 by his actions, Vimala along with her associates Nutheti Ram and Chandrakanth Reddy decided to kidnap Goutham. As a result, Goutham got kidnapped from Vijayawada and got shifted to Hyderabad.
In Hyderabad, he got forced to work on the website which he promised to build. However, he was unable to do so and rejected it as well. Vimala’s associate then assaulted him and asked him to return the amount paid to him. However, Goutham managed to sneak his phone and contacted his brother about the kidnapping and shared his location through WhatsApp. His brother later on with the help of police and WhatsApp location traced down Goutham in Hyderabad.
Police successfully rescued Goutham in Hyderabad and arrested the kidnappers. The police consequently charged a lawsuit against Vimala Kumari and her associates for criminal confinement and physical assault. According to the police, this matter would have got solved legally. However, the foul play of kidnapping made the situation worse for the client and her associates.
Snapchat just got its first in-app purchases.
The messaging app rolled out a major update to its iOS and Android app on Tuesday, which adds in-app purchasing for extra replays and a new feature that lets you layer special effects on top of your selfies.
"We’ve provided one Replay per Snapchatter per day, sometimes frustrating the millions of Snapchatters who receive many daily Snaps deserving of a Replay," read a post on the company's blog. "But then we realized — a Replay is like a compliment! So why stop at just one?"
The update also includes a new feature called "Lenses," which lets you to add special effects to the selfies you take within the app. To activate Lenses, hold down on your face while the front-facing camera is is open, and the app provides instructions about how to use the various effects.
Snapchat says the Lenses will be updated regularly, with a new one being rotated in each day.
Tuesday's update also added a new Trophy Case feature, which unlocks trophies based on achievements like how high your overall Snapchat score is.
UPDATE, September 15, 12:08 p.m. P.T: Snapchat's new selfie features appear to be powered by Looksery, the startup behind apps of the same name whose apps had very similar features. A person familiar with the matter confirmed to Mashable that the Looksery team has joined Snapchat, though terms of the deal are not yet clear. As of Tuesday, Looksery's apps have been removed from the App Store and Google Play.
Welsh Gothic
Language: English
Genre(s): Welsh Interest
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
Paperback - 9780708326084 eBook - epub - 9781783165599 eBook - mobi - 9781783165605 eBook - pdf - 9780708326091
About The Book
Welsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Informed by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, it argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic writing are specific to the history of Welsh people, telling us much about the changing ways in which Welsh people have historically seen themselves and been perceived by others. The first part of the book explores Welsh Gothic writing from its beginnings in the last decades of the eighteenth century to 1997. The second part focuses on figures specific to the Welsh Gothic genre who enter literature from folk lore and local superstition, such as the sin-eater, cŵn Annwn (hellhounds), dark druids and Welsh witches.
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Endorsements
Jane Aaron's magisterial monograph brings to light just how thoroughly Wales was Gothicised from Mary Robinson to Arthur Machen, Caradoc Evans to Gwyn Thomas and through to Ruth Bidgood. Arguing that the eighteenth and nineteenth-century medievalism (which mythologised Celtic origins of Welsh nationalism) also haunted Welsh writing at least until 1997, she skilfully exorcises spectres of decline and dissolution which are definitively Welsh - the scapegoat, the sin-eater, whole families cursed by disease and capitalist exploitation, and individuals doomed to guilt and self-loathing by inward-looking communities. This comprehensive and bold work of scholarship will change the way we think about both the history of Gothic and Welsh Writing in English. Professor Caroline Franklin, Director at the Centre for Research into Gender, Culture and Society This is an exhilarating study, which confirms Professor Aaron's reputation for groundbreaking publications. She here demonstrates how the Gothic imagination materialises at all the key points in the historical development of modern Wales, repeatedly furnishing a threatened culture with a dark grammar for its deepest anxieties. And, in the process, she succeeds in finding a significant place for Wales for the first time in the haunted international landscape of Gothic writing. Professor M. Wynn Thomas, CREW, Swansea University
Contents
Part I. Haunted by History Chapter 1. Cambria Gothica (1780s-1820s) i. Romantic tourists in Gothic Wales ii. In the Devil’s Parlour iii. Acts of Union iv. Gothic Histories Chapter 2. An Underworld of One’s Own (1830s-1900s) i. The Doom of the Cymry ii. Embracing the Underworld iii. Arthur Machen’s Underworld in the West Chapter 3. Haunted Communities (1900s-1940s) i. The Devil in Zion ii. Coalfield Gothic Chapter 4. Land of the Living Dead (1940s-1997) i. The Return of the Repressed ii. A Zombie Culture iii. Border Vampires Part II. ‘Things that go bump in the Celtic Twilight’ Chapter 5. Witches, Druids and the Hounds of Annwn i. The Witch as Wise Woman and Avenger ii. Druid Sacrifice iii. Hunting with Hellhounds Chapter 6. The Sin-eater i. The Historical Sin-eater ii. The Welsh Sin-eater in Literature Sin-eating beyond WalesI always believed that I should be in control of my own data and share it accordingly. Therefore in 2002 Jolocom started as an idea in San Francisco. But back then the resistance to open networks and communication was very strong, and the technological barrier to enter the market quite high. In the meantime at first social media and later blockchain changed the rules of the game. This is what lead us to start with Jolocom 3 years ago and ever since we won various grants, build a great team and a functional prototype.
From my naive perspective this was kind of crazy. During my time at Lufthansa valuable information existed throughout the company, tons of it. But to actually get access to most of the information was almost impossible. Sharing of information was seen as destroying its value.
That is why the marketing department had to make decisions without much needed information from the sales or finance departments. Needless to say that very often decisions led to conflict, and sometimes even to take the company itself at risk.
In 2002 Jolocom started as a project to help people in companies to better communicate and share information amongst them. It was obvious to me that if we would improve the information flow, the marketing department could make better decisions which would lead to a better alignment towards the overlying goals and strengthen the company itself.
Presenting this idea to companies quickly gave me harsh feedback. Someone at one point even called me a communication terrorist. Later in 2002 I reached out to Hasso Plattner who was just about to leave his role as CEO at SAP. The idea was to embed a communication suite in the ERP software. One of his last acts was to invite me over to Walldorf where he sent a delegate to discuss the project. Needless to say that this led nowhere.
The resistance was very strong, and still the technological barrier to enter the market quite high. So I decided to give it some time.
Skipping a few years ahead we now entered the Web 2.0. Social media and search was on the rise and all of a sudden data was flowing in different ways. Also companies started to move services to the cloud and big data became the thing. I observed this development closely and saw how a monster was created which put us all into data slavery, individuals and companies alike, except for a few that managed to centralize data streams through their platforms.
Who owns your data got a serious concern. That is where I picked up the original idea from 2002. Data and information should be about sharing and collaborating. Only now individuals and companies start to have a shared interest to own their data, not least due to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) by the EU which aims to establish a respectful and ethical way to share data, and clarifying who owns the data. The fact that big data — our data — lies in the hands of a few large platforms undermines the right of privacy. Similar than the inventor of the Web also I felt that the time is here to give power back to the users.
Who gets access, who can share it? Questions how to share data and information to better collaborate felt always off for me.  We looked at how communication flows or rather didn’t flow in companies. Why? Because the mindset still was that to collect and protect data is the way to go, simply because data was still seen as tangible asset. To share it meant — and to too many minds still means — to give something away.
In spite of all the headwind the idea that data and information should be about sharing and