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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...free of charge.) Against this background it is perhaps not surprising that insolvency is a common problem in football. Significant underperformance (either in terms of performance based on wages, or of revenues based on performance) will mean that a club cannot balance its book. In the last 30 years there have been about 70 cases of insolvency involving English clubs in...
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FGM prevalence and healthcare planning
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM prevalence and healthcare planning

...free-helpline/female-genital-mutilation Generic mental health support resources Breathing Space Scotland www.breathingspace.scot/ Centre for Clinical Interventions Looking After Yourself/anxiety www.cci.health.wa.gov.au Every Mind Matters www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/ Lifeline www.lifelinehelpline.info/ MIND www.mind.org.uk Minding Your Head www.mindingyourhead.info...
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FGM law and ethics in the UK and Ireland
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM law and ethics in the UK and Ireland

...free-helpline/female-genital-mutilation Generic mental health support resources Breathing Space Scotland www.breathingspace.scot/ Centre for Clinical Interventions Looking After Yourself/anxiety www.cci.health.wa.gov.au Every Mind Matters www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/ Lifeline www.lifelinehelpline.info/ MIND www.mind.org.uk Minding Your Head www.mindingyourhead.info...
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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...free to use. And there’s a lot of talk about this and there are various initiatives. It’s a difficult one for the BBC, because embodied in our whole existence and our charter is not to campaign and we have to be careful… Well, it’s a question, when I say we have to be careful, it’s a question to ask, saying if we put lots of rushes and ins and outs and things...
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Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...course? Can you hate forever and keep on punishing? - Author's translation from Andromaque, I. 4 (311-12) Like the tormentor king, he begs for her love and promises her everything: Tell me merely that I can hope and I will give you back your son and be a father to him, […] Fuelled by a kind look from you, I can take everything on. - Author's translation from Andromaque,...
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Florida just wants it over
Society, Politics & Law

Florida just wants it over

...course, there are still plenty of people making calls, putting up (and sometimes tearing down) yard signs, trying to mobilise the vote for their preferred national and local candidates. There may even by a few people who actually still pay attention to the endless stream of relentlessly derogatory ads coming from both camps. This jaw-droppingly sad exercise in...
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Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...course. The American Petroleum Institute and other industry organizations have lobbied hard to rescind or modify the new offshore drilling regulations, calling them impractical and burdensome. In April 2017, Trump’s Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, appointed Louisiana politician Scott Angelle to lead BSEE. Unlike his predecessors – two retired Coast Guard admirals –...
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...courses existed and among her credits, she promoted the term “software engineering” to provide legitimacy to the science and set it on a par with other types of engineering (Cameron 2018). Between 1961 and 1963 Hamilton worked as a programmer on the US Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defence system at MIT’s Lincoln Lab (Mindell 2008) and this is where...
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