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Back in the early 1960s, Philip Roth wrote a famous essay declaring that modern American life had gotten so delirious that it dwarfed fiction's ability to match it. Never did his words seem truer than in 1994, when O.J. Simpson — football god, mediocre movie actor and amiable pitchman for Hertz — was charged with butchering his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
"Money doesn't talk," said Bob Dylan. "It swears." This is almost literally true in the blizzard of books, movies and TV shows about our financial one-percenters. If our wolves of Wall Street love anything more than obscene wealth, it's obscene language. These guys — and they are mainly guys — don't trust anyone who's shy about dropping F-bombs.
It's that time of the year when critics proudly unveil their "10 Best" lists. But every December, I find myself compiling a private list that's different and guiltier. I call it my Ghost List, and it's composed of all the terrific things I've read, watched or heard that, for reasons ranging from bad timing to laziness — yes, critics can be lazy — I didn't get around to praising on Fresh Air. This year, I've decided to rectify that by conjuring up six ghosts I wish I'd shared with you earlier.
The most intractable conflict in modern life is the battle between those who want society to be somehow pure — religiously, say, or racially — and those who see society as an ever-changing mix and actually prefer it that way. You could hardly find a more horrific example of this split than the Islamic State's terror attack on the proudly diverse city of Paris.
If you asked me the difference between modern American novels and modern French ones, I'd start by saying, the French ones are shorter.
Now, I realize this isn't universally true — Proust's In Search of Lost Time makes The Great Gatsby look as thin as a SIM card. But where our writers tend to fatten their books in hopes of the Great American Novel, France has a taste for elegant concision that runs from Gide through Camus to the 2014 Nobel Laureate, Patrick Modiano. French readers don't feel cheated if a book runs only 120 pages.
If the detective was the defining pop hero of the 20th century, in the 21st, it's the hacker. From The Matrix to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — not to mention Julian Assange and Edward Snowden — hackers have become inescapable.
After the Republicans held their lively first debate, you heard people saying what they always say nowadays — that our media-driven political discourse has become shallow and petty, even clownish. Hearing this, an innocent young person might believe that, not so long ago, America was a latter-day Athens in which political arguments were magnificent in their purity and eloquence.
Back in college English, I was taught that it was foolish to think that fictional characters have any reality beyond the page. You shouldn't speculate about how many children Lady Macbeth had or what job Holden Caulfield wound up doing as a grown-up.
In his famous essay, "The Simple Art of Murder," Raymond Chandler put down the classic British mystery, making fun of its arcane killings and hokey air of gentility. He preferred the tough American style and praised Dashiell Hammett for, as he put it, taking murder out of the vicar's rose garden and dropping it in the alley where it belonged.
It seems like there's always some writer you're supposed to be reading. These days, it's Karl Ove Knausgaard, the 46-year-old Norwegian whose six-volume, 3,600-page autobiographical novel, My Struggle, has become a literary sensation. Over the past couple of years, I haven't been able to go to a social gathering without someone asking what I thought of his work. When I've said that I hadn't read a word, they would look genuinely startled and tell me, "You have to."


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MacBook Series Getting New Models Soon, Registrations Suggest
By	Anindita Ghosh | June 17, 2019
After refreshing its MacBook Pro lineup earlier this month, Apple appears to be readying the launch of new "portable" computers, according to registration of new Mac models in the Eurasian Economic Commission uncovered by MacRumors. Registration in the Eurasian Economic Commission generally precede the release of new Apple products.
In the past, release of several Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPad Pro, Apple Watch, and AirPods models followed such registrations, MacRumors reported.
According to the new listings, Apple on Thursday registered seven unreleased Mac models including A2141, A2147, A2158, A2159, A2179, A2182, and A2251.
As they are described as "portable" computers, the new models appear to be notebooks, added the report.
Apple earlier this month updated its MacBook Pro with 8th- and 9th-generation Intel Core processors, bringing eight cores to the computer and making it the fastest MacBook ever.
This was the first time the iPhone-maker added eight cores to MacBook Pro models to allow the devices to perform twice as fast as a quad-core MacBook Pro and 40 percent better than a 6-core MacBook Pro.
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Establishments being sealed across Delhi to curb child labour
Posted on July 15, 2012 Posted By: ravikantsvCategories: SHAKTI VAHINI
PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU
"Apart from nearly 18 hazardous trades and about 65 processes, other works involving children are exempted under Sections 8 to 11 of the Act" said Labour Department official. Most establishments from where child workers are being rescued are now being sealed as per a recent Delhi High Court order.A senior Labour Department official said on Saturday that ever since the High Court's May order, in which it had directed the sealing of all those premises from where child workers are rescued, the Department has been getting such premises sealed through the area Sub-Divisional Magistrates or the Tehsildars.He said it is also pertinent to note that not all cases of child labour are punishable under the law. The Child Labour Actprohibits employment of children in certain specified hazardous operations and processes and regulates the working conditions in others. He said the Act covers children up to the age of 14.
"Apart from nearly 18 hazardous trades and about 65 processes, other works involving children are exempted under Sections 8 to 11 of the Act. But they also specify the working conditions for the children."
Stating that children cannot be made to work for over six-and-half hours a day and have to be mandatorily given a rest after every two hours of work, the official said these rules were seldom followed.It was a Division Bench comprising Justice A. K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw which had also directed the Delhi Government to file a status report by July 30 on the matter along with the details of the rescue operations and rehabilitation plans.
"In pursuance of the court directives, we have been actively carrying out raids against establishments and premises engaging child workers," said the official.
Stating that child labour was basically a "social evil," the official said the Right to Education Act has also made it mandatory for every child to have access to schools and education. Therefore, to discourage employment of children, raids are being mounted by the Labour Department along with officials of Revenue Department, Delhi Police, Department of Health, Municipal Corporation and NGO representatives.
"Each of these departments play a different role. We also videograph or photograph the raids wherever possible as evidence to prove the guilt of the establishments being raided."
The official said the District Task Forces, comprising members of these departments and groups, have been carrying out raids across Delhi.
The problem of child labour has been compounded by issues such as growth in population, dependence of families on the incomes of their children or their inability to support the young ones, the demand for cheap labour and the fact that children are seen as docile workers who do not know about their rights and who, for fear of being beaten up, put up with long hours of work. Incidentally, the offence of employing children is bailable and most often those guilty of engaging child labourers get away by payment of a mere penalty.
President of Shakti Vahini, an NGO engaged in rescue and rehabilitation of child workers, Ravi Kant said the time has come to redraft the old, weak Child Labour Act as it neither has prosecution value nor provides provisions for proper rehabilitation. "Even now the reliance is more on the Juvenile Justice Act because of its stronger provisions."
He said the child labour law was now in conflict with the Constitution, as under the Right to Education Act, there should be a complete ban on child labour whereas it only prohibits it in parts. "The Government should also take a firm stand in the matter. The Act only deals with children up to 14 years of age leading other adolescents up to 18 years prone to all kinds of exploitation while being employed as domestic or other workers."
Child Labour, Shakti Vahini


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"Straight Talking" is a performance that addresses attitudes towards LGB (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual) issues. This piece has been endorsed by Elly Barnes, LGBT Schools Advisor for Birmingham City Council and Number One on The Independent's 2011 "Pink List"
Turing's Sunflowers
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How to teach … LGBT history month
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LGBT History Month Resources
LGBT History Month, which begins on 1 February, aims to promote tolerance and raise awareness of the prejudices faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. TES' LGBT collection offers support and guidance to primary and secondary schools in challenging homophobic bullying and celebrating diversity. All our resources have been shared by TES partners to help teachers.
Rights Against INtolerance: Building an Open-minded World (RAINBOW) project.
These films and the accompanying lessons challenge homophobia and transphobia by challenging the stereotypes that lead to prejudice and discrimination. The project was developed in the Basque Country, the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Bulgaria.
NUT Prevalence of Homophobia Survey
Homophobia in our schools has been described as 'epidemic', the 'last bastion of the bully' and 'the elephant in the room'. Following the Teacher Support Network/Times Education Supplement survey of teachers in 2006 and the Stonewall School report on 2007, the NUT Prevalence of Homophobia Survey began in 2008 in Oldham and further surveys have since rolled out across the North of England.
Spare Tyre Theatre
Spare Tyre is one of the UK's leading participatory arts companies. We have over 30 years of experience of creating theatre with voiceless communities
The Journey Man
Assemblies, performances and workshops from internationally travelled storyteller – The Journey Man
FIT by Stonewall, Queer up North and Rikki Beadle-Blair
The feature film adaptation of Stonewall's highly successful play for schools.
Gay by Leicestershire County Council Anti-Bullying Team and Robert Higgs
Leicestershire County Council has teamed up with successful writer and performer Robert Higgs to produce a new play for schools on Homophobic Bullying
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France Télévisions prebuys Technicolor series
29th April 2014 @ 10:47
French public broadcaster France Télévisions has prebought animated kids series Atomic Puppet.
The 52x11mins show is produced by Technicolor, which is also on distribution duty, alongside Canada's Mercury Filmworks and France's Gaumont Animation. It will air on the France 4 channel in 2016.
It will debut on the Teletoon channel in Canada and in France, Disney XD has French pay TV rights. Disney has also acquired it for XD in other territories.
In the comedy 'toon series, a fearless superhero is transformed into a powerless puppet by his disgruntled sidekick, the hero's powers are accidentally transferred to his biggest fan, 12-year old Joey Felt.
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Bad Robot hires FX exec John Agbaje to animation team
JJ Abrams' Bad Robot has appointed former FX exec John Agbaje as its first SVP of animation. Agbaje will work on animation projects across the US prodco's film and TV groups, reporting to Bad Robot's president of film Hannah Minghella. The company's current animated slate includes the recently announced short The Boy, The Mole, The […]
Banijay takes Italian & Swedish domestic abuse formats to global buyers
Banijay is rolling out two formats to international buyers that are designed to raise awareness around domestic abuse. Crimes Of Passion has been acquired from La Bastoggi in Italy, where it has aired since 2007. The 120-minute format centres around femicide, with each episode focusing on a woman who was killed and relying on the narrative […]
WarnerMedia rejigs Lat Am with network president & originals chief exiting
WarnerMedia's restructuring outside of the US has continued with two major exits from its Latin America operations. HBO Latin America's president of networks, Luis Peraza, is departing at the end of February along with VP of original production, Roberto Rios, both of whom have been with the company for more than two decades. Peraza helped […]
UK's Red Room preps WW2 limited series about British spy Noir Inayat Khan; Freida Pinto to star and exec produce
UK-based Red Room Films is to produce a limited series based on Spy Princess: The Life Of Noor Inayat Khan, Shrabani Basu's biography of the British spy, with Freida Pinto attached to star and executive produce. Olivia Hetreed (Girl With A Pearl Earring) will write the adaptation, while author Basu will serve as a consultant […]
'Three Identical Strangers' creators CNN Films & Raw re-team for new investigative doc
BBC Studios unveils slates & 'curated service' for virtual Showcase
Viu moves into French-language drama with 'The Outbreak' in Middle East
UK business accelerator Indielab calls for 2021 applications


Why doesn't anyone trust this delicious Easter candy?
Every year between January and Easter, the Cadbury Creme Egg is resurrected from its seasonal slumber to be enjoyed by those who look forward to unpeeling its iconic tin foil wrapper, cracking open its chocolate casing and ogling its sweet, gooey insides. But it turns out that there a lot more layers to the Cadbury Creme Egg—that cipher—than perhaps you knew. Like the story of Jesus, there is a fair share of controversy surrounding this seemingly innocuous candy, which is the subject of many a conspiracy theory.
For instance, a photo is now being circulated online showing a man brandishing Halal certification sheets and Cadbury Dairy Milk bars. Of course, that means there must be a Muslim conspiracy swirling, right? Not exactly. As Alex Swerdloff of Vice's food site Munchies tells it in a handy primer, the photo dates back to 2014, when Cadbury was the subject of another unfounded rumor in Malaysia, as speculation spread that Cadbury's products contained pig DNA, which would have violated Islamic dietary laws.
Nutty stuff. Most of the falsities revolving around the Cadbury Creme Egg have to do with the idea that the company is anti-Easter. Last year, for example, a slew of UK newspapers reported that Cadbury had removed the word "Easter" from all of its packaging, which wasn't true.
What is it about the Cadbury Creme Egg that inspires such intrigue and speculation?
Last year, John Oliver, in his weekly HBO show Last Week Tonight, satirized the slew of conspiracy videos that circulate on YouTube with a look at—you guessed it—the Cadbury Creme Egg.
Oliver takes us down a circuitous, free-associative rabbit hole that eventually links Cadbury to the Illuminati, because that's where every conspiracy seems to end. His point, of course, is that conspiracy theories make no sense at all. But whether Cadbury Creme Eggs have the characteristics that inspire conspiracy theories or conspiracy theorists are predisposed to project their dark thoughts onto any random thing is a chicken-or-egg question that we may never able to answer.


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Rugged Samsung Galaxy Xcover 5 May Feature A 19:9 Display
Android Headlines Dominik Bosnjak Sep 17, 2018
Dominik Bosnjak Sep 17, 2018 Read Source
In short: The Galaxy Xcover 5 may be Samsung's first smartphone with a 19:9 display, as suggested by a new browser benchmark listing discovered in the HTML5test database. First spotted by Dutch tech blog Mobiel Kopen, the entry identifies the tested device as the SM-G405F and indicates its screen features a resolution of 3,040 by 1,440 pixels, amounting to the tallest aspect ratio ever associated with a Samsung-made handset. The same phone has also been listed as running Android 9 Pie, whereas its model number suggests it may be part of the company's rugged phone family.
Background: The Galaxy Xcover 4 launched 18 months ago carried the model number SM-G390, whereas the Galaxy Xcover 3 line was known as the SM-G388. While the first two generations of the series followed a different naming scheme, no other existing handset from Samsung featured a model number that was remotely similar to the newly spotted one. The "F" in the SM-G405F moniker is also indicative of the tested device being powered by a Samsung-made Exynos chip, with that particular identifier usually being associated with international variants of the company's products, meaning the SM-G405F model likely won't ever be sold in the U.S. The Galaxy Xcover 5 was already prematurely listed by Samsung New Zealand in April, six weeks after its first alleged image leaked online, suggesting the handset will sport a triple-LED flash unit on the back. The fact that the device wasn't released until now may imply Samsung canceled the project, especially given how the Seoul-based firm now appears to be moving away from the rugged phone niche, as evidenced by the fact that the Galaxy S9 Active isn't happening this year even though the company ennobled the previous five generations of its Galaxy S family with an Active-branded model.
Impact: Between a slim aspect ratio that's even taller than the 18.5:9 one used by Samsung's Infinity Display panels and the existence of Android 9 Pie, the Xcover line may be set to receive its most significant remake ever, provided the SM-G405F truly is a member of the rugged handset series. Alternatively, Samsung may be developing an entirely new Android device line, which would also be in line with the company's recent research and development efforts; in the coming months, the tech giant is expected to unveil its first foldable phone, its first quadruple-camera handset, and possibly even a Galaxy A-series product powered by the high-end Snapdragon 845 chip from Qualcomm, according to recent reports.
The post Rugged Samsung Galaxy Xcover 5 May Feature A 19:9 Display appeared first on AndroidHeadlines.com |.


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Nearly $4 million to fund drug discovery research for Alzheimer's, other dementia
Reviewed by Kate Anderton, B.Sc. (Editor)Mar 4 2020
The Alzheimer's Association® and the Rainwater Charitable Foundation have joined forces again to fund drug discovery research towards finding therapies for Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal degeneration, and other tauopathies.
The partners are awarding nearly $4 million to fund drug discovery approaches that aim to remove or mitigate the effects of abnormal tau, a toxic brain protein that is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and other tauopathies. Previous studies have found that removing or blocking tau "tangles" holds great potential to delay, slow or prevent Alzheimer's and other dementia, making it a high priority target for therapies.
To enable researchers to explore fundamentally new ways to prevent, reduce or remove tau from the brain, the Alzheimer's Association and Rainwater Charitable Foundation's Tau Consortium have completed a second year of the Tau Pipeline Enabling Program (T-PEP II). This year, eight additional research groups have been awarded grants, which are funded on a one-for-one matching ratio by the partners.
T-PEP II aims to shorten the timeline from discoveries in laboratory settings to clinical trials in people living with Alzheimer's and other dementia.
"The abnormal build-up of tau is closely linked to changes in memory, reasoning and behavior," said Heather Snyder, Ph.D., Vice President, Medical & Scientific Relations at the Alzheimer's Association. "The research we're co-funding through this program will expand the pipeline of possible treatments and accelerate the pace of progress toward finding effective treatments for Alzheimer's and other dementia."
"We are excited to continue this matching grant program with the Alzheimer's Association," said Leticia Toledo-Sherman, Ph.D., Senior Director of Drug Discovery at the Rainwater Charitable Foundation. "Given the difficulties in developing drugs for these complex disorders, we need more shots on goal. We will stay involved with these programs and use our drug discovery expertise to help them succeed."
Kingston University's social care students given opportunity to support people with dementia
The eight awardees were selected from an outstanding pool of more than 100 U.S. and international applicants. This year's awardees are:
Daniel Chain, PhD, TauC3 Biologics Limited (London, United Kingdom)
Project title: TauC3: A Key Tauopathy Culprit and an Antibody to Mitigate its Effects
Matthew Disney, PhD, The Scripps Research Institute (Jupiter, FL)
Project title: Reducing Tau Burden by Targeting its RNA with Small Molecules
Jeff Friedman, MD, PhD, DTx Pharma, LLC (San Diego, CA)
Project title: Safe and Effective Delivery of MSUT2 siRNA for Treatment of Tauopathy
Stephen Haggarty, PhD, Mass. General Hospital/Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)
Project title: Bifunctional Tau Degraders as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Tauopathy
Kenneth S. Kosik, MD, University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
Project title: Farnesyl Transferase Inhibitors to Treat Tauopathies
Janice Kranz, PhD, Eikonizo Therapeutics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA)
Project title: HDAC6 Inhibitors to Treat Tauopathies: Proof of Mechanism
Albert La Spada, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center (Durham, NC)
Project title: Evaluation of PPAR-delta Agonist Therapy as a Treatment for Tauopathy
Patrik Verstreken, PhD, VIB (Leuven, Belgium)
Project title: Therapeutic Strategies to Target Tau-Synaptogyrin-3 Interaction
Patrick Brannelly, Managing Director of the Tau Consortium, said:
The size and quality of this year's applicant pool shows how much progress the scientific community has made in developing new approaches that could lead to potential treatments for these tauopathies. These talented teams are giving hope to the millions of people around the world who are affected by these terrible disorders."
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Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Antibody, Brain, Dementia, Drug Discovery, Drugs, Frontotemporal Degeneration, Frontotemporal Dementia, Hospital, Laboratory, Medical Research, Medical School, pH, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Protein, Research, RNA, siRNA, Tau Protein, Therapeutics
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Researchers determine the number of intervention sessions needed to prevent cognitive decline
Tau mapping offers potential treatment targets and biomarkers for dementia and Alzheimer disease
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Coming to Amazon Prime Video on Friday 3rd November is the drama, "The Only Living Boy in New York", directed by Marc Webb and written by Allan Loeb. The film stars Callum Turner, Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, Cynthia Nixon, and Jeff Bridges, and tells the story of Thomas Webb, the son of a publisher and his artistic wife, who has just graduated from college and is trying to find his place in the world. Moving from his parents' Upper West Side apartment to the Lower East Side, he befriends his neighbour played by veteran Jeff Bridges, a shambling alcoholic writer who dispenses worldly wisdom alongside healthy shots of whiskey. Thomas' world begins to shift when he discovers that his long-married father played by Pierce Brosnan is having an affair with a seductive younger woman played by Kate Beckinsale. Determined to break up the relationship, Thomas ends up sleeping with his father's mistress, launching a chain of events that will change everything he thinks he knows about himself and his family.
The film was originally released in August 2017 by Roadside Attractions and Amazon Studios, and received mainly negative reviews due to its less-than convincing storyline.
Shot in New York City, locations included West 42nd Street near to Byrant Park, the apartment building at 32 West 40th Street and Byrant Park Place, outside the Zadig & Voltaire store on Mercer Street between Prince Street and West Houston Street, Washington Square Park, and 151 Ludlow Street.
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Web of digitisation catches up with India's nomads
New Delhi, June 28 2020 - It is not just the small and medium-sized businesses that have scaled up their digital presence in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The nomads selling bohemian furniture and vintage home decor items at the aptly named Banjara Market in Sector 56 of Gurugram could soon be selling their products online, thanks to the unprecedented changes brought about by the COVID-19 restrictions. Be it the 'distressed' wooden furniture, or the metal containers for your home plants or the wire baskets -- people will be able to buy online almost everything that the nomads sell, according to the Instagram account of the market. While the exact date for going live has not yet been disclosed, the stores will open on Amazon and ebanjaramarket.com, according to the account. And it is not just the Banjara Market which is making an effort to go online. Even mom-and-pop stores and other small businesses are today finding ways to sell their products online -- either through the use of social media or setting up their own website, or by using both, as most online businesses now do. Bikash Agarwal, who started Apni Roti, a mobile van that dishes out hot freshly made rotis to people in need across West Bengal, is now a big fan of the WhatsApp Business app which has helped him streamline operations even during the pandemic. "This year has seen a lot of setbacks. The pandemic has crippled our economy and has left so many people struggling. As we continue to reach out to our community and provide meals to people in need, we have relied on WhatsApp for all aspects of coordination and delivery," said Agarwal, who also leads a successful construction company. "We have a team of over 1,500 volunteers, so the live location feature is one that we use extensively. Since March we have provided four lakh meals to people across West Bengal. We plan to continue using this platform and aid people with our services," he said. Digital presence in the current situation has also become all the more important as the influence of digital mediums have gone up significantly in the consumer's path to purchase, according to a recent report from Facebook India and the Boston Consulting Group. Especially in urban consumers, digital influence in the path to purchase has increased by up to 70 per cent for mobiles, 55-60 per cent for apparel, and up to 20-25 per cent for the non-food consumer packaged goods categories, said the reports. And these online tools are now helping our farmers too. Jaipur-based Freshokartz Agri which provides soil data based crop and fertilisers to farmers has found that WhatsApp can help it cut costs associated with farm visits. "At the time of the lockdown, we were unable to do our field visits which was an extremely crucial part of our business. When we started using WhatsApp more extensively, we realised it can be a permanent solution moving forward and can help break communication barriers between advisors like us and farmers," said Rajendra Lora, Founder & CEO at Freshokartz Agri. "Our farmers also tell us that this is a far more effective means of communication, primarily because it is simple and most farmers already use it. It has also minimized our costs and travel time to the farms." WhatsApp's India head, Abhijit Bose, said that the platform remains "deeply committed" to driving lasting economic value for small businesses across the country. "The recent nationwide lockdown has magnified the need for businesses and organisations to have a digital presence with reliable tools to stay connected in a personal way," he said.
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Who am I to question Almighty God?
What gives me that right?
His ways are above mine.
He holds our future in His capable strong hands.
Our job is to trust Him with faith like a child.
Oh we can have conversations.
We beg Him to explain His purpose.
It will probably turn into a little whining and fussing, and that's ok.
But we stop at the threshold of why, turning back instead to trust.
You'll feel better when you share your heart with the One who created it.
Picture God as your big strong daddy.
Tug on His arm and climb up onto His lap.
Let Him hold you in His gentle arms as you tell Him your troubles, your concerns.
Let Him dry your tears, reassuring you He's got it all under control.
He'll lead you all the way home.
Just walk with Him and trust.
And when He turns a way you wouldn't, keep your hand in His, never letting go.
You're so welcome 🙂 blessings to you.


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Hurricanes move into playoff spot, keep celebrating like 'bunch of jerks'
By Adam GretzFeb 16, 2019, 10:55 PM EST
The Carolina Hurricanes found themselves in the crosshairs of another angry old-school hockey analyst on Saturday night when Hockey Night in Canada's Don Cherry used his Coach's Corner segment to criticize the team's Storm Surge celebrations that take place after home victories.
During the segment, which was basically a 1:17 rant, Cherry repeatedly referred to the Hurricanes players as "jerks" (four times to be exact, including as "a bunch of jerks" at the end) and warned them not to do it in the playoffs because, well, this is the National Hockey League and that's just not what you do.
This all comes after former NHL general manager Brian Burke has repeatedly criticized the celebrations and referred to them as "pee-wee garbage stuff."
(You can see Cherry's segment here starting at the 4:25 mark.)
The Hurricanes, of course, do not really care what the outside world thinks and their social media team wasted no time in having some fun with the criticism.
So guess what happened on Saturday night?!
The Hurricanes won again by defeating the Dallas Stars, 3-0, to move into a playoff spot for the time being by jumping one point ahead of the Pittsburgh Penguins who were on the losing end of a 5-4 decision against the Calgary Flames earlier in the day.
The Penguins still have a game in hand and play on Sunday afternoon (12:30 p.m. ET on NBC), but the fact remains that the Hurricanes are currently occupying a playoff spot. Even if they fall a point back by this time on Sunday, they have still played their way back into legitimate playoff contention and are right in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race, not only for a potential Wild Card spot, but perhaps even a top-three spot in the Metropolitan Division.
They are in it.
The Hurricanes also did what they do in these situations and broke out another Storm Surge celebration by doing … the limbo.
We set the bar tonight ? pic.twitter.com/dDJMsmcQlw
— Carolina Hurricanes (@NHLCanes) February 17, 2019
With a minute to play in regulation, fans at PNC Arena, obviously having been made aware of Cherry's commentary, started chanting "bunch of jerks" as the clock ticked away.
They are not just embracing the criticism, they are feeding off of it.
My stance on the Storm Surge is very well established at this point: It is great, it is fun, and it is not showing anyone up because the other team is already long gone from the ice and it's for the home fans. And even if it was, if you do not like it as an opponent you always have the option of winning the game. Nothing wrong with showing personality and having fun in sports. Also, I want to see them doing it on the road, but as Jordan Martinook said to me after a game a couple of weeks ago "that will never happen."
As for the recent results on the ice and what this all means for the Hurricanes, with Saturday's win they are now 16-5-1 since Dec. 31, giving them 33 points during that stretch.
No team in the NHL has more points since then.
Everything is clicking for them right now.
They have an outstanding defense that makes them the best shot suppression team in the league (again!) and Curtis McElhinney has been a surprising stabilizing presence in net. That combination has made them a top-10 goal prevention team in the NHL and the recent addition of Nino Niederreiter from the Minnesota Wild has given them a much-needed goal-scoring presence in their top-six to go with emerging stars Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teravainen.
Whether or not this will all be enough to end what has been a decade long playoff drought has yet to be determined, but this is probably one of the best chances they have had to get back in the playoffs. It is also the most exciting team they have put on the ice since that last playoff appearance during the 2008-09 season. They are young, they are fun, and they are building something that is worth watching — during and after the games.


1. He was firm in his ideals and acted absolutely according to them without losing heart even though he was obstructed by religious opponents and groups holding different viewpoints from the negative perspectives.
eternal peace in the world based on the foundations of religion. The Hon. World Peace Envoy tried by every means to create peace. When the work inside the country was obstructed, he brought his ideas to be proposed to the NGO's in the United Nations, prominent religious and peace organizations. Those organizations accepted his ideas to proceed and continued with his intentions too.
3. He had mental power, for followers or sick people who were hopelessly incurable in the hospital came to him and he used his mental therapy with them and many were cured.
4. He had insight. Those who had the chance to talk or ask questions of him knew well that the Hon. World Peace Envoy could well clear the questions by secular and Dhamma ways. This made his biography compiler question how he knew the knowledge. He asked him and the answer was: when the Spiritual World sent him to be the World Peace Envoy, they then gave him deep insight useful to human societies.
The said character of the Hon. World Peace Envoy was not only accepted among his followers, help seekers, joiners with close relationships with him but religionists of other religions in Thailand and abroad who were all impressed by his character in the same way.


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Kasador releases "Youth," looks ahead to new music, hitting the road
Mt Joy and lots more fans to join Arkells at The Rally
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It's been years in the making and we'll do it over again: Two years after it was supposed to happen, and four years after the first one, Arkells are looking to have a rip-roarin' good time in Hamilton in June as they host the second Rally.
The better news, announced Tuesday, is that a new block of tickets is available for the show, taking place on Saturday, June 25 at Tim Hortons Field.
And adding to the fun? Mt Joy has been added to the lineup, which also includes tour friends and collaborators Haviah Mighty and K. Flay.
"This will be the biggest show ever to hit Hamilton — the ultimate celebration of live music, friends and community," the band promises in a statement announcing the changes.
"Our 2018 show at Tim Hortons Field – the inaugural Rally – exceeded our expectations in every way so we knew we had to do it again," the band continues. "From hand picking the lineup to collaborating with so many different local artists, small biz owners, charitable initiatives and local institutions like HSR, the Hamilton bike share program, Hamilton Flea and the Ticats – it was a joy to show off some of the best that Hamilton has to offer."
Locals are encouraged to walk, bike or take the bus to the venue, located smack-dab in the middle of the city.
"If the last couple years have taught us something, it's that we can't take anything for granted," the band says. "Nothing replaces *real life* memories. No amount of screen time at home can beat the joy of singing songs, surrounded by friends and new friends."
And it's worth noting that $1 from each ticket sold will go to PLUS1.org, "to help strengthen long term, permanent and affordable housing for the community of Hamilton through Indwell."
Tickets for the Rally are available here.
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Q: How to validate images array type using rule object with custom message in Laravel Actually, I tried to create rule object which is able to validate every image type in array of images and not only enough but also, I must to show custom message in override message function in rule object.
<?php

namespace App\Rules;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Validation\Rule;

class ImagesArray implements Rule
{
    /**
     * Create a new rule instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Determine if the validation rule passes.
     *
     * @param  string  $attribute
     * @param  mixed  $value
     * @return bool
     */
    public function passes($attribute, $value)
    {
       return [$attribute => 'mimes:jpeg,jpg,png' ];
       here i need to validate these file types.

    }

    /**
     * Get the validation error message.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function message()
    {
        return 'The validation error message.';
        here, I need to show my custom messgae.

    }
}

A: You should use Request.
For example, create q request class: php artisan make:request MyRequest.
<?php

namespace App\Http\Requests;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;

class MyRequest extends FormRequest
{
    /**
     * Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function authorize()
    {
        return true;
    }

/**
 * Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
 *
 * @return array
 */
public function rules()
{
    return [
        'image' => 'mimes:jpeg,jpg,png',
    ];
}
public function messages()
{
    return [
      'image.mimes' => 'This image is not supported.',
    ];
}

}
In your controller import class MyRequest and in the method use MyRequest
e.g:
 public function store(MyRequest $request)
{ // your code
}

Let me know if that was helpful. Thanks!

A: When validating arrays or nested parameters, you should use . in your rules access a specific array index. but if you want to apply a rule to every index on that array, you can use .*.
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
    'image.*' => 'mimes:jpeg,jpg,png',
], [
    'image.*' => 'Invalid file type.',
]);

Or if you're using Request Forms
public function rules(){
    return [
        'image.*' => 'mimes:jpeg,jpg,png',
    ];
}
public function mesages(){
    return [
        'image.*' => 'Invalid file type.',
    ];
}

For more info, see Laravel's Documentation on Validation Arrays

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Role – Leave this field blank to use your default role in NetSuite. See below for more information on choosing a default role in NetSuite and for choosing a specific role for the SmartClient if you prefer not to set a default role.
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On the Choose Role page, check the box next to the role you want to use by default.
You will be automatically logged in to this role going forward.
When prompted for login information in the SmartClient, choose the Netsuite role you want to use for accessing data.This remains your default role for SmartClient use and defines the data you have access to from within the client.
To change roles in the SmartClient, click Login in the SmartClient toolbar.
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If you do see a Subsidiary field, it's safe to assume that your account is OneWorld; otherwise, it's likely a standard account.


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The SBC-U5A and SBC-U5C are both RASPMOOD models with RPi footprints and 40-pin GPIO (25 usable). They run the usual Yocto Project Linux stack (Linux 4.1.15) on the power-sipping, 900MHz i.MX6 ULL.
The SBC-U5C stands out with its certified WiFi radio with external antenna, wide-range 6.5-18V input (vs. 5V), and battery charger. Otherwise, the boards seem to be the same, providing 512MB RAM, a 3.5mm audio jack, a USB 2.0 host port, and a 10/100 Ethernet port.
Novasom Industries' U1 is little like a postal stamp, includes a Wi-Fi/BT module, a dual core CPU with a RT O.S, some, ready to use in the field, GPIO and some analog input. Probably is the smallest SBC available on the market.
The 5V SBC-U1A ships with 384KB DDR3 and 4MB flash and supports -40 to 85⁰C temperatures. I/O includes SPI, I2C, A/D, D/A, and up to 15x GPIO. An RTC is onboard. Other details for all three U-line boards may be found in the chart farther above.
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SPIEGEL: Ms. Roitfeld, you were editor in chief of the French edition of Vogue, the fashion and lifestyle magazine, for 10 years. Before that, you worked for 10 years at Gucci alongside then-creative director Tom Ford. Can anyone who has spent 20 years in the fashion industry still be normal?
Carine Roitfeld: My only drug is a small glass of vodka in the evening, if that's what you're asking. But I was fortunate because -- in addition to the very special world of fashion -- I also had a family, which is something probably rare in this business. I have also been married to the same man, the father of my two children, for more than 30 years. And that has helped me remain relatively normal.
SPIEGEL: For a former Vogue editor in chief, you also look remarkably normal.
Roitfeld: That's part of my newfound freedom. I always wore a tight skirt at Vogue; it was like a uniform.
SPIEGEL: Can you tell us what you're wearing today?
Roitfeld: A no-name T-shirt from Los Angeles, corduroy jeans by Current Elliot and satin shoes I had custom-made in violet. So the glamour's limited to my feet.
SPIEGEL: Does this world of vanity, in which fortunes are spent on trivial things, corrupt people?
Roitfeld: The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer. But when I see how good the photos have turned out or even how well the coat was made or how many people worked on it, it's not quite so obscene anymore. Of course, it's not like we're working in a hospital; we don't save lives every month. We just make decisions about skirt lengths, about an inch more or an inch less. That's all.
SPIEGEL: Did that ever seem pointless to you?
Roitfeld: For 10 years, it was a hell of a lot of fun. But, toward the end, it unfortunately got less and less fun. You used to be able to be more playful, but now it's all about money, results and big business. The prêt-à-porter shows have become terribly serious. The atmosphere isn't as electric as it once was, and they now have about as much charm as a medical conference. But it takes just one good fashion show to get things exciting again.
SPIEGEL: If fashion can tell us anything about the age it's created in, what do you think current fashions tell us?
Roitfeld: Today's fashions don't let people dream as much as they used to. Twenty years ago, fashion was a promise -- something that was part of your life and perhaps enriched it, something that reflected a particular era. If you look at advertisements these days, all you see are handbags. They aren't about dreams anymore; customers are buying objects now, not dreams.
SPIEGEL: Is that why you left Vogue in January?
Roitfeld: Ten years is a long time -- and especially 10 years in a gilded cage. They were wonderful years; but, sooner or later, birds want their freedom again.
SPIEGEL: Your French publisher said the time for being provocative and trashy was over.
Roitfeld: I'd put it this way: Fashion needs glamour, provocation and broken taboos.
SPIEGEL: Was it your decision to go?
Roitfeld: Absolutely. And at the perfect moment. The French edition of Vogue had never been more successful, had never had more readers or advertisers. And it had never made as much money. For 10 years, my American publisher, Jonathan Newhouse, let me do what I wanted, even when he thought it might be crazy. But it couldn't have gone on for much longer.
SPIEGEL: Is this the end of era?
Roitfeld: Creativity needs space and a willingness to take risks, but businessmen don't like risk. What's more, designers are coming under more and more pressure. Today, a dress can't just please the women in Paris; it also has to please those in Beijing, Tokyo, Moscow and New York.
SPIEGEL: Is globalization making fashion more boring?
Roitfeld: At the very least, it's leading to a lot of compromise. But globalization is only one factor. Today's designers no longer have to create two collections a year; they have to create four: spring, summer, fall and winter. And some fashion houses also add haute couture twice a year. Who can possibly manage all that? Good designers are artists; they're fragile people.
SPIEGEL: Two of the biggest stars in the Paris fashion world, Britons Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, both left this stage in a very dramatic way. McQueen committed suicide a year ago. And Galliano, the Dior designer, made his exit a few weeks ago after publicly professing his love for Adolf Hitler.
Roitfeld: McQueen's artistic creations always had a very dark side, but his death still came as a shock. After all, it's not like he was alone. He had a big team surrounding him, but it unfortunately wasn't able to protect him.
Roitfeld: I had no idea how unhappy John Galliano must have been. You have to be very unhappy and lonely to praise Hitler in public while completely drunk. The House of Dior has always addressed a range of topics, for example, by having haute couture shows on homelessness where all the models look like people living on the street. But drunkenly shouting "I love Hitler" and calling people in a bar a "dirty Jew-face" is unacceptable. I don't think he really believes what he said; they were simply the actions of a drunk.
SPIEGEL: Are drugs an everyday part of life in the fashion industry?
Roitfeld: No more and no less than they are in other artistic circles. Yves Saint Laurent was the first person to openly admit to being a drug addict. Since I never touched drugs myself, I find it hard to tell whether people are taking them. But, of course, some people do. The industry has become faster and faster. People are constantly fighting jet lag and working through the night.
SPIEGEL: Now that Galliano and McQueen are gone, is German designer Karl Lagerfeld the only one left?
Roitfeld: Yes. Good old Karl. Superhuman Lagerfeld. I don't think he experiences this pressure in the same way. That's why he can put up with it.
SPIEGEL: And no one else can?
Roitfeld: He's not the only one. There's also Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga, Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy, Miuccia Prada and, of course, Tom Ford. And then there are the up-and-coming talents. But they still need time. In a way, we've already seen everything. What else could they hope to invent?
SPIEGEL: And, in any case, copies of their designs soon turn up in Zara and H&M shops.
Roitfeld: Yes. At fashion shows, bloggers sit in the front rows and transmit new looks around the globe. It's all become terribly rapid. You're sitting in Paris, and people in Beijing already know what's going on. It's pretty crazy. But designers are probably really flattered that their looks are being copied.
And I have always thought that only with an handbag a woman can become a fashion icon. It seems to me that I was wrong. Does she really believe that one cannot learn to be elegant?


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War Metal Battle Master
Southern Lord
5/30/2009 - Review by: David Loveless
Company: Southern Lord Recordings
Genre: Thrash
Reviewer: Grim Gaijin
Epic metal masterpiece
When the opportunity arose for me to review the latest Lair of the Minotaur release, the thing that drew me in the most was that they are a part of Southern Lord Recordings. With their massive catalog of some of the heaviest material ever recorded, Southern Lord has quickly become one of my top 3 favorite record companies. Having never heard Lair Of The Minotaur before, I knew I was in for a treat of some of the heaviest metal around. However, what I did not know was that LOTM is an extremely aggressive thrash metal band, leading to a new metal sub-genre known as Aggro-Thrash. Imagine if the thunderous sounds of Neurosis, the manic riffs of early Celtic Frost & Voivod, and the intensity of Goatwhore collided into a massive wall of sound. What you would come up with is the third album by LOTM--War Metal Battle Master. I don't know how I let this one slip by me in 2008, otherwise it would have been in my top 5 list of metal albums for that year.
Wasting no time, Lord of Undead Vengeance is a relentless track of brutal riffs, pounding drums and sick vocals. Next comes War Metal Battle Master with a very thick sound and blackened death style vocals. Continuing the mayhem, When The Ice Giants Slayed All starts off with a crust core-like intro which eventually shapes into a South of Heaven-era Slayer guitar riff. Although at a slower pace than the previous tracks, it is no less intense and brutal. The next song, Slaughter the Bestial Legion, has a classic 80's thrash attack sound with more sick vokills. The next song, Black Viper Barbarian Clan, could probably have Fenriz & Nocturno Culto (of Darkthrone) thrashing around violently in their recording studio. One of the fastest tracks on the CD, it shows a good mix of Black Metal and Sludge Metal in just a little over 3 minutes. Assassins Of The Cursed Mist sounds like it could be off of a Kreator album. Doomtrooper, at just under 10 minutes, is an epic track of brutal, doom-like riffs that would make the members of Crowbar jealous (for not coming up with them first), and extremely sick (and low key) death metal vocals. Homage to Celtic Frost can easily be heard in this song. The final song, Hades Unleashed, is one of the fastest and heaviest songs on the album. With Deicide-like riffs and headache-intense drumming, Hades Unleashed completes the statement that Lair Of The Minotaur successfully achieved on this album--creating a crushingly aggressive thrash metal album that will not be easily forgotten.
Southern Lord continue to push the boundaries of extreme music by releasing some of the most intense albums ever made. Lair of the Minotaur definitely makes sure of that with their epic metal masterpiece, War Metal Battle Master. Whether you're a fan of Southern Lord Recordings or not, War Metal Battle Master is an album that can be enjoyed by fans of genres of metal. I can only imagine what these guys are like live. If it is anything like their studio releases, no one is safe! Check them out now!
7/25/2008 - Review by: Raising Iron
Company: Southern Lord
Reviewer: Raising Iron
Genre: Thrash Rating
If you need a fast, thrashed fix, then this will definitely polish your sword
Lair of the Minotaur are back with their third full-frontal attack, "War Metal Battle Master". Hailing and hollering from Chicago, these boys have willingly and gladly sat right down on the blood-drenched, thrash-blackened throne that Usurper have left vacant. This is good, for metal needs these kinds of underground bands, who take up residence off metal's beaten trails, waiting for those adventurers daring enough to veer off into the darkened forests in search of more vicious, bestial encounters.
For those of you unfamiliar with Lair of the Minotaur's sound, their concoction consists of raw meat from Slayer's old stable, veggies out of Celtic Frost's garden, charred hors d'oeuvres ala Venom, and salt and pepper off Black Sabbath's shelf. This is the kind of sustenance one needs to battle hordes of undead, go hilt to hilt with orcs, and slay serpents on the keep of the borderlands. On the very first track, our warriors come barreling down the mountainside with a ton of soiled riffs in tow, never relenting until the 40 minutes of bloodshed is over.
In case you haven't gathered, LOTM's lyrics are medieval, fantasy based, D&D oriented all the way. Just check out some of the song titles: "Black Viper Barbarian Clan", "When the Ice Giants Slayed All", "Assassins of the Cursed Mist", etc. Now, I know there are a lot of metal fans who are immediately turned off by this notion, regardless the genre, their reasoning being that singing about slaying dragons is deemed cheesy, childish, and stupidly macho. I guess you'd have to have been weaned on role-playing games back in their heyday to enjoy these kinds of tales. But lyrics aside, let's get to what really matters, the music. The guitar tones are thicker than a red dragon's hide, and the production is as raw and meaty as its dinner. Speed is the name of the game on just about every song, save for the second to last number, "Doomtrooper", which is a strung-out, bogged down, doomed beast of a track.
The album, thankfully, is fairly short, coming in at just under forty minutes. Ten of which are taken up by the aforementioned "Doomtrooper", leaving a mere browbeating half-hour left. Getting bludgeoned upside the head with this mace any longer would just be too much anyway. The constant assault borders on monotony, but the album's brevity keeps things from getting stale, and we all need a jolt like this every now and then when the mood is right.
In closing, if castle lyrics bother you, don't even take off the wrapper. If lyrics are of less importance to you or you like songs about the dark ages, and you seriously need a fast, thrashed fix, then "War Metal Battle Master" will definitely polish your sword.
ALL REVIEWS FOR: LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR
Ultimate Destroyer 2006 Southern Lord Eric Compton 4/25/2006 -
War Metal Battle Master 2008 Southern Lord David Loveless 5/30/2009 4.5
War Metal Battle Master 2008 Southern Lord Raising Iron 7/25/2008 3.5
ALL INTERVIEWS FOR: LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE THESE THRASH STYLED RELEASES:
Bloodthirsty Eyes
(High Roller)
(SPV/Steamhammer)
The Petulant
Hazardous Mutation
Affliktor
Stone Dozer
World Painted Blood
(American Recordings)
Creations Undoing
(Sentinel Records)
Flotsam & Jetsam
Ugly Noise
Dark Roots of Earth
Order of the Illuminati
(Scarlet)
Impalers
Styx Demon
(Crime)
Penalty by Perception
Space Chaser
Split 2018
(This Charming Man)
Dew Scented
Incinerate
Death Magnetic
(Warner Brothers)
(UDR)
Witchhammer
(Dazed & Confused)
Strength, Power, Will, Passion
(Armageddon)
Zero Days
Killing Spree
Deception Betrayal Revenge
Hell's Thrash Horsemen
Going Sane
(Always At War )
Feared Creation
Five Reasons to Hate
Grimfist
Ten Steps To Hell


Part of the children's learning will include family trips abroad for practical language immersion, visiting cities and towns, experiencing the cuisine, etc. When travelling the family will offer private accommodation. You must therefore enjoy travel.


WHEN Chris van Wyk was a small boy, his grandmother gave him a big, thick book. It was so big he could hardly pick it up. He was afraid of it, until he prised it open and discovered its treasures: card games, magic tricks, puzzles, word games and "general knowledge". For a barefoot boy with cracked toes and one squint eye, born into dirt-poor conditions in a coloured township in 1957 — ironically named Coronationville — the big fat book was a kind of deliverance.
For this cross-eyed boy was no ordinary japie, even though he may have looked like one. At the age of eight he announced to his stunned parents that he would become a writer. He spent entire days lost in his book of knowledge. He was interested in everything. Stories, accounts, games, trickery, jokes, anything that was captured in sentences and that claimed to explain the world, beguiled and absorbed him.
Then one Saturday afternoon an uncle came to visit. The uncle was hardly inside the house when he spotted Van Wyk's big book.
"Where did you get that?" he demanded.
"Ouma gave it to me," Van Wyk replied.
Before Van Wyk could convince the uncle to stay while he woke his sleeping mom up, the uncle asked whether he could "borrow" the book. Taking it from the respectful boy, he announced that he and his wife wouldn't be staying, and the stiff, crooked man marched away with the fat book tucked under his arm and his wife in tow.
That was the last Van Wyk ever saw of his book. He was forced to return to comics — Spider-Man, Richie Rich, Little Lotta, The Hulk, Batman, and some Hardy Boys volumes his grandmother bought for him at a second-hand bookshop.
Forty years later, I am interviewing Chris van Wyk, writer of adult and children's fiction, poetry, biography, and now Shirley, Goodness and Mercy, his childhood memoirs — he has been a journeyman writer all his adult life — and I ask him whether his uncle ever gave him the book of treasures back.
In his strongly flavoured, explosively laughing manner, Van Wyk expresses some less-than-adoring sentiments about that particular uncle. Chris van Wyk is a man who is unsparing of those who do him in. It's the way he grew up, on streets of dust in some of Joburg's oldest and poorest coloured group areas. First Coronationville, then Riverlea.
A day later, after struggling to find an angle for my interview with Van Wyk, he phones me. I am at a swanky wedding reception at the Saxon Hotel, where Nelson Mandela spent many days finishing Long Walk to Freedom.
"Well, the old bugger died yesterday at 11.30am," and he explodes with the laughter of pure wonder, a kind of amazed merriment that has guided him throughout his writing life.
Van Wyk has an eye for precisely that. It is the single gift with which he came into a world where the odds were heavily stacked against him. That and a talent with words and what the Buddhists call "beginner's mind". The only reason Van Wyk is so smart is that he steadily avoids being too clever.
The "stupid" part of him has also brought him the luck of work, projects, books to write — and income.
One day, he says, an old friend, Roger Jardine, son of political activist Bill Jardine, comes to see him. The Jardines were family friends in the apartheid township days. Now they're politically connected and have made good.
"He tells me he wants me to write the story of his father's life. I was still in my slippers and it was 1pm. That's when you know you're in trouble.
This eventually resulted in an oral history project and a book called Now Listen Here: The Life and Times of Bill Jardine, a work which has won high praise from professors of history for capturing the flavour of the old "Fietas" in Joburg, where the Jardines lived.
The money he got for the project — almost twice the amount Roger Jardine initially promised — is hardly the point. Van Wyk has little use for money in his modest Riverlea home, where he lives with his bank-manager wife, Kathy, and where he has raised two children, one of whom is now a lawyer.
He doesn't drive a car — never has, as a result of his bad eye. All he needs in life is a keyboard, a room full of books, and the uncluttered "naivety" of never getting too clever to let the stories in. Within this kingdom he is secure. He is a writer and you'd better know it. Here he can be "stupid" and bolshy all at once. He knows he has to be "naive" to allow the world of stories in, but he doesn't like people taking writers for granted. He enforces a recognition of his writerliness that few other writers have the gumption to pull off.
The publisher got the message. He came to Riverlea. Chris said he'd think about the freedom-fighter series. In the meantime, he was finishing an edited version of Thabo Mbeki's speeches.
While still working on this project, the President's spokesman phones him to say, the President is in Johannesburg and wants to meet this Chris van Wyk. Would he come into Joburg now, please?
Thank you very much. I'm a writer.
After making the "freedom fighters" publisher wait two months, Van Wyk agreed to write the series. It is an attractively illustrated boxful of titles on figures like Helen Joseph, Thabo Mbeki, Chris Hani, Sol Plaatje , Nelson Mandela, and others, written for school learners.
Almost accidentally, this series has made Van Wyk financially comfortable and continues to do so. But that is almost entirely irrelevant. It's a writer's due, and Van Wyk is a rare species — a journeyman writer who enforces recognition, and reward, for his labours at the keyboard.
The real point is that he is still chasing stories. He is interviewing the old people of Riverlea and elsewhere, gathering boxes full of cassettes, even though the Jardine project is done. He's not sure what he'll do with the stories, but he knows he'll recognise the pattern when it emerges. It's the stories that really feed him.
And, meanwhile, he has published his memoir, which is so chock-full of people and accounts that it's a book you need to hold with both your hands.
Chris van Wyk has been out there all his life. In a strange way, being poor made him rich, because he spent so much time on the streets while others, more "fortunate", were cloistered against the rough, edgy, dangerous world which was Van Wyk's bread and butter.
And he has stuck to the task of writing, unlike so many other writers who emerged in the Donga and Staffrider years of the 1970s and 1980s. Or those who have gone into the world of politics and fast cars.
And it's actually so simple. You sit down every day to write. You keep the faith. You remain interested. You laugh. You never forget the lesson of the big, fat book full of wonder. And, unlike the now-dead uncle, you share the treasure. That's the whole point. It's still a kind of deliverance.
• Chris Van Wyk's Shirley, Goodness and Mercy: A Childhood Memoir is published by Picador Africa.


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FIGHTING BACK: Matthew Tomkins is not happy with council blaming his dogs for a vicious dog attack Trinette Stevens
Lawyer rejects dog attack victim's fresh evidence
by Trinette_Stevens
"I looked away and I heard them running...once I felt the bite on my leg; I turned a little...what I do recall is seeing the brown and black dog coming up at me."
This what the Rockhampton Magistrates Court heard yesterday as 43-year-old dog attack victim Fiona Michelle Stoddart tearily gave an account of events that lead her to sustain serious facial and leg injuries after an incident involving two dogs in Gracemere on September 17, 2014.
The nurse had spent the months since recovering physically and mentally as she underwent plastic surgery and was later diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder from the attack.
Facing the court was Gracemere man Matthew Tomkins, whose dogs were identified by Rockhampton Regional Council as the animals responsible for the attack on Ms Stoddart.
As a result, Mr Tomkins was charged with two counts of failing to ensure his dogs did not attack or cause fear, but was contesting the charge based on what he believed was the misidentification of his dogs, Bindi and Chop.
In the hearing yesterday Mr Tomkins' lawyer William Prizeman put in an application to exclude the identification evidence of the complainant after she was "inconsistent" with the description of the animals involved.
Mr Prizeman said there was a risk she was an "honest but mistaken witness" after it was revealed Ms Stoddart changed her description of the dogs following a "reoccurring dream" after the incident.
Initially the victim described the dogs as one black and brown female dog with large teats and one off-white dog with coarse hair, but changed her description later on to a black and brown dog and an off-white female dog with large teats after being shown photos.
Mr Prizeman was also concerned the three photo books of potential offending dogs shown to Ms Stoddart for identification purposes was not done in a way that would eliminate prejudice against his client's animals.
The court heard the images of only one dog (Bindi) was refreshed with updated versions in the photo book during interviews with Ms Stoddart, and only Bindi, Chop and one other dog were depicted as wearing a catchpole.
The reliability of Ms Stoddart's memory was also called into question considering the traumatic nature of her experience.
Her psychologist, Bruce Acutt was called as a witness to the hearing.
He said she was shown the first two photo books too early and the final photo book too late, but said her memory in the weeks after the incident would be more reliable than information provided directly after.
Mr Ackett said after Ms Stoddart settled from the anxiety of the attack it would be easier to recall details.
He also said the strong tranquiliser she was prescribed by the hospital, Tramadol, would have affected her ability to recall accurately in the early days following the attack.
Magistrate Michael O'Driscoll did not decide on whether to allow the identification evidence through yesterday, but said he would reach his decision by the next hearing date on February 1, 2016.
Dog attack victim transported to Rockhampton Hospital
Woman stops to help dog attack victim, gets verbally abused
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Its common symptoms are inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), 5% of children in the United States have ADHD. However, the Centers for Disease Control estimate that 11% of U.S. children (ages 4-17) have the disorder.
We never want to look at ADHD as a stigma like it currently is viewed as by the medical system. It's a set of imbalances that kids are dealing with. When properly addressed, ADHD can truly be a gift. The view for us is ADHD happens when there's a complex set of environmental forces that interact with specific genetic makeup.
We know there's an issue with the way the brain is firing, the way it's processing and the way that it's outputting. When we're able to get that to balance, children can process better and respond better to their environment. They're also able to control their energy. The best part is that with chiropractic's drug-free approach, these kids don't lose their creativity. They don't lose that drive that they often lose when they're dealing with medication.
We look forward to helping those in the Plymouth community with ADHD by offering a Developing the Gift workshop. This free workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 28, at 7 p.m. at the Plymouth Creek Center, located not far from the practice.
We also will talk about how we can measure the input and output of energy with the CLA Insight Subluxation Station. At the practice, we base a lot of our care and recommendations on the substation scans. We show what the energy is doing within kids' bodies and how we're able to balance that. The technology allows us to visualize what the nervous system is doing through the scans. The workshop is ideal for parents of children with ADHD, adults with the disorder and others, such as teachers, who frequently come in contact with kids who have ADHD.
To register, contact us at (763) 383-5109 today!


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Q: ULTRA big problem. Ubuntu Gnome 16.10 driver isue I really need your help. I have an acer Aspire-E5-771G laptop with Nvidia Geforce 840m drivers.
When I installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 everything worked perfectly.
But when I updated them to 16.10 , after the necessary restart of my computer, Ubuntu wouldnt boot. I got a black screen.
I think the problem is with nvidia card. But im pretty noob to these things. Can someone help me u??

A: You can bypass the login screen and login to a text-only console and uninstall the Nvidia driver from there.

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*Use the keyboard combination Ctrl+Alt+F3 to open a virtual console.

*In the console you will be prompted to enter your username. Type your username and press Enter.

*You will be prompted to enter your login password. Type your login password and press Enter.

*Run these commands to uninstall the existing Nvidia driver and reboot.
 sudo apt-get remove nvidia-*
 sudo reboot

*You should be able to login normally when the system restarts and you will be able to get to your desktop environment.

*After the computer reboots, open the terminal and run this command to identify the recommended proprietary graphics driver for your system.
 ubuntu-drivers devices

Install the proprietary graphics driver that has [Recommended] after it and reboot the computer.


Building with earth encourages one to fully reevaluate how a living space should feel. Our senses delight in the beauty of a wall covered with clay plaster, alive with subtle variations of texture, color, and light. Cob and straw-bale walls impart solidity and shelter in a profound way. Structures and surfaces built by hand convey that they were built by people, for people, thus creating a nurturing experience for the sheltered.
The principles and techniques of natural building offer meaningful and sustainable alternatives to conventional construction.
Materials such as sand, clay soil, and stone, are minimally processed, locally sourced, non-toxic, and easily recycled.
Construction processes are simple and easily learned.
Structures are beautiful, healthful, and extremely durable.
Collaborative construction brings people and communities together.
Do you have a dream of an outdoor fireplace, a meditation space, or natural home? I'd like to help you realize your vision.


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Walter J. Ong, Orality & Literacy . London; New York: Routledge, 1982.
But we will not weep that you are gone .
Seared by the shame of a cowardly past.
Of purposeless life or of trivial past.


The failure of the American Health Care Act provides an insight that might be useful in combating neoliberalism. Paul Ryan centered his defense of ACHA around the notion of individual freedom. But there is a better view of freedom that the Democrats could offer: freedom from fear.
…[W}e're not going to make an American do what they don't want to do. You get it if you want it. That's freedom.
What if you want it but do not have the money to get it? You are free not to get it. One of the problems with the ACA is that even with subsidies, people can't afford a decent policy. A lot of people have a policy that doesn't cover them sufficiently to prevent bankruptcy, or they have a policy but can't afford to use it because of high deductibles and co-pays.
Ryan's solution was to get rid of the Essential Health Benefits mandated by the ACA. These set the minimum coverage for any policy offered on the exchange. They include lab tests, drugs, maternity care, treatment for substance abuse and mental illness, and others. If insurance companies can issue policies that don't cover these mandated benefits, they can offer cheaper policies. That doesn't help anyone. It increases the number of people with policies that don't cover treatment they suddenly need, and raises prices for others to buy fuller coverage.
Ryan and the Republicans think we only care about a few bucks we don't have to pay an insurance company. They only value the freedom to buy and sell in unrestrained markets, as if anyone actually wanted to spend any part of their precious lives studying insurance contracts.
So there we have Ryan's definition of freedom. You have the freedom to give money to an insurance company to buy any policy you can afford, and you can shop around for a policy that may or may not provide the coverage you eventually need, or you can take the risk of bankruptcy or denial of health care.
That's a peculiar kind of freedom.
The Democrats have the possibility of offering a different kind of freedom: the freedom from fear that you and your family and your friends and neighbors and fellow citizens won't be able to get health care when they need it. This kind of Freedom is the foundation of Franklin Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights, so it's well within the historic tradition of the Democrats, at least before their neoliberal turn. The outpouring of public hostility to the ACHA proves that this definition of freedom is much more popular than Ryan's.
Another way to phrase this idea is that what people want is the freedoom to pursue their own projects, projects that they choose for themselves and that give them a sense of satisfaction. John Maynard Keynes thought that as the age of work came to an end, people would pursue artistic, intellectual and cultural pursuits. Maybe. Maybe it's going fishing, learning how to weld, or following the Cubs. For maximum freedom, there are areas where people would rather have the government protect them from the "market", rather than wasting time coping with yet another market, or living in fear of the consequences of not handling the market. I think his is an idea with a lot of general appeal.
If we raise taxes fairly, or reorder our budget priorities favoring defense contractors, we can all get good health care at a price we can all pay. That's the kind of freedom I want: freedom from fear and freedom from the endless consumerism we have to endure because of the other version of freedom. Not to mention freedom from profit-maximizing insurance companies.


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STORMWATER STRAIGHT TALK: The Most Common Water Pollutant? Sediment!
Stormwater Straight Talk is a quarterly column intended to educate and inform base personnel and families about stormwater management.
Sediment is often overlooked as a water contaminant because it is everywhere in the environment. However, the United States Environmental Protection Agency lists sediment as the most common pollutant in rivers, streams, lakes and reservoirs.
When sediment enters stormwater, it is directly discharged to water bodies and degrades the quality of water for wildlife, drinking water and recreation. Water polluted with sediment becomes cloudy, which makes it difficult for fish to see and feed. Sediment can also damage fish gills, causing complications with breathing. Boating and swimming activities can be impacted because sediment deposits can alter the flow of water and reduce water depth. Sediment increases the cost of treating drinking water and can result in odor and taste problems.
Sediment deposits can also cause increased frequency of flooding. The deposits can clog storm drains and catch basins that are designed to carry water away from roads and homes, which increases the potential for flooding.
Sediment is any earth material or soil particle, such as sand, gravel and clay, transported or deposited by wind, water, ice or gravity. Sources of sediment include particles that have washed into a body of water from farm fields, forestlands, bare spots in the landscape, eroding shorelines, stream banks, improperly managed construction sites and other locations.
According to the EPA, approximately 30 percent of sediment in the United States comes from natural erosion, while the remaining 70 percent is human responsibility. The most concentrated sediment releases come from construction activities, including relatively minor home-building projects such as room additions and swimming pools.
- Seed bare spots in the landscape.
- Use weed-free mulch when reseeding bare spots on your lawn.
- Use a straw or erosion control blankets if restarting or tilling a lawn.
- Put compost or weed-free mulch on your garden to help keep soil from washing away.
- Avoid mowing within 25 feet from the edge of a stream or creek to help minimize erosion.
- Sweep sidewalks and driveways instead of hosing them off and properly dispose of swept material.
- Wash your car at a commercial car wash.
- Utilize sediment control measures, such as silt fence, on construction projects.
- Notify local government officials when you see sediment entering streets or streams near a construction site.
For more information, call 468-9645.


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