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The work of acclaimed Scots artist and writer Alasdair Gray is to be celebrated in the first ever Gray Day. It is hoped the event will become an annual commemoration of the life and work of one of Scotland’s most important cultural polymaths, Alasdair Gray. The first will take place on Thursday - marking the 40th anniversary of the publication of his seminal novel Lanark. Known faces including Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Denise Mina, Irvine Welsh, Gemma Cairney and Ewen Bremner are set to be involved for the first Gray Day event, featuring a broadcast at 7.30pm. Alasdair Gray at his d...

Fintech firm ISFC in talks to raise $12 million in equity and debt SECTIONS Share Synopsis In view of the pandemic, Hyderabad-based Indian School Finance Company (IFSC) is looking to extend interest-free fixed instalment loans and help drive schools towards digital transformation. Hyderabad: Fintech startup Indian School Finance Company (ISFC) is in talks with family offices to raise fresh equity of Rs 50 crore and an additional Rs 50 crore in debt (about $12 million overall) through non-convertible debentures in its eighth round of funding. The education sector lender, which is backed by US...

In my experience, change oftentimes came when I wasn’t looking. Sometimes it was good change. Sometimes it was not so good. And sometimes it was terrible. Terrible change came to us all on Jan. 20 of this year. That’s when a patient in Washington state was diagnosed with the most defining challenge of our time — COVID-19. And we hardly noticed. That is, until the numbers of those stricken and those dying began to climb and a new word was not just being said but felt: pandemic. For most of us, it’s been the most surreal year of our lives. For many of us, it’s been a ye...

Copy to Clipboard (CBS) CBS’s ‘The Stand’ is Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil. The fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man. Flagg has appeared in at least nine of King’s novels. Described as "an accomplished sorcerer and a devoted servant of the Outer Dark," he has supernatural abilities involvi...

Need to know how to save our soldiers, and also to save every family, a child with autism and a parent with alzheimers. it's koft even being done at columbia. we were there at a gray matters conference. we need to ultimately save our soldier from traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress. jon: alzheimers being disdiagnosed it's all part and parcel of the same thing. people don't know. >> jon they expect our soldiers because of traumatic brain injury to have alzheimers in their 40s. they expect them to be at a much higher risk not only for alzheimers but for parkinson's. it trips off a j...