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Pamiętnik Literacki 4 / 2020
Bibliographical Review 4/2020
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Dariusz Pawelec
Editing as Literary Criticism
The author of the sketch poses the question: is editing a form of literary criticism? He analyses the sources of meanings of the key concepts: of the words "critical," "criticism," "textual criticism," "literary criticism," and its relationship with the editorial tradition, connections between editing and theory and history of literature and interpretation. The author of the sketch confirms the thesis that "every text prepared by a text critic is a product of literary criticism," reflecting, among others, his/her aesthetic preference. Each edition inevitably reflects some ideology, and there are no more or less natural or specific ways of presenting the text and the apparatus specific to the given work, because "the codes of meaning" that the editors included in them form a part of the "total ideological construct." Specific examples of editing ideologisation, with an important political and national component, are provided in the thoroughly discussed collected edition formula. The editor mythologizes the literary facts and is a literary critic in the strict sense, when he/she presents old phenomena in his/her contemporary perspective: he/she cannot completely disable his own field of values in favour of the field of values reconstructed for a given historical and literary situation. The author of the sketch analyses the editor's attitudes from the perspective of all functions of literary criticism, examining the fulfillment of the literary critical act in the editorial act. The study leads to the conclusion that there are no neutral editions in the literary critical perspective, although the degrees of their involvement or "non-autonomy" varies, regardless of the nature of the edition, the way it is defined, and the scope attributed to the notion of literary criticism.
Paweł Bem
"Editor's Text" or "Multiple Authors' Text"?
Several Remarks on Heterogeneity of Scholarly Editing
The article refers to the theoretical and practical problems of scholarly editing. The author primarily focuses his attention on the methodological polarisation of editing in the world. The presented arguments convince that there is not, and never will be, a single mode of editing practice, and striving to formulate universal methods within this discipline cannot be conceived. There are various aims, as the author claims, with which the editors equip their work, and so dissimilar are definitions of the central notions that establish ground and determine the practical solutions. As based on the textological history of "Gulliver's Travels", the author assures that the editor wishing to prepare a contemporary edition of the text faces a challenging task, the result of which will fail to satisfy all the readers.
Maria Prussak
Twilight of Critical Editions?
The article discusses the problems and possibilities of the contemporary academic edition. Editorial preparations of texts by late authors throughout the 20th century underwent more and more rigid normalisation. Discussions in Poland mainly referred to specific solutions, though they rather seldom raised the issues of text theory and criticism, broadly developed and examined both in Western and in Russian literary studies. In effect of the stiffening rules, the crucial pieces of information about the text failed to be included within an edition, and it almost completely neglected the text-forming issues. The knowledge about the transformations of a given work may extend its interpretive potential. Solution to the problems addressed within the framework of text criticism, against its initial assumptions, will not be worked out on the ground of text criticism unless concepts of digitisation designed to individual works separately are developed.
Mirosław Strzyżewski
On Editors' Madness in the Perspective of Ratio and Praxis
The essay is devoted to considerations about irrational behaviour of some editors of Polish literature, which lead to academic and publishing failures. The reason of the failures are often insufficient compliance in editorial activities to the changing technological conditions, and problems with proper teamwork organisation. The situation in which the humanities, and editing as its basic domain, extorts from the philologists to constantly master academic workshop, adjust the workshop to new software and technological potential; it also induces the necessity to quit the old forms of work organisation. The essay also highlights the practical attitude and academic rationality as condition for success of the endavours, since editing is presently the domain of the concrete in which the idea, often idealistic (mad) in its nature, crashes with the text's reality on the one hand, and on the other hand with the laws of economy which are not always considered and reflected in research.
Wojciech Tomasik
Lost Honour of Madame Chapeaurouge, or How Errors in Editor's Commentaries Are Made and What They May Lead to
A letter to his father, dated March 15th, 1830, and sent from Genève, mentions three balls in which young Zygmunt Krasiński took part. Footnote commentary by Stanisław Piogoń, the correspondence's editor, indicates that "Chapeaurouge" from the letter is "probably a society nickname of a Genève woman," thus suggesting the woman's connection with a Genève red-light district. However, the letter does not use a nickname, but a real name: the hostess of the house mentioned by Krasiński was a greatly meritorious figure, one of so-called "Thirty Maidens of Genève," who towards the end of the 18th century served to conduct a huge financial operation. The operation consisted in granting a loan to the French king by the Genève bankers, the repayment of which was to have been in the form of life pensions tailored to young and healthy girls. Mrs. Chapeaurouge was selected one of the girls to whom the life pension was to have been paid. The French Revolution cancelled the transaction, and in effect brought the Genève banks heavy loss. When young Krasiński met Mrs. Chapeaurouge, she belonged to the city's elite. Her house was found at Rue des Granges, one of the most elegant street in Genève, in the surrounding neighbourhood of the place where Krasiński lived.
Iwona Wiśniewska
Eliza Orzeszkowa's Writings—Attempts at Critical Editions
The paper is trying to reconstruct, as based on printed and archive documents, the textological awareness and the editors' method applied to Orzeszkowa's collected works, namely "Pisma" ("Writings") from the years 1937–1939 prepared by Aureli Drogoszewski and Ludwik Brunon Świderski, and "Pisma zebrane" ("Collected Writings") published between 1947 and 1953, prepared by Julian Krzyżanowski and Edmund Jankowski, the latter of which until now is a basis of our knowledge in the writer's creativity. Considerations focus on the terms used by the editors: "critical edition," "authentic source," "editorial censorship." The aim of the research is a planned confrontation of the first half of the 20th century editorial ideas with the latest textological and editorial conceptions (concentrating not on the author's intention but on the text history and changeability) for the needs of a new edition of Orzeszkowa's collected writings that started this year.
Dorota Samborska-Kukuć
A Literary Historian's Reflections on the Suspended Critical Edition of Bolesław Prus' "Pisma wszystkie" ("Collected Works")
The year 2014 marks the issuing of the first volume of Bolesław Prus' "Pisma wszystkie" ("Collected Works") financed by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities. The publication was planned to amount to 70 volumes and, as signalled in this title, meant to include the writer's whole output. None of the initiatives to publish Prus' work undertaken so far has been completed. The project realised according to the newest (textological, typographic, and literary-historical) principles by the editorial committee, Prus scholars, aimed to offer the edition to various scholars (literary, history, press etc.) as well as to preserve in the model version one of the elements of national heritage—highest artistic quality literature. After the publication of the volume 35, the edition was suspended due to lack of further financing.
The paper discusses the already published volumes, comments on e.g. its editorial shape, composition, level of explicatory introductions, and the importance of the edition for Prus scholars and other researchers of the second part of the 19th century. The discussion is accompanied by a reflection over the condition of the Polish humanities, and especially over the problems caused by neglecting by the changing decision-makers of by its nature long lasting process of petrifying the shape of national identity and preserving the cultural memory.
Mateusz Antoniuk
"Kosmos" ("Cosmos") Is Calling Polish Genetic Criticism!
The first part of the paper discusses the worldview and thematic affinities between Witold Gombrowicz's "Kosmos" ("Cosmos") and genetic criticism—research in text-forming process. It also presents the difficulties that the genetic critic faces when trying to understand and scrutinise the process of composing Gombrowicz's last novel. The second part offers exemplary genetic analyses of selected fragments from "Kosmos," disclosing the writer's work when constructing the figure of Leon. The third part shifts the obscurity to the editorial issues: it delineates the differences between a critical and a genetic edition, signals a critical edition of "Kosmos" prepared by Jan Zieliński, and a genetic project of the novel's edition.
Radosław Grześkowiak
Recovered Text of "Maszkary mięsopustne i powszechne, przy tym Kłoda popielcowa z Parnasu" ("Shrove Tuesday Masks and Common Masks, and also Ash Wednesday Wood Log from Parnassus") by Stanisław Serafin Jagodyński
The paper contains a critical edition of "Maszkary mięsopustne i powszechne, przy tym Kłoda popielcowa z Parnasu" ("Shrove Tuesday Masks and Common Masks, and also Ash Wednesday Wood Log from Parnassus") by Stanisław Serafin Jagodyński, text of which has been considered irretrievably lost until now. In fact, unique print disappeared even before World War II, however, its faithful copy survived in Karol Badecki's manuscript stored in the Jagiellonian Library (Ms 7777 III, pp. 310–318). The published text is accompanied by a literary historical and linguistic commentary.
The discovery of the literary journal from the travels of Juliusz Słowacki to Greece, Egypt and Palestine (1836–1837) allows to commence new investigations to and revise textological-editorial analyses of a dozen of the author's lyrical works. The most current state of research and the frame of reference for the whole notebook can be found in the three-volume collective publication dedicated to the manuscript ("Raptularz wschodni Juliusza Słowackiego" <"Juliusz Słowacki's Eastern Notebook">, vol. 1–3, Warszawa 2019).
The subject of this work are two Egyptian-themed poems, unpublished by the poet and available in manuscript only: [Rozmowa z piramidami] ([A Conversation with the Pyramids]) and "Pieśń na Nilu" ("A Song on the Nile"). The new reading of the autographs, correlated with a contextual analysis of the manuscript and the critical reflection on the editorial tradition, leads to a new interpretive proposals and a suggestions to change the philological shape of both texts. [Rozmowa z piramidami] ([A Conversation with the Pyramids]) and Pieśń na Nilu (A Song on the Nile) are a peculiar "sepulchral diptych," and together with the series of five texts [Listy poetyckie z Egiptu] ([Poetic Letters from Egypt]), they form a truly fascinating record of the existential experience and poetic reflection of Słowacki, originated in his great Eastern journey.
Agnieszka Kuniczuk-Trzcinowicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz's Unknown Letters to Stanisław Witkiewicz: Testimonies of Friendship and Witnesses to Happiness
Research in Henryk Sienkiewicz's Archive has led to finding four unpublished to this day letters by the writer to his friend Stanisław Witkiewicz. The collection of letters come from the time when Sienkiewicz was unmarried, and include new pieces of information to the writer's studies. The author of the article scrutinises the new correspondence, settles its chronology, and includes the letters into the earlier collection published by Maria Bokszczanin. Edition of the letters with endnotes is a crucial element of this publication.
Zdzisław Jerzy Adamczyk
New Letters by Żeromski and to Żeromski
10 years after the publication of six volumes of Żeromski's letters, there was found a small collection of his reciprocal letters to Maria Zawadzka, Anna Zawadzka's mother—many years his life partner. The letters cover the time span from December 22nd, 1912, to July 4th, 1914, the most dramatic and also the least known period of Żeromski's life. Towards the end of the year 1912, Anna informed the writer that she was pregnant with his child, later she was sent with her mother to Florence where she spent a few last months before childbirth, and where at the end of May 1913 their daughter Monika was born. From April, for many months, Żeromski stayed with them, folding the real reason for his long visit back from his wife and son… The last in the collection are letters from the time when Żeromski decided not to marry Anna, thus did not file for divorce, but formally decided to father Monika as his illegitimate child.
Henryk Citko
Zbigniew Herbert's Unknown Journalism from the Years 1948–1955
A Supplement to Bibliography
The paper registers and discusses Zbigniew Herbert's unknown to scholars early journalism. 48 press papers from the years 1948–1955, found mainly in Toruń mutated edition of "Ilustrowany Kurier Polski" ("Illustrated Polish Courier") and in "Słowo Powszechne" ("Universal Word") of the PAX Association, are a marked supplement to the work by Paweł Kądziela "Twórczość Zbigniewa Herberta. Monografia bibliograficzna" ("Zbigniew Herbert's Creativity: A Bibliographical Monograph", 2009), and to Herbert's journalistic papers "Węzeł gordyjski oraz inne pisma rozproszone 1948–1998" ("The Gordian Knot and Other Scattered Writings 1948–1998," 2001; second impression, extended and amended 2008), also collected and prepared by the same author. The years 1949–1951 is also the time when Herbert co-worked with the Gdańsk Radio Station, and with the Pomeranian Radio Station in Bydgoszcz and in Toruń of the Polish Radio, which resulted in radio broadcasts. The paper examines 16 such broadcasts, pieces of information about which were found in the National Archives in Gdańsk and in Bydgoszcz.
Adam Dziadek
"Mój wiek" ("My Century") by Aleksander Wat—Remarks for the Upcoming Edition
This text contains the concept of the future edition of "Mój wiek" ("My Century") prepared by the author for the Ossolineum Publishing House for the series "Biblioteka Narodowa" ("National Library"). It contains many unpublished and previously unknown materials from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale University), as well as from the private collections of Andrzej Wat, the poet's son. The most important goal here is to construct an avant-text of "Mój wiek" ("My Century"), organise, describe and interpret it. The text's methodological foundations are based on the assumptions of genetic criticism. The researcher considers the complex question of the book's authorship. He also tries to define its formal boundaries which go far beyond the classic definitions of autobiography and make it a work of unique and exceptional character.
Maciej Tramer
Crossed out and Later Erased
On the Rough Drafts of Władysław Broniewski's "Anka" ("Annie")
In 1965 Władysław Broniewski published a collection "Anka" ("Annie") that includes poems devoted to his deceased daughter. Linking the date with the time of political breakthrough led to believe that the elegy's personal overtone is a declaration made by "the Polish People's Republic leading poet" to depart from committed poetry. However, critics and reviewers discerned in some poems references to his socialist realist creativity. Feliksa Lichodziejewska, the main editor of Broniewski's pieces, discerned in the poems traces supporting the view that the poet eliminated or changed fragments of the initial version of the poems that later shaped this elegiac cycle. In such actions undertaken by Broniewski, the editor and also other critics disclosed the will to hide emotions and a plan to preserve the image of an unshaken poet-revolutionist. Presenting "Anka" ("Annie") as a token of resigning from "formal optimism" characteristic of socialist realist literature, Lichodziejewska attempted to eradicate or to invalidate the proofs of Broniewski's involvement into politically and historically compromised reality. Reading the elegiac cycle as an attempt to cut off from the past creativity effected in disregarding the poet's past achievements and deprived the title character—a young director and documentary filmmaker Joanna Broniewska-Kozicka—of her voice. The fragments that the editor regarded as an expression of complete breaking up with the socialist realist convention were indeed allusions to the previous poems or conversations with the daughter. Kozicka's premature death a while before the Polish October 1956 resulted in her "getting stuck" in time.
Aleksandra Goszczyńska
Contemporary Edition of Marcin Paszkowski's "Dzieje Tureckie" ("Turkish History"). Philological Remarks
Review: Marcin Paszkowski i jego "Dzieje tureckie i utarczki kozackie z Tatary" (1615). Wstęp i opracowanie: Ewa Siemieniec-Gołaś, Agata Pawlina. Kraków 2018. "Orientalia Polonica. Polskie Tradycje Badań nad Orientem". T. 8
The review comments on the contemporary publication of a 17th century print by Marcin Paszkowski "Dzieje tureckie i utarczki kozackie z Tatary" ("Turkish History and Cossack Skirmishes with Tatars") (issued in 1615 by Mikołaj Lob) edited by Ewa Siemieniec-Gołaś and Agata Pawlina as a part of the series "Orientalia Polonica. Polskie Tradycje Badań nad Orientem" ("Orientalia Polonica. Polish Traditions of the Research on the Orient"). With regard to the rich Turkish material, preparation of the edition by the Orientalists is a justified decision. However, since the publication in question is also a source for the researchers in the 17th c. Polish language history and history of Polish literature, there arises a question whether preparation of Old-Polish material meets the criterial of Polish studies editing.
Danuta Zawadzka
From Women Archive
Review: Bronisława Waligórska, Listy z cytadeli 1886. Ancilla libri Monika Rudaś-Grodzka. Warszawa 2018. Seria "Archiwum Kobiet". [T. 1]
The review contains a scrutiny of an edition of Bronisława Waligórska's "Listy z cytadeli 1886" ("Letters from the Citadel 1886;" Warsaw 2018) and a characteristics of the series "Archiwum Kobiet" ("Women Archive") which starts the mentioned series. The publication in question offers a documentary edition of a dozen or so handwritten letters by a member of "Proletariat" political party to her sister composed in the year 1886 in The Warsaw Citadel where Bronisława Waligórska committed suicide, a reconstruction of the investigation, and the epistolographer's biography. Assumptions of the series "Archiwum Kobiet" ("Women Archive") are also subject of the review. The reviewer describes the guidelines for publishing woman private documents proposed by Monika Rudaś-Grodzka and the committee to the series, and attempts to evaluate the adopted editorial and biographical solutions.
Iwona Boruszkowska
Life and Creativity in the Shadow of Three Epochs. A Ukrainian Intellectual Biography
Review: Ihor Nabytowycz, Derewo żyttia literaturnoho rodu: Iwan Fedorowycz, Wołodysław Fedorowycz, Darija Wikonśka. Kyjiw 2018. "Postati kultury"
The present text is a review of Ihor Nabytovych's monograph "Derevo zhyttya literaturnoho rodu: Ivan Fedorovych, Volodyslav Fedorovych, Dariya Vikonska" ("Life Tree of a Literary Family: Ivan Fedorovych, Volodyslav Fedorovych, Dariya Vikonska," 2018) that treats of three generations of the Fedorovych family. Every chapter of the book in question refers also to a specific literary epoch: the portrait of Jan Fedorowicz (Ivan Fedorovych), the senior, is presented against the background of Romanticism, Volodyslav Fedorovych's work is linked with Positivism, and the research and output by Dariya Vikonska (Lina Malicka, de domo Fedorovych) are set in Modernism.
Piotr Gorliński-Kucik
Krzysztof Uniłowski (May 3rd, 1967 – December 6th, 2019)
A Nomad from another Place
Marek Piechota
Jacek Lyszczyna (July 13th, 1954 – February 20th, 2020)


Lindsey Stirling has released a new music video! Oh joy! Repeated viewing and sharing of opinions required. What's different in this video is that she integrates a promo for her upcoming 2016 summer tour (in the U.S. and Canada, plus one stop in Berlin at Lollapalooza this September, according to her official website). Go, Lindsey!
Considering how busy she is and how much mind-blowing output she regularly generates, the additional promise of a new album leaves me tingling with anticipation and admiration as well. Both of her previous albums still feel fresh and energetic, and listening to them on repeat is something my week cannot do without.
But back to Night Vision. This is one of my favourite tracks, because the way the music sounds and the way the various violin tones come together, especially the lower ones, make images of nighttime landscapes pop up in my mind, and fluorescent lights were in there as well. So it's exciting to see Lindsey incorporate just that in to her music video. Not to mention the nods to superwoman themes, the action genre, and clearly Mission Impossible. Lindsey becomes her own super-violinist, dancing and playing her way through a laser maze in a black leather suit to let fans know about her news.
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Cassandra Overby is a freelance writer who loves to hike and dance and is now a published author. Her new book, Explore Europe on Foot, has all of the preparation, travel tips and what trails are on her radar for must do hikes there.
Explore on Foot has 15 medium distance trails which are between 3-15 days. Hikers can use these to add a hike to there Europe vacation or choose from 7 day hikes she included.
Cassandra really encourages hikers who travel to learn local politics, news and language if you can. She feels you will have a lot better experience. "Be a visitor, not a tourist," she says there is a difference between people who come out of their hotel to take a few pictures and then go right back into their room and the people who integrate with locals.


Amateur historian Bob Begin, whose presentations on naval history are popular with local audiences, will kick off the History Potpourri class for Wellesley-Weston Lifetime Learning (WWLL) with his talk on "Wooden Ships and Iron Men." The focus will be the naval war of 1812, featuring the victorious record of the USS Constitution vs. England's Royal Navy, the world's most powerful. The talk and others on a variety of historical topics is open to seniors from all communities at Wellesley's Unitarian Universalist Society (309 Washington Street/Route 16). Seniors are welcome to sample a class session for free or enroll in the 10-week course for $40. For questions about WWLL course offerings, see the wwllcourses.org website, send emails to [email protected], or call (781-205-4204).


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Russia made some amazing 48-core Arm SoCs before the sanctions started
About as fast as modern Ryzen CPUs
By Isaiah Mayersen October 15, 2022, 14:45 23 comments
In context: Russian chip maker Baikal Electronics was halfway to having an SoC series that spanned from eight cores to 48 before Russia invaded Ukraine and invited sanctions that crippled its nascent semiconductor industry.
But before the sanctions were handed down, Baikal received several prototypes of its latest (and perhaps last) SoC from TSMC. Somehow, some of them have ended up in the hands of a Russian enthusiast who's shared them with Fritchens Fritz, a tremendously talented chip photographer.
Fritzchens Fritz wields his infrared microscope on both Twitter and Flickr.
This monstrous system on a chip is the BE-S1000. It was designed for server applications and has 48 Arm Cortex-A75 cores. It features a 2 GHz all-core clock and a 120W TDP. It was manufactured on the TSMC 16FFC node and measures in at an enormous 607 mm2.
Annotations by Locuza and photograph by Fritzchens Fritz.
In a ring around the center of the SoC are 12 compute clusters that each contain four cores and four 512 KB blocks of L3 cache. Each core contains its own 512 KB of L2 cache and two 64 KB blocks of L1 cache. In the middle of the SoC is a four-by-four grid of 2 MB blocks of L4 cache that sum up to 32 MB. Across the whole processor there are 24 MB of L3 and L2 cache and 6 MB of L1 cache: 86 MB in total, shared between 48 cores.
Around the perimeter are the IO controllers. The left and right flanks house five PCIe 4.0 x16 controllers, three of which can double as CCIX 1.0 modules and enable 2-way and 4-way SMP (symmetric multiprocessing). At the top and bottom are six memory controllers that can each handle a 72-bit channel to 128 GB of DDR4-3200 with ECC, or 768 GB between them.
Baikal backs up that impressive spec sheet with some benchmark figures. It compares the S1000 in a few slides with the 20-core Intel Xeon Gold 6148, 16-core AMD Epyc 7351, and 48-core Huawei Kunpeng 920. It concludes that the SoC is approximately equivalent to the AMD and Intel CPUs but only 85% as fast as Huawei's rather similar Arm-based SoC.
In raw numbers, the S1000 scores an impressive 14,246 points in the Geekbench 5 multi-core test, putting it on par with the Ryzen 7 5900X. In the SPEC CPU 2017 integer and floating point benchmarks it scores 76.6 points and 68.7 points, respectively, placing it in the territory of the 5800X.
It's a shame that the S1000 will likely never reach the market. Baikal seems to have had it slated for arrival in Russian markets for either this year or next, but TSMC has almost certainly been forced to cancel or indefinitely delay Baikal's orders because of the sanctions.
Baikal only took delivery of its first batch of processors from TSMC this time last year. It was just beginning to look like Russia's bid to have a self-sufficient semiconductor industry could come to fruition within the next decade or two. Now it looks like that future will never come to pass, and all we're left with are curious oddities like the BE-S1000.
Project Volterra, Microsoft's Arm system for developers, is now Windows Dev Kit 2023
Yandex leak includes source code for popular Russian search engine
Arm sues Qualcomm in a bid to destroy acquired Nuvia chip designs
Russia wants to ban popular games with "hidden inserts" that are affecting young minds
AMD admits to restraining chip supply to keep higher CPU and GPU prices
Memory chip prices expected to remain in freefall

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"Popup Player for Spotify™" extension aims to simplify Spotify's web player access from a toolbar popup. It simply displays all important controls that one might need when using this web application for playing music tracks. Note that the extension itself is just a controller. You need to have an https://open.spotify.com player in a browser tab and then you can control it from the toolbar popup without the need to switch to the tab to perform an action. At the moment, the extension supports play, pause, skip to the next and previous tracks and seek the progress and volume controls. You can see the track and artist names and the cover image in the popup as well. Clicking on these elements opens a browser tab that targets Spotify's page with more info about the track or the artists.
What is the "Popup Player for Spotify" extension?
TThis extension is meant to ease the Spotify's web player usage a bit. That's it!. The idea is to have all the important controls in a popup window instead of having to switch to the actual player's tab each time a simple action needs to be performed. For instance say you want to pause the current track for a moment while reading an important article. Without this extension, you need to find the Spotify tab among all the opened tabs first which cause a distraction. With this extension, you can simply open the popup and pause the player like it is on the active tab. This extension provides play, pause, toggle repeat, toggle shuffle, and seek both volume and progress bars. The popup also displays the name of the artists and the name of the current track. Both elements are clickable which opens the Spotify page for the targets.
Note that to start working with this extension you need to have an open Spotify web player in a browser tab. If there is no Spotify web player opened, the extension offers opening one. Since Spotify does not work until a music is selected from one of the categories, you need to initiate a play from the actual UI. After that, the player is ready to take the control!
How does this extension work?
It basically injects a controlling script to the https://open.spotify.com web pages and monitors track changes as well as the progress and volume changes. When a change occurs and if the popup is opened, a signal is sent to update the UI. This extension does not use any resource when it is inactive (event page type extension). I have been very careful to optimize the extension to have no effect on the browser performance.
Why do I need to open a Spotify web player in a browser tab? Is it possible for the extension to operate with a hidden tab perhaps?
Well, this extension is only a controlling tool. It is not meant to play tracks by itself. The only purpose of this extension is to ease the access to the official Spotify's player. Since Spotify does not start a track or select a category by default, you need to initiate a track from the actual UI. When one track is selected, the extension popup window can be used to control the player.


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he Tampa Police Department is the local law enforcement agency for the city of Tampa, Florida. Headquartered at Franklin Street in downtown Tampa, it employs over a thousand sworn officers and more than three hundred and fifty civilian and support staff personnel.
Launching an inmate search in Paso County could not be easier. What with your options including the sheriff's office and the FL Department of Corrections, you will certainly not want for inmate finder facilities. Yet, the one place where people go wrong when conducting inmate lookups is when they walk in to the inquiry under the assumption that they are getting the same information from the police and the DOC.
Are you looking for an inmate search in Orange County? Then, you have come to the right place. Given below is crucial information on how to conduct inmate lookups and the kind of information that such an inquiry can yield. To begin with, you must understand that inmate searches can be launched through two state agencies.
Either the police or the FL Department of Corrections will respond to Escambia County inmate searches, depending on the type of information sought. There is a fundamental difference in the type of results that are ordered in response to an inmate lookup, which stems from the fact that these agencies are in charge of varying detention centers.
If you are keen on an inmate search in Duval County, you may have already figured out that there are two ways to go about the process. One option is to get in touch with the office of the sheriff. Yes, the local police not only deal with the processing of criminals but also run a correctional center to detain these arrestees.
There are only two ways to get an inmate search for Broward County done. You could go to the police or you could connect with the FL Department of Corrections. Make no mistake; the information offered by these agencies varies significantly. The sheriff's department will only be able to tell about detention after arrests, people who are held back because they have not been granted bail and those that are serving shorter sentences (less than 12 months).


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After Deadlock, Baltimore Jurors to Resume Deliberations in Freddie Gray's Death Wednesday
Jurors deliberated until 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the trial of a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, after earlier saying they were deadlocked.
The jury had said about two hours earlier that they were deadlocked in the case against Officer William Porter.
At that time, Judge Barry Williams sent them back to continue deliberations, telling them it was their duty to come to a unanimous verdict on the four charges. He urged jurors to consult with each other, also telling them they shouldn't hesitate to reexamine their own views and discuss them.
Jurors will resume deliberations Wednesday morning.
Porter is one of six officers charged in the April 19 death of Gray, who died a week after his neck was broken during a ride in the back of a police van. Porter, the first officer to go on trial, is facing four charges: manslaughter, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office.
Late Tuesday afternoon, it appeared that the jury had not reached a unanimous verdict on any of the charges against Porter, who faces a maximum penalty of about 25 years.
The 12-member jury is comprised of four black women, three white women, three black men and two white men.
If the jurors are never able to come to a unanimous verdict on the four charges, prosecutors have the right to bring the case to trial again, with another jury.
BALTIMORE OFFICIALS CALL FOR PEACE
As the city awaits a verdict, officials in the city of Baltimore have been calling for peace.
Hours before the jury began its deliberations Monday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called for people to respect the jury's decision. Rawlings-Blake also announced the opening of an emergency operations center so authorities can coordinate any necessary response.
The city's preparedness is in response to unrest that followed Gray's funeral in April.
Demonstrations were initially peaceful following the 25-year-old's death. But in the hours following his funeral, rioters threw bottles and bricks at police, injuring nearly 100 officers. More than 200 people were arrested as cars and businesses burned.
At one point, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency and deployed the National Guard.
The protests increased scrutiny nationwide of how minorities are treated by police.
Meanwhile, Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis has asked the city's officers to continue their commitment to protect and serve.
"Regardless of the outcome of this trial or any future trial, we refuse to surrender to the low expectation of those who wish to see us fail," Davis said in a letter to the police department.
Davis also canceled leave for all officers through Friday, saying "the community has an expectation for us to be prepared for a variety of scenarios."
Students in the city's public schools have also been warned to avoid participation in any response that leads to destruction.
Baltimore City Public Schools Schools CEO Gregory Thornton said Monday that schools will facilitate student expression but warned of consequences for "walkouts, vandalism, civil disorder and any form of violence."
But advocates are concerned that Thorton's letter may have a chilling effect on legitimate protests.
Activist group Baltimore Bloc said in a statement Tuesday that students won't allow their "voices to be stifled" and will issue a call to action if the justice system fails.
ACLU of Maryland Executive Director Susan Goering says students have a First Amendment right, and Thorton's letter could end up "chilling legitimate, peaceful protest activity."
The calls for peace ahead of Porter's verdict have also reached the White House.
A reporter asked spokesman Josh Earnest at a Monday briefing whether there was a message from the White House to people in Baltimore. Earnest said President Barack Obama's comments after Chicago police recently released video of the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald were relevant. Earnest says the president was proud of how the community responded with a "forceful but peaceful display of concern."
Earnest says the administration is "hopeful that as activists and individuals in other communities have similar concerns to express, that they do so peacefully."
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Lakun Mara 13 – Pinyali Pempandawi (Emu Basket) Lakun Mara 14 – Partar Pempandawi (Rock Basket)
The Foundation recognises our many talented South Australian Aboriginal artists and the power of their stories. The Emerging Artist prize provides a launch pad for up-and-coming SA Aboriginal Artists to develop an arts career and for their artworks and stories to gain exposure to a national audience.
The Award aims to recognise perseverance by Aboriginal artists and to promote pride and understanding for Aboriginal culture in our communities.
The $5000 Emerging Artist Prize paired with a professional development opportunity through Country Arts SA will be judged from outstanding work submitted to the Our Mob exhibition. The Prize is awarded to the emerging artist on merit of work submitted and considered by judges to exhibit a desire for furthering their artistic career.
2019 | Sonya Rankine
Ngarrindjeri, Nurungga, Ngadjuri woman Sonya Rankine was announced the winner of the $5,000 Don Dunstan Foundation Our Mob Emerging Artist Prize during the 2019 OUR MOB opening at Adelaide Festival Centre this evening.
The prize win will allow the 49 year old Moonta Bay resident to invest in her business, Lakun Mara (meaning Weaving Hand), which focuses on the revival and maintenance of traditional Ngarrindjeri weaving techniques and cultural practice.
Sonya impressed the judges with her sculptures, titled 'Lakun Mara 13 – Pinyali Pempandawi (Emu Basket)' and 'Lakun Mara 14 – Partar Pempandawi (Rock Basket)' made from jacaranda stalks, beach stone, waxed linen thread, palm inflorescence, and emu feathers.
Read more about Sonya's art, Weaving Her Way to Success.
"I've been weaving for 25 years. I first learnt from Aunty Ellen Trevorrow, the traditional Ngarrindjeri technique using reeds from the Coorong. Since then I have continued to have a strong cultural interest and passion for weaving. This was strengthened by attending the 2019 National Basketry Gathering delivering a workshop and learning many more styles to incorporate.
"My weaving is about reviving and maintaining culture and the tradition of Ngarrindjeri weaving through creating contemporary Aboriginal art."
Sonya Rankine
2018 | Tony Wilson
Tony's winning work titled Uncle is an acknowledgement to community leaders past, present and future. It also suggests the importance of present choices and how they impact people and environment now and in the future.
Tony says that winning this award will allow him space and time to focus on the development a solo exhibition as part of the 2019 Fringe Festival, and to help him to establish himself in the visual arts realm in SA.
In addition to his work as an artist he has been working in schools with young people for many years and more recently as artist in residence at Alberton Primary School mentoring young artists and helping them to find connection to culture and express this through art.
2017 | Patrick Ikaringanyi Ferguson
Patrick Ikaringanyi Ferguson, 41 of Adelaide, is the winner of the 2017 Our Mob Don Dunstan Foundation Emerging Artist Prize. The prize win will allow Patrick, who spends time travelling around the countryside volunteering and teaching Cultural Awareness, to spend more time in each place teaching the art of wood carving.
Patrick enjoys getting back to the land and fossicking for the right wood to make his pieces. He says, "I am proud of my culture and my connection to Punu (wood), this is my love and spiritual obligation to my people." He first learnt to make boomerangs and other carvings from his grandmother, growing up in Tibooburra in New South Wales. It was a skill he further fine-tuned in his transition through initiation to become a Wati man.
Patrick entered a collection of wood carvings for the award, including two shields, a basket and a hunting boomerang.
2016 | Josephine Lennon
Josephine Lennon from the Matutjara and Mirning groups, Ceduna, was the 2016 winner of the Our Mob Don Dunstan Foundation Emerging Artist Award.
Her beautifully intricate acrylic on canvas entries – Waterhole, wind & drifting sands and Sturt Peas on Stuart Highway captured the judges' attention.
Josephine was born in Pt Augusta in 1972 and says she inherited her artistic skills from her family, especially her mother and father. Her sister was also an exceptional painter and inspiring role model. Josephine used to watch them paint and soon picked up the art herself.
The $5,000 prize from the Don Dunstan Foundation will help support Josephine in her quest to develop her skills with arts development opportunities and to focus on developing a body of work for a solo or group exhibition regionally or nationally.
2015 | Josina Nyarpingka Pumani
The 2015 winner of the Our Mob Don Dunstan Foundation Emerging Artist Award was Josina Nyarpingka Pumani, Pitjantjatjara Artist from Mimili.
Josina has explored different media techniques – combining her painting practice with photography to produce compelling digital prints. Her winning entry is entitled Ngayuku Ngura (Victory Well) (edition of 5).
Since winning the award Josina has been further experimenting with new materials and has produced a new series of works which were displayed at the Don Dunstan Showcase exhibition as part of the 2016 Our Mob program.
Josina lives with her family in the Mimili community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north-west of South Australia. She hopes to learn much more about photography as a new way of telling their stories – and teach the art form to the younger members of her community.
2014 | Anna Dowling
Anna Dowling was presented with a cheque for $5000 from the Don Dunstan Foundation to contribute to her emerging arts practice. Her stunning ink on paper work Passionfruit in the Our Mob exhibition, is an exploration of childhood memories of exploring and immersing herself in the natural world. It expresses the movement and life found in plants and natural forms and uses patterns based on petals, leaves, passionfruit seeds and flowers.
Since completing year 12 studies, Anna has pursued her passion for visual art and is currently undertaking a Bachelor in Visual Art and Design while also working as an Aboriginal health research assistant. Art is in Anna's blood – her cousin is world-renowned visual artist Julie Dowling, who won the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2000, and her grandmother is a painter and once owned a gallery in Burra.
After winning the Don Dunstan Emerging Artist Prize, I have felt so supported and sincerely encouraged to continue creating art and developing as an artist. Feeling a sense of encouragement from the South Australian arts community, my peers and family is significant for me in many ways. Since I could hold a crayon, I have been drawing and it is something I don't ever want to stop doing. At 21 years of age, I believe that I am beginning on a journey to become an artist who shines light on the beauty, diversity and incredible value of Aboriginal culture. Anna said of winning the award.
Our Mob: from Munch to Maralinga
Source: InDaily Adelaide Independent News
2013 | Amanda Radomi
I did not intend to submit work to Our Mob last year, my plan was to wait a year, work on my art practice and then submit something 'special'. However, due to the encouragement of several people I bit the bullet and entered at the very last minute. I was so happy and excited to hear that my painting She's got roots was selected for the exhibition, and then I was ecstatic to hear that the painting had been short listed for the prize, but I did not at any point feel that I would be announced the winner!
When this happened it was such a shock! I am very grateful to Maggie Fletcher at the Festival Theatre, Country ArtsSA and the Don Dunstan Foundation for this amazing prize. First of all, winning the prize helped me to gain self-confidence and to put my artwork in to perspective. Secondly, it set in motion a series of events that have made for a very exciting year and placed some people in my life who have provided very generous support and mentorship.
Amanda Radomi: Painting the pain of disconnection in brightly coloured Indigenous art
Source: 891 ABC Adelaide


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Money in Politics: Good Government Reforms Cost Money
When people ask me about the one government reform I would put into place if I had a magic wand, I often say "real campaign finance reform." I believe there is simply too much money in politics. The current situation gives rise to special access and undue influence by those who can and do spend substantial sums. And at least as worrisome is the appearance of such access and influence. The majority of members of the electorate increasingly feel that politics and elections are games open to the few and the cost of admission is a large donation or independent expenditure.
Why, then, do so many so-called good government reforms lead to more expensive races? Well, to start, let's take my least favorite government reform: term limits. As a result of them many elected officials are not just running for re-election every few years, they are endlessly eyeing and running for (and raising money for) the next post.
But what about something I would consider to be a positive government reform? Well, let's take redistricting. Now in California an independent redistricting commission draws the state and federal legislative lines.
Previously legislators drew their own district lines, not surprisingly in ways that best assured their re-election. By contrast, the independent redistricting commission was charged with drawing lines that, among other things, keep communities of interest together. So this seems like a good reform, but one of the consequences is that there will now be much more competitive races in some districts. The phrase "more competitive races" is often code for more expensive races.
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The award winning Mzansi rapper "Cassper Nyovest" just dropped his first single off his brand new album. The album which is set to release and drop on the 31 October 2015.
The single is titled "Mama I made It", which i think speaks alot for the rapper from where he has been and what he has been achieving in the rap game. The album title which he has been building a massive hype, will go by the title "Refiloe".
Cassper is planning to drop his album the same day which he plans to "Fill Up The Dome" with his never-before-attempted to host a sold out one man concert in Johannesburg.
If you have not gotten your hands on tickets yet, you better get it sooner than latter.
Price range from R200 for General Access and R350 for the VIP access.
Samsung Electronics South Africa has announced the global launch of the Galaxy Tab S2, the most immersive Samsung tablet to-date. Samsung's newest Galaxy tablet continuously delivers a stunning Super AMOLED display perfectly optimised for reading and viewing any type of digital content. The Galaxy Tab S2 is stylishly designed with the thinnest and lightest metal frame on the market and packs powerful performance features to offer enhanced usability, empowering users with new and improved choices in productivity and multitasking.
At just 5.6mm thin and only 389g (9.7 inch) and 265g (8.0 inch) weight*, the Galaxy Tab S2 is perfectly designed for reading and consuming content due to its stunning Super AMOLED Display. By recreating the same viewing experience of browsing through traditional print media, the Galaxy Tab S2 makes it comfortable to read digital content, including e-books, magazines, webpages and newsfeeds. This reading-optimised ratio allows the user to enjoy a seamless reading experience without unnecessary scrolling.
In addition, the Galaxy Tab S2 continually offers its advanced screen technology to display bright and natural content for a more comfortable visual experience. Adaptive Display intelligently adjusts gamma, saturation, and sharpness based on the application, the colour temperature of the viewing environment and ambient lighting. Also, Reading Mode modifies the screen's brightness level to allow users to read content for longer periods of time without straining their eyes.
The tablet also presents deeper contrast and more precise detail to provide a best-in-class reading experience with the Super AMOLED display delivering 94% of natural tones to show true-to-life colours. Users can now enjoy galleries of vividly detailed photos and effortlessly shop online while viewing the most accurate images on the Galaxy Tab S2.
Packaged within the world's slimmest and lightest metal frame of its size, the Galaxy Tab S2 is portable enough to easily carry around all day and operate in one hand, offering the best mobility available. Also, the fashionable and stylish design is suitable for any purpose or setting, so users can enjoy the best viewing experience anywhere, anytime.
In addition, the Galaxy Tab S2 offers Multitasking, allowing users to view and run two apps simultaneously with Pop-Up Window, a new feature that lets users navigate easily between multiple apps at once. The Galaxy Tab S2 also provides an improved storage structure that makes locating files simpler than ever.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 will come in a variety of connectivity, storage and size options: 9.7-inch and 8.0-inch versions with Wi-Fi, or Wi-Fi and LTE, available in 32 or 64GB with MicroSD up to 128GB. It will be available in South Africa from August, 2015.


The international d.confestival will be taking place in Potsdam from 20 to 22 September, offering more than 40 different possibilities of experiencing innovation up close in a unique mixture of conference and festival. The event program has just been published online (www.hpi.dconfestival.net/program.html?L=1). Innovation experts from all around the world will be meeting on the Hasso Plattner Institute campus in Potsdam. A circus tent built specifically for the occasion will be the central venue at which participants can meet and exchange thoughts.
The d.confestival revolves around the innovation method of design thinking and will focus on the newest developments in management, research and education. Among others, innovation experts from Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, BMW Group, Daimler, SAP, Metro Group and Nestlé will be presenting how they implement design thinking and how this method helps to accompany fundamental changes in their companies. On top of that, various workshops will give participants the chance to get to know new elements of and approaches to design thinking and to collaborate with renowned international coaches.
The d.confestival is hosted by the HPI School of Design Thinking in Potsdam, Europe's first school for innovation, which was modeled after the example of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University in Palo Alto. The D-School offers the only academic training in design thinking in Germany. This year, it is celebrating its fifth year of existence.
Design thinking is a multidisciplinary, user-oriented approach that helps to develop products, services and ideas for all spheres of life. At the center of this method are users' wishes and needs as well as user-oriented creative development processes. This perspective differentiates design thinking from many other approaches in theory and practices, which start out from the question of technical feasibility.


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Lakers Rumors: Wizards Would Want Lonzo Ball Involved In Bradley Beal Trade
Lakers Podcast: Salary Cap Situation With No. 4 Pick In 2019 NBA Draft, Options To Build Roster
Dan Duangdao
Heading into the 2019 NBA Draft on June 20 at the Barclays Center, Los Angeles Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka will explore all options after they somehow moved up seven spots and landed the No. 4 pick.
While the Lakers could add another prospect to their young core, they could also use their top-four pick in a potential trade for a second All-Star player.
Since there are conflicting reports about free agency and Anthony Davis, one potential target reportedly is Bradley Beal. Although Beal did not make a 2018-19 All-NBA Team and is not eligible for a supermax contract extension, the Wizards do need to make a decision as John Wall begins his four-year, $193 million contract extension recovering from an Achilles injury.
If the Wizards want to embrace a rebuilding process by trading Beal, the Lakers could be a potential partner as they would want Lonzo Ball as part of the package, according to Ben Standig of NBC Sports Washington:
If there's a deal with the Lakers, most sources would want Ball involved regardless of any parent distractions from his attention-seeking father, Lavar. "People just don't grasp how good he is," a source said.
If Ball is not included, two other members of the team's young core and the No. 4 pick would be viewed as 'fair value' for Beal heading into June 20:
Los Angeles owns the fourth pick in the 2019 Draft. One source views Ingram, Kuzma and four for Beal as fair value assuming Ingram, the No. 2 overall pick in 2016, is cleared medically following a blood clot scare that ended his season prematurely.
If the Lakers strike out in free agency and the New Orleans Pelicans are unwilling to trade Davis to Los Angeles, Beal has been linked to them.
As the Wizards are still in search of a new general manager, Beal had a career season and made his second consecutive All-Star appearance. He averaged 25.6 points (47.5% shooting from the field and 35.1% from the three-point line), 5.0 rebounds, and 5.5 assists while playing all 82 games.
While there will be debates about who the Lakers should even offer for Beal in this scenario, it is ultimately good to have options. As Pelinka and company will attempt to rebound from a drama-filled start to the offseason, there should be a sense of urgency with LeBron James set to turn 35-years-old.
With James still one of the best players in the league today, the Lakers do need to end their six-year playoff drought and give themselves a chance to compete for a championship heading into the 2019-20 NBA season.
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The James B. Nye Scholarship is given each year to a graduating senior who best embodies and exemplifies the qualities Jim valued: character, commitment to community service, and learning. The first James B. Nye Scholarship was awarded on Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Sparta High School's Sara Saltos. Congratulations to Sara as she pursues her studies at Virginia Tech University!
The James B. Nye Scholarship Fund was established in 2013 to honor Jim's commitment to excellence in education and to provide some financial support towards college costs to a student who embodies and demonstrates qualities of leadership and civic responsibility. In the midst of our loss, we are heartened by the creation of this fund and your generous donations that will enable Jim's legacy to live on.


Many of the world's best universities and further education institutions organise summer study programs over the academic break. These can range from two to eight weeks in duration, and summer school students can choose one or two subjects to study per summer school session.
Summer school courses are becoming a popular method to help add extra value to your resume or to boost your career profile. They are also an excellent way to demonstrate a commitment to continuous professional development and to keep abreast of the latest best practice in a given field. With daily classes throughout the summer school these are an intense study option, and competition to be accepted to summer schools is strong.
"Attending high profile courses offered by prestigious institutions like the London School of Economics (LSE) Summer School and the Harvard Summer School are an excellent way of studying a particular subject in great depth that will be useful for your career plan. Summer school courses are also rightly popular amongst undergraduates looking to gain exposure to additional areas of learning outside their core degree. I can advise you on the best summer school programs to apply for that will enhance your resume or to help you reach work or study goals. As a Harvard Business School alum I have a particular insight into the factors that the most prestigious institutions are looking for in successful applicants, and this can be key for the most over-subscribed courses offered by the likes of the LSE summer school or the Oxford University summer school."
Contact KGC now to receive personalised advice on the benefits of attending a summer school abroad, and which courses and programs would give you the best return on your investment in your future academic or career success and development.


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WV State Sen. Patricia Puertas Rucker on Universal School Choice
This week on "The Learning Curve," co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Senator Patricia Puertas Rucker, a West Virginia state Senator and Chair of the Education Committee. Thanks to her leadership, West Virginia now has the widest, most universal education savings account program in America.
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Columbia's Prof. Nicholas Lemann on the Great Migration, the SAT, & Meritocracy
This week on "The Learning Curve," guest co-host Kerry McDonald talks with Nicholas Lemann, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Columbia School of Journalism, and author of the books, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, and The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy.
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Harvard Law Prof. Cass Sunstein on "The World According to Star Wars"
This week on "The Learning Curve," co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Cass Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, and the author of The New York Times best-selling book, The World According to Star Wars. He shares what drew him to this topic, and why, after 45 years, these movies have become a $70 billion multimedia franchise and continue to have such wide intergenerational appeal.
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Hoover at Stanford's Dr. Eric Hanushek on NAEP, PISA, International Comparisons in Education
This week on "The Learning Curve," co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Dr. Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Dr. Hanushek shares how he first became interested in the economics of education, his plans for the nearly $4 million in funding from the prestigious Yidan Prize, which he received in 2021, and where he sees the greatest need for additional research in education.
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Harvard Mathematician Prof. Wilfried Schmid on K-12 Standards & Results
This week on "The Learning Curve," co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Dr. Wilfried Schmid, Dwight Parker Robinson Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University, who played a major role in drafting the 2000 Massachusetts Mathematics Curriculum Framework and served on the U.S. National Mathematics Advisory Panel (NMAP) in 2008.
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UC-Berkeley Prof. Robert Alter on the Hebrew Bible's Wide Literary Influence
This week on "The Learning Curve," co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Dr. Robert Alter, Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, and author of the landmark three-volume book, The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary.
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AFC's Denisha Merriweather on School Choice Advocacy & Black Minds Matter
This week on "The Learning Curve," Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Denisha Merriweather, the director of public relations and content marketing at the American Federation for Children and founder of Black Minds Matter. They discuss Denisha's inspiring personal narrative, from a struggling student to a leading national spokesperson for school choice.
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UVA Law Prof. G. Edward White on Law, Race, & the U.S. Supreme Court in American History
This week on "The Learning Curve," as the nation prepares for the likely confirmation of its first Black female U.S. Supreme Court justice, Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Dr. G. Edward White, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and author of the three-volume book, Law in American History.
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Yale's Pulitzer-Winning Prof. John Lewis Gaddis on Cold War Lessons for Russia's Hot War in Ukraine
This week on "The Learning Curve," co-host Cara Candal talks with John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of George F. Kennan: An American Life. He shares some of the wider background knowledge, major historical themes, and key events that today's students should know about the Cold War and its impact.
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NYU's Dr. Arthur Levine on Higher Education's Future & Improving K-12 Teacher Preparation
This week on "The Learning Curve," co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Dr. Arthur Levine, a scholar with New York University's Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy, a senior fellow and president emeritus of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and president emeritus of Columbia University's Teachers College. He shares the main findings and recommendations of a new book he recently co-authored, The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future.
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UK's Charles Moore on Lady Margaret Thatcher & Cold War Leadership
This week on "The Learning Curve," co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Charles Moore, a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and the authorized, three-volume biographer of Lady Margaret Thatcher. Lord Moore explains why Lady Thatcher is considered the most important female political figure of the 20th century, and reviews the challenges she faced at home and abroad.
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EdChoice's VP Leslie Hiner on Landmark SCOTUS Decisions for School Choice
This week on "The Learning Curve," co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Leslie Hiner, Vice President of Legal Affairs and Director of Legal Defense & Education Center with EdChoice. They discuss the the landmark U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision in Brown v. Board of Education, among the most important in the nation's history, and how Brown's call for racial access and equity in K-12 education has helped inform the work and advocacy of the school choice movement.
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MPs call for pay rise hike for parliamentary staff
By Holly Pyne
A controversial pay rise for MPs has seen more than 160 parliamentarians call for an increased wage boost for their staff.
A cross-party collection of MPs has written to parliamentary watchdogs about an "increasing pay gap" between themselves and those who work for them in Parliament.
The move comes after widespread criticism of the announcement that MPs are getting a 2.7 per cent pay boost, taking their basic annual salary from £77,379 to £79,468, while their staff will receive an increase of just 1.5 per cent.
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The £2,089 hike for MPs, effective from April 1, far outstrips the current inflation rate of 1.8 per cent.
Labour MP Gareth Snell, who coordinated the letter to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), said: "The work of our constituency and parliamentary staff has never been more important in providing support for constituents.
"I have organised a letter to Ruth Evans, chair of Ipsa, against the below-inflation pay increase they've been offered."
'Our staff would be worse off'
The work of our constituency & parliamentary staff has never been more important in providing support for constituents. Today I have organised a letter to Ruth Evans, Chair of IPSA, against the below inflation pay increase they've been offered, signed by 200 fellow MPs. pic.twitter.com/mJwYN55iPy
— Gareth Snell MP (@gareth_snell) March 1, 2019
The letter states: "A below inflation increase means that most of our staff would be worse off because of the rising cost of living.
"Given the differential pay increases planned for 2019-2020 for elected members and our staff we are also concerned about the increasing pay gap between us and the staff who provide such important work to our constituents.
"We would urge you to reconsider the increases to our staffing budgets so that we can give our staff the pay awards they deserve for the work that they do, for us and our communities."
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This year's rise follows a 1.8 per cent boost to MPs' pay last year, increases in previous years and a big increase from £67,000 to £74,000 in July 2015.
MPs' pay is linked to average rises in the public sector, as determined by the Office for National Statistics.
The 2.7 per cent figure was announced by the ONS on an interim basis in December and confirmed last week to IPSA, which made the final announcement.
Following reforms to the way MPs' pay is calculated, the rise is automatic and not subject to a vote in the House of Commons.
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Office of National Statistics