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Ukraine's President Zelenskyy Turns Blind Eye to Putin-Medvedchuk Scheming (Part One)
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 17 Issue: 36
By: Vladimir Socor
March 19, 2020 06:03 PM Age: 2 years
Ukrainian pro-Kremlin politician Viktor Medvedchuk
On March 10, in Moscow, Ukraine's leading Russophile politician Viktor Medvedchuk conferred with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Duma leaders about adding an "inter-parliamentary dimension" to the Normandy forum (Russia, Germany, France, Ukraine), which is an inter-governmental process. The idea, credited to Medvedchuk, is to enlist inter-parliamentary support for decisions in the Normandy and Minsk processes on special status and elections in Ukraine's Russian-controlled Donbas. Those decisions would then be handed down to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) for legislative enactments. Putin gave Medvedchuk this opportunity to bypass Ukraine's state leadership and publicly coordinate his initiative with the Kremlin. The reaction from Ukraine's presidential team is equivocal and supine.
On March 11, in Minsk, the Russian and Ukrainian presidents' representatives, Dmitry Kozak and Andriy Yermak, respectively, agreed to create a new negotiating platform as part of the Minsk negotiating process. The new platform, as proposed, would cast the Ukrainian side and Russia's proxies in Donetsk-Luhansk as coequal parties to an intra-Ukrainian conflict, while casting Russia as an impartial observer (Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, March 12).
These interrelated moves reflect preparations on both sides for a possibly decisive phase in the Normandy and Minsk processes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's team hopes to hold local elections in the Russian-controlled Donbas by October, as part of Ukraine's country-wide local elections. Leveraging Kyiv's impatience against it, the Kremlin has responded with Kozak's and Medvedchuk's proposals. Zelenskyy's team has preliminarily accepted Kozak's but seems mum to Medvedchuk's.
Medvedchuk headed a delegation of six parliamentary deputies from his party (Opposition Platform–For Life) to the talks in Moscow, on the same day when the Russian Duma was voting to approve the extension of Putin's presidential tenure. Medvedchuk had visited Putin in Russia many times personally, but the March 10 visit was the first by a Ukrainian parliamentary delegation in the six years since the start of Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. The Duma's plenary session gave this delegation a standing ovation.
Meeting with Putin separately, Medvedchuk presented an enlarged version of a concept he had aired in the wake of Ukraine's July 2019 parliamentary elections (see EDM, August 5, 2019). Putin blessed it and encouraged Medvedchuk to proceed with it in Ukraine and Europe (TASS, Kremlin.ru, March 10, 11; 112.ua, March 12, 13).
Medvedchuk insists, as does Putin, that the Ukrainian parliament must incorporate the political clauses of the Minsk "accords" into Ukraine's legislation, to wit: constitutional amendments on decentralization, special status for Donetsk-Luhansk, general amnesty for those involved in "the events" (war-related crimes) there, a special law on local "elections" in the occupied territories, as well as authorizing negotiations between Kyiv and Donetsk-Luhansk toward those goals. The Ukrainian parliament, therefore, needs the "support of our colleagues from Russia's Duma and the French and German parliaments, persuading our Ukrainian parliamentary deputies that the Minsk accords have no alternative and must be implemented in full through Ukrainian legislation, so as to bring Ukraine closer to peace."
That would be the agenda of the inter-parliamentary forum, to be designated as the "Normandy parliamentary dimension" (Medvedchuk credits Putin with the paternity of this title). Medvedchuk asked Putin to intercede with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, who could encourage members of their countries' respective legislatures to join the proposed Normandy inter-parliamentary forum. Putin agreed to intercede, but also used the opportunity to shift the onus to Zelenskyy: "I hope that this project becomes successful with the support of Ukraine's president."
The Duma's chairperson, Vyacheslav Volodin, meanwhile, suggests launching a bilateral Russian-Ukrainian inter-parliamentary dialogue, before the quadripartite forum would materialize. Volodin proposes this bilateral dialogue at the level of parliamentary committees whose competencies are relevant to Ukraine's enactment of the Minsk "accords" into Ukrainian legislation. According to Volodin, a bilateral working group has been set up during this visit (presumably with members of Medvedchuk's delegation). Medvedchuk hopes for the inaugural Normandy parliamentary meeting to be held in conjunction with the next summit of the four heads of state and government, tentatively scheduled for April in Berlin.
The Ukrainian leadership seems to protect Medvedchuk from public opprobrium and suspicions of disloyalty. Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak, Rada chair Dmytro Razumkov and parliamentary majority leader David Akharamia all suggest that there is no case for legal or parliamentary action. They argue that Medvedchuk merely expressed his own opinion and that of his party in Moscow, did not carry any official instructions anyway, and his delegation did not apply to the Ukrainian parliament to cover the costs of its Moscow visit (UNIAN, March 13; Ukrinform, March 11, 14).
The proposed inter-parliamentary forum is designed to: 1) increase the pressure on Ukraine, counting on selected German and French parliamentarians to support a political settlement on Russian terms; 2) push for those political terms' implementation without addressing the security issues (troop withdrawal/disarmament/demobilization, border control), all of which are omitted from the proposal's public presentation; 3) accelerate and advance the settlement process from the international diplomatic field into the Ukrainian legislative field—a major breakthrough that could push Ukraine closer to a potentially fatal outcome; 4) render Medvedchuk's pro-Kremlin party acceptable on the international level; and make this party a potential stakeholder in a Ukrainian coalition government that would guarantee this settlement's implementation.
It seems highly unlikely for Medvedchuk and the Kremlin to be able to enlist any but marginal European parliamentarians into this project.
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"""Support for Apache Kafka."""
from datetime import datetime
import json
import logging

from aiokafka import AIOKafkaProducer
import voluptuous as vol

from homeassistant.const import (
    CONF_IP_ADDRESS,
    CONF_PASSWORD,
    CONF_PORT,
    CONF_USERNAME,
    EVENT_HOMEASSISTANT_STOP,
    EVENT_STATE_CHANGED,
    STATE_UNAVAILABLE,
    STATE_UNKNOWN,
)
import homeassistant.helpers.config_validation as cv
from homeassistant.helpers.entityfilter import FILTER_SCHEMA
from homeassistant.util import ssl as ssl_util

_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)

DOMAIN = "apache_kafka"

CONF_FILTER = "filter"
CONF_TOPIC = "topic"
CONF_SECURITY_PROTOCOL = "security_protocol"

CONFIG_SCHEMA = vol.Schema(
    {
        DOMAIN: vol.Schema(
            {
                vol.Required(CONF_IP_ADDRESS): cv.string,
                vol.Required(CONF_PORT): cv.port,
                vol.Required(CONF_TOPIC): cv.string,
                vol.Optional(CONF_FILTER, default={}): FILTER_SCHEMA,
                vol.Optional(CONF_SECURITY_PROTOCOL, default="PLAINTEXT"): vol.In(
                    ["PLAINTEXT", "SASL_SSL"]
                ),
                vol.Optional(CONF_USERNAME): cv.string,
                vol.Optional(CONF_PASSWORD): cv.string,
            }
        )
    },
    extra=vol.ALLOW_EXTRA,
)

async def async_setup(hass, config):
    """Activate the Apache Kafka integration."""
    conf = config[DOMAIN]

    kafka = hass.data[DOMAIN] = KafkaManager(
        hass,
        conf[CONF_IP_ADDRESS],
        conf[CONF_PORT],
        conf[CONF_TOPIC],
        conf[CONF_FILTER],
        conf[CONF_SECURITY_PROTOCOL],
        conf.get(CONF_USERNAME),
        conf.get(CONF_PASSWORD),
    )

    hass.bus.async_listen(EVENT_HOMEASSISTANT_STOP, kafka.shutdown())

    await kafka.start()

    return True

class DateTimeJSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
    """Encode python objects.

    Additionally add encoding for datetime objects as isoformat.
    """

    def default(self, o):
        """Implement encoding logic."""
        if isinstance(o, datetime):
            return o.isoformat()
        return super().default(o)

class KafkaManager:
    """Define a manager to buffer events to Kafka."""

    def __init__(
        self,
        hass,
        ip_address,
        port,
        topic,
        entities_filter,
        security_protocol,
        username,
        password,
    ):
        """Initialize."""
        self._encoder = DateTimeJSONEncoder()
        self._entities_filter = entities_filter
        self._hass = hass
        ssl_context = ssl_util.client_context()
        self._producer = AIOKafkaProducer(
            loop=hass.loop,
            bootstrap_servers=f"{ip_address}:{port}",
            compression_type="gzip",
            security_protocol=security_protocol,
            ssl_context=ssl_context,
            sasl_mechanism="PLAIN",
            sasl_plain_username=username,
            sasl_plain_password=password,
        )
        self._topic = topic

    def _encode_event(self, event):
        """Translate events into a binary JSON payload."""
        state = event.data.get("new_state")
        if (
            state is None
            or state.state in (STATE_UNKNOWN, "", STATE_UNAVAILABLE)
            or not self._entities_filter(state.entity_id)
        ):
            return

        return json.dumps(obj=state.as_dict(), default=self._encoder.encode).encode(
            "utf-8"
        )

    async def start(self):
        """Start the Kafka manager."""
        self._hass.bus.async_listen(EVENT_STATE_CHANGED, self.write)
        await self._producer.start()

    async def shutdown(self):
        """Shut the manager down."""
        await self._producer.stop()

    async def write(self, event):
        """Write a binary payload to Kafka."""
        payload = self._encode_event(event)

        if payload:
            await self._producer.send_and_wait(self._topic, payload)

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General South African English features phonemic vowel length (so that ferry /ˈferiː/ and fairy /ˈfeːriː/ differ only in length) as well as phonemic roundedness, so that fairy /ˈfeːriː/ is distinguished from furry /ˈføːriː/ by roundedness
This separation caused an Indian variety to develop independently from White South African English, though with phonological and lexical features still fitting under the South African English umbrella. Indian South African English includes a basilect, mesolect, and acrolect Black Africans generally speak English as a second language, and accent is strongly influenced by mother-tongue (particularly Bantu languages). However, urban middle-class black Africans have developed an English accent, with similar inflection as first-language English speakers African-American Vernacular English (AAVE, / ˈɑːveɪ, æv /), also referred to as Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular (BEV), Black Vernacular English (BVE), occasionally as Ebonics (a colloquial, controversial term), or simply as Black English (BE), is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working - and middle-class African Americans and Black Canadians
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basically a native English accent with only traces of the hallmarks of Afrikaans English (Afk. E). The latter are found in List E below. Black South Africans make up the largest body of English users in South Africa with their own distinctive accent. African English (Afr. E) was initially a product of education in missio Within White South African English, there are three groupings: the upper-class-associated 'Cultivated' form, the middle-class-associated 'General' form, and the working-class/Afrikaans-associated 'Broad'. The variety of focus for the OED model is the General form, although tending towards Cultivated over Broad We show you how to speak in a South African Accent. Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=videojugCheck Out Our Channel Page: http:/.. Afrikaaner accents are typically acquired when an Afrikaans person speaks English. There's a very tell-tale twang that gives away the fact that the speaker is in fact Afrikaans. The Afrikaans South Africans must be doing something right though, because in 2019, Afrikaans accents were voted second sexiest in the world English is currently only the fourth most spoken language in South Africa, with less than 10% of the population actively speaking it. However, English is understood by most South Africans in urban areas and you'll hear English on South African TV and other media
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There are many different accents in South Africa alone. As English was brought over by the British, it is primary spoken by their descendants as a first language and there are typically many different variants known as the great trichotomy by Roger Lass: cultivated which is the English that most resembles that spoken in Great Britain, general which slants closer to a Dutch. English. Southern Africa, excluding the Republic of South Africa, is also quite homogenous due to the same factors... West Africa is by far the most heterogeneous region with regard to English accents. This is mostly due to the extreme ethnic and linguistic diversity that prevails in the region. (Mutonya 436 The African country, Uganda, comes in at number one on the list of best English speaking countries in Africa. The country is landlocked and is known to have a diverse landscape that covers the Rwenzori Mountains with their snowy tips, and also, the very large Lake Victoria. The nation is notable for having a wide range of diverse wildlife including chimpanzees, and a good collection of a bird. British accent has been rated as the most attractive English accent in the world, according to a new survey by the CEOWORLD magazine. The results were revealed in a global study, which questioned 96,398 people across 32 countries worldwide to list 'most attractive English accents' other than their own. While everyone has their own preferences, the survey ranked 31 different English accents in. Check Out For English On eBay. Find It On eBay. Great Prices On For English. Find It On eBay
People from countries south of Africa have almost the same accent, similar to the west, east and north of Africa. Most Africans who are educated and were able to overcome the accent of their mother language speak clear English void of 'any sounding' they seem to speak similarly across the bar This paper discusses English pronunciation features in the anglophone countries of East and Southern Africa. The focus is on the restructuring of the STRUT vowel to /a/, /i/ and /ε/ epenthesis, and short tone groups. More importantly, the features which associate with some countries or groups of countries are shown I(I presume you're refering to African's English accents in your question) A person's accent with regards to any language or especially English is conditioned by the sound system of the language he grows up from birth and first starts hearing, then later speaking it. The way sounds operate in one's native language unavoidably affects the way they imbide their second language, in this case English. In this regard, since almost all African languages have varying sound systems, it is.
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In some parts of South Africa, people can almost sound British whereas in other parts the Afrikaans (or another African language), sometimes being the first language, can shape the way some people speak English there. In addition, the black African population have their own accents that are further broken down depending on which native language they speak (Zulu, Tswana, Xhosa, etc.) Das afroamerikanische Englisch, englisch African American English (AAE), auch als African American Vernacular English (AAVE) und weniger genau als Black English, Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular (BEV), Black Vernacular English (BVE) und umgangssprachlich als Ebonics bekannt, ist eine innerhalb der afroamerikanischen Bevölkerungsgruppe in den Vereinigten Staaten verbreitete Varietät. English took root during the 19th century as a southern African language, as a result of the British settlements of 1820 (in the Eastern Cape), 1848-51 (in Natal), and the subsequent rushes to the diamond mines of Kimberley and the gold mines of the Witwatersrand. Modern SAE is part of a complex linguistic and cultural mix SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH Short forms SAfrE, SAE. The English language as used in the Republic of South Africa , the first language of c. 10% (about 2.7m) of the total population of the RSA. About two-thirds of this 10% are white, and most of the rest Indian or 'Coloured' (mixed African and European descent)
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Fourth was American English Accent (51 percent) and making up the top five was the French English Accent (48 percent). The German accent came in sixth (47 percent) followed by Scottish (44 percent) and New Zealand (41 percent). Completing the top ten were Canadian and Indian accents. Down at the bottom of the table in the 31st place was Vietnamese accent. While second to the last place was scooped up by Chinese with Arabic and Nigerian coming just behind. English accents have been ranked in. The seventh-best English speaking country in Africa is Zimbabwe, a landlocked nation located between the rivers Zambezi and Limpopo in Southern Africa. In the education system and judiciary system, the commonly spoken language is the English language. Shona and Sindebele, both Bantu languages are also commonly spoken as indigenous languages in the nation. 70% of the population speaks Shona while a relatively smaller 20% speak Sindebele. Venda, Tonga, Shangaan, Sotho, Kalanga, Nambya and Ndau.
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The International Dialects of English Archive was created in 1998 as the internet's first archive of primary-source recordings of English-language dialects and accents as heard around the world. With roughly 1,600 samples from 120 countries and territories, and more than 170 hours of recordings, IDEA is now the largest archive of its kind
No, we do not. Nearly every other answer here has stated the obvious, that South Africa has eleven official languages, English is one and is spoken as a first or home language by roughly 10% of the population. It is generally the lingua franca in.
South Africans speak English, but that doesn't mean you'll always understand us. Our robots are nothing like R2D2, just now doesn't mean immediately, and babbelas is not a shampoo. Here's an informal guide to our weirder words. Bunny chow is a curry served in a hollowed-out loaf of bread. It is usually eaten with the fingers, not a knife and fork. (Image: Brand South Africa
You've largely described the South African English-speaking white accent. In numbers, Indians probably come a close second to English-speaking whites as the largest group of English native speakers in South Africa, and we have fairly different accents to standar d South African. In the 1990's I attended a formerly segregated Indian high school in Pretoria, and we had a white visitor (who probably lived somewhere in Johannesburg) who told one of the boys in our class that.
IELTS Listening uses a variety of native English accents: British English, North American English and Australian/NZ/South African English. Before taking IELTS, make sure you feel comfortable listening to these different varieties. Listen to the ten samples below of people with different accents reading the same story. These are all English accents you can expect to hear in the IELTS Listening test. The ten samples are divided by region as follows
BLACK AMERICAN ENGLISH ACCENT (vs BrE and AmE) The black population in Great Britain have no special accent, they speak English just the same as the rest of the population. But black people in America, for historical reasons, have their own dialect, sometimes called Ebonics in the past
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There is much Dutch influence in the South African (English-speaker) accent, but the original English speakers were also surrounded by French, German and many other immigrant populations. If you listen to a modern Dutch person speaking in English,.. There are more than a dozen African countries where English is an official language. These include Zimbabwe, Uganda, Zambia, Botswana. Namibia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Liberia, South Africa, and Nigeria. But with slang, accents and history in the mix, it's not always easy to understand or be understood when speaking English in Africa This workshop focuses on the African English accent. The sound and content of the African-English accent as with all accents has been formed and shaped from the influence of local languages. Problems occur when English speakers are only familiar with their own local 'accent'. This local accent could be Oxford English. If the speaker is only used to the sound of Oxford English then African-English will present many problems and challenges South African Accents. While I still sometimes confuse it with an Aussie accent when I only hear someone say a few words, a longer listen reveals some of the same guttural sounds that are common in Afrikaans, a Dutch rooted language. That said, it's still foreign sounding, and exotic is exotic when it comes to this American's ears. Just as a side note, I don't know how well African men. But almost all South African English is marked by its pronunciation of the ' ee ' in 'fleece.' In most English accents, the 'ee' vowel has a slight on-glide. That means that there is little 'opening vowel' before the main event, often close to the 'i' in 'kit.
Losing a hard accent will be tough. From my experience I would say to experiment with your voice. But the world is more accepting of global accents now, just as long as your English is clear. It really isn't that important unless your person's biography explicitly states: Must have American accent, or Born in raised in Sydney, (or just any place). Depending on the thickness of the accent, time will vary. I suggest to listen to pronunciation tools/devices such as, Siri or Alexa In a land known for its biltong and wildlife, the South African accent is as distinctive as the landscape that surrounds it. This accent is non-rhotic and grammatically similar to British English due to the long periods of colonialism, but the accent itself is remarkably different African, South African, South American, American, Italian, English (African), English (Pan African), English (Neutral), West African, Caribbean Read more about Bonko Khoza Brian Mofoken 6. South Africa 7. Ivory Cost 8. Burkina Faso 9. Sierra Leon 10. Liberia 11. Rwanda 12. Sudan 13. Others (Specify) In my opinion, Nigerians speak excellent english. Even those who have strong 9ja accent still construct good sentences. Ghanaians I feel theirs is horrible as their pronunciation is very confusing
South African Accent Rob is English and has a very public school accent, An American English accent and British English together in real and relevant conversation. It is natural chat between two English teachers, mad... R&R 31: Scottish accent. Wed, 2014-11-12 15:44. Real & Relevant English conversation with native-speakers of English. You can hear the Scottish accent here along with. African-American English (AAE), also known as Black English in American linguistics, is the set of English sociolects primarily spoken by most black people in the United States and many in Canada; most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to a more standard English. Like other widely spoken languages, African-American English shows. English and French are spoken almost everywhere in Africa. They are commonly used as a means of overall communication, mainly when dealing with education, juidical, and business matters. More than 23 African countries use English as one of their official languages while 26 uses French English Voice-overs with African accents, listen to samples of different African English accents incl. Amharic, Swahili, Yoruba, Hausa, etc. African English voice artist Jared's voice is smooth and soothing. Meseret's is an English speaking voice artist from Addis Ababa, his voice is deep, rich and strong
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African, South African, South American, American, Italian, English (African), English (Pan African), English (Neutral), West African, Caribbean Read more about Bonko Khoza Carol Ofori(Ralefeta Some emphasize its English origins, pointing to the fact that most of the vocabulary of Ebonics is from English and that much of its pronunciation (e.g. pronouncing final th as f) and grammar (e.g. double negatives, I don't want none) could have come from the nonstandard dialects of English indentured servants and other workers with whom African slaves interacted Most of them don't have the same accents, while others come from bilingual families where one of the parents is a native speaker. You should also keep in mind that English is the lingua franca in some provinces, if not throughout the country. The. What is the southern accent? How is it treated by non-southerners? All these questions and more are addressed in this installment of the United States of Accents Ever wonder why there are so many differences between American and British English? We answer common questions about spelling, slang words and more
South African Accents Learning Materials. The South African materials include recordings of AccentHelp coach Jim Johnson guiding you through the basics of various South African accents using the text, including Jim leading you through a monologue in the accents, and additional examples of speaking with the accent from coach Carolyn Johnson Faking a Southern accent is all about getting the lilt down. In Southern English, a single-syllable word like Wind might come out as two or even three syllables (Wee-yun-duh). Southerners often leave the final G off of present tense verbs, so words like Reading become Readin' The accents of South African English include English spoken by English, Afrikaans, coloured (mixed-race), Indian and black mother-tongue speakers. In this study, we focus on Black South African English (BSAE)‡ and as a benchmark also Standard South African English (SSAE). In particular, we try to determine whether BSAE, the variety of English spoken by second-language speakers whose mother.
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Afrikaans speakers also outnumber English speakers (Wells, 1982: 610). The first thing one notices when listening to South African English is that it sounds like English spoken by a Dutch person. This is due to the influence of Afrikaans, a language which is similar to Dutch spoken in this country Research the specific Southern accent you want to adapt. Southern accents are different in many different parts of the South. Phrases and accents were different in Georgia in 1800s as opposed to modern day New Orleans. The slow Southern Drawl is more common in the past and in rural areas than in metropolitan areas like Atlanta or Birmingham. Usually, they are grouped into categories by region. To avoid using the wrong word, make sure that your language-learning program offers the right tools and resources to learn the American variation of English. Master the Schwa Sound. Despite being the most common sound in every dialect of English, not that many people are familiar with the term schwa sound, including native speakers. Recognized by the ǝ symbol, it can be made by every vowel. And you'll find it in unaccented/unstressed syllables of words. In short, it's the. The audio in this clip was produced for a large oil company, who were seeking a West African voice artist for numerous Health and Safety Induction programmes. Matinee was responsible for the production of several of these voiceovers. Please visit: English in African accent voice-over agency Related Posts:Adam - English voice artist with regional accentEnglish English in West African accent. Many translated example sentences containing accent africain - English-French dictionary and search engine for English translations
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African Americans face a conundrum, then. Black vernacular English is unacceptable. Standard English spoken with an accent common to black Americans is unacceptable. And being able to move. In 2013, Lincoln told the Independent that his English accent didn't even feel normal to him anymore because he spent so much time speaking in his character Rick Grimes' Southern drawl. This isn't normal anymore, I'm American now, he joked. It's a very strange schizophrenic life that I lead and I love it in a strange twisted kind of way. Many Stranger Things fans have no idea Millie. Black South African English differs clearly in its phonology, usually in having only monophthongs and no systemic distinction between long and short vowels (both features of background Nguni languages, those Bantu languages spoken widely in South Africa such as Xhosa and Zulu). Afrikaans English is spoken by a few million people who have Afrikaans as their first language but who use English.
From where does the stereotypical african english accent
Despite English being their native language, many popular companies won't hire them. This is often because employers and parents prefer a neutral accent, like the North American or Canadian accent. So, for South Africans looking to teach English online, we've compiled a list of online teaching companies who are more inclusive. These. As you travel across West Africa, the style of Pidgin spoken becomes more familiar, but still differs based on local language elements infused into it. Even if you don't find yourself traveling to Nigeria in the distant future, try one of these phrases on one of your Nigerian friends, and fully bask in their glowing response. Here are 26 Nigerian Pidgin English phrases you need to know. African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a variety of American English spoken by many African Americans. It has been called by many other names that are sometimes offensive, including African American English, Black English, Black English vernacular, ebonics, negro dialect, nonstandard negro English, Black talk, Blaccent, or Blackcent ACCENT OF KENYAN ENGLISH. BY RAGUTU, M.J. A dissertation submitted in part fulfilment for the degree of Master* of Arts in the University of Nairobi. / June, 1993 uim'zrS!?y nv -JAiROBI Liii.tAiVy. DECLARATION This dissertation is my original work and has not been presented for a degree in any other university. MAURICE J. RAGUTU. This dissertation has been submitted for examination with our.
The American English, as we know and use today, was the accent originally spoken by the first English colonists who established their first permanent settlement in 1607 in what's now known as the U.S. They brought their native language with them. In 1776, when the USA declared its independence, British and American accents have not yet diverged and the pronunciation was the same in both. My 2020 dissertation was the first ever general description of regional variation in African American English accents. My dissertation was the first work to look at the entire vowel system for African American English speakers across the entire country. To do this, I used a standardized reading passage. But it's not as simple as it sounds, because I had to write a new one (with help and. The African American Vowel Shift (AAVS) involves swapped vowel nuclei for /iy/ as in FEET and /i/ as in KIT, swapped nuclei for /ey/ as in FACE and /e/ as in DRESS, and raised /uh/ as in STRUT. AAE speakers with the AAVS are from (eastern) North Carolina, and a broad path upward from the Gulf states to the Great Lakes Listen carefully and read the comments. When somebody refers to a connection, it's a friend or a mate. The pronunciation of refers is /rəʹfɜːz/ and it's is /əts/. Thus RP /ɪ/ is normally realized as /ə/ in South African English (SAE). Listen carefully and read the comments
Several accents of English are spoken in South Africa. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) sys-tems should therefore be able to process the di erent accents of South African English (SAE). In South Africa, however, system development is hampered by the limited availability of speech resources. In this thesis we consider di erent acoustic modelling approaches and system con gu of pronunciation that educated native Kenyan speakers of English normally use. This variety of accent is herein called the Standard Accent of Kenyan English (SAKE). It is posited in the study as the ideal model for learning and using English in Kenya and that after it has been recognise South African English is one of the very few varieties to have a velar fricative phoneme /x/. However, this only occurs in the case of words that have been borrowed from Afrikaans, Xhosa, Scots and German as can be verified by the words gogga /xoxə/ meaning insect i
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It's already 2014 in many parts of the world, including Australia where Flippa.com and Fabulous.com are based.
As the clock moves closer to midnight for us on the East Coast of the US, beer consumption is bound to increase.
So to keep things simple and avoid making posts while under the influence, we'd like to wish each and every one of you – including those that have been naughty – a remarkable, joyful and thoroughly prosperous New Year!
The domain industry will be maturing and expanding in 2014, in more than one dimension. It's not a prophecy, it's an evolutionary fact.
Everyone willing to put in hard work and commitment to their goals, is expected to succeed in materializing their dreams and aspirations.


There are three ratios that banks and mortgage companies use to qualify a mortgage are the Housing Ratio (also known as the Income Ratio), the Loan-to-Value (LTV) Ratio, and the Debt Ratio.
The Housing Ratio is your total monthly payment including taxes and insurance divided by your total monthly income. Acceptable housing ratios for Conventional Loans are 28-33% and FHA Loans are 29-31%.
The Loan to Value (LTV) Ratio is the amount of the mortgage divided by the purchase price of the property or the property's appraised value. Higher LTV ratios may require mortgage insurance (PMI). Ratios above about 80% usually require mortgage insurance.
The Debt Ratio is the total of all monthly debt payments including monthly the mortgage payment divided by the total monthly income. Qualifying debt ratios for Conventional Loans are usually between 36-38%, FHA Loans are 41-43%, and VA Loans are 41%.
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Archives|Mike Huckabee Lost 110 Pounds. Ask Him How.
Mike Huckabee Lost 110 Pounds. Ask Him How.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - In 2003, Mike Huckabee, the governor of Arkansas, learned he had type 2 diabetes.
His doctor told him he would probably be dead in 10 years -- and that terrified him enough to start exercising, eschew sugar and lose about 110 pounds (at 5 feet 11 inches, he's now 180 pounds). His first attempts at jogging left him dizzy after a few hundred yards, but now he is running marathons.
That would be a nice, inspiring tale if it ended there, but instead it has been the starting point. Mr. Huckabee has become a health care policy wonk, and with the help of national experts he has begun a series of clever initiatives to fight obesity. They are among the most creative steps under way in America at any level of the political process.
Arkansas has become a national laboratory for using policy levers to try to encourage healthier lifestyles. Other states and the federal government should adopt the same steps -- like curbing soft drinks in schools, informing all parents of their children's body mass index as a step to encouraging fitness, giving exercise breaks as well as smoking breaks, paying for preventive health checks like mammograms and prostate examinations, subsidizing efforts to quit smoking and seeking to give food stamps more purchasing power when they are used to buy fruits or vegetables.
I know all this sounds banal. Perhaps I should be using this journalistic real estate to thunder about grand issues like the Iraq war or Middle East peace or corruption in Congress. But remember that fat kills far more Americans than terrorists. Indeed, The New England Journal of Medicine reported last year that because of rising obesity, life expectancy in the U.S. might soon stop rising and could drop.
So if our government wants to keep our children safe, it doesn't just have to go after terrorists in Afghanistan. It also has to go after Twinkies at home.
Mr. Huckabee, the current chairman of the National Governors Association, is a conservative Republican (and a potential candidate for president in 2008), with whom I disagree on just about everything. But he's doing more to safeguard the lives of his constituents than just about any politician in the country. And it makes financial sense.
"I don't want to be the sugar sheriff," Mr. Huckabee explained in an interview in his office. "I don't want to be the grease police. That's not my job. But when I look at our state budget, and I see that every year our Medicaid budget is increasing by 9 to 10 percent, and I look at state employees' health plans and I see that those costs are escalating at double digits and twice the rate of inflation -- as a fiscal manager, I have not only the right but frankly also the responsibility to see what can we do to improve this bottom-line cost."
Repeatedly, Mr. Huckabee came back to the same argument: Obesity is reducing not only the quality of life of Americans, but also the fiscal soundness of our government and the competitiveness of our businesses.
"This year, G.M. will spend more on health care for employees and pensioners than on steel," Mr. Huckabee noted. "Starbucks will spend more on health care than on coffee beans."
Obesity is linked to 112,000 deaths a year in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and leads to an extra $75 billion in direct medical costs. Mr. Huckabee argues that it would be worth paying small sums -- for a session with a fitness trainer or a diet counselor -- to avoid paying the far greater costs of heart disease and diabetes later.
Consider type 2 diabetes -- the ailment that afflicted Mr. Huckabee (but which has now gone away, thanks to his regimen of salads and exercise). It has increased tenfold among children in just the last 20 years.
As a series in this newspaper about diabetes recently noted, one-third of today's 5-year-olds in America are projected to get diabetes at some point in their lives. It's already the leading cause of blindness, and a 10-year-old who has diabetes loses 19 years of life expectancy.
Imagine if Al Qaeda had resolved to attack us not with conventional chemical weapons but by slipping large amounts of high-fructose corn syrup into our food supply. That would finally rouse us to action -- but in fact it's pretty much what we're doing to ourselves.
So what practical steps do we take? That's on the menu for a forthcoming column.


I needed the perfect conversation. I needed that singular "aha" moment. I needed an answer to a question I hadn't quite defined.
At least, these were all the things I thought I needed to clearly visualize the future of adventure travel. Imagine my surprise when I discovered what I actually needed was plogging.
Participating in the Swedish tradition of picking up litter while jogging (or, in my case, walking) turned out to be the perfect opportunity to reflect on all the things I witnessed, conversations I heard, and information I digested as an observer to this evolving industry. It's been a fast-track journey, listening and learning about the challenges adventure travel professionals are facing, and it's been incredibly inspiring hearing about the creative solutions, collaborations, and ideas professionals have for addressing this increasingly complex space.
One key thing stood out to me as I took in all these discussions and deliberations: To forge a way forward, the adventure travel community has taken a momentary step back to reexamine its roots. What is fundamentally important to this community? What priorities need focus? How will the community involve key stakeholders in building more sustainable processes, and what is the best way to achieve traveler buy-in while still keeping client satisfaction and safety at the forefront? And, how can all these committed professionals work together to realize a shared vision?
The past week has been one of deep conversations, complex questions with no easy answers, raw emotions, keen observations, significant details, big-picture realizations, and an abundance of promise and hope. In returning to the source of its motivation and inspiration, I believe the adventure travel industry has big hurdles to overcome in the years ahead, but I also think this community is committed to tackling those problems head on.
Several delegates gathered for a morning of plogging during this year's event.
Speaking to a number of delegates this year, I heard that the event's physical layout forced people to slow down and consider these tough questions. Walking to the Tettuccio Spa, I saw delegates decrease their pace as they passed Duetto d'Acqua, the mesmerizing water sculpture singing in haunting tones as water spilled from its elements. I struck up conversations with delegates taking a breather on a park bench in the sun near Teatro Verdi. I watched spontaneous meetings take place at the tables in Tettuccio Spa on my way to find a quiet workspace in the press room sponsored by Aysén Patagonia – Chile. And when the going got really tough, I saw delegates wait patiently for that strong shot of Italian coffee.
As you take what you've learned in Tuscany back to your businesses, staff members, and clients, I encourage you to remain in touch with that passion that led you to adventure travel in the first place. Let it be a guiding light, and don't forget those moments during the Summit when you returned to your source, your personal wellspring. There will be no easy answers — no single conversation, no "aha" moment. But some day when you least expect it — some morning when you decide to go plogging, perhaps — you'll see what I saw when I watched the community come together in a powerful way for a single week in Montecatini Terme.
Thank you for joining me on such a refreshing adventure.
Awesome wrap up JoAnna! Very nice to close on these thoughts.
Thank you, Jake. It's always a pleasure to spend in-person time with this inspiring community.


Citrus Heights Police are investigating a collision involving a vehicle and pedestrian that occurred in the 8000 block of Glen Tree Drive. The pedestrian was transported to a local hospital for treatment of injuries consistent with being struck by a vehicle.
At approximately 9:45 p.m., Citrus Heights Police received several 9-1-1 calls reporting a collision where a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle. Neighbors in the 8000 block of Glen Tree Drive reported hearing screeching tires and then an impact. An adult male pedestrian was found in the roadway. The driver remained at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation.
The collision is being investigated by the CHPD Traffic Unit. Preliminary information indicates alcohol and speed may have been factors in the cause of the collision.
The Police Department wants to remind all persons utilizing the roadway, motorists and pedestrians alike, to exercise caution, particularly in residential neighborhoods. Drivers are reminded to stay aware of their speed, and pedestrians are encouraged to utilize crosswalks and wear bright colored clothing if walking at night.


In most cases, however you dress it up, retail isn't at the top of everyone's dream job list. With a job description that might best be described as a testing experience with the general public and the horrors that happen in changing rooms, it's widely-accepted that a shop job is something you endure rather than enjoy. This otherwise universal truth means nothing in Harajuku, where things are a little more glamorous for a certain circle of retail workers. Known locally as 'shop staff', the kids happily hanging shirts for minimum wage in Tokyo's fashion district aren't your average turn-up-for-work-hungover employees, but a unique community of employees hired to be brand ambassadors, models, and de facto 'faces' of the brands they work for. This all-encompassing role is testament to Tokyo's typical culture of hard work: Japanese hipsters don't do the whole model/blogger/DJ thing - they also have day jobs.
It follows that netting a shop staff position in Harajuku takes more than catching the bus into town and brandishing your CV at whichever shop won't pop it straight through the shredder. Babymary Faline, the owner of influential boutique Faline Tokyo, has a hiring criteria which extends to more than just knowing how to fold a t-shirt, and sounds more like trying to get through to the X-Factor finals. "To be shop staff in Harajuku you have to be the star of the shop, really," Mary explains. "The best shop staff are more like icons than sales people. They need to be models, DJs, social media influencers and socialites. It takes a lot more than your average salesperson… they need to have some magic." That magic comes in many forms, but a "unique image" is the fundamental ingredient - a reason that shop staff populate the pages of Japan's top street style blogs Fruits and DropTokyo.
This idea of shop staff being pseudo-celebrities isn't new, and has a history rooted in Tokyo's department stores that goes back to the Harajuku street style boom in the 90s. Formerly known as 'charisma clerks', trendsetters were hired to totter around offering 'big sisterly' style advice to customers who came seeking it (and of course get them to spend as much as possible).
Nowadays, the cult status that certain employees enjoy means that social media promotion is integral to the shop staff world. Instagram works its whole 'organic PR' purpose well: the staff promote the brand they work for on their personal account, and vice versa. And their followers trust their advice. Baek Yoona, who works at minimalist punk boutique Never Mind the XU, says "the more followers the shop staff get, the more popular the shop [they work for] becomes."
Still, it's ultimately the shops who are reaping the financial benefits from these relationships, and retail assistant roles aren't exactly famed for their generous wages, even in Harajuku. So if these kids are so influential in their own right, then apart from chalking up their Instagram followers, what's really in it for them? Quite a lot, according to Yoona: "shop staff in Harajuku are seen as a community, and a lot of them have connections with people from other fashion-related industries, such as photographers and make-up artists." For Babymary's Faline employees, that can mean regularly meeting designers, stylists and musicians. Whether it's "Jeremy Scott or Rihanna coming to visit the shop", or to "fashion parties where they get to drink with Kim Jones or Ricardo Tisci," Faline's staff have access to circles most retail workers couldn't imagine. Not bad for a shop job. From there, once that book of contacts is a few pages thick, the sky is the limit: "It's just a matter of how well they can live up to that position and how far they can push themselves," says Mary.
For a lucky few, that all-important introduction into the inner sanctums of Harajuku's heady fashion scene has meant unbridled success. Peco and Ryucheru - arguably Japan's most eminent young couple - met whilst working at Harajuku teeny-bopper store Super Wego, and have since amassed over a million Instagram followers between them. While still relatively unknown in the west, Peco has been touted as the next Kyary Pamyu Pamyu-esque 'face' of international Japan, has her style referred to as 'Peco Kei' by fans, and currently runs her own fashion brand, Peco Club, out of Harajuku's famous Bubbles store. Ryucheru is known for his trademark Genderless Kei aesthetic, and is an increasingly familiar face on Japanese television shows and adverts.


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Metropolitan uses underground longwall mining techniques to extract the coal which is then transferred by conveyor to the major surface facilities area. The coal is transported by train to the Port Kembla Coal Terminal for shipping to domestic and overseas customers.
The mine also actively engages with the community through its Community Consultative Committee.


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Degradation in probability logic: when more information leads to less precise conclusions
Christian Wallmann and Gernot D. KleiterDOI: 10.14736/kyb-2014-2-0268
\vspace{5mm} Probability logic studies the properties resulting from the probabilistic interpretation of logical argument forms. Typical examples are probabilistic Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens. Argument forms with two premises usually lead from precise probabilities of the premises to imprecise or interval probabilities of the conclusion. In the contribution, we study generalized inference forms having three or more premises. Recently, Gilio has shown that these generalized forms "degrade'' -- more premises lead to more imprecise conclusions, i. e., to wider intervals. We distinguish different forms of degradation. We analyse Predictive Inference, Modus Ponens, Bayes' Theorem, and Modus Tollens. Special attention is devoted to the case where the conditioning events have zero probabilities. Finally, we discuss the relation of degradation to monotonicity. \vspace{5mm}
probability logic, generalized inference forms, degradation, total evidence, coherence, probabilistic Modus Tollens
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Kansas family brings shaved ice to Bar Harbor
Food & Drink, Things to Do / Bar Harbor, shaved ice, town hill
By: Jessica Piper
Bubblegum is among the more than 70 flavors at the newly opened Brrr! Harbor in the Bar Harbor village of Town Hill on Route 102. BRRR! HARBOR PHOTO
He is not in Kansas anymore, but Brian Schaper brought his snow cone business with him. Brrrr! Harbor, located in Town Hill, a village within Bar Harbor 12 miles south of Ellsworth, is just the second shaved ice franchise in Maine, and the Schapers — Brian, Mandie and their 4-year-old son Xavier — are on a mission to teach the state how a real snow cone tastes.
Brian has been in the snow cone trade since he was 12 years old, when his father, David, bought a defunct snow cone franchise in their hometown of Cherryvale, Kan. David ran several businesses, but the snow cone enterprise took off like no other, and the family began setting up snow cone shops all over the state. Brian and his two younger brothers eventually began to manage their own franchises.
In 2007, Mandie was wowed by the beauty of Acadia National Park when she came as part of a summer ministry. She planned to return to Maine the following summer, but began dating Brian instead.
Brian, Mandie and 4-year-old son Xavier Schaper are the force behind newly opened Brrr! Harbor in Town Hill.
PHOTO BY JESSICA PIPER
The couple, who have traveled to 45 states together, returned to Acadia on vacation five years ago. When Brian's profession came up in conversation, the B&B owner who was hosting the pair suggested that they open a snow cone shop in Maine. For Brian, the comment "planted the seed."
In 2016, he sold his shaved ice franchise in Independence, Kan., and the family, which by that point included Xavier, moved to Mount Desert Island. Brrrr! Harbor opened on July 3, 2017.
To the Schapers' surprise, one of their first challenges was helping Mainers understand the concept of shaved ice.
"Most people here don't really know what shaved ice is," Brian said. "People think it's just crushed ice with syrup all at the bottom."
Shaved ice at Brrrr! Harbor, on the other hand, has the texture of snow, with flavor dispersed throughout. As such, Brian has found the term "snow cone" to be a more useful descriptor.
Brrrr! Harbor offers more than 70 flavors, although nowhere near the 310 that Brian had built up at his Independence franchise. His father, always inventive, has over 600 flavors at his Pittsburg, Kan., location. At Brrrr! Harbor, the flavors use real sugar, and many are all natural.
"It reflects how we like to eat," Mandie said.
Brian, who has had "unlimited access" to snow cones since he was 12, admits he doesn't appreciate the treat like he used to. Mandie enjoys lavender, while Xavier prefers the strawberry flavor, with vanilla and cream.
The shop's most popular flavor is blue raspberry; dill pickle and bacon are the two that the Schapers find the weirdest. Customers like to sample these, Brian said, but don't typically order them.
Set back from downtown Bar Harbor, Brrrr! Harbor receives primarily a local crowd. Still, each customer is another chance for Brian to show off the craft he has been perfecting for nearly three decades — and to create a new shaved ice enthusiast.
Brrrr! Harbor is located at 1319 State Highway 102 in Town Hill. Tel: 801-1232.
Jessica Piper


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