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Dauntless Stories' Eat My Flesh, Drink My Blood #1 Comic Review
Dauntless Stories' Eat My Flesh, Drink My Blood is a uniquely absurd romantic horror that pushes the boundary of comic book storytelling.
Up-and-coming indie comics publisher Dauntless Stories has made it their mission to tell bold stories in short graphic novel format, conveying unique tales through the eyes of talented creative teams. The publishing house has released two graphic novels, Deadly Living and Starless Daydream, with two more yet to be published. Eat My flesh, Drink My Blood is one of the latter, scheduled to come out early next year as part of Dauntless Stories' Greenlight initiative. Created by writer Frankee White, artist Adam Markiewicz and colorist A.H.G., the book is a 52-page, magazine-sized graphic novel that describes itself as an absurd romantic horror.
Eat My flesh, Drink My Blood opens with newly engaged couple John and Lisa arriving at a chapel one summer evening. Lisa is as nervous and excited to meet John's parents for the first time, while John is just as uninterested and apathetic about the whole affair. As the church doors fling open, they are greeted by two solemn figures, and Lisa's wish is fulfilled. The story then cuts back to two weeks prior, when John had received a letter from his mother stating that his father is dying and that she wants to see the couple for mass at their parish. Lisa, curious about her fiancé's past, encourages him to mend fences with his estranged father. John agrees on one condition: Lisa must join him.
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This isn't White's first foray into comic books, having established himself as a creative talent with titles such as 20 Fists, Starless Daydream and Broken Bear. While Starless Daydream was published by Dauntless Stories, the critically acclaimed graphic novel Broken Bear was created by the same creative team as Eat My flesh, Drink My Blood, so the creepy and sinister aesthetic of Broken Bear gets carried over. White puts the narrative focus on Lisa, the newcomer to the Johnson family, and places the reader in her shoes to better reflect her emotional state. The use of religious motifs and imagery only reaffirms the eerie feeling that emanates from the very first page of the book.
Markiewicz's art lures the readers in with its serene ambiance, only to turn heel on the most unassuming of moments. While his simple and clean lines give depth and details to the panels, his bold inking creates a gritty and ominous aura. A.H.G's colors truly bring life to Markiewicz's art. From the bold red sky of a setting sun to the pensive looks on the characters' faces, much of the atmosphere is built on the tones presented in the panels. A.H.G's use of rough strokes and intermixed bright and muted colors in the backgrounds as a means of shading, in itself, creates a haunting effect.
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Dauntless Stories continues to demonstrate that they are ready to venture where other comics do not. By giving their artists creative freedom, Dauntless allows comic book storytelling to reach new heights. Continuing that ideology, White, Markiewicz, and A.H.G. channel that same energy as they create a uniquely absurd romantic horror that dares to ask the age-old question: "How far will you go to be with the one you love?" For indie comic book enthusiasts with a penchant for horror, Eat My flesh, Drink My Blood is a perfect read to satiate their need for suspense and thrill.
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Welcome to Travel with T your destination discovery agent. I am Teresa, my blog is all about travel. My husband Paul is along for the ride. From budget to luxury, from backpacking to tours, it's all about the discovery. So goes our eclectic journeys and we will share with you some of our experiences. I started this blog to help promote my work as a Destination Discovery Agent also known as a Travel Agent. So there is a booking button up top if you care to use it. Or if you would like after you trekked through my site and would like help discovering your destination, give me a call I would be happy to help you.
I will be taking you along my own journey's but also will be adding post from some of my fellow travelers. I will feature a special area for my year with Marriott Gold where I will be blogging about Marriott's Loyalty program. I have not made the top Platinum level but I have achieved gold and so I will take you through my year utilizing that little perk. Is the loyalty worth it? I don't know yet we will have to see. I will discuss points, perks, travel hacking, loyalty programs, and military or space A travel.
All about cruising, as I and my husband love to cruise we will take you along for the ride. We usually travel with Princess, but have done Carnival also. Stay tuned as we share with you the benefits of being a Black card Elite Cruiser on Princess.
Jeeping for adventure will be a standard feature for our blog as we ask you to buckle up and experience some to the best jeep country Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona have to offer.
Military, for those of you out there who have yet to discover the benefits of being retired military and what, where, and how, we can travel. Or maybe for the old pro's of space a travel you can share some of your travel hacks.
So Welcome and thank you for taking the time to visit with me. Buckle up and lets go a little unconventional. Lets travel slow, travel fast, lets space a it, lets hike, lets jeep, lets fly, lets cruise, lets spend the night in the city, in the country, in the US, or out in the big vast world, lets fall asleep under the stars, or in a 5 diamond hotel, because really what it comes down to is it's all about Destination Discovery.


Bode jam this week went down in amsterdam. Word on the street was that there was a jam, then there was a somin about a war and peace theme, or how the good can been seen through the bad, didnt really understand it much. So Bust and me went pretty loose with it.
Was invited for dinner in the Bust house last Sunday, so while the food is cooking we went down to the local spot and made a little somin somin.
when will it ever stop? still good to have some places were we are under cover. this was a little wall i made with Sket and Zaira.


Yes…yes, it was. The Creative Connection Event was indeed wonderful. I enjoyed absolutely everything about it. One of my favorite parts was getting to visit with MaryJane. Could I love her any more than I do? Nope, I don't see how. She is everything you think she is, and more. And Meg is as precious as she seems. I was so happy to finally meet her. She's a doll.
And you wouldn't believe the creative talent and energy buzzing around the room. Such remarkable women. But, you know the thing I liked the most about attending?
I sat back and listened intently to all the stories the women there shared with me. Treasures.
The moon last night. A total wow. How fitting for 9/11. A full moon, low in the sky illuminating the earth, illuminating our hearts.
Last night's moon was the last full moon before autumn's official arrival. That makes it the "Harvest Moon." It was named "Harvest Moon" because this time of year is crop gathering season for many farmers. And that big, bright moon gives them extra time to harvest their produce.
I don't know about you. But I wasn't bringing in any crops. My garden is quite bare. Sadly bare. My major harvest this summer was tomatoes and basil. They are both long gone now.
But being a "harvest" moon and all, I knew I should harvest something. So I got rather loosey-goosey with the definition, as I often do. I'll tell you what I'm harvesting in just a minute, but how about you? Did you harvest anything? Either in your garden, or in your career, or in your home, or in your family, or in your head, or in your heart?


I understand that my series on Facebook, and perhaps the length and frequency of my posts, offended at least one person. What right does that guy have to talk about that?
Since someone must know, a friend of 20 years approached me for advice on Facebook recently. After some back-and-forth, I realized that maybe someone else would want to know this stuff. I would have liked to have known it when I was starting out.
Since it was really long, I divided it up into more manageable parts. Easier to read, easier to edit, easier for future readers to find exactly what they want via Google. It's a common practice.
And yes, I'm posting more often lately. WordPress makes it a lot easier, so I'm more motivated to do it. I don't know how long I'll keep this pace up, but I'm not under any contractual obligation to anyone. If I have some decent material to post, I'll post it. Some may say I haven't written anything decent in my life. And to that I say, if they've read all of it, they've certainly earned the right to think whatever they want of my writing.
But I guess I haven't really said what right I have to write about Facebook and human relationships thereon. Like most everyone reading this, I am a human being who doesn't know everything, and may not always exercise his best judgment. But I have learned a few things over the course of making those mistakes, which is something not all human beings seem capable of doing. So I shared what I've learned, beyond just sending it to the friend who asked. In that regard, it's not all that different from most of the other stuff here.
My critic doesn't have to like it. I'd been blogging for years before we even met. This is my computer, not my critic's. I paid for it. I built it and configured it myself too. I'm also paying for my Internet connection. My critic isn't. If I want to use it to write about trains or computers or baseball or funny stuff my two-year-old son says, or anything else, I have that right. Facebook included.
I owe no further explanation. It could be days before I write about Facebook again, or it could be years. I would prefer years. I plan to be back tomorrow with something useful about small form factor computers.
Steve gives Dave a +1 in character, and another +1 in clarity of thinking and writing. Nicely put, and a good response to someone who seems to have a chip on their shoulder.
And please don't add public voting to your entries. Let people vote with their feet. If you ever want constrictive criticism on your blog, there are better audiences than anyone with a browser, and better methods than a simple thumbs up or thumbs down. For everything else, there's comments.
I've been a Facebook user for quite some time now and I agree with a lot of what you said. Every Facebook user thinks some people share too much and other people share too little — "too much" and "too little" being relative terms as compared to what the user feels comfortable with sharing. The best way to enjoy Facebook (for me) is to connect with the people that share (A) things I like (B) in quantities I like. Then again, every user is different — some people think the best way to enjoy Facebook is to tend to their virtual farms on an hourly basis.
And speaking of those apps … a good friend of mine was littering my wall daily with a Fortune Cookie message. When I asked him about it, he told me he had no idea what I was talking about. Turned out, by viewing that app one time, it was automatically broadcasting messages out (on his behalf, no less!) to all his Facebook friends! I suppose a lot of the other apps do the same thing, so I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Still, I spend a few minutes each week going through and hiding apps left and right. Like you said, I care about my friends, but not so much about their virtual farms.
Facebook's best feature is the "hide this person's updates from my wall" button. It's great for people you feel obligated to add (family, co-workers, people's children) and don't care to hear from. As you mentioned, lists is a great place for these people to sit as well. I have one called "Silence!", which does what you would imagine. I used to just drop those people, but that can be even more drama to deal with.
And speaking of co-workers … egads, work and Facebook do NOT mix. Whether it's getting busted (or busting others) in little white lies or checking in at the end of the day only to see that your co-workers have been on Facebook ALL DAY LONG, mixing Facebook with work is just a bad, bad idea. I deal with this by limiting the amount of co-workers on my Friends List, and limiting the amount of time I spend on Facebook during work hours. That's worked for me, but I am seeing more and more social networking-related drama in the workplace these days.
Anyway Dave, good series of posts. And to your critic, well, he has his opinion just like you have yours, but I wouldn't bother giving that person the time of day, especially in a public forum. One thing I've learned as a writer and a semi-regular blogger is, for every 100 people that read and/or like your stuff, there'll be a few that don't — and unfortunately, the few that don't will be the most vocal about it. Write what you want to write — there are literally millions of blogs out there; let those who don't enjoy your work get back to tending to their virtual Facebook cows.


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Q: How to fix a CRS or scale issue with an XYZ tile ('Google Satellite' image and 'Open Street Map')? Problem:
Firstly, I am a complete novice to QGIS and I have only been using this software for one week. Therefore, I apologise if I am not using the correct terminology. I have added vector layers (ESRI shapefiles) for the country of Iceland showing railroads, water bodies, and roads. The coordinate reference system (CRS) for my vector data is WGS 84/UTM zone 27 N (see images 1 and 2).
I am a student and my tutor is not available to provide help for another few weeks and I have deadlines. I have to add two XYZ tiles: (1) an 'Open Street Map' and (2) a 'Google Satellite' image that I downloaded from Hatari labs (see line below). The idea is to insert an XYZ tile into my workspace to show Iceland in context to Greenland and the UK.
Hatari Lab link:
Location of Google Satellite Image
When I add either XYZ tile to my workspace, the resolution and scale are acting really strange (see images 3 and 4). The final result is supposed to look like images 5 and 6.
In the tutorial, when the XYZ tiles download, the vector data is positioned exactly on top of Iceland to the correct scale, and you can also see Iceland in context to Greenland and the UK. However, when I add my XYZ tiles, my vector data is not on top of Iceland. Instead, these XYZ tiles are located right next to  Greenland, which is not where Iceland is realistically located.
How I have tried to solve the issue?
As I mentioned beforehand, my tutor is not available right now to advise, although, he sent me an email suggesting that this is a CRS issue. I have tried changing the CRS for both XYZ tiles to WGS 84/UTM zone 27 N to be identical to my vector data and it did not work. In my tutorials, the CRS for both of these XYZ tiles are EPSG:3857 - WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator, and my tutor did not change their CRS's. I don't know how to correct this issue and I have been trying for two days to no avail.
Would anyone know how to help me fix this issue?
I'm very confused!
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A: I agree this seems to be a (simple) CRS mismatching problem:

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*Google maps (XYZ tiles) are natively in EPSG:3857 WGS 84 - Pseudo Mercator

*your shapefile data's CRS seems to be EPSG:32627 - WGS 84/UTM zone 27 N
QGIS takes care to reproject on the fly different datasets onto the Project CRS, at least as long as the information it has about the original CRS of each layer is correct.
I would therefore suggest to:

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*set the Project CRS to the same as Google Maps, and

*correct the CRS setting of the shapefile

To do so, I would reccomend to:

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*righ-click on GoogleMaps layer in the Layers swatch, then Layer CRS -> Set Layer CRS, then select EPSG:3857

*righ-click on shapefile layer in the Layers swatch, then Layer CRS -> Set Layer CRS, then select EPSG:32627

*righ-click on GoogleMaps layer in the Layers swatch again, then Layer CRS -> Set Project CRS From Layer.

you sohuld end up with your Project being in EPSG:3857 (Pseduo Mercator), and the shapefile corectly reprojected onto Google Map's backdrop.
If it is not like that, as a fallback, try starting a new project from scratch, and/or request again to be provided with the actual CRS of the shapefile layer.
By the way, the reason why I suggest to set the Project's CRS like Google Map's CRS is because reprojecting the vector shapefile is computationally much easier for QGIS than reprojecting all Google Maps pixel into another CRS.
However, once the two datasets are aligned, you can of course change the Project's CRS to anything you want, and both layers will be happily reprojected.

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Upstream: Earthquake Bird on Netflix
skulldouggary November 21, 2019
The strangely named Earthquake Bird debuted on Netflix this week. A film that is beautifully melancholy and tense. Written for screen and directed by Wash Westmoreland based on the novel by Susanna Jones.
Alicia Vikander hides from her own dark past in Japan.
I've been enjoying Disney+ and the debut of the new season of Jack Ryan on Amazon, but I thought I should get some work done and decided to see what was new on Netflix. I was caught by the odd title of Earthquake Bird, and having spent time in Japan myself for work I thought it would be right up my alley. I try to suspend disbelief when watching any movie, this helps especially with any film that deals with computer stuff or mysteries. My other friends in the IT field always cry and moan about how inaccurate this or that was in any scene where someone is "hacking" or trying to explain technical systems. I just look past it and try to enjoy the film at face value. That said I was really curious how Japanese culture, especially from a gaijin's point of view would be handled in this film. For the most part I thought they did a really good job of capturing everyday life in Japan without succumbing to silly clichés. Alicia Vikander (Man from Uncle, Tomb Raider, Ex Machina) put in a wonderfully subdued performance as Lucy Fly, a Swedish transplant working as a script translator in Japan. Lucy harbors a distinct darkness that keeps those around her at arm's length until she runs into a photographer named Teiji, played by Naoki Kobayashi of the J-Pop group Exile. Naoki also has moody dark side, but somehow the two are drawn to each and in turn find some light in being together. Mr. Kobayashi's performance is the perfect counter-balance to Ms. Vikander's Lucy. As foreboding as things feel, you are also rooting for them to be happy. The happiness is all too short lived when Lucy's friend introduces a wildcard into the mix in an American ex-pat named Lily (played by Elvis' granddaughter Riley Keough. I'll stop here with any further description of storyline as seeing exactly how this all unfolds is part of what makes this movies so enjoyable.
Lucy, Teiji, and Lily are nowhere near as balanced as this shot is.
There were some beautiful locations in Japan spotlighted and as I said before the wonderfully understated way the culture of Japan was presented was refreshing. It is not an anime wonderland like so many weebs wish it was over there. I highly recommend giving this a watch. It is slow paced and very atmospheric, while tense at times it is not really a thriller as much as a drama with some seriously dark undertones. If you are a fan of British style crime dramas, you will find this entertaining. If your tastes run more towards action crime dramas, you will find this a bit plodding without the usual mystery payoffs.
Alicia Vikander demands any nude or sex scenes be shot in one take only. Insuring the whole team is on point on set…and yes there are a couple in this film you perv ;-P
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Theater gets donation to save historic seats
Sheri Trusty
NH Correspondent
GENOA – Plans to scrap a set of vintage theater seats were changed when an anonymous donor gave the Genoa Civic Theatre several yards of upholstery fabric to refurbish them.
The seats are being given new life by theater volunteers.
The 14 chairs had been in use in the back row of the theater for years, even though they were in poor condition.
"For some people, it's their favorite seats," theater member Donna Wollenslegel said. "That's why we hated to get rid of them."
Because of the theater's limited budget, reupholstering the seats wasn't an option until the donation was made.
"We were thinking of getting rid of them; then a friend of mine donated 151/2 yards of very expensive upholstery," theater member Griff Allen said. "That sealed the deal."
Allen said the theater's charter with the village dictates that the building's interior be kept to a specific color scheme. Not only does the upholstery fall into that scheme, but it also is a very close match to the theater seats' current upholstery.
"It's so amazing that the color is so close to what we had before," Wollenslegel said.
Tearing apart the chairs provided an interesting discovery of the chairs' history. The members have found small clues that are giving them hints to the seats' age.
It is obvious to the members that the chairs have been reupholstered more than once, as they are finding different materials within the layers.
"We think the chairs came from a Toledo theater," Allen said. "I think they are at least from the '20s or '30s, but I think they might be 100 years old."
When the chairs were disassembled, small bits of burgundy-colored oil cloth could be seen peeking out from around nail heads.
"That's what makes me think turn-of-the-century," Allen said.
Old cotton batting was found in the chairs, and Wollenslegel suspects it was used through multiple re-coverings.
"I think it's been passed around from generation to generation," she said. "They were probably in the same situation we're in. They didn't have much money for the project."
The volunteers will reuse much of the batting to stuff the chairs, and they also will reuse something else they found inside of them — straw. It, too, had been used to stuff the seats' cushions.
"We're reusing the straw," Wollenslegel said. "There's no odor. It was sealed in."
Although the seats need a lot of work, they weren't quite as bad as Allen had anticipated.
"They were in better shape than I thought they'd be," he said. "Once they're done, I think they'll be good for another 100 years."
Four of the chairs are finished, and Allen hopes to get the rest done sometime this summer. The theater's next production is "Little Shop of Horrors," scheduled for Friday through Sunday and May 8 to 10.


Pangdemonium's latest play — Tango by Joel Tan — highlights the issues faced by an LGBT couple as they relocate to Singapore with their adopted son. Check out our review before you go.
19 May to 4 June, selected timings at Drama Centre theatre.
Following the futuristic explorations in 'The Universe and Art', ArtScience Museum's latest exhibition 'Human+' explores new works in genetic modifications, artificial intelligence and life-like robots. As part of the exhibition's opening programme, join the conversation and watch a performance by LASALLE's Steve Dixon this week.
Till 15 October, 10am to 7pm at ArtScience Museum.
Join Multiple as they transform 30 rooms at New Majestic Hotel into a unique pop-up space of local enterprises such as such as the sticker lady Sam Lo, Matter and kult. Discover over 60 Singapore artists, designers and makers across various disciplines.
27 May to 28 May, 11am to 11pm at New Majestic Hotel.
Dance the night away with Darker Than Wax and Indonesia DJ and producer Wahono, who explores deconstructed rhythmic relationships, harmonic perceptions and textural compositions in his latest album DIVISI62.
27 May, 11pm to 4am at Canvas.
Swiss native Cyril Hahn rose to prominence when he released his controversial yet unique remix of two iconic R&B songs — 'Touch my Body' and 'Say My Name' — with an ethereal twist. Chill out to the perfect summer anthem this week with his latest album, Perfect Form.
27 May, 11pm to 4am at Esplanade Annexe Studio.


Bob is a free signal-processing and machine learning toolbox originally developed by the Biometrics group at the Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland. The toolbox is written in a mix of Python and C++ and is designed to be both efficient and reduce development time. It is composed of a reasonably large number of packages that implement tools for image, audio & video processing, machine learning & pattern recognition, and a lot more task specific packages.
Open Phd/postdoc positions at LIMSI combining machine learning, NLP, speech processing, and computer vision. If you use pyannote.audio in your research, please use the following citations.
The input pipeline must be prepared by the users. This code is aimed to provide the implementation for Coupled 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for audio-visual matching. Lip-reading can be a specific application for this work. Audio-visual recognition (AVR) has been considered as a solution for speech recognition tasks when the audio is corrupted, as well as a visual recognition method used for speaker verification in multi-speaker scenarios. The approach of AVR systems is to leverage the extracted information from one modality to improve the recognition ability of the other modality by complementing the missing information.
Deeplearning4J is an open source, distributed neural net library written in Java and Scala. It integrates with Hadoop and Spark and runs on several backends that enable use of CPUs and GPUs. It provides versatile n-dimensional array class for Java and Scala.
This repository contains the code release for our paper titled as "Text-Independent Speaker Verification Using 3D Convolutional Neural Networks". The link to the paper is provided as well. The code has been developed using TensorFlow. The input pipeline must be prepared by the users. This code is aimed to provide the implementation for Speaker Verification (SR) by using 3D convolutional neural networks following the SR protocol.
This is the code repository for Deep Learning with Keras, published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the book from start to finish. This book starts by introducing you to supervised learning algorithms such as simple linear regression, classical multilayer perceptron, and more sophisticated Deep Convolutional Networks. In addition, you will also understand unsupervised learning algorithms such as Autoencoders, Restricted Boltzmann Machines, and Deep Belief Networks. Recurrent Networks and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks are also explained in detail. You will also explore image processing involving the recognition of handwritten digital images, the classification of images into different categories, and advanced object recognition with related image annotations. An example of the identification of salient points for face detection is also provided.
ESPnet is an end-to-end speech processing toolkit, mainly focuses on end-to-end speech recognition, and end-to-end text-to-speech. ESPnet uses chainer and pytorch as a main deep learning engine, and also follows Kaldi style data processing, feature extraction/format, and recipes to provide a complete setup for speech recognition and other speech processing experiments. To use cuda (and cudnn), make sure to set paths in your .bashrc or .bash_profile appropriately.


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The European Medicines Agency's Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has concluded that the benefits of Diane 35 (cyproterone acetate 2 mg / ethinylestradiol 35 micrograms) and its generics outweigh the risks, provided that several measures are taken to minimise the risk of thromboembolism (formation of blood clots in the veins and arteries). These medicines should be used solely in the treatment of moderate to severe acne related to androgen sensitivity or hirsutism (excessive unwanted growth of hair) in women of reproductive age. Furthermore, Diane 35 should only be used for the treatment of acne when alternative treatments, such as topical therapy and oral antibiotic treatment, have failed.
Since Diane 35 and its generics are hormonal contraceptives, women should not take these medicines in combination with other hormonal contraceptives. Concomitant use of Diane 35 and its generics with another hormonal contraceptive will expose women to a higher dose of oestrogen and increase the risk of thromboembolism.
The PRAC recommendation will now be considered by the Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures – Human (CMDh).
The risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) occurring with these medicines is low and well known, and warnings are included in their product information to alert patients and prescribers to the risks.
The Europe-wide review was initiated at the request of the French medicines regulatory agency (ANSM), following the announcement of its plan to suspend the marketing authorisations for Diane 35 and its generics in France. This was the result of a national benefit-risk review by ANSM of the product. This review highlighted serious thromboembolic events and extensive off-label use of these medicines as a contraceptive only.
Based on all available data, the PRAC concluded that Diane 35 and its generics have a place as a treatment option for certain women suffering from the abovementioned conditions. It also acknowledged that there is a need to take further measures to better address and minimise the risks of thromboembolism associated with these medicines.
The PRAC recommended new contraindications and warnings to patients and healthcare professionals.
The PRAC also recommended that efforts should be made to raise awareness of the risks, signs and symptoms of thromboembolism, to allow for timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment. This includes educational materials for prescribers and patients highlighting the risks of thromboembolism, for example a prescriber checklist, to ensure that the risks, together with the signs and symptoms, are discussed.
The Committee also recommended further pharmacovigilance activities, including prospective drug-utilisation studies to assess future prescription patterns following the above-mentioned changes to the product information, as well as a post-approval safety study to assess the effectiveness of the risk-minimisation measures.
These medicines have been authorised at the level of individual Member States for many years. They are widely used across Europe. However, their authorised uses at the time of this review differ between Member States.
During the review, the PRAC assessed all available data on the risk of thromboembolism with Diane 35 and its generics, based on post-marketing data in Europe and other published literature. The Agency also invited stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, patients' organisations and the general public, to submit data relevant to the procedure. Data were submitted by eight stakeholders and these were fed into the assessment. A group of experts including patient representation was also convened to provide advice to support the review.


Written by: Tex Avery, Warren Foster, Melvin Millar, Jack Miller, etc.
Directed by: Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Jack King, Frank Tashlin, Ub Iwerks, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, etc.
Fans of cartoons have complained for years about Warner Home Video's handling of their massive archive. Either the 'toons have been released in huge, almost random collections (like the "Golden" and "Platinum" box sets), or in sporadic sets, like some of the late-era Tom and Jerry collections or the Droopy collection, or not at all (the Tex Avery library). So this 2017 release of 101 mostly black-and-white Porky Pig cartoons, arranged in chronological order over five discs, and running from Porky's debut in 1935 to Porky Pig's Feat (1943), is a very exciting event. It's a bit pricey, but cartoon lovers will absolutely need this in their libraries.
Porky's debut, I Haven't Got a Hat (1935), is shown in beautiful two-strip Technicolor, and is still pretty funny, as the larger, rounder version of Porky is called upon to give a presentation in school. This one includes a commentary track by cartoon expert Jerry Beck. Porky's Romance (1937) is another key cartoon, directed by Frank Tashlin, and introducing Petunia Pig. Its background design is quite striking. It includes a commentary track by Mark Kausler.
Bob Clampett's Porky and Daffy (1938) is a good one, with Daffy entering the boxing ring to fight the champion, a gigantic rooster. Frank Tashlin's Wholly Smoke (1938) is an amazing anti-smoking message, conceived as a hallucinatory nightmare.
While not every single one of these hundred-and-one is a gem, there are a few bona-fide masterpieces in this set. Porky in Wackyland (1938) -- widely regarded as the all-time best Porky cartoon -- is a psychedelic wonder, as Porky goes looking for the last Do-Do Bird. And You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940) is a true ground-breaker, combining live-action and animation, as well as an early example of "meta," as Porky goes around the Warner Bros. lot, trying to get a job as an actor in feature films.
I always love a good Halloween-type cartoon, and Clampett's Jeepers Creepers (1939) is a great one, with Pinto Colvig (also known as Goofy) voicing a particularly playful ghost. (He smokes a cigar, grabs one of the smoke rings, and eats it like a donut.) Porky plays a cop called to investigate spooky noises in an old mansion. And I love The Film Fan (1939), which skewers the movie theater experience in all kinds of hilarious ways, including the problem of sitting too close to the screen.
Two of my childhood favorites -- I used to watch batches of Looney Tunes cartoons on TV on Sunday mornings -- are also here, Clampett's The Timid Toreador (1940) and Chuck Jones's Porky's Cafe (1942), and I think I like them mainly because of their depictions of food. In the former, Porky sells "hot tamales" from a cart, and in the second, he serves batches of eggs, toast, and coffee for hungry customers.
Tex Avery's Porky's Preview (1941) is quite brilliant, as Porky puts on his own cartoon show; his work appears as crude pencil sketches and stick figures, while all kinds of other mayhem goes on in the "theater." Lastly, there is Frank Tashlin's insane Porky Pig's Feat (1943), wherein Porky and Daffy find themselves with an astronomical bill for the Broken Arms Hotel, and unable to leave. It's the final black-and-white Porky cartoon, and features a cameo by Bugs Bunny. This one features a commentary track by the great film director Joe Dante!
Menu-wise, don't forget that each disc has two pages of titles, something I did not notice at first. Some bonuses, such as storyboards, live on these 2nd pages. Don't miss the final extra, a shocking little thing called "Porky's Breakdowns."Porky Pig 101 was released on the Warner Archive label and is not available on Blu-ray as of yet. Even so, the quality is excellent, and still highly recommended. Each of the discs starts with the disclaimer about potentially offensive material in the cartoons, with the correct assertion that it's better to acknowledge and learn from this stuff than it is to censor it.


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5 tips for becoming a greener business
Stephen Bentley
There are many business benefits from becoming greener, from a reduction in overheads to helping you pitch (and sometimes win) ethically minded new business. But whilst it's easy to talk about becoming greener, it's a lot harder to actually put into practice.
Having worked hard to achieve the internationally recognised IS0 14001 standard ourselves – and inadvertently changing our environmental philosophy in the process – there's a lot we ve learnt. Whether you're working towards an official accreditation or just want to reduce your carbon footprint, here are some first-hand tips on becoming a greener business.
1. Appoint a Green Ambassador
You need someone in the company to spearhead any new green initiatives. Importantly, this person has to be an advocate, who uses their innate passion and enthusiasm for all things green to drive the project forwards rather than being motivated by some kind of remuneration. That's important because becoming greener is a collective responsibility and requires buy-in from the whole company any project that is perceived as simply being a "tick box" exercise designed to benefit one individual will be destined to fail.
The appointed Green Ambassador doesn't necessarily have to be a director, but by the nature of the role they will need to have good organisational and communication skills to put in place the required written policies and manage the administration of the various initiatives. Likewise, while their position in the company's hierarchy shouldn?t be the driving factor in the decision, they do need to be a charismatic leader in order to inspire change within the organisation.
Getting this appointment right is absolutely key, but the role shouldn?t be seen as a burden. Ideally, they should volunteer and see it as an opportunity to make a positive difference to both the company and the environment. Essentially, it needs to mean something to them personally.
2. Find the low hanging fruit
Resistance to change is an issue that every company and manager has to face at some point, whether it's environmentally related or not. So when it comes to becoming greener, change management is absolutely vital.
Luckily, we ve seen a step-change in people's general attitudes and understanding of green issues over the past decade, with most people now habitually recycling, so the hurdles are certainly nowhere near as high as they once were. The key to implementing behavioural change in the workplace is to engage people slowly. Find the low-hanging fruit that are quick and easy to practice and doesn't disrupt people's routines too much. Hopefully this should get people on board slowly and create an appetite to want to do more.
3. Continuously set, review and amend targets
International standards such as the ISO14001 are founded and judged upon benchmarking and continuous improvement. It's a philosophy that every company can benefit from big and small. In order to do so, companies need to set metrics against what they want to achieve. For example, it could be reducing the electricity or water bill by ten per cent or reducing excess waste by 40 per cent. Whatever it is, there should be a figure and a timeframe.
As well as motivating staff, what this does is turn an ethical argument into an economic one. It moves it beyond the token provision of recycling bins to making it an integral part of the business" processes. Once quantifiable you?ll be amazed at how much money you've been wasting and you can begin to build a business case for green initiatives based on hard evidence.
In order to be able to demonstrate the consistent benefits, you will of course need to constantly monitor, review and amend outputs and targets, which again requires a certain level of administrative skills and expertise.
4. Communicate the rationale and benefits
People are always going to be more supportive when they can see the benefits and understand their role in achieving them. So it's important that any changes are clearly communicated and explained before implementing and feedback given during or after. It's here that having hard, quantifiable evidence can be really effective in changing behaviour through positive reinforcement.
5. Be ambitious the Aggregation of marginal gains?
To draw on a sporting analogy if I may, Dave Brailsford Team GB's cycling performance director accredits the team's success this summer to Aggregation of marginal gains?. This involves examining almost every tiny detail and identifying areas for improvement. It's obviously a very successful strategy and one that can be applied to every company's CSR policy.
The ultimate goal for the business should be to have as little impact on the environment as possible. Examine all parts of the business, not just those that are obvious, as there are marginal gains to be made everywhere from sourcing materials sustainably to how your staff travel to work.
Stephen Bentley is the CEO at Granby Marketing Services.
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Year after year in Zurich (Switzerland), the most colourful house and techno parade in the world fascinates hundreds of thousands of dance fans from every continent. On August 10, The 2013 edition "DANCE FOR FREEDOM" welcomed more than 950'000 people!!!
This year, I decided to take some snapshots of people that made me smile, surprise me or simply scare me! Hope thru my lens, you will get the vibe of how much fun I had while watching and dancing with the crazy party-goers!


Skylark, have you anything to say to me? Can you tell me where my love may be? Is there a meadow in the mist Where he's just waiting to be kissed? Skylark, have you seen a valley green with spring Where my heart can go a journeying Over the shadows and the rain To a blossom covered lane? And in your lonely flight have you heard the music? In the night, wonderful music. Faint as a will-o'-the-wisp, crazy as a loon, Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon. Oh, skylark, i don't know, i don't know If you can find these things, But my heart, my heart is riding on your wings. So if you see them anywhere Won't you lead me there? Oh, won't you lead me there? Lead me there, lead me there. Lead me there, skylark, skylark, skylark, there!


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Art+Culture December 20, 2016 March 1, 2017
Artist Victor Maldonado
written by Lee Lewis Husk | photos by Joni Kabana
As he pulls the mask over his face, artist Victor Maldonado mutates into the Blue Demon, a Mexican lucha libre—freedom fighter. "It's the double identity of being insiders and outsiders, knowing the script but not all the rules in the ring," he said, referring to his Mexican birth, immigration and ultimately, American citizenship.
The 40-year-old's work includes numerous photographs of himself as MadMex, an alter-ego embodiment of the Latino experience in the United States. In one photo, Maldonado lies on the beach, wearing the lucha mask while sunbathing. Definitely not a stereotypical image of a farmworker, it is funny and then evocative. Why is that man wearing a mask? What does it mean?
"The mask symbolizes the struggle between two forces—English versus Spanish, U.S. culture versus Mexican culture, white-collar versus farmworker," said Charles Froelick, owner of Froelick Gallery in Portland, which represents Maldonado. When worn in a Mexican wrestling ring, the masks theatrically show the disparity between two sides—good and evil, comedy and tragedy, he said.
The son of field workers in California's Central Valley, Maldonado has found expression through many art forms, including painting, sculpture, photography and creative writing. He graduated from the California College of Art in 2000, moved to Portland in 2001 and earned an MFA in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005.
"There are a lot of uncommon similarities between artists and field workers. 'Where is my home? Who will remember me?'" he said.
In some paintings, Maldonado uses symbols for the migrant experience—a grocery cart as a mobile home, elephants that travel long distances and guard dogs in a rising security state. "It's about upsetting stereotypical images about me as a Mexican-American," he said.
For the past ten years, Maldonado has been helping students find their artistic voices at the Pacific Northwest College of Art where he's an assistant professor. He finds similarities between students and migrants. "Field workers need platform, and students need platform to make their own choices," he said.
He has begun integrating his work with Bienestar Oregon, a 35-year-old Hillsboro-based housing and advocacy network to meet the needs of Latino-Americans. He hopes to encourage migrants to create their own lucha masks for self-awareness and self-actualization. "These are not disempowered workers," he said. "As artists, we have a history of making pictures that are complete constructs of society. My work is connecting people to themselves."
His work is on display at the Froelick Gallery, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and in public spaces in Seattle and Portland's TriMet bus stops.
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Looking forward to seeing you at the GS session on Saturday. The Inner Circle is currently being resufaced (hip-hip-hooray!!) and the works are expected to be completed by Saturday, so it shouldn't be a problem.
We will try to confirm if plans change and update here, so watch this space.
Can I please ask all the participants that you update your profile name to something identifiable instead of @user12345 for example, so we know who is who and thus process membership for those who decide to join ICC after the session?
Please do let us know if you can't make it and make sure you click the button saying 'I can't make it' to release space for others who may wish to attend.
Please do bring your helmets. They are mandatory for all ICC rides and have a look at the guides at the top of this thread to see what's involved and get some preparation for the day.
Looking forward to meeting you lot on the day.
I rode the inner circle yesterday - it's like a velodrome now! See you all tomorrow.
Can the rest please let us know if you can't make it and update your user names as well if you haven't? Thanks!
Many thanks to the brave ones who faced the cold last Saturday! Really nice to meet you and ride with you, it was a great GS session.
The names of those who attended have been forwarded to the Membership Secretary and your membership can now be approved if you decide to join ICC!
Hope to see you again on the road soon!
Thanks Anthi for leading the session. I already applied for membership so hopefully will see everybody again on rides beyond the inner circle!


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Gyms Working Out for Landlords
Influx of Health Clubs Helps Shopping Centers as Traditional Tenants Pull Back
By Kris Hudson
Updated Sept. 7, 2011 12:01 am ET
Vacancy-plagued shopping centers in the U.S. are getting a lift from tenants who deal in sweat rather than typical retail goods.
Health clubs and gyms accounted for 8.8% of new leases signed so far this year by retail chains in the U.S., compared with 7.9% at the same point last year, according to real-estate research company CoStar Inc. The rush into shopping centers has helped fuel a 57% increase in square footage occupied by U.S. health clubs since 2007, to more than 70 million square feet.


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IICSR Group addresses India's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with Masters and Post graduate program in CSR and Sustainability
IICSR Group
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New Delhi [India], December 22 (ANI/SRV): With a vision to address India's consistent decline on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), IICSR Group, affiliated as a training partner to MEPSC (A sector skills council under Ministry of Skills development and entrepreneurship), is playing a key role to train the youth and working professionals to bridge the gap.
In order to accelerate the learning IICSR is focused to develop trained experts to address the gap between the knowledge and implementation by conducting industry focused courses to India Inc and for the future workforce to pursue Responsible Business Leadership.
Some of its flagship endeavors are Masters and Post graduate program in CSR and sustainability and lately introduced Certified ESG Practitioner course, all curated by the leading industry experts found on (https://iicsronlineinstitute.com). It has also launched 5 days short term certification courses to upskill corporate executives to better implement sustainable projects for welfare development. Its focus is to improve India's ranking on the United Nations SDGs and achieve its goals.
The Managing Director of IICSR Group said, "India has been progressively consistently declining on the Sustainable development goals (SDGs) ranking from 117 in 2020 to 120 in 2021 and 121 in 2022 from 163 countries as per the Global SDG Index by the United Nations. Although Indians have philanthropy in their DNA, there is a lack of knowledge to achieve the Sustainable development goals (SDGs). All the corporates and citizens want to contribute towards achieving the SDGs but ignorance is playing a key role and the acceptance of the same."
As a first step to address this problem, the Ministry of Skills development and entrepreneurship - Government of India has acknowledged the lack of trained CSR and Sustainability professionals. Thus, it has approved the minimum skilled qualification required for being a CSR and Sustainability Managers and Heads.
Dr Bhaskar Chatterjee former DG and CEO of IICA states that, "India has a CSR law and United Nations has developed Sustainable development goals (SDGs) both these are fields growing at a very rapid pace. For all the stakeholders, be it corporations, civil society organizations or universities or any other organizations, they are looking for high quality, high grade professionals in this field. IICSR Group having launched Masters, Post graduate program and 5 days short term training in CSR, Sustainability and ESG shall bolster sustainable development"
IICSR Group (https://iicsr.com) has been developing Responsible Business leadership since 2010 and now has evolved to become the world leader with footprints in South Africa, Sri Lanka, UAE, Europe and the USA. It is registered in the USA and India with its campus established in North Goa, India.
The group focuses on capacity building, project advisory and implementation for sustainable development, CSR and ESG and has catered to more than 100 publicly listed companies till date.
For more information, visit - (https://iicsr.com)
Or Email on: info@iicsr.com
This story has been provided by SRV. ANI will not be responsible in any way for the content in this article. (ANI/SRV)


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Pace Alumni Named in Publishers Weekly Star Watch 2016
by Breana Swinehart | Sep 15, 2016 | Alumni in the Spotlight, Spotlight
Pace alumni Hannah Bennett was just recognized by Publisher's Weekly second annual Star Watch. Star Watch is designed to formally acknowledge young professionals in publishing who have promise as future leaders within the industry. Hannah graduated from Pace in 2012 and is now the current Managing Editor at RosettaBooks.
As per the article: "Poetry aside, there is nothing Zen-like in Bennett's workaday world. When she joined RosettaBooks in 2012, it published only backlist e-books. Now, with a print frontlist that she and her team built from scratch, it is a bona fide trade nonfiction publisher. "We've got an efficient and co mpetitive program that I'm truly proud of," she says. Upcoming on the list that she has forged is a book by the radio talk show host Delilah and a memoir by Dawit Habte, which she describes as the "harrowing story of a brilliant Eritrean refugee who now works for Bloomberg." When Bennett is not working with such high-profile experts as the legal eagle Alan Dershowitz and the Silicon Valley guru John Sculley, she gives her time to the Women's National Book Association, for which she has recently taken on the role of president of the New York City chapter. She is particularly excited about a women-in-comics panel that she is organizing with Pen + Brush. Other un-Zen-like activities include serving on the advisory board of Rosetta and tweaking the draft of a book that she just completed."
You can read more about Publishers Weekly's Star Watch, as well as see more from Publishers Weekly, here.
Bennett has also done an Alumni Interview with Professor Jane Kinney-Denning, which can be found here.


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Q: Hyperas TypeError: bad operand type for unary -: 'list' I'm making this convolutional neural network that can detect between 4 types of images (for now its Cats, Dogs, Airplanes and Motorcycles which I use as test) and I want to optimize certain parameters using Hyperas. Now I'm only optimizing the Dropout rate, as a test.
I Keep getting this error however, and I dont know what it even means and what I can do to fix it.
This is my code:
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import matplotlib.image as mpimg
 import os
 from keras import layers, models, optimizers
 from keras.preprocessing.image import ImageDataGenerator
 from hyperas import optim
 from hyperopt import Trials, STATUS_OK, tpe
 from hyperas.distributions import choice, uniform, conditional
 from PIL import Image as im
 from os import listdir
 from keras.datasets import mnist
 from keras.utils import np_utils
 from scipy import misc

 from keras import backend as K

 K.set_image_dim_ordering('tf')

 def data():

    tag_dict = {'airplane':0, 'cat':1, 'dog':2, 'motorbike':3}

    base_directory      = "."
    train_data_dir      = base_directory + "/Train"
    validation_data_dir = base_directory + "/Validation"

    maxsize = (100, 100)

    trainlen = sum([len(files) for r, d, files in os.walk(train_data_dir)])
    validlen = sum([len(files) for r, d, files in os.walk(validation_data_dir)])

    train_array = np.ones((trainlen, 100, 100, 3))
    train_tags  = np.ones((trainlen,))

    val_array = np.ones((validlen, 100, 100, 3))
    val_tags  = np.ones((validlen,))

    itemcounter = 0
    for folder in listdir(train_data_dir):
        for picture in listdir(train_data_dir + "/" + folder):

            tempdirec = train_data_dir + "/" + folder + "/" + picture

            img = im.open(tempdirec)
            img = img.resize(maxsize, im.ANTIALIAS)

            data = np.asarray(img, dtype='int32')

            if data.shape != (100, 100, 3):

                data = np.stack((data, data, data), axis=2)

            train_array[itemcounter] = data
            train_tags[itemcounter] = tag_dict[folder]

            itemcounter += 1

    itemcounter = 0
    for folder in listdir(validation_data_dir):
        for picture in listdir(validation_data_dir + "/" + folder):

            tempdirec = validation_data_dir + "/" + folder + "/" + picture

            img = im.open(tempdirec)
            img = img.resize(maxsize, im.ANTIALIAS)

            data = np.asarray(img, dtype='int32')

            if data.shape != (100, 100, 3):

                data = np.stack((data, data, data), axis=2)

            val_array[itemcounter] = data
            val_tags[itemcounter] = tag_dict[folder]

            itemcounter += 1

    def shuffle(array, seed=16):

        np.random.seed(seed)
        np.random.shuffle(array)

        return array

    nb_classes = 4

    train_array,    train_tags   = shuffle(train_array), shuffle(train_tags)
    val_array,      val_tags     = shuffle(val_array),   shuffle(val_tags)

    train_tags = np_utils.to_categorical(train_tags, nb_classes)
    val_tags = np_utils.to_categorical(val_tags, nb_classes)

    return (train_array, train_tags), (val_array, val_tags)

 def create_model(train_generator, validation_generator):

      model = models.Sequential()
     model.add(layers.Conv2D(16, (3, 3), activation='tanh', input_shape=
                                                         (150, 150, 3)))
     model.add(layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2)))
     model.add(layers.Conv2D(32, (3, 3), activation='tanh'))
     model.add(layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2)))
     model.add(layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='tanh'))
     model.add(layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2)))
     model.add(layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='tanh'))
     model.add(layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2)))
     model.add(layers.Flatten())
     model.add(layers.Dropout(rate={{choice([0.2, 0.25, 0.3, 0.35, 0.4])}}))
     #model.add(layers.Dropout(0.25))
     model.add(layers.Dense(64, activation='sigmoid'))
     model.add(layers.Dense(4, activation='softmax'))

     model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy',
                    optimizer=optimizers.RMSprop(lr=0.001), metrics=['acc'])

     model.summary()

     history = model.fit_generator(train_generator,
                          steps_per_epoch=4,
                          epochs=2,
                          validation_data=validation_generator,
                          validation_steps=7)

     acc         = history.history['acc']
     val_acc     = history.history['val_acc']
     loss        = history.history['loss']
     val_loss    = history.history['val_loss']
     epochs      = range(1, len(acc) + 1)

     plt.plot(epochs, acc, 'r-', label='Training acc')
     plt.plot(epochs, val_acc, 'g-', label='Validation acc')
     plt.title('Training and validation accuracy')
     plt.legend()
     plt.figure()
     plt.plot(epochs, loss, 'r-', label='Training loss')
     plt.plot(epochs, val_loss, 'g-', label='Validation loss')
     plt.title('Training and validation loss')
     plt.legend()
     plt.pause(0.05)
     plt.show()

     return {'loss': -acc, 'status': STATUS_OK, 'model': model}
 (x_train, y_train), (x_val, y_val) = data()

 create_model(x_train, y_train, x_val, y_val)

 #if __name__ == '__main__':
     #train_generator, validation_generator = data()
     #best_run, best_model = optim.minimize(model=create_model,
                                      #data=data,
                                      #algo=tpe.suggest,
                                      #max_evals=5,
                                      #trials=Trials())

     #print("Best performing model chosen hyper-parameters:")
     #print(best_run)

After running one optimization run, this is the output:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<ipython-input-33-df9a5e0e117e>", line 1, in <module>
runfile('C:/Users/lucky/OneDrive/Machine Learning/Crack_Net_5.py',
wdir='C:/Users/lucky/OneDrive/Machine Learning')

File "C:\Users\lucky\Anaconda3\lib\site-
packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 705, in runfile
execfile(filename, namespace)

File "C:\Users\lucky\Anaconda3\lib\site-
packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 102, in execfile
exec(compile(f.read(), filename, 'exec'), namespace)

File "C:/Users/lucky/OneDrive/Machine Learning/Crack_Net_5.py", line 161, in
<module>
create_model(x_train, y_train, x_val, y_val)

File "C:/Users/lucky/OneDrive/Machine Learning/Crack_Net_5.py", line 157, in
create_model
return {'loss': -acc, 'status': STATUS_OK, 'model': create_model}

TypeError: bad operand type for unary -: 'list'

I'm not running it with Hyperas yet
If anyone has any idea what causes this error and how to fix it, that'd be amazing!


text:
COMMUNICATIONS NEWS: Women's green group issues beauty warning
17 December 2003 by ANNIE KELLY
Cosmetic products that promise to enhance beauty, youthfulness and desirability could actually impair fertility and increase the effects of ageing, warns the Women's Environmental Network.
The charity is launching a campaign urging women to stop buying beauty products this Christmas, claiming many contain hormone-disrupting synthetic chemicals linked to health problems, such as fertility, cancer, and allergies.
A new report, Getting Lippy: cosmetics, toiletries and the environment, which is being sent to newspapers and women's magazines, exposes the extent of toxins used in the £5bn worth of beauty products sold each year. In a random check, the Women's Environmental Network found preservatives similar to the female hormone oestrogen in 57 per cent of products tested.
"We're not saying throw away your lipstick, we're saying that women have the right to assurances that they, their families and the wider environment are safe from risky chemicals," said Liz Sutton, campaigns co-ordinator at the Women's Environmental Network.
The charity refused to name brands, stating that "nearly all" cosmetics companies used potentially harmful chemicals. The briefing aims to equip women with the know-how to check products for toxins before buying, and to provide a 'clean list' of brands that contain few or no synthetic products.
It also highlights the environmental damage that results from elaborate packaging, and the impact of products such as soap and shampoo on water and sanitation systems.
The campaign will also show how women are conned by the industry's manipulative advertising that promises unachievable results such as eliminating wrinkles and "renewing" skin cells.
"The cosmetics industry has to be more responsible, and women need to become more savvy about what they're spending their money on," said Sutton.