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The conference spent the first two days looking into a diagnostic report into the state the ANC was in. "These tendencies - which have been outlined before - include patronage' corruption' social distance' factionalism' abuse of power and membership system anomalies such as the reported manipulation of the membership data' gate keeping and bulk buying of membership'" Zuma said. Read More »
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JP: More sunshine Wednesday with a few isolated storms
A few showers and storms Monday afternoon, same picture Independence Day Tuesday . Temperatures tomorrow afternoon will reach the mid 80s and humidity will remain high, so afternoon thunderstorms will once again be possible. Otherwise, sunshine and patchy clouds today as high temperatures reach the upper 80s. Fri: High: 95 Low: 72 Mostly sunny. Thursday night, it will be partly cloudy with a low of 72, according to the weather service. Read More »
Police Officer Is Shot in 'Unprovoked Attack' in the Bronx
Police say, "As they confronted him, he drew a revolver". "Based on what we know now, it is clear that this was an unprovoked direct attack on police officers who were assigned to keep the people of this city safe", Police Commissioner James O'Neill said. Read More »
Salman-Shah Rukh duo back in Anand Rai's film
The shoot of the film started recently in Mumbai and Salman paid a visit to the sets yesterday to shoot for his cameo. Speaking about the film, SRK informed that the film has a guest appearance in it and they are considering Salman Khan for the same. Read More »
China invites American, German cancer experts to treat Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo
Medical experts were seen saying that Liu's treatment plan was going smoothly. The source, who asked not to be named, declined to comment specifically on whether Liu, 61, who was jailed in 2009 after he helped write a petition calling for sweeping political reforms, would be treated in Germany for his liver cancer. Read More »
Syrian President Bashar Assad will be face of new bank note
Tillerson's latest comments contradict earlier assurances that the USA would demand that Assad cede power after the regime allegedly used chemical weapons against civilians in April. The bill featuring Assad's portrait was put into circulation "in Damascus and a number of the provinces". He also signaled that USA military attacks on Syrian government forces in recent months were of tactical nature and not meant to weaken the government or strengthen the opposition forces. Read More »
Dino Melaye's recall process starts July 10 - INEC
Reacting to this, Senator Ike Ekweremadu , the Deputy Senate President has allayed the fear of Mr. Melaye that the chamber is fully behind him and that the recall is dead on arrival. "Eventually, it must come back here for us to certify whether it is satisfactory". The commission had argued that there is no order stopping it from carrying out it's "I am not aware of any order stopping us from doing what we are doing", Mr. Read More »
Cops find 3 live, endangered deer tied up during traffic stop
That's when he saw two struggling hog-tied Key deer in the back seat of the auto, reports WPEC. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation commission officers were called to check on the animals, which were released back into the wild. A small subspecies of the more common Whitetail Deer, they can grow to be the size of a large dog. While the population is now stable at around 700 to 800 deer, they remain listed as a federally endangered species. Read More »
Huddersfield given fresh OPE ahead of Premier League debut
Ince featured in the top flight for Crystal Palace and Hull before dropping down a level to join County permanently in 2015 after an initial loan spell. Palmer put pen to paper on a new four-year deal at Stamford Bridge, although he is yet to make is senior debut for the Blues. "As our fans will have seen during the play-off final, Danny brings a lot of quality to any team he plays for", Wagner told the club's official website . Read More »
Korean stars Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo are getting married
The statement, as quoted by Soompi , reads: "Hello". A source who is close to both Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo said that they both would go together on overseas schedule. Last month, however, there were speculations that they spent a week together in Bali, Indonesia. After the big news of Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo's marriage announcement , more details of how their relationship began has been revealed. Read More »
Seattle man fatally shoots wife during argument in Uber auto
At that point, he knew she had been shot. According to KCPQ , the driver feared for his own life, and kept driving on Cameron Espitia's orders. Eventually, the man told the driver to stop and he exited the vehicle near 2nd Avenue West and West McGraw Place. Read More »
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Receive $0 From White House Positions
Twenty-two employees are paid that salary and six of those are women. Using the findings from the White House's annual report to Congress, which was released on Friday, the outlet found women working in President Donald Trump's White House earn an average salary of roughly $83,000, while their male colleagues earn an average of roughly $104,000. Read More »
Dallas shooter in police custody
The standoff, involving Dallas SWAT, started at 2 p.m.at the Wyndham Hotel in the 7800 block of Alpha Road. WFAA-TV reporter Tanya Eiserer said on Twitter that police put a man in handcuffs into a police vehicle. A person on a stretcher was seen being loaded into an ambulance, which was then followed by police. No officers were injured and no officers fired shots in what is being investigated as a domestic violence incident. Read More »
Trump revives US National Space Council
Rowling). In attendance was one of the first men on the moon, Buzz Aldrin . President Donald Trump signed Friday an executive order that seeks to relaunch the National Space Council that last operated in 1993 under President George H.W. Read More »
Explosion at factory in Bangladesh
The explosion brought down parts of the building including walls and one roof. The factory had been shut for 10 days for the Eid period at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and was being readied to resume operations from Tuesday. About 50 workers were inside the factory at the time of the explosion. Stockmann is a member of the industry group Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), and Bjarland said that Multifabs had cleared a BSCI audit in May 2016, valid for two years. Read More »
Kiren Rijiju safe after emergency helicopter landing
A BSF helicopter with Kiren Rijiju , union minister of state for home on board on the other hand had to make an emergency landing in a village near Itanagar due to inclement weather. "The state government are mobilising locals to locate the missing IAF helicopter that was on a rescue mission in Arunachal, " Mr Rijiju tweeted. "I'm safe but whole state machinery is geared up to locate IAF ALH chopper missing nearly at same time". Read More »
Tameka Tiny: She Cried After She Heard JAY-Z's new album
The 47-year-old rapper's title track from his new record, "4:44", features an apology from the star - who has kids Blue Ivy, five, and newborn twins believed to be named Rumi and Sir with his singer spouse - to his wife, and is believed to be a direct reference back to the claims she hinted to him being unfaithful with "Becky with the good hair" on her visual LP " Lemonade ". Read More »
Hot air balloon crashes into pond near Walt Disney World in Orlando
The balloon is owned by Orlando Balloon Rides, which is based in Davenport, Montes said. The pilot tried to land in a field near Florida's Turnpike, but he was unable to, troopers said. "It was adrenaline. It was pumping". Now we're making fun of it, but it was serious. As you can hear in the video, the pilot says, "Sorry folks, we're gonna get a little bit wet". Read More »
Canadian woman and husband found dead in New Mexico
Jacob Kokotkiewicz was found with a handgun in between in legs while sitting in the driver's seat. According to news reports, police officers said that they were not looking for suspects and there was no evidence indicating anyone else's involvement. Read More »
Child-sized casket with infant organs discovered on Philadelphia street
Police are investigating a freaky discovery in North Philadelphia: infant human organs placed a small, child-size casket that was found on a sidewalk. "What's unusual is inside the coffin, other than the bag of organs, there was no body". The discovery was made next to Mt Vernon Cemetery and Laurel Hill Cemetery, which police said will be searched by cadaver dogs. Read More »
Austria Ready To Deploy Soldiers To Stop Migrant Influx
Austria's announcement, which has spurred a strong reaction on Italy's part, comes after last week, the Italian government threatened to close off its ports to vessels bringing in illegal immigrants from across the Mediterranean. Interior Minister Marco Minniti said there was no emergency at the busy Brenner pass Alpine crossing, which an Austrian defence ministry spokesman said would be included in the controls. Read More »
Juno Spacecraft To Explore Jupiter's Great Spot On July 10
The lead investigator of Juno at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Scott Bolton said, " Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter . The data collection of the Great Red Spot is part of Juno's sixth science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops. On July 4, Juno will celebrate its first anniversary in the Jupiter orbit. Read More »
Demare wins Tour de France stage four; Thomas, Cavendish crash
If he came across it's one thing, but the elbow... Cavendish's head hit the ground hard, but after the stage he was back on his feet at his Dimension Data team bus - with Sagan there too, although there's no news yet on what words might have passed between them. Read More »
Facebook Is Again Changing News Feed Algorithm
According to Facebook research, such links [spammy links] " tend to include low quality content such as clickbait, sensationalism, and misinformation ". The change is sure to affect only links shared by those people, not other posts or their photos, said the company. It doesn't seem to distinguish between reputable sources and spam links; but according to Recode , the amount of legitimate things serial Facebook oversharers actually post is nearly negligible. Read More »
Iran holds 'Trumpism' cartoon contest to mock U.S. president
Iranian Hadi Asadi won first prize and a $1,500 award for his artwork, which sees Trump wearing a jacket made of dollar bills and drooling. "Trump's behavior clearly sets out Iran's reasons to distrust the USA, consequently, we chose to use art's capacity for displaying the behavior", Tabatabaei told Iranian local media . Read More »
Gordon Hayward to Make Free Agency Decision on July 4
Quite frankly, Amick's tweet does make me a little nervous if it is indeed the truth that Hayward was seriously leaning towards a team besides Utah prior to the meeting with the Jazz . Hayward was considered one of the major players available in this year's free agency season. According to Amick, the Jazz made a "very strong impression" on Hayward in a meeting that, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski , lasted 3 1/2 hours. Read More »
66 million Trees planted in 12 hours, Well Done India
Last month Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India, the world's third largest generator of carbon emissions, would cooperate in the fight against climate change. He added that saplings of trees like "Jamun", "Amroodh", "Ambla", etc. have been considered for plantation drive and these species are not at all helpful in river conservation. Read More »
Ex-Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr to get apology and pay
In March, Ottawa apologised to three of its citizens who were tortured in Syria, allegedly with the indirect participation of Canadian officials. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2010 that Canadian intelligence officials obtained evidence from Khadr under "oppressive circumstances" - which included sleep deprivation tactics - during interrogations in 2003 and then shared that evidence with U.S. Read More »
Trudeau, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar Sing Praises Of Canada-EU Trade
The Canadian prime minister will attend a business lunch and visit starvation memorial statues in the city centre before a state dinner hosted by the Taoiseach. "Certainly if feminism is defined as supporting equal opportunity between men and women, which I do, then I consider myself a feminist but I totally accept that other people may have a different definition of that and therefore not agree". Read More »
Six Trinamool Legislators in Tripura Likely to Vote for Ram Nath Kovind
She is scheduled to visit Puducherry tomorrow. She said her campaign, which began from Gandhiji's Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat, moved to Kerala, Karnataka, etc and everywhere she was enthused by the response. It's a very strong articulation of what we stand for and our ideology. BJP leaders here said Kovind is all set to get full support from the BJP-ruled states, as well as from Nagaland, where NDA's ally NPF is in power. Read More »
Amid pandemonium, Jammu and Kashmir govt moves GST resolution in Assembly
J&K, the only state which failed to meet the June 30 deadline for the GST roll-out, is likely to clear the legislation on the indirect tax regime during the ongoing special session of the Assembly. With Jammu and Kashmir being the only state left to join the GST regime, the state Assembly is expected to pass the GST bill in the Assembly by July six. Read More »
Darren Collison has signed a two-year deal with the Pacers
He shot a very good 41.7 percent from 3-point range last season which raised his career average to 38.0 percent, but he shoots fewer than three per game, so you could hardly call him a 3-point bomber. "The Pacers are still pondering whether veteran point guard Monta Ellis will be a part of next season's team, league sources said". That's music to the ears of fantasy owners, who should consider grabbing Fox in the later rounds of drafts this fall. Read More »
UAE says Qatar "reluctant" to end support of "terrorism"
On June 5, the four countries announced their decision to sever their ties with Qatar , explaining that the country supports terrorist groups and has been meddling in other countries' internal affairs. "He reiterated the importance of stopping terrorist financing and discrediting extremist ideology", according to the White House. May "raised the issue of the ongoing isolation of Qatar ", stressing the need for all sides take "urgent steps to de-escalate the situation and restore GCC ... Read More »
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to take children on European tour
A Kensington Palace spokesman said: "The option was there to take the children and they made a decision to take the opportunity to travel to the two countries as a family". The Cambridges' Spanish-born nanny Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo, who trained at the prestigious Norland College, and a hairdresser, will also join them but will be paid for privately. Read More »
Over 101000 arrivals in Europe by sea,85000 in Italy
It has also mooted barring non-Italian NGO ships from Italian ports, a threat that will be a key issue at an informal meeting of European Union interior ministers in Tallinn on Thursday and Friday. Out of the 101,210 migrants, more than 85,000 arrived in Italy, nearly 9,300 arrived in Greece, and around 6,500 arrived in Spain. The situation on the migration route in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea is still very critical. Read More »


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Bart's interest in images began when he was a mere pup photographing his siblings playing in the river with an Instamatic camera, given to him by his grandfather. He found he could really capture the moment and their personalities - the feelings of the moment preserved in his images forever for the world to appreciate. From then on he never looked back, experimenting with different kit, learning the craft of photography and taking it to his friends all over the animal kingdom. He holds a masters degree in photography from the university of Otterwa. Bart is keen to share his knowledge and enthusiasm wherever he can, in the hope that others will be inspired to create stunning images of their own.
About C S Wimsey
Proud to be sidekick to Bart and constantly in his shadow, Christina believes that to excel in life and creativity you have to do what you love. That's why she is a writer and a photographer. Like Bart she feels she is blessed to do something that doesn't feel like work - it is who she is.
Not a great fish eater, she likes to partake with Bart indulging in log fires and gin and tonic - with a slice of lime. The common theme in Christina's work is connecting with life. Whether she photographs an animal, a city-scape, a landscape or ancient ruin; it all has a story to tell. Always. She's been honing her photography skills since the early 1990's. She's undertaken more courses than is polite, experimented with techniques until she's started to sprout grey hairs, and has managed to maintain her passion for the subject throughout.
Christina originally trained as a solicitor and practised employment law. It didn't make her happy -actually it made her ill. A creative stuck in a legal career, she needed to re-visit her roots as a matter of urgency - which is when her creativity re-surfaced, and she was rescued by Bart. She is now back on the right track, never to stray again.
Christina has developed as a photographer, a writer, and a person massively since her days in the law, but the law was an important part of her journey. An experience which has taught her to follow her passions and led her to where she is now. Christina has been published in regional and national magazines. She is a contributor to the Alamy photographic library, and has recently signed a contract with another agency/library - Papilio. She has her own website which can be viewed at www.cswimsey.com.
Christina hopes you can share her passion and be inspired.
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Gordon is a little camera shy (being far more comfortable behind the lens than in front of it) but we promise we will get a picture or portrait for you soon - this may involve us giving him plenty of food or alcoholic beverages - so be warned...
Gordon was born in York Hospital in England, although his ancestors hail from Sumatra where Orangutans are critically endangered. Gordon is fascinated with the technical aspects of photography and equipment. He's a bit of a science geek, but don't tell him we told you that...
Gordon is very social and enjoys parties, food, good wine, and the "odd" beer. He is never far from his cell 'phone or Opad (created by apple just for Orangutans like him).
It is Gordon's mission to ensure that we don't get too Artsy about photography, as is quite a science too.

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