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Yayoi Kusama at National Gallery Singapore
YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow,
in National Gallery Singapore (Exhibition from 9 Jun–3 Sep 2017)
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) is a Japanese artist well known for her works of dots, nets, pumpkins and psychedelic colours that has reached not only the sphere of art but also in popular culture. She is one of my favourite contemporary artists from the 20-21st century along with British artists Damien Hirst, Marc Quinn and American artist Andy Warhol. Although Kusama's works had evolved overtime, the underlining themes of repetition, reflection and immersion run prominently throughout. Since Kusama's emergence in the early 1950s in Japan, she has played a major role in pop art, minimalist and feminist art movement. The conceptual art that she makes are mostly autobiographical and infused with psychological and sexual content. Below are some of the works that I enjoyed viewing or found interesting at the temporary exhibition of YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow in National Gallery Singapore.
TRANSMIGRATION (2011, Acrylic on canvas, Collection of Ota Fine Arts)
EARLY WORKS: Yayoi Kusama's earliest works were produced in her studio at home in Matsumoto, following her studies in nihonga (Japanese-style painting) in Kyoto. In the early stage, Kusama's family strongly resisted her ambition to be an artist, and she had a difficult relationship with them. At the time, Japan was recovering from the World War II and effects of the atomic bomb. A sense of psychological tension was reflected in Kusama's works, which already feature her trademark of repeated dot patterns.(Referenced from exhibition: YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, in National Gallery Singapore)
Death of a Nerve (1976, Mixed media with stuffed fabric, Collection of Lito and Kim Camacho)
Imagery of Human-Beings (1987, Oil on canvas, Collection of Lito and Kim Camacho)
Status of Venus Obliterated by Infinity Nets No. 2
(1998, Acrylic on canvas and fibreglass, Collection of Lito and Kim Camacho)
INFINITY NETS: Infinity Nets have been a consistent feature of Kusama's practice since the 1950s. Her early Infinity Nets were small paintings on paper, which drew on visual references such as the waves of the Pacific Ocean that the artist flew over en route from Japan to the United States in 1957. Composed of small loops painted over a monochromatic ground, their lattice patterns cover each canvas edge to edge with no focal point, and could potentially expand forever. This repetitive, all-over approach has continued into much of Kusama's work. The artist credits this imagery to hallucinations she experienced as a child, and the continual reworking of this pattern- although different each time- as a way of integrating herself with the world. She calls this process 'self-obliteration.' (Referenced from exhibition: YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, in National Gallery Singapore)
Installation of Mirror Box with Yellow Dotted Pumpkins Inside. Giving the Viewer a Sense of Infinity and Beyond
A Mirrored Box Filled with Decorative Pumpkins
PUMPKIN (TWAQN) (2015, Acrylic on canvas, Private collection, Singapore)
PUMPKINS: One of Kusama's recurring motifs is the pumpkin and she painted it regularly in her nihonga classes at art school and it has reappeared often in her works since the 1980s. For Kusama, the pumpkin represents comfort and security. Pumpkins were a major part of her diet as a child during the World War II. Furthermore, her family also owned a nursery and grew fields of pumpkins and flowers. She first depicted pumpkins in paintings and prints, and later as installations and large sculptures. The speckled skin and bright colouring of kabocha (pumpkin in Japanese) have inspired Kusama's distinctive yellow-and-black colour scheme. At the 1993 Venice Biennale, the Japanese artist received the unprecedented honour of a solo show in the Japanese Pavilion. She presented an infinity mirror room filled with mixed media pumpkins. (Referenced from exhibition: YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, in National Gallery Singapore)
Pollen (1986, Sewn stuffed fabric, synthetic fibre and paint. Collection of Ota Fine Arts)
A Picture taken in The Yellow Dotted Room, an Immersive Installation for Visitors
Mirrors, Another Prominent Theme in Yayoi Kusama's Works
Picture of My Sister in an Immersive Installation (Find Work's Title from Next Photo's Caption)
Infinity Mirrored Room- Gleaming Lights of the Souls
(2008, Mirrors, wooden panels, LED lights, metal, acrylic panels. Collection of the artist, Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/ Singapore, Victoria Miro Gallery, London)
MIRRORS AND INFINITY: Kusama first used mirrors in 1965 for her installation Infinity Mirrored Room- Phalli's Field, a free-standing room with mirrored walls and a floor filled with stuffed polka-dotted phallic forms. A year later in Peep Show, she had viewers peering at themselves and others via small openings in a hexagonal mirrored box affixed with pulsating multi-coloured lightbulbs. Both works, at once immersive and voyeuristic, would become the models for her subsequent mirror rooms. Through her works, Kusama invites viewers to experience infinite space through the deft use of mirrored surfaces in her installations. Space, self and image are optically multiples, and simultaneously reinforced and dissipated. This confounds our sense of what is internal and external. It is also intended to heighten our anxieties regarding existence and annihilation. (Referenced from exhibition: YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, in National Gallery Singapore)
Immersed in A Room Full of Colourful Dots
With All My Love for the Tulips, I Pray Forever
(2013-2017, Metal, fibreglass reinforced plastic, urethane, paint, stickers. Collection of the artist, Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/ Singapore, Victoria Miro Galler, London, David Zwirener, New York)
LOVE FOREVER: a series comprises of 50 canvases filled with chains of images including eyes, dolls, gadgets, flowers, saw blades and profiles of female faces. The works were initially created with a black felt marker, a quick-drying and thus spontaneous medium that does not permit any revisions. This allowed Kusama to showcase her tremendous dexterity and drawing kills. The works were later turned into silkscreen prints on canvas. (Referenced from exhibition: YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, in National Gallery Singapore)
Discussing Which Piece Was Our Favourite
Lucinda enjoying Kusama's MY ETERNAL SOUL series
MY ETERNAL SOUL: My Eternal Soul is Kusama largest series of paintings to date and it grew out of her previous works on canvas. The series begun in 2009 and it is still an on-going project, with approximately 500 pieces of works produced already. She integrates both drawing and painting techniques, and feature a riot of brilliant colours from acid to electric hues to metallic paint. They are filled with decorative, iconographic and biomorphic elements that are different from her previous works, alongside with older motifs from the 1950s such as flowers, eyes, the artist's self-portrait in profile, and as ever, dots and nets. The paintings in this series demonstrate Kusama's continued ingenuity. She draws freely from her past imagery and features it in new surprising combinations with enduring motifs and painting technique. (Referenced from exhibition: YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, in National Gallery Singapore)
MY ETERNAL SOUL (Continue): Initially, this series was intended to complete at 100 paintings, however Kusama found herself unable to stop and her canvases have become progressively larger. As with the Love Forever series, Kusama does not work on the canvases vertically on an easel, but paints horizontally on a table. She works on the canvases from all directions, either by rotating them or moving her own body. The final orientation of each canvas is only decided by Kusama after the painting is completed. Curator Masahiro Yasugi stated that 'her works reveal a certain repetition of imagery until Kusama suddenly takes a completely different tack, suggesting a production process in which she faces the canvas without any conscious plan and spontaneously creates a painting.' (Referenced from exhibition: YAYOI KUSAMA: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, in National Gallery Singapore)
Vibrant, Colourful Works
I Am So Lucky to Have a Sister That Shares Similar Passion And Interest With
Interior Decorations at the National Gallery Singapore's Building
Yellow Dotted Stairwell at National Gallery Singapore
Overall, I had a great experience at the National Gallery Singapore. I was so happy to be able to see more of Yayoi Kusama's works in real life and learn more about her as an artist. Unfortunately the exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore has ended, if you want to check out her works, go on these two links for more information http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/e/exhibitions/00.html or http://yayoikusamamuseum.jp/en/exhibition/current/. There is a Yayoi Kusama Museum just opened in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan! I would love to go and visit in the future too! (Added on my must-visit-museum list)
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What is currently an industrial estate will be transformed into over 400 one, two and three bedroom apartments, flexible workspaces for small businesses, art studios and attractive landscaping and walkways.
As part of the development, the most attractive parts of the building will be retained, refurbished and extended. The site's original buildings were constructed in 1894, 1924 and 1927, including the old food processing factory which produced Branston Pickle and Worcestershire Sauce.
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I nodded again. I knew. I agreed.
I wore that bracelet for a few years after the war ended. I scanned the newspaper diligently whenever a list of recovered soldiers appeared. But there never was any report on the man whose name I wore on my left wrist. It did not seem I would ever know what happened to Col. Burris N. Begley, so I took the bracelet off. I thought it was clear he was never coming home.
I wanted him to so badly. I wanted the name I had to be the fortunate one. I wanted to hear that he'd been reunited his family, a war hero, a happy ending.
I woke up this Memorial Day thinking about Col. Begley. He had a distinctive name and in this age of Google, I should be able to find something.
I first found the history of these bracelets, an idea hatched by college students who only wanted to remember the missing of the Vietnam War, not get involved in the controversy. You can read about it here.
I then found the Library of Congress database, which had a file on Col. Begley. He'd first been reported missing in December of 1966. I knew this from my bracelet. That had been all I'd known. Until now. His aircraft was shot down over North Vietnam. The last report they had from him was that he was going to eject. No chute was detected by his fellow pilots. There were conflicting reports. He was killed in action. He might have been a POW as his name was found scratched in the floor of a POW cell. He was declared killed in 1978. That very well may have been the year I took my bracelet off, even without officially knowing this.
The man was from Kentucky, not too far from me. He was only a year younger than my father, who had retired from the Army just two years before Col. Begley went missing. My father survived WWII. I don't know, but Col. Begley might have as well.
I'm glad to have this information now. I'm glad he wasn't forgotten by the public. Many besides myself wore his name on their wrists.
Here is a memorial page for Col. Begley. Maybe we never forget all those who sacrificed their lives fighting for our country.
This entry was posted in Memorial Day, MIA/POW bracelets, rememberances, Vietnam War on May 26, 2014 by cindythomson.


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Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Peter Godfrey-Smith (Author)
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Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (March)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE
What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?
In Other Minds , Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself - a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared.
Tracking the mind's fitful development from unruly clumps of seaborne cells to the first evolved nervous systems in ancient relatives of jellyfish, he explores the incredible evolutionary journey of the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous molluscs who would later abandon their shells to rise above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so - a journey completely independent from the route that mammals and birds would later take.
But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually 'think for themselves'? By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind - and on our own.
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Evolutionary medicine brings together biological anthropology and public health
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An evolving discipline: Evolutionary medicine brings together biological anthropology and public health
Associate Professor of Anthropology Katherine Wander in her lab. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
By Jennifer Micale
An evolutionary arms race churns away under your skin — sometimes quietly and unnoticed, other times with the ferocity of an embattled immune system repelling the invader.
Both sides in this war — harmful parasites, viruses and bacteria on one hand, and your immune system on the other — are looking to access a critical resource and keep it out of the other's possession. That resource is iron, which every cell in your body needs to power its metabolism, as do the infectious agents that seek to exploit it. When one side evolves a battle strategy, the other evolves a way to defeat it — something we are seeing in real time with the emergence of coronavirus variants.
Evolutionary medicine, a field within biological anthropology that first emerged in the 1990s, takes a large-scale view of the mechanisms behind human disease and health. By studying the evolution of humanity — how early humans lived and the environments they lived in — we begin to understand the factors that contribute to disease, which can lead to treatments or prevention today, explained Associate Professor of Anthropology Katherine Wander.
"That's where my interests in human biology and biology and my interest in public health come together," she said.
Wander's research touches on a wide array of topics: iron deficiency and infectious disease risk in Tanzania and Nigeria, the social determinants of disease in Bangladesh and among the matriarchal Mosuo people in China, human adaptations to living at high altitudes and the impact on chronic disease risk, the effect of adoption and fosterage on child health in the island nation of Vanuatu.
The sheer diversity can make it difficult to explain her research in two sentences, she admits.
"That's one of the best things about biomedical anthropology: you can research the things you're interested in. You don't have to stay in one lane," she said. "You have to do your background research to be able to contribute to knowledge in a new area, but it doesn't hurt my career to be doing a lot of different things."
Evolutionary approaches to health are common in pop science articles, but these types of publications frequently rely on speculation and the latest trends. Even with a topic such as nutrition, the science is complex and nuanced, including such factors as the evolution of the human gut and innovations such as cooking, which increased our ability to extract nutrients.
"We make a lot of assumptions about what ancient humans did and what we should do as a result. But we don't really know; we need to systematically study that," Wander said.
Ancient humans didn't live in utopia; they frequently met early deaths, Wander pointed out. "Natural" and "healthy" also aren't equivalent; human beings, for example, evolved in tandem with diseases such tuberculosis that continue to kill people today — although to a much lesser extent, due to the invention of modern medicines and vaccines.
In fact, humans today do many things right; our children often survive to adulthood, for example, which wasn't always the case. And there aren't many species and no other primates that can occupy as many different environments as humans, from deserts to tundra.
While Wander's interests are wide-ranging, basic questions lie at the heart of her research: Why do children get sick? And what could we do to prevent that, from an evolutionary perspective?
These basic questions often lead to others. In her iron deficiency-related projects in sub-Saharan Africa, she is exploring what constitutes an optimal iron level, especially for a child in an environment with exposure to many infectious diseases.
On one end of the spectrum is anemia, in which low iron levels compromise the production of hemoglobin; on the other end, the individual might be "iron replete," with plenty of iron available for their own cells — and for those of infectious agents. Where on that spectrum is the lowest risk of infectious disease? Where is the potential for optimal brain development and growth?
A topic as elemental as iron and its role in disease also can lead to entirely new avenues. Wander recently received funding from the National Science Foundation to look at how iron levels affect coronavirus risk in healthcare workers, for example; researchers are still collecting data for that project.
Prospective students in the biomedical anthropology program need to be willing to ask questions — both to explore their interests and find training opportunities. Whether you're interested in the skeletal remains of ancient human populations, public health in a specific area, cultural perspectives on health or health culture, or the genetic mechanisms of disease, you can find the path that works for you.
As a result, program graduates can look incredibly different from one another: Some might find their calling in a coroner's office, others in public health, research or more.
For graduate students interested in the discipline, Wander is a ready guide. They have joined her in Tanzania to conduct research, and analyze samples connected with projects from around the world in her Binghamton lab. Students are also encouraged to pursue internships in the field and to start building the connections that will enliven their future careers.
Humans, after all, have evolved to be a cooperative species. In an interdisciplinary field such as evolutionary medicine, collaborating with colleagues and mentors can spark new ideas, leading to exciting and unexpected new directions.
"Sitting by yourself, making all of the decisions on a project isn't nearly as fun as collaborating with a big group of people who have a lot of different ideas about what data you should collect and why," Wander said.
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Well - things are heating-up here at chez Gelert.
I've got Finger-Boy in my team, and as Captain...and yet GelertGF is really starting to hate him, and vocally.
So - impending divorce, or risk being beaten by DannyBoy...?
But not as complex as Ferrari's current crop of Home Politics, shurely!!
Will Nando still be at Ferrari come next season?
And will Massa be there - or Hulkenberg?
Thunderstorms predicted during the race tomorrow.
And at Prancing Horse Ltd. too, I suspect.
I have no clue with what is going on in F1, but I'm just happy to see somebody post here!
And I had some spinach with my dinner tonight.
No, I didn't have spinach. But I used olive oil in preparing dinner though.
So, how was the race?
Good for me in our Fantasy League!!
Vettel is a good driver: but Pole to Flag, in the best car, with only a flat-spotted front-right in the first stint to contend with, doesn't a stellar race make.
IMHO, Ricciardo showed today that he deserves his place in "Big School".
Ditto "The Hulk" showed that he deserves his place in a top-line team.
Lewis & Kimi completed some "This is how it should be done" overtakes, to demonstrate to the GP2 & GP3 children, er, how it should be done.
Webbo & Nando continued their "Eau Rouge - Maximum Respect" battle - adding weight to the lessons being taught by L&K.
I'm beginning to look forward, annually, to this "Night Race" - it definitely adds something with the lighting dynamics.
Maybe, just maybe, Lewis can get a win - with Finger-Boy a DNF - to keep the WDC alive?
Glad to hear The Hulk is doing himself proud. I was really impressed with his driving back in A1, especially in the wet.
Otherwise it seems it is business as usual.
S'trewth, that's going back some!
His "Work Ethic" with Willies was a template that the likes of Palmer & Bird have picked-up and run with these days. i.e. getting involved with the team at ALL levels (Construction / Design / Marketing / et al), even before actually driving a car in anger.
Mark my words: Sam Bird will be in an F1 seat, as soon as a team that doesn't need a "Renta-Driver" has an opening.


I live in sunny South Africa. We have a farm in the area of Gansbaai about 210km east of Cape Town.
Our farm would appear to be a retreat for most snakes, puff adders abound in the area and spitting Rinkals similar to the cobra are seen a minimum of a dozen times during the summer season.
They are beautiful,black in color with a white band that shows on the neck when it stands up and shows it's hood off when surprised or feeling threatened.
Boomslang is a tree snake and although the poison is a very virulent hemotoxic type of venom, the snake itself is most reluctant to bite. There are very few deaths from bites from this species - not more than 6 in the last 70 years in the whole of Southern Africa.
If we are prepared to learn more about the animals around us and be more considerate toward them, we will find them to be of great interest and a special kind of beauty and appreciation will be developed.
The world is not all about mankind alone but about all things working together to find the balance between Love and Understanding, about Consideration, about putting ones self in the place of something or somebody outside of your understanding. In order to understand them better and in so doing to become a better person in yourself.
I am a most fortunate human being, for I have found so much to Love in Creation, being most appreciative of all that I see and come in contact with.
There is little in this world that I would willingly want to kill. I find myself in the body of that upon which I admire in it's uniqueness, in it's own creation and marvel at how different and wonderful each creature is, and it's endless, so my love for life becomes a journey with no end to it. I can enjoy every minute of it for the rest of my life and at the end of the journey, can say thank you I am fulfilled, my cup it overflows.
So next time you are afraid, try a little understanding and know this, they were there before you, and will be there when we have departed this Earth, so try it, Embrace the unknown, you may just fall in Love with the miracle we call life.
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Study questions if Alabama scholarship program shows gains
MONTGOMERY — A new study found that Alabama children attending private schools on a taxpayer-backed scholarship program are not showing significant improvement on standardized tests scores.
Touted as a way to help low-income students escape schools with chronically low test scores, the Alabama Accountability Act provides scholarships and tax credits for students to transfer to private schools.
A study evaluating test scores found mixed results with the program. Scholarship students frequently outperformed their lower income Alabama public school counterparts, but not the state as a whole. Scholarship students also were not likely to boost their own test scores, the study by the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Alabama found.
"Overall, the results indicate that over time participating in the scholarship program does not, on average, yield a significant improvement on standardized tests scores," the study said.
For the majority of scholarship recipients there was no gain or loss in percentile scores on the ACT Aspire, Iowa Test of Basic Skills, and Stanford test, the study concluded.
State law requires an assessment of the program every two years. The study examined academic outcomes for nearly 2,000 scholarship recipients in 2016-17
However, researchers noted limitations in trying to make conclusions. Comparisons were complicated by a lack of uniform testing systems across the state. Researchers also did not have scores from the specific public schools the students would otherwise attend.
The report said the comparisons at each grade level did not present a cohesive pattern.
The study compared the scores of scholarship students to public school students who receive a free or reduced lunch since 90 percent of scholarship recipients included in the study have household incomes that would qualify them for the free or reduced lunch if attending public school.
Scholarship students taking the ACT Aspire outperformed poverty students in public school in almost every grade in reading and math, according to the report. The exceptions were in fifth grade English and 10th grade math where scholarship students lagged both public school students in poverty and the state as a whole.
The director of one of the largest scholarship granting organizations said the results are "encouraging."
"Over 80 percent of our families are choosing the scholarship because of bullying and school safety issues. Additionally, the vast majority of children are starting the program three year below grade level. While there is always room for improvement, these results should be encouraging to families in the program and for lawmakers looking for ways to improve education," Lesley Searcy, executive director of the Alabama Opportunity Scholarship Fund, said.
Dalphine Wilson's two children use the scholarships to attend private Catholic schools in Montgomery.
"It has made a world of difference. Academically, both children are thriving," Wilson said.
Wilson volunteered at her children's previous public schools. She said while she believed teachers were trying their best, they also had to spend a large chunk of their time dealing with struggling or disruptive students.
The scholarship program gives up to $30 million income tax credits for donations to the program, tax money that might have otherwise gone into the state's education budget. Donors receive a dollar-for-dollar reduction on their state income tax bill. Proponents say it provides parents a school choice, while critics say it diverts millions of dollars from public schools
Montgomery County School Board member Larry Lee, a frequent critic of the program, said the public school system is struggling to make ends meet. He estimated the scholarship program diverted $5.4 million from the school system. "Yet many elementary schools are struggling to just get textbooks," Lee wrote in an email.
The study offered glimpses of who is using the program. Sixty-two percent of recipients evaluated in the study are African-American students and 20 percent are white.
While the program was originally touted as a lifeline for students at schools designated as failing because they had the lowest test scores, only 34 percent of students evaluated by the study were zoned to attend a school designated as "failing."


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I work as ML Engineer and have been using Python for the last 2.5 years. I think I am proficient enough about language, but there are well-known discussions in the community which still doesn't fully make sense for me - such as Python being slow.
I have developed dozens of models, wrote hundreds of APIs and developed probably a dozen back-ends using Python, but never felt like Python is slow for my goal. I get that even 1 microsecond latency can make a huge difference in massive or time-critical apps, but for most of the applications we are developing, these kind of performance issues goes unnoticed.
I understand why and how Python is slow in CS level, but I really have never seen a real-life disadvantage of it. This might be because of 2 reasons: 1) I haven't developed very large-scale apps 2) My experience in faster languages such as Java and C# is very limited.
Therefore I would like to know if any of you have encountered performance-related issue in your experience.
james_pic 0 points1 point2 points 1 year ago
But if performance is your problem, then ultimately it's all "your code", even if the bottleneck turns out to be an external call to a third party service. It's then your job to find a way to make that faster (maybe you can cache the result of the third party call? Or there's some way you can optimise the query you're making? Or you can find a way to avoid the call entirely?)
fiskfisk 4 points5 points6 points 1 year ago
But this is about python being "too slow". It's not about "your application being too slow".
You need to bring out a profiler (or enable/make some performance logging) to know whether it's your code or any of your dependencies that is the problem.
Benchmarking/performance testing won't give you any insight into whether it's your code (the Python part) that's being slow (which is what OP is referring to).


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Rice orders Daniels to stand down on Russian meddling. Senator Jim Risch grills Obama cyber security director. Image credit to US4Trump White House screen capture enhancement.
Posted By: Lisa Marie June 21, 2018
Yesterday, on Capitol Hill the feisty and smart Senator from Idaho, Jim Risch nailed the former Obama cyber security guru to the wall, Michael Daniel. And Risch did not back down.
Specifically, he had the smug J. Michael Daniel, Cyber Threat Alliance CEO and former special assistant to President Obama 2012-2017, confirming to a STAND DOWN ORDER by Susan Rice on the Russia meddling! (VIDEO BELOW.)
During the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing yesterday, Risch begins the fact-finding mission from August of 2016. Furthermore, Senator Risch cites an article where Michael Daniel says, "we've been told to stand down."
The Idaho Senator tells a tale of the reaction of Daniel B. Prieto III, former Director of Cyber Security and Technology and a member on Daniel's team. This is the recited detail of what happened after the stand down order:
Prieto says, "I was incredulous and in disbelief. It took me a moment to process. In my head, I was like, did I hear that correctly? Then Prieto asked, "Why in the hell are we standing down? Michael – can you help us understand?"
Additionally, Risch asks Daniels exactly what happened? And Daniels confirms, "So, that is an accurate rendering of the staff meeting." (VIDEO BELOW.)
Then Risch asks Daniels, "You were told to stand down, is that correct?" And, Daniels replies, "Those actions were put on the back burner, yes. That was not the focus of our activity during that time period."
Furthermore, it is confirmed that "Rice's order to Daniel was first reported in "Russian Roulette," a book published in March that details Russia's meddling in the election," as reported by The Daily Caller.
Moreover, it is confirmed that Susan Rice told the Obama cyber security director to stand down. Daniel's admitted he was told to stop looking into the Russian involvement in the 2016 election.
Watch as Senator Risch interviews former Obama security guru. Orders directly from Rice to stand down on the Russia meddling. Skip to 41:45 mark for Senator Risch's time on Capitol Hill as he grills Michael Daniel on the "stand down" order.
In closing, exactly how incompetent was Obama in telling his cyber team to not investigate the Russians on interfering with the 2016 election? What do you think of this stand down order? Drop a comment below and let us know.


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I couldn't digest the information at first. We went to VCA Southpaws the next day for an MRI, which confirmed that it was cancer. Unfortunately, a biopsy is needed to determine the type of cancer, and whether or not it can be treated. If it isn't treatable, we may only have a few months left together. Otherwise, we can hopefully share another year at least. Daisy is getting her biopsy on Monday, April 9, and we'll get the results approximately a week after it is completed.
Shortly after Daisy's initial diagnosis, Charlotte asked me if I would like to share this information with the DC Dog Moms community. "No!" I thought instantly. It's my knee-jerk reaction; I prefer to keep difficult things private. I lost my father eight years ago after years of complex illnesses and surgeries. Most of my friends had no idea he was so ill. It made it easier for me to compartmentalize my life and keep going as though nothing was wrong. I could share my concerns with a few close friends, stay awake at night worrying alone, and then go back to work or school the next day and put thoughts of my dad aside and focus on the task at hand.
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She was right, of course. We started this account to create a stronger community of dog owners in the DC area. In posts, comments, and new friendships developed between local dog lovers, our followers have shared information about dog-friendly restaurants, discussed the best bags to carry small dogs, traded vet recommendations, and helped search for lost dogs. We've grown to know and love the people and pets that make up this community, and it seems that they've grown to love our dogs too.
Charlotte wrote a beautiful post on instagram sharing Daisy's news last week, and I was overwhelmed by the response. A number of people reached out with stories of their dogs' treatments. Some offered advice and recommendations. Others shared their own heartbreaking stories of loss and emotional recovery. Many of our followers haven't had to deal with cancer yet, but they immediately understood the depth of my pain, because they share the same wholehearted love for their dogs that I have for Daisy.
I have been reading the comments and messages to Daisy at night, trying my best to translate any emojis into belly rubs and ear scratches, letting her know that there are literally hundreds of people who want her to be healthy and pain-free.
Sharing this news has made it more difficult to compartmentalize, and I've been a wreck since the diagnosis. But I've also been deeply touched by the support we have received, and in that spirit, I will try to share this journey with all of you on our blog. Please feel free to comment, email, and share your own stories--I believe that together, we are stronger.


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The fifth series of The Great British Sewing Bee began on 12 February 2019 following a three-year hiatus. Joe Lycett replaced Claudia Winkleman as the presenter of the show, with both Esme Young and Patrick Grant returning as judges. The series was shot at 47-49 Tanner Street, Bermondsey, though the exterior shots are of 1 Tanner Street.

Sewers

Results and Eliminations

 Sewer was the series winner

 Sewer was the series runner-up

 Best Garment: Sewer won "Garment of the Week"

 One of the judge's favourite sewers

 Sewer was safe and got through to next round

 One of the judge's least favourite sewers

 Sewer was eliminated

Episodes

 Sewer eliminated   Garment of the Week

Episode 1: Cotton Week

Episode 2: Children's Week

Episode 3: 70s Week

The sewers' machines were replaced by vintage machines from the 1970s that they used the whole week.

Episode 4: Technical Fabric Week

Episode 5: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Week

N.B In the alteration challenge, the sewers were given a bin filled with the offcuts from the fabric they used over the last four weeks; the bins were tipped out so that the sewers had access to everyone who was still in the competition's offcuts from the previous weeks.

Episode 6: British and Irish Fabric Week

Episode 7: World Sewing Week

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 Пятницкий, Валерий Тезиевич — украинский политик, экономист, исполняющий обязанности министра экономического развития (с 2014 года).

 Пятницкий, Евгений Серафимович (1936—2003) — советский и российский механик, специалист в области теоретической механики, устойчивости механических систем, робототехники, биомеханики.
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 Пятницкий — посёлок в Орловском районе Орловской области.
 Пятницкий — посёлок в Сосковском районе Орловской области.

Другое
 Пятницкая улица и Пятницкий переулок в Замоскворечье.
 «Пятницкий» — российский восьмисерийный телесериал 2010 года.
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World's oldest scale found in Lebanon, on display at AUB
The oldest known scale beam was recently found near Kfaraabida in North Lebanon and is now on display this week at the American University of Beirut Archaeology museum.
This groundbreaking find calls into question the assumption that early Levantine settlements were less technologically or economically developed than those found in present-day Turkey and Greece. In fact, the scale beam dates back to the early third millennium BC , predating those discovered elsewhere, while the location of the find at Tell Fadous-Kfraabida–believed to be a secondary Bronze Age urban settlement–may indicate that the technology was already widespread in the region at the time.
Hurry and see the exhibition before it closes at the end of this month.
The exhibition also contains cylinder scrolls found at Kfaraabida, also indicating sophistication of the settlement:
As well as a number of fascinating items on display from excavations across the country:
There is potentially a lot more to be uncovered at the Kfaraabida site, despite the fact that property owners have already bulldozed a large section of it and some real estate developers have already built over parts of it. One even plans to build a large hotel, according to locals.
It's unclear at this point if the Lebanese state can protect the site so that further discoveries can be made. If well-preserved, fully excavated and presented to the public, Kfaraabida could become a major tourist attraction along with the town's unique seafront caves, natural pools and springs, which are also threatened by yet another multimillion dollar development.
Locals have begun a #SaveKfaraabida campaign to challenge it. Follow them on Facebook.
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Here is an excerpt on the importance of the scale beam from the lead archaeologist, Hermann Genz:
"The scale beam at Tell Fadous-Kfrarabida…. demonstrates the existence of sophisticated socio- economic transactions in the Levant around the same time that more complex settlements emerge. The term 'urban settlements' has recently been criticised (Philip 2001; Chesson & Philip 2003), partly due to the apparent lack of administrative and social complexity in the third millennium BC in the southern Levant. The evidence of cylinder seal impressions (Flender 2000), the slowly growing number of weights from Levantine sites of the third millennium BC and now the scale beam from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida call for a re-evaluation of this criticism.
"The fact that this scale beam was not found in one of the commercial centres of the Levant such as Byblos, but in a small settlement of secondary or even tertiary rank suggests that the practice of weighing must have been more common in the Early Bronze Age Levant than hitherto assumed. The reason for the scant attestation of scale beams and weights in the Early Bronze Age Near East is probably the general neglect of simple bone and stone artefacts in most excavations. Indeed a systematic collection of all bone artefacts from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida has resulted in a remarkably high number of bone tools (Jastrze ̧bska in Genz et al. 2009), and the same is true for groundstone objects, although no scale weights are yet attested on the site (Damick in Genz et al. 2009). Thus a thorough study of bone and stone objects from Near Eastern sites will certainly enlarge the number of scale beams and weights for the third millennium BC in the future."
You can read Genz's full report here.
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Q: Jar File - Prevent Access to Source Code I want to hand over a small Java app as a runnable jar but I do not want anybody to have access to my source code. Am I right in presuming that there is no source code (.java files) included with a jar file?
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A: Jar files usually only include .class files, which are java bytecode files, as well as resources.  However, to be a little more secure about your code, you'll want to turn off debugging information and if you really want to be secure, run it through an obfuscator.
Edit: berry120's comment is right - they can contain source files, but usually they do not.  I just want to clarify for any future readers of this.  It depends on the settings of the tool you use to generate the jar.

A: Assuming you don't put the java files in the jar file, they're not going to magically appear :) You can include anything you like in the jar file of course. You can list the contents to check:
jar tvf foo.jar

Note that Java can be decompiled pretty easily though - so while any recipients wouldn't have access to your actual source code with comments etc, they could see your logic pretty clearly. You may want to use an obfuscator to help protect your IP. Personally I try to avoid obfuscators - given how hard most of us find to maintain code when we do have the real source with commments and tests, imagine how hard it is when you don't have those things :) It's your call though. Just make sure you test obfuscated code thoroughly - there can be subtle issues, particularly if you use reflection.

A: If a computer can run it, a human can reverse engineer it, and it is not particularly hard for Java.
So technical protection simply won't work.  You need legal protection in form of a binding contract or similar.  You may even put your works under the GPL except for those paying you, which is sufficient for most businesses to avoid stealing your work.
What situation exactly do you want to avoid?

A: You are right, there is no source code in the jar (unless you configure your build system to specifically put it in there). But you are always at the risk you code gets decompiled from the bytecode. An obfuscater might help here.

A: Yes.  Usually, jars contain only byte-compiled .class files.  That said, they can contain source code as well—it depends on what you (or your tools, respectively) put into them.
Note, however, that decompilation works pretty well on .class files, so don't make anything security-related rely on code obfuscation techniques such as this one.

A: Normally there isn't but you can use the jar -tvf <filename> command to check it.
However I have to warn you that it's extremely easy to decompile most .class files into reasonably readable java source code.
To avoid this, you'll have to use an obfuscator, but that needs some extra effort on your behalf. (E.g. RetroGuard.)
Having said that, ask yourself the question: "Is my code really that valuable or special that I need to do all this?" Usually the answer is no, most of the code we write is nothing special.

A: You are are correct, however the .class files can easily be disassembled to java code, and its pretty accurate in most cases.
If you really need it to be properly secure then you'll need to obfuscate.

A: It will depend on the way you generated that .jar, Eclipse does have an option to include .java files on the .jar but it is disabled by default and you have to activate it if wanted.

A: Jar files might contain the source (you can choose whether to include it or not) so not including the source specifically isn't an issue. What you need to be aware of though is people potentially reverse engineering the class files that will be in the jar file.
You can get around this usng an obfuscator such as yGuard which easily hooks in as an ant task, but as others have said, is your code really that important that no-one else sees it?

A: The .jar file does not include source code, only the bytecode (.class). But as the byte code is machine independent, it can be decompiled very easily. There is no way to prevent others to access your source code.

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By Matthew Zapruder
Listening to Neil Young in California
is like throwing away the old pills
that used to cure something and turning
your face towards the day, i.e. the ocean
filling the window with grey boats
floating in totally bright present aloneness.
For several weeks on my lap top
I had a picture of the space shuttle docking.
Then I replaced it with the ravenous
wooly adelgid covering a blighted eastern hemlock.
One branch looks like a limb
destroyed by an improvised explosive device.
Friend whose father is dying,
let us exchange dreams.
I am strong enough for yours
and you can move
down the long boring beige literal corridor
and replace the batteries in the thermostat,
fingering a diamond hair clip.
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MATTHEW ZAPRUDER is the author of three collections of poetry: American Linden, The Pajamaist, and Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon, Fall 2010), as well as co-translator from Romanian, along with historian Radu Ioanid, of Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu. He has received a William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. His poems, essays and translations have appeared in many publications, including Open City, Bomb, Slate, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Tin House, Harvard Review, Paris Review, The New Republic, The Boston Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, The Believer and The Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in many anthologies, including Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll; Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century; Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything; and Best American Poetry 2009. In Fall 2010 he will be the Holloway Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. An editor for Wave Books and a member of the permanent faculty in the low residency MFA program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert, he lives in San Francisco.
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Sen. Al Franken Accused of Groping Radio Anchor on USO Tour
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Source: http://www.kabc.com/2017/11/16/leeann-tweeden-on-senator-al-franken/
KABC radio anchor Leeann Tweeden claims Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) groped and kissed her without her consent in 2006 on a USO Tour in the Middle East, she claims. In an article published on Thursday, Tweeden said Franken forcibly kissed her backstage during a rehearsal for a skit, and then later groped her breasts when she fell asleep on the return flight back to Los Angeles from Afghanistan.
I've decided it's time to tell my story. #MeToohttps://t.co/TqTgfvzkZg
— Leeann Tweeden (@LeeannTweeden) November 16, 2017
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On the day of the show Franken and I were alone backstage going over our lines one last time. He said to me, "We need to rehearse the kiss." I laughed and ignored him. Then he said it again. I said something like, 'Relax Al, this isn't SNL…we don't need to rehearse the kiss.'
He continued to insist, and I was beginning to get uncomfortable.
He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we must practice the kiss. I said 'OK' so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth.
I immediately pushed him away with both of my hands against his chest and told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn't be so nice about it the next time.
I walked away. All I could think about was getting to a bathroom as fast as possible to rinse the taste of him out of my mouth.
I felt disgusted and violated.
Tweeden said that nobody saw the kiss, and that she didn't tell the USO rep or the tour's sponsor as she "didn't want to cause trouble," but she told others about what had happened. She said she avoided Franken for the rest of the tour and did not speak to him again outside of their interactions in the skit on stage. Franken acted "petty" towards her for the rest of the trip.
On the return flight, Tweeden said she immediately fell asleep on the plane. This was when Franken groped her breasts. Tweeden had no idea Franken touched her until she recieved a CD of photographs from the trip.
She writes:
The tour wrapped and on Christmas Eve we began the 36-hour trip home to L.A. After 2 weeks of grueling travel and performing I was exhausted. When our C-17 cargo plane took off from Afghanistan I immediately fell asleep, even though I was still wearing my flak vest and Kevlar helmet.
It wasn't until I was back in the US and looking through the CD of photos we were given by the photographer that I saw this one:
Sickening.
Tweeden wrote that she was worried about backlash and career ramifications if she came forward with her story. She said she felt empowered to finally tell her story about Sen. Franken in light of the #MeToo campaign about sexual assault and harassment, and she wants to inspire others to tell their stories as well.
Franken wrote in his book "Al Franken, Giant of the Senate" that he actually decided to run for office on the 2006 USO tour.
Franken writes in his most recent book that he decided to run for Senate on the 2006 USO tour where Tweeden has accused him of forced kissing and groping pic.twitter.com/6L7VQ4s3OU
— Mike Sacks (@MikeSacksEsq) November 16, 2017
Further, Franken has been an outspoken supporter of combating sexual harassment, and even praised his Senate colleagues for sharing their #MeToo stories.
Thx to courageous ppl who've shared #MeToo stories, incl. @SenatorHeitkamp, @maziehirono, @clairecmc, & @SenWarren https://t.co/F3n7LdEEZQ
— Sen. Al Franken (@SenFranken) October 23, 2017
We must address sexual harassment. Reforming arbitration laws will ensure survivors can seek justice in court. https://t.co/Rmuz4gnie7
This is absolutely disturbing, and there's really no other way to describe it. Franken should issue an apology and step down. This is predatory behavior and there's no place for someone like that in the Senate. Additionally, whoever took the photograph of Franken groping Tweeden's breasts should be investigated as well, as that's completely immoral behavior. The proper reaction to seeing someone groping a sleeping person is to stop the attacker from touching them, not to have them pose for a picture. That should be common knowledge, but apparently not.
UPDATE: In an emailed statement from Sen. Franken's office, the Senator said he sent his "sincerest apologies" to Tweeden, and said the photograph was "intended to be funny, but wasn't."
Just got a response from @alfranken: "I certainly don't remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way, but I send my sincerest apologies to Leeann. As to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn't. I shouldn't have done it."
— Ashes Klein (@kleinstar) November 16, 2017
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Mark Twain's Hannibal
The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal comprises eight buildings including six historically significant buildings and two museums whose collections include fifteen original Norman Rockwell paintings.
Hear how a young boy called Samuel Clemens grew up in the small village of Hannibal and went on to become one of America's most beloved authors as Mark Twain, and how his childhood environment shaped his characters, particularly Huckleberry Finn. You can also visit the Becky Thatcher Home - the childhood home of Laura Hawkins, Twain's childhood sweetheart. In his writings, Becky Thatcher was Tom Sawyer's sweetheart.


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As we prepare in a few days to celebrate the Solemnity of Our Lady's Assumption into heaven, it seems to me that it is appropriate that we pause and reflect upon the role that Mary, the Mother of God, plays in our Catholic lives of faith. She is our powerful intercessor, spiritual protector and role model as the perfect disciple of Her Son.
It was Saint Augustine who first taught his listeners centuries ago that Mary was to be revered among believers not solely because she was the one chosen from among all women to give birth to the Son of God into the world. In addition, it is precisely because Mary, through her fidelity to what the Father had asked of her and by her selfless, sinless, unwavering commitment to Her Son, Mary was the first and perfect disciple. Her entire life was in service to her Son and His Mission in the world. She alone walked alongside her Son throughout His entire earthly life, in the quiet years of His upbringing and throughout His public ministry. In this way, Mary taught us what the essence of discipleship really is. It is a complete, personal commitment to invite Christ to lead us in life, at every moment and in all circumstances, bringing forth His presence into the world by our words, attitudes, actions, and decisions.
Just as Mary was filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit at the moment of the Incarnation, we too have received the power of the Holy Spirit in Baptism, Confirmation and each time we receive the Lord's Sacred Body and Blood. Just as Our Lady gave birth to the Son of God, likewise we are invited to spiritually bring forth our Lord into the world as His disciples, by allowing Christ to "increase" in us and our egos and self-absorption to "decrease".


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Ortiz studied fashion design in Florida, graduating from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale with honours before returning to Colombia to start her namesake couture label in 2001. It wasn't until 2014 that she started showing at Colombiamoda in Medellin and Circulo de la Moda in Bogota — two of the country's biggest fashion weeks — and was met with critical acclaim. The following year she took the label global, with an exclusive collection for Moda Operandi, and today is stocked at some of the world's top retailers including Neiman Marcus, Lane Crawford , Bergdorf Goodman and Net-a-Porter.
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Smith, Robin West, "The Frame Game: An Examination Of How The Local Print Media Framed The Issue Of Pension And Health Care Costs In Detroit's Municipal Bankruptcy" (2016). Wayne State University Theses. 534.