Good rescue it was: Yoda the tortoise saved from school fire: Firefighters have rescued a Russian tortoise named Yoda at an eastern Idaho elementary school after a heating device caused his habitat to start smoldering. The Idaho Falls Fire Department says it responded early Wednesday to a fire alarm at Fairview Elementary School in Idaho …
China’s new commercial media is complicating the Party’s good news narrative about Africa: A stack of Southern Weekly newspapers (left) are displayed at a newsstand in Beijing, Reuters Since the Chinese government started introducing economic reforms in the early 1980s the Chinese media has experienced widespread decentralisation and commercialisation. It has become huge, dynamic and …
Good reads: fighters, feminists and the loss of freedom in Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean police beat up a man protesting the reintroduction of local banknotes. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo Political scientist and published poet Keith Gottschalk shares his recommendations for good reads of the year. 1. Harvest – University of the Western Cape This 90 page anthology of the …
South Africa in the news: South Africa: Let Us Stand for Good Neighbourliness – Modise Tells Zimbabweans: The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Ms Thandi Modise, called on the people of South Africa and Zimbabwean women in particular wherever they are, in their countries or in the diaspora, to always stand for …
Kenya’s early learning centres may be doing more harm than good: A pre-school class in Nairobi, Kenya Flickr/JahBone Like the rest of the developing world, more and more women in Kenya are joining the formal workforce. As a result there’s been a growing need for centres that can care for young children. This has seen …
How good intentions sparked a ‘Doctor Strange’ controversy: Director Scott Derrickson knew he had a problem on his hands before the internet did. Two, actually. : Weird News Stan Lee says vision and hearing loss made it hard to see a Doctor Strangea: OCTOBER 20: Stan Lee attends the Premiere of Disney and Marvel Studios' …
Check out this South African Music image: J&B Start A Party at the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town Image by jandbstartaparty South African DJ Culoe De Song spins some tracks Image automatically curated and published by www.free-mail.co.za – CLICK HERE to learn more about WP Robot for WordPress. Have you tried: Travelling to South …
Has Shabaab been weakened for good? The answer is ‘yes’ and ‘no’: Somalia security escort Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni's convoy to a regional summit in Mogadishu, the first in 35 years. Reuters/Feisal Omar Several analysts have highlighted the supposed weakening of Al Shabaab, the violent Somali Islamist militant group. The Somali foreign minister Abdisalam Hadliyeh …
A beginner's bumpy journey to find a few good bugs: Did you land on this story looking for advice on how to start contributing to open source? There are tons of these stories on the interwebs, aren’t there? And I am sure you must have read a lot of them by now, because you’ve been trying …
Good things come from projects that fail: Without realizing it, I joined the open source movement in 1999 during the midst of the Kosovo refugee crisis. I was part of a team helping route aid supplies to local humanitarian organizations running transit camps across Albania. These are the camps that refugees often arrived at first …
Why the proprietary MQA music encoding system is better than DRM, but still not good: In June 2016, I wrote about the MQA proprietary closed-source music encoding system and shared my thoughts on why I felt the system is not a good thing. Since then, I’ve been reading more about MQA so this month I’ll …
Licensing metered taxis does more harm than good – South Africa should stop it: Meter taxi companies want to level the playing fields between themselves and Uber. Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Using a metered taxi is a nuisance in most countries: just try to find a cab on a rainy afternoon in downtown Manhattan or London. New …
Experience the power of Fiverr for yourself. CLICK HERE to get work done for you for just $ 5.00. 6 Reasons Why Flexible Work Is So Good for Us: Author Bio: Jennifer Parris once tackled a daily four-hour commute. Now, as a contributing writer for 1 Million for Work Flexibility and the career writer for …
Good boy! Dogs know what you’re saying, study suggests new: Scientists have found evidence to support what many dog owners have long believed: man's best friend really does understand some of what we're saying. Researchers in Hungary scanned the brains of dogs as they were listening to their trainer speaking to determine which parts of …
South Africa in the news: The good, the bad and the ugly of the Rio Games: this one goes to Ans Botha — the 74-year-old great-grandmother who guided South Africa’s Wayde Van Niekerk to Olympic gold and a world record in the men’s 400 sprint. Her style is simple. When the smile goes away and …
Good Form Running Clinic at Lloyd Clarke Sports – a Sport interest event taking place on 2016-08-10 17:00:00 in United States Good Form Running is about helping people make running a stress-free, more enjoyable part of their lives. At this clinic our Good Form Running certified staff will work with you on your gait to …
Check out this Cape Town image: Castle of Good Hope Image by D-Stanley The Castle of Good Hope (1679) at Cape Town is the oldest building in South Africa. Today the castle contains three museums and many historic structures. Image automatically curated and published by www.free-mail.co.za – CLICK HERE to learn more about WP Robot …
Reggae pioneer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s lessons in good music as good magic: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. Balazs Mohai/EPA As electronic music shape-shifts its way through the early years of the 21st century, the influence of dub – reggae’s stripped-down mutant version – on contemporary production is becoming more apparent. In “Remixology”, Paul Sullivan captures the fluidity …