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Terry D. Adams
Vice President, IBC Engineering
NBC Olympics, LLC
Terry Adams began his career at TPC in Pittsburgh at the beginning of the independent TV facilities era. Eight years later, he went to Los Angeles to join Ruxton, Ltd. After two years, he returned to TPC (now Unitel Mobile) continuing with technological advancements, including the first triax repeater that enabled cameras to operate more than 10,000 ft., gaining a reputation for quality that led to the formation of a division special-izing in entertainment television. In 1998, Dave Mazza invited him to join the newly formed NBC Olym-pics Engineering Group. Having a multigames rights arrangement in place, they were tasked with designing and building a reusable technical infrastructure that culminated in the Racks-In-A-Box system still in use today. This platform allows for a system of 20 racks to be wired, tested, and transported via sea container, sig-nificantly reducing installation time and improving reli-ability. Adams attended the Ohio University School of RTV from 1969 to 1973.
Jeffrey Beachy
SDVI Corporation
Jeff Beachy is a Research and Development (R&D) architect and design engineer whose hard-ware and software works cover a wide range of areas such as computer graphics, engineering workstations, PC servers,supercomputers, and cloud services. In 2014, Beachy cofounded SDVI, a company dedicated to the media's distribution of the supply chain. As a chief technology officer, he led strategic architecture and technology, operations, and security for the Rally Media Supply Chain Management Platform, using key cloud-based IT technologies. Throughout his career, Beachy has taken on strategic architectural, technological planning, and technical leadership in the lifecycle of critical enterprise-scale technologies. Beachy's background includes a focus on computer architecture as well as sys-tem architecture and hardware design. His successful work in large, multiproduct line companies and small, start-up ventures positioned him to become an innovator for leading media and entertainment companies. He has three patents.
Andy Beale
Andy Beale joined the innovative and disruptive British broadcaster BT Sport at the beginning of its journey in 2012 to oversee the technology and construction of the landmark production hub in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, U.K. He played a pivotal role in the development and launch of Europe's first commercial live sports ultra high-definition (UHD) channel BT Sport UHD, and its high dynamic range (HDR) successor BT Sport Ultimate. He led BT Sport's pioneering Dolby Atmos launch and ground-breaking advances in live virtual reality (VR) 360. He has recently delivered world firsts in remote 8K and 5G production. Previously, he was the head of engineering for Sports Media House, Octagon, and before that he was in charge of delivering projects worldwide for the respected system integrator IPK.
Lynn D. Claudy
Senior Vice President, Technology
National Association of Broadcasters
Lynn Claudy joined NAB in 1988 as its staff engineer and held positions of the director of advanced engineering and
technology and the vice president before assuming his current position in 1995. Before joining NAB, he was employed by Hoppmann Corp., a communications systems integration firm, where he held a variety of technical and management positions, and he was also a part-time professor in the Physics Department at the American University in Washington, DC, where he taught courses in acoustics and audio technology. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the Association of Federal Communications Consult-ing Engineers (AFCCE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Society for Broadcast Engineers (SBE), and a Life Member of SMPTE. He is also a member of the Federal Com-munications Commission (FCC) Technological Advi-sory Council and was the 2016 recipient of the IEEE BTS Jules Cohen Outstanding Engineering Achieve-ment Award. He currently serves as the chairman of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Board of Directors.
Don Eklund
CTO - Retired
Don Eklund began his career with JVC in 1983. He worked as a field engineer and then moved on to Sony Broadcast in 1988. With the opportunity to support the launch of what became the digital video disc (DVD) format, Eklund transferred to Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) in 1995. DVD became a key revenue stream for SPE and was notably the first fully digital video product for con-sumers. Later, Eklund and his team led in launching Blu-ray with the development of Blu-print. This author-ing tool was widely used in the entertainment industry for Blu-ray title authoring, further adapted to support 3D. With HDR presenting new opportunities and chal-lenges, Eklund joined SCA to work on standards and solutions. In 2017, Eklund rejoined SPE in the role of chief technology officer. In this role, he and his team supported forward-looking innovations and strategies as the studio industry adapted to the exponentially acceler-ating rate of technology change. Eklund holds more than 20 patents on packaged media, authoring, and 3D.
Ricardo R. Figueroa
Program Director and Associate Professor, Motion Picture Science Program, and Interim Co-Director, School of Film and Animation
Ricardo R. Figueroa is the program director and an associate professor of the Motion Picture Science Program and interim co-director of the School of Film and Animation at Roch-ester Institute of Technology (RIT). He joined RIT after ten years at Eastman Kodak. During his tenure at Kodak, he worked on numerous digital and hybrid (film and digital) projects, including developing a pro-totype motion-picture electronic camera in 2002. He also worked on developing an algorithm for process-ing film-originated images and matching film color and tone in motion-picture digital display systems. He received a patent in 2006. He holds BSEE and MSEE from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and a PhD in computing and information sciences from RIT.
Simon Gauntlett
Director of Imaging Technology
Dolby Laboratories
Simon Gauntlett began his career working as a research engineer for the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC). He worked on the development of high-definition television (HDTV), culminating in the world's first HD transmission using H.264 over digital video broadcasting (DVB)-S2 at the 2004 IBC Conference in Amsterdam. From 2006, he spent ten years as the chief technology officer of the Digital TV Group, introducing HDTV and Connected TV to the U.K. specification for digital terrestrial television. From 2016, Gauntlett has worked for Dolby Laboratories in London, representing Dolby's CTO Office in standards and technology innovation across Europe. Currently, his focus is on immersive video technolo-gies, including HDR and spatial computing. Gauntlett is also the chair of the SMPTE U.K. Region. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and an Honorary Fellow of the British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society.
Mark C. Gray
GrayMeta Inc.
Before his founding of both GrayMeta and Archimedia, Mark Gray has had a long and successful career comprising guiding, developing, and leading technology companies. Most recently, he served as the executive vice president of Front Porch Digital. He joined Front Porch Digital through his engineering of the acquisition of SAMMA Systems, Inc., where he served as the president and chief executive officer (CEO). The SAMMA archival migration process was recently awarded an Emmy for outstanding technological development. His career includes a successful ten-ure with Kasenna as its chairman, president, and CEO from 2000 to 2006. Before Kasenna, he served as the chairman, president, and CEO of Pluto Tech-nologies from 1995 to 2000. Gray was the chairman, president, and CEO of Chyron Corp and has held several senior executive positions at Sony Corporation of America. He has also held positions at Pinnacle Systems Inc., Ampex Corp., Harris Corp., and Tektronix, Inc.
Robert C. Hummel III
Group 47, Inc.
Rob Hummel's career has revolved around cinematography, motion-picture laboratories, for-mats, restoration, archiving, ani-mation, postproduction, digital cinema, visual effects, and stereo-scopic 3D. Renowned for finding solutions to production challenges, Rob began his career at the Technicolor Camera Department overseeing dai-lies processing and shepherded films in postproduc-tion up to answer print. He also served in production, postproduction, and technology positions at Disney, DreamWorks, Sony, and Warner Bros., where he over-saw the digital restoration of Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, among others. Awarded NATO's Pioneer of Digital Cinema, he led the development of some of the first Digital Cinemas by Technicolor. He served on Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) and the Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards Committee, Science and Technology Council, co-chaired its Public Programs Committee. He edited and contributed to the 8th edition of the "American Cinematographer Manual" and is currently co-editing its 11th edition.
Michael E. Johnson
Dome Productions
Michael Johnson's career started as a maintenance technician at CFTO-TV, a broadcast station based in Toronto, ON, Canada. The current technology at the time included 2 in. videotape record and playback transport supporting postproduction and news pro-gramming along with tube-based image pick-up in cameras. Johnson has experienced a steady pace of change in technology throughout his career. This included moving through three versions of tape-based formats and ultimately leading to disk-based storage, camera image capture from tubes to CDD, and now complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS). He worked with Omnibus in Canada on early efforts for computer-generated imagery (CGI). During his tenure, he worked through bridging computer-generated, frame-based images in a cell animation style feeding into an early disk-based system that contributed to the current video postproduction environment. Johnson participated in delivering the first HD live production facilities in Canada and, eventually, the first UHD live production facilities. He has been a SMPTE member since the early 1980s.
Thomas Kernen
Senior Staff Architect
Thomas Kernen serves in the networking group at NVIDIA, where he focuses on defining architectures transforming the media and broadcast industry to an all-IP infrastructure. He currently serves as the co-chair of SMPTE's 32NF Technology Committee and the chair of the PTP Monitoring Drafting Group. He is an active participant in many standards forums and a member of the IEEE Communications and Broadcast Societies. He also served as an editor of the DVB for the TS 101 154 "Specification for the use of Video and Audio Coding in Broadcasting Applications Based on the MPEG-2 Transport Stream." He has authored over 30 publications in leading jour-nals, holds six issued patents that cover both network and video coding for media transport and delivery. He is a frequent speaker at leading broadcast technology events and conferences worldwide. Before joining Nvidia, he spent more than 20 years in the IP industry, including driving Cisco's entry into live media production.
Kommer Kleijn SBC
IMAGO, the International Federation of Cinematographers
Kommer Kleijn SBC is an award-winning cinematographer, a digital imaging pioneer, a visual effects and motion control specialist, and a renowned stereographer. He is also active in perception research, technology development, and standardiza-tion. At the forefront of the digital revolution, Kleijn was the first to shoot digital cinematography in more than 2K and to shoot digitally for a large-format movie. He pioneered the now-common single-chip large sensor digital cinematography technique, as well as stereography for the first 3DTV direct live broadcasts in Belgium, France, Italy, and the first live 3D Eurovision show. In 2011, he worked on the first theatrical HFR feature that used a short exposure time per frame. He is highly decorated with a number of technical achievements, festival, and honorary awards. He is a film-school teacher and an instructor in workshops for professionals. He chaired the IMAGO Technical Committee for a decade and served on the board of SBC, UP3D, and European Digital Cinema Forum.
Timothy Macmillan
Timothy Macmillan is the founder and CEO of TimeSlice Films from 1997 to 2019. In 1980, he developed the TimeSlice Camera System, introducing the technology to TV and film. Between 2004 and 2008, he was a specialist in HD camera at Grass Valley Cameras. From 2012 to 2016, he worked at GoPro as the senior manager of advanced products. He was responsible for a range of products, including GoPro array technology, Dual Hero Stereo System, Odyssey 360° VR System for Google, GoPro's Omni Spherical System, and their Fusion Spherical Action Camera. In May 1993, Mac-millan introduced the first broadcast TV example of TimeSlice Camera-Array technology. The technology was first used for television programming in 1995 and later for commercial use in 1996. He holds more than 37 patents. He is a member of the Visual Effects Society and IEEE.
Ajit Ninan
Vice President Engineering, Advanced Technology Group
Ajit Ninan has a long history in imaging and media that spans 25 years. His work at both startups and large companies were centered around building and standardizing video codecs and network protocols like 802.17. His projects range from display systems, laser light sources, HDR eco-systems, formats, and augmented reality (AR)/VR ecosystems. His work encompasses all aspects of imaging from display, optics, color, tone, and display mapping to computer vision algorithms. His recent accomplishments include Dolby Vision, building the first 4000 nits HDR display "Pulsar" that was rec-ognized by the AIS Lumiere award for "pioneering HDR in Hollywood." With more than 300 patents in imaging, many of them centered around quantum dots; he helped drive the adoption of quantum dot TVs. He received the Society of Information Dis-plays Best in Show award with Nanosys for the first QD monitor. He was also a key inventor and author of Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)-XT Part 2, also known as JPEG-HDR. His passion for this work continues into AR/VR and immersive imaging.
Felix Poulin, P. Eng.
Director, Media Transport Architecture & Lab
CBC/Radio-Canada
Félix Poulin grew up in studios and control rooms, thanks to his parents who worked in television production. He has been with the national public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada since 2007,where he is the director of Media-over-IP Architecture & Lab. Before that, Poulin was a lead expert on Live IP at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in Swit-zerland for six years. He cochaired the Joint AMWA/EBU/SMPTE/VSF Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM), produced the yearly Network Technology Seminar (NTS), and led multiple expert groups. He was part of the VRT Sandbox LiveIP project—an early proof-of-concept of an all-IP studio, which won mul-tiple awards, including the prestigious IBC Innovation Award in 2016. Poulin completed his diploma in elec-trical engineering at Montréal's Polytechnique and his final thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy (MIT) in 2002. Poulin is an active contributor to the SMPTE, EBU, and VSF. He co-chairs the AMWA NMOS Steering Committee.
Dr. Wolfgang Ruppel
RheinMain University of Applied Sciences
Dr. Wolfgang Ruppel is a technology expert and consultant with more than 20 years of experience in broadcasting and media. Ruppel has been a professor for Media Technology at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany, since 2006. Ruppel serves as a consultant to a number of leading media companies and institutions across North America and Europe, including Netflix, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft. His recent work includes software development of enhanced Open Source IMF tools and workflow automation for digital transfers and postproduction workflows. Prior to 2009, Ruppel was the head of T-Systems Development of a Digital Cinema distribution platform. Ruppel received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in 1989 and a Dr.-Ing. degree in 1994 from the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany.
Yvonne Thomas
Strategic Technologist
DTG (Digital TV Group)
Yvonne Thomas graduated with a degree in television technologies and electronic media engineering from the University of Applied Science Wiesbaden, Germany, in 2010. She received a prominent award from the ARD/ZDF Academy for her thesis in 2011 at the IFA in Berlin. Following these studies, she began working at the EBU in the Technology & Innovation Department as a project manager in 2011. She was responsible for projects and strategic programs on 3D and future television technologies, such as ultrahigh-definition television (UHDTV) or light-emitting diode (LED) studio lighting and was closely involved in their stan-dardization. In September 2015, Thomas joined Arvato Systems' Broadcast Solution division. As a product manager, she was responsible for the journalistic front-end "VPMS MediaPortal" and included trends like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. She received the Technology Women to Watch Award from TVNews Check in 2017. In 2019, Thomas was appointed the DTG's strategic technol-ogist overseeing the IPTV transition and UHDTV workstream. She is active in various industry bodies and is former SMPTE Education Director and current Governor EMEA & Latin America.
Willem Vermost
Design & Engineering Manager
VRT (Flemish Radio and Television)
Willem Vermost recently moved to VRT as its design and engineer-ing manager. Before this role, he was involved in the transition to IP-based studios at the EBU. With 20 years of experience in broadcast, he is an expert and project manager of international strategic, expert groups, and events. He has worked on several projects, including the multiaward-winning VRT Live IP proof of concepts, the JT-NM Tested Pro-gram. He acted as a deputy in the JT-NM admin board and the AWMA board of directors. As a faculty member of the EBU Academy, he provides training on the tran-sition to live IP-based media facilities and is passionate about the underlying mechanisms of IP-based media. Vermost started the open-source project EBU Live IP Software Toolkit project (LIST), which has grown into an international project. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and a master's in applied computer science.
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Red Star over Tibet
Claude Arpi | Date:01 Jul , 2019 1 Comment
Claude Arpi
Writes regularly on Tibet, China, India and Indo-French relations. He is the author of 1962 and the McMahon Line Saga, Tibet: The Lost Frontier and Dharamshala and Beijing: the negotiations that never were.
Rumours recently circulated about the Dalai Lama restarting negotiations with China. Nine rounds of fruitless talks were held between 2002 and 2010 between Lodi Gyari Rinpoche, the Dalai Lama's Special Envoy and Zhu Weiqun of the Communist Party's United Front Work Department.
Since then China's control over Tibet has hardened; countries which earlier had some sympathy for the Tibetans, are now hostile.
Take the strange incident which took place at the Tribhuvan International airport in Kathmandu; The Himalayan Times reported: "Man labelled Dalai Lama's agent, deported to US".
Apparently the Nepal immigration mistook a Tibetan holding a US passport called Penpa Tsering arriving from the US, with his homonym the former Dalai Lama's Representative in the US; Nepali officials argued that the man was 'on China's most-wanted list'. In Dharamsala, the former Tibetan Representative observed: "It clearly shows that the Chinese government's pressure on Nepal is working."
Nepal's Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa affirmed that the deportation was only an act "of honouring the 'One-China' policy."
A few weeks earlier, two members of Nepal's Parliament, Ekwal Miyan and Pradip Yadav had to apologize for having attended the 7th World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet, which was held in Latvia's capital Riga between May 7 and 10, after Beijing pressurized Kathmandu.
In a joint press statement, the two MPs declared that they "happened to inadvertently attend the conference …due to wrong information …when they were on a private visit to Turkey, Switzerland and Latvia."
They had even given speeches by mistake!
It shows how China can today dictate terms to 'small' countries like Nepal. This reminds me of what the 13th Dalai Lama, on his way to exile in India, writing to a British official in 1910: "Why do big insects always eat small insects?" More than 100 years later, the situation does not seem to have changed much.
In a similar incident with China, a Tibetan minister of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in Dharamsala was denied a visa to attend a conference in Mongolia. Karma Gelek Yuthok, Minister of Religion and Culture was to attend the Asian Buddhist Conference in the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar. For the minister, it was "the clearest sign yet of China's aggressive campaign of undermining core democratic freedoms across the world, and even hampering the basic exercises of other countries through severe political intimidation."
What could a Dalai Lama's representative discuss with China in these circumstances? How could talks be meaningful?
Zhu Weiqun, recently came back from his supposedly retirement, reacted to Terry Branstad, the US ambassador's visit to Tibet.
On June 9, he wrote in The Global Times, the mouthpiece of the Party, strongly criticizing the ambassador, who dared, according to him, to encourage Beijing "to engage in substantive dialogue with the Dalai Lama without preconditions."
Not only was it blatant interference in China's internal affairs, said Zhu, but he also questioned the meaning of a 'substantive dialogue'. Though time and again the Dalai Lama has said that he wanted an association, not a separation from China, Zhu still considers the Dalai Lama a splittist.
Already in 1981, Hu Yaobang, the CPC's General Secretary had submitted to Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama's elder brother, a "Five-Point Policy towards the Dalai Lama". The 'conditions' were not related to Tibet, but only to the Dalai Lama's future.
Zhu Weiqun reiterated that there was nothing to discuss about Tibet, the 'negotiations' could only be about the condition of the Dalai Lama's return to the Motherland and his status …in Beijing.
Beijing has other cards; it has taken a first step to nominate one day its own 15th Dalai Lama.
Gyaltsen Norbu, the Panchen Lama selected and groomed by Beijing has been elected as the President of the Tibet's Branch of the Buddhist Association of China, replacing Drukhang Thubten Khedup, a Lama who had been officiating since 2003. Phagpalha Gelek Namgyal a stooge of the Communist Party since the 1950s was 'invited' to be the honorary president.
Interestingly, Gyaltsen Norbu recently visited Thailand; on his return to Beijing, he affirmed "that he was able to deeply appreciate the greatness of the motherland while he was in a foreign country."
He was part of a Buddhist delegation led by Yanjue, the acting President of the Buddhist Association of China. It was Norbu's first trip abroad, according to the Chinese media, which forgot that he had attended a conference in Hong Kong in 2012; of course, that was not counted as a foreign visit!
Norbu remarked: "We are fortunate to be in the era of the development and rise of New China, and thank the Communist Party of China for leading the Chinese people in achieving the tremendous transformation of standing up, growing rich, and becoming strong."
In the meantime in Tibet, monks were invited to pass 'legal knowledge' examinations. Monks and nuns are supposed to specialize not only in the Teachings of the Buddha, but they need to grasp intricacies of mundane laws. The monks had to answer questions on the Chinese Constitution, the State Security Laws, Anti-Terrorism Laws, Anti-Spying Laws, Environmental Protection Laws, Internet Safety Laws and Regulations on Religious Affairs Matters. According to the statistics quoted by Xinhua, some 30,000 passed the examination.
Around the same time in Dharamsala, 45 regional chapters of the Tibetan Youth Congress elected new executive members and a new President, Tenzing Jigme who stated that economic and military development has no meaning unless matched by freedom for the people. He also declared: "Independence is our right. We are the rightful owners of Tibet. Irrespective of how strong China is we must continue to fight for our rights."
If the Dalai Lama wants to negotiate a return to Tibet, he will have to take all this into consideration. The situation seems bleak today.
Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.com/2019/07/red-star-over-tibet.html
This article Red Start over Tibet appeared in Mail Today.
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by Adam Plowden | 22nd May 2019
We have culminated the top 10 deals currently available from our partners! This week there are cashback offers on Sony cameras and lenses, discounts on Panasonic bundles and much more. Eager to give our readers the best deals and offers, here is a range of products on offer with discounts and cash back from B&H and CVP. Let's check out what B&H have on offer to start with. B&H: Samsung 2TB T5 Portable SSD Drive – Offer Expires on May 25th The Samsung T5 portable SSD drives have become a very popular solution for editing and backing up footage on-the-go. The drives are also compatible with the Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K as a large capacity external recording solution. You can get $70.00 off the drives, but only up to May 25th at midnight! Buy Link: Samsung 2TB T5 Portable SSD. Was: $379.99 Now: $327.99. (Savings $52.00). B&H: Save On Sony Mirrorless Camera Bundles – Offer Expires on May 25th You can get instant discounts on a Sony a7R III bundle which includes the camera, bag, 32Gb SD card, and a spare battery. Also available is a discount on the Sony a7S II and WD 4TB USB3 hard drive bundle. Both cameras can shoot 4K video, HD in slow motion, with the a7R III featuring a 42MP sensor which is ideal for photography, and the A7S II featuring a 12MP sensor which is fantastic in low light. Both bundles are great if you are starting out in video and filmmaking. Buy Link: Sony a7R III Bundle. Was: $3198.00 Now: $2798.00. (Savings $400.00). Buy Link: Sony a7S II Storage Bundle. Was: $2398.00 Now: $1998.00. (Savings $400.00). B&H: Discounts on SmallHD monitors and bundles SmallHD have a range of discounts available on their wireless monitors and directors bundles. Huge savings of up to $1000.00 are available when purchasing the SmallHD 503 Directors Kit, 703 Bolt, 703 Ultrabright Directors Kit, or the 1703 P3X Studio Monitor to name but a few that are available. Here are all of the offers and buy links: SmallHD 503 Directors Kit V-Mount – Was: $2799.00 Now: $1799.00. (Savings $1000.00). SmallHD 703 Ultrabright Gold Mount Directors Kit – Was: $3299.00 Now: $2499.00. (Savings $800.00). SmallHD 703 Ultrabright V-Mount Directors Kit – Was: $3199.00 Now: $2499.00. (Savings $700.00). SmallHD 703 Bolt – Was: $3999.00 Now: $31399.00. (Savings $800.00). SmallHD 1703 P3X Studio Monitor Gold Mount – Was: $4199.00 Now: $3399.00. (Savings $800.00). SmallHD 1703 P3X Studio Monitor V-Mount – Was: $4199.00 Now: $3399.00. (Savings $800.00). B&H: GoPro Fusion 360 Degree Camera The GoPro Fusion is the first 360 degree camera from GoPro, capable of capturing 5.7K spherical video, and 18MP spherical photos. At 3K resolution the Fusion can also capture slow motion footage up to 60p. Delve into 360 degree filming with $300.00 discount on this camera. Buy Link: GoPro Fusion. Was: $599.00 Now: $299.00. (Savings $300.00). CVP: Up to £300.00 cash back on loads of Sony cameras and lenses! There are over 20 cameras and lenses that you can claim up to £300.00 cash back on from CVP. If you've been thinking of purchasing a Sony a7 III, Sony a7R III, possibly a new G or G Master lens like the Sony 24-70mm F/2.8, now is a great time to cash in on this offer. Additionally a top performing 4K camcorder, the Sony PXW-X70/4K currently has a £180 cash back offer too. Buy link: Sony Cash back offers. Up to £300.00 cash back available. Buy Link: Sony PXW-X70. £180 cash back available. CVP: Save £90.00 when purchasing a Panasonic Lumix S1 and Sigma MC-21 EF-L Mount Adapter. The Panasonic Lumix S1 and S1R are the first full frame L-mount cameras from Panasonic. The S1 model is geared towards filmmaking and video, capable of shooting 4K 60p with Dual IS. To adapt existing EF mount lenses to L-mount, the Sigma MC-21 adapter is available. When purchased together from CVP, a £90.00 cash back offer is available. If you're interested in learning more, you can check out our Panasonic S1 review here. Buy Link: Panasonic Lumix S1 and Sigma MC-21 offer. Get £90.00 cash back. CVP: Atomos Shogun Inferno & EVA Case The Atomos Shogun Inferno is the first 7.1 inch device capable of recording ProRes RAW up to 5.7K with the latest firmware upgrade. With a 1500nit HDR display, the Shogun Inferno is the ideal companion for filmmaking in varied environments with a range of cameras. Buy Link: Atomos Shogun Inferno & EVA Case. Was: £1125.00 Now: £866.25. (Savings £258.75). Are you interested in any of the top deals we've spotted this week? Let us know in the comments.
Glyph Thunderbolt 3 Dock Supports Dual 4k Displays – Atom NVMe SSD writes up to 2800 MB/s
by Bato Prosic | 21st May 2019
Glyph , manufacturer of premium storage solutions for creative professionals from New York, has launched a new Thunderbolt 3 dock that will power your Macbook Pro, provide support for dual 4k displays, Gigabit ethernet and more, as well as a premium, high-speed, rugged SSD drive that's very much suited to editing on-the-go. Here's what you need to know. After some initial lag following its introduction into Macbooks in 2017, Thunderbolt 3 is finally starting to get some real traction with new accessories coming out left and right, expanding and refining the already impressive range of functionality available for the interface. Now the New York based company Glyph has entered the competition. All Glyph drives are assembled and tested in New York. Glyph Thunderbolt 3 Dock The main purpose of a dock like this one by Glyph usually is both to make your Thunderbolt 3 enabled laptop more convenient to use, as all peripherals and power supply can be connected to the dock and then plugged into your laptop with (ideally) only one cable. Additionally, due to laptop manufacturers' prioritization of slimming down, some older ports like full-size display ports or ethernet ports can't even be incorporated into the industrial design of many modern laptops. Docks offer a more stable, convenient and visually pleasing solution than the #donglelife way of doing things. Here's what Glyph's Thunderbolt 3 Dock has to offer spec-wise: Thunderbolt 3, 40Gbps (x2) Displayport 1.2 SD (UHS-II), up to 270 MB/s USB 3.0 type-A (x2), supports 5Gbps / 5V,1.2A USB 3.1 Gen2, typce-C (x1), supports PD 5V, 3A M.2 socket for NVMe SSD, speeds up to 1,500 MB/s Audio out Mic out 1Gb Ethernet Single 5k display @ 60Hz (5120×2880) Dual 4K displays @ 60Hz Supports 87W power delivery (enough for MacBook Pro 15″) Passive heat dissipation So far so good. Let's look at what this means in practice. The Glyph Thunderbolt 3 Dock seems to offer 2 Thunderbolt 3 lanes which is a good thing. The reason is this: Displayport 1.2, which is the lowest bandwidth standard needed to drive UHD resolution, will take up around 17,28 Gbps. Even with Thunderbolt 3 (providing 40 Gbps) this means that driving two 4k displays at 60Hz will pretty much occupy the full bandwidth of one of your Thunderbolt connections. Now the Glyph Thunderbolt 3 Dock comes with an internal M.2 socket for NVMe SSDs, and it can also charge your computer, which means that in reality to take full advantage of the potential speeds of up to 1,500 MB/s (equal to around 12 Gbps) you should have and also connect two Thunderbolt 3 cables to the Glyph Dock. Bandwidth concerns are also the likely reason the Glyph Thunderbolt 3 Dock does not provide 10 Gb Ethernet, but only 1 Gb. However this might have come in handy with larger teams, using NAS storage to share their data. The Glyph Thunderbolt 3 Dock comes in configurations without a user-upgradable SSD already built in, or with 500GB, 1TB or 2TB already built-in and is available now. Atom Pro NVMe SSD The Glyph Atom Pro NVMe SSD is a rugged high speed SSD, with a rubber protection similar to the Rugged series by LaCie, as well as a built-in and storable Thunderbolt 3 cable. In case you have your desk setup built out perfectly though, there is also a seperate Thunderbolt 3 port to plug in to, on the device's body. The device conforms to the MIL-810F standard, which means it's resistant to a multitude of environmental factors, like humidity, rain, shock, dust, vibration, fungus, and many others. Keep in mind that humidity and rain does not mean submersion in water. We don't have details on the innards of the drive so we don't know if the drive uses just one really fast NVMe, or a setup of multiple of these in an internal RAID 0 configuration, to achieve the incredible read and write speeds of 2,800 and 2,600 MB/S respectively. The Glyph Atom Pro NVMe SSD is available in capacities of 500 GB, 1TB and 2TB. What do you think about Glyph's Thunderbolt 3 offerings? Were you waiting for peripherals exactly like these to improve your workflow? Let us know in the comments!
World's First 1TB MicroSD Card from SanDisk is Available
by Jakub Han | 17th May 2019
The new memory card from SanDisk is the world's first 1TB microSD card. It is certified as UHS-I V30 for video and A2 for use in smartphones (minimum random read and write for launching and loading apps). The card is now available for pre-order. New 1TB MicroSD Memory Card from SanDisk. SanDisk, a part of Western Digital, is a popular company when it comes to reliable memory cards. Majority of my memory cards are from SanDisk and, although they can be a bit pricey, they never failed me. SanDisk announced the world's fastest 1TB UHS-I microSD flash memory card already at the end of February at Mobile World Congress. Now it is possible to pre-order this memory card. What are its features apart from the gigantic capacity? SanDisk 1TB MicroSD Memory Card The 1TB SanDisk Extreme UHS-I microSD card reaches speeds up to 160MB/s (read) and up to 90MB/s (write). The cards reach these speeds by leveraging Western Digital's proprietary flash technology. For us filmmakers, the minimum certified writing speed is the most important number and that is V30 (30MB/s). That means this card can sustain a bitrate of 240Mbps without any problem. The new SanDisk Extreme card will also be available in 512GB capacity. The cards are shockproof, temperature-proof, waterproof, and X-ray-proof. Those new cards feature the A2 specification for launching and loading apps. That defines performance as minimum random read of 4000IOPS, minimum random write of 2000IOPS and minimum sustained sequential write of 10MB/s. The A classes are specifically created for use with smartphones which need quick access to lots of small files when running apps directly from a memory card. More information about this application performance class can be found here. The 1TB microSD card comes with a full-size SD adapter. On a side note – the SDXC (Secure Digital eXtended Capacity) technology announced in January 2009 supports cards up to 2TB of capacity. When it comes to speed, it maxes out theoretically at 312 MB/s over the four-lane (two differential lanes) UHS-II bus. Previous SDHC had a maximum limit of 32GB. The upcoming technology SDUC (Secure Digital Ultra Capacity) was announced in June 2018 and it will support memory cards with a hard-to-imagine capacity of up to 128TB and speeds up to 985 MB/s. Do we need 1TB MicroSD Card Right Now? The possible benefits of such a huge card for us filmmakers could be the use in smartphones, drones and action cameras. 1TB of storage might come handy if you want, for instance, record a very long timelapse with a GoPro and you can't swap cards. It can also be good if you capture a lot of video content with your Android phone. Now, for instance the FiLMiC Pro app does not allow to record video with the highest bitrate settings directly to the SD cards, but you can transfer those big files there later and make space in your internal memory for more clips. Of course, there's always a danger of losing a lot of footage of a large card goes bust out lost, so its immense size shouldn't be the only consideration. Other than that, the only downfall I see with this card right now is its price. The MSRP of the new 1TB microSD form SanDisk is a whopping $449.99 US ($199.99 for the 512GB version). That's simply how it is with innovative products. With world's largest capacity memory cards it has always been the case. Sure, if you don't need 1TB of storage on one card and you can swap cards, then you are better off with two 512GB cards right now. There are situations, however, when you simply need all that capacity on one card and SanDisk allows that now. What do you think of the new 1TB microSD card from SanDisk? Did you ever need all that capacity on one microSD card? Let us know in the comments underneath the article.
Pomfort Silverstack Offload Manager 1.1 – Now With Parallel Transfers
Back in 2018, Pomfort released their standalone offloading tool Sliverstack Offload Manager. Now version 1.1 is ready and it comes with a small, yet powerful feature: Offload footage from multiple sources in parallel, increasing your workflow significantly while maintaining the rock-solid checksum verification, of course. Pomfort is known for their high-end software covering everything a professional DIT might need on set. The relatively new Silverstack Offload Manager uses the same offloading and verification engine as the mighty Silverstack / Silverstack XT but without anything beyond offloading and reporting. If you are new to the Silverstack Offload Manager, you can read (and watch) our coverage here. Just a word of warning for Windows or Linux users: Silverstack Offload Manager is Mac only. Pomfort Silverstack Offload Manager 1.1 Version 1.1 now adds a small yet mighty feature: parallel offloading from multiple sources. You can define how many sources you need and then just add offloading jobs to the (parallel) queue. This feature depends on quite powerful hardware of course. Just adding a multi USB hub to one single USB port won't get you blazing fast transfer speeds. However, if your machine can provide the needed performance and USB or Thunderbolt lanes, this feature will dramatically speed up your offloading workflow. Everything else stays about the same: Rock-solid checksum verification, extended reporting and the streamlined interface. I personally like the UI very much. I think it's clean, yet provides sufficient information at a glance. Other solutions such as Hedge for example offer an even cleaner UI but sometimes I find it too minimal. Pricing – Perpetual vs. Temporary Licences Pomfort Silverstack Offload Manager is only available as a one-year or as a short-term license. You can't purchase a perpetual license. This is of course unfortunate but it is as it is. If you're using such a software all day, every day, the $139 (119 €) asking for a 1-year license might offer a good value. But if you need the Offload Manager just for one project, a short-term license ( 14 days for $35 / 29 € or one month for $49 / 42 €) might be a better fit. Bundled with these licenses comes free e-mail support and access to Pomfort's comprehensive knowledge base. Licenses can be migrated to other Macs, too. You will also get all updates within your licensed timeframe, of course. To ease the pain, the clock only starts ticking when you actually activate your purchased license, yo you can buy now and activate it the minute you need it on set. Furthermore, all these temporary licenses will not renew automatically, so this isn't a subscription. Link: Pomfort Website What do you think? Do you use any offloading software? Which one? Let us know in the comments below!
Gnarbox 2.0 – Backup Your Footage, No Computer Needed
by Graham Sheldon | 24th April 2019
Hot off the heels of a successful Kickstarter campaign last year, the backup storage device dubbed the Gnarbox 2.0 is ready and shipping soon. For photographers and shooters in the field, the Gnarbox promises to be a safe and reliable alternative to putting a pile of media in your pocket to offload later at night at the hotel. The Gnarbox 2.0 will come in three flavors based primarily around their internal storage capacity. 256, 512, 1TB versions will all be available – and each one features an SD card slot for offloading cards, as well as a USB C port and a removable battery. Obviously, for users not shooting with SD cards, you'll need to attach the applicable reader to the device to offload footage. We checked out the device at NAB 2019 and there is a lot to like here. For users shooting raw images or HD footage then 1TB is plenty for a full day of shooting. Once you get into high resolution footage from RED and other 4K+ resolution raw-capable cameras, then this may not be the right device for you. When you touch the Gnarbox 2.0, it is clear that it is built to take an impact. For those rare moments where your footage make take a tumble into an adjacent swimming pool, you'll have peace of mind knowing the Gnarbox is IP67 Waterproof up to 3.3′ for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes you have a problem. Four buttons drive all the main features of the Gnarbox for up-to 6-hours of continuous backups and you can jump into the advanced menu to dump footage to specific folders. Each folder might be named things like "Camera A, Camera B" and so on. Simply dump all the footage to your master drive later and the Gnarbox will maintain that designated folder structure. The Gnarbox comes with one battery, but you can purchase additional batteries and accessories such as a dual charger, international power options and eventually a Gnarbox branded card reader. Like any media storage device, much will depend on how the Gnarbox 2.0 holds up to heavy use in the field. We'll reserve judgement until we're able to complete a full review. Pricing: Gnarbox 2.0 SSD 256gb – $499.00 Gnarbox 2.0 SSD 526gb – $599.00 Gnarbox 2.0 SSD 1TB – $899.99 Kickstarter backers can expect to get their Gnarbox 2.0 first before other orders. What do you think? Is the Gnarbox 2.0 SSD worth purchasing for the peace of mind that your footage is safe in the field? Let us know in the comments below!
G-Technology ArmorATD Portable Rugged Hard Drive Announced
by Nino Leitner | 4th April 2019
G-Technology ArmorATD is their new shock-, rain- and dustproof hard drive that seems to be able to take a beating. It comes in three sizes, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB. G-Technology ArmorATD G-Technology just announced their ArmorATD portable drive, which is made for outdoor usage. They call it a triple-layer shock resistance because the drive has internal shock mounts, is built into a solid aluminum enclosure, which is also wrapped with a protective rubber bumper. According to the manufacturer, it has a crush resistance of up to 1000lbs or 450kg, which is quite impressive. Something that's actually more relevant is that it's shockproof when dropped from an average desk (up to 1.2 meters) – the data should be fine when this happens, which certainly isn't the case for all hard drives. The new ArmorATD is made to be used on its own as opposed to their ev series rugged drives (see below), which makes it a bit smaller and lighter. It uses a USB-C connector which really has become the standard over the past few years, both on Mac and Windows. In terms of speeds, it's still a hard drive and can't compete with G-Technology's own G-DRIVE mobile Pro SSD which clocks in at up to 2800MB/s. With a transfer rate of up to 140MB/s, the new ArmorATD drives are solidly placed where most comparable hard drives sit, so there's no complaints there. Personally, I prefer to use SSD storage these days whenever working on a shoot, simply to save time, but for me a hard drive still provides a great longer-term backup at a much lower cost than most SSDs. G-Technology's Evolution of Rugged Drives It's nice to see manufacturers focus on ruggedness of storage media more and more, considering that most shoots happen outdoors, where all sorts of things can happen that would compromise the integrity of data (now it might be just me, but here's hoping that eventually, Apple will release a durable MacBook as well!). Over 4 years ago, G-Technology already announced their G-Drive ev RAW as well as G-Drive ev ATC drives, which were their first foray into building resistant drives for outdoor usage (see our news post from back then here). Those drives, however, had a removable rubber bumper (in case of the G-Drive ev RAW) or a fully removable plastic enclosure (in case of the ATC version), containing Evolution-line drives that can be used with their Evolution ecosystem in their bigger RAID enclosures. Available from May The ArmorATD drive will be available from May with a limited 3-year warranty, but can already be preordered from B&H and G-Technology, you can find all links below. Are you in the market for a rugged drive, is the G-Technology ArmorATD something you would consider getting for your arsenal of kit? Let us know in the comments below! Disclaimer: Author is member of G-Technology's ambassador program GTEAM. This is an unpaid news post about a new product (we don't post sponsored articles on cinema5D.com).
Atomos AtomX SDI Module for Ninja V Revealed
by Olaf von Voss | 3rd April 2019
When Atomos released the Ninja V monitor/recorder, they also released a new expansion interface, called AtomX. With that universal port Atomos wants to expand the Ninjas feature set over time. First they announced a Sync module and a NDI module but, and this may come as a pleasant surprise, the first module you can actually purchase is this: An AtomX SDI module. Atomos Ninja V with AtomX SDI module. With this AtomX SDI module attached to the popular, yet HDMI 2.0 only, Ninja V monitor/recorder, you get pro level I/O for your precious Ninja. The two standard 75 Ohm BNC connectors are called A and B, not In and Out. And here's why: You can configure them freely to fit your desired setup! Dual link SDI in? No problem. Two independent SDI inputs for easy A/B switching? Of course. One input and a loop output? Certainly. Specifications and Video Formats The AtomX SDI module supports the following video standards: up to 4K60p or up to 2K240p. The two independent 12G/6G/3G SDI inputs/outputs are very flexible but as a word of warning, here is one feature they can't do (yet?): The Ninja V won't cross-convert an incoming video stream over HDMI and output it via SDI. Turning it around, an SDI input can't be routed to a HDMI output. It's really a question of either SDI or HDMI. However, it is possible to output a (already recorded) video file over SDI and HDMI simultaneously. Recording from cameras over single or dual link SDI uses your choice of standard Apple ProRes and Avid DNx file formats. Log, HLG and Rec.709 gammas are supported. There is also the option to 'burn in' a LUT to the recorded image for quick turnaround productions where there is little or no time for post processing. Since the question will certainly arise, here is the quick answer: No, ProRes RAW is not (yet?) supported over SDI. The only cameras which currently do ProRes RAW (over HDMI) in conjunction with the Atomos Ninja V is the Nikon Z 6 and Z 7. The AtomX SDI module is about the size of an NP style battery and fits snugly between the Ninja V and the actual NP battery. It will be available in May 2019 for $US199 / €199 plus taxes. Other AtomX Modules The other two already announced AtomX modules, Sync and NDI, are on their way, too but according to Atomos CEO Jeromy Young the SDI became a priority: When we announced Sync and NDI, user feedback pushed us to make AtomX SDI a priority. So we've delivered it first, with NDI and Sync to follow shortly. Read here for our coverage of the Sync and NDI modules. Link: Atomos Website What do you think? Is an SDI fueled Ninja V what you've waited for? Share your thoughts in the comments below!


Choosing the right format is one of the hardest things. Always measure the bank well into the shop and boots after him in the living room. That way is good to see exactly how much space he occupies. Do you have a large living room? Therefore choose a major bank, so he did not drown in space.
You can choose a sofa in a bright bold color, but there is a chance that it gets boring. A sofa in a neutral color is more secure, you can then play with pillows and throws to give the bank more color.
The material has a lot to do with stains and wear. Dust example, is much more sensitive than smear leather will wear out faster. With children's learning so often a wiser choice. However, there are fabric sofas with removable covers that are machine washable.
You can choose a bank is an active or a couch. What one finds comfortable seating is personal. A bank with an active is better for the back. Would you can lie on the couch, then a corner sofa is a smart choice.
The two-seater sofa fits in the smaller room; the two-seater sofa set is also ideal, but also for a dorm room or in the bedroom. In the living room, two-seater sofa is often combined with another two-seater sofa or a couch. It is also possible to combine it with armchairs, ottomans, or a stool. Or purchase directly a complete seating combination, then you are sure that all furniture fit together.
The three seater sofa has room for three people. Some three-seater sofas, however, are so spacious that you even with four to sit. This bank is quite wide and there is quite some space to put him down. The bank is ideal for families. Usually the three seater sofa is combined with a two-seater sofa or armchairs. There are also banks with a different number of seats than two or three.
A different kind of sofa is the corner sofa. In this sofa two banks are linked together so that they form a corner. This can, for example, two two-seat or a two-seat bench and a bench three. What we often see is a corner sofa with chaise longue on which a person may be this sofa does have fewer seats.
Want to completely build the sofa the way you want it? Then choose a modular sofa. This is a bank of separate elements which can be coupled to each other. In this way, the bank can be fully tailored to your personal wishes. Corner sofa or lounge chair to a three-seater sofa, you can endlessly combine the individual elements. There appears to longer still need more space? It can also be extended to the bench after a long time. So the sofa can for example grow with the family.
The backrest of the bench can be folded flat, and thus forms a bed.
A tray is pulled out under the seat which can be folded out. This creates a double bed.
The seat of the bench can be folded out into a bed.


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Register for this easy and interactive webinar to find out how to manage the recent copyright amendments while also reviewing best practice for copyright in the classroom.
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A PostScript error offending command exectstackoverflow is caused by an incorrect PostScript file that is send to the RIP. There is really not much you can do to correct this type of errors (unless you are a PostScript God and sleep with the Adobe Red Book under your pillow). An execstackoverflow message means that exec nesting is too deep, there are too many pending nested procedure calls (see what I mean).
You should check whether a newer version of your application is available. There are applications that have issues with execstackoverflow errors with some particular files (Ghostscript versions up to release 9 being one of them).
Since some programs (essentially non-prepress applications) rely on the PostScript driver installed on your system to create the PostScript code that is send to the RIP, you can also try to use an other driver to print your file.
Any software that puts itself in-between the PostScript print file and its destination (the RIP or Distiller or whatever) can also cause this problem. Try to print your file without going through an OPI-server, a spooler or an imposition application.


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Five to Rule Them All? The UN Security Council
From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of post-war global politics. Sometimes seen as part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Security Council has enjoyed notable successes and suffered ignominious failures, but it has always provided a space for the five permanent powers to sit down together. Despite its many failures and shortcomings, the Security Council has still served an invaluable purpose above all: to prevent conflict between the Great Powers. A former senior editor at Foreign Policy, Professor David Bosco joins the Council to examine the role of the Security Council, diverging interests of its five permanent members, and to discuss why this is the one place where we should be working to resolve the world major problems of peace and security.
Direct download: 10-07-09_David_Bosco.mp3


The Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE) through its CAMPUS program, together with the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) and the National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education (ANUIES) invite you to participate in the V Social CAMPUS Colloquium, which will be held from the 15th to the 16th of March, 2018; at the University Cultural Complex, BUAP, Puebla, PUE., Mexico.
This colloquium offers a space to reflect on different topics relating to the social mission of Higher Education Institutions in the Americas, by sharing successful experiences that would contribute to an effective change in society.
As in previous years, the V Colloquium will focus on strategies implemented by Higher Education Institutions in the Inter-American context to promote social inclusion by means of the reduction of inequalities for access to higher education. On this occasion, the main emphasis will be on how Inter-American cooperation, especially in research and graduate education, can contribute to promote sustainable development in our regions.


I have just started the Hungarian tree, and have already fallen head over heels for the language. But I must ask, what am I getting myself into? Or rather, what is it that makes the language famous for its difficulty?
I'm imagining that the pretty different grammatical structure to that of Indo-European languages makes the learning curve a little steep in the beginning. At least that's the case for Finnish, Hungarians distant relative, which has a similar grammatical setup.
I think it's more unfamiliarity - the grammar is very alien and the vocabulary is unfamiliar. It's not so much inherent difficulty, it's just much further removed from most European languages.
I'm a beginner as well in Hungarian, and I have to say that this first week with the language has left me both excited and discouraged at the same time. There is a huge initial shock, much greater than any Romance language, when you first start learning Hungarian. I feel that starting off in Spanish is like dipping your toe into the foreign language pool; starting off in Hungarian is like getting shoved right in.
There are little to no cognates to help you learn vocabulary, the grammar is especially confusing for an English speaker, and there are plenty of letters and sounds that you either have to learn for the first time or train yourself to pronounce differently (a, á, é, o, ö, ü, c, cs, dzs, gy, j, ly, ny, s, sz, ty, zs). Oh, and let's not even get started on how daunting it is in the beginning to say words like viszontlátásra and gyümölcsleves.
Wow, you have guts! I started off with Swedish, just to get myself started, and only now am I swimming in open water! Good luck with your learning!
There was another Duolingo Hungarian course on there, but it was really short and I finished it in about a week, so I started on my own.
Speaking of Hungarian–Polish comparisons, Hungarian preverbs are very similar to Polish verb prefixes (although Hungarian likes to detach them from the verb and move them around, unlike Polish). Some of them are even almost translatable, at least when it comes to movement: be- → w-, ki- → wy-, le- → z-, fel- → w(z)-, el- → od-, át- → prze-, hozzá- → do- etc.
That is really good to know! Thanks!
Considering how much you clearly love languages, you would probably like the Pimsleur language recordings. Here on Duolingo, we have access to a rich array of vocabulary and sentences, with some pronunciation. The nice thing about Pimsleur is that it's entirely audio (although I understand that newer version have workbooks, with written language as well, but I haven't used these), so you get to practice the language solely by listening (to native speakers) and speaking. It gives you an entirely different perspective on the language, one that complements Duolingo well, IMO. I've personally used Pimsleur extensively, and it's helped my spoken ability in French, Portuguese, Russian and Irish immensely. I have no interest in trying to sell the product -- I'm just a consumer myself (although I despise that label) -- but I think for someone who's serious about learning languages, even if just a hobby, Pimsleur is a great product.
All I wanted to do with this is, if I could recommend only one thing, it will be this: try to get a "feeling" for the language, especially for the inflections. Notice the borderline at the end of the "core" verb.
PS: If you speak hungarian, Hungarians will correct you, so not a problem saying "Ők megynek" instead of "Ők mennek". I love how foreign people speak hungarian. Never give up learing it! And I hope I've got my English sentences right.
Wow! Thanks for positing this! This is really helpful! I find it interesting to hear that even Hungarians struggle with Hungarian! Your English was perfect, here are some lingots of appreciation. Köszönöm!
Thanks for your unique perspective on learning the Hungarian language! And your English is really excellent. If you don't mind a very minor correction, it involves the placement of punctuation when using quotes. In your sentence, "I never thought about what makes my first language so 'special,'" in English, one puts commas and periods inside the quotes, which doesn't seem logical, but that's standard usage. On the other hand, a question mark or exclamation point will go outside quotes (provided it's not part of the original quote). So, your sentence should read: I never thought about what makes my first language so "special." Don't worry, most native English speakers don't know this as well, but seeing as how you're so advanced, and appreciative of learning language correctly, I thought you might appreciate this little "nugget." ;-) Happy learning!
I'll give a different point of view. I was born in Hungary so I am a native speaker and my second language was German in Austria where I started school and then I learned English and French in Montreal.
After I finished college in the U.S. I couldn't get a good job because I majored in English and there isn't much you can do with that if you don't go on to graduate school and get into academics or become a writer. I didn't have a background in education but the local high school was desperate for a teacher for French I, German I and II, and remedial reading! Well, I took the job and luckily for me, at that time, schools were not going crazy about test scores. So the langage classes were constucted in a way that the students did no reading or writing in the first year at all. Just as a baby learns its native language by listening and repeating that is what we did. I didn't speak a word of English to my first year students and they learned to hear the sounds and to repeat them, endlessly, but it worked well.
So, I would like to suggest that since all children manage to learn their native languages within the scope of their basic intelligence and ability to hear and speak, no language is really harder than another.
The reason some people have difficulty with the grammar of their native languages is probably because they are not brought up in homes where parents are readers and they don't develop a love of reading. The more one reads the better the vocabulary becomes and the spelling etc. In families where education is not considered important children may speak a poor version of their language, imitating the culture of their parents and social miliieu (don't want to say class). A good school with good teachers can help but the student needs to want to learn and like to read.
So here I am with a graduate degree in English and French as well as counseling. I am highly competent in English with a formidable vocabulary and I am an excellent speller. I am just now learning to write in Hungarian because I plan to move to Hungary for a few years at least and to travel around Europe. I don't think any of the languages I have learned are hard but they take focus. Today I am on the 78th day since I started duolingo and although it is very frustrating to have to memorize incorrect answers in order to pass a lesson and move on I am now able to write with correct accent marks almost as fast in Hungarian as I can in English. I am spending about two hours a day on this except during the holidays when I was traveling I had to cut back.
So, take heart. If you want to learn you can. Listen to radio. To the news, to music, to talk shows. Hungarian is quite musical. You will get the words eventually. I remember being in the schoolyard several times not understanding anything the other kids were saying, not that they were talking to me anyway since I was the "weird" immigrant, but one day it started to make sense and eventually I was completely fluent. You can do it! Sorry if I made typos. It is almost 2 am!
Only the tree structure and weird sentences on Duolingo make Hungarian look hard, as well as the rumors. Sometimes I think it is a conspiracy of Hungarians wanting to keep their monopoly on their language. The language itself has some peculiarities, but is not harder that Russian for example, in many respects even easier.
Yeah, I thin that's what scared me the mots. I saw things like "Choices 7" and was like "why does a skill about choices need to be divided into 7 sections??" But I agree, so far it seems like a fairly logical language. Russian was way harder at level 4 (in my opinion).
English is generally considered an easy language because it is so ubiquitous.
Nevertheless, when I was a student of English as a second language in the U.S of A. I saw many Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Middle eastern students (and others) really struggling with the language because of the sharp differences in grammar and vocabulary respective to their own languages.
In comparison I had it easy ( Native Spanish speaker).
So now I know what these old classmates of mine went thru. Now I understand how they felt.
think of Hungarian (and/or other languages) not as "difficult" but "unique".
By the way I also fell "head over heels" with the mighty Hungarian language when i first encountered it written and spoken.
Thank you! I am about to learn the singular verbs skill, and though it seemed daunting, it actually seems quite logical! I think I will take your advice, and think of it as unique!
I don't really understand why some people gives downvotes for personal opinions in a topic like this. May I suggest them to not throwing -1s?
Well. I am native Hungarian, living and working in Hungary, and I kept thinking that my language is extra hard. The link offered by flootzavut (http://www.fluentin3months.com/hungarian-is-easy/) also changed my view. Now I think that Hungarian is difficult a bit, yes, but not so extremely hard.
Hungarian has a rather different way of thinking than Indo-European languages. This is tricky, but quite logical. Try to find out the logic, and you will like being switched to "Hungarian is easy" mode. At least in some aspects.
Hungarian does everything reversed. It is not true, but there are many things that will make you feel it. Name sequence, possessive structure, postal addresses, etc. follow the "From the greater to the smaller" approach, unlike English. See its logic (it has!) and you'll find the point that makes them easy.
Hungarian has too many accents! Well, the bad part is the vital role of them. As "morning" and "mourning" or "effect" and "affect" are different things in English (not to mention the "son of the ❤❤❤❤❤" vs. "sun of the beach"), minor differences that are hard to find for beginners of English language. In Hungarian the accents show sound differences and these differences are change the meaning of the word. If you say them wrong they can mean very different things and render your sentence meaningless. "Csikós kulacs" and "csíkos kulacs" may be side by side in the souvenir shop, and may look differently: first is wooden with horse skin cover, the latter is perhaps porcellain with stripped pattern hand-painted on it. Find the differences, and they will help you learn the accents.
It is not really hard. Not really. Vowel harmony makes things a lot more easier. Without vowels harmony Hungarian would be very hard to learn. Cases aren't very difficult to master (thanks to vowel harmony). Also, when you are learning a language that doesn't have cases you usually need to learn a lot more prepositions.
Well, the thing is, Hungarian language doesn't fall under the umbrella of neither Germanic, Romance nor Balto-Slavic. But if you are referring to Hungarian as tough, I agree. It is tough. I live in a place with about 50% Hungarian municipality since birth, and I am still struggling with it.
I'll weigh in on this one as well. While I'm still a novice myself, a lot of the difficulty gets reduced if you know a thing or two about how Italian verbs work as well. For a languages with no common history, they have some convenient similarities. If you understand the verb basics of one you've got a good leg up on the basics in another.
Obviously that's not an absolute statement, but it sure helps on day 1.


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The Penang State Government, Stonyhurst College, and LAPIS announced today the development of Stonyhurst Penang International School in Seri Tanjung Pinang, Tanjong Tokong, Penang, Malaysia. It will attract both international and Malaysian students from the region to study in Malaysia, in line with the Penang State Government's vision to develop Penang as an Education Hub.
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The Chief Minister of Penang, Mr Lim Guan Eng, witnessed the signing of the key agreements on this landmark collaboration involving the Penang State Government, LAPIS, and Stonyhurst.
Head Teacher of Stonyhurst, Mr John Browne commented: "Stonyhurst College was founded in 1593 and has a proud Jesuit heritage and culture. I am honoured and moved to be part of a new chapter in its history, by signing this agreement with Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng. The opening of the Stonyhurst College in Malaysia is an historic milestone for the school and one which I sincerely hope will benefit both the community of the school and the wider community around it."
Chairman of the Board of Governors of Stonyhurst College, Mr John Cowdall said: "As Chair of the Board of Governors, it gives me the most enormous pleasure to witness the signing of the agreement which will allow Stonyhurst College to have a presence in Malaysia. The Board of Governors has given this historic development a great deal of consideration and we are delighted to have reached this significant stage. We are all committed to seeing this extraordinary project come to fruition."
Director of LAPIS, Mr Michael Sng added: "LAPIS is proud to build on its success with St Joseph's Institution International School in Kuala Lumpur to form a partnership with Stonyhurst in Penang. This has tremendous potential as the Penang State Government continues to successfully attract high quality foreign investment".
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require_relative 'monitor/version'
require_relative 'monitor/common/timer'
require_relative 'monitor/executor/executor'

require 'open3'

module Droid
  module Monitor
    class Adb
      attr_accessor :package, :device_serial, :api_level

      def initialize(opts = {})
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        @package = opts[:package]
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      end

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      def dump_tcp_snd
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        puts "pid is #{pid}" if @debug
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      def dump_gfxinfo
        run_adb("#{adb_shell} dumpsys gfxinfo #{@package}")
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        "#{ENV['ANDROID_HOME']}/platform-tools/adb"
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        "#{adb} #{device_serial_option} shell"
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        userid = dump.scan(/userId=[0-9]+/)
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      def run_adb(cmd)
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Home » News » World » Nepal's Oli Govt Loses Majority Support after Maoist Party Withdraws Support
Nepal's Oli Govt Loses Majority Support after Maoist Party Withdraws Support
Last Updated: May 05, 2021, 19:13 IST
File photo of Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)
The decision of the Maoist party to withdraw support to the government comes two days after Oli announced that he will seek a vote of confidence in Parliament on May 10.
Nepal's embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli-led government on Wednesday lost majority support in the House of Representatives after the CPN (Maoist Center) led by Pushpakamal Dahal "Prachanda" officially withdrew support to it.
The party submitted a letter to this effect to the Parliament Secretariat, informing about its decision to withdraw support to the government, according to a senior leader of the party, Ganesh Shah.
Chief Whip of the Maoist Center Dev Gurung handed over the letter to officials at the Parliament Secretariat, he said.
After handing over the letter Gurung told the media persons that the party decided to withdraw support to the Oli government as the government had breached the Constitution and the government's recent activities have posed threat to democratic procedures and national sovereignty.
After the withdrawal of support, the Oli government has lost its majority in the House of Representatives.
The Maoist Center has a total of 49 lawmakers in the lower house.
Since the ruling CPN-UML has a total of 121 lawmakers, Prime Minister Oli is short of 15 lawmakers to save his government in the 275-member House.
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Australian GP: just add water.
Reports of the rebirth of Formula 1 fun will be as greatly exaggerated as reports of its demise were after the Bahrain GP but, once again, the Australian GP delivered the goods.
Now here is a radical idea: how about Formula 1 hold all of its races where there are actual people watching? Notice a difference in the stands in Melbourne? Notice that there actually are spectator stands all around the race track? You don't believe the energy of that many fans can be felt by the drivers? Nothing more needs to be said, right?
The race, like any variable conditions race, was great fun to watch. I was traveling this week end and did not see it until late last night and I must say, I could not take my eyes off the screen. There were some fantastic drives. Vettel, man he's good, he pulverized Webber in the same car and Webber is not exactly slow. Weber felt it for sure and made some pretty bad judgement calls and took out a now rather tense Lewis Hamilton.
Interesting about Hamilton in contrast with Fernando Alonso. Fernando was spun in what can only be described as a "racing incident" by Jenson Button and ended up dead last. He clawed his way back to fourth place, just behind a slower Massa. Yet there was no complaining, no demands for a pass, at least in public. Rightly, Alonso figured an epic climb from 22nd to 4th and keeping the lead in the championship was good enough for the day. Hamilton instead went fairly ballistic on his team over the open radio about his pit stop strategy. This looked kind of bad when Button was being praised for making his own call on tires. Hamilton had a great drive, but questions over his tire management will dog him.
Kubica, getting a midpack car on the podium speaks for itself. Great to see.
Button drove a perfect race and benefitted from his gamble on the tires and, as Alonso did in Bahrain, from Red Bull possibly pushing the envelope a bit too far with the car design.
And Schumacher? I think Schumacher's race showed where F1 really is, you still can't pass unless you are willing to go Webber Kamikaze or, the guy in front makes a big mistake. The race in Melbourne just had the right condition for mistakes to happen. Don't get too excited, you probably saw that in the final phase of the race, on the dry track the usual blanket of rolled up rubber covered the track except for the narrow racing line making overtaking essentially, impossible.
This klag buildup is one of the main problems F1 should address. What's the point of building wider tracks in the middle of deserts when, by half race, it becomes a single lane toboggan?
Finally, the new teams are simply moving chicanes, dangerous ones when they lose parts along the way. Kobayashi's wing failure accident would have killed three people not so long ago. it's not wise to tempt fate like that.
Highlights after the jump.
(photos: F1photos.org)
I did not have time to prepare the usual reel this time, but I think the BBC's are well worth watching.
Labels: Australian GP, Formula 1, Formula 1 2010 at 11:50 AM
Ben Monday, March 29, 2010 1:34:00 PM
I was a little curious about why I haven't heard much complaining about the new pit stop rules. Massa for example lost three or four places in the pits even though he was the first in. Not that it really mattered in the end as there was plenty of mixing up, but it seems stupid that when more than one car comes in, the person whose pit is further down the lane basically must automatically be released after the other cars regardless of the order when they entered, even if they both spend the same time stopped.
Henrik Bergau Monday, March 29, 2010 2:49:00 PM
Wow! Kubica! Amazing! I think that Kubica and Renault is better than Mercedes and their drivers.. But I need to see more races to know.
The Hami - Webber spinn was pure stupidity from Web! Everyone knew that the move wouldn't work or.. Everyone except Webber.. Since there was only 3 cars in that corner and not 10 as in Alonsos case I think that it's a race incident for Alonso and pure stupidity involved in the Hami - Webber thing....
It's a shame that RB and Vettel have lost 2 races due to mechanical.. One step forward on the car and two step back on the mechanical..
It's astonishing that a driver of Hamiltons caliber still relies so much on the team to make decisions. I'm sure he's the better gauge on whether to make a tire stop than the engineers on the pitwall.
Jenson surprised me, I didn't think he has the balls to make such a move. It really put him in
position to win.
The RB6 is fast and fragile and if they can't solve the reliability issues I can foresee cars that are quick enough to push the RB6 into breaking. Why does Newey design such fragile cars??
F1Outsider Monday, March 29, 2010 6:46:00 PM
When is Vettel's contract up with Red Bull? Massa's contract is up this year and if Vettel's car keeps letting him down it would only make it easier for Ferrari to lure him away from Red Bull.
AC Monday, March 29, 2010 7:30:00 PM
@Anon. The team does have much more data than he does, like infrared tire temperature cameras.. but you would think he has the feel. Thing is LEwis was brought up listening to Mclaren, it's probably working against him, like last year with "Lie-Gate".
"The team does have much more data than he does, like infrared tire temperature cameras...but you would think he has the feel"
That's what I was thinking. It would be weird that Lewis didn't have any input to the changes being made to the car prior to the tire stop. I think Lewis and the engineers just got it wrong, which was sadly compounded by Lewis' radio comm. It makes me wonder though what the radio comm between Jenson and the engineers was like. They were probably pleading Jenson to make another stop.
Do you where I can get full race vids?
Cardiff Giant Monday, March 29, 2010 10:57:00 PM
I was going to add on regarding the postings mention of the crowd size in Melbourne vs. Bahrain. Yes, Bahrain was very very small crowd, but what the announcers and others dont explain is that in the Middle East, Sunday is a workday. Muslim countries take off Friday and Saturday as the weekend. This was the same situation in Abu Dhabi, a great track, but the stands could have used a few thousand more people.
Second issue, F1 and the FIA want passing but have spent the last 4-5 years ensuring through tire and aero restrictions that passing will never happen. You want people to pass but you mandate that the front tires must be smaller, thereby inducing under steer, making it impossible to hold a tight line to make the pass in a corner.
billtc3 Tuesday, March 30, 2010 3:15:00 AM
I also missed the race, so I was waiting for this video! Once again, thank you Axis.