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Ghana Squeeze Out Uganda
African Cup Of Nations – Group D
Ghana beat a Ugandan team by a single goal to nil in an absorbing clash in the first of the two Group D games.
Ayew scored from the penalty spot with the only goal of the game to ensure Ghana remain on course for the knockout stages.
He shot powerfully from the spot to the keepers right to grab all three points although Uganda will be buoyed by the fact they gave their all in a game where a draw for both teams would have been the right result. Still Ghana aren't going to mind too much as they now prepare for their second game with three points on the board.
Avram Grant the Ghana manager has been on a stormy route with the team and the odds are that even if Grant does manage to get to the final or even win the tournament there is a ready made replacement waiting in the wings. The former Chelsea manager has not responded to this speculation in the same manner as when he took over from Jose Mourinho at Stamford Bridge all those years ago.
In the early phases of the match it was Ghana that came out attacking Uganda and although they had registered 5 shots within the first 25 minutes they lacked any real penetration. Uganda appeared as if keen to shut up shop but had to change their game plan when Ghana opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Isinde lost the ball just inside his own penalty area and realizing his mistake as the Ghana forward came hurtling in, he put his hands on the player bringing him down for a penalty. Isinde also got a deserved booking but it was a child-like error that ultimately Uganda would pay dearly for. Ayew neatly wrapped up the penalty and Ghana took a well-merited lead.
On 37 minutes the Ghanaian's lost Baba Rahmman to injury and he was replaced by Acheampong but Ghana kept on in the same attacking vein as Atsu had a mazy run, cut inside and unleashed a shot saved by Onyango in the Ugandan Goal.
Minutes before half time Uganda at last had something to shout about in the humid heat wet conditions. Centre forward Miya taking the ball into the penalty area and unfurling a shot that hit the bottom of the post and into the side netting.
Uganda had another half chance in the dying seconds of the half but Isinde the man who gave away the penalty somehow managed to miss the ball completely from seven yards out following a gorgeous cross in from the left. Gyan then put in a fluffed header himself as the whistle blew for a half time cigarette and a glass of local beer, and that was just for the referee.
The FIFA rankings were looking spot on for the pair with Ghana currently 54th and Uganda 19 places below them in 73rd but it was Uganda who came out with a different agenda in the second half.
On 63 minutes Uganda had a shot from 25 yards that sizzled past the post and barely a minute afterwards Odhaya's shot from 20 yards also flew past the post with keeper Razak looking on.
The Ugandan team continued to probe looking for that elusive goal to tie the proceedings and despite Massa's free kick from 25 yards out that went flying over the bar and a chance for Miyo who produced a ridiculously weak shot. The air rifle beckoned for The Cranes and it surely wasn't to be Uganda's day.
Last chance of the day went to Ghana from Atsu again with a superb run and shot that was fabulously saved by Onyango and the save of the game.
Despite controlling large swathes of the game Ghana held on to go top of the group.
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Hypothetical-deductive method is a very important method for testing theories or hypotheses and is one of the most basic methods common to all scientific disciplines.
5. If the predictions are correct, then the hypothesis is confirmed. If not, the hypothesis is disconfirmed.
HD reasoning involves starting with a general theory of all possible factors that might affect an outcome and forming ahypothesis; then deductions are made from that hypothesis to predict what might happen in an experiment.
In scientific inquiry, HD reasoning is very important because, in order to solve science problems, you need to make hypotheses. Many hypotheses can't be tested directly; you have to deduce from a hypothesis and make predictions which can be tested through experiments.
According to Piaget's theory of intellectual development, HD reasoning appears in the formal operational stage (Inhelder & Piaget, 1958). Lawson et al. (2000) claim that there are two general developmentally-based levels of hypothesis-testing skill. The first level involves skills associated with testing hypotheses about observable causal agents; the second involves testing hypotheses about unobservable entities. The ability to test alternative explanations involving unseen theoreticalentities is a fifth stage of intellectual developmentthat goes beyond Piaget's four stages.
This question gives students two alternative hypotheses and the experiment to test these two hypotheses. Students need to make a prediction about the results of the experiment according to each hypothesis and consider what result could confirm or disconfirm the hypothesis.
If hypothesis I is right, then the weight of the bag won't change because there are no molecules or ions coming into or going out of the bag. If hypothesis II is right, the bag will lose weight because water molecules move out of the bag. From HD reasoning, we know the answers are A and B.
The figure below shows a drinking glass and a burning birthday candle stuck in a small piece of clay standing in a pan of water. When the glass is turned upside down, put over the candle, and placed in the water, the candle quickly goes out and water rushes up into the glass (as shown on the right).
This observation raises an interesting question: Why does the water rush up into the glass?
Here is a possible explanation. The flame converts oxygen into carbon dioxide. Because oxygen does not dissolve rapidly into water but carbon dioxide does, the newly-formed carbon dioxide dissolves rapidly into the water, lowering the air pressure inside the glass.
Suppose you have the materials mentioned above plus some matches and some dry ice (dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide). Using some or all of the materials, how could you test this possible explanation?
Saturate the water with carbon dioxide and redo the experiment noting the amount of water rise.
The water rises because oxygen is consumed, so redo the experiment in exactly the same way to show water rise due to oxygen loss.
Conduct a controlled experiment varying only the number of candles to see if that makes a difference.
Redo the experiment, but make sure it is controlled by holding all independent variables constant; then measure the amount of water rise.
What result of your test (mentioned in the previous question) would show that your explanation is probably right?
The water rises the same as it did before.
The water rises less than it did before.
The water rises more than it did before.
This question tells students the hypothesis. Students need to design an experiment to check the hypothesis, make prediction about the results of the experiment according to the hypothesis, and consider what result could confirm the hypothesis. If the hypothesis is right, water saturated with carbon dioxide will not absorb as much carbon dioxide from the flame, so the air pressure will not be as low as it was before and the water will not rise as much.
HD reasoning is important in concept construction because students typically do not come to the learning situation as blank slates. Rather, they come with alternative conceptions (i.e., hypotheses) that must be modified or replaced by scientific conceptions. Thus, concept construction often engages hypothetical-deductive reasoning skills (cf. Lawson, Abraham, & Renner, 1989; Lawson & Renner, 1975; Lawson & Thompson, 1988; Lawson & Weser, 1990; Lawson et al., 2000).
Through HD reasoning and experimentation, students can test their preconceptions against scientific concepts and find out which match experimental results. This promotes conceptual change.
Suppose your portable music player fails to switch on. You might consider the hypothesis that perhaps the batteries are dead. You decide to test whether this is true.
Given this hypothesis, you predict that the music player should work properly if you replace the batteries with new ones.
You proceed to replace the batteries, which is the "experiment" for testing the prediction.
If the player works again, then your hypothesis is confirmed, and you throw away the old batteries. If the player still does not work, the prediction was false, and the hypothesis is disconfirmed. You might reject your original hypothesis and come up with an alternative one to test, such as the batteries are fine but your music player is broken.
This example illustrates the use ofHD reasoning in everyday life, and it is easy to list other examples like this one.


Throughout 2018, Mane successfully won a number of new contracts to provide OEM companies within the automotive industry with hybrid vehicle specialists in both Europe and China. This has included roles from powertrain engineers to low emission vehicle engineers for businesses in the UK, Italy, Germany and China.
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While the contracts Mane has worked on in Europe have been relatively straightforward, they have not been without their challenges. And because hybrid vehicles have been commonplace in Europe for several years, the recruitment company quickly identified numerous suitable candidates for its client base. However, it is an incredibly competitive market so while talent certainly exists, enticing individuals away from their existing roles was not an easy task. In addition, the roles in Italy and Germany would mean UK based nationals that had expressed an interest relocating. Despite the challenges, by identifying the right skill sets and providing a consultative approach for professionals who were concerned about the upheaval of moving overseas and clear information on the ability to upskill relatively quickly, Mane was able to source and place all professionals required for its European clients in an efficient and timely manner.
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What's the happiest place on earth? The answer isn't Disney World, but rather, Finland, according to the U.N's World Happiness Report.
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Finland isn't just the happiest country—but one of the safest to travel to. And there's a lot to do and see in the land of the midnight sun, especially in Helsinki. From Michelin-starred restaurants to flower shopping in Market Square and wandering the city's design district, it's become a must-visit city on most traveler's bucket lists. Plus, who wouldn't want to go to a place with an abundance of Moomins?
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Music The best thing to do to increase your chances of getting a scholarship is to essentially apply for everything available to you. Sometimes students think they won't get it, and often it's the case that we'll have scholarships that we don't get any applications for. So my advice for students to increase your odds of getting scholarships is to apply for everything, and not just apply for the awards that George Brown College offers, but to look at the external college awards too. Such as studentawards.com and scholarships.ca. The really reputable websites and search engines that locates scholarships across the country. Especially if a scholarship is looking for references, and they are looking for two references and you only provide one reference, you may not be considered for that scholarship.
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From the Aztec: The legend of How Music Came to the World
2020 History Kirby Vickery May 2020
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There were two powerful gods within the Aztec pantheon whom sometimes fought and sometimes didn't. As it happened, they met on a very windy, high plain one day. This would stand to reason, as one of them was Tezcatlipoca, the sky god, and the other was Quetzalcoatl, the god of the wind.
Tezcatlipoca spoke first to Quetzalcoatl by snidely asking. "What took you so long?"
Quetzalcoatl answered over his shoulder. "I've been busy with this hurricane season whipping up the waves."
They argued for a while over the importance of wave whipping in their meeting. Finally, Tezcatlipoca yelled out to his companion. "You just stop huffing for a moment and listen. What do you hear?"
"Nothing. So?"
"Yeah. See?" Responded Quetzalcoatl. "Exactly my point. With-out all the noises you make with the wind and the waves and all the other noises all small creatures make, and that of the occasional volcano tossing up new earth and rock, there is nothing. I mean exactly nothing! No one sings. No one plays a note. We need to wake up the world, Wind. And I don't mean hurricanes. We need music!"
"Music?" said Quetzalcoatl. I don't even know what that word is."
"I know," the sky god said. "But, I'll tell you who does: the Sun. He surrounds himself with singers and music-makers who play and sing for him all day long and that so-and-so won't share their music with us which is evident because you don't even know what it is."
"He won't share?" said Quetzalcoatl. "That's not fair!"
"I know," said Tezcatlipoca. "And that's why I want you to go to the House of the Sun and bring the best singers and the best musicians. Remember," he said, as the wind god unfolded his wings. "We need to wake up the world. We need music!"
Aztec Musicians [well sorta]
With one mighty flap, Quetzalcoatl hurled himself into the air. He flew over land and sea searching the endless coastline for a single beach. He knew there was only one way he could travel to the House of the Sun.
After he finally found it, he landed and called out the names of the sky god's three servants: Cane and Conch, Water Woman and Water Monster. When they all stood before him, he ordered them to build a bridge.
They grabbed hold of each other and began to grow tall and thin and to twine together like twine makes a rope. They turned into a strong rope bridge that disappeared into the sky.
Quetzalcoatl climbed the bridge, following it higher and higher, as the earth grew smaller and smaller below.
Finally, he came to the realm of House of the Sun, and he could see the palace towers shimmering in the distance. He al-so discovered that getting to them was not as easy as arriving in the Sun's realm. He had to grope around to find his way through a maze of streets with high walls. He kept getting lost and going around in circles.
Nearly ready to give up, he heard a beautiful sound that he had never heard before. It was cool and bright. It was sweet and light. It was music.
Quetzalcoatl followed the sound until it led him out of the building maze. Then he saw the musicians in the great court-yard of the Sun.
The flute players were dressed in golden yellow. The wandering minstrels wore blue. The lullaby singers were dressed in white, and the singers of love songs wore red.
Suddenly the Sun saw Quetzalcoatl.
"Stop playing!" he cried. "Stop it, I say. "Stop your singing right now! It's that foul tempered wind! Don't even speak to him or he will take you back to that silent planet of his!"
Quetzalcoatl lifted his wings and called to the musicians to come with him!
None of them said a word.
Again the wind god cried out, "Singers! Musicians! The Lord of the Sky commands you!" And again, the musicians remained silent.
Quetzalcoatl did not like to be ignored. He exploded with anger, like a hundred hurricanes going off at once. Lightning cracked and thunder boomed and clouds swirled around the House of the Sun, turning the daylight into darkness. The wind god then roared as if there was no end to his voice. Everything fell down. The Sun flickered like a tiny flame. The musicians all ran to the wind and huddled in his arms, trembling with fear.
Instantly the wind's anger passed. His thunder faded and the clouds vanished. Quetzalcoatl took the musicians in his arms and left the House of the Sun, moving through the maze as if it were not even there because he was filled with great happiness as he followed the sky bridge back to earth.
The earth could also feel that something new was coming -something it needed and had been secretly wishing for. As the wind god came nearer, the earth let out a slow sigh of relief as its fruit plants began to ripen and its flowers began to bloom with new, deeper colors. The whole planet seemed to be waking up from a long sleep.
Tonatiuh the Sun God
Finally, Quetzalcoatl touched down on the earth with the musicians and singers. They looked around curiously at the silent, waiting planet. Then they began to play and they started to wander as they played through forests and valleys and deserts and oceans they traveled, filling the air with music.
Soon people learned to sing and play, and so did the trees and birds, the whales and wolves, the running streams, the crickets and frogs, and every other creature.
From dawn to dusk, the melodies spread until music covered the earth.
The wind god was pleased. So was the sky god. The musicians were happy with their new home.
And ever since that day, the earth has been filled with music.
[This story is a shortened child's story taken from several re-searched Codex and filled in with some visual interpretations by several archeologists on a project a few years ago. When we talk about the Aztecs, we so often just slip by their classical home life and style and I feel that it's a shame to do that.]
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Kirby was born in a little burg just south of El Paso, Texas called Fabens. As he understand it, they we were passing through. His history reads like a road atlas. By the time he started school, he had lived in five places in two states. By the time he started high school, that list went to five states, four countries on three continents. Then he joined the Air Force after high school and one year of college and spent 23 years stationed in eleven or twelve places and traveled all over the place doing administrative, security, and electronic things. His final stay was being in charge of Air Force Recruiting in San Diego, Imperial, and Yuma counties. Upon retirement he went back to New England as a Quality Assurance Manager in electronics manufacturing before he was moved to Production Manager for the company's Mexico operations. He moved to the Phoenix area and finally got his education and ended up teaching. He parted with the university and moved to Whidbey Island, Washington where he was introduced to Manzanillo, Mexico. It was there that he started to publish his monthly article for the Manzanillo Sun. He currently reside in Coupeville, WA, Edmonton, AB, and Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, depending on whose having what medical problems and the time of year. His time is spent dieting, writing his second book, various articles and short stories, and sightseeing Canada, although that seems to be limited in the winter up there.
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Prince William was spotted in a field in Eastington this afternoon and it has left many baffled as to why.
The Duke of Cambridge was seen without his Duchess as his yellow helicopter was spotted landing in a field in the village.
As soon as Prince William had landed he was then taken in black Land Rover to his next destination.
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Q: How do I make a delay in a GUI that works separately from the other delay Java package Login;
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A: First, instead of that:
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You should rather use Thread.sleep(1000)
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. – One of the bills aimed at raising money to cap orphan oil and gas wells cleared the House of Delegates Wednesday and heads to the Senate.
HB 2779 provides a means for royalties due to unknown or unlocatable mineral owners to be transferred to the Oil and Gas Reclamation Fund after seven years. The fund, which has about $400,000 now, is used to cap abandoned and orphan wells.
The bill addresses two situations.
One deals with partition suits, where multiple mineral interests in a single tract are sold to a single buyer via a civil suit and the proceeds are divided among the previous owners.
For unknown and unlocatable owners in these cases, the sale proceeds are held in receivership in county courts. Under the bill, funds unclaimed after seven years will go into the reclamation fund.
The other concerns instances where, after seven years of unpaid property taxes, the surface owner has the option to buy the mineral rights. In these cases, the bill says royalties accumulated and held in the court up until the time the surface owner signs the deed will go to the reclamation fund. The surface owner will receive all subsequent royalties and rights to future development.
Explaining the bill on the House floor, Energy chair Bill Anderson, R-Wood, said it's an environmental protection bill that could cap thousands of wells.
During consideration of a cousin bill, HB 2673, legislators learned that well capping can cost anywhere from $29,000 to $100,000 depending on the complexity of the job. The state Office of Oil and Gas averages the cost at $67,000 per well.
HB 2763, which was on Wednesday's Finance Committee agenda but pulled just before the meeting, would provide a tax break for low-volume oil and gas wells by eliminating the 5 percent severance tax and substituting a 2.5 percent fee that would go into a new Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund.
That fund is intended to reach $4 million, which would cap about 60 wells based on the average cost.
There are 4,576 orphaned wells in the state, and virtually no capping is going on — about half a dozen in the last five years.


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Here we focus on the data that is needed to underpin decisions on health and breeding, i.e. data enumerating and describing dog populations, in general, as well as, the occurrence of disease in dog populations, breed populations, etc.
In this section, we provide focus on general principles for breed health surveys and links to clubs/sites reporting health surveys for various breeds.


Evonik recently announced it has completed the conceptual and basic engineering phase for building its new polyamide 12 facility.
Evonik recently announced it has completed the conceptual and basic engineering phase for building its new polyamide 12 (PA12) production complex, and has now entered the project implementation phase. The facility is reportedly scheduled to become operational in the first half of 2021.
The expansion is expected to increase overall capacity for PA12 by more than half. Additional facilities for producing the polymer and its precursors will reportedly be constructed at the Marl Chemical Park in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, to supplement the existing PA12 production plant.
For more information, visit www.evonik.com.


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Нинъу́ () — уезд городского округа Синьчжоу провинции Шаньси (КНР).

История
При империи Западная Хань в этих местах был создан уезд Лоуфань (楼烦县); он был расформирован при империи Западная Цзинь. При империи Северная Вэй были образованы округа Гуаннин (广宁郡) и Шэньу (神武郡); при империи Северная Ци они были присоединены к округу Тайпин (太平郡). При империи Северная Чжоу округ Тайпин был расформирован.

При империи Тан был создан военный округ Нинъу (宁武军), название которого было образовано из вторых иероглифов название округов Гуаннин и Шэньу; позднее военный округ Нинъу был расформирован, а вместо него был создан военный округ Гуцзюнь (固军).

При империи Сун в 979 году военный округ Гуцзюнь был преобразован в уезд Нинхуа (宁化县). Впоследствии уезд ещё несколько раз становился военным округом, а округ вновь преобразовывался в гражданский уезд. После установления власти монголов в 1221 году и округ, и уезд были расформированы.

При империи Цин в 1725 году были образованы Нинъуская управа (宁武府) и уезд Нинъу. После Синьхайской революции в Китае была проведена реформа структуры административного деления, в результате которой управы были упразднены, и поэтому остался только уезд Нинъу.

В 1949 году был образован Специальный район Синьсянь (忻县专区), и уезд вошёл в его состав. В 1958 году Специальный район Синьсянь и Специальный район Ябэй (雁北专区) были объединены в Специальный район Цзиньбэй (晋北专区). В 1961 году Специальный район Цзиньбэй был вновь разделён на Специальный район Ябэй и Специальный район Синьсянь, и уезд снова оказался в составе Специального района Синьсянь.

В 1967 году Специальный район Синьсянь был переименован в Округ Синьсянь (忻县地区).  В 1983 году Округ Синьсянь был переименован в Округ Синьчжоу (忻州地区).

В 2000 году постановлением Госсовета КНР были расформированы округ Синьчжоу и городской уезд Синьчжоу, и создан городской округ Синьчжоу.

Административное деление
Уезд делится на 4 посёлка и 10 волостей.

Ссылки

Уезды Синьчжоу

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The National Weather Service has issued a fire weather watch and a red flag fire warning for Calhoun County.
The fire weather watch expires at 8 p.m. today. The red flag warning will be effect from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
"The conditions are ripe for fires to spread," said Brandon Hoving, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service station in Grand Rapids. "Tomorrow is the higher danger.
"The ground is relatively dry right now and things have not fully greened up yet," he added. "This time of the year is when we have a risk for wildfire before things green up."
Emmett Township stopped issuing burn permits Monday because of the fire watch. Those decisions are on a day-by-day basis.
The combination of strong winds, low relative humidity and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior, according to the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.
The Sheriff's Office is asking residents to be extra careful with any activities that could potentially lead to a wildfire.
Camping, outdoor grills, smoking materials, chain saws, all-terrain vehicles — all have the potential to throw a spark and ignite a fire.


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Q: Is this valid way to convert fluent nhibernate to xml? I am trying to convert this code:
Component(x => x.User, x =>
        {
            x.References(m => m.UserAccount).Columns(@"UserAccountId", @"UserAccountType");
            x.References(m => m.Postman, @"PostmanId");
        });

back into hbm.xml, my question: is everything alrigh with way I did it or am I missing something?
Converted code:
<component name="User">
  <many-to-one name="UserAccount">
    <column name="UserAccountId"/>
    <column name="UserAccountType"/>
  </many-to-one>
  <many-to-one name="Postman" column="PostmanId"></many-to-one>
</component>

A: You can output all of your fluent nhibernate mappings as xml if you want.  Sounds a lot easier than this.
Generate XML mappings from fluent Nhibernate


Both firms suspended processed meat production at their plants after health authorities ordered a recall of cold meats linked to a deadly listeria outbreak.
Minister tells South Africans not to consume ready-to-eat processed meat across the board due to the risk of cross-contamination, a directive likely to affect a popular food segment in Africa's most industrialised economy.
The announcement prompted a frenzied clearing and cleaning of the shelves by local supermarkets chains Shoprite, Pick n Pay, Spar and Woolworths.
Shares in South Africa's biggest consumer foods producer Tiger Brands and RCL Foods fell on Monday after the government linked a deadly listeria outbreak to cold meat products known as "polony" made by Tiger unit Enterprise Food.
Both firms suspended processed meat production at their plants after health authorities ordered a recall of cold meats linked to a deadly listeria outbreak from both domestic and international outlets.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Sunday the outbreak had killed 180 people since January 2017 and that it had been traced to meat called"polony" from a Tiger Brands factory in the northern city of Polokwane. He said a plant owned by RCL Foods was being investigated.
The minister also told South Africans not to consume ready-to-eat processed meat across the board due to the risk of cross-contamination, a directive likely to affect a popular food segment in Africa's most industrialised economy.
The announcement prompted a frenzied clearing and cleaning of the shelves by local supermarkets chains Shoprite, Pick n Pay, Spar and Woolworths, which also urged consumers to return the meats for refunds.
Shares in Tiger Brands sank as much as 13 percent, before recouping some losses to trade 7.5 percent lower at 392.98 rand. RCL Foods fell more than 6 percent but later recovered to trade down 3.5 per cent at 16.60 rand.
The firms said they were cooperating with the authorities.
South Africa's processed meat market grew about 8 percent in 2017 to a retail value of $412 million, according to Euromonitor International. Tiger Brands has a 35.7 percent market share, followed by Eskort Bacon Co-Operative with 21.8 percent. Rhodes Food, Rainbow Chicken (RCL Foods) and Astral Foods each have less than 5 percent.
Tiger Brands said it had suspended operations at both Enterprise manufacturing facilities in Polokwane and the town of Germiston, east of the commercial hub of Johannesburg.
RCL said it was recalling its polony products even though test results were still pending. The firm said on Sunday it had suspended all production of its polony brand.
Health authorities have not said when they could conclude the tests on RCL Foods. It was not immediately clear why it took authorities more than a year to identify the source of listeria.
There have been 948 cases of listeria reported since January 2017. The disease causes flu-like symptoms, nausea, diarrhea and infection of the blood stream and brain.
Dozens of customers who had bought the items lined up outside a Tiger Brands outlet, carrying bags of cold meat products and demanding refunds.
"I already packed my kids lunch with this product, so I'm shocked," said Tshepo Makhura, a 37-year-old call centre agent.
Analysts said profits were unlikely to be hit hard because the recalls did not affect the two firms' largest divisions.
Tiger Brands makes consumer goods, ranging from rice, breakfast cereals, bread, juices, canned meats and vegetables and energy drinks.
"The divisions may not be huge in terms of their contribution to the topline but from a brand perspective it's not good," said Michael Treherne, an analyst at Vestact in Johannesburg.
Standard Bank analyst Sumil Seeraj estimated the recall would cut operating profit at Tiger Brand's value added foods division by 6 percent at most.
"The big hit is going to come with inventory write-offs because they are recalling all these products. That's most likely where they will lose because the inventory write-off will affect operating profit from that division," Seeraj said.
"Enterprise has a very strong brand in meat. In the short term consumers will switch to other forms of protein," he said.


"The testing period of the Kona WoZo has been an odyssey for me. I keep trying to find a trail or a line that this FAT BIKE can't take. I haven't found it yet. It has become a thing that I keep bringing this bike on rides that everyone thinks I'm crazy for doing. I've become that guy who keeps fat biking everything, even though there isn't any snow.
Read more (and watch videos!) at fat-bike.com here, and get the details on the Wozo here.


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CPP London Properties
Pegasus Group secured planning permission for an exciting mix used development in the 'tall building' zone of Plymouth city centre, bringing with it jobs, student accommodation, office space and a new 105-bed hotel.
Plymouth City Council passed a resolution to approve plans to demolish the existing Money Centre building at Drake Circus and create a 21-storey modern building in keeping with the cityscape.
Pegasus Group, on behalf of a London based property development company, put forward the plans comprising:
• 554 student bedrooms
• 1,858 sq metres of Grade 'A' office space
• a 105-bedroom hotel
• 149 sq metres of flexible retail accommodation
The scheme delivers a package of overall benefits to the local economy, including replacement Grade A office accommodation and a new hotel on site, as well as indirect benefits such as financial contributions to the area and a new office development on the regeneration scheme adjacent to Plymouth Railway Station.
The economic benefits of the scheme to the region are likely to be substantial, with the plans supporting 374 full time jobs, construction investment over the two and half year build programme estimated at £38m, and £8.4m predicted to be spent annually by the new students.
The site forms part of the designated 'tall building zone' and the design has been created to blend in with both existing and proposed developments. Plymouth has set out its ambitions to have a tall building zone for over a decade, and while there has been some progress, this development should provide a welcome addition to the city skyline, with a modern, attractive and high-quality build.
The public realm immediately around the site will be extensively remodelled with the planting of 18 trees to compensate for the loss of the existing five trees. As well as tree planting and public realm improvements at ground level, landscaping for the site includes the provision of five green spaces on the roofscape, where the seed mix will encourage butterflies, bees and ecological diversity.
Pegasus Group also provided a heritage and townscape assessment, landscape and urban design services on the project. Moreover, the Pegasus archaeology team was involved in further research and analysis on a historic watercourse that ran through the site, which was ultimately incorporated into the final design.
Work is anticipated to start on the redevelopment in 2019/2020.
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Morality Ch. 21: Is Gluttony a Sin?
In the Old Testament they killed gluttons, and in the church it became a "mortal sin." So why doesn't the New Testament take it so seriously, and why don't we?
The world now contains more people who are obese than malnourished. This change first happened a few decades ago, but then conflicts in areas such as Yemen and Congo caused local famines. However, obesity has continued to rise and has overtaken malnutrition again. This reminds us that the planet has enough food, and its lack is usually caused by human sin.
We wouldn't be in this happy condition without the invention of agriculture. It must have been an amazing genius who worked out that deliberately burying grain would actually produce more of it in a few months' time. Rice farming is even more difficult, because it requires flat fields with borders to allow periodic flooding.
Both types of agriculture worked best within large, organized communities. People have to specialize in different tasks – some do farming (which is a full-time job), while others defend them, or produce tools and other things that farmers need. The community needs to store the food because harvests come only once or twice a year, and in bad years they may need to organize rationing.
But what happens when someone in the community rebels? What if they get drunk and smash things up, or break into the stores and gobble up all the best food? Before the invention of iron locks and sticky mortar to hold stones together, breaking out of a building wasn't hard, so it was difficult to imprison a miscreant. In some rural Mongolian villages of circular yurts built from thick felt, they still tie a drunkard to a post until he sobers up because none of their buildings are secure. But the persistent actions of an antisocial individual could gradually drive a community into famine.
The Old Testament had a clear though severe solution: death (Deut.21:20). This type of person could cause the death of a community, and they couldn't incarcerate him for any length of time, so there was little choice. Banishment would be equivalent to moving a child molester in a church to another parish – it would merely antagonize neighboring communities. So the elders made a decision, and the whole community showed their agreement by helping to stone him. The heart-wrenching aspect of this law is the start of the process: the ones who had to bring him before the elders were his parents. They had to admit that they couldn't control their son and (no doubt tearfully) had to admit they had no other recourse. His actions were too dangerous to ignore.
In the New Testament, this law still remained in force, but no one applied it. Jesus is accused of being a glutton and drunkard by his enemies (Matt 11:19 = Luke 7:34), but they don't attempt to arrest him for this because it no longer warrants the death penalty. They couldn't repeal a law given by God, but it appears that they could neglect to enforce it. Similarly, there is still a law against singing profane or obscene songs in Metropolitan London streets, but no one enforces it.1
Surprisingly, greed and gluttony resurface in the New Testament Letters as a very serious sin listed alongside sexual immorality and idolatry. The people who practice it are so terrible that Christians should not entertain them as guests (1 Cor 5:10-11); and these people should not expect to enter heaven (1 Cor 6:10; Eph 5:5). The actual word "gluttony" isn't used in most English New Testament translations, except rarely at 1 Peter 4:3, when translating komos, which the NIV and ESV translate as "orgies." This helps to remind us about what was actually happening in the Roman world.
Roman orgies
Romans really knew how to overindulge in all kinds of ways. If you think that modern bookshops and TV are fixated on food, you should sample ancient Latin literature. Although they still loved descriptions of battles like the Greeks did, there was a growing and voracious appetite for descriptions of banquets, with details of every course and delicacy. Middle and upper-class Romans spent a large proportion of their day eating or planning to eat. Lavish meals, often with entertainment, were the chief form of leisure and could last for hours. Meals bonded together business partners, political connections, friends, and family. A large part of a woman's role was organizing meals, and only unsociable men would neglect to give regular invitations to friends.
When the host was trying to impress, the courses could be endless. It was rude to refuse, so Romans perfected the art of making themselves vomit. This probably wasn't a regular practice, but at important banquets it could prove necessary. Otherwise guests would simply loosen their togas a little more. Overeating wasn't looked down on, but failing to appreciate a host's generosity could scratch one off his future guest list. So you kept eating and tried not to vomit in public.
Along with food came copious drink. Wives weren't invited to traditional banquets, so that the host could provide hired women for after-meal "exercise." When Paul and Peter refer to this type of meal (called a komos), they accurately associate them with sexual immorality and drunkenness (see Rom 13:13; Gal 5:21; 1 Pet 4:3).
So the "gluttony" translated from komos refers to something much worse than overeating. And the "greed" that Paul refers to in other passages (1 Cor 5:10-11; 6:10; Eph 5:5) translates pleonektes – which is "avariciousness" or "grasping," usually seeking money and power rather than food. This doesn't refer to overeating either, so where does the sin of gluttony come from?
Gluttony didn't become a severe sin until the writings of the church fathers in the first few centuries after the New Testament. They promoted it to a "mortal" or "deadly" sin – by which they meant one that caused you to lose your salvation. Of course, only severe gluttony was "mortal": Aquinas defines this as the type of gluttony that causes you to break other laws of God in order to consume more.2 And he warns that this includes more than just gluttony for food, but also for alcohol, and no doubt today he'd include drugs. However, lesser overconsumption was still regarded as a sin of gluttony, so that Augustine felt the need to confess to God that he sometimes ate till he was "full."3
Are commands against gluttony timeless, so that they apply to us today? The Old Testament law reflected the needs of the culture of the time, and the New Testament moral warnings reflected the Roman culture, which was completely different. Laws that reflect the culture of the time are unlikely to be timeless. Another indication that this law is not timeless is that the laws changed greatly with time: from constraining someone who was rebellious and uncontrollably destructive to warnings against the type of overindulgence that will lead to immorality.
Constraining greed
This doesn't mean that we should dismiss what the two Testaments say. Although they clearly have different purposes, we should take both of them seriously. In some cultures, greed can rob others of the necessities of life, and the Old Testament shows that this greed has to be constrained. However, we no longer use force to do this; we now employ laws and taxes to influence people's consumption. And the New Testament warnings about parties where nothing was off-limits are particularly pertinent in Western societies. Also, greed for money and power has to remain one of the most serious sins. However, overeating itself is not regarded as sinful in the Bible, and it only became a sin when the church was influenced by asceticism in the early centuries.
Nowadays, our view of gluttony is similar to that in Proverbs 23:21: "Drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags." We regard it as a moral failure that will lead to ill health, if not poverty. We celebrate things by having a big meal and look for something to eat as soon as we feel the slightest hunger. And we also constantly try to lose weight. All this implies a self-centered approach: we eat and we diet. The ancient world was more community based: greed was bad if it robbed the poor of scarce food, and mealtimes were good because they were social occasions for cementing friendships.
We could apply that community principle today if Christians decided to only eat when in company and regularly invite poor friends (who are often also lonely) to those meals. This would solve a lot of problems – for ourselves and others.
1^ "Legal Curiosities: Fact or Fable?" (TinyURL.com/LegalOddities).
2^ See Aquinas's complete response at TinyURL.com/GluttonyAquinas.
3^ "Full feeding sometimes hath crept upon Thy servant" – Confessions 10.31, trans. J. G. Pilkington (TinyURL.com/Augustine-10).


Riya Kumar is one of the first founding members of Fuzia. She is a confident, self-driven, sassy and meticulous young leader. She began her career as a software engineer and later gave in to doing something she loved – "inspiring people". Due to her intuitive, empathetic, motivating and amicable demeanour, she was able to foster a beautiful close knit family of members on Fuzia who felt empowered and inspired to become better versions of themselves everyday. Therefore she can be referred to as the "pioneer" of Member Relations on Fuzia. She also hosts interactive and engaging live Facebook/Instagram sessions as she loves talking to people and is not at all camera shy.
Riya loves challenges and her journey of two and a half years on Fuzia has given her a chance to ingeniously subdue countless of them along the way, eliciting immense growth both on her personal and professional front. She loves reading and is an aficionado of quotes and epigrams. One of her favourite quotes is "Great things never come from comfort zones". She believes that everyone has a superpower, "to inspire", and works diligently towards building meaningful relationships and providing a non-judgemental & convivial platform to thousands of Fuzia members who now regard Fuzia as their own family where they feel safe to share their secrets, fears, sorrows and happiness besides emanating various forms of creative expressions.


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Lawyers for freed Navy SEAL want war crime case dismissed
JULIE WATSON and BRIAN MELLEY
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Attorneys for a decorated Navy SEAL facing a murder trial in the death of an Islamic State prisoner will try again Friday to have the case dismissed after their client was unexpectedly freed from custody.
A military judge released Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher from custody on Thursday, which drew gasps in a San Diego courtroom.
The judge, Capt. Aaron Rugh, said releasing Gallagher was a remedy for prosecutors interfering with his Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
Gallagher's lawyers have condemned the prosecution for launching an unusual effort to find the source of news leaks in the politically charged case by embedding tracking code in emails sent to defense attorneys and a Navy Times journalist.
Defense attorney Tim Parlatore had accused prosecutors of a "rogue, relentless, and unlawful cyber campaign" that may have violated attorney-client privilege and hurt his client's ability to get a fair trial.
Gallagher's wife, Andrea, who has led a campaign to free her husband, put her hands to her face and burst into tears.
"I feel like it's a small victory on the way to the larger victory," Andrea Gallagher said outside court while her husband stood quietly by her side in his Navy whites.
He declined to comment.
A spokesman for the Navy prosecutors also wouldn't comment on Gallagher's freedom or developments at the hearing, which continues Friday.
Gallagher has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of an injured teenage militant in Iraq in 2017 and attempted murder for allegedly picking off civilians from a sniper's perch.
His platoon supervisor, Lt. Jacob Portier, is fighting charges of conduct unbecoming an officer for allegedly conducting Gallagher's re-enlistment ceremony next to the militant's corpse.
Efforts to get the case thrown out come as President Donald Trump considers pardoning several service members accused of war crimes, including Gallagher, who faces trial June 10.
Evidence at the hearing showed prosecutors enlisted a Naval Criminal Investigative Service intelligence specialist to conduct criminal background checks on three civilian lawyers, including Parlatore, and a journalist with the Navy Times who has broken several stories based on leaked documents.
On Thursday, Rugh said investigators told him privately that they planned to embed code in what he believed to be a court document to help them find the source of leaks but the judge said he didn't have the power to authorize it and wasn't told they planned to target emails sent to the defense lawyers or a journalist.
The lead prosecutor downplayed the move at a related hearing earlier in the day. Cmdr. Christopher Czaplak said the code embedded in the email recorded nothing more than where and when messages were opened by recipients.
Czaplak said the tracking ended May 10 after he was confronted by defense lawyers who discovered the code in an unusual logo of an American flag with a bald eagle perched on the scales of justice beneath Czaplak's signature.
On Thursday, Czaplak said the code was similar to what marketers use to see when an email is opened and on what device.
"It's still a web bug and it's still unethical," countered defense lawyer Jeremiah J. Sullivan III, who represents Portier.
The judge in Portier's case, Capt. Jonathan Stephens, said from what he had seen the tracking effort wasn't able to view the contents of any emails.
Several experts testified that the code couldn't generally be used to identify a specific person or capture content.
Melley reported from Los Angeles.


With all the restaurants popping up in Los Angeles, it's no wonder that the Los Angeles Magazine's Top Ten Best New Restaurant nomination is a coveted honor. I attended this buzzworthy evening where all the top 10 honorees restaurants brought their best bites forward and us LA foodies got to taste, play and dance under the moonlight of downtown LA.
Restaurants included: République, Smoke.Oil.Salt, Union, Night + Market Song, Faith & Flower and Scopa Italian Roots.


Home » Week in Review No.46: Cameras, Cameras, Cameras!
We feature cameras from Blackmagic Design, Panasonic, and Canon in the current Week in Review. Learn why BMD had to postpone shipments of its eagerly awaited Cinema Camera, what changes Panasonic made in its single-sensor camcorder, and what secret sauce Canon has cooked up with its C500 release.
It's all available right here.


Yoga is a great way to truly unwind and the Rayavadee resort in Krabi, Thailand is offering a selection of holidays based around Yoga and other healing spa treatments.
The yoga sessions focus on carefully restoring the balance of the body, mind and spirit by releasing tension. It's the ultimate way to unwind and relax after a major business deal. Rayavadee's approach focuses on traditional Hatha Yoga but also Vinyasa Flow, which is characterised by the dynamic connection between the breath and each movement.
This is all set within the spectacular scenery of Krabi's Marine National Park, with towering atmospheric limestone cliffs, coconut groves and three stunning beaches. It is the perfect backdrop for true relaxation.


Derwent Living to appoint three new Board members including a chair.
Derwent Living is seeking to appoint three new members including a chair to its Board.
To complement its current membership, Derby-based housing provider Derwent Living is looking to appoint three new members to its Board. In particular the organisation is seeking someone with financial experience at a senior level and someone with previous or current involvement in the facilities management sector.
Derwent Living is also looking to appoint a new chair to the Board in order to continue developing and driving the organisation forward, and ensuring corporate governance and regulation remains a top priority.
All roles offer the chance to work alongside a skilled and dedicated team, helping the business in its mission to deliver more affordable homes for the Midlands region. It's also a chance to shape the culture, values and behaviours in the organisation - adding value to the business and the wider Places for People Group.
All roles receive appropriate remuneration as well as expenses for travelling and attending Board meetings and events.
Expressions of interest are particularly welcome from people with a personal connection to the area or region we serve.
Full details on the role and how to apply are available here. The closing date for applications is close of business on Wednesday 9 January.


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Türkiye-Sri Lanka sign MoU on protection of human rights
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COLOMBO: – The Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (Ombudsman) of Sri Lanka and Ombudsman Institution of Türkiye entered into Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on January 11 in Ankara.
The signing of the MoU took place on the sidelines of the International Ombudsman Conference 2023.
The Ministry of External Affairs said the main objective of the MoU is to focus on the role of the two institutions in Sri Lanka and Türkiye in the field of protection of human rights and remedies for injustices while protecting citizens from injustice and discrimination.
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) further creates organizational conditions for cooperation between the two parties in the field of protection of citizens' rights, complaints and other activities related to the tasks and purposes of the work of each party and thus contribute to the protection of citizens' rights and freedoms within the powers vested by legislations.
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A Solo Hike in Khao Ngon Nak: Krabi's Dragon Crest Mountain
A Solo Hike in Khao Ngon Nak: Krabi's Dragon Crest Mountain
This Filipina gave meaning to the catchphrase "woman on top". Join her as she braves Krabi's Khao Ngon Nak on a solo hike.
Ferna Mae FernandezDec 28th, 2016
Contributed by Everywhere with Ferna
The 3.7km excursion to Khao Ngon Nak is the first place that I hiked in a foreign land all by myself. I know some people think that 3.7 km is not a long way to explore, and I thought the same, but being alone in a strange land is for me a different journey. I'm used to trekking in a dry humid season in the Philippines but with guests or with friends; I haven't tried by myself. Though I haven't tried climbing the highest mountain in the country, I bet my experience in trekking every month is a great preparation to do this activity overseas. Solo hike to this unfamiliar country is definitely one of the highlights in my 3-week solo travel in Thailand.
Also read: Hiking in Southeast Asia: 6 Lesser-Known Mountains to Catch the Sunrise
Khao Ngon Nak or known as Dragon Crest is a 30-minute drive from the main town in Krabi. I hired a tuk-tuk at a reasonable price (1,200 Baht round trip with no time limit). Fortunately, the driver was also a local guide who is so welcoming, willing to be asked about Krabi province, its Thailand living, and that captivates my soul (I am forever curious about local living).
The Tuktuk I hired in Krabi
Krabi town's laid back scenery reminds me of Dumaguete City, its vibrant colour plus the orderly ambience set the same style. Along the way to the crest, I was delighted by the seascape in Tubaek beach which is visible from the road, the limestone karsts and its landscape, and the green palms that surrounded the area makes the whole town energetic with the sun shining through its colour. It's no question that Thailand is a well-developed country for tourism, their constructed roads are beyond my expectation. Though a third world country, its avenue and highways are well built up compared to other Southeast Asian third world countries.
The time I arrived at the base of the trail, I was the only one who was about to do the trek. I signed the logbook and was informed by the keeper that there were 2 other groups who came in first an hour ahead of me. He gave me an information on the 3.7 km trail and suggested to take a photo of the map for reference. It was the end of April 2016 when I dropped by this place, it was the dry season where there was no water in most of the springs in the country. The keeper mentioned that it will be a waste of my time if I visit the falls as there is nothing to see. So I figured, I will try to see if I can hear the sound of the water from afar then I will walk in that path.
Tubaek Beach Krabi
Notice for Public Khao Ngon Nak Krabi Thailand
Orientation with the Keeper in Khao Ngon Nak Krabi Thailand
The trail
The keeper gave an edifying advice, especially that I'm all by myself, checked if I brought massive amounts of water and food, even questioned me if I'm used to wearing flip-flop (yes, I hike and trek with my reliable flip-flop) for it's dry over there. So, after the orientation, I moved my butt out to pass through the trail.
The natural sound of the birds and the uninterrupted noise of the crickets were the ones who greeted me as I started my course. I'm a bit surprised on the first 100 metres — there's a detailed embellishment which is posted in every zone, engraved in Thai and English. I like how it's being presented. This is a good way for people to know the name of the trees, the name of the zone, what's the purpose, what's their use and what's on it. I'm not an expert with the names of the trees, but I somehow know some of it, and on this trail, there are different kinds of trees which are new to me, what struck me most is the red-orange colour that uniquely stands among others, 500 metres before arriving at the peak.
Fern Station in Khao Ngon Nak Krabi
0.5km more with the steep hill sign in Khao Ngon Nak
First Information in Khao Ngon Nak
It took me a while to arrive at the peak since there are heaps of stuff to capture, to notice, to witness the irresistible movement of the creatures that were mysteriously hazy to me, yet, my braveness stood still regardless of its unpredictable motion (I obviously have no choice). The parched mountain stream never ceased my thoughts to move forward for this great adventure. I was, in fact, amazed by nature — it's still colourful in my eyes. The dryness of the slope is difficult to maneouver, but, with my tried-and-true sandal, I was able to push myself up the steep hill. When I reached the waterfalls station, I decided not to attempt, I agree with the keeper's advice since I didn't hear the echo of the water.
I stumbled upon one group who surprisingly happened to be Filipinos who live in Negros Island, the same island where I came from. They worked in Ao Nang and went up there for the first time in their 2 years in Krabi.
The sun shining through the vibrant green colour
Red orange tree with its name
Signs and path
After which, I got stunned by the amazing limestone karsts situated along the Andaman sea. I thought it was the tip of the hill, but I was 500 metres away from it. So I excitingly stepped further but I erratically underestimated the path. There were massive stones trapped in a freaking steep hill, my yoga stunts were of huge help to brawl the dry area on a scorching 39 degree Celsius mid afternoon. This is for me, the hardest, almost 500 metres of this trail.
After all, the panoramic view of the tip of the hill welcomes me with an abundant flow of Krabi town. I have been fed by nature's presence again and again. An indescribable feeling had me when I reached the peak, I had the best moment at that time. Luckily, though, there was no one around, so, I felt the queen about me being treated fairly. I managed to capture in every way I can of the view, joyfully playing in every area. As far as I could remember, I seated there for almost an hour when another group came, they were an English couple who were stunned by the view as well. We then took our turns to take photos. I brought with me sandwiches, 2 litres of water and 1 Coca Cola (Coke is the one that helps me with my sugar, it's always been my confidant when I trek).
Panoramic view in Khao Ngon Nak Krabi
I love Khao Ngon Nak
Visible Andaman Sea in Krabi, Thailand
Andaman Sea Near Ao Nang Krabi
The solo hike to this amazing view of 565 metres above sea level was one of the best adventures I had on my 3-week Thailand visit. I mean, not all women on earth would be brave enough to do this, right? Or maybe I knew no one in my circle of friends.
Also read: Northern Thailand 5-Day Itinerary: Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai & Pai
I realised being alone will never make you lonely. Embracing every venture in life, taking little steps all by myself, had me pass through every difficulty with patience, strength and determination.
Here's a video for full view.
Have you hiked solo to anywhere? What was your experience like?
Ferna Mae Fernandez
Ferna is a Filipino who is independent in her own skin, enjoys travelling solo yet loves to travel with friends and family too. She first travelled her country, the Philippines, before she embarked to other countries. She believes that by travelling, her undying crave for learning excites her in a more profound way. Her flexibility had proven her that time is genuine. She supports Eco Tourism, thus, she believes her generosity to share her tour guiding and travel experiences will give value to aspiring travellers.
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Well, some positive news with regard to the proposed shake up of exams. Finally someone has realised that what is needed is tougher exams and less nannying questions, or basically a return to the state of exams during the mid 80's.
The concept of diplomas seems to be following the American model, and could be a step forward as well, as long as lessons are learned from the problems facing that system.
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Review - Straight to Jesus
Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement
by Tanya Erzen
University of California Press, 2006
Review by Marcus Tye, Ph.D.
Nov 28th 2006 (Volume 10, Issue 48)
Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement provides a fascinating yet ultimately unsatisfying look at a less written about side of the ex-gay movement, that of rank and file ex-gays themselves. Tanya Erzen notes that most material on the ex-gay movement takes the form of journalists interviewing talking heads in a pro/con format, or involves a political analysis which focuses on church leaders or the manipulation of gay rights issues by right wing political leaders to draw social conservatives in the United States to the polls and elect "red state" candidates.
Erzen instead takes the perspective of the ethnographer who "lives among the natives" as it were. She spent eighteen months volunteering in the office of the New Hope Ministry, which Erzen indicates is the oldest of five residential ex-gay programs in the United States. Her perspective is a fresh and welcome one, yet I finished her book wanting a great deal more, and a great deal less. While the book focuses on the calendar year 2000 New Hope "class" of ex-gays, it also includes in bits and pieces a history of the ex-gay movement, the larger Exodus ministry, and many figures in the ex-gay movement. I'll first detail the book's strengths and what can be learned from it, and then will consider its weaknesses.
As Erzen explains in the introduction, her offer to volunteer reveals much about the psychological mindset of the ex-gay movement:
After I explained that I hoped to comprehend the perspectives of men and women in an ex-gay ministry through prolonged fieldwork and interviews at New Hope, Anita informed me that "we are in a battle," and the battle is between "us versus them." I was unsure what she meant, and she clarified that "them" meant Satan, and she was convinced that many people were in his service. Her next question, "Who do you serve?" was calculated to establish where my allegiances lay.
I had never been faced with the choice of God or Satan, but I replied that since I was at the ministry to understand their viewpoint rather than simply to dismiss or ridicule them, I supposed I was on the side of "us." Somehow, I passed the test, and my answer enabled Anita to assimilate me into her religious universe. (p. 6)
Erzen succeeds in providing a sensitive account of the internal religious struggle experienced by people who identify themselves as ex-gay. Gay affirmative therapists such as myself understand their struggle to actually be one between innate biological sexual orientation, and their own homophobic belief systems. But this is not how self-identified ex-gays understand their experience. They see themselves as in a struggle to be true to their own internal definition of what it means to be Christian and what it means to follow Jesus' teachings, which they have accepted almost without question means that one cannot be homosexual. Those who question this premise eventually abandon the attempt to be ex-gay and become comfortable reconciling homosexuality with a different definition of Christianity, those who don't reject the premise remain condemned to struggle.
New Hope takes an approach that is at once intense yet low-key. Participants commit to spending a year in a residential program where they live at-cost in humble surroundings, working at part-time jobs that New Hope helps to secure, and have an essentially immersion experience in following the steps of the founder, Frank Worthen, a formerly out gay man who, at the age of 44, in 1973, experienced a conversion himself. The program is now run day-to-day by others, themselves more recent graduates.
The larger and more financially successful Exodus programs such as Love in Action (originally started by Worthen but now independent) take a conventional 12-step treatment model, have professional counselors on staff and conduct psychiatric screenings of potential participants, and have a 30- to 90-day treatment time frame in which participants receive intensive services much as they might in a professional rehabilitation setting, complete with catering and cleaning services. In contrast, New Hope appears to embody something of the home-grown spirit of the hippie movement in the 1970s when it started: everyone lives in a communal environment, they take care of all the chores and eat their evening meals together. The program helps them to find part-time jobs to cover rent and expenses which are essentially at-cost. There are no professional counselors, and while many of the concepts that underlie change are the same as Exodus, these are applied strictly in a supportive, entirely self-help group fashion. Unlike Exodus, which promises conversion of sexual orientation, New Hope's focus is on the relationship with Jesus and a change from homosexuality, but not necessarily to heterosexuality. Professional counseling is not expected. Participants are immersed in their communal experience, going on outings to reinforce traditional gender roles and non-sexual same-sex social relationships. For most of the year, they are required to be chaperoned when they are outside of their residences (even when at work) to ensure they do not stray.
Erzen indicates she spent 18 months at New Hope, conducting two to three hour interviews with forty-seven men and women, with nineteen follow-up interviews. Yet her real research experience was informal, spending most of these 18 months working at New Hope during the day, and informally interacting with most of her interviewees at dinners, church functions, in the office, and sometimes serving as a confidante, chaperone and friend for them. The strength of the book is when she focuses on these individual life stories. It is surprising that there is no single common theme in the backgrounds of the ex-gay "strugglers." Most are men, most come from rural backgrounds and have never lived in a city before. New Hope is near San Francisco, and many have never even once visited a large metropolitan area and are quite naïve, expecting sin to be on every street corner. Most of course are raised in a fundamentalist version of Christianity that has taught them that homosexuality is ungodly, and most have been very unhappy, often leading secret lives with emotionally unfulfilling anonymous sexual encounters or drug abuse.
While most participants have quite tortured personal histories, there are exceptions at New Hope whom Erzen met or heard about from past years who are strikingly counter to stereotype: some are women, including a former Lesbian Avenger activist, some are educated and come from urban areas, some have lived open lives identifying as out, proud gay men or lesbians prior to their religious conversions, a few had quite fulfilling relationship histories, some came from Europe on religious exception visas as they were unable find ex-gay programs in their home countries, and a few did not have a particularly evangelical upbringing.
If there is any common element, it is only that at the time they are at New Hope, everyone believes that a personal relationship with Jesus is vital to their lives and that homosexuality is antithetical to such a relationship. Erzen tracked from start to finish the "class of 2000" in calendar year 2000. Most of these people did not complete the program. Many of those who did finish later returned to a gay identity, although a few maintain their identity as strugglers.
Unlike the media coverage of the ex-gay movement, and unlike competing ex-gay ministries, Erzen notes that most of those who participate at New Hope, including the leaders, do not expect or promise a conversation to heterosexuality. Rather, they promise a way to reconcile their personal beliefs in Christianity with same-sex desires by maintaining a celibate lifestyle, one which they claim will eventually involve a lessening of same-sex desires and perhaps a heterosexual relationship. Behavioral lapses are expected and, again unlike other programs, are taken as par for the course if infrequent. A gay identity is replaced with that of an "ex-gay struggler." Among those who do successfully complete the program, a few eventually leave behind this ex-gay identity and return to a mainstream church identifying as heterosexual; more, however, maintain their celibate struggler identity for years after the program finishes. Many New Hope graduates remain affiliated with an ex-gay ministry somewhere, with some remaining at New Hope itself for a second year as a group leader.
The testimonies of participants are an important part of their work, which Erzen notes often come to follow a formulaic approach emphasizing pseudo-scientific theories about gender role nonconformity and inadequate non-sexual same-sex friendships. Erzen is at her strongest when she pulls out their unique histories and experiences from these testimonies.
This perspective is very enlightening, but I was left wanting much more. Even though Erzen got to know many participants quite well, the book only fleetingly touches on the life stories of individuals in the program. Worse, the narratives of many participants are scattered in several different chapters, a little bit here, a little bit there, almost as if one were reading a blog organized chronologically, rather than a scholarly narrative. The author covers quite a few participants and, since histories appear in several places as she learned about them during the year, it becomes difficult to keep track of all the details and to develop a coherent sense about any particular person's experiences. To compound the chaos, she doesn't follow a strict calendar chronology throughout the book, so her eighteen months can't be tracked as one might read a novel. The clock is re-started in most chapters, so that any given chapter contains material learned from the start of her year, the middle, the end, and a follow-up years later. Sometimes within a chapter she jumps from the end of her year, to an event that happened in the middle just a few pages later. It's as if someone had taken a blog and shuffled it up.
At times it is not apparent if she has any overall theme for the book, which she says is based on her doctoral dissertation. For example, in the introduction she says,
Although I consider the ex-gay movement a political, cultural, and social movement, I did not situate New Hope within this body of theory, choosing instead to analyze daily life and interactions. (p. 11)
Yet, in the next paragraph, she says,
However, to understand the connection between the local experiences of ex-gay men and women and the wider political implications of the movement, I situate the ex-gay movement within the wider historical currents of twentieth-century evangelical religion; self-help culture; psychiatric and psychological theories on sexuality, gay and lesbian liberation, and feminism; and the history of the Christian Right. (p. 11)
I had to read this several times to understand that she was intending to write about New Hope in detail, and she was intending to write about the politics of the ex-gay movement, but not to relate her research at New Hope to these politics. This seemed a curious choice indeed! It seems impossible to fully understand daily life at New Hope without considering the tie-in with broader socio-political movements.
Fortunately, Erzen doesn't actually do what she says in the introduction. Her subsequent chapters do somewhat relate New Hope to broader themes about evangelical religion and the ex-gay movement. Unfortunately, her historical research suffers from the same structural choppiness that characterizes her descriptions of New Hope participants. The socio-political histories of ex-gay ministries are far from monolithic, rather, they represent a Byzantine mix of individual churches operated by quirky individuals and sometimes supported by big-name evangelicals. They include small-time pastors who derive their livelihood from rent paid by residential ex-gays living in investment property owned by the minister, to slick nationally-funded "research" organizations countering the findings of peer-reviewed science in the national press. While she provides a history of New Hope and other pre-Exodus ministries in the earlier chapters, and the evangelical political movement in later chapters, this history is often mixed up with the narrative accounts of individuals she met at New Hope or experiences that members had during her time volunteering.
Although the book has an excellent index, the lack of organization in the historical research is reflected in the sparse table of contents. It makes it very difficult to use the book as a reference. While I eventually got a sense of how current organizations like NARTH and Exodus function, I was left confused as to their history even after reading about it. Again, I was left wanting more, better organized information. The last structural shortcoming is that she often repeated basic information and definitions that had been covered earlier in the book, as if later chapters had been written as stand-alone articles (or perhaps at very different times from earlier chapters). This is when I was left wanting much less. Anyone reading this as a reference book who wants to get historical information correct should be prepared to have to read the book cover to cover, taking careful notes organized by church, historical figure, and cross-referenced with a timeline of the reader's own construction, creating a road map that the author should have provided.
In sum, despite enormous organizational flaws that detract from the book's utility as a reference, and despite a scattershot approach that makes it difficult to get close to the individuals about whom she writes, this book offers some history about ex-gay ministries and provides an enlightening perspective on individuals who identify as ex-gay.
© 2006 Marcus Tye
Marcus Tye, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Dowling College, NY.


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Q: How are array methods aware of the values they are called on? Can someone explain to me how are array methods aware of the value that we called them on,
As part of the prototype inheritance shouldn't it exist on the Array.prototype
if we say
let animals = ['dog','cat']
animals.map( x => console.log(x))
//dog
//cat

I just don't understand how is map aware of that we passed ['dog','cat'].
I usually see that if you call a function then you need to call it like map(animals).

thank you in advance
or looking at the map polyfill where is the line that we assign it to the arguments of the array.
if (!Array.prototype.map) {

  Array.prototype.map = function(callback/*, thisArg*/) {

    var T, A, k;

    if (this == null) {
      throw new TypeError('this is null or not defined');
    }

    var O = Object(this);

    var len = O.length >>> 0;

    // 4. If IsCallable(callback) is false, throw a TypeError exception.
    // See: http://es5.github.com/#x9.11
    if (typeof callback !== 'function') {
      throw new TypeError(callback + ' is not a function');
    }

    if (arguments.length > 1) {
      T = arguments[1];
    }

    A = new Array(len);

    // 7. Let k be 0
    k = 0;

    // 8. Repeat, while k < len
    while (k < len) {

      var kValue, mappedValue;

      if (k in O) {

        // i. Let kValue be the result of calling the Get internal
        //    method of O with argument Pk.
        kValue = O[k];

        mappedValue = callback.call(T, kValue, k, O);

        // For best browser support, use the following:
        A[k] = mappedValue;
      }
      // d. Increase k by 1.
      k++;
    }

    // 9. return A
    return A;
  };
}

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Array.prototype.mymap = function(callback) {
 var myArray = this; // here is the magic
 var newArray = [];
 for (var i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++) {
  newArray.push(callback(myArray[i]));
 }

 return newArray;
};

console.log([0, 1, 2, 3].mymap(a => a * 2));

A: Well if we looked at the definition of Map according to W3Schools:

The map() method creates a new array with the results of calling a
  function for every array element.

So the function map checks every element and does something with that.
In this example you say: "Console.log every element in this array"
So it's logic that the function map is aware what is in the array.

A: map() is a method of the Array object. In JavaScript, we say that the animals object uses "prototypical inheritance" of the Array object. It's kind of like saying animals inherits the properties and method of the Array base class (if you come from a world of OOP).
Since map is a function that exists for all Array objects, animals is no exception.
By definition map() takes a function, and returns an Array. It then iterates through each element of the array it was called from (in this case the animals array), and applies the passed function to each element.
Usually you would use this with a return statement in order to generate a new array. For instance, you could write something like:
var upperCaseAnimals = animals.map(x => return(x.toUpperCase()))
This would create a new array, upperCaseAnimals which contains all elements of the animals array with toUpperCase() applied to them.
But you can also use it to "do something" with each element of the array. This is what's being done in the sample above. Instead of giving a return value for each element, you're just console.log()ing each element.


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Bond Rises to Clio Cup Win
By Steve Hindle•August 5, 2019•In Touring Cars•2 Minutes
Jamie Bond raced to his maiden Renault UK Clio Cup victory at Snetterton yesterday after championship rivals Jack Young and Max Coates had contact in the day's opening round.
West Malling based Bond has rapidly become a rising star in the BTCC support series after making a stunning debut at Donington Park earlier in the year, and although already a champion in VW Cup, the Team Hard graduate has always known that the challenges at this level would require more than pace alone.
And with a virtuoso display of class, it should have been a case of double bubble for the Kent man in race 2, leading all the way from pole position, and setting fastest lap after fastest lap to finish first across the line, only to be handed a ten-second time penalty for jumping the start. It was a bitter blow, yet being classified fourth still rewarded him with the biggest points haul of the weekend, thereby seeing the gap to the championship leaders closed yet further.
The title race next heads to Thruxton (the fastest circuit on the calendar) in a fortnight's time, and whilst having missed points from the opening two races, the abilty to drop 'one score' puts Bond ever closer to his rivals. It's something that neither he nor those at the top of the table can now ignore. As he told me after his win: –
"Knowing that we were coming into Clios late in the day, and against some formidable opposition, our original plan was just to prove how competitive we could be, but now that we're in this position (fourth in the championship, 51 points behind, but with eight races remaining, and a potential 224 points still to be fought for), then we're going to give everything we can to close the gap and build momentum towards next year. Right now, we don't know what that will be, but we're talking to Tony (Gilham, Team Hard's team principal) and will look to build on what we've already achieved."
Jamie Bond launches his Clio ahead of championship leader, Max Coates.
Image © Steve Hindle
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