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J6 a Year Later
Todd Seavey
Criminal conspirators and amateur activists.
As the one-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021 Capitol protest (a.k.a. J6) nears, the past few days offer reminders that conspiracies within the establishment are a more frequent problem than the occasional conspiracy among the rabble to attack the establishment.
Former Sen. Harry Reid passed away, having lived long enough to see some official affirmation of his belief that the government has UFO secrets worth disclosing. He reportedly spent the last few months of his life trying to persuade President Biden to reveal them. I don't know if there are aliens, but we all know malevolent powers rule the Earth and believe themselves uniquely qualified to control scientific and military secrets.
Writer/activist Andrew Vachss also died, having long used his fiction and non-fiction to draw attention to the plight of exploited children around the world and urge greater society-wide responsibility on that front. I spoke to him briefly once while working in TV news, and when I asked (in the parlance of the day) whether he thought "It takes a village to raise a child," the eye-patch-wearing thriller-writer grimly intoned that unfortunately "It takes a village to rape a child." I wish he'd lived a few more days to see jet-set teen-groomer Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty.
One small way to carry on Vachss' work is simply to remember that elite crimes of Maxwell's sort don't end just because she's in jail and Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Their associate, fashion executive Peter Nygard, to name just one other part of their web, was recently outed not just for sexual harassment but for pressuring his girlfriends to have abortions so that he could use the resulting fetal blood as a rejuvenation treatment for himself. That's mighty pro-choice of him, and a bit vampiric.
Whether it's revealed that Prince Andrew was lying about his relationship to one of the girls in Epstein's orbit may now hinge on whether Andrew is found to be physically capable of sweating. She says yes in her testimony; he insists a rare medical condition means no. They're all sleazy—and they're not alone. A second CNN staffer (the first a Chris Cuomo producer) was arrested for sex crimes involving minors late last year. It's safe to say this is a recurring thing among the powerful, though it was recently "just a conspiracy theory."
But people like the ones named above would prefer you fret instead over the members, arrested and un-arrested, of the purported insurrectionist conspiracy of J6, basically a ragtag bunch of activists and amateurs who wanted to make some noise that day in support of their favorite president, Trump.
The legal and political establishment—especially Washingtonians, from what I've observed—largely joins in the freakout over J6. A federal judge has rejected the right-wing Proud Boys group's argument that its communications that day were political free speech, not criminal coordination. Numerous nominally conservative figures such as Mitt Romney call J6 a desecration of democracy. Is it freedom Romney wants to protect, though, or merely big government? Not coincidentally, he may yet become a saving vote in the Senate for Biden's mammoth Build Back Better legislation.
It seems bizarre now to think that milquetoast Romney was so beloved by the Republicans of 2012 that one of my conservative acquaintances unfriended me for my failure to vote for Romney, while a few bizarre moderate Republicans such as David Frum even considered Romney a dangerous far-right Tea Party rabble-rouser and hoped to see the party quickly move in a more moderate direction.
By contrast with the establishment, the pro-Trump site American Greatness now urges that conservatives adopt the radical practice of celebrating J6 the way the left sometimes celebrates the (far more violent, far more destructive) French Revolution of 1789. It might be fun if people started wearing copies of that "shaman" rioter's horns this time each year, the way Brits wear Guy Fawkes masks in a good-natured celebration of an attempt to blow up Parliament centuries ago. And a third of Americans say, why stop at symbolism when it comes to violence against government?
I still long to see these matters resolved without violence, but I encourage celebrating more slow-motion signs of resistance to DC. Celebrate, for example, the news that that city underwent a bigger percentage population drop in 2021 than did any U.S. state. It's a small step in the direction of the ideal outcome, in which the 50 states continue to exist and DC doesn't. (I confess that of the 50 states, the biggest percentage population drop was experienced by the one in which I live, New York, ruled as it has been by Cuomos and communists. In raw numbers, California lost even more people than New York.)
If enough people—and power—rush away from the U.S. Capitol, there will be less perceived need for mobs to rush into it.
—Todd Seavey is the author of Libertarianism for Beginners and is on Twitter at @ToddSeavey
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Variant: Exp. ৳55,000
Brand: Lenovo
Added on: 4th, Aug, 2021
Last updated: 26th, Dec, 2021
Released: 2021, November 19
OS: Android 11
Display: 12.6" 1600x2560 pixels
Camera: 13MP 1080p
RAM: 6/8GB RAM Snapdragon 870 5G
Battery: 10200mAh Li-Po
Display 8 / 10
Lenovo Tab P12 Pro Full Specifications and Price in Bangladesh
Announced 2021, September 08
Status Available. Released 2021, November 19
Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE / 5G
2G bands It's the 2nd generation mobile data communication technology.	 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
4G bands It is the 4th generation mobile data communication technology.	 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 19, 20, 26, 28, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41
5G bands 1, 3, 7, 8, 20, 28, 38, 41, 77, 78 SA/NSA/Sub6
Speed HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A, 5G
Dimensions It's the size of the phone in format (H x L x W) and the volume of the phone where available.	 285.6 x 184.5 x 5.6 mm (11.24 x 7.26 x 0.22 in)
SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains a mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone to use the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.	 Nano-SIM
Others Stylus support
Type A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two-layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchscreen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)	 AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size The industry-standard way of representing display sizes is publishing their length in inches. The screen-to-body ratio is a measure that relates to the size of the screen bezels. The bigger the ratio, the smaller the bezels are, meaning the display takes up a larger area on the device's front.	 12.6 inches, 460.3 cm2 (~87.4% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution Display Resolution is the measuring way of how much pixels does a display contains. A higher resolution means more pixels and more pixels provide the ability to display more visual information (resulting in greater clarity and more detail).	 1600 x 2560 pixels, 16:10 ratio (~240 ppi density)
Features 120Hz, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, 600 nits (HBM)
OS Every Mobile Phone system runs on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the Mobile (such as smartphones, PDAs, tablet computers, and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device.	 Android 11
Chipset It is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or more dedicated functions, often with real-time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming.	 Qualcomm SM8250-AC Snapdragon 870 5G (7 nm)
CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone.	 Octa-core (1x3.2 GHz Kryo 585 & 3x2.42 GHz Kryo 585 & 4x1.80 GHz Kryo 585)
Internal Internal memory is the memory available onboard (chip or motherboard) which is given while manufacturing at the factory. is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets, and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files, and other user data Is stored.	 128/256 GB
RAM RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of mobile, computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allow information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets, and other electronic devices.	 6/8 GB
Primary camera This term refers to the size of an image, usually in reference to a photo from a camera mobile phone. A megapixel means one million pixels. The resolution of camera phones is often measured in megapixels. For example, a 12-megapixel camera can produce images with 12 million total pixels.	 13 MP, (wide), AF
5 MP, (ultrawide)
Secondary camera 8 MP, (wide)
8 MP, IR TOF 3D, (biometrics sensor only)
Video Video resolution in a display device refers to the number of distinct pixels that could be displayed in each dimension. It is usually quoted as width × height; for an example: "1024 × 768″. HD video usually has a resolution of 1280×720 (720p).	 1080p@30fps
Loudspeaker Loudspeaker is a small sound driver fitted within a mobile phone, which is used to produce sound.	 Yes, with stereo speakers (4 speakers)
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is a method of distributing data wirelessly to a local area network practically to the internet. It is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allow devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.	 Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
GPS GPS (Global Positioning System) originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system. It is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity, and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.	 Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
USB USB is a standard for a wired connection between two electronic devices, including a mobile phone and a desktop computer.	 USB Type-C 3.1
Sensors A sensor is a device, module, or subsystem whose purpose is to detect events or changes in its environment and send the information to other electronics. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure, and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect the current location of your electronic device.	 Fingerprint (side-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity
Messaging SMS (short message service) is a text messaging service component of most telephone, internet, and mobile-device systems.	 SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, IM
Battery capacity The unit of capacity is milliamp-hours (mAh), which means 3000mAh can be put on the battery to discharge it in one hour. The battery capacity represents the maximum amount of energy that can be extracted from the battery under certain conditions.	 10200 mAh
Made by China
Color Storm Grey
Lenovo Tab P12 Pro Price in Bangladesh January 2022
The Lenovo Tab P12 Pro is now available in two variants (128/256GB/6/8GB RAM). Now, Lenovo P12 Pro's Price is 55000 taka in Bangladesh. Tab P12 Pro has a 10200 mAh battery with fast charging. This device is running with Android 11 and is powered by a Qualcomm SM8250-AC Snapdragon 870 5G (7 nm) chipset.
Model Lenovo Tab P12 Pro
Price BDT. 55,000
Display 12.6″1600×2560 pixels
RAM 6/8 GB
ROM 128/256 GB
Released 2021, October
Lenovo Tab P12 Pro highlight
Lenovo Tab P12 Pro will be launched in 2021, October. The Tab P12 Pro launched with model number unknown. Firstly, Its dimensional measure is 285.6 x 184.5 x 5.6 mm and the weight is 565 grams. Secondly, the display of the Tab P12 Pro is a 12.6-inch AMOLED panel with 1600 x 2560 pixels resolution. The display is protecting from the unknown. Thirdly and most importantly, It is powered by Qualcomm SM8250-AC Snapdragon 870 5G (7 nm) and running with Android 11. Moreover, it has up to an Octa-core (1×3.2 GHz Kryo 585 & 3×2.42 GHz Kryo 585 & 4×1.80 GHz Kryo 585) CPU.
The Lenovo Tab P12 Pro has a dual-camera setup on the back. This formation consists of a 13MP wide, 5MP ultrawide camera. It has an 8MP, 8MP selfie camera inside the notch of the display. The video recording capability is 1080p@30fps. Its RAM and ROM have two (6/8GB/128/256GB) variants. On the other hand, it can support up to microSDXC on uses a dedicated slot. Certainly, Tab P12 Pro has a 10200mAh battery with 45W fast charging.
On the other hand, among the other features, there is WLAN, Bluetooth, FM Radio, and USB port.
Your question and our opinion about Tab P12 Pro
Which question you will have about this tablet. Let's justify these. There we are including the major question and answers about this tablet. So, let's start now.
When it will release?
It will launch in 2021, October.
What is the price of the Lenovo Tab P12 Pro?
The price of the Lenovo Tab P12 Pro is BDT 55,000.
It has two variants with 6/8GB in RAM and two variants of 128/256GB in ROM. But, overall you can get two variants (128GB/6GB, 256GB/8GB) in market
It comes with a 12.6″ AMOLED Display panel with 1600 x 2560 pixels resolution.
It contains Qualcomm SM8250-AC Snapdragon 870 5G (7 nm) chipset.
The dual-camera setup on the back is 13MP+5MP and an 8MP+8MP selfie camera. The video recording capability is 1080p@30fps.
The battery capacity is a 10200mAh Li-Polymer battery with 45W fast charging.
What sensors does this tab have?
Fingerprint, accelerometer, gyro, proximity
Lenovo manufactured it and this phone is made in China.
In this paragraph, we are going to describe the important major to buy this. Why a person may buy this tablet? Firstly, when anyone wants to buy a device they find out the premium things on the device according to their price. So, let us find out some eligible things which are in Tab P12 Pro.
Huge storage.
10200mAh Li-polymer battery.
Large AMOLED display.
FM not supported.
3.5mm Audio jack unavilable.
In conclusion, we are giving our verdict on this device. If you want to buy the best tab under 55K Taka. Then Lenovo Tab P12 Pro will be in the first row among the best tablets. Dear friends, if you are attracted to online games like Free Fire, Pubg, and so on, you can buy them. Because it has RAM and a well Processor using the Qualcomm SM8250-AC Snapdragon 870 5G (7 nm) chipset. If you want a big backup on charge then you can buy this. Because it has a huge 10200mAh battery. So, you can get good network facilities on it. However, it has a dual-cam setup with a 13MP primary camera. So, it's the image and video capability may be well. Therefore, to judge all of these reasons you can buy this.
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Romney Resets Media Strategy
Posted by Political Quarterback 17pc on July 31, 2012
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is promising to become more media-friendly after headlines during the Republican candidate's weeklong foreign trip highlighted an increasingly fractious relationship with the press.
Fewer than 100 days out from the election, the campaign is expected to provide more press briefings and heightened access to the candidate in the coming days, and to make changes to the travel pool that will make it more media friendly.
The changes would represent a major shift for the Romney campaign, which so far has offered only extremely limited access to the presumptive Republican nominee, and usually only to favored outlets like Fox News.
"I realize that there will be some in the Fourth Estate or in whichever estate who are far more interested in finding something to write about that is unrelated to the economy, to geopolitics, to the threat of war, to the reality of conflict in Afghanistan today, to a nuclearization of Iran," Romney told Fox News. "They'll instead try to find anything else to divert from the fact that these last four years have been tough years for our country." Republicans sometimes find it useful to run against the media.
"It helps him with the conservative base because the conservative base, much like the far-left, is extremely distrustful of the media," said Republican strategist Ford O'Connell.
But the comments from the Romney aide promising more access suggest the campaign realizes it needs a better relationship with the reporters covering it in order to win come November.
Read more from Amie Parnes and Justin Sink at The Hill
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07.02.2005 General News
Anane: The Shattering Evidence
By Chronicle
LISTEN FEB 7, 2005
.... Ghana Airways funds was his private account ... Over $90,000 paid in two years ... May have Lied under oath? Members of the Appointments Committee appear to be taking their work seriously in prosecuting their mission to weed out unfit materials to help the President achieve his vision of positive change chapter two. The three-man sub-committee set up by the Appointments committee last week set about looking into issues raised against three men whose appointments had been suspended pending further investigations and took the first step of looking into the petitions and evidence presented concerning the most senior member of the suspended trio. Honourable Ossei-Aidoo, who with another member, Hon. Twumasi-Appiah constitute the committee with Mr. F. Nutsugah as secretary, pushed for cross verification of a powerful submission by Raymond Archer, the celebrated investigative journalist of the year 2003 and immediate past acting editor of The Chronicle. Insisting on going for the 'primary source' rather than rely on the six-page dossier against Anane, widely perceived as the pet of the President, Mr. Nutsugah put a call through to the house of Alexandria Anane, nee O'Brien, the woman whose ravishing looks fell Dr. Anane, like Delilah in Biblical times. A man who answered the call told Nutsugah that he was the father of Alexandria, and was briefed about the object of the call. Apparently, Alexandria had been refusing to take calls from Dr. Anane who had been calling Alexandria before and after the vetting. Alexi, as Anane fondly calls her, indicated that she had been deeply humiliated at the way Anane characterized her during his vetting which she watched and studied. In conversations with Archer, she let her feelings hang out that she felt wounded by 'lies' told by Anane particularly suggestions that his wife in Kumasi had been making sure that Nicholas Anane the beautiful boy was well catered for. When finally, they got through to Alexandria, they asked whether Anane had sent her $90,000.00 in a single instalment or not. She replied in the negative, but explained that within the space of two years she had received from Anane sums in excess of $90,000.00 and that they came in more than two instalments. This was consistent with Archer's testimony that the young, balding 50 year old doctor blew $53,150.00 on Alexandria and his son in 2002, and for 2003, spent $52,600.00 on Alexandria.' Incidentally, she told the committee she had passed on copies of the hard copy evidence to Archer and they could collect them from him, in the event of being precluded from coming down to testify. It is unlikely that Alexandria will be allowed to come down to testify as the committee was bluffing when they first hinted that she would be allowed to come if money could be found to. Independently, Chronicle can report, arrangements are afoot to fly her in and out for what would be a devastating testimony loaded with cool irrefutable facts devoid of emotion.
Mr. Raymond Archer had petitioned the chairman of the appointments committee of parliament last week challenging the acting Minister of Roads and Transport for not being truthful to the appointments committee during his vetting on February 28, this year.
Mr. Archer held that he had evidence and could confirm that Dr. Anane actually billed the state, precisely, Ghana Civil Aviation Authority and the Ministry of Roads and Transport on expenses incurred by Ms. Alexandria Anane when the minister traveled to Montreal on official assignment. He explained in the petition, "It is important to note that the minister traveled to Canada with Ms. Alexandra Anane and his son Nicholas Anane whilst on that official trip.
"All expenses incurred by Alexandria and his son on that trip were converted as expenditure by Dr. Anane and Ghana Civil Aviation was billed." He argued Dr. Anane was not truthful when he said he had always distinguished his private affairs from his public duties.
In his petition, the former acting editor of the Chronicle said he could prove actions taken by Dr. Anane was a cost to the nation. He stated he had documents in respect of communication between Dr. Anane and Alexandria, which suggested the acting minister was having an affair with the client of the country which cost the nation not only in financial terms, but also in terms of loss of opportunities for Ghana. In other words, contrary to assertions made by Anane that he was bonking for gold for Ghana, his adulterous conduct led eventually to a collapse of a project between the ministry of health (government of Ghana) and Alexandria's company.
He intimated that Dr. Anane's wife was the brain behind the collapse of the company after a memorandum of understanding was signed to undertake an HIV/AIDS project in Ghana when she abused the directors of the company for fronting for Alexandria to sleep with her husband. Mr. Archer said the directors of the company then left Ghana in anger, informing shareholders about her affair with the minister. This culminated in the shareholders withdrawing their stake in the company leading to the collapse of the company. Dr. Anane had said at the vetting that he used to return part of his per diem back when he was at the Ministry of Health because there were times he could not spend or retire every amount because there was no need. But that appeared to contradict his other submission that his friends and relatives used to give him money when he traveled as Minister, an amazing ludicrous proposition that minority leader Alban Bagbin pointedly told him was an unbelievable statement. In part of the submissions of Alexandria, there was a significant incident, which betrayed Anane as feeding off Ghana Airways funds to maintain his woman. "During 2002 and part of 2003, Collins Duodu-Bonsu was assisting Richard in getting the money to me by many means, including picking up $10,000 cash from Ghana Airways' back office in Baltimore, Maryland. I was told to meet Captain Kwakwa coming off a flight but instead was routed to the back offices to wait for Obed. (I was accompanied to the airport with another person who can testify to this as well) whereby another man, not Obed, named Eric counted and handed me cash from the safe in the office. I had assumed that since Richard was the Minister of Transportation, he had paid $10,000.00 of his own money into the Ghana Airways account in Accra to replace the cash given us."


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UCSC teaching assistant strike: Revolt of the academic subalterns
On February 28, the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) fired 82 teaching assistants for demanding higher pay to afford the area's high cost of living.
In December, after months of back and forth with the university administration, about 200 teaching assistants went on a "wildcat" strike – a strike not officially supported by their union – and announced that they would withhold the fall quarter grades of undergraduate students until a living cost adjustment of $1,412 was made to their wages.
In response, the university extended the deadline to submit the grades and encouraged the workers to end their strike immediately. When the workers refused to budge, it proposed a need-based housing allowance worth $2,500 per year, which translates to a meagre $200 increase in monthly wages. When the workers also refused this offer, the university unilaterally terminated the contracts of 54 teaching assistants who had already received spring appointments and told 28 others that they will no longer be considered for contract renewal.
The decision by the university left dozens of already struggling teaching assistants unable to pay rent or buy food amid a global pandemic. Several foreign workers whose visas are sponsored by the university, meanwhile, are now facing the risk of deportation.
Teaching assistants working across University of California campuses, however, are unwilling to back down. More teaching assistants vowed to withhold winter grades and more than 500 graduate students pledged not to accept positions made available by the firing of their colleagues.
While the ongoing strike action is undoubtedly tied to the local housing crisis, it is also a symptom of a more fundamental, nationwide problem: the systematic exploitation of teaching assistants by academic institutions.
The vicious cycle of exploitation
Denying graduate students basic labour rights is a long-running tradition in American universities. This systematic exploitation is made possible by the over-supply of PhD candidates in the academic market.
Research shows that in terms of future salary or employment, there is only a small additional incentive (or premium) for an individual to pursue a PhD instead of a less labour and cost-intensive master's degree. While a PhD degree is a basic requirement for a career in academia, the academic market does not create enough additional jobs to accommodate the high number of PhD degrees awarded every year. This leaves many PhD holders and candidates unable to find jobs in their chosen fields.
Despite this well-established fact, however, thousands of young idealists continue to pursue PhDs every year, believing that a doctoral degree would afford them a respected position in society, that it would give them an opportunity to contribute to global scientific knowledge and that the academic market would eventually value their specialised knowledge.
The universities, meanwhile, despite being well aware of the over-saturation of the market, continue to accept high numbers of PhD candidates in a bid to use them as cheap labour to generate higher research and teaching outputs.
Upon admission to a graduate programme, most PhD candidates are employed as teaching assistants. As part of this job, they provide multiple hours of in-class instruction to undergraduates, hold weekly office hours, grade assignments and exams, make rubrics and answer keys for weekly assignments. Their duties vary across universities and programmes, but almost all teaching assistants perform most aspects of instructional labour related to undergraduate education. They do not deliver lectures, as these are the responsibility of professors. Even then, the hours of instruction by teaching assistants often exceed the hours of lecture by professors.
Most teaching assistants are made to sign fixed-hours contracts that limit their working time to 20 hours a week, but their workload often exceeds this limit. These contracts are supposedly designed to protect teaching assistants from exploitation and ensure that they have enough time each week to focus on their own studies. However, they are used by university administrations simply to keep the weekly wages low.
Beyond contributing directly to the education of undergraduate students, teaching assistants also significantly increase the research outputs of the universities they work for.
First, by providing in-class instruction, holding office hours and grading papers, the teaching assistants allow the professors to find the time to focus on their own research and indirectly increase the university's research output. Second, they conduct their own research under the direction of their professors. While their well-established advisers sometimes list themselves as first author in the resulting research papers, PhD candidates often singlehandedly do the necessary work to bring these projects to fruition by spending relentless hours in labs conducting experiments, setting up surveys and interviews, and collecting data.
None of these significant contributions, however, seem to be enough for teaching assistants to be recognised as labourers in the US. While the public universities have acknowledged their right to unionise and bargain for wages, some of the private ones are stillfighting to prevent teaching assistants from acquiring even this basic right. In fact, under the Trump administration, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), attempted to ban the right to organise altogether, through a force of federal law.
Meanwhile, almost all academic institutions in the US try to legitimise their refusal to pay their teaching assistants living wages by claiming that these "students" also receive "intangible payments" in the form of tuition waivers. For example, according to a report published by the Washington Post in 1996, Robert Arnold, the then vice provost at Ohio State University, argued that the salary of teaching assistants was equivalent to assistant professors when their tuition waivers were accounted for. This argument is flawed in its core, as graduate students neither receive any in-class tuition nor enrol in courses beyond the first couple of years of their PhD life. For the rest of their time as PhD candidates (varying from three to five years), they typically only receive supervision on research, in most cases from the chair of their thesis/dissertation committee.
This invisible so-called "payment", made in the form of tuition waivers, can be added to the reasons why higher education in the US resembles a pyramid or Ponzi scheme. Nevertheless, academic institutions are still adamant that they are paying their teaching assistants by cancelling the fees for tuition they never receive. This argument is so convincing for many that the Trump administration recently proposed to tax such tuition waivers. Had that proposal been approved, thousands of graduate students all across the US would have paid out of pocket taxes for money that they had never seen in their bank accounts. While that bullet was dodged, the insecurities generated by the move prevail.
In the US, the functioning of the academic market is dependent on the exploitation of PhD candidates. It is a vicious cycle. Universities accept a high number of undergraduates to generate higher revenue from tuition fees, then employ a high number of PhD candidates, who they pay next to nothing, to teach these undergraduates. This allows them to increase their teaching productivity, research output and rankings without much effort and investment, and in turn, receive more undergraduate applications.
While this exploitative system affects all PhD candidates, it harms international students, who account for more than half of the US PhD population, the most. First, despite not receiving living wages as teaching assistants, international students are not allowed to earn a supplemental income by working other jobs because of visa restrictions. Second, for the same reasons, the universities know that international PhD candidates are less likely to protest against the poor wages that are on offer. If terminated, for whatever reason, they end up facing the risk of deportation.
While the exploitation of PhD candidates continues at pace across the United States, this massive but unrecognised labour force is now fighting back.
In the past two years, be it at the eminent private universities like Harvard or Columbia, or at celebrated public university systems such as California or Texas, teaching and research assistants have taken to the streets in huge numbers with demands ranging from the right to unionisation to a living wage.
Despite the mass firings, the teaching assistants of the University of California, Santa Cruz are still determined to continue their fight for a living wage. The sheer rate at which such protests have spread in the past few years should in itself compel the universities to break the vicious cycle of exploitation and start appreciating the workers that help these institutions function and prosper. Otherwise, the revolt of the academic subalterns may soon cause the "Empire of Mind" that is the US academia to crumble.
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University > Research portal > Research publications > Spinel-based coatings for metal supported solid oxide fuel c...
Spinel-based coatings for metal supported solid oxide fuel cells
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.materresbull.2017.02.003
Open Access version in St Andrews Research Repository
Elena Stefan, Dragos Neagu, Peter Blennow Tullmar, Åsa Helen Persson, Bhaskar R. Sudireddy, David Miller, Ming Chen, John Irvine
Metal supports and metal supported half cells developed at DTU are used for the study of a solution infiltration approach to form protective coatings on porous metal scaffolds. The metal particles in the anode layer, and sometimes even in the support may undergo oxidation in realistic operating conditions leading to severe cell degradation. Here, a controlled oxidation of the porous metal substrate and infiltration of Mn and/or Ce nitrate solutions are applied for in situ formation of protective coatings. Our approach consists of scavenging the FeCr oxides formed during the controlled oxidation into a continuous and well adhered coating. The effectiveness of coatings is the result of composition and structure, but also of the microstructure and surface characteristics of the metal scaffolds.
Materials Research Bulletin
Coatings, Porous metal supports, Solution infiltration, Spinels
Microwave irradiation synthesis to obtain La0.7-xPrxCa0.3MnO3 perovskites: electrical and electrochemical performance
Ferrel-Alvarez, A. C., Domínguez-Crespo, M. A., Cong, H., Torres-Huerta, A. M., Palma-Ramírez, D. & Irvine, J. T. S., 15 Jan 2021, In: Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 851, 156882.
Graphitic-C3N4 coated floating glass beads for photocatalytic destruction of synthetic and natural organic compounds in water under UV light
Hui, J., Pestana, C. J., Caux, M., Gunaratne, H. Q. N., Edwards, C., Robertson, P. K. J., Lawton, L. A. & Irvine, J. T. S., 15 Jan 2021, In: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry. 405, 112935.
Activation of anion redox in P3 structure cobalt-doped sodium manganese oxide via introduction of transition metal vacancies
Kim, E. J., Mofredj, K., Pickup, D., Chadwick, A., Irvine, J. T. S. & Armstrong, R., 1 Jan 2021, In: Journal of Power Sources. 481, 229010.
Photocatalytic removal of the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7813 and four microcystins by TiO2 coated porous glass beads with UV-LED irradiation
Pestana, C. J., Portela Noronha, J., Hui, J., Edwards, C., Gunaratne, H. Q. N., Irvine, J. T. S., Robertson, P. K. J., Capelo-Neto, J. & Lawton, L. A., 25 Nov 2020, In: Science of the Total Environment. 745, 141154.
Perovskite oxynitride solid solutions of LaTaON2-CaTaO2N with greatly enhanced photogenerated charge separation for solar-driven overall water splitting
Wang, Y., Kang, Y., Zhu, H., Liu, G., Irvine, J. T. S. & Xu, X., 25 Nov 2020, In: Advanced Science . Early View, 8 p., 2003343.
Hierarchical structured graphene/metal oxide/porous carbon composites as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries
Guo, R., Yue, W., Ren, Y. & Zhou, W., Jan 2016, In: Materials Research Bulletin. 73, p. 102-110
Spin–glass transition in La0.75Sr0.25Mn0.5Cr0.5−xAlxO3−δ perovskites
Azad, A. K., Sanchez-Benitez, J. & Irvine, J. T. S., 7 Jul 2013, In: Materials Research Bulletin. 48, 7, p. 2482-2490 9 p.
Structural, magnetic and electrochemical characterization of La0.83A0.17Fe0.5Cr0.5O3_δ (A = Ba, Ca) perovskites
Azad, AK., Eriksson, CG. & Irvine, J. T. S., 1 Jul 2009, In: Materials Research Bulletin. 44, 7, p. 1451–1457 7 p.
Synthesis, structure and magnetic properties of Sr2Fe1-xGaxMoO6 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.6) double perovskites
Azad, A. K., Khan, A., Eriksson, S-G. & Irvine, J. T. S., Dec 2009, In: Materials Research Bulletin. 44, 12, p. 2181-2185 5 p.


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Q: How to trigger a signal / hook on edit of a specific page? Is it possible to trigger some kind of signal or configure a hook (e.g. execution of defined / hard coded shell script) after editing one specific page of a MediaWiki?
The scenario is as follows.
Up to now a RSS feed is generated from the content of one specific MediaWiki page (call it wiki/index.php?title=News) each time the RSS feed is requested. As this page gets edited only once in a couple of days, having a Perl::CGI oder PHP script as the source of the RSS feed (e.g. URL for feed readers: example.com/rss-feed.php) should be better - in terms of server load. This script generates a static RSS feed (e.g. at example.com/rss.xml) only when the wiki page got edited.
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The wiki page I'm talking about is protected and only trusted users can edit it. I can not think about a security issue within the proposed workflow above. I'm happy getting otherwise convinced.

A: Sure, entirely possible.
The ArticleSaveComplete hook's $article parameter contains the title and namespace of the article that's just been saved (specifically, you want to access the properties of $article->mTitle).
Simply define a function with an if statement that will just return true if the title (and namespace!) don't match the given data. If they do match, it will generate the static file you need.
The MediaWiki Hooks manual page has some examples and further info on how hooks work and how to go about writing a new function that will work with a specific hook.
That said, I would really advise you to consider dropping this idea, unless you're actually seeing adverse performance effects on your machine. Under a normal configuration, MediaWiki should use parser cache to take care of the most load-intensive operation for queries like this one.

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Slash will be playable in the upcoming closed beta, which is set to arrive tomorrow on April 6th. Quake Champions is in development for PC and is planned to release sometime this year.


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Dear ones, it is Sunday. Time to reconnect with God and His people in worship and rest!
But you feel so weary and unworthy, don't you? You spent the week trying to keep up in the rat race, but fell further behind with every step forward. The lists of demands on your counter and in your mind grew, even as you thought you were making progress. And in the midst, you made choices you are not proud to admit. I get it. I spent the week feeling this, too.
How the world would beat us down and take our life!
But, again I remind you, dear ones: it is Sunday. Time to stop and be restored in response to our God's command, which is a blessing. Rest from your work, one day in seven. Trust Me.
How the Lord would lift us up and give us life!
When I get wrapped up in the cares of the world, my own sin, or the attacks of the evil one, the Word always brings me back. So on this Sunday morning, I pass along to you these Words from the Lord. Read, meditate, worship; and be comforted, refreshed, reminded, and restored. You are His!
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What if my best references are difficult to reach?
If your best reference, for example your supervisor from your last job, is difficult to reach for any reason, provide as much contact information as possible (with the permission of your reference, of course). Perhaps the employer who is calling your references will have better luck contacting your reference on a cell phone or through email.
Let the employer know that this person may be difficult to reach, and provide an alternative person to contact if possible. If your reference has indicated a time that is best to contact him or her, let the employer know this as well.
What should I do if I'm not sure whether a previous employer will provide a good job reference for me?
If you are uncertain about whether someone will provide a good reference, do your best to avoid including that person on your reference list. Consider whether there's anyone else in a management or supervisory role at that company who could provide a reference for you.
Perhaps you are not confident that the company manager will provide a good job reference, but you are certain that you'd get a glowing reference from the assistant manager who also supervised your work. In most cases, a glowing reference from an assistant manager is preferable to a mediocre or bad reference from the manager.
If you are frequently getting to the interview stage of the hiring process and you've ruled out the possibility that you are not answering interview questions well, but you're not getting job offers, you need to question whether one of your references is saying something that's not favorable. Occasionally I've had clients in this situation who asked professional sounding friends to call their references and find out what they were saying. If they determined a reference was not saying positive things, that person was quickly removed from the reference list.
What can I do to prepare my references?
Never ever include people on your reference list without asking their permission first. It is very difficult for someone to give a good job reference for you is they are completely taken by surprise by an employer calling to do a reference check. Also, it's just bad job search etiquette to include a person on your reference list without asking for permission, you'll very likely leave that person with a bad feeling about you.
Provide your references with a copy of your resume so they will be clear about all aspects of your work experience. Also, when you've attended an interview, contact all of your references immediately after the interview. Let them know the name of the employer who may be calling to do a reference check, the responsibilities of the job that you interviewed for, and (if it feels appropriate) anything in particular that you'd like your reference to highlight during the reference check.
What should I do if my previous employer has a policy that states they do not provide references?
Many employers have this policy in place. They will not comment on the quality of your work, but they will confirm that you held a particular job at that company for a specific period of time. If your previous employer had that type of policy in place, let your potential new employer know about the policy and note that he or she can contact your previous employer to confirm your job title and dates of employment.
It is not at all uncommon for employers to have this type of policy in place, so it should not be a cause for concern to your potential new employer. You will, however, need to find references who are able to discuss the quality of your work.
What should I do if a previous company no longer exists and I have lost contact with everyone who used to work there?
It is good practice, whenever possible, to ask for a reference letter any time you leave the company, so you'll always be able to provide some type of reference even if you lose contact with former colleagues.
If you do not have a reference letter, and you've lost contact with everyone at a particular company, explain the situation to the employer who will be conducting the reference check, and be certain to provide good job references from other employers.
Do employers prefer written reference letters or telephone references?
Some employers prefer reference letters, some prefer telephone references, and some never do a reference check.
Some employers completely forego the reference check as part of the hiring process. They feel that you will only provide written or telephone references that are positive, so they don't believe that this step in the hiring process is useful for gathering unbiased information about you.
Some employers prefer written references because it's a lot easier to read your reference letters than to personally contact all of your references.
Employers who prefer telephone references typically feel that written references are biased. You've had a chance to read the reference letters, and you will only provide a written reference if it is positive. These employers feel that it is possible to get good information about you as an employee by speaking with your references and are, therefore, willing to put in the time it takes to contact your references.
You never know what an employer will prefer when it comes to checking job references, so it's smart to be prepared with both kinds (written and telephone) of good job references.
Here are more tips on preparing good job references, and a reference page template.


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Since then Winson has also served other London property agencies dealing with sales and marketing and letting and management of all London residential properties. With over 15 years of property experience in the London property market, Winson is also very familiar with legal aspects of property transactions and the conveyancing process.


Consider the information about Robben Island Museum in South Africa. Get to know its location and main attractions.
Highlight: The former apartheid government's maximum-security political prison, including Nelson Mandela's cell.
It is a cold and barren slab surrounded by shark-infested water, seven miles north of Cape Town. Robben Island was "discovered" by Portuguese sailors in 1488 and functioned as a Dutch provisioning station for 150 years. it served as a hospital between 1846 and 1931for lepers, lunatics and the chronically ill. This island is most infamous for its use after 1961 by South Africa's white regime as a maximum-security prison for opponents of apartheid. The most outstanding prisoner was Nelson Mandela who spent about 19 years there and depicted it as "the harshest, most iron-fisted outpost in the South African penal system". The black majority South African government declared Robben Island a national monument and on New Year's Day, 1997, opened it to public. You may see Mandela's tiny cell (now considered a national shrine), the limestone quarries where prisoners worked, and other relics of the brutal apartheid era. There are ferry boats from Cape Town to Robben Island accommodating about 1,000 visitors daily.


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Az Amoria ellioti a csigák (Gastropoda) osztályának Hypsogastropoda alrendjébe, ezen belül a Volutidae családjába tartozó faj.

Rendszertani besorolása
Ez a tengeri csiga, korábban Voluta ellioti-ként volt ismert.

Előfordulása
Az Amoria ellioti a Nyugat-Ausztráliát érintő Indiai-óceánban fordul elő.

Megjelenése
E csigafaj háza 50-110 centiméter hosszú. A krémszínű vagy piszkosfehér alapszínű házán, vörösesbarna csíkok húzódnak.

Források

Amoria ellioti (G. B. Sowerby II, 1864) WoRMS
Bail P. & Limpus A. (2001) The genus Amoria. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds) A conchological iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 50 pp., 93 pls.

Fordítás

További információk
Gastropods.com: Amoria ellioti

Sorbeoconcha
Puhatestűfajok
Ausztrália puhatestűi
Az Indiai-óceán puhatestűi

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Q: gnome-terminal PWD of new tab If you cd into a folder and open a new tab, you get a new tab in the same working directory.
If you execute "cd folder;sleep 10s" instead, and you open a new tab before the sleep command finishes, the tab opens in the old folder.
Is there a way to change this?
Usecase: I want to define the alias
    alias sea='cd $(dirname $1); vim $(basename $1)'
So that if I edit a file and want to open a new tab, it opens in the correct folder.