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Like countless men, I recently discovered the online lectures of Jordan P. Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto who rose to Internet fame and notoriety in November of 2016. The obscure professor had posted videos to his small YouTube channel voicing opposition to Canadas Bill C-16, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of gender identity a concept that can include misgendering people by refusing to refer to them by their preferred pronouns. Peterson denounced the postmodernist motivations of the law, whose totalitarian end game, he believed, was to criminalize free speech.

As things are wont to unfold on the Internet, Petersons videos and media coverage snowballed until he eventually caught the eye and became a three-hour guest on popular YouTube channels such as the Rubin Report and the Joe Rogan Experience. Petersons animated divertissements won instant fans through his particularly engaging mix of topics: free speech and political correctness, the history of totalitarianism, personality traits and psychological well-being, heros-journey mythology, and the stories of the Old Testament.

Wise nuggets from his interviews and lectures were uploaded at an accelerating pace, and Peterson amassed millions of views. His own channel leapt from obscurity to 300,000 subscribers and counting. Peterson next set up a Patreon account to raise money, vowing to fast-track the video uploading and promising a lengthy series of lectures on the Bible, and his newfound flock ponied up over $40,000 in monthly support, which Peterson says he wants to use to create an online university. Though his book Twelve Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos isnt due out until September September of 2018, that is it is fast climbing the Amazon ranks from preorders. Hes tweeted out that he has all ten of the top ten higher-education podcasts on iTunes. Reddit communities, memes, and clever-slogan-stamped products are popping up every day.

Peterson says his online audience is 90 percent male. These huge numbers of men, many of whom are willing to donate $5 or $10 per month, have embraced a 54-year-old paternal authority figure who tells them that theyre a mess and need to get their lives in order. It works because Peterson connects his message to something eternal, offering mytho-intellectual fatherly advice that men, especially Millennial men, are starved for in an age of perpetual and trivial digital distraction.

To use one of his own refrains, he has ascended to the top of the dominance hierarchy when it comes to motivating males in the digital age.

Peterson has become an Internet hero partly by being a cartographer of the human soul. He talks at length about mapping your environment, ever weighing goals and results, risks and rewards, and what happens when unexplored territory chaos, the flood, the serpent in the garden suddenly appears and shatters your world.

One of his popular lecture series, taken directly from his UT classroom, is called Maps of Meaning, also the title of his 1999 book. Peterson presents men a roadmap for dealing with their past, the unresolved alarms that discordantly sound in our minds clamoring to be attended to, but that we are all too keen to tune out. If you have a memory thats more than 18 months old but still causes negative emotions, says Peterson, then its something you have yet to resolve. The brain needs to mark case closed on negative experiences to understand what went wrong so as to avoid making the same mistake in the future. Thats pretty intuitive when youre five and learning to ride a bike, but it gets a lot harder the older you get.

Id always thought I was a pretty well-adjusted person, free from things like petty envy or road rage. Sure I had problems, but I always thought they were worries about the future, not demons from my past. Then I discovered Peterson on YouTube, and he helped me understand that I share in the human condition, which is to say, Im a mess.

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In this bleak midwinter, years into a midlife crisis, I received some bad news I didnt take very well. I fell into my habit of aversion and avoidance, and in doing so built up a dragon in my mind that could torment me at will. After five days of subconscious alarms going off, unattended to, everyday life suddenly fell to pieces.

I became wracked with fear and sorrow, constantly weeping in a way Id never experienced before. At one point misguided by meditation teaching and wrapped up in knots about consciousness, thinking, and trying not to think about not thinking I was ready to dial 911 for an ambulance to come sedate the torment away. But the idea of waking up in a New York mental institution with real loonies emboldened me to ride out the panic, which eventually subsided, as such episodes always do.

From that near crack-up things gradually improved as I clawed my way out of the dark place by tapping the instinct for self-preservation, and by seeking wisdom from a variety of books from different traditions from Nietzsches thoughts on affirming life by viewing its sufferings as an aesthetic phenomenon, to James Allens classic 1903 self-help tome As a Man Thinketh, and to the surprisingly entertaining and enlightening 1948 book by Dale Carnegie called How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, which combined stories of everyday folks conquering their demons with wise words from the great minds of Western literature. Gradually my world inched back toward messy normalcy.

All this coincided with the rise of Jordan Peterson, whom I discovered as if by fate, and his words became a daily regimen. I joked to friends that I was in therapy, and that it was actually quite sophisticated in a 70s Woody Allen kind of way. With Dr. Ps constant message of sort yourself out, each day the little epiphanies grew larger. There were times when Dr. P described my issues so precisely it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. This made me realize that all human problems are pretty much the same, and that its Petersons archetypal, big-picture approach that is resonating with men at this particular moment in time.

Although the medium he uses is cutting-edge, giving his therapy sessions near-infinite reach, what Peterson teaches is not new but timeless: 4,000-year-old Biblical tales, mythologies of the past two millennia, and ideas from 19th- and 20th-century figures such as Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Solzhenitsyn, and Jung. Dr. P isnt just a therapist for men at a time of masculine crisis; no, the man who draws so much on patriarchal archetypes is fast becoming YouTubes new ideal male authority figure.

Firm but caring, Peterson is not a rigid drill sergeant out to eradicate your knee-jerk adolescent revolt. Thats a different kind of self-help guru for a different kind of man. Instead, Dr. P encourages, which, as he points out, means to instill with courage. In cognitive therapy, removing fear doesnt work. You dont make the bad stuff go away be retreating to a safe space, to use a popular buzzword; you do so by making yourself stronger. Peterson doesnt tell you what you should do, because only you can figure out your purpose but he can point out a few places to look. In short, Peterson speaks the way I always wished my father had.

But we cant choose our parents, and accepting them for who they are is another part of sorting yourself out. My own dad, kind and supportive as hes been to his adult son, would score in the 99th percentile for conscientiousness (work, discipline, order) in the Big Five personality test that Peterson often mentions, and in single digits for openness (variety, intellectual curiosity, aesthetic sensitivity, in touch with feelings) hardly the ideal for a writer son in search of wisdom and truth.

Imagine if you did everything you know you should be doing but arent, Dr. P says, and imagine what your life would be like in ten years. Then imagine the opposite, a complete cave-in to the worst of your tendencies. But change is so difficult as to seem impossible, as Dr. P himself says and right on cue I found a lecture in which he tells the story of Noah. What do you do when your Great Flood comes along and destroys your sense of external identity, when you lose your job or your spouse leaves you? Why, you be like Noah, who had Gods favor for his ability to adapt, to reinvent himself as shipbuilder and captain in order to survive, and in so transforming himself saved the world.

You dont wall yourself inside a safe space of ideology, territory, or experience. Learning and what is a life well lived but constant learning? requires the constant tearing down and transformative rebuilding of the boundaries of your experience as you acquire new information.

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Change starts with little things, which despite being little feel immovable from the density of their weight. For years I would rise, often from a restless night, and go directly to my desk, hoping for some good news on the computer to jump-start my day. Id soon become distracted with all the trivialities of the news. Then, coffee ingested and ready to work, Id find my back was a wreck from sitting too soon after rising, which Id been told repeatedly by a chiropractor not to do.

With Dr. Ps voice in my head encouraging me to imagine what I could be if I stopped doing the things I know I shouldnt be doing, and started doing the things I know I should, I wondered what to do first thing in the morning. I mean besides the obvious and necessary.

I settled on something embarrassingly banal, the kind of thing old folks do: I would take a walk around the block, and have my first impressions of the day come from outside rather than a computer screen.

This simple act of will kicked my brains positive emotions into overdrive. Doing something different makes you feel different, which makes you think different, and finally be different. The front stoops of my neighbors, which I had so often passed, averting my eyes to the red-brick eyesores, were suddenly radiant with the beauty of flowers. Birds and squirrels went about their business of daily survival, oblivious to human folly and existential dread. And then I beheld a tree I had never noticed before, covered with heart-shaped messages I assumed were there to commemorate the site of some tragic accident. But when I investigated, the messages turned out to be timeless quotes on happiness and friendship put there to inspire and uplift anyone willing to notice. And I never had. One of the Old Testaments central messages, according to Peterson, is quite simple: pay attention.

Pay attention. Sort out your past. Author your future. Take responsibility for something. Identify not with that part of you that can be shattered, but the part that rebuilds itself from shatters. Face your fears one step at a time, and note with each voluntary approach how you didnt perish, but instead were strengthened.

I slept soundly last night and awoke with the sun. As I strolled on Day Two of the new walk-around-the-block routine, my mind was fertile and alert. What could come of this glorious day? When I eventually sat down at my desk, I began writing this.

Countless men are grateful to Jordan Peterson for having the courage to speak his mind on a contentious social matter. This temporal issue brought him many enemies, but his timeless messages earned followers that vastly outnumber them. The sheer numbers testify that he is the right man at the right time, someone capable of showing young men that cleaning up their room has cosmic significance, and that imposing a little order upon chaos is good for the soul, which in turn is good for the world.

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Christian Chensvold is a New Yorkbased writer whose op-eds have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, among other places. He is the founder of Ivy-Style.com.

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Maximillian woke up one morning and found himself famous.

Uploading a video to Facebook, he simply wanted to share his music with a few friends, a few curious onlookers - but it quickly travelled around the globe.

A live rendition of his song 'Feelings', it ratcheted up more than 90,000 views in a matter of days as the world began to wonder who this teenage artist could be.

Still only 17 years old, the Danish newcomer seems to be taking the attention in his stride, focussing on what counts: his music.

The full studio version has now gone online, and it's a beautifully frank piece of alt-R&B with that heavenly vocal left largely intact.

He explains: "'Feelings' is a simple song about friendship, about leaving and being left. Its about the state of mind I was in right after my best friend sort of dumped me. This is my way of stating the obvious, that times change and so do people. But Ill also manage and move on."

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The cloud storage wars just got a bit more interesting. Box just recently announced its Box Drive offering to practically replace shared network folders at work. Now Google is also expanding the scope of its own Google Drive cloud solution but with a nod towards regular consumers instead of the enterprise. With the upcoming Backup and Sync tool, users on Windows and macOS will be able to select whole folders to sync with Google Drive, making it easy as pie to store all your data on the mothership.

The way Google Drive traditionally works is that you upload files to the cloud. Desktop apps offer the convenience of making it look like Google Drive is part of your local storage but, in reality, it is just smoke and mirrors. You really are still uploading files to Drive, which updates a local copy of the file sitting inside a special folder on your local storage.

The new Google Drive attacks the problem from a different angle but still keeps the seamless syncing convenience. Instead of uploading to Drive, you select which of your folders on your local drive that you want to sync up with Google Drive. You then use the files in those folders as normal. Theres nothing special about them other than the fact that Google keeps them always in sync with the copy on Drive. It turns Google Drive from a yet another storage you have to mind into a bona fide cloud backup solution. It also makes it easier to run out of space, especially on a free subscription.

The Backup and Sync tool that launches on 28th June isnt actually a separate piece of software but is just the latest and enhanced version of the Google Drive software for PCs and Macs. It will also integrate the separate Google Photos desktop uploader so that you wont have to juggle two or three different pieces of software just to interact with Drive.

Google is targeting this new feature at regular consumers, suggesting that its enterprise customers wait for a similar feature coming in a new Drive File Stream package. Users who do want to gain the Backup and Sync feature will have to install the new Drive for PC/Mac application themselves, as Google wont automatically update it at this time.

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While sunning yourself on a deckchair with a cocktail in hand you could have cost yourself a small fortune by uploading a quick snapshot to the internet. Those days should now be over for many popular destinations but it is wise to check the T&Cs, as Philip Cullinane explains

There have been many horror stories of families jetting off for a fortnight in Fuengirola and coming home to sky-high mobile phone bills costing more than the holiday itself.

But anyone lucky enough to be heading to the continent for a summer getaway should now only be charged the same cost as using a mobile phone at home.

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From today you can use your bundled texts, minutes and mobile data anywhere in the EU meaning tweets and snapchats can be sent from locations like Barcelona and Berlin for no extra cost as Burslem. This will apply to both pay-as-you-go deals and monthly contracts.

However, the new rules only apply in EU member states so you will need to keep your wits about you for such trips to the pristine Adriatic coast of Montenegro, the dramatic landscape of Iceland, the popular Turkish resorts or far-flung destinations like the U.S. And if and when Brexit happens, expect the situation to be flipped on its head again.

With companies like Plusnet charging an astonishing 8 per megabyte of data with the average webpage being around 2MB, a quick jaunt to Instagram could end up being a dear do if you're not on your guard.

One such holidaymaker to be caught out was Helen Christie, a mother from London, who was charged 20,000 in 2013 for uploading her snaps to Facebook while in Turkey.

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Consumer watchdog Which? is now warning families of the potential pitfalls and to brush up on your knowledge of the EU while Britain, for the time being, remains a member state.

Alex Neill, Which? managing director of home products and services, said: "Many will reap the benefits of these changes and will no longer be put off by expensive roaming charges.

"However, it is important that you take a close look at what is or isn't included in your current mobile deal. Not knowing what's included in your tariff could lead to some surprising charges on your next bill."

Travel agents believe clarity on data roaming charges while in the EU will help give customers peace of mind.

Beverley Rommelrath, manager at Regent Travel in High Street Stone, said: "We do get asked from time to time about data roaming charges. It is something some people worry about.

"Our advice is to always check with your supplier because there are so many different companies with changing policies we cannot keep track.

"It is definitely a good thing to have no different charges in Europe because it will stop confusion and any nasty unexpected bills."

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Families in Stoke-on-Trent planning to swap an English summer for some Mediterranean sunshine welcomed news they can now keep their social media profiles up-to-date and upload an envy-inducing selfie while on the beach in Benidorm or an Ayia Napa nightclub.

Lara Wallace, aged 37, of Chell, said: "I have been stung before for using my mobile phone while on holiday.

"It cost me over 100 for using the internet. I was hit with the extortionate prices.

"I am really glad about this as I like to put photos up, check in on Facebook and use the maps to know where I am going.

"This has come just in time for me as I am going off on city breaks to Europe this year and now I won't be worrying about my data charges."

Emma Jones, aged 45, of Stone, said: "It is really good news that you will be able to use your phone without worrying.

"It has been a concern for me before while on holiday when using social media or checking maps. It will be one less thing to think about."

Ernest Doku, uSwitch telecoms expert, said: "All signs point to worry-free global roaming becoming a new battleground amongst providers."

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Big Issue: Wave bon voyage to nasty phone bills for most (pre-Brexit) European holidays - Stoke Sentinel

Femicide has never been trendier than it is right now in South Africa. Thats not to say women were never assaulted because theyre women, but more incidents have come to the fold and we want our insecurities to be taken seriously. This article aims to discuss violence against women and its contributors, as well as how our mind-set may contribute to rape culture.

What is it about the female figure that has so many people in a frenzy? I would call this behaviour the toxic sexualisation of the female figure. On the one hand you have women being raped and murdered and on the other women of all ages including teens uploading inappropriate pictures and videos. Why is that #Natasha or #Sesethu create so much hype to an extent that when our cries concerning sexual abuse fall on deaf ears?

Sexuality does not just define gender or ones physical encounter with another. Studies suggest that sexualisation takes place when a persons appeal is of more value than their behaviour. This is evident in receiving 100+ likes or views on social media and being a victim of anothers impulsive behaviour. The person is then considered to be a sexual object, rather than a person who can make their own decisions as a result sexuality is often inappropriately imposed. More people are speaking out on the issue, likewise government is also taking the opportunity to share responsibility.

We all know no matter the circumstances around an incident, no one should force themselves on another.

Now for the tricky part - how do we go about eliminating sexual violence when society itself is counterproductive? Counterproductive would entail being afraid to speak against violent sexual acts or condoning their behaviour because women these days wear next to nothing.

Addressing rape is not just having a legal system in place to deal with the perpetrator and the victim rising above it or attending defence classes. Rape culture is real and it is definitely causing an impact on society, it has become a part of our construct, that we cannot even see that we promote it at times. This goes beyond clich of asking for it because you dress a certain way or youre playing hard to get. It is also in the satisfaction we get from receiving over 100 likes or one comments on how that outfit compliments our figure etc. Although the compliments might be genuine, you can never be too sure or we would not have girls and women uploading inappropriate pictures and videos to remain relevant. These at times prompt the #NotAllMenAreTrash sentiments.

The crux of the issue is not just the normalised mentality regarding rape, but our social construct which has been a disservice to us all. It is entrenched in our being our birth right. Females from a very young age are taught to be dutiful, being domesticated, dressing a certain way and tolerate mans ego. When we dare to be different, be it our dress sense or sexual orientation, we are seen as prey something that needs to be put in line. The male upbringing is somewhat different, their physical superiority is engraved in their minds and their care-free and adventurous nature is often condoned. This disservice is evident in the little things like a girl being reprimanded and often blamed when she dirties her clothes, but a boy does not get so much backlash. This is not only entrenched in how boys and girls conduct themselves and are dealt with, this is also translated in the blurred lines that permeate in normalising sexualisation by the music we often jam to, graphics in magazines etc.

Rape should not just be addressed in an institutional manner, but culturally as well. We should be taught co-existence, cooperation, and respect as well as knowing that our consequences have actions. Not the kind of consequence that if your dress is too short - then its your doing, but if your happiness infringes on anothers, then harmony cannot exist. If we cant change our mentality and think progressively regarding gender then we are #AllTrash.

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Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti being interviewed by Trish Halpin, Editor-in-Chief, Marie Claire U.K, at Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women Summit at the Dorchester Hotel in London on June 13 2017. Pictures by Peter Dench for Fortune Magazine.

Being a good astronaut is not about your personal achievements, says Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman to go to space. What matters most is how well you work in a team.

Speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women International Summit at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Tuesday, Cristoforetti said that over the past 10 to 15 years, the emphasis on astronauts having a "go-go personality" has shifted.

Instead, she said, a major requirement is for men and women to bring something to the team and not throw the group off balance. "It's more valuable to be someone who can empower others to work at their best than to be an individual achiever," Cristoforetti told interviewer Trish Halpin, editor-in-chief of Marie Claire U.K.

Cristoforetti said that she had become fascinated by space as a young girl. "I was a Star Trek fan and I grew up in a tiny village in the Italian Alps where the night sky was present with little light pollution," she told the Summit attendees. "As I grew up, I developed more mature interests and passions that kept me on the path for science and technology."

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The 40-year-old first went to space in 2014, five years after she was officially selected as an astronaut by the European Space Agency. Although embarking on such a dangerous 10-month mission would be enough to make anyone anxious, Cristoforetti said she felt quite calm on launch day.

"Taking off was a moment of peace," she told the Summit. "At the end [of the pre-launch preparation], the pace really picks up. I was juggling travel, media work, and was at the center of a lot of demands from many people, which was all well meant, but it consumed all my energy. I was looking forward to [them closing the] hatch and being sealed off from the rest of the world."

After a nine-minute assent into space and then a six-hour journey to the International Space Station, Cristoforetti said she was pleased to arrive. The astronaut gradually became known for uploading quirky videos onto YouTube from the ISS that demonstrated everyday life in space, from making a snack in zero gravity to doing her nails and hair.

"Although I was extremely well trained, [training] is a little different to actually learning to live in weightlessness," Cristoforetti said. "Its the coolest thingeverything is effortless and light."

She explained to the Summit that learning to live in zero gravity requires going through three stages: the first being "losing everything," the second "crazily attaching things" and the third being finding yourself "in a state of awareness where you let something float and you keep it in the back of your mind."

Cristoforetti is hoping she'll make her next flight to the ISS within the next decade and is interested in talks about future lunar missions. She told the Summit she'd also love to participate in a mission to Mars one day, but quickly added: "I'm not sure if I'd move there!"

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Finding a new source of information isalways good for business journalists. There are plenty of obvious ones, includingTwitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Hooversand Google Finance. To advance your reporting,youll want to go beyond what other reporters use.

Whether youre looking for facts on a company or an individual, a single information source is unlikely to give you everything youre looking for. Instead, you get data from multiple sources, triangulate it and pull the pieces together. Some sources, such asgovernment agency compliance websites, quickly come to mind. Others might not. Here are some more unusual yet useful information sources.

You may think of WikiLeaks solely as a politically motivated organizationthat releases data provided by whistleblowers or hackers. But the leaked data may mention companies on your beat. For example,a long-running lawsuitin Nigeria alleged a pharmaceutical company had enlisted children in a drug trial without proper consent; some of those children subsequently died or were severely disabled. About eight months before aless-than-spectacular settlement was reached with the childrens parents, a news story suggested the drug company had attempted to pressure the Nigerian attorney general to undermine the suit. That story was based on U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks. The WikiLeaks site allows you tosearch for a company or an individuals name.

This example from AP is about the misuse of taxpayer campaign funds. Reporters Jack Gillum and Stephan Braun were investigating Illinois Rep. Aaron Schrock who, in early 2015, already faced an ethics investigation. The reporters alleged that he had spent taxpayer and campaign funds on flights aboard private planes owned by some of his key donors. One of their tools was Instagram. The AP tracked Schocks reliance on the donors aircraft partly through the congressmans penchant for uploading pictures and videos of himself to his Instagram account. The AP extracted location data associated with each image, then correlated it with flight records showing airport stopovers and expenses later billed for air travel against Schocks office and campaign records.

Soon after I joineda major genealogy site in order to research my family, Irealized that the amount of public information available in thecentral repository was stunning. You could check for births, marriages, divorces, children, immigration, previous addresses and even some military and criminal records. The results can be hit or miss, but what you might learn can be surprising and useful in helping to verify records from other sources. I did a test run focused on someone Iknew through business, and learned about a previous marriage he had kept hidden. A web search with his name, city and the year of the marriage then tied him to serious legal investigations.

By getting a persons full name and addresses, you can help identify political contributions foundthrough OpenSecrets.orgor Federal Election Commission records. Knowing political leanings can be useful in covering business, but there are also some unexpected types of information that can turn up. For example, contribution records often mention business affiliations. Back to the test run I conducted on the genealogy site. I checked my subjects recent addresses against a database of political contributions in order to confirm whichwere from him and not someone with the same name. Those records then showed a number of business affiliations, including a silent partnership in one company that would have otherwise been difficult to uncover.

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Indian director Ram Gopal Verma ofRangeelaandSatyafame has always been one to speak his mind even if it offends the other person. He has time and again been a kick startertocontroversies and is now yet once again, making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

This time his fish in the trap is none other than Pakistans bhabhi and Indian tennis champion, Sania Mirza. RGV took aim at the tennis player by uploading an explicit and highly offensive picture of Mirza on his Instagram handle.

Though the director is being slammed on social media for posting an offensive picture of the player that exposes her in a very awkward way, RGV did not stop at just the upload but even added a caption to it which says,

A girl told someone, MBSLBCI reminded her of,though she was very good at Tennis her father refused to permit her to play beyond a age because she will have to wear skirts ..The film is about exposing these regressive minds who use a girls sexuality against herself.

The director seemed to be making a reference to his short film,Meri Beti Sunny Leone Banna Chaahti Hai. However, this episode enraged his followers leading to him being called out on his mud-slinging tactic and very poor form of cyber harassment, especially against a woman.

People from all walks of life bashed theSatyadirector, heres what they had to say:

Sania Mirza has yet not responded to RGVs hits at her.

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Ram Gopal Verma exploits Sania Mirza's picture in an EXTREMELY disrespectful way - Daily Pakistan

The supposed last day of registrations to Delhi University's undergraduate saw students running helter-skelter to help desks and online centres to get assistance on completing the form and other formalities.

There are students whose Class XII results are yet to be declared, which includes students of the International Baccaulaureate (IB) Board and a few other boards.

Keeping the concerns of students in mind, the University decided to extend the deadline till Tuesday 5pm.

However, several students such as those of Uttar Pradesh board, especially in places where results have been declared late are helpless due to the deadline and the late result may cause them to lose their chance to register. Many students have faced issues in the past on the admissions portals, and the University has regularly assured and resolved such problems within two-three days.

There are, however, students who continue to have troubles with payment of fees. Some have even paid the fee twice just to make sure the registration is complete and a receipt is generated.

Mukul Sehrawat, a Statistics Honours aspirant, said: "I have given an application to the help desk to check whether or not my fee has been paid. I am really worried."

Neha Sharma, another applicant, said: "Fee receipt has been a major issue and I wish the University can give us a guarantee that it will be generated soon, given that portal is going to be closed soon and cut-offs are just a week away."

Nishika Khanna, who has applied for English Honours, said: "I have paid the fees twice and wonder whether the receipt has been generated."

Some have faced logistical problems, due to internet connectivity problems or lack of computing knowledge in uploading documents and paying fees online.

Satvik Kumar, a BCom aspirant, said: "Last date of admission registration is about to end and I am unable to upload my marksheet. I am going to Hansraj College where an online centre is helping students."

Dia Shekhawat, another aspirant, said: "I am from Uttar Pradesh board and my marksheet has not come yet. Therefore, DU must extend the deadline."

Gunjan Kaur, a History aspirant, said: "I don't know how to do credit or debit card payment and will ask someone to help me. DU can extend the deadline for other state boards I think."

Meanwhile, reacting to the report by Millennium Post on June 6 which talked about 'Gurukul-style' training lessons to be introduced in Ramjas College for freshers for the current admission process, the College authorities have said that the report is not official college policy as of now, and the views expressed are solely of Professor Dhani Ram, who was quoted in the story.

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It's natural to want to take a picture of blossom...but does that get in the way of a fuller experience?

As I got myself and my children ready for Shavuot, I was struck by the fact that with our phones switched off for the duration of the chag, there would be no way of recording anything that happened during those 49 hours. We would all look our best, many of us with new outfits to show off. But more than that, there would be some very precious moments over the course of those days, moments that would go unrecorded, the sort of moments that, on non-festive and non-Shabbat days, we would leap at the chance of uploading onto the most appropriate social-media platform.

And I thought about how we have quickly become so accustomed to whipping out our phones the instant we see anything remotely photogenic, and what it means not to do that, to be forced to enjoy the moment without any concrete means of consigning it to posterity.

Just a few weeks ago, I was driving down a road on a beautiful spring afternoon. Everywhere I had driven that day there seemed to be an explosion of cherry blossom, and as I drove down that particular road, I noticed a woman standing beneath a spectacular tree, head thrown back, phone in hand, taking a photo of the pink froth above her. It was exactly the sort of thing that I find myself doing I love nothing more than being able to capture that fleeting moment of beauty of an especially lovely tree or flower. I like to feel that instant will never be lost, the glory of those petals or branches will never fade and I will be able to carry them with me forever if I really want to.

But as I watched that woman I wondered if she, and I, and all the others who do the same, miss out on something quite crucial when we do this. We unhesitatingly, unthinkingly place a lens between our eye and the object we are looking at, thinking that we are preserving the moment forever. But perhaps we are changing that moment, removing ourselves from experiencing it properly by seeking to freeze it in time.

What struck me was the contrast between that moment, and the realisation that observant Jews have no choice once a week on Shabbat, more if there is a festival other than to burn those instances, not onto our devices, but into our memories. And I wondered if moments captured in this way are preserved more faithfully. Perhaps it forces us to notice other things more carefully a smell, the things that happened before and after that moment occurred, the timbre of a persons voice, a perfume, the feel of someones clothing or a childs embrace. We live in very visual times but perhaps, on these digital-detox days, we experience the world with more of our senses.

One particular memory springs to mind. We were staying with my husbands brother and his family for Pesach this year. They live up North, and our children relish the time spent with their Manchester cousins. On the afternoon of the first day of yomtov an unexpectedly warm and beautiful day the adults watched from the house as the children bounced on the trampoline in the garden. They were out there for a long time. As they bounced, the sun began to set behind them, casting a golden glow that even the filters on Instagram would struggle to replicate. Big children bounced with smaller ones, teaching them new tricks, inspiring them with a confidence that we adults would never know how to give them. I remember the sound of their laughter, their hair flying wildly as they soared and plunged, the brightness in their eyes, the raucousness of their laughter. Even now I can feel the air becoming chill as the sun set lower, wondering that the children were still not feeling the cold, insulated from it by the activity, and perhaps, also, by the joy of a day free from structure no school, no set bedtime, meals at none of the usual hours.

And I wonder, would I have remembered all of this so vividly had I simply taken a photograph of it? Did I watch them more closely, committing as many details to memory as possible, because without a camera, this was the only way to immortalise the moment? And so, as a result, did I enjoy the moment more?

I will never know, and I am quite content not knowing. As vivid as it is to me now, I am aware that the memory may, in time, slip away from me. But then, so might a photograph, lost among all the hundreds and thousands that we keep on our devices but forget about anyway.

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Taking photos in my mind - Jewish Chronicle