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Aug. 18: Obama Leads Big — Among Those Least Likely to Vote
Aug. 19, 2012 , at 10:31 AM
By Nate Silver
Saturday brought little change to our forecast of the presidential race; President Obama is given a 69.7 percent chance of winning the Electoral College, the same figure as in the update on Friday.
Mr. Obama did get an encouraging number in the Rasmussen Reports tracking poll, which has him leading Mitt Romney by 2 percentage points – a fairly sharp reversal from the same poll on Wednesday, which had Mr. Romney four points ahead.
Could Mr. Romney's small bounce from his selection of Representative Paul D. Ryan as his running mate already be fading? Possibly – but the model generally will not be swayed much by the movement within a single tracking poll. And Mr. Romney maintained a two-point lead in the Gallup national tracker. We will need to wait for a few more polls before we have a better sense of the momentum that the parties have headed into their conventions.
There was also an interesting poll out on Saturday from the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post. The poll is not that relevant to our forecast since it is a little out of date – its interviews began in late July and were completed on Aug. 5. But the poll took an especially large sample – more than 3,000 respondents – which allowed them to explore the vote choice among a richer set of partisan subgroups than pollsters typically consider.
The poll found, for instance, that among a group it called D.I.Y. Democrats – adults who identify as Democrats but who tend to be rural and often socially conservative – 21 percent planned to vote for Mr. Romney. However, among a group the poll calls window shoppers – young Republicans with moderate views on social and fiscal issues – 37 percent planned to cast ballots for Mr. Obama.
Another relatively unique element of the poll is that it released horse-race numbers among all adults that it surveyed, something that is rarely done in presidential polls. (Almost all polls in our database listed numbers among registered voters or likely voters instead.) Mr. Obama had a large lead in the poll among this broader universe of adults, beating Mr. Romney 52 percent to 40 percent. But his lead was narrower – seven points – among registered voters.
The Kaiser Family Foundation poll did not publish numbers among likely voters. In general, likely-voter polls tend to find worse numbers for Democrats – typically about 2 points worse than among polls of registered voters.
Our model is designed to adjust for this; the figures you see in our forecasts reflect the projected results among likely voters.
But what about everyone else – what we might think of as unlikely voters? Another poll this week, conducted by Suffolk University and USA Today, tried to get at that question. It surveyed 800 adults who either were not registered to vote, or who were registered but said they were not likely to turn out.
Among these adults, 43 percent said they preferred Mr. Obama, while 17 percent backed Mr. Romney. Since quite a few Americans fit into this category – about 4 in 10 adults will not vote in November – it is easy to see how Mr. Obama could have a double-digit lead when they are added back into the total, like in the Kaiser Family Foundation poll. But those adults will not help Mr. Obama any if they do not show up on Nov. 6.
In addition to Democrats, third-party candidates are hurt by the failure of these "unlikely voters" to show up at the ballot booth. In the Suffolk poll, about 20 percent of unlikely voters said they would prefer to vote for a third-party candidate for president – much larger than in polls of likely voters.
Fledgling political parties like the Libertarians and the Greens thus face something of a Catch-22. Many adults who might otherwise be inclined to support them do not bother to vote, possibly because they do not regard the parties as viable and think voting would be a waste of time. But without doing a little better at the ballot booth, it is hard for these minor parties to demonstrate their viability and gain any momentum.
Our forecast estimates that third-party candidates will collectively account for only about 1 percent of the vote this year, in part because there are some states where only Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney will be on the ballot.
It should come as no surprise that Democrats and third parties generally support efforts to make it easier to vote, while Republicans often seek to erect barriers to voting, like stricter voter identification laws.
My view is that concerns that some Democrats have over voter ID laws is a little overblown – academic studies suggest that photo identification laws do not affect turnout as much as you might think. Still, they could make a difference at the margin. My estimate is that the new voter ID law in Pennsylvania could cost Mr. Obama about 1 percent of the vote there.
Perhaps a broader concern for Democrats is not the small number of adults who will seek to vote on Nov. 6 and will be turned away, but the much larger number who will make no effort to do so.
In 2008, Mr. Obama tapped more deeply into the universe of "unlikely voters" than almost all candidates that preceded him, garnering a significant number of votes from groups like young voters and minorities who have a low propensity to turn out.
But he may not repeat that success this year. In almost every swing state that tracks voter registration by party, the share of voters who are registered as Democrats is down from four years ago.
Nate Silver is the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight. @natesilver538
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Staying Safe When You Say #MeToo
By Leigh Honeywell, Technology Fellow, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project
February 12, 2018 | 10:00 AM
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If the #MeToo movement had caught on in 1997, the many people coming forward would still have had to worry about getting sued, in addition to the myriad other consequences of challenging their harassers. But because it caught on in 2017, they also have to worry about getting hacked and being subject to mass online attacks, trolling, and other forms of harassment that can unfortunately be the cost of speaking out.
I'm a technologist with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology team, but outside of my day job, I've been working for the better part of a decade with people — mostly, but not all, women — who have been targeted online. I've also been a sexual-misconduct whistleblower myself, so I know the personal cost of speaking out. People often feel powerless in the face of unknown threats from the internet, but there's a lot that whistleblowers can do to stay safe while coming forward.
The digital defense tips below are for individuals. They address threats against specific people, not the systemic problem of harassment. There's an important conversation happening about how institutions — from universities to software platforms to law enforcement — handle online threats. In the meantime, though, these are some concrete things that individuals can do to feel a little safer about speaking out and confronting power.
Secure your accounts and devices
Start by using unique passwords everywhere. This is the most important advice I can give anyone. Let's be real, most people reuse the same password everywhere. This is dangerous, because if any one of the places you've used that password gets hacked, that password could potentially be reused to break into your other accounts. We've seen that happen on a widespread level in what are called "credential stuffing" attacks, but it's also a common way to target individuals who speak out.
Unique passwords are a pain to keep track of in your head, so use a password manager like LastPass (which has free-of-cost or premium options), 1Password (which is a bit more expensive), or one of the many free and open source apps. Lock the password manager with a strong password that's long and generated with some kind of randomness, like picking words out of a book. (Here's a simple guide for picking a strong, random password.)
Be alert for phishing. If your name has been in the news and someone decides to target you, "phishing" — sending an email made to look like it's from Facebook, Google, or one of your friends — is a common way to try steal your passwords in order to break into your accounts. Using a password manager offers some protection from phishing because your password won't autofill if you click on a link that sneakily points you to "trustmeiamdefinitelygoogle.com." But that email request from your aunt to remind her of your birthday, first pet's name, and other detailed private information? Maybe give her a call back to be sure it was really her.
Take it up a notch with two-factor authentication. Two-factor authentication protects you even if your password gets stolen. By requiring you to type in a code from an app or text message, or tap a notification or a hardware token, adding a second "factor" to log in makes sure it's really you entering your password. It's especially important to set this up for your email address, whether it's Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo, because control over your email account allows an attacker to reset many other passwords. Other key accounts to lock down include your Twitter, Facebook, and iCloud accounts. The best two-factor setup is a hardware key (e.g. Yubikey), then a time-based one-time password app like Google Authenticator. Getting your code via text message is the least secure way to do this, as dedicated attackers have been known to steal phone numbers out from under people in targeted attacks.
Stay patched. Install those pesky security updates for your operating system and apps — especially your browser. If you're buying a new phone, iPhones and Google-branded Android phones are the most secure because they get consistent software updates; other Android phones get less frequent or no security updates.
Scrub your public information
"Doxing" is the non-consensual spreading of personal information such as addresses and phone numbers in order to intimidate and direct violence at someone. It's a frequently-used tool in the arsenal of those who don't like it when people speak out about abuse.
In some cases, like if you own a home, there isn't much you can do to get your information completely out of the public eye. But it's still worth spending some time to opt out of the services of "data brokers" who will happily hand over your personal data in bulk to the denizens of the internet for a few dollars. Check out stopdatamining.me and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse for lists of brokers and instructions for opting out of each. You might want to start a spreadsheet to track which one's you've checked out, which ones you've opted out of, and which ones have successfully purged your data. It can be a bit of a project, and there are commercial services like Abine's DeleteMe that will do some of the work for you.
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In addition to the data brokers, search Google and Bing for your phone number plus your first name, and your phone number plus your last name. Do the same thing for your street address and your first or last names. These might show up in all kinds of places — a flyer for a theatre project you worked on, a Scout troop newsletter, a friend's old tweet. Sometimes you'll be able to get them removed if someone you know was the one who posted it or the site has an opt-out process. Sometimes you won't — but at least you'll know how difficult or not it will be to track down that information.
If your information is or has been public, one specific threat to know about is "swatting." While rare and usually related to video games rather than sexual harassment, this type of attack has in at least one case resulted in a death. An attacker calls 911 with a fake report of a hostage situation, bomb, or other critical incident at the target's address, resulting in an overly militarized team being sent to confront the target or their family. If you are concerned about this kind of attack, call your local police's nonemergency number and alert them to the likelihood of false reports about your address. Here is a verbal script to explain swatting and request that extra precautions be taken by first responders if a report is received about your address.
These are just some of the basics. If you're interested in diving into more detail, I've written a longer guide that includes mental health resources and detailed notes on interacting with the media. For example, what does "off the record" mean as opposed to "on background"? How do you decide which journalists to talk to? Other useful resources include Crash Override's resources and Feminist Frequency's online safety guide.
And remember: You don't need to handle this all on your own. Enlist a team to help you monitor social media and triage email. And make sure you remember to eat. Remember that progress is a choir, not a solo number. You don't have to answer every media request. You don't have to engage with every troll, even when they are infuriatingly wrong. You've done a brave and powerful thing by speaking up — you get to pick your battles from here on out.
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Depends on your threat model and what is more convenient for you. Personally I use lastpass with a strong master password, and randomized for everything else.
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Cal Crutchlow on his Sterilgarda Yamaha R1 battled to the head of the pre-race rankings at the Magny-Cours round of World Superbike, taking a new track best of 1'37.699 in Superpole Three.
World SBK regular Sylvain Guintoli rode his Suzuki GSX-R1000 Alstare machine to second place at his home round, while Jakub Smrz and the Pata B&G Aprilia RSV4 racing team made it three different super bikes in the top three grid positions.
The front row for tomorrow's motorcycle races was completed by new WSBK Champion, Max Biaggi on his Aprilia Alitalia RSV4 Factory bike, despite the Roman rider suffering from a cold.
Michel Fabrizio (Ducati 1198R Xerox Team) posted fifth best time in Superpole, followed by a rider who was only passed fit to race on Friday morning, Jonathan Rea (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR). Rea rode wearing a special lightweight cast on his injured left wrist.
Carlos Checa (Althea Racing), the double winner in Imola, was a fine seventh, followed on the grid by the official machine of Noriyuki Haga (Ducati Xerox).
Troy Corser (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) made the top ten after another challenging period of practice, heading the third row with ninth best time.
Leon Haslam (Suzuki Alstare) was the final rider in the top ten. Ruben Xaus was 11th on his official BMW; Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) posted 12th best time, for the last position on the third row.
There were several Superbike riders who were not quite able to replicate their pre-Superpole form in the final couple of sessions, including eventual 13th place rider, Lorenzo Lanzi (DFX Corse Ducati).
Shane Byrne (Althea Racing), James Toseland (Yamaha Sterilgarda) and Luca Scassa (Supersonic Ducati) finished off the top 16 grid places.
Kenan Sofuoglu (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) took his fifth pole of the season by posting a 1'41.372 lap in today's second and final qualifying session. He will be followed off the grid by the only rider who can overhaul him in the season finale tomorrow, Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda).
Katsuaki Fujiwara (Kawasaki Motocard.com) is third, because of his fast Friday time and French WSS legend Fabien Foret (Lorenzini by Leoni Kawasaki) is the final front row qualifier. Broc Parkes (Kawasaki Motocard.com) was fifth fastest. ParkinGO BE-1 Triumph rider David Salom is the quickest three-cylinder qualifier in sixth.


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In this Better Angels interview special, host Sarah Brown speaks with James Ashton and Viveka Alvestrand, co-founders of Oscar's Book Prize, an annual prize for the best books written for under-fives, awarded each year in memory of Oscar Ashton.
Oscar's Book Prize champions the vital importance of reading to young minds and as Chair of Theirworld, who recently mobilised a global campaign for investment in early learning and pre-primary education, Sarah understands the importance of advocacy such as this.
Invited this year to be a judge of Oscar's Book Prize 2019, Sarah talks to James and Viveka about their young son Oscar, who passed away in 2012 when he was three and a half years old and how Oscar's Book Prize has grown over its six years of operation.


Academic health complexes in South Africa are in crisis due to the lack of both a national governance structure and an integrated funding framework that leave individual health science faculties at the mercy of provincial funding priorities.
In the Western Cape 'not a cent' of the provincial equitable share of health care funding was spent on tertiary services – all the money went to primary and district health care, but its academic health complex served an entire nation.
Professor Bongani Mayosi, Head of the Department of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Chief Specialist at the University of Cape Town, was among several academic health chiefs giving alarming testimony to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health on 21 October 2009.
Sitting alongside Professor Andries Stulting, his acting counterpart at the now almost terminally under-funded School of Medicine at the University of the Free State, Mayosi said it was 'highly inappropriate' to expect provinces to prioritise what was a national function.
He pleaded for government to implement Section 51 of its own National Health Act (2004) which puts Academic Health Complexes (AHCs) squarely under the governance of the national minister of health. The section envisages the minister forming a committee to produce the regulatory framework for governance, funding and planning of academic health complexes.
'The law-makers had the foresight. Yet what we have now is a "mixed masala" of provinces, education departments, local authorities and the national health laboratory services (to name a few), with no governance framework that sets out how the joint mandate is implemented,' Mayosi explained.
Academic health complex leaders did not know whom to approach to secure sufficient funds to carry out critical functions that served the nation and the entire region.
The situation was having dire consequences in terms of health care worker output, research, quality of tertiary health care and practical training, with the Bloemfontein Academic Health Care complex in imminent danger of collapse.
Stulting said a debilitated Pelonomi Hospital (Bloemfontein) was on notice by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) to have its accreditation as a teaching hospital withdrawn unless major problems were resolved.
Basics such as running water and medicines were often absent and overcrowding was standard due to a 50% drop in beds in several disciplines since 2008. This meant that its value as a training platform was fast evaporating while fewer and fewer medical students were enrolling at the university.
If Pelonomi lost its accreditation, undergraduate medical student numbers would have to be cut by at least 33% next year, intern training posts in the province would decrease by 50 - 75% and no new registrars could be appointed.
Of his province he had this to say: 'There's a destruction of the training platform, no coherent plan or policy, inefficient planning and management, lack of resource allocation and R700 million overspending last year; patients and staff are disillusioned.' While there was no money to pay for 'disprins in the pharmacy' the province's new premier spent R11 million celebrating his appointment and more than R1 million on a new Mercedes, he added.
Health Portfolio committee chairperson, Dr Bevan Goqwana (a former Eastern Cape Health MEC), said he visited Pelonomi Hospital earlier this year. 'The sixth and seventh floor didn't even have water,' while infection control was dismal, he reported.
Mayosi said provinces were taking decisions about AHCs that had dire national implications. Data presented at the hearing backed contentions that by 2012 there would be virtually no-one doing clinical research in SA (the current average age of researchers is over 60 with no youngsters entering the field since 2002). This had serious implications for health care delivery.
A Department of Science and Technology panel was due to table findings on the research crisis before the year's end, Mayosi revealed. On tertiary hospital under-funding and under-staffing, Mayosi revealed that at Groote Schuur Hospital there had been a 40% increase in admissions over the last year, but the number of beds was drastically cut.
something I'm sure you would not wish on your father or mother,' he added. Surgical lists had been cut, only some equipment was being replaced (using research funds) and there was a decrease in tertiary level beds, resulting in a diminished capacity to train staff.
Mayosi said most existing nursing training institutions could not provide professional nurses as required by the 2005 Nursing Act (Bachelor of Nursing for entry level to professional nursing) but the Department of Health insisted on talking about increasing and 'revitalising' nursing colleges. Nursing colleges fell under the department of education and so could not prepare nurses as required by the Act, providing only 2-year nursing diplomas.
In a paper presented on behalf of Professor Wynand van der Merwe, chair of the Deans Committee of South African Medical Schools, it emerged that between 2001 and 2007 the number of specialists in the public sector increased by only 4% (from 3 619 in 2001 to 3 765 in 2007). Medical officers in the public sector over the same period increased by 32% (7 261 - 9 588).
The number of public sector medical specialists rose from 8.9 per 100 000 population in 2003 to 9.2 per 100 000 population in 2006. This had dropped to 8.7 per 100 000 population currently (international norm is 20) with a target set for 15 for next year. The current national public sector specialist deficit stands at 2 590.
Current annual production of medical practitioners between the eight academic health complexes was 1 200 with a doubling of this proposed for the year 2014, while the total faculty annual outputs of specialists stood at 450.
Bridging the current gap in specialist requirements over 15 years (assuming no private sector or other demand drivers or changes in current staff exit trends and static population figures) would require a 34% increase in current registrar admissions. Achieving a 15 specialist/100 000 population norm in 15 years would require a 58% increase in registrar admissions.
The Van der Merwe report emphasised that bridging the gap would only begin after 'years' of increased intake (assuming an immediate intake increase).
Professor MH Moola, Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), said under-funding of specialist training at UWC – which produced twice as many dentists as its nearest rival – meant that 31% of its posts were unfilled. Illustrating provincial funding anomalies, he said UWC received R70 million versus the over R100 million of the University of Pretoria (60% white registrars). UWC trained as many African registrars as Medunsa, UP and Wits combined and more coloured registrars than all the other facilities combined.
There was currently one dentist to 1.5 million South Africans and of the 5 430 general dental practitioners, 1 900 were working the UK. Most of South Africa's 302 dental specialists were 'ageing'. With the current national output of 250 dentists annually (plus 30 dental therapists, 50 oral hygienists and 10 specialists), there was 'no ways we can catch up (to meet the demand)'.
He pleaded for national water fluoridation 'within five years', saying this would halve dental decay in children under five. However, getting the departments of health and water affairs to talk to one another was all but impossible. DA health spokesperson, Mike Waters, told the committee 'we're now in the eye of the storm and unless something drastic is done, health care will collapse in this country'.
Goqwana told Izindaba after the hearing that he would summon the national department of health to his committee to discuss nationalising governance and funding structures for AHCs. It was the first time that health science academics had collectively addressed the Health Portfolio Committee.


Mesenchymal Stem Cell treatment has been shown to improve bone tissue formation in babies with osteogenesis imperfecta.
Researchers from Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Sciences have developed an application for mesenchymal stem cells [the same type found in Dental Stem Cells] to provide treatment for children born with osteogenesis imperfecta. The researchers utilized the unique properties of MSCs to facilitate and improve bone tissue formation through in utero transplantations.


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Rare NASA Lunar Dust Collected by Neil Armstrong on the Apollo 11 Mission Is up for Auction
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Particles of lunar dust collected by Neil Armstrong in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission. (Courtesy of Press Bonhams)
Most people want to get rid of dirt, but this special sample of lunar dust is out of this world.
Particles of lunar dust collected by Neil Armstrong in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission are up for auction this month.
Bonhams, the auction company in charge of the sale, estimated the sample to be worth between $800,000 and $1.2 million.
It's the only known lunar dust sample from Apollo 11 that can legally be sold, making it difficult for the auction house to estimate its value, according to Bonhams specialist Adam Stackhouse.
To determine the price range, Stackhouse looked at the other few lunar dust samples that have been sold as well as the significance of the historic event from which it originated.
"I think this estimate gives it a sense of importance," he said, "but it's really difficult to say where it will sell."
The auction is not until mid-April, but people are already expressing interest, according to Stackhouse.
Controversial Past
This particular Apollo 11 relic created some bad blood between its owner and NASA.
Armstrong brought the bag of lunar dust back to Earth, but NASA lost the bag after a loan-out to a museum. It became part of seized property when a space museum director was convicted of fraud and theft.
It ended up being auctioned off by the U.S. Marshalls Service to Illinois resident Nancy Lee Carlson in 2015 for $995.
She sent the bag to NASA for help identifying where it came from, Stackhouse said. Once NASA realized the significance of the bag, the space agency refused to return it to Carlson, he said.
Carlson sued NASA and won, forcing agency officials to return the bag.
Auctioneer Sotheby's sold the bag separately for $1.8 million in 2017.
Carlson is now looking to sell five metal pieces with lunar dust on top that are still in a container from NASA, Stackhouse said.
The auction company independently tested the material to confirm it indeed came from the moon, Stackhouse said.
Bonhams is selling the piece of space history on Carlson's behalf, but she didn't share with Stackhouse why she was interested in offering it for auction.
Officials at NASA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Other Items Up for Sale
If you don't have $1 million lying around, the auction house will be selling other space memorabilia—albeit still expensive.
One item is a fragment of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite the Soviet Union launched into the Earth's orbit in 1957. It's valued at $80,000 to $120,000.
Bonhams will also be selling a map of the moon signed by 15 Apollo astronauts, including Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. It's valued at $20,000 to $30,000.
If you're interested in attending the auction, it will be held April 13 at Bonhams New York gallery.
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With the 6th season of The Office currently going strong on U.S. television, we present to you not just one but three tag your friends pictures featuring your favourite characters from the American comedy series. The tagging pictures for Facebook and MySpace were created by Bobblehead Gary and originally distributed via NettesLayouts.com, a fansite with The Office layouts, graphics and news. Find our Facebook-optimized versions below.
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Click the characters one-by-one and associate them with Facebook friends who resemble them or fit their caption.
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Yes, I am really named Persephone. My parents are hippies. Especially cruel hippies.
Sometimes, in my darker moments, I have wondered if that's why he chose me: because I was named for the queen of Hell.
Melissa's voice shakes me out of my daydream. It was a pleasant daydream, the meandering kind where you drift through nothing in particular. I was thinking about ice cream. It's been six months since I've had ice cream. I've been living on military-surplus MREs for the entire time I've been here. It's a point of honor for me. I eat the same food that the settlers do.
I was thinking about ice cream less for the taste and more for the cold. It's hot. Solkovia is one of those places that's like a time-share sales pitch from hell: Freezing cold in the winter, hot in the summer, and in between a constant rain and chill that makes your bones sore.
Barely bigger than Massachusetts, landlocked Solkovia sits in a vast historical crossroads. Every big-name invading army has passed through here at one point or another. Romans, Huns, Mongols, Turks. It was occupied by the Nazis during World War II and bitterly clenched in Moscow's fist until the Berlin Wall fell.
Now, after all that squeezing by iron fists, this little land has been thrown away. There's no oil here, no strategic reserves, no uranium or coal or bauxite to make into aluminum. The land isn't dead but isn't very fertile either. Since the only interest the Soviets had in this territory was passing through it, they never developed any kind of industry here. It's too far from anywhere to make a useful manufacturing hub.
Solkovia hides her bloody history beneath a blanket of green. The land is beautiful. To the east, the plains stretch out in rolling waves to the Nevet river. Far to the west, barely visible, like distant clouds, the Carpathian Mountains loom with ominous mystery. It looks like something out of a fairy tale.
Dusty wind whips the flap of my tent. The prefab houses are coming along, but, like the other volunteers, I'm roughing it and living off the land with the settlers. When the rains come hard, the tent roofs buckle and spill water through badly patched seams. Dust storms from the south sometimes blanket us with a fine layer of silt that gets everywhere, clinging to my hair and every fold in my skin for days no matter how much I scour myself clean.
There's just enough international aid to get some farms going. The tractors lined up along the road are fifty years old, but their owners have cherished them until they look new. As I step outside, the smell of freshly turned earth fills my nostrils as I breathe deep of unspoiled air.
It's not a bad place. It's not a bad place at all.
The bad place is to the west. Along a disputed border, Solkovia's neighbor, the Principality of Kosztyla, eyes these lands and people. Kosztyla resisted the Germans and they resisted fought the Soviets, and they did it without Western aid. Sitting on gold mines and the only oil reserves in this part of the world, Kosztyla is one of the wealthiest small nations on the planet.
Barely bigger than Solkovia, it has over a thousand times the gross domestic product, though ninety-nine percent of the wealth is controlled by the ruling family, headed by one of the last crown princes in the world. Just last year the crown prince announced that his country had just discovered massive deposits of rare earth metals, further increasing their wealth.
It's hard to take a deep breath here when you have that looming behind your back. War could break out anytime. With no allies and no real value to the international community, Solkovia would end up as nothing more than a Twitter hashtag if Kosztyla decided to cross the border. The States wouldn't even bother dropping a bomb or sending a cruise missile. Kosztyla is too important.
Our mission here isn't supported either. I'm on my own.
My best friend in camp is Melissa Greene. Her parents weren't hippies. She wears her cross around her neck prominently, prays three times a day, and preaches her evangelical faith to the motley assortment of Solkovian faithful. There are Christians, both Catholic and Orthodox, a small number of Jews and Muslims, and an even smaller number of keepers of what they call the old faith, a kind of folk magic.


The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) enacted important protections for U.S. workers in both the public and private sectors. The overtime clause of the FLSA requires time and a half pay for any hours worked in a week over 40 hours. If you make $10 per hour, and if you work 42 hours in a week, you get paid $15 per hour for the two extra hours.
Comp time, on the other hand, allows the employee to take the extra two hours off another week. An employee who works 42 hours one week may work only 38 hours the next. She is paid for 40 hours each week. Since the FLSA was passed in 1938, comp time is illegal. This protects wage laborers in two ways.
1) It discourages employers from requesting extra time in any given week because it is expensive. Some wage laborers may not feel comfortable saying "no" to their boss, because they want to keep their jobs.
2) It ensures that when wage laborers do work extra, they get well compensated.
Unfortunately, the rights of workers under the FLSA are currently under attack. The House of Representatives passed Eric Cantor's Working Families Flexibility Act (H.R. 1406) last Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The Act removes the right to overtime pay and allows employers to "request" employees take comp time, instead.
There is nothing in this Act that offers working families flexibility. Just the opposite is true. As stated above, wage laborers may feel uncomfortable and unsafe saying "no" to comp time. There is no provision in the law for allowing employees to choose when they take the comp time. This Act simply opens the door for employers to take workers away from their families for extra hours and not have to compensate them appropriately. If this passes, more workers will work more overtime for less pay.
Fortunately, Obama has indicated that he would veto the bill. Jezebel quotes the White House as saying, "This legislation undermines the existing right to hard-earned overtime pay, on which many working families rely to make ends meet, while misrepresenting itself as a workplace-flexibility measure that gives power to employees over their own schedules." Thank you, President Barack Obama, for promising to stand up for working families.
Tell your working friends that the conservative House of Representatives is threatening their rights. Leave a comment or talk to us on Twitter.


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Is settler colonialism still occurring today?
What are 3 examples of imperialism?
What are the 3 types of imperialism?
Which countries are imperialist?
Which country suffered the most from imperialism?
What are the 3 main reasons for imperialism?
What major problems did colonialism bring?
Why was Western imperialism so successful?
Who was one of the loudest voices opposing imperialism?
Why did American anti-imperialists oppose expansion?
What was the main goal of the Anti-Imperialist League?
What was the position of the Anti-Imperialist League toward the US soldiers?
Why did the Anti-Imperialist League oppose annexation of the Philippines?
What argument were used by the Imperialist League to oppose the US annexation of the Philippines?
Why did the Anti-Imperialist League form?
Who opposed the Spanish American War?
Does the Anti-Imperialist League believe Abraham Lincoln would have supported the annexation of the Philippines?
What did the Anti-Imperialist League oppose when it was formed in June of 1898?
According to Laura Hurwitz and Shawn Borque's "Settler Colonialism Primer," "This means that settler colonialism is not just a vicious thing of the past, such as the gold rush, but exists as long as settlers are living on appropriated land and thus exists today."
During this "Age of Imperialism," the United States exerted political, social, and economic control over countries such as the Philippines, Cuba, Germany, Austria, Korea, and Japan.
Three main forms of imperialism are colonies, protectorate, and spheres of influence.
Age of Imperialism
Germany.
Spain.
Great Britain.
Italy.
Portugal.
Three factors fueled American Imperialism.
Economic competition among industrial nations.
Political and military competition, including the creation of a strong naval force.
A belief in the racial and cultural superiority of people of Anglo-Saxon descent.
What major problems did colonialism bring? colonialism brought economic and social problems. Economic: Dutch forced farmers to give 1/5 of their land for export crops and socially- disregarded native culture.
They hoped for new markets to sell to and wanted easy access to natural resources. Why was western Imperialism so successful? Europeans had strong economies, powerful militaries, improved medical technologies, well organized governments. ... They also wanted easy access to manufacturing resources:, maganese, palm oil, etc.
Who was one of the loudest "anti-imperialism" voices during the conflict in the Philippines? mark twain 10.
Why did American Anti-Imperialists oppose expansion? American Anti-Imperialists believed that expansion violated the fundamental principles of American democracy. They believed that the United States would go to war with Japan. They thought that the United States could not be both a democracy and an empire.
The American Anti-Imperialist League: The American Anti-Imperialist League was founded with the object of preventing the Spanish American War "from being perverted into a war for colonial spoils" (Welch 43). Throughout the history of the League its essential goal was to protest against imperialism overseas.
It is sometimes said of the anti-imperialists that they cared more about the effects that colonialism would have on the character of America and Americans than they did about its effects on the peoples who were held as colonies.
Since the Filipinos wanted freedom, annexing their homeland violated the basic American principle that just government derived from the "consent of the governed." Second, and perhaps more practically, the Anti-Imperialists felt that American territory in the Philippines would make it likely that events in Asia would ...
The leagues presented five major arguments against annexation. First, they stated that annexing a territory with no plans for statehood was unprecedented and unconstitutional. Second, they believed that to occupy and govern a foreign people without their consent violated the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
On J, the Anti-imperialist league formed to fight U.S. annexation of the Philippines, citing a variety of reasons ranging from the economic to the legal to the racial to the moral. Cover of meeting held in Chicago by the American Anti-Imperialist League. ...
The anti-imperialists were led by Senator Henry M. Teller, who included in the war bill a promise that the United States would not annex Cuba following the war.
The Anti-Imperialist League did not believe Abraham Lincoln would have supported –the annexation of the Philippines because the Filipinos do not want to be a portion of the United States, and it is said in Lincoln's speech that no man should be ruled with his accord.
The Anti-Imperialist League, which formed in June 1898, was a group of Americans who opposed U.S. imperialism in general, and U.S. annexation of the Philippines in particular. They argued that by denying the Philippines independence, the U.S. would violate its own ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
Did the British colonize Pakistan?
What is the difference between settler colonialism and exploitation colonialism?
What are the consequences of colonialism?
Does colonialism exist today?
How and where did colonization develop?
What is the main purpose of colonization?
What is colonialism and examples?
How does colonization affect our world today?
Who was involved in colonialism?
Is colonialism a crime?
What is Interactionism in psychology?
What is the application of symbolic Interactionism Brainly?
Does colonialism still exist in Canada?
What caused the Native American population to decline?
What is the relationship between sociology and healthcare?
Which is an example of symbolic Interactionism Brainly?
What is the Interactionist perspective on education?
What is the other name of magic bullet theory?
What is the Interactionist theory in sport?
What is Interactionist theory in sport?


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Acceleration of ions in the Earth's magnetosphere, in interplanetary space, and in solar flares; interaction of interstellar gas with the solar wind.
Acceleration of ions and electrons to high energies occurs at many places in the universe inenvironments with rapid reconfiguration of magnetic fields and at shock waves. For example, rapid reconfiguration of magnetic field lines is observed in the magnetotail during magnetospheric substorms. Another well-established laboratory for the in situ study of shock acceleration is the Earth's bow shock. From Earth-orbiting satellites, we study these sites in detail with instrumentation that determines the mass and charge composition as well as the directional andenergy distribution of ions. This information enables us to trace the origin of the accelerated particle populations and establish constraints on acceleration models. The range of our instrument capabilities includes the realm of similar processes during solar flares from the composition of accelerated flare material. The group has developed and is further improving instrumentation based on the time-of-flight technology and on energy loss in thin window proportional counter systems, which are at the forefront of technology.
In the mid-80s this instrumentation has also opened the exciting field of direct studies of the interstellar gas in the heliosphere. Our time-of-flight spectrometer on AMPTE has presented the first direct evidence of ions originating from interstellar gas in the solar wind. From these measurements the density, temperature, and flow velocity of the interstellar gas can be determined.
Our research involves close collaboration with other institutes in the U.S., such as the University of California-Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, University of Maryland, and University of Washington, as well as institutes abroad, including my former home institute, the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany; the University of Bern, Switzerland; and the Centre d`Étude Spatiale et Rayonnement, Toulouse, France.
Graduate students in our group will have the opportunity to work with us on the development and testing of space instrumentation and to analyze data sets from past space missions. They will be able to participate in working team meetings with our colleagues and to attend scientific conferences in the field. Undergraduate students in our group get involved with simulations, calibration and test data and help integrate instrument hardware. Several Senior Projects have been completed in the group in the fields of mechanical engineering, electrical angineering and physics, all embedded in the development of space physics instrumentation.
COSPAR World Space Conference in October, 2002. Dr. Eberhard Mobius is the main scientific organizer!
Cosmology and our View of the World: Recently, interest in contact points as well as problems between physics, philosophy and religion has led to a first interdisciplinary seminar (Preceptorial) with Prof. Paul Brockelman (Religious Studies) for students at all levels.


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MOREE'S favourite racehorse Free Billy is back with a track record-breaking vengeance, making a small but handy team of horses look like bit players in the 1400m XXXX Gold Goondiwindi Cup on Saturday. Free Billy, trained by Peter Sinclair, is owned by the Boar Boar syndicate,...
Mayor Humphries says Moree could "end up with no airline at all"
MOREE Plains Shire Mayor Katrina Humphries says Moree could end up with no air service at all if the proposed deregulation of the Moree-Sydney air route is adopted by Transport for New South Wales. Cr Humphries says the route is simply not big enough to sustain...
Adam Marshall: "I won't support any move which threatens the continuation of regular air passenger services at Moree"
UPDATED: 4.20-pm, February 25 NEW South Wales member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall hopes to meet with Moree Plains Shire Council next week to discuss the proposed deregulation of the Moree-Sydney air service. Mr Marshall, who was recently elevated to NSW minister for Tourism and Major Events as well...
Don't mess with Katrina Humphries: transport minister sent from the fat to the fire over deregulation debate
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Clean up Australia Day looms large in Moree
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MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall is encouraging local veterans' groups and councils to consider applying for grants of up to $10,000 to preserve and enhance the region's war memorials. Mr Marshall said the NSW Community War Memorials Fund was established to help repair, conserve and...
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NORTHERN Tablelands MP Adam Marshall has welcomed the State Government's new $48 million commitment to protect paramedic health, reversing changes that would have seen reduced coverage. "This is truly great news and vindication of the community's campaign in support of our local paramedics," Mr Marshall said. "From...
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Since you are better safe than sorry, here are some tips that can help you avoid becoming a victim of fraud when booking your holiday accommodation."
The safest way to book a villa is through a local company, as it has to take responsibility for the booking and guarantee that you won't lose money. We have seen and inspected each and every villa listed on our site, so you can be sure not only that it exists, but that it is a distinctive and beautiful home in a desirable neighbourhood.
1. Check the pictures match the reality.
Type in the property address into Google Maps to ascertain it exists. You can even use street view in some locations to check the images are real.
2. Pay by credit card using 3D Secure system.
Never pay by bank transfer, banks are under no obligation to cover your losses in case of fraud. A credit card will offer fraud protection. 'MasterCard SecureCode' and 'Verified by Visa' are card-specific instances of a system called '3D Secure'. The system prevents the fraudulent misuse of credit cards in online payment transactions through the requirement of a password. No organisation, other than the authorising bank, will be privy to the information you provide.
3. Don't book on websites that don't have a padlock icon in the address bar.
All reputable websites should contain evidence of a certificate from a recognised body demonstrating that they are safe and secure for users, if the address begins https:// and a closed padlock symbol appears in or next to the address bar, you can be sure that you are in a secure, encrypted session.
If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Don't get too excited before checking the prices of the other properties nearby, your rental should not be too far below the prices of similar rentals in the area.
5. Read the small print.
Some holiday rental sites have protection schemes which will reimburse customers in case of fraud, however, many don't. Be aware before you book.
If you have fallen victim to Internet fraud or have been preyed upon by an Internet scammer you can file a complaint at the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau.


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Sigismund (Sigmund) Leonhard Kohn-Speyer, auch Kohnspeyer (* 29. August 1830 in Frankfurt am Main; † 20. Mai 1895 in Königstein im Taunus) war ein deutscher Kaufmann und Bankier jüdischer Abstammung in Frankfurt.

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Kohn-Speyer war ein wohlhabender und zugleich wohltätiger Frankfurter Kaufmann, mindestens in der Zeit von 1860 bis 1869 in der Bleichstraße 30 ansässig. Er war der Sohn des jüdischen Händlers Leopold Isaak Kohn-Speyer. Am 8. Februar 1870 erhielt Kohn-Speyer bei einer öffentlichen Versteigerung für nur 276.000 Gulden den Zuschlag für die "Mechanische Baumwollen-Spinnerei" in Kulmbach. Er gründete darauf hin mit anderen Kapitalgebern eine neue Aktiengesellschaft.

Kohn-Speyer war Präsident des Frankfurter Theaterausschusses und von 1868 bis 1877 Direktor des Frankfurter Stadttheaters. Er war Mitglied des Physikalischen Vereins, seit 1860 der Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung und seit 1865 der "Gesellschaft für Handel, Industrie und Wissenschaft" zu Frankfurt. Außerdem war er Aktionär, Verwaltungsratsmitglied und Förderer des Zoologischen Gartens und Mitglied des Planungsausschusses zur Internationalen Elektrotechnischen Ausstellung 1891. Schließlich war er auch Vorstandsmitglied des Frankfurter Schützenvereins. Zudem war er Mitglied der Frankfurter Freimaurerloge Zur aufgehenden Morgenröthe.

Kohn-Speyer war im Jahr 1867 einer der ersten Frankfurter Bürger, die in Königstein im Taunus einen Sommersitz erwarben. Im Jahr 1869 konnte in Königstein dank seiner finanziellen Unterstützung ein Bauplatz für eine Synagoge gekauft werden. Am 13. September 1906 wurde die dort, im Seilerbahnweg, erbaute Synagoge feierlich eingeweiht. Er gehört zu den Förderern der ersten Kronberger Bahnverbindung. Er war Förderer und Schatzmeister des Komitees zum Bau des Niederwalddenkmals.

Kohn-Speyer heiratete 1871 die Sopranistin Antonie Labitzky (* 19. November 1833 in Petschau, Böhmen; † 1. August 1894 in Königstein im Taunus), Tochter des Kapellmeisters Joseph Labitzky (1802–1881) und der Antonie Herget. Die Opernsängerin war seit 1856 nach zwei Probegastspielen gefeierter Publikumsliebling des Frankfurter Stadttheaters, zog sich aber nach der Hochzeit von der Bühne zurück.

Er starb am 20. Mai 1895 in seinem 65. Lebensjahr. Aufgrund seiner guten Beziehungen zum deutschen Kaiserhaus besuchte Kaiserin Friedrich, die im benachbarten Kronberg im Schloss Friedrichshof wohnte, als eine der ersten Kondolierenden seine Familie und nahm auch an seinem Begräbnis teil. Kohn-Speyer wurde – wie schon neun Monate zuvor seine Ehefrau – auf dem Königsteiner Friedhof begraben.

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Er war der erste Ehrenbürger der Stadt Königstein
Roter Adlerorden

Literatur
Heinz Sturm-Gordramstein: Juden in Königstein – Leben, Bedeutung, Schicksale, Stadtarchiv Königstein (Hg.), Königstein im Taunus 1998
Beate Großmann-Hofmann: Sigismund Kohnspeyer – Königsteins erster Ehrenbürger, in: Königsteiner Woche, Band 26 (1995), Heft 42, Seite 1–2

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Bankier
Unternehmer (Frankfurt am Main)
Träger des Roten Adlerordens (Ausprägung unbekannt)
Freimaurer (19. Jahrhundert)
Freimaurer (Deutschland)
Deutscher
Geboren 1830
Gestorben 1895
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Q: How to make dynamic multiple self joins? For simplification let's assume we have a table for students who finished some classes on specific time. given that some students may have complete time null for some classes which they have enrolled but not yet finish.

student_id
name
course_name
complete_time

1
Noah
Database_L2
NULL

1
Noah
Math_L1
2021-02-01

2
Luke
Database_L2
2021-10-8

2
Luke
Database_L1
2021-06-06

2
Luke
Math_L1
2021-03-15

2
Luke
Physics_L1
NULL

1
Noah
Database_L1
2021-08-30

The query is to find the names of students who finished a given class sequence.
For example for given sequence:

*

*(Math_L1, Database_L1) 2 students finished that sequence (Noah & Luke).

*for (Math_L1, Database_L1, Database_L2) only 1 student (Luke).

How can this be done in single query given any sequence?
Edit :

*

*For simplicity, we can assume fixed sequence length of 3

A: If you want to have this dynamic, i.e. a fixed query that works for any number of courses, you could work with aggregation and a string holding the comma-separated classes. For this to work, this string must be in a fixed format, i.e. classes must be ordered alphabetically and separated by a comma (and no additional blank).
set @courses = 'Database_L1,Math_L1';

select name
from mytable
where find_in_set(course_name, @courses)
and complete_time <= now()
group by name
having group_concat(course_name order by course_name) = @courses
order by name;

Demo: https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=mysql_8.0&fiddle=45f43faf9fed09e79998717e9723d5df
As you see, there is no self join needed. We just aggregate by name and see if when looking for the requested classes, we end up with the same class list string as requested (i.e. all those classes are in the string).
My query excludes Noah from the result by the way, because the completion day (2021-08-30) is in the future. If you want to consider future dates as completed (if these can even occur in your real database), then change the WHERE clause accordingly (e.g. to complete_time is not null).

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A housewife, Mrs Lynda Ogedazi, on Tuesday prayed an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos State to dissolve the marriage between her and her husband, Uzor Ogedazi.
She said that this was on the grounds of threat to life and constant beating.
"My lord, there is no more love in our marriage. I want a divorce.
"He constantly beats me and he is always threatening me to move out from my marriage of eight years.
"He comes home very late at night.
"If he calls me to open the door and I ask why he was late and where he was coming from, it will result into serious beating.
Lynda also said that since she gave birth to her second child nine months ago, her husband had not made love to her.
She alleged that he was involving himself in extramarital affairs.
"I want the court to grant me the custody of my two children because my husband is not a responsible man,'' she said.
Lynda, 27, told the court that due to constant beatings from her husband, she had to pack out of her matrimonial home.
She added that she consulted with her parents to refund the bride price her husband paid to them during their traditional wedding.
However, Uzor, 42, in his response denied some of the allegations made by his wife and urged the court to dissolve their marriage.
Ogedazi, who is self-employed and resides in Lawanson area of Surulere, a suburb of Lagos, told the court that he was not against the divorce requested by his wife.


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Cameron Carpenter goes ballistic at UK Immigration
by Clive Paget on March 20, 2014
Deported organist sounds off on Facebook after being held for seven hours before being sent back to Berlin.
Superstar organist Cameron Carpenter has let rip at UK Immigration officials after what he describes as a harrowing seven hours held in detention at Birmingham airport before being put on a plane back to Berlin.
Writing on his Facebook page, the flamboyant musician doesn't hold back revealing that he was questioned and fingerprinted during his time in detention at the hands of "HM Border Force – or rather Tascor, the creepy, vague, Orwellian detention subcontractor they use to keep people awake in brightly lit rooms filled with tearstained children's toys and assorted religious texts."
The organist arrived at 10:30pm and was escorted onto the 7:05am flight back to Germany the next day by armed police. "HM Immigration in Birmingham were totally unaware of the laws governing Permitted Paid Engagement," he writes, explaining that those three words are "all artists entering the UK really need to know."
Praising his management at International Artists who resolved the situation during his flight home, Carpenter was able to return to the UK after a quick shower and turn around in Berlin. "What would become of artists not so fortunate as I am to have such representation, I fearfully wonder", he speculates.
Back in Birmingham he states that he was "detained AGAIN, but much more briefly – where finally the supervisor realized that I had the right to enter".
"I'm here in Birmingham, about 26 hours later. I've missed 66% of my practice time, which isn't fair to the audience, but I will appear and NOT CANCEL OR POSTPONE TOMORROW."
Posting a cheeky photo of a two-fingered salute next to the deportation envelope containing his passport the organist signs off with "I got your majesty's service right here, pal. CC".
If you're a musician who has ever fallen foul of badly informed immigration officials, let us know.
Review: Review: Cameron Carpenter (Sydney Opera House)
★★★☆☆ Flamboyant theatrics deliver a spectacle that often cries out for a bit more subtlety.
Review: If You Could Read My Mind (Carpenter)
Cameron Carpenter is one of those classical music anomalies: he plays the music, but his approach is anything but classical. He'll play anything, from Bach to Bacharach, plus his own daring inventions thrown in for good measure, with a questionable (and frequently controversial) sense of style. This debut disc features his mighty digital touring organ, and begins with the famous Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No 1, played only on the foot pedals (why use hands?). This mutates into a monstrous elaboration that barrels and snarls with echoes of Bach blended with circus kitsch. Think Wurlitzer gone wild. Next is a transcription of Bernstein's raucous Candide Overture. It's a brilliant work, which then jumps to the serene Rachmaninov Vocalise. Then one of his own compositions, followed by Piazzolla's Oblivion. Not to mention his paraphrases of songs like Bacharach's Alfie and Newley and Bricusse's Pure Imagination. The program on the whole is baffling. Carpenter says each work "offers a different taste of ecstasy", and while he does show off the colour range of the touring organ (and his own reckless brand of virtuosity), it's a bit of a mess that misses out on the visual magic of his live shows. There…
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One of the last of her generation, and a pupil of Dupré and Duruflé, passes away at 86.
Review: Rinaldo Alessandrini and his Concerto Italiano: Conductor, harpsichordist and organist with his period-instrument ensemble
Italian conductor, harpsichordist and organist Rinaldo Alessandrini and his versatile period-instrument ensemble Concerto Italiano have for many years possessed a reputation for over-the-top yet technically precise performances of Renaissance and Baroque vocal and instrumental music. Their high-octane recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons has to be heard to be believed, while their ability to communicate the eroticism, febrile intensity and innovatory chiaroscuro of the madrigals of Monteverdi and Gesualdo is treasured amongst connoisseurs of that repertoire. Here they apply their considerable interpretative skills to Italian chamber music written at a time of musical transition, when the polyphonic textures of the Renaissance were giving way to a more homophonic language enlivened by soloistic flights of fancy. Using the Italian string quartet format, which would eventually lead to the classical string quartet, aand filling out the harmonies with theorbo, harpsichord and/or organ, Alessandrini and his fellow musicians explore music written by travelling Italian composers including Frescobaldi, Torelli, Bononcini, Marini, Zanetti, Merula and Castello. Here are the dances, canzones and fantasias long favoured by Renaissance composers, streamlined and then re-embellished, the resulting sonatas and sinfonias electric with virtuosic passages and sometimes belligerent "conversations" among the instruments. A good example of the latter is Castello's…
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From sultry Kate Bush to the gruff bellow of Tom Waits, Carpenter's record collection is as dazzling as his wardrobe.
Review: Oranges and Sunshine (Jim Loach, Hugo Weaving, Emily Watson)
Based on the heart-rending history of forced child migration and the English social worker who committed her life to uncovering the truth, Oranges & Sunshine is a compassionate and deeply moving account of this controversial period in British and Australian history. Directed by Jim Loach (son of British auteur Ken Loach), the film focuses on the experiences of Nottingham native Margaret Humphries (Emily Watson), who in the mid-1980s stumbled upon unfathomable stories of post-war child deportation, her research revealing this practice claimed 130,000 children and took place up until 1970. Margaret becomes the voice of these "Lost Children of the Empire", criss-crossing between dank England and dusty Australia in an effort to reunite families and find answers. Hugo Weaving and David Wenham amplify Watson's big-hearted performance as two of the adult orphans, each haunted by their past and desperate for the truth. Weaving is haggard to Wenham's bristling rage, while a larger ensemble cast also share hair-raising tales of abuse and deprivation. But despite such dedicated performances, this important history ultimately proves too large and complex for a single film. Loach would have done better to mine his extensive television experience and rework this screenplay into a miniseries.


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Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education
Edited by Brendan Cantwell, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Department of Educational Administration, Michigan State University, US, Hamish Coates, Tenured Professor, Tsinghua University's Institute of Education, and Deputy Director, Tsinghua University Global Research Centre for the Assessment of College and Student Development, China and Roger King, Visiting Professor, School of Management, University of Bath, UK
Understanding the politics of Higher Education is becoming more important as the sector is increasingly recognised as a vital source of innovation, skills, economic prosperity, and personal wellbeing. Yet key political differences remain over such issues as who should pay for higher education, how should it be accountable, and how we measure its quality and productivity. Particularly, are states or markets the key in helping to address such matters. The Handbook provides framing perspectives and perspectives, chapters on funding, governance and regulation, and pieces on the political economy of higher education and on the increased role of external stakeholders and indicators.
The Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education reveals valuable new perspectives for understanding higher education. Higher education plays an ever-greater role in contemporary life, creating innovation, skills, prosperity, and wellbeing, and is therefore of increasing importance to understand.
Crafted as a sophisticated entry point, this Handbook takes a wide look at the topic, the state of contemporary research, and future directions. An array of expert international contributors examine important and contentious issues such as who should pay, how to keep higher education accountable, the assurance of quality, boosting productivity and affordability, and the role of states and markets. Experts explain how universities relate to states and societies, the political economy of higher education, planning and resource allocation, regulation and quality, and the politics of stakeholder interests.
Unpacking key issues for both researchers new to the sector and experts alike, this topical Handbook will prove essential and thought-provoking reading for government policymakers, social science researchers, higher education executives, as well as instructors of graduate courses.
'The Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education contains informative studies introducing the political system of higher education in the context of globalization and internationalization.Overall, the book is systematic and comprehensive, and contributes to understanding various political and economic relations in higher education. It also adds to stakeholders' understanding of the changing trends in higher education. In short, the advantages of this book are clear: it has comprehensive content and multidimensional
perspectives.'
– Li Fengliang, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
'An impressive feature of the Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education is the elegant economy with which it incorporates multiplicity, ambiguity and contestation into clear conceptual and organisational frameworks, beginning with a simple two-way matrix comprising social analysis, social action; rational choice, power and conflict. The array of international contributors includes, amongst others, political theorists and political scientists, economists and sociologists, administrators, managers, institutional leaders, finance specialists and policy advisers. They draw on their higher education research, scholarship, consultancy, practice and policy development in Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, and Africa, as well as Latin America and the Middle East.'
– Mary Henkel, retired from Brunel University London, UK
'The Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education is much the best available collection of its kind and the editors are to be congratulated. Topic coverage by the distinguished group of contributors is great, and starting with Brian Pusser's brilliant opening chapter, that sweeps across the field, there's a real excitement in much of the writing. This is sharp and authoritative analysis of the politics of higher education, like a coiled spring, for an increasingly political time—a time in which universities themselves are likely to become more political in future.'
– Simon Marginson, University College London, ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education and Editor-in-Chief, Higher Education
'Politics surrounds academic life. The state, the organization, its actors, and the policies that get developed in tertiary education all function by way of political frameworks. What makes this Handbook useful is not only that it is comprehensive, but also that it crosses national boundaries and provides a geopolitical understanding to complex topics. The authors are experts in the field and the topic is of timely import. Thoughtful. Useful. Provocative.'
– William G. Tierney, University of Southern California, US
Contributors: A.M. Boggs, J. Brennan, A. Calderon, B. Cantwell, D.G. Carew, B. Chapman, H. Coates, G. Croucher, G. Davis, R. Deem, T. DePaola, D. Dohmen, R. Fearnside, C.A. Goldman, A. Grimm, E. Halford, T. Hicks, E. Jerez, B. Jongbloed, A. Kezar, R. King, M. Klemenčič, D. Kristoffersen, M. Krongkaew, S. Lee, B. Lepori, M. Lodge, R. Middlehurst, K. Moore, Å. Olsson, B.Y. Park, A. Pettigrew, S. Popenici, B. Pusser, S.L. Robertson, P. Rohan, C. Sá, E. Sabzalieva, D. Van Damme, M. Van Der Wende, M. Vukasovic, R. Wagenaar, S.U. Weerakkody, M. Wells, R. Yang, C. Ziguras
Introduction: The politics of higher education
Brendan Cantwell, Hamish Coates and Roger King
PART 1 THE UNIVERSITY, STATE AND SOCIETY
1. The State and the Civil Society in the Scholarship of Higher Education
Brian Pusser
2. Trust, universities and the state
Gwilym Croucher and Glyn Davis
3. The politics of university governance and United Kingdom devolution
Andrew M. Boggs and Robin Middlehurst
4. Transformations of higher education institutions in the Chinese tradition
Rui Yang
5. The Social Dimension of Higher Education: reproductive and transformative
PART II POLITICAL ECONOMY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
6. Global higher education governance
Dirk Van Damme and Marijk Van der Wende
7. Global higher education and variegated regionalisms
Susan L. Robertson
8. The geopolitics of academic science
Brendan Cantwell and Adam Grimm
9. Scientific nationalism in a globalizing world
Creso Sá and Emma Sabzalieva
10. Soft power projection: The political return on investment in international higher education
Christopher Ziguras
11. The geopolitics of higher education: pursuing success in an uncertain global environment
Angel Calderon
PART III PLANNING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION
12. National resource allocation decisions in higher education: Objectives and dilemmas
Benedetto Lepori and Ben Jongbloed
13. Higher education funding in the context of competing demands for government expenditure
Dieter Dohmen
14. The Political Economy of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme
Bruce Chapman and Timothy Hicks
15. The political economy of Thailand's income contingent and allowance loan (TICAL) scheme: A personal account
Medhi Krongkaew
16. Using workforce data to plan higher education degree programs
Charles A. Goldman and Diana G. Carew
17. The politics of funding for research and development
Alan Pettigrew and Åsa Olsson
PART IV REGULATION AND QUALITY
18. Risk-based regulation in higher education: Why, how, when, and what else?
19. Regulating diversity: The challenges of regulation in pluralistic higher education systems, A UK Case Study
20. Tertiary regulation in Asia: Emerging models
Dorte Kristoffersen, Susanna Lee and Rob Fearnside
21. Regulating higher education: National audit explosions in international markets
Martin Lodge
22. Transparency is the lynchpin for higher education success
Hamish Coates, S. Umesha Weerakkody, Emeline Jerez, Michael Wells and Stefan Popenici
PART V THE POLITICS OF STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS
23. Stakeholder organizations and multi-level governance of higher education
Martina Vukasovic
24. The gender politics of higher education
Rosemary Deem
25. Neoliberalism and faculty roles: The politics of academic work
Adrianna Kezar and Tom DePaola
26. Student politics: Between representation and activism
Manja Klemenčič and Bo Yun Park
27. University-industry collaboration
Peter Rohan and Kenneth Moore
28. Skills and learning gain(s) in twenty-first-century higher education: Politics or policy?
Robert Wagenaar
Education Policy Public Administration and Management
Ending Childhood Obesity
Amandine Garde, Joshua Curtis, Olivier De Schutter
Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, Management and Policy
Eran Vigoda-Gadot, Dana R. Vashdi
Politics for Hire
Stefan Svallfors
Science Evaluation and Status Creation
Peter Edlund


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Radio Buzz: Tax Day; Southern States Ravaged by Tornadoes
Talk Radio Buzz
The Radio Buzz... the top talk radio stories of the day.
It's April 18th ---- and it's Tax Day?
...I bet you're saying to yourself right now - isn't that normally on the 15th?
Millions of procrastinators will be scrambling to meet tonight's deadline... A lot of them - filing extensions.
"Well, remember when you file for an extension - it's just an extension of time to file - not an extension to pay."
That was Experienced Former Tax Practitioner David Selig of Truetaxhelp.com speaking with Charlie and Charity at WOAI in San Antonio, TX.
The three extra days - a gift of sorts - thanks to the Nation's Capitol - which observed Emancipation Day - on Tax Day -Friday.
The deadline to file - midnight - tonight.
Buzzing right along...
The tax deadline was probably the last thing on the minds of folks in the South who were battered by storms over the weekend.
"More than 240 tornadoes fell from OK to VA and the Carolinas."
That was Fox News Radio's Todd Starnes - speaking with Tony at WILS in Lansing, MI.
Forty five people were left dead in the storm's wake.
"But there's an amazing story out of Sanford, NC - there was a Lowes there - a home improvement store - and the manager apparently heard the tornado warnings - was able to get all the customers into the back part of the store - the safest part of the store - the images of that Lowes are just incredible - it was destroyed. But believe it or not - everybody got out of that store alive."
I'm Jessica Curtis - and that's your Talk Radio Buzz, from Fox News Radio.


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Its "Masterpice" uprights and grands have absolutely gorgeous cabinets that compare to any being made in the world today. Their red spruce soundboards and ribs come from Val Di Fiemme and are made by world-renown Ciresa, while their actions and hammers are made by Renner, strings by Roslau and Degen, and pins by Klinke. The pianos are rated as Performance Grade by Larry Fine and are known for their warm "European" sound. To our mind, the Schulze Pollman uprights compare with any that are being made in the world today, but less expensive than its more well-known Performance Grade competitors. The 197 grand piano is so beautiful on the inside it was featured at the museum of art in Milan. If you are looking for an exquisite piano that looks beautiful and has a sound that matches and exceeds other European pianos, come hear our Schulze Pullmanns.
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Renner Actions - All masterpiece series pianos feature German Renner actions. Standard in many of the world's finest pianos.
Ciresa Soundboards - Most Schulze Pollmann pianos feature red spruce soundboards and ribs from the Val Di Fiemme where Stradivarius chose the wood for his famous violins.
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Two Leeds legends grace the stage at The Grand Opera House in York to talk about their brilliant careers at Leeds United and what it's like playing at the top level in the beautiful game on August 28th.
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1 To make sauce, combine all ingredients in small saucepan over a medium to high heat. Bring to boil. Gently boil, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes, or until slightly thickened and glossy.
2 Heat a large, oiled barbecue at plate over a medium heat. Add lamb. Cook for about 3 to 4 minutes on each side, for medium, or until cooked to your liking. Remove. Rest, loosely covered with foil for 5 minutes. Thickly slice.
3 Combine capsicums, onions and ginger in a large bowl. Add to same, hot at plate. Cook for about 3 minutes, turning occasionally, or until tender. Remove.
4 Arrange vegetables on a serving plate. Top with lamb. Pour over sauce. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Garnish with onions. Serve with rice.


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Star Trek cast and more pay tribute to Anton Yelchin
By Amon Warmann 20 June 2016
It was sadly confirmed over the weekend that Star Trek star Anton Yelchin has tragically died at the age of 27 following a freak car accident.
It's terribly sad news, not least because the talented actor had impressed in a number of other movies - including Like Crazy, Terminator: Salvation, Alpha Dog, and more recently Green Room - and still clearly had so much left to give. By all accounts he was well-liked across the industry too, something which has become even more apparent in the wake of his passing.
The cast and crew of the rebooted Star Trek franchise (and more) have filled Twitter with tributes to the actor who will reprise his role as Chekov in Star Trek Beyond when it hits cinemas this July.
Still in shock. Rest in peace, Anton. Your passion and enthusiasm will live on with everyone that had the pleasure of knowing you.June 19, 2016
I can't believe it , I m fckn hurting bad !June 19, 2016
I loved Anton Yelchin so much. He was a true artist - curious, beautiful, courageous. He was a great pal and a great son. I'm in ruins.June 19, 2016
our dear friend. our comrade. our anton. one of the most open and intellectually curious people… https://t.co/zgTxXmyrbDJune 19, 2016
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Simon Pegg rep sent statement from him on #StarTrek co-star Anton Yelchin's tragic death @NewsweekEurope @Newsweek pic.twitter.com/kVOZLWNHLWJune 20, 2016
Sad news for such a talented young man. Condolences to the family of Anton Yelchin.June 20, 2016
Absolutely shocked and deeply saddened to hear of Anton Yelchin's passing.June 20, 2016
Anton Yelchin was a bright, brilliant talent, and a truly kind person. I was so taken by him, and won't ever forget his sweet smile. RIPJune 19, 2016
Anton Yelchin. Gone way too soon. So sad.June 19, 2016
So very sad to hear the awful news about Anton Yelchin. Such a fine actor with his whole career ahead of him. He will be remembered always.June 19, 2016
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