South Africa's ruling African National Congress has expressed fury at a court decision to ban the singing of a song with the words "Shoot the Boer".
It says a campaign by white activists to get the song banned is an attempt to "elevate apartheid agents as victims".
It wants the Constitutional Court to overturn a ruling by a white judge that the words amount to hate speech.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema recently sang the song, leading to claims that he was inciting violence.
South African's Afrikaans-speakers are known as Boers, a word which also means farmer.
ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe told a media conference that his party would take the matter to the Constitutional Court.
"These songs cannot be regarded as hate speech or unconstitutional. Any judgment that describes them as such is impractical and unimplementable," he said.
Mr Malema recently sang the song at a rally in Johannesburg, causing a row in a country where racism is still a challenge, 16 years after the end of white-minority rule.
The mainly white Freedom Front Plus party and campaign group AfriForum want the courts to ban Mr Malema from ever singing the song and also want him prosecuted.
AfriForum youth leader Ernst Roets says Mr Malema's actions were responsible for the recent murders of several white farmers in Gauteng province.
"What we have here is an extreme form of hate speech - it should be prohibited according to South African law," he told the BBC's Network Africa programme.
"It is simply immoral to try to justify a song like this, to say that it must be seen in context."
The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says some white South Africans want the song banned out of fear that it may incite attacks against them, while black South Africans, particularly those who took part in the struggle against apartheid, argue it is an important part of the country's history.


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Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour an 8" round cake pan. Spread the batter evenly in the pan. Bake for 25–30 minutes, turning the pan halfway through baking, until cooked through (cake is done when a toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean). Let cool at room temperature.
*You can make your own gingerbread spice by combining equal parts ground cinnamon, ground ginger, and allspice.
Whip crème fraîche with sugar and gingerbread spice until stiff peaks form. Use this to frost the cake, or transfer to a piping bag fitted with a star tip and pipe small stars on top. Using a Microplane or nutmeg grater, grate the orange over the top of the cake (reserve the flesh for the sauce). Cover and chill cake until ready to serve.
In a saucepan, boil the orange juice until it is reduced by half; let cool and chill, covered, for about an hour. Combine with the marmalade, diced orange, star anise, and honey. Cover and chill until ready to serve.
Slice the cake and serve with orange sauce on the side. Serves 6–8.


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ABOUT BALLAST QUAY
Panorama of Greenwich 1558 by Antonis Van Den Wyngaerde
The earliest known representation of East Greenwich in the year Elizabeth I succeeded to the throne.
The broad walkway of Highbridge where the courtiers lived is clearly drawn in the centre of this detail. East of Highbridge is a large building with two little gatehouse buildings behind it.
This could possibly be Old Court. Further east there are buildings which may be on Ballast Quay.
Courtesy of Greenwich Heritage Centre
BALLAST QUAY, formerly Union Wharf, is a residential street in East Greenwich which borders directly on the Thames. The houses are late Georgian and early Victorian and the street has a fine bow fronted public house, the Cutty Sark Tavern, formerly the Union Tavern, which has been a feature for over 200 years. The trade in ballasting ships, which flourished here for many centuries, is reflected in the name of the street. Former residents also earned their living by fishing and boat building and working in maritime businesses, as well as on the wharves or lighters in the coal, steel and iron trades.
Most of the houses on Ballast Quay are Grade II listed and form a
group which includes the Cutty Sark Tavern and the Harbour
Master's Office. The cobbled road surface is also listed, being a rare survival of mid-Victorian granite setts.
Today the street's residents all share the use of a communal riverside garden created in the 1960s from a derelict industrial wharf. It is a tranquil place of natural beauty with views up and down the river, an oasis of greenery reclaimed from the concrete of post-industrial dockland with a lot of help from a few dedicated resident gardeners, who shared a common vision of bringing nature back to the urban environment.

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COVID-19 Worsens Mozambique's Hunger - Part 1
Credit: Charles Mangwiro/IPS
by Charles Mangwiro (chokwe, mozambique)
CHOKWE, Mozambique, Sep 15 (IPS) - High fuel prices and transportation costs isolated Mozambique's farmers from one of their biggest markets while the country's growing debt and economic crisis strained the budgets of many. But restrictions imposed by President Filipe Nyusi's government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened food security as farmers have been unable to get their produce to market. This is the first in a two-part series. Like many Mozambicans in the agricultural sector, 39-year-old Fatima Matavele, a commercial farmer in the district of Chokwe, some 213 kilometres north of the capital, Maputo, has had a tough year. Although the last few years have been hard, 2020 has proven to be the most difficult of all.
Trading within Mozambique, with its rutted roads and bribe-hungry police, has never been easy, but restrictions imposed by President Filipe Nyusi's government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have worsened an already bad situation. Last week on Sept. 6, the country emerged from a second set of COVID-19 restrictions, which lasted 30 days.
In ordinary times, Matavele can transport her produce to the Zimpeto vegetable market -- the country's fresh farm produce bazaar on the outskirts of Maputo -- in less than four hours. But since the coronavirus restrictions came in, some shipments were taking much longer to reach the market, that is if they are lucky to reach it at all.
On those unlucky days when the produce cannot be transported, Matavele and her workers ended up dumping sacks and boxes of fresh vegetables on the roadside.
"I employ a total of 45 people at my farm and if the trucks are delayed or turned away altogether, the produce spoils," said Matavele, whose traders' collective slashed the number of trucks it runs to Maputo from up to eight a day to only one or two a day.
"This is an outright loss but I must pay my workers at the end of the month," the farmer of 15 years told IPS.
In sub-Saharan Africa 40 precent of staple foods fail to reach markets because of poor roads and market access limitations, according to the Food Sustainability Index (FSI) developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition (BCFN).
The breakdowns in the food supply chain here are contributing to fears of a spiralling food crisis. The coronavirus-induced lockdowns, the first of which occurred in March, have pushed commodities and food prices up in Mozambique while people are racing to stock food. According to the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network, "maize grain prices in monitored markets increased by 7-13 percent in July compared to June 2020, 11-50 percent above last year's prices, and 18-55 percent above the five-year average".
The United Nations says the pandemic could cause the number of Africans living in food insecurity to double to 43 million in the next six months.
While some countries have been able to rely on healthy pre-crisis stocks to keep the price of staples such as maize and rice relatively stable, more time-sensitive supply chains are fraying and legions of independent traders are taking the hit.
Mozambique is one of the world's poorest countries – ranking 178 out of 187 nations on the U.N.'s Human Development Index – which also means it cannot afford the luxury of importing food for its population.
At the same time nearly half a million people need food aid in Mozambique and food prices are soaring in the aftermath of poor rains that hit most crops in the just-ended farming season, the government said recently. (The Mozambican agriculture season runs from October to April, with harvesting from May to July.) The Ministry of Agriculture said 450,000 people need food assistance and 150,000 face a critical situation in the southern and central areas of the country.
The central and southern provinces are still recovering from devastating floods and cyclones that smashed the regions early last year, leaving a trail of extensive damage and hundreds of people dead.
Agriculture is the backbone of the economy in Mozambique, providing employment for over 75 percent of the workforce. The Open Society Foundation in a 2019 report estimated that 70 percent of people under 35 years of age, who form the majority of Mozambique's population of 30 million, cannot find stable employment.
"We (farmers) are the solution to this but we are struggling alone without any assistance and we are forced to spend our own money to keep the farming sector afloat and we have started using all sorts of media such as Facebook and What's app to engage with our clients just to keep them informed of what is going on," said Matavele.
"With support from an agricultural bank we will be able to feed the whole nation and cut all food imports in Mozambique," she added.
In the 2020 financial year, the agriculture sector was allocated 10 percent of the country's total budget of $5.1 billion to help purchase and improve the quality of seeds, as well as to introduce irrigated and mechanised farming.
According to Matavele, high fuel prices and transportation costs isolated farmers from one of their biggest markets while the country's growing debt and economic crisis strained the budgets of many.
Added to this are extreme weather conditions, that often seems to alternate between flooding and drought, which has dashed hopes of decent harvests.
Producers in the Chokwe district also complain about the lack of resellers to purchase their product. Chokwe district is located in southern Gaza province's agriculture heartland and shares a border with the South African province of Mpumalanga.
Matavele, a single mother of five, is totally dependent on her farming where she produces potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbages. Tomatoes, however, remain the most popular produce among urban consumers.
"Agriculture is my childhood dream come true, but I never imagined that things could quickly come to standstill… the future is looking very bleak hence we are forced to find new ways to remain afloat as an industry," she said adding, "now we are producing more and we sell our products cheaply to recover our investments as the solution, it's better than doing nothing."
The subsistence farmers of Chokwe, hardened by years of poverty, are already replanting what they can, using cuttings from the uprooted cassava plants that now litter the village. Matavele watched as her tractor tilled the land in preparation for the next season.
But the land has its rhythm and will not be rushed, however great the need. The cassava be ready to eat only in eight months time. Until then, hunger is a real threat.
To increase food production, "firstly, all cities had to cope with the need to ensure access to food and sustainable diets for the most vulnerable and deprived groups of the population (e.g. poor, unemployed, elderly, children, migrants, etc.) and the government should invest in local farmers, many of whom still use the most basic hoes to till their fields and lack access to the best seeds," said Marta Antonelli, head of research at the Italy-based BCFN in an emailed response to IPS.
Tomorrow read how Mozambique, a country wracked by hunger, has signed away land concessions three times larger than Greater London to outside investors in the past decade, displacing thousands of farmers in the process.
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COVID-19 Worsens Mozambique's Hunger - Part 1, Inter Press Service, Tuesday, September 15, 2020 (posted by Global Issues)

COVID-19 Worsens Mozambique's Hunger - Part 1, Inter Press Service , Tuesday, September 15, 2020 (posted by Global Issues)


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Echoes from the golden past
By Jim Caple
Page 2 columnist
Miles: 321 (Wrigley to South Bend, then South Bend to Sandusky, Ohio); total miles: 2,346; hours driving: 6; hours of sleep: 4; turnpike tolls: $7.60; Diet Pepsi: 6 units; thunderstorms: 2 (other than Minnesota, it has been cloudy, cool and rainy the entire trip -- I seem to be traveling at the same speed as an enormous and wet cold front; Scooter's references to Buffalo: 37; hotel: Motel 6 (my first one); miles to go: 900 (approximate) ...
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- There are no doubts regarding the Krueger family allegiances -- the Notre Dame leprechaun logo pokes his fists at you from the toilet seat in their house.
The Krueger house is so close to Notre Dame Stadium that you not only can hear the marching band practice every Friday, you can hear the PA guy announce who carried the ball and who tackled him. When father Pat attended Notre Dame in the 1960s, his roommate was Frank Leahy's son, and the old coach would occasionally show up in the morning, pound on the door and say, "C'mon, boys, let's get some lunch.'' (Talk about waking up the echoes.) Eldest son Ryan just graduated after four years as a walk-on quarterback.
So there was no question as to where Matt Krueger would go to college, and there really hadn't been since the family moved to South Bend in 1994 and he caught his first glance at the campus.
"It was awesome," the walk-on quarterback said after morning practice Wednesday. "We actually drove from Seattle like you did, so when we came off I-90 and when you first get off the toll road, the first thing you see is that golden dome and I was like, 'Wow.' And then we drove in on that road right along campus and you just see everything. I had always heard about it and seen it in pictures but when you finally see it, you just go, 'Wow. There it all is right there.' It was everything I thought it would be."
Photos don't do justice to the Golden Dome.
You know how some things are built up so big that, when you finally see them, you can't help but be disappointed? Notre Dame isn't one of those things.
Oh, it's built up plenty big, but when Scooter and I stopped here on my cross-country Interstate 90 tour of sports, we were just like Matt on his first trip to the campus.
We posed in front of the Golden Dome, touched the "Play Like a Champion Today" sign in the stadium, read the George Gipp speech engraved on a locker room plaque, raised our arms in front of Touchdown Jesus and knelt at the Grotto. We took enough photos to boost Kodak stock 2¾ points. We were so swept up by the school's history and tradition that I swear we could almost hear the Notre Dame Victory March as we walked around the campus.
Or maybe that was just coming from Pat's Palm Pilot, which -- no surprise here -- plays the school fight song.
(Now a fund-raiser for Notre Dame, Pat is an old friend of Scooter's from Buffalo and just as insanely proud of his hometown. These guys are unbelievable. For years, Scooter has insisted on randomly naming every athlete who ever lived or played in Buffalo -- "Ernie DiGregorio, former Buffalo Brave" -- and as a test, I casually mentioned the name of Hall of Fame catcher Ray Schalk to Pat after Scooter introduced us. "Ray Schalk," he replied without missing a beat. "Managed the Buffalo Bison."
Matt Krueger
(Lord, I dread Friday when we finally reach Buffalo and Scooter takes me to the Anchor Bar for buffalo wings.)
Along with the New York Yankees and the Green Bay Packers, Notre Dame football is a U.S. sports icon, either worshipped or hated by fans around the country. Other schools have their share of national championships (Nebraska and Oklahoma), Heisman Trophy winners (USC), inspiring fight songs (Michigan, Wisconsin), passionate fans (Nebraska), famous stadiums (Tennessee and Army), but none match the Notre Dame mystique.
"If you tell anyone anywhere in the nation that you play for Note Dame, they're blown away. Because it's Notre Dame," Matt said. "You could say I play football for Ole Miss, or anywhere else, and they would say, 'Oh. Really.' But you say Notre Dame ..."
And it's like saying you have naked photos of the USC cheerleaders.
You never forget you're at Notre Dame when you walk around campus and visit sites such as the Grotto.
For instance, Ryan Krueger was at the bar in the New York Grand Hyatt this summer and got into a conversation with a man who sat next to him. They got to talking about college football and when Ryan said he had played at Notre Dame, the man's eyes lit up with interest and their conversation went on and on and on. The man was Robert Redford.
Walk around the campus and you never forget for a single moment that you're at Notre Dame. You can't. The school always reminds you, either with the sites you've seen on TV a hundred times or with less subtle signs, such as the one in the athletic department's weight room declaring that no clothing with logos other than Notre Dame's may be worn while working out. Which really isn't a problem. The school bookstore sells so many items with the school logo that it makes Notre Dame look like one giant gift store with a university attached.
(The bookstore itself is so cathedral-like that Scooter kept looking for a font of holy water to dip his hand in.)
"See that statue over there of the man holding up his arm?" Pat said as he gave us a tour of the campus. "That depicts Chaplain Corby blessing the Irish bridgade at Gettysburg. But people just call it Fair-Catch Corby. That statue of Moses holding up his finger? That's called 'We're No. 1' Moses."
It just goes on and on. Knute Rockne once said, "Outside of the church, the best thing we've got is good clean football," but at Notre Dame, it's unclear whether football is outside of the church. There is Touchdown Jesus, after all.
There is Touchdown Jesus, after all.
"You could only do that 'Rudy' movie with Notre Dame," Scooter said. "It wouldn't work with some kid dying to go to Central Florida."
As a 5-foot-10 walk-on, Krueger gets a lot of "Rudy" comments from people, which drives him nuts. He was too polite to say it, but that sort of thing has to be really annoying. Krueger is a clearly superior athlete to Rudy -- he was an all-state quarterback and set school records for total offense for South Bend's Marian high school -- and he had no trouble meeting the school's academic requirements. He also had offers from the academies and some small schools that ran the option, but he chose to walk on at Notre Dame.
He's fourth on the depth chart and spent his first two years on the scout team, imitating the upcoming opponent's quarterbacks. He hasn't played in a game yet but he has completed a pass in the stadium on national television -- to the school's unofficial mascot, Regis Philbin, when he taped a segment for his show here.
For inspiration, he keeps football cards of his hero, Doug Flutie, pinned to his bulletin board, along with messages such as, "Never, never, never, never, never give up.''
"To be part of Notre Dame football is something that you can take with you the rest of your life," Matt said. "It's an honor to say you're a part of it."
Notre Dame coach Tyrone Willingham passes the logo test and can work out in the Irish weight room.
Thousands upon thousands of Matt Kruegers are spread across this country, growing up within hearing range of marching bands playing the local school's fight song. They all toss footballs in the back yard and dream about scoring the game-winning touchdown for Georgia or Ohio State or Florida or Ole Miss or Washington or any of the football programs we cheer for so passionately each autumn.
The same is true for the millions of kids playing other sports and dreaming about reaching the NFL or the NBA or the major leagues. The vast majority never will achieve their dreams, of course, but the beauty of sports is sometimes the dreams do come true.
A Catholic kid can grow up in Buffalo rooting for Notre Dame, enroll in the school, move into a dorm with a new roommate named Leahy, ask him if he's any relation to the former coach and be told, "Yeah. He's my father." A black kid named Tyrone Willingham can grow up in a small North Carolina town, walk on at Michigan State and wind up following in Leahy's footsteps as the head coach of the most famous football team in the land.
And a kid who grows up within earshot of Notre Dame's echoes can walk on at South Bend, listen to that same coach deliver a pregame pep talk, pull on the glittering golden helmet and run onto the field while the marching band fills the crisp autumn air with the Victory March. And suddenly your heart swells like the Grinch's, three times its size, filling your chest until you can hardly breathe and all you can say is, "Wow."
Jim Caple is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He can be reached at cuffscaple@hotmail.com.
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Legendary singer-songwriter Bryan Adams has confirmed a new UK tour, coming to arenas in early 2019.
With a career now spanning over four decades, Adams is a rock'n'roll icon. Since the release of his debut Self-Titled album in 1980, the Canadian has gone onto sell more than 65 million records worldwide, has been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards and completed multiple sold-out arena tours across the globe.
One of the most accomplished live performers in music today, Adams has toured the world multiple times and sold out iconic venues such as the Royal Albert Hall in London, Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado and Madison Square Garden in New York City. His last UK tour was a hot ticket, taking in venues such as The O2 in London and Manchester Arena.
Bryan is currently gearing up for the release of his 14th studio album. Details are a well-kept secret, but the album is expected to arrive shortly after the newly announced tour.


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Emmanuel Christian Church
Gloucestershire Places of Worship
Gloucester, Park Street Mission
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Gloucester, Worcester Street Chapel (partly Demolished)
Gloucester, Cathedral (St Peter & the Holy & Indivisible Trinity)
Gloucester, St John Northgate Methodist Church
Gloucester, Northgate Wesleyan Chapel (Demolished)
Gloucester, St John the Baptist's Church
Gloucester, Destiny Temple (formerly St Mark's Church)
Gloucester, St Mark's Church (now 'Destiny Temple')
Gloucester, St Peter ad Vincula's Church (RC)
Gloucester, St Mary's Congregational Church
Gloucester, St Aldate's Church (Demolished)
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Emmanuel Christian Church, Gloucester
Emmanuel Christian Church,
meet in the Mission, Park Street,
Gloucester, Gloucestershire.
We don't know when this Place of Worship was founded, but we understand it is still open.
The Emmanuel Christian Church are part of a world wide group of churches, and meet at the Mission, Park Street - described on the church's website as the "United Kingdom (Gloucester) Campus".
The congregation met in Gloucester Park on the August Bank Holiday weekend in 2010, for singing and sharing their faith, and there were open air services again for the Bank Holiday in 2011, concurrent with the Gloucester Tall Ships Festival. [Sources: John Williams, and an article Sharing Faith in the Park published by This is Gloucestershire on 14th August 2010]
Now or formerly Christians.
This Church is located at OS grid reference SO8330718899. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:
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I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Gloucester, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.
Previously published articles by This is Gloucestershire - a link to acknowledge my source, of what is probably "old" news by now, so the same information may no longer be available. (verified 2018-11-03)
Information last updated on 26 Aug 2011 at 14:19.
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Pratt-Johnson, Dr John (medical sciences)
Born: 1885, Devonport, Devonshire, United Kingdom.
Died: 15 April 1960, Scottburgh, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
John Pratt-Johnson (sometimes John P. Johnson), medical practitioner, qualified as Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor in Surgery (BS) at the University of London, and as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) of England, and a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (LRCP) of London, all in 1907. In 1912 he furthermore obtained the Diploma in Public Health (DPH) at the University of Oxford. Meanwhile he had been appointed around 1910 as assistant bacteriologist of the Transvaal, a post he appears to have held to 1912. By 1913 he was acting medical officer of health of Johannesburg and that year compiled a report, On the circumstances of milk production in and around Johannesburg (1913, 35p). That same year he was registered to practice medicine in the Transvaal.
During World War 1 (1914-1918) Pratt-Johnson served in the South African Medical Corps as officer commanding the First Field Ambulance, with the rank of Major. By 1917 he was director of the Clinical Research ('Clinsearch') Laboratories in Johannesburg, which prepared vaccines and sera, and rendered pathological and bacteriological services. That year he published a Manual of the Clinical Research Laboratories, Johannesburg (1917, 53p). Some of his work was connected with the mining industry, as indicated by his paper on 'Silicosis in rats in Witwatersrand mines' (Journal of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, March 1917). At this time he was still associated with the South African Medical Corps, as deputy assistant director of medical services (pathology). During 1917-1919 he was involved in research on malaria at the Military Hospital in Pretoria, where malaria patients were sent from the military campaign in German East Africa. In collaboration with K. Gilchrist and Capt. Hay-Michel he published a paper, 'On the action of certain special preparations on malarial parasites and their employment in the treatment of malaria' (British Medical Journal, 1921). He and Gilchrist also reported on 'A statistical investigation of records of treatment and blood examination in 18 731 cases of malaria' (The Lancet, 1921).
After the war Pratt-Johnson published a report on Epidemic influenza and inoculation (Johannesburg, c. 1920, 38p) in which he pointed out the value of inoculation, with special reference to the influenza epidemic of 1918. During the next decade he produced some more publications, including the following: 'Bacteriology of pyorrhoea' (Medical Journal of South Africa, 1924/5); and 'New methods in the prevention of diphtheria' (South African Journal of Science, 1928).
Pratt-Johnson was married to Jean Margaret Julia Ashburnham Pratt-Johnson, with whom he had two surviving daughters and a son.
Google Scholar, at http://scholar.google.co.za Publications by J. Pratt-Johnson.
Medical, dental and pharmacy directory of South Africa, 1926/7. Johannesburg: Ewald Herbert, 1926.
Medical Journal of South Africa, 1924/5, Vol. 20, paper by Pratt-Johnson.
National Archives Repository (TAB), Source MHG, Vol. 0, Ref. 2680/60. Death notice: John Pratt-Johnson.
National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS), at http://www.national.archives.gov.za/naairs.htm Documents relating to J. Pratt-Johnson / Dr Pratt-Johnson.
Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository, Vol. NMC 34, List of medical practitioners, dentists, chemists and druggists, midwives, and nurses [registered in the Transvaal, as on 31 December 1914].
South African Journal of Science, 1928, Vol. 25, paper by Pratt-Johnson.
Watermeyer, G.A. & Hoffenberg, S.N. Witwatersrand mining practice (reference, p. 687). Johannesburg: Transvaal Chamber of Mines, 1932.


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Q: creating derived object using base constructor I'm reading a line from a CSV file into a vector, I then want to pass this vector into a correct derived class so create an object with the correct private properties. However how do I pass the vector up to the base class, instead of just to the derived object?
Base class:
class Material
{
public:
    Material() ;
    virtual ~Material() ;

    void addNewMaterial();

private:

    std::string type;
    std::string format;
    int idNumber;
    std::string filmTitle;
    std::string audioFormat;
    float runtime;
    std::string language;
    float retailPrice;
    std::string subtitles;
    std::string frameAspect;
    std::string bonusFeatures;
};

derived class:
class Disk : public Material
{
public:
   Disk();
   ~Disk();

private:

   std::string packaging;

   std::string audioFormat;
   std::string language;     //multiple language tracks
   std::string subtitles;   //subtitles in different languages
   std::string bonusFeatures; //bonus features

};

2nd derived class
    class ssDVD : public Disk
{
public:
    ssDVD(std::vector<std::string>);
    ~ssDVD();

private:

    //plastic box

};

I want to create a new ssDVD with the properties of the base Material class which uses the constructor to setup the variables. How do I access and change these from the derived object?

A: Your derived class's constructor will need to pass its parameter to its superclass's constructor.
First of all, in most cases it's more efficient to pass non-POD function parameters as constant references, in order to avoid copying large objects by value:
class ssDVD : public Disk {
public:
   ssDVD(const std::vector<std::string> &);

   // ...
};

Then, the constructor passes its parameter to the superclass's constructor, by value:
ssDVD::ssDVD(const std::vector<std::string> &v) : Disk(v)
   // Whatever else the constructor needs to do
{
   // Ditto...
}

Of course, then you will have to have Disk's constructor do the same, to pass the parameter to the base class.
And to close the loop, if you were passing all these parameters by value, a separate copy of the vector would be made by each constructor. Very inefficient. By using constant references, no copies get made.

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Iran: Facebook is 'the most disgusting US spyware'
Iran 25 April 2013
A high commander in Iran cyber police says Facebook is 'the most disgusting spyware and the most dangerous warfare of the U.S.' which is also 'responsible for one third of divorces in Iran'. Facebook and other famous social networking websites are blocked by Iranian authorities. They blame this services as...
Iran: 60% of Population Online
An organization affiliated with Iran's government says 60 percent of Iranians are connected to the internet, 40 percent of them are young people in their 20s. Iran's "Center For Managing National Development Of Internet", MATMA, says more than 45 millions are connected to the internet,almost 2.5 millions of them through...
Iran: 'Tehran Has More Than 1 million Facebook Users'
Iran 14 January 2013
The deputy parliament speaker says Tehran has 'more than 1 million Facebook users' and there are more than 200,000 in other big cities of Iran like Shiraz and Rasht. Hasan Aboutorabi regrets that 'such a potential space is in the hands of our enemy and they deploy all of its capacities against us.'
Iran: Police Looks For 'Smart Control' over Social Networking Sites
Iran 4 January 2013
Iran's police Commander in Chief, Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghaddam says police is looking for 'smart control' over social networking websites. He believes this 'smart control' is better than a full blocking and people may use their 'useful parts'.
Iranian Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh on Hunger Strike in Prison
Iran 16 November 2012
Iranian human rights activist, lawyer and Sakharov Prize winner Nasrin Sotoudeh has been on hunger strike for more than four weeks in reaction to the restrictions imposed on her family and the mistreatment of political prisoners by the Iranian authorities.
Iran: Blogger's Family Asked To 'Prepare A Grave' For Him
Iran 7 November 2012
Sources close to Iranian opposition say Sattar Beheshti, blogger and netizen, possibly died 'due to tortures' while he was in detention. Beheshti got arrested last week in his home. His sister says "authorities asked us to prepare a grave for him and take his body tomorrow".
Iran: Imprisoned Women Journalists And Netizens Risking Death
Reporters Without Borders is 'very worried about the state of health of eight women prisoners of conscience who began a hunger strike five days ago in protest against inhuman and degrading jail conditions'. These prisoners include three journalists and netizens; Mahsa Amrabadi, Jila Bani Yaghoob and Shiva Nazar Ahari.
Iran: A Blogger in Danger
Iran 23 October 2012
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) announced that they are concerned about the health of Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, the jailed writer of the blog "Iran Land's Report". RSF says according to blogger's family "he is in a critical condition, suffering from kidney failure and aggravated by a lack of medical treatment".
Iran: Bloggers Urge Minister of Education to Resign
A bus in southwestern Iran overturned in southwestern Iran on Friday, October 19. Several Iranian bloggers urged the Minister of Education to resign as 'a minimum reaction to this tragedy'. Iranian cyberspace accused the Iranian authorities for being irresponsible about the lives of people.
Iran: Police is censoring 'in affiliation with Facebook'
Iran 30 July 2012
Commander in chief of Iran cyber police insists that the authorities would prosecute those who 'promote immorality and prostitution' in social network websites. Kamal Hadianfar claims [fa] that Iranian police would 'purify' this social network 'with collaboration of Facebook managers'. Major social networking services including Facebook and Twitter are blocked in Iran.
Iran: Internet influence 43 % with 32.7 million users
The official report on Internet status in Iran by March 2012 indicates the influence rate is 43 percent, with 32.7 million users nationwide, 14.3 millions (18.9 %) connected to GPRS on their cellphones as the most common connection type, 4.5 millions of them connected through broadband ADSL, and about 860 thousands have...
Iran: Public wear influenced by social networking websites
A report from a state-run institute says 20 percent of women and 10 percent of men in Iran, choose their wear and public appearance due to the photos they see on social networking websites like Facebook, a deputy at Iran's 'IT and digital media development center' presented this report in...
Iran: 'Zuckerberg should take action against insulting Islam'
Iran 18 June 2012
The state-funded group, "The Islamic Revolution Council of IT and Digital Media Activists" have asked Mark Zuckerberg in an open letter to take action against those who 'insult Islam' in Facebook and prosecute them. They compared those who 'insult Islam' in Facebook to terrorist attacks in Iraq against Shia people...
Iran: Jailed lawyer plays with her son
In social networking websites Iranian users are sharing a video footage of jailed lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, when she tries to play with her 4 years old son through a cabin window in a prison visit. Mrs. Sotoudeh, a human rights activist in Iran, is sentenced to 11 years in prison...
Iran: #RememberIran in election anniversary
Iranian users in Twitter are sharing their ideas, memories, and feelings about Iranian 10th presidential election in June 2009, which resulted in protests called The Green Movement under the hash-tag #RememberIran. There are some tweets reminding that two protests leaders have been under house arrest for 480 days.
Iran: Top figure hails Facebook
Iran 30 May 2012
Iranian former president and now head of The Expediency Council, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who is close to reformists says: 'Today we see that a simple free page on Facebook is effective more than a set of TV and radio stations… And this is good for the world even if some...
Iran: 'Cultural programs' in social networks
Iran's Revolutionary Guardians'would hold cultural programs in Facebook and Twitter', an official in IRGC says. This two major social networks are blocked in Iran and users can check them only with circumvention tools. Iranian authorities blame such websites for 'promoting regime change' in this country.
Iran: Successful campaign against lashes for cartoonist
An online campaign against lashes for Iranian cartoonist turned to be successful. Mahmoud Shokrayeh was sentenced to 25 lashes for a caricature of a local MP, Ahmad Lotfi. Iranian cartoonists launched a campaign on Facebook and cyberspace to draw Mr. Lotfi's cartoons in condemning this verdict. You can see some...
Iran: 28.5 millions have access to Internet
According to official statistics,28.5 millions of Iranians are estimated to have access to Internet connection in 1154 cities of Iran. This figures says more than 2.1 millions of this Iranian users have ADSL connection and the rest are connected via dial-up. Iranian government has restricting rules for Internet connection of...
Iran: Government prohibits 'foreign' mail services
Iran's minister of communications prohibited using 'foreign' mail services like Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and MSN, since he believes 'they are tools for information leak'. Reza Taghipour has asked Iranian state offices, universities and companies to use Iranian mail services 'which are hosted in Iran'.
Iran: Detained web developer under pressure
Reporters Without Borders says Iranian authorities have put detained Iranian web developer Mohammad SoleimaniNia under pressure to have his skills for running 'The National Internet'. Iranian government have already talked about launching a network inside called 'The National Internet'. RSF has urged for immediate release of Mr. SoleimaniNia who has been...


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Defense calls Patrick Herr. He was a paramedic for Action Care Ambulance in 2012.
Herr said when he arrived the gunman had on a suicide vest and underneath that he was wearing some sort of flack jacket.
"He smiled and did not respond verbally... it was a large smile with teeth showing... very wide," Herr said about meeting the gunman.
We are back to November
So key thing.... he was doing it to himself? hmmmm, not eating not drinking..... Planned.
take a drink of water why does he have cotton mouth. You seemed parched
seems that DT has made a point of witnesses repeating "flat affect"
Herr said he went with the gunman into Denver Health. He was still repeating "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" occasionally when they arrived.
Herr said the gunman did make eye contact with him.
Herr said he saw a hematoma on the gunman's forehead - a bruise.
Herr said it was raised - which is not what the other paramedic (Leadem) said.
How many times do we have to hear about November? He did not eat and drink because he knew they would take him to hospital he is smart and wanted to get out of jail for a few days to see what else he may need to do for his insanity case.
Well, the swelling has gone down...see ya'll tomorrow.
Wow I can't believe JH had so many events in jail....Oh wait this is the same event just told over and over again
JH researched schizophrenia symptoms during planning stage. Prominent symptom is echolalia. Not a difficult behavior to fake.
waste of time witness again
I haven't heard that JH had a hematoma?
At this point, I would actually welcome testimony from someone who is not from law enforcement or the medical community. I want to hear someone speak about JH as a human being and actually have to hold back emotions. The DT has done nothing to humanize him. They have done zero to give me reasonable doubt as to his full ability to form intent to commit murder that night.
by Lori Butterfield 6/30/2015 9:31:35 PM
Defense calls Russell Martens to the stand. He worked for the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office as a classification specialist.
and oh the big man steps up to the plate. KING is in da House!
I think if I were on the jury - I would be getting tired of the redundant testimony of this hospitalization
Martens was in charge of housing and mental health. Initially he check on the gunman's safety daily.
Martens said met with the gunman on July 29, 2012 in his cell in the medical unit.
I'd be so bored with this if i was a juror. I suppose the DT has throw up anything and everything and hope something sticks. Sometimes people will hang onto any doubt..whether reasonable or not. all they need is one hold out...ugh.
by debitwo 6/30/2015 9:35:22 PM
anybody else hear the Mickey Mouse theme song in the background?
Martens said the gunman expressed concern about hearing someone yell for help from another cell. Martens said he believes it was an inmate who was detoxing.
Martens: "He presented with mostly a flat affect. Non-emotional, didn't express himself emotionally in anyway. No anger, no sadness..."
@NT8 had to remember us it goes
gotta get the flat affect in again
Martens: "nothing out of the ordinary just a casual conversation" WTH? How does that help? Not looking good with this witness...
this was "normal" for JH for all his life
Martens: "He had good eye contact. He had normal eye contact with me."
Martens confirmed that the gunman often paused and looked up before answering questions.
I understand many on here have already formed a guilty verdict, but I am curious for those that do not feel that way, where you feel the DT has made their strongest points?
by EB 6/30/2015 9:39:49 PM
So this witness is making JH sound pretty sane. Mr. King - oops.
In the July 2012 video that was shown in court and I just watched with sound- JH looks stoned or high. I do remember there being testimony that he had taken some prescription pain medication before he shot up the theater. Maybe that has something to do with his affect????
This entire defense has amounted to "a little song, a little dance, a whole lot of seltzer in the pants"
by JW 6/30/2015 9:41:36 PM
Martens: "He was in one of the rubber cells, BC5. He was placed on a suicide watch. I was assessing his needs, whether he was suicidal."
Martens said the gunman told him "I'm scared of what I'll do." And "I'm trying to keep it all together."
Martens the gunman also said "The system, all the systems..." and "I do not know that you are real."
On Nov. 12 the gunman was lying naked on the floor, Martens said.
Martens asked if there was anything he could do to help and the gunman said "Water."
Martens said the gunman seemed confused: "He appeared to have difficulty responding to questions."
Who's the Leader of the club.....
Martens said the gunman seemed upset based on his facial expressions and trembling voice.
The DT has not given me anything for his Defense.
Orman is gonna rip this game.


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Timothy Brown, composer
"An essay on the importance of failure"
My mother sent me this essay that first ran in the Christain Science Monitor on July 27, 1973, during a difficult time in my life dealing with self-doubt and my severe shyness that was debilitating at times and was an obstacle to my dreams of inspiring others with my music. It has inspired me through the presentation of literally hundreds of presentations and workshops as a clinician for The FJH Music Co. I also have proudly shared Jon Nakamatsu's "The Loser's Club" which follows the same conclusions on the importance of failures in all of our lives.
The Wings of Defeat
October 1, 1997, a reprint was shared by the Christain Science Monitor in their words to inspire a new generation of readers.
By Neil Millar
To fail is to achieve the unexpected. But it is still an achievement, however unintentional. There is no way of failing utterly. Perhaps there is no way of failing at all. Perhaps there are only ways of changing one's destination, or of recoiling for a leap, or of misreading a traffic sign that stands before a new major road in our careers. (Even the stop signs do not mean "Abandon the journey"; they mean "Wait before proceeding." They may mean care; they never mean cowardice. They often require a new direction.)
What of dead ends? It is impossible to arrive at one without having traveled - and travel is an achievement. Furthermore, every dead-end street has one end open; the way in is also a way out. It may not be the only way out: Some creatures burrow out of dead ends; some climb the walls; some fly. So a check is not a failure. In tennis, when a hard service is returned, the ball is momentarily stopped and flattened on the receiver's racket. The greater the flattening, the greater the rebound. A football may feel battered by the boots of fate, but every kick has a purpose, and the goals will come as the ball keeps bouncing.
He who will not surrender cannot be defeated, no matter what the odds against him, no matter how untenable his position appears. But even giving up the struggle is not a defeat; it's a deliberate choice, a decision no enemy can force on us; we make it - or reject it - for ourselves. I think we should make it only when we discover that we're in the wrong struggle, or that we're in the right struggle at the wrong time.
A popular psychological doctrine suggests that many people secretly desire to fail; their welcome defeats are oblique, sad victories; and the sadness lies not in the defeat but in the desire for it. Such failures are secret and successful protests, but the shadows of the mind are not my subject here. I am discussing the failures suffered openly, unwanted. I think they are never what they seem. Viewed long afterward, when we have traveled so far beyond an apparent failure that we can look back on it and see it in the context of its future, a defeat may be revealed as a victory. Perhaps it is always revealed as a victory when we come to understand.
He who attempts and fails has nevertheless achieved something: an attempt - a venture - an endeavor. And this is real: A venture is a whole thing. Success and failure are separate things, which neither qualify nor disqualify the venture. Because every endeavor is a complete event, independent of its outcome, there is more honor in venturing gloriously than in venturing ingloriously. The outcome merely ends the chapter; but the way we live our life story is what matters, not the way each chapter ends. A new chapter begins at once. In the hardheaded, hard-handed, soft-witted world, it is considered more sensible to sit like a pudding and attempt nothing than to attempt a great thing and fail. This numb and doddering philosophy is not sensible; it is insensible. It is a caution more dangerous than recklessness, and nations that practice it will decay and fall.
Who knows what failure is, or success? Can any human being understand so subtle and mysterious a thing? To evaluate a single step in any human life, we need to understand where that life is going - and we don't. Yet we confidently exalt what we call victory over what we call defeat. "Nice guys," we are told, "finish last." The inference is unmistakable: Better to cheat and win than to play fair and lose: To lose with grace is to lose with disgrace. These are the ethics of little minds and cringing expectations, which see the night approaching and believe there will never be another day. But what if there will be another day? - and another day, and eternity? What if victory and defeat are only different ways of looking at an incident in an unending narrative? What if nice guys are actually winning all the time because the quality of life, not "victory," is eternity's trophy and joy?
In such a context, failure never comes at the end of an endeavor; it comes at the beginning. Inert timidity is a failure; active courage is a success. Meanness is disaster and defeat; generosity is already a victory. What matters in this context is not the outcome but the input. An event that the world calls "failure" is merely proof of having tried. It is far more solid evidence of courage and vitality than success is. Success can come without trying - in which case it is no more a victory than sleep is action.
History blazes with the names of people who failed often before they reached their victories; their failures actually powered their success. Defeat neither finished nor diminished them; it armed and armored them. Van Gogh had failed in several careers before he began to paint - and even after he had succeeded magnificently, he thought he had failed. So we need to recognize our own successes, and to do so when we see them, not when other people say they see them. What do other people know about the deep things that move us? Rembrandt was painting masterpieces when the world thought he was a failure. He knew better.
Sometimes the thing we learn from "failure" is that we have been fighting the wrong battle, or traveling in the wrong direction. To discover this is a major victory. Sometimes it seems that the highest points in our past are crowding behind us, driving us forward, preventing us from taking our ease. We are pursued by the mountains of our yesterdays, and there is no escape except on the ocean of the unknown. Yet, if we embark gladly on those dark, exhilarating waters, we find that the tide is bearing us toward horizons of morning and mountains of fulfillment we had hardly dared to imagine before this blessed catastrophe.
SOMETIMES failure is a sign that we have aimed too high for our present strength - but if the aim is right the strength will come; and meanwhile even the failure is a kind of success. "Who shoots at the midday sun," said Sir Philip Sidney some four centuries ago, "though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush." Those who aim high may fail, but it is a failure more honorable than the success of those who aim low. And it may achieve far more. And one day our upward arrow will break loose from the cage of gravitation and hit the sun squarely. Consumed in light, it will become light.
I think the fear of failure is really something else - fear of disappointment, fear of wasting time or toil or money, fear of ridicule. These anxieties are invented enemies, and they can't defeat us unless we use them as weapons against ourselves. We don't have to do that. Defiance of failure is a victory already.
Hwa Jung Lee's performances and recordings of the "Concert Works" of Timothy Brown
Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow
World Premiere of "Noctuelle" for Piano Solo


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