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The owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year has largely blamed oil giant BP for the disaster.
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Decided to purchase the SX210 after much deliberation. I really wanted a small camera with a long zoom to bring on holiday. So far I am very pleased. I normally just post photos on facebook and flickr so don't pixel peep. I put a few test samples I took in the past week on a flickr gallery. All on auto setting and a few of miniature scene mode.
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i've been thinking about this for a while, and thought I'd ask on here. Does anyone think that if (LSE, UCL, Imperial) merged to form one institution they could challenge Oxbridge. in terms of research quality/quality of undergrad teaching and global reputation since each school alone are seen as making up the top 5 UK universities and this way they could focus solely on the aspect where they excel. So Imperial (Sciences and Maths) LSE(social sciences) and UCL could offer the humanties (English, History,etc..
It obviously wouldn't be able to compete in terms of prestige and history, but does anyone think that It could challenge on other grounds and be an actual peer to Oxford and Cambridge, unlike now where they are in their own universe.
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I read the title and immediately thought academically yes, prestige history and popular admiration no, so we agree
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I don't understand. Wouldn't the research and teaching quality be averaged across the schools?
Whilst indeed the constituent colleges of the University of London challenge (and arguably exceed) Oxbridge in their respective specialist areas that you mention, I have the feeling that a combined UoL would be significantly less than the sum of it's parts. I doubt Oxford and Cambridge will ever be knocked off the top spot.
Imperial left the UoL a few years ago now, as well.
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I don't understand. Wouldn't the research and teaching quality be averaged across the schools?
I could be completely wrong thoughh.
LSE has the best Economics department (when talking about overall studies including masters and post grad) and already competes and surpasses them on prestige.
The whole point is to be specialised.
Prestige doesn't just equate to number of students.
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LSE has the best postgraduate courses in the UK for Economics, it is a fact.
What would an historian know anyway? Or do you have extensive knowledge in Economics?
Stick to what you are good at instead of posting useless gifs and making an useless contribution to a thread.
Ahh okay nevermind, didnt see why you were on that point.
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Yeah so why talk about one dept, surely it defeats the purpose of the thread. Talking about unifying them, i bet if others combined then they could have one dept better than the equivalent Oxbridge. One dept is not difficult.
The whole point of LSE is to be specialised to be the best within Economics. Why would they merge with other universities to become a multi-faculty university?
I am saying for logistical reasons, it just would not happen.
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Read my above post.
The whole point of LSE is to be specialised to be the best within Economics. Why would they merge with other universities to become a multi-faculty university?
I am saying for logistical reasons, it just would not happen.
In some specialities from LSE and SOAS, music etc -no problem at all. A lot of stuff from Imperial, and the combined London Medical schools would go waaaaay past the varsity.
The weakness would be basically everything else. UCL and Royal Holloway would be repeating some stuff at LSE , and all other subjects would range from competent to very good - but that's hardly a ringing endorsement.
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do you plan to merge the 3?
It would be more appealing. UCL currently do a degree called Engineering and Business finance where the engineering is taught at UCL and the business finance is taught at LSE. If the three unis were to merge then you'd probably obtain a degree where the engineering side is taught at Imperial and business finance is taught at LSE. Personally, I feel this degree would be more competitive to get into than any degree oxbridge has to offer as surely such a degree is just getting you ready to be signed up by some of the biggest names in the investment banking with ridiculous starting salaries. This is the aim for many or mos LSE students and a significant percentage of Imperial students.
As a whole though I reckon if it were to happen it would be up there with Oxbridge, not any better, not any worse and would mean Kings College could be kicked out of the universities known as the golden triangle.
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In my opinion, they would not be able to compete at an undergraduate level, but they definitely would compete at postgraduate and research level. I know this will get a lot of negs, but I believe the London universities are slightly over-rated for undergraduates. Everyone I know that got an offer from Oxbridge accepted it ahead of the London universities without even a second thought. In my opinion, until they can compete against Oxbridge for these students, the will not be able to challenge Oxbridge. I also know lots of people that were accepted for the London universities who could not even consider Oxbridge. Conversely, I believe they would and already do challenge Oxbridge at the research level. All of the London universities have top quality research facilities and they are roughly equal to Oxbridge in their respective disciplines.
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LSE has the best postgraduate courses in the UK for Economics, it is a fact.
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What would an historian know anyway? Or do you have extensive knowledge in Economics?
For what it's worth, historians know a lot of stuff.
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Stick to what you are good at instead of posting useless gifs and making an useless contribution to a thread.
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Research quality is not the same as institutional prestige, you muppet.
Sorry, didn't realise you had to be John Maynard Keynes in order to perceive the different levels of value that mainstream society assigns different universities. My bad.
For what it's worth, historians know a lot of stuff.
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Methinks that if you were at LSE or some other uni, you would jump to agree with the above poster! Ah, the human race - what a fine species!
Probably but it's not going to happen so this is a largely redundant debate.
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Skip to comments.The Saudi Connection: How billions in oil money spawned a global terror network
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The CIA's Illicit Transactions Group isn't listed in any phone book. There are no entries for it on any news database or Internet site. The ITG is one of those tidy little Washington secrets, a group of unsung heroes whose job is to keep track of smugglers, terrorists, and money launderers. In late 1998, officials from the White House's National Security Council called on the ITG to help them answer a couple of questions: How much money did Osama bin Laden have, and how did he move it around? The queries had a certain urgency. A cadre of bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorists had just destroyed two of America's embassies in East Africa. The NSC was determined to find a way to break the organization's back. Working with the Illicit Transactions Group, the NSC formed a task force to look at al Qaeda's finances. For months, members scoured every piece of data the U.S. intelligence community had on al Qaeda's cash. The team soon realized that its most basic assumptions about the source of bin Laden's money his personal fortune and businesses in Sudan were wrong. Dead wrong. Al Qaeda, says William Wechsler, the task force director, was "a constant fundraising machine." And where did it raise most of those funds? The evidence was indisputable: Saudi Arabia.
America's longtime ally and the world's largest oil producer had somehow become, as a senior Treasury Department official put it, "the epicenter" of terrorist financing. This didn't come entirely as a surprise to intelligence specialists. But until the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. officials did painfully little to confront the Saudis not only on financing terror but on backing fundamentalists and jihadists overseas. Over the past 25 years, the desert kingdom has been the single greatest force in spreading Islamic fundamentalism, while its huge, unregulated charities funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to jihad groups and al Qaeda cells around the world. Those findings are the result of a five-month investigation by U.S. News. The magazine's inquiry is based on a review of thousands of pages of court records, U.S. and foreign intelligence reports, and other documents. In addition, the magazine spoke at length with more than three dozen current and former counterterrorism officers, as well as government officials and outside experts in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. Among the inquiry's principal findings:
Starting in the late 1980s after the dual shocks of the Iranian revolution and the Soviet war in Afghanistan Saudi Arabia's quasi-official charities became the primary source of funds for the fast-growing jihad movement. In some 20 countries, the money was used to run paramilitary training camps, purchase weapons, and recruit new members.
The charities were part of an extraordinary $70 billion Saudi campaign to spread their fundamentalist Wahhabi sect worldwide. The money helped lay the foundation for hundreds of radical mosques, schools, and Islamic centers that have acted as support networks for the jihad movement, officials say.
U.S. intelligence officials knew about Saudi Arabia's role in funding terrorism by 1996, yet for years Washington did almost nothing to stop it. Examining the Saudi role in terrorism, a senior intelligence analyst says, was "virtually taboo." Even after the embassy bombings in Africa, moves by counterterrorism officials to act against the Saudis were repeatedly rebuffed by senior staff at the State Department and elsewhere who felt that other foreign policy interests outweighed fighting terrorism.
Saudi largess encouraged U.S. officials to look the other way, some veteran intelligence officers say. Billions of dollars in contracts, grants, and salaries have gone to a broad range of former U.S. officials who had dealt with the Saudis: ambassadors, CIA station chiefs, even cabinet secretaries.
Washington's unwillingness to confront the Saudis over terrorism was part of a broader strategic failure to sound the alarm on the rise of the global jihad movement. During the 1990s, the U.S. intelligence community issued a series of National Intelligence Estimates which report on America's global challenges on ballistic missile threats, migration, infectious diseases; yet the government never issued a single NIE on the jihad movement or al Qaeda.
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It is time to call these people out, and make sure they cannot be quoted in public without noting that they receive money from the same source as Al-Qaida: Saudi Arabia. Imagine if Hitler had bought the services of virtually every retired State Department officer?
Getting serious.
Not everyone, obviously, agrees. A $1 trillion lawsuit names Saudi princes, businessmen, and charities for funding the terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks. Brought by more than 900 victims' family members, the suit is winding its way through the U.S. courts. The withholding of 27 pages in Congress's 9/11 report last June--detailing Saudi funding and ties to al Qaeda--has only fed suspicions.Yeah, no kidding. Ironic, that the smoking gun the families of the victims need to prove their case, is "classified." WHY? Because the truth hurts.
Mr. King, I'd recommend you take a long look at this... It's a long read, but JUST DAMN.
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Islam is not a religion of peace. They are a religion of death.
Any Muslim who doesn't speak out against such acts, doesn't act to prevent them, gives tacit approval to such tactics. And is no better than the terrorists themselves.
You are either with us, or against us."
Since every Muslim I've met since 9/11 has tried to justify or in some weasal-way rationalize the 9/11 attacks, I have no respect for any of them.
I don't give a crap what the Muslim apologists say- their actions speak very clearly, that they support terrorism.
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The Saudis didn't really get it," says Wechsler, the former NSC coordinator. "They didn't get it after the '98 embassy bombings, after the Cole bombing, after 9/11, after Bali. They got it after May 12."
We need to inform the U.S. State Department, President and Congress that business as usual, going along with the gag (looking the other way in the interests of political correctness) with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia WILL NOT be tolerated.
In God we trust, not Mohammed or allah.
You mean not one of them has claimed that the Israelis did it?
Nope. All answers were along the lines of that we "deserved" it...
Saudi Terrorist Lets Powell Know What Is Required of Him.
"Let me tell you more about islam."
Why is Wahhabism's extreme teachings any different from Shiite extreme teachings under the Ayatolla's(sp?) of Iran. They also preached terrorism and carried out those attacks and kidnappings,they also preach the rest are apostates worthy of death. It just depends on the year, which is making the bigger stink. Durring the 70's and 80's it was shiite islam, now it is sunni islam with the bigger plans.
More money/funding, better organization, and lareger operations outside of Saudi Arabia's borders. When you have the support of a rich nation behind you, that feeds its unemployed/underemployed into your schools, and that rich nation happens to be "friends" with what you consider to be your biggest enemy (the USA), you can do bigger things.
Shiite and Sunni islam struggle for who is the big dog and the true representative of islam. With Saudi money gone Iran and Shiite money will once again get the attention. There is some article out today that said that Hammas was going to target Jews in NY. Whoever is seen as being the most effective will get outside support from 3rd parties. Right now it is AQ, but none of us had even heard of them 5 years ago. It is not about the organization or money (that comes with whoever is most effective) it is the religion, and who is using them to get what they want(3rd parties).
Islam is the perfect tool for enemy governments to stir up trouble for your opponent. We used it in Afghanistan against the Russians, and they used it against us in Iran. I would be supprised if Saudi Prince money is the only thing keeping AQ in the money, I would think most is comming from charity donations, and that money can easily go to the next terrorist group that springs up after AQ. I think that those who think only about Saudi Arabia as the big problem and once that is solved we are in the clear are missing the big picture. Saudi Arabia is just a hurdle in the race.
The Saudi Princes are toast, to stay in power they have had to support the spread of fundamentalist islam, that which will kill them in the end. Islam and all of their charities will still exist.
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Otitis Externa (Swimmer's Ear) What is otitis externa? Otitis externa, also called swimmer's ear, is an inflammation of the external ear canal. Swimmer's ear is caused by fungi or bacteria. Water that remains trapped in the ear canal (when swimming, for example) may provide a source for the growth of bacteria and fungi. What causes swimmer's ear? Many different factors can increase your child's chance of developing swimmer's ear. One of the causes is swimming or other wet, humid conditions. Other possib...
Otitis Media (Middle Ear Infection)
Otitis Media (Middle Ear Infection) What is otitis media (OM)? Click Image to Enlarge Otitis media is inflammation in the middle ear. Otitis media can occur as a result of a cold, sore throat, or respiratory infection. Facts about otitis media More than 80% of children have at least one episode of otitis media by the time they are 3 years of age. Otitis media can also affect adults, although it is mainly a condition that occurs in children. Who is at risk of getting ear infections? While any child may d...
Overview of Neck Masses
Overview of Neck Masses What are neck masses? Neck masses are common problems in infants and children. Some neck masses are congenital (present at birth) and result from abnormal formation during embryonic development. Many neck masses appear with an upper respiratory infection such as a cold or sinus infection. Some are not found until they become enlarged and painful from infection. Although a neck mass can involve other structures in the head and neck area, most are benign (noncancerous). Cancerous n...
Overactive Adrenal Glands/Cushing's Syndrome in Children
Overactive Adrenal Glands / Cushing's Syndrome in Children What are overactive adrenal glands? Adrenal glands that produce too much hormones are described as overactive. Symptoms and treatment depend on which hormones are being overproduced, including the following: Androgenic steroids (androgen hormones). O verproduction of androgenic steroids, such as testosterone, can lead to exaggerated male characteristics in both men and women. These signs include excess hair on the face and body, baldness, acne, ...
Other Benign Skin Growths in Children
Other Benign Skin Growths in Children What are other benign skin growths? As a person grows older and is exposed to sunlight, the skin changes. Children may have freckles and moles. These may multiply or darken over time in response to sun exposure. What are the different types of skin growths? Skin Growth Characteristics Treatment Dermatofibromas Small, firm, red or brown bumps caused by an accumulation of fibroblasts (soft tissue cells under the skin). They often happen on the legs and may itch. They ...
Orthodontics/Braces for Children
Orthodontics/Braces for Children What is orthodontics? Orthodontics is the dental specialty that focuses on the development, prevention, and correction of irregularities of the teeth, bite, and jaws. Orthodontists also have specialized training in facial abnormalities and disorders of the jaw. Your dentist may refer your child to an orthodontist. The American Dental Association recommends that every child have an orthodontic evaluation by 7 years of age. Why choose orthodontic treatment? Any orthodontic...
Online Resources - Craniofacial Anomalies
Online Resources - Craniofacial Anomalies This Web was compiled from a variety of sources including the online resources listed below, but is not intended to substitute or replace the professional medical advice you receive from your child's health care provider. The content provided here is for informational purposes only, and was not designed to diagnose or treat a health problem or disease. Please consult your child's health care provider with any questions or concerns you may have regarding your chi...
Overview of Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) in Children
Overview of Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) in Children What is an implanted pacemaker? An implanted pacemaker is a small device implanted under the skin that sends electrical signals to control an irregular or slow heartbeat. An implanted pacemaker may be used to stimulate the heartbeat if the heart's natural pacemaker (the sinoatrial, or SA, node) is not working properly, has developed an abnormally slow rate, or if the electrical pathways are blocked. Rhythm problems may...
Osgood-Schlatter Disease
Osgood-Schlatter Disease What is Osgood-Schlatter disease? Osgood-Schlatter disease is an overuse condition or injury of the knee that causes pain and swelling below the knee area over the shin bone in growing children and adolescents. What causes Osgood-Schlatter disease? Osgood-Schlatter disease is characterized by inflammation of the patellar tendon and surrounding soft tissues. It is caused by the constant pulling of the patellar tendon on the area below the knee where the tendon attaches. Click Ima...
Oral Health
Oral Health Many different oral and dental conditions affect adolescents and require the clinical care of a physician or other health care professional. Listed in the directory below are some, for which we have provided a brief overview. Orthodontics and Braces Wisdom Teeth Extraction Periodontal Disease
Online Resources - Adolescent Medicine
Online Resources - Adolescent Medicine This Web was compiled from a variety of sources including the online resources listed below, but is not intended to substitute or replace the professional medical advice you receive from your adolescent's health care provider. The content provided here is for informational purposes only, and was not designed to diagnose or treat a health problem or disease. Please consult your adolescent's health care provider with any questions or concerns you may have regarding y...
Obesity in Adolescents
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Effective November 15, 2015, the State job application will no longer require applicants to provide driver's license information in order to complete and submit a job application. The State of Ohio understands that many potential applicants may not possess a driver's license as a result of a physical limitation or because the applicant uses an alternative form of transportation. However, there are many job descriptions which may include the possession of a driver's license as a minimum qualification for the position. Applicants should closely examine any job posting for which they are interested to determine whether a driver's license is required for a specific position and whether driver's license information must be submitted to be considered for that specific position.
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