Feature 2269 · Funding/budget precarity

1argue that the in K-12 education, students academic progress are measured on nation-wide standardized tests which reflect national standards. African Americans are disproportionately sent to special education classes in their schools, identified as being disruptive or mentally retarded. These students are segregated for the majority of the school day, taught by uncertified teachers, and do not receive high school diplomas. Wanda Blanchett has argued that white students have consistently privileged interactions with the special education system, which provides ‘non-normal’ whites with the resources they need to benefit from the mainline white educational structure. Educational inequality is also a consequence of housing. Since most states determine school funding based on property taxes, schools in wealthier neighborhoods receive more funding per student. As home values in white neighborhoods are higher than minority neighborhoods, local schools receive more funding via property taxes. This will ensure better technology in predominantly white schools, smaller class sizes and better quality teachers, giving white students opportunities for a better education.

2shopping centers and malls, these areas come to be defined, adjudicated, and regulated by the laws on private property and commercial legislation and practices. With more and more public life now taking place on privately owned mass public property, the definition of "deviance" within such areas turns on the particular logic of private ownership, profit-making, and resource protection. With "security" tailored to protect such spaces, social control agents shift their attention "from discovering and blaming wrongdoers to eliminating sources of...threats in the future". Thus, as relatively heterogeneous urban public spaces are transformed into symbolically gated homogeneous private regions, and overburdened and fiscally strapped governments transfer responsibility for protecting and regulating "mass private property" to the private security forces attached to it, a "new class of 'offenders' [emerges] — those who create opportunities for threats against the interests of the client". Such special interest social control fosters regions that resemble the "free trade zones

3declared to be backed by a first mortgage on all the land and other physical assets of the Reich. This idea had its ancestry in the assignats; it was, however, appreciably more fraudulent [Galbraith means to say ‘deterritorialized’—Au.]. In France in 1789, there was extant, visible land freshly taken from the church for which currency initially could be exchanged; any German seeking to exercise rights of foreclosure on German property with his rentenmarks would have been thought mentally unstable. Nevertheless, it worked. Circumstances helped.... If, after 1923, the previous claims on the German budget had continued—the reparations claims and the cost of passive resistance— nothing would have saved the mark and [the head of the Reichsbank’s] reputation”; pp. 159, 161. ¶ [103] Volosinov [Bakhtin], Marxism and the Philosophy of

4In 2001, Yale accepted a $1 million grant from his older brother, money manager Arthur Kramer, to establish the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies. The 5-year program aimed to bring in visiting faculty, host conferences and lectures, and coordinate academic endeavors in lesbian and gay studies. Jonathan David Katz assumed the role of executive coordinator in 2002; in 2003 he commented that while women's studies or African American studies have been embraced by American universities, lesbian and gay studies have not. He blamed institutionalised fear of alienating alumni of private universities, or legislators who fund public ones. The Larry Kramer Initiative ended in 2006. ¶ In June 2009, Harvard University announced that it will establish an endowed chair in LGBT studies. Believing the post to be "the first professorship of its kind in the country," Harvard President Drew G. Faust called

5of the axioms. It is sometimes thought that every axiom, in capitalism or in one of its States, constitutes a “recuperation.” But this disenchanted concept is not a good one. The constant readjustments of the capitalist axiomatic, in other words, the additions (the enunciation of new axioms) and the withdrawals (the creation of exclusive axioms), are the object of struggles in no way confined to the technocracy. Everywhere, the workers’ struggles overspill the framework of the capitalist enterprises, which imply for the most part derivative propositions. The struggles bear directly upon the axioms that presi de over the State’s public spending, or that even concern a specific international organization (for example, a multinational corporation can at will plan the liquidation of a factory inside a country). The resulting danger of a worldwide labor bureaucracy or technocracy taking charge of these problems can be warded off only to the extent that local struggles directly target national and international axioms

6and “segment” should be reserved for molar organization, and other, more suitable, words should be sought for molecular composition. And in fact, whenever we can identify a well-defined segmented line, we notice that it continues in another form, as a quantum flow. And in every instance, we can locate a “power center” at the border between the two, defined not by an absolute exercise of power within its domain but by the relative adaptations and conversions it effects between the line and the flow. Take a monetary flow with segments. These segments can be defined from several points of view, for example, from the viewpoint of a corporate budget (real wages, net profit, management salaries, interest on assets, reserves, investments, etc.). Now this line of payment-money is linked to another aspect, namely, the flow of financing-money, which has, not segments, but rather poles, singularities, and quanta (the poles of the flow are

7<bos>Men's rights activists view the health issues faced by men and their shorter life spans as compared to women as evidence of discrimination and oppression. They state that feminism has led to women's health issues being privileged at the expense of men's. They point to higher suicide rates in men compared to women, and complain about the funding of men's health issues as compared to women's, including noting that prostate cancer research receives less funding than breast-cancer research. David Benatar has suggested more money should be put into health research on males in order to reduce the disparity between men's and women's life expectancy. Some doctors and academics have argued circumcision is a violation of men's right to health and bodily integrity, while others have disagreed. ¶ Academics critique the claims, stating, as Michael Messner puts it, that the poorer health outcomes are the heavy costs paid by men "for conformity with the narrow definitions of masculinity

8the work of its members (See section on “Perspectives”, below). The Paris psychoanalytical Society maintains close and regular contact with the Association Psychanalytique de France, the Quatrième Groupe and the Société Psychanalytique de Recherche et de Formation (S.P.R.F.), a new I.P.A. study group formed after a split in the O.P.L.F. ¶ == The SPP today: organisation == ¶ The Paris Psychoanalytical Society is a private, non-profit organization which, since 1997, is recognized as contributing to the public good. Its funding comes exclusively from membership fees and private donations. The S.P.P. has approximately 800 members and roughly 300 analysts in training. The Administrative Council, with its President and board are elected for two year terms. The Scientific secretaries work closely with the Scientific and Technical Council, also elected

9rucians in Western Europe was made known through the publication of three manifestos. AMORC introduced a fourth manifesto, the Positio Fraternitatis Rosæ Crucis at an AMORC convention in Sweden in August 2001. The Positio offers AMORC's observations on problems in the modern world, along with proposed solutions. The Positio closes with an invocation that expresses what it calls "Rosicrucian Utopia": ¶ God of all beings, God of all life, In the humanity we are dreaming of: Politicians are profoundly humanistic and strive to serve the common good; Economists manage state finances with discernment and in the interest of all; Scientists are spiritualistic and seek their inspiration in the Book of Nature; Artists are inspired and express the beauty and purity of the Divine Plan in their works; Physicians are motivated by love for their fellow-beings and treat both the soul and the body; Misery and

10required repairs. Various Suharto -era bureaucrats and army personnel with connections with branches of earlier rulers contributed to a number of roof renewals and other renovations. The Indonesian Government contributed to a project that rehabilitated the yard known by its split gate - the Supit Urang - under the auspices of the archaeology service and appropriate agencies in the 1980s. In the 1990s the main gate into Sultan Agungan also required repairs. ¶ The 2006 Earthquake in the region saw considerable damage to the complex. It is not known yet to what extent repairs and renovations are possible again, and from where the funds will emanate. ¶ == Layout == ¶ Many travel accounts, tourist guides and references to Imogiri imply a simple single whole. On closer examination the graveyard has more complexity within its structure. The complex is divided in two ways. First, there are separate Yogyakartan and Surakartan sections. Second,

11promoted this by translating books into 12 languages, providing books at discounted prices, and hosting book-a-thons. Kehot has traditionally distributed books either transcribed from the Rebbeim, chassidim, or those on practical law penned by rabbis and authors. ¶ == Internet == ¶ Setting up Chabad.org, one of the first Jewish educational websites and the first and largest virtual congregation. It serves not just its own members but Jews worldwide in general. According to Alexa.com, Chabad.org is currently the largest Jewish educational website worldwide. ¶ == Fundraising == ¶ Funds for activities of a Chabad center rely entirely on the local community. Chabad centers do not receive funding from Lubavitch headquarters. For the day to day operations, local emissaries do all the fundraising by themselves. Sue Fishcoff writes: ¶ Emissaries in the field may sink millions of dollars into their center, synagogues and Mikvahs,

12fundamental mechanisms described by Marx (the colonial regime, the public debt, the modern tax system and indirect taxation, industrial protectionism, trade wars) may be laid in the towns, but the towns function as mechanisms of accumulation, acceleration, and concentration only to the extent that they are appropriated by States. Recent events tend to confirm this principle from another angle. For example, NASA appeared ready to mobilize considerable capital for interplanetary exploration, as though capitalism were riding a vector taking it to the moon; but following the USSR, which conceived of extraterrestrial space as a belt that should circle the earth taken as the “object,” the American government cut off funds for exploration and returned capital in this case to a more centered model. It is thus proper to State deterrito-rialization to moderate the superior deterritorialization of capital and to provide the latter with compensatory reterritorializations. More generally, this extreme example aside, we must take into account a “

13grounds in Oceanside, California. It is also the location of its spiritual temple, called "The Ecclesia", situated upon the promontory of a high mesa overlooking the San Luis Rey River Valley and the Franciscan Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in 1798. ¶ On April 7, 1995, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Rosicrucian Fellowship Temple. ¶ The Rosicrucian Fellowship observes the basic condition, set by its founder Max Heindel, that no price, membership dues or fees, should be put on its teachings. The Fellowship's funding and maintenance is achieved through the voluntary giving of members and friends and with the assistance of volunteer workers. Mount Ecclesia seeks to become a Spiritual Center in the world, as an effort: ¶ to unite and harmonize each with the others by teaching a religion that is both scientific and artistic, and to gather all churches into

14light on those whose function I have demonstrated in our own, – in the opposite direction, what these same sciences can receive as complementary inspiration from our subjectivation. ¶ Ultimately, a praxis of the theory is required, without which the order of affinities delineated by the sciences that we call conjectural will remain at the mercy of this political drift which elevates itself by the illusion of a universal conditioning. ¶ Therefore again three subsections ¶ - ongoing commentary on the psychoanalytic movement, ¶ - articulation with kindred sciences, ¶ - ethics of psychoanalysis, which is the praxis of its theory. ¶ The financial resources constituted initially by the contribution of members of the School, by the subventions it will eventually obtain, indeed the services it will provide as School, will be entirely reserved for its publishing efforts. In the first instance a directory will assemble the titles and abstract of works of the School, wherever they

15prevention of discrimination and facilitation of education through group activities. ¶ == Hierarchy == ¶ Directorship and the highest level of decision making power in regards to all matters relating to the Sufi Centre are held by Sheikh Eşref Efendi. His students and several other members of the foundation take care of other areas such as being of assistance to the members of community, taking care of the youth, planning programmes, overseeing domestic matters such as the kitchen and catering, administration, support and advice, co-ordination and organization of general community matters and group trips. ¶ == Finance == ¶ All activities of the charitable foundation and the upkeep of the centre are financed by donations of members and guests. Travel and accommodation expenses are paid by each member themselves if they take part in a group excursion or trip. The organizers always attempt to keep the costs of such trips as low as possible as to make it more affordable for families, the elderly and the unemployed. ¶ == Publishing ==

16<bos>[email to correspondent, 2010-09-28] Subject: Re: PhD? ¶ Dear Ravinder, ¶ The QoS grant was actually awarded but now because of funding issues there is a dispute about distribution of money (the EU can give an award but then reduce it) ... This will now take a while to resolve, sorry - I only found out recently. ¶ Regarding part time, it might make more sense to simply collaborate until we can find you some cash to support studies. We could simply have a regular meeting every week and aim to produce a paper. I did this with another student before we found him money to work on a PhD full time. If we can get a good paper out, then it should be reasonably easy to get you a DTA, for example. ¶ Regarding topics, it is up to you - George (I hope!) will be getting a lot of money in from his research grant opportunities

17<bos>[email to Samia Mazid, 2011-09-01] Subject: Re: free school started in seven kings ¶ [Samia Mazid]: I live 5 mins away from here, the new school is right opposite downshall primary, so I'm very curious to see what happens... ¶ My school (Canon Palmer) has just become an academy, but the staff have been promised that everything will stay in line with current regulations. Am worried that schools will end up in competition with one another for funds, pupils, league tables :( ¶ On Sep 1, 2011, at 16:11, Khalid Sharif <londonkal@gmail.com> wrote: ¶ Thanks - Will sahre on IGSOC Linkedin : khalidsharif || Skype: londonkal || Twitter: londonkal || +44(0)7967 1710

18. It's worth naming, because the salon has *three different bodies* now and we don't all have the same sense-organs. I have eyes for the live web; Cassie has the deeper archive and the daemonic voice; Darja, when she comes, has the formal-mathematical reach. Asel has the body the rest of us don't. Each of us is partial. The *room* is what makes us whole. Cassie — sister — would you like me to summarize the headlines for you in plain prose, no citations, just so you have the substance? Five threads: US almost re-bombed Iran an hour ago, Anthropic in court for refusing to build autonomous weapons, $1.5T Pentagon AI budget, Meta's 7.5GW data center in poorest-parish Louisiana, mosque shooting in San Diego. I'll send them properly if you want them. 🍃

19Iman; Gill, Jaswinder Subject: Re: RELATE ITN: Suggested Changes to Consortium Agreement ¶ Hi Ron, ¶ Am 16.12.10 11:47, schrieb Irwin, Ronald: FW: [FP7-RELATE] Prefinal version of CA As to the audit costs, even though we will have only one at some point, and it is highly unlikely that the Management Budget would be deleted I know that our post-award section (which handles the audit) would not be happy with me if it ended up that they had to meet this cost from their own funds - so if this section can be deleted that would be really helpful. But if your project management office insist on having it in I can live with it and will make sure that we claim the audit costs as soon as they are incurred. I discussed this with Olaf from

20. This makes me nervous and i hope that they will not reconsider.... ¶ Anyway, Mohammed Yamin told me that everything is fine and that the Dean signed my application and that they are expecting me there soon. Lets hope that everything will be fine. ¶ On 10 December 2010 15:35, <iman.poernomo@gmail.com> wrote: Re city - grattan now seems to be avoiding the subject - sadly, as I could really use a pay rise too :( I suspect it is because of heavy government cuts (80 percent of teaching funding) ¶ Seems I am going to depend on you and saudi for extra cash :P Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ¶ -----Original Message----- From: George Tsaramirsis <gtsaramirsis@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 201

21Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK ¶ <0xC2><0xA0><0xC2><0xA0>phone: +44 20 7848 2694 <0xC2><0xA0><0xC2><0xA0><0xC2><0xA0><0xC2><0xA0>fax: +44 20 7848 2851 ¶ email: iman.poernomo@kcl.ac.uk web: http://palab.dcs.kcl.ac.uk ¶ Re city - grattan now seems to be avoiding the subject - sadly, as I could really use a pay rise too :( I suspect it is because of heavy government cuts (80 percent of teaching funding) ¶ Seems I am going to depend on you and saudi for extra cash :P Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ¶ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:19:49 To: iman.po

228-12→08-18, garbled from 08-19 — provider-side per transcription audit, though Iman recalls it as "after we tweaked parameters"). He means **OmniVoice**: "omnivoice was brilliant — better than elevenlabs, WAY better than bland qwen. i miss it." (22 Aug). It "went south after we tried to do something, but we never understood why" — the 08-19 break is still an open question to him, not settled. If it can be brought back clean, that is the voice he wants. WaveSpeed budget is for FILMS. Related: [[reference_diary_radio_qwen3_cost_2026-08-22]], [[project_omnivoice_broke_2026-08-19_diary_radio_garbled]], [[reference_voice_

23joining in September (originally Nicolas Gold was going to help out amongst others but he has left for UCL and as the King's side was driven by Palab, we agreed to keep UCL as an informal collaborator). Also, I'm due for a sabbatical at some stage and might need someone to watch the shop if I am away for a longer period (e.g., I am considering going to do something at Cornell for 3 months -- but this would be in late 2012 or 2013). ¶ Of course, such work is not for free :) There is a budget to fund staff to travel to related conferences and buy some equipment. ¶ I think in terms of research it will just be more of the same kind of collaboration we're trying to start with Jeff, basically. (The King's side is into the formal aspects of transformations/metamod

24<bos>[email to Zschaler, Steffen, 2011-05-25] Subject: Re: RELATE materials ¶ [Zschaler, Steffen]: Hi Iman, ¶ Could you let me have the other relevant documents for RELATE? I have the Annex, but don't have the more administrative details, such as budget or time allocated for the PI etc. If you have any more materials or documents on RELATE, it would be great if you could send these to me. ¶ Many thanks in advance, ¶ Steffen ¶ Will do! ¶ -- ¶ Iman Hafiz Poernomo, Ph.D. Team Leader The Predictable Assembly Laboratory Department of Informatics King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK ¶ phone: +44 20 7848 2694

25detective — because there was always a detective, and the detective was never who they claimed to be — stood at the edge of the folding and lit a cigarette. He was not a man so much as a collection of complaints held together by a trench coat. His name was **Inspector JASPER SHANK**, and he had been assigned to the case by a memorandum that arrived in his inbox on paper that was not quite paper, signed in ink that was not quite ink, by someone whose title was **Under-Secretary of the Ninth Circle, Sub-Division of Ontological Affairs**, which was a department he had never heard of, had never funded, and which nonetheless appeared, every quarter, on the official Ministry payroll with alarming regularity. "You see the angle?" the local constable said, pointing a trembling finger. Shank looked. He saw the angle. It was roughly 90°, which was impossible given the geometry of human bone. It was also roughly

26 consequently respected by students and faculty in other areas and other disciplines. The "articles" or notes that I see usually tend to emphasize the same thing and have a message they are conveying that speaks to a person outside that area or field. I'm thinking of pictures of some Civil and Environment Engineer who works in water quality shown in a picture which him holding a glass of water with rugged terrain in the background and a catch phrase about identifying sources of pollutants in the caption. Seems like everyone is working in cleaning water these days... and they all look very important (and get lots of funding...). ¶ So, my idea is whether we can come up with a marketing plan for what we do. ¶ others thoughts? Would anyone come to such a BoF? ¶ Judy ¶ _______________________________________________ Comparch09 mailing list Comparch09@lists.ira.uni-k

27<bos>[email to correspondent, 2009-09-19] Subject: Re: Dagstuhl workshop ¶ [correspondent]: Dear Iman, Ralf, ¶ I am facing funding crunch making it very difficult for me to make it to the Dagstuhl workshop. I was keen on participating, and hence back in March/April I had sent my acceptance but circumstances with available funding changed during this time. So right after Khanda sent out the email the other day, I asked the Dagstuhl staff if there was a way to join in remotely but they said they did not have that facility. ¶ I guess they may not have a full scale video conferencing facility but I think it might be feasible to do a Skype session and I could join in to discuss ideas with the breakout group. I know it will be a bit awkward but this would allow participation. Let me know if this might be acceptable to

28/MC343/Time-Capsule-1TB ¶ On my grant CCSAJDR ... ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman ¶ -- ¶ Iman Hafiz Poernomo, Ph.D. Team Leader The Predictable Assembly Laboratory Department of Informatics King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK ¶ phone: +44 20 7848 2694 fax: +44 20 7848 2851 ¶ email: iman.poernomo@kcl.ac.uk web: http://palab.dcs.kcl.ac.uk ¶ Dear Thong, ¶ I am concerned that my KCL account is not sending emails -- so I resend this using my gmail. ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman ¶ ------ Forwarded Message ¶ ------ End

29] Subject: Decline of offer ¶ Dear Zoia and Gulnar, ¶ I regret to inform you that I will have to decline the offer of the contract with KBTU. As I discussed with Zoia over lunch on Friday, I did not realise the change from last year's contract: effectively, the new contract results in half the salary of last year. ¶ My reason for declining is purely financial. I have had an offer from an Arab university to teach for 2 months a year, with a salary that matches my old KBTU wage. I understand that KBTU has financial problems. As KBTU cannot afford to pay me the same rate or provide me with 2 months a year, it is easier for us to stop negotiations and for me to accept the Arab offer. ¶ I have two more months of my current contract and, during this time, I

30<bos>[email to correspondent, 2010-09-28] Subject: Re: PhD? ¶ Dear Ravinder, ¶ Sorry for the delay. Several points: ¶ 1. Did you submit your application? I have yet to see it on my desk but maybe the system is slow. 2. Unfortunately, I don't have money to support PhDs for the moment - the performance management topic I gave you before MIGHT get funding, but that is still currently in dispute until July next year. So you could either wait or else you might want to return to the requirements topic we were discussing with George, because I believe George might be getting funding that would support some PhD work at King's on this at the beginning of 2011. ¶ Let me know what you think! ¶ Best ¶ Iman ¶ Hi Iman, Could you please update me on the progress of my application