"What I am trying to do through my photography is very simple. While much of photography today presents an over-intellectualised, dystopian view of the world, I want to provoke positive emotions in the viewer. Wonder, intrigue, perhaps just a smile. I hope the images invite you to jump in and experience this world for yourself."
A lot of my work so far has been commissioned by small companies, galleries and individuals who saw work at an exhibition. Some commissions came from friends and family. Regardless of the relation, the nature of any commission is such that my creativity is influenced and galvanised by what others want. This interaction invariably produces exciting and innovative results through the use of unexpected or less familiar materials and methods. It gets me out of my 'comfort zone' and I learn new skills and techniques. Commissions can, for the same reasons, be challenging but I have come to love the research, investigation and negotiations needed for a successful piece of work. It also makes me produce more substantial and ambitious pieces. So, feel free to approach me if you are interested in having something made for specific place or person. The process is much easier than you think.
When it comes to working for 'myself' things seem to work very differently. My work is generally informed by what is around me in terms of material as well as my surroundings. I never seem to need to 'look for inspiration' and for a good number of pieces I simply waited for a piece of stone to 'tell' me what it wants to be. It may sound a bit silly but I find that this is the case particularly with carving. Once I see an object – either a figure or animal – within the form it is easy to carve around it to expose its surface. Some people are naturally more inclined to carving – 'taking away' and I do love working that way but I also enjoy making objects – by adding or 'putting on'- Two very different approaches to sculpture, both equally important and valid.
I also throw in some painting and drawing for good measure!... Perhaps one day I will concentrate on just one discipline but as it is I don't feel I have to.
I started painting as a hobby, after training and working as an haematological technician,and raising a family of three boys. I had good instruction in Adult Education, and have continued to paint ever since.
I am drawn to colour and form, used in an abstract way. It seems natural to me to try to find the essence of a place, still life, or figure in this way, working from a series of sketches. I use a variety of media in most of my work, and have started working in watercolour and ink on canvas.
I have exhibited at The Royal Academy, The Mall Galleries, and The Open Exhibition of The Royal Watercolour Society, where I won "The Saunders Waterford Award" with a painting of Australia. I have had several one man shows,and taken part in numerous group exhibitions.
I work mainly in my studio in Saltdean close to the Downs. In my search for subject matter, I sketch, photograph and often work directly from the Sussex Downs and the seashores of the south coast and along the South Coast Walk to Cornwall and latterly in the mountains of Southern Spain.
The sea, with its rich source of movement, colour and mood and the Downs, reflecting the changing light and atmosphere of the Sussex chalk lands, are the main inspirations for my work. The rich variety of weather, the seasons and times of day provide me with challenges of capturing the qualities and moods across land and sea. Walking in Cornwall has inspired me with its darker, more richly tonal land and brilliantly lit seascape.
I also work in three dimensions. I make hand-built ceramic vessels, bowls and pots in mainly stoneware. My clay surfaces reflect the cracked and pitted nature of erosion on forms and structures exposed to the elements and evoke too, the colours of land, sea and sky. I use oxides and glazes to highlight these qualities. My ceramic pieces relate closely in feel to my 2D work, but focus in more abstract ways on the corrosive and weathering effects of the elements upon the natural and man-made.
Life drawing is an essential element of my work. I work from the life model mainly in charcoal and conte. I also work from life to create clay figure sculptures in stoneware.
I trained in Fine Art, first in Croydon and then Brighton. I exhibit and sell my work in different galleries and venues in the South East. I also participate in the Brighton Festival Artists Open Houses, exhibiting and selling my work.
I studied painting and theatre design at Birmingham College of Arts and Craft; worked freelance as a book illustrator; taught various disciplines of art to all ages and abilities; studied printmaking part time at Brighton University; full time and part time at Northbrook College. I have exhibited extensively including the annual Art Festivals of Arundel, Brighton and Oxford. Recently, I have been experimenting with ceramics, taking my enjoyment of linear qualities into a 3D format. I always carry a sketchbook to scribble down whatever has grabbed my attention and then try to recreate that special moment, when I get back to my studio. The medium I chose for the follow-up work, will be dictated by the subject and the atmosphere it generated.
I live in the Downs and am fascinated by the rolling hills and ancient trackways. The surrounding countryside is a recurring theme in my work.
I enjoy colour and use colour like music with cords and dissonants, layering colour and textures as history is layered upon the landscape.
Al Johnson is a sculptor and printmaker. Her work has been widely exhibited, and is held in both public and private collections. Al's sculpture and installations explore the concept of the collective memory, and consider the ways in which the past remains embedded in the present. She works in thematic series, undertaking the majority of the technical processes required for each work, utilising a range of contrasting materials; textiles, forged steel, plaster, copper, and timber, to create works which are sensual, paradoxical, and challenging.
The natural landscape has always been the primary focus of my work, inspired by the vast panoramas of the Americas, Spain and the Swiss Alps.
Whilst my work is based upon the places I have seen, I have no interest in simply recreating existing landscapes. I like to use photographs and memories as reference to create new and imagined scenes.
The way in which light falls upon objects is of great interest to me. When broken down to just two tones (black and white- the part upon which light falls and that which is cast in shadow), the shape of an object can be suggested, giving as clear an idea of its form as a photographic image.
Ingrid Sixsmith has been working as a tapestry/textile artist since 1984. Based in the East End of London she has undertaken some major commissions, including two pairs of large tapestries for the reception decks of cruise ships and further ones for hospitals, including Homerton A & E Dept and clients including Allen & Overy, Linklaters and Roche.
Her tapestries are saturated with colour, often depicting theatrical landscapes full of symbolism populated with stylised figures and buildings usually exploring a spiritual language.
"My latest works derive influence from nature, sky and water combined with imagery from local photographic material or figurative gesture I am also exploring politically satirical paintings and tapestries.
I am committed to the promotion of ethereal and also stimulating work in order to either aid recovery and still retain a sense of belonging, or create a work which resonates the ethos of the company, public space.


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1080: Jamie Kitman is a lawyer and an award-winning journalist.
Jamie Kitman, a lawyer, is an award-winning journalist who writes about cars, the automobile industry for Automobile Magazine, for whom he has written a monthly column (Noise, Vibration, and Harshness) for 25 years. The former US editor of England's CAR and Top Gear magazines, he's contributed to dozens of other publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, The Nation, GQ, Harper's, Men's Journal, and Newsweek. His report on The Secret History of Lead (gasoline) for The Nation won the IRE medal for investigative magazine reporting and his column for Automobile won the National Magazine Award for commentary, the only time a car magazine or car magazine author has ever won an award from the august editors' group who choose winners. The owner of dozens of old cars, Jamie is particularly fond of old Lotuses, Lancia, Rovers, MGs, Jaguars, Volvos, and Peugeots, but also owns a '68 International Travelall, a Saab and a Morris Minor pickup. Jamie recently set up a business that supplies cars (not just his own) to movies and television programs shooting in New York, working recently on director Steven Spielberg's acclaimed film, The Post. For the past thirty years, Jamie has also served as president of The Hornblow Group USA, Inc., a full-service music management company.
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Throwback Thursday: Leo Kottke Plays Four Tunes on 'Austin City Limits'
Blair Jackson August 22, 2019
I was listening the other night to Leo Kottke's still-astonishing 6 and 12 String Guitar album (aka the "Amrmadillo album") and that sent me to YouTube lookin' for a hot performance by ol' LK to share with you. There's some good stuff out there, though not as much as I expected (and I still haven't found a great live video version of "Watermelon," my favorite tune on that 1971 album). Anyway, I did find this excellent performance from one of Kottke's appearances on Austin City Limits (I'm guessing it's '93; anyone know for sure?), which finds him playing Ry Cooder's "Available Space" (from Ry's eponymous 1970 debut album), then Leo's "Junebug" (from the 1971 album Mudlark), a gorgeous solo reworking of Iain Sutherland's "Arms of Mary" (which turned up on Kottke's 1994 Peculiaroso), and finally, the quirky "Oddball" (from the 1990 album That's What). And, not surprisingly, there's a rambling story in there somewhere, too. Serious chops and touch!
Most recently, Kottke has reportedly been recording with Phish bassist Mike Gordon, with whom he collaborated on albums in 2002 and 2005. So, that's something to look forward to! —Blair Jackson


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The Global Laboratory Initiative (GLI) is a program set up by the Probitas Foundation in 2010 with the aim of reinforcing the capacities of clinical diagnostic laboratories in the most vulnerable regions of the world.
It is a sustainable model which allows for worldwide health problems, such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and chronic diseases, to be correctly diagnosed and treated with the methods and techniques applied in developed countries. In addition, Probitas co-ordinates, guides, and trains the local technicians so that they can become self-sufficient.
The main issue is to curb morbi-mortality and poverty by addressing the shortcomings of the existing healthcare services, particularly those of the clinical diagnostic laboratories.
Once Probitas has renovated the laboratories, and furnished them with the necessary diagnostic tools, it intends to cover the most basic needs of the population by reducing the prevalence of disease.
Diagnostic laboratories rarely represent a priority in regions with scarce resources, mainly because of the considerable outlay in equipment and infrastructures that they represent. Nevertheless, the impact arising from the lack of a clinical diagnostic service is great as it worsens the sequence of factors that lead to an illness and at the same time contributes to perpetuating the situation of poverty.
Carrying out the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the diseases.
Improve the prognosis of the most prevalent diseases and reduce their consequences in the population.
Decrease the transmission of some diseases and the appearance of new ones.
Take appropriate decisions to control epidemics.
Decrease the number of diseases that are treated late or incorrectly in order to avoid resistance and long-term consequences among the population.
The lack of a diagnostic service hinders the control of epidemics, worsens prognosis, and decreases treatment efficacy. All of this results in misuse of antibiotics and other medications, an increase in resistance, and raised costs. Finally, an inadequate or insufficient diagnosis can lead to long-term consequences and incapacity.
In 2010, the Probitas Foundation began its first GLI project in Telephone sans fils (TSF), an extremely vulnerable neighborhood in the capital of Mali, Bamako. The project is still running, consolidated in its fourth phase, promoting other transversal health programs and entering into a process of self-sufficiency and self-government. 2016 is the last year it will be carried out.
Having seen the response to this pilot project the Foundation decided to increase the number of GLI programs in different countries in Africa and South America. Nowadays, there are seven projects in: Mali (GLI-Bamako), Ghana (GLI-Kumasi), Peru (GLI-Peru), Lago Agrio (GLI-Ecuador), Sierra Leone (GLI-Lunsar), Tanzania (GLI-Kigoma), and Bolivia (GLI-Cochabamba). It is expected to start up with new GLI in the near future.
Potential GLI partners include local authorities such as Health Ministries, international NGOs, other non-profit organizations, missions, district hospitals, rural healthcare centers, community organizations and other healthcare institutions, Public Health Institutions, Biomedical Research Institutions, and academic organizations.
To work jointly and in co-ordination with the existing healthcare structures, either public or private non-profit ones, in a determined vulnerable region in order to draw up an integral strategic plan that will make equitable access to healthcare possible for the population.
The joint intervention of the existing healthcare structures allows for the maximum use of the available technical and economic resources. It also strengthens the whole healthcare system which brings greater benefits to the community.
The Global Laboratory Initiative is far removed from the vertical model concentrated on a determined disease. It is a diagnostic service based on an integral, transversal focus that makes it effective in the fight against the main endemic diseases. It does, however, place special emphasis on the most prevalent ones according to the intervention zone.
The core of the model is to set up infrastructures and provide training to local staff through the experience and knowledge of the Probitas technicians and the Grifols employees in addition to external collaborators specialized in various disciplines.
The GLI has developed the necessary tools so that the local personnel can take over the project and manage the service themselves at all levels.
Given that the 'poverty-disease' interaction takes place in a complex, multi-factorial context, the GLI has mechanisms to also develop social, environmental, and participative aspects that influence the quality of life of the populations. The model is open to other entities, either public or private non-profit ones, in order to work together on issues such as access to drinking water, sanitation, and the improvement of the hygienic conditions within the community.


Life of Jefferson Davis Civil War Confederate CSA Secrets Confederacy. A fine first edition of the life and career of Jefferson Davis including information on the characteristics of the American South and Confederacy during the Civil War. Davis (1807 1889) was an American soldier and politician who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Edward Alfred Pollard (1832 1872) was a Virginian journalist and author. Pollard was a Confederate sympathizer during the American Civil War and wrote several books on the causes and events of the conflict.
Life of Jefferson Davis, with a seceret history of the Southern Confederacy, gathered behind the scenes in Richmond. Containing curous and extraordinary information of the principal southern characters in the late war, in connection with President Davis, and in relation to the various intrigues of his administration. Philadelphia, Chicago [etc] National Pub.
Frontispiece portrait of Jefferson Davis. Wear as seen in photos. Complete with all viii + 536 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such; title page loose but present. 8.75in X 6in (22.5cm x 15cm). Davis (June 3, 1807/1808 December 6, 1889) was an American soldier and politician who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (18611865).
He took personal charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to defeat the more populous and industrialized Union. His diplomatic efforts failed to gain recognition from any foreign country. Davis was born in Kentucky to a moderately prosperous farmer, and grew up on his brother's large cotton plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana.
His brother Joseph secured his appointment to the U. Military Academy at West Point. After he graduated, Jefferson served six years as a lieutenant in the United States Army. He served as the U. Secretary of War, 1853 to 1857, under President Franklin Pierce, and as a Democratic U. An operator of a large cotton plantation in Mississippi with over 100 slaves, he was well known for his support of slavery during his time in the Senate. He argued against secession, but did agree that each state was sovereign and had an unquestionable right to secede from the Union. Davis lost his first wife, Sarah Knox Taylor, to malaria after three months of marriage, and the disease almost killed him as well. He suffered from ill health for much of his life. He had six children with his second, younger wife, Varina Howell Davis, but only two survived him. Many historians attribute the Confederacy's weaknesses to the leadership of President Davis.
 His preoccupation with detail, reluctance to delegate responsibility, lack of popular appeal, feuds with powerful state governors, favoritism toward old friends, inability to get along with people who disagreed with him, neglect of civil matters in favor of military ones, and resistance to public opinion all worked against him.  Historians agree he was a much less effective war leader than his Union counterpart Abraham Lincoln. After Davis was captured in 1865, he was accused of treason but was not tried and was released after two years. While not disgraced, Davis had been displaced in ex-Confederate affection after the war by his leading general, Robert E.
Davis wrote a memoir entitled The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, which he completed in 1881. By the late 1880s, he began to encourage reconciliation, telling Southerners to be loyal to the Union. Ex-Confederates came to appreciate his role as a Southern patriot and he became a hero of the Lost Cause in the New South. The item "1869 1ed Life of Jefferson Davis Civil War Confederate CSA Secrets Confederacy" is in sale since Wednesday, November 16, 2016. This item is in the category "Books\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "schilb_antique_books" and is located in Columbia, Missouri. This item can be shipped worldwide.


Change the World Before Bedtime is a poem about how you can do good deeds and change the world. It begins as soon as you get up in the morning and walks you through all of the small things you can do throughout the day to show kindness and compassion toward others. It talks about using good manners, including others in your play, and taking care of our environment. Reading this poem made me feel that I should start my own garden and donate the food I grow to homeless people. It also inspired me to want to raise money for St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
I recommend this book to people who are generous to remind them to keep doing more of what they are doing. I also recommend this book to people who are not always kind to others because after reading Change the World Before Bedtime, they may be inspired to start showing care and concern for the world around them. This poem describes so many different, interesting ways to demonstrate love and kindness and teaches you to share what you have in order to make the world a better place for everyone. All we need to do is start small in order to make a big difference. Change the World Before Bedtime reminds us to be loving and kind; the world needs more of this right now.


On Oct. 10 evening , The carbon accounting team of the University, led by Prof Zhang Caiping were invited to the international video conference with the theme as "Common without Borders: Global Multiscale Ecosystem Frameworks". The meeting was organized by University of Massachusetts Amherst of US and USC was the first to address the audience at the Conference.
Joining the Conference were the Experts scholars from seven countries including China, US, India, Turkey, Peru, Uganda and Mexico. The USC team, the only representatives from China, shared their views with the attendees on the topic of"China Carbon Trading Market Development Status and Prospects". Beginning with the current situation of carbon trading market in China, the team elaborated the development characteristics, achievements, shortcomings, and then forecasted its future development trend.
The exchange and communication of ideas and views continued until 4:00 am Thursday Beijing time.


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'Menopause Is a Punchline to a Joke': An Interview With Alison Bechdel on the Occasion of Her 50th Birthday
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After finding success with her comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For — which famously spawned the Bechdel Test, a set of criteria to determine gender bias in entertainment — Alison Bechdel advanced the graphic memoir form while pondering life with her late father in Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in 2006. Her latest, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama , was released this spring. We spoke on August 25, 2010, just before Bechdel's 50th birthday on September 10th.
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I feel like 49 doesn't even exist, like I've just been on the precipice of 50 for a whole year. I don't feel like I'm in my 40s. I haven't, for a whole year, felt like I was a person in my 40s.
I just said out loud the other day, "I am 49," and it was sort of alarming because it was surprising to think that I'm still forty-something.
30 gave me a much, much milder problem. It was like a joke, like, "Oh, I'm getting old," but I had no idea what that meant, you know. It had no real sting.
40 is like, "Oh, I'm grown up," and 50 is like, "Oh, I'm old." I'm grown up and I don't feel grown up, and I'm old and I don't really feel old. I feel like I've always felt.
See? I'm totally lying. I have experienced a great deal of physical deterioration. Eyesight. Well, you don't want to hear the whole laundry list. For me, the thing about turning 50 for me is, coincidentally, it is aligning with menopause. And that's kind of funny. So like the whole turning 50 thing, which is abstract, is linked to this very real experience of feeling like a lunatic. And I know people don't like to talk about menopause, but I might have to talk about it a little bit.
It's weird. I have never in my life had any desire to have a baby. Ever. Not even for a flickering instant. But knowing that I can't makes me feel [laughs] barren.
Menopause also is like, you know, a punchline to a joke. But somehow you don't think it's really going to happen to you. Or that somehow you'll breeze through it with no side effects. But I feel like every joke about menopause ever. Like I'm irrational and very quick to take offense at things. Depressed. Irritable. Whatever. Just a lot of that stuff. All the time. Constantly.
The way medically they diagnose you as menopausal is when it's been one year since your last period. So you don't even know. Like you're going along like, "Okay, it's been 10 months. Maybe it'll come back." "11 months, maybe I'm not menopausal." But I just hit the one-year mark this month.
I feel like it's official and also maybe like I'm coming out the other end of the tunnel, like maybe now I'll start feeling better. I have no reason to believe that. I'm just hoping against hope that it might be true in my case [laughs]. Everyone seems to have such wildly different experiences that I'm just going to pretend that this is my story and it's almost over.
I feel like, for the most part, I have moved through my life without a lot of regret about anything, which is kind of a nice feeling, although I don't have anything to compare it to since I feel like I don't really regret anything.
I wanted to be a cartoonist or psychiatrist.
In a funny way I feel like I'm not becoming a psychiatrist but I am writing a comic book that is about psychoanalysis, so I feel like in a way I'm realizing all my childhood dreams. I don't know. I'm writing a cartoon memoir, a graphic memoir about my life and it's turning out to have this focus on psychoanalysis, not just my own experiences in therapy but about the theory of therapy and how it helps people. But I'm having a really, really, really hard time with it, partly because of the menopause. Because I feel like I'm losing IQ points by the second. I'm hoping that I'll kind of spring back. Like once all this passes that somehow my mind will spring back, but who knows?
I just read somewhere that most people say they would like to live to be 80 and no further, and I think that's probably true for me too. I don't know. I don't have a particular number. Of course, I'd like to live as long as I have my wits about me and can take care of myself, but I don't have a number.
Now clearly, clearly, I have less than half of my time left. No doubt about it. And that's sobering.
Did you read about those people in Japan who are like 111 years old? But then they found out they're really all dead? [laughs] There's some place in Japan [laughs] that's supposed to have the oldest people in the world. Maybe it's China. I'm sorry if I got that wrong. But it turns out they just keep losing track of people.
I think about death a lot. I've always thought about death a lot. I would not say it's increasing, but I probably already do it more than the average person. I've been really struggling, since I was on the verge of 40, to come to some kind of acceptance, to really understand my mortality and be okay with it [laughs], but I have not done that yet. Somehow I envision going into a sort of meditative trance for a month and coming out the other end and getting it. But I haven't done that yet.
I'm immensely grateful that I have something I like to do so much and that I get to do it and that I get paid to do it. But I also feel – and I have to figure out a way to talk about this without sounding really incredibly whiny and obnoxious, and some other adjective that my menopausal brain is not accessing – but I feel like when I look around at my work life, I'm like at the top of my field and I find this a really alarming and disconcerting thing. Because I feel like, "How did this happen?" I mean, I'm happy. I'm happy it happened, but I don't feel like. . . It hasn't been like . . . I haven't figured this all out.
I hope I'm not at the top of my game, but I do feel like, you know, in terms of the field of graphic novels and cartooning I am perceived as this big success. And I am a big success, but I feel like an utter fraud. I mean, I'm okay. I do good work. I know I do good work. But I haven't quite . . . I feel like . . . My new challenge is to grow into my reputation, to like really inhabit my potential as much as I can. I want to do really good work. I feel like I have maybe 10, maybe 15 years to really do some substantive work, and I really hope I can rise to that challenge.
I've caught a wave, you know. I was in the right place at the right time. I don't mean to downplay my actual skill and intelligence, because I know I have both of those. I have those things, but lots of people have those things. But I guess I became a cartoonist because it was a pretty low-profile way to get attention. Like you could get attention but without a lot of scrutiny the way someone who's really putting themselves out there as a writer or as a fine artist would be subject to criticism. So I flew under a lot of different kinds of radar. I just made my own little niche and did this lesbian comic strip for 25 years. And then I wrote this graphic memoir about my father which came out at the time when graphic memoirs, graphic novels were finally getting some critical scrutiny, and it did well. It got a lot of critical praise. So what am I trying to say?
What's so disconcerting to me is that I find myself suddenly like up on this platform where I'm kind of presumed to know more than I do. Like, for example, I'm editing a book of best American comics. All of a sudden I'm like presumed to be some arbiter of comics. Like I know something that all these young cartoonists that want to be in this book don't know [laughs], but I don't. I'm looking at their work and it's like brilliant and intimidating, and why am I editing them? So I need to get over some hump and realize that I am a grown-up, I do know a lot, so I just better suck it up and move on.
I still haven't quite made my point, which is, in the time that I have been working as a cartoonist, the public attention to cartooning has changed drastically. It used to be something nobody really cared about, and now it's like the latest publishing . . . You know, people are saying graphic novels are replacing the novel. There's been this really seismic shift and so the ante has been upped considerably. So it's like I have to keep seeing how long I can keep, you know, ponying up. Because it's a more serious game.
My main fear is being found out to be the idiot that I fear I am. And then my next fear is dying. Well, not dying, per se, but losing my faculties and then losing my physical power. Which is going to happen! You know, unless I just have a heart attack tomorrow.
I was on a book tour when my book about my father came out, and I was staying in this really nice hotel in San Francisco and I came back to the hotel and at the front desk they gave me an envelope, and I opened the envelope as I went up in the fancy elevator and it was the New York Times Book Review review of my book and it was a rave.
That was the best day. That was like, I can't imagine it getting better than that.
Rob Trucks's interview with Alison Bechdel is part of a larger oral history project with Americans turning 50, including Olympic gold medalists, Pulitzer Prize winners, Grammy Award winners, National Book Award winners, a MacArthur Award winner, a Nobel Prize winner, a Tony Award winner, a Playboy Playmate of the Month, a woman who flew on the space shuttle three times and a woman who only flew on the space shuttle twice. He is also the man behind the curtain of Deadspin's Tell Me When It's Over series. Trucks's latest book, on Fleetwood Mac's Tusk album for Continuum's 33 1/3 series, is available through Amazon and better bookstores everywhere. You can e-mail him at trucks@deadspin.com or follow him on Twitter at @tusktusktusk.
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The inspections reflect a 'pattern of concern for mine safety in Ontario,' says Madeleine Loewenberg.
Ontario mine operators may get a surprise visit from the Ministry of Labour this month and into the fall as enforcement efforts ramp up as part of the province's Safe at Work compliance initiative.
While work in the industry can be potentially very dangerous, mining companies typically have well-developed safety programs, says Kevin MacNeill, partner with Heenan Blaikie LLP in Toronto.
"This is just the mining industry's turn," says MacNeill, who notes the ministry targets various sectors on an ongoing basis. "They may have a perception there are some issues, but in my experience mining companies tend to have pretty sophisticated health and safety programs given the inherently dangerous nature of the work."
The blitz is taking place through the month of August with two further inspection periods scheduled for the mining sector: one targeting ground control in October 2013 and a second on locking and tagging in mine hoisting plants in January and February 2014.
The purpose of the safety inspections is to reinforce the internal responsibility system in Ontario mines.
• Employers have posted a health and safety policy in the workplace that has been reviewed annually.
• Employers have a program in place to implement the health and safety policy.
• Workers are aware of the health and safety policy and a properly functioning joint health and safety committee or health and safety representative is in place where required.
Inspectors can issue compliance orders and stop-work orders if they find companies are in violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
General counsel often participate when it comes to handling the safety-compliance strategy at a mining company, says Madeleine Loewenberg with Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP.
Loewenberg says the inspections reflect a "pattern of concern for mine safety in Ontario" as the ministry has conducted two mining blitzes a year for the last five years.
Failure to comply with the act can mean stiff penalties. An individual convicted of an offence can be fined up to $25,000 and imprisoned for up to 12 months.
The maximum fine for a corporation convicted of an offence is $500,000. Any monetary penalty of more than $1,000 is subject to a 25-per-cent victim fine surcharge. Penalties are also imposed for each violation for which a conviction is registered.
MacNeill says MOL inspectors have some discretion as to who gets charged but legal counsel for the ministry has further discretion as to who they pursue to trial once the charges have been laid.
"The exercise of that discretion may yield different results in different situations," says MacNeill. "So you may have situations where one views a careless worker as being entirely at fault. The worker may have failed to follow expected safety rules but the employer can also be at fault," he says.
Loewenberg says the inspector can make recommendations on charges and they will either be approved or amended by a supervisor of the inspector.
"Ultimately the legal services branch at the Ministry of Labour would have final authority whether or not a particular charge is laid," she says.
The actions of an employee may result in liability flowing to an employer or an owner or a constructor because those actions may cause the ministry to determine there has been a failure in the heath and safety system in place at that particular mine site.
But it is rare that workers are charged and that is where the chain of responsibility kicks in.
In many cases the corporation is charged and sometimes the supervisor as well. However, a worker could be charged if it appears they were at fault and the employer was duly diligent.
While companies can review their safety policies in anticipation of a visit by an MOL inspector, at the end of the day MacNeill says due diligence by the corporation should be the first priority.


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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
Yee | 22 Feb 2018 | 2 min read
Once, there was a china rabbit named Edward Tulane who was loved by a little girl. The rabbit went on an ocean journey and fell overboard. He was rescued by a fisherman but later buried under rubbish. He was unburied by a dog and traveled for a long time with the tramps but later worked as a scarecrow. He was saved by a poor boy and loved by a little sick girl but later watched her die. The rabbit danced on the streets of Memphis but his head was broken into pieces in a diner. Will that be the ending for Edward?
Along his extraordinary journey, he learns to love, to lose, and to love again. And throughout the journey with him, we learn to believe that miracle happens and have faith in love.
"Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart."
When was the last time I felt so touched when reading a book? This is an exceptionally beautiful story. The character was so lively. I was so into the story and there was a moment where I thought that I was traveling with Edward. The story was beautifully written and it was a roller coaster of emotions when reading the book. It was a good representation of our life so well. We always need to keep going through the phases of being hopeful and later experience the heartbreaking but if we give up and close our heart, we will never find the true love.
"There's no point in going on if you feel that way. No point at all. You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next." "I am done with being loved," Edward told her. "I'm done with loving. It's too painful." "Pish," said the old doll. "Where is your courage?" "Somewhere else, I guess," said Edward. "You disappoint me," she said. "You disappoint me greatly. If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless. You might as well leap from this shelf right now and let yourself shatter into a million pieces. Get it over with. Get it all over with now."
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Q: Calling an arduino function through pyserial in python I am trying get an ultrasonic reading from a sensor thats connected to an arduino and the function which runs that sensor is in the ardunio sketch however I want to be able to call that function through a python script when I need to ? Can anyone help ?

A: well its fairly simple.. first, you need pyserial library with proper setup (correct COM port and baud). Then in arduino in main function, add a code like:
int incoming;
void loop() {
  if(Serial.available() > 0) {
    incoming = Serial.read();
  }
  if(incoming == 1) {
    yourFunction();
  } else {
    errorFunction();
  }
}

expecting value "1" to be send from python script. If its sent and received by arduino, yourFunction() will be executed, otherwise errorFunction() will be. Change if(incoming == 1) to anything you want to.

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Anne Turner Memorial Allotments
Welcome to Allotment Gardening – for those with a passion for gardening, and growing home grown fruit, flowers, herbs and vegetables, allotments are a great hobby. They're cheap, and a great way to get fresh air, keep fit and active and meet new people. We are friendly and family orientated and welcome all ages and gardening abilities. North Ferriby allotments are available to local residents of the village and surrounding villages.
We host the annual North Ferriby Open Gardens BBQ for The Friends of North Ferriby Primary School at the Allotments in July and organise other social events throughout the year for Allotment holders and their families.
For more information please contact: clerk@northferribyparishcouncil.gov.uk
You will either be allocated a plot depending on availability or, in many cases, add your name to the waiting list. A small annual subscription is payable; £10-£20 depending on size of plot.
Logo designed by Harvey Green
Mike Burton
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The Anne Turner Memorial Allotments are located in the heart of the village on Church Road. The Turner family were the village's most famous Victorian family. Originally wealthy merchants from Liverpool the Turner family lived at Ferriby House (now North Ferriby Nursing Home) from 1824-1902. They owned considerable amounts of land in the village and their estate accounted for 3/4 of the village. Mrs Anne Turner died 10 August 1902.
The estate was sold off and the Allotments were presented to the Parish of North Ferriby by her nieces and nephews in a Declaration of Trust Deed in 1905. The Parish Council are the sole trustees of the land and it is registered with the Charity Commission under number 221998.
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CyberCrime Sim Hijacking SIM Swapping two step verification
Understand how SIM Swapping can easily be used to hack your accounts!
We've all heard about sim swapping, SIM splitting, simjacking or sim hijacking- the recent trend with cybercriminals and now a study by Princeton University prooves the vulnerability of wireless carriers and how these SIM swapping has helped hackers ease their hands into frauds and crimes.
SIM swapping gained quite an attention when Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was hacked on his own platform. A study by Princeton University has revealed that five major US wireless carriers - AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Tracfone, and US Mobile - are susceptible to SIM swap scams. And this sim hijacking is on a rise in developing countries like Africa and Latin America.
What is SIM swapping?
SIM swapping is when your account is taken over by someone else by fraud through phone-based authentication usually two-factor authentication or two-step verification. This could give the hacker access to your email, bank accounts, online wallets and more.
How does the swap occur?
In a SIM swap, scammers exploit the second step in two-factor verification, where either a text message or a call is given to your number for verification.
Citywire further explains the process, "Usually, a basic SIM-card swapping work when scammers call a mobile carrier, impersonating the actual owner and claiming to have lost or damaged their SIM card. They then try to convince the customer service representative to activate a new SIM card in the fraudster's possession. This enables the fraudsters to port the victim's telephone number to the fraudster's device containing a different SIM."
After accessing the account, the scammers can control your email, bank accounts, online wallets and more.
Detecting SIM swapping attack
• The first sign is if your text messages and cell phones aren't functioning, it's probable that your account is hijacked.
• If the login credentials set by you stop working then it's probably a sign that your account has been taken over. Contact your telecom provider and bank immediately.
• If you get a message from your telecom provider that your SIM card has been activated on another device, be warned it's a red sign.
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Food blogger Jack Monroe lost 5000 Euros in phone number theft
"I lost 5000 Euros when my phone number was hacked and re-used on another sim card," says Jack Monroe. The culprits then successfully received her two-time verification information and obtained her bank and cash records."I was already concerned about the safety and had several steps in check," said Jack in a tweet. The industry was not able to address the "sim-jacking," says a privacy campaigner. The blogger expressed her anger in a tweet when she was told, 'although she would get her mobile number back in no time, the amount stolen will take time to refund.' "The cash taken has cost me very much - I'm a self-engaged freelancer and I have to work for every cent that I make," she tweeted.
The food writer is recognized for her cost-effective recipes and her support for campaigns against poverty. Sim-jacking, or Sim-swapping, is when culprits switch a mobile number with another Sim and use it as their own. This is done by criminals pretending as a consumer who wants to shift to a separate mobile service provider but doesn't want to change the phone number.
While personal information is required before requesting a sim transfer, the information is sometimes already available on the internet. - In this case, Ms. Monroe's date of birth, for instance, was retrieved from the internet. In other cases, the shop keepers or sim providers are often tipped for sim-jacking.
The first sign of sim hijacking for the victim is when their phone stops functioning. "The cases of sim-swapping in England are rare but there have been instances in other parts of the world. The industry is unable to combat the problem of sim-jacking," said Pat Walshe, Director, Privacy Matters, to BBC. The task of sim swapping is not common but one can do it easily if they want to, says Pat.
If ever caught in sim-jacking, the victims should always report the incident to their mobile operator or the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office). "The case should now push the ICO to inquire whether mobile operators and shop owners are actively following the protocol to protect services and data under telecommunication privacy laws," said Pat. The Global System for Mobile Communications, commonly known as 'GSMA' has made an alternative mobile identification verifier known as Mobile Connect. The ICO has been contacted by BBC, regarding the data theft problems.
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Sim swapping attacks hit US cryptocurrency users
Something strange happened last week, with tens of US-based cryptocurrency users seeing SIM swapping attacks.
Numerous members of the cryptocurrency community have been hit by SIM swapping attacks over the past week, in what appears to be a coordinated wave of attacks.
SIM swapping, also known as SIM jacking, is a type of ATO (account take over) attack during which a malicious threat actor uses various techniques (usually social engineering) to transfers a victim's phone number to their own SIM card.
The purpose of this attack is so that hackers can reset passwords or receive 2FA verification codes and access protected accounts.
These types of attacks have been going on for half a decade now, but they've exploded in 2017 and 2018 when attackers started focusing on attacking members of the cryptocurrency community, so they could gain access to online accounts used for managing large sums of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies.
But while these attacks were very popular last year, this year, the number of SIM swapping attacks appeared to have gone down, especially after law enforcement started cracking down and arresting some of the hackers involved in these schemes.
Something happened last week
But despite a period of calm in the first half of the year, a rash of SIM swapping attacks have been reported in the second half of May, and especially over the past week.
Several users tweeted their horrific experiences.
Some of them have publicly admitted to losing funds, such as Sean Coonce, who penned a blog post about how he lost over $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency due to a SIM swapping attack.
Some victims avoided getting hacked
Some other victims candidly admitted to losing funds, while others said the SIM swapping attacks were unsuccessful because they switched to using hardware security tokens to protect accounts, instead of the classic SMS-based 2FA system.
Cyber Fraud CyberCrime Hackers Sim Hijacking The Community United States
Hackers charged with stealing $ 2.4 million
A group of hackers from the cybercrime group known as "The Community" charged in the U.S for "Sim Hijacking" attack and commit wire fraud along with 3 former employees of mobile phone providers.
All the 6 members of "The community " group alleged to have participated in thefts of victims' identities and used the data to steal cryptocurrencies via SIM Hijacking attack also known as SIM Swapping.
"SIM Hijacking" or "SIM Swapping" is an identity theft technique that exploits a common cyber-security weakness – mobile phone numbers.
This special technique used by hackers to gain control of victims' mobile phone number in order to route the victims mobile traffic such as phone calls and short message service ("SMS") messages through the devices controlled by "The Community".
According to the fifteen-count indictment unsealed, SIM Hijacking was accomplished by a member of "The Community" contacting a mobile phone provider's customer service—posing as the victim—and requesting that the victim's phone number be swapped to a SIM card (and thus a mobile device) controlled by "The Community". Later, Hijacked new SIM will be used as a gateway to gain control of online accounts such as a victim's email, cloud storage, and cryptocurrency exchange accounts.
Here is the list of 6 "The Community" 3 former employee of mobile phone provider.
Conor Freeman, 20, of Dublin, Ireland
Ricky Handschumacher, 25 of Pasco County, Florida
Colton Jurisic, 20 of, Dubuque, Iowa
Reyad Gafar Abbas, 19, of Rochester, New York
Garrett Endicott, 21, of Warrensburg, Missouri
Ryan Stevenson, 26, of West Haven, Connecticut
Charged in the criminal complaint were:
Jarratt White, 22 of Tucson, Arizona
Robert Jack, 22of Tucson, Arizona
Fendley Joseph, 28, of Murrietta, California


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Pastor Oyakhilome Foundation inaugurates 100% free school in Lagos
The Chris Oyakhilome Foundation International on Sunday inaugurated its 100 per cent free school in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State.
The free school project in Ibeju-Lekki which is built under the auspices of the Inner City Mission for Children, is the fourth in Lagos State and 10th in Nigeria.
The Chief Sponsor of the project, Pastor Deola Phillips, who spoke on behalf of co-sponsors at the inauguration said that the 100 per cent free school project was to ensure that the indigent children had access to proper education.
Phillips who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Love world Incorporated, said that education remained a core focus area for the Chris Oyakhilome Foundation International.
She said that in Nigeria the estimated number of out of school children remained unacceptably high as reports had it that poverty was a major reason why millions of them had never seen the four walls of a school or had dropped out of school.
According to her, the Chris Oyakhilome Foundation International is at the forefront of protecting the right of every indigent child to education as it is strongly believe that education can be the catalyst that breaks the cycle of poverty.
"By giving indigent children access to education and helping them learn relevant life skills we are molding them to become profitable members of society which will in turn help us to build and sustain vibrant and economically stable communities.
"Today we are set to commission the InnerCity Mission Primary School, Ibeju-Lekki, which will provide a suitable place of learning for the children in this community and environs.
"This is a monumental step in building the foundation of a great future for them This Primary School will equip boys and girls alike from communities in Ibeju Lekki with necessary tools to help them live above poverty and deprivation.
"Through the unique curriculum we offer they will be transformed to become children who would grow up to be adults who bring profit and not destruction to the society.
"Today's child is tomorrow's future. This school represents hope opportunity and is a message to every child who will be enrolled here that their dreams are possible," she said.
Phillips said that children in the community would no longer have to walk for long hours to get to the nearest school as education had been brought right to their doorsteps and a new day had begun.
In her opening speech the Director Inner City Mission, Pastor Omoh Alabi said that to deny children their fundamental right to education was to hamper the growth and advancement of any nation.
According to Alabi the school is completely free as it is a sustained solution that eliminates the financial barriers limiting children in low income families from accessing or completing their primary school education irrespective of gender religion ethnicity or nationality.
She said that each child enrolled across the network of schools received a scholarship to start and complete their primary education. Alabi said that in addition to quality education, they received school uniforms school shoes and socks, textbooks, notebooks, stationery, school bags, sportswear and free transportation to and from school.
She added that they would receive free Primary Health Care at the school dispensaries, free school meals and more all through their primary education journey at no cost.
Since its inception, over 2,000 orphaned, vulnerable and excluded children have enjoyed the opportunity to complete their primary education and its complementary services, all thanks to the indefatigable support of Partners of the Chris Oyahkilome Foundation International. In her welcome address, the Coordinator Education Programme, Deaconess Venessa Nosegbe, said that the mission was spreading its tentacles globally to see that every indigent was given an opportunity to education.
Nosegbe said that the aim was to provide a broad and up to date educational experience for the indigent child with focus on their spiritual, physical and mental development for a life of service and fulfilment. She said that with the blend of curriculum, every child's learning needs would be addressed.
Also speaking, Oba Muideen Balogun, the Onisolu of Solu Alade Kingdom, commended the foundation for choosing Ibeju-Lekki for the project as the presence of the school would count as another development marker for Ibeju-Lekki.
"Let me use this opportunity to call on other well meaning individuals and organisations to find ways and means to site industries, projects and other meaningful initiatives in Ibeju-Lekki. In fact, Ibeju-Lekki is considered the fastest developing area of Lagos State and there is no better time to put your presence here than now," Balogun said.
The Chairman, Ibeju Lekki Local Council Development Area, Mr Olowa Jaja, thanked the Chris Oyakhilome Foundation International for the free education and complimenting the work of the government.
Jaja who was represented by the Chief Technical Adviser on PPP Mr Quadri Adedayo said that the local government council would ensure the protection of the education facility.
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Evens people celebrated "the Holiday of the North", also known as the "Deer Holiday", dedicated to the beginning of spring. The celebration took place in Arka village of Okhotsky Municipal Distric on March, 23.
More than 200 people participated in the celebration. The holiday program included national cuisine and traditional dwelling contests, national dress show, reindeer racing, stick-pulling and national martial arts competitions. The program was held both in Russian and in Evens language. The Folk Dance Group "Nevtechen" was also invited to present its show.
The holiday aims to preserve and popularize the Evens culture and traditions.
The Evens or the Lamuts, as they call themselves, belong to the indigenous population of The Russian Far East and are living in the Okhotsky Municipal Distric of Khabarovski Krai.
Nowadays the Evens population on the territory of Russia is 22000 people with 1500 of them living in Khabarovsk Krai. About 300 Evens people are leading a nomadic way of life, being engaged in reindeer herding. Settled Evens living in the villages of Yin and Arch are engaged in fishing and hunting.


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package org.apache.drill.exec.physical.impl.join;

import org.apache.drill.shaded.guava.com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
import org.apache.drill.exec.record.RecordBatch;
import org.apache.drill.exec.record.RecordBatchSizer;
import org.apache.drill.exec.vector.IntVector;

import java.util.Map;

public class BatchSizePredictorImpl implements BatchSizePredictor {
  private RecordBatch batch;
  private double fragmentationFactor;
  private double safetyFactor;

  private long batchSize;
  private int numRecords;
  private boolean updatedStats;
  private boolean hasData;

  public BatchSizePredictorImpl(final RecordBatch batch,
                                final double fragmentationFactor,
                                final double safetyFactor) {
    this.batch = Preconditions.checkNotNull(batch);
    this.fragmentationFactor = fragmentationFactor;
    this.safetyFactor = safetyFactor;
  }

  @Override
  public long getBatchSize() {
    Preconditions.checkState(updatedStats);
    return hasData? batchSize: 0;
  }

  @Override
  public int getNumRecords() {
    Preconditions.checkState(updatedStats);
    return hasData? numRecords: 0;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean hadDataLastTime() {
    return hasData;
  }

  @Override
  public void updateStats() {
    final RecordBatchSizer batchSizer = new RecordBatchSizer(batch);
    numRecords = batchSizer.rowCount();
    updatedStats = true;
    hasData = numRecords > 0;

    if (hasData) {
      batchSize = getBatchSizeEstimate(batch);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public long predictBatchSize(int desiredNumRecords, boolean reserveHash) {
    Preconditions.checkState(hasData);
    // Safety factor can be multiplied at the end since these batches are coming from exchange operators, so no excess value vector doubling
    return computeMaxBatchSize(batchSize,
      numRecords,
      desiredNumRecords,
      fragmentationFactor,
      safetyFactor,
      reserveHash);
  }

  public static long computeValueVectorSize(long numRecords, long byteSize) {
    long naiveSize = numRecords * byteSize;
    return roundUpToPowerOf2(naiveSize);
  }

  public static long computeValueVectorSize(long numRecords, long byteSize, double safetyFactor) {
    long naiveSize = RecordBatchSizer.multiplyByFactor(numRecords * byteSize, safetyFactor);
    return roundUpToPowerOf2(naiveSize);
  }

  public static long roundUpToPowerOf2(long num) {
    Preconditions.checkArgument(num >= 1);
    return num == 1 ? 1 : Long.highestOneBit(num - 1) << 1;
  }

  public static long computeMaxBatchSizeNoHash(final long incomingBatchSize,
                                         final int incomingNumRecords,
                                         final int desiredNumRecords,
                                         final double fragmentationFactor,
                                         final double safetyFactor) {
    long maxBatchSize = computePartitionBatchSize(incomingBatchSize, incomingNumRecords, desiredNumRecords);
    // Multiple by fragmentation factor
    return RecordBatchSizer.multiplyByFactors(maxBatchSize, fragmentationFactor, safetyFactor);
  }

  public static long computeMaxBatchSize(final long incomingBatchSize,
                                         final int incomingNumRecords,
                                         final int desiredNumRecords,
                                         final double fragmentationFactor,
                                         final double safetyFactor,
                                         final boolean reserveHash) {
    long size = computeMaxBatchSizeNoHash(incomingBatchSize,
      incomingNumRecords,
      desiredNumRecords,
      fragmentationFactor,
      safetyFactor);

    if (!reserveHash) {
      return size;
    }

    long hashSize = desiredNumRecords * ((long) IntVector.VALUE_WIDTH);
    hashSize = RecordBatchSizer.multiplyByFactors(hashSize, fragmentationFactor);

    return size + hashSize;
  }

  public static long computePartitionBatchSize(final long incomingBatchSize,
                                               final int incomingNumRecords,
                                               final int desiredNumRecords) {
    return (long) Math.ceil((((double) incomingBatchSize) /
      ((double) incomingNumRecords)) *
      ((double) desiredNumRecords));
  }

  public static long getBatchSizeEstimate(final RecordBatch recordBatch) {
    final RecordBatchSizer sizer = new RecordBatchSizer(recordBatch);
    long size = 0L;

    for (Map.Entry<String, RecordBatchSizer.ColumnSize> column : sizer.columns().entrySet()) {
      size += computeValueVectorSize(recordBatch.getRecordCount(), column.getValue().getStdNetOrNetSizePerEntry());
    }

    return size;
  }

  public static class Factory implements BatchSizePredictor.Factory {
    public static final Factory INSTANCE = new Factory();

    private Factory() {
    }

    @Override
    public BatchSizePredictor create(final RecordBatch batch,
                                     final double fragmentationFactor,
                                     final double safetyFactor) {
      return new BatchSizePredictorImpl(batch, fragmentationFactor, safetyFactor);
    }
  }
}

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Aside from that, the policy should be youth, youth, youth.
I'll try and keep it brief.
Smalling – quite simply put, he has no talents.
Pogba – again, again, again – just absolutely bloody useless.
Please, God, just get rid.


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Beyoncé Responds To Kelis Complaints By Removing 'Milkshake' Interpolation From 'Energy' Single
Beyoncé for Renaissance | Photo: beyonce.com
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Harlem-born artist Kelis inserted a thorn in the side of Beyoncé's Renaissance album launch when she responded with irritation to news she was listed as a sampled artist on the album. Angry in part she hadn't received a courtesy call from Beyoncé letting her known she'd be included on the project, more so Kelis was upset with Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, who she claims cut her out of writing credits on the music they worked on together.
As it turns out, the Renaissance song in question was "Energy" and included an interpolation not a sample of "Milkshake," a song performed by Kelis and written by Williams and Hugo.
Kelis may not be as popular an artist as she once was, but she has enough clout that her complaints caused an uproar among the Beyhive that was widely covered by the press.
More interested in action than chatter, Beyoncé chose to put an end to the bad energy surrounding the "Milkshake" interpolation and removed it from the song. While Williams and Hugo are still credited on the song on Spotify, on beyonce.com, their names have been removed from credits. While the song will be adjusted on streaming services, the original song will remain on CDs and vinyl, adding an interesting element to physical versions of the album.
Kelis responds to fan on Instagram
Naturally, members of the Beyhive have been buzzing around Kelis' Instagram feed and when she was asked by one if she was happy the song was removed, she responded, "Well I'm getting there that's the right thing to do but my issue was and always has been Neptune's." Making reference to Beyoncé's fans she added, "Proletariat just dumb and here what they want."
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import os
import time
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore

class Window(QtGui.QMainWindow):

    dir_ = "None"

    def __init__(self):
        super(Window, self).__init__()
        self.setGeometry(250, 300, 400, 400)
        self.setWindowTitle("pyporg")
        self.setWindowIcon(QtGui.QIcon('pythonlogo.png'))
        self.setFixedHeight(400)
        self.setFixedWidth(400)

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        open = QtGui.QAction("Open", self)
        open.setShortcut("Ctrl+O")
        open.setStatusTip("Open a folder to sort")
        open.triggered.connect(self.openFolder)
        file.addAction(open)

        save = QtGui.QAction("Save",self)
        save.setShortcut("Ctrl+S")
        save.setStatusTip("Save the output log to a file")
        save.triggered.connect(self.saveFile)
        file.addAction(save)

        quit = QtGui.QAction("Quit",self)
        quit.setShortcut("Ctrl+X")
        quit.setStatusTip("Close the application")
        quit.triggered.connect(self.close_application)
        file.addAction(quit)

        help = mainMenu.addMenu("Help")
        about = QtGui.QAction("About", self)
        about.setStatusTip("About pyporg")
        #about.triggered.connect(self.OPENNEWFORM?)
        help.addAction(about)

        self.statusBar()
        self.home()

    def home(self):
        lbl_ext = QtGui.QLabel("Select the file types you'd like to sort:", self)
        lbl_ext.move(10,35)
        lbl_ext.resize(lbl_ext.minimumSizeHint())

        self.chk_jpg = QtGui.QCheckBox('.jpg', self)
        self.chk_jpg.move(20, 60)
        self.chk_jpg.resize(self.chk_jpg.minimumSizeHint())

        self.chk_jpeg = QtGui.QCheckBox('.jpeg', self)
        self.chk_jpeg.move(20, 85)
        self.chk_jpeg.resize(self.chk_jpeg.minimumSizeHint())

        self.chk_img = QtGui.QCheckBox('.img', self)
        self.chk_img.move(150, 60)
        self.chk_img.resize(self.chk_img.minimumSizeHint())

        self.chk_png = QtGui.QCheckBox('.png', self)
        self.chk_png.move(150, 85)
        self.chk_png.resize(self.chk_png.minimumSizeHint())

        self.chk_bmp = QtGui.QCheckBox('.bmp', self)
        self.chk_bmp.move(280, 60)
        self.chk_bmp.resize(self.chk_bmp.minimumSizeHint())

        self.chk_tiff = QtGui.QCheckBox('.tiff', self)
        self.chk_tiff.move(280, 85)
        self.chk_tiff.resize(self.chk_tiff.minimumSizeHint())

        self.chk_del_duplicate = QtGui.QCheckBox("Delete duplicate files", self)
        self.chk_del_duplicate.move(20, 130)
        self.chk_del_duplicate.resize(self.chk_del_duplicate.minimumSizeHint())

        lbl_cwd = QtGui.QLabel("Current working directory: ", self)
        lbl_cwd.move(10, 160)
        lbl_cwd.resize(lbl_cwd.minimumSizeHint())

        self.lbl_filepath = QtGui.QLabel("                                                                              ", self)
        self.lbl_filepath.move(25, 185)
        self.lbl_filepath.resize(self.lbl_filepath.minimumSizeHint())

        self.lst_log = QtGui.QListWidget(self)
        self.lst_log.move(10,210)
        self.lst_log.resize(380,120)

        btn_open = QtGui.QPushButton("Open folder", self)
        btn_open.clicked.connect(self.openFolder)
        btn_open.resize(btn_open.minimumSizeHint())
        btn_open.move(50,340)

        btn_start = QtGui.QPushButton("Start", self)
        btn_start.clicked.connect(self.start_application)
        btn_start.resize(btn_start.minimumSizeHint())
        btn_start.move(250,340)
        self.show()

    def openFolder(self):
        Window.dir_ = QtGui.QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory(None, 'Select a folder to sort:', 'C:\\', QtGui.QFileDialog.ShowDirsOnly)
        print(Window.dir_)
        self.lbl_filepath.setText(Window.dir_)

    def close_application(self):
        sys.exit()

    def start_application(self):
        try:
            file_path = Window.dir_
            file_path = os.chdir(file_path)
        except:
                self.lst_log.addItem("Please select a folder to sort first!")

        # Iterate through directory.
        for self.f in os.listdir(str(self.dir_)):
            try:
                # Split file name and file extension
                file_name, file_ext = os.path.splitext(self.f)
            except IOError:
                print('Error: file doesn\'t exist')
            else:
                # Store file mod time info
                file_stats = time.ctime(os.stat(self.f).st_mtime)
                f_day, f_month, f_date, f_time, f_year = file_stats.split()

            # Set a new folder name for f
            self.new_folder = f_year + " " + f_month

            if self.chk_bmp.isChecked() == True and file_ext == ".bmp":
                self.fileTransfer()
            if self.chk_img.isChecked() == True and file_ext == ".img":
                self.fileTransfer()
            if self.chk_jpeg.isChecked() == True and file_ext == ".jpeg":
                self.fileTransfer()
            if self.chk_jpg.isChecked() == True and file_ext == ".jpg":
                self.fileTransfer()
            if self.chk_png.isChecked() == True and file_ext == ".png":
                self.fileTransfer()
            if self.chk_tiff.isChecked() == True and file_ext == ".tiff":
                self.fileTransfer()

        # After checking each file in dir, let user know it's done.
        self.lst_log.addItem("Done.")

    def fileTransfer(self):
        if os.path.isdir(self.new_folder):
            self.lst_log.addItem("Moving '" + self.f + "' to '" + self.new_folder + "'")
            #print("Moving '" + self.f + "' to '" + self.new_folder + "'")
            os.rename(self.f, self.new_folder + "/" + self.f)
        else:
            self.lst_log.addItem("Creating directory: \'" + self.new_folder +"'")
            #print("Creating directory: \'" + self.new_folder +"'")
            os.makedirs(self.new_folder)
            self.lst_log.addItem("Moving '" + self.f + "' to '" + self.new_folder + "'")
            #print("Moving '" + self.f + "' to '" + self.new_folder + "'")
            os.rename(self.f, self.new_folder + "/" + self.f)

            #if del_duplicate == True:
                # Check for duplicate files and remove

    def saveFile(self, showDialog):
        # save to log.txt in current working directory
        savePath = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'log.txt')

        # allow user to override location if requested
        savePath = QtGui.QFileDialog.getSaveFileName(self, 'Save the log file', savePath, 'log.txt')

        # if just saving, or user didn't cancel, make and save file
        if len(savePath) > 0:
            with open(savePath, 'w') as theFile:
                for i in xrange(self.lst_log.count()):
                    theFile.write(''.join([str(self.lst_log.item(i).text()), '\n']))

def run():
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    GUI = Window()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

run()


Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Apr 14 (ANI): Former chief minister and president of Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav took jibe on Bharatiya Janata Party's assertion on national security. He said, "They say, as long as there is BJP govt, our borders are secure.
We the people of Samajwadi Party believe that as long as there are brave soldiers at our borders, the borders are secure. Goverments come and go but the jawans stay at the border, protecting India".


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The Medinamite
Medina High School's student newspaper since 1941
Bees abroad
Arguably, the best way to learn about a culture is to experience that culture first hand. Students, teachers, and administrators alike all know this, especially at Medina High School.
For years, the teachers at MHS have been coordinating school incentive trips to foreign countries to further students' knowledge of different areas. Places like Argentina, Peru, Germany and more have all hit the list.
Just recently over spring break, the Spanish department organized a trip to Costa Rica. Complete with 21 students and 4 teachers, the group set out on March 26. The trip lasted until April 4 and the students never failed to have a full day.
The students were able to enjoy the different views of Monteverde, Costa Rica's esteemed cloud forest, Manuel Antonio, the secluded beach town, and San Jose, the nation's capital. Among other things, highlights included zip-lining through forests, white water rafting through mountains and communicating with locals through Spanish.
Traditional foods and dances were all introduced to the group each day in order for everyone to be fully engulfed in Costa Rican culture. From rice and beans at every meal, to exotic fruits unobtainable in the U.S., each encounter with new foods helped enhance the experience.
The beautiful country offers many opportunities for awe inspired moments, but to Sharon Schorr, one of the Spanish teachers on the trip, one of the greatest parts about the trips is witnessing the students getting involved and developing a love for travel. "[The students] really get it, and that is all that I can ask," said Schorr at the conclusion of the trip.
Delaney Cullen, a Sophomore at MHS said, "It was really cool becoming so close to people in only a couple days. I didn't know half of the people going at the beginning, but by the end we practically were all best friends."
"Learning about a country from a book is one thing, but actually traveling to the country and experiences things from their perspective is a totally different idea," said another sophomore at MHS, Cassie Bryan.
Every trip needs a native in order to tell the tales of the land, and this one was no different. Erika Calvo, a long time resident and tour guide in San Jose, was the lucky leader for this trip. A spunky, five-foot girl who clearly has a love for her country, had an absolute blast showing off her native state. Calvo was quoted as saying, "Pura Vida (sort of the international phrase of Costa Rica, meaning 'Pure Life') is more than a saying. It is a way of life that everyone should have the privilege of experiencing."
Costa Rica was rated the happiest country in the world, and there is a clear reason as to why. The country's landscape leaves no room for disappointment; not everyone is able to experience this, but luckily 25 Medinians had a first hand look at the land of Pura Vida.
Feb 21 / Girls Varsity Basketball
Feb 6 / Girls Varsity Basketball
Canton Central Catholic
Feb 5 / Varsity boys basketball
Jan 26 / Varsity Girls Basketball
What color is your foreign language?
Medina County Library Teen Art Show
Mr. Medina
Interactive Medina: Poll Results
A Lonely Hearts Guide to Sweethearts
The Art 1.11 Experience
Winter Wonderland… or was it?
Gaming Club Review
A True Christmas Fantasy
Holiday Choir Concert
SPICE Auditions


They are absolutely fantastic, well done mate. I love the weathering.
Here's the last helemt I worked on. A Dan Laws HDPE helmet.
Worked as a "screenused" ANH helmet. Still have to add a set of mic tips.
First coat of khaki paint (inside and outside of the separate parts). Ears are made out of ABS.
That turned out awesome. Very well done!
My circle is now complete .
Slightly weathered in a Endor RotJ style.
Thank's Joe and Mark for there great service!
Last edited by Turrican on Sat Nov 24, 2012 12:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Congrats! Very nice helmet collection and setup!
Thats what i call an excellent Stormi collection....only the best stuff available.
This design of the buckets is timeless.
Do you talk for me of or for Turrican??
And finally with mic tips!!!
Here's the new one: RSprop PP helmet!
I initially wanted to make it clean....but wasn't happy with the result. It sounded "wrong" to me and I finally decided to add some weathering (but no paint cracks).
Some details: silkscreened decals (from my own design), three parts white resin mic tips (not a recast but a scratch build), green acetate lens, yellow star form inside, rubber trim glued with neoprene.


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Stories by Steve DelVecchio:
Dwight Howard opens up about rumors that he is gay
Dwight Howard became the focus of gossip sites and internet rumors last year when a man claimed he was in a romantic relationship with the NBA star, and Howard says he learned a lot about himself from a situation that was very difficult for him.
Howard sat down for an interview with FOX Sports 1's "Fair Game with Kristine Leahy" this week, and he opened up about the allegations. A man named Masin Elije, now the author of a book entitled "Industry Hoe," accused Howard of cheating on him with a transgender man. Elije provided screenshots of direct messages he claimed he exchanged with Howard, and he later said he was physically threatened by Howard's pastor and some other people close to the eight-time NBA All-Star.
Howard told Leahy he was angry because he had no idea why someone he had never met would make up an elaborate story about him, but he said the experience "liberated me."
"I'm not gay… It hurt at first to go through it. I sat at home and I was like 'I never want to come outside again.'" @DwightHoward spoke on the allegations that he was gay.
(: @FairGameonFS1 | @KristineLeahy) pic.twitter.com/WcXz2WtOfY
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) July 16, 2019
"I think that liberated me, because I saw how a lot of people would feel, whether they're gay or straight or have issues," Howard said. "People are afraid to be who they are.
"That situation made me realize, 'You're not like this, so just be you. Be free.' I'm not gay. There's a lot of people who are, and they have to hide. There's people who have mental issues, and they have to hide. People have different problems in life, and they have to hide and have to put on a mask every day."
Howard said he sat at home alone for the most part over a two-month span following the rumors, thinking about "who I am, who do I want to be (and) where do I want my life to go."
"It hurt at first to go through it. I sat at home and I'm like, 'Man, I never want to come outside again,'" he said.
The overall message from Howard is that he is a better person for having gone through that situation. The 33-year-old recently explained some other ways in which he has changed over the past several years, so he is clearly trying to make his pitch to teams. That is likely part of the reason he agreed to the interview with Leahy.
Mike D'Antoni: Rockets' offense 'not changing much' with Russell Westbrook
The Houston Rockets may have to make some changes now that Russell Westbrook will be sharing the floor with James Harden next season, but head coach Mike D'Antoni insists any adjustments will be minor.
D'Antoni discussed the acquisition of Westbrook in an appearance on "The Woj Pod" this week, and he said there will be no need to change Houston's offense much with Westbrook. He noted how the Rockets had the second-best offense in the NBA behind the Golden State Warriors last season.
Houston's Mike D'Antoni on The Woj Pod pic.twitter.com/xVFySpS1aB
"We're not changing much," D'Antoni said. "We'll tweak it, but to say you've gotta change and you can't win that way, that's BS."
D'Antoni was referring to critics who say the Rockets play too much isolation ball, whereas teams like the Warriors spread it around more and never have one player dominating that side of the ball. Some think it could be even more challenging to play that style now with how ball-dominant both Harden and Westbrook are, but D'Antoni is not concerned.
"Do we sometimes go too much 1-on-1? Yeah," the coach admitted. "Do we sometimes iso or not move enough? Yeah, we do sometimes. But I can also make the argument that sometimes teams over-pass. Sometimes they move too much or are too helter-skelter. You try to find the balance of what is best for your players."
Westbrook and Harden obviously aren't concerned about sharing the ball, as they may have been the ones who facilitated the trade that sent Chris Paul to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Russ.
D'Antoni has been even more passionate in defending his offensive approach in the past, and we don't expect that to change. From a pure talent standpoint, the Rockets should be much better off with Westbrook than Paul. As we know, there is often more to the story than that.
Houston Rockets, Mike D'Antoni, Russell Westbrook
Charles Barkley has some harsh words for Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons
Charles Barkley began his Hall of Fame career with the Philadelphia 76ers, and he has never been afraid to criticize his former team just as much as — if not more than – any other team he provides analysis on. That goes for superstars Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, too.
Barkley said during an appearance on ESPN's "Get Up" Tuesday morning that he believes the Sixers can win the Eastern Conference next season, but he cautioned that Embiid has to "get his fat butt in shape" and Simmons has to work on his jump shot for that to happen.
"Joel Embiid has got to get his fat butt in shape and Ben Simmons got to work on his game."
—Charles Barkley has some advice for the Sixers if they want to be the favorites in the East pic.twitter.com/biF8LfuRtr
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) July 16, 2019
Barkley said the most valuable advice he ever received in his career came from Moses Malone, who told him he was "fat and lazy." Barkley says that inspired him to lose 50 pounds when he first got to Philadelphia. He believes someone with the 76ers needs to step up and send a similar message to Embiid.
It will probably be more difficult for Simmons to improve his shooting than it is for Embiid to work on his conditioning, but Barkley has a point with both. Staying in shape is critical for Embiid if he wants to remain healthy, though he has not been that receptive to Barkley's advice in the past. Simmons could be an MVP candidate if he learned how to shoot, but that is a tough thing to do at this stage in a player's career.
Ben Simmons, Charles Barkley, Joel Embiid
Tedy Bruschi still moving to bigger role at ESPN despite latest stroke
Tedy Bruschi suffered his second stroke earlier this month, but all of the updates we have heard about his health over the last two weeks have been positive. On Tuesday, ESPN provided another.
Bruschi, who has made regular appearances on "NFL Live" and other programs for the past several years, is moving to a bigger role with ESPN. The network has announced its plans for 2019 NFL pregame shows, and Bruschi is joining "Sunday NFL Countdown." He will replace Charles Woodson.
That is obviously a great sign, as it indicates it will be business as usual for Bruschi when the 2019 season gets underway — and likely sooner. The former New England Patriots linebacker has been a huge advocate for stroke awareness since he suffered his first back in 2005, and he said he was able to get the help he needed this time by immediately identifying the signs. We're glad to hear he is recovering well.
Kendrick Perkins warns Zion Williamson to avoid New Orleans food
One of the concerns surrounding Zion Williamson now that his NBA career has begun is his weight, and Kendrick Perkins thinks the former Duke star will have to work extra hard to avoid culinary temptations in New Orleans.
Perkins, who spent a season with the Pelicans, said there are going to be people in New Orleans offering Williamson good eats everywhere he goes. The retired big man said the Pelicans better lock Zion away if they want to keep him in shape.
Pelicans better lock Zion in the House because I can hear those good people in New Orleans saying "Hey Baby you want some Fried Gator Baby" I'm telling y'all I played for the Pelicans and it's FOOD everywhere!
— Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) July 15, 2019
Williamson is listed at 285 pounds, which is heavy for a player who is about 6-foot-6. Most of that has to do with his incredible strength, but he suffered a knee injury in his first Summer League game and also got hurt during the NCAA Tournament back in March, though that injury was more of a fluke. The Summer League injury was the result of knee-to-knee contact, so it's hard to argue that either had to do with Williamson's size.
Like any other star player, Williamson will have to keep an eye on his weight and conditioning. While his strength is an asset, he can't let one too many bowls of gumbo turn his impressive stature into a liability.
Kendrick Perkins, Zion Williamson
Big Baller Brand selling T-shirts, hats for $5 on clearance
It doesn't seem like all that long ago that LaVar Ball and his Big Baller Brand were being relentlessly mocked for selling $500 sneakers. The ridicule still exists, but for a much different reason now.
At one of their pop-up shops over the weekend, Big Baller Brand was selling several items on clearance. Prices ranged from $5 for T-shirts and hats to $100 for a package that includes a T-shirt, hoodie, pair of shoes and pair of socks.
Big Baller Brand went from selling $50 t shirts to selling them for $5 at local volleyball tournaments pic.twitter.com/PBdyH1BSFW
— LA Sports Radio (@LASportsRadio) July 14, 2019
When the Big Baller Brand first launched, Lonzo Ball's signatures shoes were selling for $495. Hats and T-shirts were around $50. Many people thought the prices were absurd, but LaVar Ball insisted all of the items were selling at a furious pace and his family was making money in bundles.
Not so much, anymore. Lonzo recently distanced himself from BBB, and he had a pretty good reason for doing so. That has almost certainly had a negative impact on the brand, and you have to wonder how much longer they can stay in business with clearance prices like that.
LaVar Ball
Big Baller Brand, LaVar Ball
Shaq responds to Steve Kerr calling him out over Finals comment
Shaquille O'Neal has some feet to kiss after a comment he made 15 years ago has come back to haunt him, and the Hall of Famer is puckering up.
Shaq's Los Angeles Lakers won three straight championships from 2000-2002 and then reached the NBA Finals again in 2004, and the big man declared in an interview with ESPN that reaching four Finals in five years is so difficult it would never be done again. He said if any coach pulled it off, he'd kiss his feet on the show "Fear Factor." Steve Kerr, who reached his fifth straight Finals with the Golden State Warriors this past season, was made aware of the interview on Monday.
Hey @SHAQ, I'm going to do us both a favor and pretend that @D_West30 didn't send this to me this morning. pic.twitter.com/oFhpTPYjOo
— Steve Kerr (@SteveKerr) July 16, 2019
Shaq responded by saying he is willing to pay up, as long as the cheese is Kraft brand.
@SteveKerr I guess I'll c u in fear factor, and make sure it's kraft cheese lol
— SHAQ (@SHAQ) July 16, 2019
Erik Spoelstra also brought the Miami Heat to four consecutive Finals from 2011-2014, so technically Shaq has to kiss his feet, too. As long as he's the one kissing feet and not having his nightmarish feet kissed, things shouldn't be all that bad.
Shaq, Steve Kerr
Mark Cuban fined $50K for admitting to leaking info about coaches' challenges
Mark Cuban has gotten himself fined by the NBA numerous times in the past for things he has said, but the latest is a bit different from all the others.
ESPN's Tim MacMahon reports that Cuban has been fined $50,000 by the NBA after he admitted to leaking information from last week's Board of Governor meeting to a reporter. The fine was not announced publicly, but a memo was sent to teams and Cuban made a sarcastic remark to MacMahon about it.
"I appreciate the irony of your reporting on a fine that someone should, but won't, get fined for leaking to you," he said.
Apparently Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive expressed concern to the league that information about owners moving to allow coaches' challenges next season was trickling out while executives were still meeting about it. Cuban immediately admitted he was the one who leaked the info, and that's where the fine stems from.
The $50,000 fine is nothing compared to some of the penalties Cuban has had to pay in the past, and that probably gives you an idea of how serious the violation was — or, in this case, wasn't.
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