Onto the plains [of west Texas] you issue as onto a lighted stage, and with that sudden sense of isolation and exposure. The farther behind you leave [central Texas] the now-familiar prairie, the fewer people you see, the stronger grows the sensation of being watched. The silence sharpens the ear, the emptiness the eye. An ambiguous, double sensation comes over you: you feel at once taller, a very tall man, and smaller, a very small creature….
I had to work the next few days and couldn't journey into our state's own Big Sky Country with the gang as they headed into west Texas. But I've been to many (though not all) the places they went. Most of what follows was told to me upon their return. And where any gaps in the narrative happen to appear, my muse has instructed me to turn to my books about Texas and conjecture the story accordingly.
The next day, after the late supper Cosimo and Chiara had prepared for us Tuesday night, our guests drove to Houston to meet an old friend. They returned to Austin on Wednesday evening and said they had eaten some great barbecue somewhere in that city. Later that night they visited our friend fbom and worked on music.
Because Wednesday was the official start of the music portion of the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, after work I went to my neighborhood bar [K]nomad and saw two performances. The first was a local gal named Kat Allison, who sang solo and played an acoustic guitar; her style reminded me a lot of Jewel. She looked pretty but her music was plain.
The second act was a two-man band called Domico. They came all the way from Tokyo. I learned later that this was their first time to play in the States. They were very young, a little nervous, but didn't seem necessarily anxious. Before they went on, one member approached the bar to order a soda. It appeared the bar had given the band a fixed number of drink tickets (not uncommon at some venues for SXSW shows), but––because the guy only wanted a soda (he looked under eighteen) and bars make their money selling alcohol, not soda––the bartender was nice enough tell him to keep his ticket and gave the guy a complementary coke. That may sound like a pretty mundane moment in the history of SXSW, but as soon as the Japanese patron learned that his soda was free, his eyes bugged out of his head in such an unexpected burst of excitement and gratitude that it was as if I were watching a hand-drawn anime from his homeland.
Domico's style was very loud, rough, a lot in the vein of alternative rock from the 1990's, but with more complexity—and that made it refreshing. After their set, I ended up purchasing one of their CDs as well as a t-shirt. Another member of the audience was at the merchandise table, and he also happened to be Japanese, though he wasn't connected with the band. I was trying to convey to the band members what I thought about their music, but their English was very limited, so this other Japanese guy translated to them for me that I thought their music was "technically precise, but at the same time, emotionally wild"—and that this was a good combination.
The changeable winds [of west Texas] pass and repass over the dry grass with a sound like shifting sands, and running before the wind, the grass turns its nap, first this way then that way, like velvet pile when a hand is run idly back and forth over it. Flat as a marble floor, the land stretches away empty and endless as the bar boundless sky above. The eye strains ahead for a landmark, a rooftop, a spire, a tree, anything vertical, anything that thrusts above the brown level monotony….
Thursday morning Cosimo, Chiara, and Scott, along with David and Dyhana all set out for Big Bend National Park, over 300 miles from Austin as the crow flies. They stopped for lunch in the old German town of Fredericksburg, at a Bavarian restaurant called Auslanders, which means "foreigners" or "outsiders" in German.
After a shared appetizer of various meats, cheeses, and crackers, they ate Jagerschnitzel (breaded pork loin), bratwurst sausage and Rinderbraten sandwiches consisting of: "tender pot roast, piled high on a sweet sourdough bun with beef gravy, onion strings & roasted garlic mayo." With their meal, they drank Altstadt beer. The name means "Old City," and it's made in the Altstadt brewery there in Fredericksburg.
Looked at long enough—and once embarked upon it, you look for a long, long time—the land [in west Texas] will seem to exhibit that phenomenon called seiche, to rock slowly from side to side like the wallowing of a lake. That, and the absence of objects to relate yourself to, bring on land-sickness. Even the sun gives no direction, but hangs straight overhead all day, as if uncertain of the way. Under moonlight the plain whitens like an arctic snowfield….
After seeing the lights, the crew headed back to their rooms at the Value Lodge in Alpine. Along the way they saw many jackrabbits in the night but no chupacabras. The next morning, Friday, March 16, they had breakfast at Penny's Diner in Alpine, then, drove about 80 miles southward to Big Bend. Just before they got to the park, they stopped at the ghost town of Terlingua and explored its grounds.
When you do see a man you first see him at such a distance that he is like a fly crawling on a tabletop. There is no horizon [in west Texas]. Rather, there is horizon everywhere. The horizon is created whenever something or somebody stands up somewhere in the landscape. Then where a rooftop rises, the barren eye eagerly draws all lines towards it. You see clouds underneath the belly of a cow, see the sky winking between the legs of a walking man. It is a place without perspective, and things thrust themselves up isolated, unsurrounded by any of the close familiar objects by which one judges distances and size; and so the eye, as if out of focus, cannot judge, cannot relate it: is that a child nearby or a man far off, a haystack or a hummock, an insect or a bird—or nothing at all, a mirage? ….
At Big Bend they saw its splendid scenery, the Rio Grande (and Old Mexico on the other side), as well as several coyotes (the canine kind, not traffickers of human beings). It was almost dark as they were leaving the park.
On the long journey home, they stopped at a Sonic in Fort Stockton. It was almost midnight, but they managed to get some food before the place closed for the evening. Then they got back on the road, aiming for Austin. But both the desert and the darkness were starting to drag on everyone, so they got some motel rooms in Ozona (about 100 miles east of Fort Stockton) around 2:00 a.m. There they rested for a while.
And because you haven't any landmark or person for so long in view, nor ever lose it, or him, under a hill or behind a bend, you seem to take forever getting there, and time hangs suspended and unreal. And yet when you finally reach the place no time has elapsed, for across that unarched plain of a sky the sun inches along and it is noon all day. Across the plain west from Fort Worth the road runs straight as a line left when a woman pulls out a thread to cut a piece of cloth along….
The vastness of the southwestern landscape is emphasized by the gradualness of its transitions. As you pass from east to west across Texas, the masses of moss hanging from gigantic oaks gradually become scarce. Gradually the trees scatter, and the growing gaps between them add a sense of expansion to the sight of land and sky. Fields of maize and grain around frail-looking but primly painted lumber homes suggest happy living. Their appearance is so gradual that no traveler can find the exact point of their beginning. The land, though absolutely flat along the coast, son begins imperceptibly to roll. At first the slopes are so gentle that valleys are apparent only in the recurrence of huge, moss-hung oaks with wild grapevines draped over their foliage. Instead of blocking visibility, the low hills only lengthen it. To catch the breeze above them, windmills are built on higher towers than along the coast, yet they seem hardly larger than toothpicks in the distance. Cattle graze on miles of green forage. Though scattered as the patches of shrubbery, they can be seen by the hundreds at a glance.
Before the earth's undulations are high enough to be called hills, you can see them cutting waves in the horizon, far enough away to share a thin, transparent slice of the sky's blue. Giant oaks, looking like tiny spots of dark blue, dot this slightly curved horizon. Farmhouses, appearing as beadlike blocks of white, freckle the blue. Roads wind like threads of gray between them. Yet all this is on a generally level expanse of land.
They got back to Austin early Saturday afternoon.
 William Humphrey, The Ordways, (New York: Knopf, 1965) 286–87.
 Frank Goodwyn, Lone Star Land: Twentieth-Century Texas in Perspective, (New York: Knopf, 1955) 82–83.
It's been two years since Scott and I traveled to Italy to meet Cosimo and Chiara, and now, they were coming to meet us in Austin. We expected them to arrive sometime Saturday, March 10, 2018. So that afternoon I went over to Scott's house in Pflugerville. We were a little anxious and a lot excited: anxious because we'd been so well-hosted in Bologna and Rome that we felt obligated to return the generosity; excited because we were enjoying good springtime weather and we'd taken off from work for the next several days. In other words, this would be a vacation for both of us, but one with responsibilities.
Cosimo and Chiara flew directly from Rome to Los Angeles. They said it took about fifteen hours. For a couple of days they toured L.A. and Vegas, then began working their way east from the Grand Canyon through New Mexico and eventually to Amarillo. There they saw the Cadillac Ranch (I think) and ate slabs of steak from the world-famous Big Texan Steak Ranch restaurant.
They texted us once they left Amarillo on their journey to Austin. But by that time the weariness of road travel had become burdensome. For not only did Cosimo and Chiara have (quite expected) jetlag from Italy to California, but as they began their trek across the Great American West, they had forgotten to account for the time zone changes occurring across the continent. In addition, they were unaware that that particular Saturday night was the Day Light Savings change-over. Talk about a triple-whammy.
As Saturday afternoon turned into evening, Scott and I decided to watch The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), which is an Italian-made film starring American actors and shot in rural Spain. Before we knew it, we were approaching the end of this three-hour flick but were still awaiting the arrival of our guests. I told Scott that I expected "time had caught up with them," and just before I left to go home for the evening, we received a text message saying they had driven from Amarillo to Brownwood but were going to stay there for the night. Having traveled half-way across the continent, followed by driving half-way across Texas––and all in the last 48 hours––we were not surprised.
So the next day we met them at Baby Acapulco's in Pflugerville for a Tex-Mex lunch, one that lasted a few hours as we all conversed and caught up together. Scott's friend Ciera also came and met everyone. Then we all went to Scott's and helped them unpack and unwind.
That evening Scott said something to our guests like: "There's lots of good food and restaurants here I want to show you, but there's also good fast food," so we went and picked up fried chicken from Raising Cain's.
Later that night we went downtown to the intersection of Fifth St. and Congress Ave. where at the Ethics Lounge was an electronic music show, an event that was part of kicking off the South by Southwest 2018 music festival. Here we saw DJ-producers 6Blocc of Los Angeles and Von D of France, both of whom Scott and Cosimo were familiar with. Other than the elevator at the club not working, it was a great night.
Bologna is considered the food capital of Italy, and when we were their guests, Cosimo and Chiara treated Scott and me to some of the best food to be found in both Bologna and Rome. We therefore wanted them to try some of the best in Texas cuisine. Part of that meant taking them, along with Ciera, and my extended family David and Dyhana Landrum, to Storm's Drive-in Restaurant in Lampasas, my hometown. A place with food so good that, back in the 1950's, Elvis used to frequent it when he was an army draftee stationed at nearby Fort Hood. Today it remains just as much a culinary pilgrimage as it was back then for the King.
I come from people who believe the home place is as vital and necessary as the beating of your own heart. It is that single house where you were born, where you lived out your childhood, where you grew into young manhood. It is your anchor in the world, that place, along with the memory of your kinsmen at the long supper table every night and the knowledge that it would always exist, if nowhere but in memory.
At some point later in the evening we were discussing burlesque dancing while Cosimo played piano. Despite everyone keeping their clothes on, it was still a fun night.
On the way back to Austin, Cosimo played a CD my father had given him of his punk rock band, Skull Shaker. The album had just been released during the South by Southwest music festival. Scott said they listened to it several times, so I assume they enjoyed it (we were in separate cars).
The next day I had to return to work, so what follows was told to me, though I did not experience it: that is, on Tuesday, March 13 Scott took Cosimo and Chiara to Lockhart. Scott's mother Corally as well as David and Dyhana, also came along. After driving for about an hour south of Austin they arrived at the house of Scott's grandmother. Scott's grandmother, a.k.a. "Mom-maw" Ridge, proceeded to give everyone a short lesson on the history of Texas. Afterwards everyone ate lunch at Smitty's Market, considered one of the best barbeque joints in Texas (and the world for that matter). They ate brisket, sausage, and pork chops, with Big Red soda to wash it down.
That afternoon they went to visit Scott's uncle, who has a nearby ranch. There they explored the land on ATVs. Upon returning to Austin, they stopped by Whole Foods and grabbed a bunch of things to prepare a meal at home. After five hours of preparation and cooking, everyone was treated to some authentic Bolognese style pasta with sauce, a soufflé, and cauliflower cheese casserole. It was a terrific meal, but one that could not eaten and enjoyed until about 1:30 in the morning.
The structure of these regional directorates has remained largely unchanged for decades, which, when combined with the FSB's system of personnel rotation, means that the fossilized provincial state security offices shape the FSB from within.
–Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, "Russia's New Nobility: the Rise of the Security Services in Putin's Kremlin," Foreign Affairs, 89 (September–October 2010): 80–96 at 93.
Russia has the third-largest gold and currency reserves in the world, but has become an international anti-model—a byword for non-modernization (and even de-modernization), uncompletitiveness, and chronic corruption….
One of the principle themes to emerge here is the Kremlin's reluctance to graduate from its preoccupation with traditional security and geopolitical priorities to tackling a new global agenda.
–Bobo Lo, Russia and the New World Order, (London: Brookings Institution Press, 2015) 58, 72–73.
Russian strategic theory today remains relatively unimaginative and highly dependent on the body of Soviet work with which Russia's leaders are familiar.
–Maria Snegovaya, "Putin's Information Warfare in Ukraine: Soviet Origins of Russia's Hybrid Warfare," (Institute for the Study of War: Washington, DC, September 2015) 7.
The generation's insularity began to change in the mid-330s. For some members of this generation (most notably Praetextatus) the early 330s saw their initial foray into public life, a step that certainly increased their awareness of the age's political developments. Others, like Ausonius, would have seen their awareness increase when they began studying law or pleading cases. As members of the final pagan generation moved into their midtwenties, their focus shifted from the classrooms and parties of intellectual centers like Athens and Bordeaux to the social and political life of members of the imperial elite. These young men began assuming the duties and responsibilities of mature citizens. As the next chapter will show, they did so with a mixture of seriousness and conservatism that would become characteristic of their approach to public life.
–Edward J. Watts, The Final Pagan Generation, (Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2015) 58.
–"Substance of the Speech in the Debate on the Army Estimates in the House of Commons," Tuesday, February 9, 1790. From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke – In Twelve Volumes." Vol. III. John C. Nimmo, London. 1887.
–Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862), III, iii, § 3.
Historical experience [in intelligence gathering], even if inadequate, is the most reliable guidance system in existence. It may have to be discarded on occasion, but it must never be disregarded. In this sense, then, conservatism is mandated by prudence.
–Walter Laqueur, A World of Secrets: the Uses and Limits of Intelligence. (New York, NY: Best Books, 1985) 283.
I don't know if it's possible to think about Ireland and not think about a pub. The Irish and the British love their pubs, and I love the Irish and the British for that. I drank Guinness, Harp, Smithwicks, Carlsberg, but mostly just Guinness.
I don't know whether all boys have the same liking for horrors which I am conscious of having possessed—I only know that I liked the churchyard, and deciphering tombstones, and watching the labours of the sexton, and hearing the old world village talk that often got up over the relics.
I went to meet the dead.
I heard rain fall on slabs on stone.
I heard the ghosts cry out.
And communicate with cowboy Chris?
And Michael Collins is still smiling as wide as the day he died.
That made my journey all the more joyous.
The Black Prophet: a Tale of Irish Famine (1847), Ch. II.
Running through Bologna is Piazza Malpighi, a major roadway named for hometown scholar Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694), the "father of microscopical anatomy, histology, physiology and embryology." Our host Cosimo had to finish mastering a song with his friend Tosco today (a song for an advertisement for which they'd already been paid), so while they were working in the early afternoon, Scott and I were let loose to explore downtown Bologna. We were dropped off at the corner of Piazza Malpighi and Piazza San Francesco, just in front of the thirteenth-century Basilica di San Francesco, the Due Torri ("Two Towers") ever-hovering overhead.
We next decided to try some mortadella (real bologna) at another café on Via degli Orefici called Loste. Here we had another round of beers, and the mortadella served two ways: first, cooked in and served with beans; next, sliced and stacked on pieces of bread.
It was about time to meet back at Cosimo's apartment, so Scott and I tried to find our way back without getting lost. Just as we arrived at the correct building we saw Cosimo, Tosco, and another Giovanni (whose stage name is "Kappasaur") laughing under the porticos. We all walked together for a few blocks till arriving at Via dell'Orso ("Bear Street"). Our companions were hungry, so Scott and I watched the trio eat American style fast food in a place called simply "Chicken Taste," owned and operated by Asian subcontinentals.
After they finished their dinner, we walked about a block to the corner of Via dell'Indipendenza and Via dei Falegnami ("Street of Carpenters") where we sat at an outdoor table and had a glass of red wine, possibly at Piadineria Wine Bar. We then headed home for the evening.
At brunch we were all too busy talking to each other to notice that the toast in the oven had started to burn. So after eating up and cleaning up and airing out Scott and Cosimo went to his music studio to work on a new track they later tentatively titled "Burnt Bread." I worked on my novel while they composed.
Chiara's car had been making a strange noise, and she wanted it diagnosed before our upcoming trip to Rome, so that afternoon we went beyond Bologna to the village/suburb of Calcara to see a Moroccan mechanic with whom they were acquainted. There we walked around for a few blocks in the suburb before the mechanic decided the noise was nothing important. As we were leaving, he asked Cosimo if I spoke French, perhaps because the straw hat I wore was banded with a tricolor of red, white, and blue.
From Calcara we returned to Bologna, drove past the Ducati factory, and made our way to what Cosimio and Chiara described as the best restaurant for Bolognese cuisine in Bologna, Nonna Rosa Trattoria. The four of us shared three courses. The first was a platter with a soft cheese (similar, but not as tart as sour cream), sliced mortadella, fried bread, and a cooked vegetable root similar to onions, leeks perhaps. Second course was tortellini; third was fried pork chops topped with prosciutto and cheese. Desert was torta di mele, an apple pastry served over mascarpone. We finished this off with coffee some lemoncello.
Arriving home around 12:00 a.m., Cosimo suggested visiting a nearby record store, just off Via Sante Vincenzi, that sometimes holds late night listening parties. Here at a place called Mint Sound we listened to records and were served a glass of complementary white wine. Evidently Mint Sound has only recently opened, and the store had made a marketing deal with a local winemaker to where the winemaker made a limited number of bottles with the record store's logo printed on the label. These limited bottles were then served to guests at the listening parties.
It was either very late or very early when we got home, took tea, and took to bed.
Because Cosimo had errands to run this morning, and Chiara had class, I had the privilege of making coffee for the first time while (being?) in Italy. Scott and I sipped coffee and surfed internet throughout the morning in our hosts' Bolognese apartment—then, we ate some breakfast (mostly buttered toast, olive jam, parmigiana).
That afternoon the four of us drove for about an hour northward to the small city of Comacchio (pop. 23,000), situated in the Po River Delta region of Italy's northeast coast. Parts of the drive were over the Via Aemilia (an ancient Roman road completed in 187 BC).
Comacchio is surrounded by a lagoon, where the Reno River empties into the Adriatic Sea. The day was ending as we arrived at the lagoon, then, drove down a peninsula with a dirt road that had fishermen's shanties lining both sides. From here we bird watched. As the sun set we saw flamingos, ibises, ducks, pheasants, and other fowl we could not identify. There were also literal clouds of mosquitoes—Comacchio used to have a malaria problem––so we stayed in the car while we watched the birds.
Later we drove from one side of the lagoon to the other, that is, to where the actual town of Comacchio sits, that is, at the corner of Croso Garibaldi and Via Rosario, where we had a 9:00 p.m. seafood dinner at a restaurant called Al Cantion. The atmosphere inside was both elegant and casual. Interesting old photos of life in Comacchio dotted the walls, with a large portrait of Sophia Loren hung high on the center wall opposite the entrance. In 1954 Loren starred in La donna del fiume (The River Girl), a movie that was filmed in Comacchio, and the town, quite understandably, seems never to have gotten over her.
Translating the menu was the largest language difficulty we encountered on our trip. I had a platter of fried fish and shrimp, Scott a clam and pasta dish. I think the four of us split a half bottle of pinot grigio.
After dinner we walked around the town, which was still and quiet after 10:00. We saw the Trepponti (Three Point) bridge built in 1638—a three-part bridge that connects the city's various streets stretching over canals (canals which are not quite as large as those in Venice, but impressive nonetheless).
As we drove back to Bologna, we played different songs for each other from Cosimo's phone. Scott and I introduced our hosts to Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again," and Willie and Merle's cover of Guy Forsyth's "Poncho and Lefty," as well as Kool and the Gang's "Summer Madness." Cosimo later cued up "I Can't Tell You Why" by the Eagles and told us about some remix ideas he had for this song.
At the mention of "Texans" the bystander immediately perked up his shoulders and looked in the back of the vehicle at Scott and me, as if we were exotic animals being transported to the zoo.
The little city we began exploring in the wee morning hours was Ferrara (pop. 133,000). It's a university town, and even after 1:00 a.m. on a Wednesday morning, there were plenty of students still in the streets. Among other things we saw were the twelfth century moated castle Castello Estense, the tenth century Ferrara Cathedral, the Piazza Savonarola and its statue of hometown book-burner and excommunicant Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) as well as the façade to the entrance of Ferrara Synagogue that included a plaque of the 96 names of Jewish citizens of Ferrara whom Fascists sent to the camps near World War II's close.
Comacchio was cool and Ferrara was fun. (I'm definitely ready to go back.) We got home around 3:00 or 4:00 a.m., had some tea, watched some videos on YouTube then went to bed.


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Q: Checkbox variable not updating in tkinter I am a bit new to Tkinter. I'm running Python 3.7.4 on Windows x64. I am trying to make a simple checkbox driven menu that will pass certain values based on the checked boxes. Here is the code:
main.py
import sqlite3
import os
from cryptography.fernet import Fernet

path = r"C:\Users\anves\PycharmProjects\pwdatabase\pwprotect.db"

def dbcreate():
    db = sqlite3.connect('pwprotect.db')
    csr = db.cursor()
    csr.execute("CREATE TABLE INFO(SITENAME TEXT, USERNAME TEXT, PASSWORD TEXT, PWKEY TEXT)")

if not os.path.exists(path):
    dbcreate()

db = sqlite3.connect('pwprotect.db')

def home():
    print("Welcome to Password Database!")
    print()
    print("1. Make a new entry")
    print("2. Search in existing entries")
    print("3. Update an existing entry")
    ch = int(input("Enter your choice: "))
    print()
    if ch == 1:
        insert()
    if ch == 2:
        search()
    if ch == 3:
        update()

def insert(sitename, username, password):
    while True:
        '''
        print()
        sitename = input("Enter the name of the site: ").lower()
        username = input("Enter your username for the site: ")
        password = ""
        ch = input("Do you want to use our generated password?(y/n): ")
        if ch == "y":
            password = pwgenerator()
            print("Your generated password is ", password)
        elif ch == "n":
            password = input("Enter your password for the site: ")
'''
        enk, key = encrypt(password)
        entities = (sitename, username, enk, key)
        cursor = db.cursor()
        cursor.execute('INSERT INTO INFO(SITENAME,USERNAME,PASSWORD,PWKEY) VALUES (?,?,?,?)', entities)
        db.commit()
        '''
        ch = input("Do you want to make another entry?(y/n): ")
        if ch == 'n':
            ch = input("Do you want to return to home screen?(y/n): ")
            print()
            if ch == 'y':
                home()
                break

            elif ch == 'n':
                print("Thank you for using Password Database")
                return

        elif ch == 'y':
            continue

        else:
            print("Invalid input")
            home()
            break
'''
        break
    return

def search(site):
    while True:
        # site = input('Enter the name of the site: ').lower()
        csr = db.cursor()
        csr.execute('SELECT USERNAME, PASSWORD, PWKEY FROM INFO WHERE SITENAME == ?', (site,))
        row = csr.fetchone()
        if row is not None:
            username = row[0]
            enk = row[1]
            key = row[2]
        else:
            # print("Data not found")
            # home()
            return "not found", "not found"

        password = decrypt(enk, key)
        '''
        print()
        print("Username: ",username)
        print("Password: ",password)

        ch = input("Do you want to search again?(y/n): ")
        if ch == 'n':
            ch = input("Do you want to return to home screen?(y/n): ")
            print()
            if ch == 'y':
                home()
                break

            elif ch == 'n':
                print("Thank you for using Password Database")
                return

        elif ch == 'y':
            continue

        else:
            print("Invalid input")
            home()
            break
            '''
        break
    return username, password

def update(site, user, passw):
    while True:
        # site = input('Enter the name of the site: ').lower()
        # ch = int(input("1 = Change Username, 2 = Change Password: "))
        csr = db.cursor()
        if passw is None:
            # user = input("Enter new username: ")
            csr.execute('UPDATE INFO SET USERNAME = ? WHERE SITENAME = ?', (user, site))
            db.commit()
            # print("Your new username is ", user)

        elif site is None:
            # passw = ""
            # c = input("Do you want to use our generated password?(y/n): ")
            '''
            if c == "y":
                passw = pwgenerator()
            elif c == "n":
                passw = input("Enter new password: ")
            '''
            enk, key = encrypt(passw)

            csr.execute('UPDATE INFO SET PASSWORD = ? WHERE SITENAME = ?', (enk, site))
            csr.execute('UPDATE INFO SET PWKEY = ? WHERE SITENAME = ?', (key, site))
            db.commit()
            # print("Your new password is ", passw)

        else:
            enk, key = encrypt(passw)
            csr.execute('UPDATE INFO SET USERNAME = ? WHERE SITENAME = ?', (user, site))
            csr.execute('UPDATE INFO SET PASSWORD = ? WHERE SITENAME = ?', (enk, site))
            csr.execute('UPDATE INFO SET PWKEY = ? WHERE SITENAME = ?', (key, site))
            db.commit()
        '''
        else:
            print("Invalid input")
            home()
            break

        ch = input("Do you want to update again?(y/n): ")

        if ch == 'n':
            ch = input("Do you want to return to home screen?(y/n): ")
            print()
            if ch == 'y':
                home()
                break

            elif ch == 'n':
                print("Thank you for using Password Database")
                return

        elif ch == 'y':
            continue

        else:
            print("Invalid input")
            home()
            break
        '''
        break

def pwgenerator():
    import random
    pw = ""
    lower = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u",
             "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"]
    upper = ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "U",
             "V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z"]
    digits = ["0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"]
    special = ["@", "%", "+", '/', "!", "#", "$", "^", "?", ":", ",", ".", "_", "-"]
    i = 0
    while i <= 15:
        n = random.randint(0, 4)
        if n == 1:
            pw = pw + random.choice(lower)
        elif n == 2:
            pw = pw + random.choice(upper)
        elif n == 3:
            pw = pw + random.choice(digits)
        elif n == 4:
            pw = pw + random.choice(special)
        i += 1
    print(pw)
    return pw

def encrypt(pw):
    key = Fernet.generate_key()
    f = Fernet(key)
    b = bytes(pw, 'utf-8')
    encoded = f.encrypt(b)
    return encoded, key

def decrypt(enk, key):
    f = Fernet(key)
    decoded = f.decrypt(enk)
    pw = str(decoded.decode('utf-8'))
    return pw

gui.py
from tkinter import messagebox
import tkinter
import main

win1 = tkinter.Tk()
win1.geometry("500x200")
win1.title("Password Database")
l1 = tkinter.Label(win1, text="Welcome to Password Database!").grid(row=0, column=0)
l2 = tkinter.Label(win1, text="").grid(row=1, column=0)
entry = tkinter.Label(win1, text="1. Make a new entry")
entry.grid(row=2, column=0)
search = tkinter.Label(win1, text="2. Search for an existing entry")
search.grid(row=3, column=0)
update = tkinter.Label(win1, text="3. Update an existing entry")
update.grid(row=4, column=0)
choice = tkinter.Entry(win1, width=10)
choice.grid(row=5, column=0)

def entrygui():
    wini = tkinter.Tk()
    wini.geometry("500x200")
    wini.title("New Entry")
    entryl1 = tkinter.Label(wini, text="Enter name of the site: ")
    entryl2 = tkinter.Label(wini, text="Enter your username for the site: ")
    entryl3 = tkinter.Label(wini, text="Enter the password the site: ")
    entrye1 = tkinter.Entry(wini, width=20)
    entrye2 = tkinter.Entry(wini, width=20)
    entrye3 = tkinter.Entry(wini, width=20)
    entryl1.grid(row=0, column=0)
    entryl2.grid(row=1, column=0)
    entryl3.grid(row=2, column=0)
    entrye1.grid(row=0, column=1)
    entrye2.grid(row=1, column=1)
    entrye3.grid(row=2, column=1)

    def insertbt():
        site = str(entrye1.get())
        user = str(entrye2.get())
        passw = str(entrye3.get())
        main.insert(site, user, passw)
        messagebox.showinfo("Success!", "Entry added!")
        wini.destroy()

    insert = tkinter.Button(wini, text="Insert", command=insertbt)
    insert.grid(row=3, column=0)

    wini.mainloop()

def searchgui():
    wins = tkinter.Tk()
    wins.geometry("500x200")
    wins.title("Search")
    searchl1 = tkinter.Label(wins, text="Enter the name of the site: ")
    searchl1.grid(row=0, column=0)
    searche1 = tkinter.Entry(wins, width=20)
    searche1.grid(row=0, column=1)

    def searchbt():
        site = str(searche1.get())
        user, passw = main.search(site)
        messagebox.showinfo("Success!", "Username is "+user+"\nPassword is "+passw)
        wins.destroy()

    searchbtn = tkinter.Button(wins, text="Search", command=searchbt)
    searchbtn.grid(row=1, column=0)

    wins.mainloop()

def updategui():
    winu = tkinter.Tk()
    winu.geometry("500x200")
    winu.title("Update")
    caution = tkinter.Label(winu, text="Please select the option if you are updating the corresponding value")
    caution.grid(row=0, column=0)
    sitel = tkinter.Label(winu, text="Enter site name: ")
    sitee = tkinter.Entry(winu, width=20)
    userv = tkinter.IntVar()
    userr = tkinter.Checkbutton(winu, text="New Username: ", variable=userv)
    passv = tkinter.IntVar()
    passr = tkinter.Checkbutton(winu, text="New Password: ", variable=passv)
    usere = tkinter.Entry(winu, width=20)
    passe = tkinter.Entry(winu, width=20)
    sitel.grid(row=1, column=0)
    sitee.grid(row=1, column=1)
    userr.grid(row=2, column=0)
    usere.grid(row=2, column=1)
    passr.grid(row=3, column=0)
    passe.grid(row=3, column=1)

    def updatebt():
        userval = int(userv.get())
        passval = int(passv.get())
        print(userval, passval)
        site = str(sitee.get())
        if userval == 1 and passval == 0:
            user = str(usere.get())
            passw = None
            main.update(site, user, passw)
            messagebox.showinfo("Success", "Username updated")
            winu.destroy()
        elif userval == 0 and passval == 1:
            user = None
            passw = passe.get()
            main.update(site, user, passw)
            messagebox.showinfo("Success", "Password updated")
            winu.destroy()
        elif userval == 1 and passval == 1:
            user = str(usere.get())
            passw = str(usere.get())
            main.update(site, user, passw)
            messagebox.showinfo("Success", "Username and password updated")
            winu.destroy()
        elif userval == 0 and passval == 0:
            messagebox.showinfo("Error", "Please check a box")

    updatebtn = tkinter.Button(winu, text="Update", command=updatebt)
    updatebtn.grid(row=4, column=0)

    winu.mainloop()

def choicefn():
    ch = int(choice.get())
    if ch == 1:
        entrygui()
    elif ch == 2:
        searchgui()
    elif ch == 3:
        updategui()
    else:
        messagebox.showinfo("ERROR", "Please enter a valid choice")

submit = tkinter.Button(win1, text="Submit", command=choicefn).grid(row=5, column=1)
win1.mainloop()

There is a problem in the updategui() function. The checkboxes values are not updating.
The output is always 0,0 and the corresponding error box showing up.
I have no such problems in a parallel code that I wrote:
import tkinter
from tkinter import Checkbutton
win = tkinter.Tk()
v1 = tkinter.IntVar()
v1.set(0)
v2 = tkinter.IntVar()
v2.set(0)
c1 = tkinter.Checkbutton(win, text="mf", variable=v1)
c1.grid(row=0,column=0)
c2 = tkinter.Checkbutton(win, text="yeet", variable=v2)
c2.grid(row=1,column=0)
def btfn():
    i1 = (v1.get())
    i2 = (v2.get())
    print(i1,i2)
bt = tkinter.Button(win, text="Display",command=btfn)
bt.grid(row=2,column=0)
win.mainloop()

Any help would be appreciated!
(P.S. I put 'e' at the end of a variable name to denote Entry, 'l' for Label, etc)

A: I'm not 100% sure why this is happening, but here's my best guess based on my experiments.
IntVar's constructor takes an optional argument, which should be a Tk instance if it is provided. If you don't supply a value, it will use whatever Tk was created first. In your case, the win1 object.
The IntVar will update itself whenever the Tk instance gets a chance to clear out its event queue. But this is a problem -- when your winu window is running, your win1 window hangs, and has no chance to update your IntVars.
Or possibly the window is not hanging, but it simply ignores changes made to its IntVars by widgets that don't belong to it. userr and passr are owned by winu, so win1 chooses not to (or can't) listen to them.
One possible solution is to provide winu to your IntVars, so they don't use your win1 object by default.
userv = tkinter.IntVar(winu)
userr = tkinter.Checkbutton(winu, text="New Username: ", variable=userv)
passv = tkinter.IntVar(winu)
passr = tkinter.Checkbutton(winu, text="New Password: ", variable=passv)

I can't find official documentation that completely supports this, but here's a
snippet from effbot that mentions the possibility in passing:

To create a Tkinter variable, call the corresponding constructor:
var = StringVar()
Note that the constructor takes an optional widget argument, but no value argument; to set the value, call the set method:
var = StringVar()
var.set("hello")
The constructor argument is only relevant if you're running Tkinter with multiple Tk instances (which you shouldn't do, unless you really know what you're doing).

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Finished the day with my two good pals Sebastian (left) and Caleb (right).
What if none of that was true? What if Ironman is just a long day of exercise, with an incredibly accessible 17-hour window in which to finish? Nothing more, just a really absurd way to spend a weekend – along with whatever personal meaning one chooses to attach to the experience to justify the financial and time investments. What if I will never, ever have the opportunity to "KQ" because genetics didn't bless me with the tools to be the 1% best in my age group, no matter how hard I try? What if the literal and metaphorical costs of learning life lessons swimming back and forth in a pool outweigh the benefits of doing so?
Such was my state of mind from last December through April this year. Sleep deprivation, not to mention the baby who caused it, can quickly re-arrange priorities and shatter seemingly bulletproof convictions. Yet Ironman Vineman lurked on the calendar, a decadent byproduct of a more naïve time when I thought I was the Work-Life Balance King of the World and all who cannot juggle career, family and sleep shall bow before me.
I had a choice to make, which in turn led to a gut check moment about whether triathlon was still important to me, and if so…why?
Even with stripping away any realistic thought about a KQ one day, I concluded during several casual bike rides that triathlon did matter to me. Even removing a Kona Quest as a reasonable goal, I enjoy the training and racing at a core level. It's the never-ending process. The structure. The challenge of pushing my limits and the daily grind itself help keep me centered.
So I fully committed to Vineman, mind, body and soul. The only problem was the calendar – it was mid June, just after my industry's big tradeshow, E3. Six weeks until the big race. I took the challenge, seeing an opportunity to experiment with different gear and nutritional approaches. And I figured 17 hours was plenty of time to finish if it all blew up in my face.
To be fair, I had been getting back into shape since the end of April. My good friend Sebastian, a first-rate human and uber-triathlete, coaxed me off the couch then and offered to help build a coached plan for me. I was a poor friend and skipped or re-arranged plenty of his suggested workouts – mostly because I simply wasn't ready to commit mentally to regular training yet.
Eventually, like Lincoln Hawk in Over the Top, I turned my proverbial hat backwards and got to work. So what did I learn about training for an Ironman in six weeks? Here's my BuzzFeed-style list!
With Seb's help, I condensed the structured approach of a six-month plan into six weeks, building the last four weeks myself. We used the first 7-10 days to reacquaint myself to two workouts a day. No crazy intervals – just establishing a pattern for consistent, low-intensity workouts. Next came a sprinkling of strength-oriented workouts such as hill repeats. Then, I focused on training in the heat almost daily to build a tolerance for wine country in July. I extended workouts in the last three weeks as much as possible, paying careful attention never to push too hard. This was successful in that I was able to train for six weeks straight without a day off, and never felt overly tired. I also opted for a very short and light taper since I had been maintaining such low intensity overall. There's not a lot to taper for on six weeks of training!
During the actual race, I chose to wear my Garmin Forerunner 920XT and use it primarily as a nutritional alarm clock. During the bike portion, I only periodically checked my normalized power but it was at most once an hour. On the run, I disabled my alarm for mile splits and used it instead as a reminder to eat and drink (which I still failed to do well enough).
Hamming it up in the finish chute. Then my hamstrings locked up!
As my race day unfolded, I began to realize that 17 hours is a LONG time to complete a 140-mile journey provided I made the segment cutoffs. There was no reason to worry about a DNF due to fatigue – a legitimate concern going in. After completing the race on limited training, I think the distance is much more doable in general, even for people with minimal triathlon experience. If you are smart about how you approach the day, an Ironman is not the impossible task everyone thinks it is. My friend Kevin completed Ironman Arizona in 2014 on literally three weeks training and had an hour to spare when he crossed the finish line despite never biking more than 50 miles or swimming more than a mile. Maybe it's time to move the midnight cutoff to 10 or 11 p.m.? The real point here though is this: If you want to try an Ironman but are afraid you may not finish…chances are you can do it. What's stopping you from trying?
Looking and feeling relaxed at the end of a fun day.
This was my most important observation. Once I ditched my Kona dreams and re-established to myself that I was simply here to have fun, I was able to relax more. In doing so, I was able to have more fun. By having more fun, I didn't suffer from negative thoughts or from the elements such as weather and spotty road conditions. When things went wrong, it was easier to solve problems with a clean mind. There is a downside though if you let go too much, as it's easier to give in to that little voice in your head telling your body to slow down. It sounds something like this: "Hey! You! Eaaaaasy does it…you're not going to PR this race and you're certainly not going to Kona here, so why not chill? Take a walk! Look at the pretty scenery…why are we rushing?" When your energy stores are low, it's particularly easy to succumb. The fine line to manage is between racing carefree mentally, physically and spiritually while remaining focused and determined to achieve the overall goal.
What is your goal then? What motivates you to train and race? This was especially important to me with a perfect 13-month girl along with a supportive and hard-working wife. I needed to justify the choice to get up early every morning and leave snuggle time in bed before work for an hour, or at night if I trained before dinner with Steph. I also found deep motivation in demonstrating to other young fathers that they could still achieve big personal goals for themselves with some creativity, flexibility, and yes…letting go a bit too.
If "letting go" is my most important observation, then this is my most controversial. It's crazy to me that I finished where I did considering the lack of training – I was on track for sub-11 hours until the second half of the marathon. (Yes, there's a lot to be said for having a basic fitness foundation to compensate here.) Crazier still that I only resumed swimming at the end of April after a lengthy absence and hit the same Ironman swim split I pretty much always do but with way less time in the water (yes, this was a fast swim course indeed.). My bike was consistent with some of my past races too. (Admittedly, the marathon was a different story.) I learned that while I may not have finished where I'd normally like, the lack of sacrifices I had to make more than justified the result. Could you train a little less and still be almost as effective as an athlete? I now believe you can. More is not necessarily better. Sometimes it's just…more.
Too much training and racing can leave you feeling physically dull and looking for explanations why your day didn't quite turn out as planned. Trust me, I've been there. For Vineman, I was so rejuvenated to train again that I looked forward to race day and didn't have any mental baggage about desperately needing the day to be over so I could finally catch some rest or eat junk. I've never been fresher mentally and spiritually prior to and during the race. I had nothing to prove to anyone, not even myself really. It was just a beautiful day to be outside – and not riding the same damn route near my house for the umpteenth time. Being fresher mentally enabled me to maintain positive visualization, especially during bike climbs on the rolling course. I was able to literally picture myself climbing alongside Tour de France champ Chris Froome and Columbian mountain goat Nairo Quintana. I felt strong on the Chalk Hill climb both times as a result and passed many people who were struggling.
I attribute some of my pre-race mental state to a great audio book I listened to on the drive to Windsor, The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228. On the surface, the book is a narrative documentary about a group of aspiring Navy SEALs trying to graduate the ultra-difficult BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolitions Training/SEAL) program in Coronado, Calif. In reality, Warrior Elite validates that while physical toughness and skill matter, character attributes and state of mind are far more critical in determining what it takes to survive the most grueling of gauntlets. There's a particularly valuable portion where one of the Hell Week instructors offers his six tips for surviving the crucible. None of his keys are skills-driven. It's not about how well you maneuver your IBS (inflatable boat/small) or the manner in which you navigate the obstacle course (though those things matter). It's about Guts. Commitment. Teamwork. Focus. Perseverance. I think the same applies in an Ironman. It's not really about watts, pure speed or technique even -- though of course those things matter. It's about courage, grit, determination, and fully committing to the experience – no matter what.
Once I made that connection – once I realized that I possess the same inner qualities that the Navy looks for in its finest warriors – I knew I was going to have a good day at Vineman.
This book helped set my mind just right prior to Vineman.
Despite my confidence, I was still cautious about flaming out in the race. Accordingly, I moved at a glacial pace in transitions. That was a lot of free speed down the tube – as in 14 minutes. Always look to be efficient in transition. While smooth is fast, as the saying goes, fast is sometimes faster. Even in an Ironman where you're just trying to have fun. Losing minutes in T1 and T2 can become a point of regret. Think ahead for every moment of the transition and consider in advance where you can save time. I could have packed more food on my bike and could have unwrapped a few more bars beforehand, for example. And the less "stuff" you have in your bike gear bag, the better. It's easier to grab what you need rather than sorting for what you want.
Since IM Vineman wasn't going to be a defining race in my life, I decided to myth-bust. Part of letting go, I guess. I switched my run shoes two weeks out, from Newton BOCO-Sol to Newton Distance Elite V (yes, there's a big difference, especially in the calves). I did so because the Distance Elites are lighter by two ounces and breathe better, important given the temperature during the run was supposed to be in the 90s (wound up in the mid-80s instead). I ditched massages altogether, mostly due to time and budget-balancing at home. I never trained with heart rate data. I tried some new pseudo-nutrition too, Hot Shot. It's supposed to be the cure for the modern cramp. Hot Shot is a spicy 2 oz juice shot. The jury is out on this one. I drank one shot 30 minutes before the swim as instructed – and about an hour or so later my hamstring locked up in the water when I kicked hard to get around a slow swimmer. However, I had no cramp issues on the bike even though I hadn't ridden a century since last November. Part of that, in hindsight, is that my post-race data showed I rode a smooth 1.05 Variability Index – which measures the consistency of the overall ride. I thought this was particularly solid given the rolling nature of the course. I downed another Hot Shot about 11 miles into the marathon when I started to cramp again, and I largely held cramps back the rest of the day. Except when I started to have fun in the finisher's chute. (Lesson: Don't have fun in the finisher's chute haha.) What are you curious about trying in a race? What's holding you back? What do you really have to lose?
This moment, we own it.
That's just it. Own it. If you want to become an Ironman or anything else in life, commit to making it happen. Do the work required. Remain positive. Stay focused. Don't let anyone take your goal from you. Don't let anyone tell you it can't be done. Don't quit. Get it done. It's not complicated. Make a decision, commit to executing and own every little decision along the path to your personal victory. That's how I got to the finish line. That's how I'll continue to live.
See you at the next race.
Note: I would be remiss if I didn't thank the Wattie Ink triathlon team for its absolute and sincere support throughout the past season. It didn't go according to plan and I even offered to resign my spot on the team. But that was immediately denied. I'm secretly relieved and happy because I have become friends with and fans of so many folks on the team. The sponsors are tremendous and make all our lives better and easier. I personally call upon BlueSeventy for my Helix wetsuit, ISM for my bike saddle, Speedfil as my hydration system, Zealios for my sunblock and of course the beautifully crafted Wattie training and racing kits.
I would also like to thank my wife for tolerating my not-so-rational "hobby" and being the best friend and fan a guy could ever ask for. Finally, this entire experience is dedicated to my daughter, Audra. I hope you will read this one day and dream bigger dreams than I ever did as a kid, and become more than even I can hope for you to become.


The harder you make it to surf the web, the less surfing will take place. In reality, the furor that would arise from this act would dwarf the potential lost sales by customers leveraging the Amazon offer. Our past geo=political attempts at isolationism have never worked. Neither will it at retail.
Build something that Amazon can't sell. This is a well-known strategy being accelerated.
Amazon is a super shopping center, not an online community. Invest in building community because loyalty is a great offense that serves as a perfect defense.
Use online to test merchandising concepts before you commit resources. Use interactive polling and surveys that engage the existing and potential community. As if often the case today, online must follow the direction of the stores. How stupid is that? Its like fighting with one arm tied behind your back. Of course, online will fail.


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In 2019 Nic Cheeseman was awarded the Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement by a midcareer scholar in 2019
Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy and International Development at the University of Birmingham has been appointed to serve on the International Advisory Council of Afrobarometer, the pan-African research network.
Along with notable individuals like Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the ex-President of Liberia, international journalist Zeinab Badawi, Johnnie Carson, the former US assistant secretary of state for African affairs and former ambassador to Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Uganda and 12 other global political and thought leaders, Nic Cheeseman will be on hand to provide his strategic advice, expertise and foresight.
Afrobarometer – which conducts surveys on 37 African countries and provides open access data to researchers will gain the expertise of the International Advisory Council to provide focus on African development and help enhance Afrobarometer's mission to make African voices count in public policy and development.
Afrobarometer, which is now in its third decade gives a voice to millions of Africans across 37 countries provides open access data to thousands of researchers on Africans' experiences and evaluations of democracy, governance, and quality of life by training hundreds of researchers and organisations on survey methods.
Professor Nic Cheeseman welcomed his appointment: "I really couldn't be more proud or humbled to have been appointed as a founding member of the Afrobarometer International Council. I am not quite sure how I made it into the company of Ambassadors and Presidents, but I am sure that the Afrobarometer is an amazing resource and I'm delighted to be able to play a small role in strengthening it further."
Currently working as Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham since 2017, Nic Cheeseman was formerly the Director of the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. His research addresses a range of questions such as whether populism is an effective strategy of political mobilisation in Africa, how paying tax changes citizens' attitudes towards democracy and corruption, and the conditions under which ruling parties lose power. In addition to a number of book chapters and articles, he has published two co-edited collections: Our Turn To Eat (2010), which covers the politics of Kenya since independence, and The Handbook of African Politics (2013). A monograph, Democracy in Africa, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015 and his second book, How to Rig An Election.
Nic spends much of his time explaining the implications of his work to policy makers such as the British, Brazilian and Nigerian governments as well as the Pan African Parliament, and the World Bank. He is the joint editor of African Affairs, an advisor to the African Progress Panel, and a member of the advisory board of the UNICEF Chair on Communication Research (Africa). In recognition of this academic and public contribution, the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom awarded him the prestigious Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement by a midcareer scholar in 2019. The same year, he was a finalist in the ESRC's prestigious Celebrating Impact prize.
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The University of Birmingham is ranked among the world's top 100 institutions, its work brings people from across the world to Birmingham, including researchers and teachers and more than 6,500 international students from over 150 countries.
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The Council members of the International Advisory Council of Afrobarometer are:
• Johnnie Carson, former US assistant secretary of state for African affairs and former ambassador to Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Uganda
Ellen Johnson Sirleef, Liberia's president from 2006 to 2018 and Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2011
• Lord Browne of Ladyton, member of the UK House of Lords
• Dr. Willy Mutunga, former chief justice and president of the Supreme Court of Kenya
• Margot Wallström, former minister of foreign affairs of Sweden, EU commissioner
• Zeinab Badawi, international broadcaster and education leader
• Professor Nic Cheeseman, professor of democracy, author and newspaper columnist
• Professor Larabi Jaïdi, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South
• Abdoulie Janneh, former UN under-secretary general
• Attahiru Muhammadu Jega, professor and former chairman of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission
• Peter Kellner, political analyst and scholar
• K. Riva Levinson, president and CEO of KRL International, author and columnist
• Professor Bhekinkosi Moyo, director of the Africa Centre on Philanthropy and Social Investment
• Dr. Monde Muyangwa, director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center
• Dr. Gerard Salole, social anthropologist and independent consultant
• Thomas P. Sheehy, distinguished fellow in the Africa Center of the United States Institute of Peace.
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CCP Games announced today that its sci-fi MMO Eve Online is now certified in China because of a new partnership with NetEase.
Eve Online has been available in China since 2006. It debuted in the U.S. in 2003. The MMO has stood out thanks to its deep and complicated systems, where players are in control of things like governments and the economy. NetEase also runs Blizzard's games in China, including the MMO World of Warcraft, so it has plenty of experience managing such games for Western publishers and developers there.
Starting in 2006, Tiancity was publishing Eve Online in China. That agreement ended back in Q4 of 2018. To operate your game in China, and to have proper marketing, you need to work with a Chinese company. That's why this new agreement is so important for Eve Online.
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Moodboard for a Network Menu project for the morning schedule for PBS. This proiject was done in a Motion Media class at SCAD Atlanta. The target demographic was 2-6 year olds.
Moodboard for a Network Menu project for the evening schedule for PBS. This proiject was done in a Motion Media class at SCAD Atlanta. The target demogtraphic was Gen Xers who enjoy wathcing foreign drama.
Logo treatments and type explorations for the AM block entitled, "kids Quest".
Logo treatments and type explorations for the PM block entitled, "Global Sophisitication".
Styleframe for a network menu for the AM block, "kids Quest" showing upcoming shows.
Styleframe for a network menu for the PM block, "Global Sophistication" showing upcoming shows.


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The Cornfield
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Signed; Dated
Presented by subscribers, including Wordsworth, Faraday and Sir William Beechey, 1837
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A boy has paused from the thirsty work of herding sheep at noon to lie flat on the bank of a pool and drink its cool water. This vision of a Suffolk lane in high summer was painted in January to March 1826 in Constable's studio in London. The lane winding into the cornfield is based on Fen Lane, along which Constable had often walked as a boy from his own village of East Bergholt to Dedham, where he attended school. The lane still exists but the countryside shown beyond it was largely invented.
Constable exhibited the painting at the Royal Academy in 1826. Despite receiving critical praise, it failed to sell, either at the Royal Academy or at any of the four other exhibitions to which Constable sent it. A committee of friends and admirers finally bought The Cornfield and presented it to the National Gallery in 1837 as a tribute to Constable after his death.
A boy has paused from the thirsty work of herding sheep at noon to lie flat on the bank of a pool and drink its cool water. This vision of a Suffolk lane in high summer was painted in January to March 1826 in Constable's studio in London.
The lane winding into the cornfield was based on Fen Lane, along which Constable had often walked as a boy from his own village of East Bergholt to Dedham, where he attended school. The lane still exists but the countryside shown beyond it was largely conjured up in Constable's studio. The church tower and cluster of red-roofed houses 'never existed', as the artist's son Charles Constable was later to point out – Constable invented the village to provide a distant focal point beyond the bend of the river. His resolve to be a 'natural painter' did not mean that he depicted everything faithfully.
Constable completed the painting by 8 April 1826, when he dispatched it titled 'Landscape' to the Royal Academy for the exhibition opening to the public on 1 May. Shortage of time had forced him to work quickly. He had intended to exhibit his large Waterloo Bridge but had to lay it aside on account of 'the ruinous state of my finances'. Although not as large as his 'six-footers', The Cornfield was of a sufficient size to continue Constable's bid for attention at the Royal Academy for his monumental scenes of the Stour Valley.
A wooded lane leading to a more sunlit landscape was a recurrent feature of Constable's compositions, and is reminiscent of the work of both the Dutch painter van Ruisdael, and Suffolk-born Gainsborough, which Constable admired. His first idea for The Cornfield is expressed in a very free oil sketch now in the Indianapolis Museum of Art. He then produced an oil study of just the landscape (now on loan to the City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham). The finished picture closely follows the landscape contours of the Birmingham study and echoes its light. The detail of the boy drinking was taken from an oil sketch made some 15 years earlier, probably also in Fen Lane.
Constable remarked to his friend Fisher: 'I do hope to sell this present picture – as it has certainly got a little more eye-salve than I usually give them.' By 'eye-salve' he probably meant picturesque details such as the drinking boy, the donkeys grazing the bank dotted with poppies and cow parsley, the flock of sheep, distant village and meandering river. The cornfield itself is painted with masterly economy: just a few vertical brushstrokes at the field's edge suggest the tall wheat, while broader brushstrokes convey the undulating sweep of the field.
Despite receiving critical praise, the painting failed to sell, either at the Royal Academy or at any of the four other exhibitions to which Constable sent it. It was named The Cornfield by the committee of friends and admirers that finally bought it and presented it to the National Gallery in 1837 after Constable's death. It was the first picture by Constable to enter the national collection.
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Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds
This painting depicts a memorial to the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, built by Sir George Beaumont in the grounds of his home at Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire, in 1812. Beaumont planned to redesign his gardens to include other memorials dedicated to his friends and the people he admired. The poet...
Salisbury Cathedral and Leadenhall from the River Avon
Constable painted Salisbury Cathedral many times from different viewpoints. Some of these pictures were oil sketches made outdoors like this one, while others were large pictures intended for exhibition. This sketch was created during Constable's six-week visit to Salisbury in the summer of 1820....
Stratford Mill
Stratford Mill was the second of the six monumental paintings of the Stour landscape Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1819 and 1825, a group that includes The Hay Wain (National Gallery, London).Stratford Mill was a water-powered paper mill (now demolished) on the River Stour near...
The Hay Wain
The view is of the millpond at Flatford on the River Stour. Flatford Mill was a watermill for grinding corn, operated by the Constable family for nearly a hundred years. It still survives and is about a mile from Constable's birthplace at East Bergholt, Suffolk. The house on the left also survive...
Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill
This view is of Bowleaze Cove in Dorset looking west from Osmington. The Jordon stream trickles over the sand, with Furzy Cliff and Jordon Hill beyond. Thick clouds scud across the bright winter sky as the Downs slope to the sandy cove and sea. Constable suggests the waves rolling in to the beach...


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Posted on July 13, 2018 by The Women's Direction
Because of Her We Can – NAIDOC Week
Before I start I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which I write this post and pay my respects to elders both past and present.
When I googled Australian Indigenous Female Filmmakers the top suggestion bar, where they have the pictures of said persons, sported a grand total of 5 women. This couldn't be further from the truth and so in my own way of celebrating NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week here in Australia, I'm going to take you through some of the films by 10 brilliantly groundbreaking Indigenous Australian women filmmakers.
1.Essie Coffey
Essie Coffey, born in 1941, was a Muruwari woman who was a part of many Aboriginal and government bodies throughout her life which focused on preserving the culture and rights for Indigenous Australian's. She was also a filmmaker and in 1978 she made the film My Survival as an Aboriginal which depicts the struggle with assimilation and loss of identity. It was the first documentary made by an indigenous woman and was also a gift to Queen Elizabeth II at the opening of Australia's new Parliament house in 1988. Essie died ten years later in 1998 but not before making the sequel to her first film My Life As I Live It in 1993.
2. Tracey Moffat
Tracey Moffat is more widely known as an artist but commonly uses photography and moving image in her work. As part of this she has directed a number of short films including Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990) and Nice Coloured Girls (1987). In 1993 she directed her first feature the supernatural anthology film Bedevil and has since returned to making short art films.
Still from Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990)
3. Oomera (Coral) Edwards
Coral Edwards directed 2 short films as training exercises for the (then) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra in 1981. They were filmed on super 8mm and looked at the New South Wales policy of taking Aboriginal children from their families and putting them in institutions run by the Aborigines Welfare Board. Oomera was one of these children.
Its A Long Road Back can be watched on Vimeo via the link here.
4. Darlene Johnson
Darlene Johnson is a writer/director who's previous works include the documentaries Stolen Generations (2001), Gulpilil: One Red Blood and Following The Rabbit Proof Fence (2002). She also directed the short Crocodile Dreaming in 2007. Most recently in 2017 Johnson was selected to be a part of the Screen Australia and Australian Directors Guild (ADG) shadowing Program. The Shadow Directing program was created by the ADG with funding from Screen Australia's Gender Matters: Brilliant Careers initiative to get more women directing Australian TV drama series and serials over the next two years.
Darlene Johnson said, "As a Koori woman I am thrilled to be the first participant of the Shadow Directing Scheme. It's such a fantastic opportunity to be attached to one of Australia's most iconic serial drama's and to be exposed to such a diversity of talent, technique and approaches to the task of directing".[1]
5. Rachel Perkins
Probably one of the more well known Indigenous film directors with an impressive body of work. Her most recent film Jasper Jones, an adaptation of the book, was very well received and previous to this she has directed films such as Radiance (1998), One Night The Moon (2001) and Bran New Dae (2014). Currently she has completed directing the Tv mini-series Mystery Road broadcast on the ABC.
Behind The Scenes – Myster Road Mini Series (2018)
6. Sally Riley
Sally Riley directed two short films Fly Peewee, Fly! (1995) and Confessions of A Headhunter (2000) and since then has moved on to executive producing some of the most popular Australian TV to date including Black Comedy, Janet King, Cleverman and Glitch. In 2016 she was appointed the ABC's Head of Scripted Production.
7. Catriona McKenzie
Catriona has directed a handful of shorts, tv episodes and features including episodes from Dance Academy, My Place, The Secret Daughter and Redfern Now. Her first feature film Satellite Boy came out in 2012 and tells the story of Pete who lives with his grandfather in an old abandoned outdoor cinema in the desert. The film won two special jury mentions at the 2013 Berlinale – Generation Kplus Programme, and best feature film at the imagiNATIVE Media Arts Festival.
Still from Satellite Boy (2012)
8. Larissa Behrendt
Larissa Behrendt is a documentary filmmaker who made a series of long and short documentary pieces since 2013 including Innocence Betrayed, Valadon, Clan and most recently After The Apology. She is currently a Law Professor at the university of Technology in Sydney.
9. Leah Purcell
Leah Purcell is a multi-talented actress, writer and director. she has acted in well known Australian films such as Lantana and Last Cab To Darwin but her directing credits include the documentary Black Chicks Talking (2002), which was part of a larger body of work of hers including a book and theatre piece that featured stories of real indigenous women from a variety of backgrounds. She also has directed episodes of popular TV series Cleverman, The Secret Daughter and Redfern Now.
still from Black Chicks Talking (2002)
10. Dena Curtis
Dena's first film was a documentary short called Cheeky Dog in 2006. Shortly after in 2008 Dena wrote and directed her second film Hush, a five minute narrative film which won the audience award for Best Foreign Short Film at the 2008 Films de Femmes, Créteil France. Then in 2009 Dena premiered her third short film, Jacob, at Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival, followed by the Melbourne International Film Festival. The film won Best Short Drama at the 2009 WOW Film Festival and took out the Gold Shorts Prize at the 2009 Adelaide Shorts Film Festival. Since then she has directed two more shorts Eight Ladies in 2011 and Nan and a Whole Lot of Trouble in 2015.
[1] https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2017/05-10-adg-darlene-johnson
[2] https://aso.gov.au/titles/collections/indigenous-filmmaking/
[3] https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/aboriginal-director
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First Christmas in the camper!
Wow. That's such an all encompassing word. It has so many different meanings. Polysemous (i think). anyway, in my context you could say "wow" is being said in a laid back, belly full, content sort of way. we had a wonderful Christmas Day! we baked some amazing goodies on thursday (which we shared at our potluck and made a great impression!). the kids had fun baking and i was happy with how the oven works in the camper. i did however have to go fill up the propane tank 🙂 anyway, we made soft sugar cookies, chocolate crinkles, mexican wedding cake balls, and cake pops!!
Gracie with our first attempt at cakepops!
the girls made a ginger bread house….
girls and the gingerbread house!
and we had an awesome shrimp Christmas Eve dinner!
The internet is slow today. I think because it's raining and people are all inside on the computer!! I'll try to get the pics of Christmas day uploaded later on. I think we are going to head to the store and get some groceries for the week. We have plans and people coming and are very very excited!
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Nice wash color example of David Burr's map of Scotland, hand-colored by counties.
David Hugh Burr Biography
David H. Burr studied law, passing the New York Bar Exam, and then surveying under Simeon DeWitt in New York. His first atlas was an atlas of New York State (1829), the second state atlas to be issued in the US (after Mills' Atlas of South Carolina in 1826). In the 1830s, he served as the official topographer for the US Post Office, producing a series of rare and highly sought-after large-format state maps. He also created a map of the country's postal routes, which features roads, canals, and railroads. Burr traveled to London to work with John Arrowsmith; together, they produced the American Atlas in 1839.
Upon his return to the States, Burr was appointed as a draftsman for the House of Representatives, where he worked until ca. 1841. He later worked for the Louisiana Survey and the Florida Survey. By 1850, he was back in Washington D. C., working on the census. In 1852, the Senate named Burr as the draftsman to compile maps from the Federal Surveys. In 1853, Burr traveled to San Francisco, perhaps as part of his work for the Senate. He was then named as the Surveyor General of Utah in 1855. However, he was unpopular there and returned to Washington D. C. by 1870. Burr is widely regarded as one of the most important names in the nineteenth-century American history of cartography.
Antique Maps / Europe / British Isles / Scotland
Ireland in Provinces and Counties [with] County Map of Scotland
A decorative map with Ireland and Scotland side by side, colored by counties. Includes a decorative border. Nice detail in both maps, including early roads, towns, railroads, rivers, lakes, islands, etc. Inset of the Shetland Islands.
Decorative full-color example of Tallis's marvelous map of Scotland. The map shows Scotland, including the borders, highlands, and islands in clear detail. County lines are shown in tasteful bright colors. Topography is shown, and many of Scotland's famous Munroes are identifiable.
Tabula nova Angliae & Hiberniae
One of the Earliest Obtainable Modern Maps of the British Isles
(Edinburgh) Provincae Lauden seu Lothien et Linlitouo
Valk and Schenk's map of the region around Edinburgh.
Johnson's Ireland [with] Johnson's Scotland
Detailed maps of Scotland and Ireland, each hand colored by counties, with decorative borders.
(British Isles) (Tabula. I. Europae)
Nice example of the 1541 edition of Lorenz Fries Ptolemaic map of the British Isles.


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declare(strict_types = 1);

namespace RoaveTest\DoctrineSimpleCache\Exception;

use Roave\DoctrineSimpleCache\Exception\InvalidArgumentException;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
use Psr\SimpleCache\InvalidArgumentException as PsrInvalidArgumentException;

/**
 * @covers \Roave\DoctrineSimpleCache\Exception\InvalidArgumentException
 */
final class InvalidArgumentExceptionTest extends TestCase
{
    public function testFromKeyAndInvalidTTLObject()
    {
        $invalidTTL = new \stdClass();
        $exception = InvalidArgumentException::fromKeyAndInvalidTTL('key', $invalidTTL);
        self::assertInstanceOf(InvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);
        self::assertInstanceOf(PsrInvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);

        self::assertStringMatchesFormat(
            'TTL for "%s" should be defined by an integer or a DateInterval, but stdClass is given.',
            $exception->getMessage()
        );
    }
    public function testFromInvalidKeyCharacters()
    {
        $invalidKey = uniqid('invalidKey', true);
        $exception = InvalidArgumentException::fromInvalidKeyCharacters($invalidKey);
        self::assertInstanceOf(InvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);
        self::assertInstanceOf(PsrInvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);
        self::assertSame(
            sprintf(
                'Key "%s" is in an invalid format - must not contain characters: {}()/\@:',
                $invalidKey
            ),
            $exception->getMessage()
        );
    }

    public function testFromInvalidType()
    {
        $invalidKey = random_int(100, 200);
        $exception = InvalidArgumentException::fromInvalidType($invalidKey);
        self::assertInstanceOf(InvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);
        self::assertInstanceOf(PsrInvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);
        self::assertSame(
            'Key was not a valid type. Expected string, received integer',
            $exception->getMessage()
        );
    }

    public function testFromEmptyKey()
    {
        $exception = InvalidArgumentException::fromEmptyKey();
        self::assertInstanceOf(InvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);
        self::assertInstanceOf(PsrInvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);
        self::assertSame(
            'Requested key was an empty string.',
            $exception->getMessage()
        );
    }

    public function testFromKeyAndInvalidTTLNonObject()
    {
        $invalidTTL = random_int(100, 200);
        $exception = InvalidArgumentException::fromKeyAndInvalidTTL('key', $invalidTTL);
        self::assertInstanceOf(InvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);
        self::assertInstanceOf(\Psr\SimpleCache\InvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);

        self::assertStringMatchesFormat(
            'TTL for "%s" should be defined by an integer or a DateInterval, but integer is given.',
            $exception->getMessage()
        );
    }

    public function testFromNonIterableKeys()
    {
        $invalidKey = random_int(100, 200);
        $exception = InvalidArgumentException::fromNonIterableKeys($invalidKey);
        self::assertInstanceOf(InvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);
        self::assertInstanceOf(PsrInvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);
        self::assertSame(
            'Keys passed were not iterable (i.e. \Traversable or array), received: integer',
            $exception->getMessage()
        );
    }

    public function testFromNonIterableValues()
    {
        $invalidValue = random_int(100, 200);
        $exception = InvalidArgumentException::fromNonIterableValues($invalidValue);
        self::assertInstanceOf(InvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);
        self::assertInstanceOf(PsrInvalidArgumentException::class, $exception);
        self::assertSame(
            'Values passed were not iterable (i.e. \Traversable or array), received: integer',
            $exception->getMessage()
        );
    }
}


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SAINTS 6 SARACENS 12 Day reflects on tough game
Sunday 8 November, 2015
Christian Day said that the Saints came up against a very good team at Franklin's Gardens on Saturday afternoon.
In a game where defence got on top, neither the Saints nor Saracens generated genuine try scoring opportunities, despite building plenty of pressure.
Instead it fell to the kickers to dominate the points, and while Stephen Myler opened the scoring early on Owen Farrell's four from four gave Saracens the cushion they needed to shut the game down. Nevertheless the hosts maintained their record of getting at least one point from every Aviva Premiership round played so far, JJ Hanrahan landing a last-minute penalty to earn the losing bonus.
"It was a tough game," Day told SaintsTV. "Saracens are a very good team and when you play them you know how they like to play. It's territory based, win penalties and kick penalties, keep the pressure on you, which they do really well. Their defence was excellent
"We had a few chances, but our lineout didn't go as well as usual although our scrum went well, and it's another game that's been decided by less than a score."
It was something of a gate crashing from Saracens, who were the first visitors to run out at a newly extended Franklin's Gardens, with the Barwell Stand creating the capacity for a record modern-day crowd in excess of 15,000.
"We're disappointed to lose in front of our home fans," Day added. "We love playing here, and will want to put it right in Europe next week."
There is a short turnaround between home matches, with the Saints hosting the Scarlets in the European Rugby Champions Cup on Saturday, November 14th. Tickets remain available for the game at www.tinyurl.com/SAI-SCA-1516 - use [email protected] to beat the match day queues and save the admin fees.