I assume you're referring to Cape Talk 567 [1], which broadcasts on 567 kHz AM/MW in the Cape Town region. I also enjoy it, although the late night political debates can become tiring. It has a sister talk radio station in Gauteng, Radio 702 [2]. Both are owned by Primedia.
I run ultramarathons and whether true or not, we sometimes joke about this. We'd say that the typical Springbok would fall down from exhaustion after 30 km and that's why we runners hit that metaphorical wall after 31 km; we evolved because we needed to outrun the gazelle by only a bit. From there on, it's a tough grind to complete the race.
Very tongue-in-cheek, but too good of a story not to tell.
> We have given the owner a chance to remove all references to Wordle and alter his code to not infringe The Times’s copyright, but he has doubled down on knocking off The Times’s copyrighted content.
This is just false. The owner of the original Reactle repo (now deleted) was never contacted previously.
I don’t understand why lawyers aren’t disbarred when caught flat out lying in contracts, injunctions and the likes. The fact that this behavior is considered “ok” reflects awfully on the entire profession.
Didn't that work out in the last 2 cycles of La Niña? I read about drought in South Africa recently but I admittedly know nothing about weather patterns there.
There are some towns and cities which are currently running out of water in the dams and are heading towards day zero (no water in taps). Cities like Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) are near day zero and a large portion of the Eastern Cape has been experiencing a drought from 2015 to 2020 and then from 2021 to current.
Water tankers are delivering water to various areas in Port Elizabeth as well as numerous smaller towns which have run out of water.
During Cape Town's water crisis we were queuing to collect water from the mountain spring that the local brewery graciously allowed us to collect water from.
Depends on which part of South Africa you're referring to. Cape Town (Western Cape) had a much publicised drought 2015-2018 [1], but that's been broken. This drought was partial attributed to El Niño.
At the moment dams in the Eastern Cape are empty [2]. My mother's taps in Gqeberha are on a trickle only. No idea whether (El|La) Niñ[ao] is responsible here, but maladministration of available water has also been mentioned.
In summary, in ZA we look forward to La Niña, so this article is good news for us.
Thanks, I remember the Cape Town drought with the semi regular mention of Day Zero in articles. I recently read about another Day Zero in the Nelson Mandela Bay region and thought it was a continuation of the earlier drought. I didn't realize the distance and climate differences. Good luck to your mother.
I'm a decent leg spin bowler, but I'm a terrible batsman. I know a big reason is that I don't watch the ball after the bounce. I didn't learn the skill as a child and I find it very difficult to learn as an adult.
When I do force myself to watch the ball onto the bat, my head position lags and it throws my balance off, resulting in worse shots.
A few thousand deliveries in the nets not worrying about regression to worse shots while you work on it will probably get you there. I believe there is no such thing as too old to learn technique. I've learned new technique to compensate for serious injury completely and permanently altering my balance - so I did it because I had no choice which engenders a certain commitment to the new thing. I'm now a rubbish bat but clearly, at least according to the scorebook, less rubbish than I was! Do you have much to lose? Hope you have an enjoyable and successful season either way.
Similar issue at our version of the DMV, the Traffic Department.
Had to provide proof of address and the only thing I had was the rental agreement with my landlord. But the copy I had was signed by me, but not countersigned by my landlord.
The clerk didn't want to accept it. I told him I could just walk out and fake a signature. He said that's OK and that he isn't a policeman. So I countersigned it in front of him. He paused and then accepted it.
> I told him I could just walk out and fake a signature. He said that's OK and that he isn't a policeman. So I countersigned it in front of him. He paused and then accepted it.
Well, I mean, forgery is a class C felony, at least in my state. If you had walked in with the signature on it, the clerk would have had plausible deniability. Your act of forging in front of the clerk took the plausible deniability away, making them complicit to a felony.
You're really lucky they accepted it. They had no good reason to take on that legal risk.
I was worried about this when I got my RealID in CA, but I printed stuff out and took it in. I use heavy printer paper and I printed it in color on a laser printer, so maybe that's why it worked? Who knows. This policy is just insane.
I'm a student at the Actuarial Society of South Africa. I have been for the past 20 years. This demo question, while not easy for a non-technical person, should be a piece of cake for someone who has completed the initial few technical subjects of the curriculum, the core technical series of subjects. I actually think any numerical calculation isn't a very good example or benchmark of what a good actuary should know or be.
Most students who start Actuarial Science here are mathematically strong and getting through the technical subjects just needs dedication to study and know the numerical theories and proofs.
It's the latter subjects that are the really difficult ones. They are wordy questions and answers. The exams don't necessarily exclude numerical calculations, but if calculations occur, it will be relatively simple (compared to the initial subjects). Exams of the final subjects require you to think out of the box and questions often involve areas that weren't included in the subject's literature. You are expected to apply your knowledge of earlier subjects to a novel scenario and propose solutions that you can't study for ahead of the exam. You can practise using past exam papers, but your exam is guaranteed to throw you a real curveball.
Example: F202 LIFE INSURANCE SPECIALIST APPLICATIONS
November 2021 Exam [1]
November 2021 Examiner's Report [2]
And this is the test of a true actuary. Is he/she a problem solver and not just a number cruncher? (It's also why I haven't been able to qualified yet.)
I remember in my first year at university a professor claimed that the actuarial science curriculum is like initially learning the basics of the decimal number system. 10 digits, 0 to 9, carry over or borrow digits from the neighbouring power of 10. 0 is a placeholder, etc. Then, in your final exam, you see a question: Design an abacus. You have all the knowledge, but now you have to apply it.
We all thought he was exaggerating to scare us. 20 years later, I'm totally on board with him. It was a realistic analogy.
[1] https://www.primediaplus.com/station/capetalk [2] https://www.primediaplus.com/station/702