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‘Try or die’ - one man’s determination to get to the Canary Islands
‘Try or die’ - one man’s determination to get to the Canary Islands Senegalese farmer Mouhamed Oualy has never been to sea, but he is about to embark on a perilous sea journey - one that has turned the Atlantic Ocean into a mass grave. “The boat guys have called me - they said I should get ready. I am asking you to pray for me - the time has come,” he says.
Seychelles, las islas paradisíacas en las que el 10% de la población es adicta a la heroína
Aproximadamente el 10% de la población del archipiélago nación de las Seychelles -frente a la costa sureste de África- es adicta a la heroína, en lo que ahora el gobierno considera como una epidemia. Ni siquiera estar en la cárcel ofrece protección a los que son dependientes de esa droga. Reporteros de la unidad investigativa BBC Africa Eye tuvieron acceso a la principal cárcel del país, en la que fueron testigos del lado más crudo de un problema que amenaza con desbordar al país.
As ilhas paradisíacas assoladas pela heroína
Cerca de 10% da população de Seychelles, um arquipélago tropical no oceano Índico, são dependentes de heroína. O governo local trata dessa dependência como uma epidemia. Nem o encarceramento oferece proteção para os dependentes da droga. O programa de TV Africa Eye, da BBC News, conseguiu ter raro acesso à principal penitenciária do país para retratar uma pequena parte do problema que ameaça dominar as ilhas.
Seychelles: The island paradise held prisoner by heroin Original
By Louise Adamou & Chris Alcock BBC Africa Eye, Victoria Some 10% of the local population in the tropical island nation of Seychelles is dependent on heroin in what is now an epidemic, according to the country's government. Even being locked away offers no protection for those dependent on the drug. BBC Africa Eye gained rare access to the main jail to witness the sharp end of a problem threatening to overwhelm the country.
Africa Live this week: 27 February-5 March 2023 Original
Libianca has an astonishing voice, warm, melodious and versatile – Rolling Stone magazine called her "the afro-soul siren who can do everything". At 21, she wowed the judges on The Voice talent show in the US, and it was a shock to many, as well as to Libianca herself, that she did not win: Quote Message: I’m a very competitive person. I don’t like to lose. So, when I got eliminated I was like: 'I was doing so good on this show and I didn’t win?
The Morning Brew #3528
Posted by Chris Alcock on Tuesday 23rd August 2022 at 06:00 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew Software Information 1 Comment » on 23 Aug 2022 at 8:36 am # Pul I love that I only have to read as far as, “Endomorphism as an invariant functor” to know that Mark Seemann has updated his blog.
The Morning Brew #3515
• Null Coalescing Operators in C# – ?? and ??= – Jeremy Clark • How to simplify your C# unit testing with a mocking framework – Joseph Guadagno • The Azure Well-Architected Framework Provides Guidance for Building, Deploying, and Maintaining a Robust Cloud App – David Giard • You Should Use This to Visualize SQL Joins Instead of Venn Diagrams – Andreas Martinson Comments Off on The Morning Brew #3515
The Morning Brew #3219
• .NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1 will reach End of Support on April 26, 2022 – Jamshed Damkewala • Tetris in Blazor Part 6: Scoring, Levels, Music, and Other Features – Matthew Jones • Securing an ASP.NET Core app and web API using windows authentication – Damien Bowden • How to run Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 with WSL and WSLg & Can you really develop with Linux GUI Apps on Windows 10 with WSLg? How about PyCharm? – Scott Hanselman Comments Off on The Morning Brew #3219
The Morning Brew #3214
• ASP.NET Core 5 & EntityFramework Core: Clean, clear and fluent integration tests with Calzolari.TestServer.EntityFramework, FluentAssertion.Web and xUnit – Anthony Giretti • Task vs ValueTask: When Should I use ValueTask? – Brian Lagunas Comments Off on The Morning Brew #3214
The Morning Brew #3209
• Tetris in Blazor Part 4: Displaying the Grid and a Falling Tetromino – Matthew Jones • Multi-Platform PixelPerfect UI with Windows UI and the Uno Platform – Nick Randolph • Getting started with .net core microservices with dapr – Gary Woodfine • There is no ‘Best’ Tool – George Stocker Comments Off on The Morning Brew #3209
The Morning Brew #3204
• AWS SDK for .NET version 1 has reached the end of support – Irene Kors • Creating Verifiable credentials in ASP.NET Core for decentralized identities using Trinsic – Damien Bowden • Write Your Erlang Gen Servers in Visual Basic & Integrating C# with Legacy Elixir Projects – Rob Ashton (An elaborate but interesting April Fools) • Whiteboard-style Coding Interviews Might Not Be as Bad as You Think – Tugberk Ugurlu Comments Off on The Morning Brew #3204
The Morning Brew #3201
• ASP.NET Core in .NET 6 – Part 02 – Update on dotnet watch & ASP.NET Core in .NET 6 – Part 03 – Support for IAsyncDisposable in MVC – Jürgen Gutsch • Tetris in Blazor Part 2: Cells, the Grid, and the Game State – Matthew Jones • Getting started with Self Sovereign Identity SSI – Damien Bowden • Who Is Responsible For Building Tests?
The Morning Brew #3196
• Getting Started with the Roslyn APIs: Writing Code with Code – Steve Gordon Comments Off on The Morning Brew #3196
The Morning Brew #2677
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