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Not all farmers were bad…
Daniel J Leab, Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm (Pennsylvania State University, 2007), £36.50
The Halas and Batchelor animated film of Animal Farm had its world premiere in New York on 29 December 1954. A fortnight later on 13 January 1955 it premiered in London. The film was celebrated as the first British feature length cartoon, as a cartoon that dealt with serious issues and as a breakthrough for the British film industry.
As we now know, the film was only made possible by CIA funding. Daniel Leab's appropriately titled Orwell Subverted is an exhaustive study of CIA involvement in the making of the film, a study that furthers the earlier work of Frances Stonor Saunders (Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War), throws additional light on the CIA's cultural activities, and reveals, for the first time, the detailed changes that the agency insisted on in the making of the film.
That George Orwell, a socialist who had fought with the Poum militia in the Spanish Civil War, and who remained committed to the socialist cause until the day he died, should have his great anti-Stalinist classic hijacked by the CIA, is, of course, the ultimate indignity. But was there something about the book and its politics that lent itself to the use made of it by both the CIA and the British secret propaganda agency, the Information Research Department (IRD), established by the Labour government in 1948? Both organisations sponsored the publication of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four throughout the world. The IRD even produced a comic strip version of Animal Farm, which it tried to place in newspapers in as many countries as possible. Orwell's anti-Stalinism was, to be blunt, made use of for counter—revolutionary and pro-imperialist purposes. How much of the responsibility for this was his?
There is no doubt Orwell's anti-Stalinism led him into dangerous waters in the late 1940s. His understanding of the Soviet Union as a bureaucratic or oligarchic collectivist society led him to conclude that capitalism was the lesser evil in a conflict between the two systems. While this was certainly better than proclaiming Russia a socialist paradise, it did involve Orwell, on a number of occasions, making it clear that in the event of a war between the US and the Soviet Union he would support America. It also saw him collaborating with the IRD shortly before his death, although the nature of this collaboration has been widely and wilfully misinterpreted.
Even so, the important point was that, while capitalism might be the lesser evil, he still regarded it very much as an "evil". Indeed, he argued that the only cause actually worth fighting for was a United Socialist States of Europe, something that he recognised both the Americans and the Russians would regard as a threat. He condemned British subordination to the US as an obstacle to socialist advance.
Ironically, the best demonstration of the socialist credentials of Orwell's anti-Stalinism is provided by the changes the CIA required to Joy Batchelor's scripts, which were faithful to the book. Leab identifies three areas where Joseph Bryan, a psychological warfare expert who monitored the film for the agency, wanted modifications. The "investors", he told Batchelor, were very concerned at her sympathetic portrayal of Snowball (based on Leon Trotsky). Her script suggested that Snowball was "intelligent, courageous, dynamic" and that if he had not been assassinated he might have succeeded in "creating a benevolent, successful state…this implication we cannot permit". Instead the CIA wanted Snowball portrayed as a "fanatic intellectual whose plans if carried through would have led to disaster no less complete than under Napoleon".
The second objection was that the script had to make it absolutely clear that not all farmers were bad, that many cared for their animals and that there were farms where the animals were content. The CIA was certainly not going to finance a film attacking capitalism as well as Stalinism.
They also wanted to change the final episode of the novel, in which the farm animals can no longer tell the pigs from the men, so that it involved only pigs. This was, of course, a crucial change because what Orwell was intent on demonstrating in the novel was that the Soviet Union was behaving exactly the same as the imperialist powers—in fact, had become indistinguishable from them. This was clearly not acceptable to the CIA. Finally, they wanted the film to end with an animal uprising against the pigs, something that was very much part of CIA policy at the time.
Clearly, crucial aspects of Orwell's novel were recognised by the agency as being incompatible with their objectives. Why then were they so easily able to hijack it?
The answer is simple. It was the British left's continuing celebration of the Soviet Union as socialist that effectively handed the book over to the enemies of socialism in the 1950s. Orwell's warnings about Stalinism went unheard by the majority of British socialists, and it was their sympathy for Stalinism that enabled the book to be used against them, although even then its meaning had to be violated.
The difficulty of the fight that Orwell was engaged in when trying to convince the left that Stalinism had nothing to do with socialism would, of course, have been familiar to the founders of this journal. The problem was perfectly illustrated by the historian E P Thompson's 1951 response to allegations of tyranny and repression in Eastern Europe. He contemptuously dismissed the claims as "the Big Lie technique of Goebbels over again". Indeed, the lie was "so monstrous that we cannot be troubled with it, we turn our backs on it, and direct the argument on to more practical questions".
Even someone of Thompson's stature was prepared to cast himself in the role of Squealer! Nothing Orwell could write or do could possibly make any impression on this certainty, this refusal to recognise the Stalinist repression that was sweeping across Eastern Europe. It was to take the action of the working class in Poland and Hungary in 1956 to make these people listen. Hope lay with the proles.
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La Federazione calcistica dell'Ucraina in ucraino Українська асоціація футболу, in inglese Ukrainian Assotiation of Football, acronimo UAF (fino al 2019 conosciuta come Federazione calcistica dell'Ucraina (FFU)), è l'ente che governa il calcio in Ucraina.

Fondata nel 1991, ha sede nella capitale Kiev e controlla il campionato nazionale, la coppa nazionale e la Nazionale del paese.

Collegamenti esterni

Ucraina
Calcio in Ucraina
Calcio

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from hs_core.hydroshare.utils import get_resource_file_name_and_extension
from hs_file_types.models import GeoRasterLogicalFile, GeoRasterFileMetaData, GenericLogicalFile

def assert_raster_file_type_metadata(self):
    # test the resource now has 2 files (vrt file added as part of metadata extraction)
    self.assertEqual(self.composite_resource.files.all().count(), 2)

    # check that the 2 resource files are now associated with GeoRasterLogicalFile
    for res_file in self.composite_resource.files.all():
        self.assertEqual(res_file.logical_file_type_name, "GeoRasterLogicalFile")
        self.assertEqual(res_file.has_logical_file, True)
        self.assertTrue(isinstance(res_file.logical_file, GeoRasterLogicalFile))

    # check that we put the 2 files in a new folder (small_logan)
    for res_file in self.composite_resource.files.all():
        file_path, base_file_name, _ = get_resource_file_name_and_extension(res_file)
        expected_file_path = "{}/data/contents/small_logan/{}"
        expected_file_path = expected_file_path.format(self.composite_resource.root_path,
                                                       base_file_name)
        self.assertEqual(file_path, expected_file_path)

    # check that there is no GenericLogicalFile object
    self.assertEqual(GenericLogicalFile.objects.count(), 0)
    # check that there is one GeoRasterLogicalFile object
    self.assertEqual(GeoRasterLogicalFile.objects.count(), 1)

    res_file = self.composite_resource.files.first()
    # check that the logicalfile is associated with 2 files
    logical_file = res_file.logical_file
    self.assertEqual(logical_file.dataset_name, 'small_logan')
    self.assertEqual(logical_file.has_metadata, True)
    self.assertEqual(logical_file.files.all().count(), 2)
    self.assertEqual(set(self.composite_resource.files.all()),
                     set(logical_file.files.all()))

    # test that size property of the logical file is equal to sun of size of all files
    # that are part of the logical file
    self.assertEqual(logical_file.size, sum([f.size for f in logical_file.files.all()]))

    # test that there should be 1 object of type GeoRasterFileMetaData
    self.assertEqual(GeoRasterFileMetaData.objects.count(), 1)

    # test that the metadata associated with logical file id of type GeoRasterFileMetaData
    self.assertTrue(isinstance(logical_file.metadata, GeoRasterFileMetaData))

    # there should be 2 format elements associated with resource
    self.assertEqual(self.composite_resource.metadata.formats.all().count(), 2)
    self.assertEqual(
        self.composite_resource.metadata.formats.all().filter(value='application/vrt').count(),
        1)
    self.assertEqual(self.composite_resource.metadata.formats.all().filter(
        value='image/tiff').count(), 1)

    # test extracted metadata for the file type

    # geo raster file type should have all the metadata elements
    self.assertEqual(logical_file.metadata.has_all_required_elements(), True)

    # there should be 1 coverage element - box type
    self.assertNotEqual(logical_file.metadata.spatial_coverage, None)
    self.assertEqual(logical_file.metadata.spatial_coverage.type, 'box')

    box_coverage = logical_file.metadata.spatial_coverage
    self.assertEqual(box_coverage.value['projection'], 'WGS 84 EPSG:4326')
    self.assertEqual(box_coverage.value['units'], 'Decimal degrees')
    self.assertEqual(box_coverage.value['northlimit'], 42.049364058252266)
    self.assertEqual(box_coverage.value['eastlimit'], -111.57773718106195)
    self.assertEqual(box_coverage.value['southlimit'], 41.987884327209976)
    self.assertEqual(box_coverage.value['westlimit'], -111.69756293084055)

    # testing extended metadata element: original coverage
    ori_coverage = logical_file.metadata.originalCoverage
    self.assertNotEqual(ori_coverage, None)
    self.assertEqual(ori_coverage.value['northlimit'], 4655492.446916306)
    self.assertEqual(ori_coverage.value['eastlimit'], 452144.01909127034)
    self.assertEqual(ori_coverage.value['southlimit'], 4648592.446916306)
    self.assertEqual(ori_coverage.value['westlimit'], 442274.01909127034)
    self.assertEqual(ori_coverage.value['units'], 'meter')
    self.assertEqual(ori_coverage.value['projection'],
                     'NAD83 / UTM zone 12N')

    # testing extended metadata element: cell information
    cell_info = logical_file.metadata.cellInformation
    self.assertEqual(cell_info.rows, 230)
    self.assertEqual(cell_info.columns, 329)
    self.assertEqual(cell_info.cellSizeXValue, 30.0)
    self.assertEqual(cell_info.cellSizeYValue, 30.0)
    self.assertEqual(cell_info.cellDataType, 'Float32')

    # testing extended metadata element: band information
    self.assertEqual(logical_file.metadata.bandInformations.count(), 1)
    band_info = logical_file.metadata.bandInformations.first()
    self.assertEqual(band_info.noDataValue, '-3.40282346639e+38')
    self.assertEqual(band_info.maximumValue, '2880.00708008')
    self.assertEqual(band_info.minimumValue, '1870.63659668')

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
<?php

namespace luyatests\data\modules\urlmodule\controllers;

class DefaultController extends \luya\web\Controller
{
    public function actionIndex()
    {
        return 'bar';
    }
}


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The Misfit Annex
by Holly V. Troupe
No man has ever loved me, and I always used to feel really sorry about that. Jex isn't a man, because a man is human, but he's male, and I'm female, and he loved me, so who am I to be picky?
I'd known Jex for about 10 years. I didn't really know him for most of it, but he was always around. He was like a Keplarian IT guy for the Eastern grid, and he didn't talk to anyone as far as I could tell. The first time he said anything to me was when he told me – out of nowhere – I should use a trichlorohydrex glycine-based deodorant. The kind that has to be prescribed. He said it right in front of a group of obnoxious kids who made fun of me for years after that, like I had some uncontrollable stink that the Keplarians picked up on, even though their station was two hundred miles above Earth. They never let up, either, until I moved to the Delta quadrant after graduation. I don't think that they let up even then, actually. I just wasn't around to hear it.
Later, Jex told me that he felt bad about that. He said that he was supposed to do a bunch of things that would get me ridiculed, so the Keplarians could measure my productivity and ability to learn and retain information after being ostracized. Stress hormones and depression and all that. They would do that kind of thing all the time, not just with me. Still, I think it's probably why I never amounted to much.
Jex was an outsider, too. I guess, in human terms, he'd be considered "cognitively impaired." He doesn't really understand how the Keplarians do what they do, and he can't learn as fast as the rest of them. The Keplarians learned every human language in just a few minutes, along with all of the regional dialect variations and everything, but Jex only knows English, and that was after nearly two weeks of intense language immersion. He's kind of like the slow kid who sweeps up the corner store.
I didn't know how Jex managed to take me out of the division, but he did it. Maybe I was dumb to run away like that, but nobody else ever cared about what I did, so I figured it wouldn't make much of a difference.
Jex and I stayed on Floyd Masterson's property for about eight months, just outside of the Keref district near the Eastern grid. Floyd was a big pack rat; a survivalist to the bone. Nobody could tell him that his 117 televisions, 47 washing machines, 24 dead cars, 3 full shipping crates and one tour bus wouldn't mean the difference between life and death after the apocalypse. Four years after he kicked his family off of his land for good came the Keplarian occupation, so in a way… he was right.
I picked Floyd's place because it was remote and so messed up that none of the observers would take much notice. Jex made the tour bus look really nice, just like one of those railroad cars that rich people used to turn into guest houses and things like that. It was easier than trying to fix up the main house; Floyd was inside, dead. He'd been dead for years, all wedged up in his hoard. Jex didn't see the point in disinterring him – he was fine where he was. The Keplarians aren't very sentimental.
It was pretty good living in our remodeled tour bus. Jex did nice things for me all the time, like once he got me cinnamon rolls from an unregulated place in the sanctuary because I said that I liked them. It was one of those little gestures that seems like every woman's birthright, but no one had ever done that for me, and it made me feel so good that I wanted to make love to him right then, even though I guess maybe it kind of makes me a pervert. But he was sort of a pervert too, so it was OK.
I was afraid for Jex, though. Can you imagine if the authorities found out that some lab attendant took one of the monkeys home with him and was having sex with it? He sure couldn't keep his job. And that wouldn't be the worst thing that would happen.
When I got pregnant, I thought it would be a huge problem but Jex was really happy about it. He spent more time with me, and got me lots of treats and things. I had been by myself most of the time, but after I got pregnant he was always around, doting on me, bringing me my cinnamon rolls and stuff. It was the most fun I'd ever had, even though I was pregnant and super gross.
I was about seven months along when the Keplarians found our bus. I figured Jex must have screwed up at work, being distracted and late and all that. Before I knew what was happening, I just collapsed onto the floor. The Keplarians can paralyze you by remote. I thought Jex would do something – help me – but he didn't.
The next thing I remember, I woke up in this dormitory. I wasn't pregnant anymore. I guess I went into labor, or the Keplarians just took the baby. There are about 20 women here who got pregnant by Jex, and they told me that the Keplarians never let them see their children. They're all kind of like me – losers who thought they had a shot at love. Now, we're being studied around the clock – our emotions and all that. I guess they want to know what kind of human would procreate with an alien. I don't know what they're doing with the babies.
Jex brought me a cinnamon roll the other day. I'm ashamed that the gesture made me feel almost good.
Holly V. Troupe is a web content writer based in Los Angeles, Ca. If you've ever performed extensive Google searches for keratin hair powders, post-bariatric surgery abdominal aprons, gynecomastia, and timeshare exit services, you will have read her work. You also have a life she does not envy.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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Portugal Telecom CEO Predicts Growth as Brazil Network Develops
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA (PTC) has great potential for growth in Brazil as investments in the country's communication network will let it reach new Internet, television and telephone clients, Chief Executive Officer Zeinal Bava said.
"What we have verified in Brazil is that there is a big growth market," Bava said in a speech in Lisbon late yesterday. Investments in infrastructure ahead of the 2014 soccer World Cup and the Olympics in 2016 will lead to "enormous jumps" in the quality of telecommunication services in Brazil, he said.
Portugal Telecom is betting on its Brazilian unit Oi SA (OIBR4) to counter falling sales in its home country, which is in its third year of recession after seeking a bailout in 2011. Oi, Brazil's largest landline carrier, is investing about 20 percent of its revenue each year, or 6 billion reais ($2.97 billion), in its network to offer video, Internet and voice calls on mobile devices and landlines, Bava said.
Portugal Telecom's decision in 2011 to buy a stake in Oi, formerly known as Telemar Norte Leste SA, has been "fundamental" for the company to continue to grow, Bava said.
Mobile penetration in Brazil is about 130 percent compared with a penetration rate of 43 percent for fixed broadband Internet, according to Bava. That means there are 1.3 mobile SIM cards for each person. As the country expands its communication network, this "big asymmetry" is expected to diminish, he said.
"Mexico has a broadband Internet penetration of 73 percent to 75 percent and there is no reason for Brazil not to have the same penetration rate," he said. Penetration in pay television will "probably triple," he said.
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Here are summaries of some of the projects I've done (not a complete list).
I've done projects involving order entry, billing, inventory control, accounts receivable, sales analysis, accounts payable, general ledger, purchase orders or payroll. These were done for a variety of different types of businesses, with varying needs as to the type of data that needed to be captured and processed.
Some projects involved creating a new application to handle Sales Entry / Order Entry. Some of these applications were designed to "stand alone", without interfacing to other accounting applications. Other applications were done in a way that integrated with an existing accounting application.
Some projects involved modifying the source code for an existing "off-the-shelf" integrated accounting application to tailor the application to the needs of the company. This included modifications such as collecting additional data and carrying it through various update processes, and adding new functionality by modifying existing screens or adding new ones.
Other projects involved exporting sales transaction data on a regular basis from an existing accounting application to a new custom database. This was to provide special Sales Analysis or Salesperson Summary reporting not available in the accounting application.
Developed a CRM Mortgage browser-based thin-client solution as part of a team of developers using the Microsoft .NET development platform. This involved both custom C# ASP.NET development and Microsoft CRM integration.
Developed a highly customized Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution as part of a team of developers using the Microsoft .NET development platform. The application was for the purpose of order entry, fulfillment, and customer service for residential home system integration products and services.
Developed a system for processing medical claims. The system had screens for entering medical claims, pre-authorizing medical services to be rendered, maintaining data on facilities, physicians, health plans, plan members, diagnosis and procedure codes, and procedure fee schedules. It included a seamlessly integrated table-driven reporting system. The entire system, including reporting, was designed in a 3-tier architecture for maximum scalability. Data that was analyzed frequently for decision support purposes was automatically loaded on a daily basis into a separate data mart database (using star-schema table designs). This allowed large amounts of data to be queried in seconds.
Developed a compensation system for physicians along with another programmer as part of a four-man team that also included a tester and a report developer. The application involved mechanisms for pooling, allocating, weighting, and adjusting charge and payment transactions to calculate compensation amounts. Transaction were pooled and accumulated by various criteria: Procedure (CPT) Codes, Modifiers, Sites, Sort Keys, Payers, etc. The application also handled capitated payments and fee-for-service transactions.
Developed an application as part of a team of developers for the purpose of entering, pricing, and maintaining construction insurance bonds. Data and relationships related to bonds, premiums, contractors, developers, principals, projects, and owners were managed by the application. The system was designed to integrate to a mainframe accounting system. This was a browser-based thin-client application. Branch office locations in various cities across the United States accessed the system remotely over high-speed network connections.
Created an application for entering time and expense items to be billed to customers. The application allowed for categorizing various time / expense items, establishing standard rates for various services, and produced summary reports that could then be used to provide customers with documentation of services performed.
Created an application to assist a supplier with locating the best prices available from a large number of vendors to satisfy a given customer order. The application automatically faxed requests for price quotes to vendors to facilitate the process of filling customer orders.
Created an application for a bagel bakery chain to assist with calculating economic order quantities of various types of dough. The application tracked a history of usage which it then took into consideration along with pending orders in suggesting future order quantities.
Developed a handheld device application for a genetics lab for recording mouse litter birth and wean data. In this way, handheld data capture functionality was added to an existing third party application that previously lacked this capability. Data is saved on the handheld device in XML format. These XML files are then transferred to a desktop workstation. A Windows desktop application was created to synchronize from the desktop to an existing MS SQL Server database.
Developed software to automate the process of payroll direct deposit. Security of the data and reliability of this mission critical process were large considerations. Data was transmitted to the bank via modem. The program had to wait for verification of the data, receive batch totals, and present this and other batch status information to a user. The application included the ability to search through and display payroll data to enable a user to do research when investigating reported discrepancies, etc. The system transmitted payroll data for several thousand employees.
Created applications for assisting insurance sales persons in making a presentation of their product to prospective clients. Products involved a combination of insurance and investments that could be tailored to an individual client's needs. The calculations required to make the projections for the client were too complex and tedious to be done manually in a timely fashion. The software allowed the sales person to enter client profile data and data related to investment amounts and schedule and have the resulting projections instantly displayed. The calculations made use of insurance rate table information for age, gender, and other factors. The projections could be displayed on the screen or printed out in a 3 - 5 page proposal style.
Developed various screens, reports, form letters, and exports of data to spreadsheet software in a Human Resource Database application. This was to keep up with ever-changing government regulatory changes related to HCFA, OSHA, EEO, etc. In addition, reports and spreadsheet interfaces were developed to assist with the process of wage rate review, performance reviews, and tracking of employee licenses and education.
Created interfaces from / to a customized Human Resource database application to an application designed for Random Drug Testing compliance. Modified the Human Resource database to assist with tracking employees participating in rehabilitation. Confidentiality of data was a large consideration in developing the interface that allowed data to be moved between applications. For example, identifying information such as employee name or social security number could not be moved through the interface, nor be attached to testing samples. Yet, certain information updated in the Drug Testing application had to find its way back to the correct employee in the Human Resource application.
Developed a Windows .NET desktop ETL (Extract, Transform, & Load) application for importing, validating, and maintaining a data mart of medical billing data. The application included the ability to control a number of back-end DTS packages through ''user-friendly" user interfaces. In addition, the application allowed the user to maintain tables used for transforming and validating the data. Current status of the ETL process was displayed. Integrated reports showing errors due to bad data, etc. were also available.
I've also created data mart databases for medical claims data and for wholesale distribution data. For wholesale distribution, the data mart needed to compare sales to independent distributors with "sell-through" data reported by these distributors. Since the independent distributor was in effect our "customer", the "sell-through" data provided valuable insight into our customers' sales to their customers.
Made various enhancements to an application designed for an insurance carrier in the Los Angeles area. Improvements were made in the areas of calculating agent commissions and chargebacks, "re-insurance" calculations and reporting, and others.
Developed a Video Rental Store application. The application managed 42 video rental store locations for a local chain of stores in San Diego. Each store captured rental transactions and member information at point-of-sale workstations. Data was sent and received via modem to a central office computer network comprised of three large computer systems. The load was balanced across the three computers by having each of the three computers house the data for 10 - 15 stores in the 42-store chain. A customer could be a "member" at one store location with a prepaid movie rental plan, check out a movie at a second location, and return it to a third location, yet the application correctly updated data in the appropriate computer system even if the three stores involved happened to span all three central computers. A transaction was "queued" for updating the moment it was entered by the sales clerk in the store.
This system had many features, including movie reservations, inter-store transfers, ability for a sales clerk to access inventory in other stores, statistics on sales clerk productivity, a system for taking store inventory and immediately reporting discrepancies, tracking of each individual copy of a movie, rental patterns in different geographic areas to assist with projecting future order needs, ability to track rental revenue by title, store, area, etc., ad-hoc reporting down to a detail transaction level, and many, many more features. The decision support capabilities of the system enabled the company to maximize turnover of the product. The operational capabilities of the system enabled them to excel in providing customer service.
Created many new screens, reports, etc. for an Event Ticket Sales application. The application kept track of sold / available seats, displayed and printed seat maps, kept data on season ticket sales, printed tickets, etc. Many modifications were made to facilitate the process of selling tickets and to enhance customer service.
I've done a variety of projects involving communication with other devices. Some of these were: Interfacing a bar code reader in a point-of-sale environment. Creating software for capturing and storing digitizer output. (This was used with a set of blueprints in construction estimating. The output contained measurements, computed area, and counts of construction materials.) Communication with a cash register to retrieve the day's transactions (which it stored internally). Communication with an optical mark reader being used to grade test papers to retrieve its data.
I've done applications for converting or "transforming" data or importing / exporting data. Sometimes these were designed to run unattended and check for new incoming data at predetermined intervals. These include moving data between database and text files, moving from one database to another, moving data from one operating system to another (such as between UNIX and Windows), converting from one format of text / binary file to another, converting between multiple record type formats and single record type formats, compressing / decompressing data with "zip" files, conversion between EBCDIC and ASCII, and many other odds & ends.


Galekhute asks: My Wesbank loan is being paid via a collection agency after it was handed over. The outstanding balance was R43 000 when I was informed that the debt has been sold to the agency. The agency is now claiming R58 000 for interest and commissions.
Maya replies: If you are struggling to meet your debt repayments always try and negotiate with the credit provider before it is handed over. The commissions and additional interest charges can increase your debt significantly and you now owe even more money.
If this is old debt where no payment has been made for three years and no judgement is in place, the debt may have prescribed. This means effectively that the debt has expired and you are not obliged to pay. If you are not sure ask an expert, but if no payment was made for three years don't start paying. If you do the benefits of prescription falls away.
Request a detailed statement and check the starting balance is correct and that subsequent interest and fees are calculated correctly. The fees can be checked on the Council for Debt Collectors website.
You will notice that fees and interest consume a large part of any repayment. This means if the monthly repayment is low, the amount of time it takes to pay the loan as well the costs of the loan will increase.
If no legal action is in place, such as a judgement, and you are unable to repay all your debt you can consider debt counselling.
If you have the means, consider offering a cash settlement. In many cases the agency bought the debt at 10-30 cents per R1 that you owed and they might well accept a settlement offer of 40-50 cents per rand that you owe. If you use this option ensure that the payment is in full and final settlement of the entire debt.


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What Jordan Peterson Gets Wrong — And Right — About White Privilege
By: David Marcus
Dr. Jordan Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, has been gaining celebrity. He first emerged in refusing to accept his university's dictate to use transgendered students' preferred pronouns and a broader fight against Canadian legislation to demand such usage. Since then, in a series of wildly popular YouTube videos ranging from studies of the Bible to anti-postmodernist lectures, his star has risen. This year, his book "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos," came out and is selling well.
Towards the end of a recent lecture, Peterson tackled the issue of white privilege. The 10-minute segment went viral, praised by many as refutation of the idea that white privilege even exists. Frankly, it was not his best work. It's a bit sloppy on the concept itself, and utterly failed to take into account the broad context of racial issues that led to the idea in the first place.
It's useful to look at what Peterson gets wrong here, and what he gets right. He is venturing into very dangerous territory with a cavalier attitude, and this could undermine the important counter-cultural ideas he is using to challenge, not just the academy, but our culture at large.
What Jordan Peterson Gets Wrong
Peterson's main argument against white privilege is that race is but one of many possibly infinite differentials in human beings that may accrue benefits. He cites attractiveness and intelligence as two examples that could give individuals unearned advantages. But in the American context (Peterson is Canadian) these are somewhat strange comparisons. This is because ugly, dumb people were not subjected to centuries of slavery and a further century of debilitating Jim Crow laws.
History doesn't begin in 1964, when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, or in 2009 when Barack Obama became president. While smarts and looks are unfair gifts of natural selection, the advantages of being white in America are a manmade phenomenon based on centuries of bigotry and irrational bias. To compare these things is facile and badly misses the point.
Peterson makes things worse with a bizarre analogy between American and Chinese culture. He claims that white privilege is really "majority privilege." Tackling the classic examples of white people being more represented in media and education, less suspected of potential theft in stores, and having freer options in housing, among others, he says:
Is that white privilege, or is that, like majority privilege? Is the same true if you go to China, you're Chinese, is the same true if you're Chinese? Is it majority privilege, and if its majority privilege, isn't that just part of living within your culture? So let's say you live in your culture, you're privileged in that culture, well obviously. That's what the culture is for. That's what it's for. Why would you bother building the d-mn thing if it didn't accrue benefits to you? Well, you might say one of the consequences is that it accrues fewer benefits to those who aren't in the culture. Yeah, but you can't immediately associate that with race.
In the United States of America we can absolutely, without question, associate that with race. This is because black people have been here since well before the American founding. There is no American culture that doesn't involve black people. They were not interlopers in some society built by whites. They literally built the White House. They picked the cotton and tobacco, they were the unpaid economic engine that made America great, and they were infamously mistreated for centuries. It is a cringe-worthy moment, and one can't help but feel that Peterson hasn't thought it the whole way through.
What He Gets Right
Although he doesn't quite manage to say it, what Peterson is rightfully rejecting is not the idea that white people in America have privilege. In fact, above he confirms it. He is arguing that, as a pedagogical tool, this fact is extremely limited and potentially dangerous. He is rejecting the idea that white people today have a reason to feel guilty about their skin color, and the idea that accepting such guilt will lead to some kind of good end.
Furthermore, he rightfully criticizes the lack of serious scholarship surrounding privilege theory. It is a concept almost always backed up anecdotally and rarely subjected to serious empirical investigation. When it is, the evidence of bias is often sketchy at best. But once we admit, as Peterson does, that white people do accrue unearned advantages, either by science or storytelling we have a responsibility to examine this and try to make sure that people are not subject to denigrating treatment based on their skin color.
We Need Peterson to Be Careful
Peterson is an enormously important, even vital voice in an academic, governmental, and media environment that often seeks to crush dissenting voices. In his book, "The War Against Free Speech," he says the following about his refusal to be compelled to use certain pronouns: "Many of the doctrines that underlie the legislation that I've been objecting to share structural similarities with the Marxist ideas that drove Soviet Communism. The thing I object to the most was the insistence that people use these made up words like 'xe' and 'xer' that are the construction of authoritarians. There isn't a hope in h-ll that I'm going to use their language, because I know where that leads."
This is a message that needs to be heard. And it is important to understand that Peterson is not trying to convince postmodern progressives to change their ways, a task Sisyphus would look at and say, "Boy, I'm glad I don't have to do that." His targeted audience is different. Part of it is people who simply shrug at things like compelled speech and wonder why it's their business. He does a great job of explaining why it is their business and why it is a threat.
Another important target of Peterson's program is disaffected young men. These are men who feel beaten down by the world and women's success, the attacks on masculinity. Who feel they are being told their very instincts are toxic. These men are prime targets for the alt-right, the men's rights movement, and a whole host of antisocial behaviors, because what's the difference anyway? He tells these young men that they can be men, but that means more than expressing their anger, it means taking responsibility, being productive. Getting in the game.
In trying to reach these young men, Peterson has appeared with some questionable figures. Eyebrows were raised when he was interviewed by the controversial, alleged alt-rightist Stefan Molyneux, for example. If you want to help sinners, you have to go where the sin is, but there is a danger here. Peterson is poised to hit the mainstream, something that would accrue a lot of benefits for those who believe in a freer society. These kinds of appearances and awkward attacks on privilege theory put such mainstream acceptance in jeopardy.
Welcome to the big leagues, Dr. Peterson. The balls are going to come at you fast and hard. You have to judiciously pick and choose which you swing at.
Correction. While Amazon lists Jordan B. Peterson as the author of "The War Against Free Speech," an interview with him, Dr. Peterson's Facebook page says, "FRAUD: This book is neither written nor authorized in any way by me." But he does not dispute the accuracy of the quotes therein.
David Marcus is a New York-based writer. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, and City Journal. David is the former Artistic Director of Blue Box World, a Brooklyn-based theater project, and also a former president of the Bat acting company at the Flea Theater. He also was a participant in the 2018 National Security Seminar at the Army War College.
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What are the definitions of the terms used in these questions and answers?
IND — The IND (investigational new drug application) is the vehicle through which a sponsor advances to the next stage of drug development known as clinical trials (human trials). Information on the IND application process is available at the IND Applications website.
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient — Any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used in the manufacture of a drug (medicinal) product and that, when used in the production of a drug becomes an active ingredient of the drug product.
Good Clinical Practice — Good Clinical Practice (GCP) is a standard for the design, conduct, performance, monitoring, auditing, recording, analysis, and reporting of clinical trials. For more information to the Good Clinical Practice website.
Orphan Drug — The term orphan drug refers to a product that treats a rare disease affecting fewer than 200,000 Americans. For additional information go to the FDA Orphan Products website.
Fast Track — Fast track programs are designed to facilitate the development and expedite the review of new drugs or biologics that are intended to treat serious or life-threatening conditions and that demonstrate the potential to address unmet medical needs. The guidance Fast Track Drug Development Programs - Designation, Development, and Application Review (PDF - 83KB) provides additional information.
Accelerated Approval — Accelerated approval is a program that FDA developed to make new drug products available for life-threatening diseases when they appear to provide a benefit over available therapy (which could mean there was no existing effective treatment). The guidance Fast Track Drug Development Programs - Designation, Development, and Application Review (PDF - 83KB) provides additional information.
505(b)(1) Application — A 505(b)(1) application is an application that contains full reports of investigations of safety and effectiveness. The investigations the applicant relied on for approval were conducted by or for the applicant or the applicant has obtained a right of reference or use for the investigations.
Section 505(b)(2) expressly permits FDA to rely, for approval of an NDA, on data not developed by the applicant, such as published literature or the Agency's finding of safety and/or effectiveness of a previously approved drug product.
(4) data allow selection of an effective human dose.
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How is Black-owned Business Doing in the Trump Economy?
By sdmonitornews	in Local Monitor News	on September 7, 2018 September 12, 2018
Leo Hickman, the founder of Classy Hippie Tea Company, has been in business for seven years. Hickman said under the current economy "there is monetary value, even if you are losing" because Trump "just put in tax breaks for owners," the American Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, that can be written off. The American Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in December and will have some benefits to small business owners. The National Federation of Independent Business says small business owners will be able to file as "pass-through entities," which allows owners to file and pay as an individual.
In addition, the NFIB says business owners can deduct up to 20 percent of claimable income. According to the NFIM, taxpayers will not have to file deductions to claim the deduction, "and may simultaneously claim this deduction and the standard deduction." Hickman said he started his tea company after backpacking around the world. He noticed how all of the different cultures sat over tea and talked about the community, and how "from there at a community level you could activate and start changing the community." Hickman says that although the Trump economy is helping his business the system was "not built for us." But he believes that African Americans are not "excluded, where [they] are included is in the programs as workers and the laborer" but that "you have to figure out a way to get access to get to the other side." Once you are there Hickman says, "There is going to be bigotry, racism, and hatred that will try to keep you where you are at… but you have to figure out how to bubble up." Because Hickman says, "If you are going to be in this country you have to be about money." Hickman says there are no actual losses when you can write things off, "that's why this site is set up for them, it was built for you to take a risk."
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Recently, while clearing out some neglected file cabinets, I came across my MBA course folders from 1983. This brought back many fond memories. As I recall, there were one hundred and sixty students in the class of 1983, of which less than twenty were women. How times have changed! And yet – have they?
As I delved into the files, I was astounded at what was revealed in those ear-marked pages. In 1983/4, we took courses in finance, entrepreneurship, leadership and change, strategy and strategic thinking, strategic planning, teamwork and relationships (E.I. was just coming in vogue then), presentation skills, communication skills, dealing with gender, negotiation strategies, marketing management, systems and I.T., … and the list goes on. We had to do a gazillion presentations and our presentation skills' class was three credits, which we had to pass. Presentations were video-taped and critiqued by classmates and teacher panels. There is no learning as powerful as seeing how poorly one stands, speaks, and gestures, let alone tries to convey material from personnel strategies to a funding analysis to support a new initiative!
Flipping through memory lane, what astounded me was that business students, thirty-four years ago, we were being taught essentially the same curriculum offered in most MBA and executive education programs today. By contrast, our course placed a great deal of emphasis on presence and communication – a sadly lacking ingredient of many contemporary courses. Today there might be new class titles to make programs appear cutting edge, but in reality, rarely is anything new. Business students are by and large taught the same things we were taught or talking about in 1983 and 1984.
As someone, who for the past thirty years has been engaged in executive teaching and coaching, I am frequently asked to review or promote certain books to be used in my classes and seminars. New book editions update case studies, have many more pictures, use big letters, provide copies of powerpoints that summarize lectures, and now provide website links. The general contents, however, remain the same. Regularly, I scour seminar and business and management course curricula offered by universities, colleges, and other consulting organizations. I can confirm, seldom is there anything mind-altering that is likely to generate new attitudes or new thinking.
The technology (or STEM) sector is probably the most innovative when it comes to new pedagogies and new ideas, however, even here it tends to place less emphasis on the human relationship side of being an effective manager or leader. Presentation and communication skills are certainly not high enough on their list. As someone who works a great deal with technical people, I can attest that these skills are severely wanting.
We can add one more significant factor into the mix. Many business students struggle to read comprehensively, never mind write coherently. They squirm if they are not given information in bullet form and if the material exceeds two pages. Email and text-speak has destroyed reading and writing skills …in the highest circles it seems. Tweeting is now the order of the day to convey secret international diplomatic strategies as well as approval or disapproval for the latest reality shows.
Now, what would Einstein say? Is this not the definition of insanity? We are trying to solve twenty-first century problems at lower levels than which they present themselves. We have not managed to raise our sights to new mindsets, nor have we developed the intellectual skills needed to address the new and different world issues of our time.
Since business leaders play a huge role in politics and the economy, can we not see that this is a problem? Business managers are now literally running the country and engaging in foreign relations! Added to that, many corporations come and go at great cost to the person in the street, and the tide of disenchanted, unmotivated, and ineffective managers is on the increase.
The important question for those of us interested in developing new thought leaders is how to address this lacuna in education. Abraham Maslow (1908-1970), arguably the most successful organizational psychologist of the twentieth century, and mostly known for his Hierarchy of Needs, had much to say about education in the 1960s! "What's the use of teaching facts? Facts become obsolete so darn fast! What's the use of teaching techniques? The techniques become obsolete so fast!"[i] He went on to say that what we need is a new type of human being who is comfortable with change, who enjoys change, who is able to improvise, who can face with confidence and courage a situation of which he or she has absolutely no warning. Maslow tried to convince organizations to invest in self-actualizing leaders. Alas, few took him seriously enough to really make that the cornerstone of their employee development policies.
Nearly fifty years later, I wonder what Maslow would suggest. How can we develop our business managers to be more adept at improvising and dealing with change? How can we broaden and strengthen their education so that they become true leaders, self-aware, self-assured, and with a focus on wisdom?
Maybe it is time to rethink the whole business education thing and come up with something truly transformational, inspirational, and educational. Who is going to take the lead? I doubt whether it will be but a few universities and colleges. So corporations, invest now in what really matters…the minds of your people. Not their intellect, or their skills, or their behavioral responses. Their minds.
[i] Abraham Maslow, The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature, 1971, p. 56.


Did Madagascar's famous biodiversity evolve on the island itself or did it arrive from the African continent? Malacologist Frank Köhler reports.
The island of Madagascar harbours a spectacular diversity of endemic plants and animals which has been a source of wonder and fascination for biologists interested in understanding the factors behind the evolution of this remarkable biodiversity.
Studies of Madagascar's vertebrate animals – its mammals, birds, geckos, snakes, frogs and freshwater fishes – have shown that much of the diversity has resulted from so-called adaptive radiations into 'species flocks'.
It has been assumed that this diversity was the result of the island's extended period of isolation from other landmasses spanning more than 130 million years.
But more recent molecular studies suggest that most of these radiations are no older than 50 million years, indicating that ancestors of many Madagascan groups probably arrived on the island relatively recently and randomly by trans-oceanic dispersal, often from the African continent.
The studies also suggest that evolutionary radiations happened relatively quickly, driven by the availability of previously unexploited ecological niches on the island.
However, vertebrate groups account for only a comparatively small proportion of Madagascar's biodiversity.
Researchers from the Australian Museum, Sydney, and the Natural History Museum, Berlin, have asked whether corresponding patterns are found among the island's diverse groups of invertebrates, such as insects and molluscs.
Studying a small group of freshwater snails, the researchers found six separate species, three of them new, in a group that was previously thought to comprise only one or two species.
With their limited abilities of dispersal and confined to fast-flowing freshwater streams, it is unlikely that these snails overcame the dispersal barrier of the ocean to arrive on the island from elsewhere.
The researchers concluded that these species therefore represent an endemic radiation on Madagascar much like the known radiations of vertebrate groups.
A new IUCN report reveals that nearly every second freshwater species on some of the islands off East Africa are threatened with extinction.


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Downtown Reading sees boost from events…
Downtown Reading sees boost from events returning to Santander venues
Nearby businesses also benefit when thousands attend concerts and sporting events.
This photo shows Santander Arena, 700 Penn St. in Reading. Businesses in the area have seen a boost since events returned. (PHOTO BY ANDREW KULP)
By Andrew Kulp | Reading Eagle
PUBLISHED: April 11, 2022 at 4:30 a.m. | UPDATED: April 11, 2022 at 5:18 a.m.
Balasios "Saki" Lahaniatis works behind the counter of Great American Creamery, 645 Penn St. in Reading. Lahaniatis owns the ice cream shop with his wife Lucine Sihelnik. (PHOTO BY ANDREW KULP)
Joan Jett. Tracy Morgan. Bill Burr. WWE. Reading Royals hockey.
If the event schedule for the Santander Arena and Santander Performing Arts Center in Reading looks unusually jam-packed for 2022, that's probably just a symptom of recalling the roughly year-and-a-half period the venues went dark.
With COVID-19 restrictions lifted last year and cases now receding in Berks County, enthusiasm for large gatherings has returned in full force — and downtown businesses are sharing in the impact.
"It's life-changing to us right now," said Craig Poole, general manager at the DoubleTree by Hitlon hotel in Reading across the street from Santander Arena.
"For us, it's probably adding 50% occupancy per night — especially the bigger shows," he said. "Then, many of our guests stay and eat dinner here, too."
This photo shows the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel, 701 Penn St. in Reading. (PHOTO BY ANDREW KULP)
Plenty more venture off the hotel grounds or skip accommodations altogether and explore what else the city has to offer.
"We definitely see a surge on entertainment nights and game nights," said Kirby Powell, vice president of operations and co-owner of Saucony Creek Brewing Co., with its Franklin Station Brewpub located right around the corner from the arena.
"We see a nice increase," Powell said. "It might be 20% on Royals hockey nights. When there are really big-name attractions at the arena, we can be at capacity. On a Tuesday, we might see three-times the volume."
And the benefits can be even more profound than sales alone.
Great American Creamery opens
Since its grand opening in February, the Great American Creamery at 645 Penn St. — a short walk from the arena entrance — has been steadily growing its customer base.
Balasios "Saki" Lahaniatis is co-owner of Great American Creamery, 645 Penn St. in Reading. (PHOTO BY ANDREW KULP)
Despite serving ice cream straight from the famous Penn State Berkey Creamery in State College and other locally sourced snacks, events haven't necessarily been the boon to business that people might think.
"Depending on the show, a lot of them are adult-themed and ice cream isn't necessarily their thing," said Balasios "Saki" Lahaniatis, who owns the Great American Creamery with his wife, Lucine Sihelnik.
"More people are finding out we're here, so we are getting some overflow," Lahaniatis said. "When hockey games happen, we're seeing activity before the game. But, for the most part, we're closed when the game lets out, so that's our only real metric is pregame hours."
Yet, even if it doesn't always drive people to the storefront on the day of the event, the Great American Creamery's fortunes are still tied to Santander Arena right now.
Not only is it great visibility, but Lahaniatis also peddles ice cream inside the venue.
"If it wasn't for those events, we wouldn't have thousands of people coming in (downtown)," he said. "There are tons of shows and events going on. Several times a week, there are 3,000 to 4,000 people downtown.
"It's been wonderful. The whole reopening has been very positive."
If you build it, they will come
It's difficult to understate what events returning to Santander Arena and Performing Arts Center means for the local economy.
According to David Farrar, general manager at both venues, the event schedule for 2022 so far is normal in terms of the number and level of acts coming to Reading — which, despite the blip with the omicron variant at the beginning of the year, means cumulative attendance is anticipated to total in the multiple hundreds of thousands.
"Our attendance has been strong, for sure," Farrar said. "Attendance pre-COVID was 400,000, and we'll probably get to that this year.
"When the new variant came out, it got wonky there for a while. It was nerve-wracking, we thought we'd maybe go backwards." Instead, he said February "was our best February ever in terms of food and beverage sales."
That isn't just people from the area, either, Poole insists, noting the venues are a huge draw for fans from out-of-state.
"I try to tell people that all the time," the hotel operator said. "Santander has a niche. People are coming from New Jersey, Baltimore, Delaware, Bucks County, Scranton. They drive here and stay overnight and eat dinner and lunch here because it's less expensive than going to New York City or Philadelphia.
"The venues have so much value. We've had people fly in from Washington state to see certain bands. And it helps local people."
'Record years'
Even when events did initially return to Santander Arena and Performing Arts Center in September, it was with a tempered enthusiasm.
The virus was still much more a part of everyday life, with a third act on the way in the form of omicron, so nobody could be sure exactly what to expect.
"It caught us a little bit off guard," Powell said.
"I always check the performer schedule before I prepare the shift schedule to try to anticipate what's happening," Powell said. "But the very first show, when Judas Priest performed, we were totally taken by surprise by how many people showed up, to be honest."
For Saucony Creek Brewing and many other downtown businesses, the venues were part of the attraction when they chose Reading locations.
At the DoubleTree, which was built many years after the arena was constructed, they're still figuring out ways to meet demand from ticket holders spilling out over into the hotel for food and drinks.
"We've actually put a bar in the lobby now because there's so much business, you can't get in," Poole said. "So, if you walk into our lobby, you'll see a bar there.
"As long as we do it so well, they come back, we're gonna do better than we ever have before the pandemic. Record years."
Workers and entrepreneurs benefit, too
Of course, events returning doesn't solve all woes.
Lahaniatis notes that, events or no, parking in the area has generally been a concern for the Great American Creamery since its opening, with the hope that new rules passed on meters will alleviate some of those concerns.
Powell noted that on an event or game night, the brewpub empties out pretty reliably 20-30 minutes before the gig starts, with Farrar adding that some bars and restaurants aren't open afterward, making it harder to keep attendees in the area.
Then there are the ongoing matters of supply chain issues and a labor shortage, too.
"It has been a struggle for staffing, no doubt about it," Farrar said. "And then just getting goods has been difficult. The brand of chicken fingers we get on one Friday may be different the next Tuesday."
Still, all of that is far outweighed by operations returning to the venues — not only for the businesses, but their employees as well.
"We went pretty lean on staff, so to be able to bring our full-time staff was huge," Farrar said. "Some had been with us 10, 15 years plus. We spend enough time together, it's kind of like family, so to get the staff that chose to come back is great."
"Even though it gets really busy, it creates an energy the staff enjoys," Powell added. "They sort of feed off of it."
Hopefully, the city continues to feed off that momentum as well, Poole said, reminding everybody once again how important each and every event is to the community.
"There's a sense of relief, a sense of hope," Poole said. "It's been a rough couple years for everybody, and now we have success in our mind.
"We want more people to pay attention to downtown Reading and make people think, 'Wow, I can't get a seat anywhere, maybe I should open a restaurant here.' That's what we're looking for.
"It's a driver of new businesses."


This Election Day could be the last time you cast your vote by pulling the lever.
Under the Help America Vote Act, the lever machines are supposed to be replaced by the 2006 elections.
The state board of elections has approved regulations that will allow electronic voting machines, but some citizens' groups said electronic voting could cause more problems than it solves. They're worried about the lack of a paper trail.
New Yorkers for Verified Voting Executive Director Bo Lipari said, "If the citizens of New York have their way we will replace our system with accessible, secure, reliable, mature system -- using hand marked paper ballots and pre-sync based optical scanners."
The board of elections is accepting public comments before setting the regulations on electronic voting machines in stone.
The Help America Vote Act was created to clear up voting problems following the disputed 2000 presidential election.


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The recently-discovered species Homo naledi may have had a pint-sized brain, but that brain packed a big punch. New research by Ralph Holloway and colleagues - that include researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa - published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines the imprints of the brain upon the skulls of this species, called endocasts. The research highlights the humanlike shape of naledi's tiny brain, surprising scientists who studied the fossils. These findings draw further into question the long-held belief that human evolution was an inevitable march towards bigger, more complex brains.
The discovery of Homo naledi by Professor Lee Berger of Wits University and his team at the Rising Star caves in the Cradle of Human Kind in 2013 was one of the largest hominin discoveries ever made and hailed as one of the most significant hominid discoveries of the 21st Century. Berger and Professor John Hawkes who was also part of the original Rising Star team who made the naledi discovery, as well as Professor Heather Garvin from Des Moines University in the US, are associated with the Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI), based at Wits University. They are all co-authors of the current study.
In 2017, geologists demonstrated that this species existed in southern Africa between 236,000 and 335,000 years ago--potentially the same time that modern humans first emerged in Africa. This is a puzzle to scientists, who long held that there was only one species in Africa at this late time period - Homo sapiens. How did this species exist alongside others with brains three times its size? The new study suggests that naledi's behavior may have reflected the shape and structure of the brain more than its size.
The back of the brain also showed humanlike changes in naledi compared to more primitive hominins like Australopithecus. Human brains are usually asymmetrical, with the left brain displaced forward relative to the right. The team found signs of this asymmetry in one of the most complete naledi skull fragments. They also found hints that the visual area of the brain, in the back of the cortex, was relatively smaller in naledi than in chimpanzees--another humanlike trait.
The small brains of Homo naledi raise new questions about the evolution of human brain size. Big brains were costly to human ancestors, and some species may have paid the costs with richer diets, hunting and gathering, and longer childhoods. But that scenario doesn't seem to work well for Homo naledi, which had hands well-suited for toolmaking, long legs, humanlike feet, and teeth suggesting a high-quality diet. According to study coauthor John Hawks, "Naledi's brain seems like one you might predict for Homo habilis, two million years ago. But habilis didn't have such a tiny brain--naledi did."


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