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The only local authorities in the UK continues to participate in feasibility studies have voted against storage facility

Government plans to conduct preliminary work of an underground storage tank of nuclear waste have been rejected by Cumbria County Council Wednesday.

County Allerdale and Copeland District Councils and West constituting the "nuclear side" with the Isle of Man was the only local authority in the UK continues to participate in feasibility studies for installing storage of 12 billion pounds.

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Cumbria

voted 7-3 against the search continues after testing independent geologists fractured layers county could not assign such millennia hazardous materials and constant danger. A passionate campaign by environmentalists also raised concerns about the western lakes, win the support of the Lake District National Park Authority and hundreds of influential groups of the landscape in the UK and abroad.

suitable candidates for the tank, the size of a meter and Workington bound by the bond unprecedented up to a million years, was reduced to an area of ??natural beauty exceptional in the Solway Firth and the wild grandeur of the western hills around Ennerdale and Eskdale. The vote to proceed was only a step early in the pathway, but the evidence that drilling and exploration brought roads and temporary facilities at some of the most beautiful landscapes in the UK has left many stunned.

The plan was strongly supported by unions and many Labour MPs and councilors with nearly 10,000 jobs in Sellafield in Copeland and many more indirectly depend. It would create up to 1,000 jobs, with storage expected to begin in 2040 if feasibility studies have been approved.

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Tim Knowles, who holds the environment portfolio in the cabinet Cumbria, fought for a compromise that would continue research Copeland eveywhere except the national park. But I was in the minority after a series of colleagues whose County Conservative Party leader Eddie Martin, warned against the dangers of radioactivity and the enormous potential explosion in tourism, an important source of income for Cumbria.

The government will now focus on major improvements to existing surface storage of waste from Sellafield, along the lines required in a report by the National Audit Office in November, which was scathing about standards. Both opponents and supporters of the underground landfill agree that it would be an alternative source of a new development in West Cumbria.

Jobs council deputy leader Stewart Young, said: "The reasons to invest in Sellafield is now more urgent than ever, we have always raised concerns about the lack of a plan B government and that. was the only West Cumbria to express their interest in the process has left the government with little choice if we decide not to prosecute. now is the time for the government to ensure the future long-term nuclear industry and to storage mechanisms solid Sellafield, while deciding how to continue the search for a daycare in the rest of the UK. "

Activist Greenpeace energy, Leila Deen said: "This decision is a further blow to the government's attempts to force costly construction of nuclear power plants, even the Prime Minister admit that we need a plan to store the waste. before we can build a new one.
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With Les Miserables film released and an opening exhibition of the Royal Academy, the cultural giants of France and the city took on a new importance

iron gates of the short passage, close to the fashion district more Montorgueil in Paris, a few steps from Saint Denis prostitutes are closed to the public these days. It is here, in what was passing salmon Rue du Bout du Monde - the end of the road in the world - as Victor Hugo said to be away from the stone pillars of public baths and a reputation for low living a furious battle between republicans and monarchists forces, June 5, 1832. Then slammed the door too, leaving the writer caught in the crossfire. A decade later, Hugo use what they had heard and seen of the student uprising failed, known as the republican insurrection, when he began to write his novel more famous.

Les Mis?rables , Hugo tale of the struggles of the working class and theater who suffer in sewers and streets less safe neighborhoods Paris, was published in 1862 . That same year, Edouard Manet, 30 years younger Hugo made his first major work, "modern", which represents the contemporary life in Paris.

Music in the Tuileries

showed beautiful people hear a band in one of the oldest parks in the city real. In the crowd, elegant, cultured and elegant, Manet painted himself and his friends the poets Charles Baudelaire and Th?ophile Gautier and composer Jacques Offenbach. Both works perfectly represent the very contrasting faces of Paris in the mid 19th century, a double face presented to the British public this weekend with the exhibition Manet Describing life which opened at the Royal Academy and the Hollywood version

Les Mis?rables released earlier this month.

Exhibition RA

not included

Music in the Tuileries

, but portraits of Manet still offer a clear vision of the City of Light, mentioned throughout his severity by Hugo dark. There is no evidence that the two men have never met - at the height of his individual success Hugo fled to France in political exile in Belgium and the Channel Islands - but both enjoyed privilege and social position, Manet, birth, Hugo first literary success. Both were committed Republicans, a political ideology that Hugo, raised by a mother fiercely royalist, was late, but embraced with passion.

And both lived and worked in turmoil; seismic political changes of the 19th century saw France substitute between the Republic hereditary monarchy and a constitutional monarchy and again, each change bringing conflicts and instability in the city

Hugo was 13 when Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo. He announced the return of the Bourbon monarchy, later expelled from their cousins ??Orleans in the second French Revolution of 1830, followed two years later by the republican insurrection. Manet youth was marked by political and social unrest as the third French Revolution overthrew the monarchy of Orleans in 1848 and established a republic again, only to have their elected leader, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, succumb to megalomania and said the Emperor Napoleon III three years later.

Some critics Hugo was the social conscience of France documenting the plight of the lower classes, while Manet was perceived as ironic and cynical voyeur, upper-class dandy, merely to summarize the "new Paris "under agitation without committing to it.

certainly Manet painted the darkest corners of the city: beggars, prostitutes, vagrants and haunting, but it was the eye of an observer, explains Stephane Guegan, Commissioner of exhibition Manet 2011 in the Mus?e d'Orsay in Paris.

"It is not that he has never paid attention to the poor people he met in the streets - and some even tried to paint this topic -., But never with the intention openly criticize the injustice he saw He's Large difference between Manet and Hugo. know Hugo began writing his novel after seeing the terrible conditions in which some workers, adults and children, living in northern France . He wanted to openly condemn this intolerable situation. Moreover

The 16th century church of Saint-Merri, where Hugo Mis?rables

players build their barricade, is still standing, somewhat overshadowed by its neighbor, the mammoth modern Centre Pompidou.

"Paris was always the Paris of the Middle Ages, when Hugo wrote," Stevens said. "Paris Manet was the Paris of Napoleon III, who had held the Baron Haussmann to improve channels of communication the city and remove all boulevards ... in part, of course, so it would not be so easy to block barricades. Manet was a portraitist in large part, do not give us an idea of ??Paris directly. But when you see is modern Paris. Manet also knew that Paris has to pay the price of modernization. Their first painting exhibited at the Paris Motor Show - and rejected - was an absinthe drinker "
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The Internet is changing the very nature of identity, according to a new study - and Cif-ers, tell us how you set

In the future, our identities are increasingly defined online, according to a new report.

The study, published by the Government Chief Scientist, Professor John Beddington, argues that the Internet will dramatically change the way we see ourselves in the next 10 years.

"A likely event that the state increasingly interconnected lives of many people could blur the boundaries between identities online and offline," he said. "One of the most significant impact of online identities is that some people think they have lost their "true" identity for [the] first time online. "

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following cuts from ? 70m to ? 17 million, which has fueled concerns about the government's rights

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the Commission for Equality and Human Rights on Friday began moving off shore offices glass front ones they have occupied since the creation of the agency in 2007 to smaller premises in a block of concrete fashion, has recently been proposed demolition.

downscaling radical development over London, close to the town hall in the city, with its panoramic views of the Thames, Fleet Street building, described in development plans as "boring office block modernist" echoes the energy and the reduction of the budget equalities organization.

Maria Miller, Secretary of Culture, which also includes women and equalities brief, the Commission said this month would receive a base budget of ? 17 million per year, a significant reduction in the ? 70m awarded each year at the beginning of the work. A small council of commissioners was appointed, marking, Miller said, "the beginning of a new era for the ECHR".

The new offices have offices for 207 full-time members of staff, less than half of the original model 525 and the relocation will save ? 1 million per year.

Although there is a broad consensus among activists equalities that the organization has had a difficult start and the necessary reform, supporters of the institution concerned that the huge cuts in the budget reflects the impatience of the Government in the calendar equalities. Activists say that parallel changes in equalities legislation debated in the Lords, who say reducing the power of the ECHR and eliminate new obligations on public bodies to act to prevent discrimination.

The office move is the latest sad chapter in the short existence, but with the problems of the commission, which was characterized by persistent problems of management (the CEA was doubting their accounts three times), the infighting and pernicious sudden resignation of several commissioners after disagreements over the management of the organization.

Herman Ouseley, the eminent lawyer of racial discrimination, which has been a long-term critical of the organization, said last year that it was a "tragedy" that most of the people that has been created to support if you unaware ceased to exist.

Several people close to the organization indicate that there appears to be a deliberate attempt to give the body a low profile reformed, noting that many members of the new board and the new President, O'Neill, has less background in the countryside.

Miller acknowledged the change in style and stated that the ECHR should avoid being a campaign or lobbying organization. "Of course, we need passionate lobbyists in the field of equalities, but it is not the role of the ECHR should not be the main emotional campaigns. Instead, its role is to be an expert witness [ and] to make recommendations based on the facts, "he said in a written response to Guardian questions.

Many believe that the transition to a smaller, more discreet building and even the reduction of the budget will be good for the organization.

ECHR CEO, Mark Hammond, also admitted that the ECHR has not worked well to date. "In the past, the Commission has tried to do too much - trying to provide work in a wide range of issues that were not as good as we should prioritize our work - take a good look at:. A) What is equality and human rights through the main countries, b) where we can add value and achieve real change, "he said, and written responses. "The cup of our funding has focused more on making it more factual, the main concern."

have no responsibility for the execution of an advice line discrimination, since this function was handed over to the government office equalities. This office has outsourced to a private company Sitel, which has launched the Equality Advisor and Support Service Helpline.

"after the ECtHR by the public in a meaningful way," said Neil Crowther, an independent consultant who was formerly the director of the Human Rights Program of the European Convention on Human Rights and Rights of Persons with Disabilities programs.
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Concierge • Supports FIFA is "greater opportunity" for success

• Wenger rules out 'miracle' signatures before the end of the month

expects Wojciech Szczesny

FA Cup race will be the springboard for Arsenal to revive his campaign. After going through a tight third round tie against Swansea, which was decided in the final moments of a replay, Szczesny shows the seriousness with which his team take a trip to Brighton & Hove Albion.

"We want to win a trophy this year," he said. "The fans have called for a trophy and we understand. Recognize the FA Cup is the best chance for that. We are determined to give it a try. Brighton will not be easy, but a good run can change the mood in the locker room . If do well in a competition if you get a lot of confidence. "

goalkeeper hopes Arsenal have learned enough of the recent humiliation delivered by a lower division to ensure they are fully focused against a championship team that has already had a Premier League scalp.

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Bradford City in the Capital One Cup last month was particularly alarming for Szczesny. "We are ashamed. I went with a full team," he said. "Because Bradford was League Two side that was more alert. But we were surprised not only by the fact that we lost, but their real qualities. They were really good. Just after we had a good run in the Premier League not to affect us both and it was easier to overcome. "

"We are going through difficult times. We know that. During training, we are at our best and make sure we prepare for games as we can. Sometimes it does not work for you, but you must keep trying. I think this team is good enough to compete for major trophies. Simply because it has not worked over the past two seasons, does not mean that it will not happen in the near future. "

The manager Arsene Wenger believes his team must emphasize both the FA Cup and try to win a trophy as the league campaign, despite the delay in the race for a place in Champions League.
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• Ferguson regrets losing the Spurs in the race for Gareth Bale

But the director says it's great "be everywhere"

Manchester United visit White Hart Lane on Sunday and entertain Southampton after the league, which will give Sir Alex Ferguson at least two reminders of the time who have tried and failed to sign Gareth Bale.

Ferguson The only difficulty is to maintain a large and talented team happy, because inevitably means leaving out players, even those who played well last week. "If you're in the title race and Europe can not play with the same players all the time," he said. "The players accept that now. Do not say that he has, but it can handle as long as you do it the right way. Must be talking to them. The days of simply putting a match sheet on the bulletin board went here anyway. You must explain what you think it is not a reflection on the performance and even necessary at some point in the future. I think you can not do otherwise. "

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plans that knowledge Chart Google and the search for new ones emerge

Ben Morse

explores the impact of these events on education and the people who work in schools

plans that knowledge Chart Google and the search for new ones emerge, Ben Morse explores the impact of these events on education and the people who work in schools

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In an interview this weekend, Tim Adams met Amit Singhal Google search of big fish. During the synthesis brief history of Google, and the goal is to draw new knowledge, a question came to me, that should be disturbing many of us - what it means for teachers

Currently, Google search works reflex - that is, it learns from you as you learn from it. The amount of time you spend on a page, if you click again and modify your search are listed in order to make your search more efficient and smooth. Not only that, but now associated free - was the example, typing "10 Downing Street" takes partner sites to do with the government and the Prime Minister, and address only. Quickly by typing "Michael Gove" bring not only their policies, but it is assumed that the Samaritans Helpline too. So it will really be a time saver. I digress. Whilst good news for education? Maybe. Mr. Singhal said that, in reality, "the most precise machine is used, the issues become lazy." And work as a teacher, to see how young people access Internet content, which may be sadly true.

not all bad news, however. Teaching simply adapt. How we work with children with brain training and how to learn, and what we do with the knowledge that access could and should be a priority more in education.

Knowledge is nothing without the tools to interpret. Critical thinking, decision-making skills with group learning and interpretation of knowledge is highly valued in the very near future. Meanwhile, we are talking about teaching to the test, and if we bring Latin or not. We found a shortcut to learning evolution. Education must adapt accordingly. So, why not?

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five decisions help determine if the president is serious about his promise to act against global warming in his second term

Barack Obama renewed his promise to act on climate change during his second term in the White House -. But many other things competing for your attention

Before his inauguration on Monday, here are some decisions that look to see if climate change has risen to the top of the list.

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green dream team for the first Obama administration has almost completely dissolved. Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Ken Salazar, Secretary of Interior, announced his retirement this month, and Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, should resign soon. The White House climate and energy adviser Carol Browner, was published in 2010 and the position is still vacant. Activists will be watching to see if Obama has finally installed a new consultant with a broad mandate to the White House. They also expect to see great environmentalists in the cabinet - especially in the EPA became the main target of conservative Republicans

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The EPA standards for the first Obama term new allegations of the coal industry, it will be virtually impossible to build new coal plants. But activists say Obama needs to go to the next step and start cleaning or removing old existing coal-fired generating stations.

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When and where the Prime Minister will address deferred future Britain in the EU will be announced on Monday

David Cameron gave his speech on the expected relations with the United Kingdom in the EU this week, Foreign Minister William Hague said.

Prime Minister was giving voice to the Netherlands on Friday, but was postponed due to the hostage crisis in Algeria.

"It will happen this week," Hague told BBC1 Andrew Marr Show on Sunday. "We will make an announcement tomorrow about when and where."

Cameron is expected to use the word to warn that Britain could "drift out" unless there is a change in Brussels. He said that the proposals to negotiate a new relationship with the EU, which will be submitted to a referendum after the next general election in 2015.

Prime Minister has made it clear he wants to stay in Britain in the European Union and opposes a right input / output referendum. But critics have warned that any "no" vote could mean the UK would have to leave.

the U.S. ambassador in London, Louis Susman, on Sunday became the latest figure important to note that the Obama administration wants Britain to remain in the European Union.

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When I was growing up, our town had a dozen stores. Now, some cities have exactly that. It is unlikely that this trend will reverse

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my part of London in the top of a bus this week, I saw something on the road that comes from another time, it surprises me almost as much as the playwright and columnist Simon Gray was surprised when, from a taxi in Holland Park Avenue, he saw "a middle-aged man in a suit walking down the sidewalk sensitive, smoking a pipe." The year was 2005. "He gave me the jitters," Gray wrote in the last volume, but one of his memoirs. "It must have been the first man who had smoked a pipe for years, my instinct was to yell at him through the window to be careful, there may be a cop around, so I thought it might have been an accident while returning home ... [I] to return to where they came from, the 1980s, the 1970s, when ... "

What I saw was not a person but a sign. MATERIALS AND STORE OPENING DIY Then he said, in the capitals of Nice big spread in a store near remember long been called smoke cigarettes and as the type of equipment - pipe cleaners pipes knives, bags of ready-rubbed Condor - he could be in the pockets of the man spotted Simon Holland Park. In this street, many stores like - that stores daily and utilities - have closed their doors over the last 30 years, to be replaced by restaurants, bars and luxury emporia for all of the pie lemon and polenta retro toys tin. A new shop selling drain cleaner, brooms and floor sanders should definitely be bucking all the trends in retail, despite the hardware, formerly known as hardware stores, tend to survive on main roads, long after cooking fruits and vegetables and butchers were swept away. Perhaps this is because the hardware has always been the store A & E -. A clogged drain or a bulb became urgent need to remedy rotten sausage

But it was strange to see a sign, but it was still strange to be a little high for her. The stores were until recently as a familiar part of each and unexamined urban landscape and memories of childhood - at least of children accompanying their mothers - places that have caused boredom and impatience. There were many of them. The city has grown, many containing not more than 1000 people, was served for nearly a dozen shops, including a butcher, a wool shop, a post office, a grocery store with a license screen appearance Keystone sad bottles of Burgundy, and a bakery which was really more of a tray of sweets that Ms. Fraser was placed in the window of his forehand.

In The Guardian, Tuesday, a group consisting of a politician, a scientist, a political science student and activists offered two of the main street of a number of solutions. The politician, Chuka Umunna Labour, said almost nothing at all: "Purchases can become an experience where retailers can complete Conventional successful distribution." Sociologist Richard Sennett promoted a mixture of pop-up art spaces and pop-in medical centers and government offices. "A bustling main must be more than a place to shop" Others wanted cheaper rates to attract young entrepreneurs and, in the words of Anna Minton, "a truly productive economy based on new manufacturing, health care and the exchange of goods and services. "

Much was expected. None of this seems likely. A new hardware is in a prosperous street in north London is one thing, but think of shopping died in almost any industrial city: the download pop-up would be needed there! The future of these streets is certainly the destiny of the people with whom I grew up, where every store, but it was demolished or two became the ground floor of a house. It would be hard to imagine today that trade ("It's a penny for their liquorice and sherbet for two sub") existed in these rooms on the television.


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The clash between the imaginary world and the real Cameron is alarming - nowhere more so than in its European policy

Day "the great European discourse" finally arrives - and then disappears again. Due to the Algerian crisis, the Prime Minister has been forced to delay. But it does not matter: most of the content is already known, and it is not surprising. He wants to stay in Europe, but only if the British requests are met. Earlier, Cameron had bottled in terms of gross talk next Tuesday, the 50th anniversary of the Elys?e Treaty, which established the EU welcomes the end of the century, three Franco-German wars. The incompetence of their diplomacy has not helped his cause. Country after country, warned against demanding special British opt-out rather than negotiate change together forever. Finn put it better: picking the currant bun and start with crumbs. Blackmail does not work, said others. How could it when Cameron is the exit door with a gun pointed at his head? Van yelling "fire".

His position causes opposition rattling heavy artillery. Obama sent an envoy with a stern warning that the United States Britain in Europe needs, or the special relationship is a bridge to nowhere. This coup Fox Liam Fox with his clique defense of another 51st virtual state of the European Union. Nick Clegg and Vince Cable were required to put in the trunk, as Ken Clarke and Michael Heseltine. But kicking the CBI was expected: "It is essential that we remain at the table to beat the drum for businesses and defend our national interests." Another knee to the groin came in a letter of 20 companies all animals including British Telecom, Sir Martin Sorrell and Sir Richard Branson, repeated this week in the Financial Times. So happy that Cameron? Not even their own fruitcakes who want an input / output vote now: Bruges Group condemns plan as "deliberately misleading." Where he is.

Rash promise

Cameron to offer a "new deal" may give a brief mini-rebound, but the page says Ben Ipsos Mori Europe - about 3% - not an overriding public interest. If asked, people say they want referendums, but in five years, it is impossible to know what they were voting for or why. Peter Kellner of YouGov offers a devastating analysis showing the fear factor and output swing voters. Cameron may have made a mistake, looking weak and opportunistic at the head of a party torn rather than decisive.

For exterior and the history of his position is intellectually incomprehensible. If you really want to stay, risk of medium term voter referendum to avenge 2018, towards the exit anyway. Whatever the question, "no" means outside. Anti-EU rhetoric is oddly with the role of Cameron as president of the G8, in the hope of a major trade agreement EU-US shows that the value function as a block.

funny, too, should rest on justice and home affairs brief, just because it is easy to stop smoking because it is subject to revision - for most people the term of criminals and terrorists European plugs is one of the best reasons to EU coordination. A Labour MP Cameron recalled that 39 pedophiles were returned to the UK for trial. What is "punching above our weight," a conservative credo? We waste billions on Trident patrol the seas in vain to hold on to a seat on the Security Council anachronistic, however, once outside the EU that would seat soon.

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Giant sculpture reason to stay close to the M1 in Sheffield and Rotherham States who continue to do things here, and very cleverly too

"What happened" small "?" Thomas Jane reader asked in the course of the last week

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post by Alan Sykes, Yorkshire hopes to become European Capital of sculpture.

Here is part of the answer. Like the great northern states of Antony Gormley

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piece illustrating Alan, it gets bigger

More specifically, the plan of a statue 38 meters high column and celebrating Sheffield and Rotherham steel industry, which stands close to the M1 Kimberworth has taken an important step to forward. A very cleverly designed two models meters was completed by the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Research at the University of Sheffield.

The objective of the stainless steel sculpture with viewing room at the top of the column, is the ability to show both current and future of the region, because of its powerful past. The model is irrelevant. A was performed at Boeing Composite Centre near where you stand when some 2.7 million pounds raised by the private sector, is expected to begin in 2015.

The base material is a polyurethane resin board, usually found in prototypes and models of cars and planes, which are the main product of Boeing. It was carved in the center and Composite CMS machining center with five axes, using cutting tools based Technicut Sheffield.

And you thought the North skills and making death? John Halfpenny, Manufacturing Engineer at AMRC with Boeing decides otherwise. He and his team have taken extremely detailed computer models provided by Professor Marcos Rodrigues, Mariza Kormann in geometric modeling and Pattern Recognition Group and Sheffield Hallam University.

Its patented 3D laser scanning technology and helped convert 2D to 3D design using five million data points. Halfpenny said:

scanned data is good and well organized, so it was a simple matter to extend this. We had to use the raw data for full details of the surface and manipulated to produce routes. Work with the raw data of a digital model was not something I had done before, and I learned a lot of things we can apply to other projects.

Eeek. But everything went well and the original model of 30 cm bronze sculptor Steve Mehdi is ready for a stainless steel liner. Then you can mount a two-meter column made by steel products based in Sheffield and tools and go on a trip fundraising and dissemination of news in the region.

Mehdi, a former metalworker it says:

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launch of our new blogging platform for early career academics

Kathryn Eccles

, humanist historian turned digital, touts the benefits of career to remain open, connected

"What in the world is a historian by an institute internet?" This is a question I have been asked repeatedly - by colleagues, students and friends -. And I wondered more than once too

Over the past four years, I worked in a research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of the Internet. Research colleagues are engaged is rooted in the here and now, the very recent past, and often in the future. I feel very lucky, but as this recent post by Sarah Werner (@ wynkenhimself) suggests, sometimes you have to make your own luck and keep an open mind when you develop your academic career.

How did I get here? After completing my Ph.D., I did what many doctors humanities and took a teaching job while applying for jobs. I was asked to give a lecture for new graduate students, teaching my 10 tips to get you through the process of doctoral and it made me think about how the process has changed since that day 'I started my own doctoral studies. Many of these changes are related to the apparent ubiquity of digital technology.

When I started my PhD, I always had to meet the demands of the Bodleian Library books on a piece of paper, and most of my classmates took notes during conferences and seminars with a laptop - the guy who wrote with a pen. When you have finished all my notes were taken on a computer, and I would order my books online from the comfort of my home in the middle of reading online journal articles, and browse digital files. So when I saw an opening for a researcher to study the impact of digital resources on humanities research, I had to know more.

marked a turning point in my academic career. I have followed the history of part-time education for the first six months that I spent at the Oxford Internet Institute, thinking that this research project would be interesting diversion of my interests and valuable "real" research. Six months later, I was hooked. The pace of research is necessarily very fast, much more work is collaborative, and I love being at the forefront of advances in research and technology, if not as an observer. I am extremely fortunate to have met an exciting area of ??research because it emanated from the ordinary and using the digital humanities are full of traditional humanities scholars who have made the jump itself. I often find myself talking about my 'old' research interests and the new connections and do them. My first steps in academic career has led me in a direction very different from what I expected, but once again, the academic life has reinvented itself in the digital age, offering opportunities for researchers in disciplines. New tools and technologies have opened new areas of research and methods, with more space for interdisciplinarity.

In turn, these new methods and data sources that require new institutions ethical, legal and social efforts and consider some of these issues have encouraged collaboration and communication across disciplinary boundaries and reveal areas of common interest and expertise. There are new ways to communicate with scholars and thinkers, both inside and outside the academy (the Twitter hashtag # ECRchat to start) the effects arising from non-traditional but powerful.

If all this sounds a bit utopian, I have to say, of course, not all of these changes have been positive. But the positives generated by this digital transformation of the past decade have been, in my opinion, outweigh the negatives, and apply in particular to early career academics. access to online resources, social networks and the media have the potential to transform the process of doctoral researchers to come and participate in university networks often easier and more dynamic than ever. Access to digital resources can transform the research process and the creative use of social media allows graduate students to build their academic reputation much earlier in his career.

In the current economic climate, universities and research councils are feeling the pinch, and the competition for jobs and research funding has never been more acute. With the range of new technologies at our disposal, it is more important than ever to keep an open mind on the road, and every opportunity. Dr. Kathryn Eccles researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute

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Deputy Director

Julia Clarke

ecological resources designed to make your school a step closer to a sustainable future

all know that we should turn off the lights or remember to take out the recycling, even at school. In fact, I bins in the classrooms have become a fairly common practice. This is great, but in our school, we are proud to take this to another level. We do not want students to recycle or switch just out of routine or habit, we want to understand why it is important and will be inspired and proud to be the action that makes our school a better place green

We found that these measures mean more when they participate in the classroom and with very interesting subjects to study, especially given within a global dimension.

worked with Kathy Hill, director of teacher training SolarAid and some others, developing resources to help schools to teach climate change, energy and renewables. Developed in the lesson plans that schools sunny break these questions to be accessible to KS2 and provide links to online activities, videos or bring practical ideas to life in the classroom.

For example, our courses are designed green homes in design and technology, circuits manufactured in the solar energy science, mathematics, calculated in the study and participated in a debate on views on climate change in literacy.

our teachers wanted to use these resources in the classroom. The teachers are friendly and give all teachers the confidence and support to take on a subject that may be new to them.

I especially like the image above. This is an image of the world at night produces admiration and awe students when examined with atlas, which place in the world had its lights at night, and others remained in the dark without electricity.

SolarAid runs on solar energy in Africa. The fifth unit of the school's resources with the sun, solar energy in the world, case studies and images to show what life without electricity for the world's children. This global perspective is what made the students really excited, especially when SolarAid lent us some solar lights sold in Africa for children at home.

These are the same lights that children in Africa used to do their homework and are the new alternative to dangerous kerosene lamps that are traditionally used. We encourage our students to do their own homework reading sunlight and write journal entries that compare the experience to your normal routine. One of our Year 6 children told us how the sunlight and he helped a friend to help your neighbor find a lost cat in the dark. Learn about the wonders of science in this context is an exciting way to study electricity.

climate change can seem a daunting subject, and energy savings can sometimes seem more of a liability than a source of inspiration for the class, but it has the potential to transform the behavior and be of real interest.

GTN has many resources on environmental issues such as solar energy and energy efficiency. See below for more examples:

Create KS3 solar energy from the Energy Saving Trust


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