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ASU search for water on moon seeks important answers
Scott Seckel
Arizona State University's NASA mission to visit a metal asteroid is just beginning, but the first mission that marked the school as a major player in space exploration has been under way for more than a year.
LunaH-Map, the Lunar Hydrogen Polar Mapper, will launch in September 2018. Its task will be to find water and ice at the south pole of the moon, and map the deposits.
ASU Now spoke with principal investigator Craig Hardgrove, an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration about the science behind the mission, what will be built on its discoveries, and why there isn't a hockey rink buried on the moon.
Why look for water and ice on the moon? It can be used for fuel and drinking water in the push to Mars, saving an enormous amount of space and payload weight on spacecraft.
"That's the geologic question we're trying to answer about the moon: how much (water and ice) is there on a moderate spatial scale, so we can send a rover and really get at how much water is there," Hardgrove said.
Scientists aren't sure about how water and ice appear on the moon. It is likely deposited by two things: solar wind or passing asteroids and comets. Protons from solar wind are implanted into the lunar surface, then they combine with an electron to form a hydrogen atom. The hydrogen atom binds with oxygen and forms hydroxyl atoms.
Asteroids and comets carry water. "Those are dirty ice balls, basically," Hardgrove said, carrying 50 to 80 percent water. As they get close to the sun, they shed water.
"Those could be passing by, depositing water on bodies like the moon," he said. "So maybe that's the explanation for why it's enriched in certain regions and not others."
LunaH Map will carry a neutron counter. As it flies over the south pole of the moon, it measures neutrons that leak from the moon's surface. There's a base number of counts you'd expect for a dry moon: around 50 parts per million water.
"Very, very dry," Hardgrove remarked. "At the pole, it's maybe 200, up to 500 parts per million and in some small regions we know that it's 5000 to 50,000 parts per million, it's really enriched. We just don't know exactly where those regions are."
No one knows where the hydrogen is, or how much of it is there. And is it all implanted by solar wind? It's an important geologic question. If it is, maybe the small amounts of hydrogen at the poles have moved around somehow, possibly by meteorite impacts. Maybe the moon's poles have moved throughout geologic time. Scientists aren't sure, but hydrogen gets remobilized and concentrated in permanently shadowed craters at the poles.
No one knows how much is there. Hardgrove suspects it's on the order of a couple hundred parts per million. There isn't a good answer for why you would get 5,000 parts per million or 50,000 parts per million. That's around five percent water – a lot for the moon. Certain parts of Mars have that much water – the north pole of Mars is pure ice – but the moon isn't Mars, and no one knows how that much water appears on the moon.
How would you find out whether the water came from an asteroid or comet, or somehow was inherent to the moon? A rover would have to collect samples and analyze isotope ratios with a mass spectrometer.
The maps LunaH Map will create may be used by NASA to decide where to land a rover to do exactly that.
"We're talking about identifying regions that are several kilometers wide where hydrogen is enriched," Hardgrove said. "And then NASA could plan for future missions where you want to land your rover, because now we're on the scale of the landing ellipse. NASA will know that the hydrogen is somewhere in that patch of ground."
That mission, called Resource Prospector, is already in the planning stages. It's going to have to be one of the toughest rovers ever built, because it's going to dip its toe into one of the coldest places in the solar system, places which have never, ever seen sunlight. Think as low as -400 degrees below Fahrenheit.
Electronics and hardware may not be able to survive. The rover will carry the same instrument LunaH Map will: a neutron detector. What the rover would do is land in the illuminated areas and do what NASA calls "toe dips" into the darkness.
"Resource Prospector could toe dip in, scoop and come back out and do the analysis," Hardgrove said. "But they're worried that if they take that sample out, all of the water, if it's in there, it's just going to sublimate immediately. So then they have to do their analysis in the dark to figure out how much is actually there, or seal it up somehow. It's a difficult problem to figure out how to assess what's really down there, just because it's some of the coldest parts of the solar system."
Any ice down there would be bound up somehow with the regolith, the loose dust, dirt, and rock covering the bedrock. It would have to be extracted for human use with some kind of refining process. It won't be like chipping ice off a cliff and melting it on a winter camping trip. And, while golf has been played on the moon, it is unlikely hockey will enjoy the same privilege.
"We don't think it's like an ice skating rink or anything," Hardgrove said. "That would be a very different method for moon formation than anything we're familiar with."


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Farmakas and the wider Troodos mountain region of Cyprus offer ideal climatic conditions, geography and general environment for taking some time to relax. From more refreshing summer seasons in Cyprus, blooming spring times, adventurous autumn days, to cosy snowy winters.
Take in some nature, history, culture, adventure, or simply some time to yourselves to soak in the clean air, vast nature, and slow pace of life. This is Farmakas living every day.
– and even working (yeap!). Taking some time away from the office to go up to the mountains and work can be a great way to work at your own pace and be creatively inspired.
Overall, mountain type of relaxation can also be considered as recuperation, or even rehabilitation. Many doctors might advise of slow, calm recovery, with plenty of relaxation time, nice climate and healthy diet for healing better, as well as other suggested activities by your doctors. Mountain village lifestyle such as in Farmakas can indeed offer this environment. Furthermore, Cyprus is also growing in reputation as a medical tourism destination, as it is widely considered to offer the ideal rehabilitation setting, together with advance medical facilities and services.
Of course you must always consult your doctor about what surroundings are practices are ideal for your particular condition, and then compare and see.
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Le Championnat d'Afrique de volley-ball féminin des moins de 20 ans est une compétition réservée aux équipes nationales des moins de 20 ans, elle se déroule tous les deux ans et est organisée par la Confédération Africaine de Volleyball.

Palmarès détaillé

Premières éditions

La première édition s'est déroulée en aout 1986 à Sétif en Algérie avec seulement deux pays engagés. L'Égypte remporte ses deux matchs face à l'Algérie :
 vendredi 15 aout 1986 :  2-3
 lundi 18 aout 1986 :  3-0

La troisième édition s'est déroulée en juillet 1990 à Kélibia en Tunisie. Parmi les résultats, l'Égypte s'impose deux fois face à la Tunisie, le second match disputé le jeudi 26 juillet 1990 s'étant soldé par une victoire 3-0 (15-11; 15-12 et 15-06).

Depuis 2002

Tableau des médailles

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Championnat d'Afrique féminin de volley-ball
 Championnat d'Afrique masculin de volley-ball des moins de 21 ans

Liens externes
 Palmarès sur Todor66.com

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I conducted research into methods of selecting electron-like neutrinos using a neural network. Neural networks produced more complex, non-linear cuts upon numbers which define each neutrino seen in Super-K.
For outreach related to Super-Kamiokande see Super-K Sonic Booooum! or Jiggling Atoms.


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Q: Varying length of MD5 checksum in python I use the following code to compute the binary representation of MD5 hashcode.
MD5 is always 128 bytes, and bin returns a string starting with "0b". Therefore, the length of md5_bin must always be 130, but when I run the program, it varies between 128 and 130, on different values of random_str.
md5_bin = bin(int(hashlib.md5(random_str).hexdigest(),16))`
print len(md5_bin)

A: Sure, MD5 is always 128 bytes, but sometimes the first byte is a 0, and occasionally the second byte is too.
Think of it this way: the decimal string '15' and the decimal '0015' are both the same number 15. When you ask Python to convert the int 15 to a string, you're going to get '15', not '0015'. It has no way of knowing that you wanted 4 digits instead of 2:
>>> n = int('0015')
>>> str(n)
'15'

And it's the same with bin. It has no way of knowing that you wanted 128 bits instead of 126. You gave it a number with 126 bits, so it gives you 126 binary digits.
But you can tell it you want that, e.g., with a format spec:
bits = format(md5_bin, '0128b')

… or, equivalently:
bits = '{:0128b}'.format(md5_bin)

If you want the 0b prefix, you can add that:
bits = format(md5_bin, '#0128b')
bits = '{md5_bin:#0128b}'.format(md5_bin)
bits = '0b{md5_bin:0128b}'.format(md5_bin)

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George-Étienne Cartier lived in this upper-middle-class house on Notre-Dame Street in Montreal between 1848 and 1872, from the beginning to the end of his brilliant political career. The most memorable of his achievements is no doubt the fact that he was one of the principal architects of Canadian Confederation. He also made a significant contribution to the expansion of Canada to the west. Entirely furnished in the style preferred by the Cartier family, the residence gives visitors a glimpse of the interior of a Victorian home in the 19th century and the lifestyle of its inhabitants. Visitors can also enjoy reading about the political debates in the lead-up to the creation of Canada and the positions that Cartier defended.
In Montreal, the House of Sir George-Étienne Cartier offers the public the rare privilege of visiting the interior of a luxurious home in the second half of the 19th century. It has been faithfully restored and includes some items that belonged to the members of this influential family. The affluence of the Cartier family is reflected in the elegant furniture, the fine woodwork and the delicate yet abundant decor. At first glance, these features confirm the elevated social status of the inhabitants. Travel trunks, photographs, office accessories, sewing materials, china and other items give us a good idea as to their lifestyle.
Inspired by the diaries of Hortense and Joséphine, two of the Cartier-Fabre couple's three daughters, the items exhibited in their rooms suggest evoke certain aspects of the lives of these two young upper-middle-class ladies of Montreal. During the Christmas period, visitors can discover a mixture of English and French traditions that the Cartier family liked to celebrate at that time of the year. Like many members of the French-Canadian elite at the time, the Cartiers were influenced by the power that the British had over Quebec, Canada and a large part of the world. Indeed, when Cartier had a discussion with the Queen of England, he allegedly declared that the people who lived in Lower Canada were Englishmen who spoke French. This comment did not, however, apply to the entire French-Canadian population, many of whose members remained very attached to their French origins.
During the period of great political instability from 1850 to 1860, Cartier played a decisive role in developing Canadian Confederation. Convinced of the superiority of British institutions, in comparison with those in the United States, Cartier developed, promoted and negotiated a political project inspired by British traditions, but tailored to Canada. In this sense, his specific aim was to guarantee equal rights for both Francophones and Anglophones. The federal level of this proposed confederation was to have more powers that the provincial levels, which nonetheless benefitted from specific powers in such fields as education and culture, which were important for the French Canadians.
Among the artisans of Canada, Cartier was the main promoter of a decentralized state that would maintain a certain balance between the powers of the federal government and those of the provinces. This compromise finally gained enough support and led to the creation of Canadian Confederation in 1867, which lasts to this day.
On the issue of Francophone rights, the application of the Canadian political system did not produce results that were as favourable as Cartier had hoped. In the provinces where the majority of citizens were Anglophones, the right to education in French was rapidly restricted, or even virtually eliminated. At the federal level, Anglophones, who also were in the majority in Canada as a whole, quickly came to dominate the political scene and marginalized the Francophone communities outside Quebec, where the only Francophone majority was located. The project for which Cartier had fought thus only partially resisted the application of the principles on which it was based. This situation persisted until very recently, when reforms associated with the patriation of the Canadian Constitution from London to Ottawa in 1982 enabled minority Francophones to recover certain essential rights, such as the right to education in French.
The important contribution that Cartier made to the creation of Canada is not the only legacy of this eminent politician. In 1868, he went to London to negotiate the transfer of the vast private territory held by the Hudson's Bay Company to the fledging Canada rather than to the United States, which also wanted to acquire Alaska. The purchase of this territory in 1870 greatly increased the geographic territory of Canada, particularly towards the west. Cartier also played a key role in the admission of Manitoba into Confederation in 1870, and then British Columbia in 1871. He was also one of the architects of the Canadian transcontinental railway, in which he had hidden interests that created a scandal. Finally, in Quebec, he participated in the enactment of the Municipalities Act, in school reforms and in the implementation of the Quebec Civil Code.


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New York Mets: Whenever Adrian Gonzalez is done, Peter Alonso will be waiting
Justin Birnbaum
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Adrian Gonzalez has been fine thus far for the New York Mets, but at some point, he's going to become a liability. That's where Peter Alonso comes in.
We all know the day is coming where Adrian Gonzalez will have to make way for a younger option at first base for the New York Mets. It seemed safe to assume that his successor would come in the form of Dominic Smith, but after a scorching hot start to the season, Peter Alonso is playing his way into the future plans of the New York Mets.
On Jan. 18, 2018, general manager Sandy Alderson plucked Gonzalez from baseball obscurity. Earlier in the offseason, the Los Angeles Dodgers shipped the five-time All-Star to the Atlanta Braves, who in turn designated Gonzalez for assignment.
Adding Gonzalez to the fold served two purposes for the Mets—to light a fire under Smith and to squeeze every last drop of baseball left in A-Gon's aging body. But Alonso may have been the true beneficiary of the move.
Given the hype surrounding Smith, the casual fan may not be too familiar with Alonso, so I will oblige you with a short introduction.
A native of Tampa, Florida, Alonso was a standout at Henry B. Plant High School and opted to play his college ball in-state at the University of Florida. Primarily playing first base for the Gators, Alonso earned All-SEC honors during his freshman season. Just a few years later, he would play an integral role on the UF team that qualified for the opening round of the 2016 College World Series.
With their third selection in the 2016 MLB Draft, the Mets picked Alonso 64th overall. He signed with the organization for a bonus just north of $900,000.
At 21 years old, Alonso debuted with short-season Single-A Brooklyn Cyclones where he slashed .321/.382/.587 with five home runs and 21 RBI in 30 games.
The following season, he spent 82 games in Advanced-A ball playing for the St. Lucie Mets before garnering a promotion to Double-A Binghamton. Over the course of 2017, Alonso batted .289/.359/.524 with 18 home runs and 63 RBI split across two levels.
Standing six-foot-three, Alonso currently ranks as the seventh-best first base prospect in baseball, as well as the fourth best in the Mets system, per MLB.com.
Like his major league club did over the first few weeks of the 2018 season, he has gotten off to a scorching hot start. Alonso is absolutely mashing the ball for the Rumble Ponies, slashing .378/.496/.694 with eight home runs and 25 RBI in just 28 games.
Luis Rojas has been the manager in Binghamton since 2011 when they were still the Binghamton Mets and not the Rumble Ponies. When talking about Alonso, he had high praise for his young first baseman.
"He's probably the best hitter from the right side I've seen since I've been in the Mets organization," Rojas told Mark W. Sanchez of the New York Post. "You got to put the word 'special' there — he's very special. The guy he reminds me, he reminds me of [Michael] Conforto. … I mean, anything you threw to [Conforto], he squared it. It's the same thing as Alonso.
You're talking about a pure hitter with power. It's one of those rare combinations. Sometimes a good hitter turns into a power hitter later, but this guy's both."
Now, I'd be the first person to tell you that the Mets farm system isn't exactly a waterfall spitting out elite right-handed talent at the plate, but you cannot ignore the sentiment. His minor league numbers and high praise from his manager speak a lot to the potential of this young man.
Originally, Dominic Smith was seen as the future of this organization at first base. However, a poor 2017 coupled with a part-injured, part-ineffective Spring Training led to him opening the season in Triple-A.
Smith is batting .279/.394/.423 with two home runs and 12 RBI, but in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League, that seems a bit pedestrian. Additionally, the fact that Alonso demonstrated significant power consistently through his minor league career may just give him enough of an edge to jump Smith to the major leagues.
In 530 minor league at-bats, Alonso has cracked 31 home runs, while Smith has only hit 42 in 2,142. Alonso is leaving the yard at an astronomically higher rate than Smith.
For now, it doesn't look like Adrian Gonzalez is going anywhere. Despite the Mets season spiraling downward (the club has dropped six of their last seven series), Gonzalez has been a pleasant surprise at the plate.
His batting average and on-base percentage are lower than where we would all like them to be at .247 and .324 respectively, but A-Gon has slugged five home runs and driven 20 RBI while picking up some very clutch hits. Gonzalez also continues to contribute defensively despite his age.
The four-time Gold Glove Award winner still can pick it at first, an area Alonso himself needs to improve on. Alonso committed 19 errors in 83 games last year but looks to be already on a much more acceptable pace with only two through 28 games in 2018.
The Adrian Gonzalez signing is already a win for Sandy Alderson. Not many people expected much out of him and he's already demonstrated that he does have a little bit of gas left in the tank.
However, it will not last forever and for all we know, the Mets could need a first baseman by mid-summer.
Speaking from one Mets fan to another, you should get excited about Peter Alonso. He has hit at every level in the minor leagues and has the chance to join this club and become an impact bat. While the first base situation looks cloudy right now, the future looks bright with Alonso in the pipeline.
For more on Alonso, check out Ricky Keeler's column on him as the first baseman of the future.
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Q: How can I change the admin search posts fields? I have a custom post type that includes many custom fields.
I would like to add them as a search target to admin search.
Currently the admin search searches only the content and the title, I would like it to search these custom fields as well.
Is there a way to do that ?

A: It is possible, but you'll have to play a little bit with the actual query. As always, the furious posts_clauses filter comes to action:
function wpse_alter_posts_search( $pieces )
{
    global $wpdb;

    // Make the input save
    $search_string = like_escape( $_GET['s'] );

    // Your new WHERE clause
    $where  = $wpdb->prepare(
        "$wpdb->postmeta.%s LIKE %s",
        'YOUR_COLUMN', // Should match your col name 1)
        "%{$search_string}%"
    );

    // Not sure if this exactly the same on your install 2)
    $pieces['where'] = str_replace( 'AND (((', "AND ((({$where} ", $pieces['where'] );

    return $pieces;
}
add_filter( 'posts_clauses', 'wpse_alter_posts_search' );

NOTES

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*Could be that you need to unserialize some parts to be search able.

*You better simply dump the $pieces to take a look into them, before altering the query (right after the $search_string was received).

A: kaiser's answer got me on the right track but I had to join the postmeta table and add a group by as well.
Now like_escape is $wpdb->esc_like. Replace [your_post_type] with your post type and [your_postmeta_key] with your meta key:
//join postmeta for search
add_filter( 'posts_join' , function($join){
    global $wpdb;
    if(is_search() && is_admin() && $_GET['post_type'] == '[your_post_type]')
    {
     $join .= " LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta ON $wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->postmeta.post_id ";
    }
     return $join;
});

//search [your_postmeta_key] for search string
add_filter( 'posts_where', function( $where )
{
    global $wpdb;
    if(is_search() && is_admin() && $_GET['post_type'] == '[your_post_type]')
    {
        $searchstring = '%' . $wpdb->esc_like( $_GET['s'] ) . '%';
        //search [your_postmeta_key] as well
        $where .= $wpdb->prepare(" OR ($wpdb->postmeta.meta_key = '[your_postmeta_key]' AND $wpdb->postmeta.meta_value LIKE %s) ", $searchstring);
    }
    return $where;
});

//group by post ID
add_filter( 'posts_groupby', function ($groupby, $query) {

    global $wpdb;
    if(is_search() && is_admin() && $_GET['post_type'] == '[your_post_type]')
    {
        $groupby = "{$wpdb->posts}.ID";
    }
    return $groupby;

}, 10, 2 );


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Is it British to Ban the Face-Veil? 10 October 2013
Why has Britain become so obsessed with an item of clothing known as the niqab worn by a minority of women? In the last few weeks there has been an influx of media commentaries and heightened discourse on this issue. Burka and niqab are two terms which are commonly used to describe a face-veil. The niqab in essence is a face-veil covering the entire face leaving the area around the eyes uncovered. The burka covers the whole body including the face with a mesh or voile around the eyes.
The row was prompted by Conservative MP Philip Hollobone, who refuses to meet constituents who wear the veil and in addition tabled a Bill making it illegal to wear 'face coverings' in public.
The Bill states: 'A person wearing a garment or other objects intended by the wearer as its primary purpose to obscure the face in a public place shall be guilty of an offence.' Following this, a college in Birmingham, introduced a ban on the niqab, citing the need to identify students on campus; a counter protest led to a swift reversal of the decision. Meanwhile, Lib Dem Jeremy Browne called for a debate on women wearing face-veils in public places arguing: 'We should be very cautious about imposing religious conformity on a society which has always valued freedom of expression.'
Societal Problem?
A number of European countries have decried the veil as being incompatible with their secular values and they have therefore legislated restrictions that impose fines or imprisonment for those who break the law. Belgium and France have become the first European countries to impose a nationwide ban on the wearing of the face-veil in public.
It is argued that the face-veil should be banned in Britain for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is a symbol of male supremacy and oppresses women; secondly, it hinders integration and communication; thirdly, it is perceived as a security threat; fourthly, it is not British; and finally, that it is not a religious requirement but a cultural practice adopted by Muslim misogynists to repress women.
Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston said in the Telegraph last month: 'Women should be clear that the burka is a symbol not of liberation but of repression and segregation.' There has been a history of Western politicians condemning the veil as sinister, misogynist and oppressive since the epoch of colonialism. For example, Evelyn Baring, the Earl of Cromer who served as Britain's first Consul General of Egypt between 1883 and 1907. Cromer believed that the veil was degrading for women and a 'fatal obstacle' hence 'mental and moral development' may only be attained by discarding this practice. Countries like Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded on the premise of freeing women from the shackles of oppression but sadly, the plight of women has not improved significantly.
The negative depictions of Muslim women are not completely unfounded though; Muslim women do struggle for gender equality and are oppressed in some parts of the world, as is the case for many non-Muslim women. These misrepresentations have been compounded by a profound ignorance of egalitarian teachings of Islam and by some Muslims misinterpreting the Qur'an to justify sexual oppression, inequality and patriarchy. But is banning an item of clothing going to emancipate these women? Muslim women are oppressed in many other ways, not necessarily by what they wear.
The debate has been exacerbated further with the Health Minister launching a review of the guidelines on face-veils within the National Health Service; surely, there is not an epidemic of veiled professionals in our NHS? Security of individuals is paramount and Muslim women who wear the face-veil are known to comply with security checks; hence there is no need to impose a general ban at airports and other public places. It is also important to acknowledge that we have extremely sophisticated new technologies that use eye recognition and fingerprints, these are more precise than face recognition.
Obsession with this Simple Piece of Clothing is Fuelling Anti-Muslim Sentiments
In their quest to 'liberate' the minuscule number of women who wear the face-veil, Home Office Minister Mr. Browne and others fail to understand that patriarchy and subjugation of women will not be eliminated by banning the veil. In fact it will further alienate and marginalise them. Forcing women to uncover is inherently antithetical. A ban is self defeating – it will fuel anti-Muslim sentiment and sow seeds of intolerance and resentment in the hearts and minds of society. Those calling for a veil ban in Britain must not be oblivious to the aftermath of former president Nicolas Sarkozy's draconian legislation in 2011. This has not only stigmatised Muslim women but has been a carte blanche for physical and verbal assaults on them.
One case involved a pregnant 21-year-old in the town of Argenteuil, north-west of Paris, in June this year. The woman was assaulted by two men who verbally abused her, then attacked her physically and consequently, she ended up having a miscarriage. In addition, only days after Nicolas Sarkozy gave a major policy speech denouncing the burka; Marwa Ali El-Sherbini a German resident of Egyptian origin was killed in 2009 during an appeal hearing at a court of law in Dresden, Germany. She was stabbed by Alex Wiens. Marwa El-Sherbini was in the dock in a German court giving evidence of how the accused had hurled abuse at her for wearing the headscarf after she asked him to let her son sit on a swing last summer. The very same man strode across the Dresden courtroom and plunged a knife into her eighteen times.
The ban in France is a breach of basic freedoms and if put into practice in Britain, will only curtail liberty and freedom of expression.
Religious Requirement or an Archaic Tradition?
It is inevitable that in a minority of cases a woman might be coerced into wearing the face-veil, but similarly a woman (or a man for that matter) might be coerced into any other activity. This is the exception not the norm. Most women in the UK who wear the veil, choose to do so out of a sense of religious obligation; there's no evidence that women here are being forced to do so.
The argument that the face-veil is not a religious requirement but a relic of an archaic tradition, later adopted by misogynistic Muslims, is not plausible because some of the classical and mainstream scholars of Islam unanimously maintain that the niqab is predicated upon the basic principles of Islamic law. However, there is a difference of opinion amongst the scholars; some are of the view that the niqab is an obligation, while others consider it to be recommended or permissible.
Why is it not British to Ban the Face-Veil?
For Britain to follow the example of countries like France and Belgium and impose a ban would be detrimental for relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, creating an 'us' and 'them' dichotomy. It would further isolate and seclude the very women the ban is supposed to liberate. Treating innocent law-abiding women as criminals is not going to help with integration. Instead, it will increase in polarisation. Banning the face-veil will incarcerate women in their homes; it will deny them access to public space while ensuring continued male dependency; this is blatantly, counter-productive to what the ban is trying to achieve.
We are proud of British traditions and values which include freedom of speech, and the freedom to practice one's religious beliefs. Banning the face-veil is not British; a great British tradition is respect for other cultures and religions – for centuries we have been doing this far better than any other country in the world.
To ban any religious symbol be it the Sikh turban, the Jewish kippah or the Muslim face-veil is to display narrow-mindedness and reflects an undertone of secular fundamentalism. Liberal democracy is about respect for other cultures and religions. Surely in a free society one must have the autonomy to choose rather than being compelled to conform.
We need to continue to uphold our core principle of diversity: that means showing respect for difference. A fair and just society for all is built upon the foundation of upholding the rights of others even if we disagree with, or dislike the choices that they may make.
Muslim men who force women to cover and Western politicians who force them to uncover are equally unacceptable.
If women can chose to wear as little as they like then they should also be able to choose to wear as much as they like. Like other women, Muslim women should also have the independence to choose to wear what they want.
Surely the European world is entrenched in a myriad of social, economic and political concerns that have a greater impact on society than a simple piece of cloth?
About Sajda Khan
Sajda Khan is a British writer and is currently completing a PhD on the topic of Islam in contemporary society.
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Magnolia is from the eternal city Rome. The music is dominated by Chiara Gironi great, sometimes jazzy female vocals. She adds a lot of soul and colours to a pretty standard folksy jazzy art rock sound. Music performed with keyboards, guitars, bass, drums and piano. The music almost have a chamber orchestra feel.
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Eduardo dos Reis Carvalho (Mirandela, Portugal. 19 de septiembre de 1982), más conocido como Eduardo, es un exfutbolista portugués que jugaba de portero.

Selección nacional
Comenzó a jugar en la selección de fútbol de Portugal en la clasificación de UEFA para la Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2010.

Debutó con la selección el 11 de febrero de 2009 en un amistoso contra , jugando los primeros 60 minutos. Después de haber estrenado por la selección nacional, logró imponerse como titular en el arco para jugar todos los encuentros de clasificación.
El 1 de junio de 2010, fue incluido en la lista del plantel de 23 jugadores que estarían en la Copa Mundial de 2010. Debutó en el Mundial 15 de junio de 2010, frente a . Aquí, Eduardo tuvo que soportar varias críticas que consideraban que el portero no estaba a la altura de la selección.

El 29 de junio contra , hizo una excelente exposición, atajando numerosos disparos a puerta de los jugadores españoles, y para muchos fue el mejor jugador en el campo, pero su esfuerzo fue "banal", aun así no pudo impedir la eliminación de Portugal. De acuerdo con un informe del periódico público dos días después de la confrontación con España, Eduardo era considerado el mejor portero de la competición en el ranking de la FIFA.

"Sé que he hecho un gran juego, pero por desgracia no estaba acostumbrado a nada", se hizo cargo después del partido con España, la cuarta vez que sufrió 1 gol en la que defendió la meta nacional. Pero sirvió al menos para Eduardo el más inconsolable tras la eliminación de los portugueses, con el reconocimiento internacional. "Sin sus excelentes reflejos y guarda acrobático, España habría ganado por varios goles en lugar de uno solo. No, si yo tenía que ser lágrimas de desilusión, debería haber drenado los rostros de sus colegas", escribió el New York Times sobre el portero último en ser golpeado por la Jabulani en Sudáfrica, competición en la que llegó hasta octavos de final, habiendo encajado un solo gol, marcado por David Villa para la  en dicha ronda.

Participaciones en Copas del mundo

Participaciones en Eurocopas

Clubes

Palmarés

Campeonatos nacionales

Campeonatos internacionales

(*) Incluyendo la selección.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Ficha en la página oficial de la Copa Mundial 2010
 Ficha en Espndeportes.com

Nacidos en Mirandela
Futbolistas del Sporting Clube de Braga "B"
Futbolistas del Sporting Clube de Braga
Futbolistas del Sport Clube Beira-Mar
Futbolistas del Vitória Futebol Clube
Futbolistas del Genoa Cricket & Football Club en los años 2010
Futbolistas del Sport Lisboa e Benfica
Futbolistas del İstanbul Başakşehir Futbol Kulübü
Futbolistas del Građanski Nogometni Klub Dinamo Zagreb
Futbolistas del Chelsea Football Club
Futbolistas del SBV Vitesse en los años 2010
Futbolistas de Portugal en la Copa Mundial de 2010
Futbolistas de Portugal en la Eurocopa 2012
Futbolistas de Portugal en la Copa Mundial de 2014
Futbolistas de Portugal en la Eurocopa 2016
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Germany may not give the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to over-65s, but that doesn't mean it won't work
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Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been receiving a lot of attention recently. The EU has been dissatisfied with production hold-ups, while the German health ministry has raised questions over its efficacy in older age groups. As a result, Stiko – the German Standing Committee on Vaccination – has suggested in a draft recommendation that the vaccine should not be given to people over 65.
If Germany does decide not to authorise the vaccine for over-65s, this will be because it considers there were insufficient people over 55 included in the vaccine's phase 3 trials to give a good estimate of efficacy in older age groups. This is an issue that has been raised before.
In fact, in the peer-reviewed write-up of the Oxford-AstraZeneca trials, the authors admitted that following their tests, "vaccine efficacy in older age groups could not be assessed". But while this isn't ideal, it's not a reason to panic.
Indeed, the European Medicines Agency has now authorised the vaccine for use in Europe in all adults over 18, despite German concerns. The EMA acknowledged that efficacy data for over-55s was lacking, but said that it expected the vaccine to be protective "given that an immune response is seen in this age group and based on experience with other vaccines".
Over-65s should still take the jab if offered
Even though there's not currently sufficient data in the public domain to estimate efficacy of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in older age groups, there is still a lot of evidence that the vaccine will be effective in older people.
As we grow older, we tend to respond less well to vaccines and natural infections, in a process known as immunosenescence. But this is not a sudden drop in immunity once you get past a certain age. For example, the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 made by Pfizer and Moderna – for which there is more data – show very little drop, if any, in effectiveness in older age groups.
We also know from Oxford's earlier phase 2 trials (which checked that the vaccine stimulated an immune response in humans) that there is very little difference in the amount of "IgG" antibodies produced in people over 70 years old compared to people in the 18-55 and 56-69 age groups. And there's emerging evidence that these IgG antibodies protect against severe disease, thanks to trials that are looking at using certain antibodies as a treatment for COVID-19.
There's also good evidence that the vaccine is safe in this age group. And older people report fewer side-effects from it than younger people.
The vaccine makers have since recruited more older people into their ongoing phase 3 trials, and so better data on efficacy will be available soon. The UK is also putting a lot of effort into post-vaccine surveillance, and this should lead to good data on the vaccine's effectiveness in the UK in coming weeks – especially in the 80+ age group, who were initially offered the vaccine.
What about the 8% efficacy claim?
A further claim – made by the German newspaper Handelsblatt – that the vaccine is only 8% effective in older age groups is almost certainly false. The German ministry of health has suggested that this figure arose from a misunderstanding of the vaccine's trial data by the newspaper.
Indeed, looking at data available in the public domain, it seems there were only two cases of infection reported in older people during the trials. One was in the group receiving the vaccine, and one in another group receiving a placebo. With this data, it's just not possible to estimate the true efficacy with any precision.
The overwhelming balance of evidence is that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is safe in older people and will provide high protection against severe disease, hospitalisation and death. Speaking as someone in his mid-60s, I would happily accept whatever vaccine I am offered when I eventually make it to the front of the queue.
Paul Hunter, Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Opinion / Columnist
Zimbabwe violent protests 'false flag' operations by ZANU PF to suppress opposition?
by Taurai J. Pachena
10 Feb 2019 at 11:05hrs | Views
One of the most efficient and effective strategies of dictatorships - that has been used since time immemorial - to suppress any form of opposition, has been the employment of 'false flag' operations, which they will blame their opponents in order to justify their widespread persecution and suppression.
A 'false flag' is a covert operation designed to deceive; the deception creates the appearance of a particular party, group, or nation being responsible for some activity, disguising the actual source of responsibility.
One of the most popular and typical 'false flag' operation was The Reichstag Fire, that most of us studied in history at school.
This was an arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933. The fire started in the Session Chamber, and, by the time the police and firemen arrived, the main room was engulfed in flames.
The fire was used as evidence by the Nazis that the
Communists were beginning a plot against the German government, subsequently leading to the arrest of Communist leaders.
Adolf Hitler, who was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany four weeks before, on 30 January, urged President Paul von Hindenburg to pass an emergency decree to counter the "ruthless confrontation of the Communist Party of Germany ".
With civil liberties suspended, the government instituted mass arrests of Communists, including all of the Communist parliamentary delegates. With their bitter rival Communists gone and their seats empty, the National Socialist German Workers Party went from being a plurality party to the majority; subsequent elections confirmed that position and thus allowed Hitler to consolidate his power.
There have been numerous other false flag operations throughout history, but the modus operandi has been the same.
A government conducts an attack on itself and makes the attack to appear to be by enemy nations, terrorists, or opposition parties - giving the nation that was supposedly attacked a pretext for domestic repression or foreign military aggression.
In fact, one of the most debatable recent alleged false flag operations - which had global repurcussions - were the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, USA - which were blamed on Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda group - which resulted in the so-called 'war on terror' disasterous attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq.
An increasing number of scholars and investigators, both in the USA and globally, believe they have evidence that the 9/11 attacks were planned by the USA on itself to justify the subsequent wars.
This brings us back to Zimbabwe.
Who really has been behind the recent violent protests that have resulted in a brutal crackdown on the opposition MDC Alliance - the most gruesome being the 14th to 16th January 2019 destruction of property in the country's major cities?
On 1 August 2018, two days after an otherwise peaceful election, the country was rocked by violent protests in the capital Harare, allegedly perpetrated by the MDC Alliance - as they were not happy with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (ZEC) apparent delay in releasing presidential election results - leading to the fatal shooting of at least six unarmed people by security forces using live ammunition.
According to reports, none of those killed were part of the violent protestors.
Are Zimbabwe security forces not good enough to aim at their targets, such that they missed any of the violent protestors, but shot bystanders?
From the testimonies presented to the subsequently established Monthlante Commission of Inquiry, most of those arrested for the protests actually did not take part, but were arrested whilst going about their duties at the MDC Alliance head offices.
The more violent protests of 14th to 16th January 2019 had the same hallmarks, except that this time they were more widespread - covering some major cities.
However, as before, the violence was blamed on the opposition MDC Alliance - despite the fact that this was supposed to be a STAYAWAY, and called for by the labour movement.
People were urged to simply STAY AT HOME - and, no one was ever encouraged to demonstrate, no matter how peacefully - let alone go on a violent rampage.
Nonetheless, there was widespread looting and vandalism of business properties, and the country's security forces did not seem to do anything to stop these so-called hooligans.
Only later did the forces start shooting people with live ammunition - leading to the killing of at least 20 people and the injury, due to gunshot wounds, of hundreds.
According to reputable local and international human rights organisations, most of those arrested en mass for the violence were rounded up in their residential areas - not at the scene during the protests.
Additionally, these suspects were denied even the most basic constitutional rights, such as adequate access to their legal counsel.
Their subsequent trials were also characterised as a sham, as they were largely denied bail, and rushingly sentenced to outrageous years in jail.
Meanwhile, security forces continued to carry out wanton brutality against innocent people going about their business in their residential areas - with reports of rapes, and beatings up.
The internet was, of course, conveniently shutdown, so as to cover up these atrocities - under the guise of maintaining state security.
Even children were not spared - as they were also brutalised and jailed together with adults.
In all this, those in authority repeatedly blamed the MDC Alliance - together with civil society organisations, and Western governments - for the violence, as a plot to unconstitutionally unseat a democratically elected government.
If that were the case - if these violent protests were not false flag operations - and the MDC Alliance had indeed planned everything in order to unconstitutionally topple the government of Zimbabwe - why are top leaders like Nelson Chamisa walking about freely?
Should he not - as the alleged 'terrorist leader' - have been the first one to be charged?
Not once have we ever heard the Zimbabwe authorities accuse Chamisa of being the leader of the 'hooligans'.
He is a free man, with president Emmerson Mnangagwa even inviting him for talks at State House?
In fact, if this was not a mere false flag operation, why has the MDC Alliance not been banned?
Let us not forget that these allegations being recklessly made by the government are very serious, and - if genuine - would naturally have led to the banning of the MDC Alliance and the arrest of its entire leadership.
Yes, there has been some arrests of some MDC Alliance members, including members of parliament, but most of the very top leaders are free men and women.
Remember what happened in Egypt in 2013/14 when then democratically elected president Morsi was toppled, his organisation, the Moslem Brotherhood, was declared a terrorist entity, resulting in him and thousands of members being arrested.
But, the lack of such a response in Zimbabwe in the wake of the violent protests - which were characterised as subversive, terrorist, and an attempt to unconstitutionally remove the government - is a clear sign that Harare is playing games with the people of Zimbabwe - and the international community - in an effort to persecute, and by extension, repress, the nation - and soil the name of the MDC Alliance, by branding them terrorists who are destroying people's lives.
Even in Rhodesia, liberation movements were declared terrorists, and were swiftly banned, and their local leaders arrested.
However, since the formation of the opposition MDC in 1999, some very serious accusations have been made by the ZANU PF government against the party.
The MDC has been accused of being agents of foreign Western governments, with the goal of unconstitutionally removing a democratically elected government.
They have been accused of calling for crippling economic sanctions, which have led to the utter destruction of the country's economy and the untold suffering of ordinary people.
And now, they are being accused of possessing weapons of war, and having a military wing - the Vanguard and Democratic Resistance Committees - which, the regime blames for the fatal shooting of at least six people on 1 August 2018.
Yet, over the past 20 years of the MDC's existence, no criminal charges have ever been brought against the party - in spite of what, in any normal country, would be the most serious crimes against the state...ranging from treason to terrorism.
The reason is very obvious to all those who care to open their eyes and ears - the MDC is INNOCENT, and all these allegations by the ZANU PF regime are false and merely meant to subjugate and oppress the opposition party - as well as any other voice of dissent.
ZANU PF has no shred of evidence regarding their 20 year long accusations and allegations against the MDC Alliance!
In fact, ZANU PF knows fully well that they are unashamedly lying both to Zimbabweans and the world!
As we have already seen, some of the MDC Alliance MPs are routinely being arrested, even after being granted bail by the courts.
It is all about persecution and defaming of the MDC Alliance without proffering any concrete proof of any wrong doing.
For instance, the alleged involvement of the party in the January violent protests is flimsly premised on one video in which a party official urges members to heed the labour union's call for a stayaway!
That is all the regime considers enough proof that the MDC Alliance was behind the violence that rocked the nation!
Where does a party official urging supporters to STAY AT HOME, and its active organising of violent protests to unconstitutionally remove a sitting government converge?
So, who truly organised the violence?
From all that we have analysed, it is clear that the ZANU PF government organised these violent protests as a false flag operation, in order to justify its brutal crackdown on the opposition MDC Alliance.
Let us not forget that this is not the first time that the ZANU PF regime has been involved in false flag operations.
In the 1980s, the ZANU PF regime deployed the 5th Brigade military unit to the Midlands and Matebeleland provinces, which committed untold genocidal atrocities in which over 20,000 innocent and unarmed men, women and children were gruesomely massacred under the pretext of fighting a 'dissident' insurgency.
How many 'dissidents' were these?
According to some expert figures, not more than 20 men!
One then wonders whether such a brazen murder of over 20,000 unarmed innocent people, just to eliminate 20 'dissidents', made any sense.
Besides, if expert analysis is to be believed, of those 20 'dissidents', only three or so were ever killed by the military - most probably, merely bodies taken from victims of Gukurahundi, and paraded as 'dissidents', as the military could not have possibly killed their own!
So, what was really going on?
A cross section of both local and international analysts are convinced that these so-called 'dissidents' were actually ZANU PF operatives, who were moved from one place to another - also committing a fair amount of killings on these same targets as the military.
In other words, the so-called 'dissidents' were part and parcel of the Gukurahundi machinery!
Another ZANU PF false flag operation meant to eliminate the Ndebele people of the Midlands and Matebeleland provinces of Zimbabwe.
Thus, as far as false flag operations are concerned, ZANU PF are masters, and the recent violent protests - which resulted in the brutal crackdown on both the opposition MDC Alliance and innocent citizens - can never be disputed.
Why did the security forces fail to control the violent protests, despite their superior armoury?
Why did they have to wait and only arrest the alleged 'hooligans' in their residential areas, yet not arrest them on the scene of the crime?
Why were all those arrested denied access to their legal counsel?
Why were their trials haphazardly and rushingly conducted, as if to cover up any real testimonies from the accused?
If Zimbabweans, and the world fail to see this blatant Zimbabwe version of the Reichtag Fire, then we are all blind - or we merely refuse to see!
Source - Taurai J. Pachena
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André Laronde (Grenoble, 19 de junio de 1940 – París, 1 de febrero de 2011) fue un historiador y arqueólogo francés, especialista en los asentamientos griegos en Cyrenaica (ahora en Libia).

Carrera
Laronde escribió su licenciatura bajo la tutoría de François Chamoux. Después de car clases en la Universidad de Grenoble, André Laronde fue profesor en la Universidad de la Sorbona en el que presentó su tesis doctoral en 1976 su tesis para el doctorado « Recherche sur l'histoire de Cyrène », en la que estudia la historia de la Apolonia de Cirene bajo el dominio de la dinastía ptolemaica.

Ayudó a François Chamoux desde la creación en 1976 de la Misión Arqueológica francesaen Trípoli, y se convirtió en presidente en 1981. Dirigió las excavaciones en Cyrene y Apolonia. Fue elegido miembro de la Academia de Inscripciones y Bellas Letras en 2002.

Murió de una atque al corazón el 1 de febrero de 2011 a los 70 años.

Obras seleccionadas
1971: Nouveau choix d'inscriptions grecques (collective).
1982: Mémoire d'Allevard (direction)
1985: Apollonia de Cyrénaïque et son histoire. Neuf ans de recherches de la mission archéologique française en Libye, CRAI, 129, n° 1, (p. 93–116)
1987: Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai Historiai. De l'époque républicaine au principat d'Auguste.
1988: La Cyrénaïque romaine, des origines à la fin des Sévères (96 av. J.-C.- 235 ap. J.-C.) (in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II, 10, 1).
1990:  Ricerche archeologiche nei porti della Libia, Apollonia e Leptis Magna.
1994: Nouvelles recherches archéologiques dans le port de Lepcis Magna, CRAI, 138, n° 4, (p. 991–1006)
1996: La civilisation hellénistique.
1996: La Libye à travers les cartes postales, 1900–1940.
1996: Apollonia de Cyrénaïque : archéologie et histoire (in Journal des Savants).
1996: L'exploitation de la chôra cyrénéenne à l'époque classique et hellénistique, CRAI, 140, n° 2, (p. 503–527)
2000: Précis d'histoire ancienne
2000: La Libye.
2001: L'Afrique antique, histoire et monuments (in coll. with Jean-Claude Golvin), Paris.
2001: Un nouveau portrait de Ptolémée III à Apollonia de Cyrénaïque, CRAI, 145, n° 2, (p. 737–782)

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 André Laronde : un archéologue en Libye sur canalacadémie
 La Libye grecque, romaine et byzantine et ses aspects artistiques

Escritores de Suiza
Miembros de la Academia de Inscripciones y Lenguas Antiguas
Arqueólogos de Francia
Caballeros de la Legión de Honor
Caballeros de la Orden Nacional del Mérito
Caballeros de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras
Nacidos en Grenoble
Fallecidos en París


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Ok. Obama and Co. had a rousing convention. Obama had a powerful speech, revealing that his amazing agenda for change is not really anything new, but more or less the same plans that the Democratic party and so-called "liberals" have had for many moons.
Meanwhile, John McCain struggles with identifying with the standard Republican fare, on one hand needing to have that conservative support base, on the other hand truly being the odd ball that will stand for what he thinks regardless of the party dance.
Enter Sarah Palin. Good choice? Bad choice? The media has already laid out the debate. I don't know. Time will tell.
Standing in worship yesterday, singing about the holiness of God, I was struck once again that, well, God IS holy. In our polarized left-and-right, liberal-and-conservative, political environment– where despite claims and calls for "change" and "reformation," things continue to stay essentially the same– where is God? Where is Yahweh?
Yahweh is holy. He is set apart. He is totally other. He does not and will not fit into any human being's system, party, agenda, or rhetoric. He will not submit to any of the neat boxes (political or otherwise) into which we would like him to go. God is not a Republican, nor is he a Democrat. God is not a liberal, and he is not a conservative. (For that matter, he is not a capitalist– or a socialist– either.) He is who he is and does what he wants to do. And it is he that causes leaders to rise and fall in the earth.
I am comforted, as the political hype will continue until November (even with the RNC in low gear because of Gustav), that Yahweh is not impressed. As we work for (or vote for) the people and the policies that seems right to each of us (and I think there is good and bad on both sides), may we all keep the perspective of God… and not dare to equate any man (or woman) and the policies they espouse with the policies of God.