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Articles by Peter Devine
U.S. Defense Needs More Competition, Not More Money
U.S. Defense Needs More Competition, Not More Money The Pentagon doesn’t have to rely on legacy suppliers. It can create alternatives that others can produce
U.S. Defense Needs More Competition, Not More Money
The Pentagon doesn’t have to rely on legacy suppliers. It can create alternatives that others can produce. By Peter Devine and Sam Slocum Updated May 20, 2026 5:02 pm ET An error occurred. Please try again later. An Editor at Large: A U.S.-China conflict would be perilous for both nations, and the ultimate outcome isn’t inevitable.
America Should Build Its Own Warships While Buying Tankers
Shipbuilding is having a moment in Washington. That’s great, but hype doesn’t float boats. Reshoring commercial shipbuilding is billed as the key to maritime security. Proponents claim benefits to naval shipbuilding, sealift capacity, and a hedge against China — builder of over half the world’s commercial vessels — its merchant tonnage for coercion. The United States does need to build more ships — and fast — to meet China’s challenges.
Irrtümer der Forensik
Der Schuhabdruck an einem Tatort schien zu Charles Fains Schuh zu passen - beide wiesen ein kleines Nagelloch in der Sohle auf. Aufgrund dieses Beweises wurde er für schuldig erklärt und zum Tode verurteilt. 17 Jahre später entlastete ihn ein DNA-Test. War der Fall ein seltener Irrtum oder ist die Analyse von Schuhabdrücken nicht so sicher wie angenommen?
Rebuilding Ukraine
Charles Becker Research Professor of Economics, Duke University Peter Devine Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Economics, Boston College Aaron Lam Undergraduate Research Assistant and Mentor, Duke University Michelle Schultze Undergraduate Research Assistant, Duke University Eva Spektorov Undergraduate Research Assistant, Duke University This report is part of the Council Special Initiative on Securing Ukraine’s Future and the Wachenheim Program on Peace and Security.
M-IFEval: Multilingual Instruction-Following Evaluation
arXiv:2502.04688 (cs) View PDF Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2502.04688 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2502.04688v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.04688 Submission history From: Peter Devine [ view email] [v1] Fri, 7 Feb 2025 06:27:04 UTC (108 KB) Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer () Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps...
Skye Ray brought sunshine, laughter, and love to so many lives
Skye Ray, a colorful explosion of beautiful, organised chaos, laughter, professionalism and sharp wit passed away on Sunday, October 13 with her husband John by her side. Despite being dealt the worst hand of terminal illness, Skye’s fortitude and zest for life never faulted and remained a gift to those around her. One could even say she was a Ray of light, cheekily signing off her texted messages with a rainbow. You can’t get any more cliché than that huh?
'Dual' - At Home
The identity of people born into the melting pot of 'Britishness' is examined in a most splendid of play's Dual, at Manchester's HOME theatre. It's hard to lay a glove on the performance by Peyvand Sadeghian, which she presents in a light hearted manner, by latching on to the important issues of being dual of nationality and how the conflicts of liberty and human rights play out in both countries.
Dads Required
A joint study by academics at both Manchester University and Leeds University has discovered that dads spending more time with their kids leads to them gaining better grades in the classroom. The report, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), found that children do better at primary school if their fathers regularly spend time with them on interactive engagement activities including reading, playing, telling stories, drawing and singing.
Great Expectations At The Royal Exchange
At a time when our country looks to be coming apart at the seams, along comes a brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations at Manchester's Royal Exchange. If anything, the adapted version, which is set in a small village in India where British colonialism with its multi-faceted elements of exploitation and class has a more deadly impact than even the poverty and suffering witnessed by Dickens in Victorian London could imagine.
Driving Innovation In Support Of Sustainability
The founding father in pioneering the commercial use of graphene across the globe, has been made a professor at the University of Manchester. James Baker, the boss of Graphene@Manchester has been conferred the title of Professor of Practice, in recognition of his leadership and contributions to graphene and 2D materials. Under his leadership, Baker has realised the ambition of the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) creating something that is not replicated anywhere in UK academia.
The Monsall Painter Bringing His Work To Victoria Baths This Weekend
An artist who honed his artistic skills by painting the built environment from the balcony of his rented high rise flat in Manchester's Monsall district, will be displaying his works at the city's Victoria Baths this weekend. John Coyne, will show works which span more than two decades, at the exhibition, on September 9 and September 10 (9am to 4pm).
Cumberland Drawings
An intimate view of a small corner of the Lake District is the focus of a new exhibition opening shortly at the Heaton Cooper Studio Archive Gallery in Grasmere. Cumberland Drawings features pastel drawings by Tor Falconof the area around Loweswater in the north western fells, where her husband’s family have a farm. The pictures are of hills and water, at all times of the year, showing a very personal approach to the landscape.
Amazing Manchester University Students Run At Media City For Cancer Charity
Friends and supporters of a University of Manchester student midwife diagnosed with a rare type of cancer will challenge themselves to help raise money for charity at a five kilometre run in Media City later this week (August 31). Earlier this year, Claudia Boardman, 22, received the devastating news she had Rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue cancer, which can appear in any part of the body.
Manchester University And 'Ukraine Rises'
Manchester University has appointed the first-ever Professor of Comparative and Ukrainian Politics in the UK. The appointment of Professor Olga Onuch is said to underline the leading role of the University when it comes to the study of contemporary Ukraine for students and academics in Britain. It is also hoped that it will influence the longer term prospects towards the integration of Ukraine into the European Union among policy makers across the globe.
Patricia Bredin: A Life Well Lived
There will be many of the older generation who might remember the singer and actress Patricia Bredin, 88, who hailed from Hull, and who died last week in Nova Scotia, Canada. Patricia, earned her fame after becoming the first Eurovision song entrant for the United Kingdom in Frankfurt back in 1957, where she finished seventh in the competition with the song All.
Academics Identify Lack Of Understanding
An academic study of the challenges faced by autistic pupils in secondary education has found a new approach is needed.
The Most Expensive Books Of 2022
Ever wondered how much a book can sell for? Well this Christmas, AbeBooks, one of the world’s leading book sales sites has compiled a list of its most expensive single books sales for 2022? The list includes a book about Italian architecture and a landmark book about the stock market. There is also poetry and a famous novel about time travel. 1) Quattro Libri dell Architettura by Andrea Palladio - £47,600 A first edition from 1570 of this influential book about architecture.
With Business Confidence At An All Time Low - Make Your Voice Heard
A NORTHERN based organisation has launched an initiative aimed at gathering feedback from small businesses across the region going into 2023. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), which represents thousands of small businesses, has commissioned a new pan-Northern piece of ‘Levelling-Up’ research, which aims to drill down to expose all potential barriers holding back small businesses.
Looking back At RNCM's First Fifty Years
MANCHESTER’S Royal Northern College of Music is gearing up to mark its 50th anniversary with events planned both sides of New Year. The college which was opened in 1973 involved a merger of the Royal Manchester College of Music and Northern School of Music, into a new building on Oxford Road. The building was the first purpose-built conservatoire in England in the 20th century and was designed with state of the art acoustics at the time.
Greater Manchester Theatre's Funding Loss Puts Its Future In Doubt
The future of a Greater Manchester theatre - which spawned the early careers of Charlie Chaplin, Ralph Fiennes, Minnie Driver and Stan Laurel - has been thrown into serious financial doubt. It follows an Arts Council England (ACE), decision last week, to reject a near £1.845m three year ‘Levelling Up’ funding application, from the Oldham Coliseum.
Let The Right One In - Manchester’s Royal Exchange
AS bizarre as it seems the Halloween production of Let The Right One In at Manchester’s Royal Exchange, which runs until November 22, succeeds because seemingly love would conquer all. The stage adaptation by Jack Thorne, is based on the John Lindqvist horror novel and the 2008 film. Oskar (Peter MacHale) is a sensitive 12-year-old boy, who becomes a target from local bullies. He lives with his alcoholic mum (Merce Ribot), who pays little or no attention to him.
Liverpool: Music Champions Of Europe
IT wasn’t Manchester, it wasn’t Leeds, it wasn’t even Sheffield, but when it was announced that the 67th Eurovision Song Contest would be held in Liverpool, there were cheers ringing out from TV viewers from the Mersey to the Humber Estuary. The contest came to the UK, who as runners-up in this year’s contest were offered the opportunity to host, after it was determined there was little or no chance of the winners, Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra, holding the 2023 event in their war-torn country.
Toe Curling Stuff At Oldham Coliseum
The former TV presenter and actor, Peter Duncan playing John Blondel, appears alongside Daniel Rainford who plays The Speaker, in the new ghost story, that it is hoped, will have many on the edge of their seats, at the Oldham Coliseum, from Tuesday October 25 to Saturday October 29. The plot suggests that some people believe in ghosts while some don’t.
Glitterball - Oldham Coliseum
A CROSS-CULTURAL production which is geared towards promoting the lifestyles of under-represented communities across Greater Manchester is being staged at the Oldham Coliseum. Glitterball is a life-affirming comedy about a woman’s midlife crisis and her rollercoaster journey to find her voice.
Road at Oldham Coliseum
In truth there is nothing much to laugh about in Jim Cartwright’s 1980s production of Road, at Oldham’s Coliseum Theatre. Yet it’s the human tragedy of its characters that keeps us smiling, not in a disrespectful way, but more in empathy for its down at heel characters, who inhabited many working class neighbourhoods across Northern England hit by high unemployment and deprivation during the 1980s.
From Coronation Street - to Jim Cartwright's 'Road'
In an exclusive interview with Mag North, the actor who played Kylie Platt on the cobbles, told us about how her own life and that of many others is reflected through the play at the Oldham Coliseum, from Friday September 16 to October 1. The play, which was written in the mid-1980s, first played to Southern audiences at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1986, and dealt with how the working class of an unnamed Northern street/road struggled through unemployment in the Thatcher years.
Strategic Ambiguity Isn’t Working to Deter China on Taiwan - It Will Invade Anyway. It’s Time to Commit
Filed under: China, Democracy, Deterrence, Diplomacy, Taiwan, U.S. Military As a game theorist and former instructor of economics at the U.S. Naval Academy, with ample academic and real-life experience in deterrence as a fighter pilot, it is clear to me that strategic ambiguity will no longer dissuade China from attacking Taiwan. Instead, the United States should rally other countries to expand the West’s commitment to the island’s defense.
Australian Search For Lost Art
A NATIONWIDE search of attics and even garden sheds has been launched to track down missing artworks drawn by Aboriginal children and sold across Britain in the 1950s. The children were forcibly interned against their will and that of their parents, in the remote Western Australian settlement of Carrolup, in the 1940s.
China Is Sweeping Up Pacific Island Allies
When China, a country of 1.4 billion people, threatened Palau, a Pacific island nation with a population of just 18,000, to switch its diplomatic ties from Taiwan to Beijing or face economic hardship in 2018, Palau did not budge. The island country remained steadfast even when China dispatched fighter jets across the Taiwan Strait after Palau’s president later visited the island.
The U.S. Needs a Better Pacific Islands Strategy
When China, a country of 1.4 billion people, threatened Palau, a Pacific island nation with a population of just 18,000, to switch its diplomatic ties from Taiwan to Beijing or face economic hardship in 2018, Palau did not budge. The island country remained steadfast even when China dispatched fighter jets across the Taiwan Strait after Palau’s president later visited the island.
Trafford's Refract Festival promises summer fun and laughter in Sale
IF you want to know who kicked TV's Father Ted's, Bishop Brennan up the backside, a ten day festival of comedy, music, theatre, dance and circus skills, could provide an answer! The Refract:22 festival, which is now in its fifth year, promises a whole host of performances at Sale’s Waterside Theatre between July 21 to July 30.
Rumours Prove to be Accurate over the UK hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2023
This year’s contest, which was staged in Turin, was won by Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra, but currently with no clear end to the country’s war with Russia in sight, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) had been looking at ways, since last month, of staging the 2023 contest in another country. With fans eager to work out quite where the contest might be held, there are now rumours swirling around, that the BBC has picked up the baton and will host the 2023 event.
Manchester Eurovision
Since the event was won by the Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra earlier this month in Turin, the European Broadcasting Union(EBU), which organises the event, has been scratching its collective head to try to determine how the war-ravaged country could safely host tens of thousands of fans from upwards of 40 countries within its borders.
Mag North
Putting difference centre stage is what one council in Greater Manchester aims to do in 2022. To that end, Trafford Council, will launch a five-day extravaganza not just by celebrating queer culture in all its many guises, but also helping audiences of all ages to explore the themes that surround it.
Uniseed: the first 20 years
September 2020 marked 20 years since the formation of multi-university venture fund Uniseed. To still be operating after 20 years is quite an achievement, given the difficulty of commercialising early-stage research.
Hatchtech’s 20-year journey to FDA approval
Uniseed CEO Peter Devine looks back on the journey from Hatchtech's inception to regulatory approval in the US for its head lice treatment. Nearly 20 years after Uniseed provided the initial seed investment in Hatchtech in December 2001, the company has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its novel human head lice treatment, the topical lotion Xeglyze (formerly DeOvo).
MUNICH: Journalist reveals 'it could have been me' in Manchester United's plane crash
A RETIRED journalist has spoken for the first time about how he was booked to travel with the Manchester United team on their ill-fated flight on February 6, 1958. Today, as the world remembers the 60th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster, Don Hardisty, 88, reveals his editor at the Daily Mail cancelled his place two weeks before the crash - sending another colleague instead, who died in the crash.
Suffrage movement 100-year anniversary: Bolton chosen to take part
BOLTON has been chosen as a town to celebrate the centenary of votes for women in 2018 The town, which had a very active Suffragette movement, included women such as A.H. (Mary) Barnes. It has been awarded a share of £1.2 million to fund celebrations in seven areas which also include Bristol, Leeds, Leicester, London, Manchester and Nottingham. Bolton will host a range of exciting projects to celebrate as well as remembering those individuals who helped to make this happen.
Judge issues driving ban to Handforth Next shoe thief
A WOMAN who admitted stealing shoes valued at more than £800 has been given a community order. Gail Marie Flanagan, 51, of Chippenham Road, Ancoats, Manchester, was given an order by Stockport Magistrates Court, totalling 25 days, for two thefts in May last year. On May 12, Flanagan took shoes valued at £373 from Next at Handforth Dean and five days later she was back again to steal shoes valued at £437 from the same store.
Story of Wilmslow band The 1975's phenomenal rise is set to hit US
A BOOK which explores the phenomenal rise and rise of a Wilmslow pop rock band The 1975 is set to be released in the United States. The four members of the band are featured in the book entitled Love, Sex and Chocolate which was written by author David Nolan. David has penned books on the likes of Simon Cowell but more locally on Joy Division and New Order, founder of Factory Records the late Tony Wilson, and the Sex Pistols and a punk gig they had in Manchester, which changed the world.
Council set to reject motion to prevent badger cull
CHESHIRE East Council is likely to reject an eleventh hour bid to prevent the culling of badgers across the borough. A meeting of the local authority’s cabinet next Tuesday (September 12) is expected to reject a Labour motion to prevent the protected animals from slaughter and instead embark and support vaccination. However, the authority is expected to continue to oppose any such culling on council owned land.
Health bosses promise improvement in waiting times for bowel cancer testing
EAST Cheshire NHS Trust bosses are failing to meet patient waiting times in the diagnosis of bowel cancer. The findings cover 34 hospitals across the north of England and Yorkshire and the Humber, who have failed to meet the NHS standard of less than one per cent of patients waiting six weeks or more for two tests that could diagnose bowel cancer.
Wilmslow care home The Hawthorns is praised following inspection
AN elderly person's care home in Wilmslow has been given a 'good' rating by Care Quality Commission inspectors The unannounced inspection took place last month at The Hawthorns, Hawthorn Street, which provides accommodation and personal care for up to 39 older people. On the day of the inspection, there were 34 residents living at the home.
Commemoration at Wilmslow for the Cheshire soldiers who died at Ypres
A SERVICE was held in Wilmslow to commemorate the centenary of the deaths of 30 soldiers from the Wilmslow area who died at the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917. Many of the young men who died in the battle were members of the Cheshire Regiment, which lost 124 soldiers on the July 31, and 885 during the battle, more widely known as Passchendaele.
Prisoner assaults at Styal Prison quadruple over past four years
PRISONER assaults at Styal Prison have almost quadrupled over the past four years. Figures released last week by the Ministry of Justice, show that to the end of March 2017, assaults around the country reached a record high of 26,643 - up 20 per cent from the 2015/2016 figures. However, the percentage increase was much higher at the 486-capacity Styal Prison, with 143 assaults on fellow prisoners or prison staff - up 27 per cent.
Commemoration at Wilmslow for the Cheshire soldiers slain at Ypres
A SERVICE was held in Wilmslow to commemorate the centenary of the deaths of 30 soldiers from the Wilmslow area who perished at the third battle of Ypres in 1917. Many of the young men who died in the battle were members of the Cheshire Regiment, which lost 124 soldiers on the July 31, and 885 during the battle, which is more widely known as Passchendaele.
Crooks jailed after robbing Wilmslow travel agent
STAFF at a Wilmslow travel agent's were subjected to a 'traumatic' robbery involving three masked raiders. Before the three men were sentenced at Chester Crown Court, it was heard that on May 20, shortly before 12:50pm they entered a Coop Travel agents wearing balaclavas on Dean Row Road, Wilmslow where they threatened staff with a knife before taking a quantity of cash from the store’s safe.
Community Service for Alderley Edge would-be thief
A MAN who went to Alderley Edge armed with articles to thieve has been given a community order and 120 hours of unpaid community work. Romanian Costache Ciocan, 37, of Copster Hill Road, Oldham, was found guilty last month of the offence and appeared last week for sentencing at Stockport Magistrates Court. The court heard that Ciocan was carrying numerous keys pliers and other tools when he was arrested on April 15, 2017.
Wilmslow sculptor's life size willow designs go on the road
A WILMSLOW sculptor who has creates life sized shire horses and foals, stags and deer out of willow has mounted a new exhibition until September 11, at Doddington Hall, near Lincoln, until September 11. Former teacher Jane Foddy's work will be shown along with 450 other pieces by other leading sculptors at the biennial sculpture exhibition at Doddington Hall near Lincoln, until September 11.
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