There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving unemployment for employment or the hazard rate. The effects of the personal and household characteristics and the local labor market conditions are examined. The analyses are carried out for men and women separately. The results indicate that the nature of unemployment in Turkey exhibits similarities to the unemployment in both the developed and the developing countries.
The study estimates an empirical model of return intentions using a dataset compiled from an internet survey of Turkish professionals residing abroad. In the migration literature, wage differentials are often cited as an important factor explaining skilled migration. The findings of our study suggest, however, that non-pecuniary factors, such as the importance of family and social considerations, are also influential in the return or non-return decision of the highly educated. In addition, economic instability in Turkey, prior intensions to stay abroad and work experience in Turkey also increase non-return. Female respondents also appear less likely to return indicating a more selective migration process for females.
The informal sector constitutes a large share of employment and output in all developing countries. Although the informal sector is regarded by many researchers and policy makers as a source of employment developing countries desperately need, there is ample evidence that documents that informal firms are less productive, employ unskilled labor, and pay lower wages. This study analyzes the sources of productivity difference between informal and formal firms in Turkey. Since the data on the informal sector is likely to be noisy, we use two different approaches to analyze productivity differentials: firm-level analysis and individual-level analysis. In the case of firm-level analysis, we estimate and compare productivity levels of informal and formal firms by using matching propensity score and switching regression methods. In the case of individual-level data, we compare wage differentials between informal and formal wage workers by estimating a multinomial selection model. Our findings indicate that there is a significant productivity gap between informal and formal firms, and a wage gap between informal and formal workers. Moreover, the hypothesis that more educated entrepreneurs and workers move to the formal sector is supported by the data. This process of self-selection contributes to widen the productivity gap between informal and formal firms. The theories of life-cycle and learning are also supported by our findings. Older (i.e., more experienced) firms tend to operate in the formal sector. However, the relationship between informality and age is U-shaped for entrepreneurs and workers. Even after controlling for all these factors (self-selection, differences in endowments, and learning), the productivity gap does not disappear. The findings suggest that there is a substantial but untapped potential to increase productivity in Turkey. The productivity effect of operating formally is higher for services, but we may expect that a large number of informal service firms could not survive if they operate formally.


Two people were arrested after fights broke out in a Worthing street during the early hours of Saturday morning (February 25), police have confirmed.
Police said that at around 2am on Saturday, officers were called to Ann Street, Worthing, where more than 100 people were present, as fights broke among several smaller groups.
A police spokesman said: "As fighting spilled into neighbouring streets and around the clock tower, officers supported by a police dog unit dispersed the groups and took control of the situation.
"A 21-year-old local man was arrested on suspicion of affray but was later released without charge.


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When I was planning my wedding, I (quite unsurprisingly!) had my heart set on a vintage-themed reception in a marquee. However due to a number of factors such as budget this unfortunately wasn't practical, so we instead picked a hotel as our venue. Looking back I wouldn't change this at all, as it was the perfect day, plus after a bit of thinking outside the box and clever decorations, I still managed to keep my 'country fete' theme.
One of the main features in the reception room was 20m of bunting, all handmade by me - without a sewing machine too! Three years on its still going strong hanging pride of place in our kitchen, so I thought I'd share my no-sew method of making bunting quickly and easily.
Please note: This bunting was intended to hang against walls and surfaces, so isn't double sided. However, if you're looking for something to hang across rooms etc, I would recommend making double-sided flags.
Take your first flag, place facing downwards, and fold the top 1cm of the flag over the ribbon. Spread a thin layer of glue along the ribbon and fold the material down to stick. You may need to do the same to the other side of the ribbon and press down again, however I found that it was enough just to glue one side of the ribbon. Make sure you don't use too much glue here otherwise it'll seep through the material.
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The traditional ruler of Ogwashi-Uku in Delta State, His Royal Majesty, Obi Ifechuwude Aninshi , Okonjo II, reportedly escaped death in the hands of unknown cultists and thugs.
The royal father, who is the brother of the Director General, World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was said to have been attacked alongside his entourage at Otulu Ogwashi-Uku community, according to information obtained from Daily Post.
They were said to have been waylaid as they were leaving Otulu Ogwashi-Uku, the ancestral home of the monarch, where they had gone to offer prayers with their people. A palace statement showed that both the monarch and his entourage survived the onslaught, but did not disclose if there were casualties.
The statement reads:"Obi and members of the Council of Ogwashi-Uku visited Otulu Ogwashi-Uku , Friday, September 17,2021. The visit was largely successful and the Obi met members of the community, prayed with them and discussed with them about some issues.
"At the end of the visit and when the Obi was departing, cultists and thugs imported into Otulu , who were aware of the visit, attacked members of the entourage who were at the rear of the convoy. The thugs also attempted to forcefully seize a gun belonging to a law enforcement member who escorted the Obi on the visit".
The spokesperson of the palace, Prince Greg Okwumbu, who issued the statement, affirmed that both pressmen, law enforcement agents were at the visit and all witnessed what happened. He also claimed that the sponsors of the attack were known and would be brought to book.
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There's only one week left to throw your hat in the ring for this year's Dragons' Den at our SE Conference and Ceilidh, see here. We still have a few day delegate places left for the event but overnight places are now just about at capacity. For info the programme is available here.
GSEN is hosting the Glasgow Social Enterprise Trade Show – on 10th December at The Briggait. This FREE event will be an opportunity to explore the wide range of products and services from social enterprises in Glasgow in the fabulous WASPs' building. There will be exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities which can be viewed here….or just you can just come along on the day, meet some new folk and build connections.
TENDERS: Training Initiative Programme, Fresh Start; Future Support and Advice to Rural Communities, Scottish Government; Medium Value Construction Projects, The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland); Consultancy Services for Cycling Event Development Support, Scottish Borders Councils. Join the Ready for Business Linked-In group and follow on Twitter.
NEWSLETTER: The latest Cultural and Creative Newsletter was published this week – including a range of info relevant to social enterprises in the cultural and creative industries.
CONFERENCE: Limited places left for the Social Enterprise in Dundee Conference 'Spotlight on Progress and Future Opportunities'. Focus will be on Dundee City Council's Social Enterprise Strategy and the growth of the sector in the city. There will also be presentations that highlight successful examples of social enterprise activity in other parts of Scotland.
VIDEO : Another video, this time from the highly successful Edinburgh SEN's 'Social in the Square'.
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INVESTMENT : Resilient Scotland invests £500,000 in two Glasgow social enterprises.
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The full line-up of speakers at this year's Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) plant conference has been announced, with a number of different topics to be discussed.
The Construction Plant-hire Association's (CPA) conference will be held at the Heart of England Conference and Events Centre between Birmingham and Coventry, in the UK.
The conference will take place on Tuesday, 31 October at the Heart of England Conference and Events Centre between Birmingham and Coventry, in the UK.
There will be speakers from organisations such as High-Speed Rail 2 (HS2), Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), and King's College London.
Topics to be discussed will include construction plant hire, air quality in London, plant operator's supply and demand, shared solutions to reduce risk, among others.
In addition to the speaker presentations, a number of exhibitors will display equipment, along with new products and services, including AJ Gallagher, AMI Group, CanTrack, and others.


"Mom, who ate the cookies and drank the milk?
How can Santa get to all the houses, in all the world in one night?
It's amazing that one person can do that!
We were in the car this morning and I knew I needed to choose my answers carefully. Do I bold face lie and answer "why, Santa did my darling!" or do I crush all the Christmas magic and say "you're right, Daddy did it!"
In my coolest and calm voice I said "well, what do you think?"
Maggie Bell, delightfully innocence, said "of course he's weal!"
Libby was quiet, and then, "Brynn said that his name is St. Nicolas and he lived a long a time ago." "Is he alive now, Mom?"
I hope that it's not wrong that I don't have the heart to answer her. I'm not ready yet. I want her to stay where she is.
"What do you think?" is my go-to answer I guess.
But I can see her standing on the edge of make believe. A time where fairies are fully real and are surely hiding in the afternoon light in our backyard. Every Disney princess story is as real as the troll that lives under the bridge at the end of our road, and yes Santa can make it from Istanbul to Virginia Beach and everywhere else in one night.
One day, all on her own, she leave this magical time. She'll wake up one morning to face reality and realize that it has almost as many questions as make-believe.
An angel talked to Mary? Did she know it was the angel of the Lord? Was he glowing? How big was the star? Where did the star go? Why can't we see it now? What is a heavenly host? Shepherds in a field were afraid because they were surrounded by heavenly light, are we sure it wasn't aliens? She got pregnant how? How is that even possible???? God was a baby, and he is Jesus, who is the Holy Spirit? And how do I make sense of these stories?
And it a choice that I have to make daily that my faith in the One, is stronger than my human intuition and reason.
Believe in the coming King!
As for my clever girl, for tonight, I think she's sticking with the stories in her mind and choosing to believe!
Libby is probably thinking it is safest to let you think she believes in Santa but she obviously is not quite sure. I'm surprised she didn't ask why Santa comes to VA Beach one night and to Baltimore the next!
Libby looks so pretty in the photos.
I'm not a deep thinker as others are.


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Overwatch League team Shanghai Dragons has been particularly busy over the last few weeks, as they've announced that both Diya and Undead are out of action for a while, but now there's a bit of good news, as some new players have joined them in the US to compete in the league.
The first update a few days ago told us that Chinese players had been granted single-entry P1 visas, and since then we've been told that Geguri has arrived in California, as has Ado, who arrived earlier this week.
On Twitter the team also conducted a small interview with Geguri to find out a bit more about her, which you can watch right here. Do you think that these players can prove useful to Shanghai Dragons?
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Media Freedom Under the Human Rights Act
автор Fenwick H. издательство Oxford University Press Изучение английского языка
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Аннотация: The authors - both leading academics in the field - have drawn on significant comparative decisions to formulate a coherent and provocative critique of the relationship between media law and freedom of expression, and suggested principles which make a significant contribution to the legal discourse surrounding media freedom in the Human Rights Act era. - Offers comprehensive coverage of major media law topics, including privacy, contempt, copyright, official secrecy and freedom of information, content regulation of broadcasters, and political defamation - Takes a comparative approach to consider the impact of the Human Rights Act on these areas, written by leading experts on the Act - Includes detailed discussion of recent key cases and legislative developments to early 2006 Media Freedom under the Human Rights Act provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the impact of Article 10 ECHR, as received through the Human Rights Act 1998, on the substantive law governing freedom of expression in the media. Fully up to date, the book provides extensive coverage of crucial recent developments in this field; these include: the key cases of Ashworth and Punch in the area of contempt; the ground-breaking privacy decisions in Von Hannover v Germany and Campbell v MGN ; full consideration of theoretical approaches to explicit speech and blasphemy, including a detailed critique of Strasbourg case-law in the area; detailed discussion of the new offence of incitement to religious hatred; the new scheme for content regulation of broadcasting under the Communications Act 2003 in the light of Prolife Alliance ; a full survey of recent domestic and Strasbourg caselaw in the areas of copyright and political defamation, and analysis of the early impact of the Freedom of Information Act. The result is a book which provides a scholarly and theoretically informed analysis of this very topical subject, of interest to those studying at all levels and practising in this area of law.
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В тот момент версия операционной системы G U/Li ux использовала ядро Li ux начатое Торвальдсом. Операционная система G U распространяется под лицензией «авторского лева», которая использует авторское право, позволяющее пользователям использовать, изменять, копировать и распространять программное обеспечение. Жизнь Столлмана продолжает вертеться вокруг продвижения идеи свободного программного обеспечения. Он работает против таких движений, как Digi al Righ s Media (или как он любит его называть – Digi al Res ric io s Ma ageme ), с помощью таких организаций, как Free Sof ware Fou da io и League of Programmi g Freedom. За свою работу он получил широкую узнаваемость, а так же награды, стипендии и четыре почетные докторские степени. Тсутому Шимомура Шимомура достиг славы не самым удачным образом: его взломал Кевин Митник. Потрясенный этой атакой, он сделал целью своей жизни помочь ФБР поймать его. Работа Шимомуры по поимке Кевина Митника заслуживает похвалы, но он и сам не безгрешен. Брюс Стерлинг вспоминает: «Он вытаскивает мобильный телефон A & , распаковывает его, разбирает его и начинает прослушивать телефонные разговоры, проходящие через Capi ol Hill, в то время, как сотрудник ФБР стоит у него за спиной и слушает его».
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Remove the seeds from a pumpkin and rinse in cool water. Pat dry with a paper towel to remove excess water. Add all of the ingredients to a bowl and stir to coat. Spread evenly onto a baking sheet and roast until golden brown, about 20 minutes.
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I love this time of year because I love everything pumpkin but I so often forget about those darling little seeds. I especially loved the sweet and savory flavors dancing together in this recipe. Thank you so much for reminding me to play with my food!


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Conflicting sources put the number of injured as between three and six people, including a 13-year-old girl who was hospitalised after breathing in fumes from the fire that broke out after the explosion.
The regional Investigative Committee launched a criminal probe into breaches of safety rules at the factory.


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Dr. Ben Carson has been rising in the polls, so the media jackals have descended upon him, trying to find whatever dirt they can on the retired neurosurgeon turned presidential candidate.
CNN began snooping around Carson's long-ago childhood, a time when he described himself in his 1990 autobiography Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story as having a "pathological temper." From attacking his mother with a hammer to an attempted stabbing of another boy, Carson wrote that after the stabbing event, he prayed to God for deliverance: "Lord, despite what all the experts tell me, You can change me. You can free me forever from this destructive personality trait." After that prayer, he became a "different person," as he described in his book.
Not satisfied, CNN snooped around and found nine people from those old days in the Detroit neighborhood where he grew up who did not remember Carson to be violent. None of them challenged the stories, but they couldn't remember these incidents from 50 years ago, so CNN has decided they had the ultimate "gotcha" on Ben Carson.
Dr. Carson appeared with Megyn Kelly on Fox News Channel on Thursday night to defend himself.
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CNN wasn't about to be outdone. On Friday's edition of CNN's New Day host Alyson Camerota tried to further bury Ben Carson with a series of 'gotcha' questions of her own. She started by implying that Carson thought people who were on government assistance were "stupid." The normally mild-mannered Dr. Carson fired back in what turned out to be a lengthy and very heated exchange, with Carson arriving at the nub of the matter: the media will do whatever they can to discredit a conservative candidate:
"So, just to be clear, people who support food stamps or Medicaid or welfare…"
"I didn't say that, now you're trying to put words into my mouth. Why don't you listen to what I just told you?"
Camerota quickly switched to another tack, citing a speech in which Carson joked that the nation would be "Cuba" if it weren't for Fox News.
"You mean that if Fox News didn't exist, we would be a communist country?"
"No. Again, there you go with sensationalism. That's what you try to do. You hope somehow that will resonate with people who don't think for themselves. I've got news for you, people are a lot smarter than you think they are, and they know exactly what I'm talking about."
"Dr. Carson, you said it! Dr. Carson, I'm quoting — I'm not even quoting you, I'm playing your words. You are the person who said there are a lot of people who are stupid and without Fox News, we would be Cuba."
"Are you honestly telling me that you didn't know what I was talking about when I said that? Are you honestly telling me? If you are, you might fit in that category."
Here is the dustup between Camerota and Carson:
It continued:
Now POLITICO is piling on with a story that Carson lied about being accepted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, although his campaign manager says that Carson, as Detroit's top ROTC high school student, was introduced to representatives from West Point. The representatives told him that with his performance he could possibly get an appointment to the academy, but Carson did not seek admission. Attorney and blogger Ben Shapiro points out:
But Carson never said he applied. He said he was extended a full scholarship offer. What's more, West Point doesn't offer scholarships: all admission is free contingent on serving in the military afterwards. It thus seems probable that Westmoreland or another military figure tried to recruit Carson, telling him that he wouldn't have to pay for his education – and that Carson read that as a "full scholarship," and never applied.
Click to enlarge. Ben Carson in ROTC; third from left. Credit: CNN.
I wonder why the media sycophants didn't hammer Barack Obama when in his own autobiography Dreams From My Father it was discovered that Obama created composite characters for his narrative? Why didn't they press Obama when his past associations with anti-American preacher Jeremiah Wright and radical Bill Ayers were revealed?
Even days before the 2008 presidential election, news anchors Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose admitted they really didn't know much about Barack Obama.
Dr. Ben Carson is a brilliant surgeon, but unfortunately he is a political naif who has not experienced the brutality of political brinksmanship, and the media jackals smell conservative blood. I wonder if they would attempt such a beat down of Senators Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio? I rather doubt that we'll ever see that.
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The Electoral College and American Constitutionalism
The Electoral College is fundamental to our constitutional system of limited government, federalism, equal representation, checks and balances, and separation of powers.
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U.S. Senator, and Democrat presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren declared recently that her goal if elected is "to be the last American president elected by the Electoral College" and her "second term to be elected by direct vote." The debate is not new to American politics—whether the Electoral College should be replaced by a direct national popular vote for president—but the question goes deeper. It goes directly into the heart of our constitutional Republic. The Electoral College is fundamental to our constitutional system of limited government, federalism, equal representation, checks and balances, and separation of powers.
When the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia in 1787, they designed a Constitution with a republican form of government that that limited the powers of the federal government. The Founding Fathers were students of history and political philosophy and understood the dangers of direct democracy. Therefore, in deciding how to elect the executive, the Framers developed one of their most inventive and clever designs — the Electoral College. Rejecting a direct popular election, they looked for a way to protect the states and provide every citizen with a voice. The Electoral College must be preserved, because it not only reflects the traditions of American constitutionalism but provides the best avenue to elect the President and Vice President.
The simple argument for keeping the Electoral College is the fact that it works. More importantly we are a nation of "United States." It is important to remember that the individual states created the Constitution and not the other way around. In addition, through federalism, the Constitution gives states sovereign power and the powers of the national government are limited. In Federalist Paper 45 James Madison wrote: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." The Electoral College is an essential part of federalism.
Historian Allen Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program Initiative in Politics and Statesmanship at Princeton, recognizes the obvious: the Electoral College was developed by the Founders not to benefit slaveholders, or to give unfettered power to the wealthy and politically connected; it was developed for one simple reason: to preserve and protect the constitutional foundation of our republican democracy. The Founders recognized, perhaps more than political experts today, that left unchecked, a national popular vote would undermine the constitutional checks and balances, and disrupt, if not collapse, the federal form of government that is still the most effective governance system in the world today. It is important to keep in mind that even though the presidential campaign is national, the actual vote is taking place within the individual states.
A major compromise in framing the Constitution was balancing the interests of large and small states. The Congress reflects that compromise with the House of Representatives based on population, while each state has two Senators. Larger states have greater representation in the House, while every state has equal representation in the Senate. As columnist George F. Will argues: "Do critics want to abolish the Senate as well? Delaware, the least populous state in 1789, was understandably the first to ratify the Constitution with its equal representation of states in the Senate: Virginia, the most populous, had eleven times more voters. Today Wyoming's senators' votes can cancel those of California's senators, who represent sixty-nine times more people. If that offends you, so does America's constitutional federalism. The electoral-vote system, like the Constitution it serves, was not devised by, and should not be revised by simpleminded majoritarians."
The term democracy is overused and misunderstood; the United States is a constitutional republic, not a direct democracy. Federalism is already in danger with the national government involved in numerous policy areas that are to be left to the states. Unfortunately, states have become overly dependent on the national government to support their budgets. Abolishing the Electoral College will not only result in harming citizens in small states, but it will contribute to the dismantling of federalism. "Federalism is in the bones of our nation and abolishing the Electoral College would point toward doing away with the entire federal system," says Professor Guelzo.
s e (@oldgulph) says:
The 8 smallest states (i.e., those with 3 electoral votes) together received only one of the nation's 952 general-election campaign events in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 elections.
With the National Popular Vote bill, when every popular vote counts and matters to the candidates equally, successful candidates will find a middle ground of policies appealing to the wide mainstream of America. Instead of playing mostly to local concerns in Pennsylvania and Florida, candidates finally would have to form broader platforms for broad national support. Elections wouldn't be about winning a handful of battleground states.
Fourteen of the 15 smallest states by population are ignored, like medium and big states where the statewide winner is predictable, because they're not swing states. Small states are safe states. Only New Hampshire gets significant attention.
Support for a national popular vote has been strong in every smallest state surveyed in polls among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group
Among the 13 lowest population states, the National Popular Vote bill has passed in 9 state legislative chambers, and been enacted by 5 jurisdictions.
Now political clout comes from being among the handful of battleground states. 70-80% of states and voters are ignored by presidential campaign polling, organizing, ad spending, and visits. Their states' votes were conceded months before by the minority parties in the states, taken for granted by the dominant party in the states, and ignored by all parties in presidential campaigns.
State winner-take-all laws negate any simplistic mathematical equations about the relative power of states based on their number of residents per electoral vote. Small state math means absolutely nothing to presidential campaign polling, organizing, ad spending, and visits, or to presidents once in office.
In the 25 smallest states in 2008, the Democratic and Republican popular vote was almost tied (9.9 million versus 9.8 million), as was the electoral vote (57 versus 58).
In 2012, 24 of the nation's 27 smallest states received no attention at all from presidential campaigns after the conventions. They were ignored despite their supposed numerical advantage in the Electoral College. In fact, the 8.6 million eligible voters in Ohio received more campaign ads and campaign visits from the major party campaigns than the 42 million eligible voters in those 27 smallest states combined.
The 12 smallest states are totally ignored in presidential elections. These states are not ignored because they are small, but because they are not closely divided "battleground" states.
Now with state-by-state winner-take-all laws (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), presidential elections ignore 12 of the 13 lowest population states (3-4 electoral votes), that are non-competitive in presidential elections. 6 regularly vote Republican (AK, ID, MT, WY, ND, and SD), and 6 regularly vote Democratic (RI, DE, HI, VT, ME, and DC) in presidential elections.
Similarly, the 25 smallest states have been almost equally noncompetitive. They voted Republican or Democratic 12-13 in 2008 and 2012.
Voters in states, of all sizes, that are reliably red or blue don't matter. Candidates ignore those states and the issues they care about most.
Shane Vander Hart says:
I oppose NPV for the simple fact it's an end-around the constitution. Want to get rid of the Electoral College? Do it by constitutional amendment. NPV will likely be struck down in federal court if and when it goes into effect.
Roberta Schlechter says:
I've been advocating for the Electoral College (current function) for nearly a decade and this is among the very best explanations I have read. It lays out the context that is no longer taught. People who want NPV unwittingly seek to see our republic unravel. It must never happen.
Monte Ferrell Crooks says:
States lost their only direct voice and the reason for 2 Senators for each state when the 17th Amendment overturned the Constitution's method of Senators being selected by their State Government.
I am a Constitutionalist. I must register Republican because there is no Constitution Party, although I throw one every September 17th! Speaking of 17, let's repeal the 17th Anendment! Our Republic was dealt a great blow by nullifying each State's voice in the Federal Government by removing selection of Senators from State Legislators.
Warren is not stupid. She just wants ALL future Presidents to be elected only by large radically left leaning Coastal Metropolitan cities and states. Individual rural citizens' votes are an affront to power-hungry phonies like Warren. Thank you for this article!
John Crawford says:
This piece captures the defense of our Electoral College perfectly!
Almost ALL of our Domestic self-governance is SUPPOSED to happen at the State (and Local) levels – where the Consent of the Governed can best be granted, or withheld.
Those on the Left seek to satisfy their genetic urge to order the affairs of others from afar by doing away with the influence of these pesky State things! They want Washington, DC to call every shot!
But the President of the United STATES is elected by the STATES. Efforts for this terrible National Popular Vote Interstate Compact scheme (NPVIC) is nothing less than a very radical USURPATION of the vital role that our States play to counterbalance this runaway tyrannical federal government!
Does the Big City in YOUR State call all the shots for your State? That's because of the statewide popular vote rules in your State. Imagine that when the Electoral College no longer functions as our Founders designed it to! Small States will be destroyed, just as the Founders feared.
That is the same thing that the Left is after by pushing for this dangerous NPVIC and neutering the Electoral College.
And THAT is the true purpose behind this diabolical plot to dismantle our American Federation and Constitutional republic!
Thanks for authoring such an excellent article!
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Q: Exception calling PutAsJsonAsync from Xamarin I am trying to write a small test application using WebApi. I have it mostly working, I am able to get data from my web service and display it in Android.
I added a button, and used the same code that I had used in my Winforms test client:
   async void buttonSave_Clicked(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient ();
        Customer data = new Customer () {
        Surname = editSurname.Text,
        GivenName = editGivenName.Text};

        var result = await client.PutAsJsonAsync("http://10.0.0.4/WebApplication1/api/Customers/2", data);
       if (result.IsSuccessStatusCode ) {
       labelStatus.Text = "Saved";
       }
    }

This works fine in the Windows Forms test app, but in the Xamarin app I get an exception on client.PutAsJsonAsync:
E/mono-rt ( 7519): [ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'System.Net.Http.ObjectContent`1[T]' from assembly 'System.Net.Http.Formatting, Version=5.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'.
Any suggestions? Using Xamarin 3.
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It works if I format the content manually:
        string sData =   Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data);

        HttpContent content = new System.Net.Http.StringContent(sData, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8,  "application/json") ;
        var result = await client.PutAsync("http://10.0.0.4/WebApplication1/api/Customers/2",content);

I have all the references correct, as far as I can see. I used the WebApi Client nuget package.
References:
Newtonsoft.Json
System.Net.Http
System.Net.Http.Extensions
System.Net.Http.Formatting
System.Net.Http.Primitives

A: You need to install the following Nuget packages to all the projects that reference your HttpClient project

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*Microsoft.Bcl.Build

*Microsoft.Bcl

These are the warnings from Visual Studio when I built my project and after I done that, it worked!

A: Serialize your data into a JSON string like this:
  string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(item);
                    var content = new StringContent(json, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
                    HttpResponseMessage response = null;
                    response = await client.PostAsync(url, content);

A: The overload list for the System.Net.Http.PutAsJsonAsync method on MSDN only shows overloads that contain three or four parameters. In your example, I see two that you are passing. It appears correct to be able to leave out the HttpClient parameter when called as a instance from HttpClient based on the code examples from MSDN.
However, with Xamarin it was built as a fork of MonoDevelop. MonoDevelop uses the Mono Framework which is a port of the .NET Framework. Due to that difference, I am interested if a bug should be opened for Mono, MonoDevelop, or Xamarin.
Back to the overload methods list though, I recommend trying to use one of these overloads.

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*PutAsJsonAsync(HttpClient, String, T)

*PutAsJsonAsync(HttpClient, Uri, T)

*PutAsJsonAsync(HttpClient, String, T, CancellationToken)

*PutAsJsonAsync(HttpClient, Uri, T, CancellationToken)

I recommend trying to pass the HttpClient to the PutAsJsonAsync method without PutAsJsonAsync being called from an instance of HttpClient.
BTW, this is not a guaranteed solution, for it was simply too much information to put into comments. Hope this helps.

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Q: Fundamental class for tangent bundle For closed orientable manifolds $X$ we can define the fundamental class $[X]$ which is just a choice of generator of the top homology group $H_n(X; \mathbb{Z})$.
However, in the context of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem one considers the fundamental class of the tangent bundle, $[TX]$ and evaluates a certain compactly support cohomology class on it to obtain the index.
The class $[TX]$ does not seem to be well-defined in the sense described above.
Here is one reference from Michelsohn and Lawson's Spin Geometry, p.254:

Recall that for any manifold $X$, the tangent bundle $TX$ is canonically an almost complex manifold since $T(TX) = \pi^*TX \oplus \pi^*TX \cong \pi^*TX \otimes \mathbb{C}$. This gives $TXT$ a canonical orientation as a manifold. A positively oriented basis of $T(TX)$ is of the form $(e_1, Je_1,e_2,Je_2,\dots, e_n,Je_n)$ where $e_1, \dots, e_n$ is a basis of $\pi^*TX$ and $J$ carries the "horizontal" to the "vertical" factor. With this orientation we can evaluate any element $u \in H^{2n}_{cpt}(TX)$ on the fundamental class $[TX]$ of the manifold. The result is denoted by $u[TX]$.

So it certainly meant to be understood in the usual way. Hence, my question is: What is meant by $[TX]$?
My guess is that it actually it supposed to mean that we interpret cohomology in terms of differential form and then integrate over $TX$, but the way it is stated above does not seem to make any sense.
I'm aware of the question Fundamental class of cotangent bundle, but it didn't contain references and consequently didn't receive an answer.


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The training which took place at Ambassador hotel in Hargeisa, the backyard of the global giant remittance financial institution was also attended by the supervisors of the State owned Central Bank of Somaliland that is constitutionally mandated with supervisory role over other financial institutions operating in the country-privately or publicly owned commercial banks.
Specific objectives of the training was to arm bankers with desired expertise in global legislations involving electronic transactions between different nations, continents, persons through resourcing the attendees with amble skills desired in combating the intricacies in dealing with multitude of international crimes varying from money laundering, human trafficking, trade in narcotic substances without compromising the interest of legal business entities.
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The unveiling of the training was precedent by the speech of the Governor of the Central Bank of Somaliland who commended Dahabshil fraternity in their efforts spearheading the provision of remittance services to prestigious level globally hence promoting Somaliland people as enterprising traders.
The Central Bank Governor Mr. Abdi Dirir Abdi also applauded the serious efforts undertaken by the larges firm in the financial sub-sector of the local economy culminating to successful conduct of the training.
Mr. Dirir reminded the participants of the various stages involved in remitting money from the sender till the time it is cashed to the recipient as a long transaction that is bound to be misused by criminals amidst the innocence of either party & raised the supervisory role of his institution in its obligation in detecting these anomalies.
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Attendance certificates were finally awarded by the moderator one, Albert E. Brady from AEB consultancy services who offers legal advices to 63 different remittances firms including Dahabshil.


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Rare violin tests Germany's commitment to atone for its Nazi past
Felix Hildesheimer's music store in Speyer, Germany. The store occupied the first floor of the building, and the Hildesheimers lived on the floors above. Via David Sand via The New York Times.
by Catherine Hickley
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- No one knows why Felix Hildesheimer, a Jewish dealer in music supplies, purchased a precious violin built by the Cremonese master Giuseppe Guarneri at a shop in Stuttgart, Germany, in January 1938. His own store had lost its non-Jewish customers because of Nazi boycotts, and his two daughters fled the country shortly afterward. His grandsons say it's possible that Hildesheimer was hoping he could sell the violin in Australia, where he and his wife, Helene, planned to build a new life with their younger daughter.
But the couple's efforts to get an Australian visa failed and Hildesheimer killed himself in August 1939. More than 80 years later, his 300-year-old violin — valued at around $185,000 — is at the center of a dispute that is threatening to undermine Germany's commitment to return objects looted by the Nazis.
The government's Advisory Commission on the return of Nazi-looted cultural property determined in 2016 that the violin was almost certainly either sold by Hildesheimer under duress, or seized by the Nazis after his death. In its first case concerning a musical instrument, the panel recommended that the current holder, the Franz Hofmann and Sophie Hagemann Foundation, a music education organization, should pay the dealer's grandsons compensation of 100,000 euros, around $121,000; in return, the foundation could keep the instrument, which it planned to lend to talented violin students.
But the foundation is refusing to pay. After first saying it couldn't raise the funds, it is now casting doubt on the committee's ruling. In a Jan. 20 statement, the foundation said "current information" suggested that Hildesheimer was not forced to give up his business until 1939, instead of 1937, as previously thought. So, the statement added, "we should assume that the violin was sold as a retail product in his music shop."
Last week, the Advisory Commission lost patience and issued a public statement aimed at raising pressure on the Hagemann Foundation to comply with its recommendation.
"Both sides accepted this as a fair and just solution," the statement said, accusing the foundation of not showing a "serious commitment to comply with the commission's recommendation." The efforts to contest the recommendation — four years after it was issued — by suggesting that the Jewish dealer sold the violin under perfectly normal conditions mean "the foundation is not just contravening existing principles on the restitution of Nazi-looted art," the panel said, "it is also ignoring accepted facts about life in Nazi Germany."
The foundation's refusal to pay is jeopardizing a system for handling Nazi-looted art claims that has been in place for nearly two decades and has led to the restitution of works from public museums and, in 2019, two paintings from the German government's own art collection.
Lawmakers set up the panel in 2003, after endorsing the Washington Principles, a 1998 international agreement calling for "just and fair" solutions for prewar owners and their heirs whose art had been confiscated by the Nazis. The families of Jews whose belongings were expropriated rarely succeed in recovering looted cultural property in German courts, because of statutes of limitation and rules that protect good-faith buyers of stolen goods. So the Advisory Commission, which arbitrates between the victims of spoliation and the holders of disputed cultural property, is often claimants' only recourse.
But the commission is not a court and has no legal powers to enforce its recommendations, explained Hans-Jürgen Papier, the panel's chairman and a former president of Germany's Constitutional Court, in an interview.
"Instead it has the function of a mediator," he said. "So far we have been able to count on public institutions to submit to the commission's processes and implement its recommendations," he added. "If that doesn't work anymore, it's unacceptable from our perspective."
After Hildesheimer's purchase, the Guarneri violin's tracks disappear until 1974, when it resurfaced at a shop in the city of Cologne, western Germany, and was purchased by the violinist Sophie Hagemann. She died in 2010, bequeathing it to the foundation she had set up to promote the work of her composer husband and support young musicians.
The Hagemann Foundation, which has since restored the violin, began to investigate its prior ownership after her death. On noting the provenance gap from 1938 to 1974, it registered the instrument on a German government database of Nazi-looted cultural property, in the hope of finding more information about the Hildesheimer family. An American journalist tracked down the music dealer's grandsons, and the foundation agreed to submit the case to the Advisory Commission.
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When the commission ruled, in 2016, that the violin was likely to have been sold under duress, or seized after Hildesheimer's death, the Hagemann Foundation accepted its terms and also promised that the students to whom it lent the violin would give regular concerts in Hildesheimer's memory.
But the Advisory Commission's statement last week said it detected no "serious will" on the part of the foundation to raise the 100,000 euros compensation. The foundation's continued description of the Guarneri violin as "an instrument of understanding" on its website is "particularly inappropriate," the panel said, given its refusal to pay the heirs.
The foundation's president, Fabian Kern, declined an interview request, but issued a statement saying that the foundation had "undertaken countless efforts over several years to implement the commission's recommendation."
David Sand, Hildesheimer's California-based grandson, said in a telephone interview that the family had been "very accommodating, and even offered the foundation assistance with fundraising in emails back and forth over the last four years."
"If the commission can be defied with no consequences, I don't see how these cases can be dealt with in future," he added.
Papier, the committee chairman, said he hoped the panel's decision to tell the media about the foundation's noncompliance would raise awareness among lawmakers and the public of the issues at stake. While the Hagemann Foundation is a private entity, it has close connections with the Nuremberg University of Music, which is owned by the German state of Bavaria, he said.
He said he has already sought support from the Bavarian government, "but in the end nothing happened. Perhaps some political pressure will arise to ensure that this settlement, which was viewed by all involved as fair and just, is finally implemented."
But a spokeswoman for Bavaria's Culture Ministry said it was "up to the private foundation to address the recommendations of the Advisory Commission. The state of Bavaria has no legal basis to influence private owners."
A spokesman for Germany's federal Culture Ministry echoed these sentiments. The ministry has "no tools available to compel a private foundation to implement a recommendation by the commission," he said.
All this leaves the commission "standing high and dry," said Stephan Klingen, an art historian at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich.
"The commission's only options are to hope that politicians somehow get them out of this mess, or to resign en masse," Klingen said. "This puts the commission's future on a knife edge. If there is no political support, then German restitution policy has reached the end of the line."
"If heirs can't have faith in the implementation of the commission's recommendations," he added, "then why would they take their cases to it?"
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by Sarah Jane Tribble @CNNMoney September 21, 2017: 5:53 AM ET
Why is health care in the U.S. so expensive?
Hospital pharmacist Mandy Langston remembers when Lulabelle Berry arrived at Stone County Medical Center's emergency department last year.
Berry couldn't talk. Her face was drooping on one side. Her eyes couldn't focus.
"She was basically unresponsive," Langston recalls.
Berry, 78, was having a severe ischemic stroke. Each passing second made brain damage more likely. So, Langston reached for the clot-busting drug Activase, which must be given within a few hours to work.
"If we don't keep this drug [in stock], people will die," Langston said.
Lulabelle Berry walks laps on her porch to aid in her recovery from a stroke.
Berry survived. But Langston fears others could die because of an unintended bias against rural hospitals built into the U.S. health law. An obscure Obamacare provision forces rural hospitals like Langston's to pay full price for drugs that many bigger hospitals buy at deeply discounted rates.
For example, Langston's 25-bed hospital pays $8,010 for a single dose of Activase — up nearly 200% from $2,708 a decade ago. Yet, just 36 miles down the road, a bigger regional hospital gets an 80% discount on the same drug.
White River Medical Center, a 235-bed facility in Batesville, Ark., buys Activase for about $1,600 per dose. White River participates in a federal drug discount program Congress approved in the early 1990s. The program offers significant price breaks on thousands of drugs to hospitals that primarily serve low-income patients. One federal report found the average discount ranged from 20 to 50 percent, though as illustrated with Activase, it can be much higher.
Rural hospitals have long wanted to be part of the so-called 340B program, too, but were blocked from participating until the Affordable Care Act of 2010. That historic health law added rural hospitals to the overall program. But, unlike bigger hospitals, rural hospitals can't get discounts on expensive drugs that treat rare diseases because of a last-minute exclusion written into the ACA.
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That seemingly minor detail in the law has left rural hospital pharmacists and health care workers struggling to keep medicines in stock, and wondering if they will be able to adequately care for patients.
Arkansas, for example, is in the "stroke belt," where medical staff depend on Activase to help them battle one of the highest rates of stroke deaths in the country. When Langston went to restock Activase this year, it was so expensive she left a reorder unfilled for more than week, anxiously keeping only one dose of the clot-busting drug on hand.
In Atlantic, Iowa, pharmacy director Crystal Starlin sparingly stocks oncology drugs at Cass County Memorial Hospital. Newly diagnosed cancer patients might have to wait a couple of days to start treatment.
"We just can't keep the extra [drugs] on hand," Starlin said.
In Vermont, North Country Hospital closed its infusion center this spring due to the soaring cost of medicines.
"That was one area we could not afford to be in," said chief executive Claudio Fort.
Congressman Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont who represents North Country, said it is clear whom the law hurts and helps.
Stone County Medical Center pharmacist Mandy Langston.
"The pharma lobbyists pay attention, and their lawyers pay attention to the fine print," Welch said. The pharmaceutical industry "changes that fine print ... [and] many legislators don't even realize [that it] will have this adverse impact on hospitals in their communities."
The rare-disease exclusion means that certain types of hospitals, mostly rural, cannot get discounts on rare-disease drugs, or on drugs that are "designated" to treat a rare disease. (Rare-disease drugs are also known as orphan drugs, which is a federally approved category of drugs that treat a disease affecting fewer than 200,000 people. Often, they carry price tags of up to $100,000 a year or more.)
The Food and Drug Administration gives the designation as a first step when it agrees with a drugmaker's request to study whether a drug can be used to treat a specific rare disease. This can happen even if a drug is already FDA-approved and on the market for use in treating a common condition. The next step — the ability to market the medicine as an orphan drug — comes once research confirms that the drug is safe and effective in treating a specific, less common condition.
The popular clot buster Activase has not won final approval to treat a rare disease but, on two separate occasions in 2003 and 2014, the FDA has given it the orphan designation while research is ongoing.
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Thousands of drugs are "designated." The list includes generic drugs such as the hormone melatonin and the autoimmune drug abatacept. In other words, medicines used to treat everything from sleep troubles to arthritis have ended up "designated."
Some drugmakers, such as Janssen Pharmaceuticals, have voluntarily offered discounts to rural hospitals on all of their orphan drugs including Remicade, whether they're approved or designated. In contrast, drugmaker Genentech sent letters to rural hospitals on Jan. 1 listing dozens of drugs that would not qualify for discounts, including Activase and cancer drug Avastin.
Susan Willson, a Genentech spokeswoman, said the company is "deeply committed to ensuring that people have access to the medicines they need." But, she added, the company believes the federal drug discount program has "grown well beyond its original intent."
Several federal reports in recent years from the Medicare advisory board, as well as the Government Accountability Office and the Office of Inspector General, have evaluated the federal drug discount program's growth. About 40% of U.S. hospitals now participate in the program and House Republicans held a hearing this summer questioning the program's growth.
But for Dana Smith, director of pharmacy at Dallas County Medical Center in Fordyce, Ark., the discount program's growth and problems are a separate issue.
"Basically, Genentech is saying to me that rural health care and the patients in rural America are not as important as patients in urban areas," Smith said, adding the pharmaceutical industry "knows we have less manpower to fight them."
Kaiser Health News, a nonprofit health newsroom whose stories appear in news outlets nationwide, is an editorially independent part of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
CNNMoney (Mountain View, Ark.) First published September 21, 2017: 5:53 AM ET