What's up with the stamps?
I stamp stuff. You bring me your ideas and I stamp it to approve or dissaprove of it.
Do you work in a post office??
Your name is no longer Joaquim. From now on I am calling you JudgeQuim. Unfortuenatley you have have no jurisdiction though.
No I do not but when someone comes up with an idea I act like if I work at a post office and start stamping stuff. Besides I'm too young to have a full time job.
It would be good if you could turn it on/off.
Given their track record of nerfed programming attempts and "fixes", if they tried to implement the ability to turn event bonuses on and off the world might explode.
Lambs being led to the whale slaughter house.
That is an excellent idea, then MW would have to provide some legit incentives to level up, other than the obvious, a visit to the whale slaughter house.


I'm using Kaspersky Internet Security 2019 on Windows 10 x64, and it has issues with driver version .21. Fortunately, my VPN service (TorGuard) provides two driver versions for compatibility reasons -- .9 and .21.
So I was wondering if .9 is still safe to use.
TAP 9.0.0.9 is the NDIS5 version shipped with OpenVPN 2.3 which is for use with Windows XP.
TAP 9.0.0.21is the NDIS6 version shipped with OpenVPN 2.4 which is not for use with Windows XP.
So .9 on Windows 10 is not safe to use?
I've switched to Windows Defender.


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StyleGAN es una red generativa antagónica. Se la utiliza para la generación de imágenes, principalmente de rostros. Nvidia lo presentó en diciembre de 2018 y publicó el código en febrero de 2019.

Historia
En diciembre de 2018, los investigadores de Nvidia introdujeron StyleGAN, en forma de una preimpresión junto con el software. Era ejecutada por comunes procesadores GPU de Nvidia.

En febrero de 2019, Phillip Wang, un ingeniero de Uber, utilizó el software para crear This Person Does Not Exist (Esta persona no existe), el cual mostraba una cara nueva en cada recarga de la página.

En septiembre de 2019, un sitio web Generated Photos (Fotos generadas) publicó 100,000 imágenes como colección de fotos de stock. La colección estuvo hecha utilizando un privado dataset hecho en un entorno controlado con la luz y las posiciones de camera consistentes.

De modo parecido, dos facultades de la Escuela de Informática de la Universidad de Washington utilizó StyleGAN para crear Which Face is Real? (¿Qué cara es real?), la cual desafió a los visitantes a diferenciar entre una foto real y una falsa. La facultad declaró que la intención era "educar al público" sobre la existencia de esta tecnología, para evitar ser engañados en el futuro.

StyleGan-2
La segunda versión de StyleGAN, llamada StyleGAN-2, se publicó el 5 de febrero de 2020. Elimina algunos de los artefactos característicos y mejora la calidad de la imagen.

StyleGan-3
En 2021, se publicó una tercera versión que mejora la consistencia entre los detalles finos y gruesos del generador. Denominada "sin alias", esta versión se implementó con pytorch. StyleGAN-3 mejora a StyleGAN-2 resolviendo el problema de "pegado de la textura", que se puede ver en los vídeos oficiales. Analizaron el problema mediante el teorema de muestreo de Nyquist-Shannon, y argumentaron que las capas del generador aprendieron a explotar la señal de alta frecuencia en los píxeles sobre los que operan.

Controversias
Hay quienes relacionan esta tecnología con deepfakes y su uso potencial para propósitos oscuros.

En diciembre de 2019, Facebook borró la red de cuentas con identidades falsas y mencionó que se utilizaron fotos de perfil creadas con la inteligencia artificial.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 El papel original de 2018 'A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Network' en arxiv.org
 StyleGAN a Github.com
 This Person Does Not Exist

Realidad virtual
Computación gráfica
Aplicaciones de la inteligencia artificial

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I forgot to post about this yesterday.
While I was reading my morning devotion, I turned to the devotional scripture in Luke 7:11-17. Surprisingly, I opened my Bible up to that exact page without having to turn any others.


Top Stories: The excitement at Obama's campaign headquarters in 2008 has been "replaced with a methodical and workmanlike approach to manufacturing the winning coalition that came together more organically and enthusiastically for him the last time, a more arduous task with no guarantee of success."
World: The Times report on U.S. talks with Iran has prompted both Obama and Netanyahu to try to "to control the message to avoid further flare-up."
U.S.: The owners of a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix hope to sell it before it is given landmark status does to "safeguard their investment, as well as their livelihood."
Business: A detailed look at the wealth of the family of China's prime minister Wen Jiabao.
Technology: Amid losses, Amazon is unlike its competition because "it is not trying to make money. It is instead trying to grow as fast as it can, something it has been doing successfully for 15 years. What was once a cute start-up is now one of the country's biggest retailers."
Sports: The San Francisco Giants pitchers Tim Lincecum and Barry Zito share a friendship and Cy Young awards.
Opinion: David Brooks explains the concept of being a moderate politician.
Art & Design: The American Museum of Natural History is reopening its Theodore Roosevelt Memorial where his legacy is on view but "we also see the traces of something else — something avoided, perhaps, a reluctance to explore the man fully while paying him tribute."
Books: Dwight Garner takes on The Richard Burton Diaries, which include the detail and vocabulary of Burton and Elizabeth Taylor's life together, but which Garner admired "for its deeper and more insinuating qualities as well. First among them is that Richard Burton, a maniacal reader his entire life, was handy with the English language."


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Apple will appeal Brazil's ban on selling iPhones without chargers
The Brazilian government's restriction on selling iPhones without chargers was announced by Apple Inc. on Tuesday. The company refutes allegations that it provides consumers with a subpar product.
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Apple was fined $12.275 million reais ($2.38 million) by Brazil's Justice Ministry and told to stop selling iPhone 12 and newer versions. Additionally, Apple must stop marketing any iPhone models that lack a charger.
The ministry said that the device is missing a crucial component and "is being employed in an intentionally discriminatory activity against consumers" in a judgement that was published in the country's official newspaper on Tuesday.
Authorities disagreed with Apple's claim that the action was taken to lower carbon emissions. They claimed that there is no proof that selling smartphones without a charger helps to safeguard the environment.
While concurrently contesting the Justice Department's ruling, Apple stated that it would continue to cooperate with Senacon, Brazil's consumer protection organization, to "allay their worries."
According to the business, "We have already prevailed in a number of cases in Brazil pertaining to this subject, and we are certain that our consumers are aware of the many methods to charge and connect their devices."
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South Park creators raise $20m for deepfake studio
Bloomberg lists key economic risks for 2022
Researchers: LEGO sets are better investment than gold and bonds
Expert: Fertilizers shortages could cause famine in the world's poorest countries
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The Student Voice at the Albany is significant and respected by staff and pupils. We strive to ensure that students are involved in decisions that affect the environment in which they learn. To become a member of the Student Voice a letter of application is sent to the senior year 11 prefects who discuss applications with the Assistant Head Teacher.
Student Voice worked closely with the Head Teacher and the Assistant Head in the design and content of Upper and Lower school journals. Students have been involved in the interview process with all Senior Leadership Team members for the past two years, this included the appointment of the current Head Teacher. Student Voice have presented to the Head Teacher and the Governoring Body with regard to new toilet facilities and the introduction of summer uniform.
On Open evenings despite the school closing at 1.25pm, 190 students return at 6.00pm to work in departments or guide and speak to prospective parents. Senior Year 11 prefects meet with the Assistant Head Teacher every Friday. Year 10 and 11 prefects organise parent evenings. This includes greeting parents, logging attendance and distributing refreshments.
Year 10 prefects and Student Voice members assist in the running of the reading zone.
Each area liaises with a middle manager or senior leader. Students are familiar with the routines of parents and open evenings and have become reliable ambassadors for the school. Student Voice had devised questionnaires with the focus of improving the learning experience for different subject areas and presented their findings to relevant Heads of Department.


Remembering Shakespeare is an original and deeply moving meditation on how Shakespeare's words continue to shape our lives. Cecilia Rubino, Will Lucas and Peter Lucas's hauntingly beautiful film, and their unforgettable cast of characters, has transformed for me what it means to "commit" something to memory. I very much hope that many others - young and old - have the chance to experience and be transformed by it.
Our documentary, Remembering Shakespeare, engages participants in a dialogue about memory, memorization and how Shakespeare's words continue to live in us.
Shakespeare is the most remembered writer of all time. People from around the globe know lines from his plays and sonnets. Perhaps we remember Shakespeare today because collectively we are struggling with a crisis of memory. Shakespeare was writing in early print culture and we are living in the age of early digital culture. During the Elizabethan era, the reliance on oral culture shifted as public access to print texts expanded and literacy rates rose. Today, we are experiencing a similar process of change as myriad forms of digital technology are transforming how we think; what's important to know; and what we value. If our memories can be contained on our phones, what do we in fact really need to remember?
In Shakespeare's time, knowledge was still associated with human memory. His sonnets and plays are drenched in references to remembering. As a playwright, he was dependent on the memory of his actors to speak the words as he had written them. Today, besides those in the acting profession, few of us need to memorize anything. But studies on creativity suggest that new ideas are formed in the crucible of our memories and that memorization or 'knowing things by heart' can contribute to unexpected connections and new thinking.
This journey began with a series of free classes on Shakespeare and memory for the elderly taught by New School theater professor Cecilia Rubino at the Jefferson Market Public Library in Greenwich Village. From these sessions, we realized that a broad cross-section of people in New York live with Shakespeare's words embedded in their daily lives. We followed up these classes with interviews of people who are passionate about particular lines of Shakespeare. Recurring themes are that people remember lines and phrases from Shakespeare that are connected to their own personal stories. Our film is mainly set in New York and as we moved around the city making the link between Shakespeare and these unexpectedly moving personal stories, we've tried to evoke a visual side of New York that compliments Shakespeare's poetry.
The film is now finished with a running time of 80 minutes. And as we move into distribution and festival submission, we humbly ask if you would consider contributing to our film to help finance the marketing, publicity, and the networking strategies so that our film can reach a diverse audience. Contributions can be made via our Participation tab and all donations to the film are tax deductible. You can also reach us with our Contact page.


In uefa competitions, the stadium has also been known. Startbevis, startbevis skickas ut via mail med information när loppet närmar sig. The remaining stocks were bought by Malmö FF during 2016, leaving them with the sole ownership of the stadium. 40 The first match played at Stadion, a 30 Allsvenskan victory for Malmö FF against Örgryte IS on, attracted 23,347 spectators. The game was the last of the season, and the victory secured that year's league championship for Malmö.
Retrieved "Publikliga" (in Swedish). Local transit authority Skånetrafiken also operates dedicated match-day buses, branded as line 84, which run to the stadium from different areas of Malmö. Pre-match and half-time activities take place behind the terracing of the Northern Stand. Det är födelseår som styr vilket lopp man springer. At the supporter centre, fans can buy souvenirs, and tickets to away matches. The graphical profile of the advertisement was also given a light blue background with white text to adhere to the club's colours. 17 uefa had previously criticized the surface at the stadium following the 201415 uefa Champions League group stage. Malmöloppet och Kalvinknatet Malmö arrangeras samma dag och plats, 10 juni på "Tallriken" i Pildammsparken.


How should the Church address social transformation and spiritual transformation?
Since God is the Bridegroom of the Church, we must devote ourselves to knowing him intimately so that we might please him and effectively serve him in this loving union throughout this life and the next.
I love reading through God's Story chronologically as it gives lots of little puzzle pieces that then make the big picture a little more clear. Along with clarity in the story we also get to meet interesting people on the journey.
Together let's stir things up, in our relationships, our churches, our communities, and our world. For the time is now for us to act, to lead. To live out what Jesus prayed for us that night so long ago.


This autumn, Kunlabora warmly welcomed Koenraad Verheyden, Seppe Gielen and Bart Gauquie.
Koenraad has been working as a full-stack developer for a year and joins us at Kunlabora to work and learn together. In his free time he loves to tinker with electronics. Combined with his passion for creative coding, this makes Koenraad your go-to comrade for fun hobby projects. He also likes music.
Seppe is an enthusiastic developer with seven years of experience. His large collection of boardgames proves that he is a real games fanatic. When he isn't playing a game you'll probably find him in the kitchen or with a good book. His drive for an open culture focused on growth will be a good fit within Kunlabora.
Bart Gauquie is an experienced agile software engineer, taking great pride in developing custom, high quality software solutions in a team while deeply involving the customer. Bart is happily married, enjoys music, learning to play the piano and has a private pilot license.
Let's take this Kunlabora flight together!


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Back Stories » Asia » Amid Concerns Over East Sea, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to Visit US This Month
Amid Concerns Over East Sea, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to Visit US This Month
Wednesday, 24 May 2017.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will begin a visit to the United States on May 29, culminating in a stop at the White House on May 31.
VnExpress reports that Phuc's trip follows an invitation from US President Donald Trump. The two leaders will discuss bilateral relations and regional cooperation.
Phuc won't be the first Vietnamese official to visit the White House this year, as foreign minister Pham Binh Minh met with Trump last month. However, he is the first Southeast Asian leader to head to the US capital.
The visit comes as regional leaders are working to gauge the Trump administration's stance on key issues such as the East Sea and China's involvement in territorial disputes. The heads of Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore have also been invited to the White House.
Zachary Abuza, a Southeast Asia analyst based in Washington, told VnExpress, "Southeast Asian nations really want to know that the US is committed to peace and security in the region, and that it is not just a chit to be played with the Chinese."
The US has lost standing in the eyes of many in the region since President Trump took office in January. The news source cites a recent study by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore which showed that 75% of respondents, mainly government officials, businesspeople and academics, see China, not the US, as the dominant player over the next decade.
Meanwhile, two-thirds of respondents view the US less favorably than at the start of the year.
Vietnamese leaders hope Phuc's visit will shed light on how Trump plans to interact with the country, and Southeast Asia as a whole.
"Key tenets of their strategy for dealing with China, the TPP, or continued US engagement, are now really in doubt," Abuza, the analyst, told VnExpress. "No country in the past few years did more than Vietnam to engage the US and ensure that it was committed to regional peace, prosperity and freedom of the seas than Vietnam. They have a lot riding on this."
President Trump is scheduled to visit Vietnam for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Da Nang in November.
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- Vietnam Formally Invites Trump to Da Nang APEC Summit
- Trump Sends Letter to Vietnam President, Hints Future Visit in November
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Saigoneer in Asia
11 Nests of Rare Sea Turtles Found in Thailand Amid Lockdown
When the cat's away, the mice will play; or in this case, during pandemic lockdown, animals will reclaim the spaces once bustling with human activity.
18 Incredible Photos of 1950s Hong Kong
Like Saigon, Hong Kong has long been one of Asia's most important commercial centers and both had been shaped by European colonial powers for nearly a century before being captured by the Japanese dur...
19 Singlish Words Added to Oxford English Dictionary
Earlier this year, the prominent Oxford English Dictionary added to its tome a host of new Singlish words, recognizing more of the Lion City's colloquial terminology.
22 Killed, 120 Injured In Blast At Central Bangkok Shrine
A massive explosion tore through a popular Hindu shrine at the Ratchaprasong intersection in Bangkok last night, killing 22 and injuring 120 more.
22 Pictures Of China's Strangest Chairs
In his series "Bastard Chairs", German photographer Michael Wolf captures some pretty interesting seating arrangements.
3 Massive Statue Heads Unearthed At Cambodian Temple
Last weekend, three massive Angkorian-era statue heads at Banteay Chhmar temple in Banteay Meanchey Province were unearthed.


Following several days without bitter cold or rain, and with summer temperatures being sustained for more than three days of summer, the Church of England has launched a manual of advice for coping with unAnglican forms of summer weather.
Clergy are advised to brag on Twitter about how cool their churches remain, despite it being up in the 80s or 90s outside.
The manual is only available online as it is not expected to be required very often. However, the far more popular tract "Water: how to stem its flow into your church from all directions" continues to be a bestseller.


Question: In a meeting yesterday in trying to explain my husbands mentality, I'm afraid I spoke Loshon Hara (slanderous speech) on people I never knew and are no longer alive. If my husband would know it would be a disaster…. What can I do to correct what I've done (Teshuva)?
Answer: Thank you for your question. The prohibition of Loshon Hara is specifically when you are spreading negative information for no constructive purpose. If there was a purpose in sharing that information, even if only to seek advice from others, it is allowed, and no Teshuvah is necessary. If this is not the case, then appropriate acts of Teshuvah would be to donate more charity than usual, to study the laws of Shemiras HaLashon (guarding your speech), and to help familiarize others regarding these laws.


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Hollywood Myths: Mark Wahlberg's Third Nipple
Max Evry 08/06/2013
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Finally, a trilogy that won't disappoint.
Word on the block is that "2 Guns" actor/ nutritional supplementer Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple. If what the new kids on said block say is true, then Wahlberg would join such fictional luminaries as Krusty the Clown or Chandler from "Friends" as proud owners of an extra (although equally unnecessary) male milk nozzles. Say hi to your mother for me, indeed.
Feel the vibrations as we titillate our readers with a celebrity deformity so bizarre it couldn't possibly be real … right?
Roughly 1 in 18 men have this magical third utter, known among learned breastologists under the condition polythelia, or a "supernumerary nipple." Women can also receive an extra honker at birth, but only 1 in 50. Not good odds, "Total Recall" fans. In the olden pre-Salem days of witch hunting in Europe extra nipples were considered Satanic, known in colloquial terms as "witch's teats," and those who had them were tortured and/or burned at the stake.
Other talented men who reportedly bare this mark of the beast (or breast) are fellow thesps Frank Langella and Zac Efron, as well as musicians like Jackson Browne, Harry Styles of One Direction and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones. No wonder he had such sympathy for the devil.
Mark Wahlberg first hit the scene as lead singer/frontman of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch and as a Calvin Klein underwear model. He dropped the "Marky" and the Bunch when big-screen roles started racking up, proving a capable presence in movies for Paul Thomas Anderson ("Boogie Nights"), David O. Russell ("I ♥ Huckabees") and Martin Scorsese ("The Departed"). He's also probably clocked more shirtless hours on-screen than Sasha Grey, right up through this year's bodybuilding crime thriller "Pain & Gain," so we've had more than ample opportunity to gaze at the little pink dot below his left nipple and wonder …
Evidence For It
Well, see for yourself…
Look closer!
Too close!
Evidence Against It
For his performance as a studly singer in "Rock Star," producers opted to use computers to slice off what Wahlberg would not remove in real life. "There was a big debate over whether or not to remove it," an anonymous crew member told WENN in 2001. "They decided it was just too weird, so it was digitally removed. How many rock stars do you know with three nipples?" Its absence from "Rock Star," or the fact that it simply looks like a mole or beauty mark, may have led some to question its existence, but we know better, don't we?
The Peanut Gallery
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"Anyone know the truth? His new movie 'Ted' might be erotic and steamy for me if I could just get the image of 'three nipples' out of my mind. So far the promotional posters showing Mark as Ted laughing are erotic and steamy. Fetish, you know. Three nipples ruin my fetish." — "eric-paddon," IMDB message boards
"I read an interview with him on teen mag that he doesnt like takin off his shirt cause it takes time to cover up his tatoos n his third nipple in make up." — milky, Mark Wahlberg message boards
"I can only imagine.. homeboy's got some big tattoos. ☺ but it's all good.. he looks great with a shirt on hehe ☺" — MarksGrl22, Mark Wahlberg message boards
What Mark's Said
One of the reasons "The Fighter" star is such a heavy hitter is how candid he is about his crime-ridden past, his career missteps and even his, um, unique qualities, flat out owning the third nipple.
"That is correct," Wahlberg confirmed to Australia's Nova FM while promoting "The Other Guys" in 2010. "Right below the other one. It's actually the size of an infant's nipple, it didn't grow."
As to whether he'd ever have it removed? No dice. "I've come to embrace it," Wahlberg told Rolling Stone in 2005. "That thing's my prized possession."
Truthosity: TRUE!
"Once ... Twice ... Three times a nipple." We're paraphrasing Lionel Richie here, but there's no denying that Mark's holy trinity is here to stay. We only hope that in his more jocular moods he refers to them as his "Three Kings"… but which nipple is Ice Cube?


Kick off a Trap track with a Rick & Morty sample and you've got our attention. Aside from Blaz3 and Jarrod's exceptional taste in cartoons, they also have the talent to put together an intricately sweet Trap melody as they proved with their latest collaboration "Best Me".
Instead of running the track through with a tonality as harsh as the sniping lyricism, the notes from the keys were kept light pertaining to a sense of innocence which is then contrasted by the angst written into the lyrics. The lyrics to Best Me are sure to resonate with anyone who has ever felt the sense of satisfaction of growth which attracts those who we've outgrown.
You can check out Blaz3 & Jarrod's latest single Best Me for yourselves by heading over to SoundCloud now.


I have told my husband, and he says that it's all going to pass, that I am strong and that I need to try harder, and that he believes in me. But I am afraid.... The memories of what I did gnaw at me.... The scenes pass through my head again and again, with his little face full of tears, and I can't feel as if nothing happened.
Your story breaks our hearts, but also terrifies us!
We mourn for your older children and the abuse that they have suffered and seen. The very scenes that keep running through your head also run through theirs; but in their cases, the scenes are accompanied by the deep insecurity of never knowing which of them might be the one suffering the next time. They can't trust their own mother! You can be sure that they will suffer emotional consequences long after they have forgotten the physical pain.
The one-year-old is in the most danger. The way that you treated him could have done more than restrict his breath. You may have shaken him so violently that his delicate baby brain could have been permanently damaged. Shaken Baby Syndrome happens when the baby's brain bounces back and forth against the skull for as little as five seconds. The results can be bruising of the brain, swelling, and internal bleeding, but these serious conditions cannot be seen on the outside of the baby's head, so you may not realize that any internal trauma has happened. Many children eventually die from the consequences of these injuries, but those who live may suffer brain damage that lasts a lifetime. From just this one incident, you could have damaged your baby's brain and changed his life forever.
Furthermore, you don't say how long you choked your baby. If it was very long at all, you may have cut off oxygen to his brain. There could be brain damage that resulted from that, even if he was not shaken.
So you are right to be afraid! Even though your husband has been very understanding of your rage, your conscience is telling you that you must make a plan to prevent further abusing your children. Pay attention to your conscience!
You need professional help to control your rage. If you can afford a counselor, please make an appointment right away. If not, find group classes that you can take on anger management. If you don't, you may eventually end up taking those classes in a prison where you will be after having killed one of your children. Can you imagine the images that would pass through your brain as you sit day after day in a prison?
In the meantime, make a plan to remove yourself from your baby and children every time you feel that you are running out of patience. Leave the baby to cry alone in his crib, and go calm down in another place. You must practice the plan when the baby is not crying, so that you will be able to carry it out in the midst of your rage.
In addition to professional help, you need God's help. He gave you a conscience to warn you of danger because he loves you and wants to help you. Reach out to Him and ask Him to give you the wisdom and resources that you need.


In today's episode of Days of our Mountain Bikes titled 'Silent Shooter', Mike is shot in the arm as he returns home. No one knows who the shooter is and this is even a bigger mystery than the JFK one! However, Marcel was seen drifting around Mike's house and leaving with his mountain bike. Could Marcel be the shooter or are the producers throwing you off his trail by making him Mr Obvious?
Hel-Met serves Diana with legal papers requesting that his bicycle be sent to England. Diana decides to fight the ungrateful, African orphan by demanding that he come back and race under her tutorship or rue the day he ever crossed his adopted mother. Diana will not let Hel-Met and his new mother Madonna get away with this! Will Madonna fight back or will she get her latest bodyguard/accountant/bandmate/lover to pay Diana a visit?
Tobias decides to put Whitney on an airplane back to her mother. Whitney cries and cries until Tobias gives her his special riding helmet before telling her, "Always remember that when you fall, I was the one who kept your brains in tact." Those 'romantic' words stay in Whitney's heart throughout her journey back to her mother Diana. Will Whitney ever stop loving her true father like he is an oiled-up Brad Pitt?


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Malinda graduated with Honors from The National Holistic Institute in Emeryville, CA in May 2011. She immediately went to work in a small Spa as well as a chiropractors office giving her a great foundation in bodywork. Her passion is in helping other heal themselves by providing a space of rejuvenation of mind and body. Malinda will be perusing more studies in energy work to further facilitate the healing process. When she is not working Malinda enjoys being at home taking care of her three small daughters. Malinda enjoys reading and crafty this like knitting and jewelry making. Massage is a recent career change for Malinda, after spending over 15 years in the Banking industry, and a very welcome one at that. She has now fully immersed herself into The Sanctuary and has surrounded... more
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Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Tony Cokes is a professor of media production and the director of undergraduate studies in Brown University's Department of Modern Culture and Media, of which he was interim chair in spring 2020. He received his BA from Goddard College, completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and earned his MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. His recent publications include If UR Reading This It's too Late (Goldsmiths, 2019), The Black Banal (Greene Naftali, 2019), and The Vienna Guide (Saxpublishers, 2018). His projects have been supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts. He has been a Resident Scholar / Artist-in-Residence at The Getty Research Institute and a residential fellow at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Cokes's works have appeared in exhibitions around the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum Soho, Museu d'Art Contemporani in Barcelona, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe, REDCAT in Los Angeles, Documenta X, La Cinémathèque Française in Paris, and, in 2018, the Berlin Biennale. His numerous media festival screenings include Oberhausen Short Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Seoul Film & Net Festival, and Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid.
During his time at the Academy, Cokes will continue his practice as a post-conceptual artist who focuses on social critique. His video, installation, and sound works recontextualize appropriated materials to reflect upon our production as subjects under capitalism. His recent projects often take the form of text animations, with sound functioning as a constitutive, intertextual element, complicating the visual. In his 2019 video installation "Non-Visibility," for example, Cokes asks how modes of political and civic articulation are guided and shaped by image circulation. "Questioning whether visual evidence is always required to initiate social change was very provocative," he writes. "Under the rubric of 'non-visibility' I wanted to embrace the text's call to rethink social movements in tandem with shifts in media forms (the movement from radio to television) as potentially reflecting a change in conditions of possibility or imaginative horizon for political action."
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Tony Cokes discusses the text-animated artworks he has been creating over the past decade.
In this talk, Tony Cokes discusses the text-animated artworks he's been creating over the past decade, featuring statements such as "Disco isn't dead. It has gone to war" and "If UR Reading This It's 2 Late." These "video essays," as he calls them, are built around Cokes's intere ...


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Q: SqlAlchemy : how to use relationship() together with Array of ForeignKey Column? I am wondering if I could use sqlalchemy relationship() with Array of ForeignKey,
like the below examples :
from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, ForeignKey
from sqlalchemy.types import ARRAY
from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship

from database import Base

class Topic(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'topics'

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
    topic_name = Column(String)

class Room(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'rooms'

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, index=True)
    room_name = Column(String)
    body = Column(String)

    topics_id = Column(ARRAY(Integer, ForeignKey("topics.id")))

    topics = relationship("Topic", foreign_keys='topics_id', uselist=True) #Single-direction

The relationship is that a Room has many of topics in it, but a Topic does not need to belong to any room.
Since the Room model already has a topics_id field that store array of foreign_keys of Topics model,
so I tried use this topics_id, passing into relationship()
Plus I do not want the Topic to has a link to Room model
but it give me this error
sqlalchemy.exc.InvalidRequestError: When initializing mapper mapped class Room->rooms, expression 'topics_id' failed to locate a name ("name 'topics_id' is not defined"). If this is a class name, consider adding this relationship() to the <class 'models.Room'> class after both dependent classes have been defined.

A: You can create a many-to-many relation for a schema like this. In the many-to-many relation, your topics can be a part of many rooms and every room can have multiple topics.
You can read about it here on the sqlalchemy official documentation
https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/orm/basic_relationships.html#many-to-many

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As you're probably aware, the touring circuit for theatre shows across the UK continues to endure an period of uncertainty due to the Covid-19 crisis.
Since March 2020, Dyad Productions has struggled to stay afloat. Several tours of our shows and the premiere of a new work at Edinburgh Fringe were lost during the 'first wave' and we sustained further touring and premiere losses during the 'second wave'. That's two brand-new shows that were developed and created that never made it to an audience. And although the lights are back on in the West End, theatres outside London continue to remain closed or unviable due to lockdown restrictions. The knock-on effect continues to be devastating for Dyad Productions, who have been self-funded for over a decade. With the prospect of several more months ahead without income, our future remains uncertain, despite our ongoing efforts to develop and promote online work.
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Eilat is Israel's southernmost city, a bustling port and famous tourist destination on the Red Sea's northern point, on the Gulf of Aqaba.
Eilat, with a population of 48,946, is located in the Southern Negev Desert, near the southern end of the Arava, next to the Egyptian settlement of Taba to the south, the Jordanian port city of Aqaba to the east, and within sight of Saudi Arabia across the gulf to the south-east.
The harsh desert environment and low humidity of Eilat are mitigated by the city's closeness to a warm sea. Temperatures often approach 40 °C (104 °F) in the summer and 21 °C (70 °F) in the winter, with water temperatures ranging from 20 to 26 °C (68 to 79 °F). Eilat has 360 sunny days per year on average.
The city's beaches, coral reef, nightlife, and desert vistas make it a popular local and international tourist destination.
Tourism in Eilat
Eilat (, sometimes known as Elat) is the only Israeli city on the Red Sea. Eilat, located at the country's southernmost coast, is first and foremost a resort town dedicated to sun, pleasure, diving, partying, and desert-based activities. Some 320 kilometers (200 miles) from the tensions of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Eilat's climate-induced easygoing environment has traditionally offered a handy year-round getaway for Israelis, and many of European sun-seekers visit during the mild winter months. Temperatures in the Red Sea vary from 20°C (68°F) in the winter to 26.2°C (80°F) in the summer, offering comfort in the winter and much needed chilliness in the summer heat.
Eilat has a variety of lodging options, ranging from hostels and luxury hotels to Bedouin hospitality. In recent years, Eilat has been a target of militants from Egypt and Gaza, resulting in a decrease in tourist traffic to the area.
Climate of Eilat
Eilat has a hot desert climate with scorching, dry summers and pleasant, rainless winters. Winter temperatures typically range from 11 and 23 degrees Celsius (52 and 73 degrees Fahrenheit). Summer temperatures often range from 26 to 40 degrees Celsius (79 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit). There are modest coral reefs around Eilat, but they were considerably bigger 50 years ago: the corals have been dying as a consequence of water pollution.
Geography of Eilat
The geology and landscape are varied: igneous and metamorphic rocks, sandstone and limestone; mountains up to 892 metres (2,927 ft) above sea level; broad valleys such as the Arava, and seashore on the Gulf of Aqaba. With an annual average rainfall of 28 millimetres (1.1 in) and summer temperatures of 40 °C (104 °F) and higher, water resources and vegetation are limited. "The main elements that influenced the region's history were the copper resources and other minerals, the ancient international roads that crossed the area, and its geopolitical and strategic position. These resulted in a settlement density that defies the environmental conditions."
Economy of Eilat
Tourism became more crucial to the city's economy in the 1970s when other businesses closed or were significantly curtailed. Despite the fact that Eilat became a free trade zone in 1985, tourism is now the city's main source of wealth.
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Rumors are flying about Angelina Jolie's potential involvement in Disney's upcoming live-action film, Maleficent. The story will tell Disney's classic "Sleeping Beauty" tale from the villain's perspective.
Both Tim Burton and Angelina Jolie had last spring been rumored to join the project, which Disney has been kicking around for a while as a way to mine its library, among other things. Burton's involvement remains unclear as he contemplates several projects. But sources say that, as of the last few weeks, Jolie is keen on the film and would like to sign on to play the titular villain.
There's no deal…or script!…yet, and nobody's certain whether Jolie's involvement would be conditional based on Tim Burton's sign-on as director.
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I admit that my children are growing impatient with my taking photos for this project; I think I'd have to buy a new backdrop to get them excited ;) So for April many aspects of this project are different than other months.
1. I couldn't convince all my boys to get an entire roll. In fact, I couldn't even get one of my kids to cooperate for an entire roll in one sitting so the roll is more of a survey of the month. Some are in "studio", others around the house, and the last ones at a playground.
2. This month only features my littlest because he's the most cooperative and he's home with me all day so there are more opportunities.
3. This set is in black and white, which I realized none of my others have been! I absolutely love black and white but for whatever reason haven't been using it for this project.
This set was shot on my Nikon FE and self-developed in HC-110b (If you want to learn how to develop your own black and white, click here!). I've been trying to force myself to pick up my FE more often because I realize my muscle memory for manual focus has gone down the drain and I'm wanting to force myself to recover that. I only had a 50mm and 85mm that worked with this camera, so after Christmas I went out and got a new-to-me 24mm 2.8 for those moments I needed a wider view and so far I am loving this, little $70 lens! These were shot on Kodak TMax 400 at 1250 and pushed 2 stops in development.
It's the end of March and finally the sun is giving off its warm, spring light and copious amounts of snow are in the process of melting. After a pretty brutal winter, 45 degrees is feeling more like 70 and the children of Minneapolis are hopping on their bikes for the first time in months in spite of the lingering remnants of winter.
Fingers crossed April's project will be shot more outside (not because I don't love my studio set up but because my kids - and possibly you - are getting sick of it.). But for now, enjoy a BRAND NEW BACKDROP that actually has color!
Once again I totally "cheated" on the One Roll, One Kid parameters of the project. This time I photographed all three of my children on 1.5 rolls of film. AND when I was photographing my eldest, the littlest walked into the frame and they had some moments together. I included those because they're too cute.
I also know when to pick my battles and with how reluctant my kiddos were, I allowed them to wear their pajamas for the shots. This means there's ALL THE COLORS in these shots, which is a little shocking to the eyes, so beware.
The films I used were Kodak ColorPlus 200 (rated at 200) and Portra 160 (rated at 160). The ColorPlus turned out way more saturated than I expected and I'm not in love with it, while the Portra 160 is just exactly as I hoped it would be. Portra 160 is one of my FAVES and I'm loving experimenting with it outdoors, with strobes, and pushing it. It's versatile and skin tones always turn out sooo pretty!
There's a whole, amazing crew participating in this challenge in 2019, so be sure to check out Charlene Hardy's March contribution!
I was engaging in a discussion with some other photographers about our intention when creating portraits , especially regarding commissioned work, and it suddenly dawned on me that although I have given my own intention A LOT of thought, I don't communicate it.
I try to communicate it through my portfolio but it's helpful to read what these intentions are. Hiring an artist is an investment and it should be my job to give you information so you know you're making a choice that's a good fit and ultimately worth your hard-earned money.
Any time you hire a photographer you are commissioning her to create art. And because art is subjective there is no one-size-fits-all photographer. Photographers range from studio to on-location, strobes to all-natural light, film to digital, light and airy to dark and moody and all the greys in between.
So where do I fall on the spectrum?
These are probably the things you DO see in my portfolio but it's worth mentioning them.
I do most of my work on location, either outdoors or in-home.
I always shoot with natural light at outdoor sessions and use a strobe (think the flash from school picture day) for in-home sessions that need an extra boost of light.
I had to use a strobe at this in-home session on a classic Minnesota dreary, winter day. Strobe makes it dreary-no-more!
I am an all-film photographer who loves vibrant, warm colors but also a rich, contrasty black and white shot, so I wouldn't label myself as either light and airy or dark and moody.
Now on to the particulars you might not know about my commissioned work.
I take creating art for you very seriously and it has taken me years to refine my goals and how to achieve them at a session.
I don't see that refining process ever being complete during my tenure as a photographer; as I change and mature and study I know it helps me hone in on what to achieve and how to approach sessions.
Headshots are their own beast so the rest of the journal will be specific to seniors and family sessions.
1. I want to capture the smiling, everyone-look-at-the-camera shot. It doesn't excite me creatively but it is SO, SO IMPORTANT.
For seniors this would be the classic yearbook shot and for families this is the shot where you can see everyone's face; it will be passed down the generations because it documents who was there and what they looked like at the time.
I don't spend a lot of our time getting this shot, and although I might revisit this shot a few times during our session, I will only include a few of them in your gallery (more for seniors so they have a perfect yearbook option). I don't see a need for 20 of these from a single session. To me, this shot is akin to the "vacation shot". You know, the one where you want to make sure you document the family vacation so you hand your camera off to a stranger and cheese. It's a super important one to have but you don't need a lot of them and basically anyone can do it.
2. What excites me are the emotion-filled shots and these are the bulk of what I shoot and deliver.
A high school senior spinning, feeling excitement and trepidation on the precipice of adulthood. A mama smelling her new baby. Siblings fighting and laughing. A father swinging his little boy who is growing all-too-quickly. These are the shots that tell a story.
Because I am not a documentary photographer, I come into sessions already having something to say about being a family, having a newborn, being a high school senior. BUT lest you think my vision will supersede your reality, think again. I could (I don't, but I could) have the exact same shot list in mind for every single session and no two sessions would turn out the same. At each session, I intersect with you. I bring my intentions and you provide your own dynamics and that's where the art is made.
3. I also like to try to leave room for some experimentation.
This could involve shooting a roll specifically so that I can try a technique on it (maybe fogging it or doing film soup on it.) It could mean shooting some new double exposures or funky posing I have in mind to communicate my thoughts on family or high school. But no matter what it is, I view these as in addition to category 1 and 2. Sometimes they don't turn out but when they do I feel reenergized as a creative, so I do my darnedest to try to fit some experimentation in.
What excites me about the second and third categories is that this is what I want to hang as a giant canvas on MY walls. The smiling shot matters but the commissioned art comes in the latter categories. I want the emotion filled, light leaked, film souped, blurry love hanging on my walls. That's the stuff that speaks to real life, tugs on my heart, makes me think. These are the shots that can only be created when you and I come together to make art.
I was recently talking with my husband Dave about a friend who is pregnant and he asked me "Do you think they'll get newborn photos?" I was a little surprised by this question and I responded that I had no clue, but then I asked him if he thought they should. I admit I was taken aback by his adamant response that they absolutely SHOULD get newborn photos.
Now, don't get me wrong, I obviously find newborn photography important but I was just a little surprised that Dave felt the same way. We're not known for luxury or frivolous spending, but as someone who has completely bought into the value of photographs I view sessions with the right photographer as a luxury but most definitely not frivolous. I realized he felt the same way as he started to go off about how important newborn photography is.
Before having children I would bet that he would've thought newborn photography rather unnecessary, but now that our children are 7, 5, and 3 we have hindsight to our advantage.
There are many reasons to get newborn photos, but in this entry I will highlight the top 3 reasons Mr. Berge and I found as being the most important.
As Gretchen Rubin said "the days are long but the years are short". After having a baby, my friend awoke to her husband talking in his sleep and he was saying "slong." In his dream this was the word he was using to talk about the contradiction of this time of life.
They change so darn quickly.
Before you know it your newborn will be a baby and your baby will quickly turn into a toddler. Within 6 months you will have forgotten just how small your baby was at birth. Without photos you'll forget that soft tuft of hair she was born with, the expression he gave as soon as you picked him up, the way she constantly calmed down when you swaddled her. Because before you know it your baby won't be this same way anymore and it's my job to capture it before it's gone.
That being said, if you've missed getting newborn photos within the first couple weeks, do not let this deter you, but I encourage you to book now. Even if your sweet baby is 1, 2, 3 months old he still has plenty of changing to do for the rest of his first year. Those things he does and the way he looks at 2 months will quickly become distant memory as he turns 6, 9, and 12 months. Capturing your baby at any time in the first year is a good thing!
They want to know their story and you want to remember it too.
Let's be honest, those new baby days are blurry ones. I had to remind my husband how he would walk or drive one of our babies around just so I could get some sleep at night—he had actually forgotten he did this! I am completely convinced if I hadn't taken so many photos even more memories would be forgotten.
Photos have a way of preserving memories and at this time of life you need all the help you can get. Having photos helps you remember and retell the story of your kiddo's beginning. My boys each love picking up his baby book, perusing through the photos, and hearing about how fussy he was, how much he loved his brother, and the way he ate his carrots. But even more importantly, when children look at photos of themselves with their mom/dad/sibling they see they're loved and that they belong. That's their story and they love seeing it.
For over a year my only backdrop has been Storm Gray Seamless Paper by Savage but I want to buy alllll the colors, so this month I branched out and invested in Pure White. (Spoiler alert: I bought an actual color, which recently arrived, so don't worry I'm not all whites and greys.). I am fortunate enough to have a local photography store that I bought this from so it was instant gratification.
I shot off a roll of Portra 160 on my Nikon F100 and developed it the next day. Just like in January, I kind of broke the rules this month, but this time I just shot all three of my kiddos on one roll. But I photographed them one at a time, so I feel like I followed the spirit of the project, ya know?
If you're wanting a list to my studio supplies, you can find them in my January's One Roll, One Kid post!
There's a whole crew of us doing this project in 2019; click here to check out Dena's February post!
I feel the need to preface this entry by saying this: we all have different tastes and styles and that's a good thing. Just because I connect with a style doesn't mean you will or should. The purpose of this post is to share my own experience as a photographer and to connect with others who feel this style fits their own needs.
It's no secret that I love in-home lifestyle sessions. "In-home" being just that, photographing in a client's house. "Lifestyle" meaning photographing the story of your family through purposeful posing to elicit emotions and capture connections. But what you may not know is that in-home lifestyle is the only way I currently capture newborns and it's my very favorite way!
If you're considering what style is best for your newborn session read below to find out why I absolutely love in-home lifestyle newborn sessions.
1. You don't have to go anywhere because I come to you. Who's kidding who, when you have a newborn leaving the house is a chore and you run the risk of forgetting to pack something. Being in your house means you never forget anything.
When we were taking family photos with our eldest for Christmas cards, we got to the site and he immediately had a blowout. We hadn't thought to bring extra clothes because in his five months of life he had never had a single blowout. We immediately had to turn around and head home to change. So believe me, I understand the importance of being near anything you need during a photo session with a baby.
2. Doing lifestyle, baby-led posing means everything just feels more relaxed. We don't have to stress over how long it will take for your baby to fall asleep so we can pose her in just the certain position we have in mind. Some babies like to sleep during the entire session and some like to stay awake and party; either way is great because we're more concerned with capturing your baby's personality and not contorting your baby into the pose du jour. It also means there's no strict ideal timeframe to have your baby photographed. (Highly posed newborn shoots are ideal during your baby's first 10 days of life.) With lifestyle shoots anytime is ideal; if you realize you want "newborn" photos after your baby is two weeks, one month, three months old, etc. that's okay!
3. You don't need to have a meticulously clean house or a house whose style is straight from a magazine. Sometimes clients get nervous about their house not being large enough or "pretty" enough, which I understand, but let me assure you none of that matters. Can you make your bed and tidy up nightstands? Then that's all you need! We spend most of our time on the master bed with some in Baby's crib (if you want), and maybe on the couch for some variation. My concern with photographs is capturing the love and emotion, not the scenery. There's something so real and so intimate about capturing the story of your family in your own home. So trust me and my vision when I say that photos in your home will be beautiful.
If this sort of relaxed and emotion-filled style of newborn sessions appeals to you then we would make a great match.
The tradition has continued as our brood has grown from 1 to 2 to 3. Not only do grandparents love pictures of their grandkids but who doesn't love receiving mail that's not an ad? Amiright? The tradition includes designing a card every year and forcing my children to pile together and smile ONE TIME for the camera. I design them to be printed on a standard 4x6 photo at Costco and I purchase envelopes somewhere on the internet. Super easy!
I used the Procreate app on my iPad to design the template but all you need is a smartphone to use the template! If you have Photoshop, then use that because it will be super easy to drop in a photo and create text on the side, but if you don't have Photoshop I found an alternative for you. You too can Valentine in 2019!
The template is a PNG with a transparent background, so you'll need something that can layer files and open PNGs. The app I found on my phone is Over , which is an app I've had for years. They have a free version, which is all you need to complete this project.
Once you have Over and a picture of your kiddos(s) or yourself (because your grandparents would also appreciate a picture of just you, trust me) you're ready to go.
4. The app will then ask you to choose a background; select the transparent option.
5. It will automatically create a square for you. To change this to 4x6 dimensions, tap on the dimensions on the top of the page.
8. Select the check mark on the upper-right-hand to continue.
9. Click "image" to open up your camera roll and select a photo of your kid(s) (or yourself).
10. Click "image" again to select the template.
12. Go to layers (the icon on the upper toolbar to the left of the check mark) and select the photo to position it into the opening of the template. You can also move layers around to bring some forward or backward depending on what you need! This is an extremely handy feature.
13. Select "text" on the bottom to type the text you wish to have on your Valentine.
16. You can also play around with the letter spacing and line spacing to make it have the look you're after! When I made a sample from Over, I ended up using the "Hello Beautiful" font for Berge Boys and "Lulu Outline" (the third version down for a thicker line) for 2019.
17. Last you hit the arrow on the iupper-right-hand side to save to photos. You're now ready to order some 4x6s!
I usually order these at Costco because the quality is much better than other fast labs and they will be done in about an hour. found some envelopes on Amazon that are red and will fit 4x6 photos. You can find them here.
I also turned the photo black and white so as not clash with the colors I chose. Lest you think it's easy to get a smiling photo of my boys, I leave you with these outtakes to make yourself feel better.
About a month ago a friend of mine brought up the idea of doing one roll of film each month, focusing on one kid in front of the lens. I loved this idea because it's hard to get the motivation to force one of my unwilling children to get in front of my camera but I always LOVE the results. It's a time that lets their personalities shine without the distraction of someone else next to them harassing them.
January can be sort of a depressing month but I got excited about setting up my portrait "studio" in my basement and going to town. (Don't get me wrong, winter light is 🔥 but asking my kids to get in front of my camera AND do it out in the cold is mighty ambitious.).
I also use the strobe/umbrella set-up for in-home sessions when I don't have enough natural light. I will say that strobe and film were made for each other. I used this same basement studio set-up once with digital to test it out and it was crap. I asked one of my strobe guru friends and she said that for digital and strobe to shine you need as much ambient light as possible. Well the shots in this post had ZERO ambient light. They were taken when it was dark outside, in a basement, with only my strobe illuminating the shot.
For this first month of the project I over-achieved and did portraits of all of my boys. I can tell you right now this won't happen (m)any other month(s). But I'll take it when I can, and somehow I was able to convince them all to sit solo and get their photos taken.
All of the photos were taken on my Nikon F100. The photos of Kyle were on Kodak Color Plus 200 and the photos of Peter and Gregory were on Fuji Superia XTRA 400. All self-developed and scanned on a Noritsu LS-600. Click here If you want to learn more about developing your own C-41!
There's a whole crew of us taking on the One Roll, One Kid project! Be sure to check out Dena's dreamy take on the January challenge!
We all know technology is the best and the worst all at the same time, and I was hit with that reality in December of 2011 when I lost that entire month's worth of photos. Yes, it's sad, but no, it's not the end of the world. What made this month a little sadder than losing photos from other months is that it was the one in which my eldest experienced his first Christmas and was baptized. Those photos are most definitely gone forever. I even had a backup system in place and I talked to multiple tech people to try to recover the files to no avail. My husband and I took that experience to truly learn what a backup system looks like.
The gold standard is the 321 backup rule: keep 3 copies of your data, store 2 copies on different storage/media, and keep 1 copy offsite.
First, let me sing Blackblaze's praises. I love them! They back up my entire computer AND any hard drive I connect to my computer automatically. My favorite part is that I can restore my entire computer or I can just go into the system and search for a one-off photo or file. The layout of the interface is exactly like the one on my computer so it's incredibly easy to find something stored on their server. I was using a similar service for years when all of a sudden they decided to shut down their site to personal users (yes, super wack). This unnamed site recommended an alternative that was expensive and I was nervous I'd never find a replacement. Enter Blackblaze. It's cheaper than the other site I was using, has unlimited storage, and I like the interface better. If you're looking for an automatic backup to a cloud-based service, I highly recommend trying them out.
But my very favorite backup for photos are my photo's negatives.
They're a physical copy that has spanned the test of time. Their archival quality means they will last for generations and throughout the years, from enlargers to scanners, technology has consistently been created to be able to read the information on negatives.
I've been creating photo books lately to catch up on archiving my family's pictures (more on that in another post) when I ran across 5 photos that my computer couldn't place. I looked on my external hard drive (absent), I looked on Flickr (absent), I looked on Blackblaze (absent because I didn't properly migrate over to them when my former site shut down. Oops.) So you know what I did? I just located the negatives of those photos and rescanned them. If not for those negatives the photos would've been gone forever.
I realize using film isn't feasible or desirable for everyone, but I do think negatives are an advantage people don't always consider. I've met more people scared about the fallibility of negatives than the fallibility of a memory card. But I hear waaaay more often of corrupt memory cards or disappearing files on memory cards than a disaster happening with negatives. So please, don't let negatives scare you away from having a film photographer document you. And film photographers, think twice before tossing those old negatives in the garbage. Yes, they take up room but they're an amazing tool for backing up those precious memories.
Ask yourself if you have 3 copies of your photos on at least 2 different media and 1 of which is stored offsite. If not, what's stopping you? Because trust me, technology can and will fail you so be sure you take actions today so you keep your memories safe tomorrow.
One of the images lost in the shuffle that I was able to rescan.
When people find out I shoot film, I often hear a response of shock and wonder (and sometimes confusion). Sometimes clients don't even realize I shoot film until I'm reloading during a session. The people who think it's cool love that it's just so retro…so analog. (It's maybe no surprise that in my house we also have a collection of records.) And to the people who are confused, I get it. Why, in a world of digital and all of its conveniences, would I CHOOSE (on purpose) to shoot film?
And you'd be right, digital is easier than film in so many ways, two of the biggies being that it's more convenient and cheaper. Film shooters can't chimp during a session and they have to buy film and pay costs associated with developing it and scanning it; why would anyone do this? It's a totally fair question and I'd love to tell you why I still shoot film.
A film image taken of a film camera….very meta.
Dear film, you are amazing.
1. Let me clear the air of this right away: for me not being able to chimp is a feature, not a bug of film photography. When I shot digital I would leave sessions with hundreds (and I mean huuuun-dreds….sometimes over 1,000) shots taken in 1-2 hours. And it's not because I was seeing 1,000 awesome moments to capture, it's because I wasn't taking the time to set up the shots I wanted to capture and then waiting for the magic to happen. This is not to say that I don't have magical shots from my digital days, I do; I just know that if my face is behind the camera for 1,000 shots during a session, that means I'm less able to connect with my clients and that's the opposite of my goal during sessions. Shooting film has just meant I've learned to become an artist with intention and that's a win for everyone.
2. I think the real confusion sets in when I tell people that I scan my negatives so I can have digital files to edit and send to clients. Huh? Why in the world would you shoot film just to end up with a digital file? To the people who say this: you have good logic. To answer this (really good) question, let me first be briefly techie. When digital photographers shoot, most often they shoot in RAW and then take that RAW file into some sort of editing program to work with it. These RAW files are exactly how they sound; they're like uncooked meat, they are meant to be edited before sending them to clients. This is when photographers spend money buying or time creating presets to get the look they want. I spent a lot of money on presets trying to get just the right look out of my digital files, and I was ultimately never satisfied with them; I still had to make plenty of edits after applying these presets and that meant a LOT of time in front of my computer.
With film, I scan the negatives to get a jpg file but the film emulsion does the work of a preset. I get a fully-cooked file when I digitize them. And when I edit, I'm often only tweaking the brightness, white balance, and maybe contrast. My husband loves that I barely spend any time editing and I'm HAPPIER with my final result.
3. Speaking of negatives, in this age of illusive files and things living on ephemeral technology, it is incredibly important to have something tangible. Obviously I encourage my clients to print their photos but unlike immaterial files living in a cloud, negatives are tangible and last a very, very long time. In 2011 my eldest son had his first Christmas and the digital images from that time are gone. I even had my computer backing up to an external drive, but due to the unpredictability of technology even those disappeared. If I had taken those photos on film, the images wouldn't be lost forever because I could re-scan the negatives.
4. Film is nostalgic and imperfect and beautiful. It's what the photos of our youth were taken on; having that connection to the past excites me. Taking photos of my children that they will cherish forever on a camera that was built before I was born and using a film that I used to buy at the local drug store when I was a teen links the past to the present to the future, and how beautiful is that? I also love that it isn't as crisp and sharp as digital; the grain adds texture and dimension to images and makes them feel more like stolen moments and ultimately speaks to me as an artist.
6. Ultimately it's the medium with which I best connect. Some artists connect with watercolor, some with sculpture, some with words, some with digital cameras, and I with film. No artist should apologize for the medium they love!
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A U.S. District Court judge has ordered bitcoin exchange Coinbase to provide the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with the transaction records of more than 14,000 customer accounts.
The ruling (PDF), which was filed in the Northern District of California's San Francisco courthouse, compels Coinbase to provide the IRS with customer records for accounts that had at least the equivalent of $20,000 in any one transaction type (buy, sell, send, or receive) in any single year from 2013 to 2015. Coinbase estimates that 14,355 accounts will fall subject to the purview of the summons.
Since the IRS classifies cryptocurrency as property, all cryptocurrency holdings are subject to capital gains taxes at the time of disposition. However, the IRS claims that virtually no U.S. taxpayers have reported bitcoin-related investment income on their annual tax returns. Armed with this data, the agency will be able to identify and levy penalties against investors who have skirted their legal obligations to pay taxes on their bitcoin investments, and — in some cases — prosecute offenders for tax evasion.
The ruling did not come as a surprise. Earlier this month, the judge told Coinbase in a hearing that she was inclined to "give tremendous discretion to the agency as to how they investigate" whether people are making money on their bitcoin investments. Following that hearing, Coinbase published a blog post that more or less conceded defeat but took solace in the fact that the company had successfully forced the IRS to narrow its initial summons, which sought records from approximately 500,000 customers.
Despite the narrow focus of the final order, the successful defense of the summons will likely encourage the IRS to ramp up its efforts to bring bitcoin users into compliance with tax reporting obligations — particularly following the industry's dramatic growth in 2017.
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Q: d3-celestial library export to SVG I am using the D3-Celestial Library (https://github.com/ofrohn/d3-celestial) and trying to convert the canvas image, to an SVG (I need to use this as a Vector image so it can be converted to GCode for a laser cutter).
I have tried using the Fabric JS library and Canvas-GetSVG with no success.
Does anyone have a good place to start or easy way to do this?

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I tried to use a few different libraries to export the data from the Canvas object to a SVG, but only was able to get Empty SVGs.

A: Fabric.js is no magic bullet to convert pixel-oriented <canvas> content to vector format. Only things that were drawn usingfabric.Canvas methods can be exported to a vector format.
How does that work? From a Fabric.js perspective, if you initialize a Canvas object, that canvas is empty. Previously drawn content is simply ignored. If the fabric.Canvas object is given a command, two things happen: changes are drawn to the HTML <canvas> element, overwriting existing content, and the changes are recorded in a data structure. Only these data can be used by the .toSVG() method for exporting to SVG. The canvas element itself is a write-only output device.
To repeat it plainly: <canvas> elements contain no vector information. The optimum you could expect to extract, whatever library you use, is something like this:
<svg>
  <image xlink:href="data:image/png;base64....." />
</svg>

with the data source being a pixel image.

A: I don't have specifics at hand at the moment, but I was trying to do the same thing (from the frustratingly incomplete Make magazine article) and was able to coerce an SVG by:
Hosting a local instance of d3-celestial
Modifying HTML pages to use the older 0.4 version which actually used SVGs (in dist folder)
Installing "SVG crowbar" bookmarklet to export the output to a file.


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Vitamin D3 and its role in the immune system
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Blog Author: Ian Marber
It is possible for vitamin D production to be affected by age
The focus on vitamin D is quite understandable given its involvement in supporting the immune system
There are many factors that influence the susceptibility to a virus ranging from health inequalities to geography and genetics
It's inevitable that the science of nutrition involves the activity of individual nutrients and, in these unusual times, the spotlight has naturally fallen on those involved in supporting a robust immune system. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic it was vitamin C that garnered the most attention, but the advice was less about eating, say, peppers or kiwi fruits but more about how much to take in supplement form. As the weeks passed it was vitamin D that we heard more about but unlike vitamin C, getting regular amounts of vitamin D can be a little more complicated than just the diet.
Vitamin D is the collective name for a group of chemicals but in short, exposure to UV light allows one variant, D3, to be made in the skin, which is then transported to the liver where it is turned into calcitriol, the active form of the vitamin. Therefore, sunlight is vital when it comes to our vitamin D status, and around 15 minutes of direct exposure, ideally between 10am and 2pm, and without blocking UV protection for enough vitamin D production to take place in the skin. It's not enough to have just the face in the sun, ideally the arms, legs and even some torso would be exposed too for optimal effect. The NHS suggest that this is not a problem from April until September, but in reality, sunlight is not guaranteed in this part of the world, even in the summer months.
"The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) estimate that 1 in 5 adults and 1 in 6 children in England alone may have low vitamin D status."
It is possible for vitamin D production to be affected by age in part as the process of making it on exposure to UV light may be less efficient, but also as older people may spend more time inside and thus the potential for exposure to UV light is reduced. Vitamin D levels can be further compromised by excess weight, as fat cells can effectively hold vitamin D making it unavailable. In addition, darker skins may also be less efficient at creating D3 with UV exposure.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) estimate that 1 in 5 adults and 1 in 6 children in England alone may have low vitamin D status and so the official advice is for everyone over the age of 5 to take a supplement of 10mcg daily. This is in addition to foods that contain the dietary form of D3, such as oily fish, soya, shiitake mushrooms egg yolks and liver. It is also to be found as D2, sourced in soya, mushrooms and some algae and thus suitable for anyone following a vegetarian or vegan diet.
The focus on vitamin D is quite understandable given its involvement in supporting the immune system, notably respiratory conditions, not unlike COVID. Vitamin D plays many roles including potentially enhancing the activity of T cells, which activate other immune cells in part by producing cytokines, messengers that call in various mediators of inflammation. In the short-term inflammation is an important part of repair and healing, but in the longer-term cytokines may continue to trigger an inflammatory response in the longer term, known as hyperinflammation, in which tissue damage can occur. In some cases, this can be fatal.
It has been suggested that supplementing vitamin D may play a significant role in reducing the incidence and severity of respiratory infections, yet studies have produced inconsistent results. For example, the most recent paper at the time of writing, a follow up of a cohort study by the Germany Cancer Research Study involving almost 10,000 adults, found that reduced levels of vitamin D was linked to increased respiratory mortality. The researchers don't make any claims as to why this may be, or indeed that increasing intake of the nutrient will change the outcome. To confuse matters a little more, there are some medics who maintain that it is the respiratory infections themselves that diminish vitamin D levels, not the other way around and thus concluding that increasing vitamin D will change the outcome is incorrect.
That said, a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the BMJ in 2017 noted that 'Observational studies report consistent independent associations between low serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (the major circulating vitamin D metabolite) and susceptibility to acute respiratory tract infection'. Importantly, the review concluded that supplemental vitamin D showed an 'overall protective effect' but that was strongest in those people that have low vitamin D status in the first place.
"Whilst the evidence for the effectiveness of vitamin D is not absolutely conclusive, taking a supplement that is almost risk free and a very low-cost intervention at that seems prudent."
Amid the media reports about vitamin D in the early days of the pandemic NICE updated their advice in June 2020 relating to supplementation and COVID saying that there was no evidence that it could prevent or treat the infection and that advice to take 10mcg (400iu) daily remained unchanged.
There are many factors that influence the susceptibility to a virus ranging from health inequalities to geography and genetics. Whilst the evidence for the effectiveness of vitamin Dis not absolutely conclusive, taking a supplement that is almost risk free and a very low-cost intervention at that seems prudent.
It may be that there is no extra benefit in taking larger amounts than health authorities advise but bear in mind that the upper limit is around 100mcg (4000iu), a level at which there are no predicted adverse health effects.
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Ian Marber's interest in food and nutrition was piqued when diagnosed with coeliac disease in his late twenties. He soon after gave up a successful career in investment to study nutrition at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, graduating in 1999 and founding the now-globally recognised nutritional consultancy, The Food Doctor.
Departing the Food Doctor in 2012, Ian now advises individuals and industry alike. He has since worked with over 8,000 clients, leads seminars, workshops and lectures and works closely with brands such as Innocent Drinks to formulate new ranges. His expertise has lead him to be recognised as go-to contributor within the press, writing regularly in The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph, as well as making regular appearances on both TV and radio.
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Another meteor storm, this one associated with a swath of cometary debris known as the Perseids, is credited with taking a satellite out of commission in 1993 (SN: 10/2/93, p.
For some people, this makes comets more interesting, but for me it also means that some of the pristine record we have always touted as being within cometary nuclei may have been lost.
346), indicate that certain cometary ices remain unchanged from their composition in the interstellar cloud that gave birth to the solar system.
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These passages of [S-W 3's] fragments past the Earth offer astronomers an excellent opportunity to examine the cometary breakup process," says Donald K.
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Washington, January 25 (ANI): Scientists at the Southwest Research Institute, US, have determined that differences in the number and speed of cometary impacts onto Jupiter's large moons Ganymede and Callisto some 3.
In January 2004 Stardust reached its prime target, Comet 81P/Wild 2, and collected cometary particles on the back side of its aerogel samplers.
Rickman, a researcher who worked on the camera system for the Rosetta space probe, introduces cometary science from the perspective of origins and evolution, and describes the physical and chemical properties of different types of comets.


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The Presidencies crew spent the day in Athens, GA while on the way back home and took a tour of some of the historical sites in the city.
In front of the Athens city hall is a unique artillery invention failure – the world's one and only double-barrelled cannon. Though developed for use in the Civil War, it proved to be an inaccurate shot in testing and was never used in battle.
Naturally, we had to visit the University of Georgia while in Athens. The University is one of the oldest public universities in the US.
Old College, constructed in 1806, is the oldest building on the UGA campus as well as the oldest existing building in Athens. Since they didn't know at the time which way the college would grow, the front and back of the building were constructed to look the same so that either could be the 'front'.
Abraham Baldwin, in addition to being a US Senator, a US Representative, and a signer of the US Constitution, was also the first president of UGA.
The UGA chapel was constructed in 1832 and was a center of campus activities when there was a daily required religious service.
Likewise, Demosthenian Hall, the fourth oldest building at UGA, became a focal point of student life when it was constructed in 1824.
The Holmes-Hunter Building, constructed in 1901, commemorates the first two Black students at UGA – Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes. Hunter and Holmes first registered for classes in this building in January 1961.
The city's history doesn't end at the campus borders, though. This apartment building was at one point the home of Dean Rusk, Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson, as well as William McFeely, who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Ulysses Grant.
Going a bit further back in time, the Taylor-Grady House, constructed in 1844, was originally intended to just be a summer residence. The 13 columns around the home are set to represent the original 13 states of the Union.
The University of Georgia President's House, constructed in 1856, was the home of Benjamin Hill, a US Senator and US Representative, before the University took over the property in 1949.
The TRR Cobb House was constructed in 1834 and was the home of Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, a slave owner and secessionist killed in the Battle of Fredericksburg. The home itself was moved from Athens to Stone Mountain Park then, nearly twenty years later, was returned to Athens.
The Cobb-Bucknell-Leathers House, constructed in 1849, was the home of Howell Cobb, Governor of Georgia, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, and Treasury Secretary under James Buchanan. Cobb rebelled against the government that he had served during the Civil War and was arrested at the end of the war.
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