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Dubravka Tomšič
Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak
Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak (pianiste uit Joegoslavië)
Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak (Slovenian pianist)
Dubravka Tomšičová
Srebotnjak, Dubravka Tomšič-
Srebotnjak-Tomšič, Dubravka
Tomsic, Dobravka
Tomšič, Dubravka
Tomšič-Srebotnjak, Dubravka
Tomsik, Dubravka
Томшич, Дубравка
ドゥブラフカ・トムシッチ・スレボトニャク
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Čápová, Silvia
Carrère music
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849))
London Festival Orchestra
Nanut, Anton
Nanut, Anton (1932-..)
Németh, Pál (1950- ))
Radiotelevizija Ljubljana Simfonijski Orkestar
Schmalfuss, Peter
Scholz, Alfred (1920-..)
Simfonični orkester RTV (Ljubljana)
Zagrebački solisti
3 Nocturnes for Piano, op. 62: Liebestraum no. 3 in A-flat major, G. 541: "O lieb so lang' Du lieben kannst": Poco allegro con affetto
A-dur/ A major in La maggiore L. 391
Abenteuer Klassik
Adagio sostenuto from Moonlight Sonata, Op. 27 No. 2
Alessandro i Domenico Scarlatti.
Antonio Vivaldi und seine Zeit
B-dur/ B flat major/ in Si bemolle maggiore L. 396
Bagatelle in A minor, no. 59, Für Elise
Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise"
Ballade no. 1 in G minor, op. 23
Beethoven (Symphonia Digital Classics)
Berceuse in D major
C-dur/ C major/ in Do maggiore L. 104
c-moll/ C minor/ in Do minore L. 352
Clair De Lune (from Twilight)
Classic dreams
Concerti famosi per pianoforte.
Concertino za klavir in godala
Concerto pour piano et orchestre n ° 3 en ut mineur Op 37
Consolation no. 3 in D-flat major, S. 172: Lento placido
d-moll/ D minor/ in Re minore L.366
d-moll/ d minor/ in Re minore L. 413
E-dur/ E major/ in Mi maggiore L. 210
Estampes, Jardins sous la plui
Estampes, Pagodes
Estampes, Soiree dans Granade
Etudein C minor op. 10/2 (Revolutionary)
f-moll/ F minor/ in Fa minore L. 118
Fantaisie Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. 66
Fantaisie - Impromptu No 14 en ut dièse mineur Op. 66
Fantaisie in F minor, op 49 (12 min 08 s)
Fantasie f-moll, op. 49
Fantasy for piano in F minor/A flat major, Op. 49, C. 42
Fantasy-Impromptu for piano in C sharp minor, Op. 66, CT. 46
Fantasy no. 2
Fantasy, op. 49: Tempo di arcia (Grave) / Lento sostenuto / Adagio sostenuto
From Preludes Book II, No. III - La Puerta del vino
From Preludes Book II, No. IX - Hommage a S. Pickwick Esq., P.P.M.P.C
From Preludes Book II, No. VII - La Terrasse des audience du claire de lune
From Preludes Book II, No. VIII = Ondine
From Preludes Book II, No. X - Canope
From Preludes Book II, No. X! - Les Tierces alternees
From Preludes Book II, No. XII - Faux d'artifice
G-dur/ G major/ in Sol maggiore L. 103
G-dur/ G major/ in Sol maggiore L.349
Grand Valse Brillante, Op. 18
Grand Valse, Op.42
Harpsichord Sonata in C minor
Impromptu N °2 in F sharp major, op 36 (5 min 52 s)
Impromptu No. 1 in A-flat major, Op. 29: Allegro assai
Impromptu no. 1 op.29 in A flat major: Allegro assai
Impromptu No. 2 in F-sharp major, Op. 36: Andantino
Impromptu no. 2 op. 36 in F sharp major: Andantino
Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat major, Op. 51: Vivace
Impromptu no. 3 op. 51 in G Flat major: Vivace
Impromptu no. 4 in C-sharp minor, op. 66 "Fantaisie Impromptu"
Impromptu No. 4 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 66: Fantasie-Impromptu
Impromptu no. 4 op. 66 in C sharp minor (Fantasia Impromptu)
Impromptu Nr. 1, Op. 29
Impromptu Op. 66 in C sharp minor "Fantaisie Impromptu"
Impromptu, op. Posth. 66: Allegro agitato
Impromptus No. 1 in A flat major op. 29
Impromptus No. 2 in F sharp major op. 36
Impromptus No. 3 in G flat major op. 51
Impromptus, Op. 29: No. 1 in A-Flat Major: Allegro assai
Impromptus, Op. 36: No. 2 in F-Sharp Major: Andantino
Impromptus, Op. 51: No. 3 in G-Flat Major: Vivace
In the Evening, no. 1
Instrumental music.
Intermezzo in Des-Dur Op. 117 No.2 (Dubravka Tomsic)
Isle Joyeuse, L'
Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971: Andante
Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971: III. Presto
Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971: Moderato
Italienisches Konzert
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, KK. 1, L 366: Allegro
Keyboard Sonata L103 in G major
Keyboard Sonata L104 in C major
Keyboard Sonata L118 in F minor
Keyboard Sonata L210 in E major
Keyboard Sonata L352 in C minor
Keyboard Sonata L391 in A major
Keyboard Sonata L396 in B-flat major
Keyboard Sonata L413 in D minor
Klassik for lovers
Klavierkonzerte
Klaviermūzika.
Klaviersonaten
Konzerte, Kl Orch, op. 37
Liebestraum
Ljetne igre Festival Dubrovnik 1960
Mazurka Cis-Moll/in C-sharp minor, op. 63/3
Mazurka Cis-Moll, Op.63, No.1
Mazurka F-Moll/in F Minor, op. 63/2
Mazurka in a-Moll, Op. 68 Nr. 2
Mazurka in C-sharp minor, op. 63 no. 3
Mazurka in cis-Moll, Op. 63 Nr. 3
Mazurka in F-Dur, Op. 68 Nr. 3
Mazurka in f-Moll, Op. 63 Nr. 2
Mazurka no. 13 in A minor, op. 17 no. 4
Mazurka no. 15 in C, op. 24_2
Mazurka no. 21 in C‐sharp minor, op. 30_4
Mazurka no. 25 in B minor, op. 33_4
Mazurka no. 29 in A‐flat, op. 41_4
Mazurka no. 35 in C minor, op. 56_3
Mazurka no. 36 in A minor, op. 59_1
Mazurka no. 38 in F‐sharp minor, op. 59_3
Mazurka no. 39 in B, op. 63_1
Mazurka no. 40 In F minor, op. 63_2
Meditation the greatest hits
Moment Musicaux no. 3
Mondschein Sonate op. 27, No. 2 in cis‐Moll: Adagio sostenuto
Moonlight Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2: 1st M't Adagio Sostenuto
Moonlight Sonata, op. 27 no. 2: I. Adagio sostenuto (excerpt)
Moonlight Sonata op.27 no.2 in C sharp minor: Adagio sostenuto
Moonlight Sonata op.27 no.2 in C sharp minor: Allegretto
Moonlight Sonata op.27 no.2 in C sharp minor: Presto agitato
Morceaux de Fantasie, op. 3: II. Prélude in C-sharp minor
Musique classique les plus grands chefs-d'oeuvre
Nocturne in B minor
Nocturne in F major
Nocturne in G major, Op. 37 No. 2
Nocturne in G minor, Op. 37 No. 1
Nocturne N °2 in D flat major, op 27 (5 min 25 s)
Nocturne op. 27 no. 1 in C sharp minor: Larghetto
Nocturne op. 27 no. 2 in D flat major: Lento sostenuto
Nocturne, op. 37/2: Andantino
Nocturnes, Op. 37: No. 11 in G Minor
Nocturnes, Op. 37: No. 12 in G Major, Op. 37: Andantino
Partita in B-flat major for Harpsichord, BWV 825: I. Prelude
Partita No.1 (Giga)
Partita no. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825: Allemande
Partita no. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825: Courante
Partita no. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825: Menuetto
Partita no. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825: Praeludium
Partita no. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825: Sarabande
Pastorale, Die
Pathétique op.13 in C minor: Allegro con brio
Pathétique op.13 in C minor: Introduzione - Adagio molto
Pathétique op.13 in C minor: Rondo - Allegrtto moderato
Piano Concerto no. 1 in D major, op. 15: Adagio
Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 11: I. Allegro maestoso
Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 11: II. Allegro maestoso: Romanze / Larghetto
Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 11: III. Rondo: Vivace
Piano Concerto no. 21 (Andante)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37: I. Allegro con brio
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37: II. Largo
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37: III. Rondo. Allegro
Piano music.
Piano Sonata no. 2 in B‐flat minor op. 35: Funeral March
Piano Sonata no. 21 in C major, op. 53 "Waldstein": II. Introduzione. Adagio molto
Piano Sonata no. 21 in C major, op. 53 "Waldstein": III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato
Piano Sonata no. 21 "Waldstein" in C major, op. 53: II. Adagio molto
Piano Sonata no. 21 "Waldstein" in C major, op. 53: III. Rondo: Allegretto moderato
Piano Sonata no. 23 in F minor, op. 57 'Appassionata': I. Allegro assai
Piano Sonata no. 23 in F minor, op. 57 'Appassionata': II. Andante con moto
Piano Sonata no. 23 in F minor, op. 57 'Appassionata': III. Allegro ma non troppo
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": I. Grave – Allegro di molto e con brio
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": II. Adagio cantabile
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": III. Rondo. Allegro
Plus Que Lente, La
Polonaises, op. 40: no. 1 in A major, "Military''
Pour le Piano, Prelude
Pour le Piano, Sarabande
Pour le Piano, Toccata
Präludium C-Moll/Prelude in C minor, op. 28/20
Präludium E-Moll/Prelude in E minor, op. 28/4
Prelude E-Moll, Op.28, No.4
Prelude, in A major, op. 28/7
Prelude, in E minor, op. 28/4
Prelude, in G major, op. 28/3
Prelude no. 3 in G major
Prélude no. 4 in E minor, op. 28: Largo
Romance nos. 1 & 2 Moonlight ; Waldstein ; Pathétique
Rondo for Piano no. 3
Scenes from Childhood, op. 15: Dreaming
Scherzo No. 1 In B Minor, Op. 20
Sinfonien, op. 125
Sonata for Piano no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto
Sonata for Piano no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 "Moonlight": II. Allegretto
Sonata for Piano no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 "Moonlight": III. Presto agitato
Sonata for Piano no. 21 in C major, op. 53 "Waldstein": I. Allegro con brio
Sonata for Piano no. 21 in C major, op. 53 "Waldstein": II. Introduzione. Adagio molto
Sonata for Piano no. 21 in C major, op. 53 "Waldstein": III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo
Sonata for Piano No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": I. Allegro assai
Sonata for Piano no. 23 in F minor, op. 57 "Appassionata": II. Andante con moto (attacca)
Sonata for Piano No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": III. Allegro ma non troppo
Sonata in A major L 391
Sonata in B Flat, L 396 (4 min 10 s)
Sonata in B flat major L 396
Sonata in C major L 104
Sonata in C minor L 352
Sonata in D minor L 366
Sonata in E major L 210
Sonata in F minor, L 118 (8 min 45 s)
Sonata in F minor L 383
Sonata in G, L 487 (2 min 14 s)
Sonata in G major L 103
Sonata, L 104 "La caccia"
Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor for Piano, Op. 27 No. 2, "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto
Sonata No. 14 op. 27/2 in C sharp minor "Moonlight": Adagio Sostenuto
Sonata No. 8 in C Minor for Piano, Op. 13, "Pathétique": II. Adagio cantabile
Sonate für Klavier No. 21 C-Dur, Op. 53 "Waldstein": II. Introduzione. Adagio molto
Sonate für Klavier No. 21 C-Dur, Op. 53 "Waldstein": III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo
Sonate no. 21 C-Dur op. 53 "Waldstein-Sonate"
Sonātes
Sunčana polja
Sunny fields [SR] 1973?:
Therapeutica
Three Nocturnes for Piano, Op. 62: Liebestraum No. 3 in A-Flat Major, G 541: "O lieb so lang' Du lieben kannst": Poco allegro con affetto
Three piano pieces
Toccata in D major, BWV 912
Varaždinske barokne večeri 35.
Waldsteiin Sonate op.53 in C major: Adagio cantabile
Waldsteiin Sonate op.53 in C major: Grave - Allegro di molto
Waldsteiin Sonate op.53 in C major: Rondo - Allegro
Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 42, "Grand valse"
Waltz in A minor
Waltz in D‐flat major op. 64/1: Minute Waltz
Waltz no. 1 in E-flat major, op. 18
Waltz No. 14, in E minor, op. posth.
Waltz no. 7 in C-sharp minor, op. 64 no. 2
Waltzes, Op. 39 No. 15 in A-flat major
Waltzes, op. 64: No. 1 in D-flat major, "Minute Waltz"
Waltzes, Op. 64: No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor (from Arthur)
Waltzes, Op. Posth. 69: No. 1 in A-Flat Major, "Farewell Waltz"
Waltzes, Op. Posth. 69: No. 2 in B Minor
Walzer in A flat major, Opus 39, 15
Walzer in Cis-Moll, Op.64, No.2
Walzer Nr. 1 in Es-Dur, Op. 18
Walzer Nr. 7 in cis-Moll, Op. 64 Nr. 2
world of romantic Chopin
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100 Hits of Dancing With the Stars
100 Hollywood Movie Soundtrack Hits (Re-Recorded / Remastered Versions)
100 Kickass Classical Pieces
200 Classical Piano Moments
99 Most Essential Classical Pieces in Movies, The
99 Most Essential Piano Pieces, The
Allegro Classical Spring 2011 Sampler
Berühmte Klavier-Sonaten: Mondschein-Sonate, Pathétique, Waldstein-Sonate
Choix de Sonates pour Piano • Choix de Romances Célèbres pour Violon
Classical Masters: The Best Of Mozart • Bach • Beethoven • Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23: I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - Allegro
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1 in C major, op. 15: I. Allegro con brio
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1 in C major, op. 15: II. Largo
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1 in C major, op. 15: III. Rondo. Allegro
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in D minor Op. 15: Rondo: Allegro non troppo
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 2 in B-flat major, op. 83 (excerpt)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 2 in B-flat major, op. 83: II. Allegro appassionato
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 73 "Emperor": I. Allegro
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 73 "Emperor": II. Adagio un poco mosso
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 73 "Emperor": III. Rondo. Allegro
Concerto for Piano In A Minor Op. 16: Allegro Molto Moderato
Concerto for Piano No. 5 in E flat Major "The Emperor" Op. 73: Adagio un poco mosso
Concerto grosso in G, Pastorale
Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 16: I. Allegro molto moderato
Concerto in G major for Piano and Orchestra, M. 83: II. Adagio assai
Concerto pour piano n°1
Corelli / Albinoni / Scarlatti / Manfredini / Locatelli
Egmont Overture Op. 84
Emperor Concerto / Egmont Overture
Famous Piano Sonatas, The
For Elise
Frédéric Chopin Fantasie - Impromptu
Grandes sonates (No. 8, 14, 23 & 59)
Impromptus - Nocturnes - Fantasy
Impromptus and Nocturnes
Italian Concerto in F / Partita No. 1 / Toccata in D
Italian Concerto, BWV 971 / Partita in B major, BWV 825 / Toccata in D major, BWV 912
Italienisches Konzert / Partita Nr. 1 / Toccata D-Dur
Klassik zum Kuscheln: The Romantic Brahms
Klassiksammlung 24: Beethoven: Meisterhafte Melodien, Die
Klavierkonzert No. 3 / Fidelio Ouvertüre
Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 C-DUR, op. 15: Allegro con brio
Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 C-DUR, op. 15: Largo
Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 C-DUR, op. 15: Rondo: Allegro
Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 B-dur op. 83: 1. Allegro non troppo
Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 B-Dur, Op. 83: I. Allegro non troppo (Symphonieorchester des Slowenischen Rundfunks feat. conductor: Anton Nanut, piano: Dubravka Tomsic)
Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 B-Dur, Op. 83: II. Allegro appassionato (Symphonieorchester des Slowenischen Rundfunks feat. conductor: Anton Nanut, piano: Dubravka Tomsic)
Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 B-Dur, Op. 83: III. Andante (Symphonieorchester des Slowenischen Rundfunks feat. conductor: Anton Nanut, piano: Dubravka Tomsic)
Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 B-Dur, Op. 83: IV. Allegretto grazioso (Symphonieorchester des Slowenischen Rundfunks feat. conductor: Anton Nanut, piano: Dubravka Tomsic)
Klaviersonaten (Piano Sonatas)
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester A-Moll op. 16 (Adagio)
Landscape Classics Series, no. 86
Monumental Classics
Nocturnes / Impromptus / Fantasie in F
Os grandes clássicos: Sonatas para cravo
Piano Concerto in A minor op. 16: Allegro molto moderato
Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54: Allegro vivace
Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54: Andante grazioso
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: I. Allegro molto moderato
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: II. Adagio
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato - Quasi presto - Andante maestoso
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54: I. Allegro affettuoso
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54: III. Allegro vivace
Piano Concerto no. 1 / Romeo and Juliet
Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23: Allegro con fuoco
Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23: Allegro non troppo e molt maestoso — Allegro con spirito
Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23: Andantino semplice — Presto — Tempo I
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15: I. Maestoso
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15: II. Adagio
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15: III. Rondo. Allegro non troppo
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, CT. 47 - I. Allegro maestoso
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11: II. Romance - Larghetto
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11: III. Rondo - Vivace
Piano Concerto no. 1: I. Allegro non troppo
Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18 (Moderato)
Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18: I. Moderato
Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto
Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18: III. Allegro scherzando
Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18: Moderato
Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor op. 21: Larghetto
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 - Allegro vivace
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 - Larghetto
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 - Maestoso
Piano Concerto no. 2: Allegro vivace
Piano Concerto no. 21 "Elvira Madigan" in C major, K. 467: 2. Andante
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K 467: I. Allegro
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K 467: III. Allegro vivace assai
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K 491: I. Allegro
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K 491: II. Larghetto
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K 491: III. Allegretto
Piano Concerto no. 24 in C minor, K. 491: III. Allegretto
Piano Concerto no. 26 "Coronation" in D major, K. 537: 1. Allegro
Piano Concerto no. 26 "Coronation" in D major, K. 537: Allegro
Piano Concerto no. 26 "Coronation" in D major, K. 537: Larghetto
Piano Concerto no. 26 "Coronation" in D major, K. 537: Rondo: Allegretto
Piano Concerto no. 3 / Fidelio Overture
Piano Concerto No. 3 / Piano Sonata No. 23
Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor, op. 37: III. Rondo
Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major, "Emperor": Adagio Un Poco Mosso
Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major, "Emperor": Allegro
Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major, "Emperor": Rondo-Allegro
Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat major, op. 73, "Emperor": Rondo. Allegro
Piano Concerto no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 73: 1st M't Allegro
Piano Concerto no. 5 in E‐flat major op. 73: Rondo. Allegro
Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, op.21 : I. Allegro molto moderato
Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, op.21 : II. Adagio
Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, op.21 : III. Allegretto moderato - Quasi presto - Andante maestoso
Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, op.21 / Piano Concerto No.21 in C major, KV 467 "Elvira Madigan"
Piano Concertos
Piano Concertos: Chopin no. 1 / Mozart no. 26
Piano Masterpieces: 4 Impromptus / 4 Nocturnes / Fantasy, op. 49
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no. 2 / Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (Variation no. 18)
Romantic Piano
Rondo Klavierkonzert No.1 C-Dur op.15
Sea, Volume 2: The Tempestuous Sea, The
Serenade for Strings: Elegie
Sonata Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight" Sonata / Sonata Op. 13 "Pathétique" / Sonata Op. 53. "Waldstein" / Sonata "Für Elise"
Sonaten
Sonates pour piano solo
Symphony No. 5 / Piano Concerto No. 1
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SecretId is a flexible solution for masking the identifiers of ActiveRecord. Using the [Hashids.rb](https://github.com/peterhellberg/hashids.rb) gem we encode the value of your defined primary key to hide the real value to the user.

__This gem does not guarantee the security of masked ids, since Hashids it is reversible.__

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end
```

Now you can try it in your `rails console`.

```ruby
> post = Post.create
=> #<Post id: 1, ...>

> post.id
=> 1

> post.secret_id
=> "v40"

> Post.find("v40")
=> #<Post id: 1, ...>

> Post.find(1, secret_id: false)
=> #<Post id: 1, ...>

> Post.decode_id("v40")
=> 1

> Post.encode_id(1234567890)
=> "xrjlkB1"
```

#### Options

  * __salt__: If you want your identifiers to be different than some other website that are using the same gem, you can use a random string. By default is the name of the model. _Note that this change means that all encoded values will change, therefore any stored url will be invalid_.
  * __min_length__: The smallest possible length of encoded value, by default is set to 3.
  * __alphabet__: Possible characters in what will consist the encoded value, default is a alphanumeric case sensitive string.

```ruby
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend SecretId

  secret_id salt: 'bring_your_own_salt', min_length: 5,
    alphabet: 'define_your_own_alphabet'
end
```

### Configuring views
In your views, use `@post` or `@post.secret_id` instead of `@post.id` for create links, like any of below.

```erb
<%= link_to "Post", @post %>

<%= link_to "Post", post_path(@post) %>

<%= link_to "Post", post_path(@post.secret_id) %>
```

And if you want to show the id remember use `secret_id` method.

### Configuring controllers
For controllers, you only can find the resource with the method `find` (At least for now). For example, suppose you have a `before_action` for action `show` to `find_post` method, like below.

```ruby
def find_post
  @post = Post.find(params[:id])
end
```

Another good news is that this runs smoothly over associations.

```ruby
def find_user_post
  current_user.posts.find(params[:id])
end
```

The above works without problem (even if instead of `params[:id]`, it were a set of ids). But the next example __it will not work__.

```ruby
def find_post
  @post = Post.find_by!(id: params[:id])
end
```

This method, as `find_by`, `where`, and everything like that, its not working for now. But not all is lost. If you want scope your result you can do something like this.

```ruby
def find_post
  @post = Post.where(visible: true).find(params[:id])
end
```

But if you are stubborn you can always use the wildcard for decode id manually.

```ruby
def find_post
  @post = Post.find_by!(id: Post.decode_id(params[:id]))
end
```
_I personally do not recommend this, because if the parameter is not a valid encoded id, it will look for the id `nil`._

## Contributing
Any contribution is welcome.

### Reporting issues

Please try to answer the following questions in your bug report:

- What did you do?
- What did you expect to happen?
- What happened instead?

Make sure to include as much relevant information as possible. Ruby version,
SecretId version, OS version and any stack traces you have are very valuable.

### Pull Requests

- __Add tests!__ Your patch won't be accepted if it doesn't have tests.

- __Document any change in behaviour__. Make sure the README and any  relevant documentation are kept up-to-date.

- __Create topic branches__. Please don't ask us to pull from your master branch.

- __One pull request per feature__. If you want to do more than one thing, send multiple pull requests.

- __Send coherent history__. Make sure each individual commit in your pull request is meaningful. If you had to make multiple intermediate commits while developing, please squash them before sending them to us.

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Rous Unplugged - A little bit of Magic!
Rous Unplugged:
THE SEALS:
THE SOCIETY OF ENTHUSIASTIC AKLANONS FOR LIFE-SAVING SERVICES
ALL PROFITS FROM THE FEBRUARY 28 ROUS UNPLUGGED WERE DONATED TO THE PHILLIPINES-BASED NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION - THE SEALS.
$565 in total!
Bio by Lauren Stockbridge
For 8 months over the period between 2012-2013 I volunteered as a Disaster Management Advisor for the Provincial Government of Kalibo, which is a small town located in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. During this time I made strong connections with my colleagues as well as local volunteer not for profit organisations. My main role was to assist in building capacity of government and non government organisations to better prepare for and respond to natural disasters.
I have been forever inspired by the passion and commitment that existed among dedicated volunteers, yet these organisations seriously lacked sufficient resources.
The highest risk to the very poor communities in and around Kalibo, is severe flooding and typhoons and in November of last year (2013) the biggest ever recorded Typhoon in world history struck the Philippines, killing over 6,000 people and making millions homeless (approx 11 million). Although Kalibo was not the worst hit area, it suffered major damage and recovery efforts still continue with thousands still without homes and in need of basic supplies.
Many of my colleagues and close friends lost their homes, or suffered major damage to their residences, yet they continued to serve in the front line of disaster response assisting desperate families and communities. They are truly inspirational.
Although there has been significant aid given to the Philippines, Kalibo has not been in the media headlines and as such has not been given top priority for aid efforts, compared to other areas.
I would like fundraise monies to be donated to the dedicated not-for-profit disaster response volunteer organisation- the SEALS. I worked directly with this organisation, training there volunteers and can vouch for its authenticity. They are a life saving disaster response organisation, however continue to provide community based services during ongoing recovery. I would also suggest that any monies raised be given priority for those volunteers and colleagues who continue to serve the front line of disaster recovery, who still require assistance in rebuilding. However I would also trust that the SEALS are in a better position to determine where best donated monies are needed the most.
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ABL SPORTS COMPLEX, CAPITOL GROUNDS, KALIBO, AKLAN, PHIL. (5600)
SEC. REGISTRATION NO. E199800949
TEL. NOS. (036) 268-3083
SEALS RESCUE
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John Quincy Adams Ward (29 de junio de 1830 – 1 de mayo de 1910) fue un escultor estadounidense cuyo trabajo más conocido en la estatua de George Washington que se alza en la escalinata del Federal Hall en Nueva York.

Primeros años
Ward fue el cuarto de los ocho hijos de la pareja formada por John Anderson Ward y Eleanor Macbeth en Urbana, Ohio, una ciudad fundada por su abuelo paterno el coronel William Ward. Uno de sus hermanos menores fue el artista Edgar Melville Ward. La familia vivió en la granja de William Ward de más de 240 hectáreas luego de la muerte de este. Al crecer, le gustaba pasar el tiempo esculpiendo figuras de personas y animales en arcilla. El interés de Ward en las formas tridimensionales fue alentado por un vecino y alfarero local, Miles Chatfield. A la edad de 11, Chatfield permitió a Ward manejar su estudio y le enseñó cómo hacer pocillos y decorarlos con bajos relieves. Ward pasó varios años trabajando en la granja de su familia y tras asistir a una exhibición de escultura en Cincinnati en 1847, se desanimó de seguir una carrera artística. Su familia le propuso que estudiara medicina, pero tuvo que abandonar sus estudios después de que contrajera la malaria.

Ward vivió luego con su hermana mayor Eliza y su esposo Jonathan Wheelock Thomas en Brooklyn, donde se entrenó por siete años (1849 a 1856) bajo la tutela del escultor Henry Kirke Brown, quien escribió "J.Q.A. Ward, asst." en su monumento ecuestre de George Washington en Union Square.  Ward fue a Washington en 1857, donde se hizo un nombre haciendo bustos de hombres públicos. En 1861, trabajo para la Ames Manufacturing Company de Chicopee, Massachusetts, proveyendo modelos para objetos decorativos incluyendo empuñaduras de espadas de bronce dorado para el Ejército de la Unión. Ames era una de las mayores fundiciones de latón, bronce y hierro en los Estados Unidos.

Ward estableció un estudio en Nueva York en 1861 y fue elegido para la Academia Nacional de Dibujo de Estados Unidos el año siguiente. Fue presidente de esta academia hasta 1874. En 1882, tuvo una nueva casa y estudio en la calle 52 de Nueva York que fue diseñada para él por su amigo Richard Morris Hunt, quien colaboraría con él en varios proyectos en los siguientes años.

Ward se dedicó a desarrollar una escuela estadounidense de escultura a través de sus organizaciones y enseñanzas. Ocasionalmente tomó estudiantes y asistentes, siendo el más notable Daniel Chester French, Jules Desbois, Francois J. Rey, y Charles Albert López. En 1888-1889, Ward, junto con su asistente de estudio Francois J. Rey y un hombre llamado W. Hunt, dieron una clase de escultura en el Museo Metropolitano de Arte. Cuatro años después, fue invitado por la Universidad de Harvard para dar una serie de conferencias.

Ward se casó tres veces. Se casó con su primera esposa, Anna Bannan, el 10 de febrero de 1858. Luego de su muerte, se casó con Julia Devens Valentine el 19 de junio de 1877. Julia murió dando a luz el 31 de enero de 1879.

Carrera
Los encargos de esculturas en el  estadounidense eran principalmente de bustos retrato y monumentos, en los que Ward era preeminente en su generación. Los escultores también vendían reducciones de bronce para sus trabajos públicos. Ward utilizó las técnicas de duplicación galvanoplásticas, varias de las reducciones de Ward se mantienen hasta la fecha.

Su estatua de bronce de El Peregrino, una representación estilizada de 2.7 metros de uno de los peregrinos, inmigrantes británicos en el Nuevo Mundo liderados por William Bradford quienes salieron desde Plymouth, Inglaterra, en el barco Mayflower en septiembre de 1620, que se encuentra en Pilgrim Hill en Central Park en Nueva York. La estatua mira hacia el oeste en la cima de una pequeña loma en un pedestal rústico de granito que fue creado por el arquitecto Richard Morris Hunt, supervisando el East Drive en la calle 72 este. La estatua fue donada a la ciudad de Nueva York en 1885 por la New England Society of New York.

En 1902, con la colaboración de Paul Wayland Bartlett, hizo el modelo para las esculturas de mármol del frontón de la New York Stock Exchange. El frontón fue esculpido por los hermanos Piccirilli.

Ward participó en varias organizaciones y asociaciones a lo largo de su prolongada carrera. Fue fundador y presidente de la National Sculpture Society (1893–1905), presidente de la National Academy of Design (1874), y miembro de la Fine Arts Federation, la Architectural League, el National Institute of Arts and Letters, la American Academy of Arts and Letters, la American Institute of Architects, la National Arts Club, y la Century Association. Fue parte del Comité Consultivo de Bellas Artes de la Ciudad de Nueva York en la Exposición Mundial de 1893 y en el Comité Consultivo de Escultores en la Exposición de la Compra de Luisiana en 1904. Fue uno de los miembros originales de la Junta de Fideicomisarios del Museo Metropolitano de Arte y ejerció el cargo en su Comité Ejecutivo hasta 1901, así como uno de los primeros fideicomisarios en 1897 para la Academia Americana en Roma.

Murió en su casa en Nueva York en 1910. Una copia de su Cazador indio se levanta en su tumba en Urbana, y su casa en Urbana esta listada en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos.  Sus bocetos se conservan en el Albany Institute of History & Art. Su trabajo fue parte del evento de escultura en las competencias de arte en los Juegos Olímpicos de Ámsterdam 1928.

Referencias

Escultores de Estados Unidos del siglo XX
Escultores de Estados Unidos del siglo XIX
Escultores de Estados Unidos

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Maps and Atlases' new LP up for preorder
The new album from Maps and Atlases, titled Lightlessness Is Nothing, is now up for preorder over at Barsuk (and Amazon). You can stream "Fall Apart," below. The album is the band's first new release in 6 years. It drops on June 1.
By Christopher / May 9, 2018
Song of the Day: Death Cab For Cutie — A Movie Script Ending
The Week's Theme "Death Cab For Cutie: The Barsuk Era" This week marks the release of several reissues from Death Cab For Cutie's tenure over at Barsuk Records. We're here to replay some of our favorite tracks from them. I owe every ounce of my soul to the classic television...
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The Week's Theme "Death Cab For Cutie: The Barsuk Era" This week marks the release of several reissues from Death Cab For Cutie's tenure over at Barsuk Records. We're here to replay some of our favorite tracks from them. Growing up is hard. Even harder still is listening...
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The Week's Theme "Death Cab For Cutie: The Barsuk Era" This week marks the release of several reissues from Death Cab For Cutie's tenure over at Barsuk Records. We're here to replay some of our favorite tracks from them. It's Monday, it will be Monday, or it was recently...
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Barsuk announces Death Cab reissues
Official announcement of the Death Cab For Cutie vinyl reissues has been made by Barsuk, as you can now pre-order The Photo Album, We Have The Facts and Something About Airplanes over at their webstore. The reissues are on 180-gram vinyl and include a download code. In addition, You Can Play These Songs...
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'Why There Are Mountains' LP repressed
The debut full length album from Cymbals Eat Guitars, Why There Are Mountains, is getting repressed by Barsuk Records. The original version is long out-of-print and this includes artwork from the original CD. The records will be shipped out on or around November 11th.
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Surrey's Joy Chapman in a video of her working on scales before her successful world-record attempt to sing the lowest female note. (Photo: youtube.com)
VIDEO: B.C. singer hits world's lowest female note after 'ridiculous' ordeal to set record
'I'm going to do another attempt to smash the record,' Surrey's Joy Chapman promises
Tom Zillich
No woman on earth can sing as low as Joy Chapman.
The Surrey-based singer is now a world-record holder after hitting a very deep 33.57-hertz C1 note.
"It's all official, it's on the Guinness website now," Chapman said of her "Lowest vocal note by a female" world record, achieved Feb. 21 and recorded for a video posted to her Youtube channel.
"It's not even my lowest note, so I'm going to do another attempt to smash the record," she promised.
(Story continues below video of Chapman's world-record low note)
In the minute-long video, Chapman introduces herself as a 52-year-old Surrey resident who works as a singer, songwriter and tribute artist. As a "retro-modern country" musician, she has a 15-song album coming out called Footprint in My Songs.
Her world record is one way for Chapman to get noticed in the music world.
"About a year ago, I was just doing scales and vocal training, and through the years I noticed different vocal coaches kind of freaking out as I'm going down the vocal scale, that it was creeping them out," Chapman recalled with a laugh.
Her niece did some research and discovered that the female record for low-note singing was well above how low Chapman was able to go. "That kind of started this," said Chapman, who lives in the Clayton area, on the Surrey-Langley border.
(Story continues below Facebook post)
Turns out, the record attempt was a long, nerve-wracking ordeal over the past year.
"Everything had gone wrong with all the tries before this one," Chapman said. "It was ridiculous, the number of things that went wrong."
First, there were problems with a low-end limiter on the mic. Days later, Joy's mother slipped into a coma and died, resulting in a sad delay. Later, studio noise aborted another session, and yet more camera issues caused problems.
(Story continues below video of Chapman working on scales before the record attempt)
Understandably, Chapman said she was nervous in the moments before she finally hit the record low note in February. "So uptight with everything," she said her vocals tightened up, so she wasn't able to go as low as she typically can.
"What I can sing is at the end of the sonogram, apparently," Chapman explained. "I'm being lined up with a specialist to scope my vocals to see what's actually happening, for science, that allows me to go that low. It's hypothesized that because I have a condition called hyper-mobility syndrome in my body, that I'm able to lower my larynx than most humans. We'd like to get some universities involved because we need more forensic equipment.
"The sonograms and mics have trouble picking up the notes," Chapman added, "because when you're going as low as I am it becomes difficult to hear the notes. It's almost not notes, it's vibrations at that point."
Online, Chapman's music can be found on joychapmanmusic.com and facebook.com/joychapmanmusic, among other websites.
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Q: Mysql auto insert on new table Can anyone explain me what below code actually do, I have this on my mysqlDB.sql exported file
DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS `alertupdateevent`;
DELIMITER $$
CREATE TRIGGER `alertupdateevent` AFTER INSERT ON `RECOG`
 FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
INSERT INTO `mydb`.`ALERTUPDATES` (`FIRSTNAME`, `LASTNAME`, `CAMNAME`, `TIMESTAMP`, `RESERVE1`, `ALERTTYPE`, `IMGURL`) VALUES (NEW.FIRSTNAME, NEW.LASTNAME, NEW.DOB, NEW.TIMESTAMP, NEW.FACEID, 'RECOG' , NEW.FACEURL);
END
$$
DELIMITER ;

Currently I dealing a project which is not developed by me, and I am not well familiarized with mysql.
The problem I am facing is I have two table in DB like RECOG and ALERTUPDATES and I need to insert data to both of these table(same data), and I can see only one php which insert data to the table `RECOG'.
So my question does the above piece of code insert data automatically to table ALERTUPDATES when data insert on RECOG table by php.

A: Yes, you are correct.
Trigger are used to INSERT UPDATE on some TABLE based on action perform on some TABLE actions like insert, update or delete.
Refer MySQL triggers

A: Try this..
CREATE TRIGGER trigger_name
BEFORE INSERT
   ON table_name FOR EACH ROW

BEGIN

   -- variable declarations

   -- trigger code

END;

Parameters or Arguments
trigger_name

The name of the trigger to create.

BEFORE INSERT

It indicates that the trigger will fire before the INSERT operation is executed.

table_name

The name of the table that the trigger is created on.

RESTRICTIONS
You can not create a BEFORE trigger on a view.
You can update the NEW values.
You can not update the OLD values.

Example:
DELIMITER //

CREATE TRIGGER contacts_before_insert
BEFORE INSERT
   ON contacts FOR EACH ROW

BEGIN

   DECLARE vUser varchar(50);

   -- Find username of person performing INSERT into table
   SELECT USER() INTO vUser;

   -- Update create_date field to current system date
   SET NEW.created_date = SYSDATE();

   -- Update created_by field to the username of the person performing the INSERT
   SET NEW.created_by = vUser;

END; //

DELIMITER ;

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Teaching, Spring 2017
This semester, I'm teaching three game development classes. Here's a bit about each one:
"Intermediate Game Development" at NYU Game Center. This is maybe the 10th time I'm teaching the class; it's a mix of Unity, source control, and 3D art. It's intended for 2nd / 3rd year undergrads in the undergraduate game design program, to give them enough awareness of different tools so they can start to focus their practice in future classes. Teaching it is always challenging... some students double-major in computer science and think the coding lessons are too easy, but for many other students, this is only the second code class they've ever taken. That said, the main point of this class is that code is certainly important, but making a video game involves much more than just code.
"Virtual Reality Studio" at NYU Game Center. This is the second time we're running the VR class, and it's kind of exciting because the department is starting to equip some state-of-the-art Vive workstations. Last year, the lack of motion controllers and room scale capability really limited a lot of project ideas, so hopefully we'll be able to accommodate the student demand better. What's challenging about teaching this semester is that there's a lot of new material: I have to figure out how to teach a Vive workflow AND I'm also trying to mix-up the theoretical readings more. Last year, we spent a lot of time reading Hamlet on the Holodeck, which was helpful, but also way too concerned with narratology for a class that doesn't focus on storytelling.
"Recursive Reality" at Parsons School of Design, Design and Technology. This is the fourth time I'm teaching this VR studio class at Parsons, which differs greatly from the focus at NYU -- here, at least half the students are interested in VR for film / installations. The equipment situation here is a bit less ideal, because no desktop VR HMD is compatible with the school's fleet of Mac workstations. So instead, we're focusing more on mobile VR like Cardboard and Gear, which actually works well for a lot of the students' design goals.
Tags: academic, course notes, virtual reality
Queer Game Studies, "On FeministWhorePurna and the Ludo-material Politics of Gendered Damage Power-ups in Open-World RPG Video Games"
For the upcoming book Queer Game Studies (2017), I contributed a chapter on the "FeministWhore" scandal in the game Dead Island. It is a "ludo-material" political analysis, looking at gameplay as expressed by source code, intended for general audiences. Here, I'll talk a bit about the ideas and process behind writing the chapter, and then briefly summarize the main argument.
First, to remind you, here's the reporting on the scandal back in 2011 from Kotaku:
One of the unlockable skills for Dead Island leading lady Purna allows her to deal extra damage against male victims. It's called Gender Wars in the game, but the original skill was named "Feminist Whore."
There's a lot to unpack here, and one goal of my chapter is to expand what we mean by "representation" in games. Currently, whenever we criticize a game character for its politics, such as a racist or sexist stereotype, we tend to focus on the character art, animation, writing, and voice acting. Why not expand representation to encompass the richness of the entire game experience and game engine itself?
My analysis follows Mark Sample's excellent "Criminal Code: Procedural Logic and Rhetorical Excess in Videogames" in focusing on the procedural politics of game mechanics and balance, and comparing that to the systems as intended from the source code. FeministWhorePurna is an ideal case study: it was a contemporary event with modern game engine architecture and a player / modder community that practically did the gameplay and forensic analysis for me already. (I also forced myself to play a bit of Dead Island to verify everything.)
You'll have to checkout the full book from your library, or buy it, or whatever, to see the full essay, but I'll try to briefly summarize the argument here, and in more game developer-y language as appropriate:
Tags: academic, books, gender, materialism, open worlds, teh gayz, theory
RIP, Vine.
The short video service Vine shut down today. I know a lot of game designers and devs who used Vine to document and share their work, and we're all pretty sad to see it go.
Below is my only claim to Vine fame -- nearly 2,500,000 loops before Vine died. This was a vine of the first sex game I ever made, called Hurt Me Plenty.
After I posted it, it quickly jumped to 1,000,000 loops within a few days. I was stunned. I had never really made anything "viral" before, and it only took me like 10 seconds to record that clip! I mean, numbers and view counts mean very little in the end, but when you haven't done much, even "very little" can be a strong boost to your self-confidence.
The breathtakingly thirsty response to this vine convinced me that there was an audience for my work, and that I should see it through, which is exactly what I needed to hear.
So thanks, Vine... rest in power.
Tags: eulogy, news
rescheduled for Spring 2017: "Level With Me" Twitch level design show now on Tuesdays at 6 PM EST
Just a quick note that my weekly level design show on Twitch, called Level With Me, is now on Tuesdays at 6 PM EST (GMT-5) for the new season. (That's... tomorrow!)
Keep in mind that it's a different kind of video game livestream show -- I talk a lot about the level design and environment art, and freely use cheat codes during difficult segments. I care more about analyzing the game rather than experiencing it "purely" or whatever. It's more like a guided improvised tour than anything.
Feel free to tune-in and hangout as I stumble / cheat my way through Half-Life 1! See you then.
Tags: news, twitch
"Pylons are my penis": a phenomenology of building in Offworld Trading Company and other strategy games
Game feel always has a narrative aspect tied to the player's in-game identity -- but in a top-down strategy game, who are you? Why do you know all this stuff, and why are you able to do the things that you can do?
I'm not asking for more bullshit handwave-y game lore ("it's the future, you're a space wizard") but rather I mean it in terms of interface and "raw experience". Even in strategy games with fog of war, there is still a fantasy of absolute certainty involved with your command. If you see a unit, it's almost definitely there; if you order a unit, they will definitely try to obey your order. If your unit dies, it is definitely dead.
These are all myths and abstractions away from how a real-life military often works, where commanders must constantly act on incomplete information, even about the state of their own forces. Few popular real-time strategy games let troops ignore an order, be routed, or be "missing in action", because maybe that's too unfair or it would weigh down the game a lot. (Some notable exceptions: hardcore military sim games often simulate supply lines and unit morale, the overburdened 2011 game Achron had time-travel and alternate universes of troop movements, while the admirable 2010 experiment R.U.S.E emphasized military intelligence and decoys.)
I'm going to propose that top-down strategy games let players build their own identities, and part of that identity is a body, in the form of your "base."
Tags: aesthetics, arch criticism, architecture, close reading, feel, ian bogost, philosophy, procedurality, rts, theory
Resolutions, 2017
A few general goals for this year:
be more active in VR communities, push for critical theory in VR
finally put out a publicly available VR thing
write more often, finish posts more often (fun fact: apparently I have ~300 draft posts)
finish more games and projects
And some more specific project goals for this year:
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The Imperfect University: More and more regulation
Posted on February 22, 2012 by Paul
More Regulatory Woes
A recent speech by the Universities Minister focused on his apparent desire to reduce regulation for institutions: "We are in a government that understands the value of autonomy," Mr Willetts said.
Mr Willetts talked about the possibility of reducing data collection requirements as well as the likelihood of universities escaping some EU regulation following the shift to majority private funding as a result of the new fees regime.
Both of these would be welcome steps. The burden of excessive regulation is a significant problem for universities. It might be thought that as the size of the public contribution to higher education funding declined this would be reflected in a reduction in red tape. Unfortunately, despite the rhetoric, universities are left with the feeling that the weight of regulation tends to keep growing rather than reducing.
So will the reduction in public funding really mean less government involvement in university affairs? Sadly, no. Rather than cuts in government funding to HE resulting in a bonfire of red tape, there is a whole host of new or augmented regulations, including:
The new fee arrangements which institutions are all deeply engaged in preparing for the implementation of at present
Changed student number controls, with the uncertainties of AAB+ and bidding for the 20,000 students at the margin
The move to more comprehensive annual access agreements with OFFA
The changed financial memorandum between institutions and HEFCE
New visa arrangements for Tier 2, staff, and Tier 4, students, together with monitoring arrangements for the latter
The Key Information Set (KIS) which will require all universities to provide more information to prospective students
The proposed introduction of a Student Charter
The idea of extended transcript information for all graduates through the Higher Education Achievement Record
The revised Quality Assurance Agency institutional review method
The increased burden of Freedom of Information requests
Developments in the work of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator
Charities regulation.
This is only part of the picture. The cost to the sector of compliance with this regulatory framework is significant. And this really is not what universities need right now. Part of the burden is data collection and the Information Landscape Project, announced by the Minister in the same speech, is intended to address this:
The BIS White Paper 'Students at the Heart of the System' discusses a new regulatory framework for HE in England and explicitly tasks HESA, working with the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Higher Education Better Regulation Group and the Information Standards Board for education and skills, to redesign the information landscape in order to arrive at a new system that meets the needs of a wider group of users; reduces the duplication that currently exists and results in timelier and more relevant data.
Will this make a difference? We will see. Universities have been here before though and have yet to see a real impact on regulation.
Policy, Regulation and Lies?
So, how big is the accountability 'burden' on institutions? Looking back over the past dozen years there are several attempts to measure and to reduce or improve regulation. In 2004 PA Consulting, following up an earlier report on accountability costs, investigated changes in accountability costs as perceived by the universities they contacted. The study cited a number of changes since 2000 including the introduction of a revised QAA framework and reduced requirements from HEFCE in terms of bidding, tendering and consultations. The paper concluded, on the basis of its survey, that the accountability cost to the sector had declined over the four year period to the equivalent of £188m (at 2000 prices), a reduction of 25%. However, it is also noted that this was the equivalent to the 'annual income of two large universities' (at that time) and therefore 'a cause for continued attention'. Something of an understatement, especially given the 'slightly disconcerting' range of additional accountability requirements identified in the report. These findings were commented on favourably by the (then) Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education in his presentation of the Government response to the Interim Report of the Better Regulation Review Group (in 2004).
The Better Regulation Review Group was succeeded by the Higher Education Regulation Review Group (HERRG). HERRG was established to 'introduce a stage of informed scrutiny into the policy making process'. The impact of both groups was, arguably, negligible. It is difficult to muster much confidence that the latest incarnations of this kind of task force will be any more beneficial in terms of reducing the bureaucratic burden.
There is always a gap between policy as formulated and as implemented. The simplistic nature of the instrumental interpretation of relationship between policy and evaluation is rational but disconnected from reality. Unfortunately though, evaluation is often seen in this way, as the provision of information to policy makers or stakeholders who prefer simply described and preferably numerical outcomes. The disappointment at the lack of measurable output inevitably leads to a desire for further regulation in order to deliver greater confidence in the results of policy. The consequences of this though can be inimical to the intended ends of the original policy and corrosive of trust.
Victims of our own success
The role of HE in creating the professional labour force of the UK public sector is one example of how successful universities have been and how vital is their role in contemporary society. Given the importance of universities then the desire for intervention should not come as a surprise but the interventionist approach which characterises regulation in HE is also part of wider trends and a diminution of an historical trust which no longer appears to offer adequate reassurance of the quality and standard of HE provision. This decline in trust results in heavy transaction costs and, associated with the move towards controlling institutions via contract and regulation, matters have to become more explicit rather than implicit. It is difficult though to see this reduction in trust in institutions as anything other than a long term and irreversible trend. The very nature of the national quality assurance framework, for example, would seem to reinforce this and it is difficult to imagine that the historical basis of trust can be reconstructed.
Regulations - lots of them
Other angles
Some other interesting views: Martin Wolf [1] has argued that universities are, in effect, a nationalised industry which accepted their financial dependence on the state with the foundation of the UGC in 1919. The government has asked institutions to assure quality without providing the funds needed to ensure it and the less generously the government funds, the more it interferes with the universities. That has certainly been the experience in the last few years. Salter and Tapper [2] suggest that, whereas Robbins saw total institutional freedom as necessary for the efficient operation of universities, in the 1980s the principle of HE regulation was established to ensure the efficient use of public funds and then, having developed this far, specific accountability arrangements were needed.
The costs of regulation of HE outweigh the extremely limited benefits. Indeed the Better Regulation Task Force report says that the HE sector has 'earned the right to more autonomy' and that multiple audits, excessive data requirements and over-restrictive funding are 'symptomatic of a lack of trust between government and the HE sector'.[3] The Chairman of the Task Force observes that 'there is no evidence that the sector is particularly prone to management or financial failings or failures to deliver on academic performance'. The statement suggests that earned autonomy is a key theme for government which wants to see it applied more in HE. The report refers to the PA Consulting study (quoted above) which estimates the accountability burden for HE to be £250m per annum and notes that the National Audit Office regards HE as a low risk sector in terms of fraud and malpractice.
The changes made in HE regulation in the first decade or so of the 21st Century have not resulted in the reduction in burden and cost which is called for. The claimed 25% reduction in the burden of regulation between 2000 and 2004 seems extremely modest in the light of the above (incomplete) list of regulatory interventions which includes a number of new requirements replacing the eliminated accountability demands.
Private HE institutions, which are expected to increase in number under the new fee regime, will benefit from significantly lighter regulation. However, for everyone else there remains the seemingly iron law that as government funding declines the volume and range of government regulation inevitably increases. So, less money and ever greater constraints on how it can be spent. No matter what the Minister may say.
It could be worse?
Things may be difficult in universities but they could be an awful lot worse according to a recent story in the TES about the appearance of Geoff Russell, chief executive of the Skills Funding Agency (SFA), before the Public Accounts Committee which was considering how bureaucracy should be reduced in the FE sector:
Mr Russell's retirement may be imminent but, as the hearing made clear, few expect the red tape that has stifled the sector for so long to be untangled any time soon. The committee was informed that, for every £5 that goes to FE, £1 is swallowed up by bureaucracy. The biggest difficulties, MPs heard, are caused by colleges having to deal with very different data obligations and regulations from several agencies simultaneously. A general FE college offering higher education provision, Mr Lang explained, has to accommodate the requirements of four different funding bodies – the Department for Education, the Young People's Learning Agency, the SFA and the Higher Education Funding Council for England – as well as policy directives from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
That's pretty expensive and works out at more than £150 per student according to the National Audit Office. Things may be bad for the universities but at least they aren't this bad. So, should we feel lucky?
There has been only one substantive change in the last decade to the mass of regulation loaded onto institutions: the ending of subject-based inspection of universities (Subject Review or TQA as it was originally known). Whilst undoubtedly welcome and beneficial, the gain the ending of such inspections represented has more than been replaced by other forms of regulation. So the burden continues to grow. One step forward, two steps back.
What then are universities to do? In order to respond to the ever increasing burden of regulation I would suggest that the following steps are worthy of consideration:
Don't put too much faith in Ministerial rhetoric when it comes to reducing bureaucracy;
When working out how to deal with all of the different regulatory demands try to sort what really matters from what is less important – assuring quality and standards, and complying with the demands of the QAA is pretty important as is legal compliance with health and safety, employment and equality legislation but other regulations may be less significant;
Protect core activities, ie teaching and research, from the impact of regulation as far as is possible;
In most cases, go for minimal compliance rather than 'gold-plating' of procedures to respond to regulation – this often means steering away from what may be seen as 'best practice';
Object to new regulations wherever possible – work with others for greater effect;
Don't be deflected from delivering the agreed university strategy by regulation.
Will we see a reduction in the regulatory burden as Mr Willetts claims? We might, but it is unlikely to make a big difference. My advice? Don't hold your breath.
[1] Wolf, M (2002), 'How to save the British Universities', Singer and Friedlander Lecture, delivered on September 26 2002 at Magdalen College, Oxford
[2] Salter, B and Tapper, T (2000), 'The politics of Governance in Higher Education: the Case of Quality Assurance', Political Studies, 48(1), pp66-87.
[3] Better Regulation Task Force (22 July 2002), Press release for Higher Education: Easing the burden, London: Cabinet Office.
Posted in Admin, Education, fees, Government, HE, Imperfect University, Management, University | Tagged Accountability, bureaucracy, cuts, fees, FOI, HE, HEFCE, KIS, OFFA, OIA, QAA, red tape, regulation, Students, universities, Visas | 9 Replies
Too much data?
Posted on January 9, 2012 by Paul
Will more data help prospective students?
Richard Partington, writing in THE, expresses concern about the 'data overload' which the Key Information Set (KIS) will deliver. He notes that the provision of information to applicants via the KIS is intended to work in a similar way to price comparison websites such as those offering car insurance. And that this, despite what Ministers might think, is not necessarily a good thing:
But what really worries me, is how the data will be "innovatively presented" by the third-party providers whom the government envisages will advise applicants. Comparing universities and courses is already really difficult. Unless students are lucky enough to be supported by excellent careers advisers, they struggle to make sense of substantially incomparable information regarding course content, teaching, learning, costs and support. The problem has arguably been exacerbated by newspaper league tables that seek to distinguish themselves by weighting data differently, or including additional delineators – sometimes of comical spuriousness. The impossibility of comparing like with like will only get worse under the new arrangements. Try, for example, comparing the fee-waiver, bursary and scholarship packages of Oxford and Cambridge. Both are, I believe, strong and broadly similar. But they look very different.
An earlier post noted similar issues around the provision of advice to students in the new system. It seems to me to be quite likely therefore that the excessive provision of detailed but not necessarily meaningfully comparable data will, as Partington suggests, baffle rather than enlighten students.
A currently pretty much empty site shows an example of what the KIS data will look like and it's easy to see how seductive this might be for those looking for a cheap solution to the provision of advice to prospective students
Enlightening or baffling? We'll have to wait and see.
Posted in Admin, Education, Government, HE, Students, University | Tagged Access, Administration, admissions, data, HE, KIS, Students, THE, universities | 3 Replies
Regulation, Regulation, Regulation
Posted on April 15, 2011 by Paul
In University Governance: Questions for a New Era, Professor Malcolm Gillies looks at a whole set of issues around university governance. A previous post noted his suggestion about a greater involvement of alumni but he suggests that they will become more important than the state, at least in governance terms, because of the change in balance of funding from public to private, ie from government to graduate:
42. State denial: The withdrawal of the state as chief funding agent of higher education creates new balances in governance authority. The body which can be most expected to fill that space is the alumni, as they now become the chief funding agent of most English universities in direct replacement of that state interest, through their decades-long repayment of state-provided loans. The alumni also have the greatest, life-long stake in the institution's reputation and its protection. They understand the institution's symbolic value.
But will the reduction in public funding really mean less government involvement in university affairs? Sadly, no. Rather than cuts in government funding to HE resulting in a bonfire of red tape, there is a whole host of new or augmented regulations, including:
The new fee arrangements which institutions are all deeply engaged in considering at present
Student number controls, which may well change in the light of fee developments
Private HE institutions, which are expected to increase in number under the new fee regime, benefit from significantly lighter regulation. However, for everyone else there remains the seemingly iron law that as government funding declines the volume and range of government regulation inevitably increases. So, less money and ever greater constraints on how it can be spent.
Posted in Admin, Education, fees, Government, HE, Management, University | Tagged Accountability, bureaucracy, cuts, fees, FOI, HE, HEFCE, KIS, OFFA, OIA, QAA, red tape, regulation, Students, universities, Visas | 4 Replies
A new ranking for China's universities
According to a recent report on a ranking by the China University Alumni Association, Shanghai's universities rank second in the country behind Beijing in educating future billionaires:
The ranking analyzed the educational background of nearly 2,500 of China's billionaire based on five domestic and overseas rich lists between 1999 and 2010.
"The report aims to encourage college students to set up their own enterprises and provide guidance to them," said Zhao Deguo, editor in chief of the association's website.
Peking University, Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University took the top three spots in the ranking with 79, 70 and 66 billionaire alumni respectively.
Shanghai's Fudan University was in the fourth place with 46 billionaires. Jiao Tong University and East China Normal University made up the Shanghai top three with 25 and nine billionaires respectively.
It's a little cruder than the UK's graduate employment survey but does at least take a long term view. Let's hope that no-one decides it would be good to include this in the new Key Information Set.
A more detailed commentary on the report appears here.
Posted in Alumni, economics, employability, HE, international, League Table, ranking | Tagged Beijing, billionaires, careers, China, employability, HE, international, Key Information Set, KIS, League Table, ranking, Shanghai, Students, universities, world | Leave a reply
Providing information that helps students with HE choices
Posted on December 9, 2010 by Paul
New consultation on providing information that helps students make the right higher education choices
HEFCE has launched a consultation on information for prospective students:
Schools, colleges, universities, student unions and a wide range of other bodies are being asked to comment on the information that higher education (HE) providers publish to help prospective students choose the course and institution that are best for them.
They are invited to respond to a consultation being conducted by HEFCE, Universities UK and GuildHE. The consultation mainly concerns a proposed Key Information Set (KIS) which all publicly funded HE providers in England and Northern Ireland would be required to publish for each course on their web-sites.
The press release continues:
The consultation is informed by the results of research commissioned by HEFCE, and undertaken by Oakleigh Consulting and Staffordshire University, which identified the information current and prospective students identified as 'very useful'. This mostly relates to costs, satisfaction and employability. Information about the fees for each course will also be included.
The intention is that information will be presented in a standardised format on each university and college web-site, looking similar for all courses at all institutions, thus making the information potentially more useful, comparable and accessible. Discussions are also taking place about how the information can be linked to the UCAS web-site.
But do prospective students really need more information? And is this kind of standardised set of data really going to help inform decisions. Or will most students turn to other sources such as The Times League Table rather than this sort of information. Guess we'll find out.
Posted in Admin, Communications, Education, employability, fees, Government, HE, League Table, Management, skills, Students, teaching and learning, University | Tagged Access, admissions, employability, HE, HEFCE, KIS, League Table, ranking, Students, teaching and learning, The Times, UCAS, universities | 2 Replies
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The Beat Generation isn't dead in San Francisco
(CNN) — It began with a poem.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked …"
When Allen Ginsberg read his poem "Howl" at the now-closed Six Gallery in San Francisco on October 7, 1955, he was rising up against the Cold War, the wars in Asia and what President Dwight Eisenhower had dubbed the "military industrial complex."
San Francisco poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, was in the audience and sent Ginsberg a telegram afterward offering to publish it.
From suits to poets
"The Beat poets began the counterculture movement in the arts that is the reason all the artists I know are still here in San Francisco," said Andrew Sean Greer, a San Francisco-based novelist who won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for "Less."
"Ferlinghetti and his friends changed the city from men in gray flannel suits to poets in leaky basements, black and female and queer poets even then," Greer tells CNN Travel. "We're a continuation of that hope and rage and art. I still go to Caffe Trieste with a friend to write and Vesuvio to drink and City Lights for poetry."As he turns 100 on March 24, both Ferlinghetti and City Lights — which remains a beacon of poetry and progressive thought in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood– are celebrating.
City Lights is hosting an open house, galleries are featuring his photographs and paintings and San Francisco Mayor London Breed will declare March 24 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day. There will also be events in New York City for the Bronxville native, who moved to San Francisco after attending University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serving in the US Navy during World War II and graduate school at Columbia University in New York and the Sorbonne in Paris.
"Sunday should be a great day of celebration in Lawrence's honor," said punk art surrealist Winston Smith, who designed the controversial Dead Kennedys' album cover, "In God We Trust, Inc." in 1981.
"He is so very beloved by his friends and neighbors in North Beach and people all round the world. Putting up with the human race for a full century deserves a reward."
Still writing works that matter
Poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, left, and Allen Ginsberg, center, look on with Stella Kerouac, Jack's widow, in 1988.
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His friends and fans won't just celebrate his rich history, including his stand for free speech during the obscenity trial that followed the publication of "Howl and Other Poems." The trial thrust the Beat Generation writers — which included Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady and Ferlinghetti — on the national stage.
Nor do they just honor Ferlinghetti's mark in the world of poetry, notably his 1958 book of poems, "A Coney Island of the Mind."
In this best-seller, he warned of "freeways fifty lanes wide, on a concrete continent, spaced with bland billboards, illustrating imbecile illusions of happiness."
They are celebrating a poet and activist who is still producing works of note. Publishers Weekly called his latest novel, "Little Boy," released on March 19, "stunningly evocative" and "a Proustian celebration of both memory and moments that will delight readers."
Many will head to North Beach to celebrate the past and present of the poet, the bookstore and the publishing company this weekend.
If you can't join the celebration, here are some other ways explore the Beat generation, San Francisco's remarkable literary scene and the Beat Generation's influence on the world.
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
City Lights is still a gathering place for poetry, critical thinking and organizing.
Mauro Aprile Zanetti
Poetry lovers still gather to hear the spoken word at City Lights.
The bookstore has not simply remained a repository of counterculture writing from the 1950s and 1960s. It continues to evolve as a meeting place for poets, writers and literary events and as a place for progressive books and ideas to develop.
The bookstore's latest section, Pedagogies of Resistance, was created in the wake of the 2018 US presidential election.
To get an introduction to City Lights publishing, try the 60th anniversary edition of the "City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology," which was edited by Ferlinghetti himself.
City Lights, 261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133
Punk art and other worms
Punk art surrealist Winston Smith hosts a show opening at the Collage Museum of San Francisco, his North Beach art space that he also calls Grant's Tomb Gallery.
Courtesy Matthew Kadi
As City Lights and the artists who celebrate it continue to evolve and expand their expression beyond the Beat culture, they are paying heed to other artistic formats.
That's why City Lights employees recommend the rare but worthy openings and happenings at Winston Smith's North Beach space, the Collage Museum of San Francisco, which he also calls Grant's Tomb Gallery. In addition to his art for the Dead Kennedys, Smith has illustrated dozens of other album covers and is working on a project for Punk Rock Bowling. (Check his website to see his sporadic show schedule or contact him for an appointment.)
City Lights veterans also recommend Live Worms Gallery, where the Beat Museum first opened a temporary location and where an all-female artist lineup took over the space on the International Day of the Woman earlier this year.
The Beat Museum
Home to an extensive collection of Beat memorabilia, this independently owned (and somewhat tattered) museum is worth a visit to see the physical trappings of these artists, writers, poets and raconteurs. The museum will eventually be shuttered for six months while its building undergoes a city-required seismic retrofit and the owners are fundraising to raise money to reopen after the work is done.
Photographer and videographer Christopher Felver, who has documented Ferlinghetti's life on film and in photographs, has a show of his photos at the museum through June 30.
The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway (at Columbus Avenue), San Francisco, CA 94133
Caffe Trieste
The folks at City Lights still like to visit nearby Caffe Trieste, named for the Italian hometown of founder Giovanni Giotta. where Greer also sometimes writes. The Giotta family claims that the café, which they opened in 1956, was the first espresso coffee house established on the West Coast. Francis Ford Coppola wrote much of the "The Godfather" screenplay at the cafe.
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Mother of rape victim Zahra Navidpour says her family have been threatened by the regime's agents to undertake her daughter's murder, by posting a video clip on the internet.
Zahra Navidpour was found dead at her mother's home on Sunday, January 6, 2018. Her death was initially announced as suicide, but there were suspicions that she had been killed by agents of the member of parliament accused of raping her.
Zahra Navidpour, 28, had been repeatedly raped over 4 years by Salman Khodadadi, the so-called representative of East Azerbaijan Province in the mullahs' parliament.
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On January 17, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced the annual changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino ("HSR") Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976 pre-merger notification thresholds (see attached release). These changes will become effective sometime in mid-February, 30 days after notice is published in the Federal Register. However, please note that to the extent that a transaction is entered into prior to such effective date, the new thresholds will still apply to such transactions as long as the transaction closes on or after the effective date of the new thresholds.
As a brief background summary, under the HSR Act, the FTC and Department of Justice must be notified before mergers, acquisitions and other transactions that meet certain monetary thresholds are consummated. Once the parties have filed their HSR Notification and Report Forms, the enforcement agencies have up to 30 days to decide whether to seek additional information—a process commonly known as a "second request." The parties also have the option to request "Early Termination" which, if granted, will shorten the 30-day waiting period to approximately two weeks. If the 30-day waiting period expires without the issuance of a second request, or if Early Termination is granted, the parties are free to close the transaction immediately. If a second request is issued, the government has 30 days from the date the parties comply with the request to decide whether to let the transaction proceed or attempt to block it in court. Failure to file an HSR Notification and Report Form is subject to a statutory penalty of up to $16,000 per day for noncompliance.
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Although the filing fee itself has not changed, the new filing-fee thresholds will also take effect on the effective date and will apply to transactions filing HSR Notification and Report Form on or after the effective date. For transactions that have been signed but have not closed yet, the applicable filing-fee thresholds are those in effect at the time of filing the HSR Notification and Report Form.
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Why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Split From Prince William and Kate Middleton Is a 'Good Thing'
There was a time when it initially appeared that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle splitting from Prince William and Kate Middleton pointed to a major feud brewing between the couples. Now it seems that their parting was a "good thing," according to a new report.
Was a feud to blame?
Following the decision to split households, with Prince Harry and Markle moving their office to Buckingham Palace and making Frogmore Cottage their home, the Sussexes went on to separate themselves from the Royal Foundation, launched in 2009 by Prince Harry and Prince William and later joined by Middleton and Markle.
This professional separation was not a huge surprise — with the couples venturing off in their own personal directions with their own families, it made sense that their priorities may have changed.
At the time of their impending split from the Royal Foundation, royal commentator Omid Scobie shared on Yahoo UK's The Royal Box: "I think that it would be a lie to say that things weren't patchy with William and Harry at one point, but to call it a feud, to call it a fall-out, is far too extreme."
Scobie added: "I think the best thing that could havehappened for them was to now be in their separate households, workingseparately, being able to come together for special family moments and socialoccasions."
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Did they split because William was 'too controlling'?
One of the emerging rumors that came with the news of the charity split was, naturally, a feud, with commentator Duncan Larcombe telling Yahoo's Royal Box at the time that it was "definitely a sign that things aren't going so swimmingly for the four of them."
A palace insider told the Sunday Times that one reason for Harry and Markle removing themselves was because "William's quite controlling, and he was in control when it was just the three of them, but now he's not."
Larcombe noted: "Meghan and Harry aren't going to becontrolled by William. They are going to do it their way, and there is scope forthem to do that."
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Why the split is a 'good thing'
The couples may have parted ways professionally and theSussexes moved to their own home, but one royal expert believes there's a lotof good that can come from this.
People's Senior News Editor, Erin Hill, claims that since the royal households split, Markle and Middleton have "come back together even stronger."
Presenter Makho Ndlovu questioned the duchesses' relationship on People Now, remarking: "We remember when they announced they would be splitting from William and Kate and moving out of Kensington Palace, we were a bit worried about what that could mean for the relationship between the two couples. But, now their inner circle is telling us that was a good thing?"
Hill shared that it's allowed the two women to "unite," sharing, "It's a good thing and I think everybody can relate. If you can imagine living and working with your in-laws day-to-day. It's a good thing to move away to set up their own households, their own organizations."
She added: "In fact, we are learning they have come back together even stronger, more as a family now rather than colleagues and it is really strengthening these relationships. Kids are uniting them as kids do, they have more in common now."
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Ende 2014 gab es allein in Deutschland rund 25.000 Windkraftanlagen – so eine Statistik des Bundesverbands WindEnergie. Unter anderem durch die Windkraft soll der Atomausstieg vorangetrieben werden. Doch nicht jeder freut sich über die spargeligen Windräder, die mittlerweile nicht nur zu hunderten auf Feldern und Hügelgruppen entstehen, sondern auch immer öfter in Wäldern. Das belegt eine aktuelle Emnid-Umfrage. Zu den Ergebnissen und der Auswirkung der Windkraft auf die Natur berichtet Helke Michael in einem Audiobeitrag, der im Juli 2015 von der Deutschen Wildtierstiftung zur Verfügung gestellt wurde. Zum Beitrag geht es hier ("Medium 1″).
Sprecherin: So Professor Fritz Vahrenholt vom Auftraggeber der Umfrage, der Deutschen Wildtier Stiftung. Und der Schutz von Vögeln ist dringend notwendig, denn sie reagieren sehr sensibel auf Windkraftanlagen.
Sprecherin: Und auch Fledermäusen werden die Windräder zum Verhängnis. Jeder Jahr sterben in Deutschland 240.000 Tiere aufgrund des Unterdrucks, der durch die Anlagen erzeugt wird. Tatsachen, die man nicht ignorieren kann.
Die deutschen zeigen in einer aktuellen Umfrage ein Herz für Wälder. Jedenfalls lehnen es 79 Prozent der von Emnid befragten Bundesbürger ab, dass für den Ausbau der Windenergie Waldgebiete verschwinden oder zerschnitten werden.
Auch schanzer-leben.de berichtete ("Emnid-Umfrage belegt: 79 Prozent der Befragten lehnen Windkraft im Wald ab").
In both my opinion and experience, this book is by far the best book I have encountered and read on the issue of climate change and anthropogenic global warming. Anyone interested in this topic should read a copy. It's that definitive.
The book is a translation of the German version, Der Kalte Sonne, published in 2012. Thus, some of the policy discussions are set in a German context. They do provide a glimpse of what could happen if similar policies are adopted elsewhere as one sees today in the UK.
The sun, including its magnetic cycles, and inner dynamics, exerts the major control on climate variability and climate change.
Six different cycles of solar activity are documented. The climate history of the earth, including the last 150 years, correlate closely with these cycles which range from 11 to 2300 years. Moreover, some are amplified long term by Milankovich orbital parameters.
The current temperature "Pause" is explained in terms of solar cycles and decreasing solar radiation. Likely, a period of cooling is ahead as solar radiation entering a diminished phase.
Chapters 5 (Has the IPCC really done its homework?), 6 (The misunderstood climate amplifiers), and 7 (A look into the future) provide the most detailed and accurate critique of the UN-IPCC's reports I have read (I call it a withering dissection). Thus, projected future temperature increases are expected to be much less than the UN-IPCC infers and the climate 'crisis' is overblown far too much. These chapters are incisive.
The last two chapters deal with German climate and energy policy. They are instructive because the policies are failing, particularly as electricity costs have skyrocketed since implementation. This is becoming a universal problem.
A trivial (or perhaps not) fact I did not know. Before Angela Merkel became Chancellor of Germany, she was the minister of the environment. It appears she was co-opted by the green movement well before her rise to global prominence.
Summary recommendation: Buy this book. Our future may depend on it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: George Devries Klein is a geologist who earned his MA from the University of Kansas and his PhD from Yale University in that field. He worked for Sinclair Research, Inc., and taught at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Illinois @ Urbana Champaign. He is now Professor Emeritus, Geology, University of Illinois @ Urbana Champaign. Between 1996 and 2014, he was president of SD-STRAT Geoscience Consultants, Inc, a geological consulting firm in the petroleum field. He is now retired in Guam.


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Caffe latte (fra italiensk), også kaldet Espresso Latte, er en af de mest populære kaffedrikke på caféer.
Det er en variation over espresso, med 1/3 espresso og 2/3 varm mælk (ca. 65 °C).

Caffe latte ligner lidt den franske café au lait, men her bruges kaffe i stedet for espresso.

Etymologi og stavemåder
Caffe latte er fra italiensk hvor ordene "caffè" og "latte" betyder henholdsvis "kaffe" og "mælk". Det staves med et væld af variationer. På den italienske Wikipedia er det primære opslag "Caffellatte", mens Retskrivningsordbogen og Den Store Danske anvender "caffe latte". Den Danske Ordbog har variationerne "caffè latte" og "caffe latte" som de primære opslag, men nævner også "café latte", "cafe latte" samt "caffelatte". Medierne føjer yderligere versioner til. Lisbeth Knudsen anvendte variationen "caffé latte". På danske caféer ses også tit blot ordet "latte" om "caffe latte".

Det Radikale Venstre og Den kreative klasse
Caffe latte var i 2010'erne i den danske bevidsthed associeret med partiet Det Radikale Venstre.
Den Radikale Anne Martens har selv-reflekterende kaldt sit parti "Caffè latte-parti" og henvist til segmentet "caffé latte vælgere".
Lisbeth Knudsen binder dets opståen sammen med Marianne Jelveds tid som leder.
Begrebet anvendes ofte sarkastisk og negativt af højre-orienterede kommentatorer, således skrev Joachim B. Olsen i 2012 "Så har alle de ineffektive og i forvejen møg forkælede snylter kommuner fået endnu flere penge! Håber du får Café latten galt i halsen Margrethe!"
Bredere bliver det forbundet med Den kreative klasse, "en gruppe, der i frokostpauserne fra reklamebureauerne, kulturinstitutionerne og medievirksomhederne mødtes på de københavnske cafeer, hvor de networkede og talte om globalisering og innovation".
Associationen har været så udbredt at Margrethe Vestager i juni 2005 sagde (i Morten Rasmussens referat): Hver gang folk tager en caffe latte i hånden, kommer de uvilkårligt til at tænke på Det Radikale Venstre.

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