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Is spelling important in your country?
Thread starter Joelline
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Spelling in France is quite important and there are specific courses in school (dictée) to teach that, although as DearPrudence told, it's less emphasized than in the past, ministers even regularly contemplate the possibility of removing such a teaching.
I remember the Dictée (a televised exercise of extreme difficulty spelling with awards and such), where i was happy i made only 19 mistakes (and i was quite good at that exercise at school), while my father made only 14 and i was so surprized seeing my grandmother sobbing in tears, complaining she was getting older and useless. I asked her her score, and she had made 4 mistakes. I was ashamed to tell her mine...
Yet wrong spelling is everywhere, and it's not uncommon to see some red felt-tipped correction on a poster or a note displayed in a public place.
It's also common that on forums some people (generally young) write with a lot of spelling mistakes (when not in sms language) and see an army of angry redeemers coming to castigate the infidel (which in turn are called old-timers when not nazis by the wrong spelling one).
Incorrect spelling in your cover/motivation letter can cost you a job, even if you apply for the least of unskilled labour, because it would mean that you are not serious to the job if you don't give the fuck to examine your mail with the spell-checker, even if the employer has to run the spell-checker himself to detect your mistakes. But then, when in the place, you are free to make all the mistakes you want, even in educated jobs, because most people are like you and they don't bother or wouldn't because of social conventions, i exagerate maybe a bit, but it's kind of a paradoxal situation.
Mikeo38
It's interesting to see the reference to dictation above. The latter has had a bad press over the years but when I was teaching at a private English language school in the UK, I used dictation every day in what I found was an effective way - not as a test; certainly not an extract from an unseen text but from something that we'd covered the previous day. At the end of each lesson, I'd say something like: "OK today we went through this piece about animal welfare. Tomorrow I'll dictate part of one of the paragraphs." This was duly dictated at the start of the lesson and each student would correct the script of a person sitting nearby. Including the correction, the whole thing would last no more than five minutes. Apart from directing attention to the spelling, this exercise helped to settle the class down. Also any latecomers would not miss the main part of the day's lesson. As far as dictation is concerned, I believe the rule should be 'brief, little and often'. It's best used to reinforce words that students have already encountered.
Rallino
Moderatoúrkos
Turkish is highly phonetic, so it's not exactly difficult to spell a word. So almost all the spelling errors are about spelling what should be written in two words as one whole word, or vice versa. Sometimes, it might cause a misunderstanding:
Ev de = The house as well
Evde = in the house
But since the context almost always makes it clear, the majority of the people simply don't care about it, so you could say that misspellings are quite common in the country.
For me,though,none of those misspellings are as annoying as missing a space after a comma,or inserting one before a fullstop .
franknagy
húngara
English pupils have spelling competitions. Hungarian do not have.
kakapadaka
In Polish it's fairly important although many people ignore correct spelling, especially in the Internet.
A blatant disregard for it is frowned upon and ridiculed, not only in school. Fellow Internet users will mock you if you misspell severely, although we are very forgiving about making simplifications when typing online in informal situations, see below.
Kids learn spelling at school, although we have no spelling competitions like those seen in some American movies. At some point (somewhere around age 14 in my case) grammar and spelling exercise end and all you're left with is literature (which, by the way, would be more than enough to ensure that we know how to spell, IF we took the trouble to actually do the reading).
As for the nature of our spelling sins, Polish has many phonemes related to more than just one grapheme (letter). For instance, both ó and u are pronunced /u/, both h and ch are pronunced /x/ etc. So if you see a graffiti saying HWDP this will be an incorrect version of CHWDP ("F**k the police") and if you don't read many books and skip your language class you won't know how the correct word looks like. To make things worse, there are lots of homophones, so many spellings can be correct depending on the context.
Diacritical marks are often omitted, especially online. A seasoned speaker will know that zolw is actually żółw and zyznosc is actually żyzność. Sometimes it's done on purpose to mimic a spoken style. Try googling ja pierdole which is an incorrect spelling of ja pierdolę ("f**k me", "for f**k's sake"), you'll find plenty of internet memes all written wrong. It's so, because the -ę ending is actually pronunced as [e], and you can write it that way to make it more similar to its usual, colloquial way of being said.
There are tons of other examples, I can elaborate if you wish, but I don't think that was the idea for this thread. Anyway, Polish is pretty complex with its spelling, so books can be (and have been) written on the subject.
What is the main difficulty in the Italian spelling for a young scholar?
There are many dialects in Italy very different from the official Italian language?
Is the spelling of Venice dialect taught in Venice, for example?
Words like "informazione" or "polizia", i.e with "zi + vowel", which are pronounced with a double [ʦʦ], [informaʦʦjoːne], the plural of words ending with unstressed "cia" and "gia", like "ciliegia" and "camicia", which are written "ciliegie", "camicie" (with "gie" and "cie"), "bolgia" and "provincia", written "bolge" and "province" (with "ge" and "ce"), because they are pronounced the same, i.e [ʧe]/[ʤe].
But, at elementary school, you are taught that the correct orthography is "zione", "gie/cie" if there is a vowel before "c/g" and "ge/ce" if there is a consonant before "c/g".
Other errors are those regarding "ne/né" (ne = some, né...né = neither...nor), "ce/c'è" (ce = of it, c'è = there is), "c/qu" in word pronounced [kw], like "cuore", "qual è" ("qual'è" is wrong), "un po'" (and not "un pò"), "accelerare" (not "accellerare"), "un amico", "un'amica", but "l'amico", "l'amica" (while "un'amico", "un amica" are wrong), "e/è", "a/ha".
For peninsular Italians (who have "raddoppiamento fonosintattico" before some prepositions and other particular words) sometimes one doesn't know if there is a single word or a preposition + word, like "a posto" (in place, ok) and "apposto" (put), which are both pronounced [appɔsto], or "a fianco" (beside) and "affianco" (I stand beside), both pronounced [affjanko].
I mentioned almost all possible mistakes and I had to search them on a website, because I can't remember them.
Thank you Nino, for the detailed answer.
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I don't know (I'm from Sicily).
There is a composition written by an 8 years old kid in Ca' Tron di Roncalde, Veneto, 1954:
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Some mistakes: "siamo ndati a lamadona demonteberico" (siamo andati dalla madonna di Monte Berico), "grassia par miasorela" (grazia per mia sorella), "maridata" (maritata, sposata) "ani" (anni), "e no a gnanca tosatei" (e non ha figli), "siamo pregati" (abbiamo pregato), "siamo mangiati" (abbiamo mangiato), "siamo vegnuti casa" (siamo venuti a casa), "no si siamo capiti" (non ci siamo capiti), "co la" (con la), "fatostà" (fatto sta), "insinta" (incinta), "laltra sorela" (l'altra sorella), "no è gnonca maridata" (non è neanche maritata/sposata).
It was written in 1954, I guess that today there should be fewer mistakes.
In Veneto Venetian language is spoken a lot, while, for example, Piedmontese and Milanese are endangered languages (according to UNESCO).
In peninsular Italy there are fewer problems with spelling, because Italian languages below the La Spezia-Rimini (exactly Massa-Senigallia) line are very similar in phonology and grammar.
eno2
El Hierro de Canarias
Dutch-Flemish
We all use the same words. That's very depersonalising. To compensate for that, we all write them differently. That makes us
individuals again.
I disagree with eno2, who appears to be praising incorrect spelling on the grounds that spelling mistakes "make us individuals again". There is nothing praiseworthy about an individual who writes 'recieve' instead of 'receive'. Teachers who do not correct spelling mistakes do their pupils a great disservice.
Mikeo38 said:
Just joking a bit. I am very very sensible to correct spelling to thepoint of being a purist. But in my language (Dutch), it's almost impossible to reach proficiency. Even the most educated make constant errors, media are full of errors, regulators make a shambles of it- for instance by changing rules each new legislature, with sometimes outright stupid changes.
OK and glad that you didn't take offence! It's just that I have never been a natural speller - I check and double-check rather than make a mistake in anything that I write. I don't know much about Dutch: has there been a spelling reform, as was the case in German-speaking countries some years ago? I'm now retired but when I was working (in GB) I was shocked by the sloppy English that appeared in letters inquiring about jobs. That was before the days of the spellchecker although I'm the first to admit that such devices are not always reliable. I took the view that if someone was sloppy enough not to check the spelling in an important letter, then h/she would be sloppy in other respects, too.
Spell-checkers are a great help but I access a more potent package in Windows Word including a grammar program to double-check on some occasions. I would never dare to post anything entirely without checking. I learn a lot from it. Spelling standards are falling everywhere, notoriously so on general fora. On serious occasions, it gives a bad impression.
Milano, Italia
UK, English
Digressing a bit: the so-called grammar check in Word (English) tells me I shouldn't use the passive (!) and that I should use the strong relative pronouns (who, which) only in a non-defining relative clause. I stick to the spell-check and ignore the rest.
Yes, Word has got a thing about the passive! What I've done is disable the box for 'Passive' in Word prefs on the basis that I know when and where the passive should or should not be used. I previously tended towards 'which' (for things) in defining relative clauses but Word kept nudging me towards 'that'. Just shows you how one can get worn down because I probably now use 'that' most of the time! The spellcheck is good but, of course, when I wrote my post above (Today at 12:11) in Word before pasting it into the box for the forum ("an individual who writes 'recieve' instead of 'receive') the spellchecker kept autocorrecting 'recieve'. But how was the poor thing to know? However, let's be grateful for spellcheckers because they are useful tools.
Hulalessar
eno2 said:
Spelling standards are falling everywhere, notoriously so on general fora.
I doubt that the number of people who can spell correctly has changed significantly. With the spread of personal computers people are writing who once rarely wrote. There is a lot more writing about that we get to see.
Hulalessar said:
It's notoriously the case on universities (falling spelling standards). In Flanders I mean, because I read articles who proved that. I don't think there are more than a few people "who can spell correctly". You have to be a specialist.
I think that if only few people can spell correctly there is a problem and a spelling reform is needed.
It's unthinkable that, for example, in public competitive exams most people, who have to write by hand, probably will make a lot of spelling mistakes.
The spelling reform in Germany met with a lot of resistance - there would be even more in Britain! Fairly or unfairly, rightly or wrongly, if you make a spelling mistake you hold yourself up to ridicule and people may think that you are uneducated. In respect of spelling, I reckon that for most people, words fall into three categories: (1) easy words (eg book), (2) really difficult words (eg chrysanthemum) and (3) 'iffy' words (eg relevant - people are unsure whether it's 'relevant' or 'relevent'). I am not a natural speller and when I need to write words from (2) or (3) I check the spelling. In the past, this meant leafing through a dictionary but with the internet it's so easy. Of course, there still remains the problem that if you have no idea how to spell a really difficult word, you may not be able to find it! Rather than risk a spelling mistake, I choose another word or spend longer searching.
nimak
Joelline said:
Cna yuo raed tihs?
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a
pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt!
English in not my native language, but I raed htat txet wthiuot a porbelm.
Sashalee Morrison
St. Ann, Jamaica.
Standard Jamaican English (Caribbean)
Correct English spelling is important in schools here, homes, the workplace, on street signs etc. Students do spelling test in primary schools at least 3/4 times a week or take part in Spelling Bee.
However, many people here and on some other islands in the Caribbean, spell words the way they sound. In my country, it's called "Jamaican Patois". Eg. Me doh see di mango inna bag or mi/meh doh si di mango inna bag. (I don't see the mango in a bag).
There's not really a standard way to write it, but you get the gist.
There are Jamaicans, and foreigners that correct sentences like these because, they think it's a failed attempt to write Jamaican Standard English. If a student writes this in school the teacher will surely correct him/her.
But, If it's not just an accent but a language, how do you correct a language to make it more English, if it's not English? xD. Then there are people who see it as a dialect. How do you correct a country with 2 dialects of English? If a dialect is supposed to represent speakers of a certain region, area or class.
Vukabular
Serbian language is fully phonetic so we dont have spelling
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Mbarek Boussadia (en ) est un footballeur international algérien né le  à Alger. Il évoluait au poste d'avant centre.

Biographie

En club

Il évoluait en première division algérienne avec le club du CR Belouizdad après avoir été en France ou il a joué en faveur de l'AS Monaco ou il a réussi a accéder en Ligue 1 en 1970-71.

En équipe nationale
Il reçoit une seule sélection en équipe d'Algérie en 1972, en inscrivant un but. Son seul match a eu lieu le 15 mars 1972 contre le Malte (victoire 1-0).

Palmarès

Notes et références

Liens externes

Footballeur international algérien
Joueur de l'USM El Harrach
Joueur de l'AS Monaco
Joueur du CR Belouizdad
Joueur du Hydra AC
Naissance en janvier 1949
Naissance à Alger

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Vakkom Majeed (born S. Abdul Majeed; 20 December 1909 – 10 July 2000) was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and a former member of the Travancore-Cochin State Assembly. He was born into one of the most prominent aristocratic Muslim families in Travancore. Influenced by the works of his uncle, Vakkom Moulavi, he became involved in social and political reform movements. Majeed was one of the early architects of the Indian National Congress in Travancore, eventually becoming the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Attingal constituency (1948–1952). Regarded as one of the great Indian nationalists of 20th century, Majeed belonged to a tradition of politics that was intrinsically value-based, secular and humanistic.

Early life and family

Majeed was born on 20 December 1909, in Vakkom, into a prominent and influential Muslim family Poonthran which had ancestral roots to Madurai and Hyderabad. His maternal great grandfather, Thoppil Thampi and maternal grandfather, Mohamed Kunju were radical for their times. His uncle, Vakkom Moulavi, was a visionary, social reformer, scholar, educationist, writer, journalist and the founder of Swadeshabhimani newspaper. Majeed was the first of four children born to Syed Mohamed and Mohamed Beevi.  He had one sister: Safiya Beevi (1912–1986) and two brothers: Mohamed Abda (1914–1992), and Abdul Latheef (1917–1999). Majeed obtained his early education at St. Joseph High School, Anjengo. In 1936, Majeed married Suleha Beevi, the niece of Vakkom Moulavi. They had five children: Fathima (born 1937), infant boy (1939–1940), Najma (1943–1957), infant girl (1953-died soon after birth) and Shameema (1957–2011).

Freedom struggle

He was attracted to the social reform movement of his uncle, Vakkom Moulavi, as well as Narayana Guru. He came to politics in his early school days. When the Indian National Movement emerged in Kerala, Majeed was in the forefront of its leadership. He was one of the early architects of the Indian National Congress in Travancore. As a young man, he also became greatly involved in the social reform movement. Majeed was one of the few Congress leaders in Travancore who exhibited enormous courage by participating in the Quit India movement in 1942 and got arrested. He remained in jail for several months. Subsequently, when the idea of "independent Travancore" was mooted, Majeed was a staunch opponent of it and took part in the agitation against the move. He was incarcerated again for several months. When the INA hero Vakkom Kadir was sentenced to death by the British, Majeed visited him in the Madras Central jail. It was Majeed who brought Kadir's last letter to his father before the hanging.

Political career

Majeed was a politician-extraordinary in the socio-political realm of Kerala in the 20th century. A staunch opponent of the Two-Nation Theory and Pakistan movement, Majeed argued that only a secular-nationalist India could keep the heart and soul of the masses together. In 1948, he was elected (unopposed) to the Travancore-Cochin State Assembly from the Attingal constituency. When the tenure of his term came to an end in 1952, he decided to eschew practical politics and took to serious reading. He was attracted to the writings of Bertrand Russell, M.N. Roy and several French writers. Majeed was opposed to doctrinaire politics and argued for secular-humanist perspective in politics and social issues. Majeed upheld the values of Liberalism and Modernism in Islam and called for the return of Ijtihad (freedom of thought) in Islamic traditions. He equally valued the thoughts of Narayana Guru and pointed to the increasing relevance of a "casteless" society.

Later years and death
The last three decades of Vakkom Majeed was the decades of his intense exploration and reading (and rereading) of nationalist history, ideology and practice.
In 1972, during the Silver Jubilee celebration of Indian Independence, the nation honoured him by giving 'Tamrapatra' for his participation in the Indian independence movement. He received the 'Tamrapatra' from the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. By the end of the 1980s, Majeed's health was failing, and he was soon bedridden for a year. His wife Suleha Beevi died on 18 June 1993. Although he managed to attend few socio-political functions in the later 1990s, his health was suffering. On 8 July 2000, he fell seriously ill and admitted in a private clinic. His condition worsened soon afterward and shifted to the CCU (Critical Care Unit) of Cosmopolitan Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram. On 10 July 2000 he suffered a fatal heart attack and was pronounced dead at 6:30 local time (1:00 UTC). Majeed was buried in East Jamaat Masjid (Vakkom Padinjare Jamaat Mosque) in Vakkom, alongside his ancestors.

Ancestors

See also
 Vakkom Moulavi
 Justice Habeeb Mohamed

References

External links

 http://vmmrcblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2007/05/vakkom-majeed.html

1909 births
2000 deaths
Indian agnostics
Indian independence activists from Kerala
Indian nationalists
Indian National Congress politicians from Kerala
Malayali politicians
Travancore–Cochin MLAs 1949–1952
Politicians from Thiruvananthapuram


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The Arab Spring and Turkey: Can a 'Turkish Model' be Proposed?
Alper Y. Dede, Nov 1 2011, 449 views
The world was taken by surprise when the Tunisian and Egyptian regimes fell as a result of popular uprisings on the Arab streets dubbed as the Arab Spring. According to the social scientists studying the region, social and political change in the region would take place either through gradual liberalization or gradual deterioration of the authoritarian regimes that had to deal with daunting problems like overall inefficiency of the governments to solve mundane problems of their fast growing populations, large lethargic bureaucracies, lack of rights and freedoms, and stagnant economies. In other words, until the Arab Spring, for many analysts, the region was immune to democratization, and in that regard the exceptionalism of the region in terms of democratization had become one of the most debated issues in the literature on Middle Eastern politics.
Contrary to the widely accepted belief that the authoritarian regimes in the region were well entrenched, the Tunisian and Egyptian regimes fell shortly after the mass protests on the streets took place. Similar protests also took place in Libya and Syria. After a somewhat lengthy conflict between the insurgent forces and the Qaddafi regime, and the European-NATO involvement with the crisis in Libya, Qaddafi was captured, and lynched to death. In fact, Qaddafi's death marks the beginning of a new era in Libyan politics. Currently, among some other authoritarian countries of the region, Syria is the regime that still stands against the revolutionary wave of the Arab Spring.
Each country has its own unique experience in terms of how the course of events has eventually led to the fall of authoritarian regimes in the region. Moreover, among the country-specific reasons that determined the course of events during the Arab Spring, we can talk about two different attitudes in regards to the role that the militaries played during the uprisings: siding with the people and siding with the regime. Tunisia and Egypt belong to the earlier category, whereas Libya and Syria belong to the latter. In Tunisia and Egypt, the militaries actually advised the authoritarian rulers to step down, which did not take place in Libya and Syria, where the events have escalated. Qaddafi resisted until he was lynched to death, however Bashar Asad still remains in power. It is not very easy to predict how the Arab Spring will affect events in Syria, and how long the Asad regime will remain in power.
While the Arab Spring has been in full swing, the question of whether Turkey, a significant player of Middle Eastern politics, could become a role model for the rest of the region comes to mind. Can Turkey really become an example for the rest of the region? Is there actually a Turkish model? Indeed, there are legitimate reasons for us to ask these questions: Turkey has made significant strides in regards to improving her democracy, expanding her economy steadily over the years and becoming the fastest growing country after China, establishing warmer relations with the rest of the region and almost becoming a "soft power."
In addition to the brief reasons provided above, the most important aspect of Turkey's potential to become a model for the rest of the region is her ability to uphold secularism while trying to become more democratic despite the fact that there is currently a conservative government ruling Turkey (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi-AKP, The Justice and Development Party) with its origins in Turkey's Islamist tradition (Milli Görüş Hareketi, The National Outlook Movement) established by Necmeddin Erbakan about four decades earlier. Turkey's secularization experience since the establishment of the Turkish Republic has been quite complicated. When the new Turkish Republic was first established on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, which collapsed at the end of the First World War, the secularist elites of the early republican period of the new state adopted a harsh version of secularism that resembled French laicism, not the Anglo-Saxon version of it. K. Ataturk of Turkey did not hesitate to take harsh measures as part of his ambitious reform program to break the power of the ulema (clergy) class from the Ottoman times, and to limit the role of religion in social and political lives of Turkish citizens. For instance, religious education was banned, all religious endowments, including their revenues and properties, were nationalized, religious orders were banned and their worshipping places were closed down. Later, upon popular demands, religious education was allowed only under state supervision and all mosques were put under government control, which is still in effect. Turkish civilian and military bureaucracy assumed the role of protecting Turkish secularism during the single party era (1923-1950).
This secularism-from-above lasted only about two decades. When Turkey shifted from the single party to the multi-party era, the Democratic Party won in a landslide, partially because they promised to soften the harsh policies of the secularism-from-above mentality. However, despite the changes in the party structure of Turkey, remnants of the earlier harsh secularist measures are still in place.
Relatively speaking, Turkey today has a healthier relationship with secularism than before. However, problems still remain. For instance, the government still controls all mosques, i.e., prayer leaders are government employees and mosques' expenditures are still subsidized by the government. Religious education is still under strict government control. However, the strict secularism-from-above mentality has changed considerably over the years. Thus, Turkey can become a model for the rest of the region as the Arab world has been experiencing mass movements and political change through uprisings on the Arab streets. Based on the lessons learned from how Turkey has managed to uphold democratic principles, despite some problems, and has been able to separate religion and politics from each other over the years. Considering the strong demands over the years by religious groups in the Arab world for an Islamic government, this could be the first pillar of the Turkish model.
The second pillar of the model, with the recent constitutional changes, would be keeping the military away from politics. Turkey has had three direct (1960, 1971 and 1980) and two indirect (1996 and 2007) military interventions. Due to the role that the militaries have played in the Tunisian and Egyptian transitions, we might expect the militaries of these two countries to play an important role during and after the transitions to a more democratic regime because unlike the Libyan and Syrian militaries, the Tunisian and Egyptian militaries did not side with the authoritarian leaders and opted for change. In other words, unlike the Libyan and Syrian militaries that chose to side with their authoritarian leaders and used brutal measures to suppress the riots on the streets, the Tunisian and the Egyptian militaries were not discredited. The literature on democratic transitions suggests that we might expect the militaries, that did not side with the authoritarian leaders during the transition, to have a larger say in the new democratic period. However, this includes the risk of having too much military influence on the process that would be initiated after the fall of the authoritarian regimes. In that regard, the lessons taken from the Turkish experience could be useful for the Arab world as Turkey recovered from three (plus two) military interventions that resulted in brief periods of military rule.
The third pillar of the model would be Turkey's ability to achieve rapid and steady economic growth while the whole world has been struggling with a global economic crisis. The lessons from the Turkish case can be applied to the rest of the region. When the new Turkish Republic was established in 1923, K. Ataturk first wanted to experiment with free market models. However, due to a complex set of reasons, Turkey was initially unable to implement a market based economy and ended up adopting statist policies where the government had a heavy role in the economic sector. Combined with the large and mostly lethargic public bureaucracy and the governments' inability to deal with economic issues, the Turkish economy has remained sluggish over the years. In the late 1980s it was Turgut Özal's liberalization reforms, including a bold privatization package, which shattered the statist policies of the earlier periods. The AKP government then had the opportunity to base their liberal economic policies on the achievements earlier accomplished by Turgut Özal. In other words, the roots of the AKP's economic successes can be traced back to Özal's liberalization programs initiated earlier. Additionally, the AKP's electoral base comes from the conservative entrepreneurs, who mostly come from central Anatolian towns, whose growth emerged through the opportunity spaces created following the liberalization policies of the Özal period. In short, the Arab world can benefit from the valuable lessons taken from the Turkish case as the region still has statist economies.
The applicability of the three pillars of the Turkish model is another question that needs to be discussed. Each path to democratization is unique and in this regard the democratization processes resembles one person's life experiences. One person's life experiences cannot be exactly same as another person's life experiences, and so is each country's democratization experience. However, parallels can be drawn and lessons can be taken. Thus, despite the fact that Turkey's lessons are her own and unique, there is no need to deny the fact that the Arab world can benefit from Turkey's experiences as the Arab Spring initiated the process of change in the region.
Dr. Alper Y. Dede is a professor of International Relations at Zirve University, Gaziantep, Turkey. His area of expertise lies in political Islam in the Middle East especially focusing on Turkey and Egypt. For a more extensive treatment of the topic see his article in the spring 2011 edition of Insight Turkey: The Arab Uprisings: Debating the "Turkish Model".
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The Sacred Stream Community has been growing steadily since 2002. Beginning in the San Francisco Bay Area, members now meet in their local townships nationally and internationally to continue the work they've learned at the Sacred Stream. Our members connect in person and also online. The Sacred Stream regularly holds free events open to the general public, which include drum circles, meditations, and healing clinics.
Once you have taken a class you are considered a member of the Sacred Stream community. As a community member, you can network with others who have taken classes and participate in practice groups and healing circles relevant to the coursework you have done. You also will be notified before the general public about discounts and special events related to the Sacred Stream. Scholarships are also available to members of the Sacred Stream community. In addition, we routinely offer discounts to community members who choose to repeat our regularly-offered courses in order to deepen their understanding.
Several community events are held regularly:
Healing Clinics
Depth Hypnosis Practice Groups
Drum Circles
Circles for the Earth
Journey Groups
Space Clearing Society
Depth Hypnosis Practitioners, Shamanic Practitioners, Ordained Ministers and Ceremony Services
Many people find their way to the Sacred Stream community because they seek to be of greater service in the world. Depth Hypnosis Practitioner certification is offered through the Association of Depth Hypnosis Practitioners (ADHP) which approves the Depth Hypnosis Practitioner curriculum offered through the Foundation of the Sacred Stream. Shamanic Practitioners are certified through the Circle of Shamanic Practitioners (COP) which approves the Shamanic Practitioner curriculum offered through the Foundation of the Sacred Stream. For more information about ADHP and COP training and certification, or to find a Practitioner in your area, please visit the Association of Depth Hypnosis Practitioners or the Applied Shamanism website. More information on becoming a minister in the Foundation of the Sacred Stream can be found here.
The Strawberry Creek Watershed Project
The Strawberry Creek Project is a community education project to inform the local community about the rich history of the Strawberry Creek area in Berkeley, CA. Intrigued that the Sacred Stream Center is located very close to a sacred shell mound built by the Ohlone people who once inhabited this area, we wanted to understand the history of this place so that we could be better stewards of the land and generate more local awareness about this sacred site. In collaboration with BASE Landscape Architecture and other community groups, we researched the history of the land, the people, and the creek, and constructed a 36" by 24" informational placard, which will be affixed to the side of the Sacred Stream Center. You can view the placard here. If you would like to contribute to this project and help us offset the costs of creating this educational resource for the community, please consider making a donation here.


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"I am going to take it one ball at a time and use my experience to adapt as quickly as I can." AB de Villiers
ACC Asia Cup Qualifier Day 7: UAE, HONG KONG SET UP FINAL SHOWDOWN FOR ASIA CUP SPOT
The United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong will battle it out for the sole ticket to the ACC Asia Cup after finishing as the top two teams at the end of Qualifying round robin stage on Tuesday.
UAE topped the six-team standings with eight points while Hong Kong edged out Oman on a better net run-rate to take second spot after the two teams both finished on seven points.
The winner of the final on Thursday at the Kinrara Oval will meet India and Pakistan in Group A of the Asia Cup in Abu Dhabi and Dubai later this month.
Hong Kong edged a low-scoring clash with Nepal by three wickets at the UKM Oval in Bangi while UAE handed Oman their first defeat of the tournament with a 13-run win.
A battling half-century by captain Anshuman Rath was key to Hong Kong's victory over Nepal as they reached their target of 96 in 32.3 overs.
Rath hit three fours in a six in a patient 52 off 82 balls with wickets regularly tumbling around him.
Kinchit Shah (11) was the only other Hong Kong batsman to reach double figures, who together with Rath were among Sandeep Lamichhane's five victims in the innings.
Nepal slid to their third defeat in five matches when they were all out for 95 in 37.5 overs with Md Arif Sheikh's 18 runs the top score.
Tanwir Afzal set the tone by bowling Subah Khakurel with the first ball of the match before Ehsan Khan wiped out the lower order for figures of four for 15.
Oman needed 39 runs from their last 10 overs with three wickets remaining to deny UAE a spot in the final at the Bayuemas Oval in Klang.
However, Muhammad Naseem ended unbeaten on 27 after running out of partners as UAE snared the last three wickets to finish top of the standings.
UAE captain Rohan Mustafa belted 71 runs off 104 balls, featuring eight fours and a six, as UAE reached 208-8 in 50 overs before Muhammad Naveed, Muhammad Amir Hayat and Mustafa claimed two wickets each to bowl Oman out for 195 in 47.2 overs
Singapore ended a run of four defeats to beat Malaysia by 29 runs at the Kinrara Oval for their first win of the tournament.
Anish Edward Paraam scored 100 runs from 95 balls to pace Singapore to 276-9 in 50 overs while hitting 12 fours and three sixes.
Manpreet Singh and Anantha Krishna weighed in with 34 and 30 respectively as Singapore set the hosts a stiff target.
After losing Anwar Arudin in the second ball of the innings, Malaysia reached 137-1 in the 31st over before Shafiq Sharif went off with an injury after scoring 77.
Captain Ahmad Faiz Mohammed Noor (59) fell the next over before Shafiq returned 10 overs later to take his score to 93 before falling to Amjad Mahboob (5-49).
Virandeep Singh scored 53 off 50 but no other Malaysian batsman scored more than 15 as the hosts ended on 247 all out with one ball remaining.
Malaysia and Singapore both finished on two points but the former took fifth place with a better net run-rate.
ACC Asia Cup Qualifier 2018: Day 7, 4th September 2018
Malaysia vs Singapore at Kinrara Oval
SINGAPORE WON BY 29 RUNS
Singapore won the toss and chose to bat
Singapore: 276 for 9 off 50 overs (A.Paraam 100, M.Singh 34, A.Krishna 30; S.Idrus 3-51)
Malaysia: 247 all out off 45.5 overs (S.Sharif 93, F.Noor 59, V.Singh 53; A.Mahboob 5-49)
Man of the Match: Anish Edward Paraam (Singapore)
UAE vs Oman at Bayuemas Oval
UAE WON BY 13 RUNS
Oman won the toss and elected to field
UAE: 208 for 8 off 50 overs (R.Mustafa 71)
Oman: 195 all out off 47.2 overs (A.Sulehri 45)
Man of the Match: Rohan Mustafa (UAE)
Nepal vs Hong Kong at UKM Oval
HONG KONG WON BY THREE WICKETS
Nepal won the toss and chose to bat
Nepal: 95 all out off 37.5 overs (E.Khan 4-15)
Hong Kong: 96 for 7 off 32.3 overs (A.Rath 52; S.Lamichhane 5-27)
Man of the Match: Anshuman Rath (Hong Kong)
Photos by Peter Lim, Vincent Phoon, Alex Liew
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Perhaps the greatest thing to come from the film "The Best of Enemies" will be that a few more people will know about real-life, grassroots activist Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson). Atwater fought for renters rights, and other small town causes throughout her life. When her daughter's school the "black" school is greatly damaged in a fire she takes her activism to a greater height. She wants the schools in town to merge and integrate.
In 1971 Durham North Carolina the Ku Klux Klan is in control of the politics of the land. The leader of the Klan in town is C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell). He runs a whites-only gas station and keeps a close eye on all of the community happenings. When the activist Ann Atwater puts forth a proposal for the schools to integrate, Ellis decides to get involved.
Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay and Taraji P. Henson at the Charrette.
The town holds a charrette in an attempt to come to a fair and just decision on the matter. Once the decision is made, the entire town must agree to adhere to it. The charrette is made up of 6 participants arguing for integration and 6 arguing against it. They meet for weeks and share ideas, opinions, and information all to culminate in a vote at the end. As with any historical movie and most race-related movies, the outcome will not be a surprise, but it is rewarding to watch a tide of hatred be quelled.
There is some forced tension between Ellis and his Klansmen that doesn't feel authentic. Ellis's wife (Anne Heche) doesn't look period appropriate and there is no chemistry in their marriage. Very little personal life of Ann Atwater is shared and when it is, it is often through the eyes of Ellis. Despite its weaknesses, the strong lead performances and the celebratory ending give the film a charm that many will be drawn to.
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Discover the meanings of thousands of Biblical names in Abarim Publications' Biblical Name Vault: Didymus
Didymus meaning
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The name Didymus: Summary
The name Didymus in the Bible
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Source: https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Didymus.html
🔼The name Didymus: Summary
From the word δυο (duo), two.
🔼The name Didymus in the Bible
There's only one Didymus in the Bible, and he was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. Only John mentions the name Didymus (John 11:16, 20:24, 21:2), which is the Greek translation of his more common Semitic name Thomas, which occurs in all four gospels and Acts.
🔼Etymology of the name Didymus
The name Didymus is a common Greek word that means double or twofold. Liddell and Scott (A Greek-English Lexicon) state that our word is formed from a reduplication of the familiar word δυο (duo), meaning two:
δυο δις δευτερος
The familiar word δυο (duo) means two, and, like "two" in English, this Greek equivalent is part of a handsome set of compounds. The adverb δις (dis) means twice and the adjective δευτερος (deuteros) means second.
— See the full Dictionary article and Biblical Concordance —
Our word διδυμος (didumus) may denote working with both hands or being forked. It was the common word for twin, and in plural (διδυμοι, didumoi, meaning twins) it was applied to the Twins of the zodiac, also known as Dioscuri. The same plural word could describe a man's testicles or a woman's ovaries.
🔼Didymus meaning
The name Didymus means Twin, but it should be noted that it wasn't commonly used as a name. The name Thomas, though later very popular, was also quite uncommon.
Also note the associative similarity with the verb διδωμι (didomi), meaning to give and perhaps even the verb διδασκω (didasko).


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Q: Justify $\int_0^\infty e^{-ax^2}\ \mathrm{d}x$ for complex $a$ and zero real part (Reposted from math stack exchange)
I have searched and failed to find a rigorous proof showing that
$$\int_{0}^\infty e^{-ax^2}\ \mathrm{d}x = \frac{\sqrt{\pi}}{2\sqrt{a}}$$
is true for  $\Re(a)=0$ and $\Im(a)\neq0$. For example, why does
$$
\int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{-ix^2}\ \mathrm{d}x = \sqrt{\frac{\pi}{i}}
$$
and does one need to invoke contour integration to show this? Is it just a coincidence this happens to work? Or is the following technique valid:
Suppose $\Re (b)>0$ and $a$ is complex; then
$$
\int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{-ax^2}\ \mathrm{d}x \stackrel{?}{=} \lim_{b\to0}\int_0^\infty e^{-(a+ b)x^2}\ \mathrm{d}x = \lim_{b\to0}\frac{\sqrt{\pi}}{2\sqrt{a+b}}.
$$
Another example is
$$
\int_0^\infty x^{s-1}e^{-ix}\ \mathrm{d}x = i^{-s}\Gamma(s)
$$
which follows from
$$
\int_0^\infty x^{s-1}e^{-ax}\ \mathrm{d}x = a^{-s}\Gamma(s),
$$
but why is it that both of these are true? I fail to believe it is just a coincidence. Is there an explanation (not a calculation) that can justify these results?
Thank you.

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State Rep. Josh Cockroft is calling on the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board to work together to release water from Lake Thunderbird into the Little River basin.
Cockroft represents House District 27, which includes the outskirts of Norman and the towns of Little Axe, Pink, Macomb, Tribbey, Tecumseh, Harjo and Maud. Each of these areas is directly affected by the Little River basin.
Lake Thunderbird is a federally-owned water storage facility under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. The Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District operates and maintains the dam, lake and raw water pumping and delivery system under contract with the Bureau of Reclamation.
The amount of water used by the cities of Norman, Del City and Midwest City for municipal water purposes is based on a surface water permit issued by the Oklahoma Water Resources Board to the Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board regulates the maximum amount of water used for water supply purposes.
"I have studied this issue thoroughly at the request of farmers and ranchers in my district and I believe this is an appropriate and much-needed solution to local drought conditions. I expect a quick response from the agencies involved," Cockroft said.


The thing about the Connect the Dots Tour is that it sparks the cliché statement of "it's nothing like you've seen before". However, it can't be stressed enough how unique this tour is.
Whether it's Misterwives' use of vibrant lighting and instrumentals or Vinyl Theatre's near decade-long friendship shining through each song, each set is not only unique in its own right – it's a true form of entertainment.
But let's talk about Smallpools.
Although each band member hails from a different state – Mike Kamerman from New Jersey, Sean Scanlon from New York and Beau Kuther from Oregon – their journey together, along with former member Joe Intile, began in Los Angeles. Their debut single, "Dreaming", was released in 2013 and quickly reached number 23 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. From there, they released their first full-length titled LOVETAP! and played alongside artists such as Walk the Moon and Twenty One Pilots.
Their latest album, The Science of Letting Go, was released a month before the tour began and presents major growth in the lyricism since their last release. They mix some of these songs with their previous ones to create a set list that perfectly combines the two. From the start of "Killer Whales" to the end of "Dreaming", Smallpools adds their own element of fun to their show that makes them the perfect addition to the Connect the Dots Tour.
Each act gets creative with their lighting, which may sound like one of the more unimportant aspects of the show, but really ties everything together – and Smallpools' set was no exception. When you're not mesmerized by the flashes of brightness, you're most likely having a difficult time deciding where your eyes should remain focused on. Are you watching Sean command the stage with just a microphone or a keyboard? Did you see the smile on Mike's face as the beginning of "Passenger Side" came through the speakers? Should you keep your eyes on Beau as he crashes each cymbal louder than the next?
Blink and you just might miss Dr. Blum of Misterwives make a guest appearance or Mike and Sean play the largest xylophone you've ever seen. These guys have tricks up their sleeves, and they make sure it's a trick you won't soon forget.
The Connect the Dots Tour is drawing to a close, yet this is just the beginning of The Science of Letting Go. Smallpools is nothing like you've seen before, and Smallpools is somebody you'll want to see over and over again.


There is a new flight in the schedule of resort destinations of "Kurumoch" international airport (forms part of Airports of Regions holding). "UVT AERO" airline begins carrying passengers on the route Gelendzhik-Samara-Gelendzhik. The flights to this resort town, located on the Black sea seaside of the Caucases, will be performed on Mondays and Fridays, during the period from June 30 to September 22, 2017.
Departure from Gelendzhik at 13:20, arrival to Samara at 16:30 (local time).
Departure from Samara at 17:20, arrival to Gelendzhik at 18:40 (local time).
The carriage of passengers shall be performed by CRJ-200 aircrafts. The prices of tickets and carriage terms are available on the web-site of the airline http://uvtaero.ru/.
"UVT AERO" is the airline from the republic of Tatarstan. The base airports of "UVT AERO" airline are "Bugulma" airport and "Kazan" international airport. The fleet of the airline consists of 50-seat airplanes Bombardier CRJ-200. In 2017 the airline opened flights from Samara to Salekhard and Khanty-Mansijsk.


Each Keysight Technologies 16720A pattern generator module needs one clock pod and up to four data pods. Each data pod provides eight output channels. With each order of this 3.3V LVPECL Clock Pod, order (1) 10498A Lead Set.


Our craftsman built Idigbo Garden bench makes a stylish addition to any garden. Expertly hand built, this bench can also make a lovely commemorative peice, see our engraving page for details.
It can be finished in a UV protected and fungicidal exterior varnish offering maximum protection against all weather elements for an additional £60.
This bench has been made using Idigbo, which is a hardwood often referred to as a great alternative to oak.


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Sarkozy, Carla Bruni
Carla Bruni Sarkozy is a former model and singer and the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. An Italian heiress whose exploits have been media fodder since she was 19 years old, Bruni Sarkozy has become even more of a celebrity since her 2008 marriage to Sarkozy. She was one of the most successful models of the 1990s, reportedly earning more than $7 million annually. Her debut album, Quelqu'un m'a dit (Someone Told Me) sold 2 million copies. However real her accomplishments, her romantic escapades with rock stars, businessmen, and academics made her a focus of media attention-attention that increased when she was first photographed with France's newly divorced president at Disneyland Paris. The international press covered the glamorous couple's courtship, their wedding, and ...
Stange, M. Z., Oyster, C. K., & Sloan, J. E. (2011). Sarkozy, carla bruni. In Encyclopedia of women in today's world (Vol. 1, pp. 1277-1277). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n726
Stange, Mary Z., Carol K. Oyster, and Jane E. Sloan. "Sarkozy, Carla Bruni." In Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, Firstedited by Stange, Mary Zeiss., Carol K. Oyster, and Jane E. Sloan, 1277-1277. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2011. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n726.
Stange, M. Z., Oyster, C. K. and Sloan, J. E. 2011. Sarkozy, Carla Bruni. In: Mary Z. Stange, Carol K. Oyster and Jane E. Sloan Editors, 2011. Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, First edn, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 1277 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n726> [Accessed 21 Jan 2022].
Stange, Mary Z., et al. "Sarkozy, Carla Bruni." Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. Edited byFirst ed Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2011, pp. 1277-1277. SAGE Knowledge. 21 Jan 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412995962.n726.


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June 1, 2010 1:43PM
Remember, the FCC Is Our National Censor II
By Jim Harper
Last week, I referred obscurely to "folks wanting to install the FCC as the Internet's regulator," cautioning that this same Federal Communications Commission is our national censor.
A friendly correspondent points me to an article in Ars Technica about the demand for speech controls coming from the same groups that want the FCC to control the Internet's infrastructure, groups such as Free Press, the Media Access Project, and Common Cause.
Is there a parry to the charge that this is a demand for censorship? The signatories to the regulatory filing "respectfully request[] that the FCC … inquire into the extent and effects of hate speech in media, and explore possible non‐regulatory ways to counteract its negative impacts."
The filing does not contain the words "First Amendment" or "free speech." It means "non‐regulatory" the way a cop eyeballing someone and slapping his palm with a billy club is "non‐regulatory."
The FCC is experienced with "non‐regulatory" coercion. Hearings in Congress have explored how the agency uses arm‐twisting to get what it wants outside of formal regulatory processes. As law professor Lars Noah testified in 1999:
Arm twisting refers to an agency's use of threats either to impose a sanction or withhold a benefit in hopes of encouraging nominally voluntary compliance with a request that the agency could not impose directly on a regulated entity. This informal method of regulation often saddles parties with more onerous regulatory burdens than Congress had authorized, accompanied by a diminished opportunity to pursue judicial challenges.
An FCC with the power to regulate Internet access services would use it to control Internet content. There's no place for the FCC in monitoring or administering speech controls, nor in controlling our communications infrastructure, the Internet.
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Q: How can I separate number from letter using Unix regular expression? How can I separate number from letter using Unix regular expression?
Example: 133748414T
I tried this:
%s/^[0-9][0-9]*/^I/g

Thanks

A: You may use
%s/\v(\d)@<=(\D)@=/\t/g

Here,

*

*\v - enables very magic mode

*(\d)@<= - the position immediately to the left of the current location should be preceded with a digit

*(\D)@= - the position immediately to the right of the current location should be followed with a non-digit

*\t - the replacement is a TAB char

*g - replaces all occurrences.

If you need to also add tabs between non-digits and digits, use
%s/\v(\d)@<=(\D)@=|(\D)@<=(\d)@=/\t/g

The (\D)@<=(\d)@= alternative branch pattern is built in a similar way as the previous one.

A: If it always starts with a digit:
%s/\ze\D/\t


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Ness Wadia gets 2-year suspended jail term for possession of drugs: Report
By BS Web Team | New Delhi | Last Updated at April 30 2019 14:34 IST
Ness Wadia | Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Ness Wadia, chairman of the Bombay Burmah Group and co-owner of Kings XI Punjab cricket team, has been sentenced to a two-year jail term in Japan for drug possession while on a skiing holiday, the Financial Times reported.
Wadia, the eldest son of Nusli Wadia and heir to the 283-year-old Wadia Group, was arrested at a Japanese airport in early March after custom officials found about 25 gm cannabis resin in his trouser pocket.
According to the report, Wadia has admitted to possession, saying that the drug was for his personal use.
"Ness is now back in India. The judgement is clear. It is a suspended sentence. Hence it will not impact Ness Wadia in the discharge of any of his responsibilities and he will continue to play the role that he has done hitherto, both within the Group and outside," said a Wadia group spokesperson.
Wadia spent a period in detention before his indictment on March 20. He was awarded a two-year prison sentence by a district court in Japan. The sentence was suspended for five years.
Wadia also serves as director on the boards of various Wadia Group companies such as Britannia Industries, Bombay Dyeing, GoAir and Wadia Techno Engineering Services.
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SALC in the News: High Court to Decide on HIV Treatment
By Staff Writer13 Jun 2014Jan 22nd, 2023Criminal Justice1 min read
Home » SALC in the News: High Court to Decide on HIV Treatment
Botswana's decision to deny foreign prisoners anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) is irrational and puts their health at severe risk, the Southern Africa Litigation Centre said yesterday.
Centre deputy director Priti Patel said the refusal to provide the drugs to HIV-positive prisoners placed other inmates at risk of contracting illnesses like tuberculosis and HIV.
The Botswana High Court will today hear arguments in a case challenging the policy.
The two foreign HIV-positive prisoners were expected to argue that the government's policy was unlawful and unconstitutional.
Patel said the legal team would argue the policy denied the prisoners' rights to life, freedom from inhuman and degrading treatment and discrimination and equality.
"They would further argue that the policy is irrational in that it is more costly to treat opportunistic infections, as the government is currently doing, than to treat the prisoners' HIV and places other prisoners at risk of opportunistic infections," said Patel.
The court had previously ordered that the Botswana government provide foreign prisoners with ARV treatment, as the government had failed to file opposing pleadings in the matter.
This order was later overturned upon agreement of both parties, which resulted in the government bringing the matter before the court again after filing opposing pleadings.
http://citizen.co.za/192880/high-court-to-decide-on-hiv-treatment/
Madagascar: Prisoners are the invisible victims of the environmental crisis
In Madagascar, climate change is a growing threat to the country's prison population. Recent weather events have worsened the already poor conditions of the country's prisons, and the need for…
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Press Release: Commemorating the Day of the African Child
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On 11 June 2019, a full bench of the Botswana High Court unanimously found that the criminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual activities violates the constitutional rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual…
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The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado is about as "grand" as you get, so I have chosen it for this week's challenge. F.O. Stanley, creator of the Stanley Steamer car, built this hotel in 1907. Probably more famously, it was the inspiration for Stephen King's book "The Shining". Recently, the Big Thompson Canyon road up to Estes Park was repaired after our historic, 1,000 year flood in September, so I was able to visit and snag this shot.


At last, here's an outfit post! This is another one of my "pullout day" ensemble taken a day before one of our big shoots for Manila Bulletin.
...pambahay and all, with matching fried isaw as pulutan on the side. I love.
In other news, I finally got inked! Again. This time it was done by my cousin's "brad" Champ. He trained under Tatay Nero and his shop is located along Aurora Blvd. just 2 blocks away from LRT J.Ruiz station.
it means "believe". That's the only word that fits my tiny wrist. my 1st choice was "be the change".
Anyway, here's an exciting event coming next weekend!
wow, lotsa bloggers joining the garage sale!:) so tempting to come!
hope to see you there Jill!!!
OMG! Your tattoo rocks, love it!
Love the new tatoos. You're so brave!
holy ow your tat is wicked!
i looooove your tat!!! im thinking of an infinity tattoo. buts its so overrated now ;/ maganda ung believe mo!!! ^_^ maganda din ung be the change. yay!
Love the outfit with the booties, teh! And yey for the new tat! Fave ko pa rin yung nasa likod mo!
wish i was in manila to shop the bloggers closet.
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Little Richard Documentary 'I Am Everything' in the Works From 'Rolling Stone,' Producer Dee Rees
A new documentary on rock pioneer Little Richard is in the works from executive producer Dee Rees, director Lisa Cortés, and Rolling Stone.
Little Richard: I Am Everything will take an in-depth look at the rock & roll architect that posed a threat to Fifties norms — both racially and sexually — and influenced entire generations of musical artists. The title of the film derives from the Little Richard quote, "I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock & roll."
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"There's a direct lineage from Little Richard to boundary-pushing artists like Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Prince, Moses Sumney, Frank Ocean, and Brittany Howard," Rees said in a statement. "We wouldn't have the genre-bending musical innovation, electrified performance style, and the proud, identity-forward music culture we have today if Little Richard hadn't fearlessly chopped a completely different path over new musical and social terrain. Little Richard was always one measure ahead and unafraid to lead from the edge. He created and shared generously even as other artists took credit for his ideas and mimicked his style."
Cortés, who previously helmed the documentary The Apollo about the famed Harlem theater, said in a statement: "There's that moment when the meteorite that was Little Richard lit up my world. Burning bright with a voice that slayed and a pompadour that pridefully sashayed, he inspired me to color outside the lines, and give voice to all who are silenced for being too bold, too Black, or too queer. The architect of rock & roll, he instantly outpaced what passed for outrageous or transgressive. But that's only the beginning of the story, and I plan on telling the rest. Together with my trailblazing producer Dee Rees, we are going to reclaim the crown for Little Richard, the undiluted King and Queen of rock & roll. Forever may he reign!"
Rolling Stone's President and Chief Operating Officer Gus Wenner added: "Rolling Stone is thrilled to partner with Bungalow Entertainment to tell the definitive story of one of the most dynamic and unique founders of rock & roll, whose rich history, career and gender-bending impact remains as important today as ever."
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Some Like It Rare (Barbaque) (2021)
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Some Like It Rare (Barbaque) had its UK première at the Glasgow FrightFest 2022. Review first published by VODzilla.co
Fabrice Eboué's Some Like It Rare (originally called Barbaque) opens with meat – or more specifically a prime, marbled fillet of beef being lovingly sliced, hand-massaged and packaged by butcher Vincent Pascal (played by Eboué) while his wife Sophie (Marina Foïs) and their sole paying client (Colette Sodoyez) look on with a mild amusement that soon turns to incredulous impatience as the process is drawn out for far too long. Schlubby Vincent adores meat a little too much – but the fortunes of the Boucherie Pascal have long since waned, under the pressure of a market vanishing to trendier diets, of fierce competition from his more successful (and less quality-conscious) rival-in-butchery Marc Brachard (Jean-François Cayrey), and of regular vandalistic attacks by local guerrilla vegans. His marriage too is failing, as Sophie, condemning her husband for having "no balls – and definitely no spunk", transfers her nocturnal attentions to her beloved true-crime programmes about serial killers.
Vincent needs a miracle to turn things around, and anyone attuned to the special brand of butchery from, say, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) or Dan Pringle's K-Shop (2016) will have a good idea what that miracle will be. After semi-accidentally running over one of the vegans who attacked his shop, and then (again semi-accidentally) selling on some of the meat that he has cut from the corpse, he discovers that customers are willing to queue around the block for his 'Iranian pork'. With demand now high on their latest meat products, Vincent begins, at Sophie's urging, actively to hunt down more vegans, even as husband and wife discover their own taste for human flesh developing alongside a renewed carnality in their relationship.
The film's English-language title riffs on Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959), as an indicator of this cannibal comedy's farcical tone – although here the two principal characters do not dress as the opposite sex to escape the mafia, but rather disguise themselves as anti-meat activists to lure in vegans for the chopping block. Their increasingly indiscriminate killing spree represents their simultaneous rise and fall, even as the Melun community around them is exposed in all its casual racism and intergenerational conflict. For their town is a microcosm of France's food chain, where dietary choices reflect all manner of political clashes. "We're open-minded butchers," Vincent reassures Lucas (Victor Meutelet), the ideologically puritanical and irritantly preachy vegan boyfriend of their daughter Chloé (Lisa Do Couto Texeira). The ideal viewer for Some Like It Rare will be similarly omnivorous: tolerant of bad as well as good taste, able simultaneously to digest arguments for and against meat-eating, and open to accommodating a not altogether likeable (or even conscionable) couple as they carve a path to success and love in a dog-eat-dog world.
Slyly funny and mildly shocking, Some Like It Rare gets us on side with murderous characters who really deserve little sympathy, simply by surrounding them with a town full of folk who are also, in their different ways, awful, awful people. Except poor Winnie (Tom Pezier), who gives this otherwise deeply amoral film an unexpected moral – if weakly beating – heart, and leaves anyone who has partaken of the sweet, sweet barbecue with a bitter taste in the mouth.
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Researchers join NHS staff to celebrate the impact of clinical research on International Clinical Trials Day
Researchers, clinicians and health and social care staff celebrated clinical research at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust for this year's International Clinical Trials Day.
The annual awareness day on 20 May marks the work of James Lind who held the first clinical trial in 1747 on board the HMS Salisbury when he experimented with different remedies for helping 12 men with scurvy. The Scottish Physician found that sailors given citrus fruits made an impressive recovery compared to the other treatments.
Trusts around the country celebrated again this year including Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust who held stands and activities on Tuesday 22 May in the St Helier Hospital Renal department, St Helier and Epsom Obstetrics and Gynaecology departments, and the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre at Epsom Hospital to celebrate International Clinical Trials Day.
Every year, more than half a million people help the NHS to improve healthcare and develop life-saving treatments by taking part in research. Anita Abena-Amoako, age 35, from Wallington is one such person. In 2011, Anita had an acute episode of chronic kidney disease (CKD), during which she had to spend three months on a dialysis machine and now visits St Helier Hospital to dialyse three times a week. Anita is now taking part in the clinical study RADAR that aims to build a database of renal data from patients around the country so rare renal diseases can be identified and new ways to improve treatments can be trialed.
Anita said: "This data is needed to be able to move forward and do research and without it you can't do the research. Knowing that I'm helping and contributing in that way is a good feeling.
"I imagine that this will improve my treatment in the future, but if not me then there are other people coming through and it will be able to assist them with their treatment and whatever they're going through."
As part of the study Anita has online access to the results of regular tests she has during dialysis, which has helped her understand her condition better. She said: "When my blood tests are done, they get uploaded overnight and then I can view them myself the next morning, which is quite handy. If I go to a different GP they like to take a blood test but actually they can just log on to my results to see the trend and that's valuable because seeing the trend gives a better idea of my situation. It's all about educating yourself and having that access to results allows me to educate myself about my condition, which makes me feel empowered. I feel like a mini doctor."
Research and Delivery Director at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Dr Pauline Swift said: "Epsom and St Helier hospitals are absolutely committed to promoting high quality research opportunities for patients being treated within our NHS Trust. We have increased patient participation in research year on year for the last three years – such that over 1000 of our patients took part in NIHR research studies last year."
Nationally, the NIHR is running the 'I Am Research' campaign, which encourages people to find out about the opportunities available in health and care research. The campaign also pays tribute to NHS staff for the work they do in supporting research. You can find out more about the 'I Am Research' campaign here.
This year the NHS is turning 70, which is a good opportunity to celebrate the important role that research plays within the health service. Research in the NHS has consistently improved treatments for patients over the last 70 years having a positive impact on many people's lives. Since 2006, this has been coordinated by the NIHR and the NIHR wants to continue improving treatments and care for patients over the next 70 years as well through research.
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I Broke Google Duplex, But It's Still Impressive
Among updates about new features coming to Android P, a new direction for Android Wear, and improved image recognition in Google Lens, the thing that really stole the show at Google I/O 2018 was Duplex, the automated phone service that can make a dinner reservation or an appointment at a hair salon without you ever needing to actually dial a number.
After all, Duplex's Google Assistant-powered voice sounded so natural with its perfectly timed umms and ahhs, while also handling the over-the-phone dance of booking a meal complete with time, date, and party size with an impressive level of ease and fluidity. But at the same time, Duplex also scared the hell out of people. There were so many unanswered questions: Did the person on the other end of the line know that they were talking to a robot, what happens when Duplex gets things wrong, and more importantly, what does Duplex mean for the future of phone calls as a whole?
That brings us to now, where less than two months after I/O 2018, Google is going to unleash Duplex into the wild over the next few weeks to a limited number of users and business to get some real world feedback. Meanwhile, I've just come back from a Thai restaurant on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where Google hosted a demo that shed some more light on its impressive (if a bit intimidating) robo-calling service, and even gave me a chance to try Duplex out for myself.
So what's the first thing I did? Attempt to break it, of course. And even though I successfully flummoxed Duplex while posing as a restaurant host as it tried to make a reservation, I couldn't help but be impressed at how good Google's voice assistant was. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to record audio or video at the event, but hopefully, my first-hand account will be just as good.
Back at Google I/O, what CEO Sundar Pichai didn't show was how before ever making a call, all the ways Google designed Duplex to be an asset to both businesses and individuals. From a user standpoint, Duplex is really just one small tool Google can use to streamline our lives. Currently, if you're trying to book a restaurant using the Google Assistant and there's a suitable reservation available via OpenTable, your phone will just use the app instead, there's no need to get Duplex involved. However, if the restaurant doesn't support online booking, something that Google says is true of around 60 percent of all small businesses, that's when you might want some extra help. Enter Google Duplex.
After making a request to book a table and providing the relevant information, the only thing a person will ever see on their phone is a message from the Google Assistant saying that it's going contact the restaurant, and that it will get back to you in 15 minutes or so. As for businesses, Duplex will be an opt-in service, which should prevent Google from clogging up the phone with unwanted calls.
When Duplex actually gets around booking an appointment, the first thing it tells the person on the other end is "Hi! I'm calling to make a reservation. I'm Google's automated booking service, so I'll record the call." So as good as its voice sounds, that disclaimer means from the start, there should be no confusion regarding what's going on, what Duplex is, and why it s calling. This is huge because it sets limits on what people expect to take place during the call, while also calming people who might understandably be concerned about being scammed, tricked or otherwise taken advantage of. Additionally, Duplex's ability to record calls also plays an important benefit when it comes the service's first major function: checking holiday hours.
That's because if just one person uses Duplex to inquire about holiday hours, Duplex can use that info to update Google Search as a whole. Now, the next time someones wants to know if a shop is open on the 4th of July, Google doesn't even have to trouble the business with a call, because it already knows. And once Duplex has a chance to test its skills checking holiday hours, booking reservations and making hair appointments are next.
At Google's demo event, conversations between Duplex and mix of presenters and attendees played out almost exactly like they did on the stage back at Google. At first, Google reps played it straight, posing as the host of the restaurant while Duplex made reservations using info provided by crowd. But then, Google turned Duplex over to a handful of journalists, including me, and gave them a chance to act out a scene themselves, with each person adding a twist to the regular procedure of making a restaurant.
When one person asked if they were talking to a person or a computer, Duplex responded by identifying itself as an automated assistant. When asked for an email address instead of a phone number, Duplex said it wasn't authorized to provide that info. And when a person posing as a host asked if anyone in the party had any allergies, Duplex simply responded that it didn't know. But regardless of the curveballs the four people who demoed the system ahead of me lobbed at Duplex, each call ended with a successful reservation. Not too shabby, though naturally, I took that as my cue to find a way to break Google's system.
My plan was simple enough. After Duplex asked about a reservation for 6PM, I simply responded by saying "Sorry, the restaurant is booked for a private event at the time from 6 to 10." Nothing outlandish and a relatively common enough occurrence that many New Yorkers have encountered from time to time. However, being the accommodating digital assistant that is, Duplex didn't give up, and instead asked about moving the reservation up to 5:30.
Presented with the same situation, a person might have intuited that booking a table 30 minutes before a private event probably wouldn't fly, but it never hurts to ask, right? So I responded by saying if the party would be able to eat and leave within 45 minutes to an hour after arriving, I could still book the reservation. Look, I know that's not exactly a polite thing to do, but it's a situation that's happened to me multiple times, especially when I've fancied eating at anywhere even remotely trendy, which in some areas of Brooklyn, is basically every other restaurant.
Unfortunately for Duplex though, it was that request that caused it to stumble, and after trying multiple times to rephrase the question and suggest a 5:30 reservation, Google's robo assistant gave up. However, the Duplex experience wasn't quite over, because almost immediately after the system realized it was at an impasse, the AI voice was replaced by an actual human operator, who stepped in to confirm the details and finish booking the reservation.
Now some might call that a failure, but to me, having a backup system is an important piece of forethought, as it shows Google knows that even as slick as Duplex often seems, it still needs some help every once now and then. And in a strange way, the demo at the Thai restaurant echoes the success rates Google has seen so far, with Duplex able to complete four out of five calls completely unassisted, while the latter 20 percent still needs a bit of human intervention.
As for the future, Duplex is in a strange spot, because while Google is bringing its robo-calling assistant to a small number of users and businesses this summer—possible before the 4th of July—adding new calling abilities isn't as simple as it might seem. That's because even though AI and machine learning play a big part in Duplex's abilities, Google can't just flip a switch and add additional skills.
To get Duplex just to this point, Google had to manually analyze and annotate hundreds if not thousands of calls manually in order to create decision trees that Duplex could break down and understand. Then Google had to provide assistance during the learning processes every time Duplex made a mistake, not only to make sure the task was performed correctly, but to give the system guidance on what it should have done better. It's only in the last stage where Duplex is able to largely function on its own.
Currently, Google says its not shooting for a specific success rate, its more focused on making sure Duplex delivers a tangible value to both businesses and users, and in Duplex's early days, that makes a lot of sense. Only then, will Google look to expand Duplex's skills to other areas.
But at some point, those success rates are going to have to be sorted. Because even if Duplex is released only in the U.S., that's potentially 50 to 100 million devices that could use Duplex to make calls. With that kind of volume, even a 99 percent success rate would leave Google with up to 500,000 calls it would need to intervene on, a figure much too large to have humans waiting around to handle.
However, for a project that was only revealed to the public less than two months ago, Duplex has shown some incredible results. And after getting a chance to test it for myself, while I'm still not sure that AI won't cause the eventual downfall of the human race, I'm relatively confident Duplex won't be the little snippet of AI that starts the war.
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