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Under the UK's multi-party system, in the most extreme case you could comfortably win the popular vote but get no seats in the House of Commons by coming second in every constituency. |
What is more common is to see a party winning a majority in Parliament with as little as 35% or 36% of the popular vote, as Labour did in 2005 and the Conservatives in 2015. In the 1950s and 1960s, winning parties averaged about 47%. |
And we can see the same kind of thing happening with the vote share of smaller parties. In 2005, the Liberal Democrats received 22% of the votes but only won 62 seats, which was less than 10% of the seats in the House of Commons. |
In the 2015 election, UKIP won 3.9 million votes out of a total of around 30 million votes cast nationally, but only ended up with one Member of Parliament. |
Reality Check: Who voted for Donald Trump? |
Election 2015: What difference would proportional representation have made? |
ASRock's X99 WS-E/10G is the most expensive Intel X99 motherboard on the market. But for good reason, it comes packed with loads of features. |
ASRock is a well-known company who specializes in motherboard design and manufacturing, bringing to market some of the most insane motherboard designs ever seen usually designated with "Extreme11". |
Today, I have one of those crazy-awesome motherboards, the X99 WS-E/10G. This thing is a monster; it carries more silicon than three other motherboards combined, it has four NICs (including two at 10Gbit speeds), twelve SATA ports, and seven PCI-E 16x slots. |
This has to be the most feature packed motherboards in existence, and today I will explore the X99 WS-E/10G. Let's get started! |
This is one of the longest specification lists I have ever seen for a motherboard. While you skim it for all the good stuff like dual PLX bridges and the Intel X540 10G controller, notice the little asterisks pointing out where bandwidth is shared. |
On many loaded boards everything is shared, but not on this board. Surprisingly these asterisks are not as common as you would think, only a few SATA ports share bandwidth, and that is a chipset limitation which ASRock deals with very well. |
At $670 on Newegg, the X99 WS-E/10G is possibly the most expensive X99 motherboard, yet it also has more features than any X99 motherboard. |
After a long, long wait, The 100 finally returns tonight, though nothing is quite the same as it was when we last saw it. |
It's been six years since the death wave of radiation that sent a few people to space, nearly everyone underground, and left poor Clarke (Eliza Taylor) stranded on the surface all alone. |
In the last moments of the season four finale, we saw that Clarke had survived that wave for six years and was still waiting for everyone to return, but she hadn't been alone all that time. She had, at some point, befriended/adopted a little girl named Madi (Lola Flanery), and most of tonight's premiere is spent on Cla... |
In those final moments, we also saw that someone was coming to earth, and it did not appear to be a ship carrying friends. It was actually some far more sinister visitors, and that's pretty much where we are as the season really kicks off, with a whole lot of questions to be answered. |
While we obviously don't want to spoil any of the excellent premiere, there are a few tidbits we will share, courtesy of Rothenberg. |
First of all, that time jump is a big deal, particularly for one reason: it's more time than every character originally spent on earth in the first four seasons. |
Rothenberg estimates that those seasons spanned about 10 months. Now, six years later, a lot has to have happened. |
"It gives you the freedom of giving you almost anything that you want to do, because you can justify it in the sense of, you know, they had enough time for that to develop," he tells us of the time jump. "Really, we could do anything. Now the trick also, of course, is to have it feel like they're different, but they're... |
Clarke is still Clarke, Bellamy (Bob Morley) is still Bellamy, Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos) is still Octavia, but they've all done some growing and some changing in the past six years that everyone (including us) will still have to get used to. |
Clarke is essentially a mom now, with a kid she's been raising for years. Otherwise, they've been completely alone, unlike everyone in space or in the bunker, and Clarke's number one priority is her family, Madi. |
Similarly, the space kru is a family, and the bunker is (kinda) a family. |
"So when these sort of rings of the circus collide, of course everyone's going to be emotionally thrilled to see each other alive and surprised in some cases to see each other alive, but very quickly, those priorities shift, those changes are going to be the source of conflict when everybody's new family is not a prior... |
Promos for this season have declared "No good guys, no bad guys, only survivors," which could also sum up any other season of this show. But in the same way that no other season has been the same as one before, this season will be unlike no other season of The 100. |
"The thematics of the show aren't different, the story is totally different," Rothenberg promises, and having seen the first four episodes, we can tell you he's very correct. It's also totally good, and there are some moments everyone is going to truly die over—both in the good way and maybe even a more literal way. |
The 100 premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on the CW. |
With the NCAA Tournament beginning this week, here are our local players and where you can catch them. |
Player: MaCio Teague. The Walnut Hills junior guard is sitting out this season after transferring from UNC Asheville. |
vs. Temple in Dayton, Tuesday, 9:10 p.m. |
Player: Adam Kunkel. The freshman guard from Cooper is averaging 2.3 points per game coming off the bench for the Ohio Valley Conference runners-up. |
Players: Jarron Cumberland. The junior guard from Wilmington is the leading scorer for the American Athletic Conference champions, averaging 19 points per game. |
Sam Martin. The sophomore guard from Summit Country Day has played in seven games this season, scoring five points. |
Player: Jordan Tyson. The senior center from Walnut Hills is averaging 2.6 points and 2.5 rebounds per game for the Sun Belt champions. He also started eight games this season. |
Player: CJ Fredrick. The freshman guard from Covington Catholic is sitting out this season as a redshirt. |
Zach Farquhar. The senior guard from Sycamore played in 22 games and scored 21 points for the Atlantic Sun champions. |
Keegan McDowell. The sophomore forward from Moeller is averaging 2.8 points per game off the bench. |
Players: Drew McDonald. The senior forward from Newport Central Catholic averages 19.1 points and 9.5 rebounds per game for the Horizon League champions. |
David Wassler. The freshman forward/center from St. Xavier played in six games and scored two points. |
Player: Harrison Hoofkin. The freshman forward from Lebanon was added as a walk-on to the roster in January. He played in one game where he grabbed a rebound. |
It will be as now. No way out. |
You die — and again you begin. |
Night. The canal’s icy ripples. |
Alexander Blok (1880–1921) was a major Russian poet, possibly the most important Russian poet of his generation. Born into an intellectual and somewhat aristocratic family, he was a poet with great empathy for the poor and downtrodden. At first an enthusiastic supporter of the 1917 Communist Revolution, within a few ye... |
It’s been a busy week in the battle over “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” including a bogus third-party outing and a stunning photo exhibit of gay service members. More on those developments in a minute, though, because first we have to deal with the big news in DADT stupidity today: The notion that gays cause war atrocities. |
As a former sailor, I tend to avoid speaking ill about United States Marines, unless it’s good-natured ribbing. I respect the institution and its members, who have proven their character and professionalism time and again. |
Retired Gen. John Sheehan is an exception. |
This week, news broke that Sheehan—the onetime supreme allied commander of NATO forces—told the Senate Armed Services Committee that gay troops were to blame for the massacre of civilians at Srebenica, Bosnia, in 1995—Europe’s worst war crime since World War II. |
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, “nations like Belgium, Luxembourg, the Dutch, et cetera, firmly believed there was no longer a need for an active combat capability in the militaries,” John Sheehan, former supreme allied commander – Atlantic, told a Senate hearing on the don’t ask, don’t tell policy unde... |
“As a result, they declared a peace dividend and made a conscious effort to socialize their military,” he said. “That includes the unionization of their militaries. It includes open homosexuality demonstrated in a series of other activities, with a focus on peacekeeping operations, because they did not believe the Germ... |
“That led to a force that was ill-equipped to go to war. The case in point that I’m referring to is when the Dutch were required to defend Srebrenica against the Serbs. The battalion was under-strength, poorly led, and the Serbs came into town, handcuffed the soldiers to the telephone poles, marched the Muslims off and... |
In other dumb DADT news, a conscientious Air Force sergeant in South Dakota was booted from the service in January because local cops called her command and outed her. Apparently, Jene Newsome refused to come home from work and let police into her house while they were serving a warrant on her domestic partner. (Newsom... |
Beautiful high and dry, cleared parcel near Scott, cleared and ready to build on. Suitable for residential or commercial use. No flood zone. |
A Syrian-bound plane intercepted by Turkey was carrying Russian-made defence equipment destined for Syria's defence ministry, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. |
"One cannot carry defence industry equipment or arms, munitions... with civilian aircraft," Mr Erdogan said. "Unfortunately this rule was violated." |
An earlier translation quoted Mr Erdogan as saying "ammunition". |
Syria has accused Mr Erdogan of lying, saying the charge "lacks credibility". |
Turkish jets forced the plane, coming from Moscow, to land in Ankara. |
Both Damascus and Russia have denied the plane was carrying illegal cargo and accused Turkey of putting lives in danger. |
Tensions were already high between Turkey and Syria, following the deaths of five Turkish civilians by shelling from across the border last week. |
Turkey has returned fire, and on Wednesday its top military commander warned Ankara would respond with greater force if the shelling continued. |
In Syria itself, a huge explosion has hit near a state security building in the centre of the capital, Damascus. |
State media said two people had been injured in the attack, which it blamed on "terrorists". |
The Syrian Air Airbus A320, with about 30 passengers on board, was intercepted late on Wednesday by two Turkish fighters and escorted to the capital's Esenboga airport. |
Turkey said previously it had received an intelligence tip-off that it had illegal cargo on board. |
Speaking to reporters in Ankara, Mr Erdogan said: "What [a Russian state-run arms manufacturer] was sending to the Syrian Defence Ministry was: equipment, materials, munitions." |
"Relevant authorities are continuing their investigation." |
Initial translations quoted Mr Erdogan as saying "ammunition" rather than "munitions". |
Russia's state arms export agency Rosoboronexport had earlier said it had no information about the cargo and denied it had any connection with the flight or anything on board. |
Later on Thursday, Syria's foreign ministry said Mr Erdogan was lying "to justify his government's hostile attitude towards Syria". |
"The plane's cargo was documented in detail on the bill of lading and the plane did not carry any illegal material or any weapons," the ministry said according to Sana state news agency. |
Sana quoted Syria's information ministry as saying Mr Erdogan's comments "lack credibility and he must show the equipment and ammunition at least to his people". |
Early on Thursday the aircraft was allowed to leave Ankara after several hours on the ground, but Syria and Russia have reacted angrily to the incident. |
They said Turkey had put the passengers and crew in danger by using military aircraft to force it to land. |
Syrian Transport Minister Mahmoud Saeed accused Turkey of carrying out "air piracy" and breaking civil aviation agreements, according to Lebanon's al-Manar TV. |
Turkey has already imposed an arms embargo on Syria, and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said it was determined to stop any transfer of weapons to Syria through its airspace. |
The foreign ministry said there was "no basis" for safety concerns and that "all measures were taken to ensure the safety of all passengers and to cater to their possible needs". |
Since the uprising against Syria President Bashar al-Assad began last year, Russia has repeatedly refused to abandon its support for Damascus, while Turkey has been a vocal critic of the Assad government. |
The BBC's James Reynolds, near the Syrian border in southern Turkey, says that despite taking opposite views, Ankara and Moscow have maintained a close relationship and continued to do business together. |
This incident could be the biggest test of their ties since the conflict broke out, he adds. |
In another sign of deteriorating relations, Turkish officials revealed on Thursday that Syria had stopped buying electricity from its neighbour last week. |
"They fired another shot after they fled," Kennedy said. That bullet hasn't been found. |
One suspect is described as a black man, standing 5-foot-6 and weighing 220 pounds. He was wearing black pants, a shirt and a bandana across part of his face. He carried a black semi-automatic pistol. |
The second suspect is described as a black man standing 5-foot-10 and weighing 145 pounds. He also was wearing black pants, a shirt and a bandana. He carried a pistol, Kennedy said. |
The men were last seen running into Overlook Club Apartments. |
WE tv extends Love After Lockup Season 2 with 10 MORE EPISODES! |
For those viewers who simply cannot get enough of television’s “guiltiest pleasure,” WE tv has got some great news: the network has just announced that they have extended the second season of their popular prison romance reality series Love After Lockup with ten additional episodes! |
NEW YORK, NY, January 23, 2019 – WE tv’s breakout series Love After Lockup is a legitimate sensation, catching on with viewers and continuing remarkable audience growth from season one through to its current second season. The network announced today it will keep the cameras rolling and extend the 14-episode second sea... |
I’m a bit of a ratings junkie, and despite the show’s continued growth over the first two seasons, I’ve been a little disappointed in the numbers. As it turns out, that is apparently due to the show’s seemingly unfortunate time slot on Friday nights. As an example, last week’s episode brought in 795,000 viewers on Frid... |
Most reality show petitions seem silly to me, mostly because they tend to be attempts to remove the controversial cast members who are most responsible for people tuning in, but I really wish someone would start a petition to have WE tv move Love After Lockup to another night! It’s so much more fun on social media when... |
Speaking of the ten new episodes in the spring, casting agents for Sharp Productions have continued to post casting calls for the current season over the past few months, so it could be that fans will see some new faces as well. That would make sense given that some of the current couples (most notably the love triangl... |
We have heard reports that Clint and Tracie were filming recently, which makes ALL THE SENSE IN THE WORLD because she was just released from County jail and producers can’t have much footage of them actually together. |
It’s very clear that Caitlin and Matt’s story hasn’t gotten any less crazy, as he has crashed her truck twice in addition to being arrested for possession of a stolen vehicle. |
Meanwhile, Marcelino and Brittany are still together as rumors of her having a child continue to swirl. |
To catch up on our ridiculously extensive coverage of Season 2, be sure to check out our Love After Lockup “Starcasm Rabbit Hole” post, which serves as a Table of Contents for everything we’ve written so far. |
This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of origin among those who stay in a welfare state, and those who emigrate. We find a striking gender difference among Danish emigrants. Majority of men opposes increasing income redistribution, while majority of women supports it. Women are somew... |
Panu Poutvaara is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich and Director of the Ifo Center for International Institutional Comparisons and Migration Research. |
Poutvaara received his doctorate in 2002 from the University of Helsinki. In 1999-2000, he was Visiting Fellow at Harvard University through Fulbright Program. He worked as Research Fellow at CEBR in Denmark from 2002 to 2005, and as professor at the University of Helsinki from 2005 until September 2010. |
Poutvaara's main research interests are in public economics, political economics and labor economics. His main research topics are migration, education, social security, military draft, and electoral competition, including the role of beauty in politics. His work has been published in the Journal of the European Econom... |
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