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The Star
08-07-2025
- Business
- The Star
George Town keeps history alive with two initiatives
Restoration underway: The location of the new initiative of Relic at Gat Lebuh Aceh. — ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star GEORGE TOWN: Heritage is not just about preserving old buildings – it is about sustaining the communities and cultures that breathe life into them. And two key initiatives – the George Town Heritage Research, Education and Learning International Centre (GTH-Relic) and the Cultural Heritage Hub (CH²) – are planned to keep history alive. Both initiatives are by George Town World Heritage Incorporated (GTWHI), which is chaired by Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow. ALSO READ: Capital city's crumbling heritage Relic is a dedicated centre for research, training, and global collaboration in heritage conservation while CH² is will be a new platform to drive creative industries, cultural entrepreneurship, and community participation within the World Heritage Site, said Chow. CH² will also enable entrepreneurs to explore how to improve their businesses in the world heritage sites. Under Relic, GTWHI will be responsible in arranging programmes specifically for research and also training to improve and find more ways to preserve heritage buildings. Relic itself will be housed in a historic building at the junction of Gat Lebuh Aceh and Lebuh Victoria. 'The building, formerly a godown, will be transformed into a dynamic centre for heritage education and learning. It will cater to schoolchildren, local residents, artisans, NGOs and heritage professionals,' he said after an event in Lebuh Aceh to celebrate Heritage Day yesterday. CH² – a creative economy project – involves the restoration of eight shophouses near the historic mosque in Lebuh Acheh. Some of the buildings, which were damaged in a fire several years ago, are being revived to support creative entrepreneurship and cultural enterprises. Chow said RM11mil has been allocated for the restoration and programme development of Relic while restoration work for CH² will cost RM4mil. Both projects are scheduled for completion in 2026. Meanwhile, GTWHI general manager Dr Ang Ming Chee said the Relic project houses four core components: an interpretative centre, a heritage lab, a heritage materials bank and a cultural heritage embassy. 'The centre aims to offer inclusive programming for all age groups, from children to academics, while maintaining financial sustainability through fee-based access and public-private collaborations,' she said. Ang said both initiatives reflect the state's broader commitment to sustainability and inclusive heritage development. The long-term goal, she said, is to build a sustainable model that balances public accessibility with financial viability. 'Some programmes will be open to the public, while others may involve minimal fees, but the core focus remains: education, heritage, and building a vibrant, creative future for George Town,' she said. At the ceremony earlier, 40 community partners received certificates of appreciation for their participation in the three-day George Town Unesco World Heritage Day celebrations. Among the community partners were the Penang Muslim League, Malaysian-German Society, Penang Island City Council, Penang Hindu Association and Malaysian-Japanese Society. 'This year's celebration has exceeded expectations, drawing over 20,000 visitors. 'As the Historic Building Open Houses continue today, the spirit of engagement and cultural pride is as vibrant as ever,' he said before visiting Masjid Kapitan Keling. Chow said a total of RM18.5mil has been allocated in repair incentives, benefiting 52 Category I and 323 Category II heritage buildings. He added that GTWHI had also installed 10 AED units across the heritage zone to enhance safety in the dense urban core.
Time of India
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
All Phone Riddle Solutions in Lies of P – Locations, Answers, and Best Tips
Phone riddle solutions in Lies of P (Image via Neowiz) The mysterious phone riddles in Lies of P are a unique puzzle mechanic that reward players with Trinity Keys, which unlock Trinity Sanctums containing valuable gear and resources. Solving these riddles is essential for maximizing your rewards and uncovering more of the game's secrets. Here's a comprehensive guide to all phone riddle solutions, their locations, and expert tips for success. All Phone Riddle Locations and Answers in Lies of P There are five phone riddles in Lies of P, each presented by the enigmatic "King of Riddles" (also known as Arlecchino). Below are the locations, riddle texts, and correct answers for each: Phone Location (Stargazer) Riddle Answer 1 Krat City Hall Courtyard 'By morning, it walks on feet numbering four. At mid-day just two, no less and no more. It walks on three feet when evening arrives. And if you solve this, then I'll know you're alive!' Human 2 Malum District 'I stand tall and proud when I'm young and bold. But I'm short and humble once I've gotten old. What am I?' Candle 3 Grand Exhibition Gallery 'Think about this, whatever it takes: what cannot be used before it breaks?' Egg 4 Krat Central Station Street 'This blue flower has many ways to take root. But only on man does it ever bear fruit.' Ergo 5 Relic of Trismegistus Entrance 'Is Geppetto's creation a killer? CONFESS!' (Yes/No) Yes For the fifth riddle, you can answer either "Yes" or "No" and still receive the reward, but "Yes" is the canonical answer. How to Solve Each Phone Riddle in Lies of P Lies of P: How To Get Trinity Keys All Phone Riddle Answers And Locations 1. Krat City Hall Courtyard (Chapter II) - Progress from the Courtyard Stargazer towards the Workshop Union. - Before crossing the bridge, take the right passage to find the ringing phone. - Answer: Human. 2. Malum District (Chapter V) - From the Malum District Stargazer, head into the Red Lobster Inn, then out and up the ladder before the central courtyard. - Answer: Candle. 3. Grand Exhibition Gallery (Chapter VII) - After defeating a blade-wielding robot, listen for the phone in the hallway. - Answer: Egg. - After answering, solve the nearby statue puzzle: interact with the right statue twice to reveal the Trinity Key. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like No Distractions. Just Solitaire Play Solitaire Download Undo 4. Krat Central Station Street (Chapter IX) - Proceed straight from the Stargazer, then look left at the fork to find the phone. - Answer: Ergo. 5. Relic of Trismegistus Entrance (Chapter X) - Located on a cliff above the boss door entrance, hard to miss as you approach the end of the level. - The riddle is more of a confession; answer "Yes" or "No" to receive the final reward. Best Tips for Solving Phone Riddles in Lies of P I have listed some of the most handy tips that you can follow to solve phone riddles in Lies of P: - Listen for the Ringing: Each phone emits a clear ringing sound when nearby, making them easier to locate. - Look for Visual Cues: Phones are often marked by a small light above them. - Answer Carefully: While some riddles may seem tricky, the answers are usually classic riddles or wordplay. - Chronological Order: Trinity Keys are obtained in a set order; you must solve the riddles as you encounter them to progress through the Trinity Sanctums. - Environmental Puzzles: The third riddle requires an additional step—solving a statue puzzle after answering the phone to get your Trinity Key. - Rewards: Each correct answer grants a Trinity Key, essential for unlocking Trinity Sanctums with rare loot and upgrades. - Fifth Riddle Flexibility: The final riddle accepts either answer, but "Yes" is the intended response. Why Solve the Phone Riddles in Lies of P? - Trinity Keys: These are the only way to access Trinity Sanctums, which contain some of the best gear, materials, and secrets in Lies of P. - Lore and Story: The riddles and their answers provide insight into the world and themes of Lies of P. - Achievement Completion: Solving all riddles and opening all Sanctums is required for certain achievements and 100% completion. Summary Table: All Phone Riddle Solutions in Lies of P Riddle Location Riddle (Paraphrased) Answer Reward Krat City Hall Courtyard Sphinx riddle (legs at different ages) Human Trinity Key Malum District Tall when young, short when old Candle Trinity Key Grand Exhibition Gallery Used only after it breaks Egg Trinity Key Krat Central Station Street Blue flower, bears fruit on man Ergo Trinity Key Relic of Trismegistus Is Geppetto's creation a killer? Yes/No Final reward Requires solving an additional statue puzzle after the phone call. Also read: All Gesture Locations in Lies of P Overture - Best Tips and Unlocking Guide By following this guide, you'll be able to solve every phone riddle in Lies of P, secure all Trinity Keys, and unlock every Trinity Sanctum for the best possible rewards and deeper immersion in the game's mysterious world.
Irish Times
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Bodily takeover: New poetry from Gwyneth Lewis, Jennifer Horgan, Dedalus Introductions and Peter McDonald
From a Welsh poet well used to crossing borders comes a sixth collection of ardour and courage. Gwyneth Lewis's First Rain in Paradise (Bloodaxe, £12) confronts past trauma and debility through the language of invasion and bodily takeover. In the first sequence of eight poems, a spider lays eggs in the speaker's brain: as the sequence develops, the subject of maternal child abuse comes sharp and clear. These are poems of darkness and danger – probing, unsettling, appalling. Snare, for example, seems to ask how one is to live in a mind damaged by abuse: 'It's easy to leave, what stops you?', others ask, baffled. It's the snare in the brain, spring-loaded for suicide ... 'Don't you love a good fact, how it saves you / from feeling', asks Relic, but this collection is spared nothing, not the trauma of abuse, rendered in imagery as powerful as it is fearsome; not the descent into aftermath (… and I'm coming / undone/ at the / seams – Any Eight Legs Will Do); and, ultimately, not the process of recovery, that climb back up towards a capacity to endure ('don't ask me how, I'm still feeling, pulling' – Spidering) or to resist, as at the conclusion of Expulsion: 'An owl / descends – clutching stars and dismay / in her talons. Stubborn as ever, I choose to stay.' That survival impulse is facilitated by an insistence on hard-won joy. Three Ways into Water describes: READ MORE I've thrust my head through sky's skin, can see how my brain is dazzled by stars' wheels and zigzags, spelling delight, which is the opposite of pain. Difficult material rendered in unflinchingly challenging imagery, but these poems are also delightful, finding humour and pleasure where they can, as in Late Blackberries, where the final sugar-rush is relished, even if the crop's first sweetness has been sacrificed. Gwyneth Lewis: Difficult material rendered in unflinchingly challenging imagery In the tradition of Faber's Poetry Introduction or Carcanet's New Poetries series, Beginnings Over and Over (Dedalus, €12.50), edited by Leeanne Quinn, features a selection of emerging Irish poets whose work has been published in poetry journals or performed in other ways, but who have yet to publish a first collection. In this case, four poets – Mai Ishikawa, Róisín Leggett Bohan, Emer Lyons and Cal O'Reilly – are represented by a generous selection of about a dozen poems each, enough for a taster but not so many as to compromise any collections likely to follow. Such introductory anthologies are usually a good way to sample the poetry zeitgeist (if there is one), and this volume indicates that perennial themes of grief, bodies, dreams and cats still abide, while room is made for more contemporary concerns of gender transition, Kintsugi and films such as Top Gun and God's Own Country. A capacious volume with a range of sparky, beguiling poem titles (And I had bought new underwear from Penneys; The Migration of Theta Waves; I Photocopy Vaginas), the four highlighted poets demonstrate energy and engagement, although the 'stylistic innovation' promised by the brief introduction seems an overclaim. Standout moments include Leggett Bohan's The Cryptographer, which opens: 'We carried the summer / in our mouths'); Ishikawa's wonderful Faceless, and Lyons's Mouse/Mice. Perhaps the most assured poet is O'Reilly, whose poems declare a formal maturity and confidence in strikingly bold but graceful imagery. A couple of list poems here nicely handle momentum and detail, and metaphor (that trickiest of poetic strategies) is managed elegantly, as in the final phrases of Naming: … the first time you say my name / a feeling / fills my chest / like a room I can stand in /so bright / I don't need to look past it The first lines of the opening poem of Jennifer Horgan's Care (Doire Press, €16), declare its uncompromising approach. It's Just a Dream I Had begins: 'She's slumped in a bath. I'm drawn to the grey hair inside / her thighs, the dough-layered stomach, belonging to mothers'. The theme of Women's Bodies, often constrained and compromised by social context, though always observed with care and fidelity, is to the forefront. From the small boxes to which people (especially women and the marginalised) are confined, these poems declare their resistance, rebuke and avowal. 'Don't see the faces of those / who suffered hope' may refer specifically to a lorry of dead, trafficked migrants in the poem For the 39, but this is work that does see, and sees hard. Poems of urgent intention, driven by moral imperative, sometimes brush a little too closely against Keats's warning about readers hating poems with 'palpable designs' on them. If, in this collection, poems for the Tuam Babies and the Magdalene Laundries might seem somewhat familiar (if no less sincere) in their response to contemporary Ireland, other poems probing more personal experience are vivid and arresting. There seems little need for the somewhat workshop-ish poems that lean into the authority of established figures – those poems written 'after' Heaney, Plath, Atwood and Joyce. The book's strongest poems amply declare their own credentials: a curious eye, a kind heart and an eye-catching turn of phrase, as in the lovely Sound of Cars Beyond Our Garden, or Your House Fell to Pieces, a poem written in middle age about a childhood home, which finishes: Knowing all the effort you made, makes life majestic and terrifying. Like the Cliffs of Moher are outside my front door, waiting for it to open. Peter McDonald, whose latest collection is One Little Room With both the title and the Gwen John cover painting seeming to promise a kind of gauzy, dusky domesticity, the language of Peter McDonald's One Litte Room (Carcanet, £11.99) comes as a surprise. This collection's various backward glances are elegiac but also deceptively down-to-earth. In the end of Travels, for example, the heartbreaking pathos of dementia is rendered with gentle restraint, as a son visits his mother: … Did I ever have a house? Her questions were scared and delirious: Was I good? And did I have a husband? I looked at her with his face, and I said Yes. A theme of containment runs throughout, with matchboxes, storage boxes, coffins and even Harry Houdini featuring. Seventeen four-line poems punctuate the collection, the best of which are small boxes of concision and elusiveness, as what's described opens and closes on the past, as in The Pillow: I turn and talk to you before I sleep, talk to you in my head, for you're not here; but you listen, and you smile, until you slip from the pillow into all that came before. A poem is also a kind of intricately carved box, and the poems here seem to relish the play of confinement and release. McDonald is a loyal formalist: in Incident, the poem's exploded sonnet form, with disrupted rhyme scheme and disguised 14 lines, is scarcely noticeable but is there nonetheless, subtly supporting and amplifying subject matter. If this, McDonald's eighth collection, shows a vulnerability in mining the past and registering losses, his familiar, public-facing side is also in evidence. Centenary 1921-2021 draws one man's life against a backdrop of political and social change in Northern Ireland, ('you and the new country are of an age'), climbing out of strident partisan allegiance to observe: ' ... everything comes and goes / where people live; and that is history'.
USA Today
19-02-2025
- General
- USA Today
German Shepard named Pedigree Foundation's Rescue Dog of the Year: His sweet adoption story
German Shepard named Pedigree Foundation's Rescue Dog of the Year: His sweet adoption story Show Caption Hide Caption German shepherd shelter dog, Relic, gets his happy ending Relic, a German shepherd, named Rescue Dog of the Year thanks to East Bay SPCA and his foster family's dedication to helping him thrive. The Pedigree Foundation announced a 6-year-old German Shepherd as their 2025 Rescue Dog of the Year. The foundation is a non-profit set up by the makers of Pedigree food for dogs, Mars Petcare. The pup named Relic arrived at the East Bay SPCA in Oakland, California with recognizable signs of shelter stress, including reactivity to humans and animals, according to the shelter. "Our staff, all too aware of how large breed dogs are challenged in a shelter, knew he needed behavioral support and patience to navigate his transition," the shelter said in a news release. "Additionally, as a 'working' breed, they recognized Relic's potential to build new skills and respond to positive reinforcement." Relic was moved to a private setup where he was cared for and trained while the shelter also worked to find foster parents for him, "knowing he would thrive in a supportive home environment." Foster to adoption Eventually, a couple who had recently lost their cat of 15 years, reached out to East Bay SPCA with the intention to foster a few pets. "The house felt empty without him (the cat) but we weren't quite ready to open our home to another pet," the couple wrote in an essay published on the shelter's website. "We thought fostering at the East Bay SPCA might be a nice way to have pets in the home without committing to it full time and be able to provide a needed break from the shelter for a deserving pet." The couple, who have not been named, started by fostering pets for a few hours before taking in pets overnight. When they received an email from the shelter asking if they were open to fostering Relic, his story touched them, and they decided to take him in. "The foster family provided Relic with regular behavior support including private training, phone check-ins, and counseling," the Pedigree Foundation said. Relic blossomed under the care of the shelter staff and his foster family, who eventually decided their home would be incomplete without him and adopted him. "Relic is a loyal, good-natured dog who is well behaved around the house and a sweet cuddler when we let him up onto the bed with us," his parents said in their essay. "He takes up a lot more space in the house than our cat did, and it took some adjusting to, but we love having him around now and can't imagine our home without him." Relic's parents shared he has now become friends with their neighbor's dog and the two take regular walks together. Some of Relic's favorite activities include playing with his toys, especially balls, chasing lizards and hanging out with his dad during his weekly guitar jam sessions with his friends. "Relic lays on the floor between them drifting off to sleep, as his feet move to the sound of the music," his parents said. Fostering: a key intervention for shelter dogs Pedigree said Relic's happily ever after highlights the importance of "fostering as a key intervention for shelter dogs," explaining that such program "prevent shelters from being overwhelmed with capacity issues, helping to reduce length of stay and helping more dogs find loving homes." Fostering is also important in preparing pups for adoption by giving them an in-home experience and "improving their social, emotional and mental wellbeing outside of the shelter environment." The foundation, which offers annual grants to shelters to help them "build and sustain the systems and processes needed to help more dogs get adopted," said East SPCA received a $15,000 grant in August 2023 which supported its Behavior and Training Program expansion. Relic was a direct beneficiary of this grant, receiving specialized care that ultimately helped him get adopted, the foundation said. "Relic's story is one of strong shelter pet advocacy made possible through the annual Pedigree Foundation grant cycle," the foundation said. To celebrate Relic being chosen as the 2025 Rescue Dog of the Year, the Pedigree Foundation has also created a limited-edition lookalike plush dog. The plushie is available to purchase on the Dogs Rule store for $25 and a portion of proceeds will help dogs find loving homes through shelter and rescue grants. Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at sshafiq@ and follow her on X and Instagram @saman_shafiq7.
CBC
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Famed boat from TV show The Beachcombers on display in Vancouver
CBC's Caroline Chan speaks with Deano Fatovic at the Vancouver International Boat Show. He's restoring Relic's HiBaller II from the long-running TV show The Beachcombers.
