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Meadows Museum, Dallas AUGUST 6-NOVEMBER 5, 2017 Nicole Atzbach, “Picasso/Rivera: Still Life and the Precedence of Form,” At the Meadows , Spring 2017, pp. 9–12: During the run of his first solo exhibition at the Paris gallery of Berthe Weill in spring 1914, Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) had an opportunity to visit Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in his Paris studio. Rivera recounts this solemn rite of passage:  I went to Picasso’s studio intensely keyed up to meet Our Lord, Jesus Christ.... As for the man... a luminous atmosphere seemed to surround him.... Picasso asked me to stay and have lunch with him, after which he went back with me to my studio. There he asked to see everything I had done from beginning to end....[W]e had dinner together and stayed up practically the whole night talking. Our thesis was Cubism–what it was trying to accomplish, what it had already done, and what future it had as a “new” art form.  –from D. Rivera, My Art, My Li...

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Defense IT Mattis plans to bolster DIUX By Michael Hoffman Aug 31, 2017 The Pentagon’s innovation cell took another step forward following a public show of support from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and a significant vote of confidence from the U.S. Air Force. Mattis recently visited Defense Innovation Unit Experimental’s (DIUx) headquarters in Silicon Valley and stated the unit will “grow in its influence and its impact.” It was the first visit from the Trump administration appointee after multiple high profile visits from his predecessor, Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Carter launched DIUX in 2015 to improve the Pentagon’s relationship with the commercial technology companies in hubs like Silicon Valley, Boston and Austin. The unit now has offices in all three regions as well as the Pentagon. One of the most notable accomplishments by DIUx has been the creation of an acquisition process that can fund technology projects in less than 60 days. Typical acquisition programs can l...

  🇲🇹 MaltaPost will issue a set of 5 stamps on 4 September 2017 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the death of Melchiorre Gafa', a Maltese sculptor who achieved his greatest work whilst working in Rome in the workshop of Ercole Ferrata His work included sculpting the altarpiece of the Martyrdom of St. Eustace in the Church of Sant'Agnese in Agone. His works were untimely ended by his early death at the age of 31.   Wax versions of his work are currently displayed at Mdina Cathedral museum.   The issue was designed by Sean Cini from photographs by Daniel Cilia and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- ****.   🇧🇩 Information about new stamp issues from Bangladesh Post seems to be coming thick and fast at the moment - on 3 August 2017 a set of 4 stamps issued in 2 se-tenant pairs, was released on the subject of Local wild flowers. It is a colourful and attractive little set. Rating:- ****.   🇬🇬 Guernsey Post ...

The US-led coalition has carried out an air strike to block Islamic State fighters from reaching eastern Syria after they were evacuated from Lebanon. The fighters were heading for the town of Al Bukamal, which borders Iraq. The evacuations were part of a ceasefire deal the Islamic State struck with the Syrian regime and Hezbollah, as well as the Lebanese Army, according to press reports . The Islamic State was to surrender its enclave in the Syrian-Lebanese border area, hand over the bodies of a dead Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) member and two Hezbollah fighters, reveal the burial site of several Lebanese army soldiers and free a Hezbollah prisoner, according to officials and media reports. The agreement follows a week-long offensive against the Sunni jihadist group. Press reports indicate that approximately 300 Islamic State fighters and their families were bused out. The IRGC has pushed Lebanese Hezbollah – its proxy – to retrieve the body of the deceased guardsman,...

Defense IT DARPA looks beyond Moore's Law By George Leopold Aug 30, 2017 With the chip scaling framework known as Moore's Law clearly running out of steam, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is attempting to reinvigorate and leverage a vibrant domestic chip sector with a $200 million initiative designed to push the boundaries of chip architectures such as graphics processors. DARPA recently announced that its Electronics Resurgence Initiative seeks to move beyond Moore's Law chip scaling. Among the new fronts to be opened by the defense agency are extending GPU frameworks that underlie machine-learning tools to develop "reconfigurable physical structures that adjust to the needs of the software they support." The chip initiative overseen by DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office will also attempt to lay the groundwork for a post-Moore's Law era where, according to the agency, research will focus on "integrating different se...

Andrew Norfolk's continuing coverage in The Times  of the case of the five-year-old Christian girl placed into the care of Muslims families by Tower Hamlets Council is now being strongly countered by the BBC News website.  Since the story's initial reporting, the BBC website has posted a video headlined  'My Muslim family fostered kids from different faiths'  and featured a full-length article headlined  'My Muslim family and our foster kids'  - both based on the same family and both promoting a positive view of Muslim fostering of non-Muslim children. The BBC's purpose in vigorously pushing such a story isn't hard to guess. Three new articles have been published today following yesterday's ruling that the girl should be removed from the Muslim family now caring for her and placed with her maternal grandmother instead (as reported in this morning's Times ):  Ruling over 'Muslim foster case' girl ;  Muslim foster case: The rules and ...