Piepmatz beim fegen If you can dream it you can do it _ A Justin Bieber Love story [german] Folge 41 Hund macht sich sauber autosport.com – F1 News: Sauber seeks answers on wing design Sauber will conduct a detailed investigation at its factory into how its rear wing failed to comply with the technical regulations at the Australian Grand Prix, before it decides whether to keep pressing ahead with its appeal. Sauber intends to appeal disqualification – GPUpdate.net Sauber has announced that it is planning to appeal its disqualification from the Australian Grand Prix, with both Sergio Pérez and Kamui… Sauber seeks answers on wing design | inRacingNews.com Kamui Kobayashi, Sauber , Australian GP Sauber will conduct a detailed investigation at its factory into how its rear wing failed to comply with the technical regulations at the Australian Grand Prix, before it decides whether to keep … Sauber disqualified, launches appeal | Formula 1 Blog Follwoing an outstanding result in the Australian Grand Prix, Sauber has been disqualified from the race results due to what the FIA says is an illegal rear wing. It seems the rear wing is not within the FIA’s understanding of the … Peter Sauber pictures, news and more – famous hot people Formula One report – The Sauber F1 Team had an Australian Formula One Grand Prix which Team Principal Peter Sauber has called a dream start. Sergio Perez managed to drive 35 laps on a single set of the soft Pirelli tyres, … f1community says: Sauber lodges notification to appeal http://twlv.net/yxQf7h #f1
Continue reading …Monica Crowley Refutes Eleanor Clift’s Claim Tea Party Candidate Can’t Win National Election
March 27, 2011 No Comment
After getting laughed at by Monica Crowley for making a foolish comment about the disparate ways Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan handled Libya during their respective presidencies, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift doubled down on this weekend's “McLaughlin Group” by saying a Tea Party candidate can't win a national election. Crowley was once again up to the challenge and correctly pointed out, “If the government keeps spending like this, that Tea Party movement is only going to accelerate” (video follows with transcript and commentary): ELEANOR CLIFT, NEWSWEEK: If you elect a candidate, if you nominate a candidate that the Tea Party loves, that is someone that cannot win a national election in this country. MONICA CROWLEY, WASHINGTON TIMES: Well, I would not say that. CLIFT: Excuse me, Tea Party can win… CROWLEY: That's wrong. CLIFT: …certain districts and certain states, but they cannot win a national election, and… CROWLEY: Well, what we saw in November was a national… CLIFT: …the Democrats actually have a chance of taking back the House because they need to recapture 25 seats… CROWLEY: Forget it. CLIFT: …and there are at least 25 Tea Party freshmen who are not representing well in their districts. CROWLEY: Not happening, not happening. If the government keeps spending like this, that Tea Party movement is only going to accelerate. And all of the top tier Republican candidates, whether it’s Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich, they’re all facing enormous pressure from the Tea Party, and they’re going to have to change their positions and modify them to accommodate the Tea Party on spending and the size of government. Indeed. Folks like Clift and their ilk are either totally deluded about the power of the Tea Party or are trying to create a self-fulfilling prophecy by continuing to downplay its significance. Whichever it is, they do so at their own peril for this movement continues to grow and will likely have an even larger impact on the next elections than it did the previous ones.
Continue reading …Monica Crowley Refutes Eleanor Clift’s Claim Tea Party Candidate Can’t Win National Election
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After getting laughed at by Monica Crowley for making a foolish comment about the disparate ways Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan handled Libya during their respective presidencies, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift doubled down on this weekend's “McLaughlin Group” by saying a Tea Party candidate can't win a national election. Crowley was once again up to the challenge and correctly pointed out, “If the government keeps spending like this, that Tea Party movement is only going to accelerate” (video follows with transcript and commentary): ELEANOR CLIFT, NEWSWEEK: If you elect a candidate, if you nominate a candidate that the Tea Party loves, that is someone that cannot win a national election in this country. MONICA CROWLEY, WASHINGTON TIMES: Well, I would not say that. CLIFT: Excuse me, Tea Party can win… CROWLEY: That's wrong. CLIFT: …certain districts and certain states, but they cannot win a national election, and… CROWLEY: Well, what we saw in November was a national… CLIFT: …the Democrats actually have a chance of taking back the House because they need to recapture 25 seats… CROWLEY: Forget it. CLIFT: …and there are at least 25 Tea Party freshmen who are not representing well in their districts. CROWLEY: Not happening, not happening. If the government keeps spending like this, that Tea Party movement is only going to accelerate. And all of the top tier Republican candidates, whether it’s Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich, they’re all facing enormous pressure from the Tea Party, and they’re going to have to change their positions and modify them to accommodate the Tea Party on spending and the size of government. Indeed. Folks like Clift and their ilk are either totally deluded about the power of the Tea Party or are trying to create a self-fulfilling prophecy by continuing to downplay its significance. Whichever it is, they do so at their own peril for this movement continues to grow and will likely have an even larger impact on the next elections than it did the previous ones.
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• Plans based on average of £7,500, not top-rate fees • Cost to government may hit education spending The government could be forced to spend almost £1bn more than expected over the next four years to cover the cost of tuition fees, as a growing number of universities set out plans to charge the maximum of £9,000 a year. From autumn next year, universities will be allowed to almost treble the amount they now charge, as part of a reform of the funding of higher education. The initial charge is borne by the government, which pays the fee for each student in the form of a loan before recovering its money once the student has graduated and finds a job that pays more than £21,000. Critics fear that the government will claw back the initial outlay from other higher education spending, potentially leading to fewer university places or cuts in research budgets. David Willetts, the universities minister, had anticipated that a market would develop, with institutions charging a wide range of fees, but a picture is emerging of the majority of institutions charging the top rate. Of the 16 universities that have so far stated how much they intend to charge, 13 want the maximum – University College London, Birmingham and Lancaster being the latest to do so. Willetts predicted that the average across the whole of higher education would be £7,500. It now looks much higher, but the Treasury has used the £7,500 average to determine how much universities should receive for research, teaching and building grants, among other things. Figures from the House of Commons library show that if the average is £8,600, the government will have to spend £960m more in the next four years. If it is only slightly higher, at £7,900, it is £340m extra. But if the average is £8,900, the government will have to pay out an extra £1.23bn. The funds could be deducted from universities’ budgets and could mean fewer places on degree courses or a cut to the research or teaching grant. A total of £940m has already been cut from English universities’ budgets for teaching, research and site renovation for the next academic year, a 12.6% reduction. However, last week’s budget awarded an extra £100m to research. Gareth Thomas, the shadow universities minister, said either universities would have their funds cut or the government would have to reconsider altogether. He said: “The government repeatedly promised that fees over £6,000 would be the exception, but it is increasingly clear that they are powerless to stop most universities charging closer to £9,000. This will push up average fees beyond the £7,500 estimate on which the government’s spending plans are based, requiring deeper cuts elsewhere in the higher education budget.” Other universities seeking the £9,000 maximum are Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, Exeter, Essex, Aston, Manchester, Warwick and Durham. St Mary’s University College, Twickenham has said it plans to charge £8,000. Universities that charge more than £6,000 must set out a plan, or access agreement, to widen their pool of students beyond white, middle-class teenagers, and this must be approved as adequate by the government’s access watchdog, the Office for Fair Access. Institutions have until 19 April to submit their access agreements to Offa, which will give its verdicts in July. Tuition fees Higher education Students Liberal-Conservative coalition Education policy Jessica Shepherd guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Remember “Lynn Greer explains it all for you?” Well, the Democrats of Alabama took some video from a TV station’s camera and did a very clever mash-up of his highlights. My video for comparison, and some news from the southern battlefront of the culture wars, after the jump: Apologies for this week’s update being what it is. Spinal problems prevented me from getting to Montgomery while the legislature was in session. Nevertheless, a voter ID bill which passed the House this week drew this reaction from the Alabama Democratic Party: Though the state is currently slashing funding for critical departments and programs in the face of severe budget shortfalls, Republicans are steamrolling over Democrats to pass a bill that will cost millions of dollars that the state doesn’t have. The GOP claims this bill will reduce voter fraud, but there has been no evidence nor any case in Alabama that supports their assertion. Representative Kerry Rich (R – Albertville) could identify only three cases of voter fraud in the state since 2008, all of which dealt with absentee ballots and not voters misrepresenting themselves at the ballot box. If Republicans are able to pass this unnecessary legislation they will be putting the state on the hook for millions of dollars needed to implement a law that will only serve to suppress voter turnout. This is Chairman of the ADP Mark Kennedy speaking to a room full of Democrats: Also this week: Republicans failed to pass their Death To Obamacare Act . The new governor is paying his Chief of Staff, Chief legal advisor, and his Transportation chief with Homeland Security money (really!) and defending the state’s new anti-teacher law in federal courts ( decision ; .PDF). The law would have prohibited teachers from deducting union dues from their paychecks. and was at the top of the Republican “emergency ethics session” agenda just after the election last year. However, Governor Bentley signed the repeal of DROP , a state pension plan designed to reward longer careers.
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Renowned children’s fantasy and science-fiction author with a dedicated following Like many good writers, Diana Wynne Jones, who has died aged 76 of cancer, worked for long years in relative obscurity, in her case sustained as a children’s fantasy author by a modestly sized but devoted young readership. That obscurity provided the freedom to develop her own voice without the distractions of having to build on perceived success. By the time real success found her, in Jones’s case almost by chance, she was a mature writer with a solid and varied body of work that was ready to be appreciated by a much bigger new audience. Her intelligent and beautifully written fantasies are of seminal importance for their bridging of the gap between “traditional” children’s fantasy, as written by CS Lewis or E Nesbit, and the more politically and socially aware children’s literature of the modern period, where authors such as Jacqueline Wilson or Melvyn Burgess explicitly confront problems of divorce, drugs and delinquency. Jones’s fiction is relevant, subversive, witty and highly enjoyable, while also having a distinctly dark streak and a constant awareness of how unreliable the real world can seem. Disguises and deceptions abound. Though avoiding criminally dysfunctional families or unwanted pregnancies, her cleverly plotted and amusing adventures deal frankly with emotional clumsiness, parental neglect, jealousy between siblings and a general sense of being an outcast. Rather than a deliberately cruel stepmother, a Jones protagonist might have a real mother far more wrapped up in her own career than in the discoveries and feelings of her child. The child protagonist would realise this, but get on with the adventure anyway. Jones wrote from experience: her parents were neglectful of her needs, and those of her two younger sisters. The sisters often went hungry, and for years were banished to sleep in an unheated lean-to shed, to make room in case of visitors. Both parents were intellectuals and progressive educators, but were stingy not only with money but also with warmth and attention. The skinflint father bought the children a complete set of Arthur Ransome books as Christmas presents, but doled them out at a rate of one a year. In self-defence Jones began to write stories for her sisters and herself. When the second world war broke out Jones and her family were evacuated to the Lake District, eventually living in the house once inhabited by the Altounyan children, on whom Ransome had based his Swallows and Amazons series. The great children’s author was still around, one day complaining angrily that the children were making too much noise. On another occasion, Diana’s younger sister and a friend had their faces slapped by a second Lakeland author who hated children but who was rich and famous because of them: Beatrix Potter. Jones’s distinctive scepticism about conventional children’s fiction must have started to set in early. Later, when she went to St Anne’s college, Oxford, two of her lecturers were JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. Both were then engaged on their famous works of fantasy, but at that time fantasy was distinctly de trop at Oxford. The two professors were tolerated because they were also excellent scholars. Lewis boomed excitingly to crowded halls, while Tolkien muttered inaudibly to Jones and three other students. Years later, just as she was starting to write and publish professionally, and was taking bed-rest because of pregnancy, Jones read Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings for the first time. This made her realise that a fantasy novel could be not only long, but seriously intended too. As she became more certain of her own writing, she also grew more sceptical of the conventional tropes of fantasy, including those of Tolkien. This questioning became overt with the publication of The Tough Guide to Fantasyland (1996). Presenting her book as a tourist guide to a foreign land, Jones, with affectionate but deadly effect, spoofed or parodied the numerous cliches that riddle those hordes of three-volume sagas about elves and quests. Jones, of course, knew that her novels too were not immune from lampoon, but this book declared her self-awareness, the likeable distance so relished by her audience. Her growing band of readers also knew that Jones’s own novels easily transcended the routine stuff of rings and magic and ancient runes. The first of the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling appeared in 1997, and by the turn of the century had become a sensational success. Other publishers were looking around for books they could market to the same vast audience, and were quick to realise that Jones had been fruitfully engaged in fantasy for nearly 30 years. Superficial similarities may be a double-edged sword; one of her series of books features a wizards’ university. Among her most popular creations is the Chrestomanci series (novels and short stories – the first appeared in 1977), in which a nine-lived enchanter operates across multiple realities as a civil servant in charge of preventing the abuse of magic; the series includes an idiosyncratic school story, Witch Week (1982). Of the apparent coincidences, Jones said generously to this newspaper in 2003: “I think that she [Rowling] read my books as a young person and remembered lots of stuff; there are so many striking similarities.” Her career began as a playwright, with three plays produced in London between 1967 and 1970; her first novel, Change- over (1970), was adult humour; since then her work has been written for younger readers. Besides the two series already mentioned, she wrote the Howl books, beginning with Howl’s Moving Castle (1986; filmed in 2004 by Hayao Miyazaki), and two sequels, and the Dalemark sequence (1975-2003), dark-tinged fantasies set in that eponymous country. Some of her best and most enjoyable books are stand-alones, in particular The Ogre Downstairs (1974), The Time of the Ghost (1981) and Fire and Hemlock (1985), each a remarkable blend of pathos and genuinely funny writing. Archer’s Goon (1984), extravagantly mixing fantasy with science fiction, was serialised for television by the BBC in 1992. Her most recent novel, the light-hearted Enchanted Glass, appeared last year. Jones won innumerable awards for her writing, including three Carnegie commendations, the Guardian award and a lifetime achievement World Fantasy award. In 2006 she was made an Honorary DLitt by the University of Bristol. She was amused by the considerable academic attention her work attracted; reading in one paper that her work was “rooted in fluidity”, she remarked: “Obviously hydroponic, probably a lettuce, possibly a cabbage.” Jones was born in London of Welsh parents; she met her husband-to-be, the Chaucerian scholar John A Burrow, just before she went up to Oxford; they married in 1956 and had three sons, Richard, Michael and Colin, all of whom survive her, as do five grandchildren. • Diana Wynne Jones, writer, born 16 August 1934; died 26 March 2011 Diana Wynne Jones Children and teenagers Fantasy Fiction Science fiction CS Lewis JRR Tolkien JK Rowling Harry Potter guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Microsoft asks state lawmakers to make domestic companies pay for foreign firms’ software piracy
March 27, 2011 No Comment
Microsoft’s pirated software police have been going after companies abroad for years , but getting those far-away folks into US courtrooms isn’t easy. What is easy, however, is suing the folks in your own back yard — which is why Microsoft is lobbying to get laws passed in several states that’ll put US businesses on the hook for the pirating ways of their foreign suppliers. For example, if a manufacturer uses pirated software in the “manufacture, distribution, marketing, or sales” of products sold in Washington, Microsoft could sue the vendor of those products and get an injunction to stop the goods from being sold. So Washington widget retailers would be liable for the piracy of their foreign widget manufacturers, even if the illicit act was merely creating the sales invoice on a counterfeit copy of Word. The Washington state Senate and House have already approved different versions of the bill, and the legislature is in the process of merging the two together for final approval. Louisiana passed a similar law last year, and analogous bills have been proposed in Oregon and several other states as well. Numerous companies — including Dell, IBM, Intel, and HP — oppose the laws, as they see them giving Microsoft the power to not only drag them into court, but also futz with their supply chains. (There’s bound to be some counterfeit software being used in Shenzhen, right?) As Microsoft’s latest anti-piracy scheme unfolds, there should be plenty more legislative action to come. Evidently the crew in Redmond doesn’t see piracy as a problem to be fixed by lowering prices . Microsoft asks state lawmakers to make domestic companies pay for foreign firms’ software piracy originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Continue reading …A sad and unusual paramedics call from Washington state: A 61-year-old man called 911 to say that his wife was having a heart attack and that he was starting CPR. The phone then went silent. When paramedics arrived and broke into the house, they found the husband slumped over his…
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Click here to view this media [h/t Heather ] Meet Tom Luna, Idaho’s Republican Superintendent of of Public Education, architect of the gutting of Idaho public schools, massive teacher layoffs, and union-buster. Tom Luna is an interesting character. He’s a good, solid Republican, 2-year veteran of the Bush Administration’s Department of Education, and doesn’t really have any educational qualifications for the office he now holds. No, seriously. He doesn’t. “> Here’s his resume´ in a nutshell: Education: Classes at Boise State and Ricks College, Bachelor of Art (2002) in Weights and Measures from Thomas Edison State College, a non-accredited on-line degree factory supposedly based in New Jersey. Also, he owns a scale company whose largest account is an Idaho corporation owned by Frank Vandersloot — Melaleuca. Remember that name. I’ll be talking about him later. Tom Luna’s Amazing Fundraising Abilities Now, Tom Luna had one of the best-financed 2010 re-election campaigns I’ve seen for an office that oversees about 280,000 students. (For perspective, California employs more teachers than Idaho’s total number of students.) But to get Tom Luna elected in a Republican state in 2010 when the Tea Party was full of hubris and madness, donors gave $212,000 to his campaign , of which $132,000 was spent as of November 18, 2010. This is not counting PACs, or independent expenditures. That’s direct campaign donations. With the exception of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, no other candidate for state office came anywhere near the campaign donations that Luna received. Those donors didn’t give because they were feeling generous and loved Tom Luna. They loved Tom Luna’s plans for the state’s public education system, though. If Luna’s “Students Come First” proposal passes the Legislature, online education will be mandated in Idaho and a laptop will be available to every high school student. That means 115 school districts, with 82,000 high school students, will be in the market for computers, software and online courses. Well, lookee there. And look at who Tom Luna’s top 2010 donors were: K12 Inc. of Virginia , an online company with 81,000 students and operator of the Idaho Virtual Academy. In Idaho, IVA enrolls 2,930 students and received $12.8 million from the state in fiscal 2010. K12, its employees and major stockholders spent about $44,000 supporting Luna; $25,000 of that was funneled to an Idaho interest group for independent advertising on Luna’s behalf. I should also mention that K12, Inc was started by Bill Bennett , Education Secretary under Ronald Reagan. Yes, *that* Bill Bennett. – Apollo Group of Phoenix , the parent company of the University of Phoenix, an online university with more than 400,000 students. Luna’s plan would allow high school students to earn college credits at state expense once they complete high school requirements. Apollo Group gave Luna $5,500. – Executives of Scantron Corp ., a Minnesota-based leader in testing technology that is aggressively expanding into online education. Scantron employees and family contributed $7,450. Other corporate education contributors: Apangea Learning, Inc. (online math courses) $1,000; Education Networks of America (educational video/network technology) $5,500; Madison Education Group (education consulting and advocacy) $5,000, and yes, Frank Vandersloot, who not only picked up the tab for thousands in independent expenditures, but also donated $10,000 to Luna’s campaign. But don’t take my word for it. Here’s a whole huge list with all the tentacles listed. For-profit educators, GOP privatization organizations, marry at the IBCEE Frank Vandersloot is a wealthy affiliate marketer in Idaho who is also connected with the Education Alliance of Idaho , an affiliate of the Idaho Business Coalition for Education Excellence (IBCEE), a non-profit organization (which hasn’t filed any Federal disclosure forms that I can find) comprised of CEOs and company presidents. The Education Alliance membership is comprised of the following: Members include J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation and representatives from the Idaho Education Association, Idaho Association of School Administrators, Idaho School Boards Association, Idaho Parent Teacher Association, Idaho Digital Learning Academy, State Board of Education, State Department of Education and the State Division of Professional- Technical Education. According to the ” fact sheet (PDF) ” they publish it has a mission: The Education Alliance of Idaho is a coalition of key stakeholders in the Idaho education system. The core purpose of the Education Alliance is one of advocacy and advice. The Education Alliance does not have authority in statute, nor does it control policymakers. Instead, the organization’s influence on the future of the education system in Idaho comes from that of its members. Indeed. In 2005 ( the only annual report (PDF) I could find ), the JA and Kathryn Albertson Foundation funded 20 charter schools, including the Idaho Distance Education Academy, the Idaho Virtual Academy and INSPIRE Charter school, all online schools. The foundation has also given a large grant (in connection with the Micron Foundation, another Luna donor) to the Boise school District for the first ” brick-and-mortar web enabled elementary schools using K12 Inc. curriculum.” But it’s not only the Albertson grocery family. Others participate in the “influence on the future of the education system in Idaho.” Others, like Bill Hansen, co-founder of Big Luna Donor Madison Education Group and now President and CEO of Scantron have some influence, too. Hansen was an adviser to the 2008 Romney campaign, too. And Michael Milken, who owns 24% of K12, Inc. I’ve given you all of this detail on Idaho because it’s a small enough state that the money flow really stands out like a sore thumb. Despite Luna’s insistence that he’s not beholden to those who bought his re-election, his “reform proposals” say otherwise. But it’s not just Idaho. It’s Michigan . It’s Pennsylvania . It’s Arizona . Florida . Ohio . Indiana . The names are different but the model’s the same. In Michigan, it’s the DeVos family who funds charter schools and “influences policy”. The corporate education firms have different names but the goal is the same: To break unions, get rid of as many teachers as possible, and force students into online learning courses which teach to a test but don’t necessarily educate students. This particular model assumes students are commodities with identical learning styles and abilities. Profit centers, amortized over 12 years. Cronyism Strikes Deep Idaho’s high school students understand what’s at stake. It’s why they walked out in support of their teachers earlier this month. And some of Idaho’s citizens get it too . In fact, one retired secretary is beginning a recall effort against Luna. Her reasons echo the same reasons Wisconsin and Michigan citizens have for undertaking their own recall efforts. Berto has attended protests against Luna’s three big education reform bills with “Stop the Lunacy” and “Save Our Schools” signs. Despite overwhelming public testimony against the plan backed by Luna and GOP Gov. Butch Otter, two of the three bills are expected to get final legislative approval in the House Tuesday. The third bill is stalled in the Senate. Berto disputes Luna’s claim of a mandate for change — including larger class sizes, required online classes and a computer for every high school student — because neither he nor Otter mentioned the ideas in the 2010 campaign. I would only say this to Mrs. Berto: Follow the money during the campaign and it will tell you what they’re really planning to do after they’re elected. Luna’s campaign was so heavily and well-financed that it was clear from early on that the goal was exactly what they’ve now done. Tom Luna lives the GOP creed: Cronies Come First .
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