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Interview Signed, sealed, delivered? An investigation into why artists and labels keep having very public fall outs
Artists want to make music. Labels want to release music. So why is it often so hard to keep everyone happy?
Words: Will Richards
"Imagine this pain," RAYE tweeted at the end of June. "I have been signed to a major label since 2014… and I have had albums on albums of music sat in folders collecting dust, songs I am now giving away to A list artists because I am still awaiting confirmation that I am good enough to release an album."
The singer's comments came after the release of new single 'Call On Me', a track she claimed had to achieve a certain level of success before her label Polydor would let her release her long-awaited debut album. As a result of the pressure, she pulled out of all promotional commitments for the single to take care of her mental health.
"We were saddened to read RAYE's tweets last night and have reached out to her management team to discuss and offer our full support," Polydor said in a public statement following the tweets. Then, last month, RAYE revealed that she is now an independent artist. "Polydor have spoken and agreed to part ways," she wrote, calling her former label an "incredible infrastructure power house team". Later the label released their own comment, saying "Polydor and Raye have made an amicable and mutual decision to part ways. Raye is an incredible artist and we have very much enjoyed working with her over the years, achieving some great things together. We wish her all the very best for the future."
While RAYE's story ends with a seemingly satisfactory conclusion, the situation throws up far more questions than it does answers around artist welfare and contractual obligations between musicians and record labels. How many more artists are stuck in career-stalling deals like this without the ability or freedom to speak out like RAYE? Why is the relationship between record labels and artists so often a breeding ground for discontent that proves detrimental both mentally and professionally to creatives? And what needs to be done to address this dramatic and ongoing trend?
"To expect there never to be friction in a working relationship is absurd, and some good things can happen."
— Shura
One of the most vocal supporters of RAYE following the tweets was Shura, who said on Twitter at the time that she is "so over it being remotely legal to do this to artists". Shura, who was signed to Polydor for her debut album 'Nothing's Real' before releasing its 2019 follow-up 'forevher' on indie label Secretly Canadian, tells DIY that her first reaction when seeing RAYE's plight was one of grim predictability rather than surprise.
"I just felt anger that this is something that can happen and does happen," she says. "In any other industry, it wouldn't be legal. I felt anger on behalf of RAYE but also all musicians. What RAYE's describing is like a Black Mirror episode, and it's not unique."
Despite this, Shura says that these problems aren't inevitable, and that progress can be made with reform. "To expect there never to be friction in a working relationship is absurd, and some good things can happen," she says. "I don't want, as an artist, to be around yes people - for my manager to be a yes person. I don't want my label to be a yes person. It's good to be challenged, and have your ideas challenged. It's good to be able to see different perspectives," she adds, saying that a healthy working relationship between artists and labels can be achieved when the right foundations are set.
Another artist who has recently gone independent after being signed to a major label is Ten Tonnes, aka Ethan Barnett, who released his self-titled debut via Warner Records in 2019. Recently, he's set up his own label called Silver Heat, releasing new EP called 'So Long' in June.
"It very rarely felt like a mutual relationship where I was actually collaboratively working with a team," Barnett – whose brother George Ezra has been signed to Columbia since 2012 – tells DIY of his experience at a major. "It shocked me how similar it seemed to the portrayal of record labels in films, where [executives] just sit around getting rich and doing very little. It was stupidly stressful for a 21-year-old."
For Shura, she says that having a viral hit before she signed to Polydor (her video for 'Touch' has over 30 million views on YouTube to date) gave her the advantage of having the label "on side" as she signed her deal. It's something many others don't have.
"I had a very different struggle to RAYE, which was the label saying, 'How quickly can we get your album out?', rather than saying, 'Let's wait, let's wait, let's wait, let's wait'. My biggest success, in a sense, was my first completely independent track, and then I had to keep the steam going."
Having experienced working with both, Shura is quick to point out that bad practice at record labels is far from a case of majors vs. indies. Though independent labels have a reputation as being 'cooler' and more artist-friendly, musicians can still find themselves stuck in deals and struggling to retain ownership of their art.
"The idea that the indie label is the answer isn't necessarily entirely true," she offers. "I know people who've had a shit time at majors. I know people who've had a great time at majors. I know people who've had a shit time at indies. I think that's one of the reasons why I spoke [online]. I saw someone saying, 'If RAYE had just signed to an indie, it would've been fine!' and I thought, 'No! Not necessarily!'.
"While my royalty rate is better with Secretly Canadian," she adds, "they own my masters until 70 years after I'm dead, whereas I get my masters back from Polydor in 10 years."
"You shouldn't ever feel like I did, like you're a nuisance or you're having to earn your keep."
— Ten Tonnes
According to London-based independent label Hand In Hive, who release music by Swimming Tapes, Wyldest and more, the practices they employ as a label with a fraction of the budget of the likes of Polydor or even Secretly Canadian can still be scaled up to the highest level. Artist welfare and security should always be at the heart of the operation.
Included in their deals when signing a new artist is a 'release commitment' clause, binding the label into releasing the album or EP they agreed to put out within a certain time frame. "I don't see why transparency shouldn't be expected across the board," label co-founder Tristan Wilson tells DIY. "We're coming into an age now where artists and songwriters know that they can keep hold of their rights and they should be able to retain control."
For Ten Tonnes, going independent has allowed him to regain the creative freedom he started out with, and the agency to make his own decisions on his music and future. "A pride in what I'm doing has come back," he reflects, "which is a lovely thing, but a weird thing to have lost in the first place."
Why, then, should anyone remain with a record label in this day and age? For Hand In Hive, they say their label serves as a "family" for their artists. "Every pound we spend, we want to talk about that with the artists or the manager, and everybody needs to be comfortable with how much is being spent and where it is being spent," they say. Support from a label, they say, can help not only with promoting the music and manufacturing physical copies, but for fostering a sense of community and collaboration within a close-knit music scene.
Shura, meanwhile, says that while she would encourage anyone with enough funding to make and release an album themselves, often it's not financially viable, and a tenable solution lies in creating reform in the existing structures.
"My best working relationships have been with people at major labels," she says, "but then at the core of it is [a system that is] imbalanced and unfair. "I think you need to tailor things to different artists, but make certain things that are currently the norm not be legal anymore."
Wilson says the key comes down to transparency, and labels of all kinds need to practice that openness in order to remain relevant. "Artists have the power," he says, "and while there are a lot of existing relationships like RAYE's where she didn't [originally] have the power, she then wrestled control of the power and now she does have it. I think 10 years ago, and without social media, Polydor wouldn't have made the same decision to let her go."
"You shouldn't ever feel like I did, like you're a nuisance or you're having to earn your keep," Barnett reflects, looking from the outside at a system that is broken but not beyond repair, and one that needs to put artist welfare at the core of the deals that are signed.
"I always look at the artists I love," he says. "T-Rex's big album wasn't until their fourth or fifth record, and letting artists be artists and grow and develop hasn't happened for a while now. You're not going to get wicked results out of artists if you're trying to control them and minimise the power they have over their own music. The two things just don't work together."
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When architects and corporations with management that has a bigger ego than skills want to design a commercial building, you know that the well-being of the occupants will be the least important factor on their minds.
Sick Building Syndrome is used to describe situations in which building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent in a building, but no specific illness or cause can be identified. A 1984 World Health Organization (WHO) report suggested up to 30% of new and remodeled buildings worldwide may be subject of complaints related to poor indoor air quality.
That was the reason why office workers were often encouraged to bring green plants to their work space, because these plants were said to enhance air quality.
Building occupants complain of symptoms such as sensory irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, neurotoxic or general health problems, skin irritation, nonspecific hypersensitivity reactions, various unrelated infectious diseases and odor and taste sensations.
Sick building causes are frequently pinned down to flaws in the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Other causes have been attributed to contaminants produced by outgassing of some types of building materials, volatile organic compounds (VOC), molds, improper exhaust ventilation of ozone (byproduct of some office machinery, like photocopiers), light industrial chemicals used within or lack of adequate fresh-air intake and/or air filtration.
But when serious studies were undertaken, it was soon discovered that the measured psycho-social circumstances appeared more influential than the tested environmental factors.
Translation: It's mostly in the mind.


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Coast Guard Taps Cellphone Location Data to Speed Searches
This is a photo of a found kayak in Salem Channel, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. Coast Guard Station Gloucester rescue crews got underway in search of a missing kayaker reported earlier that day and were able to locate the man alive less than an hour later wearing a life jacket. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
BOSTON — The U.S. Coast Guard is tapping into cellphone location data to quickly locate distressed boaters.
The voluntary i911 program lets the Coast Guard access mariners' cellphone locations to help rescue crews find them faster. The software is a free service for all first responders, including the Coast Guard.
"It greatly decreases the time we spend looking for someone and gets the rescue crews out faster," said Chief Petty Officer Andrew Case from the Coast Guard center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
The Coast Guard center in the Northeast was the first to test the system last year and it expanded on March 20 to the rest of the service.
The i911 program requires someone who's in need of help to provide a phone number, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Nicole Groll. Then the mariner — whether a kayaker or commercial fishermen — receives a text message to authorize sharing the phone's GPS location services with the Coast Guard. Once that step is completed, the Coast Guard can access detailed information to narrow a search.
"Now we know where you are and we can send our rescue services directly to you," Groll said from Boston.
The system doesn't take the place of a VHF radio, which remains the best way of communicating in an emergency, she said. The system only works if mariners have enabled the location services on their phones, the Coast Guard said.
Depending on the cellphone service, i911 can determine locations of distressed mariners from up to 15 to 20 nautical miles (28 to 37 kilometers) offshore.
During the pilot period, more than 38,000 search and rescues across the contiguous United States were analyzed, and 89% took place within 20 nautical miles of shore.
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An arterial Line is a thin catheter that is inserted into an artery and connected to a transducer set. Arterial lines enable continuous blood pressure monitoring and access to arterial blood for point of care blood gas analysis and laboratory testing.
The three main sites for arterial cannulation are radial, brachial and femoral. Radial is often the preferred artery due to easy of access and being the most distal.
Arterial lines must be secured with a transparent dressing. They are occasionally sutured into place so this must be considered during care of the line and before removal.
Arterial line patency is maintained with a 0.9% sodium chloride flush, hung under a pressure of 300 millimetres of mercury. 0.9% sodium chloride is the only fluid that should be run through an arterial line giving set at York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.
Arterial lines are normally used in specialist areas such as critical care and theatres because of the potential risks associate with their use. Since 2015, York Teaching Hospital has extended the use of arterial lines to the nurse enhanced unit on the surgical ward. Special safety measures have been put in place for the extension of their use in this clinical environment and all nursing staff in this area have received additional training.
Between 2005 and 2008 , the national patient safety agency had reports of two deaths and 82 other incidences where the wrong infusion fluid was attached to an arterial lines. A further 76 incidents including one case of serious harm, were related to faulty sampling technique. This training video has been created to help improve the dissemination of education around arterial lines. However, you should be signed off as competent and always follow Trust policy when using an arterial line. It is also important that you receive training from your local point of care trainer in the use of the arterial blood gas sampling machine.
Air embolism: this can be caused by accidental injection of air into the line and is reduced by using non-injectable bungs, ensuring the line is adequately primed and expelling air from syringes prior to connection.
Thrombosis: to prevent a thrombosis withdrawn blood should not be returned to the patient, the transducer set should be kept under a pressure of 300 millimetres of mercury to ensure line patiency and the entry site should be checked regularly.
Accidental injection of medications or wrong flush fluid: only the snap back flush should be used for flushing the transducer set and arterial line. The flush bag must be a prescribed back of 0.9% sodium chloride and checked on each nurse change over. Here at York Teaching Hospital only one way, non-injectable bungs must be used on arterial line sets.
Infection: use appropriate asceptic non-touch technique to reduce the risk of infection. The line should also be changed every 72 hours and the insertion site should be regularly monitored for signs of infection.
Haemorrhage: if the patient is awake ensure they are made aware of the line and that accidental removal may cause excessive bleeding, check connections are tight, taps are left in the correct way and the dressing is secure. Alarms should be set on the monitoring equipment so that they will sound if the arterial trace is lost due to accidental removal. Where possible, ensure the line is visible to carers and a sign is placed on the patient board to ensure all staff are aware the line is in situ.
Arterial injury: trauma to the artery can occur during insertion or if a line is in for a prolonged period of time. Correct insertion procedure can reduce this risk and regular observation and assessing of limb perfusion and sensation can help ensure early identification and treatment.


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In PCL of 1919, Tigers were wild, dangerous
This is Part I of a two-part series detailing the wild story of the Pacific Coast League's Vernon Tigers in 1919 and 1920. For Part II, come back to MiLB.com on Monday, Jan. 6.
As the calendar flipped to 1920 100 years ago, the Vernon Tigers were poised to establish an early Pacific Coast League dynasty. They'd finished the World War I-abbreviated 1918 season with a league-best 59-45 record, but the second-place Angels beat them in five games of an ad-hoc seven-game championship series that July. Entering 1919 with their eyes on the prize, they were purchased by a celebrity who imbued the already raucous atmosphere of their games with an outrageous sense of humor. They started slow but stormed to a league title — the first in franchise history — and a national championship.
In January 1920, the Los Angeles Times was confident in the Tigers' posting the PCL's best record for the third straight season, even though they'd lost two valuable third basemen — Bob Meusel (who signed with the Yankees after putting up a .337 average) and Zinn Beck (who left to take a job managing the Charleston Palmettos of the South Atlantic League). The club representing the small city just southeast of Downtown Los Angeles would be fine, the paper suggested, because manager Bill Essick — who years later became a scout for the Yankees and inked a Coast Leaguer named Joe DiMaggio — was "something of a shark at selecting third sackers."
But by the time Tigers fans had cause to celebrate another championship, a dark cloud hovered over Vernon and the league as a whole, taking the shape of a mirror image of the shadow the Black Sox cast upon Chicago and the Majors at roughly the same time.
Rowdy roots
At the close of the 20th century's first decade, both baseball and the Los Angeles area were booming. In this twin growth, the PCL saw an opportunity to add a second LA franchise to complement the Angels, who, as charter members, dated back to '03. PCL officials and Angels president Henry Barry identified Fred Maier as a good owner for a new club. Maier owned a brewery in Vernon, one of two municipalities in LA County where alcohol flowed without legal restrictions. For a reported cost of one dollar, Maier was granted franchise rights for the 1909 season.
Although Maier died that April, Maier Park (built out of the existing South Side Park on Vernon's 38th Street and Santa Fe Avenue) was ready for action. Across the street from the ballyard was Doyle's Bar, known at the time as the longest bar in the world — 100 feet — and featuring over three dozen bartenders each working his own register. The area was a mixture of the rowdy (Jack Doyle was as famous for his neighboring boxing arena as he was for his bar) and rural-idyllic (there was a cow pasture beyond Maier Park's right field fence).
"The Vernon stadium was a good ballpark," Alfie Oliveri, who was a bat boy for the Tiger and the Angels, told a California State University, Fullerton oral history project in the mid-'90s. "It had regular grass, just like Dodger Stadium has today. They had a clubhouse and everything. It was a good professional ballpark."
But the Tigers played the bulk of their home games at Washington Park, which was home to the Angels before they moved to their more well-known Wrigley Field in South Central Los Angeles in 1925, about a 10-minute drive today from the site of Maier Park. Washington Park was initially part of the amusement grounds called Chutes Park, where the Tigers were for their first two years, before being rebuilt on the same space, with home plate moved a few hundred feet southeast, for 1911-24. Because it had a capacity of over 20,000, about four times that of offense-friendly Maier Park, the Tigers used it when the Angels were out of town and generally used Maier Park for the first game of Sunday and holiday doubleheaders, or other special occasions.
This arrangement held for the duration of the Tigers' time in Vernon. Because of what the San Francisco Call described as Vernon's "rowdyism," the league had the Tigers relocate to Venice ("the liveliest town along the southern beaches, per the same Feb. 1, 1913 Call story) in 1913. By the middle of 1915 season, they returned to their original town in a reconstructed and more pitcher-friendly version of Maier Park with twice as many seats. Still, they resumed playing the bulk of their home games at Washington Park.
One hundred years ago, this view would be toward Washington Park's home plate from center.
Arbuckle's team
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was one of Hollywood's most beloved comic stars at the opening of 1919. Photoplay put his name next to Charlie Chaplin's as the top comedy performers of 1918 and praised Arbuckle's work as "consistently funny and human." That year, he'd directed and costarred in seven shorts (often alongside his nephew Al St. John and rising talent Buster Keaton). The title cards and the promotional material for these films carried the label "A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy," giving him the status of a mini-mogul.
He was about to elevate that status. In mid-April 1919, rumors circulated that Arbuckle was buying the Tigers, although the front office issued denials. By the end of the month, the San Pedro Pilot and others were reporting that the comedian had bought the team and installed himself as president. The LA Times started referring to the Tigers as "'Fatty' Arbuckle's boys" in game stories even as it ran an item saying the sale had been delayed. On May 6, the Times ran a story headlined, "Arbuckle is now magnate."
"Doff the skypiece" — that is, tip the hat — "to Master Fatty Arbuckle, for the modern Fallstaff is now a full-fledged baseball magnate," the story began. It went on to detail a meeting the previous day, when Eddie Maier (brother of Tigers founder Fred) handed over the majority share of the team to Arbuckle.
It was at Washington Park where Arbuckle made his first and probably most notable appearance at a Tigers game, although he toured Northern California with the team later in the season. On May 13, the comedian put on a show with Keaton and St. John ahead of the Tigers' 6-5 loss to the San Francisco Seals. The spectacle included a musical performance by a combo called The Black and Tan Jazzers.
"Jazz, movie stuff and baseball is a combination hard to resist," Harry A. Williams wrote in the LA Times. "But the bugs [fans] must not expect this every afternoon. This was a special occasion for the purpose of inducting the new president into public eye."
The induction involved Arbuckle stepping up to the dish against Keaton on the mound, with St. John catching and "an ump wearing spring-bottom pants of the vintage of '76" officiating. Arbuckle initially appeared in the box with a boat oar. Feigning outrage over the ump's demand that he use a proper bat, he returned with what appeared to be one. But when Arbuckle busted the new bat over the head of the ump, it proved to be made of papier mache and filled with confetti.
Keaton's first pitch was a ball of ice that broke up before reaching the plate. His next offering was a firecracker delivered in a replica of grenade. Arbuckle got a good piece of it, causing a loud bang and small explosion. Six months following the end of war, gallows humor was evidently in vogue. Keaton, St. John and the umpire pretended to have been casualties of the blast. Arbuckle reacted with a home run trot around the pitcher's mound.
The Times noted that when Arbuckle's trot was complete, he went out to the Vernon bullpen and warmed up with the Tigers pitchers. But that was the end of his performance that day, as, "After the game there was the daily riot in the right field bleachers. However, Mr. Arbuckle did not participate in this personally. The owner of a club can put on mob scenes at home plate, but he must not riot in the bleachers."
The next day's Los Angeles Herald printed a piece from Arbuckle in which he offered excuses for the loss to San Francisco ("it was the 13th of the month. Then again there are 13 letters in 'the Vernon Tigers.' … [Al DeVormer] bunted so sweet and he ran so sour") but shouldered some of the blame and offered assurances better baseball was ahead.
Roscoe Arbuckle was one of the major stars of early Hollywood. (via Library of Congress)
"I can't blame the boys for losing. This is the first game I've attended and I guess their new boss made them nervous," Arbuckle wrote. "My pal, John McGraw in New York, told me over the long distance phone last night that he'd scout me up some of the finest baseball material that money could buy and I'm going to stick them in the Vernon club until we're invincible. You just watch my smoke. … I didn't come here to brag or to boast but I believe the Vernon club will bring home the bacon wrapped up in a pennant."
Watch their smoke
If Arbuckle didn't fully live up to that lofty talk — McGraw, in fact, helped the Oakland Oaks obtain future Major Leaguer Lance Richbourg and sent scouts to potentially poach some players from the Tigers that July — the team did play well and must have, at times, seemed as "invincible" as Arbuckle had predicted.
But they stumbled out of the gate. As late as May 31, the Tigers were 25-23, looking up at the league-leading Angels (35-18) from fifth place. By July 19, Vernon (55-41) was in second and beginning to breathe down the neck of Los Angeles (59-39). A month later, the Tigers were in first place.
Babe Borton seemed an obvious reason why. Over the last full week in July, he went 14-for-23. The 30-year-old, left-handed-hitting first baseman stayed hot until he missed time late in August with a back injury (an Aug. 30 column by the Herald's Matt Gallagher said "his vertebrae has been shoved back into place"). He returned on Sept. 4 and continued to battle injuries — a knee issue, an illness suffered on the train — but when he was in the game his play was an apparent factor. In an early September series against the Seals, he was 9-for-21 with two homers ("Babe just smacked the old apricot to a fare ye well and showed just what a man can do with a missing vertebra and a bunch of will power to back it," the LA Times wrote). He played spectacular defense during a late-September series against Salt Lake (TheTimes again: "He speared everything that came in his direction, including low, high, wide and wild ones").
The Tigers clinched the title with the first win of a doubleheader sweep of the Angels on Oct. 5.
"Never in the history of baseball was a pennant chase so close as it was between the Los Angeles and Vernon clubs for the last two months," the Herald proclaimed.
Vernon finished 111-70 and was clearly a beautifully balanced club. The pitching staff was fierce. Left-hander Willie Mitchell, fresh off 10 years in the American League, posted a 2.61 ERA over 26 games for the Tigers. Righty Wheezer Del won 25 games and had a 2.38 ERA. The duo of Art Fromme (a former teammate of Christy Matthewson) and Happy Finneran, both righties, were widely considered two of the three best pitchers in the PCL, with the Angels' Doc Crandall also holding a spot.
Aside from Meusel (who would soon sign with the Yankees), the Tigers had .300 hitters in Hugh High (.317), Stump Eddington (.302) and Borton (.303). While all three had spent time in the Majors, the veteran Borton had once led the Federal League (a Major League) in three offensive categories and was still only 31 in '19. He had such talent that to get him in 1913, the Yankees had traded away no lesser a ballplayer than Hal Chase, who led the Federal League in homers (17) two years later and the National League in hitting (.339) the year after that. In a bizarre foreshadowing of Borton's fate, Chase was quietly blackballed from baseball for bribing opposing players.
But before any of Borton's misdeeds were known, he was seen as a hero of the '19 campaign, even though his injuries kept him out action as the Tigers took on the American Association's St. Paul Saints for a seven-game "Minor League World Series" at Washington Park.
"They call the club that came here the Saints," Arbuckle wrote before the opener. "The only saints I ever heard of were dead ones."
With Borton on the injured list due to knee trouble, Vernon took the series, 4-3. Righty Byron Houck, who was related to Arbuckle's business manager (and film producer) Lou Anger through marriage, struck out 11 and scattered six hits in a 2-1 Game 3 win, which included fisticuffs between Beck and an umpire. The home plate umpire had thrown out the ball Houck was using after he'd struck out seven through three innings, and there was a fight after the first base ump (from the American Association) called High out on a close play in the sixth.
Another small uproar had occurred in Game 2, when St. Paul third baseman Tex McDonald began cheating in on Johnny Mitchell on a two-strike count. The Tigers took this as an indicator that a player from another PCL team had "tipped off" the Saints — given them scouting reports on the Vernon team. One newspaper article described the Tigers as "extremely wrathy" over the possibility that somebody had conspired against them.
The irony of their sense of righteousness wouldn't become clear for nearly a year.
Josh Jackson is a contributor to MiLB.com. Follow and interact with him on Twitter, @JoshJacksonMiLB. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.
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I would love to answer you, Tito Boy. But I'll leave this with you: I'm happy with whatever we have right now. I'm super contented. I'm not going to mess this up. That's how happy I am.
I mean no disrespect, but that's all I can give you. As of now, honestly speaking, we want to keep it to ourselves first. It's not that we're not considering to speak out sooner or later on. It might cause more damage if, you know.
He explained that he had to take into account what could happen if the couple spoke up on the subject. After being prodded with the question "If you say yes, what happens?", Arjo clarified that it was the hate his family would receive that bothers him. While he can take the bashing thrown at him, he would like to protect his family members from the worst of it — some of them have already received death threats.
Arjo may not have confirmed Maine to be his girlfriend, but he did promise not to 'see' any other girl. The cutest part? Tito Boy also threw him the hypothetical question: "If you were to marry a girl today and this is the last day of the world, the girl would be?" He bashfully smiled to himself before affirming: "Maine".
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We live in a world made up of a myriad of wonderful colours. Colour affects us emotionally whether are aware of it or not.
Understanding the psychology of colour enables us to use colours to encourage certain moods, induce a feeling of well being and also provoke particular behaviours. Colour influences us all on so many levels and when used in a considered combination can not only enhance our lives but potentially increase productivity and sales for businesses.


This new cookbook from Melissa Hartwig features many quick and easy recipes sure to become fast favorites that you will make again and again whether on a Whole30 or not because they will save you time and they taste good! These recipes were created for use in a slow cooker and/or instant pot so you can fix and forget them as you go about your day and have dinner waiting for you. If you choose the slow cooker, the delicious smell of dinner will greet you, if you choose the instant pot options, the beauty is dinner can be done in no time which is great for when you forgot to prep ahead or if you just prefer the benefits of pressure cooking. In the week since I've had this cookbook, I've made half a dozen of the recipes and all of them have been amazing! The only critique I have is that some recipes have had a little more liquid than I like, but that's not a problem - it left flavorful extra to create a soup for lunch for me the next day. You can check my instagram feed for another recipe (Pork Tenderloin with Butternut Squash) as well as pictures of other recipes I've made. Today, I'm sharing Bacon-Mushroom Chicken with Sweet Potatoes courtesy of the publisher and Melissa Hartwig.
BACON-MUSHROOM CHICKEN WITH SWEET POTATOES excerpted from The Whole30 Slow Cooker© 2018 by Melissa Hartwig. Photography © 2018 by Ghazalle Badiozamani Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Crisp-cooked and crumbled bacon provides a smoky, salty counterpoint to the sweetness of the mashed potatoes in this dish. Look for Whole30-compliant bacon at natural-foods grocery stores—it won't contain added sweeteners, nitrates, nitrites, gluten, lactose, or MSG.
•	IN a 6-quart slow cooker, combine the chicken broth and garlic. Place the potatoes, cut sides down, in the cooker. In a small bowl, combine the dried thyme, ½ teaspoon of the salt, and ½ teaspoon of the pep-per. Place half the chicken thighs, meaty sides up, on the potatoes. Sprinkle with half the thyme mixture. Repeat with remaining chicken and thyme mixture. Add the mushrooms and red onion to the cooker in an even layer.
•	COVER and cook on low for 6 to 7 hours or on high for 3 to 3½ hours. Remove the chicken and potatoes from the cooker. When cool enough to handle, remove the potato skins. Place the potato flesh in a medium bowl; add the coconut oil and the remaining ¼ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper. Using a potato masher, mash potatoes until smooth.
•	SERVE the chicken and vegetables with the mashed potatoes and drizzle with the cooking liquid. Top the servings with bacon and, if desired, fresh thyme.
•	IN a 6-quart Instant Pot, place the carcass, carrots, celery, onions, parsley, thyme, vinegar, pepper-corns, and salt. Add enough water to reach 1 inch below the maximum fill line. Lock the lid in place.
•	SELECT Soup/Broth. Use natural release.
•	STRAIN the broth through a fine-mesh strainer set over a large bowl or clean pot. Discard the solids. Transfer the broth to multiple containers to speed up cooling—don't freeze or refrigerate it while it's hot! Allow the broth to sit in the fridge, uncovered, for several hours, until the fat rises to the top and hardens. Scrape off the fat with a spoon and discard it.
•	REFRIGERATE the broth in airtight containers for 3 to 4 days or freeze for up to 6 months.
TIP: A properly prepared bone broth might look a little jiggly when cold. That's just the gelatin from the collagen in the bones. When ready to use the broth, gently heat it and it will return to a liquid state.


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Below is the text of the speech made by Keith Vaz, the then Foreign Office Minister, on 31st January 2001 at the Polish Embassy in London.
Ambassador Komorowski, Excellencies, Distinguished Guests. I am delighted to have been invited to speak in this prestigious series of Europe lectures at the Polish Embassy, and to see so many friends of Poland present.
This series of lectures is one of the Embassy's many contributions to deeper understanding between the UK and Poland. I would like to pay tribute to the energetic work of the Ambassador in representing Polish interests here. May I also pay tribute to the important contribution to the role of the vibrant Polish origin community in the UK.
The work of the Federation of Poles, the British-Polish Council and the British Polish Chamber of Commerce is crucial in ensuring that the tremendous new opportunities for cooperation opened up over the last ten years are acted on.
Poland and the UK are historic allies. The fine statue of General Sikorski which the Duke of Kent unveiled outside this Embassy last September commemorates Poland's contribution to the allied victory in World War II. And the presentation of an Enigma machine by the Duke of York during his visit in September recalls the vital contribution which Polish intelligence experts made to the deciphering of the Enigma codes.
The UK is fully committed to the work of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee set up last May to research Poland's wartime intelligence contribution. Today we look confidently to the future both as NATO allies and future partners within the European Union. Tony Blair's visit to Warsaw last October, and his landmark speech on the future of Europe, set the seal on a remarkably active year of Ministerial and other exchanges.
Bilateral trade increased by 25 per cent in 2000, and stands at over £2 billion. British investment in Poland is also expanding: Pilkington has for example recently announced the construction of a new plant, and Energis is investing £200 million in a joint venture with Polish Railways.
We have worked hard to ensure enlargement remains at the forefront of the EU's priorities. Our efforts to ensure Poland and the other Central European candidates retake their rightful place at the centre of Europe are clearly bearing fruit. But enlargement is not a favour we are doing for Poland's sake. It has very real benefits both for existing EU members as well as for the candidates.
First, it will finally reunite the continent after the divisions of the Cold War.
Second, it will create the world's largest single market of some 500 million consumers, boosting both trade and jobs.
And third, it will help us tackle more effectively those shared problems – organised crime, drug smuggling, cross-border pollution – that countries cannot combat alone.
That is why the UK is a 'champion of enlargement'. Indeed it was under the UK's Presidency of the EU that negotiations with Poland and five other candidates began in 1998. We have continued to play a leading role since.
Enlargement is a massive topic. So today I would like to focus on two specific areas: prospects for the Swedish presidency and the increasing importance of public opinion.
We enter the Swedish Presidency on the back of a very long and very difficult, but ultimately very successful, Nice European Council.
Nice wasn't easy. But the result was worth it. For the first time the candidates saw on one sheet of paper the number of Council votes they would have, and the number of seats in the European Parliament.
In short, Nice reached agreement on the institutional reforms necessary for enlargement, thus honouring the commitment made at Helsinki for the EU to be ready to accept new members from the end of 2002.
Just as important, Nice set us some targets.
First, echoing Tony Blair's speech in Warsaw, EU leaders said they wanted to see new Member States participating in the 2004 European Parliamentary elections and the next IGC.
Second, the 'road-map' agreed makes possible the end of negotiations in 2002. To achieve this tough target, member states are committed to speeding up the pace of negotiations. But applicant countries including Poland must review their own negotiating strategies. Transition requests need to be reduced to the necessary minimum and accompanied by detailed implementation strategies.
2001 will be a crucial year for enlargement.
With the road-map in place we want to see a 'step-change' in negotiations – both in quality and quantity. And as Robin Cook called for in Budapest last July, we want to begin to solve the difficult issues, rather than only addressing them.
Enlargement is one of the '3 Es' of the Swedish Presidency: Goran Persson has called for a 'political breakthrough'. In Warsaw, Tony Blair did too. The UK will do whatever it can to help the Presidency achieve this.
Previous enlargements have been spurred on by the setting of a target date. Goran Persson has said that achieving this at Gothenburg is an aim for the Swedish presidency, providing that good progress has been made in negotiations. The UK supports this.
But progress in negotiations is only one side of the coin. Just as important is progress 'on the ground'.
The Commission's Progress Report last November showed how well Poland is doing in preparing for accession, particularly in moving towards meeting the Copenhagen economic criteria and in aligning legislation with the EU acquis.
I salute the progress that Poland and all the Central European candidates have made over the past ten years. We should not underestimate the extent of what has already been achieved.
Poland has already provisionally closed 13 of the chapters under negotiation with the EU, and is making good progress on others.
But clearly major challenges remain, particularly in the areas of agriculture, the environment, judicial and administrative reform, and justice and home affairs.
We want to see Poland in the first wave. But it is up to Poland to make sure that it is ready. As Tony Blair said in Warsaw, 'there are no guaranteed places, reform is the only entry ticket'.
That is why the UK is backing up its political support for enlargement with practical action. During my visit to Poland in October 1999, I launched a UK-Poland Action Plan to help Poland prepare for EU accession.
Since then, we have launched a further six bilateral Action Plans with candidate countries, building on what the British Know-How Fund has already achieved. We will launch similar plans with the other candidates during the coming year.
The Plans bring together the UK's pre-accession assistance in a coherent package, and involve the launch of some new projects.
In Poland's case, a very successful local government is promoting closer links between British and Polish regions. And we are about to launch a new programme to share our experience of public diplomacy.
The UK has also won 18 EU financed twinning projects in Poland, as a result of which British experts are working alongside Polish counterparts in the agricultural, environment, customs and telecommunications fields.
But our cooperation goes much wider than this. There is for example much that Britain and Poland can do together in the foreign policy and defence fields.
We are already cooperating as close NATO allies in Kosovo and Bosnia. And the UK continues to support through practical assistance and training the full integration of Polish armed forces within NATO.
We have also worked hard to ensure the new European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is open towards our non-EU NATO partners such as Poland. The Nice European Council set out in detail how this will be achieved.
Like Poland we believe that an effective ESDP needs to be linked firmly within NATO. Effective crisis management will depend on the EU and NATO working closely together at all times and on a wide range of issues.
And Poland has a unique window on the East. We have a common interest in ensuring that EU enlargement does not create new dividing lines in Europe. We are for example working trilaterally with the Polish Know-How Foundation to advise the Ukraine on economic transition.
The FCO recently sponsored a successful trilateral conference in the Ukraine to consider some of the challenges from EU enlargement. We want to deepen triangular cooperation between the UK, Poland and her neighbours to the East.
But as much as we do to promote official contacts, we must not forget the importance of public opinion. Enlargement is not, and must never become, a 'hobby-horse' of the political classes.
Although Polish popular support for EU accession has fallen from some 80 per cent in the early 1990's, it remains solid at around 55 to 60 per cent. The UK has been actively assisting the Polish government in explaining the benefits of EU membership.
But there is more to do. I therefore welcome the Commissioner's planned communication strategy, and Poland's internal EU promotion campaign.
At first glance popular support for enlargement within the EU seems lower. The November 2000 Euro-barometer records 'average' EU support at around 40 per cent.
I know that for some this is a concern. It need not be. The British people are not opposed to enlargement. I know this from my own experience.
When I became Minister for Europe in 1999, Tony Blair asked me to tour the country to explain the benefits of EU membership to people. I have now visited 32 cities. Not once has someone come up to me in Dudley or Edinburgh or Manchester and complained about EU enlargement.
We have produced a quarterly newsletter on enlargement and added new enlargement pages to the FCO's website. We have produced a brochure for UK business on 'enlargement and the single market'. On Europe Day, I opened the doors of the Foreign Office to the public where over 7,000 visitors viewed stands from all the candidate countries. We will build on these activities in 2001.
I have just returned from leading a UK Ministerial team visit to Prague following the success of a similar visit to Bratislava in November. I intend to visit Poland again very shortly.
I will also be hosting a reception in early March to bring together opinion formers from the candidate country communities in the UK in order to promote contacts and increase public awareness of enlargement.
The FCO will publish a new brochure explaining the benefits of enlargement, and develop a video/CD-ROM for use in libraries, universities and schools.
And Czech EU Minister, Pavel Telicka, has agreed to join me when I visit Cambridge as part of my EU roadshow. I hope that other Central European counterparts may be able to join me on future trips too.
All UK political parties support enlargement. So does British business. As the date for enlargement becomes close, and with greater information, I am certain that public support will rise too. A successful enlargement also needs people-to-people contact between current and future EU members.
There is much already. Poles work in London, British people holiday in Poland. But we need to do more. I want to see more Polish schools twinned with British schools and regular exchange programmes established. The enlarged European Union must be a union of peoples not only governments.
Ladies and gentlemen, Europe is standing on the brink of a new era.
I have no doubt that Poland will fit easily into the EU and contribute positively. I want to see negotiations concluded in 2002 and the first accessions – including Poland, and as many others as are ready – before the 2004 European Parliament elections.
With Nice completed, we have a great opportunity to make real and significant progress. We must take advantage of this.
Now the EU has agreed its internal reforms, Poland's accession date is now in Polish hands. Huge efforts will be required, but the prize is great. And the UK stands ready to help in any way possible.


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Cellectar Biosciences (Nasdaq:CLRB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of cancer, and Orano Med (formerly AREVA Med) a subsidiary of Orano, a nuclear biotech company developing innovative therapies in oncology, today announced that the two companies have entered into an agreement to combine certain proprietary technologies from each company to create a novel oncologic therapy. The collaboration will focus on the development of novel phospholipid drug conjugates (PDC™) utilizing Orano Med's unique alpha emitter, lead-212 (212Pb), conjugated to Cellectar's phospholipid ether (PLE). The companies intend to evaluate the new PDC in up to three oncology indications.
Cellectar's proprietary PLE and PLE analogs provide targeted delivery of various molecules, including radioisotopes, to malignant tumor cells with up to 30-fold more payload delivered to the tumor versus normal tissues. Orano Med's 212Pb is a unique alpha emitter that provides high energy delivery over a shorter distance than other radioisotopes. The higher energy associated with alpha particles causes non-repairable double stranded DNA breaks. As a result, enhanced tumor targeting of the construct may allow the 212Pb to provide greater efficacy at lower doses with less side effects.
Orano Med has partnered 212Pb with other companies to create a broad pipeline of tumor targeting 212Pb therapies. These other collaborations are using diverse biological targeting vectors or pursuing indications separate from those planned in this collaboration. Many of these approaches utilize antibodies or peptides; the most advanced of these approaches has recently entered a Phase 1 clinical trial.
Cellectar and Orano Med believe that the PLE conjugated to 212Pb could be an ideal drug candidate and provide improved anti-cancer effects beyond those seen with some of the other delivery technologies.
"This collaboration with Cellectar is an exciting opportunity for Orano Med. Our 212Pb is a powerful radioactive isotope that at low doses kills cancer cells and has limited impact on nearby healthy cells. We believe that 212Pb conjugated to Cellectar's PLE has great potential to improve patient outcomes by having a better efficacy and safety profile than other technologies," said Julien Dodet, CEO of Orano Med.
Under the terms of the agreement, early preclinical costs will be shared equally between the organizations with both parties having an option to advance and commercialize the PDC alone or in collaboration with each other. The option is exercisable after establishment of early proof of concept data.
Click here to read the full article, or visit Cellectar for more infomration. Follow @OranoMed on Twitter.


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I am not sure how the conversation ended, but in all likelihood it was by concluding that 2016 had been a fantastic (& fantastically intense) year. Now that 2016 has come to an end, that has at least been confirmed: wow, what an intense year!
One of the major events was, of course, that Juan Antonio Cordero Fuertes joined my research group at Polytechnique, in September. Actually, his official start date was September 1 – but apparently set on preempting any prejudices (not that we have any…) about "Spanish being late", he started coming in to the office a good week before then. During the few months of 2016 he was with us, he managed all the same to co-author and massively contribute to 3 journal submissions with the rest of the team. And this, in three very different domains spanning from the IoT to the data center. If things go well, they should emerge as good news during the spring.
Yoann Desmouceaux joined me as a PhD student in the spring. I knew him as a (brilliant) student from my classes at X, and an overall great guy – and was thrilled that he came back from a stint at Imperial College, London, to continue with a PhD in my team, in collaboration with Cisco PIRL.
Marceau Coupechoux joined Ecole Polytechnique as an adjunct professor. Marceau is one of the leading academic personalities in advanced cellular networking – 3G/4G/5G and beyond – and his joining the teaching team allows Ecole Polytechnique to really strengthen what we teach in that area. I will co-teach a class with Marceau starting in January, ano I am looking forward to drawing from his vast competencies.
Another major event was that SO-GRID, a large, national, project building a demonstrator of the "Smart Grid" which uses PLC IPv6 end-to-end, completed – successfully.
This was one of Jiazi Yi's major undertakings – he has seen this through from beginning to the successful end. All in all, about a dozen or so publications came out of this, and some very good relationships were forged with other members of the SO-GRID consortium: fro m ST Microsystems over Nexans and Sagemcom, to Landis+Gyr and Trialog, and without forgetting Grenoble-INP, Cap Gemini, ENEDIS, EDF R&D, LANpark … and of course ADEME, the French agency for renewable energy and energy management, which funded the project.
Somewhat related, with Cedric Lavenu from EDF R&D, I co-organized WSPLC2016 at Ecole Polytechnique. A "workshop" on power-line communications in the true sense of the word: workshop. None of those long tedious papers and people droning on while the audience reads email, followed by 2 polite questions from the session chair (sounds sadly familiar? That's pretty much every other workshop out there) – this was two full days of intense discussions. Sure there were presentations – which kicked off the discussions and exchanges. A huge hat-tip to Evelyne Rayssac (Ecole Polytechnique) for dealing with all the logistics so that the ~80 participants could concentrate on science and technology.
Sure there were presentations – which kicked off the discussions and exchanges. A huge hat-tip to Evelyne Rayssac (Ecole Polytechnique) for dealing with all the logistics so that the ~80 participants could concentrate on science and technology.
Of course, tons of other things happened at Ecole Polytechnique and in relationship with Cisco.
The iconic former CEO and now executive chairman of Cisco Systems, John Chambers came to visit, brought with him the French minister of defense, and made buddies with Jacques Biot (president of Ecole Polytechnique).
John, of course, inspired a packed amphi theater of students and staff – oh, and challenged everybody in the process, as he is wont to do.
We took possession of a Cisco-sponsored (& produced) data center – well, two "mini data centers" for supporting the accelerator/incubator/entrepreneurship activities at X, and to support research, respectively.
Guillaune Ladhuie and Christian Kakanou from Cisco came out, set up, and configured, everything. And Maëlan Bouazouzi From the Ecole Polytechnique IT staff worked tirelessly with Guillaume and Christian on integration into our pre-existing infrastructure.
And we co-produced science. I am a great believer in "collaborative research" before "contract research", and always seek the former whenever possible. Thus with Cisco Systems, we prepares 3 journal submissions and one conference submission – the latter didn't involve me, but did invoke Jiazi YI and Pierre Pfister, in collaboration with Keiwen Jin, a student in the ACN Masters program (& Keiwen went expertly present the paper at ICC2016).
With Hitachi Yokohama Research Laboratory, we prepared one journal submission, loosely related to the SmartGrid.
With EDF R&D and ENEDIS, we prepared another journal submission. We did a few "just us" publications too. The list could go on. And we primed the pipeline for next year, of course.
Despite Ecole Polytechnique being an institution with a 200+ year long history, our core values include to be nimble and agile and move society forward. So, again this year, saw a lot of new things happening regarding teaching. I launched (with excellent help from Jiazi YI and Yoann Desmouceaux) a very hands-on course in Cybersecurity at Ecole Polytechnique…the "fun side" of it…the "hacker experience" – gotta do something to keep our IT staff on their toes 😉 and it was a hugely interesting experience. I also launched our Executive Education program in "IoT" – which in 18 days aims at offering industry professionals access to skills, necessary for building connected objects, and which especially covers safety and security of such – important given the recent IoT DDoS fiasco. I also taught a new version of my traditional course, now called "Introduction to Concurrent and Communicating Systems", and finished the draft of two textbooks, which hopefully will get through the editorial grinding machine before spring comes.
Le Journal du Net wanted to hear about what exactly I though was necessary for a professional to know about the IoT – and ZDnet France put me in a talk-show on IoT and SmartGrids.
Le collectif NanoSaclay wanted to know about IoT and SmartCities, so my colleague Berengere Lebental and I went to Orsay and gave a seminar and did Q&A with them.
ARCEP, the French telecom regulator, wanted to know "what to regulate in the IoT", and with Cedric Lavenu I tutorialized G3-PLC at the European Utility Week in Vienna.
We also published a couple of IETF RFCS: on security, on management, and on protocol design.
And, I am certain that I am forgetting something here…this was an intense year.
The X-Cisco symposium will have a 2017-edition: we're aiming for more exciting, more innovative, more everything – stay tuned for an announcement on that really soon.
As I mentioned, we have primed the pipe for 2017…and if all goes well, we'll be pushing out a bit over a dozen major publications in 2017, and starting st least one new project.
There's a non-trivial possibility that two new PhD students will join me in 2017, and we've posted openings for a few internships as well, hopefully getting some good young students, with whom to collaborate in 2017.
Ecole Polytechnique has faculty openings in the computer science department – a bunch of adjunct positions, and one full-time tenure-track junior faculty position is up for grabs. The latter is open-ended, with no thematic label – so I hope that excellent candidates in computer networking will apply & will be successfully recruited.


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Q: How to show validation errors for a login form when fields are empty on submit I'm using the Devise gem for authentication and for the login form when I click on "Log in" with the fields blank I get the error "Invalid Email or password". I think it would be nice just like the registration form to have errors like "Name can't be blank" or "Email can't be blank" depending on the field that is blank. How can one achieve that?
Log in view

Log in

  <%= form_for(resource, as: resource_name, url: session_path(resource_name), data: { turbo: false }) do |f| %>

      <%= f.label :email %>

      <%= f.email_field :email, autofocus: true, autocomplete: "email" %>

      <%= f.label :password %>

      <%= f.password_field :password, autocomplete: "current-password" %>

    <% if devise_mapping.rememberable? %>

        <%= f.check_box :remember_me %>
        <%= f.label :remember_me %>

    <% end %>

      <%= f.submit "Log in" %>

  <% end %>
  <%= render "devise/shared/links" %>

application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  protect_from_forgery with: :exception
  before_action :authenticate_user!
  before_action :update_allowed_parameters, if: :devise_controller?

  def after_sign_up_path_for(_resource)
    groups_path
  end

  def after_sign_in_path_for(_resource)
    groups_path
  end

  protected

  def update_allowed_parameters
    devise_parameter_sanitizer.permit(:sign_up) do |u|
      u.permit(:name, :email, :password, :password_confirmation)
    end
    devise_parameter_sanitizer.permit(:account_update) do |u|
      u.permit(:name, :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :current_password)
    end
  end
end

A: Its pretty trivial to just add a client side validation which will provide immediate feedback if you want to:
# app/views/devise/sessions/new.html.erb

Log in

<%= form_for(resource, as: resource_name, url: session_path(resource_name)) do |f| %>

    <%= f.label :email %>

    <%= f.email_field :email, autofocus: true, autocomplete: "email", required: true %>

    <%= f.label :password %>

    <%= f.password_field :password, autocomplete: "current-password", required: true %>

  <% if devise_mapping.rememberable? %>

      <%= f.check_box :remember_me %>
      <%= f.label :remember_me %>

  <% end %>

    <%= f.submit "Log in" %>

<% end %>
<%= render "devise/shared/links" %>`

The views in your application will take priority over those defined by the engine.
The reason why Devise doesn't actually use model validation at all for sessions is that models are not context aware and adding this feature would add a lot of complexity for very little gain.
Your model doesn't have a concept of "signing in" so if you called resource.valid? it will fire all the validations for creating a record like for example uniqueness of the email.
While you could do this by creating a form object or by overriding the controller method and adding the errors "inline" it provides very little additional value in safeguarding your application against bad user input which is what server side validations are primarily intendended to do (user feedback is the secondary purpose). YAGNI.


When using an SVG resource as the source of an <img> element, the URL fragment identifier may have importance since it could change the rendering of the SVG image if the file uses the :target pseudo-class to customise the rendering of the element identified by the fragment identifier. However, we do not respect those identifiers in WebKit.
Ok, this basically does not allow <image> to do the same thing. Is there anyway to make it more general? Maybe you pass the fragment identifier into SVGImage and handle this there?
> Ok, this basically does not allow <image> to do the same thing. Is there anyway to make it more general? Maybe you pass the fragment identifier into SVGImage and handle this there?
The trick is to read the URL which will need to be done specifically for the various types of elements and CSS properties that support referencing to an SVG file on the network. So, indeed, <svg:image> will require special machinery, and so will a rather long series of CSS properties where we'll need to get at the various StyleImage to read their URLs which we would have recorded upon their creation, likely within CSSImageValue::cachedOrPendingImage().
Antti invited me to start with a fairly focused patch to test the theory that this could be done using an approach where we work out the URL upon retrieving/creating the image from the SVGImageCache. There's more work ahead.
This should be HTMLImageElement::imageSourceURL() I think. That covers srcset too.
> Looks like a good start.
I would like have seen more investigation how to archive this directly. This just handles one use case. There are many more starting with CSS Images going on to SVG images. I am sad that we didn't discuss this before giving r+. Especially because I commented before.
> > Looks like a good start.
> I would like have seen more investigation how to archive this directly. This just handles one use case. There are many more starting with CSS Images going on to SVG images. I am sad that we didn't discuss this before giving r+. Especially because I commented before.
We had some chats on #webkit yesterday where Antti advised to start small. We also discussed how make this work with images referenced to from CSS. Sorry if I didn't try harder to include you in the conversation, I'll make sure to give you a heads-up on future work in this area.
> > > Looks like a good start.
> > I would like have seen more investigation how to archive this directly. This just handles one use case. There are many more starting with CSS Images going on to SVG images. I am sad that we didn't discuss this before giving r+. Especially because I commented before.
> We had some chats on #webkit yesterday where Antti advised to start small. We also discussed how make this work with images referenced to from CSS. Sorry if I didn't try harder to include you in the conversation, I'll make sure to give you a heads-up on future work in this area.
It is usually best practice to summarize the discussions on the bug and let others response to this first. Again, since I wrote a comment and didn't have the time to response to your answer, I think that the procedure here was less than optimal.
> > > > Looks like a good start.
> > > I would like have seen more investigation how to archive this directly. This just handles one use case. There are many more starting with CSS Images going on to SVG images. I am sad that we didn't discuss this before giving r+. Especially because I commented before.
> > We had some chats on #webkit yesterday where Antti advised to start small. We also discussed how make this work with images referenced to from CSS. Sorry if I didn't try harder to include you in the conversation, I'll make sure to give you a heads-up on future work in this area.
> It is usually best practice to summarize the discussions on the bug and let others response to this first. Again, since I wrote a comment and didn't have the time to response to your answer, I think that the procedure here was less than optimal.
I recognize that and will be more forthcoming on future work.
I'll note however that you hadn't participated in the discussion of https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91790 over the last couple of days as I was working on the broader issue before deciding to focus on the <img> case (this bug) first. I had even emailed you directly when the first patch was up for review and the patch was just sitting there, bug comments unanswered.
> > > > > Looks like a good start.
> > > > I would like have seen more investigation how to archive this directly. This just handles one use case. There are many more starting with CSS Images going on to SVG images. I am sad that we didn't discuss this before giving r+. Especially because I commented before.
> > > We had some chats on #webkit yesterday where Antti advised to start small. We also discussed how make this work with images referenced to from CSS. Sorry if I didn't try harder to include you in the conversation, I'll make sure to give you a heads-up on future work in this area.
> > It is usually best practice to summarize the discussions on the bug and let others response to this first. Again, since I wrote a comment and didn't have the time to response to your answer, I think that the procedure here was less than optimal.
> I recognize that and will be more forthcoming on future work.
> I'll note however that you hadn't participated in the discussion of https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91790 over the last couple of days as I was working on the broader issue before deciding to focus on the <img> case (this bug) first.
If there is no comment, you obviously don't need to wait for it. If there is, like here, then it is different. Wouldn't you agree?
> > > > > > Looks like a good start.
> > > > > I would like have seen more investigation how to archive this directly. This just handles one use case. There are many more starting with CSS Images going on to SVG images. I am sad that we didn't discuss this before giving r+. Especially because I commented before.
> > > > We had some chats on #webkit yesterday where Antti advised to start small. We also discussed how make this work with images referenced to from CSS. Sorry if I didn't try harder to include you in the conversation, I'll make sure to give you a heads-up on future work in this area.
> > > It is usually best practice to summarize the discussions on the bug and let others response to this first. Again, since I wrote a comment and didn't have the time to response to your answer, I think that the procedure here was less than optimal.
> > I recognize that and will be more forthcoming on future work.
> > I'll note however that you hadn't participated in the discussion of https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91790 over the last couple of days as I was working on the broader issue before deciding to focus on the <img> case (this bug) first.
> If there is no comment, you obviously don't need to wait for it. If there is, like here, then it is different. Wouldn't you agree?
I don't dispute that. I wanted to point out that there was time to participate in the conversation (well more of a monologue) that had started on https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91790 and then on IRC.
Now, in order to have a broad fix that applies to CSS properties as well, suggestions are very welcome. Feel free to comment on https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91790..
I think that this change caused a crash, see bug 129498.
> I think that this change caused a crash, see bug 129498.
Thanks for the report Alexey, I'll look into it tomorrow.
Something that we use everywhere is an SVGImage. We use it for CachedImages in CSS and for <img> as well as <image>.
So why not take the url and use it within SVGImage? Then you can call scrollToFragment() in SVGImage::draw(). At this point you have a guaranteed Frame and the crash should not appear as well.
It is also a way forward when looking at CSS Images later. CSS Images are a bit more trickier. At this point we have a higher priority than SVG stacks for CSS images. I am happy to chat about the problems that I see once you get there.
> Something that we use everywhere is an SVGImage. We use it for CachedImages in CSS and for <img> as well as <image>.
> So why not take the url and use it within SVGImage? Then you can call scrollToFragment() in SVGImage::draw(). At this point you have a guaranteed Frame and the crash should not appear as well.
> It is also a way forward when looking at CSS Images later. CSS Images are a bit more trickier. At this point we have a higher priority than SVG stacks for CSS images. I am happy to chat about the problems that I see once you get there.
Are you suggesting that calling setURL() on SVGImageForContainer should simply forward the call to the `SVGImage* m_image` and then move the call to scrollToFragment() in SVGImage::draw()?
> > Something that we use everywhere is an SVGImage. We use it for CachedImages in CSS and for <img> as well as <image>.
> > So why not take the url and use it within SVGImage? Then you can call scrollToFragment() in SVGImage::draw(). At this point you have a guaranteed Frame and the crash should not appear as well.
> > It is also a way forward when looking at CSS Images later. CSS Images are a bit more trickier. At this point we have a higher priority than SVG stacks for CSS images. I am happy to chat about the problems that I see once you get there.
> Are you suggesting that calling setURL() on SVGImageForContainer should simply forward the call to the `SVGImage* m_image` and then move the call to scrollToFragment() in SVGImage::draw()?
Small comments but otherwise looks good.
Could you add an ASSERT(view) right behind FrameView* view = frameView(); earlier in this method please?
If it is possible to remove #include "SVGImage.h" from SVGImageForContainer.h, then do this in this patch as well please.


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Q: kodi with split tunnel VPN I have searched the forum and beyond but have not found an answer to my problem, So....
I have installed kodi on top of Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS which is all running on an Intel NUC.
I have installed a split tunnel system where all traffic goes through the usual internet connection with the exception of user2 who's traffic goes through the VPN I have set up. I have tested this by running
$ curl ipinfo.io

and
$ sudo -u user2 -i -- curl ipinfo.io

The first command shows my ISP's IP address and the second command shows my VPN's IP address as expected.
I have done this to allow me to run kodi under user2 while being logged into Ubuntu under user1. This allows me to SSH into my Ubuntu system under user1 which would not be possible if everything went through the VPN.
From the log in screen I can run kodi or Ubuntu for a number of users that I have set up. However I want to log into Ubuntu as user1 and then within the Ubuntu session run kodi under user2. So I thought I could do the following:
Log into Ubuntu as user1, open a terminal and run
$ su - user2

Then run kodi by typing
$ sudo kodi

I have to type 'sudo kodi' instead of 'kodi' otherwise kodi does not run and gives a GUI error. However, when doing this the kodi user is user2 (user setup for VPN) but running the speed test app for kodi shows that the connection is not running through the VPN as expected. I know kodi is through user2 as the add-ons I have installed are the ones for kodi under user2.
So, why is kodi using the user2 settings but not using the VPN? Is this to do with me running 'sudo kodi' in the terminal or could it be something else?
Come to think of it, is what I'm trying to do even possible?
Any help much appreciated.

A: Install kodi-standalone and run it with systemd then apply vpn split iptable rules for kodi user.
https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:HOW-TO:Autostart_Kodi_for_Linux

A: OK, well, I finally found a solution thanks to help from the kodi forum. In the end the solution is very simple. I can log into Ubuntu as user1 as usual. Then I simply switch users to user2 and then run kodi under user2.


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New Teslas are having problems with peeling paint and even rust
Problem is specific to Model 3.
Tesla has with Model 3 expanded from prestigious vehicle manufacturer, to a manufacturer, that also offers affordable cars and thus offered its vehicles to slightly less wealthy customers. It has, of course, not done so without some compromises, including in the selection of the materials from which the cars are made. If both the X and S models consist of aluminium, steel has also been used for Model 3. This is where the problems are also occurring.
From Finland comes the video recorded by Joni Savolainen, a computer programmer, who has on 29th of March this year recieved his Model 3. However, even though it is a new car for which he has paid around $ 45,000 (40,000 euros), he began to detect the first body problems after one month. On 29th in April, he began to notice that the paint on the vehicle is fading on some parts, which is due to a lack of application. The Tesla agent reacted to the complaint by stating that such injuries or defects were not covered by the guarantie. Although the measurements have shown that the colour on these vehicles is extremely thin, in some parts up to 50 per cent thinner than with competition, poor design of the vehicle also added up to the problem. There is, for example, an impact of rocks from under the wheels on the track and the edges of the mudguards, which further helps to exfoliate.
However, from April to now, the problems have only escalated. A few days ago, Savolainen made a new video showing not only disappearing colors, but also areas where the robots at Fremont didn't even apply it. Most of this is around the areas around the bottom of the door. At the same time, he noted that his car , the specifically at the lower edge of the door, and the thresholds, were also experiencing rust problems, as a result of the abovementioned use of steel, which, on top of everything, appears to be poorly protected.
Well, the rust problem with the Tesla Model 3 is definitely not new. In particular, from the northern countries – particularly in Canada, where, due to the sharp winters on the roads, more salt – the owners of these cars reported problems with the brown bodywork parts last year, but they have not yet decided to act on this matter in the management of the Tesla brand.
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Berit Beck family seeks justice
This story was originally published by The Reporter on April 6, 2014
Berit Beck family seeks justice This story was originally published by The Reporter on April 6, 2014 Check out this story on fdlreporter.com: https://fondul.ac/1tdKsLH
Sharon Roznik, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 12:24 p.m. CT June 9, 2016
A cross marks the area where Berit Beck's body was discovered on Brown Road, north of Waupun. Tuesday April 7, 2015. Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis(Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis)
For more than two decades the Beck family has awakened each morning not knowing who murdered their loved one, Berit Beck.
Now, with new light shed on the case and an investigation into Dennis J. Brantner, 60, of Kenosha, for evidence of party to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide, hope has been renewed.
"Always there was hope — absolutely," said Diane Beck.
The promise she made at her 18-year-old daughter's gravesite to fight for justice has never been forgotten.
First the news brought disbelief. Detectives from the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office visited Diane and David Beck in their Union Grove home about a month ago, told them they had something to talk to them about — hard evidence regarding Berit's unsolved case.
"I called our son Ben and told him to come over too, but he said he was at work and nothing had ever panned out before," Diane Beck said.
Ben Beck turned 16 years old during the six-week stretch his sister was missing. Berit Beck was murdered on July 17, 1990, and her body was found Aug. 22 dumped in a Fond du Lac County ditch near Waupun.
"They were so close and this was so hard on him. It was supposed to be an exciting time for a teenage boy, getting a driver's license. Instead it is a birthday he will never forget," Diane Beck said.
At first Berit's parents kept the news of a new suspect to themselves. They'd been down this road so many times through the years and it just got harder as time went on.
"Everything was so time-consuming, 'this is what's happening now, but you have to wait for this and for that.' So at first we didn't have a big reaction," Diane Beck said.
However, the family now believes this time justice will prevail.
"Just the fact that we have a name and evidence on this guy... I don't know. There is part of me that thinks, OK when I see him handcuffed and behind bars maybe it will all seem a little bit more real," Diane Beck said.
Brantner, who has a criminal record, lives in Kenosha — close enough to the Beck family to give Diane Beck the creeps.
"I want anyone connected and responsible for the brutal crime against my daughter to pay big time for this," Diane Beck said. "I have been without her for almost 24 years and they have been out walking free all this time.
"No more. No more," she continued. "Someone needs to get locked up and put away for a long time and I won't stop until this happens."
Beck said she doesn't know if the crime lab made a mistake years ago or if it was an oversight. She chooses to believe that "fresh eyes" looking into things may have turned the tides.
"This is what we have been clinging to for the last 10 to 15 years, at least. We have great faith in the Fond du Lac detectives who are working on Berit's case. They were always so encouraging and it seemed to bother them as much as it bothered us," Diane Beck said.
When The Reporter published a story last July on Cold Cases including the Beck case, Diane Beck said she received many calls from people stating they thought the perpetrator had already been caught.
"It was really amazing the phone calls that came in after the story ran. But we always said, there is somebody out there that knows something," Diane Beck said.
Members of Racine Bible Church supported the family through the worst of times. When Berit went missing they moved into the Beck home and arranged search parties that went out twice a day, ranging from Sturtevant to Fond du Lac, and back.
Diane Beck now leads the Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter of Compassionate Friends, a group that helps families that have had children die.
"I hope this encourages other families that are dealing with the loss of children. There are so many missing children out there," Diane Beck said.
There were times when the discouragement was almost too much to bear. The Becks had gone through some horrible illnesses that made them think one of them might not be there at the end to see the promise through for Berit.
"People said 'Well, you will find out what happens when you get to heaven,'" Diane Beck said. "No, when I get to heaven we will never have to remember the ugly, awful stuff that happened to our family. That is why I needed an answer while I was still walking the earth."
Now, with the release of the new findings to the public, the Becks see an end in sight.
"My God, thank you, thank you for sticking by us and helping us through this rough time," Diane Beck said she prayed.
Contact Sharon Roznik at sroznik@fdlreporter.com or (920) 907-7936.
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