This marks the second major election in 2013 with record low turnout. The Los Angeles mayor's race in June had the lowest turnout of any runoff in the city's history. Its new mayor,Eric Garcetti,was elected with the lowest vote total of any candidate since 1933 when the city had only a third of its current population.Off year elections are notorious for low turnout but voter participation in 2013 has been historically abysmal. With a number of major elections coming up this year,
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5956, the financial markets have given George Osborne's Big Speech a half-hearted shrug.That was always likely, in truth, given the chancellor's commitment to delivering a fiscally neutral budget. The main priority is clearly to cling onto the AAA rating, so Fitch's comments should please the Treasury Osborne also has the luxury of announcing economic growth projections that were barely changed from last November. That kind of stability should be welcomed. But behind today's calm, there is still concern in the City that the eurozone crisis could flare up again in the months ahead. If so, Osborne's forecasts may again look too optimistic by the autumn. GW6.44pm: Remember the fuss about the 75p pension increase, more than a decade ago? It was actually quite reasonable – an indexed increase when inflation was very low – but the pensioner lobby are particularly vocal and powerful and Tony Blair ended up having to apologise to them at Labour conference for having the temerity to not be more generous to them.
"It’s just amazing how it works," he had said as he waited for the vigil to begin. "It controls everything."But he is African-American,and that means that he is too familiar with being followed in stores by people who assume his is bent on larceny. "You kind of get that sense when there’s someone following you," he said.He had once been followed in a candy concession while on a school trip to the amusement park in Hershey,
kate spade bags,Pennsylvania. His shadow had finally confronted him. "He said,‘Are you stealing something?" DuBois remembered. "Then my teacher came and said,‘Leave him alone.’" "I feel nobody is hurting more than me and my family," Fulton said. "So please,follow us. Let us lead you.
It's easy to pick holes in this approach, point to the spotty record of academies (and their budget windfalls caused by errors in Whitehall) and dismiss the free school movement as well-meaning but eccentric at best. I'd do it myself if we were talking courtesy of the Daily Telegraph, some of whose readers cling to the comforting notion that the 7% privately educated get such a larger slice of the top jobs in life on merit alone.They don't. What they get arises from many factors over and above innate talent, from a family background which values education and ambition (money is not essential, though it helps) and nurtures hard work and discipline in their kids. Private schools are good at taking Beta-minus material and polishing it to Beta-plus standards.
His FiveThirtyEight blog consistently predicted that Barack Obama would win reelection. On Election Night,Silver accurately predicted the winner in all 50 states and was willing to call out pundits and journalists for making statements not based on data.Retaining Silver was reported to be a major priority for top brass at the Times. He had been a huge driver of traffic to the site during the election season.On Monday,however,Silver praised ESPN and its parent company,Disney,for being "really good at figuring out how to build products. For some other suitors,we had just a little bit less confidence there."After Silver made the decision to jump,there were some reports that parts of the Times newsroom were unhappy with his presence there.
Germany,for its part,was forcibly created by Bismarck out of numerous smaller states in the decades leading up to 1871 and democracy did not emerge until after World War I—only to be snuffed out starting in 1933 by Adolf Hitler. Out of the post-war rubble emerged a West Germany that was democratic and an East Germany that was not. A unified,democratic Germany was not created until 1990.As for Italy,it,too,did not emerge as a unified state until relatively late (1870). And it,too,saw its nascent democracy usurped by a fascist (Benito Mussolini),and it did not become a true liberal democracy until after World War II.Bork Made Your Life Better Diana Furchtgott-Roth recounts the ways Robert Bork contributed to our society,especially his contribution to anti-trust law.
I suspect that it is also going to result in a fair number of adjuncts getting cut back to whatever number of courses-per-semester that the IRS deems to be indisputably "part time". ?Despite spending a fair amount of time researching college costs,I still don't understand why universities and colleges feel that they cannot afford to pay so many of their teaching staff even minimal salary and benefits. ?What we know is that whatever their feelings,they have been relying on adjuncts who get paid an absurdly low hourly rate,often without benefits,in exchange for the right to call themselves "professor" and continue seeking a tenure-track job. ?Maybe Obamacare will break the stalemate and colleges will decide to add benefits to the package rather than go through the hassle of managing a larger number of adjuncts.
Distraught family members leave the fire station after hearing news of their loved ones from officials Dec. 14,2012,in Newtown,Conn. (Don Emmert/AFP,via Getty)In irony gone ghoulish,Wayne LaPierre,the NRA's executive vice president and chief executive officer,actually inflated the body count of youngsters. He made the startling and revealing error while suggesting that things might have been different if Adam Lanza had encountered an armed security guard at the school. "Will you at least admit it's possible that 26 little kids,that 26 innocent lives might have been spared that day?" LaPierre asked.The official NRA prepared statement said only "26 innocent lives," which was correct when the six murdered adults were tallied with the correct count of 20 murdered children.
Banish the image ofsmoke-filled rooms from your minds. It appears to involve documents being shuttled back and forth from Acas as both sides thrash out an agenda for talks that will, with hope, begin next week. There are expectations that they will agree to discuss common standards on health & safety, training and pensions - as well as a national forum that will meet regularly to discuss them.Unite is adamant that these have to be serious talks that have the backing of the hauliers' customers. Its officials feel there is no point in agreeing standards that are then undercut by the likes of Tesco, Shell and Esso whenever they issue new fuel transport tenders.10.46am: Downing Street have not got anything to say about the burning incident in York yet.
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