It looks stunning in the photos - the weaving must have taken months.



https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertain...dkgdVrgw7I

Quote:"New Zealand artists Mataaho Collective have won one of the world's most sought-after prizes in the art world.

The group was awarded the Golden Lion for the Best Artist in the International Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in Italy, which has been likened to winning gold at the Olympics.  

Known for their large-scale fibre-based artwork, the group is made up of Māori women artists: Erena Baker-Arapere (Te Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, and Ngāti Raukawa), Sarah Hudson (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pūkeko, and Tūhoe), Bridget Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi), and Dr Terri Te Tau (Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa).  

"Mataaho Collective has created a luminous woven structure of straps that poetically criss cross the gallery space. Referring to matrilinear traditions of textiles with its womb-like cradle, the installation is both a cosmology and a shelter," Biennale's jury said.  

The jury described the work's "impressive scale" as a "feat of engineering that was only made possibly by the collective strength and creativity of the group".  

"The dazzling pattern of shadows cast on the walls and floor harks back to ancestral techniques and gestures to future uses of such techniques."  

Dave Allen on religion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxo81Ok9Urk


Billy Connolly, chasing wildebeeste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBInfo-Nk-8

Good for her. I suspect that lot in the beehive will take not a scrap of notice & just carry on with bulldozing as much as they can. This is definitely NOT democracy.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/...0e7ac&ei=8

Quote:"This week in Auckland, a group of young people took over the microphone at a ministerial press conference, to explain why they oppose the Fast-Track Approvals Bill.
One young woman said, ÔÇÿWeÔÇÖre here because we love Aotearoa New Zealand.┬á We want to raise our children in an environment thatÔÇÖs thriving, and in a democracy we can be proud of.┬á WeÔÇÖre just holding our leaders accountable for creating a future we all want to live in.ÔÇØ
By speaking from the heart, she nailed whatÔÇÖs wrong with this bill.┬á Its an all-out assault on what makes this country so special, a place to love and care for ÔÇô our beautiful islands, the source of prosperity and well-being for so many Kiwis, and our democratic freedoms as New Zealanders.

No MP who believes in democracy can support this bill, and stay true to their values.  It lacks any democratic mandate.  It emerged from backroom deals among politicians, advanced by a party that won just 6 percent of the vote in the recent election. 

The majority party, with 38 percent of the vote, told voters that it was ÔÇ£passionate about safeguarding New ZealandÔÇÖs unique natural environment, abundant native biodiversity, pristine waters and spectacular landscapes for future generations.ÔÇØ This bill is the antithesis of NationalÔÇÖs manifesto.

The fast-track bill also excludes citizens from having any say about what happens in their own communities, in favour of ministerial fiat. In its provisions, three ministers get to decide on projects that go on the ÔÇÿfast trackÔÇÖ for decision-making, and which projects are finally approved.┬á

In addition, these ministers get to choose the members of the advisory group and the convenor of the expert panels, who must consult them about appointees to the panels. Their powers are almost untrammelled, while the members of affected communities are excluded.
None of the projects proposed for the fast-track will be made public before the deadline for submissions to the select committee has expired, although they will be listed in the law, if it is passed, denying citizens the right to comment on these proposals. There are no rigorous controls over conflicts of interest, a pivotal protection against abuses of power."

Got someone with a one month old samsung tablet, cant remember PIN number on the lock screen nor the google account associated with the device.
It appears they have inadvertently created another google account when they set up the device, because when signing in to their google account it says its not the account linked to the device.
Tried using droidkit but no success, i get to the part where it is supposed to send a notification to the device, but nothing comes through.
Is there any linux based tools I could try?
Failing that, the only option i see is sending it back to samsung, if they even help in these cases.

Who has no local copy of important information, but relies on cloud storage?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/spar...X7RWZPIWE/

What's the chance of it taking the lives of two people and injuring another?
I think people underestimate how dangerous these creatures can be.
Quite a tragic situation for the family involved. 
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ram-believ...HMJ6ORM6I/

Well, as best he can since he appears to believe they won't cause any problems at all ever, for anyone...



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Quote:ACT leader David Seymour is calling for a 'reality check' after outcry over the latest round of job cuts.   

The Associate Education Minister says they dwindle in comparison to growth across the public service under the previous Government.

School's out at Porirua College as the Government continues its clean-out of public service workers, which could include members of the school lunches team.   

"We know that Māori and Pasifika students are in the lower-socio-economic groups and school lunches target those groups," said deputy principal John Topp.  

Newshub's also obtained documents showing the Ministry of Education's Te Hurihanganui team, which supports communities to address racism, is also in the firing line. The ministry won't say which roles could go, but changes "have been designed to avoid direct impacts on services to children, teachers and principals/leaders".     

Topp said the education system needs to honour Te Tiriti.  

"If we don't confront our unconscious bias with third-party support, because you can't do it on your own, we are not going to be able to do that," he said.   

But Seymour said: "Having public servants sticking their beaks into how people treat each other has made us a more complicated and divided country."  

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...utcry.html

Second time this has happened.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/17/mum-w...lia-named/

Thousands have been told to leave after a volcano erupted several times.


https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/35024...-thousands

Quote:"Indonesian authorities have issued a tsunami alert after eruptions at Mount Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of metres high. Officials ordered more than 11,000 people to leave the area.
The volcano on the northern side of Sulawesi island had at least five large eruptions in the past 24 hours, IndonesiaÔÇÖs Centre for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation said. Authorities raised their volcano alert to its highest level.
At least 800 residents left the area earlier on Wednesday (local time).

Authorities urged tourists and others to stay at least 6km from the 725m Ruang volcano.
Officials worry that part of the volcano could collapse into the sea and cause a tsunami as in a 1871 eruption there."

What's your goto recovery software for those especially broken HDDs and SSDs?  Today's experience follows...

I had my first Samsung fail today, an 860EVO, which Macrium choked on every time, multiple bad sectors, disabled error checking in Macrium, connected via SATA, still kept failing (error 483)

CHKDSK /R was unhelpful, bad sectors, no free space on the drive to copy data messages etc

I came across this software called hddsuperclone which has a live cd here which managed to do the job quite nicely, the cloned target drive is now up and running, it noted a lot of bad sectors, couldn't really tell how many were recovered and how many were simply filled in, but on the whole I am pleased to have the system up and running without needing to reinstall everything... It Did a good job... 

from their website...

Quote:HDDSuperClone - An advanced Linux based hard drive cloning/imaging tool
Up until now, gnu ddrescue has been widely known to be the best free hard drive cloning tool for failing hard drives. It is open source and cross platform. But being cross platform has some limitations, as there are some specialized ways for Linux to send commands to a drive that have some advantages over standard techniques. So I would like to introduce HDDSuperClone, which is not open source and only works on Linux. There is a free version, and also a more advanced PRO version available for purchase.
The free version uses SCSI passthrough commands to communicate with the device. This offers more feedback than traditional communication methods, and it can be possible to detect when a drive is no longer responding properly. Ddrescue can have trouble knowing when a drive is no longer responding as the OS just reports a read error with no way to tell what is wrong.
The PRO version has the ability to use direct I/O for IDE and SATA connected drives, along with some other advanced features.
Another feature of HDDSuperClone is that it has an advanced self learning head skipping algorithm that will attempt to skip out of a bad head in about 7 bad reads. This can make getting the data from the good heads much faster. Hardware imagers can ÔÇ£turn offÔÇØ a head and only read data from the good heads which is ideal, but that requires using special vendor specific commands.┬á The head skipping algorithm of HDDSuperClone is about as close as one can hope to get to that without special commands.
HDDSuperClone can import and export ddrescue map (log) files, so it you can switch between the two if needed.