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Time of India
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'So we ARE relevant?' South Park mocks White House after ICE uses cartoon to recruit; gives X-rated reply
The tension escalated between the Trump administration and "South Park" creators after DHS utilised imagery from the animated series for recruitment purposes on Tuesday. The programme, which has criticised President Trump in its current season, responded sharply with a hashtag suggesting the agency should "eat a bag of d‑‑‑s." "Wait, so we ARE relevant," the programme posted on social platform X in response to the DHS message. DHS shared a scene from the programme's upcoming episode trailer, showing six ICE agents in a black vehicle, to attract potential recruits to the agency, with a link to their careers section. "America has been invaded by criminals and predators. We need YOU to get them out," states the careers page. The department responded to the programme's latest post, clarifying their use of the content was solely for ICE recruitment purposes. "We want to thank South Park for drawing attention to ICE law enforcement recruitment: We are calling on patriotic Americans to help us remove murderers, gang members, pedophiles, and other violent criminals from our country," a DHS spokesperson informed The Daily Beast. This exchange follows "South Park's" recent mockery of Trump in its 27th season debut, portraying the president alongside the devil. The White House dismissed the programme, claiming its irrelevance for over twenty years. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like The boy meets a dog on the street - no one expected what happened next. Women's Method Learn More Undo The programme's creators recently criticised the pending Skydance and Paramount Global merger, describing it as a "s‑‑‑show." This preceded the Trump administration's approval of the $8 billion agreement. The deal sparked debate after CBS, a Paramount subsidiary, resolved a $16 million lawsuit with Trump regarding a "60 Minutes" interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris, and following their decision to end the "Late Show with Stephen Colbert." The upcoming episode, scheduled for Wednesday night on Comedy Central, features an animated character resembling DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, depicted holding a firearm and wearing an "ICE" vest. "'Got A Nut': When Mackay loses his job, he desperately tries to find a new way to make a living," the programme announced Tuesday morning on X, previewing the episode.
NDTV
4 days ago
- General
- NDTV
How To Master Your Studies With Blurting Method
To understand any subject deeply, you need more than just casual reading. Learning requires effort, strategy, and the ability to recall what you have studied. For students, a well-planned approach is essential. Reading alone does not always lead to real understanding. It is important to use techniques that make studying more effective and engaging. One such powerful method is called the Blurting Method. It is a simple yet highly effective way to revise and test how well you have understood a topic. What is the Blurting Method The Blurting Method is a self-revision technique. In this method, you first study a topic, then put away your notes and try to write down everything you remember about it. Once you finish writing, you compare your work with your original notes. This helps you see what you missed or misunderstood. After that, you go back to your notes, fill the gaps in your understanding, and repeat the process. According to Birmingham City University, the blurting method follows a structured process that helps students strengthen memory and identify knowledge gaps. The steps are as follows. Organise Your Notes To start the blurting method, you should have well-organised notes. If your notes are scattered or unclear, the method will not work as well. Try to arrange your study material in a way that makes sense to you. You can divide the content into sections, highlight important terms, and use headings to separate topics. The more structured your notes are, the easier it will be to review and remember the information. Read and Understand the Topic Once your notes are ready, take time to read through them carefully. You do not need to memorise everything at this stage. The goal here is to understand the subject. Try to grasp the main concepts, key facts, and examples. When you understand a topic well, it becomes much easier to remember it later. Blurt It Out Now hide your notes and take a blank sheet of paper. Start writing down everything you remember about the topic. This is called blurting. Try to recall definitions, explanations, steps, facts, or any other details. Do not worry about making it perfect. The goal is to see what your brain can remember on its own without help. If you prefer, you can also use a laptop or digital notepad to write your response. Check Your Work After you finish writing, take out your notes and compare them with what you wrote. Look closely at the parts you got right and the parts you forgot. This will show you where your understanding is strong and where it needs improvement. Mark the areas that need more attention. These are the gaps you must work on before your next revision. Repeat the Process Go back to your notes and review the areas you missed or misunderstood. Then try the blurting step again without looking at your notes. Each time you repeat the process, your memory becomes stronger. With practice, you will start remembering more details and improve your overall understanding of the topic. Take a Break After one or two rounds of blurting and review, give yourself a short break. A few minutes of rest can help your brain recover and absorb the information better. Studying continuously without rest can lead to mental fatigue. So, take a short walk, drink water, or simply relax for a while before getting back to your studies. Why Blurting is Effective The Blurting Method works because it uses a principle called active recall. This means you are training your brain to bring back information without help. When you practise recalling information regularly, your brain learns to store it more securely. This makes it easier to remember during exams or when you need it most. It also shows you exactly what you still need to work on, so you can focus your efforts more wisely.
Straits Times
01-08-2025
- Business
- Straits Times
BridgePoint Health awarded tender for Bidadari clinic with $18,000 rental
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox A staggered rent structure will be implemented to help tenants of newly-constructed shops in new estates. SINGAPORE - Bridgepoint Health has been awarded the tender for a General Practitioner (GP) clinic at the newly completed Bartley Beacon, a Build-To-Order (BTO) project in Bidadari. In a joint statement on Aug 1, the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Housing & Development Board (HDB) said the tender was awarded under the new Price-Quality Method (PQM), where tenders are evaluated based on both price and quality factors. Bridgepoint Health's care teams consist of family physicians, administrators, other health professionals, and specialists. It works with Northeast Medical Group, with a total of 20 clinics planned and in operation island-wide. A total of 18 bids were received for the tender which opened on May 8 2025 and closed on May 29. Under the pilot, the tender price – or the rental bid – accounted for 30 per cent of the scoring criteria, and was evaluated by HDB. The quality of the tender proposal accounted for the remaining 70 per cent, and was assessed by MOH. The awarded monthly rent is $18,000 for the clinic space of about 100sqm, which is twice the size of a typical clinic. The cost per square metre is $180, lower than the average awarded bid of $382 per sqm for GP clinic tenders awarded in new housing projects in the last three years, said MOH and HDB. This comes after the monthly rental bid for a GP clinic in Tampines was reported at $52,188 for a 52sqm ground-floor unit, bringing the cost per square metre to about $1,003.60, in early June. Top stories Swipe. Select. Stay informed. Tech Reporting suspected advanced cyber attacks will provide a defence framework: Shanmugam Singapore Tanjong Katong sinkhole: Road will progressively open to motorists from Aug 2 noon World Trump modifies reciprocal tariffs ahead of deadline; rate on Singapore likely to remain at 10% Business Singapore's US tariff rate stays at 10%, but the Republic is not out of the woods yet Singapore NUS launches S'pore's first nursing practice doctorate to meet evolving healthcare needs Singapore Data breach involving 147,000 Cycle & Carriage Singapore customer records under probe Business CAD probing Tokenize Xchange operator; firm's director charged with fraudulent trading Singapore PM Wong to deliver National Day message on Aug 8 Then, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung expressed his dismay at the bid , and said that the monthly rental for the clinic would translate into higher healthcare costs one way or other, and negate MOH's efforts to keep the cost of primary healthcare affordable. He also noted that higher rental bids do not necessarily translate to the best healthcare that the community needs. Bridgepoint Health will have to be onboarded by Healthier SG as part of the Primary Care Network, and will have to be Community Health Assist Scheme (CHAS) accredited. Additionally, the clinic will have to refrain from providing aesthetic services and instead focus solely on providing primary care services, said MOH and HDB. The clinic will also be able to provide basic ancillary services such as Diabetic Retinal Photography (DRP), Diabetic Foot Screening (DFS), and nurse counselling for diabetic patients. It will remain part of the Mental Health General Practitioner Partnership (MHGPP) and manage patients with more complex mental health conditions, while offering most of their services onsite to reduce the need for referrals. Three more GP clinic tenders are to be launched under the pilot PQM framework in 2025. The next PQM tender will be launched at Costa Grove, a BTO project in Pasir Ris. Another two PQM tenders, at Parc Point and Toh Guan Grove, will be launched by the end of 2025. To help tenants of newly-constructed shops in new estates, HDB has a staggered rent structure in place over the first three-year tenancy term, said the statement. Tenants will be required to pay 80 per cent of tendered rent in the first year, 90 per cent in the second year, and the full tendered rent in the third year.
The Hindu
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Six Indian women artists reflect on gender, space, and resilience
In Mumbai's local trains, the ladies' compartment is a paradox. It promises safety through separation, comfort through containment. It's where strangers sit shoulder to shoulder, share recipes before names, or exchange sighs instead of stories. These quiet solidarities are the premise of Ladies Compartment, a group exhibition by Method (India), now on view at Galerie Melike Bilir in Hamburg, Germany. Beyond gendered train coaches The show brings together six Indian women artists — Anushree Fadnavis, Avani Rai, Darshika Singh, Keerthana Kunnath, Krithika Sriram, and Shaheen Peer — each reflecting on gender, space, and resilience. Rooted in the hyperlocal image of Mumbai's gender-segregated train compartment, the exhibition poses larger questions of how women move through the world and the spaces — physical, emotional, cultural — that define those movements. 'Most Europeans I spoke to had never encountered the idea of gendered train coaches,' says Sahil Arora, curator and founder of Method. 'But that doesn't mean women in Europe are completely safe. The compartment becomes a doorway to talk about what safety looks like, who gets access, and at what cost.' The show, part of India Week Hamburg 2025, marks Method's first exhibition in Germany. Open to questions While the premise of the exhibition draws from a recognisable Indian experience, its intent is not parochial. These are not works that merely illustrate a theme—they think through it, press against it, and resist neat conclusions. Each artist speaks in her own vocabulary of image, pigment, gesture, or breath. Take Darshika Singh's video piece, In A Single Thought. Built around rhythm and repetition, it quietly questions how women's labour—especially physical, caregiving work —is rendered invisible by its very frequency. 'Society's expectation of women's productivity has a lot to do with how our gestures get naturalised,' says Singh. 'But repetition can also be looked at anew. One way preserves order; the other breaks it.' The idea that disruption doesn't always need to be loud runs through the show. In a striking series of fading self-portraits, Krithika Sriram uses rose-petal pigment to create what she calls 'a disappearing image' of the Dalit female body. The work deliberately turns away from the spectacle of caste violence. 'This is not about gore,' she says. 'It comes from someone looking at their own history with agency.' Sriram's work invites viewers to question how we memorialise pain — and whether beauty dilutes or dignifies it. 'I don't think beauty softens the critique,' she says. 'If it exists, it reflects my perspective, my right to represent my own body.' Photographer Shaheen Peer takes a similar route of quiet defiance. Her faceless self-portraits, draped in fabric, speak through form, not identity. 'We're often more concerned with who is in the image than what the image is about,' she says. By omitting the face, she shifts the gaze — toward memory, material, posture, presence. Shaped by artists These subtle but deliberate gestures accumulate across the exhibition. Fadnavis's decade-long photo archive of everyday life inside Mumbai's trains builds an ethnography of kinship and solitude. Rai's portraits of Punjabi women document the weight of land, grief, and belonging. They have a blurry quality to them, making the subject—a young girl of about 10—a figure of aspiration as she writes, stands, and looks at you sideways while laying on a bed of flowers. Kunnath's photographs of Indian female bodybuilders destabilise the idea of strength as masculine, and femininity as small. For Arora, the curatorial process was artist-first. 'This wasn't about illustrating a curatorial statement,' he says. 'The artists shaped the show.' He acknowledges the persistent gender imbalance in the art world — why 'women-only' shows still exist. 'If representation was truly balanced, these categories wouldn't be necessary,' he says. Beyond the gallery The ladies compartment has long served as muse and metaphor across Indian cultural work. In the novel Ladies Coupé (2001), Anita Nair situates her protagonist's reckoning with womanhood inside a train coach filled with fellow female passengers — each sharing stories that unravel domesticity, duty, and desire. Photojournalist Shuchi Kapoor's Rush Hour Sisterhood captures black-and-white portraits of Mumbai's commuting women in moments of exhaustion, care, and camaraderie. The feminist zine Zero Tolerance by Bombay Underground (2007) visually mapped the compartment as both sanctuary and surveillance space, layering protest drawings with anonymous testimonies. In Nishtha Jain's documentary, City of Photos, the train appears briefly but meaningfully, a passage between self-imaging and social invisibility. Meena Kandasamy's poetry in Ms Militancy (2010) echoes the defiant solitude often felt in gendered public zones, while Niyati Patel's spoken-word chapbook Commute Confessions uses fragments of overheard speech to archive a queer, caste-aware mapping of everyday intimacy in transit. No grand claims The show doesn't offer any easy takeaways. There are no declarations of revolution, no grand claims of feminist triumph. Instead, Ladies Compartment focuses on what is often overlooked — gesture, routine, and the quiet strength of repetition. It asks: when does a boundary protect, and when does it confine? In Mumbai, women in the ladies' compartment know each other by their train stops, silences, and the weight they carry — long before they know names or professions. Perhaps that's the real offering here: a glimpse into how women learn to share space—unequally, gently, strategically —and the kinds of care, strength, and camaraderie built along the way. The exhibition is on view till July 20 at Galerie Melike Bilir in Hamburg, Germany. The essayist and educator writes on design and culture.
Express Tribune
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Damson Idris keeps it real on Chicken Shop Date
F1 star Damson Idris appeared on Chicken Shop Date with Amelia Dimoldenberg, bringing charm, quick wit and zero tolerance for method acting labels. As the two sat down for chicken and deadpan banter, Dimoldenberg asked whether Idris was one of those actors who stay in character even when the cameras stop rolling. Without missing a beat, he leaned back and grinned: 'I mean, I'm not a Method actor, like what?' He went on to recall a brief phase during his Snowfall days where he kept his American accent at home until his family stepped in. 'Very quickly they were like, 'Shut up and talk normal,'' he laughed. Idris also opened up about preparing for his role in F1, Apple Studios' upcoming Formula 1 film co-starring Brad Pitt. He plays rookie driver Joshua Pearce, and said he worked closely with producer Lewis Hamilton to get into gear literally. 'He's the coolest guy in the world,' Idris said. 'He taught me how to drive fast.' The 111th episode of Chicken Shop Date proved why the series remains a viral favorite pairing high-profile guests with fast food and painfully awkward questions. Idris handled it all like a pro, balancing comedy with cool confidence. With F1 expected to bring him global recognition, Idris shows no signs of slowing down but he's staying true to himself off-camera. No method, just vibes.
