Hello there! These past two weeks have been super busy (as always!) and it's been nice having nothing planned for this bank holiday so I just can chill out for a few days. Tom and I went to Poland for a few days, which we both really enjoyed and if you would like more details about the trip you can read my blogpost all about it! This really made me want to explore more European cities, and it reminded me that a holiday doesn't always have to involve the beach and the sea (although I wouldn't turn one of those down!).
On the Saturday after we had come back from our trip Tom and I travelled to Preston to watch the football (hooray) but it was worth it as Tom's team won so A. he was happy and B. we didn't waste our day going all that way! As I went to the football this now means that Tom has to come to something that I want to go to and so we are off to the theatre in a couple of weeks which I am looking forward to. On the Sunday I went to Rachel's for a catch up which was lovely, as although we've both been in Sheffield for the majority of our summer we've not managed to meet up as we've both been so busy. I'm really looking forward to when everyone is back for uni as I've missed all of my friends!
I bought these lovely roses which brightened up my week!
For the first half of this week just gone, I was setting up my own exhibition in Western Bank Library. At the beginning of the summer I completed a SURE (Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience) project in collaboration with two of my tutors. My project was focused on the author Barry Hines, and I really enjoyed the experience of looking into something in detail that isn't a part of my degree. A result of this project was that I was able to curate my own exhibition and I thoroughly enjoyed picking out the pieces from the archives that I wanted to use, and setting them up to share with people. (If you are a Sheffield student then my exhibition is running until about mid-October so you have no excuse to not go! It's outside Special Collections).
I'm not going to lie, a highlight of putting up my exhibition was returning to Grill & Go for my lunch!
The rest of this week has been more relaxed, and on Wednesday evening Tom and I had date 'S' which resulted in 'starting from scratch' which meant I taught Tom how to make pizza! I will be doing a recipe post for this in a few weeks time so keep your eyes peeled for that. We both love fresh pizza and so I thought it was about time that we made our own ones. We made each others pizza which was good as we could see who had the best decorating skills!
On Friday after showing Tom my own exhibition, we went to the Millenium Gallery as this was on our Jhomas summer list. On going we realised that we had in fact been there before! We just hadn't realised as we had gone in via the Winter Gardens, and this time we went in through the main entrance to the gallery. Either way it was still an enjoyable afternoon out. As I said I haven't got anything planned for the bank holiday and so I've been able to just potter around and catch up on various things. I can't believe that it is September on Tuesday- there'll only be a couple more fortnightly catch up's before I begin my final year of University!
Tom with his apple juice before going into the gallery!
Have you been up to anything fun recently?
Hello there! Now if you've been a reader for a long time, then you'll know that one of my favourite blog posts (both to write and read) are trip posts. A couple of weeks ago now, Tom and I took a trip to Kraków in Poland for a few days. Neither of us had ever been to Poland before, and Berlin is the furthest east that I have been in Europe. We weren't really sure what to expect, both in terms of what the city would be like, and what the weather would be like! (When we went to Berlin it was mid-February and there was so much snow on the ground!).
We flew from Birmingham and this was honestly one of the nicest airports I have ever flown from. Birmingham train station was too galactic for us (there were touch screen timetables) and this topped off with going on a Virgin train was too much. Tom and I are clearly too rural and not 'city' enough! We arrived to Kraków in the evening, and so we had our evening meal at the hotel. Tom and I are used to going away in Premier Inn's (and quite happy to do so) but we stayed in a Novotel as this was a part of the package that we picked, and it was so lovely! I know it's another chain, but it was a step up (sorry Lenny Henry).
On the first day we had a walking tour through the city in the morning, which in typical fashion ended in rain. (This wasn't just any rain- it was so hard that our rain coats became useless).
Before the days of numbering houses, Kraków used to have an emblem on each house, and so if you wanted to post something to this house below, you would put 'To the house beneath the Eagle'.
At every hour on the hour in the main square, a trumpet will be played four times out of the tower below.
I fell in love with the main square as it was always buzzing and was so vibrant.
Every Christmas there is a competition to make the Christmas statue for the year. These are completed by families, and they are only allowed to use material that is to hand (such as sweet papers) and this is a previous winner. It amazed me to think that this was made by amateurs, using such simple materials to construct something so beautiful.
It was as we left this church that it started to chuck it down. We walked up to the castle, but unfortunately could only hide out and not have a proper walk around outside!
In the afternoon we took a trip to the Salt Mines, and this was such an interesting trip- to think that everything is made out of salt! We walked around for ages and saw so much, but according to the guide this was only a small % of the completed mine.
In the evening Tom and I went to the Hard Rock Cafe, and the city was even more beautiful at night.
The main reason for our trip to Krakòw was to go on a tour round Auschwitz as I will be writing a dissertation on holocaust literature this following year. I'm not going to say too much about the experience as this isn't really the place to, but everyone needs to take a trip. You can read all about it, but visiting is a completely different experience, and one that I think people need to do in their lifetime. Please follow this link for more information about the museum.
On our last day as our flight wasn't until the evening, we essentially had a free day. I'm so glad that we did as it was such a gloriously sunny day and made the city look even more beautiful.
We were able to go back to the castle from the first day, and see it in the sunshine.
For lunch we went to 'Bar Italiano' which was amazing. The thing about this place, was that the food was so good, and once you had converted the price from zlotys to pounds it was so cheap! We each had a freshly made pizza with a drink, and this all came to a total of £12.
Kraków really is such a beautiful city, and as I said to Tom, it shows that you don't always have to visit the capital of the country. If you ever want a city break to somewhere new and different, I really would recommend a trip to Kraków! It's not too far flight-wise and has a lot on offer.
Have you been anywhere new recently?
Now I am very much someone who likes to be all cuddly and squishy in their comfort zone, and rarely venture out into the wide unknown. I have always very much been a home girl- I enjoyed going to sleepovers and things as a child, but I always liked going back home again the next day. Had you told me a few years ago that I would move 200 miles north to a city that I had never really been to, I would have laughed at you. I always thought that if I did decide to go to University that I would go to the UEA in Norwich and live at home. I think back to the time I went to an open day at the UEA, and how glad I am that when I visited I really didn't feel the place and couldn't see myself going there. I have found, especially since coming to University, that you need to put yourself out there, out of your comfort zone, in order to achieve things that you didn't even realise you could do.
Now this doesn't have to be a dramatic change that means you have to move across the country, it really can be something as simple as not following your normal routine for a day and trying something new. If you don't feel comfortable to go out and try something new on your own, why not take a friend? That way you both try something new and gain a different experience, but you have that friendly face in case you need it.
New and exciting things aren't just going to be handed to you on a plate- it's up to you to go and find them. Try something that you've always wanted to do, and if it turns out you don't like it, so what? At least you've tried. I know it's said a lot, but when you look back on life you're only going to regret the things you didn't do, not the things you did. You need to be able to make mistakes in order to learn and gain from that experience- nothing is going to be perfect the first time around. I'm not going to lie, of course when I try something new or different I still have that fear inside me, but it's the decision that you make after this that means you'll either gain a new experience or not.
If I see a new opportunity come my way, I try my upmost to take it. I hope that I will continue to do this throughout life, and so when I do look back, I don't have a life filled with thoughts of 'I wish I had done that when I had the chance', but rather with the thought of 'yes, I went out and tried that and accomplished that'. It's a cliche, but life is short. Live it the best way that you can, and go out and achieve all you can, while you have the chance.
Is there something that you've always wanted to do but never have? Why not make a plan to do it now? If you have the mentality of 'it's not the right time', it never will be. If you wait too long the chance may pass you by!
Hello there! Today it is time for another baking post, but this one will be different as it is savoury rather than sweet. I am a massive fan of broccoli, and so any recipe I see that features this as a main ingredient I have to try! My mum found this recipe in a magazine, but we adapted it to our own tastes and so here is the final result. This was a joint effort and I always enjoy baking with others! They were super yummy both out of the oven and cold for lunch the next day.
To start with, make the pastry by rubbing the fat into the flour, adding a small bit of water and combining to make a dough and then leave this to chill. Just before the pastry is ready you can preheat your oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4 and lightly grease your muffin tin with some butter.
Once the pastry has chilled, you will need to cut this into 12 pieces. Roll out these pieces to about 2-3mm thick, and cut out your circle. The recipe said to cut out a circle just bigger than the hole in the muffin tin, but we found they needed to be bigger than this. We used this plastic lid, as the circle needs to be able to sit comfortably in the tin, with enough pastry at the side to hold the contents that you will be pouring in later.
Once you have rolled out the circles, place them into the tin and press down to ensure the bottom is completely covered. Then take a fork and prick the pastry all over. Using some greaseproof paper you will need to cut out another 12 circles that are the same size as your pastry circles.
Pop the greaseproof paper circles over the pastry, and then bake blind for 10-12 minutes. You can get special beans for this purpose, but we just put in some dried kidney beans and they worked the same! When ready remove the beans and place the tin back into the oven for a further 3 minutes as this will avoid those soggy bottoms- and we know how much Paul Hollywood hates those! Leave these to cool.
While the pastry is cooking, you can make a start on the filling. To begin with you need to cut off about 15 broccoli florets and blanch these in salted boiling water for about a minute, and then drain.
Next grate your Gruyere and place in a mixing bowl. Add the eggs, milk, cream and salt and pepper, and whisk to combine.
You now need to pour the creamy filling into each of the pastry cases, leaving room for the custard to expand whilst in the oven. We have a spoon that has a spout shaped edge to it- but using a jug would work just as well.
Once each case is full, you need to add one broccoli floret into each pie. You can then sprinkle your Cheddar over the top- the recipe says to use Parmesan but as I don't like this we used Cheddar instead!
Bake these for 15-20 minutes, or until the custard is set and the pastry is golden. You need to then leave these to cool for a little bit, to ensure that it sets!
We had ours with a bit of salad on the side, and they were honestly so good that I will have to make some more again soon! These are the perfect thing to make at a weekend, as you can have them for your evening meal, and then use them for lunch during the week.
As always I would love to see these if you have a go at making them! I think this is great as the actual filling can be changed completely depending on what you want to do- I think this would be great for a salmon and dill filling too.
Have you baked anything recently that you think I should have a go at making?


Excerpt: Latin American states are settler colonial states, though they are rarely analyzed in this way. Indeed, there often seems to be a kind of entrenched resistance to thinking about Latin America in settler colonial terms, for reasons that are complex, but have to do in large part to an implicit adherence to some premises of settler colonialism put forward by Patrick Wolfe, who is often credited with having popularized the term and, intentionally or not, generating the field of settler colonial studies.
Wolfe did not, of course, coin the term. Native scholars and activists had been using it for some time, as he himself regularly pointed out. Further, a group of prominent feminist scholars published Unsettling Settler Societies, edited by Daiva Stasiulis and Nira Yuval Davis, in 1995, three years before Wolfe published Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology. Notably, Latin America was included in that volume (see contributions by Gutierrez and Radcliffe). That said, Wolfe's lucid articulation of the structure and logics of settler colonialism has been and remains tremendously influential, and continues to undergird—at times a bit too rigidly—our understandings of the workings of settler power in the field of Native studies. In particular, the land–labor binary, the importance of which Wolfe elaborated in most of his works and reasserted in the recent Traces of History (2016), has become an often-unspoken and largely unexamined premise of the settler state in ways that occlude significant complexity and foreclose recognition of settler structures. I do not raise this in an antitheory sense, to challenge abstraction in favor of empirical specificity per se. Rather, I think the specificity of cases all too often discarded without further or sufficient examination may in fact add new richness and dimension to the overall theoretical analytic.


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Many of the most exciting questions in the contemporary study of the ancient world cannot be adequately approached by the standard techniques of philology, philosophy, history or archaeology on their own. They require approaching ancient culture simultaneously with the whole range of disciplinary tools. 'X' or 'Interdisciplinary Classics' was founded in Cambridge to explore these questions at all levels of teaching and research, and offers what has rapidly become one of the most popular groups of courses in the Faculty. It capitalizes on Cambridge's unique range of intellectual resources to provide a different sort of classical study from that offered by other departments in Britain.
For undergraduates
Each year 'X' offers two part II courses, each of which takes a central issue in Classics, examining it from several different angles and through diverse genres of evidence (literary, visual, philosophical, linguistic, ancient and modern). Discussion is paramount: lectures are supplemented by two-hour classes in which areas of expertise are shared and ideas tested. Courses change regularly as the most pressing questions in contemporary Classics change. On offer at the moment are 'Idols? Imagining Gods and Heroes in the Greek and Roman Worlds' and 'Prostitutes and Saints'. Previous papers include 'Myth', 'Cultural Identity', 'Personal Politics', 'Time', 'Rhetoric', 'The Body in Antiquity', 'Death', and 'Sexual Ethics'. Many students also elect to do their third-year dissertation in an interdisciplinary area.
For postgraduates
'X' teaching, and the collaborations and debates that this has fostered, have helped produce some of the finest recent research and contributed greatly to Cambridge's outstanding reputation for the application of modern approaches to the study of the ancient world. Many successful Ph.D. thesis-projects have been directly inspired by it, and many others have reflected its influence. The Faculty is exceptional in having a large number of its members working on interdisciplinary topics (many of them with a 'reception' angle) at any one time.
Initiated by John Henderson and Geoffrey Lloyd in the 1980s, the 'X' Caucus has embraced a broad cross-section of internationally distinguished scholars known for their interdisciplinary interests. Below is a list of faculty-members whose research interests fall under 'X' and who contribute to 'X' teaching.
People specializing in this area
Dr Rebecca Flemming
Dr Renaud Gagné
Dr Ingo Gildenhard
Professor Simon Goldhill
Dr Myrto Hatzimichali
Professor Richard Hunter
Dr Rebecca Laemmle
Professor Martin Millett
Professor Robin Osborne
Dr Nigel Spivey
Dr Caroline Vout
Dr Hannah Willey
Professor Paul Cartledge
Dr Maya Feile Tomes
Dr Anna Judson
Dr Aaron J. Kachuck
Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Dr Jingyi Jenny Zhao
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Der César für den besten dokumentarischen Kurzfilm ist eine französische Filmpreiskategorie des César, die von 1977 bis 1991 vergeben wurde und seit 2022 wieder vergeben wird. Die Nominierungen werden durch die Mitglieder der Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma vorgenommen. Neben einem Kurz-Dokumentarfilm werden auch Césars für den Besten animierten Kurzfilm und in den Anfangsjahren den Besten fiktionalen Kurzfilm vergeben. Seit 1992 werden Kurzfilme in der Kategorie Bester Kurzfilm (Meilleur court-métrage) prämiert.

Der César für den besten dokumentarischen Kurzfilm wurde bis 1991 jährlich vergeben. Im Jahr 1987 wurde einmalig die Kategorie César du Meilleur Documentaire eingeführt, die sowohl Dokumentar-Kurz- als auch Langfilme versammelte. Der seit 2008 vergebene César für den Besten Dokumentarfilm (César du Meilleur Film Documentaire) zeichnet ausschließlich Dokumentar-Langfilme aus.

Die unten aufgeführten Filme werden mit ihrem deutschen Verleihtitel (sofern vorhanden) angegeben, danach folgt in Klammern in kursiver Schrift der Originaltitel in der jeweiligen Landessprache, sowie der Name des Regisseurs. Die Gewinner stehen hervorgehoben an erster Stelle.

1970er-Jahre
1977

Une histoire de ballon, lycée n° 31 Pékin – Regie: Marceline Loridan und Joris Ivens
 L'éruption de la Montagne Pelée – Regie: Manuel Otéro
 Hongrie vers quel socialisme? – Regie: Claude Weisz
 L'atelier de Louis – Regie: Didier Pourcel
 Les murs d'une révolution – Regie: Jean-Paul Dekiss
 Réponses de femmes – Regie: Agnès Varda

1978

Le maréchal Ferrant – Regie: Georges Rouquier
 Benchavis – Regie: Jean-Daniel Simon
 La loterie de la vie – Regie: Guy Gilles
 Naissance – Regie: Frédéric Le Boyer
 Samara – Regie: Rafi Toumayan

1979

L'arbre vieux – Regie: Henri Moline
 Chaotilop – Regie: Jean-Louis Gros
 Tibesti Too – Regie: Raymond Depardon

1980er-Jahre
1980

Petit Pierre – Regie: Emmanuel Clot
 Georges Demenÿ – Regie: Joël Farges
 Le sculpteur parfait – Regie: Rafi Toumayan
 Panoplie – Regie: Philippe Gaucherand

1981

Le miroir de la terre – Regie: Paul de Roubaix
 Abel Gance, une mémoire de l'avenir – Regie: Laurent Drancourt und Thierry Filliard
 Dorothea Tanning: Insomnia – Regie: Peter Schamoni

1982

Reporters – Regie: Raymond Depardon
 Ci-gisent – Regie: Valérie Moncorge
 Solange Giraud née Tache – Regie: Simone Bitton

1983

Junkopia – Regie: Chris Marker
 L'ange de l'abîme – Regie: Annie Tresgot
 Los montes – Regie: José Martin Sarmiento
 Sculptures sonores – Regie: Jacques Barsac

1984

Ulysse – Regie: Agnès Varda
 Je sais que j'ai tort, mais demandez à mes copains, ils vous diront la même chose – Regie: Pierre Lévy
 La vie au bout des doigts – Regie: Jean-Paul Janssen

1985

La nuit du hibou – Regie: François Dupeyron
 L'écuelle et l'assiette – Regie: Raoul Rossi
 Hommage à Dürer – Regie: Gérard Samson

1986

New York N.Y. – Regie: Raymond Depardon
 La boucane – Regie: Jean Gaumy
 C'était la dernière année de ma vie – Regie: Claude Weisz
 Un petit prince – Regie: Radovan Tadic

1987

 nicht vergeben

1988

L'été perdu – Regie: Dominique Théron
 Pour une poignée de kurus – Regie: Christian Raimbaud und Gilbert Augerau

1989

Chet's romance – Regie: Bertrand Fèvre
 Classified People – Regie: Yolande Zauberman
 Devant le mur – Regie: Daisy Lamothe

1990er-Jahre
1990

Chanson pour un marin – Regie: Bernard Aubouy
 Le faucon de Notre-Dame – Regie: Claude-Christine Farny

1991

La valise – Regie: François Amado
 Tai Ti Chan – Regie: Chi Yan Wong

2020er-Jahre
2022

Maalbeek – Regie: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
 America – Regie: Giacomo Abbruzzese
 Les antilopes – Regie: Maxime Martinot
 La fin des rois – Regie: Rémi Brachet

2023

Marie Schneider, 1983 – Regie: Élisabeth Subrin
 Churchill, Polar Bear Town – Regie: Anabelle Amoros
 Écoutez le battement de nos images – Regie: Audrey Jean-Baptiste und Maxime Jean-Baptiste

Weblinks
 César-Verleihungen nach Jahr in der Internet Movie Database (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Dokumentarischer Kurzfilm Bester

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An artist's rendering has also been made of the future Andy Romano Park; a county worker was charged with fraud; and Votran won awards.
With a preliminary walk scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, the Mayor's Health & Fitness Challenge will run from Jan. 6 to April 6 next year, and registration is open now.
Cosponsored by Florida Hospital, this weekend's walk with go over the Halifax River bridge and through Cassen Park.
Exercise events, led by local yoga, Zumba and tai chi trainers, will also be held in the coming months, and local restaurants will offer healthy menu items and free recipes. Prizes will be awarded to participants who get the most fit.
All participants of the challenge must work or reside in Ormond Beach, pay a $25 entry fee (which includes a free t-shirt) and fill out a registration form, at www.ormondbeach.org, or by visiting City Hall, at 22 S. Beach St.
Registration forms can also be turned in to the Ormond Beach Chamber of Commerce.
Other challenge sponsors include Brown & Brown Insurance, Florida Health Care Plans, Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center, Ormond Beach Mainstreet and Voluisa Flagler Family YMCA.
"Before" health screenings will be held in January.
Call 676-3323, or visit facebook.com/ormondmayorsfitness.
Ormond Beach's Andy Romano Beachfront Park will be featured in the December issue of Parks & Rec Business Magazine.
The city said the park, which was approved as a referendum in the fall of 2010, is on schedule to open early next year.
Volusia County Sheriff's investigators arrested a county employee Nov. 1 for fraud.
Dawn Jackson, 25, of DeLand, was arrested after investigators discovered she used an application for a Human Services client who was dead, to defraud the county of $1,532, which she used to pay her rent and utility bill.
Jackson will be charged with grand theft and fraudulently obtaining goods, services or money, which are both felonies.
Votran was awarded the Most Innovative Project award at the Florida Public Transportation Association conference last week, for its trolley partnership pass program.
Bus operator Janet Kisner was honored as the Florida Operator of the Year, and Votran was also received a third-place Safety Award.


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"At least you made it sound like music," I commented. My friend smiled. The French horn swelled like pus, and then receded, sucking back in every note as if it were a shy child. Only the piano accompanied the soprano onstage.
"The pianist's rhythm is wrong. That's not how I wrote it," my friend said. He had arranged all the songs for this book and made them sound like they weren't disjointed Lego blocks. When he was commissioned to do this, all he had received were crudely transcribed melodies. He fixed the harmony, added accompaniment, and straightened up the rhythms. The final products sounded elegantly polished. There were parts for flute, piano, French horn, and a choir. He was not allowed to touch the words though, which grated against the glistening music. It was like having rust in your milk.
"Pretty didactic, no?" my friend murmured. His talent, apparently, goes beyond music, he can also make the most understated understatements. "I'm thinking of writing new lyrics for one of the melodies," he added. He could probably present it to the 86-year-old composer/lyricist who, after having met him for the first time that afternoon (they had only communicated through email prior to that event), said that she would have more work for him. She has more songs that need to be arranged. She needs all the help she could get, no doubt about that.
After the event, the audience flowed out of the small auditorium toward the lobby where cocktails were served. I spotted some high profile personages in the academe and literature. The old composer/lyricist was herself a distinguished person when she was younger.
At the lobby, high-heeled matrons swarmed around us. Introductions were made and congratulations were thrown in. My friend meekly smiled as professors and school officials commended him for a job well done, vainly suppressing their astonishment at how young he is. "Are you still a student?" one of them asked. "No, ma'am," my friend simply said. The lobby sagged with the weight of excited chitchat. Waiters scurried in and out, serving drinks and some finger foods. My friend was dragged back into the auditorium to be introduced to the composer/lyricist. The choir and the musicians beamed with every flattering phrase they received. Some stray camera flashbulbs punctuated the crowd like sequins of a fully-beaded ball gown. Guests started queuing by the buffet table as manufactured laughter ricocheted against the ceiling. I took some food and melted into the wall.
Your friend is pretty brilliant. He deserves the recognition from his peers. And you are a good friend for supporting him.
Music, like any other form of art, is part of the creator's soul.
Hearing its notes murdered like that first hand is sacrilege. It's like making an impressionist painting and somebody made it into some Harlem graffiti.
It is nice when you understand the language of music.
Does your friend give lessons?
A good arrangement can make a crappy song sound passable. So perhaps we should blame talented arrangers like your friend for much of the chart-topping crap we hear now, heh.
Cheers to your friend. Arranging music, especially the classic kind shouldn't be anything close to easy at all. Jusy imagine how one would merge the notes for the horns, then the piano, then the strings---it'd be nerve wracking and mind bending of the ultimate kind.
How sweet of you to support your friend!
the last sentence really got me. i do that sometimes too.
and oh, this post is definitely a milk without rust.
ang potah! ang dami ng post, nahuli na naman ako!!!!
I have a brilliant musically-inclined friend as well. She's studying to become an opera singer.
Gotta say, I just love your writing.
events like these bring out the worst in people. i hope you didn't feel the need to brand the people there as phonies. because it can get you into trouble. but you're not that type so i'm probably wasting space.
by the way, i have a new site. might want to check it out.
jap -- hahaha, "wind beneath his wings?" hhehe. i can't wait to tell him about this. he'd surely die laughing. he invited me because i was the only one available at that time.
clark can't -- thanks so much. drop by again if you have the time.
rey -- i couldn't agree more. however, when one gets commissioned to do something, like what happened to him, one doesn't have much choice but to endure seeing the butchery.
ie -- i love doing that. i don't want to attract too much attention to myself. not that i get a lot. we would be great buddies at a party.
patrick -- i'd rather not generalize. some of them might not be phonies. thanks so much for giving me your new website. i hope you won't get into trouble again. be careful.


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Museum in Schloss Belvedere to the Canal
The KunstHausWien, with its bulging ceramics, wonky surfaces, checkerboard facade, Technicolour mosaic tilework and rooftop sprouting plants and trees, bears the inimitable hallmark of eccentric Viennese artist and ecowarrior Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), who famously called the straight line 'godless'. It is an ode to his playful, boldly creative work, as well as to his green politics.
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Museum Hundertwasser Entrance Ticket at the Kunst House Wien
03, Untere Weissgerberstrasse 13
Hours10am-6pm
Priceadult/child €11/5
Besides quality temporary exhibitions featuring other artists, the gallery is something of a paean in honour of the artist, illustrating his paintings, graphics, tapestry, philosophy, ecology and architecture. On two floors you can contemplate how the artist's style evolved over the years – from early watercolours and portraits to brightly hued, more abstract paintings inspired by his travels from 1949 onwards. Works such as The Miraculous Drought (1950) and the Land of Men, Trees, Birds and Ships (1949) reveal child-like forms, intense colours and a fascination with water, while the high-rises in Bleeding Houses evoke his dislike of urban conformity. Among Hundertwasser's later works are a tapestry of the Krka waterfalls and a model of a utopian city, the rooftops overgrown with trees and meadows.
Guided tours in German of the permanent exhibition leave at noon on Sundays and are included in the price. Audio guides cost €3.


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Photo of coal protest by Greenpeace, used with permission.
In the House debate over climate and energy legislation last summer, coal got a big slice of the pie. A $60 billion slice to be exact, in the form of subsidies to develop carbon capture technology (a.k.a. "clean coal"). But much of the coal industry spent millions of dollars in attempts to torpedo the legislation. On Wednesday, a House panel put the leaders of some of the country's biggest coal companies on the hot seat, grilling them about what exactly they see as the future for their industry in what is almost inevitably going to be a carbon constrained world.
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The panelists before the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming represented the different perspectives in the coal industry on the subject–from complete denial of problems in the industry to embracing the fact that coal faces an uncertain future. At one extreme was the Ohio Coal Association president Michael Carey, who thinks global warming is a fantasy and attempts to regulate greenhouse gases are part of a "war on coal." Then there was Gregory Boyce, CEO of Peabody Energy Corporation, who admitted that "the science is strong" on climate change, but says that technology to capture and store emissions "should be available before regulation" begins (Steven Leer, CEO of Arch Coal, had a similar take).
And at the other end, you have Rio Tinto, a mining company that is part of the US Climate Action Partnership, the business-environmental coalition key in shaping the House climate bill, which has been working on climate issues since 1998. Preston Chiaro, chief executive for energy and minerals at Rio Tinto, made a clear case for engaging positively on legislation: "We will either shape policy, or we will have policy thrust upon us."
The panel yielded some colorful exchanges between legislators and the coal executives, as Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) went after Carey's "war on coal" comment. "We don't give $60 billion to Al Qaeda," said Inslee. "That's a war."
"If there is a war here, it is a war on our grandkids," he continued. At at another point in the hearing, young protesters wearing face masks and covered in black soot stormed to the front of the room to deliver lumps of coal to the CEOs.
Rep. Ed Markey, chair of the committee and co-author of the House climate bill, made a similar plea for the industry to look at the billions in support they included in their bill. "I ask that you embrace the provisions of the Waxman-Markey bill that light the way ahead for your industry," said Markey, adding later, "This legislation we passed in the House is intended on helping the coal industry."
Wednesday's panel was more theater than anything else, with House climate advocates attempting to put coal interests on the spot and highlight some of the competing view points on the future. But what these CEOs think about climate and where their businesses are heading is indeed interesting as we look down the road. These are big players in Washington; mining interests spent $26 million on lobbying last year, with Peabody ($5.8 million) and Arch Coal ($2.7 million) topping the list of spenders. Rio Tinto wasn't far behind, at $1.1 million. Coal companies have also spent millions through the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
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Will major coal interests change their tune when the Senate debate heats up? Markey remained optimistic that they could be encouraged to work with Congress on solutions. "I still believe there is … a way of passing legislation with the coal industry in support," said Markey after the hearing. "That's my goal, that's my hope. Whether or not we can realize that remains to be seen."
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Riverbank, CA – Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department Deputy Antonio "Tony" Hinostroza was killed in the line of duty on Sunday, when his patrol vehicle crashed into a utility pole as he was racing to assist other deputies involved in a pursuit.
"Tony died while trying to protect the people of Stanislaus County," Stanislaus County Sheriff Sergeant Tom Letras told KXTV. "We were trying to get a drunk driver off the road, and — you know, his whole life was dedicated to serving the public."
The incident began at approximately 9:48 p.m., when Riverbank Police Services deputies received a report that a man was "passed out behind the wheel" of a silver Cadillac Escalade at the intersection of Patterson Road and Oakdale Road, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department said in a press release.
When deputies arrived at the scene, the suspect, later identified as 30-year-old Jonathan Carrillo-Gonzalez, sped away from the scene.
Deputies pursued Carrillo-Gonzalez, and eventually disabled the Escalade in Modesto after deploying spike strips.
The suspect attempted to take off on foot, then fought with deputies until he was subdued by "a less-lethal bean bag," the department said.
Meanwhile, the 911 center began receiving calls that a Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department patrol vehicle had crashed into a utility pole at the intersection of Claribel Road and Terminal Avenue.
Multiple agencies raced to the scene "in an attempt to rescue Deputy Hinostroza, but he died of his injuries at the scene," according to the sheriff's department.
Carrillo-Gonzalez was charged for driving under the influence, resisting arrest, and felony evasion.
He has been convicted of at least three prior driving under the influence offenses in the past nine years.
Prior to joining the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department in January of 1999, Deputy Hinostroza served two years as a Ceres Police Department Police Explorer.
He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1992, and served his country until 1996.
Deputy Hinostroza then went to work for the City of Waterford as a reserve police officer and dispatcher before he joined the sheriff's department.
During his 19-year career, Deputy Hinostroza served as a patrol deputy, K9 handler, SWAT team member, patrol deputy, gang detective, and field training officer.
He leaves behind one adult son.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department Deputy Antonio "Tony" Hinostroza, both blood and blue. Thank you for your service.
Rest In Peace, Sir. Hopefully they will get justice for your family.
Sad news for the officers friends and family. I have to wonder if Carrillo-Gonzalez was yet another illegal immigrant that snuck his way into our country.
Rest in peace, Officer Hinostroza. May God comfort your family, both blood and blue. Thank you for your years of dedicated service to our country and to your various communities.


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The top German idioms for the Women's World Cup
"The round thing has to go into the square thing": Germans have their very specific way of discussing football. Speak like a Weltmeister with these expressions — and discover colorful literal translations.
'Kick the cherry in, you whistle!'
German has many different names for the soccer ball. It's called everything from pill to marble, leather, egg, pock or cherry. You'll also hear on the field: "Hau die Kirsche rein, du Pfeife!" which literally translates as: "Kick the cherry in, you whistle!" Even though the referee has the whistle, he's not the one who's being encouraged to score a goal, but rather a weak player.
Military influence: 'Marksmen' and 'canons'
Many of the soccer terms in German come from the military language of the German Empire when the game was introduced to the country. For instance, the member of the Bundesliga (the national soccer league) who "shoots" (schiessen) the most goals is called the "Torschützenkönig" (goal champion marksman) and is awarded the "Torjägerkanone" (goalgetter canon).
'Gate' deemed prettier than 'goal'
German teacher Konrad Koch not only imported soccer from England to Germany in the 19th century, he also created the vocabulary for it. After all, the terms were originally in English. In 1903, he wrote in his "Regelheft" (rule book): "We'll replace that ugly foreign word 'goal' with 'Tor' (gate)." But that didn't help the German national team in a match against England in 1909; they lost 0:9.
Germany's oldest club: BFC Germania 1888
Crafting special German terms for soccer was supposed to make it more popular, as many Germans were opposed to the game in the beginning. They preferred the stricter, more military-like regimen of gymnastics. Many said that the physical movement to "shoot a goal" was "ugly." Gymnastics teacher Karl Planck ranted in 1888 that it was "Fusslümmelei" (slouching or sprawling about with one's feet).
Nationaltorhüter vs. Nati-Goalie
Many of the terms Konrad Koch wrote in his 1903 rule book are still used today in Germany. That's in contrast to Austria and Switzerland, where they use many of the original English terms. While Manuel Neuer is the German "Nationaltorhüter" (national gatekeeper), his Swiss colleague Yann Sommer (shown here in the green uniform of his Borussia Mönchengladbach club) is called "Nati-Goalie."
A square thing called shack, hut, box
World champ coach Sepp Herberger once summed up the game: "Das Runde muss ins Eckige" (the round thing has to go into the square thing). And there are plenty of names for the "square thing": a forward scores a "Bude" (shack) or "Hütte" (hut). He may also sink the ball ("den Ball versenken"), shoot past the goal ("verballern") or bang the ball into the meshes ("den Ball in die Maschen knallen").
An everyday expression: 'Pulling the ass card'
One may "get the short end of the stick," or have bad luck, but in German, it's a bit more crude: "die Arschkarte ziehen" is literally, "pulling the ass card." Such expressions have trickled into everyday language. In the game, so as not to mix the cards up, the ref often pulls the yellow card from his breast pocket, and the red card from his "butt" or "ass" pocket: hence the expression.
Enthusiastic 'player women'
No, the "Spielerfrauen" are not female soccer players. They are the wives and girlfriends of the players, such as Cathy Hummels (center), the wife of German central defender Mats Hummels. It's rather derogatory, reducing the women to being their husbands' sidekicks. It's not much better in English: "WAGs" is the acronym used to refer to the wives and girlfriends of professional athletes.
Go for a third World Cup!
And here are the real players: Germany's women's national football team hope to win the World Cup in France in 2019. They're already two-time champions. Note that the German term for "team," even if it's one of women only, is "Mannschaft" (literally: "manscape"). The quirk of the German language is a reminder of how male-dominated the sport was — and remains — in the country.
Creative with words: the 'casserole kids'
A lot of German kids love soccer, and play as often as they can. Many also dream of one day holding hands with a soccer star as they walk onto the field, as the escort kids who accompany the players into the stadium. In German, they're called "Auflaufkinder," which literally translates as "casserole kids" in English — but the verb "Auflaufen" also means walking on a football field, hence the name.
Up and down: the 'elevator team'
Even if a whole team likely won't fit into an elevator, that is what they may be called in German. "Fahlstuhlmannschaft" (literally, an "elevator team") means one that keeps moving up and down in its division position in the soccer league system — like Cologne's 1. FC Köln, that descended from the first to second division last year and promoted to first division again this season.
Politicians using sports terms
Politicians also like flowery soccer jargon. "We've shot some great goals, but we haven't won anything yet," said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at her CDU party's convention in 2006. Even though Germany was hosting the World Cup that year, she meant her party's politics and not the matches. But cliches can easily turn into "own goals" (Eigentor schiessen), meaning "shooting oneself in the foot."
More in the Media Center
English words the Germans use wrongly: Part 2 08.05.2019
English words the Germans use wrongly 17.04.2019
8 German words about time 26.03.2019
FIFA World Cup: An illustrated history 06.06.2018
Where German is still spoken in the US 10.07.2019
Over 300 years ago, German immigrants crossed the Atlantic to reach, among other places, Pennsylvania. Their language and culture continues to influence their descendants, as DW correspondent Oliver Sallet discovered.
World Cup shows how nations back women's soccer — or don't 27.06.2019
France is hosting 24 teams for the Women's World Cup. Though the athletes play professionally in 34 countries, some leagues are better represented than others. Where are conditions for women's football best — and why?
German theater brings David Grossman novel to Israeli stage 02.07.2019
How can a Frankfurt theater bring a deeply Israeli experience of war, trauma and violent loss to the stage in Tel Aviv? A German-language production of Grossman's "To the End of the Land" grappled with this challenge.
FIFA Women's World Cup: Why Germany has a unique football vocabulary 07.06.2019
It doesn't feel that way now, but Germans weren't enthusiastic about football in the 19th century. Christoph Marx, a World Cup historian, explains how special terms for soccer were developed to change that.
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How to Make a Really Good (Not Boring) Bowl of Oatmeal
How to Make Really Good Oatmeal
February 4, 2017 by Nicole Perry
For nearly a decade, I've started more mornings than not with a bowl of oatmeal, so to say that I've experimented with techniques and toppings is a gross understatement. For the past couple years, this has been my go-to technique, and I'm pretty certain I'll be sticking to it for some time to come, as the oatmeal is creamy and has a texture similar to steel cut but can be made in as little as 20 minutes (most of which is unattended).
The secret to its success: going half and half on both types of oats (rolled and steel cut) and liquids (whole milk and water). The steel-cut oats add nubbly toothsome texture, eliminating any comparisons to wallpaper paste, while the rolled oats cook up quickly and add silky texture, which compensates for slightly undercooking the steel-cut oats (to properly cook a bowl of 100 percent steel-cut oatmeal, you need at least 40 minutes). The half-and-half ratio of milk to water adds just enough richness.
As for toppings, I've tried many combinations; below are a few suggestions. If you'd like to experiment yourself, a good place to start is with 1/4-1/2 cup fruit (frozen works great; just add it to the oatmeal in its last few minutes of cooking to thaw the fruit); 1-2 tablespoons nuts, seeds, or nut butter; and a sweetener to taste (maple syrup, brown sugar, honey, etc.).
Some combinations to try:
A heaping 1/2 cup frozen wild blueberries (add them to the oatmeal in its last few minutes of cooking), 1 tablespoon almond butter, and maple syrup, to taste.
1 sliced or mashed banana (add the sliced as a topping; stir mashed in), 1 heaping tablespoon toasted walnuts, and maple syrup, to taste (optional).
1/2 cup pumpkin puree, a heaping 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice (stir in both the pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice), 1 heaping tablespoon toasted pecans, and maple syrup, to taste.
About 1/4 cup raspberry ginger lime chia jam and 1-2 tablespoons toasted sliced almonds.
A big pat of salted butter and 1/4-1/2 cup granola.
A big pat of salted butter and maple syrup (optional), to taste.
A generous drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil and a sprinkling of flaky sea salt.
Choose-Your-Own Adventure Oatmeal
Adapted from A Girl and Her Pig: Recipes and Stories by April Bloomfield and JJ Goode
The basic ratio to know here is 1 part steel-cut oats : 1 part rolled oats : 3 parts whole milk : 3 parts water.
To measure 1/6 cup, fill a 1/3 cup measure halfway (it doesn't have to be a superprecise measurement).
If you don't have 20 minutes to spare, reduce the liquid slightly (the oats need to be completely covered with liquid), increase the heat to medium-low, and keep a watchful eye on the pot, stirring more frequently. The texture won't be quite as creamy, but it'll be almost as good, while shaving 5-10 minutes off of the cook time.
A nonstick saucepan isn't imperative, but it makes for much easier cleanup as oatmeal will cling to stainless steel.
1/6 cup rolled oats
1/6 cup steel-cut oats
Toppings of your choosing
Add both types of oats, the milk, and water to a small nonstick saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally once the liquid begins to simmer, until the liquid is absorbed, and the oatmeal is creamy, about 20 minutes. Add the salt and toppings.
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Every summer since 2000, Flinn Scholars have marked the end of their first year of college with a group study-abroad seminar. This year featured the most significant change since the three-week seminar's introduction: After a 12-year run with Budapest, Hungary as home base, the seminar has moved to China. Here are reflections from three members of the first class of Scholars to travel to China together. This year the seminar ran from May 20 to June 10.
This is the most intimidating blog entry I have ever sat down to write. And what's more intimidating, I think it will feel like this every day from here until the end of June. It feels impossible to sort through the tangled, exhilarating blur of the last two days and come up with anything cohesive; to find threads or continuity, to locate the right stories and the right images that will come close to expressing the energy, the excitement of the last few days.
I need to write, I feel compelled to write. But it's way too late to write. In fact, it's impossible to write. I could write all night and still not have everything.
We had our first lecture today: an introduction to social, environmental, and economic sustainability and the challenges China faces in each category. I want to write about it, but not tonight. Much like the experience of being in Beijing, it was all far too vast to try to cover in one blog entry. It's only by tethering myself to small things—stories, small victories, brief images—that I can find a sense of focus.
I am like a child in the way words and conversations drift and swim above my head, in the way I am led about by our tour guides, in the way I struggle and stutter to express myself, in the way I live for small things, taking wonder in what my Chinese teacher's eyes pass over without a second glance: like the army of brightly colored water jugs clumped on a street corner, or the playful cartoons of police officers in public-safety messages, or the startling brightness of a yellow bike. I am three feet shorter, 17 years younger, and a hundred times clumsier than my American self.
A woman stood behind the bulldozer with gloves on, sorting through the waste.
As we got closer, we could make out a thin spiral of barbed wire around the roofs. Music began to scream through the windows of the house on the right and a man appeared in the doorway. Lu Laoshi explained our presence to him and began asking him questions in Mandarin. He translated the answer back to English.
The man was clearly on edge. His golden retriever wove between our legs as he glanced back at the road. The music coming from his house continued to scream.
"Are you safe?" we asked. "I am okay," he answered. "We just make sure someone is in the house at all times. We have been like this for four months, but just yesterday they shut off our water. We called the water company to ask them why our water was shut off and they apologized and said they'd look into it." It was clear this was a funny mistake. It exposed vulnerability in the menace of the government.
More money in exchange for the rights to his house. More money in exchange for rights to clean water. More money in exchange for culture. More money in exchange for clean air. More money in exchange for dialects. More money in exchange for natural resources. When does money lose its buying power with the Chinese people? When all the resources are gone, there will be nothing to spend money on.
My time in China has raised ten questions for every answer. Just when I think I understand a facet of this complex country, another event comes to turn my conclusion on its head. They say most of the body's tissue cells are replaced every seven years as new cells are born and old cells die. As far as I can tell, Beijing is like every one of the humans that live here: it is under constant destruction and regrowth, always changing. Building are built and torn down again, the city's membrane shifts, rises, compresses and stretches all the time. And here I am, standing in a razed village, talking to a man who watched his village disappear, his friends and family scattered to an ever changing city of 20.8 million.
On our last night in Jichang, all of the host families gathered for a feast on our family's patio. A night of such celebration. We ate until we became human jiao zi. Then we performed a traditional, prestigious American song: "I love you" from Barney. We changed the lyrics to "I love you – You love me – You are great host families…" Then the mayor sang us a song with the families joining along in the background. We thanked them all for their hospitality, and they welcomed us any time. So much harmony.
When I looked back on this last picture (above), I was disappointed that Ai-yi's face is turned away. I realize, however, this photo captures the difficulty of capturing generous, concerned, loving Ai-yi, and our experience being her host daughters. Photographing tourist locations and even people on the street is so much easier than taking pictures of the people you live with going about their daily business, especially since she shied away whenever we pulled out a camera.
Every aspect of this trip is so captivating and important that I want to document all of the moments to keep forever. But I can only keep in my memory the sound of her voice calling me to breakfast, scolding me for stepping on the floor without house slippers (zang! zang! dirty!), and her subtle smile and mm-hmm when we understood each other.
When we hugged her goodbye to board the bus Wednesday morning, she was wiping away tears from her eyes. She told us that if ever we came back to Jichang, she would always welcome us to her house. I doubt that Anna, Allyson, and I will ever be back all together, but I may return someday. The longer I spend here, the more I realize how China and I may fit together. Our village experience was so striking because of the way we were able to bond with this family from a completely different culture with limited communication. The more I learn to speak, the deeper connections I can make with people I grow to trust and love.
These five days I lived with a borrowed mama who made sure no fewer than two dozen times per day that we were full enough, warm enough, and wore shoes enough. These five days I learned genuine hospitality.


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Persistent Partisan Breakdown on Higher Ed
Pew survey finds majority of Republicans continue to hold negative views of impact of higher ed -- a development that began before the election of President Trump.
Andrew Kreighbaum
President Trump has questioned the value of community colleges and suggested universities "restrict free thought."
Survey results in 2017 suggested that typical conservatives had increasingly begun to share the president's dim view of higher ed. In a Pew survey, only 36 percent of Republican and GOP-leaning respondents said higher education had a positive effect on the direction of the country -- a steep drop-off from responses only two years before, although the slide had begun in 2016, before the election. (NOTE: This article has been updated from an earlier version to clarify when the poll numbers began dropping.)
Results from another recent Pew survey indicate that those views have persisted. In July, only 33 percent of Republican survey respondents said higher ed had a positive effect. And 59 percent believed higher ed had a negative effect on the country's direction, the highest number in the survey's findings so far.
Rather than a temporary blip, the Pew findings suggest a continuing challenge for college leaders hoping to maintain or repair a bipartisan consensus in support of postsecondary education.
That Pew survey found 67 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning respondents had positive views of higher ed, a slight drop-off from two years prior. Over all, 50 percent of U.S. adults said they had positive views of postsecondary education.
"It is certainly something we're aware of, and we do find it troubling," said Dan Madzelan, associate vice president for government relations at the American Council on Education. "Higher education historically has not been caught up in any kind of partisan divide."
The factors behind the lower approval rates (higher ed had positives of 63 percent for all Americans in 2015) likely go beyond partisan attacks or controversies driven by cable news. Americans of all political persuasions have cited the rising cost of college in previous survey responses. And the elite college admissions scandal that unfolded earlier this year damaged the higher ed brand even though it involved only a handful of highly selective institutions.
The overall picture of the public's view of higher ed is probably more complicated as well. Surveys released by D.C.-based think tanks in 2018 and this year found broad support for the value proposition of higher ed even among conservatives.
And Pew findings suggest colleges aren't unique in their lower standing with the general public.
Views of U.S. Institutions Are Down Across the Board
The latest numbers on the partisan divide over higher ed came from a July survey of opinions on major U.S. institutions. No more than 50 percent of respondents had positive views of the impact made by entities like large financial institutions, tech firms, churches, labor unions, large corporations and the national news media.
Only unions and banks had seen significant improvement in public perception since 2010, according to the Pew results. And tech firms had seen the most precipitous drop-off in positive public opinion. Whereas 50 percent said they had a positive view of tech companies' impact in July, 68 percent had positive perceptions of the sector in 2010. The gap in views between Republicans and Democrats on the industry was also fairly small compared to other institutions.
It's not clear why positive views of higher ed among Democrats may have dropped off since 2015. The July survey, which polled roughly 1,500 people and had a margin of error of 4.4 percent for questions on partisan views, didn't ask detailed questions about common concerns with colleges -- such as cost, degree value or free speech on campus.
Pew conducted the survey about four months after federal prosecutors filed indictments against dozens of individuals involved in buying their children admission into elite, highly selective colleges. The scandal stemming from that operation, dubbed Varsity Blues, fueled public cynicism of the idea that higher ed is a meritocratic system.
David Schleifer, vice president for opinion research at Public Agenda, cautioned against attaching too much significance to the apparent drop in positive views among Democrats.
"It's not a major drop like you see when you look at the Republican side," he said. "Let's see where that goes over the next year."
More Nuanced Findings on Public Perceptions
After Pew and Gallup shed light on Republicans' increasingly negative view of higher ed, subsequent surveys have presented a more nuanced picture of public opinion. A New America report in 2018 found Republicans and Democrats agreed on the value of a degree. The sharpest divide was over who should pay for college -- the government or students themselves.
A Third Way survey released this summer found roughly 50 percent of Republicans had a favorable view of higher education, while 44 percent had negative views. The survey also found overwhelming GOP support for vocational schools and public community colleges. And both Republicans and Democrats surveyed supported accountability for low-performing institutions by large margins.
Schleifer said the kinds of questions surveys pose could affect how respondents report their views on higher ed. Individuals could have very different reasons for concluding colleges are having a positive or negative impact on the country.
"It's important to keep in mind that that's a really different question from whether a degree is important for economic success or important for success in the workplace," he said.


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HP's 4K Envy x360 Is Now $600 Off
By Louis Ramirez | May 16, 2018 01:37 pm
The HP Envy x360 is a stylish convertible for the PC user who wants it all — performance, portability, and good looks.
Today only, Amazon is offering a refurbished Envy x360 with a 4K screen for $799.99. That's $600 under the cost of a new system and the lowest price you'll find for any laptop with this configuration.
Buy HP Envy x360 4K Laptop on Amazon.com
Yes, it's a refurbished system, but because it's marked as certified refurbished, that means it has been tested and certified to work and look like new. It also comes with a 90-day supplier warranty.
In terms of hardware, this Envy x360 is built to last and features a 13.3-inch 3840 x 2160 touchscreen IPS LCD, 2.7GHz Core i7-7500U processor, 16GB of RAM, and a generous 512GB SSD. The laptop also has a 360-degree hinge that allows it to be rotated from laptop mode to stand mode or tablet mode. It packs B&O Play dual speakers and offers up to 9.5 hours of battery life.
To be fair, we've seen the Envy x360 for less before, but that model lacked the 4K screen and impressive specs found in today's config.
If you still prefer a new system, HP is taking up to 50 percent off a vast number of its laptops with prices starting from $299.
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At Homefield Church of England Primary School we are very proud of our improving academic results. Each year we endeavour to make improvements.
Our long term aim is to consistently achieve higher than the national averages in all areas and at all Key Stages. This will take hard work and determination from everyone involved.
Let's all take the journey together and give our children the chance to shine!


History Professor Dr. Robert Morris hosted an event Thursday, Feb. 28 in efforts to raise awareness of the roles the nine Black Greek-Lettered sororities and fraternities play in communities worldwide. The panel consisted of five intellectual sorority and fraternity members who spoke eloquently to students and faculty members on their experiences.
The "Divine Nine" black sororities and fraternities are Alpha Phi Alpha Inc., Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc., Kappa Alpha Psi Inc., Omega Psi Phi Inc., Delta Sigma Theta Inc., Phi Beta Sigma Inc., Zeta Phi Beta Inc., Sigma Gamma Rho Inc., and Iota Phi Theta Inc.
Professor Rhonda Bobb proudly represented the sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc. Bobb was exposed to AKA through her involvement in the Ivy Rosettes Committee in high school. Through this weekend initiative, she learned the importance of community service and promoting feministic excellence which shaped her into a strong young lady eager to give back to her community.
"That's what it's about. Being able to restore the torch to someone else and mentor, proctor, teach, expose, and be there to help," said Bobb.
Professor Cornelius Brownlee exhibited great passion when speaking about his mother and his membership in the fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. Raised by a strong single mother in Miami, Brownlee emphasized how much his mother poured into him to achieve better in his personal, career and academic growth.
"They banded together to form a club of brotherhood to help them survive the college life," said Brownlee in reference to his inspiration for joining Alpha Phi Alpha Inc.
In search of true brotherhood to facilitate his success in his life growth, he found Alpha Phi Alpha to be his perfect match.
"We believe in more than ourselves and that is the true heart of a sorority or fraternal organization," said Student Life Coordinator Tiffany Erving. Erving is a member of the sorority Delta Sigma Theta Inc. Her inspiration to join was from her high school counselor, Miss King, who was also a Delta. Erving has greatly given back to her community in her role as the second Vice President of the Educational Development Arm of Delta Sigma Theta's Five-Point Programmatic Thrust where she mentored 40 girls aged 14 to 18 in the Delta Gems program.
Broward College Librarian, Tiffany Walker, expressed her inspiration for joining soroity Zeta Phi Beta Inc. as a former college student at the University of Florida. Walker felt a meaningful connection within the sisterhood of Zeta Phi Beta Inc.
Considering her background in Harlem Renaissance, Walker also found inspiration to become a Zeta through honorable Zeta member author Zora Neale Hurston. Her favorite Zeta member is poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
Psychology student Iyonna Knight expressed her appreciation for having the ability to dialogue with sorority and fraternity members right at her home institution. She learned things that she didn't know before about sororities and felt motivated to research them more to consider becoming a member one day. Knight has dreams of becoming a child psychologist in the future.
For students interested in joining any of the "Divine Nine," it is important to begin with research to find the best sorority or fraternity for you. Next, explore your motivation by identifying what or who inspires you the most to join. Then, get involved by reaching out to members to participate in community activities. Bring your passion and drive when you are ready to apply. Most importantly, be prepared to devote yourself to your community in a variety of ways.
Professor Brownlee mentioned each one of these organizations have, "different profiles," but ultimately have a deep-rooted commitment to service. Each one of these organizations bloomed during a time where racial tension was prevalent to be a haven for Black excellence where every sorority sister and fraternity brother's contributions to communities all over the globe pay homage every day for those who believed in the fight for black justice.
Visit http://www.blackgreek.com/divinenine/ for more information.


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