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Q: Filtering data based on matching string after grouping in pandas I want to group by Id and Vehicle and then return only vehicles whose Auction have only 'Merged Salvage' and 'Merged Salvage API' values. Vehicles who have Auction other than these two types will get filtered out. How can I achieve this?
Data:
Id      Vehicle            Auction      Offer
10  1984 Porsche 944     Copart             100
10  1984 Porsche 944     Merged Salvage     200
10  1984 Porsche 944     IAA                140
11  2000 Chevrolet G3500 Copart              80
11  2000 Chevrolet G3500 Merged Salvage     100
11  2000 Chevrolet G3500 Merged Salvage API 120
11  2000 Chevrolet G3500 SVP                130
12  2001 Honda CRV       Merged Salvage      50
12  2001 Honda CRV       Merged Salvage API 100

Expected output:
Id      Vehicle            Auction      Offer
12  2001 Honda CRV       Merged Salvage      50
12  2001 Honda CRV       Merged Salvage API 100

A: I believe a df.groupby operation, followed by dfGroupBy.transform should do it:
In [1097]: status = ['Merged Salvage', 'Merged Salvage API']

In [1098]: df[df.groupby(['Id', 'Vehicle']).Auction\
                 .transform(lambda x: x.isin(status).min())]
Out[1098]:
   Id         Vehicle             Auction  Offer
7  12  2001 Honda CRV      Merged Salvage     50
8  12  2001 Honda CRV  Merged Salvage API    100

The predicate checks for the status using pd.Series.isin.

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The Change in Religion
Eleanor Hull
A History of Ireland and Her People
Of all the causes of unrest by far the most important was the rise of the movement known as the Reformation, and the gradual spread of its doctrines through North-western Europe. Henry VIII himself was no reformer. When Luther hurled defiance at the authority of the Roman see and disputed the truth of its doctrines, the young Tudor prince entered the lists against him with a tract on the Assertion of the Seven Sacraments, for which the Pope, Leo X, rewarded him with the title of 'Defender of the Faith.' But with the growth of his ambition came the design of making himself supreme not only in the State, but in the Church, the chief check hitherto existing upon the absolutism of the Crown.
The gifted young monarch, who in his early life corresponded with Erasmus and debated with More, was in his later years to inaugurate the Tudor despotism which laid its heavy burden upon Church and State alike. The Act of Supremacy vested all ecclesiastical authority in the Crown, and the clergy learned, by one injunction after another, that they were only allowed to retain their offices on condition of becoming the mouthpieces of the King, who dictated alike the form of their faith and the manner in which it was to be preached.
Pushed on from one act of absolutism to another by the ruthless ambition of his minister, Thomas Cromwell, arbitrary acts of taxation, of legislation, and of imprisonment followed each other with startling rapidity.
"He is a prince," said the dying Wolsey, as he lay under arrest at the Abbey of Leicester, "of most royal courage; sooner than miss any part of his will, he will endanger one half of his kingdom."
The passionless and calculating rigour which startles and appals us in reading the State Papers of the Tudor period had its effect in England in revolts all over the country, suppressed with ruthless severity, and in the fall of the noblest heads in England. Leaders of great houses like the aged Countess of Salisbury, and men of the highest virtue and learning like More, fell swiftly one after another upon the block.
It was in such an age and with such a spirit that the question of religious change was approached in Ireland. That country had been little touched by the expansion of intellectual enquiry which was elsewhere stirring in Europe, and which we vaguely designate as the Renaissance.
Both on the intellectual and on the religious side the Irish people were quite unprepared for any change in their religious beliefs, with which they were fully satisfied and which were commended to them by many faithful and devoted lives among the native priests and more especially among the friars. There was, in Ireland, little or no complaint of those monastic irregularities which formed a ready excuse for their despoiling in England when their accumulated wealth was wanted for State purposes or for the reward of needy courtiers and impecunious kings.
What was best in the 'New Religion' never had any chance of appeal in Ireland, and the greedy time-servers on whom alone Henry could rely to carry out his designs were not the type of men to recommend to a people any changes in the form or spirit of their religion.
The crowd of priests, rectors, and vicars whom Sir Thomas More saw crowding into the courtyard at Lambeth, hurrying to take the Oath of Supremacy for the refusal of which he himself sat awaiting the summons of death, were not likely to attract to their 'faith' any of the unconvinced. The men sent over to Ireland to preach the new tenets and enforce the King's claims were of the type of these subservient clerics.
The chief agent of Henry's will was a man named George Browne, Provincial of the Augustinian order in England, who had thrown himself zealously into the plans of the King's minister Cromwell for the "advance of the King's affairs," and who in March 1535 was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin to succeed Dr Alen, who had been so brutally murdered by the followers of Silken Thomas during his rebellion in the preceding year.
Browne was an ignorant and overbearing friar, whom even the King rebuked for his arrogance and inefficiency, and whom Lord Deputy Grey called "a polshorn friar." Indecent in life and blustering in manner, Browne neither won the adhesion of the English of the Pale nor that of the clergy and laity in the provinces. His first duty was to proclaim the Act of Supremacy and force it through the Irish Parliament. Then followed the removal of all religious images out of the cathedrals and churches of his diocese. The suppression of the monasteries came next.[1] From this time the Priory of the Blessed Trinity was changed into a deanery and chapters, and it henceforth bore the name of Christ Church Cathedral.
To Browne's initiative can be traced the first proposals for converting St Patrick's Cathedral into a university for the education of clergy, a plan which figures largely in the correspondence of the time. Among the most revered relics lost in the general destruction was the famous 'Staff of Jesus,' believed by old tradition to have been given to St Patrick by Jesus Christ. It had been removed from Armagh to Dublin in 1180.
The destruction of the sacred places and images, which was carried out with a total disregard of the feelings of the populace, awakened an hostility more vigorous than was the later protest when in 1551 the English liturgy was ordered to be read in the churches.
Browne was strenuously opposed by Cromer, Archbishop of Armagh, and by his successor Dowdall, although the latter had been appointed by Henry and might have been expected to support his policy.
A commission from the Pope prohibiting the acknowledgment of the King's Supremacy arrived in 1538 to support the efforts of the resisting party. Browne's report to Cromwell, on whose commission he acted, could hardly have been pleasing to that minister. "The countryfolk here much hate your lordship," he writes frankly, "and despitefully call you, in their Irish tongue, the blacksmith's son." His forewarning that the new measures were beginning to have the effect of making both the Irish and English races lay aside their old quarrels, "and will, if anything will, cause a foreigner to invade this nation," was destined to be speedily fulfilled.
Even at that moment Conn O'Neill, as Browne had the wit to see, was trying to form with Desmond a Catholic League of the North and South. The violence and rapacity of the Reforming prelates and clergy did more to weld together such leagues than any sense of national or internal union could do; the defence of the old faith provided a link that it was felt drew together all classes of the people, in every part of the country, English and Irish alike.
It began for the first time what we may recognize as a widespread movement directed against English policy, which in the later years of the Tudor tyranny was to become consolidated into a national resistance to English rule. Up to the time of the Reformation any resistance to the claims of England over Ireland had been local, the result of temporary irritation, but no general desire seems to have been felt to rid the country of a supremacy which was taken, after a term of three and a half centuries, almost for granted.
In the still independent districts only was the English suzerainty contested or ignored. There was a general submission to the English Crown, and such outbreaks as there were resulted from special acts of injustice or cruelty, such as the beheading of Desmond or the sacrifice of the five uncles of Silken Thomas on the suppression of his rebellion. But the efforts of Browne and his party did what no political difficulties had ever done. Such a command as that contained in Browne's official exhortation, called "The Form of the Beads," bidding them "obediently to recognize the King's Highness to be supreme head in earth of the Church of England and Ireland … and to show and teach how the Bishop of Rome hath heretofore usurped not only upon God, but also upon our princes," exhorting all to deface him from their primers and other books,[2] was a trumpet-blast which united the nation against the King and gave to the hitherto disunited bodies a common ground of action.
Browne reported that neither by gentle exhortation, evangelical instruction, or sharp correction had he once succeeded, even in the Pale, in getting any to preach the word of God or the just title of the prince.[3]
Even in St Patrick's the parish priest had hardly begun the Beads when the choir began to sing and put a stop to them. To St Leger Browne's energies were hateful. "Go to, go to," he exclaimed, as he saw his work of appeasement being undone by these zealots, "your matters of religion will mar all."[4]
It was during the introduction of the English Book of Common Prayer in Edward VI's reign, which it was sought to make compulsory in Ireland, that opposition first became general. St Leger, to whom it fell to call a convention in 1551 for the purpose of introducing the new Liturgy, was no persecutor, and his affection for the old religion was made the chief ground of complaint against him on his downfall.[5] But in virtue of his office he was obliged to summon an Assembly to enforce the use of the Liturgy in its revised and English form.
A stormy scene ensued. George Dowdall, Archbishop of Armagh, exclaimed, "Then shall every illiterate fellow read Mass."[6] "Your Grace is mistaken," replied Sir Anthony mildly, "for we have too many illiterate priests amongst us already, who can neither pronounce the Latin, nor know what it means, no more than the common people that hear them; but when the people hear the Liturgy in English, they and the priest will understand what they pray for."
It seems clear that the intention was to apply the use of the Prayer Book only in English-speaking districts, but the crude and ridiculous attempt was afterward made to force it also on native congregations.
Dowdall was deprived of his position for his resistance, and Browne was rewarded for his pliancy by being intruded into the Primacy in his place. A few years later we find him bitterly repenting his choice, and praying to be sent to a less conspicuous diocese in place of the poor and difficult post he had been so anxious to obtain in the wild country of Shane O'Neill.
Dowdall was eventually obliged to fly to the Continent, but he was recalled under Mary, and though he had originally been appointed by the Crown his recall was approved by the Pope, and he was reinstated in March 1553.
It is little wonder that the new doctrine made small progress in Ireland. It was neither recommended by the preaching nor by the lives of its first promoters. The monasteries fell into ruins, and the churches languished for lack of clergy. The clergy who remained, "though," in Browne's words, "they could and would preach after the old sort and fashion till right Christians were weary of them, would not once open their lips to proclaim the King's supremacy" or to use the new service book. The Observants were "worse than all the others; for I can make them neither swear nor preach among us." The choirs began to sing their loudest when the new forms of prayer were read.
In 1562, Lord Deputy Sussex reported that the people were without discipline, utterly void of religion, and that they came to divine service as to a May game. A futile effort was made to attract them to church by ordering the new Liturgy to be read in Latin, but when this was discovered it only led to fresh disorders. Even Elizabeth was on one occasion heard to say that she feared the same reproach might fall on her which had been made to Tiberius:
"It is you, you, that are to blame for these evils; you have committed your flocks, not to shepherds, but to wolves."
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Creative solutions needed to meet workforce needs, Ivanka Trump told during area visit
President Trump's daughter, a White House adviser, visits Lockheed
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Keeping Colorado's aerospace industry booming and competitive will require creative approaches to education, officials at Lockheed Martin told Ivanka Trump, senior White House adviser and the …
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Keeping Colorado's aerospace industry booming and competitive will require creative approaches to education, officials at Lockheed Martin told Ivanka Trump, senior White House adviser and the president's daughter, on July 22.
The aerospace giant is facing recruitment challenges in the face of a wave of retiring baby boomers and an insufficient number of graduates with science degrees, Heather Erickson, Lockheed's director of talent and organizational capability, told Trump.
"We're looking at accelerating talent development for today, not tomorrow," Erickson said, touting the Jefferson County defense contractor's apprenticeship programs and blooming partnership with Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Trump visited the facility as part of a national tour for the White House's "Pledge to America's Workers" initiative, which seeks to encourage states, universities and companies to work together to develop apprenticeships and workforce training programs.
Trump participated in a roundtable discussion with Lockheed leaders, local elected officials and internship participants before touring the sprawling facility near Chatfield State Park.
Lockheed's signature skills development program is the Advanced Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship Program, or AMTAP, said Sarah Turner, the program's manager.
AMTAP helps create a "career pipeline" for participants by certifying them in a variety of manufacturing skills, Turner said.
That's crucial, Turner said, because "the ability to afford a four-year degree is increasingly difficult" for many students, with many increasingly turning to trade schools and community colleges.
Lockheed's programs are encouraging, said Denver's deputy mayor Murphy Robinson, because "it's the private sector that will lead" efforts to develop Colorado's workforce.
Trump said America's booming economy with record-low unemployment offers a natural time to innovate and collaborate on training programs.
"The private sector has to tell us what skills are in demand," Trump said. "And we need to make sure skills in tech schools are aligned with those demands."
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search filter All ContentAll JournalsEducation Finance and Policy
How Research Influences Policy
Maximizing Research Use in the World We Actually Live In
Networks and Professional Associations
Embedded Research Directors
Research–Practice Partnerships
From Organizations that Do to Organizations that Learn
Maximizing Research Use in the World We Actually Live In: Relationships, Organizations, and Interpretation
Carrie Conaway
Graduate School of Education Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 carrie_conaway@gse.harvard.edu
© 2019 Association for Education Finance and Policy
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Education Finance and Policy (2020) 15 (1): 1–10.
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Carrie Conaway; Maximizing Research Use in the World We Actually Live In: Relationships, Organizations, and Interpretation. Education Finance and Policy 2020; 15 (1): 1–10. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00299
When I started my job as research director of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education twelve years ago, I thought my job was to figure out what worked. My agency was just beginning to have access to new and exciting longitudinal data on students and educators. I envisioned that I'd use those data along with strong designs for causal inference to determine which programs and policies were working and which were not. Once we knew those answers, I figured, we would get better policy that would improve outcomes for Massachusetts' students.
But in my twelve years in this job, I've learned that the process of improving policy1 through research is much subtler and more complex than I had initially imagined. Research influences policy more often than much of the academic community thinks, and more frequently every day as we learn how to do this work better. But its influence is less linear than researchers expect, and it is driven as much by relationships and organizational capacity as by the actual information studies produce. Research use operates through conversations, not code; structures in organizations, not standard errors; relationships, not randomized controlled trials.
I worry that the growing national efforts to connect research and policy too frequently start from the same "find what works" frame of mind that I did twelve years ago. The "find what works" approach misunderstands the problem of research use as one of lack of information—either lack of information about the impact of a policy or lack of awareness by the policy maker about the available information—and a need for "translation" across sectors (Penuel et al. 2015). This belies the research literature about how research actually plays into the policy decision process. If research is insufficiently used in policy making, it's because we have too few conversations between the policy and research communities, not because we have too few policy briefs.
The research on research use is clear: If we want research to matter for policy, we need to devote resources to building relationships and strengthening organizational practices in service of building organizations that learn. This will require researchers, universities, policy makers, practitioners, and professional associations like the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) to reconsider their activities and priorities and create new ways of working across sectors. This work will be complex, messy, and at times uncomfortable. But it is work worth doing.
The irony of my early years in my role is that if I had stopped to read the research on how research is used in policy making, I might have become effective in my role much faster. Decades of studies on this topic, starting with Carol Weiss's groundbreaking work in the 1970s and 1980s, shed light on when and how research is used to effect organizational and political change (Weiss 1977, 1980, 1982).
A key finding from this literature is that decision making is a process, not an event. Policy makers don't just mark off their calendar for "Decision Day." They gather information on an issue over time and from a variety of sources, often in the absence of a specific pending decision. They make initial choices when decision opportunities arise, and they adjust course in an iterative process (Weiss 1980, 1982; Kingdon 1984). Further, their decisions tend to be less about choosing between programs and more about designing a new system or process for a specific context (Penuel et al. 2017, 2018). Nor, for that matter, is there a singular decision maker. Legislators, bureaucrats, advocates, consultants, and others all play a role in the policy development and implementation process. Decisions "accrete through small uncoordinated steps taken in many offices" (Weiss 1980, p. 382).
Indeed, this is how decisions are made in any organization, not just state houses and school districts. Suppose, for example, that a university was considering creating a new doctoral program in education policy. Conversations about whether to pursue this would probably take place over several years, with many different stakeholders from across the university community weighing in. Program designers would gather information from prior research, but also from other universities with similar programs, funders, student enrollment and market conditions, and so forth. The moment when the provost or president approved the program would be the culmination of years of incremental discussions and decisions, each of which subtly influenced the ultimate outcome. And that process would continue even after the decision was made, as the program was implemented and the department learned which dimensions were succeeding or needed improvement.
It should be no surprise to researchers, then, that policy decisions work exactly the same way. Insights from research certainly weigh in policy makers' minds, but so too do many other factors—personal and community values, constituent concerns, budgets, legal constraints, and so on (Weiss 1982). Indeed, that is how a democratic system is supposed to work. Policy makers' jobs are to consider the available information on an issue and use that information in conjunction with their values and professional judgment to make decisions (Brighouse et al. 2018).
Research may inform those judgments directly, through what Carol Weiss calls "instrumental" use of research (1977). This type of use is what I had in mind when I arrived to my agency—using findings from particular studies to determine next steps for policy development. But just as often, research informs decisions indirectly, by creating new frameworks or ways of thinking about problems. Weiss calls this "conceptual" or "enlightenment" use (Weiss 1977, 1980). This can take different forms, such as introducing new concepts, seeing problems in a new light, shifting understandings about possible solutions, or providing a framework to guide action (Farrell and Coburn 2016b). Weiss argues that "the major effect of research on policy may be the gradual sedimentation of insights, theories, concepts, and ways of looking at the world" (1977, p. 535).
How do policy makers gain access to insights from research? A recent study by the National Center for Research on Policy and Practice sheds light. Surveying a nationally representative sample of district leaders in midsize and large districts, the report finds that both the format and the messenger are critical. When asked to cite a piece of research that influenced their work, 58 percent of respondents cited a book; the next most common was a policy report, at 17 percent. Individual articles from peer-reviewed journals were even less frequently cited (Penuel et al. 2018). Respondents also rarely reported learning about research directly from researchers, instead relying on trusted, known intermediaries. The most common way that district respondents reported accessing research "often" or "all the time" was through their professional associations, at 53 percent. Conferences came in next at 40 percent; people in other school districts third at 39 percent (Penuel et al. 2017). Formal resources aimed at providing information to practitioners but lacking sustained personal connections, such as the What Works Clearinghouse and the Regional Education Laboratories, and translators of research such as print or social media, were used at less than half these rates.
Organizational context and structure can also advance research use. Where research use is most sophisticated, policy makers may gain access to research through a person who sits between the research and policy communities, often referred to in this literature as a broker or boundary-spanner (Penuel et al. 2015). Brokers engage in "intentional efforts … to make space for and enter into joint work with partners whose work involves responsibilities, expertise, pressures, and strategies different from one's own" (Penuel et al. 2015, p. 190). They create organizational norms and routines that allow for connections across perspectives, and they push people beyond their comfort zone in service of advancing the partnership's goals. By doing so, they help span gaps in perspective and values across professional communities and find productive ways for them to work together (Farley-Ripple et al. 2018). They also increase the absorptive capacity of organizations—that is, their ability to interpret and act on findings from research (Farrell and Coburn 2016a). At their best, brokers help organizations learn.
Instead of beginning with a model of decision making as Decision Day, let us instead begin with a model of decision making as it happens in the real world: working through relationships, embedded in organizations, influenced by information from many sources, and evolving over time. If this is how policy decisions are made, then the next question for the research community is: What is the best way to maximize the influence of research on this untidy, indirect process?
The crucial insight from the research literature is this: Research use is relational, organizational, and interpretive. To have impact, research must be embedded in organizational structures and personal, trusting relationships that give policy makers space to interpret research and construct their own meaning from it (Coburn 2018; Farley-Ripple et al. 2018; Farrell, Coburn, and Chong 2018). Thankfully, several promising new strategies for addressing this issue have emerged—ones that explicitly acknowledge the role of relationships, organizations, and interpretation in helping policy makers to use information more effectively. AEFP is playing an important role in promoting and sustaining these new models.
If relationships among people are how research use happens, then networks and professional associations are linchpins in that process. And if the goal is to drive research use among policy makers, then an obvious first step is to put policy makers and researchers in the same room.
AEFP is the only professional policy research association I am aware of that has sought out grant funding to bring policy makers and practitioners to its conference, recognizing that travel funds are often limited for public sector employees. Over the past three years we have supported travel costs for well over one hundred policy makers to attend the conference. We also created Policy Talks, a new type of session that identifies the broad themes or findings in an area of research and creates a conversation between policy makers and researchers on those issues. And we created the Ambassadors Breakfast, in part to give policy makers and researchers an opportunity to interact informally around shared interests and begin to build personal connections early in the conference. Since making these shifts, we have seen association membership double among policy makers.
We have also become more strategic in identifying two types of people working in policy and practice that would most benefit from AEFP conference attendance: the people leading an agency's research efforts, and the people who work in research-related roles at policy associations, such as the Council of Chief State School Officers or Education Commission of the States. These are brokering and boundary-spanning roles; people in them need to connect with the research community to do their work well. Although the content presented at AEFP may sometimes be too narrow for a typical superintendent or commissioner, it is invaluable for a research director trying to stay up to speed on the latest research in the priority areas for her district or state, or for a person charged with organizing policy conferences who needs to find experts as panel members or advisors. We are now prioritizing our travel funds and other connecting activities on supporting these two types of practitioners.
We are working to build stronger connections with education policy associations, to create more structural opportunities for the policy and research communities to interact. For the first time this year, we asked these associations to weigh in on priority topics for the policy talks, to work toward the goal of having the content at the conference reflect both the best research and current policy needs. We are also convening an advisory group of staff from organizations that connect researchers and practitioners to discuss how we can build stronger, sustained relationships across our associations.
I doubt my agency had read the research on research brokers or absorptive capacity before creating my position in Massachusetts; after all, they had no broker to bring it to their attention. Nonetheless, a broker was exactly what they created—an internal role fostering relationships between policy makers and researchers and shifting organizational practices in a way that increased the ability of the agency to use research effectively.
Situating this type of role internal to an organization allows the research director to be more aware of the current policy issues and, crucially, more connected to the agency's needs and ongoing routines. I offer some "anecdata" to make my case. Last year, I forwarded to my deputy commissioner some materials on options for measuring student growth. He wrote back, "Many people send me articles that I have neither the time nor the inclination to read. What's annoying about you is that the articles you send are so on point to the work we're doing that I feel compelled to read them." I could not have annoyed my deputy nearly as effectively if my role were not deeply ingrained in the agency's work.
Of course, embedded research directors can only be effective to the degree their positions are given the positional and relational authority to influence organizational practice. Siloed away from decision makers, operating only within one policy office or division, or given too many responsibilities for time-sensitive, intensive work (such as assessment or accountability), they cannot hope to increase the organization's overall capacity to build and use research evidence (Conaway 2015; Schwartz 2015). Conversely, when placed into a supportive structure, embedding a research director is one of the most effective ways for organizations to accelerate this work.
AEFP has furthered the professional development of research directors by giving us a space to connect with one another. Research director roles have been relatively common, though not ubiquitous, in larger school districts for a while now. But when I started in my role twelve years ago, I was the only state education agency research director of this type in the nation. I was what Dan Goldhaber memorably described as a "golden unicorn"—that rare person working in a policy or practice setting who has "an excellent grasp of what constitutes good research" (Goldhaber 2018).
I may have been a unicorn, but I was alone in the forest until Nate Schwartz came along. Nate joined the Tennessee Department of Education in a role comparable to mine in July 2012. That single connection to another person doing similar work dramatically improved my own. It allowed me to reflect on my own practice and gave me access to new ideas, strategies, and opportunities that I could then adapt and implement in my own setting. Now the golden unicorns extend nationally into at least fifteen states and many more districts, as well as higher education settings. We have even begun an informal Golden Unicorn Society at the AEFP conference to share common challenges and concerns, and support one another in our work. One unicorn is already something special, but a group of unicorns is—literally and figuratively—a blessing.
An increasingly popular strategy for conducting policy research with impact is via research–practice partnerships (RPPs), defined by Coburn and Penuel (2016) as "long-term collaborations between practitioners and researchers that are organized to investigate problems of practice and solutions for improving schools and districts" (p. 48). RPPs differ from traditional research models in part by focusing on the problems practitioners want to solve rather than the questions researchers want to answer. But they also differ by explicitly elevating and supporting the relationship side of research use. They are intentionally organized to build sustained relationships between researchers and practitioners as a means of improving practice. Some RPPs are formal and institutionalized—for example, the longstanding Chicago Consortium on School Research or many of the other members of the National Network of Education-Research Practice Partnerships. But RPPs can also be thought of as an orientation toward the work—a more collaborative, relationship-based approach to conducting research that could apply in any policy or practice setting.
Most RPPs are designed to improve outcomes for students while simultaneously improving access to, and use of, research in education organizations, and the relevance of research conducted by partners. The research on whether they attain these goals is nascent, and the nature of the intervention does not lend itself easily to causal inference (Coburn and Penuel 2016). But another National Center for Research in Policy and Practice study, one of the winners of Institute of Education Sciences RPP grants, lends some insight on the organizational changes that may occur through RPPs (Farrell et al. 2018).
The study finds that "the majority of practitioners reported becoming better at using research in their work and were more likely to do so because of their participation in the partnership. Almost all of the researchers agreed that they had become better at conducting research that meets the needs of practitioners" (Farrell et al. 2018, p. 3). Interviews with RPP participants revealed that "both education leaders and researchers reported shifts in three key areas: their orientation toward research, their knowledge and skills about the research process, and their communication practices with stakeholders." Further, their peers on the other side of the partnership also observed these changes (Davidson 2018).
RPPs are not the solution to all our research impact woes. They are not appropriate for all research questions—some require a more distant, hands-off relationship, and some don't merit the deep investment of time and effort necessary for an RPP to flourish. They are resource-intensive and thus tend to privilege more senior researchers (who worry less about getting publications for tenure), and larger education organizations (which tend to have greater administrative capacity for research and larger sample sizes that make inferential statistics more useful). And, they can be challenging to implement and sustain, precisely because they push the traditional boundaries of research and practice.
But having participated in several RPPs myself, I can attest to their value for changing how agencies use research evidence, particularly when the RPP is focused on a topic of long-term strategic interest for policy making. I can also attest to their impact on the relevance of research conducted by the research partners. As researchers become more connected to and embedded in organizations, they are better able to identify questions that practitioners value answering and find ways to include those questions in their research agendas.
The 2019 AEFP conference featured research from RPPs such as the Education Research Alliance at Tulane, the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative at Michigan State, the Tennessee Education Research Alliance at Vanderbilt, and many others. This demonstrates that a focus on questions of practice need not imply that the resulting work is less valuable to the research community.
All of these strategies hold great promise for increasing the influence of research on policy. But I think we can push even further. What if the research community thought of our end goal not as getting ideas from research into policy decisions, but as helping policy and practice organizations shift from organizations that do to organizations that learn?
Our whole way of approaching our work would be different. We would recognize that the most effective way to build systematic capacity to learn is through sustained connections across organizations and people. Therefore, we would value the time we spend on building relationships that allow us to ask meaningful questions and learn from their answers as much as we value the time we spend on producing research itself. We would appreciate that it is these relationships that allow ideas from research to take root.
We would see that the research community's contribution operates as much through its structured approach to learning as through any specific knowledge it generates. We would take advantage of that by collaborating to build structured approaches to learning within education organizations, supported through strategically positioned research brokers and partnerships. Crucially, these approaches would include organizational routines that allow policy makers and practitioners to make meaning from research and take appropriate action. Through all of this effort, ideas would diffuse organically across the policy and research communities, enriching both and making both more effective than they would otherwise have been (Gordon, Palmer, and Darling-Hammond 2019).
Enacting this vision would require change on the part of education agencies, individual researchers, universities, and professional associations like AEFP. Education agencies, whether states or districts, would need to invest in greater capacity for building and using evidence as a core part of their work. This capacity could come in a variety of forms: for example, training in the principles of evidence use; embedded research directors; and/or research partnerships. But the expectation should be that all educators are capable of evaluating evidence and using it to improve their organizations. The Institute for Education Sciences could play a role by catalyzing these investments through research partnership and training grants and by directly funding the embedded research directors that we know can dramatically shift organizational practices.
The work of individual researchers who want to help organizations learn would shift toward one of several pathways to impact. Some researchers might participate directly in building structured approaches to learning by serving as embedded research directors, brokers, and/or research partners themselves. But even researchers outside those roles could still influence organizational learning. Those who are working with a district or state to conduct a study could prioritize creating routines that create space for sharing preliminary findings and discussing and interpreting results, in the same way that a formal broker would insist upon. Others could consider writing a book, framing article, or broad, nontechnical pieces about their field of inquiry that could help shift policy makers' thinking, or they could share their work through policy talks here at AEFP or at local or national meetings of policy makers.
Universities would need to shift in two ways. First, they would need to reconsider the balance of how different types of output are valued by their institutions, to put greater emphasis on effort spent on impact outside the ivory tower. At a time when the value of higher education is increasingly questioned, this would be a direct way to demonstrate the university's impact in the community. For inspiration, they might look to the Research Excellence Framework, which the United Kingdom uses to assess the quality of research output from its institutes of higher education. Impact is explicitly included as a criterion, and the United Kingdom has developed nuanced ways of measuring impact across the full range of academic disciplines (Research Excellence Framework 2019).
Second, universities would need to create opportunities for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to learn the skills needed to do this work. Right now, people learn this the hard way, through investing a substantial amount of time and making mistakes along the way. Education organizations could much more quickly learn how to learn if their own staff and their research partners were explicitly trained in these skills. This includes how to use and build evidence as part of program and policy development, how to design a collaborative learning agenda, how to critically evaluate whether research is convincing and relevant, how to incorporate research into improvement processes, how to broker relationships across research and practice organizations, and so on. Training opportunities could range from short professional development or workshop opportunities for existing practitioners and researchers to full degree programs for masters or doctoral students preparing for these roles.
Professional associations like AEFP would play a unique role in this work. AEFP has been leading the way nationally with its efforts to make its content more directly relevant and appealing to policy makers and practitioners, and to explicitly seek them out as attendees and participants. If we want to increase the influence of research on policy, we need to redouble our efforts to invest in building strong relationships between these new attendees and our historically research-oriented membership. We can become one of the few spaces where perspectives from policy makers, practitioners, and research are all valued and where connections can be built across sectors. And we can demonstrate for others the benefits of taking this approach.
AEFP's mission is to promote understanding of the means by which resources are generated, distributed, and used to enhance human learning. To achieve our mission, we need to broaden our conception of "promoting understanding" to include the relational, organizational, and interpretive activities I have described in this essay. Society has invested tremendous resources in both education and research. We will maximize the return on that investment when we move beyond simplistic models of increasing research use to a model of building educational organizations that learn.
This essay centers on the influence of research on policy, rather than practice. This is both because I have more expertise in the policy process than I do in issues of direct practice and because AEFP members' research tends to focus more on policy. I suspect, however, that many of the same insights would also apply in practice settings.
I benefited from conversations with many people in the development of the themes in this essay. Caitlin Farrell, Dan Goldhaber, Nora Gordon, Bob Lee, Andy Porter, and Nate Schwartz kindly read drafts and provided numerous helpful suggestions. Others whose input influenced my thinking include Paula Arce-Trigatti, Laura Booker, John Easton, Liz Farley-Ripple, Steve Fleischman, Venessa Keesler, Sara Kerr, Antoniya Marinova, Bill Penuel, Morgan Polikoff, Vivian Tseng, and the Results for America State Education Fellows. I wrote this essay when I was the Chief Strategy and Research Officer at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. I thank my colleagues at the agency for their generosity of time and spirit, and for the value they place on research in guiding their work. I dedicate this essay to our late commissioner, Mitchell Chester, who was as evidence-based a public servant as one could ever hope to work for.
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Club
La carriera di Radzivon Miskevič comincia nella stagione 2013-14 quando entra a far parte del , club militante nella Vysšaja Liha con il quale resta per tre annate aggiudicandosi tre scudetti consecutivi. Nella stagione 2016-17 viene ingaggiato dall' di Sora, nella Serie A1 italiana, mentre nella stagione seguente approda all', nella Superliga russa, dove milita per due annate.

Nel campionato 2019-20 fa ritorno al club laziale, in Superlega, mentre nel campionato seguente veste la maglia del , nuovamente nella massima divisione russa; tuttavia, a metà annata, si trasferisce ai turchi del , in Efeler Ligi.

Nazionale
Nel 2013 fa parte della nazionale Under-19 bielorussa.

Nel 2013 ottiene le prime convocazioni in nazionale maggiore, con la quale in seguito si aggiudica la medaglia d'argento all'European Silver League 2018; nel 2019 vince un altro argento all'European Golden League e il bronzo alla Volleyball Challenger Cup.

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2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16

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  European Silver League 2018
  European Golden League 2019
  Volleyball Challenger Cup 2019

Premi individuali
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Electors threaten to go rogue
The Electoral College system is a unique institution. Americans don't vote for a presidential candidate. They vote for electors who then go to the Electoral College and vote for a president in their place. Normally the Electoral College election is a formality, but this year at least two electors have indicated that they may not vote for their party's candidate. Two electors from party base states, one from Texas and the other from Washington, have threatened to go their own way due to their displeasure with their respective party nominees.
Chris Suprun, a firefighter from Texas who is a Republican elector, told Politico in August that he may not vote for Donald Trump, assuming that Trump wins Texas, because the candidate was "saying things that in an otherwise typical election year would have you disqualified." In particular, Suprun took issue with Trump's foreign policy, characterizing it as "The generals are going to commit war crimes because I tell them to."
"I'm still amazed he made it through the process," Suprun said. "I'm not sure who his voters were or how they identify him with what I would consider Republican principles of small government."
Suprun, who was a first responder at the Pentagon on 9/11, said that he ran for a position as an elector with the intention of voting for the party nominee, but had second thoughts because of Trump's behavior and rhetoric. He also noted that his congressional district is a district that has a Democratic congressman and will not go for Trump.
Robert Satiacum, a Washington State elector, has gone a step further. "She will not get my vote, period," Satiacum said of Hillary Clinton in the Associated Press on Monday. Satiacum is a member of the Puyallup Tribe and does not believe that Clinton has done enough for Native Americans and that she lied about her private email server.
Satiacum, who was a delegate for Bernie Sanders, told ABC News, "Maybe I'll vote Mickey Mouse. In all seriousness, maybe I should vote for Bozo the Clown." In contrast, Chris Suprun indicated that he may vote for Hillary Clinton.
Some states have laws designed to prevent electors from defecting. Washington State law requires electors to pledge that they will vote for their party nominee. A violation is punishable by a $1,000 fine. Texas electors must take an oath to support their party candidate, but there is no penalty. Twenty-nine states have laws that prohibit electors from deviating from the will of the voters according to FairVote.
There have been "faithless electors" in the past. The most recent example of a faithless elector was in 2004 when an elector from Minnesota voted for John Edwards instead of John Kerry. In 1972, CBS News notes, the co-creator of "Little House on the Prairie," Roger McBride, was an elector for Richard Nixon, but voted instead for the Libertarian candidate. The vote earned several footnotes in political history. It was the only electoral vote ever won by the Libertarian Party and the Libertarian vice-presidential candidate, Tonie Nathan, became the first woman and the first Jew to win an electoral vote. Faithless electors have never changed the outcome of an election.
The defection of electors would mean that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton would have to win more than 270 electoral votes to clinch the presidency. Their final decisions may not be known for weeks and may affect the outcome of a close election. Members of the Electoral College meet in their states on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. This year that date falls on December 19. The winner of the election will not be officially declared before then.
With continuing revelations about both Trump's and Clinton's pasts, as well as Trump's penchant for outrageous behavior, the month between the general election and the Electoral College election could see additional electors who find that they cannot support the candidate chosen by the people. It is possible, especially if the general election is close, that the end result of the Electoral College could be different than what the popular vote indicates.
Suprun argues that the Founding Fathers didn't intend the Electoral College to be a rubber stamp. Electors should "take a look at all the facts, figure it out and make the right call," he said in Politico.
"I would never say never to anything."
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Adobe Preparing to File Suit Against Apple?
Tuesday April 13, 2010 11:49 am PDT by Eric Slivka
ITworld reports that the dust-up between Apple and Adobe over Apple's refusal to permit Flash content on the iPhone and its recent move to block Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone packager in its forthcoming Flash Professional CS5 is set to move to the next level, with Adobe preparing to file suit against Apple over the dispute.
Usually I write about security here, but Apple's iron-bound determination to keep Adobe Flash out of any iWhatever device is about to blow up in Apple's face. Sources close to Adobe tell me that Adobe will be suing Apple within a few weeks.
It was bad enough when Apple said, in effect, that Adobe Flash wasn't good enough to be allowed on the iPad. But the final straw was when Apple changed its iPhone SDK (software development kit) license so that developers may not submit programs to Apple that use cross-platform compilers.
While Adobe has officially remained silent on the new cross-platform compiler issue other than to note that it is looking into the ramifications of Apple's move, a "platform evangelist" for the company strongly objected to the move, even going so far as to say "Go screw yourself Apple."
For his part, Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly noted in an email exchange with a developer that allowing such intermediate layers inevitably leads to a substandard user experience and "hinders the progress of the platform."


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reduced form of Irish McAbee. Americanized spelling of Swiss German Äbi (see Eby). possibly an Americanized spelling of French Abbé (see Abbe).
Where is the Abee family from?
You can see how Abee families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Abee family name was found in the USA, the UK, and Canada between 1840 and 1920. The most Abee families were found in the USA in 1920. In 1911 there were 7 Abee families living in Prince Edward Island. This was about 70% of all the recorded Abee's in Canada. Prince Edward Island had the highest population of Abee families in 1911.
Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Abee surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
What did your Abee ancestors do for a living?
In 1881, the most common Abee occupation in Canada was Section Boss. 100% of Abee's were Section Bosss.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Abee ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestor's social and economic status.
What Abee family records will you find?
There are 3,000 census records available for the last name Abee. Like a window into their day-to-day life, Abee census records can tell you where and how your ancestors worked, their level of education, veteran status, and more.
There are 642 immigration records available for the last name Abee. Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in Canada, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure.
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You've only scratched the surface of Abee family history.
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Between 1963 and 2004, in the United States, Abee life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1963, and highest in 1998. The average life expectancy for Abee in 1963 was 49, and 69 in 2004.
An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your Abee ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more.


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Q: Replace a line in a config file with ansible I am new to ansible.
Is there a simple way to replace the line starting with option domain-name-servers in /etc/dhcp/interface-br0.conf with more IPs?
  option domain-name-servers 10.116.184.1,10.116.144.1;

I want to add ,10.116.136.1

A: You can use Replace Module. Please refer to
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/replace_module.html.
#example
vim httpd-replace-hostname.yml

---
- hosts: <Your ansible host>
  tasks:
  - name: hostname was used instead of path.
    replace:
      path: /etc/hosts
      regexp: '(\s+)old\.name\.com(\s+.*)?$'
      replace: '\new.name.com\2'
      backup: yes

Run
ansible-playbook httpd-replace-hostname.yml

You can check out the result successfully as below.
PLAY [Your hosts] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [hostname.name.com]

TASK [hostname was used instead of path.] ***************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [hostname.name.com]

TASK [Replace after the expression till the end of the file] ********************************************************************************************************************
changed: [hostname.name.com]

PLAY RECAP **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
hostname.name.com : ok=3    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0

A: You can use the lineinfile Ansible module to achieve that.
  - name: replace line
    lineinfile:
      path: /etc/dhcp/interface-br0.conf
      regexp: '^(.*)option domain-name-servers(.*)$'
      line: 'option domain-name-servers 10.116.184.1,10.116.144.1,10.116.136.1;'
      backrefs: yes

The regexp option tells the module what will be the content to replace.
The line option replaces the previously found content with the new content of your choice.
The backrefs option guarantees that if the regexp does not match, the file will be left unchanged.

A: we can use lineinfile module to replace a line
using ad-hoc command:
ansible <host> -m lineinfile -a "path=/etc/dhcp/interface-br0.conf regexp=''^(.*)option domain-name-servers(.*)$'' line='1option domain-name-servers 10.116.184.1,10.116.144.1,10.116.136.1;' backrefs: yes"

using ansible playbook:
- name: replacing a line in file
  lineinfile:
    path: /etc/dhcp/interface-br0.conf
    regexp: '^(.*)option domain-name-servers(.*)$'
    line: 'option domain-name-servers 10.116.184.1,10.116.144.1,10.116.136.1;'
    backrefs: yes

for more we can check for other options: in lineinfile module
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/lineinfile_module.html

A: I created a role dhcp with the following main.yaml:
---
- name: add all dns servers
  lineinfile:
    dest: /etc/dhcp/interface-br0.conf
    regexp: '^\s*option domain-name-servers.*$'
    line: '  option domain-name-servers 10.116.184.1,10.116.144.1,10.116.136.1;'
    backrefs: yes
  become: true


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For a while, I have settled for using organic coconut oil as a makeup remover and that seemed to have been working really great, until I got sick of the greasy feeling all over my face. Coconut oil is really wonderful and beneficial, not to mention fabulously smelling, but it is not too good for the hot and humid summer time. Plus, the oil started to clog my pores and break me out - so not fun!
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My worth does not depend on whether or not I wear make-up; I don't want my self-confidence to either. So I've decided to stop using all my make-up for a week and document my findings here. I'll be completely bare-faced. No concealer, no mascara, nothing, just a bit of lip balm.
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Knives Out 2 Is Hilariously Sharp
December 24, 2022 Amjad Ali
Agatha Christie's influence on the cinematic whodunnit genre continues to this day. This year has seen films like Death on the Nile, a direct adaptation of her work, and See How They Run, a mystery where she was one of the characters in the film. However, it's time for Netflix and writer/director Rian Johnson to give us Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, a new movie serving as a sequel to the 2019 film Knives Out. This film brings back Daniel Craig as the eccentric Southern detective Benoit Blanc with a new murder, a new mystery, and a brand new ragtag group of people.
Glass Onion is a total blast. This is a whodunnit for the ages that manages to serve as a worthy sequel to one of the best films of 2019, and it is a testament to Johnson's skill as a filmmaker. He crafts a sequel that is very different from the first film while retaining the personality and style that makes this movie work. The first ten minutes are ruthlessly efficient storytelling as Johnson lines up a brand new set of characters, all of whom are given a mysterious box of puzzles to solve.
We have a politician running for Senate, an insensitive supermodel-turned-fashion designer, a Twitch streamer/men's rights activist, and so many more. All of these characters, including Blanc, have been invited to an exclusive weekend getaway murder mystery party hosted by billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton). This film, set on a sunny remote island, offers a delightfully unique setting that allows the movie to set itself apart from the cozy Thanksgiving sweater-bound nature of the first one. But the new climate is not the only thing distinguishing this film from the original.
Although the first movie gives us the murder in its opening scene, the murder in this film does not occur until halfway through. This may be the movie's weakest point because while the first hour is entertaining, you're almost waiting for the movie to start as you get introduced one by one to these characters and the backstory. However, all of this is necessary because Johnson does a fantastic job of hiding critical details in plain sight and then pulling the rug out from under the audience, allowing for the perfect setups and payoffs in the film's second half. You never know which detail will come back later, and it creates a miraculous repeat viewing experience.
Once the film goes full Knives Out, it zeroes in and becomes a hilarious blast. The jokes are timely and relevant, with Norton's character serving as the Elon Musk of the film. Everything is anchored by the performances, especially from Craig as Blanc. Benoit Blanc may be the most lovable, brilliant movie character of the 21st century, and Craig plays him to perfection. Unlike the first film, he feels more out of his element in this environment, and the movie's structure does not allow him to suspect the characters how you would expect from a whodunnit.
The result is a film that never stops entertaining you. It's hilariously sharp, clever to the end, and will have you pulling back the layers of this onion as you watch it. While not every cast member gets the chance to shine, the ones that do really do, particularly Norton in his excellent comedic performance and Janelle Monáe in a role that she pulls off perfectly. While the actual mystery may not be as strong as the original, the humor more than makes up for it. Ultimately, it does everything a sequel should do and will have you begging for more Benoit Blanc murder mysteries for years to come.
As ComingSoon's review policy explains, a score of 8 equates to "Great." While there are a few minor issues, this score means that the art succeeds at its goal and leaves a memorable impact.
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Somaly Mam, född 1970 eller 1971 i byn Bou Sra i provinsen Mondulkiri, Kambodja, är en kambodjansk hjälparbetare, som arbetar med flickor som har blivit sålda till bordeller.

Somaly Mam, som är från den etniska minoritetsfolket Phnong, blev under sin uppväxt vid flera tillfällen tvingad till prostitution fram till 1991, när hennes blivande man, Pierre Legros, hjälpte henne från en bordell i Pnom Penh. Paret flyttade till Paris 1993, och återvände till Kambodja 1995 tillsammans med hjälparbetare från Läkare utan gränser. Hon grundade med sin make 1997 i Kambodja organisationen Afesip Kambodja, Agir pour les femmes en situation précaire (på svenska: Kämpa för kvinnor i en kritisk situation) för att frita och hjälpa andra flickor som sålts till bordeller, en organisation som hon därefter ledde.

Hon fick 1998, tillsammans med bland andra Rigoberta Menchú, Emma Bonino och Graça Machel, Prinsen av Asturias pris för internationellt samarbete. År 2006 utsågs hon till Årets kvinna av tidskriften Glamour.

Den amerikanska biståndsorganisationen Somaly Mam Foundation, som arbetar mot trafficking i Kambodja, Laos och Vietnam, grundades av Somaly Mam och Nicholas Lumpp. Somaly Mam är styrelseodförande.

Kontrovers
Hon skrev i tidskriften Glamour 2006 att hennes 14-åriga dotter Ning då blivit kidnappad och såld till en bordell, därför att gärningsmännen ville hämnas för Somaly Mams hjälparbete för flickor. Hon upprepade sedan denna berättelse i intervjuer och på konferenser, men den har senare satts i tvivel av tidningen Cambodia Daily, som hävdar att flickan aldrig blev kidnappad.<ref>[http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1637&artikel=5749701 Reportage i Sveriges Radio P1 av Michael Töpffer, sänt bland annat i Radiokorrespondenterna 12 januari 2014 kl 21.03]</ref> Även andra berättelser om övergrepp på flickor som Somaly Mam framställt i teve i Frankrike eller inför FN i New York har påståtts vara uppdiktade av Cambodia Daily. El Mundo i Madrid har följt upp frågan i november, och menar att det framstår som osäkert hur många av de 7.000 prostituerade flickor, som Somaly Mams organisation uppger sig ha hjälpt verkligen varit prostituerade. Tidningen anger också att Somaly Mam själv (till november 2013) vägrat att kommentera de anklagelser som riktats mot henne.

 Bibliografi
 De oskyldigas tystnad (Le silence de l'innocence'') (översättning Marie Berthelius, Damm, 2008)

Källor
Biografi på webbplatsen för Prinsen av Asturias pris, läst 2014-01-12

Noter

Externa länkar
 Somaly Mam Foundations webbplats
Carina Waern: Somaly Mam: De oskyldigas tystnad i Helsingborgs Dagblad 15 februari 2007

Födda 1970
Kambodjanska aktivister
Kvinnor
Levande personer
Mottagare av prinsen respektive prinsessan av Asturiens pris
Personer i Kambodja under 2000-talet


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book review: finding out
A thirty-something woman's life is thrown into personal and financial upheaval when her prince charming turns out to be a toad in Sheryn MacMunn's Finding Out.
After seven years together, Sheila Davenport comes home from a business trip to find her boyfriend, Joe, has moved out, left her for another woman and cleared the bulk of their joint account. While her friends encourage her to move on and find someone else, Sheila is left to deal with the aftermath, which includes the need to find new bedroom furniture and pay months of unpaid bills left by her ex-creep. Throw in job drama and her life looks pretty bleak.
Then, Sheila befriends her next door neighbor, and 86-year-old woman with a full past. Through their friendship, Sheila develops the perspective and backbone necessary to tackle her issues.
Finding Out is a fast-paced, emotional read. The book starts quickly with Sheila standing in front of her apartment, begging her boyfriend not to leave, and does not stop moving from there. Where it could have focused on her moving on to date other men or embracing her life as a single woman, instead it shows a young woman coping with the loss of a long relationship and coming to understand how and why it deteriorated.
At the same time, the connections Sheila has to her friends are strong and supportive, but the relationship she builds with Ruth is wonderful. At times heartwarming and others heartbreaking, Ruth's rich past was a pleasure to read.
Though Sheila's story is filled with turmoil that had me turning the pages quickly to find out how it resolves, their is underlying hope and desire.
MacMunn's writing style is enjoyable to read, and I look forward to seeing future stories from her in the future.
Rating: 4 of 5
Sheryn MacMunn attended University of Massachusetts and Simmons College School of Management, where she earned her MBA. She worked in New York City for years in advertising. This is the first novel for Sheryn. Her next novel will be released in fall 2012.
Contact Sheryn
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sherynmacmunn
Website: www.sherynmacmunn.com
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/MacMunn
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