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    Glasgow time signals

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    From 1859 to 1864, both visual and audio one o’clock time signals operated in Glasgow. Although the University carried a remit to provide the city’s time, following convoluted processes of establishment, a local chronometer-maker operated a time ball for 4 years. Towards the end of the period, time guns were triggered by telegraph from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. Both exercises caused aggravation for the University. For the ball, the Professor of Astronomy, John Pringle Nichol, failed to convince the City Council that the “drop” control should originate from the University’s Observatory. For the guns, Robert Grant, the newly appointed Astronomy Chair holder, was aggrieved by the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Piazzi Smyth, appearing to operate above his station. Rather than having only a once per day reference, both projects were abandoned as the University laid a dedicated telegraph cable from its observatory to control many public clocks and additional clocks with large sweep fingers indicating exact time to the second

    You Can Fight City Hall—The Dover, N.H., IAFF Defeat of Privatized Fire Protection

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    [Excerpt] In recent years public sector unions have faced an increasingly difficult bargaining environment. The combination of a sluggish economy, cutbacks in federal aid, and citizen resistance to tax increases have forced state and local governments to reduce expenditures. In many cases antiunion public officials have used their budgetary woes as an excuse to attack the unions that represent government employees. Although these attacks occasionally amount to blatant union-busting, they more frequently involve subtle efforts to erode contract protections, fringe benefits, or bargaining units. One of the most prevalent methods for weakening public sector unions is the practice of contracting out or privatizing specific government services. In 1983 the city of Dover, New Hampshire, reached an agreement with Wackenhut Corp. for the provision of fire protection services. Had it been implemented, the contract would have undermined the positions of two locals of the International Association of Fire Fighters (officers and fire fighters). Wages and benefits would have been reduced and hours of work increased. Furthermore, because the IAFF locals are certified under the New Hampshire public employee labor law, the bargaining units would have been erased by the change to a private sector employer. The IAFF locals successfully challenged the contract that would have eliminated their members\u27 public sector union jobs. There were four key aspects of their resistance effort: A campaign was waged to cultivate community support for fire fighters. This was supplemented by efforts to gain the assistance of other unions in the state. In addition, corporate research exposed many questionable practices of Wackenhut Corp. Finally, political action at the local and state level led to the ultimate defeat of the privatization proposal. This case study of the Dover IAFF locals provides concerned trade unionists and labor educators with an example of an effective response to proposals calling for the privatization of services. Following a brief chronology of the Dover case, each of the key tactics is examined below in the reconstruction of the successful campaign to defeat this union busting effort

    Torture and the Professions

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    This paper examines the roles played by the learned professions in torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment carried out by the United States in the war on terrorism. It takes lawyers, physicians, psychologists, and anthropologists as its case studies. It originated as the keynote speech at the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics annual meeting in 2007

    Is Review By Peers As Fair As It Appears?

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    Recent research shows that journal reviewing practices are neither objective nor fair. I propose a procedure to increase the likelihood of publishing important papers. This will be tested by Interfaces for a year.publication, review, peers, fairness

    The Cord Weekly (January 8, 1997)

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    Spartan Daily, March 16, 2001

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    Volume 116, Issue 36https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9672/thumbnail.jp

    Spartan Daily, March 16, 2001

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    Volume 116, Issue 36https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9672/thumbnail.jp

    Spartan Daily, March 16, 2001

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    Volume 116, Issue 36https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9672/thumbnail.jp
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