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Big Data Puts Its Mark on the Biggest Possible Stage …
… The World Will Never Be the Same
Big Data has already changed the world – and it's just getting started. As the technology matures, the range of applications is growing ever broader.
The drumbeat coming out of the venture and technology communities about big data probably seems like hype to many. After all, computers have been handling large amounts of data for decades. What's changed? The answer is that while the pot may have been on the stove for years, it is now reaching a boil.
Readers are probably familiar with Moore's Law. In the late 1960s Intel founder Gordon Moore predicted that transistor densities would double every two years, a prediction that has held true for over forty years. Moore made no comparable prediction regarding data storage, but the history is that the cost of storing data has improved at an even faster rate, halving every eighteen months since 1980. That's a factor of 16 million over 33 years.
The chart below puts this progression into context by tracking the declining cost of storing information on hard disks. To "make it real", we have converted the costs per gigabyte to a more approachable metric: each data point represents the cost of the hard disks of that vintage that would be required to store all the information in the 17 million books contained in the US Library of Congress.
Between 1980 and 2013 the "cost to store the Library of Congress" fell from roughly $27 billion to a rather more manageable $6,000. The implications of this vanishing cost of data storage are profound. Increasingly, there is no piece of data too small or too worthless to store. And once stored, that data can be mined, analyzed and manipulated to produce unprecedented value. Over the past decade a host of companies have developed tools to do just that, as well as other tools to compile disparate databases into coherent and usable wholes. The technology and the tools are interesting in their own right, and have produced some lucrative outcomes for their venture investors.
Those tools will continue to improve, but they are already sufficient to empower other entrepreneurs to apply them in novel and creative ways, and indeed venture capital portfolios contain an array of investments in companies applying Big Data techniques to advertising, marketing, healthcare and even education. A dramatic recent example, however, demonstrated that it's not just applications with commercial underpinnings or objectives that can change the world.
In the weeks following last year's US presidential election various stories began to emerge relating to the Obama campaign's very sophisticated application of Big Data techniques to all aspects of the campaign.
In an article posted in MIT's Technology Review last month,
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/508831/how-technology-has-restored-the-soul-of-politics/
long-time political operative Joe Trippi summarized the 2012 campaign as follows:
"…big data gave Obama 2012 the names of all 69 million people who voted for the candidate in 2008 and allowed the campaign to rebuild that winning coalition, vote by vote. Big data told the campaign which voters were undecided, and even which voters with otherwise Republican attitudes could be swayed to vote for the president. The campaign spent over $100 million developing the biggest network of people in political history. Millions of Americans heard from other Americans about issues that mattered to them. Those conversations were more powerful than the billions of dollars spent on TV ads. It requires no hyperbole to say that Obama 2012 changed everything."
Alexis C. Madrigal described a number of specific technical accomplishments in The Atlantic magazine.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-the-nerds-go-marching-in/265325/#ixzz2I3jgTMQF
We have excerpted two of the more notable examples here.
"They created the most sophisticated email fundraising program ever. The digital team, under Rospars' leadership, took their data-driven strategy to a new level. Any time you received an email from the Obama campaign, it had been tested on 18 smaller groups and the response rates had been gauged. The campaign thought all the letters had a good chance of succeeding, but the worst-performing letters did only 15 to 20 percent of what the best-performing emails could deliver. So, if a good performer could do $2.5 million, a poor performer might only net $500,000. The genius of the campaign was that it learned to stop sending poor performers.
…the Analytics team built a tool they called The Optimizer, which allowed the campaign to buy eyeballs on television more cheaply. They took set-top box (that is to say, your cable or satellite box or DVR) data from Davidsen's old startup, Navik Networks, and correlated it with the campaign's own data. This occurred through a third party called Epsilon: The campaign sent its voter file and the television provider sent their billing file and boom, a list came back of people who had done certain things like, for example, watched the first presidential debate. Having that data allowed the campaign to buy ads that they knew would get in front of the most people at the least cost. They didn't have to buy the traditional stuff like the local news, either. Instead, they could run ads targeted to specific types of voters during reruns or off-peak hours. "
The most comprehensive work we have seen on this subject comes from author Sasha Issenberg in her new book The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns. In it she relates how Big Data proved its worth to the Obama campaign team after the 2008 elections, and how the team's enthusiastic and entrepreneurial embrace of Big Data driven techniques came to pervade the 2012 campaign – with spectacular results.
"His (Dan Wagner, the team leader) approach amounted to a decisive break with 20th-century tools for tracking public opinion, which revolved around quarantining small samples that could be treated as representative of the whole…After the voters returned Obama to office for a second term, his campaign became celebrated for its use of technology—much of it developed by an unusual team of coders and engineers—that redefined how individuals could use the Web, social media, and smartphones to participate in the political process…underneath all that were scores describing particular voters: a new political currency that predicted the behavior of individual humans. The campaign didn't just know who you were; it knew exactly how it could turn you into the type of person it wanted you to be…"
In her concluding paragraph she writes:
"Few events in American life other than a presidential election touch 126 million adults, or even a significant fraction that many, on a single day. Certainly no corporation, no civic institution, and very few government agencies ever do. Obama did so by reducing every American to a series of numbers…"
Further excerpts from the book are posted on the Technology Review website.
http://www.technologyreview.com/contributor/sasha-issenberg/
The 2012 election demonstrated that the winning teams and the winning strategies will increasingly be those that can best harness the power of Big Data. Our world is business, not politics, but the lesson holds true. Whether you manage an established business or are starting a new one, make sure the forces of Big Data are on your side.
Big Data changed the world. And it's just getting started.
Our next installment will be about Big Data approaches to education.
Tim Bliamptis
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas: A Texas prisoner accused of four killings and at least nine rapes was executed on Wednesday for a 1979 rape and murder in Houston that went unsolved for two decades until he confessed.
Danny Paul Bible, 66, received lethal injection on Wednesday evening after unsuccessful appeals contended his multiple health issues made it likely his execution would be botched and cause him unconstitutional pain. The US Supreme Court rejected a last-day appeal about an hour before he was put to death without apparent complications.
Asked by the warden if he had a final statement, Bible replied: "No, sir."
His head was shaking slightly as the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began. His attorneys said Parkinson's disease was among his ailments.
As the drug started to take effect, Bible started taking quick breaths, muttered at one point that it was "burning" and that it "hurt." His breaths then became snores and about a minute after the procedure began, all movement stopped.
Despite fears from his attorneys that a vein would not be found for the IVs, prison technicians had one needle inserted in his left hand three minutes after he was strapped to the death chamber gurney. The second IV was inserted in his right hand after another three minutes.
He stared intently at relatives of two of his victims who watched through a window a few feet from him, but never said anything to them.
He was pronounced dead at 6:32pm, about 15 minutes after the lethal dose started. The execution was the seventh this year in Texas, the country's most active death penalty state.
Bible's guilt was not disputed, but his lawyers had proposed he be rolled in his wheelchair in front of a firing squad or be administered nitrogen gas to cut off oxygen to his brain until he stopped breathing. Lawyers argued his deteriorating health left his veins unsuitable for IVs to be inserted.
If either of those alternatives wasn't possible — and state attorneys said neither was — Bible's lawyers said his punishment should be stopped.
"His unique and severe medical conditions render lethal injection an intolerably cruel method of execution as applied to him," attorney Nadia Wood told the high court. His civil rights claim "should not be barred simply because Texas has not authorised an alternative method of execution."
Bible's appeal went to the Supreme Court after the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday refused his lawsuit seeking a reprieve, a restraining order and an injunction. Assistant Texas Attorney General Stephen Hoffman said in a court filing that the lawsuit was a "meritless tactic" to delay his "well-deserved execution."
Lethal injection is the only execution method allowed in Texas and changing that would require approval of the state legislature, which isn't scheduled to meet again until next year. A handful of death penalty states allow nitrogen hypoxia, although the method hasn't been used. Three Utah inmates have been executed by firing squad, the most recent in 2010. Utah now allows that method if drugs for execution are unavailable.
Bible's lawyers also argued that severe tremors accompanying his Parkinson's disease would complicate insertion of needles. They warned of a problematic execution like ones in recent years in Ohio and Alabama.
Hoffman, the state attorney, noted that IVs had been used recently to draw blood from Bible as part of his medical care.
Bible was a drifter with a record of violence in several states when he was arrested in Fort Myers, Florida, in 1999 for a rape in Louisiana. He told detectives in Louisiana about four Texas killings — including the death of a 4-month-old boy — and at least nine rapes, including five in San Jacinto County northeast of Houston.
The four slaying victims included 20-year-old Inez Deaton, a friend of Bible's cousin who was found on the banks of a Houston bayou in 1979. Investigators determined she had been raped and fatally stabbed with an ice pick. The killing went unsolved for decades before Bible linked himself to the case, and a jury decided in 2003 that the man who became known in Houston as "the ice pick killer" should die for the slaying.
The three other killings all occurred in North Texas on the same day in May 1983. The victims were Bible's sister-in-law, Tracy Powers" her 4-month-old son, Justin" and Powers' roommate, Pam Hudgins.
Bible pleaded guilty to Hudgins' death and was sentenced to 25 year in prison. He served seven and was released to Montana in 1992 on a form of parole known as mandatory supervision.
At his trial for Deaton's slaying in Texas, Harris County prosecutors presented evidence of robberies, thefts, assaults and abductions, including the rape of an 11-year-old girl in Montana and his confessions to repeated sexual assaults of young girls from 1996 to 1998.
"Some criminals' actions are so heinous, they earn the label 'worst of the worst,'" Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said.
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Q: Is sed run as a different user? I have a sed script that changes some content in /etc/shadow. The actual change isn't important, I will put it just as an example:
root@device:~ sed -i 's/root:\(.*\):0:0/root:\1:10:0/' /etc/shadow
sed: can't create temp file '/etc/passwdH5HWP7': Permission denied

As the output shows, there seems to be some permission error, but I am running the command as root.
The sed being used is from BusyBox v1.22.1 on an embedded distribution.
If I try the example in the home folder there is no error. Also, I can edit /etc/shadow normally via a text editor.
Is sed creating files as a nonroot user?

A: The reason is probably that / (containing /etc) is a read only filesystem, but has a symlink for /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd, and other dynamic files that lands on a read-write filesystem.
This will allow you to edit the shadow and passwd files directly. The sed -i fails because its implementation doesn't actually update in place. Rather, it creates a temporary file and writes the changes to that, and then replaced the original file with the temporary copy. The error message you are seeing says that sed can't write the (temporary) file /etc/passwdH5HWP7.
Solution? Either don't use -i and control the temporary file's location yourself, or provide the -i flag with a filename. In both cases you need to provide a filename in a location with read-write access.

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Chinese as a Second Language Education: Improving prospects for Non-Chinese speakers
In March 2017, Police Constable Ifzal Zaffar became an overnight celebrity after he persuaded a suicidal man on a construction crane to come down by speaking to the man in his native language, Urdu.[1] Zaffar is of Pakistani descent, but he was raised in Hong Kong and he is fluent in Cantonese. Zaffar was able to improve his Chinese language proficiency by participating in a mentoring programme for ethnic minority (EM) police officers. Unlike Zaffar, however, many EM people are unable to become proficient enough in Chinese to integrate into local society, which negatively affects their employment opportunities.
It is often the case in Hong Kong that EM students come from families who are non-Chinese speaking (NCS)[2], and as such these students have few opportunities to practise the language in their home environment.[3] For example, in a survey of low-income South Asian parents of NCS kindergarten students, the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Oxfam Hong Kong found that 27.0% of the parents were "weak" in Cantonese and 26.6% could not speak the language at all.[4] Another survey of 476 EM respondents conducted in 2016 by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS) and the Hong Kong Christian Service Ethnic Minority Service (HKCS) found that while 49.8% of the respondents could speak Chinese, only 10.3% of the respondents could read Chinese and only 9.5% could write Chinese.[5]
A survey conducted by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) of 378 EM students aged 12 to 23 in 2014 found that more than 60% of the students overall and 50% of the senior secondary students surveyed had a Chinese proficiency that was only comparable to that of an average local primary student.[6] The Education Bureau (EDB) noted that there were about 17,700 NCS students attending public sector schools and schools under the Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) in 2015/2016.[7] The EDB often refers to NCS students when providing data on EM students, although the two groups are not exactly the same.
Do all ethnic groups face the same educational difficulties?
In an analysis of the 2011 Hong Kong census data conducted by the Hong Kong Institute of Education,[8] it was revealed that the percentage of Pakistanis and Nepalese aged 19 to 22 who are studying or have completed university was over 20 percentage points lower than the percentage for the Chinese population.[9] The analysis also found that Pakistani and Nepalese youth aged 13 to 19 tend to drop out of school before Form 5 at rates significantly higher than Chinese youth as well as youth with mixed race heritage (Chinese and other Asian). In 2008, the EDB noted that NCS students from different ethnic groups have "different learning progress rates and ethnic needs" when they learn Chinese.[10] Thus, it may be helpful to account for these differences when designing Chinese language policies so that the Chinese proficiency of NCS students can be improved in an efficient and effective way.
Are Chinese language skills essential in gaining local employment?
NCS students require Chinese language skills to maximise their employment opportunities. A 2016 survey of 1,500 job postings conducted by the NGO Hong Kong Unison found that 49% of these jobs explicitly stated that they required spoken Cantonese, 51% required written Chinese skills, and 26% required spoken Putonghua skills.[11] When listings that did not include information on their Chinese language requirements were excluded, 97% of the listings required spoken Cantonese and 99% required written Chinese.
To help NCS students learn Chinese skills that will be useful in the vocational context, the EDB created the Applied Learning in Chinese (ApL(C)) curriculum, which is a Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE) language course.[12] Two classes are offered: "Chinese for the Service Industry" and "Practical Chinese in Hospitality." However, Professor Puja Kapai from the University of Hong Kong believes that the ApL(C) curriculum limits NCS students to specific industries and "does not equip them with inclusive Chinese capability".[13] Only 153 NCS students are expected to take ApL(C) in 2017.[14] Given the fact that basic Chinese is a necessary skill across a wide variety of local occupations, it is not clear if ApL(C) students with limited Chinese language abilities will be able to have successful careers outside of the service and hospitality sectors even after completing the course.
Do NCS students gain admission to local universities at the same rate as other students?
Hong Kong students enrolling in the Joint Universities Placement and Admissions Scheme (JUPAS) and applying for four-year undergraduate programmes offered by University Grants Committee (UGC)-funded universities normally must attain at least a Level 3 on the HKDSE Examination for Chinese Language, along with a Level 3 on the HKDSE Examination in English and a Level 2 in Liberal Studies and Mathematics, in order to be considered for admission.[15]
UGC-funded institutions also accept alternative Chinese Language qualifications such as ApL (C), the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) and the General Certificate of Examination (GCE).[16] However, this only applies to NCS students who have learned Chinese Language for less than six years while receiving primary and secondary education, or NCS students who have learned Chinese Language for six years or more but have been taught a simpler Chinese Language curriculum not applicable to the majority of students in local schools. These requirements attempt to strike a balance between giving UGC-funded universities the option of admitting NCS students under relaxed standards while discouraging Chinese-speaking students from taking easier Chinese examinations in lieu of the HKDSE Chinese examination.
In 2016, the EDB reported that 1,046 NCS students who were attending public sector and DSS schools offering the local curriculum took the HKDSE Examination.[17] Three hundred and twenty of these students, or 30.6%, met the general entrance requirements of the UGC-funded four-year undergraduate programmes. Two hundred and twenty-four NCS students (21.4% of all NCS students who took the HKDSE) received admission offers to post-secondary programmes through JUPAS. A total of 265 local NCS students were admitted to UGC-funded undergraduate programs in the 2016/17 academic year, including JUPAS as well as non-JUPAS applicants.[18]
As Table 3 shows, NCS students are not being admitted to UGC-funded post-secondary programmes at the same rate as the population at large. In 2016, 66,872 HKDSE candidates sat the exam, with 23,318 receiving offers from post-secondary programmes through JUPAS.[19] The JUPAS offer rate for all HKDSE candidates is 34.9%.[20] Thus, the offer rate for all HKDSE candidates is 13.5 percentage points higher than the rate for NCS HKDSE candidates, even though alternative Chinese Language qualifications are now accepted by universities. A number of factors could have contributed to this disparity, some of which may arise out of indirect language barriers. For example, NCS students could have difficulties in finding English-speaking tutors for HKDSE non-language subjects if additional assistance is needed, which might affect their exam performance and their chances of university admission.
How does the Learning Framework aim to resolve these issues?
To improve Chinese as a second language (CSL) education in Hong Kong, the EDB implemented the "Chinese Language Curriculum Second Language Learning Framework" (the Learning Framework) in 2014/2015.[21] Teachers are now provided with a systematic set of objectives and outcomes that describe the learning progress of NCS students at different learning stages. In order to facilitate schools' implementation of the Learning Framework, the EDB allocated HK$200 million a year to be distributed to all schools admitting 10 or more NCS students, so that they can adopt appropriate teaching strategies. In the 2015/16 school year, 197 schools were provided funding ranging from HK$800,000 to $1,500,000.[22] Schools admitting nine or fewer NCS students may apply for $50,000 at most in annual funding.
Teachers can make reference to the Learning Framework to set progressive learning targets for NCS students while adjusting the curriculum through the "small-step" learning approach. Schools are allowed to decide which learning support strategies to employ for their NCS students. However, the Learning Framework prohibits the adoption of an across-the-board Chinese Language curriculum with lower and easier standards for NCS students.
Does the Learning Framework apply to kindergarten education?
According to Professor Takao Hensch from the Harvard Medical School and Professor Janet Werker from the University of British Columbia, early childhood can be a critical period for language acquisition.[23] Yet although kindergarten education will be funded by the Government in the 2017/18 school year, and the EDB has invited kindergartens to apply for grants to provide school-based support services catering for NCS students, the Learning Framework itself does not apply to kindergarten education.[24] Oxfam Hong Kong notes that most kindergartens cannot afford to provide NCS students with additional Chinese learning support.[25] As a result many NCS students begin their primary education at a disadvantage.
Oxfam Hong Kong has urged the Government to extend the Learning Framework to kindergartens by creating a pilot scheme to proactively subsidise kindergartens that hire teachers to provide a "Chinese enhancement class" for NCS students. Oxfam has suggested that the Government could invite 10 kindergartens to participate in the scheme during the first three years, after which an evaluation can be done to assess its effectiveness and determine best teaching practices. Chief Executive (CE)-elect Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has previously remarked during her tenure as Chief Secretary (CS) of Hong Kong that the Government will provide "additional assistance for kindergartens admitting a cluster of non-Chinese speaking students".[26] Considering the importance of kindergarten education in language acquisition, it may be prudent for Lam to revisit this topic when she takes office.
Do all schools provide similar types of learning support under the Learning Framework?
In 2015, Oxfam Hong Kong conducted a survey of all primary and secondary schools to study the initial effectiveness[27] of the Learning Framework.[28] A total of 263 schools with NCS students were interviewed. Fifty-nine point three percent of them had nine NCS students or fewer, which means that 59.3% of all schools with NCS students in the survey were ineligible for the HK$200 million allocated under the Learning Framework. Seventy-four point six percent of these schools did not apply for the HK$50,000 in additional funding, with 41.5% of these schools indicating that funding was unnecessary and 28% stating that they were unaware additional funding was available.
As shown in Table 4, the type of learning support provided was more limited in schools admitting nine or fewer NCS students. Only 28.1% of these schools used "pull-out classes"[29] and only 0.6% used "parallel classes".[30] None offered additional Chinese classes or a school-based Chinese curriculum and 11.8% did not offer any kind of Chinese learning support. The EDB has suggested that these support mechanisms are not as important in schools with less than 10 NCS students as their NCS students would be immersed in a Chinese-speaking environment.[31] Some stakeholders believe that pull-out learning could also lead to de facto segregation of NCS students. However, Hong Kong Unison believes that submersion in mainstream classrooms without prior instruction is not conducive to second language learning, since schools with less than 10 NCS students often find it difficult to allocate manpower and resources to develop effective learning support measures for NCS students.[32]
Under the current scheme, if a school admitted nine NCS students, it could receive no more than $50,000 in funding, but a school with 10 NCS students could receive $800,000 a year. Legislative Council (LegCo) member Andrew Wan Siu-kin proposed that schools with nine or fewer NCS students should be allocated additional funding on a pro-rata basis based on the number of NCS students admitted, while Oxfam Hong Kong suggested that the EDB could proactively provide funding to these schools without relying on school administrators to apply for funding themselves. The comparatively low amount of learning support provided by schools with nine or fewer NCS students is a potential "blind spot" under the Learning Framework that could be addressed with more equitable distribution of funding.
How can the effectiveness of the Learning Framework be assessed?
The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has argued that the EDB lacks performance targets that would enable the Learning Framework's effectiveness to be assessed.[33] Also, the EDB has not specified what level of proficiency students must achieve in order to join mainstream classes. Therefore the EOC advised that the EDB should provide clear success indicators and benchmarks such as the number of students who have successfully bridged over to the mainstream Chinese curriculum so that the Learning Framework's progress can be measured. Dr. Lee Siu-lun from the Chinese University of Hong Kong believes that the EDB, stakeholders and educators could collaborate to set up these indicators.[34]
The EOC also received feedback from teachers and schools who have indicated that they face "multiple difficulties in developing teaching materials for their NCS students," even though the EDB currently provides some resources such as assessment tools and teaching reference materials. Since the relatively small number of NCS students does not provide enough monetary incentive for private publishers to develop Chinese as a second language textbooks in the Hong Kong context, the EOC has urged the EDB to develop and publish appropriate Chinese language teaching materials for NCS learners in Hong Kong.[35]
Are Chinese language teachers adequately trained to teach NCS students?
Under the Learning Framework, the EDB has organised development programmes to enhance teachers' professional capability of teaching Chinese as a second language. Teachers can also pursue courses through the "Professional Enhancement Grant Scheme for Chinese Teachers". However, the EDB does not have any regulation requiring schools with NCS students to maintain a certain minimum percentage of teachers equipped with formal training in CSL instruction to cater to NCS students' needs, according to the EOC.[36] By contrast, the EOC notes that the EDB has set clear targets to make sure that schools have a certain percentage of their teachers equipped with formal training to cater to students with special educational needs (SEN). The EDB has also implemented three-tier training courses (Basic, Advanced and Thematic levels) for teachers of SEN students. The EOC has suggested that the EDB could implement a similar training structure for CSL teachers as well as a requirement for schools to have a certain percentage of teachers with CSL training. These measures would help ensure that NCS and SEN students are taught by teachers that have been trained to accommodate their educational backgrounds.
How can parents of NCS students be more involved in their child's education?
Professor Kapai has remarked that parents of NCS students often are unable to communicate with teachers in schools that use Chinese as the medium of instruction, as many parents are unable to understand Chinese and some teachers are reluctant to speak in English.[37] Moreover, parent-teacher association meetings are often conducted in Chinese. Thus it may be helpful for schools to provide translators for NCS parents during school activities or parent-teacher meetings. To help NCS parents make informed school choices for their children, the LegCo Subcommittee on Rights of Ethnic Minorities suggested that the EDB could strengthen dissemination of school information such as the number of teachers with professional training in teaching NCS students per school.[38] The EDB could also publicise the list of schools being provided with additional funding under the Learning Framework.
Since 2013, the EDB has invited parents of NCS students to participate in the "Summer Bridging Programme" for NCS students, which aims to facilitate NCS Primary 1 entrants' adaptation to the classroom setting with the use of Chinese.[39] If the EDB is able to expand the Programme and promote cooperation between the EDB, teachers and parents, this could help encourage and motivate NCS students who do not live in a Chinese-speaking home environment to master the Chinese language and join the mainstream curriculum.
CE-elect Carrie Lam made several promises in her manifesto to improve Chinese language education for NCS people in Hong Kong.[40] For example, Lam pledged to request the EDB to assess the effectiveness of the current policy to help ethnic minority students learn Chinese as a second language. Lam has asserted that the Government is "committed in promoting racial equality in Hong Kong," while noting that "providing equal opportunities to ethnic minorities…calls for stronger government leadership and greater community efforts".[41]
Promoting racial equality and social harmony in Hong Kong will require input and involvement from a variety of stakeholders beyond the EDB and the narrow confines of the Learning Framework. Parents, teachers, school officials, NGOs, and the community at large all have a role to play in furthering social inclusion for all ethnic groups and helping NCS students integrate into Hong Kong society. Moreover, the EDB could also consider collecting and making public the data relating to NCS students in various primary and secondary schools to facilitate follow-up studies by parties concerned, such as the EOC, NGOs, and academics. This is to ensure that the approach of integrated education as advocated by the EDB in the Learning Framework is effectively implemented for the benefit of NCS students.
1 Rachel Blundy, Hero Hong Kong polices officer who made headlines worldwide: "I was just doing my duty", South China Morning Post, March 18, 2017, http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2079933/hero-hong-kong-police-officer-who-made-headlines
2 According to the EDB, for the planning of educational support measures, students whose spoken language at home is not Chinese are broadly categorised as NCS students.
3 Chinese Language Education, Hong Kong Unison, http://www.unison.org.hk/ChineseLanguageEducation.html
4 Survey on the Chinese Learning Challenges South Asian Ethnic Minority Kindergarten Students from Low-income Families Face, Oxfam Hong Kong, December 2014, http://www.oxfam.org.hk/filemgr/2639/Oxfam_Surveyon_Dec2.pdf
5 Survey on Hong Kong Ethnic Minority, Hong Kong Council of Social Service, August 23, 2016, http://www.hkcss.org.hk/e/cont_detail.asp?type_id=9&content_id=3486
6 Yvonne Lee, 60% of ethnic minorities in high school have only primary-level Chinese proficiency, CityU NewsCentre, July 14, 2014, http://wikisites.cityu.edu.hk/sites/newscentre/en/Pages/201407141615.aspx
7 LC Paper No. CB(2)208/16-17(01), Legislative Council Subcommittee on Rights of Ethnic Minorities, Legislative Council, November 23, 2016, http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr16-17/english/hc/sub_com/hs52/papers/hs5220161123cb2-208-1-e.pdf
8 The Hong Kong Institute of Education was renamed the Education University of Hong Kong in May 2016.
9 HKIEd Study on Educational Inequality and Child Poverty among Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, October 29, 2013, http://www.ied.edu.hk/media/news.php?id=20131029
10 Developing a supplementary guide to the Chinese language curriculum for non-Chinese speaking students, Curriculum Development Council, January 2008, http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr07-08/english/panels/ed/papers/ed0229cb2-1238-1-e.pdf
11 Chinese Language Requirements in the Hong Kong Job Market: A Survey on Job Advertisements, Hong Kong Unison, May 2016, http://unison.org.hk/DocumentDownload/Researches/R201605%20Job%20Ad%20Research.pdf
12 Applied Learning Chinese (for non-Chinese speaking students) (ApL(C))- Recognition and Articulation, EDB, http://www.edb.gov.hk/en/curriculum-development/cross-kla-studies/applied-learning/applied-learning-chinese/articulation-aplc.html
13 Puja Kapai, Status of Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong 1997-2014, The University of Hong Kong, 2015, http://www.law.hku.hk/ccpl/StatusofEthnicMinorities/J.Chapter3.pdf
14 Replies to initial written questions raised by Finance Committee Members in examining the Estimates of Expenditure 2017-18, Educational Bureau, April 7, 2017, http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr16-17/english/fc/fc/w_q/edb-e.pdf
15 Entrance requirements for undergraduate programmes, HKEAA, July 7, 2016, http://www.hkeaa.edu.hk/en/recognition/hkdse_recognition/local/
16 Alternative Qualifications in Chinese Language (ACL) (for NCS applicants only), JUPAS, http://www.jupas.edu.hk/en/application-procedures/application-information/alternative-qualifications-in-chinese-language-acl-for-ncs-applicants-only/
17 LC Paper No. CB(2)208/16-17(01), Legislative Council, November 23, 2016, http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr16-17/english/hc/sub_com/hs52/papers/hs5220161123cb2-208-1-e.pdf
19 Main Round Offer Statistics: 2016, JUPAS, http://www.jupas.edu.hk/en/statistics/main-round-offer/
20 2016 Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination Results Released, HKEAA, July 12, 2016, http://www.hkeaa.edu.hk/DocLibrary/Media/PR/20160712_HKDSE_FULL_Results_ENG.pdf
21 LC Paper No. CB(4)913/13-14(05), Legislative Council, July 16, 2014, http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr13-14/english/panels/ed/papers/ed0716cb4-913-5-e.pdf
23 Janet F. Werker and Takao K. Hensch, Critical Periods in Speech Perception: New Directions, Annual Review of Psychology, September 17, 2014, http://2015.laschool4education.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Janet_-annurev-psych-010814-01510411.pdf
24 Education Bureau Circular Memorandum No. 56/2017, Education Bureau, March 31, 2017, http://applications.edb.gov.hk/circular/upload/EDBCM/EDBCM17056E.pdf
25 Survey on the Chinese Learning challenges south Asian ethnic minority kindergarten students from low-income families face, Oxfam Hong Kong, December 2014, http://www.oxfam.org.hk/filemgr/2639/Oxfam_Surveyon_Dec2.pdf
26 Carrie Lam, Embrace cultural diversity: CS, News.gov.hk, March 21, 2016, http://www.news.gov.hk/en/record/html/2016/03/20160321_190147.shtml
27 It should be noted that it is arguably still too early to fully assess the Learning Framework's impact as it has only been in effect for a few years.
28 Survey on the Enhanced Chinese Learning and Teaching Support for Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Primary and Secondary Schools, Oxfam Hong Kong, January 7, 2016, http://www.oxfam.org.hk/filemgr/2910/EMExecutiveSummary-final.pdf
29 Pull-out classes refers to Chinese classes for NCS students that are offered separately but use the same curriculum as other students.
30 Parallel classes refer to Chinese classes for NCS students that are offered separately from classes for their classmates of the same age. The curriculum for this class is specially designed for NCS students and is different from the mainstream one.
31 LC Paper No. CB(2)338/16-17(01), Legislative Council, December 8, 2016, http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr16-17/english/hc/sub_com/hs52/papers/hs5220161212cb2-338-1-e.pdf
32 LC Paper No. CB(2)326/16-17(06), Legislative Council, December 12, 2016, http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr16-17/chinese/hc/sub_com/hs52/papers/hs5220161212cb2-326-6-ec.pdf
33 LC Paper No. CB(2)254/16-17(02), Legislative Council, November 23, 2016, http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr16-17/chinese/hc/sub_com/hs52/papers/hs5220161123cb2-254-2-ec.pdf
34 Lee Siu-lun, Chinese as a Second Language- some suggestions, Legislative Council, December 12, 2016, http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr16-17/chinese/hc/sub_com/hs52/papers/hs5220161212cb2-366-2-ec.pdf
35 Some organisations such as the Open Education Foundation has attempted to crowdfund "open source" Chinese textbooks for non-Chinese students, but their efforts at acquiring funding have been unsuccessful.
38 LC Paper No. CB(2)933/16-17, Legislative Council, December 12, 2016, http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr16-17/english/hc/sub_com/hs52/minutes/hs5220161212.pdf
39 Education Bureau Circular Memorandum No. 68/2016, Education Bureau, May 3, 2016, http://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/student-parents/ncs-students/support-to-school/SBP_2016_EDBCM_eng_final.pdf
40 Carrie Lam, Manifesto of Carrie Lam: Chief Executive Election 2017, February 27, 2017, https://www.carrielam2017.hk/media/my/2017/01/Manifesto_e_v2.pdf
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Contemporary villa of great quality with panoramic sunset sea views over the emblematic island Es Vedra, situated on Ibiza's West coast in Cala Carbo. The villa is situated just 3 minutes drive from the small charming Cala Carbo beach and 10 minutes drive from San Jose village with all amenities. The property is accessed via an electric gate, and the main entrance is entered through a beautifully landscaped courtyard with ancient olive trees, cactus garden, light design and water features. The villa has an open and light flooded layout with a wonderfurl view of the sea and Es Vedra. The distribution offers a generous living room, integrated dining room, a modern fully equipped kitchen and a guest toilet. One wing of the property host the large master bedroom suite with en suite salon, dressing room and bathroom with hammam and stunning views of Es Vedra. One further bedroom with bathroom en suite. In the other wing of the villa you find a large room used as office which is also used as dining room for larger dinner parties. All of the rooms have access to the exterior with the large front terrace with infinity pool (15x4m ) and a splendid sun terrace. On the lower level of the property there is an independent apartment with bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and private terrace with views of Es Vedra. The villa is equipped with mains electricity and water and has two cisterns. Hot water by solar. Central floor heating and aircondition. Large garage and storage.


"HB 263: New law opens patios to pooches" was published on Thursday, September 27, 2018 in This Week Worthington News, page A1. Marla K. Kuhlman is the Author. Marla K. Kuhlman is the Photographer. It includes a graphic.
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Count Down to June 14th
Hynes For Nevada Representative of Congressional District 03
A Pledge to My Neighbors
Battle Born Voters Challenge
About Randell S. Hynes
This profile goes a little deeper into the accomplishments of candidate Randell S. Hynes than you would normally find on a campaign website. As an unknown, here is a first person summary of his 36 years career in the Army (6 years) and Tech career. He's continually on the lookout for opportunities to stand up for People without a voice.
US Army Veteran committing to Represent the Affordable Priorities of most Americans.
I have a lifetime of experiences recognizing opportunities to fill roles that are bigger than me and to stand up for fairness.
After executing a successful plan to keep a major trade show in Indianapolis for two more years after it outgrew a single venue, I realized I had a knack for logistics.
In my mid-twenties I joined the Army Reserve and became a Combat Engineer. I loved bootcamp. I was selected as Soldier of the Cycle and transferred to Active Duty the day after graduation.
Randell S. Hynes
My Kids Hero, Husband 3.0, Super-Soldier, Thirty Year Internet & Digital Publishing Career, 5th Generation Irish Immigrant—LinkedIn
I was a super-soldier who excelled at every challenge that I volunteered for. Besides explosives expertise, annual NCO of the Year honors, Fort Ord M16 rattle-battle champion, I became the Bailey Bridge Commander for our Battalion. I directed the logistics and build of 8o-120 ton bridges 20 times.
United Way Soldier of the Year, presented here by Clint Eastwood.
30-Year Self-Taught Tech Career Marked by Innovations
I've been on the cutting-edge of the tech industry for 30 years by transitioning from desktop publishing before the Internet to a Cloud Developer on an industry leading Cloud development team that has survived intact five corporate buyouts.
Milestones include membership in the consortium that created the standards for DVDs, I published GolfWell DVD, the first known video/data hybrid DVD, I installed DirecPC dishes from Brooklyn to Monterey when dial up was the only Internet otherwise available, I personally arranged the first high speed Internet connection to Panama, and automated Internet translation of documents via LOGOS network. Legacy ASP skills lead to JavaScript & TypeScript based work in MeteorJS, Node.js & the latest Angular for cloud apps in Infrastructure as a Service applications. For the last decade I've maintained and developed a legacy ASP app and a cutting-edge Angular app that both interface with VMware products and other vendor APIs.
I Have a Passion to Speak Up for People
These are the most relevant experiences related to what I'm asking my neighbors in Nevada Third District to entrust me with.
My work in the Army put me in a position that allowed me to know when a soldier was not being treated fairly and the soldier didn't know recourse even existed. Enlistment issues, transfers and family compensation were typical incidents. Most of the time issues could be cleared up simply by teaching the troop how to proceed. In a few cases, I helped with a letter and standing by a soldier while they respectfully spoke their mind to a commander. It was all about fairness. I completed a successful response through Congressman Duncan Hunter, Sr. for a troop facing a faulty ROTC transfer.
Taxi Driver Advocate and Lobbyist—I have always loved driving and chatting with folks. As a young adult living in Indianapolis, if I needed extra cash I'd rent a yellow cab and work it for 24 hours. When I arrived in Las Vegas in 2001 I'd spent a year working on my own app project and needed cash. So, I went to Nellis Cab to rent a cab. Which I learned wasn't an option. What I said would be a three week gig turned into a weekend job for six years. I loved it. However, I didn't love how I was treated by police when I was pulled over in my cab and I didn't love that the excessive number of cabs on the street made it impossible for most day drivers to earn minimum wage.
I began preparing statements for Taxi Authority and Nevada Taxicab Authority hearings speaking for all the taxicab drivers, who didn't have a voice.
Later, when even night drivers were having a difficult time competing with other cabs and limos, I filed an 8th District pro se case against most Strip casinos and Limo companies for diverting rides from cabs to limos. After the case was thrown out I had the luxury of continuing with Internet publishing work. I lobbied for drivers at the 2009 Nevada Legislature and was disappointed in the unfair treatment there.
Solar Industry Advocate, Instructor and Lobbyist—2009-2012
At the end of the 2009 Legislative session I sat in on hearings for the solar industry and identified a niche to fill. I went to Associated Builders and Contractors of Nevada and formed an instant partnership to develop their solar instruction classes. Over the next three years Solar Forces Inc. nonprofit taught over 1200 tradesmen about solar at ABC and CSN, which many used to get their OSHA Solar PV Installer license. Yet, there was still work to do for the industry. I started Dollars & Sense of Solar classes, started the Nevada Solar Authority to install solar. The solar industry was and is still struggling in this region, despite being rated as the best place on Earth to generate electricity from solar PV.
I went to Carson City in 2011 to lobby for the industry and had reached a point where solar cooperatives could become a reality. The bill's sponsor pulled the BDR after I presented my plan by going on the record saying that NV Energy persuaded him in the hall on the way to the hearing to drop it.
The Middle Party—Over 15 years ago I began to study what I could do as an Internet professional to advocate for change in Congress. The pandemic finally gave me time to reflect further and start to write down ideas that had been dammed up in my head for decades. In the beginning I believed that another political Party was needed. After five months of research and writing I determined that everything that is needed to fix Congress already existed in the current system. And that we just need to inform Voters to leverage the apparent weakness—Primary elections.
Rampart Caucus—I started over here based on what I determined to be immutable, Two Parties, that together represent everything that Americans value, yet separately represent less than 30% of registered Voters. It's that mismatch that I'm attempting to realign by informing Nevada Voters about the importance of voting in a Primary election.
I'm prepared to be an independent voice in Congress representing Nevada's Third District as a Moderate Democrat. I'm a literal bridge builder asking my neighbors to trust that I will be a virtual bridge builder and moderate a reset in Congress leading to a more responsive government.
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Mahama Shaibu born and raise in Tamale, the northern part of Ghana, is a broadcast journalist who once work with Zaa Radio -Tamale and Joy FM -Accra, both in Ghana. He was a part-time lecturer at the International institute of journalism in Tamale.

He is a Ghanaian broadcast journalist with Zaa Radio - Tamale and Joy FM - Accra, both in Ghana.

He contested but lost the Tamale Central Constituency parliamentary elections in 2012 as an independent candidate. He is an executive assistant at Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) and a spokesperson for the Andani Royal Family.

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This series of prophets and sybils reproduces six of the twelve figures in the pendentives at the lower edges of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512. The date of 1540 which appears on some of the prints is almost certainly incorrect. At this date Ghisi's engraving style had not developed to the level evident in these prints. Also, the publisher of the engravings, Nicolò van Aelst, was not active until the 1570s. The false dating may therefore have to do with rivalry among publishers and the desire to add value to the prints by claiming that they were the earliest to be made after the Sistine ceiling.


But I noticed him.I saw him. I heard him.
The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid…For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away. Now, I've graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven't stopped watching Michael. He's bad, and the dirt I've seen isn't content to stay in my head anymore. Because he's finally noticed me. Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika.
My brother's girlfriend grew up hanging around my house and is always at our dinner table. She looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. I can always feel the fear rolling off of her, and while I haven't had her body, I know that I have her mind. That's all I really want anyway. Until my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone at college. In my city. Unprotected.
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Penelope Douglas is a writer and teacher in Las Vegas.
Born in Dubuque, Iowa, she is the oldest of five children.
Penelope attended the University of Northern Iowa, earning a Bachelor's degree in Public Administration, because her father told her to "just get the degree!"
She then earned a Masters of Science in Education at Loyola University in New Orleans, because she hated Public Administration. One night, she got tipsy and told the bouncer at the bar where she worked that his son was hot, and three years later they were married. To the son, not the bouncer.
They have spawn, but just one. A daughter named Aydan. Penelope loves sweets, the show Sons of Anarchy, and she shops at Target almost daily.


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Q: /usr/bin/env: 'awk -f': No such file or directory Linux shylock-archinux 4.15.15-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 31 23:59:25 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux
My machine is above.Anyone know what happend?
The script with shebang #! /usr/bin/env awk -f don't work?I call it by ./script.awk inputfile,it should be same as manually call awk -f ./script.awk inputfile,but only the latter work well!
which awk output /usr/bin/awk.

A: The shebang line typically only takes at most two arguments, so it's considering "awk -f" as a single argument to env.
Considering you know the path to your awk, using that directly should fix the problem for you:
#! /usr/bin/awk -f

See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/4304187/9447571 for a few more details on how shebang arguments are recognized.


This Is Madness!! ! You got 3 min. to get resources and research techs, then the gates will automatically break down. 300 Spartan warriors will hold the canyon if you need more time, but hurry up and call out your mighty Spartan army, because the Persian army is massive, with over 2 million warriors!! ! Just kidding, but you will be outnumbered. For Leonydas! For Glory! for SPARTA!! !
There actually 300 'aztecz' ie heavily boosted 1000 HP jaguar warriors in the game. Not to mention a HUGE town with 99999's of resources.
The enemy has some spawning units which can be stopped by standing on the spawn spots and a couple of villages.
Must be the most unbalanced game I have seen.
any recomendations? improvements I should do? any suggestions?
aditional, the age should be in a higher stage and the villagers shoult be not so many.
because you have to many recources.
how it is written in a uper comment, you can stop the enemies by standing at the spawn poin.
if there where some castle on clifs, wich shoots on the aztecs when they are standing near the spawn point, and the aztec warriors have no armor gainst arrows, a spawnkilling taktic is stupid, and the game will became more difficult.
but at now its more than easy.


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Productivity Writing Mac
The best text editor for macOS
by K.Q. Dreger
Text editors have been a crucial part of every computing system in history, and they're also the tools that many, many people use every day to build the services, apps, and written-word that we love.
At its core, a text editor does what it says on the tin: it allows you to edit text. But wait, you say, I already have a way to edit text on my Mac. Maybe it's Pages or Microsoft Word, or perhaps you use an online option, like Google Docs or Dropbox Paper. However, what separates these tools from a text editor, and what makes a text editor so compelling to a lot of people, is that a text editor removes almost every distraction between you and the text. There are no formatting toolbars, no adjusting the margins — just you and your code or words. For writing in HTML, CSS, or other programming languages, this is a necessity. For someone who isn't writing code but still generates a large amount of copy, a text editor can be where you start your writing.
What makes a good text editor?
Few topics start such heated debates as what makes a good text editor. The problem with declaring any one editor better than another is that every editor we mention today is seemingly infinitely customizable. You can tweak, bolt on, or remove any array of features until any of the following applications fit your workflow perfectly. Additionally, once someone has spent more than a few months using a specific text editor, the muscle memory for certain actions or keyboard shortcuts becomes so second-nature that switching to any other editor can be as difficult and foreign as switching to a new operating system.
That said, a good text editor has to have enough features to be adaptable to your workflow, but not so many that it steers itself toward any one usage. Editing text encompasses a wide range of activities. How do you design an app that will potentially be used by both programmer and screenwriter? Good text editors will get out of your way, but they never hide functionality too far out of reach — this means our top pick needs to be an editor that's well-designed and approachable by beginners without stifling professional users.
Finally, this review is about the best text editor for macOS, not the best macOS application that's also a text editor. Atom is our top pick for most people, but its design follows a different set of principles than those laid out in Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for macOS apps. Every text editor we look at in this review has design tradeoffs, but at the end of the day, we feel Atom balances modern functionality and interface design in a way that makes it the best starting point for almost any type of user.
My first real writing tool was my grandfather's heavy-as-sin Underwood typewriter on which I — around eight at the time — hammered out an endless amount of content. I eventually graduated to a giant Dell desktop and later to my first MacBook, but the writing never stopped. Throughout high school, I realized that I enjoyed writing for computers as much as I did for people, and I went to college to later graduate with degrees in both English and computer science.
During the day, I work for a software company where my role is a blend of design (writing for people) and programming (writing for computers). Officially, I'm the lead user experience designer for our team of eight, and I'm also the sole developer for several internal web applications written primarily in Ruby on Rails. I also spend time helping out our web design team, where we write custom HTML and CSS for a variety of clients. At night, I'm either writing for my small privacy/design web column or I'm refactoring the Swift code of my current iOS project. Today though, I'm your guide through some of the best text editors for macOS. Of each of the text editors we'll discuss, whether for writing or programming, I've spent more than a week with each while professionally developing Ruby on Rails applications and writing an array of smaller Go, PHP, and Swift files.
Although I approach this review with the consideration that a writer could use any of the apps we mention — and writers certainly do — if you're looking for something a little more focused towards prose, I encourage you to check out The Sweet Setup's Best Writing App for Mac and iOS.
An aside about how text editors differ from Markdown editors
We recognize there are different text editors for different types of work. If you're looking to write blog posts, emails, research papers, or novels and want an all-inclusive writing environment, we think Ulysses is the best writing app for Apple devices. If you're looking for a Markdown text editor that works well with single files (think TextEdit for Markdown), we think Byword is the best app for writing in Markdown. But neither Ulysses or Byword are built with developers and web designers in mind. There aren't immense customization features, package or plugin support, or built-in git functionality in either Ulysses or Byword, nor should there be. There's an app that shines in each distinct category, and this category deals with the powerful, customizable text editors that handle the languages and workloads beyond Markdown and rich text.
Atom is an open-source, cross-platform text editor developed by GitHub, a company that helps other companies host and collaborate on software projects. The beta for Atom was announced in February of 2014 and was billed as a text editor that was both "deeply programmable but also easy to use." Atom is not without flaws, but its balancing of ease-of-use with optional, deep customization means it serves both novice and professional users well — offering an approachable UI for the former, and almost unending customization and tweaking for the latter.
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Notable Features: File Navigation
Atom makes it easy to navigate and switch between any of the files you currently have open. Hitting CMD + T dims the interface and presents you with a text box in which to begin typing. As you type, Atom begins filtering down your open files to only the ones that have names matching your keywords.
You don't need to remember the exact name of a file either. Atom uses a "fuzzy" type of matching, which lets you search on whatever part of the filename you remember. The searching is fast, and once you've grown accustomed to having any file only a few taps away, using your mouse to click through folders and files will feel painfully slow.
Notable Features: Multiline Editing
Multiline editing is one of those features that's hard to explain in words, but once you see it in action, you'll wonder where it's been all your life:
Multiline editing works by letting you quickly select any instances of the word your cursor is currently in. Once you've selected all the words you want to change, you can begin typing and Atom will make those changes in each selected word. It's like having multiple cursors scattered throughout your document, all acting in unison.
Technically, anything you can do with multiline editing you could do with Atom's powerful find and replace feature, but multiline editing allows you to quickly — and in real time — jump into a find-and-replace-like mode within the current document. This makes cleaning up text a breeze, and it's especially useful for development when you want to quickly rename a variable across a function.
Notable Features: GitHub and Git Integration
It's not surprising that GitHub integration is baked in to Atom since it's a GitHub product, but it also includes standard Git integration. The integration won't replace a dedicated Git tool for power users (like Tower), but it delivers rock-solid performance for the basic git commands for version control and collaboration. Whether you use GitHub, Bitbucket, or another git solution for version control, Atom can help you save a step or two without leaving the app when it's time to commit and push changes.
Notable Features: Teletype
This feature goes a bit above and beyond our expectations for a text editor, but it's too cool to ignore. Atom recently launched a feature named Teletype that allows you to share documents with other Atom users (via a unique link) that allows you to open and edit the document together in real time, a la Google Docs. This is incredibly powerful and useful for peer reviews, pair programming, and other collaborative exercises, and also skips the step of needing to fire up a teleconference bridge to debug an annoying logic problem or review comments on an article.
As I mentioned earlier, all of the text editors in this review are extremely customizable. You can make any of them do just about anything. That said, Atom's interface for tweaking, adding, or removing functionality is the easiest to use for most users and powerful enough for most professionals.
Customization: Preferences
Atom's preferences are logically arranged and straightforward to navigate. Opening the preferences page opens a new tab in Atom's main window, and you are presented with a sidebar of setting categories. From here, you can adjust the editor's typeface, create a new keyboard shortcut, or change the default theme.
The interface for these options is simple enough, but a far cry from how macOS would present similar preferences. For the audience, I don't think it matters that much, but Atom's settings are probably the best example of where Atom defines itself more as a text editor and less as a Mac app.
That doesn't mean the settings are more difficult to use, though. For every checkbox or setting you can change, Atom includes a small bit of copy that explains — in relatively human terms — what that setting will do. This is a nice touch, as it allows Atom to help guide people who aren't as familiar with more technical terms or development concepts.
If, however, you're a seasoned developer and want complete control over the way Atom behaves, you can click the Open Config Folder button at the bottom of the settings sidebar, and you'll see a directory of text files that you can edit to tweak almost every aspect of Atom. More experienced users will appreciate the ability to make these changes, and more novice users are never forced to stare at an intimidating list of oddly-named text files. It's a decent design tradeoff.
Customization: Packages
One of Atom's best features is one that you will either completely rely on or never use: packages.
Packages are small, often community-created, contained bits of functionality that you can add to Atom. There are packages for everything from new themes, to syntax support for obscure programming and markup languages. You can even remove some of the packages that Atom comes preinstalled with. It's completely up to you and what you need Atom to do. Want to export the current document to Medium? There's a package for that. Need a quick way to translate the current text into another language? No problem. Or maybe you just want Atom's interface to look like R2-D2. Enjoy.
Atom's not the only text editor that allows you to install packages, but it does make the process of installing, managing, and updating those packages incredibly easy. In Atom's preferences page, clicking the Packages sidebar item will show you all the currently installed packages, each with links to either disable each package or adjust its settings.
Back in the sidebar, you can click Install to see some current featured packages or themes, as well as a search bar to find new ones. Once you've found a package you want to install, it's a one-click process to get it loaded into Atom and start using the new functionality. This means all the installing and managing of packages is done right from within Atom's main window. No manually downloading packages from some person's website or digging through obscure ~/Library folders to add functionality.
When considering a tool as integral to your workflow as a text editor, you'll want to make sure the app is backed by a strong development team and has a consistent update schedule. This ensures that bugs or performance issues are constantly being addressed and that the yearly OS updates from Apple don't leave your primary tool inoperable.
Atom, being open source, has an advantage here compared to other options like Sublime Text or BBEdit. First, almost the entirety of Atom's development is in the open, which means that users have both transparency and an opportunity to reach out directly to the development team. If there's a bug that you find especially annoying, and you have the technical abilities to write a fix, you can even propose code changes to Atom itself, and they might get added to the next Atom release.
Second, because Atom is backed by GitHub — which has a strong incentive to keep developers happy and productive — there's little chance that Atom will disappear or stop receiving updates in the near or far future. Even if GitHub were to stop actively developing Atom, the open source nature of the app would (probably) allow it to live on through collaboration of its users and other contributors. In that sense, Atom is about as future-proof as an app can be.
Atom is cross-platform, which means that you can download the app for macOS, Windows, or Linux. For someone with one computer, this availability might not seem like an important feature, but for anyone who bounces between a few different operating systems, being able to have your tool go with you is invaluable.
This cross-platform power is possible because of a technology called Electron, also developed by GitHub, which allows developers to build cross-platform applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. These apps are then compiled into native containers for macOS, Windows, or Linux. From a development perspective, being able to write once and deploy everywhere is a huge time saver. An increasing number of "native" apps are following this method of distribution, and if you've used the desktop app for a service like Slack or Basecamp, you've used an Electron app without even knowing it.
However, unlike the subatomic particle by the same name, Electron-the-framework isn't necessarily known for its blistering speed. Because Electron applications are essentially web applications inside a native container, opening an app like Atom is similar to running a small, contained instance of Google Chrome in a separate window. Without going into the technical details, Electron apps are often criticized for being memory hungry and worse in performance than a truly-native application. For Atom, this means that its performance when opening large text files or handling giant folder directories with many files can lead to UI hiccups or lag. When compared to more native apps like BBEdit or Sublime Text, Atom still struggles to compete in the upper levels of performance.
That said, for people who aren't trying to open up multi-megabyte text files or do find-and-replace across millions of words, Atom should be fine.
Given the feature set, it might surprise you to find out that Atom is free. GitHub's reasoning here is probably equal parts self-serving and philanthropic. Atom ships with built-in support for GitHub-related activities, which will undoubtedly help GitHub if Atom becomes the de facto standard for developers everywhere. But GitHub also rose to prominence because of how many open source projects made GitHub their home. Atom feels a little bit like GitHub giving back to the community that helped make them.
Other Picks
Sublime Text was born at the beginning of 2007 by Jon Skinner, an ex-Googler. In his own words, in one of the earliest posts about what would become Sublime Text, Mr. Skinner had this to say about the current state of text editors: "I think they can be better."
In many ways, Sublime Text is better than a lot of other text editors out there, and that's why it's our first runner up if you don't find that Atom cuts the mustard.
Even though a text editor deals primarily with — well, text — sometimes the size of the files or complexity of the file structure you're dealing with requires unflinching performance. I feel comfortable saying that most people don't fall into this category (except you, Mr. Developer), but for anyone who's looking for a similar feature set to Atom but with more power, look no further than Sublime Text.
Like Atom, Sublime Text is cross-platform, with versions for Mac, Windows, and Linux. However, Sublime Text isn't built on Electron; instead, it's primarily written using C++, which leads to some noticeable performance increases over Atom in tasks that require either large files or complex actions. Even in day-to-day usage, Sublime Text draws less CPU and RAM resources than Atom, so the overall impact on your machine is less.
Conceptually, Sublime Text offers a lot of the same features that we've highlighted in Atom. Both offer multiline editing, built-in package management, and robust customization. However, while Atom attempts to provide a user interface for accessing settings and preferences, Sublime Text goes in the opposite direction, directly exposing the underlying preferences JSON file.
This approach means Sublime Text's preferences are probably one of the least user-friendly aspects of the editor. However, it's also a design decision that puts the target audience (developers) above platform conventions and pretty interfaces. Hitting CMD +, opens up a split view window with a JSON file in each pane. On the left is a plain-text manual of every preference available, and on the right are the preferences that you currently have enabled.
For a lot of developers, having quick, no frills access to the underlying configuration settings without needing to reach for a mouse is a beautiful design consideration. Even the preferences for any of Sublime Text's packages operate in the same way — you directly edit a JSON file. Performance notwithstanding, Sublime Text's approach to preferences and packages is probably its most divisive design decision, and depending on how comfortable you feel editing code just to change the text editor's typeface or enable spell checking, you'll either love Sublime Text's approach or want to look elsewhere.
A license for Sublime Text costs $80 USD. However, for years, Sublime Text has allowed users to download and run a full-featured trial of the text editor — indefinitely. Every few app launches, a small window will appear, reminding you that you're using Sublime Text in trial mode, but it's a fair tradeoff for what happens to be an incredibly powerful text editor.
BBEdit, developed by Bare Bones Software, might be the oldest, most respected macOS text editor out there. It has a reputation for excellent performance (even with massive files), never crashing, and being a great macOS app.
I use BBEdit for working on web sites, processing text files with regular expressions, or just previewing the output from a blog feed I might be testing with Micro.blog. It's my go-to text editor for all those random everyday tasks in between writing notes and coding on iOS or Mac apps. — Manton Reece, Developer and Founder of Micro.blog
Where Atom's interface can sometimes feel like the embodiment of its tagline ("A hackable text editor for the 21st Century"), BBEdit is more closely aligned in design and behavior to what Apple would like all macOS apps to be.
Thing one is that I want a Mac app — because I'm a Mac user and I can be very productive when the app supports the standard Mac keyboard editing and drag-and-drop conventions.
Thing two is that BBEdit is fast, powerful, and flexible. In all these decades it hasn't ever let me down: I can always do what I need to do.
I don't think it's ever even crashed on me. As an engineer I respect that; as a user I love that.
— Brent Simmons, Developer and Designer at The Omni Group
However, sidestepping its longstanding reputation, BBEdit has struggled to keep up with the pace of text editor innovation over the past few years. For example, although it has excellent find and replace functionality, there is no multiline editing support. Additionally — and more critically — adding themes or external packages to BBEdit requires you to find the package yourself, download a file, and then manually import the package. Compared to Atom and Sublime Text, adding and extending BBEdit feels painfully slow.
I've also run into oddities with BBEdit's quick switcher. Unlike Sublime Text or Atom, both of which have quick switchers built into the main window, BBEdit's interface for moving between open files is a smaller, separate window. This can be convenient if you want to keep both BBEdit and the quick switcher open side-by-side, but it's problematic when you have BBEdit in fullscreen mode. Because macOS treats the quick switcher as a separate window, it actually creates a new, separate Space for the quick switcher. Once you've selected the file you want, the quick switcher disappears and the Space along with it. I'm not sure whether it's a bug on BBEdit's end or a limitation with how macOS handles Spaces and fullscreen apps, but it is a bit jarring and something that neither Atom nor Sublime Text have to deal with.
Speaking of file management, BBEdit's approach to open files differs from all our other picks. Instead of having any open file represented as a separate tab (much like a web browser) across the top of the main window, BBEdit has a small pane at the bottom of the sidebar where you can see all of your currently opened documents. I personally find Atom's and Sublime Text's tab-based method more pleasing and familiar, but if you tend to have a lot of documents open and prefer to view them in a more information dense display, you'll appreciate BBEdit's approach.
BBEdit's preferences are well-considered and organized in a straightforward, macOS way. When you consider how much you're able to change or tweak from this one window, it's somewhat amazing that Bare Bones Software managed to fit everything in. And should you feel lost amid the sea of options, at the bottom of the preferences window is a search box that lets you keyword-search for the preference you're looking for. I wish more apps had this sort of feature.
Whatever BBEdit lacks in a bullet list feature comparison to Sublime Text and Atom, it makes up for in rock solid stability and unparalleled speed. For some users, that's all that matters. BBEdit offers a free, 30-day trial. After the trial period, BBEdit continues to operate as a functional text editor, but some of the more powerful features are disabled. A full license costs $49.99 USD.
TextMate, developed by MacroMates, is another native macOS text editor like BBEdit and Sublime Text. I remember seeing TextMate rise to popularity along with the Ruby on Rails web framework during the late 2000s. As Rails was experiencing a high rate of adoption among various web startups, Ryan Bates launched a series of popular online video tutorials that featured a good looking, powerful text editor — TextMate. For a few years, TextMate experienced a number of great updates that made it a consistent contender in questions like the one we're trying answer in this review.
However, over the past few years, TextMate's development and viability as a modern text editor has diminished. It's still a reliable piece of software, but the current state of affairs regarding licensing and longevity are a little confusing. The current story is that you can download the app and use it for free, the code is available on GitHub, and you can also pay for a license, if you feel so inclined.
One thing I'd like to praise TextMate for is the way in which it handles packages, or as TextMate calls them, bundles. TextMate does a good job of displaying packages/bundles in a more macOS way than Sublime Text or Atom, and you can search through or enable packages via a tab in TextMate's preferences window.
Additionally, TextMate will automatically recommend a package to install based on the language of the text you're currently editing. This is a nice time-saving feature, and it makes enabling support for new programming languages easy.
Given its somewhat shaky development past, TextMate's ecosystem of bundles is still alive and well. As of this writing, 41 bundles have been updated since 2017, and there are still a few hundred packages available. So while there's less activity than what Atom or Sublime Text have going on, it's far from a ghost town.
In 2015, Microsoft released Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code, like Atom, is built on Electron, so it's got the built-in cross-platform compatibility. It's quite popular, too, ranked as the #1 development environment in Stack Overflow's 2018 developer survey.
Visual Studio Code offers many of the features that I've already discussed in other editors, but it also includes a number of features and integrations that make it more of an integrated development environment (IDE) instead of a text editor. It's both, to be sure, but for most people, a simpler app will be better for them in the long run.
Importantly, and undoubtedly contributing to its popularity, Visual Studio Code is available for free. Meanwhile, Visual Studio — Microsoft's full-featured, professional IDE — costs between $40 a month or $500 for a standalone license. Visual Studio falls well outside the bounds of what we'd consider a text editor, but it's important to highlight, as it underscores why a free version under the same branding would attract such attention.
Not really, but maybe: TextEdit
I say this only half joking, but if all you really need to do is edit some basic text files, every Mac comes with a copy of TextEdit, and it's adept at handling small, individual text files.
Despite some performance misgivings for more intense workloads, Atom's price, functionality, and approachability when it comes to package management and settings make it our choice for the best text editor for macOS for most people. Backed by GitHub, Atom has a long life ahead, and the open source nature of the project mean that anyone can help make it better.
If you're in the market for a text editor — whether you've been programming for 15 years or you're just starting the first chapter of your next novel — you should give Atom a shot. Even if it's not the editor you end up sticking with, we think there's no better place to start.
Atom's price, functionality, and approachability when it comes to package management and settings make it our choice for the best text editor for macOS for most people.
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K.Q. Dreger spends his days designing software for small business owners and his nights writing about design, privacy, and gaming at Audacious Fox. He firmly believes that waffles are the bar by which all other breakfast foods are measured.


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Day 10 ..Disappointment!!!..another pregnancy test showed a negative result and we were back to where we started . Another week of grief and tears - and we were back on track with our normal life. More than the money , every trip caused us emotional and mental pain which was quite difficult to deal with. I always tried to keep the morale up for my wife but honestly , deep within , I too was not sure myself how high should we keep our hopes.
Close to the year end , we decided to fight out one more time again , before we were done with this trying. Things had become routine for us , and we were quite a known face in the clinic by now , so it was nothing new for us . 2 more embryos were transferred and we were back in Dubai , willing ourselves not to get excited for what Day 10 would have in store for us.
We said our prayers and went for the test. My wife was not even interested in knowing the result this time, so we asked the clinic to email it to us. We received the email in the evening and I took the courage to open it... BINGO...the test was positive ! One embryo out of the two had attached itself to the uterus ! My wife was pregnant and momentarily we forgot all the pain and challenges we went through to come to this day.
There were ups and downs which are common in any pregnancy , and finally my wife completed her 9 months successfully and this month we were blessed with a beautiful angel. I don't think we have any words to thank Dr Malpani for the change he has brought in our lives , but I wish him and every patient of his , success in their endeavors . Based on our experience , a few final words of advice , if you are in a similar situation like ours - Keep faith in god , do good deeds and stay positive.


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