Serious problems have arisen after the Government abolished the Audit Commission and handed the job to private accountancy firms instead
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Was the UK trying to use schools to "booster" infections in the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic? Did teachers suffer? There is little data to prove either way
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DrupalCon North America 2023 DriesNote presentation
Last week, approximately 1,500 Drupal enthusiasts came together in Pittsburgh for DrupalCon North America. In good tradition, I delivered my State of Drupal keynote. You can watch the video of my keynote or download my slides (240.6 MB).
In my latest piece for UnHerd, I reflect on Berlusconi’s legacy and on his influence on my own political identity, from my early dabbling in left-wing politics in the early Nineties and the tragic violence of the anti-G8 protests in 2001 to my disillusionment with the obsessive and myopic anti-Berlusconismo of the Italian left. Ultimately, for all his many …
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On Monday 5 June, Austria’s social democratic party, the SPÖ, made an astonishing announcement. At the special party conference two days beforehand, the leadership race between Hans-Peter Doskozil and Andreas Babler was to be decided by an assembly of 609 appointed delegates at a special party conference. Babler gave an impassioned speech that brought a […]
An analysis of global patent transfers found that international tax differences impact patent transactions between parent companies and foreign subsidiaries.
Vania Esady, Bradley Speigner and Boromeus Wanengkirtyo The headline unemployment rate is one of the most widely used indicators of economic slack to measure the state of the business cycle. A large empirical literature on Phillips curve estimation has explored whether more general definitions of labour utilisation are more informative than this simple measure. In … Continue reading Does long-term unemployment affect inflation dynamics?
Seeing what's hot at the wearable tech expo.
Hanging with the physical manifestation of a chatbot.
In our latest paper published in Safety Science, ‘Working in heat: Contrasting heat management approaches among outdoor employees and contractors’, we examine the experience of workplace heat exposure for two groups of affected outdoor workers: contracted pieceworkers in bicycle delivery and permanently employed municipal workers in parks and road maintenance. We conducted surveys and in-person interviews over several weeks at the height of the Sydney summer, and our findings reflect the well-established nexus between outside temperature, humidity and work effort in producing heat stress.
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That’s how I’m describing what will happen at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. US Courthouse. The MSM headline won’t call them terrorists or mention the guns they will be carrying concealed. And the hostage isn’t Trump, it’s counter protestors, “Antifa”, journalists covering the event and law enforcement. They are focusing on some of same targets as January 6th. The Trump supporters are even busing their supporters in like they did on on January 6th. (It doesn’t look like Charlie Kirk is behind the buses this time, but has anyone talked to Ginni Thomas?) The other hostage is the American public and our sense of feeling safe at protests. When people are armed, deadly violence could happen at any second. It’s not a peaceful protest anymore, it’s a hostage situation. We KNOW that cops prepare for and treat armed people differently, especially those with a history of violence. When the media knows that there will be armed people there, THEY need to talk about this differently. And ask some different questions, like: Will the FBI be arresting people “left of boom” Monday? There should be arrests!
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Four years ago, the Trump administration DOJ prosecuted this fellow and he got 9 years in prison: A former National Security Agency contractor who pleaded guilty to stealing vast troves of classified material over the course of two decades has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Harold Martin III, 54, apologized before U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett handed down the sentence on Friday. “My methods were wrong, illegal and highly questionable,” Martin told the court in Baltimore, according to The Associated Press. Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty to “willful retention of national defense information,” a crime that carries a punishment of anywhere from no jail time to a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. His plea agreement called for a sentence of nine years in prison. Martin, who at the time worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, began to accumulate classified documents in his vehicle and at his home in Glen Burnie, Md., in the late 1990s. The Navy veteran held a Top Secret security clearance. He was arrested in August 2016, and the documents were found when the FBI searched his residence.
There’s pandering and then there’s pandering The Fuehrer may not be around but how about the Kracken lady, Sidney Powell? I hear she’s at liberty. Or maybe that anti-abortion zealot down in Texas Matthew Kacsmaryk. He’s definitely the Alito and Thomas extremist level. I’m sure DeSantis’ idol Donald Trump put some others on the bench that are even worse if he looks hard enough! This woman seems like an especially good fit: The San Francisco lawyer Harmeet Dhillon is a fixture on Fox News who has garnered support from the likes of Matt Gaetz, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham; she also helms a non-profit that appears to have directed more than $1m into her law firm, Dhillon Law Group. Dhillon most recently made headlines when she signed on to represent Carlson in a gender discrimination lawsuit he and Fox News face from former producer Abby Grossberg. She also acted as an attorney for Donald Trump and former Project Veritas head James O’Keefe, who in 2021 sued Twitter for banning him.
Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy shared his excitement over Bonnie Langford's Melanie Bush returning for the new series of BBC's Doctor Who.
Axios Republican voters remain overwhelmingly loyal to former President Trump after he was charged with several federal crimes related to his possession of classified documents after his presidency, recent polls show. Why it matters: Despite the charges, Trump is still the favorite for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, according to recent polling. Even some of his fellow candidates have lent support to Trump and questioned the motivation behind the indictment. By the numbers: An ABC News/Ipsos survey published on Sunday found that 80% of polled Republicans said they believe the charges against Trump are politically motivated, while only 9% of GOP voters said they didn’t see politics in the charges. Separately, in a CBS News/YouGov poll published on Sunday, 61% of polled Republican voters said the indictment did not change the way they viewed Trump, while 80% of Republicans said he should still be able to assume office if he’s convicted and wins the 2024 presidential election. The CBS News/YouGov poll also found 76% of Republican voters believe the charges were motivated by politics.
Confession is the key to mental healing.
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One question for Adam Mastroianni, a psychologist at Columbia University.
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The war crimes trial of a Malian rebel is the first test of new tools that could become central to justice efforts in Ukraine and beyond.
The post How 3D Models and Other Technology Could Make it Easier to Convict War Criminals appeared first on The Intercept.