But he couldn’t quite make sense of the email he received on April 8.
He knew he was a finalist for a Fulbright award, but didn’t expect to receive it. After all, he received a Fulbright to study in Jamaica 23 years ago and this kind of honor seldom strikes twice. Add in his request to study in the United Kingdom the program’s most popular destination country and he was primed for polite refusal. The email, he figured, must be a standard rejection letter.
“I read it, and I kept looking for where it said, ‘We’re sorry to tell you that….’ I said, ‘It’s got to be in there somewhere. Why can’t I find it?’” he remembered with a laugh. “I spent a couple of days in disbelief.”
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A dizzying range of joke candidates left voters so baffled a record number of ballots were rejected in this month s London mayoral election.
Around 114,000 ballots were spoilt after the first round of voting because the 20 candidates packed onto a sheet of A4 paper confused voters into either accidentally ticking the first-choice column twice or choosing too many contenders.
Labour candidate Sadiq Khan went on to secure victory in the May 6 election and has been awarded a second term as Mayor of London with 1,013,721 first-choice votes.
But with the four rows of candidates featuring mainly jokesters, public opinion may have become disenfranchised , according to one politics expert.
Lorry driver forced to quit his job after student parties leave him with 3 hours sleep a night I had to give it up before something happened that I would have regretted for the rest of my life
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Tony Sandhu, 61, pictured in Balfour Road, Lenton. (Image: Matt Jarram / Nottingham Post)
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New technology aims for tailings monitoring from space
Yankee Doodle tailings pond in Montana, USA.
(Reference image by James St. John, Flickr).
A tailings dam motion monitor service that has been developed by researchers at the University of Nottingham and Terra Motion is now available to mining companies through Geospatial Insight, a company that provides business intelligence sourced from satellite imagery.
According to the organizations involved in the project, the service – called MotionMonitor-TSF – is designed to track ground movements in and around mine tailings facilities to provide early warnings of any potential structural failure.
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