In this second respect, there is and never has been a secret ballot
in Britain, because the way in which individual citizens vote
can be traced from each ballot paper used. Every ballot paper
given to the citizen who is voting contains a serial number on
it, which is also printed on the counterfoil retained by electoral
officials. Before a ballot paper is handed to the citizen, he
is asked for his name and address (or preferably to show the clerk
his official poll card which shows his name, address and electoral
registration number on it). The polling clerk then traces the
person in the copy of the electoral register that he has on the
table in from of him, and ticks the voter's name off the list.
The clerk then tears one of the ballot papers out of the book
of papers printed for the purpose, hands it to the voter and directs
him or her to the private booth. And then the clerk writes the
electoral registration number of the voter on the counterfoil
to the ballot paper just issued.
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Elder Abuse Attorney: Abuse in Nursing Homes - 0 views
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Americans are living longer than in years past as according to the latest census, about 13% of the United States population is age 65 or older unlike in the past 1900 which is 4%. Studies show us that they are extremely vulnerable to abuse and neglect.
Federal Prosecution Of Financial Fraud Falls To 20-Year Low, New Report Shows - 0 views
Day 61 Live BP Spill Cam - 0 views
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It's day 61-BP cam still continues to show more oil gushing than before the Top Cap Kill, weeks ago, less oil was spilling. BP continues to pollute the gulf.
Xenophon, Works on Socrates - 0 views
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"When a sheep is ailing," said Socrates, "we generally blame the shepherd, and when a horse is vicious, we generally find fault with his rider. In the case of a wife, if she receives instruction in the right way from her husband and yet does badly, perhaps she should bear the blame; but if the husband does not instruct his wife in the right way of doing things, and so finds her ignorant, should he not bear the blame himself? [12] Anyhow, Critobulus, you should tell us the truth, for we are all friends here. Is there anyone to whom you commit more affairs of importance than you commit to your wife?" "There is not." "Is there anyone with whom you talk less?" "There are few or none, I confess." [13] "And you married her when she was a mere child and had seen and heard almost nothing?" "Certainly." "Then it would be far more surprising if she understood what she should say or do than if she made mistakes." [14] "But what of the husbands who, as you say, have good wives, Socrates? Did they train them themselves?" "There's nothing like investigation. I will introduce Aspasia to you, and she will explain the whole matter to you with more knowledge than I possess. [15] I think that the wife who is a good partner in the household contributes just as much as her husband to its good; because the incomings for the most part are the result of the husband's exertions, but the outgoings are controlled mostly by the wife's dispensation. If both do their part well, the estate is increased; if they act incompetently, it is diminished. [16] If you think you want to know about other branches of knowledge, I fancy I can show you people who acquit themselves creditably in any one of them."
The Click Heard Round the World: Andrew Puddephatt on media reform from a human rights ... - 0 views
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Andrew Puddephatt on media reform from a human rights perspective This morning I attended a very broad and interesting side-event on “Global Information and Communication Policy” organized by Consumer’s Union. The event featured an international panel of speakers including : Luiz Fernando Marrey Moncau, Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor, Brazil Rosemary Okello-Orlale, African Woman and Child Feature Service, Kenya Bjarne Pedersen, Consumers International Andrew Puddephatt, Global Partners UK Jamie Love, CPTech Andrew issued a provocative challenge to the media reform community to show the evidence of their claims.
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We are interested in moving toward a curating model of information. Information needs to be curated in a way that shows the information that you want similar to how a museum curates a large body of information into discrete exhibits and presentations that people can understand and digest.
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is journalism curation? and what does curation do to the messages that are produced?
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who is doing the curating? Is it going to be bottom-up or done by Bill Gates and Google.
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Inferring the Popularity of an Opinion From Its Familiarity: A Repetitive Voice Can Sou... - 1 views
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Despite the importance of doing so, people do not always correctly estimate the distribution of opinions within their group. One important mechanism underlying such misjudgments is people's tendency to infer that a familiar opinion is a prevalent one, even when its familiarity derives solely from the repeated expression of 1 group member. Six experiments demonstrate this effect and show that it holds even when perceivers are consciously aware that the opinions come from 1 speaker. The results also indicate that the effect is due to opinion accessibility rather than a conscious inference about the meaning of opinion repetition in a group. Implications for social consensus estimation and social influence are discussed.
Latin America's Document-Driven Revolutions - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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This article makes important points about current Latin American constitution-writing but does not examine how such constitutions were written in the first place. The ability of people to argue that the Honduran constitution supports a coup, shows the importance of knowing the history of Latin American constitutions.
Literacy rate in India improvement campaign by Modi government - - 0 views
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Literacy rate in India has increased in past few years. Especially in remote areas. Kids who were going to school are showing interest in online classes due to COVID.
Slashdot | Over-50s Invade the Social Networking Scene - 0 views
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An anonymous reader writes "The Telegraph newspaper reports that over-50s are invading sites like Facebook and MySpace in massive numbers. A recent study showed that nearly one third of Facebook users are aged between 35 and 54, and that this group also made up 41 percent of MySpace users. "Because the mind of an over-50 is likely superior to that of a drink-addled undergrad, at first there was uncertainty about whether older users would find the Facebook-led social-networking phenomena attractive." Looks like dad just turned up to the party."
Adam Curtis: The TV elite has lost the plot | The Register - 0 views
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ut the idea as well that intrigues me is that we're being "oppressed by gatekeepers"! Give me a break - it's almost autistic. One good example is the BBC's Digital Assassin Day last summer. They tried to get all the bloggers to tell them what they thought they should be doing, it was all about a new democracy and "user generated content". But in the end, four times as many BBC people were involved in staging this than members of the public who eventually showed up. That tells me people at the BBC are far more neurotic about this than they need to be. Why do they think they need to do that?
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makers are more neurotic than consumers
Eurozine - How to pay for a free press - André Schiffrin - 0 views
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André Schiffrin How to pay for a free press In a media world with one eye on the bottom line and the other on the official line, it's getting harder to publish or broadcast anything that doesn't promise huge sales and attendant profits, and that doesn't say or show what is approved. But it's still possible.
France's telepolitics: showbiz , populism, reality Patrice de Beer - openDemocracy - 0 views
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Nor did they anticipate that this quiet man would be able to boost his maverick image by skilfully playing on the public's distrust of the media
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Media distrust: creates a new form of public space. When will Internet distrust follow. And how do we rebuild trust once that cynicism has swept. These are important questions for openDemocracy.
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As Ségolène Royal says: in her "participative democracy" all citizens are experts.
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a populist version of participative democracy :)
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Yet, one day, reality will take its revenge on reality shows.
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the revenge of reality - not necessarily as a corrective, but as a firm kick
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Media distrust: creates a new form of public space. When will Internet distrust follow. And how do we rebuild trust once that cynicism has swept. These are important questions for openDemocracy.
Wikipedia: What Is It Good For? - Mises Institute - 0 views
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"Jimbo" — was a finance major at Auburn University when the Mises Institute's Mark Thornton suggested he read "The Use of Knowledge in Society," a now-famous essay written by Austro-libertarian economist and Nobel laureate Friedrich von Hayek. The essay argues that prices in the market represent a spontaneous order that results from the interaction of individuals with diverse wants, allowing them to cooperate to achieve complex goals. According to a June 2007 Reason magazine interview, this insight of Hayek's is what led Wales to found Wikipedia. The rather lofty vision that inspired Wales? "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
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jimbo's hayekian insight ... hmmm data, information, knowledge ... even wisdom i think Hayek thought the market produced information, not knowledge. What was Hayek's epistemology?
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Wikipedia 2.0, with added trust - 0 views
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In the new version, only edits made by a separate class of "trusted" users will be instantly implemented. To earn this trusted status, users will have to show some commitment to Wikipedia, by making 30 edits in 30 days, say. Other users will have to wait until a trusted editor has given the article a brief look, enough to confirm that the edit is not vandalism, before their changes can be viewed by readers.
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how do we trust the trusted editor? is there a rush to become trusted editor?
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It allows select groups of editors, probably associated with specific subject areas, to vote on whether an article should be flagged as high quality. Readers would still see the latest version of an article by default, but a link to a high-quality version, if it exists, would also be available.
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looks like an editorial committee
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Contributors whose edits tend to remain in place are awarded high trust ratings; those whose changes are quickly altered get a low score. The rationale is that if a change is useful and accurate, it is likely to remain intact during subsequent edits, but if it is inaccurate or malicious, it is likely to be changed. Therefore, users who make long-lasting edits are likely to be trustworthy. New users automatically start with a low rating.
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so a scientist, writing a fact-based and relatively obscure set of entries, will become trustworthy on questions of politics or ethics ...
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Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - 0 views
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In 1988, NLR Editorial Board member Anthony Barnett distracted a disappointed left into the desert of Constitutional Reform to complete the bourgeois revolution with the organisation Charter 88; in 1995 Will Hutton retailed a version of the Nairn-Anderson thesis in his book The State We’re In effectively drafting Tony Blair’s apolitical modernisation agenda.
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Far from being too theoretical the Review was not theoretical enough. The tendency to manufacture deep sociological explanations for transient events certainly showed literary productivity, but it would be wrong to see that as necessarily representing theoretical work. ‘Theories’ were produced that in the end only echoed contemporary trends, without really criticising them. So between them Anderson and Tom Nairn manufactured the theory that Britain’s political revolution was, unlike its Continental counterparts, incomplete; an argument that became known as the Nairn-Anderson thesis. The idea was that the emerging capitalist class in Britain had done a deal with the old aristocracy to gain influence, leaving the old pre-democratic power structures in place; the inordinate influence of the City of London over the British economy, with its old-Etonian clubbishness, Nairn and Anderson thought, was evidence of the persistence of a ‘Gentlemanly Capitalism’.
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NLR is financially buoyant because of the library subscriptions from American colleges.
Reason Magazine - The Secrets of Intangible Wealth - 0 views
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The answer is not the obvious one: This country has more machinery or tools or natural resources. Instead, according to some remarkable but largely ignored research—by the World Bank, of all places—it is because the average American has access to over $418,000 in intangible wealth, while the stay-at-home Mexican's intangible wealth is just $34,000.
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measures of intangible capital
Welcome to NewAssignment.Net | NewAssignment.Net - 0 views
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Welcome to NewAssignment.Net by Jay Rosen on August 19, 2006 - 10:41pm. What is NewAssignment.Net? New Assignment.Net is a non-profit site that tries to spark innovation in journalism by showing that open collaboration over the Internet among reporters, editors and large groups of users can produce high-quality work that serves the public interest, holds up under scrutiny, and builds trust.
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open source jounralism mission
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A tale of two towns | openDemocracy - 0 views
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The extent of that divide is startling and remains largely unrecognised, as does the fact that it has increased markedly in recent decades. The period from 1965 to 1990 was particularly acute - in 1960 the average GNP per capita for the richest 20% of the world's population was thirty times that of the poorest 20%. By 1995 this had widened to sixty times.
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what is the statistic for _absolute_ poverty? i thought the world bank development index was showing _falling_ abslute poverty levels... not that the relative is irrelevant ...
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n the way that Heritage Park is a defence against disorder and crime, with its enlightened schooling rooted in the Christian ethos of love and care and helpfully protected by 33,000 volts, so Baladia represents a more aggressive response of taking the war to the enemy. Create your enemy's town, and train your troops to attack with much greater effect.
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2 approaches to security - fence or fight ... neither is nice, but does either address root causes?
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