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Tube Power Amp Reviews
Conrad-Johnson LP125M monoblock power amplifier
Robert Deutsch | Dec 15, 2011
For anyone who's been around the audiophile block a few times, Conrad-Johnson Design is a brand that needs no introduction. My first acquaintance with Conrad-Johnson was before I began writing for Stereophile (more than two decades ago—time sure flies fast when you're having fun!). I was in the market for a new preamp, having become convinced that my Dayton Wright SPS Mk.II was the weak link in my system, and had narrowed my choices to two similarly priced products: a solid-state model made by PS Audio (I'm not sure of the model number), and the tubed Conrad-Johnson PV-2ar. They were carried by different dealers, who allowed me to take their preamps home over the same weekend for a direct comparison. I was impressed by both preamps, and was sure that either would represent an improvement over the Dayton Wright, but in the end decided to go for the PV-2ar. I later traded it in on a dealer's demo unit of another Conrad-Johnson preamp, the PV-5. And, as it turned out, one of my first reviews for Stereophile was of Conrad-Johnson's PV-11 preamp.
Through the years, I've often thought of reviewing another Conrad-Johnson product, but the timing never seemed right. Then, when discussing my review plans with John Atkinson, he mentioned that C-J had two new power amps, the LP66S and LP125M, and that I might consider reviewing one of them. Well, why not? One of the factors I consider in selecting a product for review is the likelihood that I'll have a good time listening to it, and based on my previous experience with C-J products, that likelihood seemed high. The LP125M is in a price range that I'm comfortable with—just—and I had on hand a similarly powered and priced solid-state amplifier, the Simaudio Moon Evolution W-7, which I knew to be an excellent performer, and which would provide for a good comparison. The review was on!
Description and design
With few exceptions—the ART preamplifier comes to mind—Conrad-Johnson products have always had a functional look, and the LP125M is squarely in that tradition. There's a touch of elegance in its 3/8"-thick, champagne-colored, anodized faceplate, but no one could accuse the LP125M of being audio jewelry. There's a substantial power switch, an easily removed cage for the tubes, and, in the back, a pair of RCA inputs (no balanced inputs) and a single pair of speaker connectors. Rubber rings are provided to place on the small 6922 and M8080 tubes (two rings per tube), to help damp resonances. Next to each output tube is an LED bias indicator and a bias-adjustment screw; a long plastic screwdriver is provided to make adjustments.
The bias adjustment is a bit tricky, especially if, like most audiophiles, you have in you a touch of the obsessive-compulsive. The idea is to turn up the bias control until the LED comes on, then back off until it just goes off. With new tubes, you're supposed to do this about five minutes after the amp is turned on, and repeat after 30 minutes. Then, if the amplifier has been off for some time, when you turn it on again the bias LEDs are likely to stay on for up to 30 minutes, some even longer, which might tempt you to readjust the bias. My advice: don't! Just leave them alone, and eventually—it may take more than 30 minutes—they'll go off. If any of the LEDs is still on after an hour, then I would re-bias that tube. After I'd gone through this routine a couple of times, the biases required no further adjustment during the review period—but it took a deliberate effort of will not to reach for that long screwdriver and start fiddling again.
You may wonder, as I did, why Conrad-Johnson doesn't use the autobiasing now embraced by many (most?) makers of tube amps. I asked Lew Johnson about it. His response: "Manual bias avoids the unnecessary feedback path if the servo control operates dynamically, and in any case introduces audibly inferior parts into the circuit to execute the adjustment simply for the sake of convenience. Simpler is usually better."
"Simpler if usually better" seems to be the Conrad-Johnson mantra. In the LP125M, a triode input stage is direct-coupled to a cathode-coupled phase inverter. The output stage uses a pair of 6550 tubes in an ultralinear configuration. A small amount of negative feedback is used to reduce distortion and provide a sufficiently high damping factor. Discrete DC power-supply regulators are provided for the input and inverter stages, in order to isolate each stage from the output signal. Both the audio circuit and the related power supplies use precision metal-film resistors and polypropylene capacitors, with no electrolytic capacitors in either the audio circuit or the power supplies. (I remember C-J's former marketing director, Tor Sivertsen, now retired, saying that the audio circuit and the power supply are like a pair of scissors, each making an equal contribution to the effectiveness of the "cutting action.") The use of proprietary wide-bandwidth output transformers produces what is claimed to be excellent high-frequency performance, and the input/output connectors and internal wiring have been selected for optimal sound quality.
Best-laid plans
My reference loudspeaker is the Avantgarde Uno Nano, which combines a horn-loaded midrange and tweeter with a powered subwoofer. Although capable of producing sounds that are at times astonishingly lifelike, and quite revealing of differences in the sounds of amplifiers, the Uno Nano's high sensitivity (over 100dB) and use of a powered sub make it less than ideal for evaluating amplifiers. Mind you, the sonic signature of the main amplifier is surprisingly audible through the sub amp, which can accept a speaker-level signal—but some characteristics of an amplifier that are present when the speakers are the Uno Nanos are not necessarily evident to the same degree when more conventional speakers are used, and vice versa.
To help me deal with this limitation, I borrowed a pair of a more conventional dynamic speaker model to serve as an additional reference: the Monitor Audio Platinum PL200, which I reviewed in April 2010, and with whose sound I was quite familiar. Kevro International, North American importers of Monitor speakers, kindly provided me with a loaner pair.
Although my Convergent Audio Technology SL-1 Renaissance preamplifier—also tube-based—might have seemed an ideal companion to the LP125M (a brief listen showed that the combination was indeed synergistic), I decided to use Simaudio's Moon Evolution P-7 preamp because it allowed a better-controlled comparison between the C-J LP125M and Simaudio's own W-7. The advantages of this arrangement were: 1) I could use the Ayre Acoustics CX-7eMP CD player's preferred balanced outputs with both amplifiers, 2) the connections between the P-7 and the W-7 were the more optimal balanced rather than the unbalanced cable I would have had to use with the CAT SL-1, and 3) the P-7 allowed for more precisely matched levels when making comparisons than I would have been able to obtain with the CAT, which controls volume in much larger increments.
I began my listening with the Monitor PL200s, but there was a hitch: noise (hum/buzz) coming through the speakers. This was higher in level than I was expecting, and much greater than I had experienced with the dead-quiet Moon W-7. The noise was independent of the preamp's volume control; in fact, it was present with the amplifiers' input cables disconnected, but not when I inserted shorting plugs in the input jacks. I tried floating the ground by using cheater plugs on both amplifiers—a trick used by many audiophiles that electricians frown on because of the potential danger of shock in the event of AC being present on the chassis. In any case, this made no difference. The LP125M's manual suggests that attention be paid to the routing of interconnects (keep them away from AC cords). I followed this instruction, and it helped, but only to very minor extent.
Both amps were plugged into the PS Audio Power Plant Premier power conditioner; plugging them into the wall outlet (the same outlet for both amps) didn't solve the problem, and neither did unplugging the power cords of the Uno Nanos' subwoofer amps. I called Lew Johnson to see if he had any suggestions, and he pointed out that since the noise was gone when the inputs were shorted, this meant that the problem did not originate in the power amp. Fair enough, but the practical problem remained: Shorting inputs may be an acceptable procedure for measuring amplifier noise, but you'll have a hard time listening to music that way! I resigned myself to listening past the noise to determine the LP125M's sonic characteristics—and the noise really wasn't that bad.
This noise issue was again brought to the fore when the time came to return the PL200s to Kevro and switch to the Uno Nanos, whose sensitivity is a good 10dB higher than that of the Monitors: The level of noise was intolerable. I called Lew Johnson again, and he told me to try floating the ground of just one LP125M. Voilà! With the ground from the left-channel amp disconnected through use of a cheater plug, the hum/buzz virtually disappeared from both channels. Apparently, the problem was a difference in the amps' ground potentials; floating one of the LP125Ms (not both, as I had previously done) broke up the ground loop.
Things were hunky-dory for several weeks—but then a new noise appeared, in the right channel only: an intermittent sound, like paper being torn, that is familiar to tube fans as indicating a problem with a tube. I followed the standard troubleshooting steps of switching tubes between amplifiers one at a time, and isolated the problem as originating from one of the 6550 output tubes. A new tube was dispatched promptly from C-J; inserting it solved the problem.
Conrad-Johnson Design, Inc.
2733 Merrilee Drive
www.conradjohnson.com
LP125M
Submitted by tmsorosk on December 17, 2011 - 2:01am
" Fundamenally right " I believe were Robert's words , I guess that means he liked it . To bad it had two problems , the first a ground loop issue that couldn't be solved safely , then tube problem's with both mono's . I guess that will preclude it from any recommended components list , or is the recommendation based entirely on sound quality , with relieability thrown out the window ? I don't feel that a pair of amps in this price range should have these types of problems . If I had had these problems with new equipment I would have been very unhappy regardless of the sound .
Ground loop?
Submitted by superaudiolistener on December 24, 2011 - 7:28am
I have found that using a star grounding system really made my system come alive.
Wonder what that would have done with this amp?
With a star ground you have a dedicated earth ground from your electrical box, you ground everything in your system to that point. Pulls out unwanted fields and shunts them to ground.
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### SVG Is XML (and Sometimes HTML)
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The Internet of Things is growing and is not stopping at cities – as they too become smart. To ensure this takes place in the most harmonious and optically appealing manner, a Leipzig-based producer of light concepts is adopting new ways of transforming lampposts into charging stations. Above all, the electronics used must be robust, reliable and easily integrable.
They not only have to look good but also offer state-of-the-art functionality in a robust form. These were the aims behind the design process of the smart outdoor luminaire Pablo. The urban lighting with its modern shape reminiscent of cubism shows how cities can be digitized discreetly and urban spaces modernized sustainably. For the manufacturer, Leipziger Leuchten, the modern street luminaire marks the point of entry into the still young field of the smart city, the intelligent, connected urban space.
While LEDs in the outdoor luminaire are brightening up the streets, integrated Wi-Fi and video technology are not only helping to connect city and residents but also providing more security, in line with customer wishes. The optionally integrated charging station ensures that vehicle batteries remain fully powered. The charging unit called Karsten is controlled by a touch display integrated into the housing together with an embedded system. This module, known as a human machine interface (HMI), is a Santino LT, a standard product capable of customization from the Hamburg-based company Garz und Fricke. It comprises a display together with matching touch interface alongside the single board computer.
The Leipzig-based company was looking for a combination comprising display and control computer resistant to the weather, heat and even rough handling. Many companies supply only products that do not adequately protect the display and electronics. Garz und Fricke provided the Santino LT. It is an all-in-one module with a 5-inch touch display. Ensuring precise input is the capacitative touch interface, which with its multi-touch capability is also able to cope with more than one finger. The processor of the single-board computer is an i.mx6 from NXP. Standard interfaces including USB 2.0 and other serial ports such as RS485 and RS232 round off the circuit board. These can be connected and integrated via modules such as RFID readers from the customer.
"We were looking for a display together with a control computer to meet our demands in terms of robustness when facing the weather, heat and even rough treatment. It wasn't easy, and many companies were quickly ruled out because they were unable to offers sufficient protection for the display and the electronics. Not until we found Garz & Fricke did we have a supplier able to meet all our wishes."
The Santino LT consists of a touchscreen and embedded system.
The selection of capacitative touchscreen is almost inevitably a result of the requirements. It is also the only way to defy rough mechanical treatment. This is why the developers at Garz und Fricke rely on special, chemically hardened glass with a thickness of 2.8 mm, which withstands even industrial shock and impact tests. Another argument for capacitative technology is the high level of brightness and good legibility even in sunlight. Despite its superior robustness, the display in the Senso glass construction fitting flush with the housing also creates a good optical impression. However, the capacitative technology is not entirely straightforward in outdoor use. Raindrops, for example, may disrupt the recognition of inputs. The reason is to be found in the functional principle: when a finger contacts a capacitative touch surface, small electrical currents then flow, which the electronics use to determine the position of one or more fingers. The same also happens though when a raindrop falls onto the display. Low electrical currents flow in this case as well. Yet the developers in Hamburg have found a way to get round this unwanted behaviour. They tackle the problem at software level and classify static signals or those with minimal movement in the driver software as "non-fingers". The disruptive signal is then separated out. Afterwards the display control now merely converts signals into inputs when something on the surface moves significantly.
One challenge for both the display and the electronics of the Santino LT is posed by great heat, as quickly builds up in bright sunlight during outdoor applications. The solution for this starts with the hardware. Critical assemblies with high current consumption such as the CPUs or working memory are cooled with specially developed, individually adapted, injection-moulded aluminium heat sinks. In addition, the display has been thermally isolated and conducts part of the dissipated heat directly into the cover plate of the screen, which again results in a few degrees of cooling. If these measures still do not suffice on an especially hot day, a further solution can be found at software level. In such cases, the operating system deliberately reduces the computing speed of the embedded system or dims the display, which leads to less waste heat being generated by the system itself.
Customers have a choice of operating system for the Santino LT between an embedded Windows, Android or Yocto-Linux. Generally the decision is made in favour of the flexible and powerful Yocto. Strictly speaking, though, Yocto does not represent a separate Linux distribution but instead a self-service ecosystem for developers. Yocto stands out particularly due to its standardized architecture and high level of adaptability. The Yocto specifically optimized by the Hamburg supplier to the board and the purpose of the application includes the QT graphics framework. Version 5, which is used here, can be programmed on the basis of QML and partly even on HTML, which facilitates the creation of applications. Also of assistance in providing a quick and effective introduction to working with the Santino LT is the extensive information on the platform. Along with comprehensive documentation of the product and interfaces, detailed release notes are additionally provided. These notes list the changes that have taken place in the system code and contain full references to the software components and licences used.
There is also transparency in matters of already familiar but yet to be remedied errors in the code. The documentation is completed with a list of all tests performed. This collection of information is a useful tool for the developers in the company implementing the solution and help in the subsequent certification of the resulting products into which the Garz und Fricke assemblies have to be integrated.
Leipziger Leuchten sees the Santino LT as a compact solution for integrating technologies such as charging stations directly into the street furniture. On the one hand, the Leipzig-based company simultaneously has the practical benefits for the user in view. On the other hand, there is a desire to modernize the public space without, for example, obstructing it with a large number of new columns and bollards. Instead, the aim is to utilize the available space better and more efficiently.
The smart city and the Internet of Things (IoT) are evolving into an exciting and lucrative business field. For the two cooperating companies, the Internet of machines and sensors is one of those business fields that are already important and are set to become even more so in the future. Even now, for example, the Hamburg-based company is connecting many of its systems with its own cloud solution. In doing so, it relies on secured transport routes for the data, firstly, in order to guarantee undisturbed operation but also to guarantee data security.
Of particular importance for manufacturers of durable goods such as connected street furniture, are long-term availability and a stable supply of the components used. This is because assemblies often disappear from the supplier's range far too quickly and are replaced by completely different versions. Garz und Fricke is aiming to rule this out through the durability of its lamps. Generally they are not replaced until they have completed several years of service. Accordingly, the suppliers of connectivity and control solutions should be able to demonstrate an obsolescence management strategy. During the purchasing process, for example, the company from Hamburg makes sure that the components and systems are available in the long run. This eliminates time-consuming redesign processes and means that unreliable and excessively expensive component sources can be avoided. Garz und Fricke only withdraws products from its range if a successor product is available that fits equally well and can be integrated just as easily.
A solution was found with the Santino LT embedded system of making street furniture fit for the smart city and the Internet of Things (IoT) in an easy and lasting way. An important aspect of this is the challenge of planning the supply of components used over a longer period of time.


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Bisexual people exist (again): News release for Cornell sexual orientation study
Cornell University issued the following news release:
Pupil dilation reveals sexual orientation in new Cornell study
There is a popular belief that sexual orientation can be revealed by pupil dilation to attractive people, yet until now there was no scientific evidence.
For the first time, researchers at Cornell University used a specialized infrared lens to measure pupillary changes to participants watching erotic videos.
Pupils were highly telling: they widened most to videos of people who participants found attractive, thereby revealing where they were on the sexual spectrum from heterosexual to homosexual.
The findings were published August 3 in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.
Previous research explored these mechanisms either by simply asking people about their sexuality, or by using physiological measures such as assessing their genital arousal.
These methods, however, come with substantial problems.
"We wanted to find an alternative measure that would be an automatic indication of sexual orientation, but without being as invasive as previous measures. Pupillary responses are exactly that," says Gerulf Rieger, lead author and research fellow at Cornell.
"With this new technology we are able to explore sexual orientation of people who would never participate in a study on genital arousal, such as people from traditional cultures. This will give us a much better understanding how sexuality is expressed across the planet."
The new Cornell study adds considerably more to the field of sexuality research than merely a novel measure.
As expected, heterosexual men showed strong pupillary responses to sexual videos of women, and little to men; heterosexual women, however, showed pupillary responses to both sexes.
This result confirms previous research suggesting that women have a very different type of sexuality than men.
Moreover, the new study feeds into a long-lasting debate on male bisexuality.
Previous notions were that most bisexual men do not base their sexual identity on their physiological sexual arousal but on romantic and identity issues.
Contrary to this claim, bisexual men in the new study showed substantial pupil dilations to sexual videos of both men and women.
"We can now finally argue that a flexible sexual desire is not simply restricted to women – some men have it, too, and it is reflected in their pupils," says Ritch C. Savin-Williams, co-author and professor in Human Development at Cornell.
"In fact, not even a division into 'straight,' 'bi,' and 'gay' tells the full story. Men who identity as 'mostly straight' really exist both in their identity and their pupil response; they are more aroused to males than straight men, but much less so than both bisexual and gay men," Savin-Williams notes.
The researchers are confident that their new measure will aid in understanding these groups better and point to a range of sexualities that has been ignored in previous research.
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Sexual fluidity/bisexuality and alcohol
From http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/uom-sof060612.php
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Many young adults explore and define their sexual identity in college, but that process can be stressful and lead to risky behaviors. In a new study, students whose sexual self-definition didn't fall into exclusively heterosexual or homosexual categories tended to misuse alcohol more frequently than people who had a firmly defined sexual orientation for a particular gender, according to University of Missouri researchers. These findings could be used to improve support programs for sexual minorities.
"Bisexuals and students whose sexual orientation was in flux reported the heaviest drinking and most negative consequences from alcohol use, such as uncontrolled drinking and withdrawal symptoms," said Amelia Talley, MU assistant professor of psychological sciences in the College of Arts and Science. "Those groups reported drinking to relieve anxiety and depression at higher rates than strictly heterosexual or homosexual individuals. One possible explanation is that people who aren't either completely heterosexual or homosexual may feel stigmatized by both groups."
The study followed more than 2,000 incoming college students for four years. Each fall and spring, study participants were surveyed about their sexual self-identification, attraction and sexual behavior. The students fell into different sexual orientation groups. One was exclusively heterosexual, but there were several sexual minority groups: exclusively homosexual, mostly homosexual, bisexual and mostly heterosexual. The survey also asked about frequency of alcohol use, reasons for drinking, and negative consequences experienced as a result of alcohol use.
"Exclusively homosexual and heterosexual persons drank at roughly the same rate and reported drinking to enhance enjoyment of social situations," Talley said. "The other sexual minority groups tended to report more alcohol misuse. This suggests that it may be the stressful process of developing one's sexual identity that contributes to problematic drinking, just as people in any difficult situation in life may turn to alcohol to alleviate stress."
The study also found gender differences in sexual behaviors and self-definition of sexual identity.
"Females showed the greatest degree of sexual orientation fluidity," Talley said. "They were able to admit a certain degree of attraction to the same gender without defining themselves as completely homosexual." Talley suggested that "women may be more open to admitting to same-sex attractions because women are more likely to be objectified as sexual objects in our culture; hence, women are accustomed to assessing the attractiveness of other women in comparison to themselves."
Males tended to define themselves as either heterosexual or homosexual. Talley speculated that this may be because many males aren't aware that being "mostly straight" is a feasible alternative. Even a small degree of sexual attraction to other males may cause a young man to feel anxiety about his sexual identity due to strict masculine gender norms.
"Organizations could put our findings to use by providing a support network to help young people avoid using alcohol to cope with stress as they define their sexual identity," Talley said.
The study was published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
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Radio 4 programme on bisexuality
Radio 4 programme on bisexuality and sexual fluidity. BiUK mentioned on website! Nice one The Bisexual Index.
Listen again available for a week or so:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jhdgl
Responses to the programme are being compiled here:
http://bisexualftw.tumblr.com/post/24559242078/reaction-to-bbc-radio4s-a-straight-question
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Some people are bi
Today is international day against homophobia and transphobia but instead of the obvious post about the bi erasure going on in that title we'd like to celebrate a couple of bits of bi visibility that have happened this week.
First Stonewall introduced a facebook banner to add to their 'some people are gay, get over it' campaign. Good on you Stonewall!
Second, Amy Andre, the authors of Bisexual Health: An Introduction, is conducting a fascinating interview with researcher Lisa Diamond over at The Huffington Post. Lisa is a committed bi ally and her work on sexual fluidity in women is really important for challenging fixed ideas about sexual 'orientation'.
When Dr. Lisa Diamond gave a keynote speech at the recent BECAUSE conference, I just had to sit up and listen. As whipsmart as she is unapologetically outspoken, this University of Utah psychology professor has her finger on the pulse of human sexuality research — and the attention of homophobic and biphobic conservatives who try to twist her findings to further their own agenda. She's the last person who's going to take that lying down.
Dr. Diamond isn't just the author of the groundbreaking book Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire. She's also a lesbian, a self-identified ally to the bi community, and a social scientist who declares that bisexuals "represent the vast majority of individuals with same-sex attractions" and are the norm in the LGB (lesbian, gay, bi) population!
In this two-part interview I got a chance to learn more about Dr. Diamond's research, her precedent-setting commitment to the truth about bisexual lives and lesbian desires, and how she stands up to bigots at the federal level. Here is part one:
Filed under Activism, Research, Theory Tagged with bi visibility, biphobia, lisa diamond, sexual fluidity, Stonewall


n Gabon, the new government was made public late in the night from Saturday to Sunday, January 13. The new Prime Minister, Julien Nkoghe Bekalé, has released his team "via" a video recorded from Morocco.
The new government has 38 members including the Prime Minister against 41 ministers in the outgoing team. Have the balances been turned upside down or not?
The new government is almost identical to the previous one.
Ali Bongo's men remain in strategic positions. Etienne Massard holds the defense, Lambert Noël Matha stays in the interior just like Pascal Houagni Ambourouet at Oil.
Jean Fidèle Otandault who obtained the IMF's satisfaction for the good performance of public finances, remains in the budget.
Foreign Affairs is entrusted to a new one. This is Abdu Razzaq Guy Kambongo, current ambassador of Gabon in Morocco. The main entry to report is that of Franck Nguéma, boss of TV +, the most critical private television against power. He is appointed Minister Delegate to the Minister of Forests and Environment in charge of the Climate Plan.
Opponents who had accepted Ali Bongo's outstretched hand during the formation of the previous government in May 2018 were not expelled from the government. Only Patrick Eyogho Edzang was sacked. It will be remembered that it was the latter who had abruptly broken the contract for water and electricity distribution in Gabon by the French company Veolia.
The composition of the new government has been planned and made public from Morocco. Moreover it is to allow Ali Bongo to act as a head of state during his convalescence that Rabat was preferred in London. A government source states that Ali Bongo was released from the military hospital for a private residence in order not to sign his decrees in a hospital.
Ali Bongo instructed his prime minister not to upset the balances. The main reason is economic. Libreville, entangled in an economic crisis, is under IMF surveillance.
Politically, Ali Bongo has muted the appetites of his party despite his overwhelming victory in the last legislative. It is for this reason that the opposition ministers who joined the government in May 2018 were renewed.
Finally, several sources close to the presidency say that Ali Bongo returns to the country in a few hours to receive the oath of his government before taking office as provided by Article 15 of the constitution. Discrete or triumphal return? Nobody answers the question.


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Q: Pandas better method to compare two dataframes and find entries that only exist in one I have a DataFrame/spreadsheet that has columns for employee info (name, worksite) and also columns for total hours worked. My main goal is to find employees that exist in one file but not the other.
DataFrame ORIGINAL:
 Name      Site    ....other columns
 Anne      A
 Bob       B
 Charlie   A

Dataframe NEW:
 Name      Site    ....other columns
 Anne      A
 Bob       B
 Doug      B

DataFrame NEW is very similar to ORIGINAL with a few differences and these are the details I am looking to show

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*Charlie/A was only in ORIGINAL

*Doug/B was only in NEW
I found this solution, which works okay but I need to perform it twice to find records in one DataFrame and not the other, and then again but vice-versa.
Here is the code I have:
COLS = ['Name','Site'] # Columns to group by to find a 'unique' record

# Records in New, not in Original
df_right = ORIGINAL.merge(NEW.drop_duplicates(), on=COLS, how='right', indicator=True)
df_right = df_right[df_right._merge != 'both'] # Filter out records that exist in both.

# Records in Original, not in New
df_left = ORIGINAL.merge(NEW.drop_duplicates(), on=COLS, how='left', indicator=True)
df_left = df_left[df_left._merge != 'both']

df = pd.concat([df_left,df_right])
# df now contains Name/Site records that exist in one DataFrame but not the other

Is there a better way to perform this check instead of doing it twice and concatenating?

A: Looks like using 'outer' as the how was the solution
z = pd.merge(ORIGINAL, NEW, on=cols, how = 'outer', indicator=True)
z = z[z._merge != 'both'] # Filter out records from both

Output looks like this (after only showing the columns I care about)
  Name       Site   _merge
  Charlie    A     left_only
  Doug       B     right_only

A: You can actually convert the dataframes into Indexes, and then simply use isin to check if the whole rows are in the other dataframe:
cols = ['Name', 'Site']
originalI = pd.Index(ORIGINAL[cols])
newI = pd.Index(NEW[cols])

out = pd.concat([
    ORIGINAL[~originalI.isin(newI)].assign(from_df='ORIGINAL'),
    NEW[~newI.isin(originalI)].assign(from_df='NEW'),
])

Output:
>>> out
      Name Site   from_df
2  Charlie    A  ORIGINAL
2     Doug    B       NEW

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What are the Four Factors of a HIPAA Breach Risk Assessment?
Published September 3, 2021 • By Reciprocity • 3 min read
Modern technology allows the easy collection and distribution of personally identifiable information — and concerns about the unintended distribution of that personal data have led to a wave of data privacy laws around the world.
The U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one such law, and imposes strict rules on how hospitals, healthcare businesses, and other "covered entities" handle personal health information (PHI). Protecting PHI is a paramount concern for such businesses, and they can face substantial regulatory penalties and other costs if they suffer a breach of that data.
Given that pressure, healthcare organizations rely on breach risk assessments to determine their exposure to potential theft, misuse, or unauthorized disclosure of protected data. This article will review the factors that go into a breach risk assessment and how an organization can apply them wisely.
What Is a Breach Risk Assessment?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) defines a breach as "an impermissible use or disclosure under the Privacy Rule that compromises the security or privacy of the protected health information." That definition also includes any impermissible use or disclosure of PHI where the company can't demonstrate that the PHI has a low probability of compromise.
HIPAA risk assessments are tools that help organizations evaluate their potential risk for disclosure of PHI.
Unlike other risk assessments, security breach risk assessments under the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule must meet several minimum requirements to determine the likelihood of a HIPAA breach risk.
The Four Factors of a HIPAA Breach Risk Assessment
To assure HIPAA compliance, breach risk assessments must include four factors to determine whether unsecured PHI follows the HIPAA privacy rule. Each factor is rated as high, medium, or low risk; and then used to establish the overall risk of a HIPAA breach.
What kind of PHI was involved, and what is the extent of its use?
Not all PHI has the same potential to identify the affected patient; therefore, the risk analysis must consider the re-identification capability of the disclosed PHI.
The larger the amount of PHI disclosed, the higher the risk of re-identifying a patient, so it is not only crucial to consider the sensitivity level of the PHI, such as mental health history or HIV status. The assessment should also consider the total volume of PHI breached.
Who was the unauthorized organization or person?
Another element to consider is the classification of the unauthorized individual.
Although not all organizations are covered entities or business associates under HIPAA privacy rules, determining whether the unauthorized entity is bound by these rules substantially reduces the breach risk of unsecured protected health information.
On the other hand, the breach risk is much higher if the entity has no relationship to the HIPAA privacy rules. Thus, the nature of the entity or individual must also be taken into account.
Did the organization or person procure or see the PHI?
There is a notable difference between the possibility that information has been acquired or seen and whether the PHI was actually acquired or seen.
With forensic analysis, a company can determine whether the opportunity to access unsecured PHI was in fact taken by someone. Regardless of whether the incident was unintentional (someone opening a PHI file by accidentI), unauthorized access to PHI has still occurred.
How has the risk been mitigated?
It's impossible to determine a risk level without also assessing the mitigation steps an organization had put in place.
Whether those steps involve using confidentiality agreements (which can vary in their effectiveness depending on the unauthorized person or entity) or the destruction of the information, mitigation efforts play a vital role in the PHI breach risk assessment.
Breach Risk Assessment Conclusion
Once the organization has determined the level of risk for each factor, you should make a good-faith conclusion about the overall risk level.
If the HIPAA risk assessment finds a low-risk level of breach, the organization isn't required to notify affected individuals. Notification is mandatory, however, when the factors lead you to conclude that there is a medium or high risk of a breach.
Where Do I Find a HIPAA Breach Risk Assessment Tool?
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), along with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), has created the Security Risk Assessment tool (SRA) to help covered entities develop security risk assessments required by the HIPAA Security Rule.
ZenGRC can help you conduct these and other types of risk assessments, along with risk management and regulatory compliance. Our user-friendly platform not only tracks your workflows, but also efficiently detects areas of high risk before they become a threat.
ZenGRC is a governance, risk, and compliance solution that may help you set up, administer, and monitor your risk management framework and remedial procedures. Additionally, it can aid you in streamlining the administration of all essential cybersecurity risk management frameworks, such as PCI, ISO, HIPAA, and others.
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"Jon Regen has a rare combination of elements - virtuosic playing ability, soulful singing, and a strong songwriting talent, all developing more and more as he grows and grows as an artist through the years. Give him a freaking listen!" – Bruce Hornsby
"It's something of a small miracle," says New York-based singer, songwriter and pianist Jon Regen about his upcoming album, Higher Ground, due October 4, 2019 via Ropeadope. "It's an album I wasn't planning on making," Regen explains. "When I became a parent, my touring and recording life was immediately put on hold."
Produced by Jamiroquai keyboardist Matt Johnson, Higher Ground includes musical performances by legends like Andy Summers of The Police, Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Chuck Leavell of The Rolling Stones and Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran. The album announces Regen as a formidable talent with the rarest of gifts - an original voice that speaks to the human condition with authority and hope. Regen's songs define our times, but are meant to last for all time.
Regen knows a thing or two about navigating the unexpected. Coming of age in the 1980s, he nourished himself on a steady diet of MTV and synth pop. And while he could have spent his life in search of New Wave glory, he instead moved to New York City and became a protégé of jazz piano great Kenny Barron, toured with artists like Little Jimmy Scott and Kyle Eastwood, and slowly carved-out a name for himself as a solo artist who defied easy categorization.
Like Bruce Hornsby before him, Regen creates infectious melodies that often belie the music's harmonic sophistication. Like Randy Newman, he draws on the richness of the American musical vernacular, distilling an ocean into a creek the artist can call his own. It's on the axis of those seemingly diverse worlds that Jon Regen's sound is born. It's also on the axis of differing worlds that Higher Ground sprang to life.
Having experienced a new level of artistic success following his critically acclaimed 2015 album Stop Time (produced by Mitchell Froom and featuring members of Elvis Costello's Imposters), Regen wasn't eager to rush into the studio for a follow-up. "I knew I wasn't going to make a record of just any songs, produced just any way," he recalls. "I never gave up the idea of recording again, but I knew I didn't want to make the same album I did last time. I wanted to be inspired."
Parenthood helped Regen meditate on several factors. "I wondered if, in this new divided world – and in this era of instant internet fame, if music still resonated the way I remembered it could."
With no stream of roadwork planned (he was too busy being a full-time dad), Regen played local shows around New York City and dug into his work as the Editor of Keyboard Magazine. "For the first time in decades, I had a regular jazz gig," he says. "I became reacquainted with the piano in a way I hadn't been able to while I was constantly touring. I also threw myself into my writing work, relishing the chance to explore the inspiration behind other people's music." Then in September 2018, Jamiroquai's Matt Johnson invited Regen to the group's gig at the Forest Hills Tennis Center in Queens, New York.
The location proved remarkable: Regen's parents had lived on the same street during the 1960s. Possibly more remarkable was the gig itself: "I saw 14,000 people dancing to funk music in the New York rain that night, and my faith in the healing power of music was instantly restored."
When Regen and Johnson met at the afterparty, they hit it off instantly, despite being something of an unlikely pairing. "Matt's a proper British synth whiz, and I'm a gravely-voiced New York singer/songwriter. But I thought, 'Maybe there's something to this.'"
The pair wrote the song "Wide Awake" as a way of testing the waters - with Johnson in London and Regen at home in New York City. And despite the distance, the duo struck creative magic. "It was just this great marriage of Matt's studio wizardry and my songwriting and piano styles," Regen explains. "Funnily enough, that song would never have been born had I not bought an old Roland Juno-60 synthesizer and started fooling around with it on top of my Steinway grand piano. But once I did, I knew I was onto something fresh. It was a sound that was new to me, so I chased it."
Johnson says, "When he sent me his idea, I was struck by the rich quality of his voice. As the track progressed, I learned that Jon could also play great jazz piano. For me, this album shows off all the best in Jon - great songs, great piano and a truly distinctive voice."
But a lingering question remained: Could the duo record an entire album without anyone ever playing in the same place at the same time? They were about to find out.
For Regen, making the album became a mission unto itself, regardless of the challenges the pair faced. "I wrote lyrics while my son watched 'Sesame Street,' and recorded piano and vocals in my apartment while he napped," he says. "Before we knew it, the project was materializing before our eyes."
No stranger to formidable companions, Regen enlisted an all-star cast that reads like the lineup of a supergroup; keyboardists Benmont Tench, Chuck Leavell, Ricky Peterson (David Sanborn, Fleetwood Mac) and Matt Rollings (Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson,) signed-on, as did Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes.
"For someone who used to air drum to Rio as a kid, hearing Nick's synth work on my music was positively surreal," Regen says. "In a lot of ways, this record is about the moment when your heroes become your peers."
Tench says that there was never a second thought about lending his talents to the album. "Not only is Jon an annoyingly great piano player," the veteran keyboardist says, "he isn't sitting still in the songwriting department, either: this is a laudable leap forward in both style and expression."
Having scored a premiere rhythm section for his previous album, Regen was once again drawn to top players like bassists Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell) and Tim Lefebvre (David Bowie, Tedeschi Trucks Band), and drummers Keith Carlock (Steely Dan) and Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel). Previous Regen collaborators like guitarists Andy Summers (The Police) and George Marinelli (Bonnie Raitt) return here, as do cellist Julia Kent and Swiss harmonica ace Grégoire Maret. And as impressive as the guest list on Higher Ground is, what's even more miraculous is that every musician played his or her parts in their respective hometowns. The entire album was recorded remotely, across different cities, oceans and countries.
Listening to Higher Ground, it's not hard to imagine what led musical luminaries to join in. The album strikes the perfect balance between gravity and levity, between deep introspection and knowing when to cast worries aside and get down to celebrating the moment.
The album opener "Wide Awake" gives us a glimpse of the myriad of styles Regen pulls from. Funky, R&B grooves collide with jazz and pop flourishes, and lyrics that never overstate the tune's status as a love song. And the title track "Higher Ground" sounds like something culled from an earlier time and, perhaps, like John Hiatt's "Have a Little Faith" not just a song but a hymn to the heart. "That one is for my son," Regen remarks. "The lyric, 'I'm a better man now, 'cause I stand on higher ground' is about him showing me what's really important in this world. The title became a mantra for the entire album, pushing me to elevate my singing, songwriting and piano playing at every turn."
As good as he is at walking in the alleyways of America's musical past, Regen moves himself into the contemporary via the socially-conscious "Who Cares If Everybody Else Knows." "It's a lyric that all right-minded people can relate to," Johnson says, "and I feel it's where I took Jon furthest from his comfort zone musically. The track sounds completely modern and Nick put in some really interesting sounds at the end to finish it off."
On other tracks, Regen's piano mastery is firmly on display. "Hole in My Heart" features a dreamy, triple-tracked piano solo that channels the best of early Bowie and later Hornsby. The libidinous, New Orleans-inflected "Every Night" recalls Dr. John at his swampiest. And "East Side Blues" pits Regen's blues-drenched piano against the street noise of his native New York City, marrying humor with high musical art.
One song, "The Last to Go," bridges Regen's recent past with the music of his youth. "Benmont played on that one and recorded the organ at Mitchell Froom's studio in Los Angeles," Regen explains. "Mitchell produced my last album, Stop Time, and played the first organ solo I ever heard, on Crowded House's 'Don't Dream It's Over.' And so the circle completes."
"The Last to Go" not only summarizes many of the album's themes, it's also unquestionably a new high in Regen's compositional output. "It was the last song I wrote for the album," he says. "I was up late in New York City one night, thinking about the album and my approaching birthday – of where I have been, and where I still hope to go. I traced my life back through big events, and more personal earthquakes. And of course, with the world we live in now full of disinformation and vitriol, we all look for a guiding light. My wife is that for me."
"After I wrote that song, I called Benmont to play organ on it. Because nobody can move air on a Hammond like Ben. He also had his daughter on the exact same day I had my son, and I had a feeling he feels about his wife the way I do about mine."
The balance between light and dark heard on the album is not lost on Regen. "Looking back at the album now, I see it's full of both optimism and fear," he says. "Songs like 'Wide Awake' and 'Higher Ground' speak to the power of love and family and the happiness they bring. But songs like 'Who Cares If Everybody Else Knows' and 'Before' are darker. They are me grappling with the madness of life as a new parent in 2019 – where no one seems to stand for anything besides greed and power. Those are tough sentiments to reconcile. In the end, I suppose life is about just that – how to explain the unexplainable."
A protégé of the legendary pianist Kenny Barron, Jon Regen began his career as a sideman to jazz artists like Ted Dunbar, Kyle Eastwood and Little Jimmy Scott. Regen made an abrupt left turn into singer/songwriter territory with a series of acclaimed solo albums including Almost Home (2004), Let It Go (2008), Revolution (2011), and Stop Time (2015). Regen also hit Number One on the Billboard Charts with his 2013 instrumental album Change Your Mind.
The Associated Press said of Regen, "His sturdy songs, pleasing tenor and seven-foot grand are a captivating combination." The Wall Street Journal called Regen "a confident, soulful singer," and DownBeat said "Regen's music shoots from - and directly into - the heart."
Jon Regen is the Editor of Keyboard Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Billboard, Variety and Tape Op. Regen can also be seen in an upcoming episode of the Emmy Award-winning Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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5 key points from Harry and Meghan's explosive TV interview
By JILL LAWLESSMarch 8, 2021 GMT
This image provided by Harpo Productions shows Prince Harry, left, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, speaking about expecting their second child during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. "Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special" airs March 7 as a two-hour exclusive primetime special on the CBS Television Network. (Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions via AP)
LONDON (AP) — Oprah Winfrey's two-hour prime-time interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, contained revelations and allegations that have left Britain's royal family reeling, painting a picture of racism, insensitivity and deep-rooted dysfunction.
The palace has not responded to the interview, broadcast in the U.S. on Sunday night, which has made headlines and sparked debate around the world.
Here are five key points from the broadcast:
MEGHAN SAYS SHE FACED RACISM
Meghan, who is biracial, said before the couple had their son Archie, there had been "concerns and conversations" between Harry and the family "about how dark his skin might be when he's born."
Harry confirmed there was a conversation about "what will the kids look like." He said he would never reveal who was involved, but Winfrey said he told her it was not his grandparents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
Meghan also said she was treated differently by the British media compared to Prince William's wife Catherine, who was also followed closely by the press and even dubbed "Waity Katie" on account of the couple's long courtship.
"While I imagine that was really hard — and I do, I can't picture what that felt like — this is not the same," Meghan said. "And if a member of his family would comfortably say 'We've all had to deal with things that are rude' — rude and racist are not the same."
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MEGHAN SAYS SHE HAD SUICIDAL THOUGHTS
Meghan said her isolation and unhappiness inside the royal family grew so bad that "I just didn't want to be alive anymore."
"And that was a very clear, and real, and frightening, constant thought," she said.
So she said she sought help from the palace's human resources department, but did not receive it.
"I went to the institution and I said that I needed to go somewhere to get help. I said that I've never felt this way before and I need to go somewhere," she said. "And I was told that I couldn't, that it wouldn't be good for the institution."
HARRY SAYS HE WAS TRAPPED
Harry said that, through his relationship with Meghan, he realized that he and his family were all trapped inside an oppressive system.
"I was trapped but I didn't know I was trapped," he said. "My father and my brother, they are trapped. They don't get to leave."
He also claimed there was a toxic relationship between the royals and the media and that Britain's royal family was afraid of the tabloid press "turning on them."
"There is a level of control by fear that has existed for generations," he said.
HARRY HAS A FRACTURED RELATIONSIP WITH HIS FATHER AND BROTHER
Harry revealed a breakdown in his relations with his father Prince Charles, who is heir to the British throne, and elder brother Prince William, the second in line.
He said at one point Charles stopped taking his calls, and there was still "a lot to work through" in their relationship.
"I will always love him. But there's a lot of hurt that's happened and I will continue to make it one of my priorities to try and heal that relationship," Harry said.
He said he and William had "been through hell together, we have a shared experience, but we were on different paths."
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HARRY AND MEGHAN HAD TWO WEDDING CEREMONIES
The couple's lavish May 2018 wedding at Windsor Castle was a grand ceremonial affair, watched by millions around the world. But Meghan revealed she and Harry had already exchanged vows in private three days earlier in the presence of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the Anglican church.
"We called the archbishop and we just said, look, this thing, this spectacle is for the world, but we want our union between us," she said. "So the vows that we have framed in our room are just the two of us in our backyard with the archbishop of Canterbury."
"Just the three of us," Harry added.
They also revealed that their second child, due in the summer, will be a girl. Their son Archie was born in May 2019.
Read all AP stories on Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex at https://apnews.com/PrinceHarry
A previous version of this story corrected the year of the couple's wedding to 2018, not 2019.


When Kevin Rudd was prime minister of Australia, Ngarluma man Tyson Mowarin was struck that the Mandarin-speaking leader could say hello at the foot of the Great Wall of China, but could not say hello in the local indigenous language at the foot of Uluru.
Using Welcome to Country, his free iOS app that uses geo-location to deliver users cultural information about Aboriginal groups indigenous to the area, Mowarin told Mashable Australia he hopes to ensure all Australians know as much about the country's native people as they do about countries across the ocean.
Mowarin, who lives in Roebourne, Western Australia, is creative director of media production company Weerianna Street Media. While he first became fascinated by technology around when the iPhone launched in 2007, he was particularly interested in the concept of apps. At the time, he thought he could use the platform to digitise a dictionary of the local Ngarluma language.
While he didn't get the opportunity to make the language app, a few years later he began working on Welcome to Country. "The Welcome to Country app is basically about educating people about the language and people in Australia," he said. "We decided to simplify it to a basic welcome — a welcome to the country from an elder or a knowledge carrier, who gives you the approximate boundaries of their country."
A "welcome to country" is a ceremony or message of welcome from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, often given at the beginning of events in Australia, in which the audience is invited to acknowledge the traditional inhabitants of the land.
If you open the app in the inner city of Sydney, for example, a short video will welcome you to Gadigal land. The page also offers information about the people and culture, letting you know the Gadigal people are one of the 29 clan groups that make up the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the wider Sydney region. There is also a searchable list of Australia's tribes and groups.
"It gives you an automatic way to relate to someone if you met them on the street. It's not designed to replace the real thing, but is designed to compliment it," Mowarin added.
Mowarin sees great promise in the ability of technology to help Aboriginal Australians share their insights and stories. "Over the last five years, all of my projects have been based on the principle of bringing technology together with ancient culture and knowledge," he explained. "The potential is definitely there."
He pointed to an increase in the number of culture-based apps available, in particular, those focused on the preservation of Indigenous languages. "It's starting to become more and more important these days, not only documenting and preserving, but also storytelling," he said.
Mowarin and his team now aim to find financial partners so they can gather more official welcome texts from Aboriginal peoples around Australia to complete the app, and also to distribute it to schools, tourists and businesses.
"The aim … is to get Welcome to Country out there so Australians are acknowledging the 500 nations that existed here before settlement," he said. "It would be good if any kid in any school could tell you whose country they live on."


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Highgate is looking for a highly capable and inspiring economics specialist to join its successful, vibrant and supportive Economics Department. The role would suit an experienced teacher or an ambitious and creative entrant to the profession.
Applicants should have an undergraduate degree in economics, or a related joint honours degree such as PPE, from a university with an excellent reputation for economics. Applicants should demonstrate a profound and continuing academic interest in economics and an enthusiasm for sharing this passion with pupils and colleagues. The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to professional development, an enthusiasm for learning and a willingness to experiment, as well as the ability to reflect deeply on their practice.
Applications from candidates with no prior teaching experience are encouraged. The School has considerable experience and success in guiding unqualified entrants to the profession through induction and into established teaching and leadership positions at the school. For all teachers new to Highgate, regardless of experience, there is a strong and supportive framework of induction to the School.
The role includes opportunities to contribute to the pastoral and co-curricular life of the school, both of which are valued highly at Highgate. If the successful applicant were an experienced teacher, s/he would also have the opportunity, should s/he wish, to teach part-time at the London Academy of Excellence in Tottenham, for which Highgate is the principal educational sponsor.
The Department is committed to embedding in students a deep conceptual understanding of Economics and an appreciation for its applications to wider social issues. Through our teaching, we aim to foster a genuine passion for Economics and to create resilient, independent and thoughtful learners, who engage with the subject at the deepest level.
Progressive in its outlook, the department emphasises the development and sharing of best practice. Peer observation is welcomed and encouraged. The department office, in which every member of the team has their own desk space, is shared with the Politics Department and provides an extremely collaborative and supportive environment, offering plenty of opportunity for spirited discussion and professional dialogue.
Economics is one of the most popular A-Level subjects at Highgate, studied by over 100 pupils in the Sixth Form. There are currently five full-time members of the Economics Department, some of whom also teach Politics. The department is extremely well equipped and resourced, with the department office located conveniently close to dedicated classrooms. In addition to the extensive in-house programme of professional development, a generous department budget for CPD is used for exam-board training and subject specific conferences.
The Department has a strong reputation for enabling pupils to be involved in economics beyond the classroom. The popular, pupil-led Economics Society meets weekly to hear student talks and host external speakers. Students enter a wide range of competitions, have the opportunity to contribute to the department blog, and can participate in the department Book Club.
The Department follows the Eduqas A-Level specification (Economics A), with all assessment under this linear specification taking place at the end of the two-year A-level course. The department achieves impressive results in public examinations and supports a good number of Oxbridge applicants each year. The successful applicant would be expected to teach A* calibre pupils and to participate fully in the department's Oxbridge preparation and extension programme.
Working at Highgate
Teachers at Highgate enjoy a welcoming, comfortable and exceptionally well-resourced environment and are provided with significant assistance from a range of support staff. Salaries are competitive. The School pays the employer's contribution to the Teachers' Pension Scheme. Terms are shorter than in the maintained sector. Staff have free access to the School's sports facilities, including a fitness suite and the newly refurbished swimming pool.
Highgate is strongly committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to create a welcoming, respectful and safe environment for all members of our community, from every ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability/disability, religion and background.  We know that more diverse teams are stronger teams, and that the more inclusive we are, the more our staff and pupils will feel a sense of belonging and will thrive. To enable us to make any reasonable adjustments, please let us know when you submit your application whether you have any special requirements.
Antonia Burrows, the Head of Economics, or James Newton, Deputy Head (Academic) (antonia.burrows@highgateschool.org.uk or james.newton@highgateschool.org.uk) are happy to answer any questions about this post.
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The Fortnite Battle Royale toys are now starting to come in steady. Now Moose Toys and Worlds Apart launched their new Fortnite action figures.
The collection features 20 action figures which are 5cm all teach. In it you will find some of the most popular characters or skins in the game.
In the UK you will be able to find them only in Smyths Toys which have the exclusive rights. Also, to create even more interest, the companies say the range has "extremely limited availability".
This is just wave one of the collection. The second release will come on December 17th 2018.
Figures in the collection are available in Solo (one figure £4.88 packs), Duo (two figures at £9.99) and Squad (four figures at £19.99). Fortnite fans will be very spoiled for choice for toys.


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Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
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The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?
(Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose")
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For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia")
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
(Thomas Hardy, "Jude the Obscure")
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There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.
(Terry Goodkind, "Wizard's First Rule")
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Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.
(Thomas Hardy, "Far from the Madding Crowd")
There is a constant suspicion that headache and giddiness are to be ascribed to philosophy, and hence all practising or making trial of virtue in the higher sense is absolutely stopped; for a man is always fancying that he is being made ill, and is in constant anxiety about the state of his body.
(Plato, "The Republic")
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I believe that you are really a very good husband but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.
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He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed by the serious, surprised at the variety of accidents, improved by the language, warned by the frauds, instructed by examples, incensed against vice, and enamoured with virtue; for a good play must cause all these emotions in the soul of him that sees it, though he were never so insensible and unpolished.
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Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
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If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.


A one-item third-level menu is not a choice. It's a bug. Moreover, . . .
. . . that's ridiculous!
If we are only allowed one "choice", then that should be promoted back up to the 2nd-level menu instead of luring us to a 3rd-level menu where we aren't even allowed to choose between more than a single item.
But I propose more than just fixing that bug. I propose that non-moderators be allowed to nominate a site to migrate the question to, instead of making us use a flag for it. That would make this menu item actually useful again; right now it is not.
It wouldn't actually do it without a moderator's intervention, but it would be a whole heck of a lot better than pretending to offer us the option to say that it belongs on another site and then bait-and-switching us with a meta-only migration path. That isn't a real "option" at all.
If the Power That Be won't even give us the mere possibility of nominating a target SE site — not migrating, just nominating for migration — I beg you to please remove the now-bogus "belongs on another SE site" non-option fake-out job and replace it with "belongs on meta ELU".
It's the least you can do. But more can be done, and should.
I'm pretty sure the mechanism (which is what determines how many levels you need to wade through, for example) is Stackexchange-wide. Other sites doubtless have more than one migration option, so they need that extra level of nesting. Until we get the Writers option back (dunno why it's not there, I swear I saw it recently, after the big closure revamp), and/or until ELL is deemed mature enough to accept migration, we'll just have to deal.
The members of the list of migration targets are chosen by the mods and members of ELU (in this case), and can change over time, which is why the the SE-wide mechanism is as it is. However, before anyone excitedly proposes to add Writers.SE (again), bear in mind that sites still in beta are not valid targets, presumably because their ambit is still under discussion.
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Why aren't ELL, Writers, etc available as "migration" options when flagging/closing posts?


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150,000 Ontario health care staff and patient advocates stage Health Action Day (Tuesday) to warn against health care privatization
NEWS PROVIDED BY Ontario Health Coalition | Posted: Apr 22, 2019, 16:40 ET
TORONTO, April 22, 2019 /CNW/ – Across Ontario in more than one hundred hospitals and health care facilities, staff and patient advocates are staging an "Health Action Day" tomorrow, Tuesday April 23. In an unprecedented show of unity, more than 150,000 health professionals and workers and tens of thousands of patient advocates will wear a sticker that say, "Stop Health Privatization" and will distribute leaflets warning about the Ford government's radical health care restructuring plans.
The Ford government has given itself extraordinary powers to order the privatization of virtually all health care services and leaked documents show that plans are underway to begin privatization of a range of health care services. The Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) has vowed to fight to protect local health care services from cuts, privatization, and mergers.
The OHC plans two media conferences regarding "Health Action Day" Tuesday April 23 as follows:
1 p.m. Queen's Park Media Studio, Main Legislative Building, Toronto
2 p.m. Cross-province Media Teleconference. Dial in: 1-888-892-3255 (media only)
The Ford government has rammed a radical health restructuring law through the Legislature refusing to hear from thousands who applied for hearings and sent in submissions. All amendments prohibiting privatization were voted down by the Conservatives. The new law gives the Minister of Health and the government's appointees in the new "Super Agency" the ability to force privatization of services as well as to merge, transfer services from town to town and from provider to provider, and close down services including public hospitals, long-term care, home care, community care, mental health, primary care, palliative care, cancer care, eHealth, air ambulance, laboratories and others.
In addition, the list of health care cuts under the Ford government is mounting:
Cut OHIP+ forcing families with sick children to pay deductibles and co-payments. (June 2018)
Cut planned mental health funding by more than $330 million. (July 2018)
Cancelled all new planned overdose prevention sites. (Autumn 2018)
Let surge funding run out. Surge beds are now closed without replacement, despite overcrowding crisis.
Cut and restructured autism funding. (Winter 2018/19)
Set health care funding at less than the rate of inflation and population growth, let alone aging. This means service levels cannot keep up with population need and will force cuts/privatization. (2019 Budget)
Set public hospital funding at less than the rate of inflation alone. This means real dollar (inflation adjusted dollar) funding cuts and serious service cuts/privatization. (2019 Budget)
Cut provincial public health funding by 27% and cut public health units from 35 to 10. (2019 Budget)
Introduced Bill 74 which gives sweeping new powers to the Minister and Super Agency to force privatization and restructuring of the entire health system. (February/March 2019)
Plan to cut and restructure ambulance services, down from 59 to 10. (April 2019)
Plan to cut half a billion dollars in OHIP services. (April 2019)
The Ontario Health Coalition is mobilizing for a massive health care rally outside the Ontario Legislature next week on Tuesday April 30 at noon. The rally is expected to draw thousands concerned about OHIP cuts, hospital cuts, privatization, mergers and centralization of health care services.
SOURCE Ontario Health Coalition
For further information: ohc@sympatico.ca, www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca, 416-441-2502
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Krystian Bielatowicz specializes in social documentary. He works with "Szeroki Kadr", an online platform, where he's responsible for all the video related projects. He's conducting workshops at Akademia Nikona and was a jury member at Grand Press Photo (2014, 2015).
His photographs were published in: "Newsweek Polska", "National Geographic Polska", "National Geographic Traveler", "Polityka", "Duży Format" ("Gazeta Wyborcza"), "Przekrój", "The Virginia Quarterly Review" (USA), "Private Magazine" (Italy), "El Comercio" and "Caretas" (Peru). His works were exhibitied e.g. in New York, Peru, Leica Gallery Warsaw, Pauza Gallery in Krakow and Łódź, Gdańsk, Toruń, Lublin, Zakopane.
Krystian Bielatowicz had began his mystical journey in Peru, in 2006, looking for subjects for his first stories. Not quite consciously he had followed into places where people come into contact with the divine. For several years he participated in the ceremonies and rituals of the descendants of the Incas.


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Derailments of Thought
by xyon mckell
Xyon McKell
Re: Zero vol 1 Light Novel Review
Unmotivated nobody Subaru Natsuki has somehow stumbled into another world. "Prepared" in a sense for this unexpected occurrence by a lifetime of anime, he prepares to explore the fantasy world he's entered and any dangers it holds while wondering if he's gained any special powers. If he has, it may not be as useful as he hopes.
I've hardly been so simultaneously interested and annoyed as when reading this light novel. The concept is decent, there are good action moments, and SOME of the humor works…
..but a lot of the humor is overdone and/or unfunny, the main character is generally unlikable, and the writing style is atrocious. The attempts at self depreciation, such as Subaru repeatedly commenting how he's a disaffected youth "poisoned by anime," is more odd and off putting than amusing. He's also pretty dense and it all combines to make him someone to be tolerated rather than interested in.
In the writing there's constant redundancy of describing everything from Subaru's point of view then summarizing the same thing again in dialog or his thoughts that's clunky and unneeded. On top of that issue is extremely awkward phrasing that made the book a chore to get through. Whether the primary cause overall was the original text or the translation is unclear (and it's likely to be a bit of both).
But there are obvious instances of poor translation. For example, there is an exchange joking about two characters' ages prompted by the line "Well, it's been a long time since anyone's called me a girl." Except no one did. The proceeding line is "She looks really used to fighting, despite her being a woman." While I was able to follow the idea regardless and it may seem like a small error, using "woman" instead of "girl" there is clearly an inconsistency and there are similar things throughout the book. Writing that repeatedly draws attention to itself in such a way significantly hampers immersion.
Capping it all off is an approach that's the epitome of telling instead of showing (this of course likely stems from the source text). Expectation versus reality is conveyed by endless exposition, with characters' feelings being stated and described instead of felt. Not only does this tend to flatten the emotional impact of the story, over describing insignificant things takes away from the key moments when the extensive detail is appropriate (and as I mentioned earlier there are a few such moments that are very well done).
The pacing of the book is also hampered a bit by the production. If you somehow manage to avoid the spoiler on the back cover (which I had) about something that's not really explained until a third to halfway through the book, it's spoiled anyway in the color pages under the character descriptions. Since those descriptions came from the original publication perhaps it was never meant to be much of a secret, but knowing more than is explicitly revealed in the book itself for so long was another aspect contributing to make reading long sections specifically building up to that realization boring.
It's a shame really, as again the core premise is intriguing. The way the author acknowledges and plays with genre conventions has great potential if refined/reigned in a bit, and the cast is a reasonably interesting collection of mysterious misfits. There are some plot issues that really should have been addressed in this book, but signs do point towards them coming up in the future. The epilogue reveals more about the story than the entire proceeding book, which is another pacing problem but admittedly provides a strong hook for the next one.
Overall I wanted to like this a lot more than I actually did. I'm curious about what happens to Subaru and company going forward but can't see forcing myself to read more. I might try to switch to the anime at some point and see if the storytelling and style feel more natural in that.
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2018 ENTO StudyLab – 2019 ENTO StudyLab: "Europe, from the hearth to the local and back"
Hereafter some information about past 2018 ENTO StudyLab.
In 2018 ENTO decided to commit in developing a new concept of StudyLab which can be a real learning and sharing opportunity for trainers, directors of training institutions, graduate and under-graduate students, local politicians and civil servants.
We started with a great location: Slavutych (Ukraine).
The city was built in 1986 shortly after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, to provide homes for those who had worked at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and their families. They were evacuated from the abandoned city of Pripyat.
What a better location to face the topic of "Cities in transition: cultural and physical renovation and regeneration"?
The StudyLab format is expected to be declined each year in a different nation/region by one or more ENTO members.
A special thanks goes to the Organization Committee, who took the lead to organize the first edition of the StudyLab and, of course, to the City of Slavutych in the person of its Mayor, Mr.Yurii Fomichev, for hosting and leading us in the discovery of their place.


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