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Come On Inn
Come On Inn, originally just known as 'Inn', was created by the Malheureux family on the first few months of the year 5000. It is located in the center of Bencana city and is also a popular tourism place.
The Malheureux moved to Bencana when the city had just been founded by other travelers like themselves, so they saw an opportunity to create history by building the first ever Inn there. Just planning it took around six months, and then they spent several more building it. The reason it took so long to even begin to be built was because not only did the family have quite a particular taste in architecture, but they also had a really bad luck. Just during the first weeks, their base drafts were stolen by a stray cat, and then the other ones were burnt by a baby dragon. They were also unlucky when it came to choosing the location, because most of the places in the original centre of the city were taken. However, once they finally opened up, it was a success. People from all over the world were visiting there, leaving nice reviews and complimenting the looks.
First few years
During the first 25 years, the owners were the heads of the family, Nicolau and Sadb. Avide had always been interested in opening up a business of his own, ambition which was shared by Veldedig, who had some experience in the field. They were both a successful couple. They were bilingual, though sharing only one common language, so they were able to talk to people from the other side of the planet without much trouble. Because they knew each other so well, and because their daughter was helping too, they brought a nice atmosphere to the place. Customers loved them, and so did everyone else in the city. However, a few weeks after the 25th anniversary of the Inn, Nicolau started feeling ill and passed away no long after. Several people, including old and new clients, attended his funeral, and he was remembered as one of the founders of the first Inn on Bencana. Sadb could not administrate the Inn on her own, so she asked her only daughter, Sanem, to help her out. Sadb's health slowly decayed after her husband's passing, and she herself died less than a decade later. She was burried next to him and both went on to become two of the city's most important people.
After their passing, Sanem managed to carry on with their legacy, and her children went on to become part of the staff and eventually owners of the Inn. Through arrangements the Malheureux family continued to successfully carry on with the business up until this very day. Even after hundreds of years, the peaceful atmosphere that the family was able to bring to that place remained unchanged, thus earning compliments. For the 125th anniversary of the Inn, the city raised a statue made to resemble Nicolau. A few years later, a statue for Sadb was raised as well. They were both standing next to the front door so as to greet newcomers. Even though most people today don't know about them, the statues raised in their honor perfectly capture their essence, and tales of them are still being told to this day.
Because the family had a reputation of having bad luck, they were also known for saying 'come on' a lot of the time whenever thigns didn't go their way, which was usual. It was commonplace to be near them and hear them say that phrase at least a couple of times within a minute. It was their catchphrase, some say, although the couple was constantly trying to find an excuse for it. However, this phrase was inevitably learned by their daughter. And her children, too. It became common in the family. Naturally, the original tale was lost to time, and now some people think that the name is just a stupid pun. But the oldest citizens and clients know the truth.
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DSS Exhibition Tempest Brewing?
April 10, 2009 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist	~ Leave a comment
Somewhat tangential to our purview, but dealing with an exhibition I"m likely to go to (the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Royal Ontario Museum), we are just starting to hear rumblings of this … an excerpt from the Toronto Star:
The Conservative government is staying mum on a letter from senior Palestinian officials opposing a planned exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Royal Ontario Museum.
A spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon declined to comment yesterday on accusations that the six-month exhibit, set to begin in June and organized in co-operation with the Israel Antiquities Authority, violates at least four international conventions or protocols on the treatment of cultural goods that were illegally obtained.
Both Canada and Israel are signatories to all of the agreements, the Palestinians say.
In letters to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and top executives at the ROM, senior Palestinian officials argue the scrolls – widely regarded as among the great archaeological discoveries of the 20th century – were acquired illegally by Israel when the Jewish state annexed East Jerusalem in 1967.
The letter of protest sent this week to Harper was signed by Salam Fayyad, prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. The letter to the ROM bore the signature of Khouloud Daibes, minister of tourism and antiquities.
I personally doubt anything will come of this, but it's an interesting bit of fallout from all the repatriations going on of late; one wonders why we haven't seen a demand from Palestinian authorities to repatriate the scrolls … (one isn't surprised that the Star is setting this one up as a vehicle to bash the government) …
Tories mum in dispute on Dead Sea Scrolls
300 Se/Pre/Interquel Gossip
Excerpt from a piece at MTV's Splashpage:
About a year ago, news broke that Frank Miller was developing a "300" quasi-sequel. Snyder, who was in Las Vegas this week to pick up a Director of the Year award at ShoWest, revealed that he has indeed heard Miller's idea for a graphic novel about the events that followed the key battle of "300" — and he likes it.
"There's something that happens in history between Leonidas dying at the Hot Gates and Platea," Snyder said. "That's a year that's left out of the [original] movie. A lot happened."
Although it was dramatized terrifically, Snyder's "300" told the story of the Battle of Thermopylae, which occurred in 480 BC. The film's final moments mention that one year later, at Platea, 10,000 Spartan warriors helped defeat a huge Persian force; in a historical context, an equally important event occurred when the Athenian navy crushed the Persians in the battle of Salamis. According to Snyder, "300 Part II" will focus on the intense 12 months when these battles were taking place.
"Frank is definitely working on an idea," Snyder explained. "If Frank comes up with a great idea and draws something cool, there's no reason why we wouldn't make another movie."
There's a video interview on site (which I can't access for some reason) …
EXCLUSIVE: Zack Snyder Reveals Setting For Revolutionary '300' Follow-Up
Domus Aurea Closed? Open?
April 10, 2009 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist	~ 2 Comments
A rogueclassicism reader writes to ask whether the Domus Aurea has reopened yet and whether reservations to visit can be made. I do know the DA closed last December when flooding intervened, but I can't find any mention of it reopening. Anyone know? Please answer in the comments.
Skull-a-Day Ad for Pompeii?
One of the nice things about these four-day weekends is that I have time to check out things that are of interest to me. In this case, an item in the LA Times blog notes (inter alia):
Chalk it up to an over-eager marketing team at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
On Wednesday, Roman-style advertisements for the museum's upcoming exhibition "Pompeii and the Roman Villa" were spotted on sidewalks throughout the city. The sightings were first reported by our friends over at the Curbed LA blog.
Turns out the ads were chalk drawings, some of which depicted the profile of a Roman youth along with the words "Pompeii" and "LACMA." The museum had stenciled 20 such drawings at four locations throughout L.A.
… and here's a photo of the ad:
From the LA Times blog
… which I found interesting because I'm a skull guy (at school I'm surrounded by thirty or forty skulls of various types; heck, I'm wearing a t-shirt with a skull on it right now). Perhaps not surprisingly, one of the non-Classics blogs I follow is called Skull-a-day and this stencilled ad from LA struck me as somewhat familiar. Perhaps it's just a coincidence, but it seems to me the folks are making use of/inspired by a stencil provided from Skull-a-day quite a while ago … here's a representative image of the stencil on a tshirt:
from Skull-a-day
LACMA draws the line on ads for Pompeii exhibition
From the Horatii to Cleopatra
April 10, 2009 April 10, 2009 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist	~ Leave a comment
Here's an interesting bit of synchronicity … my spiders picked up a piece in the Independent which is about Giotto's Lamentation of Christ … the incipit, however, is rather more in the purview of this blog:
There is also anachronism in viewing. We can't help looking at pictures through our own later eyes. We see them in ways their first spectators could never have. They suggest to us things that didn't exist then. This needn't be a distraction. If the likeness is precise, it may help us focus the picture more clearly.
Take Jacques-Louis David's painting, The Oath of the Horatii. It's a frieze-like, neo-classical composition. It shows an ancient Roman legend. Three brother-heroes, their right arms extended straight out, are swearing self-sacrificial loyalty to their father, who holds up their swords.
But the contemporary US painter Alex Katz saw it this way. The gestures, he said, "are very, very clear, they're very decisive – clear in what they are supposed to be as gestures… When I saw the David with the three swords I thought of three guys with cigarette lighters and a woman with a cigarette. That's what it looked like to me."
We've leapt from ancient Rome (where the scene is set) or the late 18th century (when it was painted) to a Hollywood scene in the mid 20th century – three young blades, shooting out their arms to offer some broad a light. This is far from the subject of the picture. But the precision of the visual likeness brings the modern viewer very close to the shape and speed of its three simultaneous lunges.
… which reminded me of this on-set photo from the Claudette Colbert version of Cleopatra (directed by Cecil B. DeMille):
from the John Springer Collection
… which coincidentally, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this week, coverage of which was also flooding my email box … here's a representative bit from the Baltimore Sun:
Claudette Colbert is the sauciest Cleopatra since the 1st century B.C. in Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 production of Cleopatra, a classic from those frisky days before Hollywood got itself all moral and safe.
DeMille, the master of the early-Hollywood epic, spent his career giving the people what they wanted, and what that meant was movies featuring as much titillation as contemporary standards would allow, usually in stories based on history or the Bible. Colbert had scorched the screen twice already in DeMille productions – 1932's The Sign of the Cross, in which she famously took a nude bath in asses' milk, and 1934's Four Frightened People – but neither of those is as much fun as Cleopatra, in which she seduces two continents, gets delivered to Caesar (Warren William) wrapped in a rug and distracts poor Marc Anthony (Henry Wilcoxon) so that he doesn't know which way is up, much less which way is Rome.
Of course, it's all delightfully anachronistic; Colbert's about as Egyptian as George Washington, and the 1930s vernacular doesn't exactly match the time period. But who cares? Colbert is riveting (in costumes that weighed as much as 60 pounds), DeMille's mastery of the deliciously overblown is unmatched, and the film's huge art-deco sets belong in a design museum.
For my part, I've always hoped someone would find a copy of the Theda Bara version … photos like this from a 1917 flick definitely spark curiosity (although we admit there seems to be obvious anachronism here as well; whether it's delightful or not is probably a matter of personal taste):
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Great Works: The Lamentation of Christ (1305-6), Giotto (Independent)
Claudette Colbert Lighting Henry Wilcoxon's Cigarette on the set of Cleopatra (Corbis … photo source)
New on DVD: Cleopatra 75th Anniversary Edition(Baltimore Sun)

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Abstract: The Australian aviation industry achieved substantial growth after the abolition of the "two-airline-policy" in 1990. With Virgin's purchase of Tiger Airways, a new duopoly between two airlines groups, each consisting of a full service airline (FSA) and a low cost carrier (LCC), emerged in the domestic market. In this study, we analyze the pricing dynamics among the four airlines of the duopoly groups, using panel data of online fares on the four most densely travelled routes in the domestic market. Our empirical results suggest that market segmentation allows the FSAs to charge significantly higher prices than the LCCs. Still, there is clear evidence of competition within and across the market segments, and the airlines' pricing responses are asymmetric. Virgin's price responses to Qantas and Jetstar are moderate. In comparison, more than one third of Qantas's fare changes and less than half of Jetstar's fare changes are in response to Virgin's fare adjustments in the previous period. Despite Qantas and Jetstar's large market share, after lengthy and costly price wars in previous years, the Qantas group still responds to Virgin as if competing with an entrant. All four carriers adopt revenue management practices, but the pricing of Qantas and Jetstar does not seem to be coordinated. Our study identifies a complex competition pattern between airline groups offering dual-brand services, and suggests that the Australian domestic market has not reached a stable equilibrium.


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Q: Use Django Filters in ModelViewSet which return serializer data I want to combine 2 models: City and Country in order to have a filter like this: http://localhost:8000/api/v1/geo/location-search/?name=Santa+Fe
I have a ModelViewSet which return serializer data like this:
class LocationSearchAPI(ModelViewSet):
    queryset = City.objects.all().order_by('name')
    permission_classes = [AllowAny]
    serializer_class = CityListSerializer
    filter_backends = (DjangoFilterBackend, SearchFilter)
    filter_class = LocationFilter

    def get_location_list(self, request):
        city_qs = City.objects.all().order_by('name')
        country_qs = Country.objects.all().order_by('name')
        result_qs = list(chain(country_qs, city_qs))

        sorted_list = sorted(result_qs, key=lambda instance: -instance.id)
        results = list()

        for item in sorted_list:
            item_type = item.__class__.__name__.lower()
            if isinstance(item, City):
                serializer = CityLocaliaztionSrl(item)
            if isinstance(item, Country):
                serializer = CountryLocaliaztionSrl(item)
            results.append({'type': item_type, 'data': serializer.data})
        return Response(results, status=200)

and this Filter's not work:
class LocationFilter(FilterSet):
    class Meta:
        model = City
        fields = ('type', 'data__name')

How can I use Django Filters in ModelViewSet which return serializer data, hope your guys help me.

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Words failed me when I first found this in the minibar and fail me still.
It's that time of year again, and it almost passed me by. I'll blame jet lag – we just got back from two weeks in France, and boy are my arms tired. Yeah, that one never gets old.
A courant d'air is an air current; courant also means "current," so this is a clever name for a hair salon that's not catering to the blue-haired set.
é, we chose wine-tasting over getting trendy haircuts.
Anyway, I cannot believe I've been doing this for four years. It is, as we say in France, dingue. I am lucky that the branding world keeps providing me with ample subjects for commentary.


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Masters in Computer Science
What is Computer Science
Computer Science is the study of theory, engineering, experimentation that form the basis for the design and effectiveness of computers. It involves heavy study of algorithms and their application in the real world. Computer Science can be defined as the study of automating algorithmic processes that scale.
It is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications and the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that is the basis of the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to, information.
Requirements to Study Computer Science
Most of the universities in the USA, Canada require you to give the GRE. Few universities from Germany require GRE scores. However, GRE is not required for admission to Australian universities. IELTS or TOEFL is compulsory for acquiring student visa and as a proof of English proficiency.
Core Subjects in Computer Science
There are various subjects that deal specifically with the individual topics and include:
Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
Paradigms of Programming
Specialisations in Computer Science
Specializations include:
Big Data, Cloud Computing
Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things
Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust
Embedded Systems, Real-Time Systems
High-Performance Computing, Parallel/Distributed Computing
Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning, Robotics
Mobile Computing, Social Networks
Reconfigurable Computing
Computational Geometry
Cost of Studying Computer Science
Although the fees vary from university to university, the average tuition cost for master's studies in Computer Science engineering in the US are $37, 000/year. Average living costs vary upto $8900/year. They are almost the same in Canada. In Australia, average tuition costs are A$40000 / year and the average living costs are A$8,500/year.
Job Prospects after Masters in Computer Science
United States $49,408 - $116,672
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CHF 82,762
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NZ$66,509
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Japan ¥1,910,000 - ¥10,750,000
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Germany €28,759 - €66,498
France €28,804 - €51,707
Canada C$41,605 - C$90,433
C$62,431
Australia AU$47,680 - AU$105,407
AU$69,557
Top Universities to target for Computer Science in 2020
1 https://yocket.in/university-reviews/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-704/engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 https://yocket.in/university-reviews/stanford-university-763/engineering Stanford University
3 https://yocket.in/university-reviews/texas-a-and-m-university-college-station-706/engineering Texas A&M University, College Station
4 https://yocket.in/university-reviews/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-737/engineering University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
5 https://yocket.in/university-reviews/carnegie-mellon-university-702/engineering Carnegie Mellon University
6 https://yocket.in/university-reviews/university-of-california-berkeley-802/engineering University of California – Berkeley
7 https://yocket.in/university-reviews/university-of-oxford-3211/engineering University of Oxford
8 https://yocket.in/university-reviews/princeton-university-1858/engineering Princeton University
9 https://yocket.in/university-reviews/eth-zurich-3307/engineering ETH Zurich
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Protective films enhance the camera's resiliency. It protects against scratches, dust, fingerprints and more. You must choose the protective film according to the type and model of your camera and the display size.
Screen protectors are special protective films designed to prevent scratches and abrasions. The films are transparent so they don't distort your view, and their dimensions correspond exactly with the LCD displays of various camera models available on the market.


"A Comparison Between the Judicial and Administrative Routes to Enforce" by Jeffery M. Duncan, Michelle A. Sherwood et al.
Over the past two decades, a sophisticated intellectual property law system has developed in support of China's transition to economic superpower. In today's global economy, it is crucial that international marketers understand how to navigate this new system to best protect their intellectual property rights. China allows for two distinct procedures by which intellectual property assets may be protected, one judicial and the other administrative. Each choice holds distinct advantages and disadvantages for a party seeking to enforce its rights. Making the best choice involves familiarization with the particulars of each procedure and gauging the likelihood of a successful outcome. The details of these procedures, along with their benefits and drawbacks, are surveyed here to provide a cursory understanding of intellectual property rights in China.


In 2004, Rory Stewart, author of The Places in Between, trekked 400 Km (250 miles) across Afghanistan between the cities of Chaghcharan and Kabul. HIs mission was to follow in the footsteps of Babur, the first emperor of Mughal, who did the same walk in 1507. Babur also chronicled his travels which Stewart shares, along with other tales about Afghanistan's ancient history.
Afghanistan's interior lacks hotels or inns, so the custom is to take travelers who need shelter into your home—often reluctantly. On occasion, hosts comfortably feed and house Stewart, but mostly he bunks in poor villages, many of which have changed little over centuries. Illiteracy is rampant, the mud houses usually have no electricity, running water, sanitation, or more to offer than bread, water, and a bare floor. Transportation across the silent spare rocky landscape is commonly by foot or donkey; one man didn't know what an airplane was. At times, Stewart trudges through snow up to his chest; once, it was -40 ℉; dysentery was his constant companion. He side-stepped danger from landmines, marauders and Taliban. Many photos and sketches he drew of people, places and animals, including the dog he adopted, are in the book.


Apps on Android and some platform services are able to capture other apps's screens by using MediaProjection API. Because of the way this API implements "securing" sensitive screens, there exist some possible security issues. The best way to secure your Android app is to use FLAG_SECURE on sensitive screens and DO NOT use the virtual keyboard (here is why).
Android 5.0 lets you add screen capturing and screen sharing capabilities to your app with the new android.media.projection APIs. This functionality is useful, for example, if you want to enable screen sharing in a video conferencing app. The new createVirtualDisplay() method allows your app to capture the contents of the main screen (the default display) into a Surface object, which your app can then send across the network. The API only allows capturing non-secure screen content, and not system audio. To begin screen capturing, your app must first request the user's permission by launching a screen capture dialog using an Intent obtained through the createScreenCaptureIntent() method.
All of these functions as well as the MediaProjection API can take screenshots and videos of other apps. For apps to use the API, special permission is required, for platform features, no special permission is needed. Additionally, any applications signed by the system key (Google apps) can use this API without permission as well.
As mentioned in the Google docs above, "the API only allows capturing non-secure screen content". What exactly is "secure" and "non-secure" content?
Setting this flag on Android view will prevent screenshots from being taken manually, and any other app or platform service will show a black screen. This functionality is not global for the entire app, but can be set on specific screens which can be more sensitive, and not set on others. There is no other way or permission that can mark an entire app or any part of it from being excepted from screen capture or recording.
The term "secure" as used in this context does not mean that the content of the app cannot be captured, rather that it cannot be "viewed on non-secure displays". This is because screen capture and the concept of secure / non-secure isn't what developers may think it is.
Behind the scenes, this API and related platform services use the concept of Casting (similar to AirPlay). Apps that capture screenshots and record videos, must create a virtual display to which then the device content is cast to. The FLAG_SECURE flag is also not used for security but rather means copyrighted content in context of DRM and displays — i.e. secure content would be something like a DVD, and a secure display would be an HDTV.
Display flag: Indicates that the display has a secure video output and supports compositing secure surfaces. If this flag is set then the display device has a secure video output and is capable of showing secure surfaces. It may also be capable of showing protected buffers. If this flag is not set then the display device may not have a secure video output; the user may see a blank region on the screen instead of the contents of secure surfaces or protected buffers.
First of all, a basic foundation of mobile app security is a clear separation between apps. One Android app is should never able to read the preferences, data or capture cloud notifications of another app. This paradigm breaks down in case of screen capture/recording. An app gaining access to the MediaProjection API or any of the platform services using it, is able to capture screen output from other apps including PIN numbers, passwords, credit card numbers, etc.
Gaining permissions to create a virtual display marked as secure would show all secure content. Right now this is preventable by using the system key, but a rooted phone or some other way that fools the system into creating such display would by pass this protection.
Third, even with the FLAG_SECURE in use, some parts of the screen can still be captured. The virtual keyboard is one existing example, but there may be others (perhaps notifications?).
Fourth, there is no clear indication to the user they are being recorded other than the cast icon. Clicking on the icon shows no devices since virtual devices aren't going to be listed. A better warning may be needed.
A better solution as suggested in this bug report, would be to define a separate flag and never allow any app or system service to see its output under any reason, and also to blank out the entire screen even if other apps or service display anything on it. An even better solution would be to make this opt-in for apps, instead of opt-out.
All of these would result in an app sitting on the phone and recording user activity. However, other than the last two methods, FLAG_SECURE views would not be recordable, although the virtual keyboard is. The only indicator to the user would be the cast icon, but when they click on it, no devices would be listed.
To protect your apps from being recorded by other apps, FLAG_SECURE should be used on any views containing sensitive data. Additionally, since the virtual keyboard is also vulnerable, it is recommended that these screens either use a custom keyboard, or if feasible to use an on-screen custom layout (for numeric input like PIN numbers).
We have surveyed many of the top apps in the Google Play store, and many of them including some Google-owned apps do not use FLAG_SECURE or if they do, do not secure the keyboard.
We also hope that Google would lock down this API and solve the issues highlighted in this article.
Researched and written by Yakov Shafranovich.
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A lovely and very useful pouch for all the mums doing it their own way!
The 'Mother Unlike Any Other' embroidered patch has been applied to a sturdy natural canvas pouch. The beautifully tactile embroidered patch has been made using black thread on a beautiful blush pink felt background. The pouches have been lovingly made in the UK, complete with a heavy-duty gold colour zip.
This lovely bag would make the perfect gift for Mother's Day!
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The rokinon are nicer and are geared where as the sigma is a zoom so its easier the sigma is excellent. so unless your doing really serious films where you have a 1st ac or need the extra low light then i wouldn't get a new lens, would a telephoto like rokinon 85 or canon 70-200 be any useful or some new rigging or lights.
The Sigma is perfect for the GH4 with speedbooster!
The only down point is the limited zoom range.
Also try the 50-100mm Sigma that lens is great as well!
And looks like Sigma is putting out a cinema line now. Woo!
I use both a Sigma 18-35mm and a Rokinon 85mm on my 70D and I do find the Rokinon produces a nicer image. I'm not sure if I'd call it softer necessarily, if anything it seems a little sharper in picking up detail, but it certainly has a much warmer colour; I often hear Sigma's lenses being called a little cold and clinical by comparison.
Of course the Sigma has the advantage of being a '3-in-1' zoom, but then the Rokinons have much nicer focus rings and separate aperture rings too... ultimately, if you have the money for a comprehensive set, and are filming in controlled conditions with time to change lenses regularly, the Rokinons will get you better footage, but it's a trade-off against usability.
rokinons are great. If you follow them on facebook you can find that they do sales on their lenses all the time. Once I saw a flash sale for 50% off.
Glad to hear the subject of ergonomics (how it feels) brought up. They say one person's trash is another's treasure and so it is with lenses. Ergonomics, can you afford it? Comparing is good, but likely either lens will do the job, does the lens work for the type of look you want? and finally, do you know how to apply a particular lens to make it work for your movie? Finding the limits of a lens is good, but even better is exploiting the perceived shortcomings of a lens so it serves to tell your story.
Which combination of lenses would you recommend ?


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National Game and Puzzle Week is celebrated from November 21st thru the 27th and National Puzzle Day is January 29th. It's a time to discover all types of "Arithmetricks" in the classroom by playing games and puzzles in mathematics that stimulate analytical thinking and challenge kids' problem-solving skills. Below are a few ideas to try.
Give mathematics a creative touch by using your senses to experience "hands-on" number fun. We are all familiar with giving a child a "feel for numbers" by allowing them to draw numerals inside a jellyroll pan with sand, cornmeal, or sugar. Another fun adventure is to give the child a piece of refrigerator cookie dough and instructing them to roll the dough into a long rope and shaping this into a number. After several students have made their numbers, bake the shapes and enjoy as a snack.
My favorite classroom make and eat project is edible flash cards. Each student will need three graham crackers (whole ones) and a tube of icing (this can be shared with the other kids). Instruct the children to break each cracker along the lines into four sections. With the icing, write numbers 1-10. You will also need a + and = symbols. Encourage the kids to create simple addition problems using their cracker cards. When the math session is finished, invite everyone to gobble up his or her flash cards as a snack.
Kids love to play games and often do not realize they are learning skills when having fun. For this game place a bowl of O-shaped cereal in the center of the table with small groups of children. The object of this game is to roll a die and to be the first child to accumulate 10 pieces of cereal. Players take turns rolling the die and taking that many pieces of cereal from the bowl. When the player nears 10 pieces in his pile and on his next roll goes over the 10 in his pile, he must place all the O's back in the bowl and begin again. If a student rolls the right numbers to collect exactly 10, he wins. Play this game until the kids get tired. At this point let them eat their cereal and on to some other fun!
Another option for younger children is to roll the die and collect the O-shaped cereal until the bowl is empty. Then invite your students to thread the cereal onto a length of yarn to make cereal necklaces and eat the pieces at their leisure.
Let your kids have fun creating and playing with homemade puzzles. Give everyone a half sheet of construction paper. Instruct them to draw four squiggly lines with a crayon/marker. Next, have the kids use a shape (circle, square, triangle, etc.) and draw a number of them on each puzzle piece. The pieces can be turned over and mark a different shape on this side to make an additional puzzle. When it's time to play, each child can put their puzzle pieces together and add up the total number of shapes on each puzzle. Store all the pieces in zipper-lock bags.
Another puzzle uses wooden craft sticks. Find a picture in a magazine (about half page will do). Spread glue on the opposite side and lay down craft sticks. When dry, carefully cut between each of the craft sticks. Mix up the sticks and invite the children to put each puzzle together again.
Make a Bar Graph that plots the number of letters in a child's name. Take a poster board and draw lines to make columns from 1-10 and a larger column to write the child's name. Go around the class and plot (add an adhesive sticker) to the numeral that matches how many letters in the student's first name. When finished pose some questions such as, who has the longest or shortest name? How many classmates have names with six letters or five, or three, etc?
These are only a few of the many games and puzzles in mathematics that can be played during this special week in November. Here are other ideas from Bright Hub Education.


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Strong Female Character Friday: Indra (The 100)
So far in our Black History Month Special Edition (TM) of SFC Friday we've looked at the importance of representation in speculative fiction with Garnet in Steven Universe and the pitfalls of respectability politics with Michaela in How to Get Away with Murder. Now I want to take a hard right and discuss the apparent difficulty in representing black women who are military and political leaders.
Why is it that these characters always seem to fall into the same dang tropes? Black women who lead are often shown as militaristic, "hard", order-barking types, which seems to be an expression of our cultural stereotypes of black women as inherently "strong" and "powerful" and therefore not allowed vulnerability. If you think back to the last fifteen years of television, it's worth noting that the most common place for a "progressive" show to cast a black actress, particularly a black actress over the age of thirty, is in a police station as the police chief. Just look at Forever, iZombie, Southland, Saving Grace, and more.
This is disappointing not because black women shouldn't play police chiefs - seriously, not saying that at all - but because this seems to happen because we have a persistent stereotype that black women are somehow "more suited" to being in charge and being in command, that something in the black female personality makes this the absolute most plausible place to cast a black actress.
Think about it. How often do you see a TV show with a black woman as the CSI tech or the medical examiner? Those are roles that could easily have been played by black women but the casting directors apparently didn't think the black actresses were "plausible" in the roles.
Anyway. I'm getting off track. When it comes to representations of black women with power, there's a lot of good stuff along with the bad. So to look at this more fully, both sides of the issue, I want to take a closer examination of Indra from The 100, a black woman with great political power and military command, but who still falls into some of these problematic tropes.
Indra (played by Adina Porter), for those of you who don't obsessively watch this show, is a relatively minor character on The 100 who first appears in the second season. The story introduces her as the chief of a relatively prosperous and powerful tribe, the tribe of Tondc, which has had pretty extensive dealings with the Sky People who fell to earth. Notably, Indra's tribe is the one that Lincoln hails from, and she and her people have not reacted well to his defection. So we first meet her as an enemy.
Over the course of the second season, however, Indra slowly becomes an ally and eventually a friend. When her people are slaughtered by a trigger-happy Finn in episode five, she immediately demands retribution, but she's a strong enough leader and a compassionate enough person to eventually agree that this was the act of one man and not a representative of the Sky People. By the end of the season Indra is backing Clarke, allying with the Sky People, and even adopting Octavia as her second.*
Season three brings us further into an understanding of Indra as a political leader, showing her acting as an advisor to the Commander, Lexa, and orchestrating joint forays into hostile territory. So while Indra never gets enough screentime that I'm satisfied - she's an awesome character and I would love more complex plots for her to get involved with - I feel like over the course of a season and a bit we've seen a lot of who Indra is as a leader, both militarily and politically.
Who is that? Well, as a leader, Indra fits a lot of these stereotypes we have about what happens when strong women, particularly strong black women, lead. She's inherently militaristic and aggressive, responding to threats wisely, but also with force. She is, well, warlike. She responds to threats with war. Admittedly some of that is completely understandable - her village is first shot up then bombed and by the end of the season she and the refugees basically have nothing left but anger and weapons - but it's still worth pointing out. Indra is a "strong black woman" insofar as we define that as a character who always responds with and to strength. Physical strength, that is.
This may not seem like a big thing, and it kind of isn't. Indra's still a cool character who gets a lot of the best lines and is a representative of the Grounders who demonstrates a lot of their better qualities, like a rich culture and a willingness to learn about others. Plus, it's always important to see black women in speculative fiction, as we've said before.
So it's not that I have a problem with Indra, per se, it's that the lack of variety in representations of middle-aged women of color bothers me. Indra is a good leader, but she's a good leader the way most black women are represented as good leaders - she's a strong woman who respects other strong women and who shows absolutely no emotional vulnerability.
That's the real frustration here. And I get that there's precious little time in The 100 itself to address Indra's emotional state. That show rockets along and even well-established major characters get almost no time for their feelings. Basically if you aren't Clark or Kane, your character development is going to be sporadic at best and occasionally cut to ribbons. So I understand the limitations here. But still.
Indra is straight up awesome, but I feel like allowing her to express emotional vulnerability would only add to her as a character and it would be hugely impactful for the viewing audience. I'm not the person to have come up with this (because, spoiler alert, still white!), but Bitch Media did an awesome article a while back about black women and their perceived inhuman strength:
And that is what the enduring meme of the "strong black woman" obscures: It ultimately flattens black women's humanity, making it harder for others to see us as complex beings. Worse, the myth of our extraordinary strength makes it difficult for us to see ourselves.
You should totally click the link and go read that whole article ("Precious Mettle: The Myth of the Strong Black Woman" by Tamara Winfrey Harris), but the basic point is that always focusing on how "strong" black women are allows us as a culture to dehumanize them. If we say that black women can survive anything, that black women can care for everyone else, that black women are great leaders because they can always get through, then we are saying that black women are in some ways inhuman. And that is deeply not good.
There's an especially problematic scene with Indra in the second season that at first I read as really really cool and feminist and interesting, but upon later reflection I find very unsettling. Octavia, who has struggled with her identity throughout the show, is trying to join in on the Grounder's military training. To teach her a lesson, one of the Grounders agrees to spar with her. Octavia is beaten. Badly. Indra watches the whole time and then afterwards she goes and finds Octavia nursing her wounds.
Octavia expects to be told that she sucks and shouldn't have tried, but to her surprise, Indra is there to compliment her. She says that while Octavia did get punched around and knocked down a lot, she kept getting up and keeping fighting, which is the essence of being a Grounder or something. Then Indra offers Octavia the chance to be her second, sort of like her apprentice or squire.
It's a huge moment for Octavia and it really cements Indra as a fascinating character and the biggest proponent of a lasting alliance between the Grounders and the Sky People. But. Upon watching this scene again, I was actually a bit alarmed by the idea that Indra is essentially rewarding Octavia for being suicidally brave and unconcerned with her own safety. The attributes of Octavia that Indra is validating are the same ones that value running yourself ragged over self-care, that insist that you're only as important or valuable as your physical strength, and so on.
It's not that the scene itself is awful - in the context of the show it's still pretty cool - it's that within our cultural context this scene purveys a problematic view of black women in leadership and the values they express. By explicitly condoning Octavia's actions, Indra is implicitly saying that she would do the same thing. She is the opposite of vulnerable here, and that allows us as the audience to distance ourselves.
That distancing is really at the heart of the other big problem with Indra on The 100: she really has no plotlines of her own and most often serves to shepherd along the storylines of young white women, like Octavia or Clarke or Lexa. Yes, Indra is a relatively minor character, but again there's something uncomfortable in realizing that she as a person has been given very little opportunity to tell her own story. Even though it was her village that was bombed and her village that was shot up and her people who have suffered the most, Indra is given almost no scenes to express her sorrow about this or to even process what's happened. Instead she seems to have moved on, just like the plot.
This is a common problem with this character trope: the black women police chiefs are almost never given their own storylines on cop shows, they just exist to further the plot. Indra, like these characters, is less a person than a plot device, and that's damaging in and of itself.
I want to make this clear, though: I think Indra is great. I love Adina Porter and I love what she's done with the limited space she's been given. I just believe that there is more out there. We could have more. Black women deserve to see themselves as more than just physically strong, inhumanly impervious drill sergeants. Black women can be soft and feminine and gentle too, and they can be soft and gentle and vulnerable while also being good leaders. These are not mutually exclusive traits.
I suppose this is a call for Hollywood to just plain do better. Indra on her own is great, but as an indicator of a common trend in television writing, she's not a good sign. We need more representations of black women that recognize the complexity of that experience, because without those representations, it'll be easy to assume the stereotypes are true in the women we meet in the real world.
*If none of this makes sense to you, consider watching The 100! It's great. Bleak and dark and devastating, but great.
Labels: actress: adina porter, char: indra, media: tv, title: the 100, topic: character of color, topic: race and privilege, topic: strong female characters, type: sfc friday
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Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter) (Woman wearing a beret and checkered dress) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he created in 1937. It is a portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso's lover and muse during this period and was created with elements of Cubism. The painting signifies a transition in their relationship by combining Walter's profile with that of Picasso's new lover, the Surrealist photographer Dora Maar, with whom he began a relationship in 1936. This portrait was produced in the same year as Guernica and The Weeping Woman, a significant phase in Picasso's artistic career. On 28 February 2018, it was sold at Sotheby's auction for £49.8 million, making it one of the most expensive paintings ever sold at an auction in Europe.

Background
This portrait reflects the artist's evolving relationship with Marie-Thérèse Walter during this period of their relationship. Prior to producing this work, Picasso had depicted his relationship with Walter as a blissful partnership, illustrated by the many sensual portraits that he created of her in 1932, which has led to her being described as Picasso's "Golden Muse". However, this painting reveals a change in their relationship over the course of five years. By 1937, Walter was the mother of Picasso's daughter, Maya, and her status as his mistress was under threat with the introduction of Dora Maar as a new love in the artist's life.

The painting was produced in 1937, a particularly significant year in Picasso's artistic career, in which he also produced Guernica and The Weeping Woman. These significant works were the result of a turbulent year defined by political unrest in Spain and the bombing of the town of Guernica. Produced in December 1937, this portrait has been viewed as a continuation of The Weeping Woman theme. Neil Cox remarked on the perceived connection between Picasso's turbulent personal life and the political upheaval of the period, stating, "For Picasso the question of 'modernity' was acute in the 1930s and 1940s, since modernity in this period meant a personal life, a nation, a Europe and indeed a world in crisis. This period in Picasso's art is marked by a succession of shattering events in his personal life that no doubt appeared to him mirrored by the disasters in the world at large." Picasso's response to these turbulent events was to focus all of his attention on the monumental work of Guernica at the beginning of 1937. Both Walter and Maar played a significant role in the creation of Guernica, with Walter appearing at least twice in the composition. Maar played a more practical role in the development of the work, as she not only documented its progress, but also assisted with its painting.

Marie-Thérèse Walter

Picasso first met 17-year-old Walter on the street outside Galeries Lafayette in 1927. She was a respectable girl who lived with her mother and sisters in Maisons-Alfort, a suburb of Paris. At the time, Picasso was aged 47 and unhappily married to Olga Khoklova, a Russian ballerina. Picasso approached Walter and asked to paint her portrait. He said, "You have an interesting face, I would like to do a portrait of you. I am Picasso". Walter had no knowledge of who Picasso was, but was flattered by his attention. Within two weeks they had begun a secret affair that was reflected by a change in Picasso's artistic approach. During this period, he created many portraits of Walter, such as Le Repos, which were characterised by sinuous curves that convey her voluptuous form and his great passion for her as his mistress and muse. For Picasso, this new romance offered a kind of rebirth in his personal life, illustrated by symbolic bowls of fruit and flowers, which contrasted with the staid portraits of his wife that he rendered in a formal, neoclassical style. Walter described their relationship, stating, "My life with him was always secret, calm and peaceful. We said nothing to anyone. We were happy like that, and we did not ask anything more." John Richardson, Picasso's friend and biographer opined that, "Picasso was more in love than he had ever been". By 1928, images produced of Picasso's wife were now characterised by tortured forms and jagged lines that display her increasing rage and aggression. In 1934 Khoklova left Picasso and moved out of their apartment following an exhibition that revealed the secret relationship in a series of nude portraits of Walter. On Christmas Eve of 1934, Walter told Picasso that she was pregnant and he promised to get a divorce from Khoklova, which was filed six months later. On 5 September 1935, Walter gave birth to a daughter, Maya, which led to Picasso creating several works depicting his new family. They remained together for over ten years but never married. In the autumn of 1937, Picasso and his family moved to Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre, but this year also marked the beginning of a new love in his life, in the person of Dora Maar.

Dora Maar
Two months after the birth of Maya in 1935, Picasso attended the opening of a movie, where he was introduced to Dora Maar, by the French poet Paul Éluard. Born Henriette Théodora Markovitch, she was a talented photographer, an intellectual, and involved in the Surrealist movement. Maar initially trained as a painter in the 1920s but became interested in photography. By 1931, she had opened a studio and renamed herself Dora Maar. Maar and Picasso began a relationship and, in August 1936, Picasso spent time apart from Walter by taking a trip to Mougins with Maar alongside Paul Éluard and his wife, Roland Penrose and his wife, and Man Ray and his mistress. In September 1936, Walter was offered Picasso's home at Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre, located 28 miles from Paris. This provided Picasso with the freedom to maintain both relationships over a period of three years. Over the course of their relationship, Picasso's portrayals of his mistress changed. Initially he depicted her as a nymph or a bird, but by 1937, his paintings had begun to portray her in tears, most notably in The Weeping Woman. As well as being emotionally fractious, Maar's relationship with Picasso was influential in terms of his artwork and political outlook. Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern commented, "He trusted her. As much as being a sexual or emotional relationship, it was a collaborative one".

Picasso made efforts to ensure that Walter and Maar would not meet, but eventually they did. According to Picasso, the tension between his two mistresses reached a crisis point in 1937, while he was in the process of finishing Guernica. Picasso related a story to Françoise Gilot of a day when both women had arrived at his studio at the same time and had begun arguing. In her memoir titled Life with Picasso, Gilot recalled that Picasso had said, "I kept on painting and they kept on arguing". Walter had demanded that Picasso should choose between them. Picasso stated, "I was satisfied with things as they were. I told them they'd have to fight it out for themselves. So they began to wrestle. It's one of my choicest memories". Picasso continued to maintain both relationships with his mistresses after the outbreak of World War II. Picasso spent the war in occupied Paris. By 1945, his relationship with Maar had come to an end. Picasso had subjected her to physical and emotional abuse and she consequently suffered a nervous breakdown. After the war, Picasso relocated to the South of France with Françoise Gilot, his new partner, with whom he had two children.

Description
Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter) is an oil-on-canvas portrait of Picasso's mistress, which he created on 4 December 1937. It measures 55 x 46 cm and is dated 4 D 37 on the upper right. The painting depicts Walter using a palette of bright colours, bold, black outlines and geometric shapes. She is shown to be wearing a beret and a check dress. Walter's face is portrayed in profile, yet her features are depicted from the front, in a cubist style that is similar to other portraits that Picasso created.

Although Walter's features can clearly be identified as the subject of the painting, there are other elements within the portrait that suggest the presence of Picasso's new lover, Dora Maar, with whom he became involved in 1936. In this portrait, Walter is portrayed as a grown woman, who has matured since meeting Picasso outside Galeries Lafayette in 1927. The portrait illustrates a change in Picasso's feelings towards Walter, in the form of an additional dark silhouette that represents the profile of Maar. The portrait appears to merge the profiles of both women, illustrating that Picasso's affections were moving from one to the other. James Mackie, Sotheby's head of Impressionist & Modern Art noted that, "While substantially this is a portrait of Walter, it's also a painting about duality." Picasso had previously employed the use of a shadowy silhouette in an earlier painting titled Buste de femme et autoportrait, which he created in 1929 at a time when his marriage to Olga Khokhlova was disintegrating. The painting illustrated the conflict between Picasso and his wife by merging her features with his own. This duality is also evident in a 1937 painting of Walter titled Marie-Thérèse with Red Beret with Pompom, in which the features of Walter and Maar are both present. Maya Ruiz-Picasso commented on this merging of the two women, stating, "My father…never tired of drawing [my mother], painting her, sculpting her, engraving her. But in this painting, it's a combination of my mother and Dora Maar. It's my mother's hair and eyes, but the nose and tones recall Dora Maar, who entered his life in 1936, shortly after I was born".

The combined presence of the two women in Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter) is further illustrated by the blurring of artistic styles within the painting. Until this point, Picasso had typically depicted Walter using soft, voluptuous curved lines, while Maar was usually portrayed using sharp, angular shapes. This merging of styles has been considered to be a means for the artist to explore his emotions towards both women. Sotheby's notes that the work displays Picasso's unresolved feelings towards both mistresses, stating, "A vividly realised portrait, it combines his two central muses during this critical period, and achieves the remarkable in encompassing the complexities of real life and revealing simultaneously the artist's contrary emotions".

Palau i Fabre suggests that this painting is one of several portraits of Walter in which she is "entirely reduced to inner tears", and displays "a resigned sadness, and nonetheless suffused with love". He further opines that this is part of a continued theme in which Picasso "had devoted almost all of his activity as a painter to woman, her troubles, her sadness, her loneliness. And, in the course of the past ten years, life had led him to depict two women crying. People speak of Dora Maar but too often forget that Marie-Thérèse has also been seen very often, and earlier, as a weeping woman".

Provenance
The painting was originally in the estate of the artist. It was then held in a private collection. On 28 February 2018, the painting was sold at Sotheby's auction for £49,827,000 to Harry Smith, the chairman of the art appraisal and advisory firm Gurr Johns. It was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction in Europe, and the second most expensive work of art, after Alberto Giacometti's  sculpture The Walking Man.

See also
 Portrait of Dora Maar
 Le Repos
Girl before a Mirror

References

Paintings by Pablo Picasso
Portraits of women
20th-century portraits
Portraits by Pablo Picasso
1937 paintings

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Q: Intel Sandy Bridge no sound through HDMI I am running Ubuntu 11.04 and I have an ASRock H67M-ITX/HT motherboard which is the Intel Sandy Bridge architecture.
I can't get sound to play through my TV on the HDMI interface. I have plugged in headphones and they work. I have also tried changing the device in sound preferences to the HDMI options provided

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*Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output

*Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input

*Digital Stereo Duplex (IEC958)

*Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Analog Stereo Input

When I run the following command it plays sound fine.
aplay -D plughw:0,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

A: I remember logging in and logging out after plugging in the HDMI device and changing the sound settings to HDMI Output seemed to help in my case.
Additionally, running 'alsamixer' in terminal seemed to have made a difference before.

A: I seem to have a similar problem.  Audio plays fine in flash (e.g. youtube) and in VLC when I specifically select ALSA audio output and select the correct device (hw:0,7 for me too), it appears that by default the system isn't using these settings.
I'll keep looking for a way of forcing the system to use these setting, but in the mean time hope you find the above vlc tip useful?

A: I see that you tried selecting the correct options in the "Hardware" tab of Volume Preferences, but a couple times I've seen systems where you need to also choose the correct hardware in the "Output" tab.  Could this help?

A: Open the Terminal and run alsamixer by typing alsamixer and hitting Enter.
Use the arrow keys to go across to S/PDIF 1 and press M to unmute it. Press Esc to exit.

A: I got this working by opening "Sound Preferences" > "Hardware" then selecting "Digital Stereo (HDMI)" under "Settings for the selected device".


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Richard H. Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire) Has Died, Aged 65
September 21, 2021	| Words :	Cameron Holbrook
Words: Cameron Holbrook
The world pays tribute to one of electronic music's most prolific innovators.
Electronic music pioneer Richard H. Kirk — a founding member of the influential industrial band Cabaret Voltaire — has passed away at the age of 65.
Founded in Sheffield, UK, in 1973 alongside artists Chris Waston and Stephen Mallinder, Cabaret Voltaire helped lead the charge in popularizing experimental DIY electronics and tape machines in music production and performance.
Cited as a major influence for post-punk era groups like New Order and Severed Heads, Kirk's work with sampling, drum machines, sequencer programming, and tapes had a considerable impact on the industrial techno movement of the 1990s. In addition, Kirk's interest in house music led him to work with the likes of Marshall Jefferson on the group's 1990 record Groovy, Laidback and Nasty.
After Cabaret Voltaire disbanded, Kirk's solo work increased considerably, releasing music under dozens of different aliases. One of the most noteworthy was his techno and IDM duo, Sweet Exorcist, with Richard Barratt. Their track "Testone," released via Warp Records, helped define Sheffield's iconic bleep techno sound.
In addition to Warp, Krik released solo work on reputable labels such as Mute, Rough Trade, Perc Trax, and his own Intone Productions imprint. In the mid-200s, Kirk brought Cabaret Voltaire out of hibernation for a string of live shows, and in 2020, Kirk dropped the LP Shadow of Fear — a solo project released as the first Cabaret Voltaire album in 26 years.
The artists, collaborators, labels, and fans alike have taken to Twitter to pay homage to this pioneering electronic dance music titan.
Listen to Richard H. Kirk's discography on Beatport.
It is with great sadness that we confirm our great & dear friend, Richard H. Kirk has passed away.
Richard was a towering creative genius who led a singular & driven path throughout his life & musical career.
We will miss him so much.
We ask that his family are given space. pic.twitter.com/Ok8u3dNx3T
— Mute (@MuteUK) September 21, 2021
RIP Richard H. Kirk pic.twitter.com/aGnaBQ5RYW
— Unsound (@unsound) September 21, 2021
I'm shattered. my Cabs music partner, and often sparring partner, difficult to live with but impossible not to love. Stubborn, no sufferer of fools, but insightful, spontaneous, and with vision .. and underneath the spiky shell a warm heart.
I'm truly devastated. RIP Kirky pic.twitter.com/VEuQOYXceI
— Stephen Mallinder (@StephenMal) September 21, 2021
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The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry is adding a Doctor of Philosophy program in oral health or the biomedical sciences. The first PhD candidates will begin their studies in the fall.
Dr. Oonagh Loughran, the program director, explained that although based in the School of Denistry, there will be active collaborations focused on three research areas.
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PCI Express 6.0 version 0.5 released for initial designs
I/O requirements are projected to double every three years (Image source: Tested.com)
Not satisfied with third or fourth generation PCI Express speeds? Leapfrogging 5.0, the latest revision of PCI Express has been released for prototype designs ahead of its final launch in 2021. Featuring 4 times the bandwidth of PCIe 4.0, it may be a while before the standard reaches consumer products.
Jonathan Hayhurst, Published 02/26/2020
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PCI-SIG, the conglomerate responsible for ratifying future revisions of PCI Express, has released the 0.5 version of PCIe 6.0. While this isn't the final version of the standard, this early version is important for giving suppliers and OEMs the opportunity to lay the groundwork for the technology in their products. The new standard will use PAM-4 (Pulse Amplitude Modulation with 4 levels) to deliver 64 GT/s of bandwidth. PCI Express 6.0 continues the now well established practice of doubling bandwidth from the previous technology, with PCIe 6.0 doubling bandwidth over 5.0, which is double that of 4.0, and so on. The result is that a single lane of PCIe 6.0 will have roughly the same bandwidth as 16 lanes of PCIe 2.0, or 8 lanes of PCIe 3.0!
The PCI Express standard saw a period of stagnation over the last decade or so, as PCIe 3.0 or even 2.0 was sufficient for almost any GPU configuration. Only with the advent of super-fast, super-affordable NVMe drives has there been a need for anything faster in the mainstream. According to PCI-SIG, I/O requirements should double approximately every 3 years (sort of a Moore's law for SSDs if you like), and the group intends to keep pace with these ever increasing demands.
Interested in a PCIe SSD or GPU with these new speeds? You might be kept waiting a while. While the standard is set to launch in 2021, it was 2 years after the release of PCIe 4.0 that the technology finally made its way onto consumer motherboards. If PCIe 6.0 follows the same timeframe, it may be some time before we can get our hands on the next-gen technology.
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People should 'move on' from partygate despite latest revelations, says Liz Truss
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The British public should "move on" from the scandal over parties held at No 10 during the pandemic, foreign secretary Liz Truss has said.
Pressure is mounting on Boris Johnson amid fresh allegations that two further drinks gatherings were held at Downing Street last April while strict Covid restrictions were in place – the night before the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral.
However, Ms Truss suggested the prime minister's apology for attending a "bring your own booze" event in the No 10 garden in May 2020 was good enough to draw a line under the matter for now.
Asked about questions over the PM's "moral authority", the senior minister told reporters: "The prime minister apologised on Wednesday. He was very clear that mistakes have been made."
Defending the PM, Ms Struss said: "I do think we need to look at the overall position we're in as a country: the fact that he has delivered Brexit, that we are recovering from Covid – we've got one of the fastest-growing economies now in the G7 and we're delivering the booster programme."
She added: "He has apologised, I think we now need to move on and talk about how we are going to sort out issues," adding that people should "wait for the results of the Sue Gray inquiry".
Ms Truss, one of the favourites to succeed Mr Johnson, said: "I completely understand people's anger and dismay about what has happened. The prime minister apologised to the House on Wednesday – I 100 per cent support him to continue getting on with the job."
The new allegations that two Downing Street parties took place the week after Prince Philip's death, and on the eve of his funeral, emerged on Thursday evening.
The Telegraph reported that staff gathered after work for two separate events on 16 April 2021 to mark the departure of James Slack, Mr Johnson's former director of communications, and one of the PM's personal photographers.
Mr Slack apologised on Friday for the "anger and hurt" caused by his leaving gathering and said it "should not have happened".
The revelation came as Andrew Bridgen, a leading Conservative backbencher, was the latest to publicly announce he had submitted a letter of no confidence in Mr Johnson.
He was the fifth Tory MP to say he had written to Sir Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 Committee, calling for a vote on the PM's future as head of the party.
As many as 30 letters have been submitted so far, according to reports. A total of 54 are needed to trigger a vote.
Tory MP Sir Roger Gale, who has called on Mr Johnson to go, said: "I clearly don't know, and I shouldn't know, how many of my colleagues have put in letters – I'm not canvassing them or seeking support for what I have done myself – but I believe that there is some momentum which is growing."
Senior Tory MP Julian Knight said he was "open-minded" about the future direction of the Tories. Mr Knight, who is chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, told Times Radio he had many people write to him to complain about Mr Johnson.
"I'd say about half of those – because I do monitor it very closely – are new correspondents and that is always a red sign on the dashboard," he said.
It was reported that an inquiry into alleged lockdown-busting events by senior Cabinet Office official Sue Gray was expected to find no evidence of criminality. However, The Times reported that the investigation could censure Mr Johnson for a lack of judgment.
Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle warned the government it would be "entirely inappropriate" for any details of the inquiry into alleged Whitehall and Downing Street parties to be leaked.
Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner has called on Mr Johnson to publicly address the latest party allegations.
Security minister Damian Hinds denied Mr Johnson was hiding from scrutiny by saying the PM had to reduce his social contacts after a close family member tested positive for Covid. Downing Street said Mr Johnson would be taking precautions until Tuesday.
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