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package com.facebook.buck.log;

import static java.lang.String.format;
import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
import static java.util.logging.Level.FINE;
import static java.util.logging.Level.FINER;
import static java.util.logging.Level.INFO;
import static java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE;
import static java.util.logging.Level.WARNING;

import java.util.IllegalFormatException;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;

// This is open source software that we'd like to modify as little as
// possible, and it doesn't match our coding style.
@SuppressWarnings({"PMD", "checkstyle:leftcurly", "checkstyle:rightcurly", "checkstyle:linelength"})
public class Logger
{
    private final java.util.logging.Logger logger;

    Logger(java.util.logging.Logger logger)
    {
        this.logger = logger;
    }

    /**
     * Gets a logger named after a class' fully qualified name.
     *
     * @param clazz the class
     * @return the named logger
     */
    public static Logger get(Class<?> clazz)
    {
        return get(clazz.getName().replace('$', '.'));
    }

    /**
     * Gets a named logger
     *
     * @param name the name of the logger
     * @return the named logger
     */
    public static Logger get(String name)
    {
        java.util.logging.Logger logger = java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(name);
        return new Logger(logger);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at VERBOSE level.
     *
     * @param exception an exception associated with the verbose message being logged
     * @param message a literal message to log
     */
    public void verbose(Throwable exception, String message)
    {
        logger.log(FINER, message, exception);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at VERBOSE level.
     *
     * @param message a literal message to log
     */
    public void verbose(String message)
    {
        logger.finer(message);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at VERBOSE level.
     *

     * Usage example:
     *

     *    logger.verbose("value is %s (%d ms)", value, time);
     *

     * If the format string is invalid or the arguments are insufficient, an error will be logged and execution
     * will continue.
     *
     * @param format a format string compatible with String.format()
     * @param args arguments for the format string
     */
    public void verbose(String format, Object... args)
    {
        if (logger.isLoggable(FINER)) {
            String message;
            try {
                message = format(format, args);
            }
            catch (IllegalFormatException e) {
                logger.log(SEVERE, illegalFormatMessageFor("VERBOSE", format, args), e);
                message = rawMessageFor(format, args);
            }
            logger.finer(message);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at VERBOSE level.
     *

     * Usage example:
     *

     *    logger.verbose(e, "value is %s (%d ms)", value, time);
     *

     * If the format string is invalid or the arguments are insufficient, an error will be logged and execution
     * will continue.
     *
     * @param exception an exception associated with the verbose message being logged
     * @param format a format string compatible with String.format()
     * @param args arguments for the format string
     */
    public void verbose(Throwable exception, String format, Object... args)
    {
        if (logger.isLoggable(FINER)) {
            String message;
            try {
                message = format(format, args);
            }
            catch (IllegalFormatException e) {
                logger.log(SEVERE, illegalFormatMessageFor("VERBOSE", format, args), e);
                message = rawMessageFor(format, args);
            }
            logger.log(FINER, message, exception);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at DEBUG level.
     *
     * @param exception an exception associated with the debug message being logged
     * @param message a literal message to log
     */
    public void debug(Throwable exception, String message)
    {
        logger.log(FINE, message, exception);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at DEBUG level.
     *
     * @param message a literal message to log
     */
    public void debug(String message)
    {
        logger.fine(message);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at DEBUG level.
     *

     * Usage example:
     *

     *    logger.debug("value is %s (%d ms)", value, time);
     *

     * If the format string is invalid or the arguments are insufficient, an error will be logged and execution
     * will continue.
     *
     * @param format a format string compatible with String.format()
     * @param args arguments for the format string
     */
    public void debug(String format, Object... args)
    {
        if (logger.isLoggable(FINE)) {
            String message;
            try {
                message = format(format, args);
            }
            catch (IllegalFormatException e) {
                logger.log(SEVERE, illegalFormatMessageFor("DEBUG", format, args), e);
                message = rawMessageFor(format, args);
            }
            logger.fine(message);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at DEBUG level.
     *

     * Usage example:
     *

     *    logger.debug(e, "value is %s (%d ms)", value, time);
     *

     * If the format string is invalid or the arguments are insufficient, an error will be logged and execution
     * will continue.
     *
     * @param exception an exception associated with the debug message being logged
     * @param format a format string compatible with String.format()
     * @param args arguments for the format string
     */
    public void debug(Throwable exception, String format, Object... args)
    {
        if (logger.isLoggable(FINE)) {
            String message;
            try {
                message = format(format, args);
            }
            catch (IllegalFormatException e) {
                logger.log(SEVERE, illegalFormatMessageFor("DEBUG", format, args), e);
                message = rawMessageFor(format, args);
            }
            logger.log(FINE, message, exception);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at INFO level.
     *
     * @param message a literal message to log
     */
    public void info(String message)
    {
        logger.info(message);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at INFO level.
     *

     * Usage example:
     *

     *    logger.info("value is %s (%d ms)", value, time);
     *

     * If the format string is invalid or the arguments are insufficient, an error will be logged and execution
     * will continue.
     *
     * @param exception an exception associated with the warning being logged
     * @param format a format string compatible with String.format()
     * @param args arguments for the format string
     */
    public void info(@Nullable Throwable exception, String format, Object... args)
    {
        if (logger.isLoggable(INFO)) {
            String message;
            try {
                message = format(format, args);
            }
            catch (IllegalFormatException e) {
                logger.log(SEVERE, illegalFormatMessageFor("INFO", format, args), e);
                message = rawMessageFor(format, args);
            }
            logger.log(INFO, message, exception);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at INFO level.
     *
     * @param format a format string compatible with String.format()
     * @param args arguments for the format string
     */
    public void info(String format, Object... args) {
        info(null, format, args);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at WARN level.
     *
     * @param exception an exception associated with the warning being logged
     * @param message a literal message to log
     */
    public void warn(Throwable exception, String message)
    {
        logger.log(WARNING, message, exception);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at WARN level.
     *
     * @param message a literal message to log
     */
    public void warn(String message)
    {
        logger.warning(message);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at WARN level.
     *

     * Usage example:
     *

     *    logger.warn(e, "something bad happened when connecting to %s:%d", host, port);
     *

     * If the format string is invalid or the arguments are insufficient, an error will be logged and execution
     * will continue.
     *
     * @param exception an exception associated with the warning being logged
     * @param format a format string compatible with String.format()
     * @param args arguments for the format string
     */
    public void warn(@Nullable Throwable exception, String format, Object... args)
    {
        if (logger.isLoggable(WARNING)) {
            String message;
            try {
                message = format(format, args);
            }
            catch (IllegalFormatException e) {
                logger.log(SEVERE, illegalFormatMessageFor("WARN", format, args), e);
                message = rawMessageFor(format, args);
            }
            logger.log(WARNING, message, exception);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at WARN level.
     *

     * Usage example:
     *

     *    logger.warn("something bad happened when connecting to %s:%d", host, port);
     *

     * If the format string is invalid or the arguments are insufficient, an error will be logged and execution
     * will continue.
     *
     * @param format a format string compatible with String.format()
     * @param args arguments for the format string
     */
    public void warn(String format, Object... args)
    {
        warn(null, format, args);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at ERROR level.
     *
     * @param exception an exception associated with the error being logged
     * @param message a literal message to log
     */
    public void error(Throwable exception, String message)
    {
        logger.log(SEVERE, message, exception);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at ERROR level.
     *
     * @param message a literal message to log
     */
    public void error(String message)
    {
        logger.severe(message);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at ERROR level.
     *

     * Usage example:
     *

     *    logger.error(e, "something really bad happened when connecting to %s:%d", host, port);
     *

     * If the format string is invalid or the arguments are insufficient, an error will be logged and execution
     * will continue.
     *
     * @param exception an exception associated with the error being logged
     * @param format a format string compatible with String.format()
     * @param args arguments for the format string
     */
    public void error(@Nullable Throwable exception, String format, Object... args)
    {
        if (logger.isLoggable(SEVERE)) {
            String message;
            try {
                message = format(format, args);
            }
            catch (IllegalFormatException e) {
                logger.log(SEVERE, illegalFormatMessageFor("ERROR", format, args), e);
                message = rawMessageFor(format, args);
            }
            logger.log(SEVERE, message, exception);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at ERROR level. The value of {@code exception.getMessage()} will be used as the log message.
     *

     * Usage example:
     *

     *    logger.error(e);
     *

     *
     * @param exception an exception associated with the error being logged
     */
    public void error(Throwable exception)
    {
        if (logger.isLoggable(SEVERE)) {
            logger.log(SEVERE, exception.getMessage(), exception);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Logs a message at ERROR level.
     *

     * Usage example:
     *

     *    logger.error("something really bad happened when connecting to %s:%d", host, port);
     *

     * If the format string is invalid or the arguments are insufficient, an error will be logged and execution
     * will continue.
     *
     * @param format a format string compatible with String.format()
     * @param args arguments for the format string
     */
    public void error(String format, Object... args)
    {
        error(null, format, args);
    }

    public boolean isVerboseEnabled()
    {
        return logger.isLoggable(FINER);
    }

    public boolean isDebugEnabled()
    {
        return logger.isLoggable(FINE);
    }

    public boolean isInfoEnabled()
    {
        return logger.isLoggable(INFO);
    }

    private String illegalFormatMessageFor(String level, String message, Object... args)
    {
        return format("Invalid format string while trying to log: %s '%s' %s", level, message, asList(args));
    }

    private String rawMessageFor(String format, Object... args)
    {
        return format("'%s' %s", format, asList(args));
    }
}


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Theatr Colwyn is a thriving theatre, digital cinema, studio and photographic gallery in Colwyn Bay. This art-deco building is the oldest working cinema in the UK, where films were first screened in January 1909. Theatr Colwyn also has an upstairs community room that seats 48 available for hire from £7.50 per hour. Also available for hire are a recording studio and a rehearsal room. Contact Theatr Colwyn for further details.
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A: Ok I solved it like two seconds after posting! Simply move the code to a server side folder, the collections folder in my case.

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In 2001–02, Quinnipiac was one of the hottest teams in the nation down the stretch. The Bobcats won four of their final five regular-season games before making a magical run through the Northeast Conference Tournament. Quinnipiac edged host Wagner, the No. 2 seed, and third-seeded UMBC en route to a date on national television against No. 1-seeded Central Connecticut State. Despite a valiant effort, the Bobcats fell just short in their first-ever appearance on the ESPN network, a 78–71 loss to the Blue Devils.
DeSantis was a standout player at Fairfield from 1975–79, completing his collegiate career with 1,916 points (currently second all-time) and 667 assists (currently second). Tops in the Stags' record book for career free-throw percentage (.849), DeSantis averaged 18.4 points per game as a collegian.
He was subsequently drafted by the Washington Bullets in the second round of the 1979 NBA Draft before playing in Venice, Italy, for one season. He completed his professional playing career one year later as a member of the Maine Lumberjacks in the Continental Basketball Association.
In September 2004 DeSantis was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame for his playing contributions with the Stags.
Born on September 24, 1957, in Bronx, N.Y., DeSantis attended Tolentine High School, a nationally renowned high school basketball powerhouse in New York City. An avid New York Yankees fan, DeSantis and his wife, Theresa, live in Trumbull, Conn., with their four children: Joseph, Gregory, Rachael and Michelle.


Dissident nun, Sr. Jeannine Gramick, who blasphemed Our Lord Jesus and Saint John as homosexuals is scheduled to lecture at Catholic Fairfield University.
Sr. Jeannine Gramick is scheduled to lecture at Catholic Fairfield University about The Care of Souls: Sexual Diversity, Celibacy, and Ministry. She is co-founder of New Ways Ministry and was permanently forbidden by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from doing any ministry work involving homosexuality.
So this lecture at Fairfield is a direct disobedience to a formal directive from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
This statement is such a grave abomination and such a terrible blasphemy against Our Lord Jesus Christ and Saint John that I am speechless. I am appalled and I am sure that you are too.
Moreover, that Sr. Gramick, who is forbidden to be involved in any pastoral work with homosexuals, is publicly invited to lecture to Catholic students at an officially Catholic University defies understanding.
As lay Catholics, we must offer our most fervent act of reparation to Our Lord Jesus Christ for this sin.
They will deny and contradict basic Catholic moral values. If nothing is done to oppose this sinful lecture series, many young souls will be scandalized.
That's why we pray you join this act of reparation and peaceful protest immediately.
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ArmInfo.The Armenian Environemntal Front has applied to the Minister of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources of Armenia Artur Grigoryan calling to provide documents on suspention of all mining activities by Teghut CJSC, the statement of the Front reads. Besides, according to the statement the organization intends to receive the results of study of the agreement on withdrawal of guarantees from PensionDenmark amounted to $62 mln, provided to Teghut CJSC by the VTB Bank as a loan.
Meanwhile, yesterday Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan stated in the parliament that a commission was established to study the problem in Teghut deposit. According to him he has already met with the Vallex Group leadership, a company that develops the deposit, has held discussions and a commission has been formed as a result of those talks. ''The Commission will hold its first meeting at the end of next week and will make appropriate decisions", the Deputy Prime Minister noted.
In her turn, MP Armenuhi Kyureghyan noted that many residents of the region sold their land at rock- bottom price on condition that they will work on the mine field for 50 years. Some of them attracted credit resources, and now, after the suspension of the field's work and the dismissal of people, credit institutions began to apply 4% interest rates of fines and penalties. The MP suggested that before the renewal of the company's work, Vallex should be obliged to pay people salaries so that the latter could fulfill their obligations to credit institutions. She also inquired about the possibility of the bankruptcy of Vallex, to which the Deputy Prime Minister said that he did not have such information.
Meanwhile, in March 2018, the then-Minister of Economic Development and Investments Suren Karayan said from the rostrum of the parliament that the exploitation of the Teghut mine is not stopped, it is only suspended for a while, and the mining operations will begin already at the end of the current year or the beginning of the next year. He also expressed confidence that during this period the operating company Vallex had solved all the technical and environmental problems, and the deposit would start operating in the very near future.
At the beginning of February 2018, the Vallex Group of Companies issued a statement stating that the Teghut deposit would temporarily suspend the work, and more than a thousand employees would remain unemployed. At the current stage of its activity and development, Teghut CJSC is implementing a project to increase the extraction of minerals in the Teghut copper-molybdenum deposit in the Lori region of Armenia. Within the framework of the program, it became necessary to conduct research and search for practical solutions on various issues related to ore mining, including increasing production by providing more productive and technological processing of ore. Until the company receives sound proposals from experts and decides on their implementation, it refrains from operating the mine in current volumes and releasing the relevant production.
The investments of Vallex Group of companies in mining sector of Armenia and Artsakh totaled more than $700 million over the past 20 years (by the data for middle of 2017-ed.note), including $400 million in the Teghut deposit. 1150 jobs were opened in Teghut, a modern mining plant was established equipped with up-to-date facilities. According to estimates made back in Soviet times, the deposit's potential is 450 million tons of ore, of which the company confirmed only a fifth so far. At the moment, the capacity of the enterprise allows processing up to 50,000 tons of copper concentrate per year and producing 13,000 tons of blister copper. The Vallex group of companies includes Base Metals operating in Artsakh, the Armenian Copper Program operating the copper smelter in Armenia's Alaverdi, the Institute of Mining Metallurgy and Vallex IT LLC, engaged in information technology. Around 4 thousand people work in these companies in Armenia and Karabakh.


Registration for our PhD meeting and job market 2018 is now open. Visit our Eventbrite page for more information and to reserve a space. Please remember that to be eligible to attend you must be a member of the Royal Economic Society.
This year's meeting will be held at the University of Westminster on the 18 - 19 December. The event will include presentations and poster sessions by PhD students, interviews between recruiters and job market candidates and plenary sessions offering advice on getting published and securing employment. There will also be a drinks reception on Tuesday evening for networking.
Students are invited to submit papers for presentations, although this is not required for students to attend. The deadline for submission of papers is 1 October 2018 and papers can be submitted via Conference Maker.
More information on participating recruiters will be announced in due course. If you have any questions about the event please get in touch with Gabriella Di Salvo at events@res.org.uk.


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Q: Why can't I use auto with std::thread? I'm facing a problem with std::thread because it doesn't accept functions taking auto-specified arguments. Here is some sample code:
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <thread>

using namespace std;

void seev(const auto &v) // works fine with const vector<int> &v
{
    for (auto x : v)
        cout << x << ' ';
    cout << "\n\n";
}

int main()
{
    vector<int> v1 { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
    thread t(seev, v1);
    t.join();
    return 0;
}

But the compiler says:
[Error] no matching function for call to 'std::thread::thread(<unresolved overloaded function type>, std::vector<int>&)'

Why is this happening? Is it a problem with the language or GCC (4.9.2)?

A: Think about auto as a template argument then your function looks like:
template <class T>
void seev (const T &v) ...

C++ cannot incarnate template without explicit spec of types. That is why you get an error. To fix issue (with template argument declaration) you can use:
thread t (seev<decltype(v1)>, std::ref(v1));

A: void seev (const auto &v)

is not valid C++ (yet, it is proposed for C++17). gcc would have told you had you compiled with -pedantic.


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Attending Game Developers Conference? Don't miss these talks featuring Naughty Dog devs.
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If you're headed to Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which kicks off on Monday, March 19, don't miss out on these talks featuring Naughty Dog devs! Alongside these talks about development techniques and the making of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, our recruiting team will also be on-hand. Be sure to keep an eye on the @NaughtyDogJobs Twitter account for details on how you can meet them and learn more about the studio and our open roles.
ANIMATION BOOTCAMP: TRICKS OF THE TRADE
Date: Monday, March 19 | 4:40pm - 5:10pm
Speakers: Gwen Frey (The Molasses Flood), Joe Han (Riot Games), Almudena Soria (Naughty Dog, Inc.), Jalil Sadool (Steamroller Studios), Kyle Chittenden (Certain Affinity), James Benson (Campo Santo)
Location: Room 2010, West Hall
Six animators rapidly deliver their best tips and tricks. They have 5 minutes each to showcase their personal ideas, workflows, and animation techniques.
LEVEL DESIGN WORKSHOP: INVISIBLE INTUITION: BLOCKMESH AND LIGHTING TIPS TO GUIDE PLAYERS AND SET THE MOOD
Date: Tuesday, March 20 | 11:20am - 12:20pm
Speakers: David Shaver (Naughty Dog, Inc.), Robert Yang (NYU Game Center)
Location: Room 20, North Hall
Waypoints, HUD markers, buddy callouts, cutscenes, forced camera moves and more: these navigation aids are ubiquitous in games to guide players to their goals. But can it be done without them? In this talk, two experts on blockmeshing and lighting present practical techniques that establish mood and naturally guide players through 3D environments.
In the first part of the session, David Shaver shares techniques that developers like Respawn and Naughty Dog use to establish natural level flow via blockmesh design, environment art, FX, audio and scripting. Using examples from shipped games as well as custom material created specifically for this talk, David shows early blockmeshing techniques that guarantee proper playtest feedback and verify layout changes work as intended. Attendees will then see many more "before and after" examples of how the best practices presented here improve a level layout's ability to guide the player intuitively.
In part two of this session Robert Yang delves into one of the most important yet often overlooked means of understanding levels: light. Lighting is one of the most crucial design tools for setting mood and readability in a game world, but level designers and environment artists often lack the language and theory to collaborate effectively on lighting design. Robert will illuminate what light does for games and show how developers can use it to facilitate specific experience goals for games. Robert's talk begins with a brief cultural history of lighting before moving on to an overview of lighting design theory as well as various case studies.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN NON-LINEAR SPACES: 'UNCHARTED: THE LOST LEGACY'
Date: Tuesday, March 20 | 1:20pm - 1:50pm
Summit Speaker: Josh Scherr (Naughty Dog, Inc.)
When Naughty Dog set out to make a huge, open-ended area for 'Uncharted: The Lost Legacy', they had to adapt their usual "wide-linear" narrative techniques to allow for more player choice, while still keeping the development of Chloe and Nadine's relationship consistent and natural. In this talk, co-writer Josh Scherr will provide an overview of Naughty Dog's story development techniques, followed by a detailed look at the writing process for this unique area, including: cutscenes and gameplay dialogue, the choices and compromises they made to make it work, and the mistakes they hope to avoid in the future.
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2015 Naughty Dog GDC Talks and Art Bootcamp
Learn about our best practices, techniques, tips, and tricks in tech, art, and animation by joining us for some informative GDC talks and b…
GDC 2012 is almost here - just next week - and Naughty Dog is in a veritable TON of sessions. Oh, and don't forget that Wednesday, March 7,…
Naughty Dog @ GDC10
Naughty Dog is at the Game Developers Conference 2010 -- we're participating in ten GDC sessions this week and we're nominated in seven cat…


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Items tagged with kill switch
by Paul Lilly - Sun, Jun 22, 2014
Intel Developing RFID Tracking And 'Kill Switch' Technology For Laptops
Dirty rotten laptop thieves may want to consider another way to make a quick buck, as there are forces in play that will hopefully render this business model obsolete. Intel has teamed up with Impinj, Technology Solutions UK Ltd. (TSL), and Burnside Digital to create an RFID solution called Wireless Credential Exchange (WCE) to track lost and stolen laptops. Intel's System-on-Chip (SoC) is a crucial component of the RFID system. The key is that it can read and write data to the Monza RFID chip that will be embedded into Intel SoC-powered devices. The chip can also be read and written to using an external TSL RFID reader, even when the system is powered down. Unique IDs, error logs, permissions,... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Fri, May 09, 2014
California Passes Revised Smartphone Kill Switch Bill Requiring Anti-Theft Software And Manufacturer Compliance
Mere weeks after voting down legislation that would require smartphone makers to implement anti-theft technology into handsets, the California Senate on Thursday passed a revised version of the bill. As rewritten, technology titans Apple and Microsoft, both with vested interest in such a bill, withdrew opposition to legislation. Authors of the bill made some minor adjustments, such as giving manufacturers an additional six months to comply with the rules, and to remove tablets from the equation, the San Jose Mercury News reports. As written, so-called "kill switch" technology would be required in all mobile phones manufactured after July 1, 2015, and sold in California. Prior to the amendments,... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 07, 2014
California Senate Pushing Legislation of Mandatory Smartphone Kill Switch Technology
You may have only paid $50 for your smartphone on subsidy, or even received it for free after inking a two-year service agreement with your wireless carrier. It's actually worth much more than what you bought it for -- several hundred dollars more -- making these easily swiped handsets mighty attractive to thieves. It's become a big problem in certain areas, prompting California law makers to push for a cell phone "kill switch." Activating a remote kill switch would render the smartphone unusable, thereby making it a little more difficult for thieves to sell. In turn, mandatory kill switches on all smartphones would then make them far less attractive to crooks, at least in theory. Image Source:... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Fri, Jun 14, 2013
Law Enforcement Pushing for Smartphone Kill Switch as Next Theft Deterrent System
Sure, you may have only payed $50 for your smartphone, or even picked it up for free after agreeing to a two-year service agreement with a wireless carrier, but the true value is much higher than whatever subsidized price you paid. That's something you'll quickly find out if it's ever lost or, worse yet, ends up stolen. Unfortunately, there's only so much you can do if your phone gets swiped, though law enforcement officials are hoping to change that. According to an AP report, the hot topic right now is that of implementing a so-called "kill switch" functionality into smartphones. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that 33 percent of all robberies in the U.S. involve mobile phones,... Read more...
by Sarah Miller - Thu, Oct 16, 2008
Android Has a Remote Kill Switch, Too
Heads-up: Apple isn't the only one implementing remote kill switches for applications in their phones. According to recent reports, the Android platform has one, too. The thing is: At least Google owns up to it up front (instead of allowing a developer to discover it like Apple did) by including a mention in the Android Market terms of service, saying: Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement ... in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion. Given that nearly anything goes in Google's Android Market, there's a definite chance of malicious or otherwise unwanted applications... Read more...
by Michael Santo - Mon, Aug 11, 2008
Jobs Confirms iPhone "Kill Switch"
It was a little, tiny, tiny addendum at the end of a WSJ article, but it was there: in an interview with the WSJ, Steve Jobs confirmed that the suspected iPhone "kill switch" does indeed exist. Of course, for investors, talk of the App Store downloads are probably more exciting, and Jobs detailed that as well:If sales stay at the current pace, Apple stands to reap at least $360 million a year in new revenue from the App Store, Mr. Jobs said. "This thing's going to crest a half a billion, soon," he added. "Who knows, maybe it will be a $1 billion marketplace at some point in time.""I've never seen anything like this in my career for software," he said.60 million downloads? Of course,... Read more...
by Michael Santo - Thu, Aug 07, 2008
Researcher Uncovers iPhone App "Kill Switch"
First: there's no real evidence this is a "kill switch" that Apple will use, but still, based on Apple's protectiveness over the iPhone, it wouldn't surprise us.Jonathan Zdziarski, author of the upcoming book iPhone Forensics, has revealed an URL that he suggests Apple is using to keep a list of any "offending" applications: https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps.Apple apparently can disable App Store software remotely on your iPhone 3G. The iPhone calls home and poof the application is nuked. Needless to say that this has caused a bit of a blog ruckus (Techmeme). MacRumors notes that Apple has come under fire for removing App Store software without notification and the... Read more...


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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Clement/Clement XIV
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6126201911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 6 — - Clement Clement XIV
Clement XIV. (Lorenzo Ganganelli), pope from 1769 to 1774, son of a physician of St Arcangelo, near Rimini, was born on the 31st of October 1705, entered the Franciscan order at the age of seventeen, and became a teacher of theology and philosophy. As regent of the college of S. Bonaventura, Rome, he came under the notice of Benedict XIV., who conceived a high opinion of his talents and made him consulter of the Inquisition. Upon the recommendation of Ricci, general of the Jesuits, Clement XIII. made him a cardinal; but, owing to his disapproval of the pope's policy, he found himself out of favour and without influence. The conclave following the death of Clement XIII. was the most momentous of at least two centuries. The fate of the Jesuits hung in the balance; and the Bourbon princes were determined to have a pope subservient to their hostile designs. The struggle was prolonged three months. At length, on the 19th of May 1769, Ganganelli was chosen, not as a declared enemy of the Jesuits, but as being least objectionable to each of the contending factions. The charge of simony was inspired by Jesuit hatred; there is absolutely no evidence that Ganganelli pledged himself to suppress the order.
The outlook for the papacy was dark; Portugal was talking of a patriarchate; France held Avignon; Naples held Ponte Corvo and Benevento; Spain was ill-affected; Parma, defiant; Venice, aggressive; Poland meditating a restriction of the rights of the nuncio. Clement realized the imperative necessity of conciliating the powers. He suspended the public reading of the bull In Coena Domini, so obnoxious to civil authority; resumed relations with Portugal; revoked the monitorium of his predecessor against Parma. But the powers were bent upon the destruction of the Jesuits, and they had the pope at their mercy. Clement looked abroad for help, but found none. Even Maria Theresa, his last hope, suppressed the order in Austria. Temporizing and partial concessions were of no avail. At last, convinced that the peace of the Church demanded the sacrifice, Clement signed the brief Dominus ac Redemptor, dissolving the order, on the 21st of July 1773. The powers at once gave substantial proof of their satisfaction; Benevento, Ponte Corvo, Avignon and the Venaissin were restored to the Holy See. But it would be unfair to accept this as evidence of a bargain. Clement had formerly indignantly rejected the suggestion of such an exchange of favours.
There is no question of the legality of the pope's act; whether he was morally culpable, however, continues to be a matter of bitter controversy. On the one hand, the suppression is denounced as a base surrender to the forces of tyranny and irreligion, an act of treason to conscience, which reaped its just punishment of remorse; on the other hand, it is as ardently maintained that Clement acted in full accord with his conscience, and that the order merited its fate by its own mischievous activities which made it an offence to religion and authority alike. But whatever the guilt or innocence of the Jesuits, and whether their suppression were ill-advised or not, there appears to be no ground for impeaching the motives of Clement, or of doubting that he had the approval of his conscience. The stories of his having swooned after signing the brief, and of having lost hope and even reason, are too absurd to be entertained. The decline in health, which set in shortly after the suppression, and his death (on the 22nd of September 1774) proceeded from wholly natural causes. The testimony of his physician and of his confessor ought to be sufficient to discredit the oft-repeated story of slow poisoning (see Duhr, Jesuiten Fabeln, 4th ed., 1904, pp. 69 seq.).
The suppression of the Jesuits bulks so large in the pontificate of Clement that he has scarcely been given due credit for his praiseworthy attempt to reduce the burdens of taxation and to reform the financial administration, nor for his liberal encouragement of art and learning, of which the museum Pio-Clementino is a lasting monument.
No pope has been the subject of more diverse judgments than Clement XIV. Zealous defenders credit him with all virtues, and bless him as the instrument divinely ordained to restore the peace of the Church; virulent detractors charge him with ingratitude, cowardice and double-dealing. The truth is at neither extreme. Clement's was a deeply religious and poetical nature, animated by a lofty and refined spirit. Gentleness, equanimity and benevolence were native to him. He cherished high purposes and obeyed a lively conscience. But he instinctively shrank from conflict; he lacked the resoluteness and the sterner sort of courage that grapples with a crisis.
Caraccioli's Vie de Clément XIV (Paris, 1775) (freq. translated), is incomplete, uncritical and too laudatory. The middle of the 19th century saw quite a spirited controversy over Clement XIV.; St Priest, in his Hist. de la chute des Jésuites (Paris, 1846), represented Clement as lamentably, almost culpably, weak; Cretineau-Joly, in his Hist. . . . de la Comp. de Jésus (Paris, 1844–1845), and his Clément XIV et les Jésuites (Paris, 1847), was outspoken and bitter in his condemnation; this provoked Theiner's Gesch. des Pontificats Clemens' XIV. (Leipzig and Paris, 1852), a vigorous defence based upon original documents to which, as custodian of the Vatican archives, the author had freest access; Cretineau-Joly replied with Le Pape Clément XIV; Lettres au P. Theiner (Paris, 1852). Ravignan's Clem. XIII. e Clem. XIV. (Paris, 1854) is a weak, half-hearted apology for Clement XIV. See also v. Reumont, Ganganelli, Papst Clemens XIV. (Berlin, 1847); and Reinerding, Clemens XIV. u. d. Aufhebung der Gesellschaft Jesu (Augsburg, 1854). The letters of Clement have frequently been printed; the genuineness of Caraccioli's collection (Paris, 1776; freq. translated) has been questioned, but most of the letters are now generally accepted as genuine; see also Clementis XIV. Epp. ac Brevia, ed. Theiner (Paris, 1852). An extended bibliography is to be found in Hergenröther, Allg. Kirchengesch. (1880), iii. 510 seq. (T. F. C.)
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Sebastien showing off his freshly made mango salad 7 Angkor Beer The national drink of Cambodia is named after its world famous wonder and is the most widely consumed beer in Cambodia. Also included a loosely decorated band of beads worn crosswise called Sava. Khmer people, both common and royal, stopped wearing the Hindu-style collars and began to adopt beautiful decorated shawls such as Sbai instead. Institute for Khmer Traditional Textiles. Last year, Cambodia offered to repay 30 per cent of the debt, which they said was a compromise as the money was used by a pro-American government in the 1970s to repress its own people. It measures approximately one and a half meters and both ends are sewn together. Divorced persons are viewed with some disapproval.
Patterns are usually formed with animal, geometric or floral motifs. Av Pnot Kback is the female formal shirt used for rich young lady. Sampot Hol is strongly affected by Indian traditional clothes in the past. There are also two knots come from the waist of sampot with the left Knot is the long knot like the thin long fabric while the right Knot in the same pgysical appearance but more decortion at the middle of it knot. I felt as though I was one of the chosen to attend this event. Visitors to the house, which doubles as a museum, often have offered the collector money for his goods.
I vote up, useful, awesome, interesting. This process is repeated with different colors until the patterns firm and cloth is woven. There is also French influence as well. Custody of minor children is usually given to the mother, and both parents continue to have an obligation to contribute financially toward the rearing and education of the child. There are 52 colors used in sampot phamuong. The Khmer Scarf: A Versatile Garment The khmer scarf is an ancient tradition among the Cambodian people. But variations in clothes sharply indicated position in a firm social hierarchy, as well as regional and period changes.
But Hun Sen responded that concerns over human rights were exaggerated and Cambodia had a better record than many countries, U. Sampot Hol is also one of the most famous traditional costumes in Cambodia with two basic types: one is a conventional dress and the other is cross-woven. The house, an increasingly popular tourist destination, has drawn curious visitors from around the country and the world. Unlike the typical sampot, it is more like than a. Sampot Phamuong — Cambodian Luxurious Dress Sampot Phamuong is not only one type of Cambodian traditional dress but also the name of different kinds of traditional Khmer textiles.
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Once being a person who has special love for traveling, I had a chance to set my foot on almost every corner of Cambodia. Now preserving artifacts is not only a hobby--it's a mission. Courtship patterns differ between rural and urban Khmer; marriage as a culmination of romantic love is a notion that exists to a much greater extent in larger cities. This fabric is likely to decorated with several colors and many piece of silver, made by both heavy and soft cotton depend on rich or poor. I'm all red every time I see wedding photo. Ladies wearing sampot phamuong for different days of the week Photo by The sampot hol is another national cloth which comes in two varieties: one is a wrapping skirt which uses a customary technique, and the other is a twill weave. Marriage is seen more as a social institution, regulated by societal pressures, expectations and norms, than a legal matter.
Criss-crossing the front were the kse-sangvar, chains of rank forming an X as they cross over one another, on top of them a diamond shaped pendant. I think it's wonderful that you honored both your parents by having tradition ceremonies in addition to the American style ceremony. Noblemen wore a round collared shirt with a long pleat at the front and four pockets at the side. Children's games emphasize socialization or skill rather than winning and losing. The husband is responsible for providing shelter and food for his family; the wife is generally in charge of the family budget, and she serves as the major ethical and religious model for the children, especially the daughters. Av Pak is a recently popular fashion blouse worn by Cambodian women. The best example of these royal clothes is illustrated by Khmer classical dance costumes, which are an adaptation of the beautiful royalty costume.
Honoring the Ancestors - Sien Doan Taa The bride and groom pay homage to their ancestors by lighting incense, bowing, and offering food and tea, usually to a photograph or altar dedicated to their deceased ancestors. Sometimes money is given as a gift at this time too. Most children begin school when they are seven or eight. The Golden age of Cambodia was between the 9th and 14th century, during the Angkor period, during which it was a powerful and prosperous empire that flourished and dominated almost all of inland Southeast Asia. I thank you all sincerely for taking the time to read about my wedding and my culture.


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David James Mackintosh (born 2 April 1979) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Northampton South from the May 2015 general election to the 2017 general election. Prior to his election to Parliament, he worked as a political consultant in the European Parliament and the Conservatives before being elected to the County and Borough councils, rising to become Leader of Northampton Borough Council in 2011.

Education
Mackintosh was educated at Roade School, a state comprehensive school in Roade in Northamptonshire, followed by Durham University, where he studied Politics.

Political career
After his graduation in 2001, Mackintosh worked as a political counsellor in the European Parliament until 2004, before leaving to assume a post at Conservative Campaign Headquarters as a political consultant to the Conservative Party. He was elected to Northamptonshire County Council for Ecton Brook on 4 June 2009 and to Northampton Borough Council for Rectory Farm in 2011. In May 2010, Mackintosh was appointed as Cabinet Member for Strategy, Communications and External Relations. He had previously held the position of Assistant Cabinet Member for Leadership and Strategic Support. He served as leader of Northampton Borough Council – the youngest the council has ever had – from November 2011 until his election to parliament. In addition, he served as cabinet member for Community Services.

Mackintosh was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.

Mackintosh was facing the prospect of being deselected by his local party, but he announced he would not stand in the June 2017 general election.

Controversies

Sale of Sekhemka statue
In July 2014, while Leader of Northampton Borough Council, Mackintosh was responsible for the controversial sale of the Sekhemka statue which led to the Arts Council removing accreditation from the Northampton Museums. The Ancient Egyptian statue had been given by the Marquess of Northampton to Northampton Museum around 1870.

Mackintosh was awarded the title "Philistine of the Year" by Private Eye magazine for approving the sale of the statue, which the Save Sekhemka Action Group called the "darkest cultural day in [Northampton's] history".

Unsecured Council loan to property developer
When Mackintosh was leader of the borough council, the authority made a £13.5 million loan to Northampton Town football club, intended to pay for improvements at the club's Sixfields Stadium, including a new east stand. However, the project collapsed with £10.25 million owed to the council.

In November 2015, both the BBC and The Guardian newspaper reported that Howard Grossman, the director of a company responsible for rebuilding Northampton Town's Sixfields Stadium, had provided a £6,195 undeclared payment to Mackintosh's election campaign. Three other businessmen, with links to Grossman, each reportedly made donations of £10,000 to Mackintosh's campaign; one of them admitting to a journalist that he was given the money by Grossman and instructions to pay it to Mackintosh's parliamentary campaign fund. In September 2013, while Mackintosh was still leader, the council had provided an unsecured loan to the company which went into administration owing them millions of pounds.

The BBC reported that the police had started an investigation into alleged irregularities surrounding the loan. On 29 July 2016, Northamptonshire Police confirmed the Electoral Commission had asked them to investigate the three donations totalling £30,000.

On 28 March 2018, the BBC reported that Mackintosh had attended a voluntary interview with police under caution on  26 March 2018. The BBC also reported that whilst attending the interview police officers attended Mackintosh's home for several hours and took items away.

In June 2021, seven people were charged under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 over donations made to the Northampton South Conservative Association in 2014. In August 2021 one defendant was convicted and fined £6,000. In November 2022 two defendants pleaded guilty.

References

1979 births
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Members of Northamptonshire County Council
Living people
UK MPs 2015–2017

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Q: Has the "ConvNeXt" family of models been removed from Keras? When trying to use the ConvNeXtTiny model from Keras, I get the following error: AttributeError: module 'keras.applications' has no attribute 'ConvNeXtTiny'
filename = "ConvNextTiny_firstpass_model"

# layer construction
base_model = applications.ConvNeXtTiny( #preproccing included
    input_shape=(targetWidth, targetHeight, 3),
    include_top=False,
)
base_model.trainable = False

flatten_layer = layers.Flatten()
fc_layer = layers.Dense(1024, activation='relu')
dropout_layer = layers.Dropout(0.3)

#layer connecting
x = flip_layer(input_layer)
x = base_model(x, training=False)
x = flatten_layer(x)
x = fc_layer(x)
x = dropout_layer(x)
predictions = output_layer(x)
model = keras.Model(input_layer, predictions)

Here are my imports:
import tensorflow as tf
import keras
from keras import layers
from keras import optimizers
from keras import applications
from keras import losses
from keras import callbacks
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import cv2 as cv
import csv
from sklearn.utils import shuffle

Possibly relevant versioning:
ipython==8.5.0
tensorflow==2.10.0
keras==2.10.0
Keras-Preprocessing==1.1.2
pandas==1.4.4
numpy==1.23.3
matplotlib==3.6.0
opencv-python==4.6.0.66
sklearn==0.0

A: The previous imports placed above the convnext import were causing issues.
Moving from tensorflow.keras.applications import convnext to the top of all the imports allowed it to import properly.


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BETWEEN ART AND POLITICS: CHOW CHUN FAI'S GRACEFUL DEFEAT
TEXT: Leung Po-shan Anthony | May 23, 2013 | Post In LEAP 20
After the polls closed, votes were tallied throughout the night. The campaign teams and supporters took group photos until results were announced. From left: Ivy Chan Ka Yee, Wong Chun Kok, Joanna Lee Hoi Yin, Yeung Seut Ying Yana, Chow Chun Fai, Chan Ching Kiu Stephen, Tse Kin Man Horace, Leung Po-shan Anthony, Wong Kin Wang Kevin
"I had never believed in 'political art,' but in 2012 I ran for the Legislative Council as an artist."
"The art world is polarized into two camps. There are artists who energetically participate in social movements, gradually distancing themselves from art and even believing aesthetics to be pointless decoration. In the other camp are artists completely indifferent to and ignorant of politics, institutionalized products of the art system who only know how to play by the rules."
—Chow Chun Fai
I, THE LEUNG Po-shan Anthony of today, most resemble the first kind of artist Chow Chun Fai refers to above. In this era, defined as it is by West Kowloon and the Special Economic Zones, there are those who have bristled at Hong Kong's developments and withdrawn, and there are those who have rushed to take advantage of the changing political and economic climate. In the winter of 2011, the Factory Artist Concern Group decided to nominate Chow Chun Fai to run for the Legislative Council; the previous summer, I had publicly vowed to no longer comment on contemporary art.
Chow was a younger classmate when I attended the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Already well-known and on a brilliant trajectory, he had a face like a movie star, always poised and sophisticated. I wouldn't say I watched him grow up, but I do know that the time period shaped him: the 1997 handover marked a defining split between the experiences of the generations on either side of it. During the transition period, artists suddenly became a symbol of cultural democracy, and before departing, the very last governor of Hong Kong established an elected Arts Development Council. Installations, performance art, cultural identities, and independent art spaces all sprouted like weeds at the last minute. Despite the sheer volume of commercial art galleries popping up all over Hong Kong's Central district, only Hanart TZ had been able to sell Hong Kong art outside of the Chinese contemporary art market. Aside from the political implications of the end of colonial rule and the beginning of "one country, two systems," the transition also afforded a rare opportunity for Hong Kong artists to receive international exposure, helping to offset their low profile in mainstream society.
When the era of China's Special Economic Zones arrived, art in mainstream society gradually became "useful," not because culture had maintained its identification with the establishment of societal consensus, but because the inter-city competitive forces that helped globalization take root in Hong Kong began to emerge front and center. Using cultural landmarks, creative industries, and distilling and retaining the vibrant and nuanced essences of urban life, Hong Kong rushed to catch up with the pace of global industry. In 2004 the Hong Kong government first proposed the land-developer construction of the West Kowloon Cultural District; in 2008 due to a simmering public reaction, original plans were scrapped and the project rebooted. During this stalled period, galleries, art fairs, urban renewal, high-end shopping malls, luxury hotels, and even weekend art jams all began to take advantage of the mood and impatiently crop up.
In 2006, Chow Chun Fai completed his MFA, having mounted his first exhibition of his work at a commercial gallery in 2004. Products of their time, artists of that generation were doomed to be the first beneficiaries of the new West Kowloon Cultural District. Even though the government steadily increased public funding for art and cultural development, private galleries and Leisure and Cultural Services Department-sponsored museums all became more and more commercialized. Culture was no longer purely a service but an idealized vocational calling for the young, albeit one that by no means promised a stable future. Nevertheless, hordes of graduates poured into the field without guarantee of finding work.
Even though at that time I was participating more and more actively in independent media and social movements, I could not accurately gauge the distance between art and politics. To this day I still don't know why I persuaded Chow Chun Fai to run in the elections. If he had been elected, the moment he was elected his future as an artist would have been over. He was taking a huge risk, and the odds were seriously stacked against him. In the mess of contemporary politics, with its chaos and inconsistency, would he really come out on top in the end?
In the past, the most creative people did contemporary art; these days, they are in politics. Within the scheme of Walter Benjamin's formulation of politicizing art to counteract the aestheticization of politics, Chow Chun Fai has not played the role of asserting artists' rights. On the contrary, he has returned to the older model of allowing politics to just be politics and art to just be art, not mixing the two. Both before and after the election, he was simply himself, the artist. Yet in political debates he was more knowledgeable and composed than the career politicians. In the end he lost the election, but this loss did not carry over into his art. He found a way to paradoxically yet elegantly unite the two.
Hong Kong society still has an ambiance of freedom, but its democratic political system has stagnated. The Legislative Council was originally open to participation from all echelons of society, serving as a space for societal consensus. But since the colonial period, functional groups guaranteeing the interests of the business elite have been elected, and this has persisted into the era of Special Economic Zones. The practice is similar to ensuring the election of representatives from ethnic minorities, except that in this case those benefiting from preferential treatment are those with a vested interest in certain businesses and conservative politics. Even though Chow Chun Fai is an artist and ran as a candidate for the Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication Sector, he was really trying on behalf of all regular citizens to challenge the growing commercialization of cultural power. He also set out to disrupt behind-the-scenes practices of soliciting votes, choosing instead to canvass in broad daylight, armed with leaflets, knocking on doors, and attending forums. His tactics forced his opponents to create political programs for voters they hoped to win over, in the process leaving many in the community with a renewed opinion of artists.
One feature of the election was nonstop electioneering, which I followed closely. But what left the deepest impression on me from the whole process was one day of canvassing that lasted late into the night. Afterward Chow Chun Fai dropped me off at the house of old friends and fellow artists Kwan Sheung Chi and Wong Wai Yin to spend the night. I had just lay down to sleep on their living room sofa when Chow stopped by to drop off his work Reproducing 'Hong Kong—Live It, Love It!' for Kwan to work on post-production and ship in advance to the Liverpool Biennial. The work consisted of a series of uniformly sized original paintings, 108 in all, depicting scenes of Hong Kong life from the Hong Kong tourism board's campaign. The last weekend before the election, the team wanted Chow to sketch the process of gathering votes on the street in a relaxed and natural setting. He ended up doing it on the busy Mong Kok pedestrian street, a place he rarely enjoyed visiting.
Chow Chun Fai has always believed in a restrained and tactful approach to art, one devoid of political appeal. As an artist, the most direct interpretation of his candidacy is as a piece of performance art. In fact, this election did feature a performance artist, Pong Yat-ming, who chose an even more difficult district to run in, serving as a one-man campaign to take on Big Business and its narrow lifestyle prescriptions. The result for both artists was overwhelming defeat: Chow received only 477 votes while his opponent, Ma, received 1,106. Pong Yat-ming received 6,031 out of the 874,694 votes for the entire New Territories district.
I suspect contemporary art has never actually negated aesthetics, and therefore I do not agree with the idea that aesthetics is just mere decoration. The view of politics and art as merely means and ends stems from the contemporary conception of aesthetics as disconnected from theory. Good political art is not merely political slogans or propaganda, which seek to empower the weak through altering specific production methods. Art does not necessarily need to have political content in order to create a political result. To borrow from Rancière, aesthetics have the power to provoke the "distribution of the sensible" (that which can be sensed), and only when we are able to unlink aesthetics and politics will relationships between person and person, and person and power, be able to start over and develop again. I have no intention of idolizing Chow Chun Fai; the idea is merely that if we may believe in art, then I shall look forward to some day in the future when we can transcend the boundaries between politics and art. (Translated by Caly Moss)