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What makes life worth living according to the Donald. Another great extract from the explosive new bookhttps://t.co/QN2gSU3Wt3 pic.twitter.com/Bxrr04M4a9
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https://twitter.com/Independent/status/948673779647074305
https://twitter.com/TheSun/status/948678849759412224
https://twitter.com/jo_marney/status/942072589677195264
https://twitter.com/foxinsoxuk/status/948666538508324864
https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/948681106274045953
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ukip-leader-henry-bolton-might-11397115
Family values? nah...
'Salsa cookies,
Windmill cookies,
They gave you gonorrhea'
https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/948686251498115074
Questions on my mind are: who are his sources and how believable are they?
Don't get me wrong - I am sure Trump is capable of this and worse but it would be nice to have some confidence in these stories, otherwise we are just fanning the fake-news fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bolton_(British_politician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roose_Bolton
PS A very generous friend served us copious portions of Léoville Las Case '85 at a dinner a few days ago. Wow!
There's also another cracking documentary, called Icarus, about the Russian drug cheating industry. The guy filming it hit as lucky as you could ever get, as a documentary maker....
I suppose it gets him some publicity - he is virtually invisible as party leader.
I know he has done it in a grandstanding and chaotic fashion, and I don't agree with his agenda.
BUT, everything achieved so far has been mainstream Republican policy for a while.
We are being blinded by smoke and mirrors and mis-direction into not spotting a straightforward Party Line.
It certainly wouldn't be the first time that something has been written to sell rather than to expose any particular truth
I don't think she has anything useful to say beyond that.
But lets start with what the big ears picked up from some Trump campaign associates when they visited Scotland.
Moldovan banks are major investors in Scotland did you not know?
Bannon has spoken to Bob Mueller's investigation. The guy is an idealogue, an important distinction to many many others closely associated with the Trump circle. If you understand that you understand why this noisy situation has come about.
Renewables and nuclear reach landmark after rapid growth in wind and solar sources"
https://www.ft.com/content/437c4e8a-efc0-11e7-ac08-07c3086a2625
Somewhere between Line of Duty and The Wire...
http://institute.global/news/tony-blair-brexit-what-we-now-know
Trump shill Congressman Devin Nunes, who has been running some severe and probably illegal (leaking info) interference with congressional investigations into what is now known as TrumpRussia, is reportedly the subject of a meeting between the head of the FBI, Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and Paul Ryan, leader of the House Republicans.
Nunes has been under investigation but, if this is true, and one US media outlet is reporting it so far (the subject matter not the meeting), this is unlikely to have a run of the mill outcome.
Worth watching to see.
Here's the Irish Times write up:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/blair-says-eu-should-remain-open-to-uk-rethink-on-brexit-1.3344206
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-lawyers-send-cease-and-desist-letter-to-bannon/2018/01/03/b4d1ad7e-f0ff-11e7-97bf-bba379b809ab_story.html
They’ve been in charge for nearly 8 years, spent their political capital and a decent proportion of the education budget on free schools for the middle class in the South of England - and are now planning to go back to grammar schools. Oh and cutting the schools budget per pupil.
The State can only do so much. Quite of lot of this is sadly from parenting - educational aspiration from the WWC is truly dreadful - compare and contrast with the ethnic minority working class. There has to be culture shift...
Children’s commissioner for England says many year 7 children feel under pressure to be constantly connected online"
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/04/secondary-school-pupils-ill-equipped-to-cope-with-stress-of-social-media
This has little to do with schools' focus on girls and/or ethnic minorities, and spending a bit more money isn't going to solve it either. (Though more money would ease other problems.)
I am not even close to an apologist for Tory education ministers, but whataboutery in defense of Rayner does not cut it.
Fingers and toes crossed.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/01/angela-rayner-labour-will-boost-sure-start-services-that-changed-my-life
I like Angela Rayner, and she is a classic example of overcoming disadvantage to flourish. A real self starter. She is well worth watching as one for the top.She is at times inarticulate and is certainly uneducated, but she is shrewd, ambitious and intelligent.
It does raise issues of real diversity, which was covered in this recent piece:
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/the-bbc-pay-gap-is-bad-its-class-gap-is-worse-10957166?__twitter_impression=true
"But just because it's harder and less 'zeitgeisty' doesn't mean it's not important and we should start to recognise that diversity in our society is more than just about your sex or gender. It's a complicated, tightly woven tapestry and your background and class, for which your educational background is a pretty decent indicator, is crucial.
Is a poor working class man from Scunthorpe less diverse than a wealthy ethnic minority woman from Hampstead who went to one of the country's top private schools?"
The funding cuts they imposed from 1997-2001 were savage. Except that they also repeatedly lied about it. Even when they changed course and started putting more money into schools, you may be surprised to learn they provided just one pound in every twenty of the extra money they promised. The rest had to be met form council tax, which is one reason why it rose so rapidly. Moreover even that money all had to be spent on increased pay for teachers meaning money for various other resources was reduced in real terms, leading many schools to get deeply into debt.
I am about halfway through a book chapter on Labour's education policies from 1997-2010 and what I have found actually shocked me. Although I realised their record was bad, I had no idea it was that bad.
As for your question, pupil premium money follows deprivation, not ethnic group. I don't think the populist message from Rayner is particularly helpful. Yes, we should be worrying about WWC boys, but that concern should be directed at looking for solutions.
Sure Start was a good thing, but there seems to be a relative dearth of analysis of what worked and what didn't (arguments about its overall effectiveness are still ongoing).
What the actual eff was he thinking ?
Will others now agree with me that Root's conversion rate is becoming a serious problem? He's starting to look like a more prolific Ian Bell.
He played himself in so well first time around, and this was just throwing it away. Hopefully he'll learn from this - as Boycott noted earlier, he looks a way better player when he gives himself time.
First tour as captain - and with a new kid in tow - I'm not ready to say there's a serious problem. England were underprepared for this series, and I think it will get better for him. I'm far more concerned about our bowlers.
Basically AUI there are two issues:
1) Meltdown, a specific vulnerability that is more easily exploitable and has more serious effects; it is preset on all modern Intel x86 processors and some ARM ones that have out-of-order execution. Fixing this reduces speed on these processors, in some rare, extreme cases drastically.
2) Spectre; a class of vulnerabilities that will effect all processors with out-of-order execution, including AMD, Intel, ARM etc. This appears to be harder to exploit and its consequences, whilst bad, are not as bad as Meltdown's. Unfortunately this can be much harder to 'fix' from a software pov.
On the other hand, these are vulnerabilities that make existing vulnerabilities worse; they need code to be run on the target system.
Both these issues require new chip designs to totally remove the vulnerability, and those designs might be slower. I'd also be unsurprised if people came up with other low-level chip vulnerabilities, especially those using side-channels to access data. Modern chips are so complex that it is very possible that there are similar problems elsewhere.
ARM's statement about this includes a white paper on the vulnerabilities from their perspective:
https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update
What will the media talk about when the Trump Show ends?
Fifties save you your place and give you a nice average. Three figures scores define matches. It's doubly frustrating Root is chucking it away as there is no other batsman at the moment who can cover for his underperformance, and no sign of one coming in. He needs to sort this out.
This is an interesting example of what works in a very deprived area, the pdf downloads are particularly interesting:
https://educationdatalab.org.uk/2017/07/long-term-disadvantage-part-two-how-do-pipworth-primary-and-sheffield-park-academy-do-so-well-for-their-disadvantaged-pupils/
Personally, I am much more interested in how Angela Rayner overcame her disadvantages than how Toby Young exploited his connections, as the lessons are more useful to improving the lot of others.
Rayner is a bit of a bruiser, as is Jess Phillips, who I also have a soft spot for. I have long been attracted by strong, feisty women. Perhaps it is my inner gimp!
Off to re enter the maelstrom now, laters!
Individual cases are interesting, but may not tell us much about the generalities because people are, well, individual. What worked in Rayner's case might not help anyone else and actively hinder others. Studies such as the ;inks like the one you provide might be much more useful for schools.
Lots and lots of I/O? You are boned.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/red-hat-says-security-updates-for-meltdown-spectre-bugs-may-affect-performance-519214.shtml
Get the drunken first-year undergrads to upgrade you, fast!
In fact, anything that uses techniques such as speculative branch prediction might have such vulnerabilities. That means anything that wants to go fast. 'Cheap as chips' chips, such as many ARM processors like Cortex-M, are not vulnerable. At least to these ...
Labour have been in charge of education in Wales since 1999. A generation of schoolchildren have grown up knowing nothing but Labour. Wales is bottom of the 4 countries comprising the UK in any educational table.
In Ebbw Vale, over 50 per cent of the residents have either no qualifications or qualifications equal to 1 or more GCSE at grade D or below.
Labour have been in charge for 18 years. We’re still waiting for them to do something.
Plus overall the Blair government from 1997 to 2001 spent less than the previous Major government, the first Blair administration was in most respects a centre right government
Money isn't irrelevant but it's also not the only factor.
Let us say the S Wales valleys, the former Durham coalfields and South Lanarkshire.
The areas have similar problems, but the educational & health services are delivered differently. Which country is doing best in tackling the problems of deprivation? And under which government?
The statistics we have suggest that Labour in Wales is doing worst -- but I’d like to see that quantified properly.
Almost like they have no idea whatsoever how to connect with real people...