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Q: Difference between $param and ${param} in scalikejdbc When using scalikejdbc, is there any difference between:
val test = "test"
sql"""SELECT $test from mytable"""

and
val test = "test"
sql"""SELECT ${test} from myable"""

E.g. will both use prepared-statement-like variable replacement?
All the examples I've seen so far use the latter syntax, however I've seen some code that uses the former (which seems slightly prettier to me), which is why I was wondering if there's any reason to surround your variable names with {}

A: Much like Strings, you can use "$hello" to interpolate a variable and "${hello}" to interpolate an expression.
If you have a case class Foo(a: Int) and an instance val foo = Foo(42), you can interpolate "${foo.a}" directly, or you can create an intermediate value, val fooA = foo.a and interpolate that intermediate: "$fooA".


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10K for 10 years with Fishtank
Author: Fishtank
You read that right!
We've been training hard over the past few weeks on our down time in order to prepare for the Asda Foundation Leeds 10k. We've been making waves for the last 10 years so it's the perfect opportunity to celebrate each and every one of them with a kilometer of sweat, blood and tears!
It's not easy to tear ourselves away from behind our desks but we figure, if ever there was a reason to do so, it would be to contribute toward a cause that is held dear to all our hearts.
None more so than MD Damien Fisher.
When Damien's son, Chester, was diagnosed with an Exomphalos at twenty weeks into his wife's pregnancy, he and his family spent two and a half years living in uncertainty and constant worry.
Exomphalos and Gastroschisis are congenital abnormalities that affect one in every two thousand and around one in every ten thousand live births, respectively.
Chester underwent abdominal repair aged eighteen months and, thanks to the staff that occupy ward L42 Children's General Surgical Ward and Neonates/Surgical Newborns at Leeds Children's Hospital, the surgery was a success!
The team, here at Fishtank, are a proud and thankful bunch.
We think it's only right that we give something back to the wonderful staff that continue to save children like Chester, today.
We're unapologetically small with eight full-time and two part-time experts working tirelessly to bring our client's visions to life.
Working this close everyday comes with certain caveats.
You can't so much as eat an apple in the office without being scrutinised for it –as Damien recently discovered– but the intimate environment is part of what makes us such a strong team.
That's why we're pooling our efforts together with a target of raising at least £100 per member of Team Fishtank.
The fact of the matter is that the NHS needs our help.
Not just Fishtank's but yours too.
It's no secret that the NHS has been under fire from the media as of late but not once did this affect the level of care that thousands of children like, just like Chester, receive on a daily basis.
Everyone, from the cleaners to the surgeons have been compassionate, caring, attentive, professional and continue to demonstrate why the NHS is the envy of countries around the world.
It's high time we acknowledge the service that these ladies and gents do for us and our children and Team Fishtank are proud to be a part of that.
The Fishbowl is a place that thrives on a culture of giving.
Nobody goes without here and this certainly translates to the service we offer our clients.
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The Piper PA-46 is a light aircraft designed by the US-manufacturer Piper Aircraft It belongs to a family of aircrafts and the Piper Meridian is the turboprop version of it. The aircraft is the 3rd pressurized cabin class piston powered aircraft with a single engine ever constructed.
One crew member could transport up to five passengers. The range of the aircraft is about 1555 NM.


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A grout is typically a thin plaster used to fill cracks and crevices in masonry, or for finishing ceilings and walls. For ceramic tiles, grout lines are the hardest part to keep clean and unsullied; and if not given proper care and maintenance, these grouts can begin to disintegrate causing damage to your flooring. To prevent this from occurring, it's advisable to have a thorough tile grout cleaning by the experts of NYC Tile and Grout Cleaning every once in a while.
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Q: Modifying tuples within list I have input of times like this:
09:00 12:00
10:00 13:00
11:00 12:30
12:02 15:00
09:00 10:30

I am trying to built it into a list of tuples, converted to minutes:
[(540, 720), (600, 780), (660, 750), (722, 900), (540, 630)]

I want a cleaner, more Pythonic way of doing the conversion. I currently have a clumsy way of doing this:
def readline():
    return sys.stdin.readline().strip().split()

natimes = [tuple(readline()) for _ in xrange(linesofinput))]
for i, (a,b) in enumerate(natimes):
    c = int(a.split(':')[0])* 60 + int(a.split(':')[1])
    d = int(b.split(':')[0])* 60 + int(b.split(':')[1])
    natimes[i] = (c,d)

Just doesn't feel like I'm using Python properly here.

A: Use functions:
def time_to_int(time):
    mins,secs = time.split(':')
    return int(mins)*60 + int(secs)

def line_to_tuple(line):
    return tuple(time_to_int(t) for t in line.split())

natimes = [line_to_tuple(line) for line in sys.stdin]

A: Avoid duplicating expensive operations like str.split. Below is a simple answer:
>>> print(s)
09:00 12:00
10:00 13:00
11:00 12:30
12:02 15:00
09:00 10:30
>>> def to_minutes(s):
...     hour, min = map(int, s.split(":"))
...     return hour * 60 + min
...
>>> to_minutes("12:30")
750
>>> res = []
>>> for i1, i2 in map(str.split, s.split("\n")):
...     res.append((to_minutes(i1), to_minutes(i2)))
...
>>> res
[(540, 720), (600, 780), (660, 750), (722, 900), (540, 630)]

A: Here's another option, using regular expressions:
import re
regex = re.compile('\s*(\d\d):(\d\d)\s+(\d\d):(\d\d)\s*')
natimes = []

for line in sys.stdin.readline():
    m = regex.match(line)
    if m:
        natimes.append((int(m.group(1))*60 + int(m.group(2)),
                        int(m.group(3))*60 + int(m.group(4))))

A: Here's how I would do it (but using a data string instead for this example):
data = """09:00 12:00
10:00 13:00
11:00 12:30
12:02 15:00
09:00 10:30
"""

def minutes(s):
    hr, min = s.split(":")
    return int(hr) * 60 + int(min)

rv = []
for line in data.splitlines(): # may also use readlines from a file object
    rv.append(tuple([minutes(s) for s in line.split()]))

rv
# OUT: [(540, 720), (600, 780), (660, 750), (722, 900), (540, 630)]

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Q: How to check if a column has only NA values? I have a data frame with 30k observations but i think one of my columns has only NA values. How to check if that specific column has only NA values or not because having so much observation i can check them without code.

A: We can try comparing the NA count against the total row count, for each column, and return a value of 1 should those counts be equal.  Then, subset the names of the data frame, retaining only those columns having all NA values.
names(df)[sapply(df, function(x) sum(is.na(x)) == length(x))]

[1] "v3"

Data:
df <- data.frame(v1=c(1,2,3), v2=c(4,NA,6), v3=c(NA,NA,NA))

A: In Python if your column is df['column_name']
Then you can use this if statement:
if df['column_name'].isnull().sum() == df['column_name'].shape[0]:
    print('All nulls')

A: Try this one
data <- tibble(
   a = rnorm(1000, 5, 1),
   b = NA,
   c = c(NA, rnorm(999, 10, 5))
 )

 data %>%
   summarise_all(~all(is.na(.)))
# A tibble: 1 x 3
  a     b     c
  <lgl> <lgl> <lgl>
1 FALSE TRUE  FALSE


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Q: How can I get my table to display above my ContentPlaceHolder? I am trying to create a menu in the MasterPage that is displayed when a hyperlink is clicked. YardimDokumaniMenuAHREF is the hyperlink that displays the menu. As you can see, a javascript is called when I click on it. However contensts of the cells can not be displayed due to contentplaceholder. Please see the screenshot.
and this is my code. can someone help me out with this?
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            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder runat="server" ID="LeftPanelContentPlaceHolder">
            </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>

Display menu function:

A: Remove the z-index:-99999from the YardimDokumaniMenuContent div style. If that doesn't work, ensure the z-index of that div is greater than the one of the background.


This iconic war epic, widely recognised as one of the most influential political films of all time, transports viewers into a watershed period of the French colonisation of Algeria. The film is an intense, gritty reconstruction of revolutionary events that occurred in the Algerian capital between 1954 and 1957, when Algeria's National Liberation Front (FLN) called for independence from France and began violent armed resistance in its battle to throw off the occupying power. The French responded by attempting to put down the insurrection using through any means available, including systematic repression of the Arab population of Algiers, and assassination or capture of the FLN's membership. Gillo Pontecorvo's finest work is praised for its balanced portrayal of events; it won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion in 1966 and was nominated for three Academy Awards. In 2010, it was ranked sixth in 'Empire' magazine's list of '100 Best Films of World Cinema'.
Gillo Pontecorvo was born in 1919 in Pisa, Italy. He worked as a film director for more than a decade before 'The Battle of Algiers' was released in 1966. His other films include Kapò (1960) and 'Burn!' (1969), starring Marlon Brando and loosely based on the failed slave revolution in Guadeloupe.


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Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses
"To Be Sold:" The Commodification of Black Bodies and the Dehumanization of Enslaved Africans in Jamaican Slave Sale Advertisements, 1780-1800
Allen-Rice-Sophia-MA-History-August-2018.pdf (1.947Mb)
Allen-Rice, Sophia
The dehumanization and commodification of enslaved Africans was predicated on eighteenth century constructions of Africans as categorically different and naturally inferior. By the closing decades of the eighteenth century, the racialized language developed by natural historians to explain human variation was embedded in, and helped support, the expansion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The success of the slave trade in Africans, and the concomitant development of the British West Indies, was thus explained and justified by those that had a stake in the trade in slaves through characterizations of enslaved Africans as immoral, uncivil and primitive. British abolitionists challenged these justifications for the continuation of the slave trade over the course of the 1780s. The Privy Council's 1788 inquiry into the ramifications of ending the slave trade represents a key moment of change through which to analyse how human differences were constructed and reproduced in the British Empire. In Jamaica, the impacts of explanations of the human differences and hierarchies converged with the rapid development of large integrated plantations dependent on the continuous supply of enslaved African labour. The use of phrases such as "To Be Sold," "Prime," and the use of imagery in slave sale advertisements published in The Royal Gazette from 1780-1783, and from 1793-1794, represent the ways in which constructions of human difference, commoditizing language and the dreadful economic success of slave-made goods played a crucial role in the dehumanization and racialization of enslaved Africans.


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The bigger question is whether someone who ran as a populist, who promised not to cut Social Security or Medicaid, who assured voters that everyone would have health insurance, can keep his working-class support while pursuing an agenda so anti-populist it takes your breath away.
To make this concrete, let's talk about West Virginia, which went Trump by more than 40 percentage points, topped only by Wyoming. What did West Virginians think they were voting for?
They are, after all, residents of a poor state that benefits immensely from federal programs: 29 percent of the population is on Medicaid, almost 19 percent on food stamps. The expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare is the main reason the percentage of West Virginians without health insurance has halved since 2013.
Beyond that, more than 4 percent of the population, the highest share in the nation, receives Social Security disability payments, partly because of the legacy of unhealthy working conditions, partly because a high fraction of the population consists of people who suffer from chronic diseases, like diabetics – whom Mick Mulvaney, Trump's budget director, thinks we shouldn't take care of because it's their own fault for eating poorly.
And just to be clear, we're talking about white people here: At 93 percent white, West Virginia is one of the most minority- and immigrant-free states in America.
So what did the state's residents think they were voting for? Partly, presumably, they supported Trump because he promised – falsely, of course – that he could bring back the well-paying coal-mining jobs of yore.
But they also believed that he was a different kind of Republican. Maybe he would take benefits away from Those People, but he would protect the programs white working-class voters, in West Virginia and elsewhere, depend on.
What they got instead was the mother of all sucker punches.
Trumpcare, the budget office tells us, would cause 23 million people to lose health insurance, largely through cuts to Medicaid – remember, the program that benefits almost a third of West Virginians. It would also lead to soaring premiums – we're talking increases on the order of 800 percent – for older Americans whose incomes are low but not low enough to qualify for Medicaid.
What would happen to West Virginia if all these Trump policies went into effect? Basically, it would be apocalyptic: Hundreds of thousands would lose health insurance; medical debt and untreated conditions would surge; and there would be an explosion in extreme poverty, including a lot of outright hunger.
Oh, and it's not just about crucial benefits, it's also about jobs. Coal isn't coming back; these days, West Virginia's biggest source of employment is health care and social assistance. How many of those jobs would survive savage cuts in Medicaid and disability benefits?
Now, to be fair, the Trump budget would protect West Virginians from the ravages of the estate tax, which affects around 20 – that's right, 20 – of the state's residents each year.
So many of the people who voted for Donald Trump were the victims of an epic scam by a man who has built his life around scamming. In the case of West Virginians, this scam could end up pretty much destroying their state.
Will they ever realize this, and admit it to themselves? More important, will they be prepared to punish him the only way they can – by voting for Democrats?
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Hawks head coach Mike Budenholzer looks on from the bench while playing the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena on Nov. 10, 2017, in Detroit.
The Hawks have granted coach Mike Budenholzer permission to speak to the Suns about their vacant head coaching position, Suns general manager Ryan McDonough confirmed to azcentral.com on Friday.
Budenholzer, 48, has been Hawks coach for the past five seasons after spending 17 seasons as a Spurs assistant. The Hawks were 24-58 this season, last in the Eastern Conference, after they made the playoffs in each of Budenholzer's previous four seasons.
The Hawks hired general manager Travis Schlenk in May 2017, soon after Budenholzer resigned as the team's top basketball executive. Hawks owner Tony Ressler hired Schlenk, who began the process of shedding the roster of high-priced veterans and rebuilding it by acquiring draft picks, young players and salary-cap flexibility.
Before this season, Budenholzer's teams made the playoffs in every year except one since he became a coach. At the end of this season, Bundeholzer said losing was hard for him but that he enjoyed the process of coaching a younger team and developing players.
The Suns are in a similar rebuild mode as the Hawks — they had the league's worst record this season at 21-61. Budenholzer's interest in the job likely is in part because Phoenix is near his hometown of Holbrook, Ariz.
The Hawks posted a franchise-record 60 victories during the 2014-15 season, when Budenholzer was named the NBA's coach of the year. The Hawks concluded that season with their first Eastern Conference finals appearance since the franchise moved to Atlanta before the 1968-69 season.


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Fall is here and the weather is starting to become damp and cool in our area. Below are just a few seasonal reminders for this time of year.
Apples: Apples are often on the ground this time of year, and most dogs enjoy this sweet treat. Apple seeds contain cyanide, and although a few apple seeds likely won't harm your dog, eating them over time can lead to the accumulation of cyanide in your dog's system, which is quite hazardous. The cores can also be a choking hazard and should be removed before being given to your dog. Remember that every dog is different, and different dogs may react differently to apples. Some animals may have a hard time digesting them and they should be added slowly to a diet and in moderation. If your pet has diabetes of cancer, apples should be avoided all together as they contain sugar.
Halloween and Thanksgiving Goodies: Your pets have exceptional noses and will be sniffing out unattended treats around the house. Please make sure all potentially dangerous foods are securely put away.
Chocolates can cause stomach upset, tremors, and in extreme cases death. However, it is not as toxic as most people think. It takes 3oz. of milk chocolate to cause issues for a 10lb. pet. Dark chocolate contains more theobromine than milk and can cause serious problems at much smaller amounts.
Xylitol is present in some gelatins, candy, gum, and desserts. This sweetener can cause liver damage or even death to our pets. It is also popular in dental products such as sugar-free gum, mouthwash, toothpaste, and breath mints. Look for it on labels.
Grapes and Raisins can cause kidney damage in pets. They are often in cookies and fruit salads this time of year. make sure they are not present on a plate when sharing leftovers with your pet.
Fatty Trimmings may get your pets mouth watering, but can cause problems ranging from digestive upset to extremely painful and potentially deadly pancreatitis. This condition may also cause pets to go blind.
Canned Macadamia Nuts have been known to cause rear-leg paralysis in pets.
Onions can cause a life threatening form of bleeding in pets. Be cautious when feeding pets left overs that may contain onions such as stuffing.
Keep the holidays fun and safe by including a warning label for pets when giving any of the above items as gifts.
Weather Conditions: Just because your dog has fur does not mean that it is not susceptible to cool and wet weather. Make sure when you are planning on a pet spending extended periods of time outside you check a weather report. Make sure pets have shelter from rain and are not left out unattended during a wind or thunder storm.
Antifreeze: People will begin weatherizing their vehicles during this time of year. Antifreeze smells sweet to pets but is deadly if ingested. Prevent this from happening by keeping antifreeze and other chemicals tightly closed and out of reach of pets.
Mushrooms: Be vigilant not to allow pets to eat any mushrooms that may be growing in the yard or areas they frequent. If you suspect your pet may have ingested anything dangerous call a vet or animal poison control center.
Fleas and Ticks: These critters hide under fallen leaves and other debris when it gets chilly out. If your pet spends a fair amount of time outdoors, be sure to rake leaves and dispose of them promptly to protect your pets.
Rodents: As it cools outside rodents will be looking for warm places to take cover. Be carefully of using poisons when there are children and pets around; poison can accidently be ingested. Live traps may be a better alternative.
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Leah Cowen named U of T's vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives
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Professor Leah Cowen has been named the University of Toronto's vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives.
A leading expert on infectious fungal diseases, Cowen takes on the position after serving, since March, as U of T's inaugural associate vice-president, research – a role that saw her collaborate with heads of academic divisions and U of T's Research Advisory Board to advance research excellence and impact.
In her new position, Cowen will, among other things, lead U of T's globally recognized strategic research mission, foster research collaboration and partnerships, and champion equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility in research and innovation.
She will serve for a term that begins Jan. 1, 2022 and ends on June 30, 2026.
"It's really an honour and a privilege to have the opportunity to lead such an incredible research community at the University of Toronto, with such tremendous diversity and breadth of excellence and impact," Cowen said.
She added her stint as associate vice-president, research exposed her to the wide range of research at the university.
"That role was a great opportunity to learn about what's happening in all the faculties, campuses and divisions – and to get a sense of the different cultures, communities and context for research across the university," Cowen said. "It really allowed me to understand the opportunities and challenges in enabling continued excellence and impact in our research ecosystem."
Cowen will succeed University Professor Ted Sargent, who is stepping down from the vice-presidential role on Dec. 31 to take a new role at Northwestern University after a transition period that begins in early 2022.
President Meric Gertler said Cowen was selected for the position following a "comprehensive international search" led by the Advisory Committee on the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives, which he chaired.
"Professor Cowen brings an outstanding track record of interdisciplinary scholarship, high-impact research and teaching excellence, and a proven record of knowledge translation and entrepreneurship," he said.
"We very much look forward to Professor Cowen joining the vice-presidential team."
Cowen, a professor in the department of molecular genetics in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, joined U of T as a faculty member in 2007, having previously received her PhD from U of T and an undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia. She eventually rose to the rank of full professor and chair of the department of molecular genetics in 2016.
Her lab studies how fungal pathogens, which infect billions of people and kill more than 1.5 million people each year, gain resistance to drugs and cause disease. Her research program wields an interdisciplinary approach to address the need for new lifesaving antifungal drugs.
Cowen holds a Canada Research Chair in Microbial Genomics and Infectious Disease and is co-director of the CIFAR program "Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities."
She is also co-founder and chief scientific officer of Bright Angel Therapeutics, a pre-clinical stage biotechnology firm that focuses on the development of novel therapeutics to treat fungal infections.
Cowen says she looks forward to taking over the stewardship of U of T's research and innovation ecosystem and says her core priorities will include:
Recruiting the world's best and brightest scholars
Enabling a culture of inclusive excellence and high-impact, interdisciplinary research and collaboration
Growing the university's research funding from a rich array of national and international sources
Increasing the impact of U of T's research enterprise by mobilizing knowledge to "really address the grand challenges of our time"
She says U of T researchers' response to one pressing challenge in particular – the COVID-19 pandemic – speaks to the skill and creativity across U of T's research apparatus.
"What we've seen in our academic community is an exceptional ability to pivot," Cowen said. "People have transformed their research programs to address this critical health crisis, and we've seen a major increase in the level of collaboration and partnership, with people working collectively toward a common goal."
"There has been tremendous engagement and a recognition that we need really great, diverse minds at the table with different kinds of skillsets to solve such a grand challenge."
Cowen hailed Sargent, her predecessor in the vice-presidential role, as a "remarkable scholar and an inspiring academic leader" who leaves an indelible mark on the university.
"Ted Sargent has had a phenomenal impact and leaves a remarkable legacy," said Cowen. "I've had the pleasure of learning from him … and understanding how the goals and strategic plans he set were not his alone, but rather a collective reflection of the priorities of our broader community.
"What he did was build community and mobilize toward a collective goal, using an approach of inclusive excellence to make sure that we work together centrally to support and enable our divisions, and collaborate to achieve something that's much greater than the sum of the parts."
While Sargent is moving on to Northwestern, he will continue to maintain a significant research presence in Toronto, allowing him to retain his longstanding affiliation with U of T and supervise graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.
For his part, Sargent said he was delighted to see Cowen taking on the role of vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives.
"Professor Cowen is a globally celebrated scholar who has an outstanding record of leadership at U of T. She is an accomplished entrepreneur and a renowned member of the global research community – for example, through her leadership of a prominent CIFAR program," Sargent said.
"Her deep knowledge of the research, innovation and strategic initiatives portfolio – combined with her passionate commitment to U of T, its scholars, staff and students – equip her perfectly to continue her remarkable record of success and impact as an academic leader."
Rahul Kalvapalle
Leah CowenTemerty Faculty of MedicineInnovation & EntrepreneurshipMeric GertlerMolecular GeneticsResearch & InnovationTed Sargent
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On behalf of Daphne's husband and sons, and the rest Daphne's extended family, I want to thank Verband Deutscher Zeitschriftenverleger. We are deeply honoured by the Golden Victoria award.
Some question the value of an award when the recipients have already been killed for their work, when the people who ordered their assassination remain unknown and evade justice, and when the anti-democratic conditions that led to their death remain as terrible as ever in the places where they were killed.
People ask how an award can make a difference, how it can help win justice, fight corruption, hold a state to account for allowing those who expose corruption to be killed in cold blood and in broad daylight. They ask how an award can help Europe understand that it is failing to protect the most vocal defenders of European values - the right to speak freely, the right to know, the right to hold power to account, the right to justice.
As a citizen I have often asked the same questions. But as her sister, I feel differently, as does the rest of our extended family.
As one of Daphne's sons said recently, we feel differently because we learned immediately on Daphne's death that killing her was only the first step towards making her disappear forever. The next steps were to kill her legacy, to turn people against her, and to harass and intimidate anyone who tries to commemorate her, or to fight for justice for her assassination and for investigations into the crimes she exposed.
Our family, Daphne's friends and colleagues in Malta and in the international media, have been compelled to accept that some people are happy she was killed and in such a horrific way. That is the direct outcome of a 30-year campaign to distort Daphne's work which has continued now that she is no longer around to defend it.
There have been repeated attempts to encourage people to forget her, in the hope that they will also forget her work and the corruption and crimes she exposed, and that they will forget whoever ordered and paid for Daphne's assassination enjoys complete impunity and possibly protection by people in power.
The day Daphne died, a group of young people left flowers in her memory on a monument opposite the law courts in Valletta, one of this year's European capitals of culture. Those flowers grew into a protest memorial where people gather every 16th of the month to commemorate Daphne and to call for justice. At the last count, the protest memorial had been destroyed over 60 times. We now know that this happens on the instructions of the justice minister. The state broadcaster never reports on vigils held at the protest memorial site every month. The vigil organisers are mocked and heckled, even by public officials. They have been forced to file a case in Malta's constitutional courts to protect their right to protest.
People in power who influence law enforcement, control a large part of Malta's media, including the state broadcaster, and influence the thinking of many of my fellow Maltese, brand Daphne as a traitor, as a witch, as a purveyor of fake news. They refer to her as a 'hate blogger', a term they were not embarrassed to use even in official communications. They say Daphne expressed herself too harshly, that she wrote too freely. Effectively, they blame her for her own assassination, even as Malta's prime minister continues to block a judicial public inquiry into whether the state could have prevented her assassination.
This is why the Golden Victoria award is so important.
If Daphne's memory and legacy are destroyed, the criminal and the corrupt will have triumphed and the European values Daphne worked so hard to defend will have failed. The Golden Victoria award recognises Daphne's work not just as a personal achievement but as a legacy that belongs to society.
Daphne herself is now beyond all harm but the Golden Victoria award honours her life's work and, in doing so, helps to protect her legacy. The award reminds everyone that journalism is essential to democracy and that true democracy does not exist if journalists are unable to work freely. It reminds us that our rights, including the right to know, should not be taken for granted.
In accepting the honour in Daphne's name, I also accept it on behalf of all those journalists who continue her work in Malta and elsewhere; on behalf of journalists around the world who have told and retold her story; and on behalf of everyone who keeps her memory alive and continues to campaign for justice, despite the personal risks.
They too have helped protect Daphne's memory and have become part of her legacy. While criminal justice for her death remains elusive, the Golden Victoria award brings us closer to another sort of justice - one that recognises Daphne's work as a legacy to society and her assassination as a crime against the European values she defended.


MacDailyNews Take: The slope is slippery indeed.
Wouldn't all you need is a local app (sanctioned by Apple but not written by them) with it's own encryption enabled by the user and controlled by the user to solve this problem? Government may end up killing this golden goose of riches for the mobile tech industry and source of employment for many. Typical.
I get that right 99.99999999999999999999999999% of the time but thanks self-appointed grammar police. Haven't you got better things to do? Like cleaning out that van down the river?
I agree grammar police are mostly a waste of time.
3) many of us are typing on small iOS devices (with 'auto correct' which is often 'not correct' ).
4) many of us are used to texting abbreviations and short 'ungrammatical' sentences on cellphones etc.
grammar police should only voice out IF THE POST IS SO BADLY WRITTEN THAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS BEING SAID.
Wake up, this is no time for apathy and delusions!
The Obama Regime appears to want to end all rights to privacy.
Why does Obama not talk about this big issue? No leadership from him to set discussion.
Obama is having the FBI doing his talking for him. All the Obama supporters are the "silent" ones. Where is their outrage at this tyrannical action from the Federal Government. Or, are Obama supporters fine with tyranny as long as "their guy" is the tyrant? I think so.
1) when security forces access phones, cameras etc it's not just the target of the 'suspect' in jeopardy but all those around him. What about innocent people in the house, on the phone etc. A doctor might have patient info, a business man corporate plans on his devices etc.
2) It's not just security forces like FBI we have to be worried about because this is just as leak documents show this is just Governments first step it force backdoors (not just this Apple 'hacker tool' ) into many tech devices.
Backdoors will be hacked by CRIMINALS who will get through to our bank accounts, cameras, electronic passkeys — like to our houses and cars, our families info etc.
Ok, mac daily news, what's with all the Hillary Clinton ads? Keep these political ads up (either party) and I'll turn my ad blocker back on.
We all see different ads from each other. The ads you see are based on your own internet behavior. Through cookies and other arcane ways that I don't know, they profile and track you and target you based on how and what you search and the links you click. If you don't follow politics online and don't have a profile that says you're interested in politics, you don't get political ads. Somehow you've generated an online presence that tells the machine that you're interested in Clinton or politics (either for or against), with the expectation that you'll click something eventually.
Don't believe me? Reset Safari, or at least delete your cache and cookies, create a new MDN user, and those ads will likely go back to being random and non-Clinton-related, until you start clicking links again.
I use the Guest User on my Mac, and all I see are ads with scantily clad women.
The reality is that as much as MDN pokes at Google and Android publicly and loudly at every opportunity, the hypocrites use Google Ad Services, which tracks you and pumps annoying advertising in your face based on whatever you or anyone else who used your computer might have looked at.
As long as MDN and others continue to support Google, then I will continue to support AdBlock.
Strange.. All the ads I see on this page are sourced from Amazon advertising services.. Does it matter which browser/OS you use to access this page?
If? Come on, civilized behavior is leaving that nation faster than rats on a sinking ship.


Adolphe-Charles Adam (born Paris, 24 July 1803; died Paris, 3 May 1856).
Adolphe de Leuven & Léon-Lévy Brunswick.
First Performance: Paris (Opéra-Comique), 13 October 1836.
First Performance in UK: London (St James's Theatre), 13 March 1837.
First Performance in Scotland: Edinburgh (Royal Lyceum Theatre), 10 December 1892.
Adam studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Boïeldieu, and was a prolific composer in a variety of styles, but particularly of opéra comique. His first opera was staged in 1824, and his first success followed in 1829. He then worked briefly in London, and on his return enjoyed one of his greatest successes with a little comedy Le Chalet, loosely based on a singspiel by Goethe from 1780, which Donizetti also used as the source for his comic opera Betly shortly afterwards. Le Chalet retained its popularity for several decades. Le postillon de Longjumeau followed a couple of years later. It is a charming comedy of manners, in spite of the fundamentally unattractive aspects of the hero's behaviour, and its success has been even longer lasting, at least in France. Chapelou's opening song has remained widely popular, including an imitation of his post-horn and soaring up to high D.
Adam's best known score is for the ballet Giselle, composed in 1841, and never out of the repertoire since. Attempts at composition of grand opera and at operatic management were considerably less successful, losing him considerable sums of money.
Le postillon satirizes manners, both of society and of the opera house. It is set in 1756, starting in the village of Longjumeau. Chapelou is the local coachman, and at the outset he marries Madeleine, the inn-keeper. The villagers ask him to sing, and, with a show of reluctance, he lets them hear his favourite song about a postilion's life. It so happens that the Marquis de Courcy, head of the Paris Opéra, is passing through the village, and hears him sing. On the spot, he offers Chapelou a career on the stage, but only on condition that he comes away immediately. He leaves word with Madeleine, via his friend Bijou, that he will be back within a few days. While Madeleine is upset at this betrayal by her new husband, Bijou himself, also the possessor of an excellent voice, decides to head for Paris as well.
Ten years pass, and Madeleine, having inherited a fortune following the death of her aunt, is able to go to Paris under an assumed name, Madame de Latour, to search for her long-absent husband. A rehearsal is under way at the Opéra. Chapelou is principal tenor and Bijou is leader of the chorus. For professional purposes, they have adopted the professional names of St Phar and Alcindor, respectively. The performance is to be given in honour of the recently arrived beauty Madame de Latour, both the Marquis and St Phar having fallen in love with her. After the rehearsal St Phar and Madame meet up, and the tenor proposes to her, and is accepted. Not wishing to become a bigamist, St Phar arranges for Bijou to impersonate a priest for the wedding ceremony. However Madame arranges for Bijou to be locked up and ensures a real priest is on hand to perform the ceremony.
The Marquis does remember that St Phar is already married, but since he wants Madame himself, he is happy to let matters continue, anticipating that the next day he can have St Phar arrested. St Phar is blissfully happy until Bijou escapes from his captivity and reveals to him the truth - that this marriage was performed by a genuine priest. Madeleine now reverts to her country clothes and manners, and alone with her husband, in a darkened room, confuses him completely by switching from her country voice to her grand voice and back. When the Marquis arrives with the police to have Chapelou taken away for execution (bigamy being a capital offence), it is time for Madeleine to reveal the truth and bring about the happy ending.


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I could advise 'just stop doing all that'. And, in an ideal world, that would be all that's needed. But, it's hard (impossible?) to permanently break habits just like that.
All these are simple. The only reason for not doing them is habit, not complexity.
Given all this, it's clear that it's simple to make certain things simple. How can you best help yourself/others by doing so?
Look at your communications this week. What could you do, to make some/all of them simpler? (This Tip's given you nine ideas to kick things off).


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Homepage : Comment : The price of honour
Farrah Akbik
The price of honour
'Society can't accept that we as women, are also human' writes Akbik [Getty]
Date of publication: 4 August, 2020
Comment: Arab women have been servicing their men for far too long. From acts of intimidation to fatal domestic violence, this abuse and obedience must end now, writes Farrah Akbik.
Women, patriarchy, abuse, sexism, violence, 'honour killings', Jordan, Ahlam
I don't think I was ever sat down and given a lesson in the dos or don'ts, especially not by the men of my family. I looked upon them with well-established respectful awe.
As Arab women it was the norm to pamper, entertain, never cross, and subconsciously fear the men. I learned all this through observation, through what I saw the women around me doing. An English male friend once observed "you are very obedient." "It's an illusion," I responded.
"No, it's very real," he said.
How his words cut through me! But he was right, I was, without even having realised it. My decisions were always based on the needs or demands of those males around me, which always outweighed my own.
As a child on a playdate, I saw my nextdoor neighbour launch a glass at the wall above our heads, his wife cowering in silence as if it were her fault. The reason for the shattered glass was that we children were being too loud and had woken him from his sleep. It was her reaction that I remember more rather than his action, that reticent acquiescence. Culturally schooled into our roles, very few women broke with the norms, and if they did they were always slandered, and more often than not, by the women themselves.
There is a lot to be said about the inferior place afforded to women in our societies. Or indeed the active role they play in sustaining the patriarchy. I never could quite understand why boys were revered, why we had to tiptoe around them.
It all came back to honour. That ugly word that had a stranglehold around our female necks
Every day interactions were conditioned by the hierarchy that defines the sexes. I remember being at my neighbour's house playing with two of my girlfriends again, when there was a tiff between them and their slightly older brother. We couldn't have been more than nine or 10 years old. Dolls went flying, hair was pulled, and the mother rushed in and pulled the siblings apart.
But her anger was directed entirely at the girls. "Your brother is the crown that sits upon your heads, and should he tell you to jump from the balcony then you obey!" as he smugly smirked at them from behind her back. Then there are the rules for the girls. My Moroccan grandmother summed it up with the old saying, "It's best to go and mess around in the Jewish quarters, and on your return home make sure your Muslim neighbours are witness to your good character!"
I was inadvertently made to carry a fear of what others may say, and it all came back to honour. That ugly word that had a stranglehold around our female necks. Every single one of us, to varying extents. From the extreme of murder, to the lesser crime of social defamation.
Another time, it was Eid and my sister and I - teenagers at the time - pulled out some perilously short dresses and did our family rounds, leaving behind a trail of scandalous gossip which quickly reached my mother. Our dresses soon saw the sharp end of her scissors.
On her return from the gynaecologist one day, she relayed the story of a young woman who had opened up to her in the waiting room. The woman was there to have her hymen reconstructed (a widespread surgery in the Middle East). She'd been engaged but her fiancé had decided to leave her knowing full well the repercussions she would face, having taken her virginity. I couldn't quite understand how it was better for her to partake in this deception, rather than to just be.
But apparently no, for society can't accept that we as women, are also human. That we have the right to journey the road of life, to love, to learn, to make mistakes, to live without bearing the honour of our male relatives upon our backs.
My friend's mum should have scolded her son, my mother should have spared my dress, the woman in the clinic should not have had to "repair" her hymen, and my grandma should have said the neighbours can eat khara!
Some of these might seem like low level instances of sexism, but they all count towards a stifling existence focused on maintaining the requisite "honour". Too frequently, this results in the brutal murder of women, and very often, the perpetrators get away with appallingly short sentences.
Ahlam was a Jordanian woman in her 30s, said to have been divorced and "returned" to her parents as if she were used goods. Ahlam lived in fear as she had made her way to one of the safe houses. Yet for reasons unclear, she returned to the family home.
In making that cup of tea for her daughter's murderer, Ahlam's mother assented, became complicit
In July of this year, neighbours heard her screams penetrate the walls as she fled into the street clutching her bleeding neck. Her father, pursuing her with a brick, crushed her skull, then lit a cigarette, and Ahlam's mother brought him a cup of tea. His hands still bore bloody witness to the murder.
Sarkhat Ahlam, the screams of Ahlam, she pleaded yet no one came to her rescue. Those screams were captured on video, her lifeless body too. In making that cup of tea for her daughter's murderer, Ahlam's mother assented, became complicit.
Is it that women are so powerless, that we are wired to accept society's sentence? These cultural conventions are centuries old and are ignored by equally archaic judicial systems. Legal articles mete out lesser punishments to "crimes of passion" to "family disputes", just because the victims are women.
Ahlam means 'dreams' in Arabic. Like every one of us she had her dreams, dreams her father spilled onto the road from her crushed head. Ahlam deserved to live without fear, without the need to flee from the very people who should have kept her safe. In Jordan, it is not unheard of for women to seek incarceration for fear of being "honour killed". What makes a father break his daughter's skull, and then sip tea in view of her bloodied corpse?
There was always this concept that a woman is only as strong as the man who has her back - that a woman without male protection is a weakness. I myself married very young, and as a result, was passed from father to husband. I never lived alone, I was never wholly independent of a man, until I decided to divorce. I was discouraged. "A divorced woman is but a 10th rate citizen!"
Read more: Palestinian bride-to-be's murder reignites campaign against domestic violence
My point is that things will not begin to change, until more women dare to speak out, regardless of the repercussions. We must begin to move away from the silence I've seen too often, and to move towards educating our future sons to believe that they are not more important than their sisters.
Barely had I finished writing this when another murder occurred. This time of a young Palestinian woman named Rozan Nasser, on her way to buy clothes for Eid with her fiancé. He strangled her and left her lifeless body in the car, before fleeing to Jerusalem.
If anything, these women's dreams should be honoured, so that they leave behind some sort of legacy, so that their brutal deaths are not in vain. So that the Jordanian government, and indeed all Arab governments seek to annul or change those laws that protect our murderers. Let not their screams be silenced. Enough of the blind obedience, only to be rewarded with brutality. No more.
Farrah Akbik is a British-Syrian author writing to raise awareness of the hardships of Syria and Syrian refugees, particularly women. Born to a Syrian father and Moroccan mother, she is pursuing a Masters in Creative Writing in London.
Have questions or comments? Email us at: editorial-english@alaraby.co.uk
Opinions expressed in this article remain those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The New Arab, its editorial board or staff, or the author's employer.


For more than 100 years posters have been used in the same ways they are used today: to advertise, to publicise, to get a message across. They are cheap, colourful, easy to make and there are lots of places to put them up.
The Australian Commonwealth Government was one of the first groups to use posters. Some of the earliest posters were created by the Chief Electoral Officer. They were designed to remind Australians to vote. Some posters showed people how to fill out the ballot paper properly.
The poster on the right is one that was used by the Australian Electoral Commission in the past.
How are posters used today? What kinds of posters do you have at home? What kind of posters have you seen in your community? Try to figure out why they are good or useful. What do you like about the best of them - design, images, colour, message? Make a list of the important things in a good poster.
Use the information you have worked out to design your own poster. First decide on the purpose for the poster. Is there an issue in your neighbourhood you want to call attention to? What are some of the concerns in your local community? Would you like members of your community to join in a special project? How could a poster get across your message?


Because, of course, red-blooded, white-skinned folks like Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, and Adam Lanza pose no threat at all.
When Ball insisted he was speaking for "red-blooded Americans," Morgan reminded him that Tsarnaev is an American citizen.
Not exactly the way you meant to celebrate our annual tribute to red-blooded American masculinity, is it?
Sarah Palin wanted to make it a contest between high falutin', Ivy-League cosmopolitans and red-blooded, bear-hunting Americans.
A red-blooded woman like me to take to altruism, as some take to drugs!
Let's have more of that kind of science story, that thrills every red-blooded American.
They wouldn't flush the toilets in the guardhouse, and some red-blooded American soldiers had to go and pull the chain for them.
Can a red-blooded man really love a girl who would marry for position?
Every fibre in his body was hungering for a full meal of red-blooded meat, the sustaining flesh of deer or caribou.
"having red blood," 1802, from red (adj.1) + blood (n.). Figurative meaning "vigorous, spirited" is recorded from 1877.


Italian studio JM Architecture has completed a three-bedroom villa in the northern Italian town of Jesolo, using tiles by Dutch manufacturer Mosa to cover floors and walls.
Briefed with creating a house for a young family, the architects opted for materials that would be easy to maintain and clean.
Tiles from Dutch manufacturer Mosa's Quartz collection were used throughout the exterior and interior of the property.
"Wood was eliminated from the start as the clients felt it created maintenance and humidity issues," said architect Jacopo Mascheroni. "This limitation became a great advantage in the end as we chose to use Mosa's tile collection."
The pale-coloured ceramic tiles allow light to reflect around the property, and were used to soften its white facade to avoid it becoming "clinical".
"On one side the whiteness helped to create that feeling of openness but on the other side we understood that it could also feel sterile," said Mascheroni.
"The solution was to find another material that played with the whiteness," he added. "We didn't want to reject the whiteness, we wanted to use other materials to enhance its qualities and vice versa – that's why we introduced Mosa ceramics into the design."
A glazed wall on one side of the of the house allows access to a swimming pool and garden area. A second rectangular block runs parallel to the courtyard and houses the bedrooms and bathrooms.
Mosa previewed two new tile collections titled Scenes and Solids at Salone Del Mobile in April. To see the brand's full range of products, visit the Mosa website.
Italian studio JM Architecture designed a three-bedroom villa as part of a larger planned development in Jesolo, a town that stretches 9.3 miles with a width of 0.3 miles along the Adriatic coast, close to Venice in Northern Italy. Their clients, a young couple with newly born twins, were clear about two things in their brief: They wanted a very low-maintenance house, including the outdoor areas; and they wanted to eliminate the use of wood as far as possible – bar the prefabricated wood construction of the house.
Question: There seems to be a lot of emphasis on outdoor space in the design. Why is this?
Jacopo Mascheroni: The objective was to create one fluid space, where indoors and outdoors is very much aligned – in terms of geometries, materials and tones. Working with a small site of 5920 sqf meant that the challenge to create openness was doubled. What really helped at this stage was our knowledge of materials and how we could use them to build and cover the entire site without creating the impression of enclosure. We already had a vision to use Dutch-based company Mosa's ceramic tiles, for example, so those informed decisions made the task at hand a lot easier. Having such beautiful surrounding views definitely encouraged the idea to emphasise the exterior too.
The house has an L-shaped plan, however, it can be read as a rectangular block as one side utilises a large canopy with glazing beyond, giving the impression of transience to help create this openness we wanted to achieve. The block by the pool offers a necessary contrast though, both aesthetically and functionally, as it houses the private spaces such as the bedrooms and bathrooms.
Question: The house appears very white and transparent. How have you managed to create a non-clinical atmosphere?
Jacopo Mascheroni: On one side the whiteness and transparency helped to create that feeling of openness but on the other side we understood that it could also feel sterile, especially without the use of wood finishes in the design. The solution was to find another material that played with the whiteness – we didn't want to reject the whiteness – we wanted to use other materials to enhance its qualities and vice versa. And that's why we introduced Mosa ceramics into the design, our prior experience with the material definitely pushed our thinking towards using an entire 'ceramic skin,' as Mosa refers to it.
Question: So you chose ceramic tiles to create warmth, as an alternative to wood?
Jacopo Mascheroni: Wood was eliminated from the start as the clients felt it created maintenance and humidity issues. This limitation became a great advantage in the end as we chose to use Mosa's ceramic tile collection, named Quartz.
The material not only solved our functional needs, but it also offered a very original aesthetic - it was able to reflect a warm light onto the whiteness. Using Mosa presented a 360-degree solution: we could use the tiles indoors and outdoors; on walls and floors; in the pool and around the pool. There were a variety of sizes, tones and two surfaces available: smooth and rough. Both natural and artificial lighting worked with the tiles to produce a homely atmosphere – away from monotonous white and sameness. This is where we really had to think about the relationship between the materials we wanted to use and lighting.
Question: And how did you do this?
Jacopo Mascheroni: We had to look at how the house would feel during all the seasons, in natural and artificial lighting. In Northern Italy, it gets dark after 5pm so for six months of the year you use artificial lighting. This meant that it was vital to observe how the house would look and function through artificial lighting, but we made natural lighting a priority, as this is what truly creates the atmosphere with the materials.
Question: It's quite a large commitment to use the same material throughout a house – from inside to outside, covering nearly the entire plot. What influenced this decision?
Jacopo Mascheroni: The material itself and the people we were working with. We had used Mosa tiles previously and so we were familiar with the quality of the tile. But what really helped was the one-to-one mock-up we were able to create. We had enough samples to create different test pattern arrangements and we left the tiles to observe their reaction to direct and indirect light over a month – the clients also saw this, which really boosted our confidence in what it would actually look like, as opposed to a showroom scenario which can feel artificial. You can always envision how something will look and you can plan for it, but a good result does not come by chance.
Question: Is there a pattern to the floor design or is the arrangement quite random?
Jacopo Mascheroni: The most important thing to realise when trying to create a beautiful floor is that 50 per cent is given by the material you chose to use and 50 per cent to the pattern that you can give to it. We created a story with our pattern that went as far as to include furniture alignments.
The beauty in the tiles is that as well as their own tone and texture benefits; there is a wide range of formats, from two by 24 inches to 36 by 36 inches in square and rectangular forms. played with the combination of narrow strips with larger tiles, combining different arrangements. This created original detailing for the swimming pool and bathroom areas especially, as these areas required both floor and wall tiles so the size differentiations and tones really added depth. For example, a deeper shade was placed around the pool to give it a frame and define it as its own element. Adding to this, around the poolside, we used a rough finished tile that increased tactility to accommodate for the water. This flexibility is what matters when it comes to using ceramics.
Question: How important was it to JM Architecture to come up with a design that would be sustainable?
Jacopo Mascheroni: All the energy circulates. The entire heating system is electrical – no gas – and this system is powered by the photovoltaic panels laid on the roof. By careful calculations, there are enough panels at the right size to accommodate for seasonal changes in energy use. We managed to understand how many kW of power is needed to run the whole house efficiently and combined with all the passive cooling strategies, the house presents an economical and efficient solution. It was very important to us and relevant to the broader development plan.
Using Mosa tiles was another integral and conscious decision, not only owing to their aesthetics and functionality, but also their environmental significance – the tiles are Cradle-to-Cradle Silver certified, meaning Mosa considers the life cycle of its tiles and this was a great asset to our overall sustainable agenda as the material was used throughout. As well as this, we used LED lighting in the house to keep costs down. There is also radiant floor heating for the colder months.
Question: The first design has been plotted. What happens next?
Jacopo Mascheroni: People understand the language of a space when it is finished. Now we have a prototype to show other buyers what they will actually get, customised to their specifications. Although they will alter in height and size, we will use the same materials, colours, lighting and landscape to create continuity and depth across the whole development – it strengthens the entire concept.


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Gauteng education department's master class in delusion - News24
23 January 2018 - How long the charade will last is hard to tell, but the Gauteng department of education has to date done very well in getting parents, activists, journalists and analysts to focus on almost everything other than the real problems confronting the education of their children.
While it has presented a masterclass in mass delusion, this has come at the cost of the dignity of almost all the participants. In the noise, the truth is lost; worst of all, South Africa's children are no nearer securing the good education they deserve.
The thesis driven by the department is that racism is the greatest obstacle standing in the way of providing access to good schooling for children in the province.
From the Koeitjies en Kalfies Kleuterskool in Centurion to St John's College* in Houghton, and most recently the Hoërskool Overvaal, the department and its officials have been quick to sweep up racial nationalist hysteria in an effort to reinforce the thesis. Along the way, the politicians and officials present themselves as patriotic South Africans whose deep commitment to justice for poor children sees them going to heroic lengths to ensure that every child can be afforded a good education. It is an act that is ever less believable.
Consider some of the national data:
Just over 30% of children aged 0-4 were attending early childhood development centres in 2015.
Of the more than a million children who were in grade 10 in 2014, just over half managed to enrol in grade 12 in 2016. Of the original cohort, only 4/10 passed matric and just over 3% passed maths with a grade of 60% or higher.
The number of children passing maths in matric with a grade of 70% or higher declined by around 30% in the eight years since 2008.
International comparisons routinely put South African maths and literacy results near the bottom of global ranking charts.
In Gauteng:
The number of public schools in the province increased by under 10% since 2000, even though the population of the province increased by more than 40% over the same period.
The proportion of schools with a science laboratory was just over 30% in 2016.
The proportion of schools without a stocked library was estimated at over 40% in 2016.
Levels of pupil pregnancy were estimated to have doubled since 2009.
Both the number and proportion of pupils qualifying for a bachelor's degree entrance fell marginally (but off an already very low base) between 2014 and 2017.
Less than half of the children who wrote maths in matric over the years 2015 to 2017 'passed' with a grade of 40% or higher.
One of the arguments advanced for poor levels of achievement in education is that schools in richer areas refuse to open their doors to poor pupils. This is wrong, as most of these good urban schools are oversubscribed.
The real problem rests in the fact that many urban schools produce very poor results, and this cannot be addressed by sending all their pupils to the minority of schools that maintain high standards.
A second argument is that there is too little money within the State and that officials are therefore unable to provide access to better quality schools. But this argument also falls apart. South Africa's per capita spending on education and its spending as a share of GDP is competitive with emerging markets that outperform it on education benchmarks year after year.
A peripheral argument is that Afrikaans is being used to deny black children access to proper schools. Notwithstanding the fact that a majority of Afrikaans speakers are black and that it is the second most-spoken home language after Zulu and Xhosa (English is behind Afrikaans), only 5% of schools are Afrikaans single-medium schools. It is nonsensical that this figure explains why the majority of children receive such a poor standard of education.
There are strong education policy reasons why one should be cautious about the arguments commonly advanced in explanation of poor education outcomes at school level, and these are often lost in the noise and emotion.
IRR research, some of which is soon to be published, shows that high levels of parental and community decision-making over school policy is important in achieving good results. There is also an important body of evidence that mother-tongue education may improve the learning potential of pupils.
It is overlooked that the demand to be taught in English may be the primary reason for poor levels of education achievement among non-mother tongue speakers. But South Africans cannot even examine the evidence when politicians and activists adopt the default position that mother-tongue education is code for racism.
There is also a lot of hypocrisy in the debate about school education, with many commentators and parents educating their own children in their mother tongue or sending them to excellent government schools with high levels of parental management involvement, or even private schools – but demanding that politicians deny other parents similar decision-making autonomy over how to raise their children. It is enlightening to ask any activist who makes such demands where they were educated or where they send their own children to be educated.
The more compelling reasons why only 3/100 children will get a good maths pass in matric, and why approximately half of children will drop out of school, relate to corruption, poor planning, and ineffective management of existing resources.
Denying a child the chance of a bright future will drive any parent to extreme levels of anger. Politicians who, with good reason, are afraid of the consequences, especially in a politically vulnerable province like Gauteng, would rather that parents did not come to focus on things like below 50% pass rates in maths. Hence the effort made to focus public anger on other issues such as racism and Afrikaans.
The political formula is easy: make some outrageous allegation based on a sliver of truth and appeal to the media's bent for the pitiful drama put into motion when the most reptilian of politicians conspire through half-truths and populist incitement to turn two fundamentally decent but equally desperate racial or ethnic communities against each other and threaten violent disorder. Ferry in a crowd of protesters, make sure some wet-behind-the-ears click-bait focused junior journalist fresh out of media school is there with his or her cellphone to draw the voyeuristic public into the wretched scenes of the desperate parents fighting for the chance that their children might go to a good school. Then bring out the riot police, and you are assured of another week of not having to answer tough questions about the schools your department runs.
None of the participants come out looking good, least of all the journalists who milked the desperation behind the Overvaal clashes almost to the point of public entertainment. It would have been no less distasteful had they staged physical fights between parents in their newsrooms, sold tickets to the spectacle, and promised a bursary to the child of the winner.
As for the official political opposition, the best it could muster was to make some asinine remarks about inclusion and unity and the importance of not resorting to violence. If it thinks telling South Africans to unite and not throw rocks at each other is a policy position that can provide the leadership to resolve crises on tough issues such as those at Overvaal, then it has a hell of a surprise coming in the 2019 election.
There has of late been criticism of the vacuous nature of the communications and policy thinking of the official opposition. Its inability to muster any intelligent analysis or adopt any firm position on the Overvaal crisis was another disappointment.
Root out racism where it exists – of the importance of this there is no question. But parents, commentators and journalists should be careful not to be so easily swayed by populist politicians and media fervour that they come to overlook (or even remain unaware of) the more substantive reasons pointing to why many children are still denied a good education.
- Frans Cronje is a scenario planner and CEO of the IRR – a think tank that promotes political and economic freedom.
*The author attended St John's College, but holds no position on any governance or other body of the school.
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NY Times Polls Teenagers on Kavanaugh Allegations
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By Teddy Bunker | Monday, 24 September 2018 05:11 PM
The New York Times has surveyed teenagers across the country about the allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault when he was a teenager.
"We need to send a message that people should respect men and women," said Amy Zhou, a 17-year-old high school senior from Scottsdale, Arizona. "Kavanaugh's going to be upholding the supreme law of the land, so obviously he's supposed to embody that principle."
The newspaper conducted interviews with teenagers across the country, many of whom expressed concern and dismay that adults would dismiss the claims made by Christine Blasey Ford, whose story is very recognizable to them.
"When a girl has come to school after a weekend party and says someone made her feel uncomfortable, she's called a drama queen," said Brennan Leach, a 17-year-old senior from Wayne, Pennsylvania. "People would say she's fabricating stories for attention. The language being used by a lot of Republicans is eerily similar to the way boys sound in high school."
"Boys will learn that what you do in high school won't affect your future at all, so go do the damage you need to do now," said 17-year-old Maycee Wieczorek of Rapid City, South Dakota.
"A boy is figuring out how to be a man, but girls are told, 'You better shape up in order to be respected,'" she continued, noting that girls at her school are frequently given detention for wearing "distracting" clothing, but not boys.
"It's telling girls you exist as an object for someone else's attention, rather than you're here to learn and that your education is important," she said.
McConnell: Kavanaugh 'Will Receive a Vote On' Senate Floor
Scalise: Senate Needs to Weigh All the Evidence on Kavanaugh
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State of Mato Grosso
Municipal Flags of Mato Grosso
Brazilian Subnational Flags
A green flag with a red saltire, fimbriated white, and the municipal arms on a centerd white rectangle.
Official website at http://www.barradobugres.mt.gov.br.
Dirk Schönberger, 17 November 2010
The municipality of Barra do Bugres (34,312 inhabitants in 2010; 7,229 sq. km) is located in southwestern Mato Grosso, 160 km of Cuiabá. The municipality is made of the town of Barra do Bugres proper and of the districts of Assari, Curupira and Nova Fernandópolis.
Barra do Bugres was founded in 1878, as Barra do Rio Bugres, by colonists exploiting ipecacuanha (Carapichae ipecacuanha (Brot.) L. Andersson, Family Rubiaceae). Ipecacuanha was transported by boat on river Paraguai to Cacéres and the Brazilian sea ports. In the beginning of the 20th century, river transport dramatically increased, which boosted the development of Cacéres and Barra do Bugres. In 1926, rebels of the Coluna Prestes movement led by Siqueira Campos invaded Barra do Bugres, killing 15 of its defenders, sacking and burning the town. The municipality of Barra de Bugres was created by Decree No. 545 of 3 December 1943, with parts from the municipalities of Diamantino, Cáceres and Rosário Oeste, and inaugurated on 19 April 1944.
The flag of Barra do Bugres, designed by Alcione Antônio Peixoto de Farias, is prescribed by Decree-Law No. 322, adopted in 1971. As usual with Peixoto de Farias' design, the coat of arms represents the municipal government, the white rectangle represents the town as the seat of the municipality and the saltire symbolize the municipal power spreading over the whole municipality.
The coat of arms, also designed by Alcione Antônio Peixoto de Farias, blazons as: "Argent an ipecacuanha plant surrounded by two rubber trees all vert the point indented gules charged with two converging fesses wavy argent. The shield surmounted by an eight-towered mural crown argent. The shield supported by wooden trunks holding a scroll [gules] charged with "Barra do Bugres", flanked by years "1944" and "1966" [or]." The shield is of the first model of Portuguese shield, of French influence, used in the Brazilian heraldry by the colonizing race and main component of our nationality. The mural crown symbolizes the town ("cidade") as the seat of a country ("comarca"). Argent (silver) symbolizes peace, friendship, work, prosperity and purity. The ipecacuanha and the rubber trees vert (green) represent the most important natural resources of the municipality. Vert (sinople) symbolizes honor, civility, courtesy, joy, abundance and hope, as well as the fields greening in spring, promising big harvests. The indentation gules (red) represents the Tapirapuã mountains crossing the municipal territory. The fess wavy argent (silver) represents River Paraguai while the second fess represents river Bugres, on which the town is located. The wood trunks represent timber industry, including mahogany, a main source of income for the municipality. The red scroll is charged with the name of the municipality and the years "1944" and "1966", the year of political emancipation and of upgrading of the place status to a "cidade" seat of a country, respectively.
http://www.barradobugres.mt.gov.br/Hino-Bandeira-Brasao - Municipal website
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CurveBeam's Top 5 Moments of 2016
Founded in 2009, the news of CurveBeam and its advanced, compact 3D imaging devices spread quickly among orthopedic and podiatric specialists. Just three years later, the CurveBeam pedCAT system cleared the FDA. Without losing any momentum, CurveBeam Europe LTD's office was opened in London in 2013. Even with all of these notable accomplishments, 2016 shines as the most impressive year for CurveBeam thus far. From our President and CEO, Arun Singh, receiving a lifetime achievement award to our expansion into the Asian market, 2016 has been a year to remember.
Take a look at the top five most significant moments for CurveBeam in 2016.
President and CEO Arun Singh presented the Lifetime Achievement Award
"In recognition and appreciation of [his] visionary contributions to the advancement of Cone Beam Computed Tomography," the American Association of Dental Maxillofacial Radiographic Technicians presented Arun Singh with the Carl Gugino Lifetime Achievement Award on October 7th. The award was presented to him by Mr. Jerry Peck, who owns dental imaging centers in the San Francisco area. In his speech, Mr. Peck described when Arun installed a Tomax system in one of his offices 27 years ago. He described how Arun worked overnight to create the software code Mr. Peck needed to run the calculations for the measurements he was looking for.
"This is the type of person, how bright, smart, ingenious, he is. I mean, overnight, all of a sudden, the program is written," Mr. Peck said.
Mr. Peck went on to describe how Arun cofounded Imaging Sciences and developed both the CommCAT and I-CAT, which were game changers for dental professionals.
"Today, you look at what is the most successful CBCT company in the world, and you built it Arun," Mr. Peck said.
2. First Weight Bearing Users Meeting is Held
Focusing on the applications of the weight bearing cone beam CT, the first pedCAT Weight Bearing CT Scientific User's Meeting was held at the 2016 Foot International in Berlin, Germany. "We can't have non-weight bearing CTs and say anything about alignment – that's over. What do we want to measure, and how do we know what we're measuring represents reality?" said Dr. Charles Saltzman as he emphasized the importance of WBCT at the meeting.
3. First Podiatry School is Outfitted with pedCAT System
The Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine became the first podiatry school to implement the revolutionary pedCAT cone beam CT imaging system. "Kent State University is proud to be the first facility in the Northeast Ohio region to provide this state-of-the-art imaging modality," said Dr. Allan Boike, Dean and Professor of Foot and Ankle Surgery at KSUCPM. "The CurveBeam pedCAT will allow the college to improve the foot and ankle health of the community while providing the highest quality education for our students and research opportunities for our faculty and residents."
4. Ben Franklin and Susan B. Anthony See the pedCAT System
Philadelphia is a city well known for its rich history, and CurveBeam is proud to be in its next chapter, as the company is now headquartered in this remarkable town. At the APMA "The National" meeting this summer, historical interpreters acting as Ben Franklin and Susan B. Anthony visited the CurveBeam booth to learn more about the revolutionary pedCAT technology.
5.CurveBeam Expands International Presence to Asia
Not only has CurveBeam expanded its domestic presence, the use of the technology worldwide is also growing. The pedCAT system received notable attention at the 2016 National Foot & Ankle Surgery Symposium in Qingdao, China, as CurveBeam's Chinese partners presented the weight bearing CT technology to the audience of medical professionals.
It's been quite a ride since our original team pioneered cone beam CT imaging technology for the podiatric specialty. As we gear up to expand into new orthopedic specialties, we could not be more excited for what 2017 will bring!
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