberal the far-left are.
The good thing is that Labour look like splitting anyway & some of the fragments may come to us. We should welcome them & assume they are genuine "converts" until they prove otherwise.
Tony Rowan-Wicks 29th Jul '15 - 12:14pm
If you read all J. Corbyn's comments [which could become Labour policies] they overlap with much of social liberal [a section of LibDem] thinking. Except that Labour is doctrinaire and tribal but LibDems are [supposed to be] liberal and supportive of individual freedoms, aspiration and success. Aspiration and success are usually seen by voters as being the sole preserve of conservatism but that is not so – LibDems support the same but not via the same greedy killer instincts [we hope].
J. Corbyn seems to have softened his approach recently and retreated from the far-left he usually occupies. Is there an election for something? Whatever our thoughts on that, he will be restrained from returning too far left – as his party will want to be seen as more central and in the same position as the LibDems. We did notice that Labour have been taking up many of our policies – as have the Tories if it suits them for gaining votes. But Tories don't actually have helpful principles for others, just for themselves.
What it highlights is that we LibDems have to be very clear about our image, our enduring statements about Liberalism and the Democratic way our party was [supposed to be] run. One person one vote is essential. Open Conference discussions but full membership voting on policy. Open party committees [to all members]. And perhaps most important of all – a really modern way of voting online. Total involvement online and in 'gatherings' will grow our membership and our individual and group diligence to advance our party. We need to consolidate under Tim's leadership to show our 'best side' – and stop imitating other parties.
David Raw 29th Jul '15 - 12:27pm
FAO Richard Underhill. Sorry, Richard,
" the politically difficult job of leading Scottish Labour MPs" – It's not that difficult to lead one Labour MP.
Eddie Sammon 29th Jul '15 - 12:28pm
The idea that Labour moderates are a load of authoritarians is nonsense. I am afraid.
As I have said several times: I don't see a way back for the party under Farron until after 2020. So on the party goes…
Alisdair McGregor 29th Jul '15 - 1:06pm
You think it's nonsense to call Yvette Cooper authoritarian? She's not so much an opposition to Theresa May as a cheerleader.
Labour don't actually have many moderates. They have several different shades of authoritarians.
Phyllis 29th Jul '15 - 1:21pm
In what way is Yvette authoritarian?
Stephen Hesketh 29th Jul '15 - 1:23pm
Alisdair McGregor29th Jul '15 – 10:56am – Says much that needs to be said on this.
Taking up the point made by David Raw29th Jul '15 – 11:26am
"It's important to differentiate between the tabloid demonisation of Corbyn and the actuality of his policies. Radical Liberals can agree with much of what he says – as they can with Caroline Lucas. " …
It would be very interesting if LDV were to conduct on poll on the topic of the Labour leadership – just how would we as Liberal Democrat members vote. For the record I personally agree with David's point. And from what I have seen and heard only Corbyn and Burnham are willing to consider some form of PR; I am however happy to be corrected on this if incorrect.
Eddie Sammon 29th Jul '15 - 1:24pm
Hi Alisdair, I'm just a bit confused as to who you think the Lib Dem target market should be. Centre-left?
That is fine. I wouldn't call Yvette and others authoritarian, but I am not too fussed if others want to say so.
Jayne Mansfield 29th Jul '15 - 1:36pm
The word 'authoritarian' gets bandied around a lot. Please give examples of Yvette Cooper's authoritarianism.
She seems an exceptionally bright, politically committed young woman to me.
Daniel Henry 29th Jul '15 - 1:49pm
I think Alisdair is mistaken to say Yvette was a "cheer leader" for Theresa May – on the transcripts I saw it seemed to be more a case that she was attacking Theresa for not being authoritarian enough!
For those requesting evidence:
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/jan/24/yvette-cooper-control-orders-security
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/cooper-terror-suspects-face-being-forced-out-of-capital-if-labour-win-10215096.html
http://press.labour.org.uk/post/96460327869/the-governments-anti-terror-proposals-are-in
That said, if any Labour MP did wish to defect, so long as they were flexible enough to accept the Lib Dem whip and positions, I see no reason why we should turn them away.
TCO 29th Jul '15 - 2:17pm
@Tony Rowan-Wicks "We did notice that Labour have been taking up many of our policies – as have the Tories if it suits them for gaining votes. But Tories don't actually have helpful principles for others, just for themselves."
I despair of this party sometimes. Another example of the "Labour are cuddly" naivety we really don't need … 🙄
Tony Dawson 29th Jul '15 - 3:21pm
Daniel, All this talk of 'whip and positions' I trust that you are not suggesting we should broaden our appeal to former Labour peers! 😉
@ Daniel Henry,
I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that it was the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile QC who said that he saw no alternative to control orders and it was he argued for the return of them. There was a discussion on here about the TPIMS that replaced them.
Surely responsible government ministers must listen to advisors and watchdogs.
Andrew Hickey 29th Jul '15 - 4:06pm
Jayne — Carlile is an authoritarian too. Sadly the party has a few. That doesn't mean that Yvette Cooper isn't.
Martin 29th Jul '15 - 4:12pm
Jayne Mansfield:
Do you think Carlile is representative of Liberal Democrats?
Richard Underhill 29th Jul '15 - 5:50pm
David Raw 29th Jul '15 – 12:27pm I do know about the triumviate of Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs in Scotland. A fuller quote was
"… the politically difficult job of leading Scottish Labour MPs and MSPs at the same time in different places, … "
In Northern Ireland this is called double-jobbing, which is at least part of why the First Minister lost his Westminster seat in 2010. They have put a stop to it.
@ Martin,
I haven't a clue, but he was made a Liberal Democrat peer.
What I do know is that he has, ( or had), greater access to security information than you or I and that his role was supposed to be independent.
John Tilley 30th Jul '15 - 10:13am
Yvette Cooper . Is she an authoritarian ? Even if she is not she is most definitely a Westmnster Bubble Careerist. She is half of what in Blairite days was called a "golden couple" inevitably bound for wonderful things in the future and "one of them would one day be leader". The shine has worn off the other half of this golden couple and now you would presumeably get very long odds on Ed Balls becoming leader of anything. Both of them, started at the top in UK politics and seem to be slipping ever downwards.
During the Labour leadership campaign I have listened to Yvette Cooper repeat that she wants "A stronger economy and a fairer society". This makes me wonder if she was awake during the general election or if she noticed the results for the party that campaigned on that slogan. 🙁
Thank goodness we have Tim Farron elected as our leader. Tim has worked his way up in politics and will be a better leader as a result.
Phyllis 30th Jul '15 - 10:48am
I'm not sure we should hold people's background against them or that people who have 'worked their way up' are necessarily better or worse leaders. It's quite hard to find electable people in politics nowadays who aren't part of the Westminster set.
Margaret Thatcher was a grocer's daughter but that didn't end so well.
Martin "Do you think Carlile is representative of Liberal Democrats?"
Interesting to consider who IS representative of the Lib Dems. Nick Clegg? He was after all the democratically elected leader and many people supported him. Tim Farron? He is the leader now but not universally supported. Vince Cable?
Who do you think is representative of the Party, Martin?
Phyllis 30th Jul '15 – 10:48am
Phyllis, there is something in what you say.
However, You have chosen a poor example to illustrate your case. To be the daughter of Alderman Thatcher in the 1930s and go to Univeristy as Margaret Tatcher did at a time when 90% of the population left school at 14 seems to me to indicate that she did did not start bottom and work up.
It possibly also helped her political career that she married a man with so much wealth from his family's overseas oil business that she never had to worry about Iiving in the sort of conditions her policies forced on others.
If she had grown up in anything like a normal environment my guess is that would not have imposed the draconian economic policies which ruined the lives of coal-mining and manufacturing communities throughout the UK.
Joe Otten 30th Jul '15 - 12:24pm
John Tilley – clearly the Durkin hypothesis "Thatcher the working class hero" is preposterous and relies, among other things, on treating very middle class as working class at times. Perhaps the true Tory toffs couldn't tell the difference but that's their problem.
However to put your 'draconian economic policies' into context, manufacturing as a share of GVA fell from 23% to 18% over 1979 to 1997, and from 18% to 10% over 1997 to 2010. The Blair/Brown record is far more crushing in a shorter time. (Figures from Fullfact)
No, Thatcher was middle class, as are nearly all politicians. I, for one, am utterly middle class, though I did, like our new leader, grow up in social housing. She married into money, as did David Cameron, or do we not talk about it when the men do it?
If being middle class disqualifies you then there would be almost nobody left. A handful of Labour politicians have a working class affectation, but some UKIP and most BNP politicians do it better which is a problem if you hold it up to be such a great thing.
Sara Scarlett 30th Jul '15 - 12:53pm
Liberalism =/= centrism. Liberalism is not centrism. Liberalism should not be centrism. Liberalism is something different. Whatever the positioning of Labour, Liberalism has to look/sound/be distinctly liberal.
Sara Scarlett30th Jul '15 – 12:53pm
Bl**dy hell, I agree with Sara Scarlet!
nvelope2003 30th Jul '15 - 1:08pm
I do not think we can assume that a Jeremy Corbin Labour Party is unelectable. When Michael Foot was leader in the 1983 election he was well known and visibly aged. Britain had had nearly 40 years of socialism, strikes and nationalised industries and they were not popular with many people. The Conservative leader was very determined and people liked that and compared her to the irresolute leaders they had experienced before.
Now we have had over 30 years of privatised industries and the promise of welfare cuts and more privatisation. Those who do not remember what the old nationalised industries were like and the endless strikes and closures of inefficient industries with massive lay offs will think that Corbin is the answer to all their problems. Although his plans are ones which have been tried and failed everywhere he seems fresh and new to the many without any knowledge or interest in the past who are possibly the majority. I think those Tories who are voting for him might be bitterly regretting that decision on the day after the next General election. They might get what they voted for. Corbin could be a disaster for Time Farron and the Liberal Democrats as he will seem to most people a much better and more convincing prospect as Prime Minister – which Farron is unlikely to be.
John Tilley 30th Jul '15 - 1:13pm
Joe Otten
To answer your final point – which was "If being middle class disqualifies you then there would be almost nobody left".
– I think you have lost sight of the majority of the population.
I recognise that the definition of "middle-class" is crucial in such a discussion. It seems odd to me that you describe yourself as utterly middle-class but go on to say you grew up in a council house (actually you said social housing).
In the USA they seem to use "middle-class" when we in the UK would say "working -class". Hilary Clinton talks about blue-collar workers being "middle-class" whilst that seems a contradiction in terms to me. Perhaps you are following the US understanding of the term?
Margaret Thatcher was by any measure from a UK middle-class background ( her father owned his own business, owned his own home and had the spare time and resources to be an Alderman – this was in the 1930s at a time of mass unemployment, when the majority of the UK population did not even dream of owning their own home).
Andrew 30th Jul '15 - 1:34pm
nvelope2003
Speculating on how the Lib Dems will do against Corbyn is pretty pointless at this stage! However I don't think we will do worse in votes than in 2010, and I think we would retake some seats like Cambridge.
Corbyn would pick up votes from Greens and UKIP and perhaps some people who did not vote last time… We ought to gain some votes from the SDP wing of Labour….
Farron is not going to be seen by anyone as a potential Prime Minister in 2020, so that argument is not very relevant… But Corbyn might pick up some anti-Tory votes that we would get with a more centrist Labour leader…
richard boyd OBE DL 30th Jul '15 - 8:24pm
Who cares what the Guardian says? Not the electorate.
Andrew: Well speculation is always pretty pointless but it is what this site specialises in. I just feel the Guardian might be barking up the wrong tree – which is not exactly unusual for them. Did you mean worse in votes than 2010 when we got 24% or 2015 when we got 8% ? I would be surprised if we got back up to 24%. Corbyn is the English equivalent of the SNP and could attract similar success in parts of England but I would not predict a Tory wipe out or even a Liberal Democrat one. Young voters probably did see Clegg as a potential PM in 2010 so they might view Farron in the same light. There is very little knowledge of politics or Parliament among many people unlike 60 years ago.
nvelope2003,
I am sensibly measuring success from where we are now, not from where we were in 2010! I would be astonished, astounded and totally floored if we got back up to 24% in 2010 (or even 23%, which is what we got). I might even eat my hat! The playing field has a lot more teams on it now for a start..
Clegg in 2010 was leading a party of 62 MP's which had got 22% of the vote in the previous General election. He had credibility which Farron will just not have. The chances of even holding the balance of power will be very slim. The only thing that would change that would be if we really did surge up to 20+ % in the polls. Just try and imagine where those votes would come from! In 2010 Tories, Labour and Liberal Democrats got 88% of the vote between them. Do you think UKIP will be back on 3.1%, the SNP back on 1.9%, and the Greens on 0.9%? Either all those things would have to happen or one of the big 2 would have to collapse to a level not seen in virtually a century for us to get back to 23%….
The reality is that if we can get back up to 12-15% in 2020 we will have done very well. Going into coalition and breaking our pledges did not just damage us for one Parliament… We have to be realistic and admit that we are on a long road, and focussing on local government and a gradual increase in parliamentary seats is the most sensible course for now (but I note that the Tories will be keen to emasculate and remove democracy from local government as much as they can, turning local councils into technocratic wings of central government with elected mayors "business partnerships" and infrequent elections, as in Birmingham)
Yes, I see now that I made a typo putting 2010 instead of 2015! Sorry!
nvelope2003 31st Jul '15 - 9:37am
Andrew: 23% was for the UK but 24% was for Britain excluding Northern Ireland where the LDs did not stand. I may have expressed myself badly but the point I was trying to make is that Corbyn is someone few had ever heard of until recently but he appears a complete change from the cautious Labour contenders or past leaders and immature and desperate people like that – that is why Hitler and Mussolini won power. Tim Farron will barely get a look in because of this so I think Corbyn is bad for the LIberal Democrats
Corbyn's politics has been tried and look what happened in Greece. Yet despite that his party is still riding high in the polls. The same might happen in Spain. We had this with Harold Wilson who promised the moon but delivered very little but people still liked him. These people seem like the voice of the little man up against the powerful who would rather wreck the system than see others making a success of themselves. This site is full of such people who without any real knowledge demand that unspecified changes are made to our institutions and when it happens occasionally are appalled by the results because they were unable to understand the issues.
I suspect that if Corbyn leads Labour the Green vote could fall substantially as he does look a better prospect than Natalie Bennett or Caroline Lucas. Even Tim Farron is more impressive.
Phyllis 31st Jul '15 - 9:58am
I'm sorry but Tim Farron is not more impressive than Caroline Lucas. I like Tim, but come on.
Andrew 31st Jul '15 - 10:39am
Natalie Bennett I agree, but Caroline Lucas is very impressive. She is another conviction politician.
Comparing Corbyn to Hitler and Mussolini is very insulting though. I would never do that… But you are correct that revolutions happen when the gap between rich and poor becomes too great and when the rich become too arrogant and complacent behind their high fences… That is where the current policy direction in this country could lead us if we are not careful.
You can hardly say that Corbyn's policies have been tried in Greece BTW! The Socialists have been in power there for only 6 months and contrary to popular right-wing myth Greece went into recession 3 months before they came into power. Rightly or wrongly the Syriza project has been killed by the European banks before it had any chance to be tested. Greek people voted (twice in 6 months) to try it and in my view democracy should have prevailed, but there you are…
But yes, Corbyn would mop up quite a few Green votes and probably a lot of Green activists. It is obvious from the Green manifesto that a lot of Corbynites took over their policy making between 2010 and 2015…
I think in terms of charisma and touching people's consciences Corbyn and Farron are both impressive. They see the same problems of poverty and inequality as central to policy making rather than minor collateral damage on the way to fiscal probity.
Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK36ps3L-aU
I could imagine Farron saying many of those words. Building more council houses makes a lot of sense, for example…
Phyllis 31st Jul '15 - 11:16am
John Tilley ok fair point. I concede that Margaret Thatcher came from a relatively well-to-do background. It actually reminds me of something I heard about her PPB one year. She was portraying herself as 'an ordinary housewife' going shopping and having to balance her housekeeping money. Except that the supermarket was actually Harrods. No idea if this is true or an urban myth but it shows the gap between perception and reality.
Now Yvette Cooper's dad was a Maths teacher and she went to her local comprehensive school but was bright enough to get into Oxford on a scholarship. Of course Tim's dad was a construction worker and he was raised by his single-parent mum so his 'steer-cred' is higher than Yvette's. But I suspect the interesting thing is not where one comes from but the person you end up as. Will power change Tim? Will the demands of 'realpolitik'?
Andrew 31st Jul '15 - 12:22pm
"Power change Tim?" 🙂
Chance would be a fine thing!
John Tilley 31st Jul '15 - 1:06pm
Thanks for that response.
I would put Maths Teacher fairly high up the social ladder – perhaps that say something about me ? 🙂
My impression of Yvette may be influenced by the fact that I worked for her briefly about 15 years ago. Or maybe my own prejudices are just showing through.
The problem for the Labour Party is that if either she or Burnham or Kendall become leader it will mean more of the same from the Labour Party that we have seen over the last 20 years. It will be the Labour Party of Blair, Straw, Blunket and Harman constantly edging towards the Conservatives or in some cases such as policing and ID Cards going even further to the right than the Conservatives.
BTW — I actually remember the Margaret Thatcher thing on TV in the 190s with her tinned peaches and pretending for the camera to be doing her own decorating. I cannot remember which shop the groceries came from but it was all such an obvious pretence that I cannot imagine that it fooled anyone. Even the most bovine Comservative supporter would not have been fooled.
TCO 1st Aug '15 - 7:44am
@John Tilley given there are very few manual jobs around these days there must be very few working class as a result. Or if you take the definition that employees are working class and business owners are middle class than that makes my decorator middle class and me working class.
Or perhaps you define it by attitudes and tastes, which seems to me to be outdated and illiberal.
What is your definition?
nvelope2003 1st Aug '15 - 9:43pm
Andrew: I was not comparing Hitler etc to Corbyn, just saying more charismatic leaders are better at pulling in followers.
Farrron is impressive but he has not got Corbyn's high profile and the Liberal Democrats have a lot of problems because of their support for the coalition which might take time to be forgotten. Although there have been some good local by election results in England and Wales, those in Scotland have been worse than before.
The Panhellenic Socialist Party (PASOK) ruled Greece for much of the last 40 years. It is generally considered that particularly under Andras Papandreou it was responsible for much that is wrong with the Greek economy although the centre right did little to stop the corruption and creation of non jobs in the public sector, probably for the same reason that Conservatives failed to do much in the UK – fear of electoral defeat.
Caroline Lucas is an impressive person but her policies are not and her party was torn to shreds when they were exposed to scrutiny. I hope that Tim Farron will not lead the party along that road.
Syriza has not had time to implement its policies but it was trying to do so by re employing redundant public servants and stopping the privatisation of ports etc. The fact that it was unable to do much shows that whatever they say in opposition left wing policies of that sort cannot be implemented unless the Government is prepared to face political, financial and economic chaos as has occurred in for example Venezuela ( see the recent Channel 4 News reports). Maybe even AlexisTsipras is not willing to go that far but some of his followers are according to tonight's Hardtalk interview with one of them.
nvelope2003 1st Aug '15 - 10:17pm
Re the above – I should have said 1950s Conservatives failed to do much – sorry
Andrew 1st Aug '15 - 10:20pm
The Scottish by-elections have not been much worse actually… ALDC have a rather unconventional way of reporting STV elections and we were up in one, down in the other in my book. But the reality is that we have not shown much improvement anywhere where we have no credibility – those London seats had just had an avalanche of Liberal Democrat leaflets I suspect.. There are signs that people are prepared to vote for us at local level in larger numbers than before however.
Since 1974 PASOK have been in charge for 21 out of 41 years actually (there was a period of NOC for a couple of years in there as well). You can't blame them for everything! I blame the Americans for making them build a pointless baseball stadium! (well, I think there were quite a lot of grandiose projects that helped send Greece into debt and the Olympics was one of them… But so were over generous pensions and some reluctance to pay tax, even if the figures show that is often overstated). You are correct that trying to bring in socialist policies within a capitalist system is rather like injecting someone with the wrong blood group – the host rejects it… Of course there is not necessarily anything intrinsically wrong with the blood…. After all it is the host that is ill… The form of capitalism we have currently in the world can hardly be said to have been a success in recent years! I would not try and cure it with socialism myself but you can't blame people for trying it!
The Greens more than tripled their vote, which was not bad for them in FPTP… Caroline Lucas would never have stumbled over policy like Natalie Bennett did… Hopefully Tim will learn the same…
Andrew: Well it is the job of the Liberal Democrats to put forward a form of capitalism which would be of benefit to ordinary people as the present one is discrediting the system !
Maybe the Olympic authorities are getting more realistic as the Japanese have cancelled that very expensive stadium and Beijing is to have more Olympics to make use of the existing facilities.
yes… I was just reading what John Stuart Mill thought actually… Inheritance tax more than income tax (to keep the playing field level). Worker's co-operatives, STV. "Utilitarian principle" which would tax undesirable things like cigarettes..
At least we got rid of baseball for London… Pity we got golf instead of 20-20 cricket though! (or squash – how is that not in the Olympics??) Apparently baseball could still come back in 2020
nvelope2003 2nd Aug '15 - 9:36pm
Andrew: The Greens did have a lot more candidates than in 2010 and seemed to have gained quite a few votes from Liberal Democrats discontented or disgusted with the coalition. The result in Bristol West is particularly instructive. I doubt if we will be in coalition between now and 2020. Most people have relatively short memories but unfortunately we have lost most of the second places we had built up since 1964/74 so it will be harder to get the tactical votes from Labour supporters. We need to put forward a positive message not bang on about balanced Parliaments and coalitions which just puts off the voters.


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Tag: Ruth Elder
Book Review: Crossing the Horizon, by Laurie Notaro
Laurie Notaro's Crossing the Horizon promises a tale of "three remarkable women" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kan7FDWhDcc), but one of its three main subjects, Mabel Boll, doesn't belong with the other two. Granted, Ms. Boll was one of at least three women who hoped to cross the Atlantic before Amelia Earhart did. However, she was not herself a pilot (she would have made the trip only as a passenger) and comes off in these pages as a frivolous socialite and gossip. She might have been remarkably witty, but she wears out her welcome halfway through the book and is tolerable after that only as comic relief. If there is any lesson in her story it would be that her dependence on other people to realize her dream proves fatal to her chances: Anyone with any merit runs as fast as he can in the opposite direction, leaving her in the rotten company she more commonly keeps (especially the scoundrel Charles Levine), with everyone trying to take advantage of everyone else and no one really helping.
Notaro's other two protagonists, Ruth Elder and Elsie Mackay, are the true heroes. Both are addicted to freedom and stop at nothing in the pursuit of it. Both run away from home, eloping with men who seem to offer fresher prospects – though neither one does, and both women return to their families. Both are enamored of fast cars and aeroplanes and quickly obtain pilot's licenses. Both are inspired to follow in Charles Lindbergh's footsteps and set their sights on the Atlantic, although they plan to cross in opposite directions – the American Elder flying east and the British Mackay flying west.
In fact, there are at least as many interesting differences between the two heroes, beside their proposed directions of travel. Elder, of Anniston, Alabama, is supported by her family in her transatlantic endeavor, while suffering at least some measure of opposition from society. It is Ruth's mother who dresses her in a necktie and trousers, and all her relations turn out for her flight. (This reviewer is also extremely pleased that Elder's family is not depicted here as a pack of cartoonish hicks.) However, the press seems a bit too preoccupied with the question of Ruth's husband, and one reporter says that she'd do better as a typist. Even Eleanor Roosevelt calls her ambition "very foolish." Conversely, Mackay is the favored daughter of aristocrats who, owing to overprotection, forbid her from making the crossing. It cannot be said for sure how much society in general would have supported her plan, for she keeps it a secret; but she seems generally to get her way in the world, and her crew is quite devoted to her.
Nothing stops either woman, of course, but the edge would have to go to Ruth Elder for her pluck at making things happen. True, most doors open for her because of her winning looks. Conscious of this advantage, she employs her lipstick and her smile strategically. However, her pretty face can get her only so far. When the world stops taking her seriously (if it ever did take her seriously) and the doors slam shut, she is forced to rely on her intelligence, her voice, and her ability to prevail in argument.
The turning point of the book comes when a smart-aleck reporter discovers her husband.
"Mister," Ruth demanded, pointing at the young reporter who thought he had just scooped everyone. "You, sir. What is your name?"
He looked shocked and surprised and pointed to himself. "Me?" he asked, and Ruth nodded. "Dan Shear. Jersey Journal."
Ruth nodded again and put her hands behind her back.
"Mr. Shear, have you ever been to Anniston, Alabama?" she asked without a trace of malice, but not sweetly, either.
"Can't say that I have," he said with a snarky laugh.
"Well, I am from Anniston, Alabama, and I am the second of seven children. Eight if you count my little brother who died when I was ten," she said.
After revealing more of where she's from, way more than the reporter bargained for, she asks,
"Do you know that kind of living, Mr. Shear?"
"That wasn't my question," he stammered. "My question was–"
"Well, this is my question to you, Mr. Shear," Ruth interrupted. "Do you know what that kind of living is like? For a seventeen-year-old girl in Anniston, Alabama?"
"No, Miss Elder, I do not," he finally admitted.
"Now you do," Ruth stated firmly. "So you can stop asking those questions….My name is Ruth Elder and being married makes no difference in how I fly that plane. It doesn't make me better or worse. It doesn't change a thing." (pp. 199-200)
There's a lot of waiting around for favorable weather, but Ruth Elder and Elsie Mackay end up flying their planes.
Author Harry MillerPosted on September 3, 2018 September 3, 2018 Categories Reviews, UncategorizedTags Alabama, Amelia Earhart, aviation, book review, Charles Lindbergh, Crossing the Horizon, Elsie Mackay, historical fiction, history, Laurie Notaro, Mabel Boll, Ruth Elder, womenLeave a comment on Book Review: Crossing the Horizon, by Laurie Notaro


Bavaria's economy is full of life – and the people who live and work here make the biggest contribution to this. In our monthly "Five minutes with..." section, we introduce an interesting person from business and research. This month we talked to Sabine Herold, Executive Partner of DELO Industrial Adhesives. The hidden champion from the Ammersee region has been developing special adhesives and systems for application in high-tech sectors for over 50 years. In 2014, DELO won the innovation price of the German economy and in July 2015 it was awarded a price among "Bayern Best 50" (Bavaria's Best 50), an initiative launched by the Bavarian state government.
DELO was founded in 1961 in Munich and has been based in Windach at the Ammersee since 2006. Has the company been export-oriented from the very beginning?
DELO has long been focussing solely on Germany, expanding abroad was not an issue. And why would it be? We were able to achieve a very solid growth without any uncertainties. Internationalisation started around 1900. In fact, it was our customers who increasingly relocated their production to Asia, so we followed and took advantage of this opportunity to acquire local companies as new customers.
In which sectors are DELO products used– and what are the key market regions in sales?
Our products are predominantly used by the electronics and automotive industry and in mechanical engineering, in mobile phone cameras, for example, and mini speakers, chip cards as well as sensors or electric motors. In addition to this, we also seek out projects in glass production or in the renewable energy sector to diversify our business.
Asia, the EU and the USA are among our most important export markets. That's the reason why we have subsidiaries in Shanghai, Singapore and Boston and representative offices in Taiwan, Malaysia and South Korea. We also have sales engineers or representative offices in eight European states. Overall, we deliver to customers in 60 different countries.
Doesn't the development of new industrial applications for industrial adhesives require a lot of research?
Yes, it does. To give you an example: It took seven years to make our adhesives for smart cards marketable, which protect chips on debit or health insurance cards. Thus, the development was also very time-consuming, not to mention risky. At the time we couldn't project that our market share in this sector would be 80 %.
In order to maintain our technological advantage we invest 15 % of our turnover in research and development, which is three to four times higher than the industry average. And this pays off: We achieve 30 percent of our turnover with products developed in the last three years.
How many employees does DELO have and what are the main goals you pursue – do you plan to open new representative offices, for example?
We employ more than 450 people at DELO and we plan to hire 70 more within the next 12 months. In addition to production employees, we are particularly looking for highly qualified engineers and chemists. We already generate 70 percent of our turnover abroad, but we are looking to increase this percentage further by extending our network of distributors in Asia and Latin America. We are also considering opening further representative offices in East Asia.
Which of Bavaria's strengths have contributed to DELO's development?
Two in particular: Firstly, there are highly qualified professionals that work very accurately, regardless whether they have a university degree or have completed a vocational training. Secondly, the high density of industrial companies makes it easy to establish a network of customers and partners. The fact that Bavaria has a beautiful scenery and you're surrounded by mountains and lakes is "only" a soft factor. But it helps to lure one or more engineers from the North to Bavaria.
What are your favourite spots at the Ammersee and the surrounding areas?
There are many! Enjoying the Ammersee on a short sailing trip is just as nice as the monastery Andechs, with its beer garden or the restaurant Fischer at the northern bank, where you can enjoy an amazing view of the lake up to the Zugspitze. And during the winter you get to the mountains so quickly that you're ready to ski within an hour – I truly appreciate that.
Bavaria's economic successes are as diverse as its regions. What conditions have to be met for companies to settle in a specific region and succeed there? In search for answers to this question, we ended up in Lower Bavaria this time.
7 + 70,000 + 240 = BMW's distribution centre in Kleinaitingen!
The BMW Group and its project developer Goodman celebrate the topping-out ceremony for the new distribution centre in Kleinaitingen. 70,000 m² of logistics space for 240 employees is to be completed here in just seven months' time!


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Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism on the Thai-Burma Border [Book event] | Dr Kirsten McConnachie
Listen to the podcast of the 29 October public seminar by Dr Kirsten McConnachie, part of the Michaelmas term 2014 Public Seminar Series
Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with assumptions of anarchy, danger and refugee passivity. Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism marshals empirical data and ethnographic detail to challenge such assumptions, arguing that refugee camps should be recognised as spaces where social capital can not only survive, but thrive. In this talk, Dr McConnachie examines themes of community governance, order maintenance and legal pluralism in the context of refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma border. The nature of a refugee situation is such that multiple actors take a role in camp management, creating a complex governance environment which has a significant impact on the lives of refugees. This situation also speaks to deeply important questions of legal and political scholarship, including the production of order beyond the state, justice as a contested site, and the influence of transnational human rights discourses on local justice practice. Dr McConnachie's book presents valuable new research into the subject of refugee camps as well as an original critical analysis.
Dr Kirsten McConnachie is the Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall and the Refugee Studies Centre. She is a socio-legal researcher and her work investigates law, justice and governance as it affects refugee populations. Her primary research project at present is a comparative study of security and self-governance strategies among refugees from Myanmar in Southeast Asia. Wider research interests include anthropology of law, transitional justice, and the governance of refugee camps.
Kirsten has published in the areas of forced migration studies, criminology and transitional justice, with articles in (among others) the European Journal of Criminology, Social & Legal Studies, and the Journal of Human Rights Practice. She is the author of Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism (Routledge 2014). Her research has been supported by awards from the John Fell Fund, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Emslie Horniman Fund of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Northern Ireland Department of Education and Learning.
She holds a PhD from Queen's University Belfast, an LLM in the Law of Armed Conflict (Distinction) from the University of Nottingham, an LLB from the University of Glasgow and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2004. She teaches on the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the Refugee Studies Centre, offering a course option on 'Refugee Camps and Containment'.
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Crestani runs not only high quality ampoules, whose technology has since been renovated and is in continuous expansion, but also deals with a very specific product line as in siliconed vials.
Like ampoules, vial productions are made to provide a concrete answer to the specific and precise needs of the market. For a few years now this market has received all the professional care and constant attention of technicians as well as marketing force.


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More Deaths Have Happened In Spain's Nursing Homes Than Those In Any Other European Nation
Global pandemic developments are reported out of Spain, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Haiti, Venezuela, France, Lithuania, Finland, Brazil and other nations.
The Associated Press: 'Didn't Give A Damn': Inside A Ravaged Spanish Nursing Home
Zoilo Patiño was just one of more than 19,000 elderly people to die of coronavirus in Spain's nursing homes but he has come to symbolize a system of caring for the country's most vulnerable that critics say is desperately broken. When the Alzheimer's-stricken 84-year-old succumbed in March on the same day 200 others died across Madrid, funeral homes were too overwhelmed to take his body and he was instead left locked in the same room, in the same bed, where he died. (Parra, 5/28)
The Associated Press: UN: Virus Could Push 14 Million Into Hunger In Latin America
The U.N. World Food Program is warning that upward of at least 14 million people could go hungry in Latin America as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, shuttering people in their homes, drying up work and crippling the economy. New projections released late Wednesday estimate a startling increase: Whereas 3.4 million experienced severe food insecurity in 2019, that number could more than quadruple this year in one of the world's most vulnerable regions. (Armario, 5/28)
The New York Times: 'It's Not The Virus': Mexico's Broken Hospitals Become Killers, Too
The senseless deaths torment doctors and nurses the most: The man who died because an inexperienced nurse unplugged his ventilator. The patient who died from septic shock because no one monitored his vital signs. The people whose breathing tubes clogged after being abandoned in their hospital beds for hours on end. In Mexico, it's not just the coronavirus that is claiming lives. The country's broken health system is killing people as well. (Kitroeff and Villegas, 5/28)
The Associated Press: Patrons Under Plastic: Restaurants Get Creative In Virus Era
Dining at a table where each person is enclosed by a clear plastic shield might look and sound futuristic, but it could be one way for some restaurants to reopen. It also might help out if your companion orders escargots, heavy on the garlic. The prototype plastic shields are known as the "Plex'eat," and they resemble big clear lampshades suspended from the ceiling. They are being showcased temporarily at H.A.N.D., a Parisian restaurant seeking a way to reopen its dining room as coronavirus restrictions are relaxed. (Adamson and Cetinic, 5/28)
Reuters: 'No Evidence' Reopening Of Finland Schools Has Spread Virus Faster
Finland has seen no evidence of the coronavirus spreading faster since schools started to reopen in the middle of May, the top health official said on Thursday. "The time has been short, but so far we have seen no evidence," Mika Salminen, director of health security at the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare, told a news conference. Finland started to reopen schools and daycare centres from May 14 following an almost two-month shutdown. (5/28)
The Wall Street Journal: Brazil's Daily Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses That Of U.S.
Brazil has reached a grim milestone, reporting more Covid-19 deaths in one day than the U.S., which until recently had logged the most daily fatalities from the disease. Brazil's Health Ministry reported that 1,039 people had died from the disease caused by the new coronavirus in the 24 hours through Tuesday evening, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 592 deaths in the U.S. on the same day. (Lewis and Magalhaes, 5/27)


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Ісагалі Шаріпович Шаріпов (, село Долгоє Астраханської губернії, тепер селище Долгинський Красноярського району Астраханської області, Російська Федерація — , місто Москва) — радянський діяч, голова Президії Верховної ради Казахської РСР, голова Казахської республіканської ради профспілок. Член Бюро ЦК КП Казахстану в 1961—1965 роках. Член Центральної Ревізійної Комісії КПРС у 1961—1966 роках. Депутат Верховної ради Казахської РСР 2—6-го скликань. Депутат Верховної ради СРСР 5—6-го скликань, заступник голови Президії Верховної ради СРСР у 1961—1965 роках.

Життєпис
Народився в родині рибака. Трудову діяльність розпочав з одинадцятирічного віку.

У 1920—1924 роках — секретар, заступник голови Долгинської сільської ради Астраханської губернії.

У 1924—1925 роках — слухач Астраханської губернської школи радянського і партійного будівництва.

У 1925—1926 роках — завідувач хати-читальні, секретар Долгинського волосного комітету ВЛКСМ Астраханської губернії.

Член ВКП(б) з 1926 року.

У 1926—1928 роках — штатний пропагандист Астраханського губернського комітету ВКП(б).

У 1928—1929 роках — відповідальний секретар казахської секції при Астраханському губернському комітеті ВКП(б).

У 1929—1932 роках — студент Комуністичного університету трудящих Сходу імені Сталіна в Москві.

У 1932—1934 роках — керівник пропагандистської групи ЦК ВЛКСМ радгоспу «Пахта-Арал».

У 1934—1936 роках — завідувач партійного відділення, завідувач кафедри історії ВКП(б) Вищої комуністичної сільськогосподарської школи міста Акмолінська.

У 1936—1937 роках — проректор з навчальної частини Вищої комуністичної сільськогосподарської школи міста Семипалатинська.

У 1937—1938 роках — завідувач відділу пропаганди і агітації Східно-Казахстанського обласного комітету КП(б) Казахстану.

У 1938—1939 роках — голова виконавчого комітету Східно-Казахстанської обласної ради депутатів трудящих.

У січні 1939 — березні 1953 року — заступник голови Ради народних комісарів (Ради міністрів) Казахської РСР

Одночасно у 1941—1945 роках — постійний представник Ради народних комісарів Казахської РСР при Раді народних комісарів СРСР.

У 1953—1954 роках — голова виконавчого комітету Алма-Атинської міської ради депутатів трудящих.

У 1954—1956 роках — голова Казахської республіканської ради профспілок.

У 1956—1959 роках — постійний представник Ради міністрів Казахської РСР при Раді міністрів СРСР.

У 1959 році — заступник постійного представника Ради міністрів Казахської РСР при Раді міністрів СРСР.

У 1959—1961 роках — постійний представник Ради міністрів Казахської РСР при Раді міністрів СРСР.

3 січня 1961 — 4 квітня 1965 року — голова Президії Верховної ради Казахської РСР.

З квітня 1965 року — на пенсії.

Помер 23 лютого 1976 року в Москві.

Родина
Дружина — Калієва Махлуза Каліївна. Четверо синів: Марат, Ерк, Аскар, Ернст.

Нагороди
 орден Вітчизняної війни І ст. (1945)
 два ордени Трудового Червоного Прапора (1939,)
 два ордени «Знак Пошани» (1947, 1965)
 медалі

Примітки

Джерела
 Шарипов Исагали

Члени КПРС
Депутати Верховної Ради СРСР 5-го скликання
Депутати Верховної Ради СРСР 6-го скликання
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"To criticise people for their race is manifestly irrational but to criticise their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticise ideas - any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society and a law which attempts to say you can criticise or ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. It promotes the idea that there should be a right not to be offended, when in my view, the right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended, simply because one represents openness, the other represents oppression."
"I don't doubt the sincerity of those who are seeking this legislation but I do question the government's enthusiasm for it so close to a general election, an enthusiasm that must be rooted in their belief that this measure could help their cause in some marginal constituencies with large religious populations, many of whom are critical of the government's prosecution of the war in Iraq. It seems a shame we have to be robbed permanently of one of the pillars of freedom of expression because it's needed temporarily to shore up a wobbling edifice elsewhere."
I do hope the silence of Charles Kennedy and Mark Oaten on this issue is not due to opportunistic concerns about any wobbling edifice of their own.


Eight hikers were rescued early Tuesday from a hillside above Brand Park after they were unable to climb down a mountain trail, officials said.
The hikers were not injured during the incident, which occurred about 11:27 p.m. Monday at the park, Glendale fire officials said.
A helicopter crew found the group on a trail near the 7 Pines area and kept a spotlight on them until a rescue crew reached them, officials said.
The group told authorities they were working out on the trails, officials said.
Fire crews escorted the group down the trail at about 12:45 a.m.


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#define BOOST_TEST_MAIN
#define BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include "mldb/base/exc_assert.h"
#include "mldb/io/ring_buffer.h"

#include "mldb/io/asio_thread_pool.h"
#include "mldb/io/event_loop.h"
#include "mldb/io/event_loop_impl.h"
#include "mldb/http/http_rest_proxy.h"
#include "mldb/http/http_socket_handler.h"
#include "mldb/io/port_range_service.h"
#include "mldb/io/tcp_acceptor.h"

using namespace std;
using namespace boost;
using namespace MLDB;

struct MyHandler;

/****************************************************************************/
/* THREADED REQUEST                                                         */
/****************************************************************************/

struct ThreadedRequest {
    ThreadedRequest()
        : handler(nullptr)
    {
    }

    ThreadedRequest(const std::shared_ptr<MyHandler> & newHandler,
                    const HttpHeader & newHeader,
                    const std::string & newPayload)
        : handler(newHandler), header(newHeader), payload(newPayload)
    {
    }

    std::shared_ptr<MyHandler> handler;
    HttpHeader header;
    std::string payload;
};

typedef MLDB::RingBufferSWMR<ThreadedRequest> RequestQueue;

/****************************************************************************/
/* MY HANDLER                                                               */
/****************************************************************************/

struct MyHandler : public HttpLegacySocketHandler {
    MyHandler(TcpSocket && socket, RequestQueue * queue)
        : HttpLegacySocketHandler(std::move(socket)), queue_(queue)
    {
    }

    virtual void handleHttpPayload(const HttpHeader & header,
                                   const std::string & payload);

    RequestQueue * queue_;
};

void
MyHandler::
handleHttpPayload(const HttpHeader & header, const std::string & payload)
{
    auto ptr = acceptor().findHandlerPtr(this);
    ThreadedRequest request(static_pointer_cast<MyHandler>(ptr), header, payload);
    queue_->push(std::move(request));
}

/* Test */
void
processRequests(RequestQueue & queue)
{
    while (true) {
        auto request = std::make_shared<ThreadedRequest>(queue.pop());

        if (!request->handler) {
            break;
        }

        HttpResponse response(200, "text/plain", "pong");
        if (request->header.resource == "/wait") {
            cerr << "service sleeping\n";
            ::sleep(2);
            cerr << "service done sleeping\n";
        }

        auto onFinished = [request] ()
        {
            // We just use this to ensure the request isn't freed too early
            // Once the lambda is done, it will be freed, and with it the
            // request.
        };

        request->handler->putResponseOnWire(response, onFinished);
    }
    cerr << "exiting queue thread...\n";
}

void
sendRequest(int port)
{
    boost::asio::io_context ioContext;
    auto socket = asio::ip::tcp::socket(ioContext);
    auto address = asio::ip::address::from_string("127.0.0.1");
    asio::ip::tcp::endpoint serverEndpoint(address, port);
    socket.connect(serverEndpoint);
    string request = ("GET /wait HTTP/1.1\r\n"
                      "Connection: close\r\n"
                      "Host: *\r\n"
                      "\r\n");
    cerr << "sending\n";
    socket.send(boost::asio::buffer(request.c_str(), request.size()));
    cerr << "sent, closing\n";
    socket.close();
    cerr << "closed\n";
}

/* Test request and close the socket before the response */
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( tcp_acceptor_http_disconnect_test )
{
    RequestQueue queue(16);
    auto processRequestsFn = [&] () {
        processRequests(queue);
    };
    std::thread queueThread(processRequestsFn);

    EventLoop loop;
    AsioThreadPool pool(loop);

    auto onNewConnection = [&] (TcpSocket && socket) {
        return std::make_shared<MyHandler>(std::move(socket), &queue);
    };

    TcpAcceptor acceptor(loop, onNewConnection);
    acceptor.listen(0, "localhost");
    sendRequest(acceptor.effectiveTCPv4Port());
    while (queue.writePosition == 0) {
        MLDB::wait_on_address(queue.writePosition, 0);
    }

    cerr << "pushing finalisation request\n";
    queue.push(ThreadedRequest());
    queueThread.join();

    pool.shutdown();
}

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Mike McCarthy Press Conference Transcript - Nov. 8
Discussion in 'Green Bay Packers Fan Forum' started by PackerLegend, Nov 9, 2006.
Nov 9, 2006 at 4:00 PM #1
(Jennings and Woodson missed practice - how are they doing?)
We're going to rehab both of those guys. Obviously for sure today, probably again tomorrow, and shoot for Friday.
(Did you rest Ahman?)
Correct, yes.
(What do you have to do to get your special teams going?)
Well, the thing we're failing in is part technique and part finish. I think a lot of that comes with confidence. We do have a number of young players in that area, and actually it was a big emphasis in today's practice. I thought the work was very good. We need to improve both the coverage and return phases.
(Was Nick Barnett at practice?)
Nick was not at practice today. He has a personal matter he's attending to right now. He'll be here tomorrow.
(What did you see in Jagodzinski in 1999 and after that which led you to hire him?
When I hired Jeff, from a professional standpoint I knew I was getting a very knowledgeable football coach. I always liked his energy and his communication skills. I thought he had a very direct approach to his teaching style with players, and on a personal level, I think he's a fine human being. That was a big part of it when I was putting together a staff because a lot of times when you do put together a staff, the bottom line comes down to fit. There are a lot of outstanding resumes out there, but I just thought he would be a perfect fit with what we were trying to accomplish on offense.
(Were you set on looking at a zone-blocking scheme?)
I didn't hire him just because of zone blocking. It was part of the conversation - he was my first choice.
(What makes the Vikings so tough to run against?)
It starts inside with Kevin and Pat Williams. It really starts with those two guys, and you can see the way they structure their defense. It's how they fit their linebackers and what they try to do with some of their linebacker pressure schemes to try to get you to single-block those guys. As you watch them on film, you can't single-block them. They do a great job of anchoring, splitting double teams. They're clearly the best tandem of defensive tackles that we've played to this point. Frankly, our emphasis leads those schemes into cut blocking, and last week wasn't our best day in that area. That's a major emphasis for us this week because frankly we need to cut them all day. To stand up and try to go toe-to-toe with those guys with single blocks doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
(New England had success in spreading Minnesota out, you want to establish the run - how do you balance that?)
I think you look at the makeup of a football team when you break them down on film. You look at how they attacked the defense, how did the defense respond to that. Especially in Week 9, you really are who you are. It's important from a systematic standpoint to have flexibility for personnel matchups, scheme designs - run or pass - as you go throughout the course of a season. But to sit and say 'We're going to go be the New England Patriots', I don't think that's in our best interests. There are definitely things from that football game that we can learn from because they were very successful. We've reviewed the film, and it's a game that's a part of our breakdown.
(This team beat Seattle but lost to Buffalo and San Francisco - how do you gauge their identity?)
I think they're a talented football team, a veteran team. They have some good frontline players. They've been in a bunch of close games, and the defense is clearly the strength of their football team. It's a divisional, rivalry game for us. We anticipate a hard-nosed, tough football game, and I'm sure it will come down to the last series.
(When you became coach, what were your thoughts on the kicking position?)
Every free agent decision, there is a market you deal with. There is an evaluation of the player involved. It did not work out for Ryan (Longwell), and he has moved on. We trusted in our personnel department, and we're very happy with Dave Rayner. Ryan Longwell had an excellent career here, but some things in this league usually come to an end when you talk about relationships and things like that. I talked to Ryan Longwell when I got the job during the course of free agency, and he went to Minnesota. That's what stands in my mind. I was here in 1999, and he had a very productive career here. That's part of our business.
(Do you believe it's easy or difficult to find a solid kicker?)
You could say that for any position. It may be easier some years than others. We were fortunate that we created a competitive environment between Billy (Cundiff) and Dave, and Dave has taken full advantage of his opportunity. I think he's the type of kicker you need in our environment. He's strong -legged, and we're very happy with him so far.
(Has the number of sacks and pressure from your defensive line surprised you at all?)
Not at all - I think since day one, we've always stated that our defensive line is probably our most talented position, and I think it's the position that has the most depth. I just think you're seeing a group that's getting better and better each week, so their productivity is no surprise.
(What do you see out of their running game and offensive line?)
I think they're built to run the football, particularly if you look at the left side of their offensive line, their center. They've got a good running back, and I've always liked Mewelde Moore. He was at Tulane when I was in New Orleans. I think their team is structured that way. Brad Johnson is a quarterback who does an excellent of managing the game. He's a completion thrower, does an excellent job of throwing the check down, but it starts with the run game for them. As far as the West Coast offense when you look at the personnel of the football team, I think they're built for the run.
(How do you handle the noise?)
On offense, silent count is a premium, and we'll practice inside all week and go through the crowd noise. It's hard to coach during it on offense, but we go crowd noise every away game. It's part of playing in a dome.
(When you play a team with two defensive tackles like them, do you base everything on working around those two?)
Everything you do in game planning is personnel matchups. I'm not naïve to the fact that we have a first-year starter at center and two rookie guards, and those are the two best players on their defense. You need to take care of that, and those are 'targets', things you need to address. When you have a target on a certain individual or a certain scheme that causes you problems, every decision you make in the run protection and the pass is done with that in mind.
(Plan to rest Ahman on most Wednesdays?)
It really helps him, and I think it keeps the stress off his knee. Him and Flea (assistant athletic trainer Bryan Engel) do a really good job on the rehab part of it, so it was something we talked about initially. We went to it after he came back from the hamstrings, and I'm pleased with the way he responds because he's fresh on Thursday and Friday and has two excellent days of practice. I think it's also triggering to the game on Sunday, so that's something we'll consider doing all year.
(Ahman still continuing his rehab?)
Absolutely, just very proactive in staying ahead of it. Keeping the hamstrings and knee very strong and pole work, things like that - taking the stress off the joints.
(Did Collins bruise his kidney?)
Did he bruise it? He had a back bruise and there was some concern about the kidney, but from my conversation with the doctor, he had a lower back bruise.
(The injury listed here on the report is the kidney.)
That's what they were worried about. Lower back, kidney. I think the kidney is in the lower back, last time I checked.
(So it's not the lower back muscle then?)
No, he's fine. He practiced today. He has a lower back bruise.
(Has Rayner exceeded what you thought he might do?)
I don't know if you can say exceeded because he'd really never been given a chance. Once again he has a strong leg, and you need that in this part of the country. I think he just needed the opportunity to kick field goals on a regular basis. We were all there, he struggled at some times during training camp, but I wouldn't say he's exceeded. I'm hoping he can be a guy that's here for a long time.
(Last four times these teams have met it's gone down to the wire. Do you see this being a close one as well?)
I do. I think when you play rival football games, I think that's a constant that happens. I think it's going to be a very physical football game. I think the turnover ratio will be a key statistic in the game. It's a primary emphasis for us right now as a football team. We need to fix what we've done in the past in that area. I would not be surprised if it comes down to another field goal.
(How do you get a young team ready for a rivalry game like this?)
As a head coach, I think it's important for you to set the tempo Wednesday morning in your team meeting, identify clearly what the game plan is in all three phases, and give them a clear indication of how we're going to approach the game. I think the physicalness of practice and our team drills are reflected in our approach to this football game.
(What do you make of Sharper right now?)
I think he's still a playmaker and I don't know how many safeties you can say that about. He does a great job cheating off the quarterback's eyes, jumping routes. One thing that's constant I do remember about Darren from my time here is he has excellent ball skills, when he breaks on the football. But he still looks like he has good range. We still think he's a good player.
(There was a time when people thought the Vikings were built for their turf, but do you think that's nullified now with the FieldTurf and the fact that you're a younger team?)
I think that's a good point, because working for a dome team at one point in my career, when they went from the Astroturf - which we were all in favor of because of the injuries that occur on it - to FieldTurf, I think the quicker teams lost a little bit of an edge. I think you saw that in St. Louis and some other areas. With their FieldTurf and the speed they used to have, I don't think they're like they used to be as much. I look at their front, their defensive tackles are bigger, more powerful men. The offensive line is a bigger offensive line. As far as us being built for our stadium, I think that's accurate. I talk about the conditions we're going to play in, because we plan on playing in December and January, and that's our goal. So I think it's important to build your team based on where you play your home games.
(Do you think with all the young players you have you're a faster team than they've had here in the past?)
I think there's some evidence of that, and I think it's what we're asking our guys to do too. I look at the lines that were here before, I don't think they're asked to do what they're asked to do now, so I don't think that's saying they couldn't do it. But the quickness particularly in our line play is a strength of ours that may be more than the past. I'd be speculating if I said so, but that's the way we want to go. On both lines.
(What's the key to the low yardage you've given up the last two games?)
I just think it's come together. Everybody wants to talk about pass coverage, and the best course of pass coverage is pass rush. So I think you're seeing improvement in both those areas, and it's nipped the explosive gains down, they've been taken away pretty much the last two games. Frankly, this past week was probably - I don't want to say poor because it wasn't that bad - but one of our worst games against the run, because actually we've been very good against the run all year. I think our defense is hitting their stride. This was what I saw in training camp, and we're looking forward to them being the best defense on the field this week.
i'm going to the game on sunday. yes.
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Jermaine Dupri Thinks Female Rappers Rap About the Same Thing: "It's Like Strippers Rapping"
Trent Fitzgerald
Trent Fitzgerald Published: July 11, 2019
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Jermaine Dupri has just made a few comments that are sure to make more than a few people upset.
Speaking with People in an interview uploaded Thursday (July 11), the So So Def founder explained his belief that female rappers of today don't offer up enough variance in their topics.
"They all rapping about the same thing," Dupri said. "I don't think they're showing us who is the best rapper. For me, it's like strippers rapping. As far as rap goes, I'm not getting 'who is the best rapper.' I'm getting, like, you got a story about you dancing in the club, you got a story about you dancing in the club, you got a story... Ok. Who's gonna be the rapper?"
While JD didn't claim to be a fan of today's female rappers, he did praise his own So So Def artist Da Brat for breaking the mold and becoming the first female rapper to go platinum.
For her part, Cardi B, who is set to rock at least a few more shows this summer, took issue with Durpi's comments about female rappers rapping about the same thing. The Grammy-winning artist jumped on her Twitter account and posted a video response. Cardi said that when she does rap about topics besides her own body and sex nobody wants to listen to it.
Cardi then went on to salute other female rappers "who be rapping their asses off" but "radio and blogs don't be supporting them" because they don't rap about their sexuality as much. The Bronx native then acknowledged Rapsody, 2019 XXL Freshman Tierra Whack, 2017 XXL Freshman Kamaiyah and more as "dope ass rappers" before encouraging her fans to support them.
You can watch Jermaine Dupri's comments about today's female rappers and Cardi B's responses below.
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Crystal Hawk, an experienced and well known practitioner in Canada, gives us a broad look at some of her uses for EFT--she addresses headaches, substance sensitivities, phone work, dental fears and grief. I augment her message with a few comments.
This year our family had the greatest Sedar ever - It was at my son's home and my daughter-in-law, Randi, did the cooking! A first for us. And great for me as I moved into an apartment after 32 years in my own home just this past Monday.
When I arrived for dinner my oldest granddaughter, Samantha (Sammy), 12, had a fierce headache. Two rounds of EFT finished that off.
Sammy has a sister, Jamie, and a cousin, Axel. They are all about the same age. The kids went upstairs before dessert and with some special software for children (my son is in the movie making business) they made a loving spoof movie about all the mis-pronouncements I've made over the years... One time I said "Logo" instead of "Lego" - and things like that. It ended with a scene of all four of us at a restaurant, having Sammy say "and I deeply and PROFOUNDLY love and accept myself!" .. It was hilarious and I hope they send it to me so I can play it on my own computer...and send it to you...if you want it.
I'm teaching EFT mostly to health care workers and to Therapeutic Touch practitioners. With their "advanced" knowledge and experience of intention, subtle energy, the human energy system and the reality of the bodymind integration, EFT comes very naturally to them and they're using it often and well, both on themselves, with their family members, clients and patients.
I've been a successful Gestalt therapist for over 25 years, and I find it very exciting in my 70's to have connection with a new branch of psychology which is so effective. EFT is making these later years of my life my most professionally exciting.
I'm working very successfully over the phone with people who have no previous knowledge of EFT.
GC COMMENT: Phone work is something I wish more practitioners would embrace. It has many advantages including (1) the client doesn't have to drive to and from the practitioner's office, (2) the client can call right when they are having a problem (anger, depression, fear, panic, etc.) instead of waiting until next Wednesday's appointment, (3) the practitioner has a much wider geographical range within which to do business and (4) the practitioner can do it from home (no office expense) and can wear anything from levi's to pajamas.
CRYSTAL CONTINUES: One client came to me through her Naturopath. She's sensitive to everything and very fearful of the real world where anything chemical can put her into bed for weeks!
(2) "Some chemical in the dentist's office will make me very ill."
She successfully was able to go and have her teeth cleaned and we plan to have one more session before she has her first appointment for drilling and filling.
GC COMMENT: This applies, of course, to the fears surrounding a dental visit, something most dentists would find useful. One could use the process just as well for the fears surrounding a sales call, asking someone for a date or public speaking.
CRYSTAL CONTINUES: Recently my brother-in-law died very tragically in a stupid airplane tower "mistake" in Florida. The night before the funeral his youngest said, "I'm afraid that I'll throw up and faint at my father's funeral tomorrow", and two rounds of EFT fixed that! Also, I was able to help four of the grandsons with "deep grief" and that terrible heaviness in their chests...and another grandson with a headache.
GC RESPONSE: An often asked question here is, "Why tap so soon for grief? Shouldn't there be a normal grieving period?" The answer, in my experience, is that the tapping removes the unnecessary grief, the exaggerated part that serves no purpose. It leaves the rest alone. To me, tapping for grief is appropriate at any time. Why have unnecessary pain?
CRYSTAL CONTINUES: EFT is so important for all of us and I do so appreciate the fact that you've made tapes available for us to send to doctors and so on... I have one that I send around.
Because of the way you have sent this out in the world, I still only charge $75 for a full day's Introduction to EFT... Other EFT teachers in Ontario are upset with me, of course, because they are charging much more. I am certainly not wealthy, but as you, I feel that the need is to get this skill out there into the world FAST... where it is needed and helpful.
GC RESPONSE: Everyone is entitled to teach EFT in whatever ethical manner they choose and charge whatever they see fit. There is a very large market out there. It's somewhere between HUGE and GARGANTUAN. Competition has its value, of course, but if it were up to me I would join with all the other EFT'ers in the area and share in the cost of ads and promotion and put on joint presentations. It lowers the costs and is likely to attract a much larger following much faster. There is a lot of leverage in doing that.
CRYSTAL CONTINUES: As the person who brought Therapeutic Touch to Ontario and the co-founder of the Network here I have some community standing, and because I also have a M. Ed. I'm asking the School of Social Work to allow my students to receive Continuing Credit at my workshops.
The Therapeutic Touch Network (Ontario, Canada) already allows TTers to use this EFT workshop for maintaining their Recognized Practitioner Status.


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UCI underground drought research gets big visibility
UCI Earth system science professor Jay Famiglietti and his team have made the cover of the Sept. 26 issue of the prestigious journal Science.
UCI work on California groundwater depletion on the cover of Science.
Famiglietti/Rodell/Reager/Castle
UCI Earth system science professor Jay Famiglietti and his team have made the cover of the Sept. 26 issue of the prestigious journal Science. The image was requested by Science Editor-in-Chief Marcia McNutt to accompany her editorial on the drought in California and the West as well as a paper from UC San Diego-Scripps on using GPS to measure changing water storage across the West. The UCI researchers created an image from their 2013 findings that showed how NASA's GRACE satellites could provide detailed data on the Earth's changing water cycle, an essential prerequisite for contemporary water management. "For a scientist, having your work on the cover of Science is like being on the cover of Time," said Famiglietti, who's also senior water scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's a career achievement that represents decades of hard work from our research team."
UCI chemistry professor, wife fund $100,000 endowment for Armenian studies research
UCI recognized for innovative transportation
New dean named for UCI School of Information & Computer Sciences


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Sir Edward des Bouverie, 2nd Baronet (1688 – 21 November 1736) was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1719 to 1734. In 1717 he inherited his title three years after its grant to his father, and his combined wealth enabled him to purchase Longford Castle in Wiltshire, which later became a home of his brother's most senior descendants and has been in the family for more than 300 years.

Early life
des Bouverie was born in 1688, the eldest son of London merchant Sir William des Bouverie and his second wife Anne Urry. The des Bouverie family was Huguenot and came to England in the 16th century settling at Canterbury. He trained as a merchant and was sent as an apprentice at the age of 12 to an uncle Sir Christopher des Bouverie at Aleppo. For a time he ran his own cloth business in Cyprus.

His father was created a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1714. Edward des Bouverie succeeded on his father's death in the baronetcy on 19 May 1717, in which year he purchased the estate of Longford Castle, in Britford, south Wiltshire from Lord Coleraine. Longford has been the home of his brother's patrilineal descendants ever since. He married on 7 July 1718, in the chapel at Somerset House, Strand, London, Mary Smyth, the second daughter of John Smyth, of Beaufort buildings on the Strand, and his wife Elizabeth Mulsho. Her father was Commissioner of Excise and her elder sister, Anne Smyth married Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde.

Political career
Longford Castle is  east of Shaftesbury (across Cranborne Chase). des Bouverie was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury on 24 January 1719 on petition after a by-election. He was re-elected MP for Shaftesbury at the general elections of 1722 and 1727. In Parliament, he consistently voted with the Opposition against the Whig government. He did not stand in the general election of 1734.

Death and legacy
des Bouverie died on 21 November 1736 at Aix-en-Provence aged 47 or 48. His wife Lady Mary had died on 3 January 1721, and was buried at Britford. They had no issue and on Sir Edward's death, he was succeeded by his younger brother Jacob. He was buried at Britford.

References

 A Guide to Longford Castle, the National Gallery

Year of birth uncertain
1690 births
1736 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain
British MPs 1715–1722
British MPs 1722–1727
British MPs 1727–1734
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
Tory MPs (pre-1834)