New book brims with insights how readers can traverse endure The Long Journey Home'

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In the "The Long Journey Home" (published by Balboa Press), author Sheila Gautreaux offers a fresh look at one of the most powerful parables in the Biblethe Prodigal Sonas man's personal journey of evolution in consciousness. This book revolves around its central theme that forgiveness holds the key to reawakening love, peace and connection for all humanity.

"The Long Journey Home" takes a fresh look at one of the most widely-recognized and most frequently interpreted of the many parables taught by Jesus during his ministry. Using the process of metaphysical interpretation, along with the concepts of conscious evolution and quantum science, the Prodigal Son emerges from a great story about coming home and forgiveness to an exploration into how life experiences are valuable teaching points and may provide powerful catalysts for quantum shifts in consciousness.

The book helps readers make sense of the challenges, struggles and detours that define people's paths as they attempt to live and grow in a world that appears to keep them from finding the safe haven they seek from birth that inner sense of "home." What it seeks to highlight is that, "our painful experiences do not have to destroy us; that they are not happening "to" us but are happening "for" us to awaken us to the tremendous power within us to heal our lives."

An excerpt from the book:"The key to successfully living in this world of polar opposites is remembering that God exists within the light and the dark; that there is only God, only Truth, and all else is but a hoax perpetrated by our ego for its own glorification. Awareness is focused attention to the details of lifethe messages, spiritual meaning and lessons within everything around us and everything that happens to us. By recognizing that everything happens for a reasonhappens not to us but for uswe use life as a tool for conscious evolution and the route to home."

"The Long Journey Home"By Sheila GautreauxSoftcover | 6 x 9in | 162 pages | ISBN 9781504368704E-Book | 162 pages | ISBN 9781504368797Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the AuthorSheila Gautreaux calls herself a "Spiritual Activist" and passionately carries the message of healing people and the planet through forgiveness. She is a Unity Minister, Licensed Unity Teacher, Certified Radical Forgiveness Coach and a 30-year student of "A Course in Miracles," and a 38-year student of Unity principles. She has written two books: "Praying Through a Storm" and "Messages." She is in demand as a highly-praised, exciting speaker who, as a retired Opera Singer, adds her vocal gift to her message. She has three children and four grandchildren.

Balboa Press, a division of Hay House, Inc. a leading provider in publishing products that specialize in self-help and the mind, body, and spirit genres. Through an alliance with indie book publishing leader Author Solutions, LLC, authors benefit from the leadership of Hay House Publishing and the speed-to-market advantages of the self-publishing model. For more information, visit balboapress.com. To start publishing your book with Balboa Press, call 877-407-4847 today. For the latest, follow @balboapress on Twitter.

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The rise in popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) and a consumer desire to access valuable data on various devices has led to network security becoming increasingly complicated for financial services providers.

As financial institutions transition their network security strategies to meet these consumer demands and grant greater individual access to their networks, they must also be conscious of the ever-evolving threat landscape. The cyberattacks of today are constantly becoming more sophisticated in order to outwit traditional network security measures. In addition, increased access to the network by IoT devices (such as mobile phones, and tablets) has resulted in an increase of possible attack vectors. As such, the need for evolved network security is further emphasised by the attention it has garnered from government regulators, who are shining a spotlight on compliance and security at financial institutions of all sizes.

The Challenge

Strong network security revolves around two key factors: speed and service. Network experience is typically judged by how quickly bits of information get from point A to point B, and how quickly applications are able to respond to queries. In finance in particular, rapid communication and effective security is vital, and neither can come at the expense of the other. Furthermore, consumers have come to expect access and the ability to edit information stored within the network through the web. This ability is integral to staying competitive, with more than 60 per cent of financial institutions currently developing cloud strategies as a result.

Network security strategies are having to change and adapt to meet this increase in demand for real-time, on-demand services. Data must now be more secure, travel faster, and be more readily available across devices, all of this in spite of being constantly under attack from sophisticated threats.

Looking ahead, financial services firms will be forced to respond to new attack vectors that threaten their core functions. And as these trends persist, robust network security strategies need to evolve to include the following tactics:

Detection

In order to adapt to meet these new challenges requires moving away from the traditional tactic of simply focusing your security efforts at your network perimeter whats required is something much more comprehensive. As todays perimeters are become more dynamic and increasingly temporary, rendering edge-based protection less and less relevant. Whats more, security professionals have come to understand that it is simply impossible to stop every attack. The reality is, an organisation will be breached, and security needs to be designed with this in mind.

Effective security strategies have had to transition from simply relying on intrusion protection to intrusion detection as well. Intrusion detection systems operate on the assumption that an attack will breach network perimeter defences. They are able to scan the network for abnormal behaviour in order to detect live attacks that have evaded the perimeter in order to reduce the time security teams are kept in the dark, because the longer an intruder or malware resides undetected within the network, the higher the probability it will be able to find and steal valuable information. The goal is to detect and mitigate the threat before data loss occurs.

This expansion from perimeter-based protection to include security measures at network segmentation demarcation points, deep in the core of the network marks, and out to the cloud are an important strategic shift in network security as financial services firms navigate todays threat landscape with the digital evolution of the modern workforce.

Response

With intrusion detection systems in place, incident response is the next logical step in ensuring attacks are mitigated quickly and effectively once detected. With todays new threats, incident response is required to go beyond having a list of procedures to follow in the event of an attack. A response needs to include integrated tools that provide full visibility into the security posture of the network. It should also include automated solutions that are able to identify and respond to the abnormal activity, and the forensic tools to analyse and ensure similar threats are thwarted in the future. Once malware is detected, its important to have an integrated security structure in place across your entire extended network to mitigate its impact before it can further compromise your network.

Intelligence

Once a threat has been mitigated, the incident response team needs to assess the threat to ensure that protocols are updated to keep similar threats from being successful in the future. Threat research is just as important as intrusion prevention and incident response. Teams study critical areas such as malware, botnets, and zero-day attacks in order to identify device or network vulnerabilities, uncover weak threat vectors, and create mitigation signatures, putting your organisation in the best possible footing to face down threats in the future. In doing so, the broader network security is hardened, and updated with abnormalities to look out for, and enhanced with the tools needed to stop them from causing damage. Solid threat intelligence is key to keepings your network steps ahead of attackers by establishing protocols for both known and unknown vulnerabilities.

Four key changes have made it necessary for financial institutions to re-evaluate their approach to network security: cloud-based infrastructure and services, the rise of IoT, the ever-increasing sophistication of cyberattacks, and stricter government regulations. As the internal network interacts more with the cloud, and attacks become more grandiose, it is inevitable that an attack will successfully breach the network. Which is why it is critical that an organisations security focus shift in order to ensure that once malware has made it into the network, it can be detected and remediation efforts can begin as quickly as possible to ensure the least possible damage and reduce the chance of recurrence.

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Getty Images/Television Critics AssociationRic Flair in July 2017

Legendary pro wrestler Ric Nature Boy Flair would be the first to tell you that the jobs demands on ones body, mind and personal life are, in a word, brutal. Throw in a passion for self-promotion and an epic good time and you have the makings of potential disaster.

Flair of whom Ive been a fan since I watched AWAs All-Star Wrestlingbroadcasts with my dad as a kid and sat down with me at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in late July to talk all things Richard Fliehr, pro wrestling and his upcoming ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Nature Boy, which will premiere Nov. 7 at 10/9c. The 68-year-old athlete looked tanned, fit and characteristically dapper, and was in an amiable, almost introspective mood until the films director Rory Karpf (I Hate Christian Leitner) and 30 for 30 executive producer John Dahl joined the conversation and spurred Flair into sharing some tales from the wilder side of his iconic and over-the-top career.

Still, what came through in the half hour I spent with the Nature Boy was a thoughtful guy and proud dad who owns his active role in abusing his body and his culpability in his childrens rancor, and is intent on making the most of now a happy life with his fiance and former WCW manager Wendy Barlow and basking in the great pleasure of watching his daughter Ashley (ring name, Charlotte) take the wrestling world by storm. Making all the more poignant the news that the Memphis born star was felled this week by what his current PR team labeled tough medical issues, from which he is now reportedly recovering.

Though were saving much of the chat for its real purpose telling you about the unflinching documentary of which Flair is so proud some of what he shared about life in- and outside the ring seems insightful right now as he fights to regain control of the body that made him an icon of the sport for four decades.

How far back in your story does the documentary go and did you set any boundaries? Because it sounds like you are allowing the whole of your life to be out there.Ric Flair: You know, theres a sadness in it like everything. Theres always the downside, and thats part of it, too. Its just hard to be a wrestler and stay married Ive been married four times. And Ive been wrestling 42 years, so there were times when I wasnt home, where I would go out on the road for six months and never come home. So I didnt see my older kids at all which, to this day, they still resent it. Theyve never gotten over the fact that the younger ones got more attention, right? So its interesting, when I watch it, to hear what they all had to say. And they all cracked on me pretty hard. But thats OK. I deserved it. But it wasnt cause I was neglecting them; I just worked every day. Believe it or not, for about ten years, I wrestled 300 hour-long matches a year. Twice on Saturdays. People are gonna see that and I think theyre gonna be shocked that I literally wrestled that much, that I was gone that much.

What made you remarry? Was there a part of you that craved stability, that wanted a home life even though you knew you had a career that didnt sync up with that?Well, the way this comes out is that I didnt like to be alone. And I dont know if thats true or not. Im a very social person. Heres an example. You would never see me drink at home. Maybe a beer. But I like to go out. I like people. And thats the way my life has always been. So Id wrestle till eleven oclock at night and then Id be out all night until the bars closed, depending on which city it was in. Then get up the next morning, work out and fly to the next town or, when I was younger drive. We were driving 3,000 miles a week in the old days, in the 70s.

Was your Nature Boy persona the dirtiest player in the game a conscious, marketing sort of decision or a natural evolution of your personality and your style of wrestling?The whole thing is in the film, from when I crashed in an airplane in 1975 and broke my back. I broke it in three places and they didnt think Id wrestle again. Well, I just wasnt going to accept that. And then the promoter there, when they felt like I was going to be OK, starting pushing the Buddy Rogers thing on me. Then I just took the Buddy Rogers persona and, as Harley Race would say, I just took it to a whole different level.

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Youve been at the forefront of the evolution of pro-wrestling, through the regional leagues, WCW, WWE/WWF and have watched the wrestling industry blur rosters and international borders, and evolve into a worldwide entertainment spectacle. Give me your impressions.Well, wrestling was taken somewhat more seriously when I started. All the way till probably,the mid-nineties. Now its perceived pretty much exclusively as entertainment. Its always been somewhat choreographed but its still very physical and very physically demanding. But when I started, nobody cared I mean, about anything. And you had to literally fight sometimes to stay alive in the ring. Because a big tough guy would try to eat you up if you didnt like what the promoter told you to do.

And there were some really big, tough guys.A lot of them, yeah! I just saw Baron von Raschke by the way.

Get out! I was so afraid of him.I hadnt seen him in years. Hes doing great. A great guy, he lives in Mankato, Minnesota, now. He and his wife Bonnie, still together!

But, anyway it was just a different deal back then you know, and its changed. When I went through my training camp to get in, the guys in our business today, none of them could do that. They wouldnt want to. I quit twice. It was that hard.

Because of physical reasons or mental and emotional reasons or a combo?It was mentally and physically too, too demanding. I wasnt in shape for that, cause I was looking at The Crusher and The Bruiser, and I got up to 300 pounds. I hadnt run a mile since I was a freshman in college. Run two miles outdoors in November in Minnesota, and then do 500 free squats and 200 push ups are you kidding me? This is brutal. For 300 pounds? I quit twice. But Verne Gagne and thank God for him he came and got me and wouldnt let me.

Can you tell me about a time where you look back on it and wonder, How did I survive that and live to wrestle the next day? Or is your whole life kind of like that?My whole life has been like that. Ive been hit by lighting twice. Crashed in an airplane. Just going out every night.

One of the great stories its not in the film and people have a hard time believing this but, I had been wrestling down in Florida for a whole week and it was in the 80s. Youre in Orlando one night, then Tampa, Miami, Fort Lauderdale. Its hard to go to bed, so I was out all night, every night, and wrestling an hour-long match every night, and the next day I had to fly to Tokyo. So I was driving back home from Orlando, and I called my dad who was a doctor, and I said, Dad, man, my hearts skipping beats. What do you think? He said, When was the last time you had any sleep? I said I hadnt had much, he said, Well, get some sleep and youll feel fine. But I was cracked, knowing I had to fly all the way to Tokyo and then I had to wrestle three-hour matches, consecutive days, against guys I didnt like to wrestle. So I drank all the way there, for twelve-and-a-half hours. This was back when we had paper tickets, and I said to myself, Im just not gonna do it. There was a flight going to Seattle, and I said Can I put this toward Seattle and get back to Charlotte. The guy said, Yeah. I just left my bags, got on the plane, flew all the way back to Seattle.

I was so cracked, so I started talking to the guy next to me. I said, Can I talk to you? He said, Yeah, whats up? and I said Youre not gonna believe it. I drank all the way to Seattle with him, and then I slept going to Chicago, and then I got back to Charlotte and the promoter in Charlotte was waiting for me at the airport. Made me get back on a plane and fly all the way back to Tokyo and wrestle. I made it by an hour for that match.

And howd that match go?It was good, once I broke a sweat and got going. If Ive been wrestling Ricky Steamboat, I would have said no problem, but I had to wrestle Jumbo Tsuruta, Genichiro Tenryu and some other guy. Guys that were really tough.

And after the match? A nice long nap?I went and partied all night in Tokyo. [Laughs] Tokyo is the best. I never got tired. I remember we bought a big jar of horseradish, brought it on the plane and the flight attendants made Bloody Marys for us with the horseradish all the way over. Different times flying back then, huh? [Laughs]

The flight attendants were great back then. Ive taken more flight attendants to another town with me. They didnt even go home to their husbands. One time, we flew back from Tokyo and instead of going to Fort Meyers, [the attendant] asked where I was going. I said, Im gonna go to St. Louis, wrestle and then Im gonna party there and have a good time. Shes like, Can I go with you? Ill bring my friend too. So I brought two of them to St. Louis. I just bought them tickets. So, like three years later, I was in Fort Meyers wrestling and Tony Garea, the agent, came and got me and said, Theres a girl out here, a woman with three kids and her husband, that says she flew with you from Tokyo to St. Louis and partied with you. So I went out and I remember shaking her husbands hand. [Laughs]

Rory Karpf: I thought you were gonna say you were worried the kids look like you. They had platinum blonde hair.No, no, no! I never had that problem, thank God. Of course when I was sixteen, I was a Water Safety Instructor this isnt in the book either. I was teaching these little kids how to swim and the mom liked me. She was 33, I was 16, and thats where it all started. Then I go off to boarding school, my parents put me in boarding school in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. So Im in school one day, and they came and got me and said, Your aunt Carolyn is here to take you off campus for the day and night. So I walked in the headmasters office and there [the woman] is. She told them she was my aunt! She drove all the way from Minneapolis! And then she had a nervous breakdown and went to see her doctor and guess who her doctors partner was? My dad. So my dad brought me home and made me apologize to her husband and all that. He was like, What have you done?

Ten thousand women. Did that offend you? Two-hundred-and-eighty women a year for 35 years.

Er, I guess Im just glad youre still here. So, how about a different take on women and wrestling? Tell me about watching your own daughters Charlotte especially be so much a part of the revolution in womens wrestling.Thats been the most rewarding thing of my career. Its been just fabulous to see Charlotte and, in such a short period of time!

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Every new generation of Apple's iOS operating system for iPhone and iPad brings leaps in technology. Version 11 is no different. Set to launch in September 2017, among the new key capabilities that app developers must learn are augmented reality and core machine learning.

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ARKit, according to Apple, is a framework for creating augmented reality experiences for the iPhone and iPad that merges camera sensor data with data from a device's accelerometer, gyroscope and pedometer -- known collectively as Core Motion data.

Core ML, according to Apple, is "a foundational machine learning framework" that runs learning models directly on a mobile device, eliminating the server round trips necessary in the past. Face tracking, face detection, landmarks, text detection, rectangle detection, bar code detection and object tracking will enable developers to build vision-based machine learning into applications.

To understand what app developers need to know about ARKit and Core ML, SearchCloudApplications asked an expert. Mark Price is a veteran mobile app developer, with nearly 60 projects completed. He has taught 16 different courses to more than 130,000 students at Udemy, an online learning academy that offers courses covering an array of topics, from technology to personal development.

Before we get into specifics, is moving from iOS 10 going to cause problems in iOS 11 app development?

Mark Price: The switch from iOS 10 to iOS 11 was very small in regard to breaking features. Even with Swift 3 to Swift 4, nothing really broke. The switch on this version was much better than the last version. The last version introduced APIs that didn't support older devices. It's important to understand what technologies older devices cannot use.

ARKit is brand-new. How does this affect iOS 11 app development?

Price: Apple built this complex framework under the hood that does surface detection. If you have multiple surfaces in your camera view, it does a good job of estimating how far they are off the ground, how far they are from you. Before ARKit, that was incredibly complex. You'd have to get a library -- if it even existed. This is all built in now. You can throw 3D models into your project, and [the app] will maintain its position in space. You had to have code in the past; now, it happens automatically.

What can developers do with this capability?

Price: We don't know what people are going to make with it. With ARKit plus facial recognition, you can literally rebuild Snapchat-style filters in a fraction of the time. Some of my students have used it to place rulers that can measure objects. It opens the door to developers who didn't have these skills to work with these types of complex systems. A Pokemon Go app, for instance, would have been much more complex before. But now, a developer can go in and look at the APIs and build something like that in a fraction of the time.

How can developers use Core ML to provide accessibility for people with, say, a vision disability?

Price: Right out of the gate, using Core ML, you can do image recognition using the built-in libraries. With the prebuilt models that Apple provides, one has thousands of images. In one of our classes, we built an app that will look at an item and use the Siri speech synthesizer to speak the item's name. The app will see a cup and speak the word 'cup.' We built the app in just a few hours.

Facial recognition will be a big component of iOS 11 app development. Do you see that being used in different ways?

If I was looking for a job, I'd totally be mastering the Apple ARKit right now. Mark Priceveteran mobile app developer and teacher

Price: With facial recognition, you could take a picture with your camera and look them up with Facebook APIs to identify them. You can do this now with machine learning and the right technology stack. Apple made it really easy to integrate this.

In the past, you had to pay a lot of money to get models for machine learning and cognitive services, but this is all part of iOS for free now. We could use Core ML to match your own face as a different mode of authentication for your app.

As an expert already building apps in iOS 11, what is your key message to developers?

Price: It's in your best interest to go to the Worldwide Developers Conference 2017 website and learn about all the new features. What you'll be able to do in your job is delight your bosses with new things -- and Apple has added so many. Research all the new APIs to what new things you can incorporate into your apps. I'm not talking about just the technical level, but also at the user experience level.

What advice do have for developers regarding understanding these new technologies in the bigger sense, not just as they pertain to iOS 11 app development?

Price: Invest time learning about machine learning -- not just the framework, but why it is important. You're going to see more jobs that require virtual and augmented reality skills. There's money in it: Become an expert in iOS augmented reality, and it will put you above other people who are applying for jobs. If I was looking for a job, I'd totally be mastering the Apple ARKit right now. We're going to see lots of opportunities there.

Joel Shore is news writer for TechTarget's Business Applications and Architecture Media Group. Write to him atjshore@techtarget.comor follow @JshoreTTon Twitter.

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Girls on the Run

Girls on the Run Greater Boston registration for the fall season is now open inNewburyport for girls from Nock Middle School in grades six through eight. Girls on the Run is a physical activity-based, positive youth development program that inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident. It is a 10-week program that encourages personal development, team building and connection to the community.

This fall, the Newburyport location will be held at Motivate barre-cardio-cycle and will focus on the Girls on the Run Heart & Sole program. The fee for the fall season is $175 and scholarship funding is available to those who qualify. For more information, check out http://motivatebarre.com/heart-and-sole/.

Port Youth Hockey

Newburyport Youth Hockey is accepting player registrations for the upcoming 2017-18 Mite Instructional Hockey program. The goal of the Instructional Program is to teach girls and boys ages 5 to 9 basic hockey skills while creating a fun environment for both the children and their parents. Games and practices take place locally at the Graf Rink from Sept.-Feb. To register online, visit http://www.nyhl.org. For more information, contact Dick Tierney at 978-465-0128 or Rich Curran via email @rcamel18@comcast.net.

Storm tryouts

The New England Storm Jr. Olympic Softball Program, entering its 18th season of club softball, is currently conducting tryouts for the 2017-18 season. The Storm plays in summer weekend softball tournaments in the greater New England area. For details, visit http://www.newenglandstorm.org. Contact the director, John Gambale, at jgambale.nestorm@aol.com with any questions.

Learn to Skate

Merrimack Valley Skating Club is holding its Learn to Skate programs at the Graf Rink in Newburyport. Learn to Skate will take place on Mondays at 5 p.m. throughout the summer.

Classes begin the week of June 26. Visit http://www.grafrink.com for registration forms. Contact Nikki at 978-462-8112 or nikki@grafrink.com.

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2017-18 Greenville County Teacher of the Year Suzanne Billings, fourth-grade teacher at Plain Elementary.

Plain Elementary fourth-grade teacher Suzanne Billings is Greenville Countys Teacher of the Year.

Billings, who has 18 years of teaching experience, will now compete for state Teacher of the Year honors.

First runner-up is Anjosia Ellerbe, business education teacher at Wade Hampton High School. Second runner-up is Erin Rigot, a communications teacher at League Academy. Ashley Jenkins, a 10th grade world history teacher at Woodmont High School, was named third runner-up.

Billings daily mantra is Imagine. Create. Inspire.

Teaching is imagining the purpose of the knowledge, creating an understanding and desire to utilize this information, and then applying and inspiring uses for new learning, she wrote in her Teacher of the Year application. My reward in teaching is observing students who image, create, and inspire for themselves, not just for a teacher or parent.

Billings said seeing her father, a basketball and softball coach, implement mentoring skills in sports and focus on not just improving physical skills but also developing both character and self-confidence led her to become a teacher.

She realized the breadth of his influence when one of her teammates wrote her college essay about Billings father. She said my dad made the most significant impact on her personal development, Billings wrote. I knew I wanted to be like my dad and inspire others to achieve their best and positively impact their personal growth and success.

Billings creates a positive, inclusive classroom community. I ensure each student views him or herself as a speaker, listener, teacher, and supporter, she said. This community team environment instills ownership of learning and allows each students talents and abilities to shine.

Other Greenville County Teacher of the Year finalists were Scott Buhr, physics and earth science, Hillcrest High School; Jeremy Bowen, mathematics, J.L. Mann; David Dejesa, social studies-speech and debate, Riverside High School; Chancey Greco, sixth-grade English Language Arts, Greenville Middle Academy; Lauren Long, eighth-grade English, Hillcrest Middle School; and Thomas McAuliff, third grade, Taylors Elementary School.

In addition to an application and an interview, the 10 finalists were observed in the classroom by the judges.

Katie Inclan, a second-grade teacher at Plain Elementary, was named the elementary-level Emerging Teacher of the Year.

Greenville Middle Academy seventh-grade science teacher Matt Giacalone is secondary-level Emerging Teacher of the Year.

The Emerging Teacher of the Year awards are sponsored by Greenville Federal Credit Union and recognize second- or third-year teachers for outstanding performance. Each receives $500, a crystal award, and $500 for their school.

Issues that will test Greenville County Council in the coming year bubbled to the surface

Greenville County Schools board of trustees held its monthly meeting on Tuesday.

Council discussed a resolution to reject the expenditure of state funds for the U.S. Refugee

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An ongoing tussle between the landlord and the school management led to the premises of the Ashram Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Guindy being sealed on Wednesday. The students were shifted to the schools second campus in Velachery.

C.H. Prabhakar, one of the joint owners of the building where the school has been functioning since 2001, alleged that the school had accumulated around 2 crore as rent arrears.

Mr. Prabhakar said that while their intention was not to harass the owners or disrupt the education of the children, they had decided to lock the premises on Wednesday morning. He said the owners will send a letter to the excise department stating that the institution was not functioning any more so that they did not have to pay service tax.

In a release, the school claimed that the management had already discussed about vacating the premises with the landlords, and added: We will be filing a defamation case against the landlord for making false statements to the press.

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Israels Linoy Ashram picked up four more medals on Sunday in her final tune-up event before the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships later this month.

The 18-year-old took four bronzes in the FIG World Challenge Cup competition in Kazan, Russia, finishing all four apparatus finals in third place.

Ashram, who ended the all-around event in Kazan in fourth place on Saturday, registered a score of 16.9 points in the hoop final on Sunday, finishing behind identical Russian twins Arina and Dina Averina, who claimed the top two spots in three of the four finals.

Ashram ended the ball final with a score of 16.2, the clubs with 16.3 and the ribbon with 16.2.

Ashram will be brimming with confidence ahead of the World Championships, which begin in Pesaro, Italy on August 29, with her success on Sunday coming on the back of a breakthrough summer.

The gymnast won two medals at the recent World Games, taking a silver in the clubs and a bronze in the hoop. She dominated the Maccabiahs rhythmic gymnastics competitions last month, sweeping all five gold medals.

Ashram also took two medals at the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary in May, finishing third in the hoops and club finals.

Ashram will now be looking to become the second Israeli to win a medal at the World Championships. Neta Rivkin, who retired following the Rio Olympics last summer, won a bronze medal in the hoop final at the World Championships in 2011.

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The school run by the wife of Actor Rajinikanth was locked by the landlord of the building in Chennai on charges that the rent agreed to was not being paid.

The school authorities said they have decided to file a defamation case against the landlord for creating immense agony to the school and issuing false statements to the media.

About 400 children of Ashram, run by Latha Rajinikanth, have been shifted to another institution.

Landlord Venkateshwaralu claimed that the management agreed to pay the rent as per a court directive till they vacate the premises by May 2018 which they had not adhered to fully.

He said the school authorities did not pay the quantum of rent as agreed to.

The management said the school was functioning on the existing premises for more than a decade and that it had faced a lot of harassment in the recent past due to the family dispute of the landlord.

It is not just about the rent but it is about their exploitation of the situation and it is about asking unfair, unreasonable and exorbitant increment in rentals which we have been negotiating and speaking with them [landlord], a statement from the management said.

The management had decided to vacate the premises and negotiations were on to settle the matter. The landlord harassed them by using the media continuously when a civil dispute was pending in the court, the statement said.

Since the matter is sub judice, we would like to record this statement. Taking law into his hands and without any information, once again the landlord has created immense agony to the school, children, parents and to the management today, it said.

We will be filing a defamation case against the landlord for making false statements to the press. Apart from that, we will wait for the law to take its own course, it said.

We request the media and the public to understand the truth, it added.

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