An image from the Observatory Night lecture "Building Planets: From Space Dust to Solar Systems"
• November 21 at noon: The 126th Harvard vs. Yale competition is in New Haven.
• November 1 through November 30: Forever Young: The Amazing Grace of Folk Music History in Harvard Square features various musical events, historic tours, and exhibitions. See website for further details.
• November 28 at 4 p.m. Sparklefest Kick-Off! The annual Holiday Tree Lighting at the Charles Hotel. Music, food, and a cameo by Santa Claus.
• December 6, noon to 8 p.m. Opening of the Skating Rink at the Charles Hotel. Free skate rentals, holiday treats, music, and...Santa Claus.
• December 13, 2-4 p.m.The third annual Everybody Loves Latkes Party features free potato pancakes and toppings, along with holiday music and storytelling. Brattle Square.
• November 5, 4:45-7:30 p.m.
• November 6, 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
This M. Victor Leventritt Symposium explores recent trends in which art museums collaborate in training healthcare professionals. Free and open to the public; advanced registration required. Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street.
• December 10, 3-8 p.m.
• December 11-13, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
View works by dozens of Greater Boston artists, from beginners to professionals.
• December 11-27: The Christmas Revels celebrate America with music, dance, and stories from Appalachia, the African-American South, Shaker communities, and New England. Sanders Theatre.
• November 20 at 8 p.m. "The Christmas Story," part of Handel's Messiah, with professional soloists and orchestra.
• December 5 at 8 p.m. "Christmas in Sanders" offers a range of popular holiday songs and hymns, along with music from the Renaissance.
• December 13, 5 p.m.; December 14, 8 p.m. The University community attends on Sunday, the general public on Monday. Christmas Eve service is at 11 p.m.
Artistic director Diane Paulus opened her inaugural season with Shakespeare Exploded, a festival of plays inspired by the Bard (read Harvard Magazine's profile of Diane Paulus ): The Donkey Show (a high-energy disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream where the audience is part of the nightclub action); Sleep No More (a Hitchcockian Macbeth); and The Best of Both Worlds, a gospel-and-rock musical based on The Winter's Tale.
• December 4 and 5 at 7 p.m. Ivy Dance Exchange showcases original works and student performers from Harvard, Yale, and Brown.
• November 12, 4-5:30 p.m.The Power of AIDS Activism: Defying the Convergence of the Forbidden and the Disenfranchised, with Amber Hollibaugh, queer activist and author of My Dangerous Desires. Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street.
• November 19, 4-5:30 p.m. HIV/AIDS Activism in African-American Communities: The Limits of Self-Help, with Harvard College dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, Rosenkrantz professor of the history of science and of African and African American studies. Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street.
• November 24, at 6 p.m. HIV/AIDS Activism — Mark Doty, Eileen Myles, and an AIDS Poetic Retrospective. Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street.
• December 1, at 6 p.m. World AIDS Day Lecture: Seeing AIDS with Philip Yenawine, co-founding director of Visual Understanding in Education. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway.
• November 14, 11-11:30 a.m. Modernism Four Ways. This gallery talk explores the range of styles, painting methods, and types of patronage that characterized American art between the 1920s and 1950s using Georgia O'Keeffe's Red and Pink (1925), Charles Sheeler's Upper Deck (1929), Jackson Pollock's No. 2 (1950), and Jacob Lawrence's Ventriloquist (1952).
• November 16 at 6 p.m. Conversation with Sanford Biggers. Drawing on the ethnological study of objects, urban culture, and popular icons, Biggers creates multisensory installations integrating music, performance, video, and sculpture.
• November 18, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. The Days of Creation. Part of the "In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently" lecture series, this event examines the iconography and style of Edward Burne-Jones's watercolor series, first exhibited in 1877. Space is limited; registration encouraged. Call 617-45-0534, or e-mail [email protected] . Complimentary parking provided.
• Continuing: Re-View. This survey of approximately 600 works from the Harvard Art Museum—the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger, and the Arthur M. Sackler—is a unique installation of objects historically exhibited in separate facilities.
• November 19, at 5:30 p.m. Lecture "Much Ado about Nothing: 2012 and Maya," with Marc Zender, museum research associate. Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street.
• Continuing: Sacred Spaces: Reflections on a Sufi Path. Mixed-media compositions record the artist Samina Quraeshi's personal pilgrimages to Sufi sanctuaries in the Indus Valley.
• Continuing: Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West highlights drawings by Plains Indian warriors recovered from the Little Big Horn battlefield.
• November 5 at 6 p.m. Paleontologist Michael Novacek, provost of science at the American Museum of Natural History, discusses how natural history museums can provide unique insight and critical education in the context of unprecedented twenty-first-century climate changes.
• November 18 at 6 p.m. The lecture "Mothers and Others: The Origin of Emotionally Modern Humans," with anthropologist and primate sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy '68, Ph.D. '75, S.D. '09, offers insight into our Pleistocene ancestors' peculiar mode of child-rearing.
Continuing: The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine features a full-scale replica of an Iron Age (ca. 1200-586 b.c.e.) village abode. Ancient Egypt: Magic and the Afterlife shows visitors the Egyptian view of the hereafter.
• Through November 14: A Monument More Durable Than Brass: The Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson celebrates the literary giant's 300th birthday and elucidates his life and times in London.
• Through November 30: Gleams of a Remoter World: Mapping the European Alps explores how cartographers have responded to the challenge of portraying the Alps. The different genres include maps celebrating military conquest, panoramic views, hiking and skiing trails, and transportation routes.
• Continuing: Roosevelt Reading: The Pigskin Library, 1909–1910. This exhibit celebrates the centennial anniversary of Roosevelt's post-presidential safari in British East Africa with his son, Kermit, with the display of 55 pigskin-bound books taken to read during their journey.
• Continuing: Weather Control: Pluviculture, Cloud Seeding, and Climate Engineering looks at historic attempts to harness and direct the weather, from native rituals and nineteenth-century "rainmaking" to Cold War research and current investigations into climate engineering.
• November 17, 1-6 p.m. Symposium. The Scalpel and the Pen: The Life and Work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., a year-long exhibit, celebrates the bicentennial of his birth with a wide-ranging exhibit that includes photographs, rare early works, letters, anatomical specimens, and personal items, such as one of his famous chambered nautilus shells and an ivory paper knife, inscribed with a poem, given to Holmes by his colleague, the physician and novelist S. Weir Mitchell. The November 17 symposium features scholars and medical historians discussing this versatile "man of letters." To register, e-mail [email protected]  or contact Jack Eckert at 617-432-2170, or [email protected] .
• Through November: Free walking tours with a docent offer special insights into the history and habits of more than 4,000 varieties of flowers, trees, and shrubs. Select days and times; call for specific dates.
• Through December 15: Botanica: Scanography by Marty Klein. Using a flatbed scanner as a camera, the artist captures intensely deep and vivacious images of the natural world.
• November 19 at 7:30 p.m. "Building Planets: From Space Dust to Solar Systems," an Observatory Night lecture, followed by stargazing if weather permits.
• November 14 at 8 p.m.
The sounds of cutting-edge saxophonist and composer Fred Ho '79 and the Harvard Jazz Band. Lowell Lecture Hall.
• December 5 at 8 p.m.
The Harvard Wind Ensemble performs music "For the Spirits Who Have Passed." Lowell Lecture Hall.
617-496-2222. All concerts begin at 8 p.m.
• November 13: The Harvard Krokodiloes, Harvard Callbacks, and the Fallen Angels present a "Fall Triple Jam" concert.
The Harvard Wind Ensemble plays with musicians from other local universities in the "Bands of the Beanpot" concert.
• November 2 at 4 p.m. "Globalization and Health: Challenges to Development, Security, and Human Rights," by Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health.
• November 16 at 4 p.m. "Freedom and a Burmese Buddhist," by Ma Thida, Radcliffe Institute fellow, physician, and writer.
• December 2 at 4 p.m. "Functional Biometics: Art and Science," by Joanna Aizenberg, Wallach professor at Radcliffe.
• December 3 at 4 p.m. "The Cultural Impact of the Book of Revelation," by Elaine Pagels, Harington Spear Paine Foundation professor of religion at Princeton University.
• December 7 at 6 p.m.
Screenings of: The Dione Lucas Cooking Show (1950s); Julia Child at Marshall Field's (1980); Buying Food (1950); Seeds of Promise: The Critical Roles of Third World Women in Food Production (1987). Discussion with Laura Shapiro, author of Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America and Julia Child: A Life.


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RedfinNow launches in Tucson, Ariz., resumes service in Las Vegas
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Redfin's iBuyer service now operates in 22 markets nationwide
by Marian McPherson
Redfin has launched its iBuyer services in Tucson, Arizona, and restarted service in parts of Las Vegas, according to an announcement on Tuesday. RedfinNow now operates in 22 markets nationwide.
After pausing RedfinNow services last March, Redfin is continuing its relaunch efforts with service in Tucson, Arizona, and Las Vegas. Tucson is a new addition to the RedfinNow network, Redfin's Wednesday announcement explained, while Las Vegas was one of the markets affected by RedfinNow's temporary closure.
"RedfinNow gives homeowners certainty and control over exactly when they sell with a cash offer that lets them avoid the hassle of getting their home ready for the market and dealing with open houses and home tours," RedfinNow Vice President Jason Aleem said in a prepared statement. "We're seeing record-high competition and price growth for homes right now, but the red-hot housing market is a double-edged sword for sellers who are also trying to buy."
"RedfinNow makes it easy for people to get the money from their current home to buy their next and line up the closings so they only have to move once," Aleem added.
With RedfinNow, homesellers can request an all-cash offer after providing their address and basic property details. Using its proprietary machine-learning algorithm, Redfin provides an offer that reflects local market trends, the home's condition, and the cost of any needed repairs.
After accepting an offer, sellers can close in as soon as 10 days. From there, Redfin will make the necessary repairs and list the home on the open market, where buyers can use the Redfin app to access Redfin-owned homes with or without an agent from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time.
Currently, RedfinNow services in Las Vegas are only available to single-family homeowners in Henderson, Southwest Las Vegas and Summerlin. Meanwhile, Tucson's services extend to single-family, townhome and condo owners across the city, including Marana, Benson and Saddlebrooke.
Since May 2020, Redfin has slowly ramped up its RedfinNow services, with the brokerage first reopening in Austin, Denver and the Inland Empire in California. Existing markets Dallas, San Antonio, Los Angeles and Orange County were next on the list, with Sacramento, San Francisco and Seattle coming on board as new markets in October and December.
With Tucson and Las Vegas in tow, RedfinNow is now available in 22 markets across eight states and the District of Columbia.
In Inman's 2021 Redfin forecast, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said RedfinNow is an integral part of the brokerage's growth plans as they continue to focus on "outlier" markets and pour their efforts into renovations for RedfinNow properties, which he said increases their profits.
"Sometimes you can make a good margin there," Kelman told Inman reporter Jim Dalrymple of the company's market and renovation approach.
Real estate analyst and consultant Mike DelPrete said Redfin's slow and steady approach to RedfinNow is working, as the company is one of the top iBuyers in the nation despite being in fewer markets. DelPrete expects Redfin to keep the same pace as they figure out the best iBuying model.
"They're an iBuyer but it's such a different scale than everybody else," he said. "They're doing just enough to say they're an iBuyer. I think it's unlikely that they would leapfrog anybody in the iBuying space. It just doesn't fit their M.O."
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Q: Trigger that will search for new Opportunities with new owners only I need to create a trigger that will collect all new Opportunities (the ones with brand new owners that aren't owners of existing Opportunities) and create a Lookup Table of them. Right now, my main worry is creating the trigger, the lookup table can wait.
I'm creating a trigger that will basically do the following:

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*If a new Opportunity gets created, check to see if it's a brand new owner that hasn't previously existed in past Opportunities.

*If it's a brand new owner, then create a new Opportunity and update all the fields within the opportunity.

*This trigger will use before insert and before update.

So far, this is what the skeleton of my code looks like.
trigger trig_Opportunity_CreateOppOwner on Opportunity (before insert, before update) {

//Opportunity OppOwner = null;

//List that will hold all id of all new Opportunities owners
List<id>OppsID = new List<id>();
List<Opportunity>oOpportunity = new List<id>();

//Loop that only retrives updated Opportunties with new Owners.
for(Opportunity Opp:Trigger.new){
    if Trigger.oldMap.get(opp.id).Owner__c != Trigger.oldMap.get(OppToUpdate.id).Owner__c
        newMap.get[ID].Op_Owner__c = newMap.get[ID].owner
    //adds all updated and new Opportunities Id's only and puts them in a separate list called OppsID.
    OppsId.add(Opp.ID);
}

// Only interested in OpportunityID
List<Opportunity>OppToUpdate = [SELECT Id, Name, Owner__c, Op_owner__c
                                FROM Opportunity
                                WHERE Id IN : OppsId];

Could anyone let me know if I'm on the right track or if I'm making any kind of major mistakes? Coding isn't my strong suit so any help would be deeply appreciated.

A: As far as I understood your query. I believe you want that the current user who is creating the opp, should not have created any opportunity before. If this the case then you want some specific operation to happen. I have tried on my side, hope it solves some of the problem for you. If not then please explain your question in more detail. Thanks
Here is the code
trigger CheckOwner on Opportunity (before Insert) {
    Integer oppsOwned = [SELECT count() FROM Opportunity WHERE OwnerId = :UserInfo.getUserId()];
    for (Opportunity opp : Trigger.new) {
        if (oppsOwned > 1) {
            opp.addError('error messages');
        }
    }
}

A: From your post, your goals are very difficult to discern. As I understand them, your goals are:

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*Find out which Opportunity records have an OwnerId not yet in the system.

*Duplicate (validate?) all such Opportunity records.

*Do this even when a cursory update happens to an Opportunity.

New Owner
Question 1 is easy to understand. You can get a Set<Id> containing the Id of every User that owns an Opportunity like so:
Set<Id> existingOwnerIds = new Set<Id>();
for (AggregateResult aggregate : [
    SELECT OwnerId FROM Opportunity
    WHERE Owner.Type = 'User'
    GROUP BY OwnerId
])
{
    existingOwnerIds.add((Id)aggregate.get('OwnerId'));
}

I would be wary of performing this in an org that has a large volume of Opportunity records (over 100k), but I believe it should actually work fine (depending on your distribution of ownership) up to a million records, or possibly even several million. For instance I can query against an object with ~560k records like the above and get back ~1800 aggregates. That 1800 is the number I get back when I debug Limit.getQueryRows(), so query usage seems moderate. However, retrieving them, looping through them, and adding them to a Set<Id> ended up taking a total of almost 2 full seconds, so CPU timeout is likely to be your limiting factor. I tried with Set<Object> and no casting to see if it was faster, but it actually was over 2.5 seconds.
But I digress. Once you have the above Set<Id>, it is fairly simple to check if a given Opportunity has an OwnerId that is not already in your org.
for (Opportunity newRecord : trigger.new)
{
    if (existingOwnerIds.contains(newRecord.OwnerId))
    {
        //do stuff
    }
}

Duplicate Opportunity
Question 2 does not make much sense as you have it worded. If your desire is to validate that each owner can only own one Opportunity, then you would simply call newRecord.addError(someMessage) where I have //do stuff above. If that is your desire, it changes some of my first response, mostly in that I would probably remove the User.Type filter from my aggregate query.
If what you want is to duplicate these records, I am very curious as to your specific goals. Without more backstory, it sounds like a very bad idea and I would advise against it.
Before Insert/Update
So much of this hinges on what you really mean by question 2. If validation is your goal, these events are correct. If you want to do cloning, the operations should really be performed after, and doesn't make a whole lot of sense on update.

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I'm more and more entranced by this video with each view. Alan Watts discusses what it is to find oneself and awaken to the universality of life.
I am you, you are me, they are all us… this is one of the messages conveyed in this post. Whether you believe that to its fullest extent like Alan Watts or not, there is a message that we can all benefit from.
Do good to others, when you are happy, share and spread the feeling, and let go of as much negativity as possible.
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Q: Generating XML Serialization Assembly I have some code that uses XMLSerializer to serialize/deserialize back and forth between POCO objects and XML.  My objects are decorated with the usual XMLRoot, XMLElement, etc attributes.
I'm looking for ways to speed up the process and I came across the fact that during the process, .NET generates a temporary assembly with the types used for serialization, and that you can pre-generate this.  I used ANTS to look at how long this dynamic generation takes and it takes 2-3 seconds, so that's definitely a way to speed up the process.
The XML I'm working with is not XML that I generate.  Another process does it and I can't change that process.  The XML is not well formed.  There are no namespaces, and root names are duplicated between different XML snippets that correspond to distinct POCO objects.  So both objects have to be decorated with XmlRoot("XMLObj1") attributes.
I found out how I can generate the serialization assembly, but when I run the sgen tool, it complains about the fact that I'm generating two objects with the same root name.  It wants me to put namespaces in my XmlRoot attributes, which I can (and it solves the problem) but the XML I get doesn't have namespaces in it so I don't think this is going to serialize.  And obviously the .NET runtime can generate the serialization assembly as is, or I'd probably get a runtime exception.  So, does anybody have any suggestions on how to deal with this?  How can I generate the serialization assembly the same way the .net framework is?


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I use the word "nation" advisedly to refer to the people of the United States – defined by the common ground or territory on which we live, but also by the common ground of principle from which we derive the shared identity that unites us. It is the second ground, in particular, on which our nation's founders erected our institutions of government, given form by means of democratically republican constitutions, according to which our governments at every level wield powers delimited and delegated by the people, acting through officials they elect to represent their common and mutual commitment to secure the exercise of God-endowed right, in which they jointly and severally are engaged.
In this sense of the term, pretty much everything I write takes a national perspective – i.e., one intended to provide information, counsel, and advice to the people of the United States from their perspective as a sovereign people. This perspective is these days largely and systematically disdained on account of the elitist faction's anti-constitutional project to use the sham "two-party system" to impose one-faction dictatorship over the inhabitants of the United States.
At present, the United States of America faces what is probably the most difficult situation a nation has to endure. We are engaged in two formally undeclared wars, both of which pose an existential threat to our survival. One is a foreign-based threat, with serious capabilities within our own borders, typified at the moment by the Islamic jihadi ideology and global strategic aims of the organization commonly referred to as ISIS. The other is a strategic threat from powerful elitist forces both within and outside of our own country, who are at present seeking to culminate a decades-long offensive against our democratic, republican institutions.
As a matter of practical fact and strategic necessity, a controlling imperative in warfare is to know who the enemy is, what he is about, and what he has the intention and means to do about it. When battle lines are drawn with the enemy's forces on one side and our forces on the other, the imperative resolves itself with relative ease. Friendly forces can, for the most part, avoid coming into conflict with one another so long as different spheres of command and control are subject to operational rules and regulations that specify effective procedures for dealing with areas in which responsibilities overlap.
But in the two wars that presently beset the American people, the theaters of war do not just overlap, they largely coincide. We have friends abroad and enemies at home, and vice versa. We think of the threat from Islamic terrorism as "foreign" in origin. Those who see the threat from the elitist faction's dictatorial ambition usually regard it as a "domestic" political challenge. Yet the terrorists now appear to have an extensive cadre in our domestic territory, and the elitist faction has allies, ties, and perhaps its most important sources and lines of supply scattered all over the world.
We've been induced by sources of information the elitist faction controls to think of terrorism as a threat to our physical lives. Yet in ISIS and other such groups, it also obviously takes the form of an unrelenting ideological foe. Meanwhile, the political/ideological challenge posed by the elitist faction becomes an unavoidable preoccupation when dealing with some matters, such as the effort to erase the male/female distinction, and the imposition of homosexual marriage, abortion, and other matters contrary to God's endowment of unalienable right. These are issues that involve attacking the premises of the constitutional liberty that defines our national identity. Yet and still, the crippling attack on America's middle class (who are pivotally important to preserving the actual exercise of that liberty) has taken the form of a devastating assault on the economic wherewithal that in every way sustains every aspect of their physical lives.
Thus the two fronts of the war against our nation are not simply "foreign" or "domestic." Nor are they simply "ideological" or "physical." With respect to both our enemies, the two fronts entirely overlap. Much as the front line of the war with the terrorists obviously extends across every square inch of America's territory and to every one of its inhabitants and citizens, so the front line of the civil war against the tyrannical ambition of the elitist faction extends to every aspect of our nation's life and policy, at home and abroad, whether we are dealing with moral or material challenges.
Moreover, the threat from the jihadi terrorists is not just religious in nature, for it aims to overthrow our decent liberty and way of life. Nor is the threat from the anti-constitutionist elitist faction partisans just an effort to dissolve the moral character we derive from our common commitment to God-endowed right, for it obviously aims to secure our physical/material subjugation along the way. As its particulars emerge, it becomes increasingly clear that the Orlando massacre exemplifies the two-front war being waged against our nation. It clarifies the coincident and mutually reinforcing character of the two enemies we face.
With the amalgamated nature of our enemy thus brought into focus, we have reason to think through how the activities of our nation's foreign and domestic foes interweave to form the mesh intended to capture and subjugate our nation, punishing us in the process for our success in standing against tyrannical injustice, but also for abandoning the creed that inspired us to do so. As a nation, therefore, we stand where all-too-human beings all too often do – on the horns of the dilemma of good and evil that sometimes seems almost to define our nature.
Our situation, presently besieged, tends to harden our hearts, like Pharaoh's, against our only true hope. The way in which it arises contradicts the prideful slogans that vainly promise to "Make America Great Again." Instead, we must return to the creed that from the beginning gave our nation reason to exist – the creed of God's endowment, that let His Greatness shine. We must trust, as our flawed forbears did, in His promise to forgive us, even though we have again and again betrayed the cause that in every previous generation eventually filled our people with His Spirit of confidence and courage. It is the Spirit with which He spoke the Word of all Creation. It is the very breath of life that made, and may make us yet again, what God from the first intended for all humankind to be: mindful of right as He endows it, and therefore truly free.


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About Vaal University of Technology
Established in 2004 as Vaal University of Technology (VUT), it originated as a College of Advanced Technical Education (1966-1979) and was later known as Vaal Triangle Technikon (1979-2003).
As part of the transformation of the higher education sector in 2004, institutional restructuring reduced, through mergers and incorporations, the number of institutions of higher education and training in South Africa from 36 to 23. Vaal University of Technology was subsequently established under the Higher Education Act, No 101 of 1997.
Based in southern Gauteng, Vaal University of Technology draws students from all regions of the country as well as 25 other countries. It is one of the largest universities of technology in South Africa, with an annual enrolment of about 21 000 students. The University is well positioned to make a substantial contribution to the development of human capital in the southern Gauteng region, the country and the continent.
It has four faculties:
Faculty of Applied and Computer Sciences
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Faculty of Human Sciences
Faculty of Management Sciences.
VUT has four campuses. The Vanderbijlpark Campus is situated on 4.6 hectares of land with a state-of-the-art Library, lecture halls, laboratories, auditoriums and offices. Three satellite campuses extend the academic business of the university into Secunda andKempton Park (also in Gauteng) and Upington, in the Northern Cape. An extension to the main campus is located in Educity,Sebokeng, which is being developed into a Science and Technology Park and the seat of the southern Gauteng regional Innovation Hub. VUT is located in a highly industrialised area alongside major petro-chemical, steel, engineering, telecommunications and manufacturing companies. It is also surrounded by communities with poor economic backgrounds.
VUT is the university that leads in innovative knowledge and quality technology education
To produce top quality, employable and entrepreneurial graduates who can impact society through:
Adopting cutting-edge technology and teaching methods
Producing a scholarly environment conducive to learning and innovation
Developing a Programmes and Qualifications Mix (PQM) that meets the needs of society in Africa and beyond.
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To be a leading African University focused on the developmental needs of its communities and epitomising academic excellence and innovativeness
A University which responds actively:
To the development needs of its students, staff and communities,
Through relevant and higher quality education and training, research and community engagement, and
In partnership and collaboration with its stakeholders.
Excellence and Professionalism
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University of Venda – developing responsible citizens
Welcome to the website of the University of Venda, known as Univen.
Your interest in our University is most welcome and very much appreciated. We are committed to excellence and are working towards becoming a quality driven, financially sustainable, rural based comprehensive University.
Our goal is to develop responsible citizens who will impact positively on the growth and development of South Africa. Univen has the necessary human resource capital and is ready to serve as the engine that drives the regional growth and development strategy in South Africa in general and the Limpopo Province in particular.
As part of the restructuring of higher education in South Africa, Univen was mandated by government to become a comprehensive University. This entails a fundamental academic planning exercise that involves the re-engineering of our core business. Committed to quality and excellence, we offer a diverse range of academic, professional and career focused programmes – both on undergraduate and postgraduate level – that are relevant to the job market. These range from Agriculture, Health Sciences, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Law, Human and Social Sciences, Management Sciences, Environmental Sciences to Education and community engagement.
Thank you for visiting our website and I hope you found it helpful. Please feel free to contact us at any time for additional information or assistance.
Professor Peter Mbati
Vice-Chancellor and Principal
http://www.univen.ac.za/
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ABOUT DUT
With approximately 23 000 students, the Durban University of Technology (DUT) is the first choice for higher education in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). It is located in the beautiful cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg (PMB). As a University of Technology, it prioritises the quality of teaching and learning by ensuring its academic staff possess the highest possible qualification that they can get.
The Durban University of Technology is a result of the merger in April 2002 of two prestigious technikons, ML Sultan and Technikon Natal. It was named the Durban Institute of Technology and later became the Durban University of Technology in line with the rest of the universities of technology.
DUT, a member of the International Association of Universities, is a multi-campus university of technology at the cutting edge of higher education, technological training and research. The university aspires to be a "preferred university for developing leadership in technology and productive citizenship", and to "making knowledge useful".
As a butterfly develops from a pupa, so have the students at our institution. From the moment they register as green freshers, to their capping at the hallowed graduation ceremony, our students undergo an intellectual evolution.
http://www.dut.ac.za/contact_us
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The leading ODL university
As Africa's leading open distance learning institution, we offer internationally accredited qualifications and have world-class resources that inspire learners to create meaningful futures on their own terms.
We are the African University shaping futures in the service of humanity
We are a reputable, comprehensive, flexible and accessible open distance learning institution that is motivating a future generation. We offer internationally accredited qualifications and have world-class resources. Our vision "towards the African University shaping futures in the service of humanity" drives us to find answers to Africa's educational and developmental problems.
Explore the more than 140 years of Unisa's existence and celebrate our decades of service to students in South Africa and beyond. Learn more about Unisa's evolution from a small, colonial examining body into one of the world's largest open distance learning institutions — an exuberantly African global leaders.
The three core business areas of Unisa are teaching, research and community engagement. Our world-class research is spearheaded by the Research and Innovation portfolio and community engagement by our Community Engagement and Outreach Policy. We also place great importance on the celebration and promotion of our African arts and culture through various endeavours.
Management at Unisa is ultimately responsible for creating an environment and culture that is conducive to the attainment of the university's vision to be the African university in the service of humanity. Part of this responsibility lies in determining the mission, values, goals, objectives, strategies and policies that will safeguard and promote this vision.
Offering study opportunities to more than 400 000 students from across South Africa, Africa and other parts of the world, Unisa offers a diverse choice of study fields at levels from certificate to degree. The university is considered South Africa's most productive* accounting for 12.8% of all degrees conferred by the country's 23 public universities and universities of technology.
http://www.unisa.ac.za/
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About UWC
The University of the Western Cape is a national university, alert to its African and international context as it strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow. It is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research, to nurturing the cultural diversity of South Africa, and to responding in critical and creative ways to the needs of a society in transition.
Drawing on its proud experience in the liberation struggle, the university is aware of a distinctive academic role in helping build an equitable and dynamic society. In particular it aims to: Advance and protect the independence of the academic enterprise.
University of the Western Cape,
Robert Sobukwe Road,
Bellville, 7535,
info@uwc.ac.za | +27 21 959 2911
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THE NWU
NWU @ a glance
The NWU is a multi-campus university with a footprint across two provinces. The Mafikeng and Potchefstroom Campuses are situated in the North-West Province and the Vaal Triangle Campus is in Gauteng. The head office, known as the Institutional Office, is in Potchefstroom, situated near the Potchefstroom Campus.
"It all starts here" is the NWU's pay-off line. The NWU was established on 1 January 2004 through the merger of two universities with very different histories, personalities and cultures: the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education and the University of the North-West. The staff and students of the Sebokeng Campus of Vista University were also incorporated, adding further to the richness of our heritage.
Today, the NWU is recognised as one of the best-managed and most innovative universities in South Africa. We continue to celebrate and encourage multiculturalism, multilingualism and multinationalism.
One word that captures the spirit of the North-West University is "innovative". This characteristic runs across all our activities and operations, from the research we conduct to our academic offerings, management model, campus structure, student body, community engagement and sports achievements.
The publication known as the "Corporate Profile" reflects the innovative culture and management excellence of the NWU.
The NWU brand
The NWU has a powerful brand that proudly projects our personality and aspirations to the world. The essence of this brand is that we are a leading and sustainable teaching-learning and research university that harnesses diversity and pursues innovation to make a meaningful difference in South Africa and the world.
The brand has three main elements: the NWU logo, name and pay-off line:
• Our logo: The chain of three inter-locking links symbolises the unity of the University and visually express the resolve and sense of partnership within it. The three colours symbolise the diversity of the three campuses and the NWU's use of diverse education and institutional offerings to contribute to improving the human condition and human relationships.
• Our name: the word-mark North-West University identifies all our teaching, learning and research offerings or sub-brands.
• Our pay-off line: The pay-off line of the University hints at a place where dreams begin – a place where you can visualise your aspirations and future success. It shifts the focus from the University as an institution to the stakeholders of the University and what the University means to them.
Study choices
The NWU offers students an exceptionally rich range of study choices at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Our offerings span the spectrum of academic disciplines, from agriculture and the arts through to commerce, engineering, education, health, law, the natural sciences and theology.
Academic programming
Academically, every NWU campus has something special to offer. For example, the Mafikeng Campus is unrivalled in its approach to animal health and agricultural sciences, while the Potchefstroom Campus has unique nuclear engineering strengths and the Vaal Triangle Campus specialises in economic sciences and information technology.
The NWU has a clear vision for research and innovation. This is to move from being a tuition-based university that does focused research towards a balanced teaching-learning and research university.
Research Entities Model
To speed up the move towards becoming a balanced teaching-learning and research university, the NWU has introduced a new Research Entities Model. This model is designed to put research output on a high-growth, high-performance path by encouraging the establishment of more research start-up groups and creating more scope for growth for existing research teams.
There are four levels of research entities, starting with the "entry level" entity, that of a niche area, followed by a focus area, then a unit and ultimately a centre of excellence.
http://www.nwu.ac.za/
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Wits is a remarkable university that is internationally distinguished for its excellent research, high academic standards and commitment to social justice.
Our partners, networks and relationships serve as catalysts for the great ideas that help us to make the impossible, incredible. We invite you to join us on our extraordinary journey to effect meaningful change in society and pave the way for a bright future for generations to come.
1 Jan Smuts Avenue
Braamfontein 2000
www.wits.ac.za/askwits
Fees: feesoffice.finance@wits.ac.za
Funding: info.finaid@wits.ac.za
International student enquiries
studysa.international@wits.ac.za
Wits University offers a wealth of sightseeing and educational opportunities for tourists and first-time visitors.
Take a virtual tour of our campuses which are spread over more than 400 acres in Parktown and Braamfontein. Maps are easily accessible to help visitors navigate and enjoy our world-class facilities. Experience the arts by browsing through our current events or discover the diversity of our rich heritage by visiting one of our museums or centres here.
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The University of the Free State (UFS) is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in South Africa. It opened its doors in 1904 on the Bloemfontein Campus with a mere six students in the Humanities. Since then, our institution has grown to more than 34 127 students, spread across seven faculties over three campuses.
In addition to the founding campus, the university has a South Campus in Bloemfontein. This smaller campus provides alternative access to higher education for promising students who have not obtained the required marks in their final school examinations. Our vibrant Qwaqwa Campus in the Eastern Free State serves a rapidly-growing number of rural students from the immediate area and surrounding provinces.
The changes taking place at the university continue to capture the imagination of people everywhere, including the international media, and our growing base of international universities.
Inspiring excellence. Transforming lives. These objectives are the driving forces at the heart of the UFS. Through our Human and Academic Projects, we are a university internationally recognised for human reconciliation and compassion as well as for excellence in academic achievement.
Academic Project
One of the reasons for the broader interest in the UFS is our very public commitment to the highest academic standards. This is at the core of our Academic Project. The UFS is a strong academic institution, marked by distinctiveness in teaching, research, and public scholarship. The Academic Project includes rigorous academic entrance qualifications for first-time students, elevated standards for the professoriate, the transformation of undergraduate curricula, the recruitment of world-class professors, and the identification and promotion of next-generation professors.
Human Project
The UFS remains conscious, however, of its responsibility to turn ideas into action, to make research count in the lives of ordinary people, and to develop a spirit of service through scholarship among our students. Through our Human Project, the UFS seeks to connect the teaching and research of the university to the improvement of human lives. Our scholarship of service, through a myriad projects and initiatives, makes the vital connections between campus and communities through the production and dissemination of knowledge. In these pursuits, the university makes human reconciliation one of the foundations of its mission.
University contact numbers
Write to:
Bloemfontein Campus
Qwaqwa Campus South Campus
South Africa Qwaqwa Campus
Kestell Road
Phuthaditjhaba
9866 South Campus
Bloemfontein Campus Qwaqwa Campus South Campus
205 Nelson Mandela Drive
Bloemfontein Qwaqwa Campus
Phuthaditjhaba South Campus
Maps of our campuses
Or telephone:
Bloemfontein Campus: +27(0)51 401 9111
Qwaqwa Campus: Tel: +27(0)58 718 5000
South Campus: +27(0)51 401 9111
For general information, e-mail: info@ufs.ac.za
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To be the Premier University of African Scholarship.
A truly South African university that is academically excellent, innovative in research, critically engaged with society and demographically representative, redressing the disadvantages, inequities and imbalances of the past.
PRINCIPLES AND CORE VALUES
The University aspires to be a positively transformed institution based on a clear understanding of its goals for broad and comprehensive change underpinned by shared values. These values serve as a framework for all its endeavours.
As the University community we pledge ourselves to:
Actively encourage and respect the right of all scholars, staff and students to engage in critical inquiry, independent research, intellectual discourse and public debate in a spirit of responsibility and accountability, in accordance with the principles of academic freedom and institutional autonomy.
Promote access to learning that will expand educational and employment opportunities for all.
Embrace our responsibility as a public institution to support and contribute to national and regional development, and the welfare and upliftment of the wider community, through the generation and dissemination of knowledge and the production of socially-responsible graduates.
Conduct ourselves according to the highest ethical standards, and provide education that promotes an awareness of sound ethical practice in a diverse society.
Manage and run our institution in conscious awareness of the environment, and foster a culture of responsible, ethical and sustainable use of natural resources.
Ensure effective governance through broad and inclusive participation, democratic representation, accountability, and transparency that serves as an example that contributes to building the democratic ethos of our country.
Acknowledge the value of the individual by promoting the intellectual, social and personal well-being of staff and students through tolerance and respect for multilingualism, diverse cultures, religions and social values, and by fostering the realisation of each person's full potential.
The goals of the University are:
African-led Globalisation:
To promote African-led globalisation through African scholarship by positioning the University, through its teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and innovation, to enter the global knowledge system on it.
Responsible Community Engagement:
To contribute through knowledge to the prosperity and sustainability of our province, and to nation-building, by connecting with and committing ourselves to the communities we serve in a manner that adds value and earns their respect, admiration and trust.
Pre-eminence in Research:
To build a research ethos that acknowledges the responsibility of academic staff to nurture its postgraduate students, and to be a pre-eminent producer of new knowledge that is both local and global in context, and defines UKZN as the premier university of African scholarship.
Excellence in Teaching and Learning: To promote excellence in teaching and learning through creative and innovative curriculum design and development, pedagogical strategies, and assessment
practices in accordance with the highest quality management principles.
Institution of Choice for Learners:
To establish the University as an institution of choice that values students in all their diversity and has a student-centred ethos, providing students with curricula, teachers, infrastructure and support services designed around their needs and producing well-educated, competent, sought-after graduates.
Institution of Choice for Staff:
To establish the University as an institution of choice that attracts and retains academic and support staff of the highest calibre by creating an intellectual environment that fosters and stimulates academic life, and a climate of organisational citizenship in which all staff recognise and understand their role in ensuring the success of the University.
Efficient and Effective Management:
To establish and maintain efficient, effective management systems and processes that provide a caring and responsive service to meet internal and external needs in a pragmatic and flexible manner.
EDGEWOOD HOWARD COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL PIETERMARITZBURG WESTVILLE
DBN: +27 31 260 1111 | PMB: +27 33 260 5111 | or Call +27 31 260 8596 and follow the voice prompts
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CAMPUS WIDE ADDRESS
Corner of Richmond &
Marianhill Rd,
3605 Mazisi Kunene Road,
University of KZN
4041 Umbilo Road
Private Bag 7
Congella
4013 King Edward Avenue
3209 University Road
Private Bag X 54001
UNIVERSITY WIDE APPLICATIONS AND INFORMATION
Mazisi Kunene Road,
Durban Postal Address
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The Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) is a proud product of South Africa's first decade of democracy. While the size and scope of this dynamic new institution impress, the quality of its teaching, research and community engagement is what makes the University really stands out.
TUT was established on 1 January 2004, with the merging of the former Technikon Northern Gauteng, Technikon North-West and Technikon Pretoria. At the time of the merger, the uniquely South African institutional designation of "technikon" was dropped in favour for the internationally accepted "university of technology" designation.
This new mega-institution annually enrols approximately 60 000 students. Its student body is one of the most demographically representative in the country in terms of both race and gender, reflecting the Rainbow Nation in all its diversity. With almost 22 per cent of contact students accommodated in residences, the University is by far the largest residential higher education institution in Southern Africa.
Its geographic footprint covers four of South Africa's nine provinces – Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and the North-West Province – with campuses located in Tshwane (Pretoria, Soshanguve and Ga-Rankuwa), Mbombela (previously called Nelspruit), eMalahleni (previously called Witbank) and Polokwane (previously called Pietersburg). Large numbers of students are also drawn from other provinces and from neighbouring countries such as Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Swaziland.
TUT employs more than 2 700 permanent staff members, including almost 855 highly qualified permanent academics. These academics are increasingly focusing on conducting applied research and community engagement activities in addition to their instructional roles. Caring for the underprivileged, the upliftment of people and assisting those in need are key elements of the University's community engagement strategy.
Career-focused
TUT is truly an institution in service of the Southern African community. One of its key focuses is, therefore, the economic and social development of the Southern African region. In its quest to promote knowledge and technology, it provides the market with a career-focused workforce. It also aims at making a significant contribution to creating sustainable economic growth that will impact on the standard of living of all of the region's people.
The education offered at TUT, with its entrepreneurial focus, opens up unlimited opportunities for students to become job creators and entrepreneurs. This is established by creating prosperity through the stimulation of innovation and creative thinking. This is facilitated by various incubators and technology stations.
TUT strives to be a leading institution, viewing the diversity of its staff, students and other stakeholders as a strength to be nurtured in service of the country and the African continent. The University is committed to ongoing transformation to make it ever more responsive to the needs of Southern Africa and the continent, as a whole.
Pretoria Campus
Contact Centre: 086 110 2421
Switchboard: 086 110 2422
Main Tel: 012 382 5911
e-mail for general enquiries: general@tut.ac.za
Private Bag X680
Pretoria 0001
Staatsartillerie Road, Pretoria West
To apply for study at TUT, SMS TUT, your name, the course you want to do and your e-mail address to 41794
TOLL-FREE FRAUD HOTLINE 0800 21 23 41
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About University of Johannesburg
Vibrant, multicultural and dynamic, the University of Johannesburg (UJ) shares the pace and energy of cosmopolitan Johannesburg, the city whose name it carries. Proudly South African, the university is alive down to its African roots, and well-prepared for its role in actualising the potential that higher education holds for the continent's development.
The phenomenal success story of the University is one that has surprised critics and won over sceptics. Being an institution that prides itself in its accessible excellence, after only nine years UJ has established itself as an institution of global excellence and world-class stature.
In its first five years of existence, UJ doubled its accredited research output and increased its number of distinguished South African Research Chairs from none to seven. This remarkable achievement was reached well ahead of the target set for 2015. The 2010 research outcome was the result of UJ's desire, during the initial period, to establish UJ as a thoroughly research-focused university.
UJ is the first and only African university admitted to the highly respected consortium of 28 research-intensive universities in the world, Universitas 21 – an important endorsement of the growing international stature of UJ.
UJ boasts world-class, internationally recognised academic programmes based on curricula informed by cutting-edge developments in both undergraduate and postgraduate education. UJ's programmes, within its nine faculties, are designed to prepare students for the world of work and for global citizenship. The University has four campuses, namely the Auckland Park Bunting Road Campus; the Auckland Park Kingsway Campus; the Doornfontein Campus; and the Soweto Campus.
Based on the choices of UJ's Orange Carpet First-Year Students – those with an APS score equal to and greater than 40 points – the flagship programmes include: Accounting; Electrical and Electronic/ Mechanical/ Civil/ Mining Engineering; LLB/ BA Law/ BCom Law; Mathematics/ Applied Mathematics; IT/ Computer Sciences; Human Physiology; Optometry; Finance; Psychology; and Teacher Education.
In order to make UJ's teaching, research and innovation goals a reality, UJ has, over the past eight years, invested in excess of R2 billion into the upgrading and expansion of living and learning facilities on all of its campuses and into creating a safe and secure, world-class learning and research environment for both staff and students.
UJ also introduced handheld devices (a tablet or laptop) into first-year classrooms in 2014, in a bid to connect these young minds with the world of e-knowledge that they are growing into, and to transform their ability to contribute and compete.
UJ's graduate success rate now stands at 83,4% and the overall annual graduate output is in excess of 11,400 students. The University's First Year Experience Programme (FYE), an initiative offering academic skills reinforcement with an accent on students mentoring fellow students, is one of the support programmes that help ease the school-to-university transition. Almost 1,300 student tutors, selected from third-year level and up, act as an interface between students and teaching staff. UJ also introduced academic advisors in University residences and approved off-campus accommodation facilities. Under UJ's Academic Excellence Programme, 250 student advisors are serving 2,000 first-year students in 25 residences.
Notable, too, is that UJ, with more than 49,500 students; 2,300 international students; 6,700 postgraduates and renowned academic staff, is an institution with an admirable graduation rate. UJ is home to 133 rated researchers, six of whom are A-rated, and has seven National Research Foundation Chairs. Additionally, it produces the largest number of black accountants of all accredited residential universities in the country.
While UJ pursues global excellence and stature, the University envisages being nationally responsive in a manner that only UJ can. In this regard, among South Africa's six leading universities, only UJ successfully provides access to almost 2,000 first-year students who come from the poorest communities, providing them, where needed, with top-up NSFAS funding, bursaries and two healthy meals a day.
e-mail: myfuture@uj.ac.za
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Flood damage to Booloumba Creek 3 camping area
21 December 2022 to 21 June 2023
Conondale National ParkBrisbane; Sunshine Coast
As a result of flood damage, camping sites 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 have been closed. QPWS rangers are currently working on establishing alternate sites. Observe all signage, barriers and directions from rangers, and do not enter closed areas. Alternate facilities are available at Booloumba Creek 4 camping area and Charlie Moreland camping area in Imbil State Forest.
All permits for closed areas are suspended for the duration of the closure. Customers with future bookings (more than 2 days out) can manage their own cancellations or modifications through their National Parks Booking System account. Customers with camping bookings within 2 days of the start date can contact camping support at qpws@des.qld.gov.au to apply for a refund.
Commercial tour operators and other permit or agreement holders are not permitted to enter closed areas.